Lord of the North

After Roland hurriedly entered the Barea Pass with the army, he realized that the situation was even more dire than he had imagined.

The 5,000 troops under Atum's command lost more than 1,000 people under the enemy's strong attack in just three days. Even the commander himself was assassinated once, causing Atum to be seriously injured and unconscious.

It's just that the assassin also paid a big price for this, and April, who was furious, made a bold move, leaving behind an arm of the killer. From this arm, they concluded that the killer was a woman.

And it is very likely that it is the woman next to Earl Hicks. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Atum had no choice but to appoint Ani to temporarily act as the commander of the Barea Pass defenders when he was on the verge of coma, and then sent a message to Jason for help.

It is said that Earl Hicks launched an attack on the Barea Pass before dawn on the second day after General Atum was assassinated, and it was a crazy and reckless attack.

Even he himself ran onto the battlefield with red eyes staring at him, only to be pulled back by his own soldiers in the end.

In that battle, with the help of the war equipment brought from the Iron Fang collar, Arnie left more than 1,300 soldiers of Earl Hicks forever at the foot of the city wall of the Baria pass.

It's just that it's not easy on the Baria pass, and nearly 600 soldiers died here.

From that day on, Earl Hicks commanded a strong attack on the Barea Pass every day, and thick corpses were already piled up at the foot of the city wall at the pass.

"Is he crazy?"

After hearing this, Roland's eyes were a little astonished. He didn't like to fight against this kind of person who hurt the enemy eight hundred and self-defeating one thousand, because this kind of person is really too difficult to deal with.

"Could it be because of that woman?"

Standing in the dark, April suddenly said that he seriously injured the assassin the night before, and even tore off one of her arms abruptly. Earl Hicks went crazy the next day. are related.

But Astolfo doesn't seem to agree with this explanation: "Do you think that this kind of person who leads a large army will be affected by a woman?"

"It's not impossible, is it?"

April didn't back down just because he was Jason's confidant, but directly retorted: "And the coincidence in it is too doubtful."

"According to the information about Earl Hicks,

This possibility is not impossible. "Roland said that this woman was clearly mentioned in the information compiled by the black crow, and she was not just a "qing ren" of Earl Hicks.

Even her status may be higher than that of Countess Hicks.

"Now is not the time for you to argue about such meaningless details. What we are going to face now, and the task left by His Highness, is how to work together to resist the 50,000 army for two months." Then Roland spoke again in a deep voice explain.

Arnie handed over the command to him just after he came to the Barea Pass. Roland is now the supreme commander of the Barea Pass army, so when he opened his mouth, everyone shut up obediently.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, he turned his attention to Astolfo who was eating fruit: "Astolfo, please, you and Junying have been watching the enemy's actions in the sky these few days."

Compared with the enemy, they have a lot of advantages here, including monitoring the enemy camp, and Earl Hicks has no masters who can shoot down high-altitude targets.

"No problem, just leave it to me."

Hearing this, Astolfo ate the last bite of fruit in his hand, then took two apple-like fruits from the fruit plate, stuffed them into his pocket, and left the meeting hall swaggeringly.

"Sir Leonidas, from today onwards, the two of us will sit on the city wall alternately day and night to avoid sneak attacks by the strong in the enemy army." Roland gave another order after glancing at the generals present.

Because Siegfried is now on standby with the cavalry unit outside the city, only he and Leonidas are the strongest among the people present, and they can respond as quickly as possible if there is an accident.

And he didn't think that there was only one woman in the huge enemy camp who was an extraordinary strongman in the realm of a great knight.

"Yes, my lord."

Leonidas had no objection and bowed to accept the order.

Then Roland looked cold, and said in a deep voice: "Now, everyone returns to their posts. Before His Highness Jason's reinforcements arrive, even if we risk our lives, we must defend the Baria Pass!"

"Yes! My lord!"

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On the other side, the enemy's barracks outside the Baria pass was not as full of fighting spirit as everyone had imagined, and several storms failed to achieve the slightest result.

Even the latest attack was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of enemy reinforcements, and they hurriedly left the corpses of nearly a thousand soldiers and retreated to the barracks.

So now Earl Hicks' barracks is full of negative emotions. When they know that they are working so hard on the front line, but Earl Hicks has never left his barracks, this negative emotion becomes even stronger. up.

Fortunately, they didn't know that the reason why Earl Hicks ordered the storming of the Barea Pass at any cost was to avenge his own woman, otherwise the soldiers might have to mutiny.

At this time, there were no fewer than ten commanders, large and small, kneeling outside his military tent. These people came to ask Earl Hicks not to continue to be willful, and asked him to carry out the orders of His Royal Highness Phil.

It's a pity that they were rejected, and Earl Hicks bluntly said that anyone who dares to break into the army tent will be killed without mercy.

This caused them, a group of big men in the army, to kneel outside with red necks, neither leaving nor staying... The atmosphere was particularly awkward.

"My lord, there are so many people kneeling outside, why don't you go out and have a look?" The tent was filled with a smell of medicine, and the usually charming and charming Hetty was pale and her lips were extremely pale.

In particular, her right arm disappeared completely. It was not cut off, but was torn off by April in rage.

"Hmph, don't I know what they're thinking?"

Earl Hicks' already gloomy expression became even more gloomy, and he snorted coldly and continued, "If I don't break through this Barea Pass as soon as possible, and don't break that damned bastard who hurt you to pieces, I won't be at ease! "

"It's all my fault, I should have listened to you and not assassinated Atum on my own."

Hetty had a sad expression on her face. Not only was her charm greatly reduced due to the loss of an arm, but she would be even less able to help Earl Hicks in the future.