The sudden situation on the battlefield disrupted all deployments, and for the first time it dawned Brando that so-called precision planning was basically equivalent to the decree of King Hesse I of the Great Road in the command art of the era—it was a joke. The aristocratic army, especially the archaic command structure and loose discipline between the knights and subordinates, is the enemy of all commanders, and in such a situation, you have to think not about praying that there will be no mistakes, but about glancing that there are no mistakes, and the more complex the plan, the more flawed it is.

Located to the north of the Silman Valley, southeast of the Tosankad Forest, at the end of the Chablis Mountains in the province of Golan-Elsen, this low valley hill cuts off the connection between the Wallendon Plain and the Silman Valley, acting as a natural barrier. Several tributaries that emptied into Lake Wallendon cut across the hills, forming several relatively gentle valleys along which the army of the Blood Staff was advancing, and Cowen's men had long since followed them to find out the direction of their march, detecting that these skeletons might lead between the two valleys of Crivan and Chenier.

The two most important passages of the Slovefwen hills, the Klivan and Chenierees, are surrounded by the Jondel Mountains and forked to the north, with many small hills in between, and large lime forests on the gentle slopes that can be used for ambushes at this time. This place is almost an ideal ambush place, and the Blood Staff never seemed to have thought that an allied army from Lantonilan and Viero would ambush him here, and his previous victories had made him so proud that he would be killed here.

In Brando's original plan, the four armies of Viero, Lantonilan, Toniger, and the Highland Knights set up an ambush in the valleys of the two rivers of Crivan and Chenier, opening an encirclement about twenty miles in radius, allowing Lantoniland's army to be the first to attack. Viero and Tonigel's cavalry-based army then attacked around the more gentle valley in the rear, completely encircling the Bloody Staff's army.

But things are going to turn out more than anyone expected from the start.

The army of the Blood Staff was divided into two and advanced in a valley about seven or eight miles apart, and when the vanguard of one wing met Viero's army, the knights of Viero's army could not contain the passion in their hearts and launched the attack first. The result of the direct guidance was that the army with a long swing of blood staff did not enter the encirclement at all, except for a small number of vanguards. Its main force was in fact in front of Lantonilán and Vieiro's army, and even further away from Toniguel's army, and an ambush battle was fought at the outset.

What's more, Viero's army has been completely exposed to the Mardara army, they have lost a wing, and their morale is crumbling at an accelerated pace. For the others, especially the army of Lantonilan and the Highland Knights, they had no idea what was happening on their flanks, after learning that Viero's army was attacking first. immediately changed the battle plan and tried to take the lead to go around the side of the Blood Staff Army, but they didn't know that the lid of this encirclement had been poked out by their own people.

Eco still led his few cavalry to hurry through the mountains and forests, and could only pray that Viero's damned knights wouldn't poke out too big baskets, but for his little wish, Macaro and Outin were not very optimistic, they knew too well that the private armies under these nobles were too good, and if they were allowed to pursue them with victory, they would either stick to the spot, or they could still exert their strength, but once they were attacked, they would be able to attack head-on. I'm afraid I'm going to collapse in an instant.

I have to say that these two old nobles are still very insightful about some of the disadvantages of the land of their kingdom, although they have not seen it with their own eyes. But I also guessed eight or nine.

Of all the parties involved in this battle, it was Brando's magic teleportation that was the first to obtain reliable information, and magical telecommunication was still very rare in the warfare of this era, because magic telecommunication could only transmit words, and Vaynd's decryption technology was really terrifying: having a magic store like 'deciphering ciphertext' could directly restore the original meaning of the person who recorded the ciphertext when writing it, and the commanders were naturally reluctant to let their orders leak into the hands of their opponents.

But in fact, 'deciphering ciphertext' is not without flaws. On the contrary, the method of restraint is actually very simple, as long as the person who transmits the message is divided into two groups, one person is responsible for writing the ciphertext, and the wizard apprentice who performs the magic communication only needs to copy it, so that the person who sends the cipher only thinks of the original text of the ciphertext. The secrets hidden in it will not be revealed. It's just that the so-called simplicity is also after understanding the principle of magic, the problem is that in this era, most mortals' understanding of magic is still stuck in the process of knowing it but not knowing the reason for it, the wizards of silver call them charlatans, and the wizards who are really inherited pay more attention to the knowledge contained in the magic, and the Buga people are mostly scholars, while human wizards are mostly sorcerers, which is the gap.

In fact, the wizards of Buga had long since found a way to restrain this magic, but it was their secret and would not spread to the armies of the Black Iron until after the Slate War. But Eruin now has a zài outside of Brando's condition, so the so-called 'barrier of knowledge' has become no zài, and he directly plagiarized the methods of the wizards.

