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The squadron leaders of the various knights were not too crowded in the back row. The battle map in the center of the room is also clearly discernible.

As for the generals and the heads of the various knights, they naturally sat around the battle map in order of identity, and the innermost empty seats were reserved for the commander-in-chief who had not yet arrived. Since the Ground Cavalry Regiment is facing off against the Tajek Mercenary Regiment, only three of the four main cavalry leaders have come today.

The Fire Cavalry, the leader of the Gattes, just like the name of the knights he led, Gatus is a fierce general full of explosive temper, and the Fire Cavalry is also the knight with the strongest penetration and destructive power in the country. The same applies to Gatus.

The Water Cavalry, the leader of the Tuna, is a petite blue-haired woman, the opposite of Gatus, it is said that she and Gattes were once a pair of lovers, but the reason for the breakup was because of tactical differences (strange reasons for breaking up), but the Water Cavalry she led was the most powerful helper of Gatus, as the vanguard of Gatus and Tina, who was the queen of his palace, ensured the undefeated myth of hundreds of battles since the establishment of the Fire and Water Cavalry.

Our Wind Rider Regiment...... Although the strength is also very strong, but because the composition of the team is mainly civilians, the noble title of the regiment leader himself is still an additional reward because the Pope awarded him the title of Paladin, which can be regarded as an alternative in the military department that values the tradition of nobility. Due to the low status of the members of the regiment, the Wind Cavalry Regiment, which is also the main cavalry regiment, has always been in a relatively awkward position in the military headquarters.

As for the captains of the knights who were in line after them, I don't know their stories very well, but I know that my father, Duke Roquetar, sat with them back then.

The commander of this operation was Field Marshal Sivaka, who was appointed by His Majesty the King.

Although his experience and experience are indeed incomparable with those of the generals of the military department and the heads of the major knights, and his exploits in his youth are also talked about by the younger generations, I always feel that it is the only choice for a group of civilian officials in the military department who are overwhelmed by Tayek's strange strategic movements -- the divisions within the military department are too great for anyone to convince anyone, so the only one who can make a decisive plan is the old marshal whose prestige and merit are unmatched.

From this point of view, His Majesty the King is still very useful.

Personally, of course, I would prefer that Captain Helloni of our Windsriders be appointed commander-in-chief this time - it is only a personal wish.

Oh - yes, unexpectedly, I succeeded Old Walter as the leader of the fourth squadron of the Wind Cavalry. Therefore, he was qualified to participate in this military conference.

In fact...... It's not an accident. Old Walter, who is over half a hundred years old, had already resigned to the military headquarters a year ago, but the military department was unwilling to let the captains of the Wind Knights be all a group of civilian knights, so they kept rejecting them until there was no suitable captain - of course, it was not easy to want those nobles who professed their status to be the squadron leaders of a group of civilian soldiers willingly.

So Old Walter had to reluctantly stay in the position of squadron leader for another year.

The real turnaround came two days ago.

It is said that the magic swordsman Esther personally went to the military headquarters and asked me to take over.

Esther, who was the captain of the palace guard, personally named him, and the group of civilian officials in the military department naturally attached great importance to it, so they ignored my opinion (I was really annoyed by the responsibilities and obligations of being a squadron leader) and handed the letter of appointment directly to the regimental commander.

Of course, you don't have to think about it to know that this is Esther's student, Princess Lagersis, who is playing tricks behind her back.

"Establish merit and become a nobleman! That's worthy—worthy of your abilities! —That was said to me that day in the ruins of Roktar.

To say that I don't know Laxis's intentions is absolutely false.

In fact, what she wanted to say that day was: "Only worthy of me as a princess!" ”

Laxis ......

While I was thinking about it, a guard shouted from outside the door: "Marshal Shivaka has arrived—"

The leaders of the major knights immediately stood up, turned to the door, and stood upright.

I couldn't help but stand up straight with everyone.

The door opened, and the first to enter was an old man dressed in military uniform, who was similar in age and appearance to the white boss, with gray hair and beard, but his face was full of wrinkles, and he looked very different from the spirited and graceful white boss—even walking tremblingly.

