A man who seemed to be a beggar was brought to Catherine.
Catherine was shocked.
Because she could vaguely recognize the other person from his face. The person in front of her was Becky Mandel, the second son of the noble Mandel family in the royal capital.
He accepted the family's arrangement a year ago and went to the Watcher's Fortress for training in order to obtain his knight title.
In Catherine's impression, Becky is a strong young man. Like other young nobles in the royal capital, he attaches great importance to his external image.
But the person in front of him was far from the Becky in his impression.
He staggered forward, looking exhausted. He must have experienced a long journey. His cloudy eyes revealed the difficulty of the journey. The clothes on his body were very shabby, and his exposed skin was covered with red scars. His hair Scattered like a mess, dirty, blown to pieces by the wind.
“Are you Becky Mandel?”
Katherine asked incredulously.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Your Highness Princess, I didn’t expect that I would still be alive to see my old friend from Jingyao, and that I would still be alive to see you! This must be a gift from the Lord of Light to me.”
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Becky actually cried excitedly, staggered and almost fell down, but luckily Aofina next to her held her up.
The black-haired female general comforted him: "Becky, you are surrounded by your own people now, so you can rest assured. Please explain the details to His Highness."
Compiled by Becky Mandel After a moment of emotion, he described a terrible reality to Catherine at a very fast speed.
The Bradleys have betrayed the kingdom and Watcher's Keep has fallen.
“The front of the fortress was attacked by the orc army. This is nothing. We are confident that we can repel them, just like we have done countless times before.”
"But... we suffered a shameful sneak attack on our back. The Bradley family's army entered the fortress area in the name of transporting supplies..."
"What's even worse is that it came from behind. It’s not just the Bradley family’s rebels, there are also a large number of orc troops!”
“We really don’t understand how such a large orc army appeared behind us!”
“Although the legions fought hard, the main fortress could not withstand it. In order to save the last seeds of the Watcher Legion, the deputy commander Sir Duke finally ordered a breakout!”
“In view of the fact that the west is surrounded by cloth. For the territory of the Ledley family, we chose to break out to the Altyn Plateau in the south, which is at least nominally the territory of the kingdom.”
"My team was ordered to cut off the rear, but after a fierce battle, it got separated from the larger army and lost its way in the wilderness."
"We passed through the primitive jungle and the Gobi Desert, and there were constant attrition of people. , I was the only one left in the end. When I could no longer hold on, the Lord of Light breathed my last breath and allowed me to see the town and the kingdom flag flying over the town. "
After saying all this, Becky Mandel burst into tears.
"I am the only one left! I am the only one left!"
He kept repeating this sentence.
Damn traitor!
Anger burned in everyone's chest.
The generals around Catherine all held the swords at their waists tightly.
Ofina suppressed her anger and asked her lord on behalf of her, "Your Highness, what should we do now?"
The princess's golden eyebrows were already tightly frowned.
It is not difficult to judge from Mandel's words that the situation in the northeastern part of the kingdom has fallen into a situation that can no longer be corrupted.
The most important gate has been lost, but the largest local lord has united with the enemies coming from outside the gate.
What’s even worse is that my own army has fallen deep into the traitor’s territory, like a leaf in the turbulent waves.
No wonder that Bradley boy dared to be so unreasonable to me.
"A trap has been laid against us." Catherine immediately summoned the generals to discuss the next step.
"Retreat immediately to territory loyal to the kingdom!"
"What to do about the Watcher's Fortress? Just ignore it?"
"The fortress has fallen!"
In view of the current severe situation, everyone quickly reached an agreement that they must retreat.
"If the Bradley family had planned ahead, I'm afraid we will encounter many obstacles on our way back."
Catherine expressed her worries.
Lester's eyes were cold, "Then kill those traitors! As long as they pay an unbearable price, even their lives are worth it."
"No, no, no!" Gram Ryan disagreed, "Lester, you are a general commanding the kingdom's army, not a knight charging into battle!"
Demps also nodded and said: "Our responsibility should be when the situation is irreversible. Let’s preserve as much strength as possible for the kingdom.”
Klein spread out a map on the table.
“Look, this is the area we are in.”
“According to my judgment, most of the Bradley family’s power should be used to deal with the Watcher Fortress, and the other part They are near us or ambushing us on our way south, so I suggest..."
His finger moved toward the west.
“Go west!”
"Go to the Blackstone Land?"
"Yes, go to the Blackstone Land. Gather forces loyal to the kingdom there."
Lester asked: "Orcs are all robbing. If they really enter the hinterland of the kingdom on a large scale, they may immediately attack the rich south to plunder the wealth."
Klein continued to elaborate on his point of view, "If we build a considerable force in the Blackstone Land. , will seriously threaten the flanks of the orc army, preventing them from going south with all their strength."
He looked at Catherine: "The land of Blackstone is close to the northwest bay further to the west. As we know, the northwest bay today produces more than half of the kingdom's steel and weapons, which is the real wealth in war. However, this place has been relatively closed for a long time and has never been tested by large-scale wars with the outside world. A barrier must be built for the northwest bay in Blackstone Land."
Most of the southern nobles' impression of the orcs is that they are a group of barbarians wandering on the grassland. They are tall and brave but have poor discipline. As long as the human soldiers form a good formation, a single hedge can beat them to pieces.
However, most of the generals of the Royal Capital Knights have experience in the Watcher Fortress and have a relatively correct understanding of the power of the orc army, especially when a new king's tent has been born on the grassland. Under such circumstances, we should expect the enemy to be lenient.
If the Watcher Fortress was still in the hands of the Kingdom, things would have been fine, but now this great fortress has fallen.
Klein: "As long as the Northwest Gulf is allowed to complete the transformation to adapt to the war, I think it is not impossible to push the orcs back directly from the Blackstone Highlands with the support there."
Aoife. Na nodded: "Then we must notify Count Grayman as soon as possible to prepare."
"Your Highness, what do you mean?"
Everyone looked at Catherine, waiting for her to make up her mind.
The blond princess decided quickly.
“Let’s go to the Northwest Bay!”
“But before that, we must first get some chips against the Bradley family.”
Sorry it took so long.