It's just that this method has no technical content, it is very simple to spread, and once magic communication is popularized, countries with strong armies and large armies like Madara and Cruz will benefit far more than Eruin, so Brando has never used this technology openly in the army, and often only uses it in some intelligence exchanges with his henchmen. Unless he was sure that he would be able to gain enough advantage in a large-scale war to counteract the effects that followed, he would not spread the secret for the Bugats.

In fact, Brando already had a plan in his heart, but the war with the blood staff was not strict to that Cheng dù.

He put away Caglis's magic letterhead in the drizzle, and Madara had no idea how old Viero's army of knights would be defeated, but the audacity of Viero's commander to gather the knights from the territory below and put them on the left flank still made him laugh and cry. "I don't know if this is overconfidence or the so-called self-cultivation of actors." Brando thought to himself that if those things were given to him, he would rather send them to Mardara to be his enemy. Nor willing to command those things, and the reason why the word 'things' is used to describe the subordinate knights is that Brando was impressed by these so-called armies of small landowners, broken knights, and opportunists, who had historically buried the northern aristocracy, just as stupid as they do today. "But the commander is probably also in a dilemma, at least nominally these knights are still vassals of the Grand Duke of Vieiro. They are willing to wave the flag and shout for their master, which is an act of loyalty and righteousness, and if the Grand Duke Viero dares not accept it, then his prestige will be completely lost. ”

Brando knew the rules of the game of these old nobles, knights and lords, and this was the cornerstone of this era. But alas, these cornerstones have been shaken from their very bottom. "Lords, your time is over—" He had time to remember a famous bard's poem from the game.

Brando was actually a little glad in his heart.

Fortunately, Mardara defeated Viero, but what he feared most was that the army of the Grand Duke of Viero would attack first, so that the Blood Staff would be alerted beforehand. The Dark Lord, who has always been known for his prudence, will turn around and retreat back to the Sylman region, in which case things will be in trouble, because there is still a Jean Denel in Eruin at the moment, and they are now ambushing the Blood Staff, just to make a time difference, if the Blood Staff is defeated in the ambush. Then let Denel lose foreign aid and retreat to Madara, and morale will naturally collapse.

But if the blood rod curls up in Sylman. If Jean Denel had a hope of breaking out in this direction, the armies of Toniguer, Viero and Lantonilan would not have lasted much in the hills.

Once Denel and the Blood Staff are allowed to merge, there is no telling when the chaos in the south will end.

But to Brando's surprise, he guessed that Viero's army of knights was rotten, but he didn't guess that they could be so rotten, when Caglis's letter said that Viero's left flank had been routed by hundreds of skeleton troops. He almost thought it was a joke. But it was impossible for Caglis to joke with him at this time, so Viero's army really routed like a miracle.

It's just a miraculous stupidity.

He flicked the letter paper, then stepped aside, grabbed the saddle and turned over on his horse, and in the midst of the rain, the army was marching out. All of them are getting on their horses one by one; Farther away, Tonigel's young group of wizards was gathering under the leadership of Charles, and the wizards climbed onto the phantom horses summoned by magic, wearing uniform silver-gray robes and hoods, and turned their eyes in this direction, among them, there were charlatans from the mercenary group, young people who had just completed their apprenticeship trials from Valhalla and Fir Castle, and a small group of druids brought by Quinier, and finally the faces of some women, most of these female wizards were pale and cold, With high cheekbones and a mean face, they are witches from all over the world, persuaded by Babasha and the other two witches to join Brando, or the future Dark Dragon.

Either way, after these people put together a patchwork together, Brando finally had the first mage group in the South. There are a total of one hundred and twenty people, and the strength is uneven, of which a quarter are warlocks and wizards from various mercenary groups, two-quarters are from the academic schools of Tonigel and the Royal Knight Academy, and the last quarter are witches and druids.

The leader of the wizard group is naturally Charles, but the deputy is Antitina, since the curiosity seeker took a fancy to her talent and accepted her as an apprentice, Antitina began to systematically learn magical knowledge, although she is still an apprentice, but her attainments in magic technology are beyond the reach of most people. Brando is well aware of the future of the Wizards, so it is only natural for Antitina to sit in this position.

And then there's the Wind Shooter.

Born out of the legendary army of the Silver Elves Ringo, the Princess Guard, their commander - present and past - Métisha sat on a unicorn with a spear in her saddle and her hands folded in prayer. Like the warriors of the Ancient Silver Elves, pray to the heroic spirits of the sages of the forest to protect them and make them brave and victorious against their enemies. It is also a prayer for the souls lost in the war. The Silver Elf's song was ethereal and ethereal, causing all the Dryad Shooters to stop and listen, a look of adoration on their faces.

