Lord of War

"Snapped."

  A report document flew out of Elizabeth's hand and landed on a desk accurately.

  Asuna looked up, her face was a little confused.

   "Your pioneer knight is really not an ordinary person." Elizabeth smiled, but she couldn't see what the smile meant.

  Asuna opened the report casually. It only recorded the locations and results of several battles. As for other data, there was no record. But when Asuna saw the first combat log recorded on it, her brows frowned, and she stood up and walked towards the combat meeting room. Elizabeth followed closely, as if she had already known about Asuna. Na's plans are average.

  Tonis Fortress has two combat meeting rooms.

The largest one is in the castle area of ​​the fortress, occupying an area of ​​more than 500 square meters. Inside there is a huge strategic model map, drawing extremely detailed drawings of the Principality of Lane, the Millennium Covenant Empire and the Kingdom of Darbion—Asuna’s dream is I hope that one day all the landforms on the entire Marvel Continent can be made up.

  The other combat meeting room is in the city lord’s mansion, but the scale is much smaller.

  This conference room also has a map of the topography, but only the Tonys collar and some surroundings around the Angroda Mountains. Naturally, it is impossible to compare with the map of the castle area in terms of scale. It’s just that there are only five people who are lucky enough to see that map except Asuna. They are just full of one hand, so when most of them can see the map located in the battle meeting room of the castle mansion, they There will be a heartfelt exclamation.

  At this moment, after entering the combat meeting room, Asuna got up and walked to the map, saying: "Richard's Corridor..."

   Elizabeth stretched out her delicate right hand, and planted a red flag that was no more than a finger long on a prairie located in the northeast corner of the Angrodha Mountains.

   "The Corridor of Ashes..."

   is another red flag, which is inserted a few centimeters below and to the right of the first red flag.

Whenever Asuna reported a place name, Elizabeth would put a red flag in the corresponding position on the map. After seven times, Asuna finally stopped narrating, and Elizabeth also took it. The other flags were all thrown back to the edge of the table.

  The place where each red flag is inserted is a battlefield, and the seven flags are seven wars.

  At this moment, on this topographic map, you can see a red line.

The route starts from the northeastern corner of the Angrodda Mountains and the edge of the Berais Forest. It follows the Angrodda Mountains and goes straight to the south. Along the way, it has passed through the four territories of the Kingdom of Darbion. Passing through the last piece of Viscountry led by Darbion Kingdom and Tonys, then this extended route will officially enter Tonys.

  If it is just a general situation, it will naturally not attract the attention of Asuna and Elizabeth.

  But this force cannot be regarded as the scope of the general situation.

"In two months, across the four territories of the Kingdom of Darbion, there were seven wars." Asuna frowned and said in a deep voice, "Every war is about defeating the enemy, never chasing down. Soldiers, and they don’t take prisoners. Obviously this unit is marching in a hurry.... It seems that our Sir Connery is indeed a little anxious."

"He has only regained two small towns at the moment. The situation in Panda Town is very unstable, and it is said that an army has entered the Pandan collar from the savage land. The banner is the blood flag, which should be Dab. Ron’s reinforcements. Elizabeth said, “I guess a new war will break out in Panda Town in the last month, but I don’t know if the army led by Alfred can arrive in time. "

"If there is no accident, it should be possible to catch up with this battle to establish the territory." As a military strategist, Asuna is naturally more sophisticated than Elizabeth. Judging from the position of the seven small red flags, she is already You can roughly infer the marching speed of this army, "But I really didn't expect that Sean actually hid such an army.... What does the intelligence show is the size of more than nine thousand people?"

"There are more than 7,000 northern barbarians, but only 4,000 are actually armed. There are also more than 1,000 mixed troops, totaling more than 9,000 people." Elizabeth opened the mouth and replied, "But in fact, the real battle is true. There are only more than 5,000 people. However, these 5,000 people have already defeated the four lords totaling more than 20,000 troops, and they have attacked several cities and towns along the way. If it weren’t for the Northland barbarians who were not good at riding, it’s probably It is possible to form a cavalry force of two thousand people.... But by the time I get this information, the size of nine thousand people is probably only more than six thousand people left."

  Asuna pondered for a moment, and then she said, "It seems that when this troop arrives at Pandan, it will give Sean a big surprise."

