Your war hammer is too fake

"If you think my next words offend you, Duke, then I am willing to apologize for it," the prince said, "I hope you can hand over half of the, uh, nectar vehicles, along with the operators, to us and return them after the battle is over. The imperial soldiers will guarantee their safety with their lives."

The governor asked, "Do you know what you are talking about, Prince?"

"I made this decision not because I don't trust you. If I didn't trust you, my army and I wouldn't be here," the prince replied calmly. "Please forgive me, we are not that familiar with each other after all."

Looking into Prince Hertwig's eyes, An Jiyue realized without using her psychic powers that the man in front of her had made up his mind. The people of Zhendan and the people of the Empire were not familiar with each other, and it was an objective fact that there was not much mutual trust, but the request of the Empire still made her feel uncomfortable.

"The nectar cart can only be handed over to the dwarves who came with you," the girl said. "This is the greatest concession I can make. If you disagree, my army will carry out this operation independently."

The Bishop Sigmar seemed to want to say something, but Prince Hertwig spoke first: "This condition is acceptable. I apologize for my behavior, Duke, and in the name of the comet, I have no intention of questioning it."

"Well..." The bishop couldn't help but say, "Why can't we buy these magical vehicles? Duke, if its function is just to provide drinking water, I think this equipment can be used for export."

An Jiyue's tent suddenly became quiet. As the bishop looked puzzled, the governor and the elector stared at him, their eyes clearly saying, why the hell didn't you say it earlier?!

Chapter 186 Imperial Knights

Prince Hertwig bought twenty manna carts out of his own pocket.

The Elector also hired operators for these manna wagons, after all, the Imperials certainly didn't know how to operate such foreign equipment. Coupled with the water and light beer carried on the baggage wagons, at least the water supply during the campaign was not a problem.

The 20,000-strong coalition army rested in Essen for a week, during which time the imperial hunters wearing the amulets provided by the Zhendan people entered the dead forest to investigate the situation and find the most suitable marching route for the army. These experienced wilderness survival experts and archery masters also received some flares from the Zhendan people before setting off.

When they go deep into the dead forest, the flying units of the Zhendan people will hover over their scheduled activity area and wait for orders. As long as the hunters fire a signal flare, Lei Zhenzi and even the Eagle Guard will descend from the sky to rescue them.

Compared to their counterparts in other provinces, hunters in Ostermark were not very famous. After all, the Griffin Forest was one of the few relatively safe forests in the empire, while the Dead Forest was too dangerous for normal humans to survive. Whether it was the neighboring Talabek, the farther Hawke, or Midden and Nord, these provinces of the empire had large forests and were generally quite dangerous. The harsh living environment naturally cultivated the most deadly hunters.

If one must select the "Best Hunter in the Empire", An Jiuyue personally prefers to give this honor to the Territory of Talabek. The reason is simple. As a province that mainly worships Tal, the god of nature and wilderness, and where the belief in Ulric is also very popular, the hunters in the Territory of Talabek do have some metaphysical bonuses in this regard.

The hunters in Ostermark were not as good as their counterparts in Talabek, but they were still excellent as scouts. They rarely used the flares given by the Zhendan people, and even the beastmen, who were born with the ability to ambush and were extremely good at fighting in forest environments, often had to rely on a multiple of their strength to catch these cunning warriors.

Once they fall into such an unfavorable situation, the hunters will take out the signal flare - a grape-sized cork ball in appearance, which is usually kept in a special box to avoid false triggering - and crush it. When many hunters use this thing for the first time, they often doubt what the use of this thing without any sound or light effect is, until they see the flying units of the Zhendan people swooping down from the sky in the sound of airflow.

These small balls made of cork are hollow and filled with an alchemy product. This thing is the same material as the marking bullet used by Luo Yanlang. In addition to his job as a sniper, Luo Yanlang in the An's Aurora Army sometimes uses marking bullets to guide the target for the Shenhuo Feiya artillery group in the rear. They will aim and shoot according to the normal process, firing marking bullets at the target. The marking bullets will shatter when hitting the target and generate a strong signal that lasts for dozens of seconds.