As for their deputy, Fina has long been the most ardent fan of the little princess of the Silver Elves.

Of all the armies he commanded, only the White Lion Guards were the quietest and most orderly, and the young men from Tonigel seemed to have long since become accustomed to the atmosphere of Brando's men. The non-commissioned officers and soldiers who were mobilized and supplemented from the original White Lion Legion were full of curiosity, but they all had a sharp sword in their eyes, and this sword shone brightly in Freya's hands, and since this sword reappeared, the new White Lion had a soul.

Their deputy commander, Karglis, was now far away in the Silman Hills to the south, and naturally it was impossible for him to appear in this army.

Brando's side was now only Hipamela and Star, the former wiping down the heavy surface of the mountains. The rain fell on the stone scepter, and the scepter emitted a cyan halo, as if it were a life in the earth, full of luxuriant breath. However, the little fat dragon didn't dare to say a word at this time, it roasted and ate the shrimp of Hipamela, but the priest girl did not trouble it at dinner, but without saying a word, she directly screwed the mountain and came to the door.

You know, Hipamela benefited the most from the Battle of the Dead Frost Forest. At this moment, the strength has recovered to the level of elemental manifestation, coupled with the almost invincible Gaia's scepter. Star's fate is predictable, and since then it has seen Hipamela like a mouse to a cat.

The last centaurs to appear in Brando's vision were the Knights of Cruz's Folding Sword.

One by one, these proud knights rode under the hill and raised their swords to him, and although they were few in number, only a few understood the horror of this knight. Little Pelo was still wearing his thick cloak, with a crossbow stuck underneath it. He looked up at Brando:

"My lord, is the news reliable?"

"Reliable." Brando replied. Little Pelo showed a slightly surprised gaze, it is very difficult to follow and reconnoiter the army of the undead in this era, this difficulty mainly comes from two aspects, on the one hand, the black rose of Romanda rarely appeared in the eyes of the world before this. Even in Eruin's eyes, the dark kingdom was a disintegrated and weak one, less than a decade before the First War of the Black Roses, when the lords of Karasu often led armies into the territory of Madara for retaliatory plunder.

Although the undead of that era were terrifying, the dark lords were like a plate of scattered sand, and they even wished to see their colleagues attacked by humans so that they could take advantage of the opportunity to swallow up, and in that era, Madara wanted to fight the strength of a kingdom of Eruin, which was almost a dream. Thus, apart from the commoners who suffered from the undead in the border areas, in the mindset of the Eruin aristocracy, Madara was a weak, almost bandit-like state, a country that they did not know and did not bother to understand.

The War of the Black Roses was a nightmare of consternation for the entire kingdom of Eruin, and the fact that until now, the nobles did not know exactly where they had lost, as evidenced by the previous defeat of Viero's army against the Blood Staff.

So it's a nation that knows nothing, and it's a mystery in itself.

On the other hand, the huge difference between the undead and the living makes it very difficult for human scouts to approach the army of the undead. This problem was the most difficult to solve until Madara fought St. Osor. Although Mardala never bordered the Cruz Empire on land, little Pelo and other academics from a professional background are still very aware of this, and they are also very skeptical of Brando's words.

Brando's self-confidence comes from knowledge that is ahead of his time, and in later generations the wind elves have many ways to deal with these skeletons, and Calglis has to teach him himself, it is not difficult to bypass the army of blood staffs. At that time, he had personally led the refugees to escape from under the nose of Mardala when he was in Butch, and Calglis only led a few scouts to follow behind the army, which was simpler, not to mention that Mardala did not understand that there were so many loopholes in his detection methods in this era.

Little Pelo saluted the lord from afar: "Since the lord is sure that the blood staff will not retreat for a while, then wait for our good news." ”

Brando nodded, and the young men of the Order of the Knights of the Folding Sword pulled up the hood of their cloaks under his gaze, turned around, and left to the south. In a moment, only the shadow of a flying cloak remained in the rain. By this time, Freya had come to the front of the White Lion Guard.

"Brando," she shouted, "Iko has got in touch with us." ”

"Then let's go," replied Brando, standing in the rain, "let those knights of Viero know that the times have abandoned them, welcome to the future, this new era!" ”

Freya was slightly stunned.

Charles whistled and smiled, "Let's go, Freya, the lord means that although he is a pig teammate, he still has to be saved." ”

…… (To be continued......)