In order to take control of the Phoenix Knights, Titus did not go to Siyuan City, but put his ideas into action.

Taking advantage of the fact that the fort of Sava was attacked, he once again provoked a revenge war against the Lion Kingdom and the Duchy of Dexia.

He led the Phoenix Knights to attack the Lion Kingdom in the name of 'revenge', and wandered around the Lion Realm, provoking Sir Lehman who was stationed at the Seven Forks Fortress.

Later, he went to the fortress of Turda in the Duchy of Dexia, killed many Dexia people, and seduced several Dexia lords.

He wants to provoke a large-scale war between three countries.

Because the three forces will be involved with each other, it will actually be better for Titus to achieve than facing only one hostile power.

Aside from the timing of his large-scale war, this tactical idea is actually a good one, inducing the enemy to kill each other, expanding the scale of the war, and then sitting on fire with a fortified city like Fort Savoie.

This was originally intended to gradually turn the Knights of the Phoenix, which did not belong to him, into his personal army through constant fighting, and to encourage Emperor Marius to give him more authority and freedom on the grounds that the scale of the war around the Sava Fort had increased.

But Titus did intend to gain more territory for the Bacchus Empire, and to gain an advantage for the Empire in the west - because in his opinion, Leon, the lord of the Lion Empire, had taken the two border counties in the northeast of the Bacchus Empire, and since the situation on the northeast border of the empire was worrying, he should create good conditions in the west.

Titus did not intend to commit treason, he knew Emperor Marius, and he knew that Emperor Marius had always made decisions that benefited the Bacchus Empire.

He knew that as long as he did not commit treason and considered the interests of the empire, then Emperor Marius would not care about his own military self-respect - just like Keros, even if Kairos had always opposed Marius's reforms, but because Kairos had always thought about the country, he still had the highest status.

Of course, Kyros is messing with his son now, but Titus doesn't know it.

Titus was not in the country during the most chaotic period of the Bacchus Empire, he didn't know the situation of the Bacchus Empire now, the major legions of the Bacchus Empire had basically been disabled, and he didn't know that the cavalry of the Dread Legion had actually landed in advance, and he thought that the entire Dread Legion had been killed by himself at sea.

In Titus's eyes, Bacchus was still the most powerful empire, and fighting against the Lion Kingdom and the Duchy of Dexia at the same time had always been routine for the Bacchus Empire......

And at this time, it was when General Agathon came to the fortress of Leila - Agathon was able to reorganize the troops of the fortress of Leila so easily, and it was also because the soldiers of the fortress of Leila had heard that the fort of Sava had started a large-scale war again.

Agathon, who knew the current actual situation of the empire, was of course very panicked, and he knew very well that with the current situation of the Bacchus Empire, it was absolutely unsuitable to trigger a major war between the three countries.

If the war continues, the scale continues to expand, and it becomes a long-term national war between the three countries, then with the current state of the Bacchus Empire, it is almost certain to lose.

Although the root of all this is indeed due to the treachery of the Lion Kingdom and the robbery of the Duchy of Dexia, but now that the Bacchus Empire is in ruins, the matter of the Sava River Fort should actually be endured.

But now that everything has happened, and the war has already started on the other side of the Sava Fort, there is no way back for Agathon - the Bacchus Empire must win the battle quickly, because the fact that Bacchus is weak at home cannot be shown to the rest of the country.

Once the Lion Kingdom and the Duchy of Dexia find out that the Bacchus Empire is so weak at the moment, it will really be all over - if other countries see that the Bacchus Empire is weak and dare not fight for a long time, then they will not even be given the opportunity to negotiate.

In this case, the only way out is to launch a thunderous blow and end the war in the fastest and most ferocious way, and it must not be dragged out into a protracted war.

But Agathon's is really difficult to operate at this time.

Keros and the main force of the Shadow Legion that followed him tracked down the Serpent Cult on the Dexia border;

Emperor Marius drove those illegal armed forces into the territory of Dexia, and the Shadow Wolves were also sent to Dexia to obtain horses, Siyuan City is currently empty, and the Immortal Legion cannot move;

The First Imperial Legion was crippled by the rebels at the city of Bozhi, and it would take at least several months to rebuild;

In order to quickly roll out the Red Death vaccination, the Knights of the Radiant Cross could not spare their hands, and the repellent of General Creon could not get out of their hands;

On the other side of the Imperial Harbor, Justus and the Imperial Guards were negotiating with the serf general Yin Vaylo in an effort to avoid a new serf uprising.