This signal cannot be detected by human senses, except for those who are qualified to be a spellcaster. In the supernatural vision of the mechanical beast, this signal is as conspicuous as a flash bomb that suddenly explodes in the dark night.

Compared with the marking flares used exclusively by Luoyanlang, this cheap and easy-to-produce flare is widely distributed to all troops that need to perform reconnaissance missions. It is used to warn other friendly troops of abnormal conditions at a certain location during operations; or it can be used by sentries to make alarm traps to give careless attackers a big surprise.

The two parties, who were originally strangers and alienated, quickly became familiar with each other through repeated emergency support.

At the same time, Prince Hertwig also took the time to train the free militia, not to make these messy troops as solid and reliable as the provincial infantry, but at least not to become a drag in the next action. Originally, this was not a necessary move, but when the enemy is a demon, no amount of preparation is too much.

In addition to dealing with the free militia, the Elector also had to find time to mediate disputes among the Imperial Knights. Unlike the knights of Bretonnia, the Imperial Knights usually came from the aristocracy, but the prerequisite for becoming an Imperial Knight was to give up inheritance rights and secular wealth, which was the same for both secular and religious knights.

Unlike the provincial infantry, the Imperial Knights were highly independent. The funds needed to maintain the daily operations of the Knights depended on the sponsorship of nobles, wealthy merchants, and the church, but there was no affiliation between the Knights and these people. The latter would ask the former for support when needed, and whether to agree to provide support was entirely up to the Knights. The bigwigs of the Empire asked the Knights for help based on influence, not power in any sense.

Even for the emperor, it is very important to have good relations with the knights. Often, a family or church has such great influence on a particular knight order that it seems that they can command the knight order like the elector commands the provincial infantry. This is an illusion. The knights of the empire are essentially micro-countries within a country. Grand Ulric mobilizes the White Wolf Knights based on prestige. If a Grand Ulric is so incompetent and of such low character that he cannot convince the people, then the White Wolf Knights will most likely refuse to obey his request.

This also applies to the Church of Sigmar. Even a religious knight order like the Griffin Knights, which is dedicated to protecting the clergy of the Church of Sigmar, has a chance of disobeying orders if they encounter a notorious high priest.

This is also the reason why Kessler, the Grand Master of the Knights of the Eternal Light, led the knights back to the headquarters directly after the Battle of Black Road 17 years ago, which made Prince Hertwig infamous, when the prince insisted on commanding the battle himself instead of handing over the command to the Grand Master. This behavior is unthinkable in An's Zhendan, but in the Empire, the knights' actions are completely in line with the rules.

By the way, the headquarters of the Knights of Eternal Light is in Essen. This cursed Knights Order often encounters some unfortunate accidents, including but not limited to fires, earthquakes, and even comets hitting the Knights Order headquarters. After rebuilding the Knights Order Hall countless times, the current Grand Master Kessler decided to move the headquarters to Essen.

So far, the headquarters seems to be holding up...

Compared with the Knights of Everlight, with whom he had an unpleasant past, the real trouble for Prince Hertwig was the Reik Guards and the White Wolf Knights who took the initiative to participate in this expedition. As one of the four major knight orders, the Reik Guards, with a very short history, had fortresses throughout the empire. They would appear on any battlefield at any time of the year to help the imperial army fight; the White Wolf Knights, also one of the four major knight orders, were similar, but these rough guys were more active in the north of the empire.

Upon hearing the news that the Ostermarkers were preparing to retake Mordheim, a group of Reik's Guards stationed at the northern border of the empire took the initiative to join the Elector's army. Originally, this was nothing, but the key point was that after hearing the news, a group of White Wolf Knights who were just passing by also clamored to join the expedition, openly competing with the Reik's Guards.

The contradictions and conflicts between the followers of Sigmar and Ulric have run through the history of the empire. Sometimes the disputes between the two sides are limited to verbal arguments or "healthy competition": in the Battle of Hejig thousands of years ago, the battle priests of Sigmar and the battle priests of Ulric fought together, competing with each other for the number of kills.

