my age of magic

Chapter 1315 119. Hierro Raiders
The Constructed Knights camp of the North Wind Legion is stationed on a gentle slope in the south of Durva City. The reason for stationing here is that there is a sweet water well under the hillside.

The sky is blue and white clouds, the hillside is covered with a thick layer of alfalfa, and a few white butterflies are flying among the flowers.

Duerva in May is the season for alfalfa to bloom, and the entire hillside is covered with small yellowish flowers like gypsophila, with the scent of green grass and flowers.

Stepping on the soft green grass, I saw hundreds of constructed knights holding shields and knight epees in the field in front of the wooden fence of the camp in the distance, repeating defensive postures and swinging swords.

On the grassland on the east side, teams of knights in costumes rode war horses around the field non-stop.

There are about [-] constructed knights in a full-staffed Constructed Knights, and each knight will bring a retinue, a war horse and a mule.This means that the ten Constructed Knights not only have [-] Constructed Knights and [-] followers, but also nearly [-] mules and horses in the stables of the camp. These animals have to drink a lot of fresh water every day and eat Drop a lot of grain.

Durva Province is a large province of animal husbandry. There are hundreds of pastures in this vast land. It is easy to buy some high-quality golden alfalfa in the trading market of Durva City. The horses of the knights also need to add some beans and grains to the forage to ensure that the horses will not lose weight.

As for the mules responsible for carrying goods in the barracks, their treatment was much worse. They usually needed to carry some supplies and rations, and sometimes they also had to carry the subordinate who was wearing mail armor and carrying crossbow arrows.

The knight camp with a size of [-] people looks very spectacular. From a distance, it looks like a noisy town. The flag of the North Wind Legion is flying fiercely in the wind at the gate of the camp.

The Cavaliers have to do basic training every day to keep themselves in shape.

I followed Zack and Ernestine to the gate of the Northwind Legion's barracks, where we met the patrolling guards from the Constructed Knights, and they took us to Earl Desmond's camp.

Earl Desmond was signing some documents in the tent, and there were a few knights standing beside him, who looked like some senior generals in the knight order. When Earl Desmond saw Zack and I entered the tent, he said The knight commanders in the camp said: "Look who has come to our camp! Mage Jijia, it is really a pleasure to see you here."

When the constructed knights around heard my name, they looked at me in surprise, with a clear expression in their eyes, 'So you are the magician of Jijia'.

Three constructed knights walked out of the crowd and hugged me one after another. One of the constructed knights said to me kindly: "Mage Jijia, you were the one who saved us when we were on the fishing lake. The life of the whole group, when you were still so young, I knew that you must be someone with powerful magical talents."

"Thank you... Thank you all for traveling thousands of miles to Durva Province, and thank you for everything you have done for the freedom of the Hierro plane." I said to the officers in the Knights of the North Wind Legion .

The constructed knights standing in the tent all showed proud expressions when they heard what I said, and several knight commanders hurriedly said to me:

"We obey the will of the Duke, and we are very willing to serve you, Mage Jijia."

Earl Desmond coughed lightly, tapped the walnut tabletop with his knuckles, and said to the knight commanders: "Okay, everyone, hurry up and prepare according to what we said before. !"

He turned his head and glanced at me, Zach, and Ernestine, and said kindly: "Let me entertain the Jijia magician and the two young leaders of the main war faction in Duerva province."

After Earl Desmond said these words, the knight commanders left the tent one after another, leaving room for us.

An adjutant next to Earl Desmond brought out a few chairs from a corner, and hastily cleaned up the only desk in the tent. A young servant brought us a few cups of slightly bitter black tea. Earl Smond looked at me with a smile and said: "Earl Jijia, according to the Duke's previous instructions, I will take you to familiarize yourself with all the knights in this barracks in the next two days, and I will build a knight The regiment is in your hands, and the Constructed Knights will completely obey your command!"

I didn't expect Earl Desmond to hand over the command of the ten Constructed Knights to me so soon. I hesitated and refused: "No, not yet! Earl Desmond, I need A certain amount of time to learn how to be a commander."

Recently, I have to keep an eye on Kalanzo and her orc knights. They go deep into the southern part of the green valley forest to contain the spider army there. Go back to the underground cave in Xinliu Valley.

