People aside, out of all the places I've been, I like Stormgard the most. Not only the climate, temperature, topography, but also the scenery.

I still remember the first time I set foot on this land, it was a night, the warm breeze caressed my face, and after experiencing the wet, stuffy, foul-smelling wetland swamps, I suddenly found that the environment here was like paradise.

The wilderness here is not wild, not at all as wild and unrestrained as the wilderness of the West, and it is always green...... Tender green, emerald green, dark green. That warm color will make your heart feel relaxed. Maybe it's an illusion, I always think that the night sky here is brighter than anywhere else, and the stars dot the dark sky, and if there is a moon, you can appreciate how gentle this land is.

After staying here for a short time, you suddenly feel the urge to have a home and choose a place to build two cottages. Every day, you can go out hunting, you can go fishing in the river, you can grow some vegetables in front of the house, or you can go to the field to pick. The sun and wind here will make you feel like you are the most free in the world.

The place chosen by Soladin the Great is really very suitable for people to live in.

But there are always people who will be ambitious, and they will want more when they get it. Ha, what I'm talking about has nothing to do with our war. The kingdom of Stormgasd was not conquered by orcs, but by trolls.

The Great Wall is an excellent fortification, it can withstand thousands of armies from the west, and it has stood for thousands of years, but it was so easily captured that it is said that it really did not take much time.

The fortress was easiest to breach from within, and the Stormgards had already verified it themselves, but the king of Gilneth seemed to think that they would not repeat the mistakes of the past. The lessons of history show that mankind has never learned any historical lessons from history. King Jean is a prime example.

Sooner or later, the wall they built would become a cage that trapped them. I said it!

Originally, I thought that the Arashi would be as brave as their ancestors, but it turns out that as the years passed, their bloody courage was slowly smoothed out by the gentle years.

The "heroes" who captured the Great Wall have now been driven into the mountains and forests, and they may never have a chance to truly defeat the humans who have defeated them more than once, although they almost won it in the first place.

Tulayan led his army across the Great Wall to Arashi, the orcs were not far ahead, he chased very quickly, and even in order to intercept the orcs, he chose to abandon all the baggage and infantry, and only chased directly with less than a thousand cavalry.

He floated.

Perhaps in his eyes, this war would end in his hands, and it would end when he immediately caught up with the orcs. This means that he can be the generalissimo and become the greatest hero in the human kingdom, and the future is really promising.

But the heavens immediately played a joke on him.

When a person feels more and more smooth, there is a high probability that there is a huge heel waiting for him to fall. This has been the case throughout the ages.

You know how long the Saldo Bridge is.

Do you remember how that bridge was formed?

The two bridges crossed the strait side by side, and our Marshal Tulayan almost threw his life and the life of the entire Silver Hand on it. But no one will take the initiative to mention this anymore, and not only they are gone.

In fact, whenever people cross that bridge for the first time, they must ask why the bridge next to it is broken. yes, why?

Where was the first battle you fought?

Yes...... The battle after the capture of Morder Fortress has basically been devastating, and the battle since then has basically been a tailwind. You're in luck.

Tulayan went after his orcs, and Lothar and I rested for Dunhold and then rushed to Riptide City. We were humiliated here, but when we stepped here again, the treatment was immediately different.

Many people have a special sense of revenge for this contrast, but when we entered Riptide, I didn't have that thrill in my heart.

It's not that the people here aren't miserable enough to relieve my hatred, but there must be someone here who has insulted me, our guy. But not all of them. There are still good people here, and the crying helpless hungry children are innocent.

The trolls destroyed all the villages and towns around Riptide that they could destroy, and they did everything they could to destroy and kill. Here the homeless people are everywhere and wailing all over the wilderness.

The old man Solas had pressed the vast majority of his forces to the Saldo Bridge, as the fortress of Maud had fallen on the other side. He knew that the orcs had already been on the other side, and he had to face it seriously, but the trolls that suddenly came out, those trolls that appeared out of nowhere, made him stunned all of a sudden, and he had no power to fight back.

It's also because this guy has never fought, and his wasted son is nothing but his nose and eyes slanting at people, pretentious. And in the war, there is not a single general on Soras's side who can fight, which is a bit interesting.

I've been joking with Lothar ever since, and if we don't want to stay in the South one day, I'll be a pioneer for you, and we'll take it back. Let the descendants of Soladin return to the throne that their ancestors had laid down for them.

Ha.

We've had at least a month of recuperation in Riptide City, which has given the orcs plenty of respite. However, this could not be helped, Tulayan finally suffered a great defeat himself, which not only made him secretly sad for a long time and even a little overwhelmed for a while, but also the bridge to the dwarf was left with only the last one. The bridge orcs did not destroy it, but left it specifically for us, they not only wanted to use it to kill us, but more soldiers were also ready to use it to rub our sharpness.

