After careful weighing, the lioness chose to burn down the wharf.

She knew the seriousness of the incident. After the soldiers poured oil, she went forward to light the fire herself.

"I did it. Manda beat me up at most. It\'s no big deal to cut off my hands. I can carry any severe punishment. In short, he\'s not willing to kill me." the lioness threw the torch on the dock.

Looking at the blazing flame, Roma gestured in sign language, and yodora translated: "you are a brave woman."

The lioness smiled and said, "a woman who is not brave enough is not worthy of Manda."

……

When he learned that the wharf had been destroyed, sheltai was furious. He tore off the string and threw his guitar aside. He said angrily, "send troops to search immediately. Before dawn, we must find the whereabouts of the enemy and annihilate all of them."

Breton saluted deeply and took his orders.

Tong Kede said in a aside way: "Archduke, our grain fleet is still on the way and will arrive at the port tomorrow."

Sheltai frowned and said, "there is no port. What\'s the use of saying these? Send them in batches by boat."

In the absence of a wharf, large ships cannot approach the shoal and can only be transported by small boats.

But Tong Kede had no boats in his fleet. If he went to Miaoyin city to allocate them, it would take one month at a time. There was not much food in the camp and he could only eat for four or five days.

Of course, this kind of thing can no longer be difficult with the grand public prosecutor. The top priority is to collect ships from the surrounding fishermen and let the soldiers rush out a batch of small boats. Tong Kede can deal with this. He can\'t worry about everything.

Sheltai stood on the tower, overlooking the parrot city in the distance.

His fist was clenched so tightly that he really wanted to give the order to attack the city.

But now is not a good time to attack the city. Parrot city has been strengthened by Manda. The city wall is higher than before, and the ordnance at the head of the city is also very sophisticated. It is very difficult to attack.

If we can find out the whereabouts of the reinforcements, grasp the trend of the reinforcements, and ambush the reinforcements when attacking the city, this is a successful encirclement and support tactics.

If you don\'t find the whereabouts of the reinforcements, you can stop temporarily. Even if the defenders go out of the city to fight with the reinforcements, you can take advantage of yourself. After all, the other party has given up the great advantage of the city.

But if you don\'t know the enemy\'s trend and rush to attack the city, it has become the lowest choice. The enemy still occupies the advantage of the city, and sheltai has to face the sneak attack of the enemy at any time when he is carrying out a difficult siege.

Archduke sheltai, who had been in battle for a long time, soon calmed down. There was still time and food. He believed that Tong Kede could solve the shipping problem and Brayton would find the whereabouts of the reinforcements.

When parrot city is captured and brittle rock mountain is recaptured, sheltai will mobilize more soldiers to fight to Blackwater city.

At that time, send elmeng to bessalu and let him cash the whole southwest.

If bessalu readily agreed, sheltai would support the second prince tikas as the new king.

If bessalu didn\'t agree, sheltai would escort elmeng to the king\'s capital, directly declare his loyalty to the punisher, and conquer the southwest in the name of the archbishop.

Originally, he always looked down on this poor land, but since he lost the iron ore supply, he suddenly changed his mind. He suddenly felt that this land was worth cherishing.

……

Tong Kede led the soldiers to the fishermen\'s homes along the coast to buy fishing boats.

When it comes to acquisition, Tong Kede won\'t give them too much money. A ship can give them at most a few silver coins. This is the rule of the army. In any case, they should grab resources in the cheapest way. It\'s kind of them not to rob directly.

But fishing boats are the lifeblood of fishermen. Not to mention a few silver coins, even a few gold coins may not be willing to sell. During the acquisition of fishing boats, many conflicts broke out between soldiers and civilians, which also exposed Tong Kede\'s intention.

After receiving the news, the lioness also speculated about the enemy\'s idea: "there is no port, they can only rely on small boats to transport supplies."

"Their soldiers are still collecting wood everywhere," Toka said

The lioness nodded and said, "this is to build a boat."

Then she looked at Roma.

Roma said in sign language: we\'re going to burn the boat, preferably before launching.

The lioness pinched Roma\'s face and said, "I like you more and more."

Roma looked at the slim figure of the lion girl and was trying to find a suitable place to pinch it. Suddenly, she saw a soldier report: "general ziegse\'s reinforcements have arrived."

