The news that Gwen had been waiting for had finally arrived.
Receiving the report from Hu Po, he quickly skimmed through it and couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face. "The surviving nobles who fled have all arrived at Firmrock Fort, and it's just as we expected. They can only temporarily take refuge in Firmrock Fort, and the Holy Spirit Plains won't accept them. Furthermore, the fortress is currently isolated and has no support from the Royal Family or the Holy Spirit Plains. "
Amber felt incredulous. "Did the Captical really give up on the Rock Fortress so easily? That's the Rock Fortress we're talking about! "
"They didn't give up but had to put it aside for the time being," Gwen explained happily as he turned the report into ashes. "Sareth, the Eastern Army led by Duke Loren is the strongest army in Ansu. They have already broken through the Eastern Gate of the Holy Spirit Plains in a short amount of time and have taken root in the important towns in the Eastern Plains. As long as they take down a few more key fortresses, they will be able to attack Saint Sunil along the King's Road. The goal of the eastern rebels is very clear. They are here to overthrow the Second Dynasty. For the Captical, this is the biggest threat. "
Gwen then paused for a moment. After thinking for a while, he continued. "But they are definitely not going to give up the Rock Fortress. I can roughly guess what the Captical are thinking. They will use the strong walls and soldiers of the Rock Fortress to resist and delay. The Rock Fortress is located in the gap between the Southern Border and the Holy Spirit Plains. Its unique terrain makes it almost impossible to besiege. Cecil's army can only attack from the South, and the Rock Fortress can receive a steady stream of supplies from the Holy Spirit Plains in the North. At the beginning of the design, this fortress was built to withstand a long period of high-intensity attacks, so from the Captical's point of view, this will be a long war. As long as the Rock Fortress can last long enough, the Royal Family will be able to take a breather from the crisis in the Eastern Border. At that time, the army in the Western Border and even the mountain army in the North will be able to come down south to provide support … "
Amber blinked. "So we have to take down the fortress before the Captical can react …"
"Call Byron, Philip, Solderlin, Heti, and Rebecca over." Gwen nodded. "The half-time break for the remaining noble soldiers is over."
A moment later, Cecil's military commander, the chief of internal affairs, and the chief of technology came to Gwen's study.
Before Gwen opened his mouth, they had already guessed the reason for the meeting. Rebecca looked around curiously after entering the room. She rarely had the opportunity to be called by the ancestor to participate in military meetings. The girl did not understand what was the use of attending a meeting when she knew nothing about military matters, but it did not prevent her from feeling particularly happy.
Byron looked at Gwen expectantly. "My Lord, are we finally going to attack Firmrock Fort?"
"Why do you look so happy?" Philip could not help but grumble. "I didn't know you liked war so much."
"Don't mention it. I promised Pea that I would bring her a gift after we took down Firmrock Fort. I've been bragging about it for almost half a month."
"Ahem." Gwen coughed twice to interrupt the conversation between the two language artists. He then nodded slightly. "As Byron said, the half-time break for the war is over. Philip, how's the preparation in the North going? "
The young Knight took half a step forward. "My Lord, we have been transporting various light and heavy artillery components and industrial parts to Calor for the past half a month. We have used the existing magic network in Calor to build munitions factories to manufacture weapons and ammunition. At present, there are 16 'Justice' railguns and 127 'Persuader' light railguns on standby in the North. We have sufficient ammunition. There are also 2,000 soldiers of the First Combat Regiment and 2,000 soldiers of the Second Combat Regiment on standby in the North. "
"That's enough." Gwen nodded slightly. In order to take over the land of the nobles in the South and maintain the basic order in the several areas under his control, he had to leave a certain number of troops in the South to maintain the situation. Besides, he did not want to use the traditional siege tactic to attack Firmrock Fort. In his opinion, the current forces in the North were sufficient.
Then he looked at Solderlin and asked, "Can the Steel Rangers participate in the actual battle now?"
"The new recruits have to see blood," the high-grade ranger replied. "They have been waiting for this day for a long time."
"Very good, there's a suitable task for you." Gwen nodded. "Your task is to cooperate with our spies in Firmrock Fort."
