Inside the tent, Duke Alexis played with the empty wine glass, staring thoughtfully at the lines on it. The glass flipped nimbly between his pale, almost clear fingers, and a faint streak of blood slowly escaped from the depths of his skin, as if spring water had seeped back into the parched riverbed. Duke Ryan's untimely leisure did not attract any objections—the Marquis of Clovis and Viscount Ivanles, who had always been at odds with him, were not at the round table at this time, and Gregory IV, the only person who could dissuade him, looked like he was not concerned with himself. The eyes of the lords chased the wine glasses that flew up and down, waiting quietly.

"Your Excellency." Lista walked into the tent and threw the bag to the ground, the thudge fluffy. The open mouth of the bag exposes the characteristic white color of snow. He saluted the lords at the round table, and those unsettling eyes were exposed to everyone's noses. He didn't deliberately make eye contact, but everyone unconsciously avoided his gaze.

"Let's set up the snow tray." Duke Alexis put down his glass and waved his hand nonchalantly, the blood on his hand quickly disappearing. "How do you feel?"

"Much better." Lista placed the snow disc in the center of the round table, and then spread the cowhide around his waist - it was a military map of the Vaal Snow Plain. He picked up a cloth bag and dumped the snow into the snow tray, and began to recreate the landscape of the Vaal Snow Field according to the map. He holds the snow tray in his left hand and smooths the snow with his right hand, then uses his fingers to finely pile each hill. Lista's movements are fluid, with no redundant manners or fancy techniques, and every move is a textbook for snow panning. But everyone remembered that this morning Duke Alexis almost cut off his right palm with a sword, and even Senbai's metacarpal bone could be seen in the wound. That's enough to devastate a warrior and even regret it for life—unless he's left-handed. However, after only a few hours in Yeats's care, Lista showed no signs of injury to his right hand.

"Bloody Hand" Lista...... This title flashed silently in the minds of some people, and with it came the Battle of Frost Breath Mountain in 350. Fieldsway's Marquis of Errings, the "Fork Beard", took advantage of the fact that Livingston was still fighting the Salionites in the Mendelssohn Mountains, and decisively launched a surprise attack on Fort Dragonguard. At that time, the defenders of Longwei Fort had less than 2,000 people, most of them were militiamen, and the only ones that could handle it were a dragon knight squad of less than 50 people and a supernumerary ranger regiment. The temporary commander was Lista, who was recruiting Servants at Fort Dragonguard. The strength of the attacking side was about 1,500 men, all of which were regular troops carefully selected by the "forked hu". On paper, the gap is not very big at first glance, and Frost Breath Mountain is a natural terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you really want to make a list of various elements, you can compare them carefully and even the defenders have some slight advantages, after all, Fieldsway's long-range troops have never been able to take a shot, and they can only be suppressed on the battlefield. It's nowhere near as far as the disparity between 3,000 to 10,000 in the Battle of Dragon Guard Fort earlier this year. However, at the end of the list, the attacker only needs one name to erase all the strengths of the defender, and even their own advantages are insignificant.

Pioneer of the siege force: Hercules.

However, at this time, Sertanda "The Fierce Dog" and Alaric "The Iron Bear" were at the forefront of the Mendelssohn Mountains, taking on two other super-class warriors from Sarion: "Baker" and "Captain Cavalry" Griff. Marquis Airy calculated this correctly, so he did not hesitate to risk angering Marquis Sigimund, and crossed the opponent's defense zone and approached Frost Hill without notification. Everyone took it for granted that the fall of Fort Dragonguard was a foregone conclusion, and that Frostbreath would then become the focal point of a tug-of-war between Livingston and Fieldsway. But the end result was that their jaws fell to the ground: the army of the "Fork Hu" was defeated by the Iron Oak Castle, and the Marquis of Airy himself was driven back to his territory by the enraged Marquis of Sigimund; Hercules, on the other hand, did not appear on any of Fieldsway's fronts on the foreign battlefield for three months.

No one knows the details of the Battle of Frost's Breath. But one thing is undeniable, that battle shattered the myth of the invincibility of super-first-class martial artists and subverted the so-called pattern of checks and balances. Lista was at the center of the maelstrom, and he himself was secretive about what he had experienced at Fort Dragons four years earlier. Thinking of his strange situation this morning, a folk rumor naturally rang in the ears of those who were skeptical.

That bloody hand is the curse of the god Vejovis......

"This is the approximate location of Ivanles." Duke Alexis' words bring those who are distracted back to reality. Lista had finished arranging the snow tray and stood aside. Duke Alexis was inserting a small dark blue flag into the west side of the snow disk, and then drew an arrow with his finger to point directly at Poinbru, which did not exist on the snow disk. "According to the information provided by Eastelle, he could encounter the Raiding Tide at any time. Judging from the scale of previous years, it is about forty or fifty thousand. He gave an understatement of a number.

"It was just an ordinary wave of looting. This year, with the Wolf of Omens in charge, the scale will only be larger. Count Stephen said, "In three or four years, the raiding tide led by the second generation of Omenwolves must have numbered 100,000 people, right?" Eight years have passed, and who knows how many people those barbarians have given birth to! ”

"You don't really think that our enemies will put all 100,000 men in the Vaal Snow Plains, do you?" Duke Alexis picked up all the small gray-and-white flags on the table, and slowly inserted a few gray-white flags into the middle of the snow bed. "In the past, they would have been so stupid. But—" He paused for a moment, and threw all the remaining gray flags in front of Count Stephen.

"Stephen, let me ask you a very simple question, with an absolute superiority in troops, will the core of the tactic of 'encircling points and sending reinforcements' still be 'sending reinforcements'?"

A drop of cold sweat ran down Count Stephen's head, and he gazed uneasily at the scattered gray flags in front of him, raised his hand with difficulty, and pushed them to the eastern edge of the snowpan. "You mean," he seemed to be dreaming, "that Boynbrough is under siege?" ”

"As long as the troops show a crushing situation, encirclement and reinforcement, of course you can have both." Duke Alexis said coldly, "If I were Meldere I would do the same." If he was able to make such a delicate arrangement in the Vaal Snow Plain, what was the difficulty for him to divert the raiding tide? ”

"Report!" A terrible shout came from outside the tent, and a sentry stumbled in, "The vanguard has encountered a tide of looting!" Viscount Ivanles asks for help! ”

Here it is! The lords subconsciously looked at the snow pan, and a small dark blue flag was facing the small gray-white flags alone. Beyond the snow disk, however, there are more small gray-and-white flags. It was the Far Eastern battlefield where they could not do anything, shrouded in a thicker, deeper, and more dangerous fog.

"Let's go, according to the previous arrangement." Duke Alexis stood up, "Lista and I are also going back. Take advantage of this unique opportunity and get ready. ”

"Opportunity?" Gregory IV looked at him inexplicably.

"Two chances in a row to break the tide of looting, and there may not be a second time after this year." Duke Alexis lifted his tent, and Lista followed closely behind him.

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