Knight with Wand

On the south bank of the river, the huge camp stationed in the hilly and dangerous land stretched out. In the central army tent, Abeler endured his anxiety and dealt with the messenger from the eastern nobles who came for help. He then called his subordinates to take him out of the tent.

"Send someone to watch over them. Don't let him talk too much about ghosts and dark clouds in the army and other lords. If he disturbs the morale of the army, he will be punished according to military law." Abeler ordered his trusted guards beside him.

After that, he turned his attention back to thinking about military dispatch.

A request for help from the border?

A disaster of the dead?

Whether it was nonsense or not, the sky was falling in the east, and he had to wait until he defeated the northern army.

Abeler knew that if he didn't take advantage of the Uriah army and fight, he would never have the opportunity to attack the king's territory again after these nomads returned to the grassland.

In any case, 50,000 against more than 30,000, the advantage was in his hands.

Moreover, he did not believe that those northerners would be willing to sacrifice their entire army for the throne of Kaso and fight him to the end.

The other side did not stay in the tall royal city to delay time with him, but camped here on the Usato River to keep a retreat for the army, which was the best proof.

Taking advantage of the current military advantage to win the last battle and hurt the Orland people, even if those northerners finally took Kaso, the little bastard, and ran away from the mountain pass, he only needed to enter the royal city to rule the Usato territory, and then turn around to reorganize the southeast. By then, he would have controlled nearly half of Kantadar, and he would be able to sit firmly on the throne.

At that time, the West was still waiting for a price, and the Falcon family would definitely stand on his side.

But when he thought of this, Abel couldn't help but twitch his mouth with anger.

Not only did the secret letter sent to Falcon sink into the sea, but up to now, no nobles in the western coastal territories have sent a single soldier to support.

The attitude at the banquet in the past was so respectful, but when it came to the time of needing assistance, these western lords didn't even believe in themselves as much as the Uriah people.

They didn't even want to send some money and food as a gesture. These pigs fattened by trade didn't even want to share a bite of food in the trough.

Abel secretly cursed these guys who couldn't see the situation clearly, and felt a headache looking at the statistics of the army's food and grass consumption in his hand.

Although a lot of burning, killing and looting were done in the wealthy villages and towns of the king along the way, the deeper into Guanzhong, the more difficult it was to supply.

The people along the way had already fled upon hearing the news, and all were withdrawn to the north bank, leaving behind empty villages and towns.

The autumn crops planted in rotation in the farmland, whether mature or not, were all harvested in advance, packed and transported away, and those that could not be transported were burned to ashes by Casso early.

All the way north, the 50,000 troops under his command consumed a lot of food and grass every day, which made people sweat profusely.

This war could not be delayed.

"Go and ask Earl Yasen, Chief Khan Wunchi, Chief Khan Bayantore, and Chief Khan Alkin to come to the military meeting," Duke Abel ordered.

Let the lion scorpion knights and the Ulya people's light cavalry find unguarded or weakly defended shallows along the river as soon as possible.

Although the three stone bridges were blocked by Orland's army, even an army of tens of thousands of people could not watch every corner of the river under the king's territory of Usato.

Soon, dozens of lion scorpions in the Duke's army were divided into two teams under the control of the riders and took off. Thousands of Kantadar and Ulya light cavalry also went north from the three camps to explore

The eastern section of the upper reaches of the river, thousands of meters in the sky, the soaring beasts quickly descended.

Feeling the moist air and warm wind, Leon asked his griffin partner to stabilize the altitude at an estimated two thousand meters, and then looked down at the river below that divided the north and south of the earth.

This river, which is about 100 kilometers deep and runs through the Usato Territory, winds westward, and only in the eastern section of one-third of the river, a tributary flows southward, forming a horizontal "Y" shape in his eyes.

Such a clear view of the battlefield is a privilege only for "air knights" like him who ride flying war beasts.

However, he is far more than the only one who can fly in the blue sky in this era.

Leon did not dare to be careless, and still cautiously let Death Claw look around the surrounding airspace to confirm that there are no other suspicious targets.

After the griffin's consciousness wave told him that he did not see any traces of "lion scorpions", Leon continued to scout southward.

Not long ago, he followed the 10,000 troops of the nobles of the Gray Shirt Valley and came to the Usato Territory of Kantadar again under the leadership of General Lothar.

Just two days after arriving, he was transferred to the Count of the Stag and became the most special "air sentinel" among the 16,000 troops deployed by the kingdom on the east side of the north bank, in addition to the Pegasus knights from the king's territory.

