Grand Duke Buck sighed secretly in his heart, talents are rare, and talents with both wisdom and courage are even more rare.

Carefully calculated, there are not many champion knights under him, but there are really not many who can take charge alone.

Then again, those with simple heads and a tendonous temperament seem to be more likely to become champion knights.

Because this kind of person also has a characteristic, that is, they are more persistent, indomitable, and it is easier to adhere to one thing.

On the contrary, it is those smart people who attract too many things, their attention is more likely to be distracted, and they are full of flowers, and they unconsciously use their brains and embark on the road of labor-saving.

Champion knights prefer to take one step at a time, and when using the labor-saving method, it also means that they have embarked on a crooked path and need to spend more time and energy to correct it.

But once a smart person succeeds, the achievement will inevitably be above those tenacious guys, because this person must have great perseverance, and the ability to burst out with a smart mind is far from being comparable to ordinary champion knights, the most typical representative is Dicklon.

It's not that Archduke Buck didn't have the idea of beating Dicklon, but the difference in ideas between the two sides is too great, not to mention whether the other party is willing to surrender.

Even if it's Ken, Grand Duke Buck doesn't dare to use it.

For Grand Duke Buck, it is better for such a person to die, but the difficulty of the other party is beyond imagination.

Originally, Dicron ran to the Eternal Night Commandery, and the trouble had been solved, but he didn't expect the Eternal Night Commander to be his biggest potential opponent in the Desperate Swamp.

I didn't know it before, but I knew about the existence of the Eternal Night Commander.

Naturally, Grand Duke Buck attached great importance to it, and tried to weaken the Eternal Night Lords as much as possible to distract them before a full-scale invasion of the Swamp of Despair.

The first thing that came to Archduke's mind was political skill, and it just so happened that the Eternal Night Army had a weakness in front of him. Of course, let's take a punch first.

The leader of the Eternal Night Army called him a trick to divert the tiger from the mountain, but Grand Duke Buck called it a stone throwing to ask for directions.

After all, the angles and information of the two sides are not equal.

The news brought by Sir Kleist was superficial after all, and although it made Archduke Buck aware of the threat from the Eternal Night Lord, how powerful is the other side now, how many soldiers are there to fight, and how prepared are they to march into the Swamp of Despair?

I don't know.

If the other party continues to cower in the Andes Mountains, even if it is another ten or eight years, Archduke Buck will not be able to find out its situation.

Grand Duke Buck is not a merchant who has not tried to capture the Eternal Night Lords, wanting to open a gap in them and find out about the status of the Eternal Night Lords.

But the opportunity has not been found.

Because of the fact that the status of the Baron of the Eternal Night has not yet been realized, the ships of the Eternal Night Army are very restricted on the Jacob River, and the farthest is only the section of the river under the control of the Countess Anjibena of the Manyu Army, and it is only a short 200 kilometers until the fief of the Princess Regent ends.

The most important thing is that I don't know if it is because the situation in the Manyu military leader is too chaotic, or because of the usual style of the Eternal Night military leader, these merchant ships come and go in groups, and the warships and warships of the eternal night army are guarded left and right.

After arriving at the land, it was also loaded and unloaded by the locals, and the people led by the Eternal Night Army ate and lived on merchant ships, and after finishing their work, they immediately turned around and returned to sail without making too many stops.

The time card is accurate to the minute, and the people on the entire merchant ship are not so much merchants as soldiers who order and prohibit.

In desperation, Grand Duke Buck could only send an elite squad led by the champion knight to take a risk.

As a result, the front foot was taken captive, and the back foot was discovered.

At that time, the situation was like stabbing a hornet's nest, not one, but three.

Not only were all the warships and merchant ships led by the Eternal Night Army in the Jacob River dispatched, but even the forces of the regent Princess Sophia and the countess Angelena were all mobilized, frantically searching and pursuing.

The merchant of the captured Eternal Night Army is an out-and-out die-hard, shouting and screaming as long as he is awake, attracting the attention of his own people, and not caring about his own life at all.

In that case, not to mention asking for information, their elite team was able to escape, and there was a lot of luck involved.

As for the captive, there was no chance to bring it out at all, so he could only sink to the bottom of the river.

Grand Duke Buck is not afraid to tear his face with the Eternal Night Leader, but the relationship with the Princess Regent must be maintained.

Although the Eternal Night Commander failed to touch the vine and touch the Grand Duke Buck, he has already been startled, and the Eternal Night Commander's precautions are stricter.

If you want to start again, you must have more rigorous planning and means.

Grand Duke Buck had no choice but to think of another way to get the information he wanted.

