The secret letter from Hill Hill was sealed in a thick envelope and delivered overnight to Her Majesty's desk. The flame-shaped emblem on the surface of the envelope indicated that it was a secret letter related to military information, but the seven-layer flame pattern indicated that it was not very important, and Constance asked the maid to open the envelope, then took the letter and looked at it, and then handed it to the little Prime Minister Nidwin. Hillat Hill is one of the royal family's secret eyeliners in the Clouds Hills, and the magic secrets that come from there are naturally related to the Count from Eruin.

Prime Minister Nedwin Jr. looked at it and shook his head slightly: "It's really endless." ”

But Her Majesty herself did not seem to care too much, and she replied: "The grandson of Daurus forced them, but this is also self-inflicted." ”

On the letterhead it was written in Cruz script: 'Your Majesty, the nobles have prepared their men and horses here to meet the Count from the kingdom of Eruin. The commander of this army, Count Guien, is now resting in the towns of Hemlock, Vargus, or the area around the left, and it is reported that three more lords and dozens of knights have answered the call

They should have been on their way when the letter was sent. ’

This news was a day ago.

Floating Cloud Hill -

The eastern sky was now graying and the stars were fading, marking the dawn of a new day, and the red pine woodlands bathed in the morning light, the Earl was now anxiously looking at the western horizon, as if it were true, as Her Majesty the Queen had said, and he was now indeed beginning to feel a little cocooned. With a feeling of impatience, the Earl of Guine addressed himself for the third time

The scout rider asked, "You've run east, west, and north, and you're sure you don't see the Moore and Cooper families, or the Walker family." Not a single one? ”

Scout riders are experienced knights, mostly from various legions, who have left the army because of brawls, wounds, injuries, old age, or whatever, and they have so much experience that they either join mercenary groups or become vassals of nobles. But at this moment, these veterans also looked at each other, shook their heads vigorously, and said, "My lord, no."

Yes, we didn't see any of them. ”

"Damn, have you ever been to Hemlock Town?" Count Guine gritted his teeth, almost crumpling the gloves in his hands.

"My lord, we have been there too, but it is calm. The local residents don't know what's going on yet. The riders replied immediately.

"Did you see a signal from the Moore and Cooper families, or the Walker family?"

"No, sir." The riders shook their heads in unison.

Count Guien gasped.

……

"Only one flag?"

Brando and Nimesis simply scouted the battlefield and then turned back into their positions, and in the war theory of the major empires and surrounding principalities, most of the tasks of scouting the battlefield were left to the cavalry, and the commander would overlook the entire battlefield from high ground - in smaller battles, the entire battlefield of a battle would not be more than ten miles wide, so it was easy

to see the entire battlefield.

But Brando and Nimesis chose the player's way. That is, the air unit is used to map the battlefield and make a sand table, and as commanders, they only need to have an intuitive understanding of the entire battlefield. The advantage of this method is that it is more conducive to concealing one's intentions. In particular, the direction in which one's own army entered the battlefield was the combat concept of the Second War of the Black Roses

Madara was the first to be used, but it was carried forward by the players, and in this era, it is still an extremely advanced tactical idea.

But the news that the gargoyle had brought back took him by surprise.

In the direction in which he and Nimesis had previously discovered the movement of the Cruz nobles' private army. Soon the army, hidden in the red pine woods, was found from the air, and its main body was composed of noble spearmen and some crossbowmen, and a small number of cavalry were also found, and these noble private armies were very well equipped, especially the spears in the hands of the spearmen, and the reflective Cheng dù was basically all equipped with iron

Standard imperial spears made of even steel speartips. The popularity of armor in the army is also very high, almost reaching more than eighty percent, except for crossbowmen, even spearmen are equipped with chain mail, and knights are almost all one-piece armor, such equipment is not inferior to the first-line legions such as the White Lion and the Black Blade Legion of Eruin, and as a noble private army, even if it is

It is not everywhere in the empire, and they are most likely the personal guards of those great lords.

And here, the one who can be called a great lord is either Count Orcons or Count Guien, after all, this is the south, not the Banks region near the center of the empire, or the northern Ludwig region controlled by the military aristocracy.

But to Brando's surprise, there was only one army in the forest, and he repeatedly asked the gargoyle to check the emblem on the banner, but only one could be distinguished.

"That emblem is the insignia of Count Guinn, and he himself has come here, so what about the others, ambushed?"

Brando couldn't help but look at the female knight beside him with some incredulity.

Nimesis shook her head slightly, it was almost impossible to ambush, the gargoyles had a wide field of vision, and when they skimmed high in the air, they could see almost the entire surrounding hills. After the Battle of the Black Sword Barrier, the Cruz people understood that there were gargoyles in their army, and that those imperial nobles, although arrogant, were not stupid, on the contrary, most of them

It is impossible not to have heard of the Gargoyles' abilities, so it is unlikely that they will allow their armies to lie in ambush in vain.

