The Amber Sword

Sealed in a thick envelope from Hillat Hills, they were sent overnight to Her Majesty's desk. The flame-shaped crest on the envelope indicates that it is a military-related secret, but the seven-layer flameprint indicates that it is not of high importance. Constance asked the woman to open the envelope, then took a look at the letterhead and handed it over to Chancellor Neville, Jr.

Hillat Hills is one of the royal family's secret sights in the Floating Cloud Hills, where magical secrets come naturally from the Earl of Eruin.

Little Chancellor Neville looked and shook his head gently: "This is endless. ”

But Her Majesty herself did not seem to care much, and she replied: "Darius' grandson forced them, but it was on her own. ”

On the letterhead, in Krutz, it reads: 'Your Majesty, the nobles have prepared men and horses here to fight against the Count from the kingdom of Eruin. The commander of this army is Count Jean, who is now resting in the towns of Iron Cedars, Vargas or the area around the left, and three more lords, as well as dozens of knights, have reportedly responded to the call.

They should have been on their way by the time the letter was sent. ’

This message was a day ago-

Floating Cloud Hill--

The eastern sky is now numb and white, and the stars are fading away, marking the arrival of a new day in the early morning, bathed in the morning light of the red pine forest, the Count is looking anxiously at the direction of the western horizon at this moment, as if true sincerity, as Her Majesty has said, he is now beginning to feel some cocooning. Count Jean, with a restless mood, turned to himself for the third time.

The scout rider asked, "You've run east, west, north. Are you sure you haven't seen the Moors and Coopers, the Walkers, none? ”

The scout rider is a few skilled knights, most of whom come from various regiments, leaving the army because of a fight, injury, injury, old age or something else. They leave the army with great experience and either enter the mercenary regiment or become noble ministers, but at this moment the veterans also face each other, shaking their heads vigorously: "My lord, no.

Yes, we haven't seen any. ”

“Damn, have you ever been to Cedar Town?” Count Jean bit his teeth and nearly rubbed the gloves into a bunch.

“My lord, we have also been there, but the local calm, the local inhabitants do not yet know what happened.” The riders answered immediately.

“Did you see the Moore and Cooper signals, or the Walkers? ”

“No, my lord.” The riders shook their heads together.

Count Jean sucked in a breath of cold air.

……

“Just one flag? ”

Brando and Nimaisi returned to their positions after simply scouting the battlefield. In the theory of war in the great empires of this era and the surrounding kingdoms, scouting the battlefield was mostly left to the cavalry, with commanders overlooking the entire battlefield in the highlands - in smaller battles, the entire battlefield of a battle would not be more than ten miles long, so it would be easy to

to take the whole battlefield to the bottom.

But Brando and Nimaisi chose the player's way, even if the air units used to map the battlefield to make the sand tray, and as commanders they just needed to have an intuitive understanding of the entire battlefield. This approach has the advantage of being more conducive to concealing one's intentions, especially the direction in which one's army enters the battlefield, such an operational philosophy in the Second Black Rose War by

Maddala took the lead, but the players flourished, and in this day and age, very advanced tactical thinking.

But the news that Stone Ghost had brought back surprised him.

In the direction in which he and Nemathis had previously discovered the movement of the Krutz aristocratic private forces, he quickly found from the air an army hidden between the red pine woods, the subject of which consisted of noble spears and some crossbowmen, and also found a small number of cavalry soldiers, well equipped, especially with spears in the hands of spears whose reflection was almost entirely iron.

Even the standard imperial spears made of steel spears, the armor penetration rate in the army is very high, almost 80 percent or more. Except for the crossbowmen, even the spears are equipped with locking armor. The knight is almost uniformed armor of one color. Such equipment is no less than that of a front-line regiment such as the White Lion and the Black Blade Corps, even as a noble private army.

They are not everywhere in the empire, and they are most likely the pro-Garden armies of the great lords.

And here, it's either the Earl of Olkons or the Earl of Jean, which is the South, or the Banker area near the centre of the Empire, or the area held by military nobles like Ludwig in the North.

But Brando was surprised that there was only one army in the forest, and he repeatedly asked the Stone Ghost to confirm the emblem on the flag, and only to distinguish it.

“The emblem is the emblem of Count Jean, who himself came here, so where are the others, ambushed? ”

Brando couldn't help but look at some incredible knight beside him.

