Unknown Knight

Chapter 380: Huge Dung Bucket

The noise from Fort Roma soon reached Aix in Helusburg, but he sneered at it with disdain. He knew that the series of chain reactions caused by his expedition to Tihar City were just a big chess game he played.

After the Battle of Fort Sageche, Aix set out to break the blockade imposed on him by the Vigia lords. Now almost all the Vigia lords were secretly hostile to him, but they were all still citizens of Vigia in name. If he rashly attacked, they would inevitably unite, and there might even be intervention from foreign forces.

And if Aix really did this, not only would he lose his reputation as a righteous man, he would also be branded as a traitor and ungrateful person, and might even lead to siege from other countries.

Moreover, in that case, it would be unwise for Aix to attack cities and castles one by one. Although he had powerful siege equipment, it would cost huge costs and cause heavy losses to attack them one by one. By the time he had lost many soldiers and was unable to fight again, there was no guarantee that someone would take advantage of the situation and reap the spoils.

The safest way is to let these Vigia lords gather their troops together, preferably take the initiative to attack the territory, so that Aix can justifiably counterattack. At that time, he can first consume a wave of enemies in the siege, and when the enemy is exhausted, he can then defeat the enemy's main force in a field battle. In the end, whether to fight or make peace is up to him.

Although Aix had a good idea, the lords of Vigia were not stupid. Although they coveted the wealth and population of the territory, they also knew that Aix was not only good at using troops, but also had extraordinary combat effectiveness. They would not easily attack Aix. They would rather stay in the territory and set up checkpoints, relying on the most reliable method of collecting high tariffs to weaken Aix.

For this purpose, Aix racked his brains and came up with a series of strategies to lure the snakes out of their holes. The method was that he would take the initiative to expose a flaw so that these Vigia lords would think that they had an opportunity. When he led the army to attack the city of Tihar, these ferocious Vigia lords would find that his lair was empty and would definitely not be able to resist attacking him.

Although Aix openly led a large army to attack Tiha City this time, he only left a few old, weak and sick people in Kudan City at home. In fact, he left most of the troops in the closed military camp in Kudan City, waiting for King Yarogerk to lead his troops to attack.

According to the estimate that Aix made in advance based on the intelligence, due to years of war, the entire Vijia, excluding him, can only recruit a little more than 4,000 troops. This is already the limit. It is almost impossible for these troops to attack the city of Kudan, which has strengthened the city defense, advanced city defense equipment, and a garrison of 3,000 people.

By that time, the armies of the Vigia lords failed to capture the city of Kudan and were exhausted. Suddenly, he led two thousand troops to attack from behind. Then, with the armies inside and outside the city attacking from both sides, the Vigia army would surely suffer a major defeat.

In this way, he only needs to pursue the victory to achieve great results and achieve his desired strategic goals.

However, the situation was changing rapidly and new situations would always arise. Aix's elaborate and painstaking plan would inevitably encounter new problems and changes due to its long time span and many intermediate links. On the second day after he arrived in Helusburg, a letter urgently sent from Kudan City was handed to Aix.

The person who wrote this letter was none other than Robert, the leader of the intelligence group of Fort Loma. Ax had an impression of this intelligence leader. He performed well in Fort Loma, and he had the right to write directly to Ax. The letter was first sent to Kudan City. After reading the letter, Captain Sophia thought it was very important, so she sent someone to deliver it to Helusburg urgently.

The letter said that because the Vigia lords felt that the wooden floor under their feet made too much noise when they danced, Vilanboye asked Robert to be responsible for the floor maintenance of the main castle. When Robert was repairing the floor, he found that the wooden floor of the main castle of Roma had been severely damaged due to long-term moisture and insect infestation, and there was even a risk of collapse. So he took the initiative to formulate a decapitation plan to eliminate these lords, hoping that he would approve it, and attached a structural cross-section of the main castle of Roma.

Through this simple cross-sectional diagram, Axe saw the feasibility of Robert's plan and immediately agreed to it.

It turns out that the structural design of the main castle of Roma Castle is very strange. How does it look as a whole? It looks like a huge dung bucket. The main castle of Roma Castle is a simple rectangular block as a whole. The outer periphery is built with a circle of thick stones, and the inside is divided into floors with thick wooden boards. The main castle is divided into four floors, including three floors above ground and one floor underground. Each floor has its own exclusive function.

The first floor above ground is a sundry warehouse, mainly used for storing all kinds of sundries. The second floor is divided into two parts: guest rooms and kitchen. The guest rooms are for other visiting nobles to live in, and the kitchen is a place dedicated to preparing meals for the castle owner and guests. The third floor is divided into the master bedroom and the hall, where the owner of the castle, Vilanboye, and his family live. The hall is generally used for meeting guests and holding banquets.

The most bizarre thing is that the underground floor is actually connected to the castle's toilet, which makes the entire underground floor a huge cesspool. The castle's feces are directly discharged here through pipes. Over the years, no one knows how deep the feces water is.

Aix estimated that the main castle was designed like this because of the cowardice of the original owner. In this era, there were many conflicts between nobles and countries, and assassins were often sent to kill each other. However, noble lords generally lived in the castle and were protected by personal guards when entering and leaving. It was not so easy to kill them. However, with a huge reward, there were still people willing to find other ways to carry out the assassination mission. One of the ways was to climb into the toilet.

It turns out that the nobles at that time were rather lazy. They would usually open a window next to the main castle, and then build an ear room outside. When they needed to go to the toilet, they would squat in the ear room and poop directly downwards. (You heard it right, they would poop directly with their butts sticking out from a high place.) Nobles with better conditions would build a passage that leads directly to the bottom so that the smell would not spread everywhere. If the main castle faced a moat, it would be even better, as the feces would be directly eaten by the fish in the moat, killing two birds with one stone. It is estimated that the so-called three-dimensional agriculture of feeding fish with chicken manure that was introduced from the West was inspired by this.

Based on this design, there are assassins who, tempted by huge sums of money, are willing to endure humiliation and nausea, climb up from the defecation passage, and pour a bucket of shit up when the nobles are defecating... The scene is so beautiful that I need no more words.

The reason why Fort Loma was designed like this is probably because the original owner was afraid of this kind of assassination. In order to protect his life and property, he directly connected the feces duct to the basement, making the entire sealed basement a huge cesspool. Perhaps this is how the earliest septic tank came about.