As a person with a flying war beast partner, he has no privilege to hide in the barracks and wait for the war, but must become the army's eyes and ears in the sky.

Even the king himself is no exception to this. Even Ledwin III often controls the flying dragon named "Overlord" to take off and carefully survey the deployment and movements of the enemy on the other side.

Having participated in the military meeting of the senior nobles of Orland, Leon did not expect that in this alien world without airplanes, there is also a similar concept of air supremacy.

If you think about it carefully, this continent has had flying beasts that can tame and carry people since ancient times. If it really goes to such a large-scale battlefield, with both sides having air knights, the two armies on the ground will naturally have to seize the sky before the war breaks out.

However, before the full-scale battle starts, when the two sides are evenly matched, the sky is more about the competition for reconnaissance vision and the mutual expulsion like hide-and-seek. At most, it depends on luck to hunt down the enemy air knights who are alone, rather than setting up a posture for a battle in the air.

After all, the air knights are an extremely rare and precious force in the army. They will not fight to the death easily until the moment of decisive battle.

Especially at the moment, although King Ledwin's fire dragon is powerful enough to crush all the aerial creatures in this area in a one-on-one battle.

But if they are surrounded by dozens of lion scorpion knights of Kantadar, if there are more ants than elephants, the casualties of the flying dragons are small, but if the king is gone, it will be a lot of fun.

Although the "scorpion tail lion" domesticated by the Kantadar people is not as strong as the "Lorelite Griffin" in this world, it is much more ferocious than the "Hippogriff" and "Pegasus", and is also a first-class high-level existence in the food chain in nature.

If the Hippogriff encounters them, it can still get rid of the lion scorpion's hunting with its extraordinary speed, but the flying speed of the Pegasus is about the same as that of the lion scorpion.

This kind of aerial beast has always made the kings and lords of the north very envious in the wars between the two countries over the years.

Being favored by griffins is a rare opportunity, but there are serious examples of mass domestication of scorpions by the Kantardar people.

However, the Orland royal family is good at raising dragon beasts, but has never found a way to tame scorpions like the Southern Kingdom.

The scorpions that the Orland royal family has spent a lot of money to catch and buy in history are all wild and difficult to tame. Even if they are specially fed from childhood, they cannot be trained as mounts. In the end, after trying everything, they can only give them to the flying dragons as a snack.

Nowadays, the "Flying Horses" imported from the "Kingdom of Aurelia" in the Kingdom of Kronia have been bred to a certain scale, but those beautiful and noble "flying war horses" will only become food if they encounter the "flying lions" of Kantardar, and they rely on the knights on their backs to protect themselves.

Of course, Leon felt that after the North won this battle, the new king of Kantadar named Kaso would have to hand over the secret method of taming beasts that the Southern royal family had hidden for hundreds of years. Perhaps, he had been forced to hand it over to Ledwin III.

Unfortunately, even if he got the method to tame the lion scorpion, Orland could not immediately create a scorpion tail lion cavalry unit.

No matter how fast the scorpion tail lion cubs grow, it will take three or four years for them to become adults.

In the northern army, Pegasus dared not approach the griffin. Perhaps only the king's flying dragon could really team up with himself riding a griffin.

Unfortunately, Ledwin had to stay in the center army to suppress the air force of the Southern Army.

Now the heavy responsibility of controlling the airspace around the Grey Shirt Valley Army under Trosa on the east side fell on the shoulders of Leon and another Pegasus Knight formation.

He gradually lowered his altitude and patrolled the riverside hills between the two forests on the east side of the southern bank of the upper reaches of the river.

The reason why they were assigned the task of monitoring this place was that according to the intelligence of the court officials of the Kantadar Royal City, in addition to the three large stone bridges distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the main river, there would be shallows near the bifurcation of the upstream river from time to time and seasonally.

The Duke of Aberle's army undoubtedly had the possibility of bypassing the forest, crossing the river from some shoals in the upper reaches of the river to encircle the northern army and force the Orland army to redeploy its defense.

The 30,000 or 40,000 troops assembled in the north could not block the river crossing points that could be taken advantage of on the river channel that was more than 100 kilometers long at all times, especially since the enemy's troops were more than their own.

Only by deploying air cavalry and light cavalry, discovering and mobilizing them in time, could they always maintain the advantage of being able to launch a "half-crossing attack" against the southern army.

