August fires, the scorching sun scorched everything on the earth.

At this time, it was noon, outside the capital of the Andris Kingdom, Kevin, the colonel's field, which had been converted from a former rebel camp, was densely packed with heads.

These people stood under the scorching sun, wore helmets and armor, and lined up in a strict phalanx, even if they were sweating, they did not move, and did not say a word.

They were the Praetorian Guard under King Charles.

King Charles was also fully armed, standing on the parade platform on the school yard with his hands behind his back, looking at the strong soldiers under his command with pride on his face. If it were the armies of other countries, in such severe weather, the officers would not be able to drive the soldiers out of the barracks, let alone form a strict battle formation.

And his soldiers of King Charles could do just that.

"Your Majesty, the knighthood ceremony is ready." General Barnes came up behind King Charles, stroked his chest and saluted.

"Let's get ready and go!" King Charles turned his head and nodded at his number one general.

"Yes!" General Barnes complied.

A moment later, sixteen giant horns were blown under the parade platform! Amid the sound of the horn, hundreds of generals and officers came out of the array of their own troops and came to the parade platform.

"Yarman Barnes comes up and listens!" The roll call shouted.

Because King Charles did not like eunuchs, the eunuchs who had served in Andris's court were dismissed, so whenever there was a large-scale official event to be held in the kingdom, a roll call officer could only be appointed temporarily.

Hearing this, General Barnes, who had been waiting in the audience, hurriedly strode up to the high platform and knelt down on one knee in front of King Charles.

Charlie smiled faintly, pulled out his saber and put it on Barnes's left shoulder, and asked loudly: "Yarman Barnes, the lone Andris King Charlie Andris has made you the Marquis of the kingdom today, and Lando County is a fief, are you willing to accept it?" ”

"Your Majesty is willing." General Barnes replied respectfully.

"Excellent! Thou shalt be loyal to the country and the people wholeheartedly, obey Lone's orders, fight bravely, and fulfill thy duties! ”

"Jin obeys the king's orders!"

Charlie nodded, signaling for General Barnes to step down. From now on, the former fief of the Randolph family in Landow County is owned by General Barnes, and the former Marquis of Landorf Randolph family was uprooted in the recent coup d'état because they sided with the Holy See.

In fact, today's knighthood ceremony is a spoils sharing conference.

As a wise monarch and commander, Charlie understands that in order to build an invincible and strong army, ideals and interests are indispensable. Ideals can certainly make an army loyal to it and become extremely strong. But it is not enough to maintain morale and loyalty for a long time, only interests can firmly bind this army to themselves!

From now on, this army will not only fight for its ideals, but also for its own interests. Because once King Charles is overthrown, and the remnants of the old aristocracy return to power, they will have nothing left!

Next up was Bill.

King Charles asked loudly: "Bill Schneider, the lone King Andris Charlie Andris has made you the Earl of the Kingdom today, with Nuren County as a fief, are you willing to accept it?!" ”

Unexpectedly, Bill smiled and replied: "Your Majesty, I am a mercenary, as long as I am paid, it doesn't matter if this nobleman is not a nobleman!" ”

Charlie kicked him angrily, glared and said, "You stupid, are you afraid that you won't have money if you have a fief?" ”

Bill laughed twice, but accepted the canonization.

"Buck Blaze."

"Jamie Bunier."

"Carter Schwart."

"DeWitt Eggberg."

When DeWitt's name was called, the eyes of all the soldiers present became much colder.

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"Eigberg, you should be loyal to the country and the people wholeheartedly, obey Lone's orders, fight bravely, and fulfill your duties!"

"Do as the king commands." DeWitt replied cheerfully.

"Get up!" King Charles said with a smile, and then encouraged him a few more words and let him go down.

Seeing DeWitt step down from the platform and return to the ranks of the ordained generals, the other generals stood away from him, as if they were afraid of being contaminated with something unclean, and Bill gave him a middle finger.

Seeing this, Charlie smiled helplessly, although DeWitt is a villain, but he is indeed capable, he appointed him to temporarily act as the head of the royal war mage group, and he managed the mage group in an orderly manner, not only trained a lot more rigorously, but also took the initiative to promote the idea of national supremacy, which saved a lot of worry for himself, the king.

