Lin Yi didn't know how much of a sensation his disappearance had caused. Now he and Su Xiao were heading to the front line with the large army. Lin Yi and Su Xiao followed the silent army and felt the heavy atmosphere brought by the war. The surrounding soldiers, whether they were voluntary soldiers or captured strong men, had become numb in this cruel cold weapon war. There was no fear on their faces, only indifference to life and death, as if they had seen through the impermanence of life. To become an imperial soldier, there is a folk saying that a soldier is a noble lord, a tiger, a beast, or a dog. After the soldiers received their military pay, the aristocratic lord drank alcohol and went to prostitutes, living a very cool life, just like an aristocratic lord. Tiger beast is what civilians call tigers. Civilians are as afraid of soldiers as they are of tigers, so they describe soldiers as tiger beasts. As for dogs, when the war broke out, the lives of soldiers were not worth as much as a dog. As the army marched, a spectacular scene gradually unfolded in front of Lin Yi. In the distance, a winding black "mountain range" stretches across the plain, completely separating the empire and the tribe's territory.
This is the destination of their trip and the upcoming battlefield - the Black Earth Fortress. Viewed from a distance, the Black Earth Fortress looks like a giant dragon, winding its way over the earth. It has a total length of 176 kilometers and is made of hard obsidian. It is completely black and exudes a calm and mysterious atmosphere. There are as many as 6782 magic brands on the fortress. These brands shine with faint light, as if telling the fort's solidity and immortality. The average height of the Black Earth Fortress reaches 40 meters, and the highest point stands at 60 meters. Standing below the fortress and looking up, it looks like a sky wall reaching into the sky, which is daunting. This fortress has stood for 3,600 years and has undergone no less than 30 renovations during this period. On average, large-scale repairs and reinforcements are required once every hundred years. After seeing the target this time, Lin Yi and Su Xiao cursed in the war channel at the same time. How did the empire lose this thing? You must know that this thing can be said to be a defensive weapon in war. As long as 10,000 soldiers are placed in the city, even if the opponent comes to attack the city with 100,000 troops, Lin Yi is confident that he can defend it. So how rotten has the empire's army become to the point where it can even lose such a war fortress? "Can this thing... really be attacked?" A contractor who was closer to Su Xiao looked up at the black earth fortress, with thousands of grass and mud horses jumping past in his heart. At the rear of the army, Marquis Mark looked up at the towering black earth fortress, with a trace of complicated emotions flashing in his eyes. He had not set foot on this battlefield for almost twenty years. Now that he faced this once familiar fortress again, he couldn't help but feel filled with emotion. "Lord Marquis," the deputy commander of the Iron-Blooded Legion knelt on one knee in front of Marquis Mark's horse and handed over a report, "This is a report on the number of soldiers and the storage of military rations, weapons, etc. The weapons promised by the Moon Elves have been delayed. It has not been delivered for a long time, and now many soldiers’ weapons have been severely worn, and our food reserves are not much, and there are also some problems with water sources..." Marquis Mark frowned and interrupted the deputy commander's report: "I understand." There was a hint of impatience in his voice. Although these problems are difficult, in his opinion, what is more important now is how to recapture the Black Earth Fortress and restore the empire's glory.
Marquis Mark was in a irritable mood at the moment. On the one hand, it was because Lin Yi's disappearance caused a series of problems, and on the other hand, it was because his immediate superior, a duke, had received an order. The emperor assigned the task to the duke, but the duke was unwilling to use his own carefully trained troops to complete what he considered a "useless" war. Therefore, the Duke assigned this task to his subordinates. Among them, Marquis Mark was assigned the largest number of soldiers because he had not completed the Duke's task before. Marquis Mark was riding on his horse, looking deeply into the distance, weighing in his mind how to deploy the army. He knew that this mission might be "useless" to the Duke, but for him, the Marquis, it was an important performance opportunity. The burly body of Carlos, the deputy commander of the army, looked even more majestic against the backdrop of the blood-colored armor. The bloody smell on his body showed his military exploits and dedication. "Carlos, you just need to tell me whether we can recapture the Black Earth Fortress before sunset." Marquis Mark was riding on his horse, his eyes falling on Carlos with complicated eyes. Although he didn't like this person, he now needed Carlos's strength. "Wha...what?" Carlos asked in shock, suspecting that he heard wrongly. The Black Earth Fortress is notoriously strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and recapturing it before sunset seems to be an impossible task. "The Marquis is asking you whether it is possible for us to retake the Black Earth Fortress before dark," the imperial official next to Marquis Mark explained with contempt. Although his official position was lower than that of Carlos, he was full of disdain for the deputy commander who was the son of a nobleman and a prostitute. "Lord Marquis, this seems...unlikely." Carlos lowered his head and said this sentence with difficulty. He was filled with helplessness and anger, and he really didn't have much respect for this loser who relied on the hereditary system to inherit the position of marquis. He now wanted to pull down the fat man who was riding a horse three meters away, step on his face hard, and let him take a closer look at the extent of the war fortification that the Black Earth Fortress was. The strength of the Black Earth Fortress is well known. Since its inception, no one had considered that it could be captured, let alone planned a counterattack. In everyone's opinion, this fortress is impregnable, and it is impossible for the primitive people of the tribe to capture it. Who would have thought that Marquis Mark would dare to directly embezzle the construction costs of Moheitu Fortress, and the amount embezzled was not small. It is reported that he took 70% of the construction cost, 50% of which was handed over to the Duke. This can be seen as a sign of his surrender to the Duke. If it were not for the protection of the Duke, Marquis Mark would have been executed by the Emperor for such behavior. Due to a serious shortage of construction costs, the defenses of the Black Earth Fortress had holes in some key places. After decades of careful calculation, the goblins in the tribe finally discovered these loopholes and gathered an army to launch a fierce attack on the weak points of the fortress. At that time, Marquis Mark was overconfident and believed that the tribe would never dare to attack the Black Earth Fortress, so he only deployed less than 20,000 soldiers in the fortress. In order to capture the fortress, the tribe paid the price of more than 100,000 lives, and finally succeeded in occupying the black earth fortress. It can be said that if it were not for the flaws in the Black Earth Fortress's defense techniques, the 20,000 soldiers could have continued to deal with the tribe, at least until the arrival of reinforcements, without major problems. "If the war goes very smoothly, we can retake the Black Earth Fortress in about ten days." Although Carlos answered like this, he knew in his heart that this was actually an optimistic estimate. In fact, even if everything goes well, it would be great to recapture the fortress within half a month.
And this is based on the fact that the empire will continue to send more troops to the black soil plains and adopt the same tactics of stacking corpses to recapture the fortress. However, Marquis Mark was obviously dissatisfied with Carlos's answer: "Ten days, that's too long." There was unquestionable determination in his voice. Marquis Mark stared at Carlos and continued: "I'll give you a week. If you can't take back the Black Earth Fortress, you will come to see me. Now I have become the laughing stock of Holy Dragon City. If you can't, I will Find someone who can do it in your place." Faced with such a severe order, Carlos could only answer bravely: "Yes."