Nimaisie shook her head gently, and it was virtually impossible to ambush her, and the stone statues had a very wide view that would close the entire hillbilly in the vicinity as they swept over the sky. After the Black Sword Barrier, the Cruz understood the presence of stone ghosts in their armies, and the Imperial nobles, though arrogant, were not fools. On the contrary, most of them

Knowledgeable, it is impossible not to have heard of the abilities of stone statues ghosts, so they are unlikely to let their armies ambush in vain.

Unless you ambush the whole battlefield, but you can't say you can't support them, so blatantly ambush them, don't you think they are fools?

Will Count Jean pull a thousand men to fight them to death? Even with their knees, it is impossible, although the Knights of the Summer Solstice, who were crushed by them at that time, as local knights of the Empire, they are much more capable of fighting than the aristocratic private armies do not know.

Because female knights instinctively believe that there is no such possibility.

Brando was naturally aware of this, and the only remaining possibility was that the army of the other side was obscured by spells, and such a battle history would not appear until after the Third Black Rose War, the first to use the Finn Zenith, and then came to pass - and if the Count really came up with such a brilliant idea in this day and age, it would be a tactical gift.

The only prerequisite for this is the existence of an independent, centralized cohort of wizards, the size of which is far from even Brando's wizards, and not to mention the ability of the Cruz to assemble such a cohort of wizards in such a short period of time, even if they did, they would have hidden too many armies.

He patted his head, and it got a little confusing.

“What exactly does the Cruz want? ”

Nimaisie shook her head bewildered, and in her dreams she had never seen a similar battle, and the military knowledge and tactical skills learned in this world did not seem to explain what the Cruz were doing at this moment.

Without being able to detect the enemy's movements, Brando dared not move lightly, although he understood that he had overwhelming power in his hands, but he did not want to cause unnecessary loss in his little fight with these imperial aristocrats, and he did not want to use some of the cards in this low-level conflict. He thought about it a little bit, decided to put the White Lion Guards on standby, and then he went dark.

The iron puppet provided by the Buga Wizard was arranged for backup on both wings. He had not used these secret weapons, which had always been hidden, in successive battles, but the situation was strange and he had to be cautious.

Fortunately, the only advantage now is that he has discovered the enemy, but the enemy has not yet discovered them, and he has time to wait for the Count to make further moves to see if the other side will reveal any cracks.

Time passes by, and the morning fog gradually fades away from the hills, starting with the open hills, and then even the light in the forest becomes bright. Moving a little bit above the sun, the hills were becoming more visible, and Brando stood behind the bushes and gradually could see with his naked eyes the outside of the forest, the other side of the undulating hills.

Rare and sparse flags in the forest, but what puzzles him is:

Almost two or three hours later, the other party still hasn't moved.

“Did they find us?” Brando couldn't explain what was happening at the moment. This is a must go road to Changqing aisle. The Count's presence here is justifiable, but the problem is that squatting is not so law-abiding. He hasn't seen any scouts sent in this direction yet. Count Jean seems crazy to make the whole

The armies are shrinking in a forest that does not look like an ambush, but more like they are simply hiding.

But the problem is.

Wouldn't it be better if he didn't leave his castle if the other side were to hide and suffer in the wilderness?

Brando Baptiste was inexplicable, but Count Jean was actually more anxious than he was at this time.

The Count of the Empire is really going insane...

This resentment between the Southern nobility and the hillbilly from Eruin has so far attracted the attention of the entire empire, up to the royal nobility, down to the civilian population, and even those who truly hold supreme power in the empire have shifted their gaze away from those two ongoing and temporarily silent jihadists to see their fun. It's precisely for this reason, whether

Neither he, nor Count Olkons, can retreat for half a step, or they will become the laughingstock of not knowing how many people behind them, the Paloot family, and the Duke of Paloot will lose a lot of prestige and face, and this account will naturally end up on them.

That's why he made a pact with Count Olkons to stop this Earl of Eluin in Floating Cloud Hills and not to defeat him completely - they knew that their army was less combative than the Imperial Border Corps, not even the Knights of the Summer Solstice, after all - but at least to make him feel difficult if they could save him.

Those noble hostages in hand, that is the end of all delight.

To that end, they have assembled almost all the local nobles on the side of the Parut family throughout the South, including four historic families and countless lords and knights of all sizes and sizes, an army that, although uneven, has gathered together, not to mention tens of thousands of people, and which, in their view, should be enough to deal with a mission of only a few hundred.

There's more.

Yet when everything was ready, only the last moment owed to the east wind, this morning he encountered a problem that had never been anticipated.

Count Jean suddenly seemed to have lost contact with all the other allies who were supposed to be stationed in the vicinity of various settlements or towns in the area, or even the day before, apparently, he had sent one of them to contact them.