"You said, are we going to buy a batch of Northland barbarian slaves to train?" Elizabeth laughed, "These guys look good to raise, and they have a high combat effectiveness. This Sir Connery I am afraid it will give a lot of people a surprise... You said, should I take people to the border to guard against accidents."

"No need." Asuna shook her head. "Viscount Duoqi is a very timid person. The private soldiers in his entire territory have gathered together and don't know if there are three thousand people. Block Alfred’s vigorous army, huh..." At the end, Asuna let out a sneer: "Unless the lord of the territories behind Viscount Duoqi sees something, join forces. Send troops to reinforce, otherwise it will never be able to stop this wolf pack."

   "I always feel... those guys in the Darbion Kingdom may allow this wolf pack to return easily."

  ...The cold wind howls.

  Alfred took a routine tour of the camp.

Said it is a camp, but in fact it is just a meeting point. The entire camp does not even have tents and other materials. Everyone sleeps on the ground wrapped in a blanket. In order to avoid attracting people’s attention, the camp does not even have a bonfire. Ignite. Although I have found a place leeward as far as possible, the roaring cold wind still made many people feel a bit chilly, so most of the soldiers huddled together to stay warm.

   During the routine inspection, many soldiers who were not asleep would greet Alfred when they saw Alfred. And Alfred responded unpretentiously one by one. He didn't seem to think that doing so would waste any time. Whenever he saw wounded soldiers enduring pain, this heroic middle-aged man would Stop, and then help check the opponent's injury again, and change the dressing for the opponent by the way.

  In the past two months, I have travelled thousands of kilometers, and there have been seven major and minor wars.

  In every war, Alfred is always at the forefront. No matter what kind of unit the enemy is, or what kind of powerful enemy, Alfred has never backed down. He will always be the first person to pierce through the enemy’s troops, and he will always be the one who walks in the most critical place on the battlefield. Because the troops have family members, they are actually very passive every time a war breaks out. If it weren't for Alfred to rush back and forth in the enemy's formation with the halberd, many times they would not be able to start the situation at all.

  Twenty-one new wounds were added to Alfred's body in just two months. Many of the wounds were just right, but they broke open because of the fierce fighting. Although this force has dropped sharply from more than 9,000 people at the beginning to more than 6,000 people now, even the veterans who came out with Sean from Tindes and now only have eleven, but Al Fred also truly won the respect of this unit.

  The northern barbarians call him the great minister, which is a honorific title second only to the unitary chief and below the priest. Only those who are strong and convince the northern barbarians will be called this way. The White Wing Mercenary Corps calls him the head of the group. As a mercenary group, they don’t know everything. Knowing that the new owner they follow becomes a lord, their status will rise and become a formal group. The army, but they still like the previous mercenary regiment, calling Alfred the commander instead of the general.

  All of this was not made out of empty promises, but was rushed out of seven life and death wanderings.

  After patrolling the camp, Alfred returned to the rear of this "camp".

  This location is best protected. It is difficult for the cold wind to blow here. Even if there is, it will not be too severe. Little Hina sleeps here. The whole army also loves this cheerful girl very much, not just because she is Alfred’s daughter, but because even on the battlefield, the little girl never cries and makes noise, let alone Will cause any trouble to the army.

  Two times the perimeter line of defense was breached. The enemy rushed into the formation and slaughtered the old and young of the northern barbarians with a knife, and once even almost killed the little girl. But I don’t know what happened later. When an veteran rushed to the rescue desperately, what she finally saw was Hina holding a long sword in both hands, standing on the spot with a magical expression, and fell in front of her. There is an old man from the northern barbarian and three private soldiers who do not know which nobleman they belong to.

  After this incident, Alfred blamed herself very much, but Hina turned her head to comfort Alfred, even saying that she would be a soldier in the future. In the next three battles since then, Alfred has never allowed any enemy to break through the line of defense. What’s more obvious is that Alfred’s combat style has also become more fierce and more fierce. Kind of a sense of killing that never looks back.

   "One more month." Alfred said in a low voice, "One month before we can rendezvous with Sean."

  But at this moment, a sharp burst of air suddenly sounded.

  A wave of arrows pouring down from nowhere, and then you can even feel the vibration of the ground, it is obvious that there are cavalry troops charging!

   "Enemy Attack!"

  The tragic roar, instantly resounded throughout the cold night!