Sometimes, such disputes would turn into large-scale brawls or even wars. If the White Wolf Knights were just competing with the Reik Guards to kill the enemy, Prince Hertwig would not have such a headache. As imperial knights, the White Wolf Knights were wild and unruly, but they were not like street thugs who would make a scene for the sake of so-called face.

However, in the emperor election that just ended recently, Boris Todbringer announced his withdrawal from the election "out of principled considerations". Yurik's followers firmly believe that it must be those bastards who believe in comets who are secretly doing bad things. Since they cannot compete with the Wolf Lord, they use despicable means to win the election. The White Wolf Knights are particularly convinced of this.

On the way from Baker Harbor to Essen, the White Wolf Knights were looking for trouble almost every day, jumping into the face and provoking the Reik's Guards. As followers of Sigmar, the Reik's Guards were tolerant at first, but later they saw that the wolf cubs were getting more and more excessive, and they couldn't stand it anymore! Damn it! For-The-Sigmar!!

The two sides fought like this all the way. If both sides had not been rational and only used fists and feet instead of weapons, Prince Hertwig would have ordered the two groups to disarm.

Chapter 187 Feng Xizhao

A phrase that often appears in the military history of China and foreign countries is "opening an offensive channel."

As the old saying goes, a spent crossbow cannot penetrate a thin silk cloth. No matter how powerful an army is, its offensive kinetic energy is ultimately limited. During combat, fatigue gradually accumulates, the organization is incomplete due to attrition, and equipment and ammunition are lost... All of these gradually accumulate, and no matter how hard an army tries to replenish personnel and equipment, its offensive capability will gradually decline until it can no longer fight. This phenomenon is the so-called exhaustion of offensive kinetic energy.

When attacking a strategic location heavily defended by the enemy, in order to avoid consuming too much offensive kinetic energy when reaching the enemy's core stronghold, resulting in failure to capture the key target, the common practice in ancient and modern times is to divide the attack force into two parts: the main attack and the auxiliary. The auxiliary force's task is to clear the outer strongholds of the core target. When the outer strongholds are almost cleared, the main attack force that has been gathering strength will be deployed to directly attack the enemy's core. What the former does in this process is to "open the attack channel."

The key to the above strategy is to allow the main attacking force to fight the most important battle in the best possible condition. When formulating the action plan to retake Modheim, An Jiyue did not play any tactical tricks. She strictly followed the universal military principles of ancient and modern times, and prepared to take down the former capital of Ostermark with a thunderous blow.

Considering that the second half of the operation would rely on the ruins for defense until the purification ceremony was completed, the cavalry of the coalition forces was responsible for opening the offensive channel. Whether it was the Aurora cavalry and Yulin guards, or the imperial pistol cavalry, pioneer cavalry and imperial knights, all cavalry were mobilized to clear the obstacles for the coalition forces to advance.

During this period, a minor incident occurred. Kessler, the Grand Master of the Eternal Light Knights, proposed to take over the command of the cavalry at a joint military meeting of the two armies. His proposal made the Aurora officers on the scene glare at him angrily. The lieutenants felt that this Western barbarian was too arrogant. He actually wanted to command the Yulin Iron Cavalry across systems? !

The Knights of the Everlight took the initiative to join the battle. Prince Hertwig had not originally invited them to participate in this operation. It was not that the Elector was still brooding over the events of the Battle of the Black Road, but that cavalry was not very useful in either attacking or defending a city. Anyway, his army already had a squadron of the Reik Guards and the White Wolf Knights, as well as some detachments sent by small knight orders. All in all, there were almost two hundred tin cans, which was enough.

"Mr. Kessler," An Jiyue did not reject the proposal directly, but asked, "Excuse me, you have commanded a normal march distance of 24 leagues a day. If necessary, can you lead a heavy cavalry to march a hundred leagues within hours?"

War horses are very delicate creatures. If they are used a little too hard, they will lose weight or even become useless. Even the elf horses, whose endurance is so strong that it can be called magical, are basically monsters compared to the horses in the "homeland" of the time travelers. There is no essential difference in this respect. But the mechanical horse is different. As a bionic machine, the endurance of the mechanical horse is far superior to that of any flesh and blood body.