After assigning the tasks to the Steel Rangers, he turned to Heti and said, "About the food reserves and the recent publicity work."
Gwen confirmed the situation in the territory one by one and assigned everyone their tasks, but he did not mention Byron. After a while, the middle-aged mercenary Knight finally could not help but ask, "My Lord, what about me? What's my task? "
Gwen looked at Byron and pondered for a moment. "You do have a task, and it's very important. But I have to confirm another thing first. Rebecca, how's the progress of Kamel's Spectral Device?"
"Spectral Device" was not the final name, but the name of the project in progress. Although the project was Kamel's, Rebecca was the person in charge of the entire Institute of Magitech Technology. She knew the progress of the project like the back of her hand.
Hearing Gwen's question, Rebecca, who was a little distracted, suddenly came back to her senses. She then looked a little distressed. "It's still the heat dissipation problem. With such a large energy-gathering structure, the accumulated heat can't be channeled out in time. We're trying to use ice magic to forcibly suppress the temperature of the energy-gathering structure, but so far, we haven't found an ice rune base material that can operate stably under strong interference. The previous cooling rings were quickly burned out."
"That is to say, other than the heat dissipation problem, the Spectral Device can already operate?"
Rebecca nodded. "Yes, both prototypes can operate. It's just that they can only operate for a few seconds."
Gwen nodded slightly, then turned around and looked at the huge map hanging on the wall of the study.
Firmrock Fortress was indeed different from most of the 'stone fortresses' in the south. It was a fortress in the truest sense of the word, a fortress armed with powerful magic technology. It had a powerful layer of magic barrier, and this layer of magic barrier could absorb the magic of nature to continuously repair itself. As long as its operation was not interrupted, the effect of the giant cannons bombarding the fortress would be greatly reduced.
According to Kamel, the Spectral Device that relied on pure magic to destroy the target was a weapon more suitable than the magic crystal cannons to destroy the magic barrier. So, in any case, he hoped to use this new weapon when attacking Firmrock Fortress.
In his mind, the surveillance image from the high-altitude satellite appeared.
The terrain of Firmrock Fortress and the surrounding area clearly appeared in his' eyes'. He saw the Dolgon River flowing all the way south from the Plains of the Holy Spirit and divided into two at the mountain pass in front of Firmrock Fortress. One flowed into the mountains, and the other flowed into the south, becoming the life artery of the south: the Whitewater River.
Gwen turned around and looked at Rebecca. "Maybe we can open up our minds. The heat dissipation problem is not so difficult to solve …"
Rebecca did not understand at once. Because her geography teacher was not good at martial arts, her geography grades were not very good. Naturally, she could not think of what Gwen was thinking. "Do you have an idea?"
"We can use the river to cool the device. I've seen Kamel's prototype and talked to him. This plan should be feasible."
Rebecca was stunned, and her eyes slowly brightened. "Oh! That's a good idea! I'll go back and discuss it with Master Kamel! "
Gwen smiled, then put his hand on the table in front of him and slowly glanced at everyone at the scene. "There's one more thing. This time, I'm going to the front line in person."
As soon as this sentence came out, the people at the scene looked at each other. Obviously, they really did not think of this.
Although in this era, it was normal for the noble lords to go to the battlefield in person, there was no sign of Gwen on the battlefield of Shatterstone Ridge and Whitewater River. Only when the mutants attacked the city did Gwen personally go to the battlefield twice. In other words, except when defending the territory, Gwen did not have the habit of leaving the territory. His attitude and self-orientation had always been very clear: the ruler should stay in the rear and do as little as possible to the front line.
So everyone still habitually thought that the ancestor would also stay in the rear this time. They did not expect Gwen to go to the front line in person.
"A well-functioning government office can maintain order during the short period of the lord's absence. And I believe that Heti can also take care of the rear when I'm away, and the local army can also defend against the threat of the Gloom Mountain Range," Gwen explained his idea. "Attacking Firmrock Fortress will be a very important battle, far more important than dealing with Count Hosman's 70,000 miscellaneous troops. This will determine whether we can get a stable and undisturbed base. In any case, I won't allow any accidents to happen in this battle, so I'm going to be there in person."