Marshal Shivaka was very self-aware, and saw him scan the surroundings with his cloudy eyes at the door, and said slowly: "Don't be so restrained, everyone, sit, sit, I am already an old man who is about to enter the earth, and I have been called by Your Majesty to serve the country again, and like all of you, sit, sit, sit-I hated these rules of the military department the most when I was young, old man...... Don't sit inside, come, give me a place at the door...... Heh......"

Everyone laughed together, and the atmosphere was much more relaxed. Several of the knight captains hurriedly began to adjust their positions, and rearranged their seats next to the marshal according to the size of their ranks, and we captains hurriedly followed suit.

After everyone sat down again, Marshal Shivaka said, "Everyone knows that Tajek, who invaded our country this time, may have a connection with the demons, so His Majesty the Pope specially hired the Holy Flame Mercenary Group to assist us - Alves, come in!" ”

Alves answered the door.

It was a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a priest's uniform embroidered with a burning cross, with deep sunken eye sockets and a towering hooked nose, looking unruly, and his self-introduction was quite conceited, just one sentence, "The head of the Knights of the Holy Flame, the fallen priest Alves." ”

"Fallen Priest?" I asked Sister Jana beside me strangely.

"The priests who have violated the prohibitions of the Church," Sister Jana in charge of intelligence gathering in the regiment has a lot of knowledge in this area, "those priests who have violated the prohibitions of the Church because of manslaughter and other things, because of their past merits, the Pope pardoned them to death, and after they were excommunicated from the Church, they still profess their loyalty to the Church, and they are often hired by the Church." This Alves, who is said to have been the second digital priest, was excommunicated for some accidental massacre of ordinary villages as pagans - although others say that he went specifically to slaughter villages that disobey the Church......"

"Oh! The dark side of the priest. The church should be hiring them to do something that is inconvenient for them, right? ――Why did you send him this time? ”

"Shhhh He's looking this way! ”

I hurriedly shut up, but I still couldn't do it, only to see Alves Pinno walking quickly in front of me without anyone, "I basically know the captain here, only you are a new face-new?" ”

After saying that, he stood in front of him coldly, with a cold light shining in his eyes.

"Thresteen, the fourth captain of the Wind Riders!" Met with that piercing gaze, I replied with a high chest.

"Threstin?" Eagle-like eyes were still staring at me, "You were the one who killed the Demon Elder Jimsa and the Demon General Zakir with Minia's little girl?" It's no wonder you can comment on me here, but ......" he suddenly leaned into my ear and whispered, "Why do you smell of Sigmar, the Demon King I killed?" Yes! The scar on your neck seems to be a tooth mark - is Sigma's daughter pretty? ”

"......" I gasped and my whole body stiffened.

"Hah! Don't be afraid, don't be afraid~" He continued to smile darkly in my ear, "I won't kill you without a bounty, and I heard that your connections are not bad, I heard that Esther, Hieroni and that St. Wolf all like you very much, and we will cooperate sincerely together in the future~!" ”

"Hey, Alves! Don't scare my captain out there! He's too young to be scared - sit down! "Commander Helloni helped me out of the siege.

"Haha~ Hieroni, your captain is very interesting, I like it very much-how about giving us the Holy Flame Mercenary Group?" Alves laughed and patted me the shoulder, then sat down in the reserved seat.

Whew, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out that the Demon King Sigma was killed by this guy, and the fallen priest who used to be the second number of priests - I don't know what he was thinking, how could he let me go so easily?

- Either way, be careful not to let him run into Rusya.

"Indeed, this little fellow has done a great job," Marshal Shivaka looked up at me unimpressed by Alves' rude gesture just now, and continued, "I'll talk about the poaching later, it's the time of the meeting—Tina, your Sailors are in charge of this intelligence gathering, right?" Tell me what is going on. ”

Tina briefly explained the situation so far.

The Tayek Mercenaries and the Knights are still stationed in place.