The lioness said happily, "how many people have come."

"About a hundred people." the soldier was embarrassed.

"A hundred people?" said the lioness gritting her teeth. "I told Ziegler that if there were no hands, there was no need to force. What does it mean to send a hundred people? Humiliate me?"

Chuyt, a full-scale believer of the God of deception, walked into the camp and said with a smile, "it\'s hard to avoid sheltai\'s eyes when there are many people. These 100 people are my elite."

……

Three days later, Archduke sheltai received bad news. More than 100 rafts made by Tong Kede and his soldiers day and night were burned by the enemy.

He called Tong Kede to the camp and yelled in front of the officers.

"So you got nothing in these three days? So you didn\'t do anything in these three days! I can\'t stand your stupidity!" sheltai clenched his teeth and looked at Tong Kede.

Tong Kede didn\'t want to tell sheltai about it, but he didn\'t know which shameless villain leaked the secret. He quickly explained to sheltai: "you don\'t have to worry. I also bought a lot of fishing boats and will be able to bring back the grain."

Sheltai looked cold and said, "I heard a lot of fishing boats were destroyed."

Tong Kede was sweating all over his face. Unexpectedly, the Archduke even knew this: "some fishing boats have indeed been destroyed. Among the enemies are Apollo believers and Vulcan believers. We can\'t guard against attacking one or two fishing boats on the shore every time..."

"Have you prevented it? What can you prevent? Aren\'t you surprised at your stupidity? The grain ship has arrived. What can you take to transport grain?"

Tong Kede said, "I have some fishing boats."

"How many?"

"More than a dozen ships," Tong Kede\'s voice was so low that he was even embarrassed to say, "each ship can carry two or three hundred pounds of grain."

"Two or three hundred? Are you talking about a boat or a canoe?" shertai shouted. "We have transported a total of 400000 pounds of grain. The army consumes more than 20000 pounds of grain every day. When will these dozen boats be transported?"

Tong Kede didn\'t say a word. In fact, these dozen small boats are enough to solve the problem. They can transport nearly 4000 pounds of grain back and forth. It only takes five round trips to transport the army\'s rations for a day, so that the sailors can transport day and night and complete the task of taking over and leaving within a few days.

But sheltai was angry, and Tong Kede naturally dared not argue.

Sheltai turned to general Breton: "haven\'t you found any trace of the enemy?"

"We have found the approximate location," Breton didn\'t disappoint sheltai. He pointed to the sand table. "There is a forest between lvlong town and parrot city. The scouts have seen the enemy coming and going around the forest for many times. It can be determined that the enemy is in the forest. Please give me another two days, and we can detect the exact location of the enemy."

Sheltai stared at the sand table for a moment, shook his head and said, "don\'t check again. The enemy is very cunning. If you check again, you will scare the snake. This forest is not big. We will take more people and horses to directly surround the enemy."

"You said containment..." Brayton was stunned. The concept of containment means that there should be two to three times more troops than the other side.

"You can\'t leave the other party a chance to escape. They are as disgusting as flies!" serty gritted his teeth. "Choose 8000 soldiers and follow me tonight."

"Archduke, in this way, there are less than 4000 people left under the parrot city."

"Isn\'t it enough?" said sheltai, looking at the parrot city. "I hope they come out. If they want to escape, they will run with them. If they dare to fight, they will fight with them!"

Sheltai does have this confidence. His soldiers are famous and strong in the whole romroad country.

He was not worried that the troops of parrot city would raid out of the city. Even if there were only 4000 troops left, he could make the enemy go away.

That night, he took 8000 troops to the woods. As Breton said, there were horse hoofs and footprints here. Obviously, it was the enemy\'s camp.

Continuing to the depths of the jungle, they saw many embers of the fire, and the surrounding trees were also cut down.

It seems that the enemy\'s camp is not far away.

After walking for a while, a stove pit appeared on the ground. Continue to walk, and the smell of campfire came from the air.

As they approached the middle of the dense forest, they saw a fire in the distance.

Sheltai quietly pulled out his sword and whispered to the herald, "tell all the soldiers that they don\'t have to wait for orders. If they see the enemy, kill them!"