The Knight's Journey to the Empire

General Bill August is a veteran warrior with a great reputation in the entire Knight Continent. His title of "Silver Fox" comes from his use of unique tactics.

Maybe it was because he came from a low-income family, but General Bill's tactics were completely irregular and full of risk and gambling. He often came up with all kinds of strange plans and risky moves, and was as cunning and treacherous as a fox, always taking the enemy by surprise.

What is admirable is that he was able to seize the enemy's fatal strategic weakness every time, launch a surprise attack at the enemy's most unexpected place, and break all the enemy's arrangements in half.

Then continue to expand the results of the battle and finally defeat the enemy completely.

This time, the Principality of Glia camp asked him to lead the war, and he did so, still making ingenious plans and taking risky tactics.

It took the old general only a week to drive the Kingdom of Midburg out of Cartel Wealth Avenue and occupy the White Stone Fortress and Antonio Fortress, as well as the three surrounding small trade routes.

He even led his army into the territory of the Kingdom of Midburg and besieged the army of the Kingdom of Midburg in its base camp, the city of Olivia, making it unable to advance or retreat.

The tactical arrangement of General Bill August, the "Silver Fox", is as follows:

Step one: bribe the traitor.

The fortress guard stationed in the Antonio Fortress of the Kingdom of Midburg had a background somewhat similar to that of old General Bill. Both were born as commoners, started from humble beginnings, and both climbed up by accumulating military exploits.

The difference is that his talent for cultivation is not good enough. It has been fifty or sixty years since he started training as a knight, but now he has only the strength of an ordinary upper-level knight.

But he had a high opinion of himself, thinking that he was a waste of his talents by being stationed in Fort Antonio.

Moreover, his life experience was not good enough. After more than ten years, he only obtained an honorary title of knight. Not only did he not get any fiefdom or manor, but he was excluded by many of his colleagues because of his low status and position. Finally, he was exiled here to garrison for more than ten years.

Therefore, he felt very depressed.

And most importantly, he was one of General Buell's great admirers.

So, under the temptation of his idol's promises, hereditary territory, wealth, status and other conditions, he completely fell, secretly rebelled, and willingly became the old general's internal response.

There is no place to stay here.

Step 2: Send out surprise attacks.

The old general first found a small trade route that was not in the public eye from his country's smugglers, and sent hundreds of elite soldiers to detour to Antonio Fortress behind White Stone Fortress. Then, he cooperated with the fortress officers who had secretly rebelled to capture Antonio Fortress first, thus cutting off the retreat of the Midburg Kingdom troops in White Stone Fortress.

This is equivalent to making dumplings for the Baishi Fortress, attacking it from both sides.

Step 3: Pretend to launch a large-scale attack on Baishi Fortress.

One third of the Midburg Kingdom's army is stationed in the White Stone Fortress. Relying on the fortress's strong walls and high platforms, the defense has an excellent geographical advantage.

However, when faced with an attack from an enemy that was several times larger than our own, we had to rush to the rear for help.

But it was obvious that the letter for help was intercepted at Fort Antonio, and the traitor led the enemy troops disguised as reinforcements and openly entered the White Stone Fortress to set up camp.

Step 4: Raid in the middle of the night, with internal and external support.

The enemy army led by a traitor raided the fortress gate in the middle of the night. After the success, they let in the army of the Principality of Glia that had been ambushed outside the fortress.

Once again, the trick of internal and external collaboration was staged.

This is how the dust settles, and the offensive and defensive positions change.

The Kingdom of Midburg lost nearly half of its troops and many generals and officers, as well as control of the entire Cartel Wealth Avenue. The overall war situation instantly fell into an extremely unfavorable position.

For a while, the morale of the Principality of Glia was greatly boosted because of such a significant military victory.

Then, with the "help" of those who had ulterior motives, they began to clamor to attack the territory of the Kingdom of Middeburg, to capture the royal city of the Kingdom of Middeburg - Schindler City, and to take over the castle of the "Blue Lake Crystal" - Middeburg.

The entire Kingdom of Midburg was shocked and in uproar.

If the battle was only fought in the Barinas Mountains, no matter how large the scale was, it would at most be a border conflict or friction.

But now the enemy has entered the territory and the nature of this war has turned into an aggressive war.

If the Kingdom of Midburg does not fight back when its territory is invaded by an enemy country, it will lose face and its people will lose their morale.

Therefore, also under the instigation of some "interested people", the conflict between the two sides continued to intensify.