Earl Desmond nodded slightly when he heard what I said, and said to me meaningfully: "I will help you familiarize yourself with everything in the barracks as soon as possible."

When I passed the back garden of the Samoyed Duke's Mansion, I saw the piles of supplies, and I was a little worried that the supplies of the Yero plane were not prepared enough.

So I asked Zach, "How is the preparation in Pereira City?"

Zac is the kind of noble knight who will never tell a lie. He didn't expect me to turn the topic to this all of a sudden, and repeated: "Military supplies?"

I nodded: "Yeah!"

Zach scratched his head in pain, he didn't look like he was good at logistics.

He glanced at Ernestine, and then said to me: "Currently, more than half of the resources in the plane of Hierro are gathered in Pereira City, and I have applied to the above for the supplies of forty Constructed Knights. Even the logistics and transportation regiment has been recruiting troops in Pereira City, so we should not stretch the supply line too long."

The main combat faction of Durva Province gathered a total of [-] Constructed Knights in Pereira City. Zach said that he had prepared [-] Constructed Knights' supplies, obviously for the North Wind Legion's Constructed Knights. of.

I asked Zach: "Where is the heavy armored infantry regiment under Lord Duke?"

I think the heavy armored infantry regiment in Durva Province should send at least a few regiments. The soldiers of those heavy armored infantry regiments are good at positional warfare.

Zach blushed slightly, and said with some guilt: "Each infantry regiment has a corresponding defense zone, and those regiments are mainly controlled by the conservatives, and they want to guard the last city of the Grimm Empire on the Hierro plane—— Pereira City."

I immediately understood what Zach meant. He couldn't command those heavy infantry regiments at all.

I then asked Zach again: "Zach, is there any specific battle plan at present?"

"Of course, Jijia!" Zach said without hesitation.

It seemed that he was prepared, Zach stood up from the chair, took out a roll of map from his arms and spread it on the table, flattening the four corners with a glass of water.

I saw the marks on the map that were penciled and drawn and then erased, and it seemed that Zach had a lot of discussions about this map.

He took out a red and blue pencil in his hand, puffed out his chest and said loudly: "Everyone, then let me introduce our strategic intention this time."

Zach drew two red and blue lines on the map, starting from the city of Pereira, starting from the east and west roads, and arriving at Anglos City, the easternmost city of the Duke of Samoyed on the Yero plane, and Thunder Pillar City, the westernmost city, said:
"Constrained by the supply line, our preliminary plan is to divide the forty Constructed Knights into two expeditionary forces, the East and the West. I will lead fifteen Constructed Knights and [-] followers. All the way to the west, passing through Blood Ring Stone City, and finally arriving at Thunder Pillar City. Ernestine led fifteen Constructed Knights and another [-] followers, walked eastward from Pereira City, passed through Gurubashi City, and finally arrived at Anglos City."

Then, Zach took a look at Earl Desmond and me, and said:
"As for the North Wind Legion led by Jijia and Earl Desmond, they can first clear the spider man's stronghold in the forest near Pereira City, familiarize themselves with the environment of the Hierro plane and the hot and humid climate. Whenever the expeditionary force encounters obstacles along the way, it will be supported by the Constructed Knights of the North Wind Legion from behind."

There is no battle plan for Tanton City, which makes me a little angry.

I asked Zach very directly: "Why didn't you consider the front line of Tanton City, which is the southern gate guarding the northern Black Forest. To the southern part of the Black Forest, starting from Tanton City is the shortest way!"

Zach and Ernestine looked at each other, obviously knowing I was going to ask this question.

Zac wiped his palms on the hem of the mail armor, moved closer to me, and whispered to me:

"Tanton City? More than half of that city has been destroyed by the Nebulu spiders, and the most important military stronghold, Trum, has already been destroyed. Our army along the route cannot receive any supplies, and all supplies are lost." It needs to be transported continuously from the city of Pereira, if it is divided into three supply lines, the pressure on our logistics regiment will be too great."

Seeing me sitting there indifferently, he bit the bullet and continued:

"After repeated discussions by the military department, we agreed that after opening up the east and west lines, our expeditionary force will form a pincer attack on Tanton City. We will start from Thunder Pillar City and Anglos City at the same time, and finally recover Tanton City, in this way, the territory we originally owned on the Hierro plane will be completely recovered. In fact, our initial goal is to recover the Bloodring Stone City, Thunder Pillar City, Gurubash City, and Anglos City. Four cities."

