The García family has replaced the previous family in the Duchy of Tanis for 15 years, and it looks like they will continue to rule. The reason why this emerging foreign family was able to patrol the Duchy of Tanis on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor, guard the entire eastern border, and still sit firmly in the duke position under the covetousness of so many pairs of eyes, in addition to poison and soft means of scheming, there is also a ruthless iron fist, that is, the invincible Tanis army that only serves the Garcia family.

After completely destroying the last force loyal to the former Duke 12 years ago, the prestige of Garcia's Invincible Legion spread throughout the Duchy, and in addition to the elite direct subordinate force Black Watch, the Duke also had a large standing army of Tanis, which was fed by taxes from the entire Duchy of 40,000 men. And the number of marquis in the principality, whose status is second to him, is only 5,000 at most, which is not an order of magnitude at all. And except for the Garcia family, the combined strength of the other princes and lords is only worthy of a tie with him, and in the case that he occupies half of the Duchy's troops, His Royal Highness can of course do whatever he wants, while the others can only snort.

And now, the Duke has sent half of his forces to destroy Stannis.

In this regard, Stannis, who returned victoriously, said.

“...... Fuck......”

He had been carried into the castle in a daze, and when he woke up, he found himself sitting in the hall of war, and the people in front of him were watching him eagerly, expecting him to lead them to victory again.

But in the face of absolute strength, any strategy is useless, and with a disadvantage of one to twenty, there seems to be no other way than to go into the forest to fight guerrillas.

"Could it be that Garcia's old thing already knows that I want to remove him from power?" Stannis frowned, although many people already know about this matter, but who betrayed him? And sending so many troops to destroy him with great fanfare is not in line with Garcia's usual style, not to mention that this will cause the other lords to be vigilant, and the emperor will never allow such a large-scale civil war to break out under his rule, besides, wouldn't it be a better choice to assassinate himself?

The more Stannis thought about it, the more he didn't understand, but he only knew that if he didn't do it this time, he would really have to go into the forest and become a wild man.

"Your Excellency?" urged Maester Romon in a low voice, everyone waiting for his order.

Stannis rolled the eyeballs in his eyes for a moment, then stood up.

Korodov held his sword enthusiastically, this time he hadn't enjoyed the fight, but he didn't expect a new big battle to come immediately.

But the lord's next words disappointed him.

"This time, we used to negotiate to stop the war, so don't bring troops over, we can't fight anyway. I would like to know why His Excellency the Duke is plotting against me. ”

Master Romon hurriedly persuaded: "Your Excellency, wouldn't it be too risky to do this, if they catch and kill you on the spot, wouldn't it be ......?"

Stannis waved his hand confidently, he believed that the other side still talked about aristocratic etiquette, even if he wanted to kill him, he would be executed for the justification of his name after the battle, and he knew that now that he had this cock and exploded armor, it would be no difficult for a person to retreat, but I was afraid that he would have to abandon a few younger brothers at that time......

Master Romon said no more, because he knew that Duke Garcia had always wanted to portray himself as benevolent and generous, and had not executed his lords in the open for a long time.

"So, this time, let's put away the sword, Robert and I just go, a large group of people will eat and drink for nothing, money is not money!"

Seeing that there was no overtime pay and meal allowance, the crowd of the War Council, who had been eager to try, instantly dispersed, and only his most loyal three remained.

"Boss, wouldn't it be a little too ostentatious for the two of us to go. Robert began to retreat again.

Stannis pressed him down, "When did the boss make you suffer?" By the way, wrap up the corpse of the Divine Seal and bring it over, and bring another box of gold coins. ”

Although he did not know his intentions, Korodov immediately went down to do so.

"And," Stannis whispered to Lady Lomon, "if you don't want to fight guerrilla warfare this time, do you know what to do?"

Maester Romon nodded to show that he knew what to do, "I'll immediately set about transporting some supplies to the other side of the river. ”

With everything in order, Stannis set off with Robert and Barrow with Randall, and although their destination was the territory of the Doug family, it was Hillier who was now stationed there.

If it weren't for his timely assistance, the Doug family's castle would have fallen long ago.

After half a day's journey, the group of four appeared under Doug's castle, which had now been turned into a barracks, where Stennis had left Hillier with all their troops, less than three hundred.

Thanks to the network of rivers crisscrossing the Sancha River, Garcia's army could not move quickly, so the other side was stationed on the opposite bank and did not launch an attack for a long time.

However, half of this is also due to Hillier, even if there are only 300 people, but he dares to confront the opponent's 20,000 people, and there is no flaw in the entire defense line, Stannis can't help but look up to this guy even more.

By the time they arrived at the barracks, Hillier, who had already been informed, had already come out to greet the handsome blonde knight, dressed in military uniform, and his dark eyes indicated that he hadn't slept in days.

"You're finally here, Your Excellency Stannis Justin. ”

Stannis said with a bitter face, "No, how many times have I told you, call me Stan!

"If you insist, then Lord Stan, we're going to the castle at once, there's something important for you to see. ”

Half an hour later, the men had climbed to the top of the castle, where they could get an unobstructed view of the enemy army opposite.

20,000 people were crowded into rows of tents, and the smoke of cooking and lighting a fire slowly rose one after another, and he had not seen so many people crowded into such a small space since the Spring Festival.

"Looks like we're going to die this time, by the way, who's leading the way on the other side?" Stannis asked.

Hillier replied earnestly, "It's Garcia's eldest son, Sir Hunian." ”

It turned out to be an acquaintance, and I hope this guy can make some sense. Stannis prayed.