Ch. 102 - Crossing the River

Old Jimmy stood in the heavy snow, looking at the ice floes floating on the river, and his expressions appeared worried.

After arriving in Bailey City, Ghoul-Garu led the terrestrial races and stationed them outside Bailey City. As a strategic deterrent, murlocs and other amphibians were sent to the major water systems of the Earl, guarding the river banks and blocking traffic.

The murlocs lived up to the earl’s expectations. With their amphibious advantages, they scuttled several troop carriers of the Viscount Leo family and the Count Lucas family. Now, no one would dare to cross the river forcibly, but things didn't go as the Earl expected.

The family of Viscount Leo and the family of Count Lucas saw through the plan of Bailey City. Although there were frictions on the border between the two sides, the top leaders of both sides were restrained and did not resort to full-scale war.

A delicate balance was maintained between the three forces, but now, this balance was about to be broken.

Because, with the advent of winter, the river in the North of the Lowe Kingdom began to freeze. According to this trend, after a few winter nights, the surface of the river would be completely frozen and covered with a layer, sufficient for the passage of the army.

At that time, the murloc's amphibious advantage would be gone, and Old Jimmy would also have to retreat.

"Senior, the snow is heavy again. Go back soon."

The remaining murloc guard interrupted Old Jimmy's thinking.

"The soldiers sent out, haven't they come back yet?"

"Not yet. I'll be waiting here, elder, you go back first, you ..."

"Hahaha, little James, don't worry about me, don't look at my old age. I have been gifted by Lord, and have undergone dragon vein transformation. Maybe you strong guys are not as good as I am."

The murloc guard scratched his head in embarrassment.

Suddenly, Old Jimmy was startled. Under the guard's stunned eyes, he suddenly jumped into the river with broken ice, swam to the center of the river ten meters apart, grabbed a block of ice, and began observing carefully.

The murloc guard who jumped down with Old Jimmy couldn't figure it out watching Old Jimmy's behavior.

"Little James, immediately notify a few Nightcrawlers and search upwards along the river. The blood of murlocs is frozen in this piece of ice."

"Yes!"

Old Jimmy looked at the faint blood in the ice cube in his hand, and his heart turned solemn.

They couldn't help but do it at last!

Since the beginning of winter, the two hostile families seemed to have reached an agreement. The border friction had almost disappeared, and more and more scouts had been sent to the banks of the river in the past two days.

Faced with such obvious red flags, Old Jimmy sent people to contact Bailey City while sending murloc scouts into the enemy's territory to investigate. However, the two teams had not returned yet.

Old Jimmy smelled the air of conspiracy, and now, it was convinced that the enemy could not help it, and was about to take action against Bailey City.

Not long after Old Jimmy returned to the murloc camp, the murloc Nightcrawler who went out to search came back and brought back a frozen murloc corpse.

"Elder, we found our comrade's body in the upper reaches of the river."

Old Jimmy looked at the corpse on the ground. There was an arrow stuck behind the corpse. Old Jimmy pulled out the arrow and saw a hammer emblem printed on the arrow.

The Hammer Emblem was the clan emblem of the Count Lucas family. Sure enough, they would not give up this chance. Ten thousand murlocs would definitely not be able to stop the attack of an Earl family.

"Notify everyone and prepare to retreat."

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Suddenly, Old Jimmy heard the sound of horse hooves from afar

Hawk Eye!

Old Jimmy's eyes were covered with a faint fluorescence, and he saw the scene on the other side of the river. In the heavy snow, a large number of human cavalry in iron armor were galloping towards the murloc camp.

Old Jimmy saw a dozen people wearing mage robes behind the team, and immediately decided to make a strategic move.

"Quick! Take your rations and go into the water."

Facing an invincible enemy, the Murloc did not need to rush to the enemy for the sake of Bailey City.

Old Jimmy took all the murlocs into the bottom of the river. He planned to detour from the river and return to Bailey City. After all, the employment had not ended.

Before long, the human cavalry came to the river, and the leading mighty human knight saw the murlocs in groups under the water.

If Old Jimmy saw this man in person, he would definitely recognize him. Previously, Earl Dumbledore took out the magic image and carefully introduced the hyena–Earl Lucas.

The full name of Count Lucas was Silva Lucas. He was the patriarch of the Lucas Family. He was known for his despicable cunning, greed, and patience, so he was called a hyena.

The knight on the side looked at the murloc in the water bitterly, "My lord, do you want to give chase?"

Count Lucas waved his hand, "No, there is no profit in the murlocs, there is no need to waste time on them."

"But, these damn murlocs killed nearly a thousand of our soldiers, I ..."

Count Lucas' face changed slightly: "Are you questioning my decision!"

The knight bowed his head quickly and backed away: "Subordinate dares not."

Earl Lucas's face improved, and he explained, "Earl Dumbledore is rich. We must seize the time before that old fox, Dumbledore, reacts. Don't worry, we will settle the score with these murlocs."

"My lord, shall we not defeat Hammer Town?"

Count Lucas gave his subordinate a glance.

"Mage, create a passage!"

Old Jimmy felt the violent wave of magical energy behind him, and when he looked back, a team of mage froze the water, creating an ice avenue for the army to pass through.

"All members dismount! Cross the river!"

Under the snowstorm, the knights led their horses across the ice and stepped onto the land of Earl Dumbledore.

On the other side, Old Jimmy said to the murloc guard: "You ride the fastest swordfish from the river into the sea, and then to Bailey City, tell the Earl to prepare the attack."

"Yes!"

...

Night.

Bailey City.

Bruce was awakened by his servant in his sleep.

"Master Bruce, the master is calling an emergency council in the lobby."

Bruce was confused when he heard the word “emergency council”, he immediately awoke and hurried to the castle hall, and found that the hall was already full of people.

"Father! What happened?"

"Wait a minute."

Bruce suppressed the doubt and moved to the chair aside.

After a while, the four-meter-tall two-headed ogre chief pushed the door, walked in, and sat down on an extra-large chair.

"Okay, everyone is here."

Earl Dumbledore looked solemn: "Everyone, we are in trouble."

"I just received the message that the Hyenas entered the hinterland of the territory with two thousand elite cavalrymen, looting everywhere, and Leonardo Leo, the heir to Viscount Leo, a military aristocrat, is attacking the town of Watchman with ten thousand soldiers. What do you think?"

Bruce: "Father, the Lucas family, and the Leo family have reached a secret agreement. Otherwise, why would they make their moves at the same time!"

A certain baron roared: "Yes! These two are too damnable!"

Bruce calmly analyzed: "Hyenas expect that we are unable to fight on two fronts, give up attacking Viscount Willen stationed in Falling Hammer Town, and let us go all out to rescue Viscount Oliver stationed in Wingwatch, and then sit back and watch the two tigers of House Dumbledore and House Reo fight each other, what a vicious tactic!!"

"Yes, Leonardo Leo was pitted by a hyena, but we can only be led by his nose."

"Then we abandon civilians?"

Earl Dumbledore looked at the quarreling people and said: "The civilians will not be in danger. Our top priority is to rescue Viscount Oliver. Who wants to lead the team?"

Baron Adams stood up: "I'll go!"

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