After the Snow Waterfall Pass at the northernmost point of the Principality of Snow Falls City.

A unit is changing its guards.

After the Battle of Pure White, the four principalities immediately mobilized all the men they could mobilize to defend the border. In addition to the private soldiers of the four families, those young men and women who had just reached the age of sixteen and had temporarily joined the army according to the laws of the empire were also pushed up.

Now the redeployment of troops throughout the country is going very smoothly, and these inexperienced recruits have also been withdrawn to the rear.

Female soldier Kate Sanches is among them. She was originally the easternmost part of the Duchy of Yangyan City, the maid in the castle of the girl's own territory. Imperial law stipulates that women who have reached the age of sixteen and are not married or engaged must report to the army just like men, so Kate, who has just turned sixteen and has no boyfriend, naturally joined the army. Originally, she only thought of it as a special experience, until she was suddenly woken up at night and made a hurried march towards the Snow Falls.

Fortunately, the fighting did not break out. After a long period of fear, the more elite troops replaced Kate and the others. They will return to Snowfall City to rest and wait for further orders.

"Ah...... I really want to go back to the castle ......" in the array, and Kate stretched after relaxing.

"Quiet!" Not far away, a female officer wearing black tight leather armor and a hot figure shouted, "Be vigilant! ”

Kate immediately stood up obediently. Fortunately, the female officer she didn't know just glared at her and walked up the pass.

"Hey, why is she still with a child?"

Kate noticed that behind the female officer, a child younger than Kate, whom Kate thought she was at most fourteen or fifteen years old, followed the female officer to the wall of Snow Falls.

Like the female officer, the child also has striking silver hair.

……

Later.

The snow falls are closed.

The girl stood on the pass, looking curiously at the Okadian army stationed in the distance.

"Tina, you've seen enough." Beside the girl, the female officer said.

"I don't, Sister Floretta." The girl named Tina shouted.

The two of them danced in the wind with their silver-white hair.

"Enough," Retta cried, "I command you in my sister's name—"

Tina patted the silver soft armor vest on her body. Compared with her glamorous sister, she is still young, but her cute face is full of serious expressions.

"I'm also my father's own military attaché," she said proudly, "and my father said I could stay here if I wanted." ”

Floretta lifts her forehead. The gods are above! How can even an old man mess around with children? This is a war, not a playhouse!

Floretta and Tina are the daughters of the Duke of Snowfall. Their conspicuous silver hair is the hallmark of the family. (By the way, the Duke of Snow Falls City gave birth to a total of six daughters, and now his wife is pregnant with another one, and everyone no longer thinks about the question of "can the Duke hold a son").

This time, the Duke of Snow Falls City can be said to be a family battle, except for a few who stayed in Snow Falls City and supervised the transportation of grain and grass, the eldest son-in-law and second daughter all came to Snow Falls Pass as military generals. As for the fifth daughter, Tina, she pestered her father to come to the front line to see and understand.

"Tina, you're only fourteen!" "If there is a fight, I can't guarantee ......"

"I can also go into battle and kill enemies!" "Also, I'll be fifteen in three days!" ”

"Okay, okay......"

Nikki, the unicorn knight, a guest from Elrios, stood behind the two and shook her head.

"If something happens, I'll protect Tiny Tina." Nikki looked cold, but said gently.

Once the Snow Falls Pass is in danger of being breached, the unicorn knights also take on the duty of covering the retreat of the guards.

"I don't need your protection." Tina pouted.

"The enemy is moving," Reta said suddenly, "let's go down." ”

Everyone could see clearly that more than a dozen heavily armed knights rushed out of the Okad camp.

Reta wasn't nervous. Every day, the Okad army would send a dozen sturdy soldiers to shout and curse at the pass, but they had no intention of attacking.

Even Tina's face was as usual, although she was the first day she came to Snow Falls Pass, she had long regarded herself as a "general", and she would listen carefully to information every day.

Just watch out for surprise attacks from opponents' spellcasters......

But...... This time, the Okard army came with a slightly different intention.

They sent a humiliating letter of war.

……

On that day, there was a dispute within the Imperial Army over how to respond to Okade's provocation.

In his war letters, Okad insinuated that the Errios were nothing more than lost dogs, and that the Imperials were shrunken turtles. The generals of the empire have been enduring Okade's abuse for the past few days, and they have been so humiliated that a few of them are about to have a violent attack on the spot.

Nikki and Floreta tried their best to persuade them to stop the idea of immediately sending troops into battle. The empire is a native war, and the more it drags on, the greater the advantage. The frontiers in the southeastern part of the empire also needed more time to lay out their defenses.

But everyone also realized that for the newly lost empire, if the war could not be avoided for a long time, the morale that had just been mentioned would inevitably decline again......

Therefore, when Floretta and Tina's eldest brother-in-law proposed to go into battle and perform the ancient ritual of "military exercise" before the battle, none of the Empire nor the generals of Elrios objected.

……

The next day.

Watching her brother-in-law fight one-on-one with the enemy general under the pass, Tina couldn't help but sweat.