Transferring the Eternal Night Commander out of the Andes Mountains, especially into the Byron Alliance, is also a way to make it easier for him to observe up close, and to speculate and evaluate the entire Eternal Night Commander through a point.

The reaction of the Eternal Night Leader proved the correctness of Archduke Buck's guess, the other party is trying to join the Byron Alliance, and this baron is a step, more important than imagined.

succeeded in luring Sean, the supreme ruler of the Eternal Night Army, out of his lair.

Until then, Grand Duke Buck couldn't be sure of the weight this young man had in the Eternal Night Army.

But judging from the posture shown by the other party, it is far much heavier than he estimated.

The number of ships mobilized also made Grand Duke Buck secretly frightened, the potential of the Eternal Night Army Leader was far greater than estimated.

Before this, Archduke Buck was also prepared with both hands.

If the Eternal Night Army were to lead a fleet of envoys, it would be too rudimentary, and they would take a thunderous attack and capture the king first, taking down their leader, and plunging them into a brief period of chaos or internal power struggle.

If the other party's fleet is strong enough, he will not be considered a failure, but will succeed in achieving another strategic goal - to divide the naval forces led by the Eternal Night.

Without this hand, these ships could be an obstacle to their march into the swamp of despair.

The only thing that made Archduke Buck a little incomprehensible was that Sean didn't seem to be in a hurry to accept the award, and was enthusiastic to sell the goods of his own territory and start a business there.

Regardless of the result, it is now ready to shoot and has to be sent.

Political means are only an auxiliary tool for achieving final victory.

Saying that it is important, sometimes it is indeed important, and the outcome of many wars has already been decided in the political game.

It is said that it is not important, and sometimes it is really not important, and in the end it depends on military strength.

The battle between the Carthusian Warlords and the Nightsmans for the Swamp of Despair belongs to the latter, and it is now time for the sword to shine.

The order for a general attack issued by the Grand Duke of Barker, who was far away in the capital of the Carthusian army, was led by the mountain eagle over thousands of mountains and rivers, and landed in the city of Geqi, where the commander of Akmaiser was located.

After more than half a year of adjustments, the Carthusian military leaders have also initially established an air communication mode.

It was the Mountain Eagle from the Eternal Night Army Leader that was purchased at a high price from the Eternal Night Army Leader through secret channels.

But as long as there is another way, they don't want to use the messenger eagles from competitors, who knows if there is a secret door hidden by the other party, what if those eagles are in the air and pass through the hands of others, or just go away and fly back to the original owner?

These are all possible.

However, the timeliness of the bird's message is too obvious.

I didn't know it before, but now that I know, it's hard to refuse.

But throughout Ashan, the most mature use of this method is the Eternal Night Commander.

Others who have followed the trend to study, the time is too short, the training level of the birds is not enough, the stability can only be said hehe, and it is similar to the danger of the Eternal Night Commander, which is not a lot at all.

The most trustworthy of this method is the birds raised in captivity.

But the problem is that everything starts from scratch, and without three or two years, your own birds can't be put into use at all.

Even if they were willing to wait, the Eternal Night Leader wouldn't give them that much time.

According to the news from the spies who infiltrated the swamp of despair, the Eternal Night Leader is encroaching on the crocodiles little by little.

In the past, it was only to transport grain, but this year it is even more excessive, and it is helping the crocodile people to plant water and food in a large area.

Once the Eternal Night Army Leader has gained a foothold among the crocodiles, what will happen to their Kingsley family at that time?

So, even if the situation in the Swamp of Despair was not yet at its best, they had to launch a full-scale invasion.

After repeatedly proving the reliability of the mountain eagles, the Kingsley family decided to use them.

After all, birds are birds, and their IQ makes it difficult for them to distinguish between friend and foe, let alone play the complex Infernal Affairs.

Of course, this kind of use is also used with caution, which not only uses the usual method of spies, but also uses multi-line confirmation and other methods, just in case.

"The whole army is attacking. "Akmaiser gave the order to attack on all fronts.

Compared with the interlocking of the last march into the Swamp of Despair, this time the strategy adopted by Akmesser was decent, and the whole army pushed at an even speed.

Along the way, every piece of land that I walked through would be repeatedly probed, and some puddles and mud swamps, as long as they were not too big, would be filled in.

This is fully absorbed from the previous experience.

not only left his way out, but also did not give the crocodile people a chance to exchange their lives for their lives.

In the face of this menacing situation, the crocodile people could only retreat again and again, and the united army pressed directly to the edge of the Danube River.

Prepare to resist with the last line of defense.

But this time, the Kingsley family is prepared, and one by one the warships are also being assembled.

Speaking of warships, it is to put gold in their faces.

