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

White Frost Castle is also known as the Little River Valley. It is located at the intersection of water systems. It is surrounded by water on two sides and backed by mountains on one side. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The wide rivers and lakes formed a natural defensive barrier, preventing Hammond from advancing quickly, and the terrain made it difficult for Hammond to bypass White Frost Castle and continue attacking the next city.

White Frost Castle continued to use bridges or ferries for effective defense and ambush, but after trying several times and finding that they were of little use, they withdrew their forces and concentrated on the defense of White Frost Castle.

Hammond's advancement was extremely fast. The cities and fortresses along the way were basically subdued after being bombarded by artillery for a day or two. It was clearly just a normal siege, but to Hammond it felt like a blitzkrieg.

Except for a small number of guards of their own, most of the remaining militia troops were conscripted by Doug.

After all, Doug has discovered that these scattered troops of small nobles are simply unable to stop the attack of the gray-collar workers, and the militia is likely to rebel on the spot, so he has to go all out and begins to draw population from these western nobles more frantically in order to concentrate his strength.

When these nobles saw that the situation was not right, they surrendered after a symbolic resistance. After all, the slogan shouted by the gray-collar workers was that Northerners should not fight Northerners. These nobles thought that they had only changed a governor and could continue to enjoy a life of debauchery.

But it was obvious that some nobles misjudged the situation. In the eyes of the governor, some nobles could not be considered "people" at all.

All those nobles who liked the so-called "free and open" atmosphere and took advantage of it to intensify exploitation and enjoyment were liquidated.

Those who did not accept the "Nobility Reform Ordinance" and the "Land Distribution Bill" had their homes confiscated.

This might provoke strong resistance from other nobles, but for Hammond, it would be a good thing for these nobles to resist.

Hammond attacked too quickly, and the speed at which the civil servants took over the city was far slower than Hammond's speed in capturing the city.

If he didn't clean them all up, Hammond was worried that these nobles were pretending to surrender and would rebel again later.

But now those civil servants are finally catching up with Hammond. This is the first time that Hammond has encountered such a tough opponent.

When Hammond saw the knights of White Frost Castle constantly ambushing and launching surprise attacks at the beginning, he even had the illusion that he was fighting against his past self.

However, the opponent was obviously more rational than Hammond at the beginning, or the conditions were better. White Frost Castle was not a small city like Silver Wing City, which was almost indefensible and not very important. If the surprise attack failed, there was no need to launch a desperate charge like Hammond did.

If the surprise attack fails, the enemy can just retreat back into the fortress and continue defending.

Under repeated artillery bombardment, a portion of the White Frost Castle's wall was indeed blown down, but the soldiers of White Frost Castle quickly took advantage of the night to move many sacks of sand from behind the collapsed wall, quickly rebuilt the fortifications, and continued to defend the wall.

Hammond felt a little scalp-tingling. Hoarfrost Castle was originally a proper military fortress. This was only the outermost wall of Hoarfrost Castle. There would be several more walls inside after it was conquered.

There may be secret passages between these walls for transporting troops. Even if he takes down the outermost wall, Hammond would not dare to enter the city directly in a short period of time.

Hammond had always wondered what would happen if he were the defender of a certain city, and he kept playing out the battles in his mind.

And now this situation seems to be actually happening.

But Hammond is in no hurry.

Because they were defeating all enemies with ease and fighting so smoothly along the way, Hammond's vanguard troops directly became the main attacking force. The real main attacking force, like the civilian officials, were left far behind by Hammond.

Now, the main attack force has finally arrived.

Darcy saluted Hammond when she saw him. After a short time of getting along with him, Darcy admired Hammond very much. After all, Darcy was just a hunter in the mountains. He relied on his good eyesight, accurate shooting, and joining the team early to achieve his current success.

But Hammond is a real Knight Lars, and Darcy has learned a lot from Hammond along the way.

So even though Darcy held a high military rank, he was very respectful to Hammond.

Hammond also liked this child very much. Although he was still very young, Hammond could see that Laurie was training Darcy as the next one.

This was almost impossible in the previous army. Darcy and Laurie had almost no blood relationship and no common interests. Darcy was not even a professional, but Laurie could treat Darcy as his right-hand man. Almost all major matters were handled by Darcy first, allowing her to accumulate experience.

Although Darcey had blown his head off before, they were both serving different masters at the time. Hammond instead praised Darcey's decision-making and calmness, and taught Darcey everything he knew.

But Hammond was overthinking it. Lowry had simply learned the Governor's spirit of using people to the utmost and was madly exploiting Darcy.

Although there are so many people who want to be exploited by Lowry now that they have to draw lots, Lowry still thinks Darcy is the most convenient to use.

Linde is not as rude as Daiying. Although he uses people to death, at least working for Linde really brings wealth and status.

Although Darcy is young, he has rich experience and is capable, so he is not afraid of not being able to convince the public.

"How's the situation now?"

Perhaps because of Lind's obsession with military food, Darcey eats much better than before, and now it is completely impossible to tell that Darcey had ever lied about her age.

"It's a bit difficult to break through head-on. The White Frost Castle was probably built based on this terrain. Although we destroyed the first section of the wall, it will be difficult to attack it in a short period of time."

After saying this, Hammond gave some additional lessons to Darcy, who was not from a noble knight family and was not very familiar with this kind of fortress.

For this kind of fortress, collapsing the first section of the wall will have absolutely no effect. Instead, trespassing into the collapsed first section of the wall without permission will easily lead to falling into a trap.

After all, White Frost Castle was built during the heyday of the Lars family. At that time, the North was full of mixed troops of Lars's peak professionals and elite soldiers, as well as demons who could use high-level blood magic.

These two sides really don't consider endurance. In terms of firepower alone, they are not much worse than the current Gray Collar. White Frost Castle was built according to this standard, and its structure is even more reasonable than the fortress of the Pétain Line.

"Can we build a pontoon bridge and attack from other directions?"

Hammond's vanguard did not have that many siege weapons, but the main attack force brought by Darcy was fully equipped.

"The other side also has professionals, and although they don't have artillery, they do have trebuchets. It's difficult for the floating bridge to be effective under long-range firepower."

Darcy nodded and said, "Then let's continue the frontal attack. We are attacking too fast now, so we need to slow down for a while to give the people behind us some time to digest the results of the battle. Besides, the Governor said that time is on our side, so we just need to proceed step by step."

Now, Hammond understood why the Governor was so obsessed with firepower advantage. It was indeed useful. More importantly, if the enemy was defeated by firepower, many brothers would not die.