Leon waited at Ameraburg, mainly to wait for Wendy to bring the explosives and grenades.

At the same time, it is also to wait for Wendy, Aldalian and others to sort out the interior of the Duchy of Noldor to ensure that the enemy does not wander into the forest.

Thermal weapons such as grenades were not used in the Battle of Seren, mainly because the direct lethality of this thing is really not large, it is difficult to kill people wearing armor, but it can frighten the horses.

Leon's troops had many cavalry, but only some of the Gatumas and Nodomas in White Hart Fort were specially trained, and the heavy lancers who charged into battle had never been exposed to explosives, so it would be a big trouble to surprise their own heavy horses on the battlefield......

This rudimentary black powder weapon did not completely dominate the battlefield in this era, and was more suitable for defense—as the history of Leon's original world has proven.

It was only in the era of more mobility and long-range combat, when armies no longer wore heavy armor, that grenades really became popular.

Of course, the fact that no one made grenades after Leon's disappearance was also an important reason. This thing is not moisture-proof, and saltpeter is not easy to come by in this era and cannot be wasted, so Li Ang has always been a temporary assembly before the war, and there has not been much reserve, and the raw materials have been stored in Bailu Fort.

During this period of forest fires, Bailu Fort has been facing the threat of fire, and those flammable materials were of course transferred as soon as possible, and they did not have time to be manufactured in large quantities.

So it wasn't until the rainy season came and the forest fires were extinguished that Leon asked Wendy to hurry up and make a batch.

Wendy is very fond of using firearms, and she is currently the only person other than Leon who has mastered the best ratio of black powder.

Li Ang's 'students' have different personalities and interests.

Amy doesn't really like to fight, although she has always wanted to be a female knight and has an incredible talent for shooting, but in fact she is better at economic construction, and she also has a knack for fooling people - after all, she was trying to learn deception in the first place.

And Alina is usually a very silent person, a quiet scholar who likes to read books and study history, and is good at analyzing intelligence and deducing strategies from details.

Leon didn't actually have time to teach her anything, but she gave Amy and Leon a lot of advice. However, Alina's advice is usually ruthless, often based on her own sacrifice first, blinding the enemy and eventually annihilating the enemy - ruthless to herself and her enemies, in contrast to her usual quiet and harmless appearance.

Wendy, on the other hand, is more adventurous, and unlike most elves, Wendy is a lively girl who loves the thrill of combat, as well as more exciting weapons - such as grenades and explosives that Vendatil considers 'magic'.

However, perhaps due to her cheerful and lively personality, Wendy has not yet learned the most important ability that a queen should have - control of people's hearts.

On the way to Fort Amera, Wendy was a little worried.

The difficulties she encountered came from Aldalyan, which was another reason why Leon was waiting for her at Ameraburg.

The Noldor elves are in a special situation, and Islam will obey Leon's orders, mainly because they have a good relationship and are familiar with each other.

However, Aldalian would not obey Leon's orders, and was somewhat perfunctory to Wendy's orders.

Although he was also nominally the Lord of Noldor who swore allegiance to Wendy, his allegiance to Wendy was more forced by circumstances - Maltiz was present at the time, and the four leaders of the Noldor family really did not dare to refuse the Grand Mage of Sindari......

However, after Maltisse's departure, Aldalian was in a state of 'listening to the tune', acknowledging that Wendy was the common queen of the four Noldor families, and was willing to side with Leon and accept the rule of the new Pande kingdom, but he still maintained a certain degree of freedom.

To put it simply, he can obey Wendy's dispatch, but he will not accept any condescending coercive orders, let alone Leon's direct arrangement.

The logic of this year is like this, only responsible for their own allegiance, although the kingdom of New Pender is the mother country of the Duchy of Noldor, but unless it is a direct allegiance to Leon like Risardran, the other Noldor elves can indeed not obey Leon's orders.

Perhaps because he has been hostile to humanity for two hundred years, and has developed a certain habitual thinking, Ardalyan has always maintained a deep wariness of humanity.

He didn't even want to enter any human castles, including White Hart Castle.

The last time Aldalian was able to go to the Long River City to attend the meeting of the four great families, it was all because of the call of Vendatyr - only Vendatier can truly 'command' Aldalian......

