One Night Passes

Ivand was not surprised by Sailik's words, after all, he understood what was going on just by looking at Sailik's condition.

"It seems the garrison commander of this city is indeed difficult to deal with; the defenses haven't been relaxed even at night."

Ivand patted Sailik on the shoulder to comfort him.

But Sailik suddenly started baring his teeth and slapped Ivand's hand away.

He covered his right shoulder with his left hand. Ivand was initially a little angry, but when he saw Selik's action, he realized that he was injured.

"Are you alright, Sailik?"

After saying that Ivand was about to help Sailik take off his upper half-armor, but Sailik immediately reached out and stopped him.

Sailik grabbed his right shoulder armor with his left hand and then began to exert force.

Soon, with a few snapping sounds of leather straps tearing, Sailik's left hand ripped open the entire right shoulder armor, revealing the swollen shoulder.

Ivand clicked his tongue in amazement at Sailik's actions, thinking to himself, "What a monster! He's incredibly strong!"

He knew Sailik's skills well; he was the best in the entire Sixth Legion and could easily handle dozens of ordinary soldiers.

If this had happened when the duchy was first established, someone with Sailik's skills could have been granted a knighthood by the Grand Duke based solely on his combat prowess.

He smiled and asked Sailik, "Are there any troublesome people on the city walls? Even someone like you can get hurt."

"No, I was surrounded and attacked. In order to retreat, I had to take a sword strike. But the one who struck me has already been killed by me!"

"I'll have someone bandage you up. Once you've caught your breath, we'll tally up the casualties before you go report to the Legion Commander!"

Sailik didn't say anything, he just sat down on the ground, Ivand took that as his agreement.

Soon, several soldiers brought him Bitter Bamboo leaves and Pain-relieving grass to bandage his wounds, while Ivand began to tally the battle losses.

"I just calculated that we lost more than 80 people, all of whom were your men."

According to your subordinates' report, you killed no fewer than 400 enemies. Hmm, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Let's change the number to 300!

Ivand began to settle accounts with Sailik. Sailik usually didn't care about these things, and he nodded indifferently.

"Alright, let's go then. We need to report to Legion Commander Turas."

The two led their troops back to camp. During the march, Ivand noticed that Sailik was about to take off his armor, and he stopped Sailik.

He made Sailik continue wearing his blood-stained armor, saying, "The Legion Commander needs to see how hard you've fought."

When the two returned to the camp, Turas was already there with his adjutant and Shanno.

Ivand and Sailik saw Turas and quickly prepared to kneel down, but Turas raised his hand to signal them to stop.

"I'm sorry, sir, Sailik has disgraced you!"

Following Ivand's advice, Sailik, still in his armor, bowed deeply to Turas.

Perhaps the angle was too low or the bending speed was too fast, several armor plates that were already under the strain fell to the ground, spraying out a lot of blood.

Turas looked at Sailik, who was somewhat disheveled but not dejected, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

After a moment, he spoke up, "It was my fault for not thinking things through and being too hasty. Thank you for your hard work, Sailik."

"Your Excellency!" Sailik did not expect the Legion Commander to let him off so easily. At this moment, Turas walked up to him and helped him up.

"What are the casualties of my guard?"

Ivand quickly stepped forward and said, "Captain Sailik had been personally leading the troops in the charge, but he had to step down because things were truly hopeless."

We suffered over 80 casualties in this battle, while the enemy suffered at least 300 casualties.

Turas nodded. "At least you fulfilled my requirements and inflicted as much damage as possible on the other side. Most importantly, you have thoroughly deterred them!"

Captain Shanno, how's your laborers' team doing?

"My lord, the front moat has been half filled in, and the western side has just started. I will continue on my way immediately and make sure that it will be about 70-80% filled in tonight."

"We don't need to fill in the back wall, and we don't have that many troops. We should prioritize filling in half of the east and west walls."

"Yes!"

"Ivand, Sailik, you should take the troops back to rest. We have to fight again tomorrow. With our strength, I don't believe they can hold out."

After saying this, Turas returned to his tent.

Ivand and Sailik led their respective men back to camp, taking advantage of the time they could still rest.

On the other side of the Ironwire City wall, Kadok belatedly realized that an enemy army was launching a night attack and was terrified.

Fortunately, he saw that his eldest son was not injured, and his worries were relieved.

Then Kadok led his men to inspect the entire site. Seeing the enemy soldiers who had died in battle, Kadok felt a chill of fear.

Judging from the corpses, these enemy soldiers were all elite, with their armor intact. If a larger number of these enemy soldiers had reached the city wall, even just 500, we would have had a chance to take it down.

Fortunately, the eldest son was cautious, but at the crucial moment he relied on his guards to step up and stop the advance of the attacking troops, thus defending the city wall.

"Young Master, you should go back and rest!"

This time, Lenster didn't try to back down. He said to Kadok, "Regimental Commander Kadok, the enemy's night raid has indeed caused us a lot of trouble."

But I'm not worried about any of that. Just now, our patrol team discovered that a small section of the moat below the city had been filled in. The enemy's attacking forces filled it in under the cover of darkness, which also helped their operation.

Do you remember that among the armaments Viscount Ferry purchased were quite a few incendiary bombs soaked in grease? You might as well use them.

"Use it tonight. Fire every fifteen minutes towards the moat. At the very least, disrupt their filling speed and prevent further night attacks."

Kadok patted his chest and said, "Young Master, please rest assured, I will definitely come down from the city wall."

After receiving Kadok's assurance, Lenster was about to leave, but before he did, he saw the patrol captain who had relayed his orders.

"May I have your name?"

"Kachiri, Young Master!"

Lenster nodded upon hearing this. "Thank you for your performance just now. If it weren't for you, we would have let them escape unscathed."

"Kachiri, I'll have Kadok give you a promotion."

After Lenster left, his patrol teammates gathered around to celebrate Captain Khaki's promotion.

"Captain, congratulations!"

"Great, Captain, this time you can be promoted to a proper squad Squad Leader."

Nothing happened that night.

As soon as it got light in the morning, the soldiers on the city wall could see that a large part of the moat below the city had been filled in.