"Third Legion, hold it off for me!"

Charaki stood at the forefront of the army with her sword in her hand, and she did not have the slightest fear even in the face of countless spears, descending on the battlefield like a Valkyrie, and judging the two of them like the usual stupid girls, so heroic that men were ashamed of themselves.

She was leading her men in a battle to close the crossbow-blasted gap in the wooden wall, and outside the wall there were at least a thousand people waiting to pour in, but they were beaten and abandoned in the face of the furious Charaki and the rain of arrows.

"Really, I just asked her to be the commander of the Mandate of Heaven Legion just to hide her eyes, but I didn't expect her to be so serious!" Stanis, who was watching the battle from the rear, didn't expect Charaki to be so desperate, in stark contrast to Robert, who was watching the play with Erlang's legs crossed next to him.

"Korodov, how many times has this been?" Stannis asked as he turned to the knight chief next to him, as they fended off a coalition attack on the plains of the Tricha River on the border of House Hillier.

"This is the fourth time today!" replied the chief knight conscientiously, as long as a war broke out, nothing could take away the knight's steadfast desire to fight.

"In addition, in the past two days, this force has attacked this temporary fortress no less than ten times, aren't they tired of it?" Stannis scratched his head, although it took them less than a day to enter this previously built fortress, and there were many defenses that were unmanned, but because of the favorable terrain, the enemy's attacks were always in vain.

Three days after attending the bloody wedding, Stannis received a border alert that the battle was raging in Hillier's territory, but not Garcia's troops, as Stannis had predicted, but a coalition army led by the Snake family, the guardians of the South.

However, even idiots know that they are organizing a large army to crusade against Stannis at the behest of the Garcia family, and it seems that the Garcia family is still afraid of directly attacking their subordinate lords, so they let other lords take the lead in stirring up trouble.

And the reason why the Snake family sent troops this time is not only because Hillier forcibly abducted Sophia, but also because of the ironic reason.

That is, Stannis did not buy or rent donkeys to attend the New Year's celebration, which in the eyes of the pious Tanis is a great disrespect to Gassen, the king of the gods, so the coalition sent troops this time to ask for guilt.

Stannis said that these guys were so bored that they didn't even bother to make up a good reason for going to war. But whether he wanted it or not, five thousand enemies appeared on his doorstep as soon as he woke up, and if he didn't go out to fight, it would be more than just kicking in the door and robbing.

Because the Second Legion 'Watcher' was still clearing the remaining Chaos and Goblins on the other side of the riverbank, Stannis could only lead the First Legion 'Thunder' and the newly established Third Legion 'Mandate of Heaven' to support, due to the influx of a large number of displaced people during this period, so that Zivinie's army could carry out a new round of expansion, and the Thunder Legion already had three infantry corps and a cavalry squadron with a total of 1,500 people, and the Watcher and Destiny also reached 1,000 people.

In addition to the 2,500 people that Zivinie always had on hand this time, Hillier also received the aid of war horses from the Hoth family, and it seems that they are ready to bet on both sides, after all, the duke did not personally intervene, indicating that the battlefield war has not yet risen to the level of extinction.

That's what Earl Hoth thought, and so did Stannis at first, but when he learned that reinforcements from elsewhere in the Duchy were joining the coalition to protect Snake in the South, he found that the situation had become more serious.

In the past, this level of war can only be called a conflict, often a supplementary means of negotiation, the two sides of the army will not be ruthless, just fight until one side is soft and then sign some treaties for land reparations, and then under the gaze of the gods to reconcile, even if unfortunately captured, they will eat and drink well and wait for the captured party to send a ransom and put it back, compared to the hard peasant soldiers, the lord with status can really treat this conflict as a war game.

But this time is obviously different, as the leader of the coalition army, the Snake family does not abide by the rules of war at all, in addition to not declaring war, but also a day after the outbreak of the war to send a war letter, and launched a fierce attack without a word, fortunately, Stannis has long thought that Duke Garcia will retaliate, so in advance on the west bank of the Sancha River set up this camp to resist the attack, just like Emperor Sun's fortress of the mouth of the Whiskers, the coalition forces must pull out this stronghold in order to cross the river with confidence.

Among the lords besieging him, Stannis also found that many of the lords with whom he had exchanged letters had been exchanged, and at least half of them had received gifts from him, and it seemed that the silver bullet offensive was useless, and he still couldn't run when he should be beaten.

However, Stannis can also understand them, after all, this is the southern guardian Snow Snake personally commanding the army, his rough and cruel methods of doing things make his vassals miserable, even if someone secretly talks to Stannis in private, they should not choose this time to jump out to support Stannis, otherwise it is only a matter of time before the entire clan is destroyed.

As for why Marquis Snake is so desperate to fight around Stannis, Robert is well aware of the truth, "The Snake family is one of the upstarts who followed Garcia's rapid ascension, because there are many ancient families in the south, and they married the previous Griffin family when they were still in the Holy Light Dynasty, so they are very dissatisfied with Garcia handing over the important position of guarding the south to the new Snake family, once Garcia falls, the fate of the Snake family can be imagined, so who will work hard if they don't work hard?"

After listening to his younger brother's analysis, Stannis felt more and more that it was a pity that Robert did not go into politics, but how could this guy who always saw everything so thoroughly but always liked to pretend to be dead.

However, thanks to his analysis, Stannis also distinguishes the main and secondary contradictions, most of the lords are forced to send troops due to the duke's obscenity, and they have basically no combat effectiveness when they come, and the main enemy is the diehards represented by a few families such as Snake, as long as they are defeated, the others will naturally scatter.

But it is not enough to be surrounded in a camp like this, and Stannis must find a chance to achieve a great victory and let his potential allies and wavering neutral lords know that it is time for Tanis's throne to change masters!