On the southern border of Swadia, thousands of tents have been stationed here for months.

Beneath the noble banners that flutter slowly in the air, the excellent warriors of the Svadia Kingdom are preparing everything they need for battle.

The wooden fence encompasses all the open space on the border, and the trade roads between the two countries are blocked by Kingdom outposts, where sergeants and soldiers patrol back and forth to protect the supplies they need.

Byron had been on the road for six days, and had finally reached the border post.

In addition to Byron, there were countless wagons carrying a steady stream of supplies from the rear, and in times of emergency, hundreds of wagons would come here every day to unload bags of grain and bales of forage, as well as new armor and weapons, and a large number of arrows.

And when they left, some of the wagons took with them something, sometimes a large amount of bloodstained and torn armor. But more often than not, they took with them the mutilated corpses, as well as their relics.

Since the winter has passed and the weather has warmed, the kingdom has besieged the two major towns of the Rhodoc Kingdom, Fort Gruenwald and Fort Agorlon.

The campaign began last fall, not counting the winter truce, when both sides had been fighting for more than four months and had lost a large number of troops on the border.

King Haraus gathered more than half of the lords of the country, gathered 25,000 skilled warriors, and attacked Fort Gruenward, trying to pull out the nail that had grown in the throat of Swadia south, and trampling the whole of Veruga with heavy cavalry, and reaping the humiliation of the defeat of the army decades ago.

But like other wars in Swadia in the decades, Fort Gruenwald stood firm under the onslaught of the army, and the Rhodoks even counterattacked the city several times with the help of phalanx of pikes and heavy infantry groups. The angry king extended his battle line to Agorlonburg, trying to make a detour from the mountains behind the castle to the hinterland of Rhodok.

But in the past four months, the kingdom has lost more than 6,000 well-trained soldiers, more than 100 excellent knights, and the cost of money and food is even more staggering.

But the two castles have not been captured at all so far, and many Swadian soldiers even have a shadow in their hearts about the Rhodok heavy crossbow, and they will break out in a cold sweat when they hear the sound of crossbow arrows being fired.

At first, Byron didn't understand King Haraus, who was nicknamed "Haraus" by the players in the game, and he didn't understand the noble lords who were about to lose their families and insist on war.

Svadia was a cavalry powerhouse, but it wasted its time and army under the fortified castles and crossbows of Rhodok.

It wasn't until he had spoken to Fatis about the subject that he understood the significance of the two castles and why the kings and lords had always been interested in them.

There are five countries on the continent of Calradia, the Kingdom of Svadia and four other countries all bordering it.

Among these five countries, Svadia has the largest population, the richest territory, and the strongest comprehensive strength.

The strongest of Svadia's military forces were their heavy cavalry, as well as a large number of excellent knights. Chivalry may be in decline on the continent now, but the knights of Swadia still exist like a nightmare for their enemies.

But Swadia, the most powerful country in the world, has been deflated in foreign wars in recent decades, and the expansion plans made during the once strong period have not progressed at all.

To the north, there is the Nord Plateau, and the Nord kingdom, which lacks horses but is strong in infantry, and these immigrants from the northern continent worship force and love war and plunder like the Vikings of Earth. Although the kingdom can suppress them with cavalry in the plains, as long as the terrain is not right, they will be pressed to the ground by the demoralized Nord infantry.

The commanders of Swadia have always been depressed about this, knowing that the other side is at a disadvantage in everything, but as soon as the other party's Yar (the noble lord of Nord) roars, the soldiers rush forward like crazy. The battle that was originally won will not be won in the end, and even if you win, the loss will be so big that you don't feel that you have taken advantage.

To the northeast is the Kingdom of Vekia, a country much like Russia, where more than half of the country is covered in snow and ice, cold all year round, and the people are very resilient.

The Vecchians also had their knights and excellent marksmen, but that wasn't enough for them to defeat the kingdom of Svadia with equal strength. Swadia and Vekia won most of the wars, but once they entered the snowy fields for a while, the troops began to crumble due to the weather and supplies, and each time was no exception.

The situation was similar to that of Napoleon's attack on Russia, but because the snow was always there, the cold was difficult to relieve, and the kingdom and nobles of Swadia chose to back down in the face of these tough mountain people, and the two countries did not fight for a long time.

And in the east, there is a Xiongnu, Turkic, and Mongol mixed race, the Kujit. They slaughtered from the steppes, occupied the commercial cities of the East at the end of the ancient empire, and had their own khanate.

Just like the nomads on the earth, they also play the archers very slippery, even if the medieval tanks armed to the teeth in Swadia will be tossed by them to the steppe and cannot find the north.

Svadiya and the Kugits fought several times, but the end result was that twice as many horses died on the battlefield as wounded.

The heavy cavalry is not mobile enough to catch up, and the opponent still has a large number of lancers who can be tough with them and cannot take advantage of them. Almost all of the Kugit are soldiers, and it is not cost-effective to change them.

Because there is no benefit to fighting with the Kugit Khanate, these steppe people often loot and roam the border like robbers, and the surrounding countries choose to forbear. They don't want to see a situation where the villages and towns on the border are left without people in a few days.

And they didn't want to see the Kugit Khanate fall, because in a sense, the steppe state that had barely integrated into Karadia also blocked their kindred on the other side of the Kugit steppe, the terrifying existence known as the "Great Tribe".

As for the south, it was the Sultanate of Salander of ****. It was a real desert country, and most of the land was desert.

Since it is a desert, there is nothing to say, and the other four countries are not willing to throw their armies into the desert for the sake of a few oases. Even if the environment of the desert itself does not kill them, the Salander Mamluks, who have been waiting for their work, are waiting to be reaped.

Therefore, the Kingdom of Svadia attacked the Kingdom of Rhodok again and again.

Although the border castles of Rhodok are all tough bones, the topography of the kingdom of Rhodoc causes a problem. To the west, the big city of Aaron is mountainous and full of castles. But the terrain to the east was greatly eased, and once the two fortresses on the border were taken... No! As long as one is taken, the entire eastern part of Rhodok, including the rich lands of Viruga and Djerkhara, will be completely exposed to the hooves of the Swadia cavalry!

Perhaps the Rhodoks repelled the Svadian knights many times with their infantry phalanx, but the disparity in national power meant that once the border was opened, they could not hold it for long. At that time, I am afraid that the only thing that this mountain kingdom can hold on to is the mountains.

Riding on his horse, Byron listened to Fatis's narration and felt a little uneasy.

He was naturally afraid of his own wallet, and he was afraid that the Rhodoks would arrest them after crossing the border, after all, they were a little suspicious of coming from the enemy's side.