The secret letter sent from Hillat Villa was sealed in a thick envelope and was delivered to Her Majesty's desk overnight. The flame-shaped emblem on the surface of the envelope indicates that this is a confidential document related to military affairs, but the seven-layer flame pattern shows that its importance is not high. Constance asked the maid to open the envelope, and then took the letterhead and took a look at it. , And then hand it over to the little Nedervin on the side. Hirat Mountain Villa is one of the royal family's secret eyeliners in the Floating Cloud Hill Region, and the magic secrets that came from there are naturally related to the Lord Earl from Eruin.
Prime Minister Nidevon looked at it and shook his head slightly: "It's really endless."
But Her Majesty herself didn't seem to care too much. She replied: "Darus's grandson forced them, but this is also self-inflicted."
On the letterhead, it was written in Cruz's text: "Your Majesty, the nobles have prepared their troops here, ready to meet the Lord Earl from the Kingdom of Eruin. The commander of this army is also served by Earl Jean. They are now resting in Hemlock Town, Vargos Town or the nearby area. It is reported that there are three Lords and dozens of knights who have responded to the call. When the letter was sent, they should have been on the way. '
This news is one day ago—
Hill of Floating Clouds—
The sky in the east was tingling white and the stars were fading, marking the dawn of a new day. In the red pine forest bathed in the morning light, Lord Earl was looking anxiously at the direction of the western horizon, as if he was truly sincere. As Her Majesty said, he is indeed beginning to feel a little cocooned now. Earl Jean asked his scout rider with an anxious mood for the third time: "You have ran east, west, and north. You are sure you haven’t seen Moore and Cooper’s family. , And the Walker family, no one?"
The scout riders are a few experienced knights. Most of these people come from various legions. They leave the army because of fights, wounds, injuries, old age, or other problems. They have rich experience. After leaving the army, they either enter the mercenary group. , Or become the retainers of the nobles, but at this moment, these veterans also looked at each other and shook their heads and said: "My lord, no, we haven't seen any of them."
"Damn it, have you ever been to Hemlock Town?" Earl Jinn gritted his teeth, almost rubbing the gloves in his hands.
"My lord, we have been there too, but the place is peaceful, and the local residents don't know what happened." The riders replied immediately.
"Then have you seen the signal from the Moore and Coopers, or the Walker's?"
"No, sir." The riders shook their heads together.
Earl Jean took a breath.
…
"Only one flag?"
Brando and Nimesis simply scouted the battlefield and then returned to their positions. In the war theory of the major empires and surrounding duchy kingdoms of this era, most of the battlefield reconnaissance tasks were completed by the cavalry, and the commander would be there. The high ground overlooks the entire battlefield-in a smaller battle, the entire battlefield width of a battle will not exceed ten miles, so it is easy to have a panoramic view of the entire battlefield.
However, Brando and Nimessi chose the player's approach, that is, using air units to survey and map the battlefield to make a sand table, and as commanders they only need to have an intuitive understanding of the entire battlefield. The advantage of this approach is that it is more conducive to concealing one's own intentions, especially the direction of one's own army entering the battlefield. This combat concept was first used by Madara in the Second Black Rose War, but it was carried forward by the players. In this era, there are still extremely advanced tactics.
But the news that the gargoyle brought back surprised him.
Before he and Nimesis discovered the direction of the private army of the Cruz people, they soon found this army hidden among the red pine woods from the air. Its main body is composed of noble spearmen and some crossbowmen. , And found a small number of cavalry, these noble private armies are very well equipped, especially the spears in the hands of the pikemen are basically standard imperial spears equipped with iron or even steel spear points. The armor penetration rate in the army is also very high, almost reaching more than 80%. With the exception of crossbowmen, even the spearmen are equipped with lock armor, and the knights are almost all one-piece armors. Such a level of equipment. Not inferior to the first-line legions such as the White Lion and the Black Blade Legion in Eru, and as the private armies of the nobles, even if they are not everywhere in the empire, they are likely to be the guards of those high lords.
And here, either Earl Alcons or Earl Jean can be called the great lord. After all, this is the south, not the Banker area near the center of the empire, or the northern Ludwig controlled by military nobles like this. area.
But Brando felt very strange that there was only this army in the forest. He repeatedly asked the gargoyle to confirm the emblem on the banner, and only distinguished one.
"That emblem is the emblem of Earl Jinn, he himself has come here, so what about the others, are they lying in ambush?"
Brando couldn't help looking at the female knight beside him in a somewhat unbelievable way.
Nimesis shook his head slightly, it was basically impossible to lie in ambush. The gargoyles had a very wide field of vision, and when they passed high in the sky, they could almost see the entire hilly pouch nearby. After the Battle of the Black Sword Bulwark, the Cruz people understood that there were gargoyles in their army. Although the imperial nobles were arrogant, they were not fools. On the contrary, most of them were knowledgeable and could not have heard of it. Beyond the gargoyle's abilities, they are unlikely to let their army lie in ambush in vain.