The standard marching distance of the Aurora infantry is sixty miles a day, which is no different from the regular armies of other human countries. Except for the "regular army" of Bretonnia. However, the normal marching distance of the Aurora cavalry is a full four hundred miles a day. The mechanical horses made of wood and a small amount of steel structure will never have the problem of "losing weight", and they don't need to carry any horse feed.

"I am not familiar with your equipment and tactics," Kessler thought for a moment and said, "To be precise, this is the first time I have seen the Dragon Emperor's army in person. Whether it is infantry or cavalry, your warriors have impressed me. In practical terms, I think it would be more efficient to integrate our cavalry and deploy them as a whole."

"The heavy cavalry of any country are proud warriors, even those of us who emphasize humility are no exception." The attitude of the Grand Commander made An Jiyue frown slightly, "I'm afraid they will not be happy to obey the orders of a strange foreigner. More importantly, you may be a famous commander in your country, but the only thing we know about you is that seventeen years ago you abandoned the Elector and let him and his army face the greenskins alone."

"I have no intention of offending anyone, Duke. The Imperials have already reached a conclusion on this matter," said the Grand Commander.

All the imperial people in the tent turned their eyes to the expressionless Prince Hertwig.

"You have to understand the cultural differences, Grand Commander," the Jiedushi turned his head and propped his cheek with one hand, "I am probably the person from Cathay who knows the empire best in this world. I know that what you did at that time was in line with your rules. What I want to say is that if it was in Cathay, and the commander of a cavalry unit openly disobeyed orders on the battlefield, or even dared to abandon the commander and leave the battlefield, even if there was no affiliation between the two sides, all members of the cavalry unit would be executed afterwards, and their families would be forever disgraced by their behavior."

"We can't do this no matter which province of the Empire we are in. The Imperial Knights are not servants of anyone, even the Emperor."

"It seems that you still don't understand what I mean," the Jiedushi shook his head. "In the eyes of my subordinates, you and your people are a group of rogues who disobeyed orders and almost killed the commander-in-chief. They did not refuse to obey your orders because they doubted your command ability, Grand Commander Kessler. They did not think you were worthy of being a commander at all."

Inside the tent, the people attending the meeting had different expressions. After listening to the translation of the military Taoist priest, the lieutenants exchanged glances with each other, ready to support their own commander at any time. In contrast, the reaction of the imperial people was much more complicated. Even those imperial officers who belonged to the provincial infantry system had different attitudes towards this matter.

Some imperial officers thought that the Grand Master underestimated the ability of his own Elector Prince, because Prince Hertwig won the Battle of the Black Road. If the Knights of the Eternal Light had not left, with the support of these most elite warriors of the Empire, the Imperial Army would have won the battle at a lower cost. Some imperial officers also thought that there was nothing wrong with the Grand Master questioning the Elector Prince's ability at that time, after all, Hertwig was less than 20 years old at that time, and had never commanded any battle before.

"I have no intention and no need to defend myself. Different nations have different customs and habits, and their views on the same thing are always very different. Even if we live next door, we often don't understand Mrs. Kissler's thoughts." At this point, Kessler pondered for a moment, "But there is one thing I think is common in any country, Duke. I request to have a limited duel with the bravest warrior under your command. If I lose, my people and I will obey the command of the person you designate. If I win, I think your people should at least respect my swordsmanship."

Hearing this, An Jiyue's expression management almost went out of control. Since both sides were communicating in Rexpert language, the lieutenants looked at the strange expression on their commander's face with a blank look. It was not until the Taoist priest, who was also a little bit overwhelmed, translated the words of the Grand Commander that the group of extraordinary people were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter under the somewhat puzzled gaze of the imperial people.

"General!" As the person involved, the leader of the Yulin Guard suddenly stood up and said to An Jiyue with his hands crossed: "I am willing to fight! If you can't win within three moves, please chop off my head!"

"You are not suitable," the girl smiled and waved her hand, "Since he asked us to send out our most capable fighters... Zhao, it's your turn."

