Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard

"Sit down!" Catherine pointed to the chair in the room and said, "It's not a formal occasion now, don't be restrained."

When Ryan and the others were all sitting down, Catherine asked, "How is it outside now? Where do the people who flooded into the city live? Do they have food?"

Ryan explained with a wry smile: "Kay...Katherine, I don't know. I went directly to General Jonas in the morning and returned after forming the team. You should ask Luke or Orlando about these things."

Catherine slapped her forehead lightly, and said with a smile: "Look at me, you really deserve to be hit." Catherine's lazy look caused all the men present to jump in their hearts. Alina's heart beats faster.

Catherine gently tucked the hair of her forehead behind her ears with her hands, and then said to Ryan: "Do you know where Luke or Orlando is now?"

Ryan replied: "Luke and Orlando set up defenses in the walled area."

Catherine said: "Let's go now. If I can't see it with my own eyes, I don't think I will be at ease."

Ryan persuaded: "It's getting late now. Why not wait until tomorrow? Maybe Luke and the others will be back in a while."

"No!" Catherine shook her head firmly, and said to Ryan: "I must go now!"

"Okay, then!" Seeing that the persuasion was invalid, and that he himself was actually very concerned about this matter, he agreed.Soon, Ryan and the others were ready to travel. Catherine was accompanied by Faras, got on a carriage with a very ordinary appearance, and under the protection of hundreds of people, marched towards the northern wall of the imperial capital.

At this time, it’s already evening. If it’s normal, many people have already used up their dinner and are looking for a cool place to cool off. But now, the orc army has reached the outskirts of the imperial capital and the imperial officials have retreated. , Making civilians who had no bottom in their hearts even more worried. Many people even deliberately exaggerated when spreading these news, causing local panic in many places in the city.

"Lane!" Catherine opened the curtains of the carriage, poked her head out and said to Ryan, "Where is it now?"

"The civilian area in the north of the city, it looks like an hour to walk to the city wall."

"Stop!" Catherine gave an order suddenly. After the carriage stopped, Catherine walked down with the help of Faras.Perhaps for the sake of mobility, Catherine did not wear those cumbersome royal costumes, but chose an ordinary robe.

"Come with me!" Catherine said lightly: "Go and see my people."

Ryan glanced at Flanner and motioned to him to make arrangements. The latter nodded slightly, indicating that he understood Ryan's intentions, and quickly turned around to convey the order.

Catherine and Farras walked in front side by side, while Ryan and Allendo followed them closely. Colin and a dozen other agile soldiers were dressed in linen mercenary decorations. Follow behind.

This is a civilian area in the northern part of Fernando City. It covers an area of ​​one-fifteenth of the entire imperial capital and is home to about 100,000 civilians.Most of the residents here find work in the shops in those commercial districts, or serve as servants for those officials and nobles, and a few have their own shops. Of course, these shops are basically in this civilian area. The objects they serve are naturally the civilians here.

The street here is quite narrow compared to the commercial area. It can probably accommodate two carriages running side by side. Both sides of the street are low-rise houses. Only at the intersection of the two streets are there a few that are not very Big shop.The streets here are paved with the most common stone slabs. They have hardly been repaired in the past 200 years, so the roads are very uneven, and walking up there is a different way.But although it looks dilapidated, there is no rubbish on the ground and it has been cleaned up.

"Hey, have you heard?" About forty or fifty people gathered on the street. Among them was a man dressed in servant clothes pretending to be mysterious and said: "The magic teleportation array in the palace has been opened. Now, those officials and the wealthy nobles all ran away!"

"Is it true?" asked a woman about forty years old with a bucket waist.

"Of course!" The man in servant clothes looked at the woman who was out of shape due to her hard work and said with disdain: "Don't ask what I do! Don't forget, I'm the second class of the Lord's Mansion. Cook! The Lord Earl, who has always been known for his special diet, didn’t eat at all. I heard from the porter that Lord Earl rushed to the palace early in the morning."

"That can't be said that they ran away?" Another old man who was about fifty years old said, "Didn't they go to the palace to fight every day?"

