Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 101: Defending the Fortress
Cardiff.

Under the towering high walls, a maid with a terrified expression hurriedly entered the castle holding a wine jug. The light inside was very dim, and a small bonfire was lit in the corridor. The guarding knight at the door looked at the maid expressionlessly, and then made way for her.

The maid walked in cautiously. Flags were hung on both sides of the lord's hall, and in the darkness they looked like a dragon waiting to devour its prey.

King Uther has Sarmatian blood, and the name of the dragon head - Uther, is because he likes to use the dragon head flag, but now the bright red dragon seems like a dark evil dragon. There is no guard inside, only an old man sitting on the throne drinking alone.

"liquor!"

King Uther slowly raised his head and seemed to have regained some spirit after seeing the wine. He grabbed the wine jug and drank it in big gulps. The bright red wine spilled like blood, staining a large area on his chest red.

The maid was so frightened that she dared not move. While King Uther was drinking, she quietly escaped.

Damn Duncan!
Damn Merlin!
Damn Igraine!
King Uther didn't know why things turned out like this. He just secretly slept with his enemy's wife once, and he ended up in a situation where his country was destroyed and his family was ruined.

He is already in his fifties.

In just one month, King Uther looked older and more like a man in his sixties. He had had countless lovers throughout his life, and after his wife died of illness at an early age, he had found many lovers, hoping to produce an heir.

But he never got any results until he unexpectedly met Duchess Igraine.

From the moment he saw Igraine, the old King Uther seemed to have regained the impulse of his youth. He was obsessed with the Duchess and thought about her day and night. Finally, he persuaded Merlin to help him use magic to impersonate Duke Dintagir and sneak into the Duchess's castle.

At first, he was quite proud of himself, but now thinking back, he felt that it seemed that Merlin had bewitched him.

Yes.

Now King Uther blamed all the blame on Merlin. If he hadn't cast the spell, if he hadn't had nothing better to do and gone to find Duncan, this matter would never have been exposed.

Even King Uther began to doubt whether the child Igraine was pregnant with was his own!

Merlin is very good at changing illusions.

When he thought back on that day, it felt like a dream, with no clear memory of the details of their shared bed. He even slipped away late in the night out of nervousness. Thinking back to Merlin's prophecies, King Uther felt that Merlin had used some kind of witchcraft to allow the child to be born.

Otherwise, why did Merlin say he was the son of prophecy? And why did he say he was a combination of red dragon and British blood?

King Uther slept with hundreds of women in his lifetime.

He still has no offspring. He just sneaked into the castle and spent a night with Igraine, and then she became pregnant with the child of prophecy?

Merlin, according to legend, possessed the blood of the Incubus, a ghostly demon skilled in dream magic, illusion, and bewilderment. Their union with human women produced Cambion. As for the supposed union of red dragon and British blood, who knew what Merlin had used to impregnate Igraine? He suspected it was some seed not of human blood.

Because he is a mortal, and Igrain is also a mortal. How can two mortals give birth to a child with extraordinary talents?
The more King Uther thought about it, the more he felt that Merlin was plotting against him.

As the elder advisor of the Kingdom of Camelot, Merlin did not think about assisting him properly, but kept thinking about the son of prophecy, the king with the power of a red dragon. This was simply absurd, as if King Uther was a hopeless case, and only this offspring was worthy of Merlin's complete loyalty.

Gudong!Gudong!
King Uther raised his head and drank another large swig from the cup. He had recently fought with Saxon pirates and was hit in the knee by a flying axe. Although he was protected by leg armor, he was lame and walked with a stagger.

No one else knows about this yet because King Uther hasn't appeared for some time.

Sonorous.

King Uther was already drunk. He drew his sword, waved it at the air, and roared, "If you want my throne, come!"

"Fuck Merlin!"

"Fuck the Emperor!"

"British Governor?"

"I am the true King of Britain!"

King Uther's eyes were bloodshot. When he swung his sword, he directly cut the hanging red dragon flag. The dragon flag broke at the neck, leaving only a ferocious dragon head.

All his life he had little regard for Duke Dintagir.

After seeing the beautiful Igraine, he became even more jealous of Duke Dingtagir.

But this moment is just like that moment.

At this time, King Uther looked like a madman, not much better than the dying Duke Dintagir. When Duke Dintagir learned that Igrain's bedroom had been sneaked into, he was so angry that he almost went crazy and killed several castle guards.

Last night, King Uther accidentally killed a maid after getting drunk, so the maid in front was trembling with fear.

A woman made him deserted by everyone.

Almost no one in the entire territory of Camelot responded to King Uther's call. Apart from the knight guards around him, there were only his own core team. Most of the feudal lords and indigenous chiefs surrendered to Duncan.

Strictly speaking, Cardiff is not a normal city. It is a military fortress built by the empire, which has gradually grown and developed.