King Charles is not a person with moral purity, as long as the other party can do it, he will not hesitate to use it.

Two hours later, when the knighthood was over, King Charles ordered his generals to bring their men back to their barracks for dinner and to prepare for the expedition. Then he summoned his teacher, Shangguan Zhige.

"Teacher, are those eight guys moving?" After letting his teacher sit down first, Charlie Wang asked.

Shangguan Lao'er, who was in charge of the intelligence information for his disciples, said with his jaw headed: "Back to the king, the eight kingdoms are already gathering armies and reorganizing their troops and horses, among which James Cliff, the king of the Kingdom of Adonis, is the fastest! ”

"Well, as expected, that guy from James is the most positive." Charlie pondered for a moment and then asked, "Teacher, have all the ferries on the Anitan River been collected downstream?" ”

Shangguan Zhige laughed treacherously and replied, "It has all been collected downstream." King Cliff will have no ships available at that time. ”

The Kingdom of Adonis is a country located in the north of the Kingdom of Andris, because it does not border the Brown Empire, so the national strength is much more abundant, but correspondingly, the quality of the army is poorer.

If the country were to attack the Andris Kingdom, it would need to cross a river called Anitan to enter the hinterland of the Andris Kingdom, and now, all the ships that could cross this river had been collected by Charlie, who had anticipated it, to the downstream control area.

However, just a ferry boat could not stop the soldiers of the Kingdom of Adonis, and as long as it took time to build a few pontoon bridges, they could successfully cross the river.

And Charlie did this, in addition to trying to buy time as much as possible, with the idea of completely defeating the Adonis army!

That's right, it's to defeat them completely! Before today, he had sent seven generals in a row, ordering them to lead their armies to the border to defend against the attacks of the other seven kingdoms, but he did not send troops to the border with the kingdom of Adonis.

The reason for this was to let the Adonis army in, and once they crossed the Anitan River and went hundreds of miles, it would be difficult for them to withdraw back to the country in time. At that time, Charles ordered the navy downstream to go upstream, defeat the rearguard of Adonis, destroy the pontoon bridge, and the other party would be the turtle in the urn.

As for defeating the Adonis Army on a frontal battlefield, it was naturally not a problem for Charlie.

Shangguan Lao'er frowned slightly, "Your Majesty, this strategy of luring the enemy deep and then closing the door and beating the dog is good, but what if King James refuses to come?" ”

Charlie waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Teacher, that guy James is arrogant by nature, bloodthirsty and aggressive, and he has not been on good terms with Lone since he succeeded to the throne. At this time, when you see me apostasy, you will definitely be the first to jump out. As if to strengthen his persuasiveness, Charlie added: "That guy is so active in rallying the army, as evidenced by the training of soldiers and horses." ”

Shangguan Zhige nodded, no longer in doubt. At the moment, he reported some of the information he had recently gathered to Charlie, and he resigned.

King Charles rested for a while, and then inspected the camp with his guards, and when he saw that the soldiers had already eaten, he simply ate something and returned to the parade platform.

"Drumming!" Charlie ordered loudly.

The Chinese army drummers immediately knocked on the parade platform, and the cowhide drums made of the seris snare drums!

Hearing the sound of drums, soon the soldiers of the 20,000 Janissaries and the 5,000 War Mage Legion walked out of the barracks and rearranged the phalanx on the school grounds. The generals of the various armies also gathered under the parade platform.

King Charles glanced at the magnificent military appearance under his command, nodded with satisfaction, and did not say much, but lightly instructed the attendants: "Give the order to go to the army." ”

At that moment, the officers at all levels passed down the order.

The generals, after saluting the king, also dismounted, mounted their horses, and hurried back to their troops, and in less than a moment the 25,000 Praetorian Guards marched through the camp gates.

On August 5, 4865 in the Guangming calendar, August 7, 4855 in the goddess of creation calendar, and on August 3, 4845 in the ruling calendar, the king of the Kingdom of Andris, Charle, set off on the oath, which really kicked off the prelude to his magnificent career as a military god!