After the departure of the Imperial Count of Ridlingen, letters from the Neumark Territory came, good news and bad news. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At this time, only MeSign is the most reliable, and any means of remote magical communication may be monitored.

The first is Lorana Ea's letter. Some time ago, the fleet she sent had a harvest, and after unremitting efforts, the heart of Leviathan was finally achieved. Salian is now short of the container for refining potions and the leaves of the World Tree, and he has already issued a high bounty quest in the Adventurers' Guild in the name of Myer, and it is believed that the materials and leaves of the container will be available soon. In addition, Lorana Ise and Estfaria have agreed that the Hansa Alliance will do their best to help Salian fight against the Ruger family this time, making it impossible for them to fully support Duke Kerzen financially.

Then Estfaria also wrote back to Salian, she was very supportive of Salian's shift of development focus to the New Mark Territory, and the Hansie League would invest heavily in this vast land, but she thought that there was too little talent, and Salian was also having a headache about it, but there was no good way to do it in a hurry. In addition, Miss Witt also mentions the improvement of the magic gun, in fact, when Salian wrote to Estfaria, he copied a copy of the blueprint of the new magic gun to her, according to Estfaria, she already has many ideas, and the next time they meet, Salian will give her a huge surprise.

Finally, there is a letter from Salian's sister Evangeline, according to which the situation in the surrounding area is very unoptimistic, and there is information that the Duke of Kerzen has built numerous military stations and personnel along the border with them to store military supplies, and it is obvious that there will be a big operation. Salian knew that this was an invading army that had been prepared to assassinate him successfully, but he still hadn't retreated, and it seemed that Duke Kerzen had other ideas.

In this way, time flies, midwinter has come, and Salian has received an urgent letter from the palace of Litomyšl one day in a heavy snowfall, and the current Emperor Siggis I has died! Another secret letter signed by Prime Minister Witthar and Deputy Prime Minister Zolvik was sent together with an urgent letter, the content of the letter was much more important than the urgent letter, it turned out that the two prime ministers had sent a team of the most loyal and reliable Vanolia Chiefs and Battle Magic Soldiers to Hexingen, this elite army will be temporarily under Salion's command, in order to help him protect the interests of the empire.

The death of the Emperor, and now that Hans von Ensbach, Count of the Imperial Palace, had become regent of his own accord, it was estimated that the announcement of the Imperial Election Conference would soon come, and Salian had to arrange everything before then, so he immediately sent someone to inform his friends, and that afternoon Anna, Achelin, and Manstel gathered in the "Stlingenburg", and Salian informed them of the Emperor's death.

"Hello Salian, the show is finally about to begin!" Manstel said to Salian with his trademark smile.

"Prepare everyone, we will go out with all the forces at our disposal, except for Anna's father and a flag soldier who stayed in Constance, all the remaining soldiers are mobilized. We're going to have a big joke with the Duke of Kerzen, and we're even going to have to compete with the Earl of the Palace!"

"Hahahaha, big brother, is there finally a big war?! Since I inherited the title of Imperial Count, my family has never participated in a war. "Aichelin wished he could go into battle now, he never thought that what awaited him would be the fate of the horse's life, the horse's leather shroud.

"Well, this time it's going to be hard for Dad to take care of the house. ”

Salian also took the time to write another letter to his sister Evangeline of the Navie Territory, asking him and his uncle Dietrich to place the main force of the Frontier Army on the border with the Dukedom of Kerzen, and to act openly, and their task was to contain part of the Duke's army. Another letter was sent to the two eldest ladies of the Han Xie Alliance, and more important tasks were left to them.

Five days later, a splendid procession appeared on the path of Heixingen, consisting of three hundred infantry wearing scarlet coats, short swords around their waists, and crystal goggles (actual combat equipment to prevent magic powder from penetrating their eyes when shooting) and fifty light cavalry in uniform cloth but with different weapons. Oh, by the way, and the three hundred special infantrymen each carried a huge strip of cloth bag, and I don't know what it contained. There were also more than a dozen chariots used to transport infantry loads.

Leading the infantry was the captain of the palace guard, Count Jeska, who was the cousin of the Prime Minister of Wirther, twenty-five years old, with high cheekbones, sharp eyes, and a beautiful goatee, known as the "first marksman" of Vanolia, who had become the third most powerful man in the kingdom since he married a duchess of his clan, and the prime minister had sent him this time to be very reassured of his ability and loyalty, and they were representatives of the same interest group.

