Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Black Iron City is located behind the Pétain Line of Defense, and is mainly responsible for the communication and material allocation between the Pétain Line of Defense and the northern region.

Because of the construction of the Pétain Line, the Black Iron City, which was originally just a place with convenient transportation, has now become an important military town.

If the Pétain Line is a cluster of fortresses, then the Black Iron City is a single fortress.

"It's so boring. There are no rebels on the road."

General Keith of Black Iron City stood on the top of the city wall and watched the merchants coming and going in the city.

That’s right, although it is an important military fortress, it has only just begun to become a fortress this winter. Before that, Black Iron City was still a simple commercial city.

And now it is even receiving business guests.

"Is it really okay to still have the gates open? Aren't we at war?"

A soldier standing beside Keith looked nervously at the merchants in the audience.

Strictly speaking, the state of war has never stopped, but Lind and Doug have chosen to rest and recuperate this winter.

"Do you think the rebels can get past the Petain Line and attack us directly?"

Keith shrugged. No one knew the defensive power of Fort Petain better than him.

"Besides, it's about making money. If you don't make money, are you really going to wait for the Governor to pay you?"

The soldiers were convinced by this very realistic reason.

Doug's military salary is generally paid half in the first year and owed half, and the owed half is made up in the second year. He may not get it in the third year. This is a relatively important army, and the rest basically depends on him to figure out a way by himself.

The simplest way is for the army to rob it themselves, but in the current northern border, there is really no profit to be made, and the common people really have nothing left.

Looking at the mountains in the distance, the soldier suddenly asked: "General, what if the enemy goes directly through the Giant God Mountains, comes down from the mountains, and crosses the defense line?"

"So I am the general and you are just a soldier. Do you think this general can't think of such a simple thing? How many people are there coming down from the mountains? How much baggage can they carry? As long as we stay indoors, won't the rebellion be isolated? What are we afraid of with an isolated army?"

"I see, General, you are wise. So should we close the city gates now?"

The soldier nodded repeatedly and then asked a question that had no context.

"What? Why are you closing the store? I still have business to do."

"But the rebellion has already arrived?"

The soldier pointed in the direction of the distant mountains.

"Fuck it, close the door, close the door quickly!"

In the chaos, the gates of Black Iron City were tightly closed.

Although Keith likes to brag in front of others, he has actually never fought in a battle. He was able to sit in this position only with the help of his family to falsify his experience and spend money.

After all, the defenders of Black Iron City are a lucrative position. It seems very dangerous, but in fact there is the Pétain Line of Defense in front and reinforcements behind. If the enemy really reaches Black Iron City, it means that the Pétain Line of Defense has collapsed, and Black Iron City has become meaningless and there is no need to defend it anymore.

If there were no accidents, Black Iron City would be very safe, but now an accident has happened.

But Keith was not actually very panicked. After all, all he had to do was to close the door. Just as he had analyzed when boasting to the soldiers before, the number of rebel troops coming down from the Targon Mountains could not be large, and they could not even bring much baggage.

And although Black Iron City was only converted into a fortress this winter, it is fully equipped, including a magic barrier that can defend against the enemy's strange catapults.

It can be said that as long as there is no traitor, the Black Iron City will be as indestructible as the Pétain Line of Defense.

In a state of nervousness, Keith stroked the musket in his hand. It was a gift from Governor Doug and was also rumored to be the main weapon used by the rebels. It was indeed very powerful and easy to use, but it was of no help in siege. It was only needed to defend against the opponent's strange catapult that could explode.

Looking at the rebel army approaching in the distance, Keith shouted, "Quickly bring up the professionals who will power the barrier! Don't let anyone get close to the city gate except our soldiers!"

I have to say that Keith's choice was very wise. After all, although Keith had never fought in a war, he was afraid of death.

In this era, unless the opponent has a far greater number of professionals than the defenders, it would be very difficult to attack the city, especially since these rebellious armies do not seem to be numerous.

It was not until the flag of the North Wind Bear fluttering in the cold wind arrived at the foot of the city that Keith could see the enemy's deployment clearly.

Rather than a siege force, it would be more accurate to say that the other side was a small surprise attack force, and probably in order to launch a quick attack, they were all wearing cloth armor and carrying backpacks on their backs.

Keith was not mistaken, it was indeed cloth armor. Even the leader of the opposing team did not have a decent set of plate armor, but just some iron plates on the cloth armor.

For a moment, Keith felt that the enemy's army might really be as Governor Doug said, with serious corruption and the soldiers could only chew tree bark every day, so naturally they could only use cloth armor with the weakest defense.

Governor Doug described the situation vividly and even explained the methods of corruption, as if he had seen it with his own eyes or even practiced it himself, which made people unable to help but believe it.

On the city walls, archers and soldiers with muskets were frantically shooting at the rebellious army.

A group of rebellious soldiers holding shields were moving towards the bottom of the city wall. Keith saw the right moment, took out his musket and fired a shot at the gap between the shield-holding soldiers. Then Keith saw a jaw-dropping scene.

The bullet ricocheted.

"Nimma, it's actually a fully enchanted cloth armor!"

Keith cursed out on the spot.

It's not a low-level enchantment, but a real specialized enchantment. Keith believes that the musket in his hand, which was specially designed by an alchemist and maintained every day, can at least cause pain to the opponent due to the impact even if it is facing plate armor.

But now we failed to penetrate the enemy's cloth armor.

Even Keith's musket couldn't break through the defense, let alone others.

At this time, the spellcasters finally arrived at the top of the city.

After the chanting, several fireballs hit the opponent's shield solidly. Seeing the opponent's soldiers being blown back by the explosion of the fireballs and then quickly dragged back by the friendly forces behind them, Keith sighed in his heart that magic is indeed useful.

My Lord, times have not changed.

But Keith soon discovered something was wrong. After the spellcasters cast several spells, a clear line was drawn on the ground. It was obvious that the spellcasters were just measuring Keith's maximum attack distance.

Moreover, the previously injured soldiers were fed various medicines under Keith's nose and immediately became full of energy again.

He even gave the middle finger to the spellcasters on the city wall.

Well, the potions produced by the rebels are sold well throughout the North. Even Keith’s troops have potions produced by the rebels. How could the rebels be out of money and medicine?

But it doesn’t matter, as long as we wait for the reinforcements to attack, everything will be fine.

Just looking at the maximum attack range of Black Iron City marked by the other party, Keith felt an ominous premonition in his heart.

Soon, a man who looked like an alchemist on the other side, with the help of several soldiers, assembled something behind the drawn lines. Judging from the basic shape, it seemed to be the strange catapult owned by the rebels mentioned in the intelligence, a thing called a cannon.

Seeing this, Keith's heart was completely relieved. What else did he think? Didn't the other side have any new things? In order to defend against this thing called artillery, Black Iron City had specially spent a huge amount of money to install a magic barrier. With such a small number of people on the other side, and having come from a long distance, how much ammunition could they bring?

There may not be a need to use subsequent magic stones to supply magic to the magic barrier, and the professionals alone can completely block the opponent's attack.

Thinking of this, Keith also emerged from the top of the city wall and raised his middle finger to the rebels below.