According to the intelligence obtained from reconnaissance, the number of Tayek mercenary regiments is less than 10,000, composed of seven or eight mercenary regiments together, and the funeral corps ranks first in the same obedience mercenary regiment, and the military branches are mixed, while the number of Tayek knights is about 25,000 people, composed of about 5,000 cavalry and 20,000 barbarian infantry. The total number is less than three hundred.

On our side, the original number of the four major knight regiments was about 1,000 people each, and after more than half a month of preparation, each unit has now expanded to 5,000 cavalry, plus several auxiliary knights and the lord's private army, even after deducting the ground cavalry regiment that is not here, the total number of combat units is 40,000, including 25,000 cavalry and 15,000 infantry, and the total number of magicians equipped with it is also more than 1,000.

"Hah! 40,000 cavalry against 25,000 miscellaneous troops, you can win with your eyes closed! After listening to Tina's debriefing, Gatus smiled lightly.

"There's something more relaxing," Marshal Shivaka narrowed his eyes and took a paperwork from his adjutant's hand, "the Tayek cavalry regiment, which has not been in contact with us, handed us a challenge a while ago, and the location is set here," he pointed out the location on the map on the table with his baton, "It doesn't have to be so obvious to lead us into a trap, right?" It's a joke, our reply was to agree to a fight, but the location of the battle was up to us - and they did! ”

"Hahahaha!" Gatus couldn't hold back any longer, "So stupid? These barbarians are so cute - they attack and camp for a month, then jump into our battlefield! Hahahaha-I can't stand it! We can take care of them! - Marshal, where is the battlefield? ”

"Shailith Plains."

This time it was all laughing, the plains of Shairis, the vast plains had no cover, and were the most suitable for cavalry to fight, while the Tayek had only five thousand cavalry......

"It went so well," interjected Captain Hieroni, "I suspect it's a trap." ”

"Traps? What's the trap method? Gatus was still laughing, "Herony, tell me!" What kind of traps might they set? ”

"The plain of Shaylis is not far from the mountain where the Tayek Knights are now stationed, and my captain has noticed that they have been digging something, and suspects that it is a tunnel or something."

"You mean they dig tunnels from the mountains to the plains?" Gattes was still smiling heartily, "And then? Dig a big trap?! - Hieronis, you might as well say that they are digging treasure in the mountains to be more credible! ”

"Are they really digging tunnels? Is there any other use? Tina interrupted Gattes.

"I don't know," Captain Hieroni shook his head, "I just think it's too unusual to go smoothly - after all, the surprise attack they started was very unexpected for us. ”

"Hmm!" Marshal Shivaka nodded approvingly, "Indeed, I am also a little concerned - the way they began to invade was too unexpected. Heronys, you once reported that you suspect that they want to annihilate us in one fell swoop? ”

"Hmm."

"Hahahaha!" Gattes laughed even more presumptuously, "Just rely on those more than 20,000 miscellaneous troops to annihilate our 40,000 people in one fell swoop?" How? Is the whole army rushing up and blowing it up?! ”

"Probably so!" Alves on the side suddenly spoke.

Gatus was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly turned his face to look at Alves: "Huh? Alves, are you serious?! Will they really blow themselves up with the whole army?! ”

"How is that possible?!" Alves folded his arms and gave Gatus a teasing look, "I mean it's true that Hieroni thinks Tajek wants to annihilate us in one fell swoop!" ”

"Huh? Even you think so?! Gatus screamed.

"That's what I thought, Gatus," Tina took over quietly, "I was also surprised by Tayek's actions, but I figured it out when I heard Herony. Trying to annihilate us in one fell swoop - it feels impossible, but it is the only explanation. ”

"Uh......" Gatus looked back and forth at Tina and Alves with a strange expression, then pondered for a moment before muttering to himself, "Is it really possible?" So - how do they do it? With forbidden magic? Unless......" Gatus suddenly glanced coldly at the venue, "There are spies?!" ”

He was the leader of the Fireriders, and I thought he was just an impulsive guy who only knew how to fight, but he immediately accepted the seemingly impossible conclusion and began to think calmly - looking at Gatus who was constantly thinking there, I couldn't help but have a deep respect for him.

"Ahem," Marshal Shivaka cleared his throat, and then asked, "what do you think?" ”