The commander of the light cavalry has a deeper connection with Salian and Yulia, the nickname "Blue Wave" Rihir, on the one hand, it shows this person's profound water magic attainment, on the other hand, it is also related to her identity, as the largest river flowing through the territory of Vanolia, the daughter of the great lord on the south bank of the Bohimora River, a tributary of the Viron River, Rihir is known as the embodiment of this great river, and her beautiful orange-green eyes radiate the brilliance of the rushing Bohimora River. At the age of six, she was sent to the palace by her father to study magic with Master Zolvik, and at the age of fourteen she became an official court magician, and at the age of eighteen she inherited her father's title (the feudal domain of Vannoria could be inherited by women) as Rihir, Duchess of South Volentava, and also served as one of the supreme chiefs of the Presbyterian sect of Vannolia. Needless to say, she also came to fight for her own interests this time.

On that day, Salian led the crowd to meet them early at the edge of the territory. After the solemn welcome and the settling of the soldiers, he invited Count Jeska and Duchess Cyril to stay in the rooms in Stlingenburg.

"Senior sister, it turns out that you came to help us!"

"Hehe, don't you welcome me?"

"Why, it's too late for me to be happy, you're the youngest magician Vanoria has ever been, and you're my idol!"

Unlike Yuria, who studied both potion and magic, Cyril, who only trained with Master Zolvík, specialized in the mastery of the water element, and on the day she successfully cast the forbidden water spell "Tidal Storm", she was recognized as a magician, and immediately received the title of court magician.

With the Captains and Combat Magicians as reinforcements, Salian was finally able to organize the pig's beak formation of his dreams, which was the greatest reliance of the Divine Grace Empire when it was rampaging across the continent, and the Spearmen were more powerful than the archers of the past. He couldn't wait to train his formation with Anna, Acherin, Count Jaska, and Duchess Cyril, and he was sure to surprise his opponents!

Just when the formation was almost mature, and Salian came up with several special changes, the notice of the meeting and the accompanying secret letter from the Earl of the Palace finally came, just like in the first chapter, Salian was still in the study, reading the letter in front of Moreau, the only difference was that this time Salian no longer hesitated.

"Uncle Moreau, the Earl's idea is nothing new, so let me make a little joke with him again, hehe!"

Morrow smiled and bowed and retreated, he now had to think carefully about how to support an army to fight far from home!

Salian then gathered all his companions and gave them orders to go on the march, and in this way, Schwartenn's army left their base for the first time in fifteen years, albeit to participate in a pointless civil war.

Let's take a closer look at this small but well-prepared force, which, while not suitable for a war of attrition, can be of the greatest use in a short decisive battle.

First of all, in terms of personnel composition, this army is semi-feudal and semi-mercenary. The main heavy cavalry was naturally composed of hereditary military aristocrats who had served in the army from generation to generation, and these morale was high, and the lords and their subordinates who fought for their own class were undoubtedly the core of the army. The second is the sword and shield heavy infantry composed of some broken nobles, who only have armor and cannot afford to buy war horses, they can only deign to serve as the garrison of others.

The spear infantry, which made up the majority of the army, consisted of peasants and hired commoners recruited from the territories by the nobles, who were the so-called ordinary adventurers, born either for landless peasants and unemployed urban hired laborers, or foreigners looking for opportunities to make a fortune, and some of them were the emerging class of professional soldiers, who had been working for money for generations, and who were part of an elite two-handed sword detachment, who were paid twice as much as ordinary spearmen, and who were the pivot of the offensive and defensive transitions in the ranks.

The rest of the ranged troops, in addition to the two vanolia reinforcements we have seen earlier, are Salian's own secret gear crossbow team, reliable and durable is their label, and the commission is cheaper than the spearmen, and the maintenance cost is longer and the gun is lower, but unfortunately this weapon is too powerful due to the restrictions of the imperial treaty can not be widely equipped in the open, Salian can only privately organize a squad, and when fighting, it is enough to mix in the ordinary archers.

Moreover, this procession of more than 2,000 men set out without a banner or through any city, and thus secretly traveled day and night to the county of the palace of Paletinnay. According to the rules of the imperial electoral system, no prince was allowed to lead an army to participate in the election.

Along the way, in order to minimize the pressure of personnel costs and supply costs, as well as training considerations, Salian commanded his troops to attack the hills or camps that served as bandit strongholds, and each time he breached, he would rescue the plundering women, kill all the bandits and reward them with their ill-gotten gains, and finally take all the reserves with them when they left. The most noteworthy thing about this is that Aphroa finally struck one of the hapless creatures in the head with a chain hammer, and the red and white objects splashed on her black long-tailed helmet, building her confidence.

On this low-key march, Salian and his men reached a grove two kilometers from the city of Palatinate, two kilometers from the Palatinate of the Counts of the Palace of Palettinnay, and then cleared all the robbers from the area, leaving not a single one alive. It then became their temporary home base.