Act Twenty-Five: The Tinder of Eruin

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The sudden situation on the battlefield disrupted all deployments, and for the first time, Brando realized that the so-called Jīng secret plan was basically equivalent to the decree of King Hesse I of the Great Road in the command art of this 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 north of the Silman Valley and southeast of the Tosankad Forest, at the end of the Chablis Mountains in the province of Golan-Elsen, the Slovefa region is a low valley that acts as a natural barrier between the Wallendon plain and the Silman Valley. 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, Tonigel and the Highland Knights set up an ambush in the two river valleys of Crivan and Chenier, opening an encirclement circle of about twenty miles, allowing Lantoniland's army to be the first to block, and then Viero and Tonigel's cavalry-based army went around the more gentle river valley in the rear to attack, completely encircling and annihilating the army of the Blood Staff.

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 large 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 the army of Lantonilan and Vieiro, and it was further away from the army of Tonigel, and an ambush battle was fought at the beginning of the blockade.

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. As for the others, especially the army of Lantonilan and the Highland Knights, they had no idea what was happening on their flanks, and after learning that Viero's army was attacking first, they immediately changed their battle plan and tried to get around the flank of the Blood Staff army first, but they didn't know that the lid of this encirclement had been poked out by their own people.

Eco still led a small number of his cavalry in the mountains and forests, and could only pray that Viero's damned knights would not 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 of these nobles were too good, if they were allowed to take advantage of the victory and pursue them or hold on to the place, or they could still exert seventy or eighty percent of their strength, but once they fought a frontal attack, they were afraid that they would collapse in an instant.

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

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 people, one person is responsible for writing the ciphertext, and the wizard apprentice who casts magic communication only needs to copy it, so that the person who sends the ciphertext only thinks of the original text of the ciphertext, and will not reveal the secrets hidden in it. 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 enemies than to command them, and the reason why he used 'things' to describe those subordinate knights was that Brando was deeply 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 Viero, they are willing to wave the flag and shout for their master, that is loyalty and righteousness, if the Grand Duke of Viero dares not accept it, then his prestige will be completely gone."

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 from the game.

Brando was actually a little glad in his heart.

Fortunately, Madara defeated Viero, but what he was most afraid of was that the army of the Grand Duke of Viero launched an attack first, so that the Blood Staff felt jǐng in advance, this dark lord, who has always been known for his caution, would turn around his army and retreat back to the Silman region, if that happens, things will be troublesome, because there is still a Jean Denel in the territory of Eruin at the moment, and they are now ambushing the Blood Staff, just to fight a time difference, if the Blood Staff is defeated in the ambush, then Denel will lose foreign aid and retreat to Madara, and morale will naturally collapse.

But if the Blood Staff huddled in Silman and gave Jean Denel a hope to break out in this direction, then the armies of Toniguel, Viero and Lantonilan would not be able to hold out for much time 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, and when Caglis's letter said that Viero's left flank had been routed by hundreds of skeletal 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 went aside, grabbed the saddle and turned over on his horse, and in the midst of the rain, the army was marching out, and everyone was getting on their horses one by one; A little farther away, Tonigel's young wizard group was gathering under the leadership of Charles, and the wizards climbed onto the phantom war horses summoned by magic, wearing uniform silver-gray robes and hoods, and they all turned their eyes in this direction, among them, there were charlatans who originally came 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 female xìng, most of these female xìng sorcerers were pale, With cold expressions, 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.

Then there is the wind shè hand.

Born out of the legendary army of the Silver Jīng Linglin Song Legion, the princess guard, their commander—present and past—Medisa sat on a unicorn with her spear hanging from her saddle and her hands folded in prayer. Like the warriors of the ancient silver jīng spirits, pray to the heroic spirits of the sages of the forest to protect them and make them brave and overcome their enemies. It is also a prayer for the souls who have died in the war, and the song of the silver jīng spirit is ethereal and ethereal, so that all the trees jīng spirit shè stop and listen, and the god of worship is revealed on their faces.

As for their deputy, Fina has long been the most fanatical fan of the little princess Yinjīng.

Of all the armies he commanded, only the White Lion Guards were the quietest and most orderly, the young men from Tonigel seemed to have long been accustomed to the atmosphere under Brando, and the non-commissioned officers and soldiers who had been mobilized 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, now only Hippamira and Star, the former was wiping the heavy surface of the mountains, and the rain fell on the stone scepter, which exuded a halo of green, as if life was sprouting in the earth, full of luxuriant aura. 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 must know that Hipamela benefited the most from the battle in the Dead Frost Forest, and at this moment her strength has recovered to the level of elemental manifestation, coupled with the almost invincible Gaia's scepter, Star's fate can be imagined, anyway, since then it has seen Hipamela like a mouse meeting 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, and the crossbow was stuck under the cloak, and he looked up at Brando:

"My lord, is the news reliable?"

"Reliable." Brando replied. Little Pello 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, and even in the eyes of Eruin, the dark country is also a disintegrated and weak country, less than ten years before the First War of the Black Roses, when the lords of Karasu often led their armies into the territory of Madara to retaliate against the plundering of xìng.

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 there are many ways to deal with these skeletons, and Calglis has to teach him himself, and 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." ”