This is, of course, out of love...... Or rather, out of one-sided love.

And it is said that this unrequited love has lasted for two hundred years - elves are usually relatively indifferent, but the more indifferent the character, the more difficult it is to extricate themselves once they fall in love with someone.

Although Leon and Wendy both feel that Aldalian will probably not get Vendatier's heart in the end, they are very 'encouraged' for this kind of unrequited love, so that Vendatier can settle the 'thorn head' of Aldalian.

But Vendatier was rather distressed by this......

She really thought that Aldaryan was an ordinary man of his clan—not even a friend, because they were not ideally aligned.

And Vendatil has no intention of falling in love at all, and she doesn't have any men she likes.

In fact, she prefers women...... Ahem, it's not that she likes it, it's just that she's really not interested in the relationship between men and women.

But this does not belong to any special group, many elves are the same as Vendatier, which is a common situation in long-lived immortal races, that is, they are born cold and have little interest in reproduction.

At this time, Wendatil was worried with Wendy.

"Wendy, you can't always do this...... It's too much trouble, I really don't want to look at Ardarian's stupid face every day......"

Vendatier is complaining about Wendy.

"I can't help it, Mr. Vendatier, Ardarian and his subordinates are not very happy to listen to the arrangements of my junior......"

Wendy is also helpless, Aldalian is her elder, and every leader who is a junior will find it tricky to face this situation.

"However, His Majesty Leon arranges for you, you arrange for me, I arrange for Aldaryan, and Ardalian will arrange for his troops...... Isn't that too much trouble? And we're going to war, so it's easy to delay. ”

Vendatil said anxiously.

It is true that this kind of cascade assignment process is too long, and it is possible to do this in ordinary dispatches in peacetime, but it is easy to go wrong when it comes to various emergency orders during the war.

"So what's the other way? As Leon had made clear in his letter a few days ago, this time it was to deal with our real enemy, the real culprit who caused the damage to the forest. ”

Wendy looked at Vendatier pitifully: "But my own troops are only more than three hundred people in total now, and half of them have to be left in the Shield Wind Fortress as a reserve, we really need Aldalian's troops." ”

Wendy has been queen for too short a time to organize too many direct troops from her clan.

Influenced by the lord system of the Pander Continent, the allegiance of the Noldor Elves is actually somewhat similar to that of humans. Now that the Noldors have established a principality, the allegiance relationship is more fully closer to the tradition of the Pande continent.

The heads of the families no longer call themselves elven kings or princes, they are now lords of the Duchy of Noldor.

Wendy is the ruler of House Fenway, and is the queen of the four families, but the only people she can directly manage are the people of House Fenway and the leaders of the other clans - because the elves of the other three families are loyal to their respective lords.

The Fenway family has the smallest population, with a total population of less than a thousand, and there are only about 200 warriors in existence, making it the weakest military strength among the four families.

By the way, the Noldor elves, both men and women, are excellent warriors, and cannot be regarded as human soldiers.

And the students who Wendatil brought out to fight the Gatu people before have now become Leon's guards, and are no longer under Wendy.

As a result, Wendy, the queen, had only about two hundred warriors available at first.

These days, she selected a few people from other students in Vendatil, but in a short period of time, only more than a hundred were recruited.

The newly recruited men had to undergo armament and basic coordination training, as well as a reserve in the Shieldwind Fortress in case of emergency, so Wendy had less than two hundred men with him at this time, and the rest of the troops were all Aldaryan's men.

Ardalian's army was quite strong, and his tribe numbered 4,000 men, the same as the Aino family.

The troops he brought out this time were more than 800 people, which was about the same number as Israndil's troops.

But Ardarian's team has nearly forty Twilight Knights, and the number of high-end combat power is twice that of Israndil.

The Twilight Knight is the top fighting power among the Noldor elves and the goal of all the Noldor nobles - just like the noble knights of the human race.

Like most human nations, the elven race has always retained a simple aristocratic culture, that is, the nobles are responsible for fighting and protecting the safety of the race, and the commoners are responsible for working to ensure the basic life of the tribe.

As a result, there are two classes within the Noldor community.

The Noldor nobles were born into the aristocratic class and were raised in the manner of combatants.

