Ever since the failed night raid of the Clay Clan. A large number of Clay cavalry divided into small groups as if they were going crazy, and they continued to harass the expeditionary force. No matter day or night, there will be small groups of Clay warriors who will try to approach the expeditionary force from different directions, and the popular shooters in charge of scout affairs will naturally not let them achieve their goals easily, so in the past ten days, dozens of small-scale battles have broken out every day.

Although the Windswept Shooters are the elite of Cassano, they will still be tired, still wounded and bleeding, and there will inevitably be casualties after the Clay suicide attack. So when the expeditionary force marched less than 300 kilometers to Camp Mirror Lake, where the Clay chieftain was located, at least more than 200 Windswept Marksmen were killed in the line of duty, although they killed 20 times the enemy army of their own, but in Lane's heart, there was still some pain.

In the past 29 days, the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force has penetrated more than 2,500 kilometers deep into the grasslands, destroying more than 40 Clay settlements and annihilating more than 18,000 Clay warriors along the way. According to the information gathered by the Storm Marksmen, it is obvious that the Clay tribe has shrunk its forces and concentrated in the area around Mirror Lake, although Orlando does not know exactly how many enemies there are, but one thing is certain, that is, as the leader of the Clay tribe, since Chief Abdul has chosen to camp his troops in Mirror Lake, the next main decisive battle will inevitably be around there.

Now the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force is less than 300 kilometers away from Dijing Lake, and if you ride a fast horse for a long distance, you can reach it in one day and one night, but Orlando does not plan to use this method, because it is too risky, and the slightest carelessness will wipe out the whole army, so it is better to advance steadily and steadily.

Chief Abdul in Mirror Lake naturally had this idea, and now he has concentrated 100,000 elite archers of the Clay tribe and 350,000 auxiliary armies, and this huge army of 450,000 sounds enough to make the blood of any Clay tribe boil, because the last time the Clay tribe had this number of archers, it was hundreds of years ago, when the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms on the mainland had just begun.

As the master of the grassland, Chief Abdul has an innate advantage, that is, he can choose the location of the battlefield and maximize his own advantages.

The Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force and the Clay army approached cautiously, and the cavalry units of the two sides began to come into contact, and this contact soon evolved into a skirmish, and the cavalry forces of both sides became larger and larger, and finally after a series of battles, each side confirmed each other's intentions, and slowly chose the most beneficial plan for themselves to begin the layout before the decisive battle.

Chief Abdul led the 450,000 Klee army to camp in the west of the Ouranos Ranch, which is about 50 kilometers away from Mirror Lake, its terrain is slightly higher in the west and lower in the east, which is more suitable for cavalry charges, and the terrain is broad, but let hundreds of thousands of troops line up, which will make the Klee numerical advantage play to the limit.

As for Orlando, since Chief Abdul has led his troops to block his way westward, then his only choice is to meet him for a decisive battle, because the water source that can supply tens of thousands of people on the grassland is limited, even if Orlando wants to take the risk, it is impossible to bypass Abdul's military camp with a large army, even if the latter ignores him, Orlando must find enough drinking water.

When the two sides were 20 kilometers away from each other's camps, the cavalry contact between the two sides was no longer carried out, and both sides were very tacitly aware of the fact that they controlled the range of their armies in a small area, and as far as possible they did not provoke the area controlled by the other side, and for a while the prairie returned to its previous calm, but everyone knew very well that this was just a brief silence before the storm.

Soon, the Androkos couple provided Orlando with information that they had discovered through the "Magic Eye" that there were about 40 to 500,000 warriors stationed in the Clay military camp 20 kilometers away, which was very inaccurate, but it was also the best information that the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force could collect.

The Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force brought 40,000 infantry and 20,000 baggage soldiers this time, in addition to Cassano's 5,000 popular marksmen, only 5,000 Royal Knights were left to conceal their whereabouts.

Because the later the Royal Knights appear, the more fatal it will be to the Clay army, so Orlando decided to use its own military camp as a benchmark to arrange the battlefield for the battle, because once the Royal Knights enter the battle state, both men and horses will be wearing armor, and such an obvious mark can be seen at a glance, so it is necessary to continue to block the news of the Royal Knights' battle based on the camp.

In addition, since the Clay tribe is all cavalry, if the expeditionary force advances in an infantry phalanx, it will inevitably be harassed by the Clay cavalry, and the other party has a large number of people, if the division takes turns to snipe, then the expeditionary force is likely to be dragged down, so relying on the camp to lure the other party to attack is the most correct choice.

After the Clay brigade arrives, the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force can first rely on the camp position to defend, use bows and arrows to fight a war of attrition with the opponent, and then let the Royal Knights charge at a critical moment, if they can break through the enemy's formation, then the warriors of the Jonas Legion will also ride their horses and follow the Holy Knights of Orlando to attack the Clay, and finally defeat the Clay army completely.

When the entire battle plan was drawn up, the expeditionary force immediately got busy, and this time the 20,000 logistics personnel accompanying the team were all carefully selected soldiers from other armies, who not only had to undertake the task of building a defensive camp, but also were responsible for staying behind and defending the expeditionary force camp after the attack of the Jonas army.

As the supreme military governor of the imperial capital, General Orlando will naturally consider the war from many aspects, and in preparing for the frontal main battle, Orlando also decided to give an important task to Lane, that is, let Lane lead the army of popular archers from Cassano to bypass overnight and lurk near Mirror Lake, and wait until the main decisive battle begins the next day, Lane They can take the opportunity to launch an attack on the camp of the Mirror Lake of the Clay Clan, once successful, this will definitely be fatal to the morale of the main force of the Clay Clan.

Of course, because the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force came from afar, they were not completely aware of the terrain here, even if they had the title of Orlando as the god of war among the people, they did not know that the Mirror Lake camp of the Clay tribe had towering peaks in the north and an endless huge lake in the south.

As for the commander of this partial division, Ryan, he never imagined that on the eve of the decisive battle between the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force and the main force of the Clay tribe, in his second hometown of Cassano, a huge conspiracy had quietly shrouded in the sky.