The Knight's Journey to the Empire
Chapter 31: War Direction, Strength Breakthrough
Soran stood on the "Red Wall" of the White Stone Fortress, holding the blood-stained but dried wall with his hands, silently watching the busy figures coming and going below.
They were cleaning the battlefield, burying the bodies and preventing epidemics.
With the capture of the White Stone Fortress by the Midburg Kingdom camp, the war triggered by the Lorraine Iron Mine seemed to have settled the outcome.
All trade routes, big and small, are controlled by the Kingdom of Midburg, which has taken the absolute initiative.
But at this moment, Soran's mood was not very good. He felt both lost and relieved.
Soran came to Saladin County to join the army. His goal was naturally to stand out, to achieve great achievements, to be granted a title of nobility, and to have a wife and children.
But now?
The war seemed to be over.
The reason for the disappointment is that I haven't achieved anything yet, my ambitions haven't been realized, and this trip may have been in vain.
I am thankful because I have witnessed the cruelty and cold-bloodedness of the battlefield, and I am thankful that I did not directly participate in it and am still alive.
To be honest, when I saw the tragic battlefield scene with corpses everywhere and blood floating on the water under the city wall.
Soran's inner world was greatly shocked. He felt that his three views were completely overturned again.
The impact of treating people like grass and lives like ants directly shattered the little sense of superiority that he had as a time traveler and as a knight who had advanced to the professional level of a knight.
He now deeply understood that with the little strength he had now, if he were placed on a battlefield of this scale, he would definitely not be able to make a single wave, and would even be a drop in the ocean.
He also understood that in such a battlefield, if he wanted to avoid death or ensure the highest survival rate, he had to become the commander who directed the war in the tent.
And all of this needs to be supported by strong strength.
Of course, the strength here refers to two aspects, soft power and hard power.
Soft power naturally includes family, knowledge, strategy, influence, etc., while the foundation of hard power is one's own combat effectiveness and the power that one can directly mobilize.
Therefore, no matter how tragic and bloody the battlefield was, it still did not destroy Sauron's faith, but instead further stimulated his determination to climb up.
In this life, I want to be a chess player, and never a chess piece to be slaughtered by others.
But to be the chess player, you must first enter the chessboard.
Therefore, Sauron chose to stay and did not become a deserter.
However, the daily knight training was more arduous, and the cultivation of his confidants was also more attentive and diligent.
In my previous life, I had ordinary talents and studied in an ordinary second-class university, with no future at all.
After graduation, I found an ordinary job with a monthly salary of 996 yuan and lived a life.
I thought I would live a mediocre life, but I didn't expect that I would die in a car accident because I had no money to treat the illness.
I was reborn in a different world in this life. God gave me another chance. I must give it a try no matter what.
What's more, I have nothing to rely on here.
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With the siege of the White Stone Fortress over, the next phase begins for the Kingdom of Midburg to defend against the counterattack of the Principality of Glia.
The scale of the Lorraine Iron Mine is a large iron mine, which is a fatal temptation for both countries.
It is conceivable that the Principality of Glia will never give up easily.
His counterattack was inevitable.
So in the next two months, an offensive and defensive battle would occur between the two sides almost every few days.
This has led to the battlefield becoming increasingly brutal and the scale of casualties has continued to expand.
And Sauron's hundred-man brigade can no longer be a decoration.
They began to garrison on the city walls and directly participated in the defensive battles, and after each battle, there would be casualties to varying degrees.
Of course, after each casualty, new recruits would be quickly replenished to maintain the complete battalion of 100 people.
Most of the nobles are selfish and greedy. As the saying goes, there is no gain without pain.
Now, with the development of the war situation, the trend of leaning towards the Kingdom of Midburg is becoming more and more obvious.
As a result, in the Kingdom of Midburg, more and more nobles and lords began to actively participate in this war.
Because they all want a piece of the pie.
It may be difficult to provide timely assistance, but there will definitely be many people who will add icing on the cake.
Therefore, more and more strategic materials and a steady stream of troops were transported from the rear of the entire Midburg Kingdom to the front line and poured into the bottomless pit of war.
Therefore, this is both the reason why Sauron's manpower is constantly replenished and the reason why the cruelty of the war is constantly increasing.
Moreover, as things have developed to this point, the offensive and defensive alliance between the two countries can be declared completely broken, and there is no chance for reconciliation between the two sides.
The winner must be determined.
However, there was one exception, and that was the sudden massive attack of the Kingdom of Essex on the two countries.
But obviously, the contemporary King of Essex is so wise that he would definitely not make such a stupid decision at this time.
During the two months in White Stone Fortress, Soran led his subordinates and fought bravely on the city walls.
At the critical moment, he even led the charge and fought ten people alone.
His purpose, of course, was to temper himself, break through his limits, and improve his strength during life-and-death battles.
Even during the usual rest time, he did not dare to slack off, and insisted on practicing sword skills diligently, and often circulated the fighting spirit seeds to continuously repair and strengthen the body and heal injuries.
Due to all these factors, his physical fitness improved rapidly in a short period of time.
Under the gaze of the Arcane Eye, the data of Sauron's physical fitness and physical limit values showed that they had increased from 28/56 to 39/56.
An increase of 11 points.
Soran now feels that if he were to face his own self who had just broken through, fighting one against three would definitely not be a problem.
Of course, what changed was not only his strength, but also his temperament.
After the bloody baptism of war, Soran has lost the youthful, tender, delicate and fair appearance when he first entered society.
His skin became darker, his hair grew longer, his lips became thicker, his eyes became sharper, his body was covered with several scars of varying sizes, and he even grew stubble.
The overall temperament appears more mature, tough, down-to-earth and steady.
He was even more decisive in battle, chopping down the enemy as soon as he saw them, often killing them with one strike.
In addition, the strength of Sauron's trusted followers has also been greatly improved.
Because when Sauron participated in the battle, they also participated with him, and when Sauron trained normally, they also had to practice with him.
The strength of those trusted followers is improved as follows:
Gubellini, 20/23 improved to 22/23.
Ramos, 21/23 improved to 23/23.
Javier, 15/19 promoted to 17/19.
Henry, 22/23 improved to 23/23.
Martin has not changed and is still at the bottleneck period of his apprentice knight professional level.
There is another reason why Sauron's overall quality improved rapidly.
He had just broken through to the entry-level knight career stage, and his physical fitness still had a period of improvement.
The reason why the trusted followers improved slowly was that they were all in a bottleneck breakthrough stage and needed more accumulation.
Although each value of the data reflected by the Arcane Eye is equal, the energy demand it represents increases in a step-by-step manner rather than being equally distributed.
It is like breaking through from two points to three points, and breaking through from seventeen points to eighteen points. Although both have increased the value by one point, the energy required for the breakthroughs represented are absolutely different, and the difference between them is several times.
Therefore, every breakthrough to the peak stage of a professional level is bound to be a relatively long accumulation of quantity.
Of course, this does not apply if there are special circumstances or opportunities.
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