Stannis knew that the wooden heads would say, "Erathia and Rhodok have been defeated so many times, haven't you thought about why?"

"It's because they're cheating!" said Korodov, unconvinced.

"That's not right," Robert actually retorted for Stannis: "It seems that in the frontal battle of the Empire, except for the genius general Star Bilvili who won once in the Tasa River and wiped out the four legions of Rhodok, the Northern Front of Erathia has never won a battle in the frontal battle, and even the Knights of the Scorching Sun have been wiped out in a battle." It seems that we Erathia are the ones who like to sneak up. ”

Korodov was no longer speechful, because what Robert said was indeed the truth.

"So there's a reason why they're so strong, and the reason is written in this book! Master Romone, do you know Rhodoc?"

The old man raised his head triumphantly, "Of course, when I was young, I was the only one under the teacher's command who had passed the tenth level of Rhodok. ”

"That's good. Stannis snatched the book from Robert and tossed it to Master Romon, "Then you have to translate it into Erathian and make a few more copies, and from this day forward my army will train according to this." ”

With that, Stannis stood up, and he was ready to go back to catch up on sleep.

"By the way," he paused as he walked up the stairs to utter another of his major resolutions, "I'm going to build a second legion, and I'll call it 'The Watchers.'" ”

Over the next week, Lady Romon threw himself into translating the military encyclopedia, and at the urging of Stennis Korodov to agree to build Zivinie's army following the example of Rhodok's formation. An infantry squad of 10 men consisted of 6 pikemen and 4 longbowmen, and each pikeman was equipped with an additional shield and a sword as the Erathians preferred hand-to-hand combat. Each squad was given two pieces of armor from the Doug family, usually worn by the deputy squad leader, and although Stanis worked hard to increase the armor rate of the army, these luxuries were too expensive.

He also separated 18 cavalry as a mobile force, and unexpectedly, Stannis appointed the horse-raising hairy boy Xia Boyang as the cavalry captain, although he was only 16 years old and his father never appeared.

Korodov, on the other hand, was promoted by the lord to be the commander of the first corps of the Thunder Legion, and all 230 members of the army belonged to this corps.

Stennis is ready to recruit another group of peasants after the winter to form a second legion, the Watchmen.

After several days of rebuilding the army, an exhausted Stennis began to take a break from walking in the countryside, where snow covered his land and heralded a good harvest next year. As the countryside was already in the middle of winter as they prepared for the New Year, Stannis also paid a little attention to the astronomical calendar, and found that most of the people of the Western Continent should have the longest night, after which the day would return to the earth.

The New Year is just a few days away, and the small pine trees on the other side of the river are brought in by boat, and Tanis also has the custom of decorating trees to welcome the New Year. It's been a long time since we've heard from the Wildlings, the Chaos Folks, since the last Door Killing, and it looks like the constant heat is causing trouble for their movements.

At least I can have a peaceful New Year. Stannis thought, and unconsciously walked to Lucia's house, where in addition to their mother and daughter, Anya and two other special little ones were also housed.

Stannis pushed open the door, and a little girl's voice of surprise rang out.

"Uncle Stan!"

As soon as the voice fell, Lucia's daughter Ola threw herself into his arms, and because he often came to visit the door, the little girl who was only 5 years old had already regarded the lord as her family.

"I told you to call me brother, I'm only 21 this year!" Stannis couldn't remember how many times he had corrected the little girl.

But Ora didn't care at all and asked him to hug him.

"Don't make a fuss, or Uncle Stan will be angry!"

Stannis finally finds the culprit who tarnishes her reputation, and it turns out that Anya has been instigating her to call herself like this.

He picked up Ora and walked towards the living room, where Lucia was cooking a delicious Elysses meal, she turned her head and smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Stan, I'm you off again!"

Stannis pretended to be angry and rubbed his stubble against Aola, then glared at Anya who was knitting a sweater in an easy chair - she was now named Aya to avoid attracting the attention of the church.

"An innocent and lively girl is taught badly by people like you!"

Aya glared back at him unceremoniously, "It's better than a guy like you who rolls the sheets all over his head." ”

"Hey, can you say such a thing in front of us innocent children?" came Anne's disgusted voice from the side, the precocious blonde girl standing on tiptoe to decorate the New Year's tree.

Beside her, Sasha's brother Aiagoth is swinging an axe to chop up the wood and throw it into the fire, since the last time they met, Stannis has been inviting him to live in his castle, but the boy still stubbornly refuses, and in the end, a compromise between the two is to let him live in Lucia's house, and let Aya take care of him by the way. And Anne, who had always wanted to experience aristocratic life, moved in at some point.

"I really didn't expect to be a nanny, and I have to take care of three people at a time, it's really exhausting. Aya threw aside the half-knitted sweater and whipped her waist and complained.

Anne peeked out from behind the tree and protested, "No, Sister Aya, it seems that the housework is all done by me and Aya, oops!"

Aya stretched out her finger and secretly cast a small spell to make the ornament on the tree fall on the girl's head and punish her slightly.

Stannis, who saw everything, could only shake his head helplessly, such a big person still loves to fight with children.

"Alright, alright, don't make a fuss, the meal is ready, hurry up and eat it while it's hot. Lucia said helplessly like their mother, and brought the hot soup pot.

"Hooray, I like butter toast and borscht the most!" shouted Stannis, who was still disgusted with Aya's childishness, as the reason why he came here often now had shifted from eating his sister to eating it.

He sat down and waited for the meal to begin, and it was snowing again outside the window, looking at the noisy and warm scene in the room, how Stannis wanted to stop time for this moment.

Until eternity.