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

When Keith arrived at the top of the city wall, he saw the professionals foaming at the mouth.

"My Lord, there is not a drop left. There is really not a drop left."

The professionals who still had strength crawled to Keith's side, as if they had been drained of energy.

The magic stones on the city wall no longer had their faint fluorescence and became no different from ordinary stones.

The magic barrier appeared and disappeared from time to time, and Keith could already feel the vibration from the exploding fireball under his feet passing through the barrier.

The tremors were evident on the top of the Black Iron City.

"General?"

A soldier stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Keith, who seemed to be half asleep, but Keith grabbed the soldier's hand and moved it away. He stared at the magic barrier that was almost unable to hold up and said, "I think I saw my grandmother. When the barrier disappeared, she was smiling at me. Do you think I am still drunk?"

"General, calm down. The barrier can still hold out for a while!"

After saying this, the soldier pulled out a piece of white cloth from his armor and said, "It's still not too late for us to surrender!"

But Keith slapped the soldier in the face and yelled, "Are you worthy of the Governor? Think about how Governor Doug treats us!"

Then Keith was stunned for a moment and said, "Forget it, don't even think about it."

After finishing speaking, Keith adjusted his mood and cursed again: "Think about the people and merchants in the city, think about your relatives and friends, think about yourselves, are you worthy of the armor you wear? Are you worthy of the glory of the North? Surrender first when encountering difficulties, how can you serve as a soldier?"

Hearing Keith's reprimand, the soldiers on the city wall lowered their heads, and even the professionals on the ground got up again.

"Can you afford the price of surrender? You are standing on the city wall, are you so clean?"

The soldiers were filled with shame and indignation after hearing this.

Finally, Keith roared, "If you want to vote, you have to wait until I discuss it with the noble merchants in the city. If we vote directly, how will we explain to Governor Doug in the future? So listen to me and hold on for a while. I will let the gentlemen in the city vote with us!"

As Keith turned to leave, he suddenly remembered something and said to the soldiers on the city wall, "Oh, embroider the white flag first. We must surrender with dignity and never let the other side look down on us."

"Yes!"

After Keith finished speaking, the morale on the city wall could be said to be united. Everyone was determined to surrender. How much money would Governor Doug give them? Why risk their lives?

However, these soldiers really wronged Doug this time. Doug's investment in the Pétain Line of Defense can be said to be quite huge, including the support for the Pétain Line of Defense, but why did Black Iron City, as the support, not actually get much money?

It is estimated that the nobles under Governor Doug are all very studious. After listening to Governor Doug's talk about how the gray-collar army was corrupt, they also tried it out themselves.

In fact, Keith knew very well that it didn't matter if the city wall collapsed. Black Iron City was so big and his side had the advantage in numbers, while the other side had only a little over a thousand people. As long as Keith was willing to fight again, he could continue fighting.

Street fighting is the most exhausting, especially for the side that is outnumbered.

But the merchants and nobles in the city may not agree.

Because once the enemy really enters the city, the nobles and their residences will definitely be the primary targets of attack and occupation. By then, even if Keith really bravely leads the soldiers to fight in the streets and delays rescue, the nobles will only grab Keith by the collar and ask, "What are you guarding?"

Even if Keith won in the end, he still lost.

For Keith, this is the true meaning of war, so even though Keith had never fought in a war, he still became a general with the support of the nobles.

And at the foot of the city, White got up in high spirits, or rather, he didn't sleep at all the previous night.

The opponent's magic barrier was stronger than expected, but after a day and a night of bombardment, the barrier finally began to flicker.

I guess no one in this era could have imagined that there would be an army that could use explosive fireballs on the city walls all day and all night.

Unless the army has an organized professional force, if it does have an organized professional force, it probably won't use such a simple and stupid method.

Looking at the flickering magic barrier, White began to think about what to do after breaking into the city.

After all, if the other side wanted to engage in street fighting, it might greatly slow down White's speed in controlling Black Iron City, as the number of soldiers was still too small.

The headquarters has actually come up with a contingency plan. The remaining troops of the Third Army are probably on the way, and they will send people to assist White in controlling Black Iron City.

But the Governor still thought too highly of these Northern nobles. White felt that these nobles might surrender even faster than the Governor imagined.