As a military governor's tent, this tent was actually quite large. The front two-thirds of the tent was mainly used for meetings and receiving guests, while the back one-third was An Jiyue's residence, separated by a thick felt cloth.

Hearing the girl's greeting, a tall and slender figure lifted the curtain and walked out with light steps. Nine fluffy tails swung gently behind the newcomer, and the beautiful face that was no less beautiful than An Jiyue glanced around in the tent and then fell on the head of the Kessler group.

"Nine-tailed fox Feng Xizhao," the beast-eared girl said, shaking her snow-white fox ears. "Hello, everyone."

Chapter 188 Gently awaken the sleeping soul

By convention, the Grand Master is usually elected by the inner circle of the Knights Templar.

Every new member of the Knights Templar must start as a recruit and complete various tests and trials before becoming a formal knight. Knights form the foundation of the Knights Templar, and those who have served long enough, have good enough abilities, and most importantly, have unwavering loyalty to the Knights Templar have the opportunity to become inner circle knights.

Compared with ordinary knights, the inner circle knights are the real core of the Knights Templar, because only the inner circle has the right to know certain secrets of the Knights Templar.

Those who can become the Grand Master must be from the inner circle. They often have decades of battlefield experience, and their personal martial arts and command abilities are all first-class. Especially in terms of personal martial arts, the Imperial Knights are the sharpest spears and the strongest shields of the Empire, and the Grand Master is the best among the Imperial Knights.

When he saw the candidates sent by An Jiyue to fight, Kessler frowned subconsciously. In the minds of the people of the Old World, a strong warrior must have strong muscles, and this is true even for the elf warriors who are not known for their brute strength; and the fox sisters all have slender bodies that are almost fragile in the eyes of the imperial people.

For a moment, the Grand Commander thought this was some kind of Aurora joke that the residents of the Old World had never seen before. But when he looked around, he found that the Aurora officers opposite him were looking at him with sympathy.

"My deputy, General Yin, is currently staying in Sanhe Prefecture, which is what you call the Sanhe Land," Kessler heard An Jiyue say, "So General Feng is the most powerful warrior here."

The fox sisters practice both magic and martial arts, and are very strong in both martial arts and spellcasting. Of course, the fox's melee ability is slightly inferior to that of the Zhendan general, and its spellcasting ability is not as profound as that of the high-level alchemists. In addition, due to the principle of spellcasting, the fox cannot wear armor, and they rely heavily on various protective magic tools to make up for the lack of defense.

"By Verena," the Grand Master said, "she hardly looks like a general."

In fact, in Kessler's eyes, An Jiyue didn't look like the stereotyped general of the old world. But at least An Jiyue was wearing a full set of armor, and the Jiedushi's identity as a spellcaster was no secret.

"Sigma!" The bishop, who had been watching for a while, made a comet salute. This slightly playful gesture was a common etiquette for all Sigma followers. "Am I the only one who saw the beast organs on her body? Don't you care about these inhuman features at all?"

"Calm down, Bishop," Prince Hertwig raised the small wine cup provided by the Zhendan people and drank the yellow wine in the cup. "We saw it all. I am waiting for an explanation."

"Zhendan Celestial Empire is a vast country with many ethnic groups and races. The Zhendan people are the undisputed rulers of this land, but this does not mean that the only legal residents of Zhendan are humans," An Jiyue was also drinking a beverage, but she was drinking tea. "General Feng comes from a race called 'Spirit Fox'. She is not a human."

"As for what you are worried about," the governor turned his gaze to the bishop, "they have nothing to do with the beastmen, and their appearance is not a mutation caused by Chaos. The spirit fox race is born like this."

The fox spirit is the leader of the mountain spirits. As a major feature of An's Zhendan, there are many mountain spirits living on the land of Shenzhou. These strange creatures are the embodiment of the spirit of nature. In theory, any animal living on the land of Zhendan and not polluted by chaos has a very small probability of awakening its spiritual wisdom and embarking on the path of cultivation. These awakened animals are mountain spirits.

Mountain elves are the guardians of nature, and they are born with the ability to purify evil spirits. They usually do not interact with other races, and only consider going down the mountain to seek help from human officials when they encounter troubles that they cannot solve on their own. Because mountain elves are born randomly, this special race has not formed a complete social system, nor does it have its own culture.

