Time passed little by little, and the day of the war came.

In the east, a fish's belly is white, and the sky is a clear blue, and the stars are dazzling, like a dark blue skirt adorned with diamonds.

Since the early hours of the morning, the town of Black Rock has been in a state of first-level combat readiness, with the Silver Knights erecting new fortifications around the town, and several squads of scouts being sent out to focus on the situation in and around the town of Makoran on the other side of the jade mine.

If you want to win this war, intelligence work is very important, according to the information detected by the scouts, batch after batch of knights have rushed into the town of Makolen, the estimated number is about 500, and the number is still growing sporadically.

As a hereditary count, Galeon had the right to raise a regular army, and the Order of the Blue Eagle maintained a strength of 1,500 men all year round, and had a reserve of nearly 3,000 men.

Therefore, as Charles said before, whether he can win this war depends on how much Count Galeon attaches importance to himself, if he attaches great importance to this opponent and is determined to give himself a good look at any cost, then it will be difficult for Charles to win this war, after all, the opponent has an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and the town of Black Rock did not consider the possibility of war at the beginning of its construction, and if Sir Galeon did not pay attention to Charlie, this battle would have any hope of winning.

Of course, no matter what decision Count Galeon makes, Charlie will deal with it with the strongest attitude, even in the face of the entire Blue Eagle Knights, he will not back down, and will definitely give the other party a head-on blow.

Of course, this is Charlie's own estimate, perhaps, in Galeon's eyes, the 500 Blue Eagle Knight is more than enough to deal with his own ragtag army, and Charlie also hopes that he will have this attitude, after all, the ratio of 1:1 is fighting, Charlie has the certainty of winning, and he doesn't even have to turn over his hole cards.

Charles had investigated the county of Galeon, which was a standard county with an area of about 320,000 square kilometers, 8,000 peasant households, and an agricultural population of about 30,000 people, and at least 300 peasants, about 100 households, were needed to support a knight, the knight's family, his servants, horses, and armor with the grain production of the Wagland continent.

By this standard, Galeon could only support a maximum of 800 knights, however, the fact is that he maintained a knightly establishment of nearly 4,500 throughout the year, although the cost of reserve knights was only one-third of that of regular knights, which meant a supply of 2,500 regular knights.

This standard was maintained because there was also a vein of refined iron ore, a quarry, and a medium-sized city of Yorktown, two industries and a city of more than 300,000 people that provided taxes to feed the Blue Eagle Knights.

Of course, the Count's earnings could not all be used for the army, Charlie helped him calculate an account, Galeon had eight wives, nineteen children, and a group of clansmen and relatives who were attached to the family, to maintain a luxurious life, this part of the expenses was not small, or all of them were similar to Charlie's uncle-like roles, and the family's income could be eaten as much as they could.

In addition, like the city of Haynes, the administrative structure of York City adopts an external approach, and the whole system needs to be paid by the earl, in addition, urban construction, public security management, education system, public health system, and all walks of life all need a certain amount of financial expenditure, so in fact, the Count of Galeon's finances are somewhat stretched.

Following these conjectures, the Earl's attack on the Pavel family is of course due to the influence of the Wellington family and the Four Princes, on the other hand, he covets the wealth of the Pavel family and covets the jade mine, so the military operation is a temptation, if the test finds that the Pavel family is very weak and does not have strong foreign aid, then the next action will be to occupy the mine under the pretext of war reparations.

Therefore, this battle is not only to win, but also to win beautifully, and hurt him!

......

The town of Makoren is said to be a town, but in fact it is only 2.4 square kilometers, equivalent to the size of a knight's territory, with 100 residents, because it is located in the deep mountains and old forests, most of them live by hunting, rely on the forest to eat, and live a relatively poor life.

The jade mining has greatly improved people's lives, and the salary they receive for one month of mining is equivalent to the income of the past year, and to a certain extent, the townspeople of Makoren are grateful for the opportunity provided by the Pavel family.