Before Vendatier became the chief instructor of the young Noldor Elves, most of the young Noldor nobles would become apprentices to the Twilight Knights, just like the knights and servants in human society.

However, whether or not the Noldor nobles can become Twilight Knights in the end depends on their ability to win the annual Noldor Athletic Convention in Ellaclay City, and then establish their feats according to the requirements of their respective families.

That is, it is necessary to have the best military force and have enough contribution to the ethnic group.

Each Noldor family has different requirements for contribution.

For example, the Aino family of Israndil, as he said to Risadiran, the Aino clan needs to save their clan or bring back new or lost knowledge to the clan in order to build merit, not by killing enemies.

Because the tradition of the Aino family is to guard knowledge.

And the Fenway family is also asking to save the clan or bring back new technology.

Aldarion was a member of the Fenway family, and he himself was a Twilight Knight, and the strongest of the Twilight Knights. At that time, during the Hundred Years War between the elves and humans, he led the army to annihilate the human coalition that invaded the forest, saving the race, and met the criteria of 'saving the people'.

The Finarfins are a little more special, they inherit the art and culture of the elves, covering a wide range of things, including architecture, crafts, arts, music, rituals and a series of things. Therefore, their requirement is to be able to master a top-notch art form - which is very difficult, even if the elves have a long life, but there are few who have the best martial arts and artistic level at the same time.

In fact, it is difficult for the three families to meet the requirements for meritorious service, so that there have been quite a few competitive champions in Eraclay City in the past few hundred years, but there are only about eighty nobles who can successfully become Twilight Knights.

And of these eighty or so Twilight Knights, half of Aldalian's clan is accounted for.

Since Ardalian was the only one who had no other requirements for contributions, after he took his followers away to form his own clan, his contribution to clan design became relatively simple - he only needed to kill enemies on the battlefield and accumulate military merits.

This human-hating tribe instead uses the logic of human promotion......

It is precisely because each ethnic group has different goals to drive their clansmen that the people of each family have completely different concepts of struggle.

Therefore, the tribes of Ardalyan are more warlike and prefer to hone their martial arts;

The tribes of Israndir are more willing to contact the outside world in order to gain knowledge, and they are also willing to cooperate with humans;

The Fenway family is more than happy to hone their skills in crafting equipment, or studying enchantments or horse breeding;

The Fenafin family were all artists, obsessed with designing all kinds of exquisite crafts, and never actively fought wars......

This made the Ardalyan tribe more powerful.

Of course, force is not equal to actual combat effectiveness.

Aldaryan has a relatively straight personality, and he is not very good at formulating tactics when fighting, and many times he fights without any technical content, and the combat effectiveness of his people may not be able to give full play.

If his troops were willing to submit to Leon's direct command, it is estimated that his troops would be able to exert twice as much combat effectiveness as Israndil's men.

However, the Ardalian clan, despite their strong force, are not truly the Noldor family, as they do not have a clear lineage.

Even in terms of combat effectiveness and martial arts, he did not establish a legacy, but Vendatier invented her unique combat skills, which is probably the main reason why Ardalian fell in love with Vendatier.

By Twilight Knight's standards, Vendatier is one of the strongest of them all, she has won the Athletic Championship of Aylaclay for several consecutive years, and she has created a new martial art - she is a member of the Fenway family, and of course martial arts is also a type of technology, and her teaching and training are bound to save countless people.

In fact, whether from the perspective of knowledge, technology or art, her new martial arts meet the contribution criteria.

So, if by the standard, she is not only qualified to be a Twilight Knight, but can even be said to be one of the people who have contributed the most to the clan, and it stands to reason that she is even qualified to be a member of the Council of Elders.

But the problem is that Vendatier is a civilian.

While many Noldor civilians will go into battle as warriors, Noldor civilians will never be eligible to become Twilight Knights, no matter how skilled they are or how great their contributions.

The class solidification of the Noldor elves is much more serious than that of humans, which is inherited from the bloodline culture of the Sindari elves, coupled with the long life span of the elves, it is difficult to change this solidified mentality.

It's just that because the population is small, each Noldor is precious, there is not much oppression and slavery within the group, and there is not much difference between the living conditions of the nobles and the commoners, so there will be no class antagonism.

(End of chapter)