"It's all right," said Nikki, "your brother-in-law has the upper hand." ”

In the morning, contrary to the expectations of the Imperials, the Okard Army did not hesitate to accept the Imperial Army's request for a military general's heads-up.

It turned out that Okad had launched an offensive in the northern part of the empire with only a few partial divisions. At this time, the forces of the two sides were equal, and the empire occupied the terrain advantage that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was impossible to defend it steadily, and it was inevitable that Okad would suffer heavy losses when attacking.

Mr. King has promised to take control of the small countries and open the way for an attack on the empire from the south. As long as the main forces of the Imperial Army are dragged here......

Heads-up is a barbaric ritual that "does not understand the art of war". But at a time when both armies were expecting to stall for time, and when old and new hatreds were stacked together, and they were unwilling to sit still in war, it became an option acceptable to both sides......

……

A smile bloomed on Tina's little face.

Roaring, neighing, blades clashing.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen rounds had passed, and she saw her taciturn eldest brother-in-law gradually gaining the upper hand. His long knife glistened with cold light, and an elegant arc was drawn, cutting off the enemy's wrist with precision.

The enemy's steel whip fell to the ground. He screamed miserably, but did not fall off his horse, but stabilized himself, returned to his horse and fled to his own position.

"Hmph."

The Imperial side did not pursue either. Tina noticed suspiciously, that the eldest brother-in-law had already bent his bow and arrows at the back of the enemy's heart, but he put down the bow and arrow, let the other party escape, and returned to the camp in triumph amid the cheers of his own soldiers.

"Today we won," Floretta said, "but the war has just begun." ”

Her eldest brother-in-law's martial arts are also deservedly the strongest among the generals in the empire at the Snow Falls Pass.

And the opponent he won today was just an unknown youngster.

It's nice to be on top today, but should he continue to play tomorrow......

Floretta's brow furrowed.

The bloody ritual of the fight will be protracted. Sooner or later, there will be the dead, and more and more generals will die on this deadly "gladiatorial arena".

There's no need to let the duel level up infinitely on day one.

One day, your own warriors will be defeated, and before that, let the opponent take a personal favor, maybe save the life of one more great general...... Floretta thought.

In the empire where countless warriors dream of becoming secret warriors, there is no shortage of ordinary military attachés who are proficient in martial arts. Even if it is a fight for numbers, the empire is better than Okad. As for the commanders who are good at commanding the troops, most of them will not allow them to be compromised on such occasions.

The outperformance of "superior horses" over "inferior horses" is not worth writing about. On the contrary, whether to continue to waste the horsepower of the "best horses", or to risk the "middle horses" of both sides to fight each other, has become a difficult problem for everyone in the Empire.

……

And the atmosphere in the Okadian camp was somewhat heavy.

Wei ran to treat the general who had lost his hands. With his "eternal blood" ability, he could make the man reborn with a severed limb, but Lijie, who was the commander-in-chief, stopped him sullenly.

The injured are just the lowest-level generals, and their martial arts, command ability, and potential are insignificant. And a magic spell that can heal a disability almost consumes half a day's time for a blue ocean-level magic caster.

The number of injured people will inevitably increase in the future. It's impossible for everyone to get this level of treatment. At present, he has bought people's hearts and cured this young general, and he will not be able to give everyone the same treatment in the future, I am afraid that it will change in a long time......

Kindness has never been Okade's way of governing the army.

In the big tent.

"Tomorrow we will take the initiative to fight," Li Jie's gaze swept over the faces of many generals, "Who wants to fight?" ”

Several young generals were eager to try it out.

"Let you guys," Lijie said coldly, "can you win the Empire?" ”

The generals were silent for a moment.

Although the martial arts general of the Imperial side who fought today, the husband of the future Duchess of Snow Falls City, is not a secret warrior, his martial arts can be called the pinnacle of mortals. Even if Lijie takes action in person, she is only forty percent sure.

And the others? It's not as good as Lijie. But Lijie is the chief general of the army, and she can't put herself in danger at the beginning of the war.

"I'll go," Melia, who was at the bottom of the ranks, took a deep breath, "The other party is also a righteous person, and if it is me who fights, they will also send other people to play." I also have the strength to fight. ”

Melia is only a seventeen-year-old woman, and if the Imperial Army needs to use an ace to deal with her, she will inevitably be suspected of bullying the small with the big and killing chickens with a knife.

"What if the other party is really shameless?" A white-bearded veteran snorted. In his opinion, a vase like Meliya would not be able to go through three rounds in front of the No. 1 general of the Snow Waterfall Principality.

"Then I'll just shoot it back and shoot it back." Melia said gently.

Melia's martial arts are mediocre, but she is the "lucky star" of the entire Okard army, and has repeatedly survived in danger. When she said this, she nodded her head.

Lijie hesitated for a few seconds. Melia is her most important deputy...... It's just that I always want to change to a civilian job.

Melia, who doesn't like the battlefield, is willing to take the initiative to fight, and Lijie is also quite touched in her heart.

"Alright," said Lijie, "you'll be out tomorrow." Always be careful. ”