Unless it is an ambush to the periphery of the entire battlefield, but in that case, not to mention that they will not have time to support, such a blatant ambush, wouldn't they be fools?

Will Count Guine bring a thousand men and horses to fight them to the death? It's impossible to think about it even with your knees, although the Summer Solstice Knights who were defeated by them at that time were about the same number, but as the local knights of the empire, they were not many grades higher than the combat effectiveness of the noble private army.

Because the female knight instinctively thinks that there is no such possibility as zài.

Brando naturally knew this, and the only thing left was that the opposing army's army was obscured by spells, and such a battle would not appear until after the Third War of the Black Roses in history, and the earliest use was the Faenzan. Spread over the years—and if the Earl had really come up with such a brilliant idea in this era, he would have had a great talent for tactics. It's just that the prerequisite for this is to have an independent, centralized wizarding group, which is far from even the size of Brando's wizards, and not to mention whether the Cruz can assemble such a wizarding group in such a short time, even if there is, they have too many hidden armies.

He patted his head. I was a little confused for a while.

"What the hell are the Cruz people trying to do?"

Nimesis also shook her head in confusion, she had never seen a similar battle in her dreams, and the military knowledge and tactical skills she had learned in this life did not seem to explain what the Cruz were doing at the moment.

Unable to detect the enemy's movements, Brando did not dare to act rashly, although he knew that he had overwhelming power in his hands, but firstly, he did not want to incur unnecessary losses in the small fights with these imperial nobles, and secondly, he did not want to use some hole cards in such low-level conflicts. He thought about it a little and decided to have the White Lion Guard on standby, and then dark

Iron golems provided by Buga Wizard were arranged in the field to support them on both wings. He hadn't used these secret weapons that had been hidden in previous battles, but the situation was a little weird, and he had to be cautious.

Fortunately, the only advantage now was that he had already discovered the enemy, but the enemy had not yet discovered them, and he had time to wait for the Earl's further actions to see if the other party would show any flaws.

The minutes passed by as the morning fog gradually faded from the hilly area, at first to the open hills. Then even the light in the forest gradually became brighter. The sun moved into the sky directly above, and visibility in the hilly areas grew. Brando stood behind the bushes, and gradually he could see with the naked eye the outside of the forest, on the other side of the undulating hills.

A few flags were sparse in the forest, but what puzzled him was:

Almost two or three hours passed, and the other party still didn't move.

"Did they find us?" Brando's head could not explain what was happening for a moment. This is the only way to the Evergreen Walkway, and it is understandable that this Earl is staying here, but the problem is that squatting is not such a squatting law-abiding, he has not seen any scouts sent in this direction in the other direction, and Count Jean seems to be crazy

The army cowered in a forest. It doesn't look like an ambush, it's more like it's just about hiding.

But here's the problem.

If the other party wanted to hide, wouldn't it be better for him not to leave his castle, but to suffer in this wilderness?

Brando was puzzled, but at this time Count Guine was actually more anxious than he was.

This Imperial Count is really going crazy-

This feud between the southern aristocracy and the hillbilly from Eruin has attracted the attention of the entire empire, from the nobles of the kingdom to the common people, and even those who really hold the supreme power in the empire have looked away from the two ongoing and temporarily silent holy wars to watch their good show. It is for this reason that no matter what

He, or Count Orcons, must not retreat half a step, otherwise he will become the laughing stock of I don't know how many people, behind them is the Parut family, and the Duke of Parut will also lose a lot of prestige and face because of it, and this account will naturally be counted on their heads in the end.

That's why he made a pact with Count Orcons that he would stop the Count of Eruin in the Clouds Hills, not to defeat them completely—they were still self-aware and knew that their army was not as effective as the Imperial Frontier Legion, and was not even a match for the Summer Solstice Knights—but at least it was necessary to make the other side feel tricky, if they could save the other party

Those aristocratic hostages in their hands, that is a happy ending for all.

To this end, they gathered almost all the local nobles on the side of the Parut family in the entire southern border, including four historic families and countless lords and knights, large and small, and this army, though good and bad, was gathered together in the tens of thousands of people, and in their opinion, it should be enough to deal with an envoy of no more than a few hundred people

There is more than that.

But when everything is ready. At the last moments of the east wind, on this morning, he encountered a problem that he had never expected.

Count Guien seemed to have suddenly lost contact with all the other allies who should have been stationed near the settlements or towns in the vicinity of the area, and even the day before, he had sent people to contact them.