Coupled with the fact that the port of Dilin is thousands of miles away from the Sava Fort, even if Justes properly solves the matter of Yinvailo, he will not be able to get over it for a while.

None of the most powerful legions in the entire Bacchus Empire were able to participate in the battle at Fort Sava......

At present, the Bacchus Empire can only face the armies of two countries at the same time with the newly reorganized more than 1,000 troops of Agathon in the fortress of Leila, as well as the troops of General Titus and the Phoenix Knights......

Moreover, Agathon knew that he also had to quickly reinforce the Sava Castle, and if Titus and the Phoenix Knights did not receive reinforcements for too long, they might think that the Empire had abandoned them, in case Titus rebelled with the Phoenix Knights......

Perhaps every dazzling hero was a gambler, as was the case with Emperor Marius, and so was General Agathon.

At the same time as sending people to report the situation to Emperor Marius, Agathon sent out all the troops that had just been reorganized, and there was basically no one left in the fortress of Leila except for a few wounded soldiers guarding the gate.

His troops consisted of only 1,000 men, and because they were newly reorganized, they were not very skilled in cooperating with each other.

But Agathon implemented an extremely bold tactic - he personally led his troops, sneaked across the river at night, and attacked the Seven Forks Fortress!

Sir Lehman, the lord of the Seven Forks Fortress, was stationed at the bridge of the Sava River, and in order to maintain control of the bridge deck, Lehman carefully arranged a large number of troops to patrol both ends of the bridge.

But no one expected that Agason's troops would land across the river from the river between the village of Seren and the Seven Forks Fortress in late winter and early spring, when the river was at its coldest time, and in one night they made a large circle around the back of the Seven Forks Fortress.

You must know that this is not the southern part of the Bacchus Empire, this is the center of the entire continent, and the climate is not so hot. At times like February and March, when the ice in the upper reaches of the Sava River is beginning to thaw and the river is so cold that no one knows how Agathon managed to dive across the river with a group of newly reorganized troops.

And the location of the Agathon to cross the river is also very level.

Since Karen Deer Fort was already under the control of Leon at this time, the village of Seren was sandwiched between the Seven Forks Fortress and Kalun Deer Castle, which was originally considered a safe hinterland, and most people were engaged in construction during this time, and the night precautions were not too strict.

At present, Anson is also organizing border guards on the side of Karen Deer Fort to ensure that the Red Death does not spread, and there is a seven-fork fortress to the west, so the patrol team has not arranged to the west of the village of Selen, so as not to have any conflict between the Bacchus who have just lived in the village of Seren and the side of the Seven Forks Fortress.

And Sir Lehman of the Seven Forks Fortress probably had the same idea, after knowing that Leon had captured Karen Deer Castle, Lehman did not send a patrol to the east of the Seven Forks Fortress - also to avoid misunderstandings, Lehman did not want Leon to feel that he had any plans for his newly occupied territory......

As a result, Agathon passed through the gap between the two places, and then launched a surprise attack from the north gate behind the Seven Forks Fortress.

The Seven Forks Fortress was also controlling the Red Death some time ago, and the corpses had been being transported and burned outside the north gate, plus Lehman brought a large army to the bridgehead, and there were not enough defenders in the fortress, so it was actually mixed in by Agathon in the name of 'reinforcements', and then controlled the entire Seven Forks Fortress from the inside.

This surprise attack shook the entire continent in a very short period of time - the Seven Forks Fortress had never been captured by anyone since it was built!

Even when the first emperor of Bacchus, 'Conqueror' Ossa, led tens of thousands of troops to the continent of Pande, he stopped in front of this fortress for a whole year, and finally withdrew his troops and stopped fighting.

Such a result was naturally more attractive than the incident of worshipping the snake cult in Bacchus, and General Agathon became the most dazzling general in the entire continent for a while.

But he is also the most dangerous player......

After taking possession of the Seven Forks, Agathon sent an emissary to the Lion City before everyone could react, demanding that King Ulrik sign an armistice and pay a war reparation of one million dinars in exchange for his withdrawal from the Seven Forks.

Of course, this operation is to prevent the Lion Kingdom from seeing the details of the Bacchus Empire, and to end the war as soon as possible as a victor, or to attract the Lion Kingdom's war goal to the 'recovery of the Seven Forks Fortress'.

For the Lion Kingdom, the Seven Forks Fortress is both a symbol of victory in the battle for the founding of the country and a gateway to the capital, and everyone knows its importance - when the Seven Forks Fortress is captured, the capital Lion City will be directly exposed to the enemy.