As the two most special tribes among the mountain elves, the spirit fox and the gun gun are born as humanoid intelligent creatures, unlike the ordinary mountain elves, who need hundreds or even thousands of years of training to transform into human form.

By the way, the fox sisters were also the earliest historians of the An family in Zhendan.

"I have heard some things about you," the bishop frowned. "It is said that you even allowed the beastmen to join the Dragon Emperor's army instead of burning these children of Chaos to death."

"I guess you're talking about the monkey people and the tiger people. Some of them are indeed cruel and bloodthirsty, and the corruption inflicted on them by the dark gods is visible to the naked eye, but not all of them are like this," the Jiedushi knew that someone would bring this up. "Although most monkey people are a little naughty, they are undoubtedly loyal subjects of the Celestial Empire. As for the tiger people, I'm not too sure about the tiger people in Inda, but the tiger people in the Celestial Empire at least fit the definition of 'civilized people' better than the Kislevites. As for those sheep heads, cow heads, and even other messy heads you often see, no matter which country they are in, they are only entertained by swords and fire, and the same is true in China."

An Jiyue could see that the imperial people were not very satisfied with her explanation, but they did not continue to dwell on this issue.

The news that Kessler was going to compete with Feng Xizhao spread quickly, and the open space reserved for the competition was soon crowded with people. The White Wolf Knights were undoubtedly the most excited among the imperial people who were watching. These wolf cubs loudly expressed their desire to make a bet with the Rick Guards on how many moves Kessler could hold out against Feng Xizhao, and the bet was their treasured premium honey wine.

For some reason, the wolf cubs were sure that Feng Xizhao would win. An Jiyue didn't know whether it was due to some kind of beast-like intuition or simply because the Rick Guards believed that Kessler would win. After a rigorous analysis, the Rick Guards concluded that Feng Xizhao must be a witch. She would probably try to use some kind of witchcraft to win, and the experienced Kessler would never give the other party a chance to cast a spell.

In front of so many people, the Reik Guards could not retreat at this time, even if it was just to maintain the face of the Knights. Their captain loudly accepted the bet, and the bet was the wine brewed by the Knights themselves (Note 1).

When the atmosphere was almost brewing, An Jiyue and Hertwig looked at each other and announced the start of the competition at the same time.

The two sides of the competition stood at the two ends of the circular open space. Kessler was wearing a full-body armor that was polished to an unusually shiny shine, with a dark blue uniform underneath the silver armor. The Grand Master's breastplate and shield were decorated with golden candles and a golden halo emitted by the candles, which was also the exclusive decoration of the Knights of the Everlight.

In contrast, Feng Xizhao didn't have anything that could be called protective gear. To be precise, this fox spirit didn't look like she was here for war. She was wearing a moon-white skirt with some light blue and purple embellishments, a pair of soft-soled cloth shoes, and a jade sword in her hand that looked more suitable for appearing in fairy tales.

The two men saluted each other with the etiquette of their respective races, and then began to fight. Kessler, holding a sword and a shield, only remembered that the fox was still ten meters away a moment ago, and the next moment he heard a loud "clang" from his helmet.

This was also the last voice the Grand Commander heard before his consciousness fell into darkness.

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[Dustan Falcon: So, what was the result of the duel? ]

[Group leader #An Jiyue: What else can I do? The old man with white beard was defeated by A Zhao in one second. ]

The Archmage had completed the mission assigned by the Jiedushi and was currently returning to the Old World by boat. As An Jiyue had judged before, Finubar had indeed received Dustan in his court, but that was all. This was not to say that the Phoenix King did not value the special meaning behind the goods brought by the mage. According to Dustan, the wind direction in the Phoenix King's court was very strange recently, and it seemed that something quite extraordinary had happened.

It is unknown what exactly happened, after all, Asur has always been an amazing secretive person - when Nicki Minaj started a rebellion and the Ulthuan Civil War was raging, the Dwarves never heard of it until the Battle of the Longbeard broke out.