Unless it is to ambush to the periphery of the entire battlefield, but in that case, there is no time to support it, so blatantly ambush, don't you think they are fools
Will Earl Jin bring a thousand people to fight them to the death? Even if you think about it with your knees, although the summer solstice knights that were defeated by them at that time were almost the same number, as the empire's local knights, their combat effectiveness was much higher than that of the noble private armies.
Because the female knight instinctively believes that there is no such possibility.
Brando naturally knew this. The only thing left was that the opponent’s army was obscured by spells. This kind of battle did not appear until after the third Black Rose War in history. The Faenza people were the first to be used. Then it gradually spread-and if the Lord Earl really came up with such a brilliant idea in this era, it would be a brilliant tactical talent. It’s just that the prerequisite for this is to have an independent, centralized wizard group. The size of this wizard group is far less than even Brando’s wizards, and let’s not say whether the Cruz people can be in In such a short period of time, such a wizard group had been assembled, even if it was there, their hidden army would be too much.
He patted his forehead, and for a moment he was a little confused.
"What exactly do the Cruz people want to do?"
Nimesis also shook her head in confusion. In her dream, she had never seen a similar battle, and the military knowledge and tactical skills she had learned in this life did not seem to explain what the Cruzians were doing at the moment.
Unable to perceive the enemy’s movements, Brando did not dare to act rashly. Although he understood that he had overwhelming power in his hands, he did not want to cause unnecessary losses in the small fight with these imperial nobles. Secondly, he didn't want to use some hole cards in this kind of low-level conflict. He considered for a moment and decided to put the white lion guards on standby, and then secretly arranged for the iron golems provided by the Buga wizard to serve as backup on the two wings. In previous battles, he has not used these secret weapons that have been hidden, but what is right now The situation was a little weird, and he had to be more cautious.
Fortunately, the only advantage now is that he has discovered the enemy, but the enemy has not yet discovered them. He has time to wait for the further action of the Lord Earl to see if the opponent reveals any flaws.
The time passed in this minute, and the early morning fog gradually faded from the hilly areas, at first the open hills, and then the light in the forest gradually became brighter. The sun moved a little bit into the mid-air directly above, and the visibility of the hilly area was getting higher and higher. Standing behind the bushes, Brando could gradually see the outside of the forest with naked eyes. On the other side of the undulating hills, the forest was sparse A few flags are sparse, but what makes him feel very puzzled is:
After almost two or three hours, the other party remained motionless.
"Did they find us?" Brando tried to break his head for a moment and couldn't explain what happened right now. This is the only way to the evergreen aisle. This Lord Earl is also forgiven for staying here. But the problem is that crouching is not such a crouching law-abiding. He has not seen any scouts sent in this direction so far. Earl Jinn seemed to be crazy and let the entire army huddled in a forest. It didn’t look like he was lying in ambush. , It's more like hiding at all.
But the problem is.
If the other party wants to hide, wouldn't it be better for him not to leave his castle, he must go to this wilderness to suffer
Brando was puzzled, but Earl Jean was actually more anxious than him at this time.
This empire count has really gone crazy—
The grievances between the southern aristocracy and the hillbilly from Eruin have attracted the attention of the entire empire today, from the nobles of the kingdom to the common people, and even those who really hold the supreme power in the empire. Look away from the two jihads that are happening but temporarily silent to watch their good show. It is for this reason that neither he nor the Earl of Alcons can back down, otherwise they will become the laughing stock of many people who don’t know. Behind them is the Parut family and the Duke of Parut. It will also lose a lot of prestige and face because of the joint, and this account will naturally be counted on them in the end.
That’s why he made an agreement with the Earl of Alcons that he must stop the Lord Eruin from the Floating Cloud Hills without asking for a complete defeat of the opponent—they are quite self-knowing and understand that the combat effectiveness of their army is not as good as that. The Imperial Frontier Legion is not even an opponent of the Knights of the Summer Solstice-but at least it has to make the opponent feel tricky. If the noble hostages in the opponent's hand can be rescued, it will be a happy ending.
For this reason, they gathered almost all the local nobles who stood on the side of the Palut family in the entire southern border, including four long-standing families and countless lords and knights. Although this army has mixed good and bad, However, there are tens of thousands of people gathered together. In their view, it should be more than enough to deal with an envoy of only a few hundred people.
However, as soon as everything was ready and only owed the last moment of Dongfeng, on this morning, he encountered a problem that he had never anticipated.
Earl Jien seemed to have suddenly lost contact with all the other allies. These allies should have been stationed in settlements or near towns in this area. He even sent people to fight with him one by one, even the day before. They contacted.