Obviously he knows what I care about, what Tanton City means to me, and he also knows a little bit about my building a town in the Trume area of ​​​​Tanton City.

But in his battle plan, there is no content related to Tanton City, which is not in my personal interest.

I invited the Constructed Knights of the North Wind Legion from Sloit Province to come to the Hierro plane to help. It is impossible to just experience a free tour.

Zach took a sip of tea and continued to say to me: "Please don't worry about your territory in Trum. Our suggestion is that you can suspend the construction of Trum Town. Your Excellency the Duke promises that you will be in Blood Ring Stone City or Gurubashi City will compensate you for a piece of territory about the same size as the Trum area, and guarantee that there will be two small towns with various facilities on that territory."

I rubbed between my brows with my fingers in distress. Talking about compensation so quickly, it was obvious that Tanton City was not in their plan.

Ernestine, who was sitting next to Zack, didn't intervene from the beginning to the end, and sat upright in the chair. The temperament cultivated in the army could not be lingered no matter what.

I let out a long breath, clenched my fists and said to Zach: "We can handle the supplies needed by the North Wind Legion by ourselves. We don't need the logistics and supplies of Pereira City!"

Under Zack's stunned gaze, I then said to Earl Desmond:

"Earl Desmond, I need you to bring the Constructed Knights to Tanton City on the Hierro plane, and I will welcome you there."

Earl Desmond heard me say this, looked at me again, and said without hesitation:

"Tanton City, okay, after reaching Pereira City, I will lead the knights there immediately."

I guessed right, Earl Desmond is Duke Jingyue's staunchest supporter.

So in this situation, he will support my decision without hesitation.

Afterwards, he took out the scale, drew the marching route on the map with a concentrated expression, and said to himself: "Let me calculate, even if it is a dense black pine forest, it can be calculated based on the marching speed of our knight order." , it will take about a week and a half to arrive in Tanton City."

I frowned, and suddenly thought of the trail Qiger and I had hiked through the Black Forest last summer.

I said to Earl Desmond: "If you can rent a magic airship in Pereira City, try to rent a magic airship. Now the Yalong family in the plane of Hierro has been almost slaughtered by the Nebru Spiderman. There will be such big guys disrupting the route again, this is the safest route, and I will bear all the expenses incurred and all the supplies needed in the future."

Earl Desmond nodded, and there was a hint of surprise in his dark blue eyes that couldn't be concealed.

He probably didn't expect me to say that at all, so he showed that look in his eyes.

I took the red and blue pencil out of Zack's hand, and drew a new line on the map, from Pereira City directly to Tanton City, then to Green Valley Forest, and finally the arrow points to the southern part of the Black Forest area.

I said to Zach: "My strategic goal is not Tanton City. I will lead the Constructed Knights of the Northern Legion from Tanton City. I will go all the way south to conquer the knights of the Duke of Samoyed." The southern forest that I have never set foot in. According to the "Planar Expedition Lord Protection Law" of the Grimm Empire, one-third of those territories will belong to the Grimm Empire, one-third will belong to the Duke of Samoyed, and one-third will belong to me."

Both Zach and Ernestine opened their mouths wide, and they both asked me at the same time: "Jijia, are you preparing for a third-front war?"

I didn't answer their questions, but turned to Earl Desmond: "Count Desmond, do you dare to make a big bet with me? I want to go to those forest areas that didn't belong to us!"

Earl Desmond showed confidence in his eyes, and said to me: "Follow your will, Earl Giga."

Seeing him speak so resolutely, I was slightly relieved. With the support of the new force of the North Wind Legion Constructed Knights, the problems faced by the Yero natives and the ancient war tree in the Green Valley jungle crisis can be resolved.

I subconsciously touched the key of power on my chest, and said to Earl Desmond: "In fact, those spider warriors are weaker than the barbarians on the ice and snow tundra, and I recently concluded a set of survival skills in the Black Forest. I believe that the same rules apply to Durva's constructed knights."

After finishing speaking, I took out two bottles of ointment from the magic pocket. One bottle is used to smear on the body to avoid the bites of all poisonous insects, snakes and ants in the Black Forest. Under the skin disease...

(End of this chapter)