Chapter 668 The Corrupted Situation

A man who looked like a beggar was brought to Catherine.

Catherine was shocked.

Because she could vaguely recognize from his face that the man in front of her was Becky Mandel, the second son of the royal noble Mandel family.

He accepted the family's arrangement a year ago and went to the Watcher Fortress for training to obtain his own knight title.

In Catherine's impression, Becky was a strong young man, who, like other young royal nobles, attached great importance to his appearance.

But the man in front of her was far from the impression of Becky.

He staggered and looked exhausted. He must have experienced a long journey. His cloudy eyes revealed the difficulty of the journey. His clothes were very worn, and his exposed skin was covered with red scars. His hair was messy like a mess, dirty, and blown to pieces by the wind.

"Are you Becky Mandel?"

Catherine asked in disbelief.

"Wow, Princess, I didn't expect to be able to see my old friend from Jingyao alive, and to see you alive! This must be the gift of the Lord of Light to me."

Becky was so excited that he cried and almost fell down. Fortunately, Ophelia next to him held him up.

The black-haired female general comforted him: "Becky, you are surrounded by your own people now, you can rest assured. Tell the details to your Highness."

Becky Mandel sorted out her emotions and described a terrible reality to Catherine at a fast speed.

The Bradley family has betrayed the kingdom, and the Watcher Fortress has fallen.

"The front of the fortress was attacked by the orc army, which is nothing. We are confident that we can repel them, just as we have done countless times before."

"But... we were attacked from behind. The Bradley family's army entered the fortress area under the pretext of transporting supplies..."

"What's worse is that it's not just the Bradley family's rebels coming from behind, but also a large number of orc troops!"

"We really don't understand how such a large orc army appeared behind us!"

"Although the legion fought hard, the main fortress finally couldn't resist. In order to save the last seed of the Watcher Legion, the deputy commander Sir Duke Shuai finally ordered a breakout! "

"Since the west is the territory of the Bradley family, we chose to break out to the Altun Plateau in the south, which is at least nominally the territory of the kingdom."

"My team was ordered to cover the rear, but after a fierce battle, we got separated from the main force and lost our way in the wilderness."

"We crossed the primitive jungle and the Gobi Desert, and people kept losing people. In the end, I was the only one left. When I was about to give up, the Lord of Light gave me my last breath, allowing me to see this town and the kingdom flag flying over the town."

After saying all this, Becky Mandel burst into tears.

"I'm the only one left! I'm the only one left!"

He kept repeating this sentence.

Damn traitor!

The anger burned in everyone's chest.

The generals around Catherine all held the swords at their waists tightly.

Ao Feina suppressed her anger and asked her lord, "Your Highness, what should we do now?"

The princess's golden eyebrows were tightly furrowed.

It is not difficult to judge from Mandel's words that the situation in the northeast of the kingdom has fallen into a situation that cannot be further degraded.

The most important gate has been lost, and the local biggest lord has joined forces with the enemy coming from outside the gate.

What's worse is that her troops have been deeply trapped in the territory of the traitors, like a leaf in the turbulent waves.

No wonder the kid from the Bradley family dared to be so unreasonable to her.

"The trap for us has been set."

Catherine immediately summoned the generals to discuss the next countermeasures.

"Retreat immediately, retreat to the territory loyal to the kingdom!"

"What about the Watcher Fortress? Just ignore it?"

"The fortress has fallen!"

In view of the current serious situation, everyone quickly reached a consensus that they must retreat.

"If the Bradley family had planned this, I'm afraid we would encounter many obstacles on our way back."

Catherine expressed her concerns.

Lester's eyes were cold, "Then kill those traitors! As long as they pay an unbearable price, even if they sacrifice their lives, it's worth it."

"No, no, no!" Klein disagreed, "Lester, you are the general commanding the kingdom's army, not a knight charging into battle!"

Demps also nodded and said, "Our responsibility should be to preserve the kingdom's strength as much as possible when the situation is irreversible."

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Klein spread out a map on the table.

"Look, this is the area we are in."

"According to my judgment, most of the Bradley family's strength should be used to deal with the Watcher Fortress, and the other part should be near us or ambushed on our way to retreat south. So I suggest..."

He pointed his finger to the west.

"Go west!"

"Go to the Black Stone Land?"

"Yes, go to the Black Stone Land. Gather forces loyal to the kingdom there."

Lester asked: "Orcs are robbers by nature. If they really enter the heart of the kingdom on a large scale, they may immediately attack the rich south to plunder wealth."

Klein continued to explain his point of view, "If we build a considerable force in the Black Stone Land, it will seriously threaten the flank of the orc army and prevent them from going south with all their strength. And there is another important reason."

He looked at Catherine: "The Black Stone Land is close to the Northwest Bay to the west. As far as I know, the Northwest Bay now produces more than half of the kingdom's steel and weapons. This is the real wealth in war. But this place has been relatively closed for a long time and has never been tested by large-scale wars with the outside world. We must build a barrier for the Northwest Bay in the Black Stone Land."

Most of the southern nobles have the impression that orcs are a group of barbarians wandering on the grassland. They are tall and brave but have poor discipline. As long as the human soldiers form a good formation, a hedge can beat them to pieces.

But most of the generals of the Royal Capital Knights have experience in the Watcher Fortress and have a relatively correct understanding of the strength of the orc army, especially in the case that a new royal tent has been born on the grassland, they must be more cautious.

If the Watcher Fortress is still in the hands of the kingdom, the situation is not bad, but now this great fortress has fallen.

Klein: "As long as the Northwest Bay completes the transformation to adapt to the war, I think it is not impossible to push the orcs back directly from the Blackstone Highlands with the support there."

Ophelia nodded: "Then we must notify Earl Graman as soon as possible to prepare."

"Your Highness, what do you think?"

Everyone looked at Catherine, waiting for her to make a decision.

The blonde princess quickly decided.

"Let's go to the Northwest Bay!"

"But before that, we have to get some chips against the Bradley family."

I'm sorry for taking so long.