"what!"

Mekasha stood up from the ground immediately, turned around and looked at the maid with wide eyes, grabbed her by the shoulder and shook it twice, and asked anxiously: "Are you sure? This news is true?"

"I'm not sure, miss!" the maid said truthfully: "It's just that the people in the city have spread it all over now, saying that Lord Earl has been defeated!"

"A rumor...that's good!" After listening to the maid's words, Mekasha couldn't help but let go of her suspended heart, and leaned against the wall of the prayer room. Just now she suddenly got up and caused her brain to have insufficient blood supply. At this moment, she was a little dizzy. Feel.

"But..." The maid gritted her teeth: "But your brother Sir Fata has already returned. It is said that he was very embarrassed and returned to the castle with only more than twenty knights..."

With that said, the maid gave Mekasha a strange look and asked, "Don't you know about it?"

When Mekatha heard the words, her pupils suddenly shrank. She had no idea about this, not to mention that her brother had not come to see her, and no one even told her about his return.

Speaking of this, how can Mekasha not be confused?

She didn't even care about changing her clothes, rushed out of the prayer room amidst the shouts of the maid, and began to train for Sir Fata.

Her traces spread all over Sir Fata's room, the garden in the castle, and finally found him and a group of courtiers in the Lord's Hall.

Opening the door rudely and walking in, everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Mekasha.

"Mekasha?" Sir Fata frowned and looked at Mekasha's worried face. He couldn't help but lowered his head with a guilty conscience. He supported the table with his hands and asked in a breathless manner: "What are you doing here? "

Mekasha felt the dull and depressing atmosphere in the hall, watching Sir Fata with her head down, she stepped forward step by step.

"Brother... look into my eyes!" Mekatha said in a choked voice, holding back the grief in her heart.

"Why... why are you here?"

Sir Fata heard it and couldn’t help but raised his head. He has always been very fond of his little sister. Hearing her tone is wrong, his heart is even more uncomfortable, but after listening to her question, the feeling of heart cramps It came to his mind again.

Looking at the red-blooded brother in his eyes, how could Mekasha not know what happened? What's more, combined with the depressive atmosphere here, even a fool would understand.

"Perhaps things are not so bad..." Sir Fata gave Mekasha a young smile: "Perhaps, my father was just captured by Earl Rainer, and he is planning to demand a ransom from us!"

Hearing what Sir Fata said, Mekasha couldn't help but rekindle hope in her heart: "Yes! Rainer will definitely take my father prisoner for my sake, and then ask him to agree to the marriage of the two of us... "

Mekatha was so confident in Leiner that she was not so worried about the comfort of Earl Gerber at this time, and began to fantasize about her and Leiner's marriage. After some inquiries, Mekatha left.

However, such words can only comfort a noble lady like Mekasha.

How could a girl like her without any political ability understand the kind of conflicts between men and lords, and naively thinking that Rainer would be in love and let Earl Zeppa go.

After Mekatha left, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became gloomy again. Sir Fata said: "Close the gates! Mobilize everyone to defend the city! There are still 20,000 people in the castle. I don't believe Rainer. The earl can conquer a castle guarded by 20,000 people!"

If Earl Jebo is not there, then Sir Fata, his first-in-line legal heir, can exercise his rights.

There are only 30 regular guards in the castle. Even if you add some guards from the homes of the court officials and court officials, it is only more than 300 people.

They had to incorporate a large number of civilian classes into the sequence of defending the city, and the citizens who were randomly handed out short knives and daggers were arrested and became members of the defenders.

At the same time, with the intimidation that Earl Rainer would slaughter everyone in the city, the morale of the five thousand young and middle-aged citizens was pretty decent.

At this time, Rainer had led the army once again on the road to Makalong City.

The morning of February 28th in the twenty-third year of the Empire.

The biting cold wind was extremely biting, and the snow foam on the trees was blown down by the strong wind from time to time, like a thick white smoke.

The winter in the north is extremely cold, and the sun is also defeated by frost, hanging listlessly in the sky, emitting dispensable heat.

At this time, the land was covered with white snow, and the woods were even more covered in silver. Under this cold sky, no creatures were willing to walk around at will.

The same is true in the city of Mecalon. Now it has been ten days since Earl Zeppel led the army to attack Leiner. The citizens on the city wall leaned listlessly on the battlements, sipping hot goat's milk with small sips.

A soldier exhaled a puff of white smoke, rubbed his numb cheek with the palm of his hand and said, "I don't know when it was a head, and the Earl of Rainer didn't come..."

"Yeah... Maybe he won't come back at all..." Another soldier said lazily, leaning on the battlements.

At the same time, a red-bottomed iris crowned lion's heraldic flag quietly appeared five kilometers away from Mekalong City.

At this time, it was heavy snow flying. This was not a natural falling snowflake, but it fell on the ground but was blown by the biting cold wind. It hurts like a knife when hitting a person's face.

As a result, the soldiers put on helmets, warm leather armor, and cotton lining.

Reiner spent nine days on the march this time. In fact, soldiers with hardy physiques didn’t need such a long time. Petrie Fort in Merland County is only 110 kilometers away from Mecalon. It only takes four or five days for the mileage to arrive.

The reason why I spent so long on the road ~lightnovelpub.net~ is all because of dealing with the castles along the way.

Along the way, most of these castles were surrendered to the land of the lords of Count Zeppa. Naturally, Reiner couldn’t let them go. So every time he passed a castle, Reiner declared his sovereignty in the local area. When more than ten castles came down, it would naturally be necessary. It takes a lot of time.

The news of Rainer's appearance quickly spread throughout the city of Micalon. At this time, the city of Micalon was already a frightened bird. Most of the citizens were handicraftsmen and had no experience in fighting at all.

How can they not panic in the face of the enemy's pressure?

The citizens were mobilized to the wall by the frightened Sir Fata almost in an instant.

I have to say that Mekalong City is indeed a majestic city. The city wall does not feel crowded even after accommodating a full five thousand people, and it looks very spacious.

Gazing at the crowded city wall, Rainer sighed.

"After all, too much time was wasted..."