The flat land at the foot of the mountain served as the town market, while King Uther's castle was a mountain fortress, built directly on the mountainside. At the time, the imperial legion was stationed here. Roman soldiers were known to be high-spending groups, and wherever the legion went, merchants followed, even opening brothels and markets not far from the station. The salaries of the imperial soldiers were far higher than those of the natives, and their spending power drove economic development in the surrounding area.

Thus, a city emerged, a military fortress separated from the town market. This high mountain fortress could not be attacked from three sides, but could only be attacked from one direction. However, its high walls were heavily fortified, making it extremely difficult to capture even with several times the number of troops.

This was a permanent military fortress, which took two generations of King Uther to slowly build. The Saxons later fought for hundreds of years but still found it difficult to completely occupy it.

At this time, footsteps were heard outside.

Soon the guard at the door bowed his head respectfully and said, "Lord Euphis."

In the dim light of the torch.

A sturdy knight in his thirties appeared. He was King Uther's right-hand man.

In his early years, Euphis followed King Uther on his campaigns. It was he who persuaded Merlin to help King Uther infiltrate the Duchess's castle. One day, Euphis noticed that his monarch was ill and asked King Uther what was wrong. Uther told him that his longing for and love for Igraine had made him ill, so Euphis immediately went to Merlin for help.

Euphis was a very loyal knight.

He was also the captain of King Uther's personal guard, equivalent to Dian Wei who protected Cao Cao. It was his duty to find women for the monarch.

No one dared to enter the lord's hall.

But Euphesus still entered, helped the drunk King Uther up, and sent him to the rest room.

Under the faint candlelight.

Euphis looked at the extremely old King Uther and sighed for some reason. Then he turned and walked out with a resolute look. He said to the castle guards, "Prepare more rolling stones and logs, and place oil barrels on the lower right side of the city wall. If the enemy attacks by force, we will teach them a lesson."

After learning the will of Emperor Valentinian III, King Uther seemed listless all day long, either drinking or sleeping with his maids.

Valentinian III slapped King Uther's crown so hard that it flew away.

Didn't he feel like he just slept with a woman?

As for?
Duke Dingtagir's death was an accident. He was too narrow-minded and killed the castle guards indiscriminately, which led to his sudden death.

He doesn't kill people to vent his anger, and no one will poison him.

Even if Duke Dintagill had not died, Duncan would not have risen so quickly and directly annexed Cornwall and other places.

Of course, he did not covet Igraine's beauty, let alone these things.

Emperor Valentinian III acted to reward Duncan for his military exploits at the Battle of Chalons and to appease the angry Roman people. Without the immortal exploits of the Battle of Chalons, King Uther's legitimacy would never have been shaken.

During this period, Euphesus was in charge of military affairs. King Uther had a limp in his leg and it was difficult for him to climb the city wall.

He was also inspired by Duncan before, and wanted to learn from Duncan to lead the general's guard to kill the enemy chief. He succeeded in killing the enemy chief, as the Raguel heavy cavalry was still very powerful. It was just that King Uther was old and became a burden.

When heavy cavalry charges into battle, they must also consider their own strengths.

He was an old man in his fifties, and he was trying to imitate Duncan's tactics to kill the enemy chief. As a result, his old bones were injured and they didn't heal for two months.

King Uther had decided to defend the castle to the death.

He also has an elite force under his command. There are tunnels and cellars in the castle, with sufficient food and grass to sustain them for a year or two. If Duncan fails to capture the castle after a long siege, he will naturally have to retreat due to lack of food and grass.

At this time, Eupheus was the commander of this offensive and defensive battle. He was a veteran of the battlefield and was fully prepared.

Not to mention that the enemy does not have 60,000 troops, even if there are 60,000, he is confident that he can hold out for several months.

When winter comes, the enemy will have to retreat even if they don't want to.

That's right.

Euphis intends to hold on until winter comes, and the cold winter is their last chance to survive this.

Duncan's rise was short-lived.

Moreover, he had experienced many wars and recruited many exiles, including the Bagauda people. His army was exhausted after repeated battles with the Kingdom of Kent, and food and grass were probably not abundant, otherwise he would not have been in a hurry to reclaim wasteland and sow seeds.

This time, Duncan's army seemed to be very powerful, but in terms of food for the men and horses, Euphes estimated that the other side only had three or four months' worth of food.

If we fail to capture the city after a long period of time, it will be difficult to sustain.

Even if Duncan insisted on laying siege, he would have to forcibly requisition food and grass from the local area due to insufficient food and grass. The Welsh area was very poor, and King Uther had already fortified the city and cleared the countryside. The enemy might even instigate a civil uprising.

As long as he can recover from this breath, King Uther will still have a chance, and Duncan's prestige will be greatly damaged.

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(End of this chapter)