But for now. It was as if these people had evaporated out of thin air and disappeared for no apparent reason.

The count's head was now in a cold sweat, and his first thought was whether he had been betrayed by these damned fellows, but this thought was only instinctive for a moment, and then he himself vetoed it. He understood that anyone else could turn against him, but Count Orcons could never be, and the two of them were in the same boat

If he accidentally capsizes, then he will have to face the thunderous fury of Duke Parut. He's definitely not alone.

The only possibility is that his allies have been unwittingly killed by the terrible Eruin across from him.

Originally, this idea was very absurd, and it sounded like a fantasy that a delegation of several hundred envoys would quietly kill tens of thousands of aristocratic private troops stationed within a radius of dozens of miles, and that they would not know each other. But the more the Earl thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, he hadn't really dealt with Brando before, although Brando had been caught

He had many nobles under his command. There was even one of his nephews, but the conflicts that preceded them were in fact private conflicts between these local nobles and Brando. He wouldn't have wanted to deal with such a madman if Brando hadn't had to take these hostages and punch him and Count Orcons in the face, and even the big man behind them.

But though he hadn't met the Earl of the Kingdom, there were many rumors about Brando, the clearest of which was about his attack on the Imperial Fortress. It was a whole legion, which had been governed by the other side in a submissive manner, and was neither defeated nor defeated, but was completely taken into custody, and had to do as the other side wanted

errands.

Count Jean thought of this. Suddenly he realized that he might have done something stupid, he thought that he could defeat such a terrible figure, even if he had tens of thousands of horses, could he be comparable to the Rogerian Frontier Army?

By this time, the Earl was already full of thoughts, and he sent his men to continue in the direction of his ally's station, to find out what was happening. If you can't meet them on the road, then at least go to their previous camp, and if they really aren't there, or find traces of the aftermath of the battle, Count Guien thought for a moment, as if he were in Judah

How can Yu arrange a safe back road for himself.

But it wasn't long before the scout riders he sent out finally rode back.

Although the riders looked dusty and panting and tired enough, there was no blood on their bodies, and no one showed signs of injury. This showed that they had not been intercepted, and this discovery made Earl Jean breathe a sigh of relief, and quickly asked, "What about the people of the Moore, Walker, and Cooper families?" And what about the Count of Orcons? Have you found them? ”

He asked the question in his heart like a cannon, but before he could say a word, he suddenly stopped.

Because he saw that these of his subordinates were looking at him with a strange gaze, and he was terrified to see him.

"What the hell is going on?" He subconsciously felt that the problem might be a bit strict, even beyond his expectations.

The eldest of the scout riders licked his lips and couldn't help but reply in a somewhat dry voice, "Lord Lord, Count Orcons, they ......"

"What's wrong with them, can you not act like you're alive, well, even if there are real undead, you haven't dealt with those things?" Count Guien frowned, and looked at his subordinates with great dissatisfaction, the reason why they took them in was precisely because they liked the experience of these veterans, but these people had never been so spitting in the past, even if they crawled out of the pile of dead people, they did not look like this.

But it was at this time that suddenly a herald ran back from the front, his face was pale, and he shouted as he ran: "Oh my God, my lord, it's the Eruin, they are coming!" ”

Count Jean was taken aback, what he was most afraid of now was this, and he hurriedly turned his head to look at the guy: "What are you talking about, what Eruin people are coming, is it the Eruin envoys?" ”

But the herald shook his head vigorously: "No, it's those dragons!" Blue, cyan, many, all over the sky, come and see, my lord! ”

The guy's voice was almost wailing.

……

After another long hour of waiting, Brando finally found that the strange army of Imperial nobles opposite him still didn't seem to be about to move, but by this time, he had finally lost the last of his patience.

He had long envisaged all sorts of possible scenarios, but for now this one was a clear exception.

And it was obviously impossible for him to spend endlessly with this Lord Earl here, and if the Lord Count did this to provoke him to take the initiative, then he had to say that the other party did it.

Fortunately, this issue is not particularly complicated for Brando.

Although it is not up to him to attack or not, the choice of how to attack is in his hands, of course he can't expose his intentions to the other party first, since the other party wants to see what means he has, the best way is to let Charles command the Aether Dragon to test the depths.

And so he did.

But the end result was much more than he expected.

In fact, it was also beyond the expectations of Nimesis, Charles, and even Princess Metisa.

Charles had just let the Aether Dragon into the battlefield when a man from the army of Count Jean on the opposite side quickly ran out.

Brando was sure that if he was not mistaken, the man was holding a white flag in his hand—

At that moment, even he couldn't help but be deeply confused.

"Could it be that this Lord Earl is here to surrender to him?"

"Is this how the Cruz people fight?" (To be continued......)