Okay, it's a bit of a fishing boat, most of them don't even look like fishing boats, it's just a raft.

The Kingsleys eventually abandoned their plans to buy ships in large quantities from the Cummins or the Witches' Secret Society.

It's not just the Cummins family who don't keep their word, delaying their orders again and again, and blackmailing them with this.

And because they found that even if they built a large boat, they would not be able to transport it to the Danube in the swamp of despair, but it would be more convenient than the small boat built in their own territory.

Some even harvest timber on site and build ships on site.

On the first day of Kingsley's all-out march into the Swamp of Despair, the Council of Elders of the Crocodile Clan was assembled.

More precisely, the Council of Elders has not been dissolved since it was convened a year ago.

Not only has there always been this threat from the Kingsley family, but because their relationship with the Eternal Night Warlord changes day by day, they have to work together to barely deal with it.

After being entangled with the Eternal Night Army Leader for so long, the Council of Elders of the Crocodile Clan has not grown at all.

At least after encountering things, it is no longer like before, which is fried at every turn, and a swarm of whispers, but now it is gathered in groups of three or five, and after the discussion, some deputies will throw out their more thoughtful and mature opinions.

One of the deputies took the lead in breaking the deadlock and said: "Blindly retreating and defending is not the right way, we should take advantage of the dispersion of the opponent's army, concentrate superior forces, and break through each one, otherwise when they pave the road to the river, we can only fight to the death on the river, once defeated, there will be no chance to turn over." ”

"What are we going to do? The power of the opponent's iron armor, you haven't seen it before, our weapons can't pose a threat to them at all, are you still like last time, take the lives of the clansmen? I'm afraid that we don't even have such a chance, and the environment has become even more unfavorable to us. ”

"What about the new army? What about the new army that we are training with the Eternal Night Army? What is the current situation? We have invested so much manpower and material resources in this, we can't afford to lose it, right?"

"The situation of the new army is much better than we expected, and the equipment is all from the Eternal Night Army, which is barely usable, but we were too timid before, 10,000 new troops, in this situation, the number is too small, and the new army trained by each family is mixed, and it is really difficult to say how much combat effectiveness can be exerted if it is mixed. ”

The Council of Elders fell into a long silence, an aura called embarrassment flowing.

The same training methods and the same equipment have completely different results in the hands of the leaders of the Eternal Night Army and in their own hands.

This was undoubtedly a blow to their self-confidence, and what hurt them even more was that they couldn't find the crux of the problem.

"People are good and rulers are short, which can only show that we are indeed inferior to the Eternal Night Army Leader in this aspect. Grand Elder Webber spoke, "There is nothing to be ashamed of admitting your own shortcomings, I am afraid that I know what the problem is, but I don't want to pay attention to it, I personally also think that we should not sit idly by, we should take the initiative to attack, but it is not to destroy many enemies, but to burn the Kingsley family's warships, as long as their warships are completely burned, even if there is no way to defeat them, it will slow down their offensive pace and win more buffer time for us." ”

From here, it can be seen that there is a relatively pessimistic situation within the Council of Elders of the Crocodile Clan.

What they are thinking about now is not how to completely defeat the Kingsley family, but how to delay the pace of the Kingsley family's attack.

Recently, there has been a handful of capitulationists.

Instead of turning to the Eternal Night, these capitulation factions came up with the rather absurd idea of making peace with the Kingsleys, and the two sides would draw a river to cede the west bank of the Swamp of Despair to the Kingsleys.

As soon as such a proposal was made, it was outright rejected by the Council of Elders.

Not to mention that the Kingsley family did not agree to this condition, the Eternal Night Commander would never allow such a situation to occur.

Eat people with a short mouth and soft hands.

Now the Council of Elders has to look at the eyes of the Eternal Night Army to a certain extent, who has let their various lifelines have been stuck by the other party.

"I think this method is feasible, if there are no warships, even if the Kingsley family has an army of 100,000, there is no way to cross the river, we must not only burn all their warships, but also burn all the trees on the north bank suitable for shipbuilding, and then they will have to travel thousands of miles from the Carthusian army if they want to build ships. ”

"The other party will not know this, it will definitely be heavily guarded, you look at the layout of his army, this is an out-and-out pocket formation, just waiting for us to collide with it. ”

"I have carefully studied Akmesser's pocket formation, it seems that it can indeed be surrounded on all sides, but it also means that it is weak on all sides, and when the time comes, we will gather superior forces to chisel one side, as long as it is chiseled, they will be helpless. Grand Elder Webber said confidently, "If we can smash his pocket array once, we can chisel through it a second time, there is no strategy and tactics in the world that are 100% sure, only a relatively high success rate, I think this risk is worth taking." ”