Fortunately, the scouts reported that other comrades of the Third Army could be seen not far away.

While waiting for the barrier on the city wall to be completely broken, White saw his own reinforcements coming to support him.

"Master Sean."

White wanted to kneel down and salute, but was helped up by Sean.

"I am just a staff officer, and you are the commander-in-chief. How can a commander kneel down to a staff officer?"

"but..."

"No buts, General White, this is the military."

Under Sean's tough attitude, White resisted the urge to kneel down, and finally both sides replaced the etiquette with a handshake.

Although I knew that the Governor attached great importance to this first battle, I did not expect that the people coming to support would be so important.

"Master Sean, how come the support arrived a day or two earlier than expected?"

"The Petain defense line was even more cowardly than my brother-in-law imagined. They didn't dare to show their heads after a little contact and didn't try to stop us at all, so we set off early."

"And I brought alchemists with me this time. Oh, my brother-in-law said it's an engineer corps. Never mind. It's all the same. Once the city is breached, we can immediately take over the city defense."

While the two were talking, white flags were already fluttering on the city walls.

Sean frowned. Most of Doug's troops were the former Northern Army. They surrendered too quickly. The two sides had not even fought in a real sense. Had the Northern Army fallen to this extent?

Although the other side is an enemy now, Sean still feels uncomfortable about the Northern Army's rapid decline. These may have once been soldiers of the Lars family.

Seeing the other side raising the white flag, White also stopped firing, took the loud speaker handed by the soldier and shouted: "Northerners do not fight Northerners, Gray and White Leader treat the prisoners well, quickly lay down your weapons and surrender out of the city."

The other soldiers followed White's lead and shouted.

Seeing this, Keith immediately led his troops, removed all their weapons and armor, opened the city gates and surrendered.

And so, one of the important reinforcements of the Pétain Line surrendered.

After confirming that the other party was not pretending to surrender, Sean, surrounded by guards, stepped into the almost intact city.

“This algorithm is too backward.”

Sean came to the tower on the city wall and inspected the magic barrier device there.

It can only be controlled by professionals, and even the magic stone power supply requires professionals to connect. Moreover, the runes are arranged in no regular pattern, and the efficiency of the magic circle is extremely low.

The alchemists wearing military uniforms and carrying toolboxes followed Sean into the tower, cursing at the control device of the barrier.

"Who the hell wrote this algorithm? It's not as good as my son's homework."

"Recompile it. This old magic circle is completely useless."

"No wonder it couldn't even hold on for a day. This waste of magic power is too serious. It's a sin."

White also came to Sean's side. There was no way. Although White was the commander-in-chief of the Third Army, Sean's actual status was much higher than White's, both in the past and now. Unknowingly, everyone still regarded Sean as the backbone.

Sean shook his head and sighed. It seemed that his brother-in-law still had a long way to go in his reform. However, it was precisely because of his special status that his brother-in-law entrusted this heavy responsibility to him.

My brother-in-law must have his reasons for doing this. I still need to learn a lot from him.

"Master Sean, do you want to ask these professionals to help?"

The soldiers pushed out those professionals whose eyes were a little dazed and whose mouths were still foaming due to the exhaustion of magic power.

These professionals just watched the gray-collar alchemists, or engineers, cursing while making drastic changes to the magic barrier that they were so proud of.

"No need for that. Their level is not even as good as my friend's sister who teaches in elementary school."

If it were in the past, Sean would probably treat these professionals with courtesy, even if they were enemies, but now, Sean was too lazy to even look at them.

However, these people are not completely useless. But before using them, the self-esteem of these so-called professionals must be smashed to pieces.

"Then what about the nobles and merchants in the city?"

"I'll go and contact them. I promise they won't cause any trouble to our defense of the city."

Sean was originally a top nobleman, and he had a good grasp on the nobles in a commercial city. Sean knew what they needed and could even guess why these nobles surrendered.

The Third Army quickly took over Black Iron City completely, but there was no sign of the so-called reinforcements from Black Iron City.

White estimated that the other nobles had probably received the call for help by now. After all, he had not blockaded Black Iron City at all.

The progress has probably reached the stage of arguing over whether to provide support, and it will probably take some time before the actual departure.