The villagers near the iron ore farm took advantage of their leisurely evenings to transport the iron ore. When they are lucky, they can travel twice in one night and complete the annual taxes in fifty days. Such a good thing certainly made the villagers run extra quickly. In just over ten days, they had already piled up the iron mountain in the back mountain warehouse in the Blacksmith District.       .

The crowds of people were woven, the bustling night market, the busy and busy blacksmiths could not see any tension before the war in the tower fortress. The crowd inside did not show any concern that the Kazakhs would break through this solid fortress.

The Kazakh envoy Alice, who followed the guards to the bedroom to rest, stopped and stood in the corridor high above the castle to see the lively scene below at a glance, and the continuous flames below shone red lights in the sky.

"Who are these people? What are they doing underneath?"

Looking at the hustle and bustle scenes of the Heat inside the exterior wall of the castle, Alice did not expect that she would see this scene in this tightly defended fortress. It was not like a fortress guarded by heavy troops, but more like a bustling medium-sized town.

Alice, who served as the special envoy this time, is not only an envoy for negotiation, but also a task of reconnaissance and defense of the fortress.

"The world is big, the food is the biggest!"

The Kazakh spies have already found out that several large grain-producing areas in the south of the empire are transporting large quantities of grain to the tower fortress. According to conservative estimates, the accumulated grain in the fortress may exceed million stones, which is enough for all Kazakh troops to eat for two years.

For Alice, who urgently needs food, Zhao Hu, who occupied so much food, is a big customer. As long as he can get one-third of the food from his hands, all Kazakhs can return to the prairie without having to hungry.

Alice discovered that the previously dilapidated tower fortress had been reinforced by the Roman Empire. The spies asked the newspaper to ask for the 10,000 defenders to be conservatively estimated.

Just looking at the large army camp covering nearly two miles below and the many soldiers walking back and forth, Alice believes that there are at least about 15,000 people. If the farmers and merchants stranded in the fortress are included, the fortress's troops will definitely exceed the 20,000 mark.

Twenty thousand! Almost two-thirds of the total number of Kazakhstan invaders, and the soldiers were all wearing fine mail. Even when drinking, they did not forget to put their weapons in the range they could get at any time. The weapons were shining red under the nearby torches.

Although there were many and noisy below, dozens of soldiers were still patrolling nearby in an orderly manner. Alice knew from these that these were not ordinary peasant soldiers, but well-trained professional soldiers.

Alice thought to herself that there were no more than 15,000 elite Kazakh warriors. It was a dream to capture this fortress with high defense and heavy troops, and it must be the most elite steel armored warrior.

The main Kazakhs' forces were already trapped in the quagmire of the siege of the imperial capital, and they could not draw any extra troops to attack a fortress guarded by heavy troops.

Even a cavalry legion stationed in Hittaru town was only brought by Alice from the royal court. The Kazakh king had strict orders. Even if all of them were cut by the fortress, the legion could not attack the fortress without authorization, because it was the last cavalry unit guarded by the Kazakh royal court.

This is also the helpless background for Alice to come to negotiate. If she had tens of thousands of elite soldiers in her hand, the Kazakhs would have started attacking the tower, and they would still need to negotiate with the tower fortress there.

Alice, full of confidence, did not expect that Zhao Hu, the Iron Tower, who held a lot of food, had no sense of redeeming people, but instead showed a scoundrel face that only recognized money, which made Alice, who was responsible for heavy responsibilities, feel a headache.

The Kazakhs went south this time to steal a lot of money, but most of them were in the hands of the Left Guard King who was responsible for the detour, and some of them fell into the hands of the Prince of Hazards, the deputy commander of the Royal Guard, and finally remained in the hands of the Royal Guard for a maximum of more than 600,000.

Wang Ting valued more the number of prisoners in his hands, which were the golden lumps that could get a large amount of gold coins. Instead of marching with heavy wealth, it was better to take the golden lumps that could walk by themselves.

However, Alice now discovered that the royal court was wrong. The Roman Empire's capital was surrounded by iron barrels. The 200,000 Roman Empire defenders inside were even worse than the Kazakhs. It is said that they all reached the point of cannibalism and it was impossible to take out food.

However, the iron tower fortress that controls food is not interested in these prisoners at all. This makes the more than one hundred noble prisoners useless waste besides consuming their only little food.

Zhao Hu didn't know the pride of the Kazakhs. The news that the famous son of the Eagle fell in the Sodalai Mountains in the south of the empire three months ago caused a great shock to the top leaders of the Kazakhstan.