Gwen paused and then continued, "And there's a more important meaning — the original intention of the Firmrock Fortress, all of you should know."
Heti looked at her ancestor and said in a complicated tone, "In order to lock the Cecil family in the south …"
"So, when the Firmrock Fortress is breached, I must be on the battlefield."
Gwen himself did not care about the symbolic meaning and the facade, but the basic rules and public opinion of this era cared about it.
In this case, on such a major event, Gwen did not mind "symbolizing" as well.
The pre-battle meeting lasted until late at night. When it was finally over, Amber was already yawning. She looked at Gwen, who was still very energetic, and could not help but twitch her mouth. "I really don't know what your brain is made of. You always have so many ideas …"
"Take it as a compliment," Gwen said casually, then got up and walked to the door. "I'm going to talk to Tyre. Are you coming?"
Amber was stunned. "Is it appropriate for you to go to her in the middle of the night? She must be sleeping … "
Gwen turned to look at Amber. "Do you think it's the difference between day and night for Tyre? I'm not looking for her when she's sleeping! "
Just as Gwen said, Tyre, a siren who left the sea, basically only had one thing to do on the shore, which was to sleep. When Gwen and Amber reached her room, the mermaid was floating in her own pool with her belly up, looking like she was dead. To be honest, this saltwater fish had too many problems. Not only did she not recognize anyone when she walked, her sleeping posture was also arrogant and despotic. The maid in charge of changing the water for Tyre also took a long time to adapt to the fact that this "mermaid" was not dead, but backstroke …
It was very difficult to wake up Tyre. Amber went up and tried for a long time, but the fish was still sleeping soundly. In the end, when Gwen hesitated whether to jump up and wake the saltwater fish up, Tyre finally woke up.
When the mermaid opened her eyes and saw Gwen and Amber standing in front of her, she was shocked. She turned over and swung her tail at Gwen's face. "Why didn't you knock?!"
"Nonsense! Even if we blew up the door outside, you'd be lucky if you woke up! " Gwen wiped the water off his face and turned to look at Amber who was hiding behind him to avoid the water. "Do you know that we almost poured water into the pool to wake you up?"
"What's the big deal? It's not like I haven't been near an underwater volcano." Tyre glanced at Gwen. "Tell me, why are you looking for me in the middle of the night? It's night now, right?"
Tyre said as she looked around. When she saw that it was indeed dark outside the window, she was sure that it was night. "It's really night … Then I just fell asleep …"
"You fell asleep last night!" Gwen said with his eyes wide open. He began to wonder if it was a mistake to look for this saltwater fish. But he still said what he came for. "I'm here to tell you something. We're going to attack Firmrock Fortress."
Although Tyr had been sleeping most of the time, she still knew that Cecil was at war with the outside world. Thus, she wasn't at a loss at this moment. Instead, she showed a trace of confusion.
"Are you interested in taking a look?"
Tyre was stunned for a moment. Then, her fishtail swayed gently in the water. As she stirred up the water, she said slowly, "Have you forgotten what we agreed? I can tell you about the deep sea, and I can help when those so-called 'mutants' attack the city, but I won't get involved in the battle between you humans. It's too boring for me."
"Of course I remember. And I don't intend to let you join the battle between humans. I just want you to help deliver something to the north, and then you can just watch from the side."
"That's it?" Tyre looked at Gwen suspiciously. "I know you're very cunning. You've set the trap, haven't you?"
Gwen did not answer Tyre's question. Instead, he reminded her. "Aren't you interested in the magic technology on land? Didn't you sirens encounter a bottleneck in your own system of technology? Maybe you can see something that interests you in Firmrock Fortress. It will be the scene of the collision of human traditional magic technology and Cecil's magic technology. I believe that even for a civilization as advanced as the sirens, this level of technology collision is worth seeing. "
Tyre's eyes changed slightly. She seemed to be a little tempted. But after a moment, she shook her head slightly. "To be honest, I still want to sleep …"
"I've thought about it carefully. Amoun the Giant Deer is so big, it's not impossible for you to take a few bites …"
"Deal!"
Gwen and Amber were speechless.
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