The Knight's Journey to the Empire

The southern battlefield of the Kingdom of Midburg is divided into three defense lines: east, middle and west. The middle defense line is the main one, and the east and west defense lines are auxiliary.

Therefore, in the military deployment of the Kingdom of Midburg:

The main force of the central defense line was deployed with two reorganized legions [the Red Flame Legion and the War Wolf Legion], as well as the private armies of the royal Granbell family, a hereditary marquis family, and three hereditary earl families.

In the western section of the defense line, there was a reorganized legion [Blue Shield Legion], as well as the private armies of a hereditary marquisate family and four hereditary earl families.

The final eastern section of the defense line was composed of the private armies of a hereditary duke family, a hereditary marquis family, and five hereditary earl families.

Therefore, after receiving 60,000 reinforcements from the Principality of Glia, the western defense line's level of defense increased greatly.

This makes the eastern defense line the weakest one.

However, this is indeed the case.

The eastern section of the defense line is indeed the weakest of the three defense lines.

So after the Kingdom of Essex learned that the Principality of Glia had sent reinforcements to the Kingdom of Midburg, King Chris VI and his ministers made an emergency strategic deployment:

Concentrate superior forces and attack the eastern section of the Midburg Kingdom's defense line with all your strength to open a breakthrough, advance in large numbers, win a quick victory, and overwhelm the enemy.

Because as the war continued, the degree to which the Kingdom of Essex had consumed the Kingdom of Midburg's military strength had reached a critical point.

Moreover, through wars of all sizes, the Kingdom of Essex has basically completed the running-in and reorganization of the armies of those small nobles.

In addition, with the reinforcement of the Principality of Glia, many variables have been added to the progress of this battle.

Therefore, the Kingdom of Essex changed its usual strategy of "boiling a frog in warm water" and instead sought a "quick attack, once and for all" tactic to establish its dominance.

So, on the second day, the 60,000 troops of the Principality of Glia entered the western defense line in the southern part of the Kingdom of Midburg.

The eastern army of the Kingdom of Essex used the same method as Darcyclo to attack the eastern defense line of the Kingdom of Midburg:

The Kingdom of Essex first sent a team of elite soldiers to sneak across the river and attack several defensive fortresses and a garrison camp on the eastern section of the defense line.

Then they began to send reinforcements rapidly and violently, continuously expanding the scale of the war and gaining greater fruits of the war.

At the same time, the other two fronts also began to row a large number of ships to the eastern offensive front to be used as a tool to send troops across the river.

In addition, Dasiklo also took two-thirds of his elite soldiers and began to reinforce the eastern battlefield.

All these signs indicate that the Kingdom of Essex intends to launch an all-out attack on the eastern defense line, then break through the defenses of the Kingdom of Midburg and fight a decisive battle with the Kingdom of Midburg.

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The eastern section of the defense line of the southern battlefield of the Kingdom of Midburg is about 40 kilometers long, with a total of 4 garrison camps set up from west to east, including:

Garrison Camp No. 1 was garrisoned by a hereditary marquisate family, namely the Marquis of Barbatos of County Cashel.

[Note: The Marquis family of Soran's classmate Xerovinia Barbatos.]

Garrison Camp No. 2 is garrisoned by two hereditary earl families.

Garrison Camp No. 3 is garrisoned by the only ducal family in the Kingdom of Midburg, the McLennan family, and an earl family.

Garrison Camp No. 4 is garrisoned by the last two hereditary earl families.

The army of Count Katis's family was stationed at Garrison Camp No. 2.

In theory, His Majesty the King would recruit his direct hereditary nobles in various places to participate in the war, and then the hereditary nobles in each place would recruit their own subjects to join the war.

Therefore, after receiving the conscription order from their lord, the armies of the vassal states should lead their troops and gather around the lord.

But in Sauron's White Bear Territory, this method went a little wrong.

Because he was in the easternmost part of the kingdom, and his feudal lord, Marquis Saladin, was in the westernmost part of the kingdom, the entire Kingdom of Midburg was between them.

Moreover, even if Marquis Saladin sent troops to support the front-line defense line, he should have supported the western section of the defense line.

Therefore, if the army led by White Bear wants to run to the western defense line to join the army of Marquis Saladin, it will undoubtedly be very troublesome.

So Soran simply made a trick and asked Doug Johnson to send two letters to Marquis Saladin:

One letter was written by Soran himself to Marquis Saladin, requesting the Marquis to assign him to garrison on the eastern section of the defense line.

One letter was written by Count Katis to Marquis Saladin, hoping that Marquis Saladin could hand over the soldiers sent by Baron Soren to his own account and obey his orders.

After receiving the letter, Marquis Saladin had no objection to it.

After all, no matter what, Soran is just a small baron.

The number of troops led by White Bear was no more than two or three hundred, less than one percent of the troops under Marquis Saladin's own command.

So naturally he was not overly valued by Marquis Saladin.

Moreover, Baron Soran was not his trusted vassal. He merely held the title of a feudal lord.

At the same time, by doing this, he could also give face to Countess of Katis.

So, why not do it?

Therefore, the 200-man army sent by Soran's White Bear Lord naturally followed the army sent by Countess Katis in the eastern defense line, and became a part of this army.

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In this war, although Countess Katis dispatched many troops to the eastern defense line several times, the army was mainly commanded by two senior knights of her own family.

The two high knights are Lord Utred Liscott and Lord Fatis Niaman.

In addition, there are dozens of brave knights who are vassals of the Count of Katis's family, such as Knight Magonorbel of the Viscount Ayudukai's family.

Led by these people, they formed the backbone of the Count of Curtis's family's army of tens of thousands.

However, at this time, the No. 2 garrison camp on the Eastern Defense Front was already bustling with noise.

Because with the fierce attack of the Kingdom of Essex, the No. 4 garrison camp at the easternmost end of the defense line has now completely fallen!

This created a large gap in the entire defense line.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Essex was still continuously using ships to reinforce troops at the breakthrough point on the north shore, and it was obvious that it was planning to fight to the end.

And that is why the commander-in-chief of the eastern defense line, Duke McClellan, ordered the two earl family armies in the No. 2 garrison camp to send one to follow him to contain the attack of the Kingdom of Essex, hoping to hold out until the kingdom sends more troops to support.

But what is puzzling is that perhaps because Duke McClellan was too hasty in giving the order, he did not explicitly ask the earl's family's army to participate in the blocking mission.

Moreover, everyone could obviously see that this mission was, to a large extent, to let the army consume resources.

Therefore, in order to safeguard their respective interests, there began to be a situation where the military leaders of the two earl families were arguing with each other.

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