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

In the core area of ​​White Frost Castle, although there is not as much singing and dancing as in Dark Iron Castle, the atmosphere is relatively relaxed.

At least most members of the Laurent family were still talking and laughing while analyzing the future situation.

Although most people were not optimistic about Doug at first, after the siege began, many people relaxed their minds, thinking that Gray Collar's army was nothing special. There were actually many strong cities like this one in the North. Although most of them were historical relics like White Frost Castle, their defensive capabilities were indeed amazing.

Some people even swore that Governor Doug's territory was larger, and that the Gray Collars were only relying on their equipment advantage to attack quickly. If the war dragged on for a long time, Doug would be able to stabilize the enemy with his population advantage. He also seemed to seriously analyze that the North would be divided into two in the future, starting from the location of White Frost Castle.

After all, the gray-collar offensive looked scary. After fighting for several days, even the first wall had just been destroyed. Moreover, after filling the gap, the other side didn't dare to move forward another step.

This gave the members of the Laurent family an illusion that the nobles who surrendered before were just too incompetent and that they should practice more.

But Pierre, the current head of the Laurent family, was not so optimistic. These were news that Pierre had deliberately released in order to prevent panic. The truth was that after Pierre organized a surprise attack, he discovered that something was wrong with the opposing army.

Obviously, Pierre's soldiers and knights were also equipped with muskets, but when the two sides fought, they still seemed like armies from two different eras and were not on the same level at all.

After only a few ambushes, the enemy had already started a counter-ambush. Not only was the enemy's equipment superior, but the army's commander was also extraordinary. This forced Pierre to tighten his forces and focus on defense.

Fortunately, the other side was not as exaggerated as the rumors said, and was not able to bombard the city walls day and night.

After the first section of the city wall was destroyed, the enemy's artillery fire weakened significantly, which also gave Pierre some confidence.

What's more, what these Laurent family members talked about was not entirely without reason. The enemy's army was advancing so fast that food and supplies might not be able to keep up. It was not an exaggeration to say that the enemy was now in an isolated position and deep in the enemy's territory.

Even if the outer fortress was breached, the Laurent family was confident that they could defend the castle and fight the enemy.

The original purpose of the castle was military defense, not to mention this fortress-level castle built during Lars's heyday. Even Lars' army at its heyday did not dare to say that it could take it down.

As Doug's defense now mainly relies on archaeology, White Frost Castle is already the top defensive fortress in the North.

As long as White Frost Castle can hold out until the surrounding noble lords, or those generals of the Doug Army who are slacking off every day, react, wait until the chickens have eaten the rice, the dogs have licked the noodles, the fire has burned through the locks, and the friendly forces have finished their decision-making meetings, and slowly come to support White Frost Castle, then the enemy's attack can be thwarted, and maybe we can really divide White Frost Castle and rule over the enemy.

After surviving this battle, the Laurent family will get more resources in the future.

After being comforted by Pierre, although White Frost Castle did not open the champagne directly, its fighting spirit was at least relatively optimistic.

Especially after hearing about the fate of those nobles who were purged.

Although the Laurent family could not be considered as one of the most evil families, and was more conservative as a whole without any open spirit of freedom and tolerance, it was precisely this conservative tendency that made the Laurent family, which relied on land for their livelihood, unable to accept the "Nobility Reform Regulations" and the "Land Distribution Act".

Just when Pierre was planning how to get those friendly troops who liked to hold meetings all day to come faster, a soldier hurriedly came to Pierre and whispered a few words, and Pierre immediately left the party quietly.

Pierre, wearing a coat, climbed up the castle's watchtower and looked into the distance.

Looking at the neatly arranged troops and the fortifications being built in the distance, Pierre took a deep breath.

"Weren't the troops that attacked us before the enemy's main force?"

Pierre asked the staff officer beside him.

The staff officer beside him looked at the army in the distance and replied with some trembling: "According to the news from the first city wall, the troops before seemed to be just the enemy's vanguard. It was only because the vanguard fought too fiercely and encountered no obstacles that they were considered to be the enemy's main force."

"Damn it!"

Pierre hammered heavily on the windowsill of the watchtower and cursed, "Does that mean that all the nobles before were directly defeated by the enemy's vanguard? Are those nobles useless at all?"

But Pierre could still understand it in his heart. After all, the vanguard had already taken down the first city wall. It was just that the enemy general was too steady and was not in a hurry to step into the city wall, so he stayed outside.

The opponent's vanguard is really too exaggerated. This army led by professionals is actually just a vanguard. Is the opponent's governor so extravagant?

But Pierre soon calmed down. The opponent might be using a tactic of letting a few professional elites clear the way. The once-powerful Lars family had used a similar quick attack method. Cursing those teammates now would not help. The most urgent task was to get the support of the friendly forces to arrive quickly.

"When will our fastest reinforcements arrive?"

As Pierre asked the question, the staff officer beside him took out a notebook, opened it and said, "If the Bronze Hammer Territory closest to us has already started marching, it will probably take about a week."

"That's about two and a half weeks."

Pierre sighed and continued, "Has the secret passage that connects us to the outside world been discovered?"

"The enemy commander seemed to be familiar with the structure of the castle. Several secret passages were discovered, but they were all destroyed immediately by our guards, and the existence of other secret passages was not exposed."

Hearing this, Pierre finally relaxed a little.

"Contact the other armies that are looting every day, as well as the demon army behind them, and ask them to come here quickly."

Originally, Pierre did not want to contact Doug's army which had almost become bandits. After all, those armies were really no different from bandits, and some even directly occupied the mountains and became kings. Doug's army was just a part-time job.

But that is precisely why the gray-collar army, which has been attacking cities and strongholds along the way, has no time to go to the mountains and woods to clean out these guys. These bandit armies may not pose any threat to the regular army at ordinary times, but once they gather together, they are still a force that cannot be easily ignored.

Moreover, Pierre knew that there were some demon troops around. Although Doug's relationship with the demons was becoming somewhat tense, it did not prevent some demons from sending troops into the North in the name of supporting Doug.

However, these demons are not the main force of the demon clan. They are basically here to do some shameful things, such as spreading plague during war.

But even so, these demons are already the elite troops among the demons.

Pierre hated these demons even more than the gray-collar army, but he couldn't care less in the emergency.

When everything was arranged, Pierre returned to the party tiredly.

"What's wrong, father?"

Pierre's youngest daughter Emily came to Pierre wearing armor, and Emily keenly noticed the fatigue hidden in her father's eyes.

"Nothing, just a few minor issues, I can take care of them quickly."

Looking at his little daughter, Pierre temporarily forgot his worries. However, when he saw the armor on his little daughter, Pierre became worried again. This armor represented Emily's determination to live and die with White Frost Castle, but Pierre could not really want his little daughter to die with her.

People always have to leave themselves a way out.