Of course, the prerequisite for the intensification of contradictions is that the contradictions between the two countries have escalated to an irreconcilable level.

Therefore, the King of Midburg Kingdom urgently issued a royal decree, ordering the Third Army of Midburg Kingdom, the Red Flame Army, to begin to march from the south to the west. At the same time, the Fourth Army, the Wolf Warrior Army, which served as a reserve, also began to recruit soldiers under the King's order.

The standing military force of the Kingdom of Midburg consists of two parts: the kingdom's standing army and the lord's private army.

The lord's private army is complicated and intricate, so we will not discuss it here.

The kingdom's standing army consists of three standing army groups.

They are the Central Guardian Corps stationed in the kingdom's capital, Sindler City; the Blue Shield Corps stationed in the three western counties; and the Red Flame Corps stationed in the four southern counties.

The Wolf Warrior Corps usually remains disbanded, with only the unit number retained.

It was only formed by order of the king when a major military situation arose in the kingdom.

It is worth mentioning that the defense of Midburg, the Blue Lake Crystal Castle, the royal residence of the Kingdom of Midburg, is guarded by the Royal Glory Legion.

These two are also different.

Although they are all under the command and control of the king, this Royal Honor Corps is the royal family's private army. The military expenses are borne by the royal private treasury and they are not allowed to embezzle money and resources from the national treasury.

The military expenditures of the other three standing armies depend on financial expenditures from the national treasury.

The main source of financial support for the kingdom's treasury was taxes paid by local lords.

Of course, the kingdom's laws stipulate this, but as a minor nobleman, how could Soran know how to implement it specifically?

As far as the current situation is concerned, it is obvious that both sides have started to get serious. The two state machines are already in the start-up stage, and what remains is a confrontation of hard power.

However, Soran was completely unaware of all this.

At this time, he was still on the run.

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Soran and his group of twelve had been fleeing into the Barinas Mountains for three days. Although they were not lost, they had no idea where they were and could only keep heading west.

Fortunately, although there are magical beasts in the Barinas Mountains, their distribution does not seem to be very dense.

Soran had been in the Barinas Mountains for several days and had not seen any magical beasts.

But he did gain something new, which was the exploration of the new abilities of the magic plant and the arcane pupil.

Magic plants, as the name suggests, are plants that grow naturally and contain the energy of heaven and earth.

There are many kinds of magic plants, and they are precious medicinal materials. After special processing, such as cooking, refining, and adjusting into potions, they are all excellent resources to assist knights in their practice.

The value of the magic plant is immeasurable and only the rich and powerful can eat it.

If it can be cultivated and planted artificially, even if it is just one kind, it will definitely be the heritage of a family passed down for hundreds or thousands of years.

Of course, cultivating magic plants is not easy at all. The growth environment of each magic plant is extremely harsh and difficult to replicate.

This was the magic plant that Sauron saw.

It was a big tree, a truly giant tree, with a diameter of at least ten meters. Its crown spread out, with luxuriant branches and leaves, covering the sky and the ground. Within a hundred meters, there was no grass growing, only piles of fallen leaves, as no sunlight reached the ground.

For such a towering tree, even if Sauron was passing by, he couldn't help but stop and take a few more glances.

People always maintain a sense of awe towards certain big things, such as giant trees, tall buildings, rocks, etc.

Then he saw the demon plant on the tree.

This is the information fed back from the Arcane Spirit Eye.

This time, just like when the Rock Armored Warthog was discovered, a virtual box suddenly popped up in the Arcane Eye, with the introduction information of this magic plant on it:

Blood-parasitic vine, a primary magic plant, likes darkness and often clings to giant trees, using them as parasitic roots; its appearance is grayish yellow, but when you cut it open, its interior is bright red like blood. It nourishes the blood and qi, strengthens the heart, and invigorates the blood and strengthens the essence.

Not all magic plants can be used directly.

Because the efficacy or medicinal power of the magic plant is too strong, ordinary people or low-level knights cannot directly absorb this energy, and directly consuming it will do more harm than good.

Therefore, most magic plants need to be specially processed before they can be eaten, and only a small part can be eaten directly.

Therefore, in the Knight Continent, there are almost no novels or stories circulating about a small person who rises to fame after eating a special magical plant.

This parasitic blood vine is one of the plants that cannot be eaten directly.

Cooking is the easiest way to deal with magic plants.

Of course, after cooking, the medicinal power of the magic plant will be lost and its efficacy will decrease.