"Haha, you don't know about this!" Another man in mercenary costume suddenly said: "I was originally hired as a guard by the mansion of the Viscount in the south of the city. Today I saw us with my own eyes. The Viscount Master took his three women and a whole carriage of rare things to the palace. I heard that the coachman who came back later said that in the carriage, a favorite of the Viscount Master wanted to bring more A little thing left, but the Viscount scolded severely, saying that the number of places in the teleportation array was limited."

"You said that the orcs have breached the Thor Fortress and have come to the imperial capital. Why don't those adults think about how to fight off these damn green-skin bastards, but they all run away? Can the emperor fail to keep it? So what do we do? Do?" a young guy in the crowd suddenly asked.

Obviously no one could answer this question. The man in the servant's clothes opened his mouth, but seemed to have concerns and didn't say anything.

"What are you afraid of! The big deal is to fight with those green-skin bastards!" A strong kongwu man squeezed into the crowd and shouted loudly: "Aren't you sitting at home and waiting to die? It's a good deal to get a few. ."

"You fool, don't you know that one orc can beat five idiots like you?"

"You bastard, dare you scold me?"

"Okay, okay, don't make a noise!"

"Hurry up and go back and pack things. Maybe we will also have the opportunity to go with those noble officials."

"Damn it, when will you pay back the money you owe me!"

"When is this, are you still thinking about this?"

"You don't pay it back, if the orcs enter the city and kill you, who am I going to go?"

"..."

These dozens of people became more and more confused, and some people hurried home.This seemed to be a signal. Soon, the group of people surrounded by them left one after another, with doubts and worries on their faces. They told their families the news they had just received that they didn’t know if they were true or false. , Friends, and their family and friends will continue to spread after adding something they imagined, and a panic will begin to spread here.

Catherine on the side squeezed Farasi's little hand tightly. She turned around gracefully, looking pale and looking at Ryan and Allendo behind her, and said helplessly: "How could this be? Originally I promised to open the teleportation array. I don't want Luke and the others to be disturbed by those nobles and officials, but now, before the orc army has seen it, my people are in chaos first."

Everyone was silent, and it was obvious that this matter was a bit beyond the pre-conceived, and it became a little difficult to control.

"No, you can't go on like this!" Catherine's eyes showed a touch of choice. She held her swan-like neck high, her eyes blurred, but she looked firmly at the end of the street: "Go, find Lu immediately. K. We must immediately eliminate this panic among the people, otherwise the front is fighting and the back is chaotic, and this battle will not be fought."

On the northernmost wall of the imperial capital, Luke and Orlando were discussing something.

"We are far more numerous than the orcs. If we recruit young and middle-aged people desperately to join the army, then we can definitely form an army of more than 2 million," Luke said. "But this is absolutely impossible. We must keep enough people, or even After defeating the orcs, we ourselves will not be able to farm because of lack of manpower, so the empire will encounter a terrible famine next year."

"I know!" Orlando nodded and said, "Up to now, I have formed fifteen legions with a total of 800,000 soldiers. All my subordinates, whether formal or apprentice holy knights, have been separated as officers. In addition, I will give you a total of 120,000 people from the first two legions, who will be responsible for transportation outside the Imperial City."

"Have you prepared your battle plan?"

Orlando shook his head and said: "As for the imperial capital’s defense plan, it was actually formulated by the alchemist Jessie, one of the seven heroes, at the moment the imperial capital was built 200 years ago. You have also seen it. It’s a very detailed one. The plan. But our current situation is the last one in that plan, but I have been hesitating, because relying on these improvised civilians, it is impossible to block the fierce orc offensive on the wall. Imperial Capital The wall of the city is not as good as the Thor Fortress in height and thickness. More importantly, the entire city wall of the imperial capital spreads for more than 100 kilometers, and the orcs can choose any breakthrough, and we must at least ensure that every meter of the wall is Stand with three people. According to this number, we will have 400,000 people on the wall, which is more than one-third of our current manpower."

"Then shrink in the city!" Luke said in a faint tone: "According to the last plan in Jessie's plan, only part of the army will be used to resist on the wall, and the main force will be placed in the city as much as possible. Consume the power of the orcs, and finally use the 200,000 most elite fighters to give the enemy a fatal blow."

"But," Orlando's face showed an unbearable expression: "In that case, the loss of civilians would be too great."

The two were talking, suddenly a messenger rushed over and said loudly: "Master Luke, General Orlando, Your Majesty the Queen is here!"