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Chapter 615 Intelligence Analysis
It rained for a whole day and a night. As soon as the rain stopped, Frederick was "invited" to a manor by the lake outside Pearl City by a person who called herself "Princess Salad".

In the days that followed, the entire Kingdom of Madeira was in flames, starting with the Pearl City. The flames gradually spread, and when walking on the road, you could see columns of smoke rising into the sky every few kilometers.

The effect seemed to be good. Frederick fished in the lake for a month and found that the water level had risen from the soles of his feet to the height of his knees.

During this month he was under semi-house arrest. He could move around Pearl City and its surroundings freely, but he could not approach the hunting camps where the number of flags was increasing.

Frederick entered into tourist mode, watching people farming and herding sheep outside the city every day, going into the city to visit the vegetable market, look at the commercial street, enjoy the opera, taste delicious food, and also solving a long-running case.

This case was a typical dispute over land area in land transactions. It was an irregularly shaped piece of land with two winding rivers as the north and south boundaries. No one could come up with a method of measuring the land area that would convince everyone, and the lawsuit lasted for three generations.

So after a salon, Frederick talked to the judge's sister about the method of measuring land. He drew the plot on a board and cut it out according to the proportion, then cut it into squares of unit area, and then calculated the land area by weight.

That day, the Ortiz sisters came to say goodbye to him and they finally got their turn.

At night, Ortiz whispered to Frederick, "How could you get involved in that case."

Frederick asked her, "Is there anything special about that case?"

Ortiz said: "Of course, otherwise why would it take so many years?"

"The plaintiff and the defendant are backed by the royal family and the church respectively. In the past, whichever side the judge favored would win, and the losing side would appeal to the judge on their side."

Frederick understood what was going on and said with a smile, "That's none of my business."

He has no connection with the local royal family or church, so it doesn't matter to him which side wins.

Ortiz added, “Don’t you have enough to do?”

"His Majesty Doss used the rain to win over the nobles. The church now says that you are the lost child of Mother Earth and you have returned home."

"You are now a sheep. The royal family is pulling your front legs, and the church is pulling your back legs. Eventually you will be torn apart."

"It doesn't matter if you die, but what if you implicate me and my sister?"

Frederick pinched her and said, "Then you should go to the new territory quickly and stay away from it."

Ortiz sighed and said, "This is all I can do."

"My new territory is a very remote place. To the west is the Endless Sea. I can only fish normally."

"That's good. I can stay away from trouble."

Frederick became more careful after this and found that when he moved around in Pearl City, the roads he took were always away from the church.

He didn't care anymore. Recently, he accidentally heard a piece of news that because of the artificial rainfall, the time for the Madeira Kingdom to send troops was postponed by one month.

As the day of dispatching troops approached, Frederick finally received the enemy's sugar-coated bullets.

In a bedroom in the Minister of War's house, Daniela, the Minister of War's daughter, asked Frederick breathlessly: "Are you also so fierce in war?"

Frederick said proudly, "That's for sure."

Daniela asked again: "Why are you so fierce?"

腓特烈如实回答：“因为我们吃得好啊，士兵每天能吃1000克面包，350克肉、60克油脂、200克豆子、新鲜蔬菜有350克，或者70克脱水蔬菜，其余还有盐、糖、番茄酱、果汁、茶叶、干果等等，外出执行任务时还有额外的200到400克的罐头肉或者50到100克奶酪。”

Daniela's stepmother said in surprise: "They actually eat so much! My brothers and sisters in the Knights don't eat so well!"

Frederick said as a matter of course: "Of course, because our commander has a lot of money."

No one could refute this reason, as everyone knew that Grand Duke Wessen was rich.

Frederick thought they would continue to ask questions, but the topic soon turned to clothing trends in Weissenburg.

The next day, the finance minister's sister invited Frederick to go horseback riding by the lake. As they rested among the flowers, she casually asked, "You are such a good rider, so you must have a lot of war horses in the army, right?"

Frederick whispered in her ear, "How could such precious war horses be transported from so far away by ship? Many pack horses died along the way. If a war horse died, it would be heartbreaking, so we didn't bring any war horses with us."

On the third day, the two granddaughters of the head of the Royal Mage Corps invited Frederick to study the magic of ice and fire. During the study, they asked: "Which family did the head of your Mage Corps come from?"

Frederick shook his head and said, "There are no family elders. They are all civilians who graduated from school and came here to gain military merit." On the fourth day, the daughter of a Knights' Grand Master invited Frederick to her home martial arts training ground to practice a few moves. She said in the bathroom, "You roared really loudly just now."

Frederick was applying medicine to her and said, "There's nothing we can do. When we're in battle, we basically have to shout to communicate, and we can't do it without a loud voice."

……

Pieces of intelligence continued to gather in the camp in the suburbs, and the nobles who commanded the troops analyzed them one by one.

"Their food is so good, the logistical pressure must be huge."

"I guess Suarez paid a high price to hire them. Such a cost is enough for Suarez to bear."

"I think we can suggest to His Majesty that we slow down the march so that they can consume more food."

"That makes sense. With such a huge consumption, the people on Suarez's side must have complaints. We went there late, and they must have thought that the Weisen army was just eating and not working, so conflicts arose."

"We can also send people to spread the news in advance that we will not send troops at all, thus exacerbating the conflict."

……

"They don't have war horses? Could it be fake news?"

"It can't be fake. She used truth mushrooms."

"It is also possible that they are here to earn military merits. It is enough to take the heads of fellow villagers at the border to make up the numbers. When our army arrives, we only need to rely on the defense line and will not take the initiative to attack."

"That makes sense, so they just need to focus on defense and not fight back."

"What about the Osmaga Empire? They have been quiet recently."

"I have a guess. The Wesson Army has been looting our border villages to lure us over. Then the Osmaga Empire's army will attack our flank unexpectedly."

"That makes sense. We can set up traps on the flanks and wait for them to come over."

……

"Are all the magicians in the group civilian students?"

"This must be fake news. Without family inheritance, what can they learn?"

"They used very expensive truth-telling mushrooms, so they can't be wrong."

"This is not surprising. The Wesson Army doesn't even have war horses, so they must be focusing on defense. It is enough for those magicians with low levels to activate the fortress's layout and make defensive deployments."

"Indeed."

……

"What do you mean by communicating by shouting? Don't they have the power to transmit sound?"

"That machine is so expensive, maybe they don't have it in their company?"

"We overlooked one point. There was a war in the north of the Rhine Alliance. Grand Duke Wessen should have mobilized all his main forces to the north, but he couldn't refuse the promise he made to Suarez, so he transferred some weaker troops here to make do."

"You're right. I heard that the Wesson Army has very strict military discipline and it's impossible for them to sell supplies to us."

"That's right. Baron Potter is probably just a playboy. His background is probably both real and fake. He may have learned something at Weisenberg University so he knows how to make it rain."

"That makes sense. His horse riding skills are average. The bald guy's daughter almost hurt him, so he had to retract his attack and ended up hurting himself. His skills with women are at the level of a sword saint. I'm afraid he was sent in by his family to earn military merit."

"And their commander, named Eugene, is from the Kingdom of Gaul. I think he was sent here because he was ostracized by the old men around Grand Duke Wessen."

……

"Your Majesty, to sum up, the Wesson Army is only here to cause trouble. We don't need to worry."

(End of this chapter)