After Luo Ming's speech, the crowd was agitated, and the soldiers chanted Wansheng together, but they were not dazzled by the passion.

They quickly assembled their ranks and set out on their way.

Along the way, flags fluttered, guiding the direction of the march. There is also a special military band playing flutes and brass trumpets, beating snare drums.

The soldiers should be in tune with the rhythm of the military music, the pace is fast and not chaotic, neat and uniform, Luo Ming has to praise the sentence "comparable to the level of college students' military training after the performance of the report", and the nobles who came with the army also looked at the eyes of the brilliance.

At the moment, this is just speeding up the march. But on the battlefield, this command style and the quality of the soldiers determined that Luo Ming could give more detailed and complex orders, and his army was capable enough to understand and carry them out.

Around the procession, especially in front, there were scouts on horseback or on foot to keep the army safe, and when they encountered their civilians, they would immediately fall to the ground as a sign of no threat, and wait for the army to pass before leaving.

Elsewhere, however, civilians fall in fear when they encounter the military, hoping that they will not be killed as spies – and some will even kill people for fun or fun.

And in the Carlo Mountains, the reason why the mountain people fell when they met Lomin's army was because of reverence.

The coats that Luo Ming wears now have the same five in his wardrobe, with distinctive features that anyone can immediately recognize.

And now the banner he uses is also very simple and easy to recognize—a white sword on a red background, and a red dragon with a gold wire trim coiled on the sword.

He had always carried this banner when he marched into Mount Carlo, conquered all directions, brought tribes to their knees, and slaughtered a group of disobedient indigenous "gods".

The reverence for Luo Ming himself, as well as for his banner, has been deeply engraved in the hearts of the mountain people, and many mountain people believe that the pattern of this flag has mysterious magical powers, can drive away evil spirits, and is invincible.

Of course, although Luo Ming is now a viscount and has 20,000 people under his command, he is still 108,000 miles away from the so-called true dragon emperor, but the dragon on this banner is a kind of good expectation for the future.

Anyway, no one in this world recognizes the dragon of Earth Huaxia, and it is impossible to see from this pattern that he has great ambitions.

The army marched all the way, rested for a while on the way, and then continued to march, and so on and so forth.

By noon, the army had reached the exit north of Mount Carlo.

Here, Luo Ming set up a stronghold equivalent to a customs station or a checkpoint or a toll booth, and stationed a hundred people.

Luo Ming didn't plan to draw a hundred guards from this pass, nor did he plan to rely on such a small stronghold to defend - although a small stronghold is better than no stronghold at all, but then he would lose the initiative and could only wait for the enemy to come.

If the enemy army came late, or if they saw Luo Ming's army coming, they would stop where they were and stare at this side, then Luo Ming's 1,600 men would be pinned down. At this time, once the Beran army on the frontal battlefield launched a full-scale attack, it was possible to break through it in one fell swoop when it was short of manpower and weak defense.

Rather than this unreliable approach, Lomin would rather take the initiative.

Of course, the detection range of the arcane eye fragment can't reach out of the Karlo Mountains at all, and if it is taken down from the Demon Suppression Tower and brought here, then it can only be powered by artificial, and the distance that can be explored will only be reduced more severely.

But Lomin still had hot air balloons and binoculars, and the last time he set out on a trip to the steppes to destroy the nomadic tribe that had robbed the caravan, Lomin had already verified how well he had a view of the nearby grasslands and wastelands—he could see an army at least twelve kilometers away!

Luo Ming measured that the wind was not strong in the vicinity, so he ordered two hot air balloons to be raised in one breath, and three soldiers with excellent eyesight were observing from a high place.

Knowing the general route of the enemy's march, the search was much easier to do with such a benchmark.

It turned out that the 1,600 men were stationed in a valley about seven to eight kilometers away.

Based on the old map provided by Aya and the mapping work of the past six months, Luo Ming determined that there was a small stream flowing down from Mount Karlo and converging into a small lake.

The march and stationing of the army had to be done in an area where there was a water source, otherwise the transportation and collection of food was already quite troublesome, and if it was far away from the water source, and many people were assigned to carry water, it would be impossible to fight, so it was not unusual for them to gather there.

This was supposed to be a good opportunity, Luo Ming controlled Kalo Mountain and a large number of mountain people, and he could completely release poison in the stream and greatly weaken this enemy army, but it was very embarrassing that Luo Ming did not have so much poison at hand.

"What do you think?" he asked, turning his head, to Pelodiana.

Now that the army wants to attack, the clone that can only stay within the range of the arcane eye fragment cannot stay away, so the clone goes to the front line to replace Luo Ming's body, and Luo Ming's body came here.

Grant and Ariana also stayed on the front line over there, while Pelodiana followed the army as a medic.

Pelodiana sighed: "That lake is not too big, but it can hold thousands of people and horses to drink, which proves that it is not particularly small...... If diluted by the lake water, ordinary toxins will not work at all, and even if they do, they will work very slowly. ”

"May I ask this young lady how slowly the effect will be?" asked a young baron beside him.

Although most of the soldiers brought this time were Luo Ming's soldiers, but now it is a situation of both glory and loss, if possible, he does not want Luo Ming to lose too much in this battle, it would be best to win by poisoning.

Pelodiana sighed "hah", glanced at the other party, and thought that most of the academic things he said to him would not understand, so she simply made an analogy: "I have to spend two and a half days preparing the materials and making enough poison, and then spend a few hours slowly dissolving it in the stream, and when they drink it, the toxicity attacks to the level that affects combat effectiveness, and they have to wait for about another four hours—and the premise of all this is that the Beran people did not bring a priest and mage to throw a 'detection of toxicity' on the water source." ”

"Ah, that's not going to work...... Ah, I'm not saying that Mademoiselle's talent can't be learned, but the reality doesn't allow us to do this, I'm sorry......" The young baron immediately blushed and apologized.

"All in all, we have to take the initiative, and although we shouldn't let it go if we have an opportunity, we shouldn't put too much hope in Qice - even if we face them head-on, can't we beat them?"

Luo Ming sneered and swung his sword to announce the march.