And so it turned out.

And most importantly, Fort Maud is an absolute choke point to the south. But it was occupied by orcs. But if you want to solve the Maude Fortress, you must first solve the island across the sea from the Maude Fortress!

The island that has always been entangled with Solas, Tol Barad.

The lord of Tol Barad had lost this place to the orcs early, a misnomer, but it was pretty much the same. Such people even want to rebel and engage in separatism. There are really all kinds of birdmen.

They lost the war as fast as they could, and then the orcs used the island as their military base.

Actually, at the time of the Battle of Zuldre Island......

Ah, too...... At that time, there were still dragons, and their group of wastes were given for nothing.

I would say that this island is very, very important to us.

If we want to land and survive on the vast beach of Maude Fortress, we must make sure that this island of Tol Barad is in our hands!

No one wants to leave their backs to the enemy on the battlefield, do they?

Except, of course, for orcs.

Do you understand what I'm saying? That's what it was at the time.

Yes...... I almost forgot, and one more ......

It's the navy of Kurtilas, whose naval battle deflated the eggplant. They are the only ones in this battle!

At one time, the navy monopolized almost all the seas, and the naval power of the Kultiras Navy was nine or ten times that of the Gilneth Kingdom and Stormgard combined.

In other words, Gilneth and Stormgard's navy are pitiful!

The navy is very expensive, and their maintenance is not much less than that of the cavalry. And the two countries can't do it, so they spend this comparison on somewhere.

Now we need the navy, we need warships to transport enough soldiers, at the same time! But there were no ships, and the few broken ships parked in Fadil Bay and Riptide Harbor didn't need dragons to destroy them at all, and the orcs only needed to set up a few cannons to sink him.

So put all this together, the war was slowed down in an instant, and it can also be called suspended.

However, the war was suspended, and the expenses did not decrease at all, but were greater. Money is needed everywhere, soldiers need money for military salaries, horses need money for grazing, military supplies need money, transportation costs money, medical treatment of the sick and wounded, preparation for battle recruits and soldiers need money, although it is a little too late to build now, but it is necessary to hurry up and build ships, this is money, the displaced people are hungry, they need money to eat, they need money to resettle them, and they need money to rebuild their homes.

King Soras, who had been picking and searching for money, didn't know if he really didn't have any money or was really reluctant to get it, so he hurriedly sent a letter to Terenus asking for money. Terenus had not yet recovered from the excitement of the battle for Lordaeron, but as a result, a national mobilization was launched, and everyone and everything was to be fully supplied for the war.

As soon as the war began, those who farmed the land stopped planting, those who paid taxes did not pay, and they did not make money just by spending money. Moreover, the daily expenses of tens of thousands of troops are astronomical, and the family of Terenas should be quite thick...... But I don't know if it's enough to do such a scourge for a few years. And now a group of little brothers under his command are crying out and saying that they have no money, and they have to give money if they want to continue fighting!

Do you spend this money?

Lieutenant, what do you say?

This money...... To spend or not to spend? How to spend? How much does it cost? You said.

I'm very bad at arithmetic, I can't do it, and I can't do it.

Hum...... Go to war, shout war every day! Hit, go, come...... Such people are either fools or the sons of fools. Let them go to war with their own dry rations, do you think he will go or not?

Wars are fought to make money, what kind of war is there to fight without benefits?

Fight? It's the king who has money and no land to spend, so since we can't spend it, let's fight, let's die, anyway, there is no place to spend money, just play, just spend. Does this exist?

Scold...... Terenus is in a hurry, too! I can't wait for several letters a day, all urging why not to act, why not to attack, how to ...... It's all annoying!

Ha!

Lothar thought, she doesn't have the conditions to fight a woolen battle! I used to be defeated after preparing for so long, but now I can't even cross the sea, and I still fight...... Spank!

Our king is still young, and he will probably become like Tyrenus when he grows up. It's not that the king has to let the marshal do anything, if he has to make a rice cook, it is clear that he wants him to die, but this kind of urging must be said, every day. I don't know if it's useful or not, but the boss's ears must constantly echo the king's urging.

The ravens who sent the letter didn't give a contribution award or anything after the war, it's really ......

Heh, it's all a joke......

Lothar had a little bit of a recovery in Riptide City, and I hung out with Reginald every day, and the guy wasn't bad, and although he wasn't particularly clever in his brain, he was loyal.

Especially now, it's not about how good you can fight, it's about loyalty. Are you right?

Tulayan was deflated and came back with a deflated man, and when I saw Lothar, I stood aside and watched the reunion of the master and apprentice. Ah...... Whether you will be a person at this time is really clear at a glance.

Honestly, I can't get out of that mouth and say those things.