The central radicals led by the Left Guard believed that the southern mountainous areas were numerous and were not conducive to large-scale cavalry warfare and were easily ambushed by cunning Roman Empires. Attacking the South was a wrong plan. Now the prince of Hazards, who advocated going south, confirmed that this speculation was correct with his own life.

At the suggestion of the Zuowei King who advocated the capture of the central part, Wang Ting had to give up his plan to divide his troops south and concentrate his forces to advance to the central part. This was the bloody battle of the siege of the imperial capital.

If Zhao Hu of the Iron Tower knew that it was his unintentional action that made the Kazakhs give up this plan to conquer the entire Roman Empire, I wonder what it would have thought.

Alice knew from the Roman Empire Military Newspaper that her mortal enemy, Prince Hazard, died at the hands of the vulgar Zhao Hu, the Iron Tower.

Moreover, judging from the busy construction of the tower fortress, the large amount of property plundered by Hazards probably did not escape the clutches of the dead Zhao Hu. He couldn't help but frowned and cursed with a pale face: "This big fool, Hazards, has been working hard for half a year, and actually gave a bargain to a weak Zhao Hu. It's really a shame for the Kazakhs!"

If you want money, you have money, you have food, and you still hold an elite army of tens of thousands of people. If it were her, she would not care about the life or death of the captured nobles. Alice sighed in her heart. This mission is really hard to deal with!

"Those refugees placed by my adults and merchants who followed the army are always so enthusiastic. Such trade activities usually last until dawn. I hope these people will not disturb the special envoy's rest?" The guards leading the way saw the depressedness on Alice's face and thought that they had offended the special envoy, so they quickly replied respectfully.

"Businessmen? Why do these merchants appear in the fortress?" Alice's face became even more confused when she heard the guard's explanation.

"We adults say that the army needs food, weapons and supplies. These merchants can provide us with these things we need, and we can also hand over the things we don't need or spoils to these merchants for handling. This is a matter of winning both ways and saving us a lot of unnecessary expenses!"

"Food? City-guarding supplies? Merchants? Handling spoils? Supply at any time! Transport them yourself? What does it mean?" Alice tried hard to connect the information in her mind, and her mind was in a mess.

That night, Alice in the dream saw arrowheads, stones, and rolling woods falling from the towering city walls of the tower, like raindrops on her army. Teams of merchants risked the arrowheads to transport various materials to the city towers. The materials against the city defense increased instead of reducing, and the bodies of the Kazakh warriors she commanded were higher than the city walls.

A river of blood flowed out from his feet. A very vulgar Zhao Hu was carrying the meat scraps in his teeth with the small wooden stick in his hand, standing on the city wall with a contemptuous look on his face and smiling at him.

"ah!"

This incredible scene made Alice scream clearly, and when she sat up, she realized that she was having a nightmare.

"A city guard can get supplies from suppliers at any time. Do you still need to fight this battle?" Alice muttered to herself, got up and came to the window of the castle, pushed open the wooden window frame, and heard the noise of noisy entertainment outside the window. Suddenly, a gust of night wind blew, and Alice felt a chill behind her. She touched her fair hands and wet her clothes on her back.

The next day, negotiations on food were still kicked off in the hall of the tower.

"We can talk about other conditions except for prisoners! I am a kind person. I believe there is nothing in this world that cannot be changed, it only depends on whether you have this value."

Alice saw Zhao Hu, who had just finished breakfast, walked in with a satisfied look on her stomach. She picked her teeth while picking her teeth with her toothpick in her dream.

Seeing the beautiful Alice coming to the hall before herself, Zhao Hu, who led his subordinates to walk in, bent over with awkward expression, gave a noble hand-held ceremony, and sat on the chair arranged in advance.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't expect Miss Alice to come so early. Although our two countries are now hostile, you are a guest of our Tower after all. It is very impolite to let the guests wait for the host to be in our Roman Empire. In order to express the apology from our Tower people, we are willing to reduce the original price by 10%. I hope Miss Alice will not refuse."

Zhao Hu not only blushed when he told the lie, but he looked sincere. When he heard that Zhao Hu was willing to reduce the original price by one tenth, Alice, who was straightforward, almost jumped up happily and found that Zhao Hu was not what he thought he was a charity lord who only recognized money.

Just to express his apology to myself, he was willing to reduce the amount of 100,000 gold coins, and he was very knightly as if he was a tribute. This made Alice feel a strange sweet feeling in her heart, floating like a cloud.
Chapter completed!