But right now, they disappeared for no reason at all, as if they had evaporated in vain.

The Count is now a cold sweat in his head, and the first thing he thinks about is whether he was betrayed by these damn guys, but the idea just existed like instinct for a moment, and was immediately rejected by him. He understands that anyone else could turn against him, but Count Olkons is absolutely impossible. They're both on the same boat.

If he accidentally turns the boat, then he is definitely not the only one who has to face the thunder and anger of the Duke of Palut.

The next possibility, then, is that his allies have been unwittingly killed by the terrible Eruin opposite him.

It would have been absurd to think that hundreds of envoys would have quietly killed tens of thousands of aristocratic private armies stationed within dozens of miles of each other and told them not to know each other, which sounded like a nightmare. But now the more the Count thinks it's possible, he hasn't really had any dealings with Brando before, even though Brando caught him.

Many of his nobles, even one of his nephews, were in fact clashes between nobles and Brando in those places, and he would not want to deal with such lunatics if Brando hadn't had to grab the hostages and beat him in the face of Count Olcons, or even the face of the big man behind them.

But although he had never met the Count of that kingdom, there was much more to hear about Brando, the clearest of which was about the part where he attacked the Empire Fortress, an entire legion that had been healed by the other side, not even defeated or destroyed, but was completely taken into custody and had to do as the other side wished.

Do something.

Count Jean thought of this, and suddenly realized that he might have done something stupid, and he thought he might have defeated such a terrible figure, even if he had tens of thousands of horses under his command, perhaps comparable to the Rogerian border regiment?

At this time, the Count was already full of thoughts, and he sent his men to continue in the direction of his allies' presence to find out what was happening. If you can't meet them on the road, then at least go to their previous camp, if they're not there, or if they find traces of the fighting, Count Jean thinks, as if they were in Judah.

Hesitate how to arrange a safe way back for yourself.

But not long after, the scout riders he sent finally came back on horseback.

Although these riders look like servants of the wind and dust and are tired enough to choke on each and every one of them, there is no blood stain on them and no sign of injury. This suggests that they were not intercepted, and the discovery relieved Count Jean a little and asked him hastily, “What about the Moors, Walkers and Coopers? And Count Alcons? Did you find them? ”

He asked the question as if it were a beaded cannon, but before he could say two words, he suddenly stopped.

Because he sees his men, looking at him with a weird look, creepy.

“What the hell is going on?” He subconsciously felt that the problem could be somewhat serious and even unexpected.

The oldest of the scoundrels licked his lips and couldn't help but answer with a few dry voices: "Lord, Count Olcons and them...”

“What's wrong with them? Can't you stop acting like you've seen ghosts? Well, even if there are dead spirits, you haven't dealt with them?” Count Jean frowned and looked at his men with great dissatisfaction, and they received them precisely because they saw the experience of the veterans, but they had never behaved so swallowed up in the past, and they did not even crawl out of the dead.

But at this time, suddenly, a warrior came back from the front, fearful, white, running and shouting, “Oh, my God, my lord, it's the Eluynes, they're here! ”

Count Jean was frightened. This is what he was most afraid of right now. He turned around and looked at the guy and said, "What are you talking about, the Eruites coming? Is this the Eruites' mission? ”

But the subordinate shook his head vigorously: "No, those dragons! Blue, blue, many, all over the sky. Come and see, my lord! ”

The guy's voice was almost screaming.

……

After waiting another long hour, Brando finally discovered that the strange imperial noble army across the street still seemed unintentional, but by this time he had finally lost his last patience.

He had long envisaged a wide variety of possible situations, with the obvious exception of the present.

It is obviously impossible for him to spend endlessly here with the Count, and if the Count did so in order to motivate him to take the initiative, he had to say that he had done so.

Good thing this isn't a particularly complex issue for Brando.

Attack or not, although it is not up to him, but the choice of how to attack is in his hands. Of course, it is impossible for him to first expose his intentions to the other party. Since the other party wants to see what means he has, there is no better way than to let Charles command Ethereum to try deep.

And so he did.

But the end result was very unexpected.

In fact, it was unexpected by Nimatis, Charles, and even Princess Metisa.

Charles had just let the Ethereum into the battlefield, and one of Count Jean's army across the street ran off quickly.

Brando was convinced that if he was right, the man was carrying a white flag--

At that moment, even he couldn't bear to be deeply confused.

“Did the Count come here to surrender to him? ”

“Is that how the Cruz fight? ”