Dustan's intelligence network had just begun to be set up, and he could only get some seemingly plausible gossip. These rumors that were spreading wildly on the streets of Lothern were not only numerous but also often contradictory. Even the most experienced intelligence analysts would find it difficult to restore the truth through these fragmentary and unreliable information. The only thing that was certain was that something big had happened in the Kingdom of Caledor, and now the dragon lovers were busy gathering the army.

The actions of the Caledonians set off a chain reaction in Ulthuan, with countless spies and envoys coming and going, and the whole of Lothern was in an extremely weird atmosphere. Under such circumstances, even a diplomat like Finubar was not in the mood to care about the breakthrough diplomatic progress made by a White Tower Archmage with a very unique XP in the Old World.

After taking the mage around the Phoenix Court, he gained nothing except a few words of praise from Finubar. Dustan could only board the merchant ship back to the Old World with a lot of dissatisfaction. Compared to being looked down upon and poked at by contemptuous eyes in the court, he felt that the life of beating up the Yankees and earning points in Fort Kowang was more suitable for him.

When the merchant ship that Dustan was on sailed into Blackwater Bay, with only two days left to reach the Sea Gate, the magic swordsman who had previously left with the mages in Ulthuan to build an intelligence network sent a report through the system unit's mental network: they had confirmed that the Caledonian assembly order was issued by Prince Imrik himself, and that the direct descendant of this "dragon tamer" would personally lead the army, but where the Caledonian people were going and who they were going to war with was still under investigation.

If nothing unexpected happens, Dustan will stay in Akendorf for two to three days, mainly to handle the territory's political affairs, and to do some team building with the system subordinates, and then go to Fort Koren to replace Egwene. According to the plan, An Jiyue will accompany Egwene to Marienburg after handling the affairs of Mordheim. Knight Ji will deploy the main anchor point in this largest port in the Old World, and then recruit system units on the spot to show these Warhammer Dutchmen a real fortress that was breached from the inside.

Well, if nothing unexpected happens.

……

Note 1: It is a little-known fact that almost all the knightly orders in the Empire have a side business in brewing wine.

The author says:

Author's words: PS: I may have tested positive again. I slept for 20 hours a day but still felt foggy.

Answer to reader "Reader1686850767":

The named system lords/heroes are all legendary. According to the recruitment rules of the War Codex, hero cards and lord cards can be exchanged with core cards. Three core cards can be exchanged for one hero card, or ten core cards can be exchanged for one lord card. The exchanged recruitment cards can only recruit common faces, while the hero cards/lord cards drawn directly during the card draw have a certain probability of recruiting legendary lords/legendary heroes during recruitment, such as Feng Xizhao, who is a legendary spirit fox.

And the knight girl is now in the castle, so she doesn't have time to come over and beat people.

Chapter 189 Prelude

It took the coalition forces five days to cross the Dead Forest.

The Zhendan expeditionary force brought two battalions of musketeers and one battalion of Yulin Guards, as well as a flying battalion consisting of three teams of Eagle Guards; the Ostermark army included five companies of pistol cavalry and four companies of pioneer cavalry, four hundred imperial knights from five different knightly orders, and three hundred Ugor cavalry archers who had voluntarily surrendered.

The coalition had a total of 3,000 cavalry, including 900 heavy cavalry. Under the unified command of a guard assigned by An Jiyue, the imperial cavalry and the Ugor people were responsible for clearing the way and covering the flanks of the army as the coalition marched, while the Aurora cavalry was responsible for roaming in the outer circle, searching for and destroying all armed units that did not belong to them.

The imperial cavalry, especially the White Wolf Knights, were quite dissatisfied with this arrangement. They felt that they were looked down upon by the Zhendan people. In response to the complaints of the imperial people, the Zhendan people gave a simple answer: Yes, we just doubt your fighting ability! In the eyes of the Zhendan people, the cavalry that would wear out their mounts after running at full speed for an hour and could not even run a thousand miles in a day and night, had a fighting ability roughly equal to that of the Cangtou slaves that the Hun nobles brought with them as followers, and was only slightly stronger than the Nipeng cavalry.