But right now, these people seem to have evaporated out of thin air, disappearing for no reason.
This Lord Earl was already in a cold sweat on his forehead. The first thing he thought was whether he was betrayed by these damn guys, but this idea only existed for a moment like instinct, and then he was vetoed by himself. He understood that anyone else could turn back against him, but Earl Alcons is absolutely impossible. The two of them were standing in the same boat. If he accidentally capsized the boat, he would have to face the thunder and anger of Duke Parut. , He is definitely not the only one.
Then the next possibility is that the only possibility is that his allies have been unknowingly killed by the terrifying Eruin opposite him.
Originally, this idea was very absurd. The envoy of hundreds of people would quietly kill the tens of thousands of private armies of nobles stationed within a radius of tens of miles, and make them ignorant of each other. This sounds like a fantasy. matter. But at this moment, the Lord Earl thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. He hadn't really had any dealings with Brando before, although Brando had arrested many of his nobles, and even one of his nephews was his nephew. But the conflicts before that were actually the private conflicts between these local nobles and Brando. If it weren’t for Brando’s insistence on holding these hostages, he came to hit him and Count Alcons in the face, and even went further. With the face of the big man behind them, he didn't want to deal with such a lunatic.
But although he has never met the Lord Earl of the kingdom, there are many rumors about Brando. The most clear and clear one is about the part of his attack on the imperial fortress. That is the whole army. Those who are submissive are not even defeated or defeated, but are taken into custody thoroughly and have to act according to the other's wishes.
Thinking of this, Earl Jien suddenly realized that he might have done a stupid thing. He actually felt that he might defeat such a terrible figure. Even if he had tens of thousands of horses under his hand, he might be comparable to the Rogerian’s. Frontier Legion
At this time, the Lord Earl was already full of wild thoughts, and while he sent his men to continue in the direction where his allies were stationed, to find out what happened. If you can’t meet them on the road, then at least go to their previous camp. If they are really not there or find traces after the battle, Earl Jien thought for a while, as if hesitating how to arrange a safe back road for himself. .
But before long, the scout riders he sent out finally rushed back on their horses.
Although these riders looked desperate, and each one was breathless and exhausted, there was no blood stains on their bodies, and no one showed signs of injury. This shows that they were not intercepted. The discovery made Earl Jean a sigh of relief and asked quickly: "Where are the Moore, Walker, and Coopers? And Earl Alcons? Did you find them? "
He asked the question in his mind like a gun, but before he could say a few words, he stopped suddenly.
Because when he saw his subordinates, he was looking at him with a weird look, and he looked terrified.
"What's wrong?" He subconsciously felt that the problem might be a little serious, even beyond his expectations.
The eldest one of the scout riders licked his lips and couldn't help but replied with a dry voice: "Lord Lord, Count Alcons and the others..."
"What's wrong with them, can you stop it as if you have seen a ghost alive, well, even if there are real undead, haven't you never dealt with those things?" Earl Jin frowned, extremely dissatisfied Looking at their subordinates, the reason why they took them in was because of the experience of these veterans, but these people had never acted so hesitantly in the past. Even if they crawled out of the dead, they did not show it. Such a look.
But at this time, suddenly a messenger came back tremblingly from the front. His face was pale, and he shouted as he ran: "My God, your lord, it's an Eruin, they're here!"
Count Jien was taken aback. What he was most afraid of right now was this. He quickly turned around and looked at the guy: "What are you talking about, what are the Eruins here? Are they the envoy of the Eruins?"
But the messenger kept shook his head: "No, those dragons! Blue, cyan, many, all over the sky, come and take a look, my lord!"
The guy's voice was almost wailing.
…
After waiting for another long hour, Brando finally found that the weird imperial aristocratic army opposite him still seemed not planning to move, but at this time, he had finally lost his last patience.
Although he had envisaged various possible situations for a long time, this one is obviously an exception at the moment.
And he obviously can't be here endlessly with the Lord Earl to consume it, if the Lord Earl did this to provoke him to take the initiative, then he has to say that the other party did it.
Fortunately, this issue is not particularly complicated for Brando.
Attacking or not attacking Although it does not depend on him, the choice of how to attack is in his hands. Of course, he cannot expose his intentions to the opponent in the first place. Since the opponent wants to see what methods he has, the best way is There is nothing better than to let Charles command the Ether Dragon to try the depth.
So he did that too.
But the final result greatly exceeded his expectations.
In fact, it was beyond the expectations of Nimes, Shire, and even the little princess Medissa.
As soon as Charles let the etheric dragon enter the battlefield, a person from the army of Earl Jinn on the opposite side quickly ran out.
Brando was sure that if he read it right, that person was holding a white flag—
At that moment, even he couldn't help being deeply confused.
"Could this Lord Earl come here to surrender to him?"
"Do the Cruz people fight like this?"