A few days ago, the mayor of Makoren brought all the townspeople back to the town, in fact, against the wishes of the miners, except that these townspeople have no status, live in the gap between imperial power and divine power, live like a swarm of ants, and have no right to speak at all.

In the wee hours of the morning, as is customary, the townspeople were still asleep, but now it was very noisy, and the knights were taking care of their weapons in a good way, and some of the knights were still sleeping beautifully, and the townspeople were called out, and every household had to bring out the cured meat and provide breakfast for the knights.

Since there were more knights stationed this time than the townspeople, every family sent out labor, and many families even sent their children out to work.

These meats are the only remaining reserves of the townspeople, and they are reluctant to take them out to honor these noble lords, plus these knight lords pick and choose, eat half and throw half, and they all hold a fire in their hearts, but what can they do?!

The town's strongest hunter, Mayor Bathras, had to bend over and laugh and stand in front of a mid-ranking officer to listen to the lesson, so what could the townsfolk do?

Aside from other aspects, these knights are really powerful, and each of them exudes a fierce momentum, which is not deliberately pretended, but after killing many people, the momentum that naturally forms is terrifying, not only that, but the blue armor on their bodies exudes the luster of magic, taking into account both beauty and performance, each of them is so sophisticated, it is worthy of the elite troops of Lord Earl.

"How many people are there in the regular garrison of Black Rock Town?"

Baseras replied respectfully: "Dear knight Taylor, there are about 30 of them. ”

Taylor asked nonchalantly, "How do they compare to our knights as you can see?"

Bathras said without thinking: "Of course, it is not as good as your subordinates, not to mention personal momentum, and the equipment is much worse, but you also know that I am just a hunter with limited knowledge, and many opinions are just intuition at first glance." ”

Taylor laughed and said, "Instinct is the most accurate, especially the hunter's intuition! Well, this time you take care of my brothers, and when we take the mine, your good days will come, and the Earl will open a road from York City to the town, and then the town of Makoran will be completely free from its current poverty!"

Basshras looked in awe, praised a few words, and turned around, but his face was full of worry, the great man's appetite also meant that the scale of this war was extraordinary, perhaps a battle to the death, and in the battle to the death between the two armies, what would happen to the townspeople of Makoran?

At this moment, a stocky middle-aged man, about forty years old, with an ugly scar on his neck that ran from his chin to his shoulders, came out of the tent with his eyes wide open, and his hands were still arranging his belt.

"Where's Taylor?" shouted the middle-aged man, at the top of his voice.

Knight Taylor, who had been arrogant just now, immediately burst into good spirits and jumped up from his chair, and before the man arrived, his voice answered, "Your subordinates are here, respected Sir Lucian." ”

"Haven't we heard anything from the scouts yet?"

"News from half an hour ago, the security is heavily guarded within a kilometer around Black Rock Town, and our people can't get close for the time being!"

Lucian was dissatisfied: "Haven't you found out how many of them are?"

"Yes, but that's okay! Now the Silver Knights are only 500 people, even if they bring all the reserves over, it will be less than a thousand people, we have 500 fully armed elite knights, and the Holy Sect's Priest Corps is also assisted, I am confident that I can eliminate all their soldiers at a small cost!"

Lucian's face was a little relieved, and he asked, "What about the priests? Are they up?"

"Not yet, Lord Sir, you also know that the saints are not subject to our control, and I informed them thirty minutes before that they were ready to act, but until now I have not seen any of them come out of the church. ”

"Damn, it's even bigger than Lao Tzu!

"Yes!"

Lucien seemed to say to himself, "If you want these saints to find out the situation, even if we can't control them, the Earl still has the priesthood of the Holy Church! He has the right to deal with the saints of the Earldom diocese, and today's action is a war that the Earl attaches the most importance to, if they are not willing to cooperate with our action, we will change a group of people at any time, and by then, they will have no good fruit to eat!"

"My subordinates understand!"

A moment later, a group of priests dressed in holy robes, about ten, came out of the church in the small town of Makolen, and joined the knights in the town.

After breakfast, the Blue Eagle Knights began to form a formation and marched towards the mountains in a squad of knights......