This will make the inhabitants of the entire capital economic circle lose their sense of security, and a large number of nobles and merchants will flee as a result, and if the Qicha Fortress cannot be recovered in a short time, the indirect damage caused will be immeasurable.

And everyone in the Lion Realm would probably misjudge the strength of their troops because of Agathon's tough wording—in most people's opinion, it would have to be at least a few thousand elite troops to capture the Seven Forks Fortress, right?

This means that it will be difficult to recover the Qicha Fortress through battle for a while, after all, General Osa with tens of thousands of troops did not capture the thousands of men and horses of the Lion Grand Duke Alfred guarding the Qicha Fortress.

In addition, the current state of the Lion Kingdom is not particularly good, two powerful dukes have died one after another, the Lion Knights suffered heavy losses a few months ago, and they have not been able to recover so far, and the Duke of Brenus has just been crippled by Titus and the Phoenix Knights......

If it had been before, Ulrique would probably have agreed to Agathon's terms, offering 1,000,000 dinars in exchange for Agathon's withdrawal from the Seven Forks, and admitting defeat and declaring an armistice.

But Agathon probably didn't expect that King Ulrik was now poor......

The asking price of a million dinars was really not high, and Agathon was actually asking for the minimum - Agathon was also worried that Ulrik would be in trouble with him......

But if the asking price is low, it really doesn't look like it, the Seven Forks Fortress is not a remote township, it is a large-scale fortified fortress that has never been conquered before, and the cost of building it back then alone was more than a million dinars.

To be honest, even King Ulrique himself felt that Agathon's asking price was not high, probably just to retaliate for his previous attack on the Sava Fort by tearing up the agreement.

But the problem is that although the million dinars are not much, Ulrique really can't get them now......

It stands to reason that it is the beginning of the year, and the state treasury has not yet received the tax revenue, and it has not yet been fully disbursed, so the state treasury should have money.

But the problem is that King Ulrik owes a lot of usury last year - he spent a lot of money to find the Noldor noble girl, and he spent a lot of money to buy the rebels of the Bacchus Empire, and all of this money was borrowed from the major lords......

Originally, Ulrike did not plan to repay the money he borrowed, but the domestic situation in the second half of last year was not very good, and if he did not repay the money, he was afraid that the throne would be unstable...... So at the beginning of the year, Ulrique embezzled the tax revenue from the state treasury and paid it back.

At the same time, the rebuilding of the Lion Knights, which had suffered a great loss, cost a lot of dinars - King Ulrik knew too well what this force meant to him, and he had to restore the royal order to its original state after the re-establishment of the Lion Knights ten years ago.

The Royal Knights needed to be decent, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not dare to refuse the cost of the Lion Knights' reconstruction, and the dinar was spent like flowing water, and some of it was secretly swallowed up by the Duke of Brenus in the middle......

It's been a decade of practice, and Ulrique knows that Brennus is greedy for money.

But the reason why Brenus was so loyal to the king, and why Ulrik was so reassuring about Brenus, was because of this custom......

So King Ulrik is really poor now, he has hundreds of thousands of dinars, but every money has a place, and it is really impossible to come up with an extra million dinars.

Ulrique's previous idea of fighting the Sava Fort was actually to make up some money from the territory of the Bacchus Empire - Brenus didn't just scrape the ground for himself, he had to hand over half of the harvest to Ulrique.

I can't afford to give the money, but the Seven Forks Fortress can't help but take it back, otherwise many rich families around the Lion City will flee, and the economic losses will be even greater, so King Ulrik has no choice but to forcibly recover it.

As a result, the entire Lion Kingdom was basically fully mobilized, and King Ulrik issued a royal decree, once again declaring war against the Bacchus Empire, and summoning all the lords to go to the vicinity of the Seven Forks Fortress.

At this time, Li Ang ushered in the king's envoy in Changhe Town.

“…… Count Leon worked hard to expand the territory of the country, and he was really an example for the lord of the kingdom...... Now that the country is in danger and the enemy is arrogant, the whole country is looking forward to the victory of the army led by Count Leon...... By His Majesty's decree, and in accordance with the glory of the goddess Unomea and the will of the previous king, the Count of Leon is appointed as the marshal of the kingdom......"

After a lengthy cliché, the courtiers in charge of delivering the king's decree handed Leon an ornate scroll and held a short-handled scepter made of silver in both hands.

That was the authority of the Marshal of the Lion Kingdom.

Ulrique appointed Leon as the marshal, and the primary purpose of the battle was to regain the fortress of Qicha.

The lord only said casually about being made a marshal before, but he didn't expect it to be a prophecy - although it wasn't too unexpected, but he really didn't expect it to be so soon.