In fact, in the seemingly peaceful land of the Usato Kingdom, in every corner, the scouts from the north and south had already killed each other in a hidden place.

The reconnaissance power of the two armies was like the tentacles of a giant monster, probing each other's weaknesses and flaws from the sky to the earth, from the light to the dark.

Leon found that he seemed to be lucky today. Although he could not see clearly at this distance, the Death Claw, which could see through the ten thousand meters of subtlety from the consciousness wave transmitted by the partner contract, had seen some movement at the end of the vision.

In the distance of the river between the tributaries of the river, in a village on the east bank that had long been deserted, the griffin saw "humans in disgusting clothes" and their "delicious prey".

Finally caught a cavalry of the Southern Army, Leon immediately cheered up, he pulled the reins to let the Death Claw pull up the altitude, flew into the clouds at an altitude of 3,000 meters to cover his body, and quietly touched over.

With the cover of the clouds, the griffin was like a dot looming.

Leon did not dare to expose himself by relying on the distance. The two armies confronting each other in the north and south were not a mob. They were elite divisions that had fought for many years and would not regard the small dots passing by in the sky as ordinary birds.

He only took advantage of the time gap through the clouds to peek at the cavalry that was entering the uninhabited village on the west bank.

One thousand. More than that.

Leon glanced and saw that there were figures of the same size moving quickly in the south.

When did they come here?

He remembered that he went 60 kilometers further south yesterday and did not see these two thousand cavalry.

Did they march quietly in the dark last night?

He hesitated slightly, but Leon pulled his griffin partner and knew that he could not get closer.

There was no guarantee that the enemy would not have the lion scorpion troops following. Since he had discovered it first, he had to go back and report the enemy situation immediately before he ran into the possible air knights of the enemy to change their movements and intentions.

He urged the death claw to flap its wings and climb faster.

It was not until he flew into the six thousand meters altitude that the lion scorpion could never reach that Leon turned around and flew towards the northern military camp at full speed.

In half a minute, it returned to the sky above the camp more than tens of kilometers away and dived down to lower altitude.

Oland's Pegasus knights gathered around the falling figure, and only dispersed to continue their aerial patrol after they identified it as a friendly griffin.

The giant beast landed in a landing zone specially cleared for it. Leon turned over and jumped off the saddle. With the privilege granted by Trosa, he entered the general's tent quickly without notifying the guards, who were beating their chests and saluting.

The great lords who were discussing around the map and the simple sand table looked up.

Seeing that the young man broke into the meeting directly, Trosa didn't waste any words and instantly knew the purpose of the visit: "Enemy situation?"

". Two thousand Uriah cavalry appeared near the village of Bayer on the east bank of the tributary of the river. It is suspected that they marched here last night under the cover of night."

Leon simply touched his chest and immediately reported the enemy's position and actions in detail.

Upon hearing this, the old earl simply glanced at the map in front of him, and then said to the Count of Thorn Flower on the other side: "Lord Elliver, you will immediately lead your troops and the army of the Valley County to the upstream river fork as originally planned to resist the enemy troops who intend to cross the river. If necessary, decide whether to take the initiative to attack. Lord Leon will temporarily return to your account."

"Yes, General." Elliver and several barons of the Valley County solemnly accepted the order, turned and walked out of the military tent, and went to mobilize a total of 3,800 troops.

Leon saluted to Trosa and followed the footsteps of the lords.

"You go ahead and continue to observe the enemy's movements and report to me at any time." Elliver instructed his beloved general who returned to his command.

Leon nodded, climbed onto the griffin saddle, and flew away again.

Back to the sky above the tributary river on the south bank, he rode the Death Claw and hid in the clouds, and the dog poked his head out to look at the two thousand cavalry below.

They had been seen sending out small teams of three to five people to scout upstream in the northeast, until the griffin companions found a number of small dots that looked like manticores flying in the distance, and Leon retreated to the north bank of the river bifurcation.

The army led by Elliver had already hidden in the woods behind the high hills upstream.

After Leon reported the last movement of the cavalry on the other side, he heard the Lord of Feng make arrangements without stopping: "Balf, Leon, you lead a thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry to act as bait and enter the Green Creek Village on the east bank of the tributary. There is no need to worry about being exposed."

"The rest of the army, follow me to retreat and hide in the woods. When night falls, all soldiers will hold hands and cross the shallows to ambush in the forest on the west bank of the tributary."