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Yuan Shao's words made Zhang Wei suddenly realize something! If the Lionheart Duke deliberately showed weakness and concealed the key information that the Lionheart Castle teleportation array could operate normally, then many people might plan to send a large number of troops to attack the Lionheart Castle as Zhang Wei had thought before. In this way, the Lionheart Duke could cleverly use the three extremely solid walls of the Lionheart Castle to resist the main force of the enemy, and then personally lead his elite troops to attack the enemy's lair.

There is no doubt that this strategy is the most fatal to Zhang Wei and the Blood Moon Church, which has taken the measures to block the towns of Huai'en and Bourne to prevent the Lionheart Duke from advancing northward. After careful consideration, Zhang Wei finally decided to accept the plan proposed by Ju Su and entrusted him to go to the Lionheart Castle in the north. The purpose of this operation is to find out the actual situation of the Lionheart Castle by the strategy of "first courtesy and then force".

At the same time, Zhang Wei also wrote a letter to Yuan Shao, asking for more assistance from heroes. After all, as his sphere of influence continues to expand, he deeply feels the huge pressure brought by the lack of talent. After receiving the letter, Yuan Shao replied that he would try his best to recruit more heroes, but at the same time he also hoped that Zhang Wei could establish an academy to cultivate local talents in this world. Zhang Wei agreed with this proposal and immediately began to prepare for related matters.

Afterwards, Yuan Shao sent people to assist Zhang Wei in setting up a school.

Yuan Shao wrote in detail in the earnest letter of introduction: "Gao Lan is proficient in military strategy and is a rare talent. He can be entrusted with important tasks in charge of military affairs. Dong Zhao is resourceful and thoughtful. He can help with the establishment of schools and school buildings. As for Qu Yi, he is brave and good at fighting, and is feared by the world. He is indeed a fierce general and will surely become a good general in commanding troops."

At the same time, Yuan Shao also strongly suggested that Zhang Wei speed up the various reform measures so that he could quickly enhance his own strength and calmly deal with the impending crises.

Zhang Wei deeply agreed with Yuan Shao's suggestions and followed them one by one.

A few days later, Ju Su returned successfully as expected and arrived in Newt City. He immediately reported to Zhang Wei the great gains of his trip.

According to Ju Shou, although everyone in Lionheart Castle acted extremely cautiously, they were eventually exposed due to a mistake - although they cleverly maintained a constant total number of people, they often secretly replaced some of the members.

What is even more surprising is that Ju Su asserted that these personnel replacements definitely did not enter through the main gate of the castle. You must know that the original intention of building this Lionheart Castle was to block the imperial army's way south, so its outer layer only has the South Gate as the only entrance and exit.

Faced with such a strange situation, the only reasonable explanation is that the teleportation array in Lionheart Castle is still able to operate normally, and the Lionheart Duke, who is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, seems to be using it to plan something.

Ju Su's important discovery instantly changed Zhang Wei's strategic plan against the Duke of Lionheart. He appointed Ju Su as the plenipotentiary representative to negotiate with Lionheart Castle without hesitation, and gave him a vital mission - to open up and ensure that the commercial route to the southern part of the empire is smooth.

However, to achieve this goal would be a fantasy without the consent of Lionheart Castle.

In response to Zhang Wei's request, Lionheart Castle gave an unusually decisive response: they demanded 30% of the transaction profits in return.

Zhang Wei believes that Lionheart Castle's condition is still within an acceptable range.

Although doing so will help the growth of competitors to some extent, Zhang Wei can earn most of the profits after all, so he is not afraid of his competitors surpassing him.

But what Zhang Wei did not expect was that this decision caused him to suffer a great loss.

At the first time of trade, Lionheart Castle forced Zhang Wei's caravan to pay the 30% dividend share in advance on the grounds that it was worried that Zhang Wei would go back on his word.

As the saying goes, "When you are under someone else's roof, you must bow your head." Moreover, Zhang Wei's credibility was not satisfactory. In order to pass the checkpoint smoothly, the caravan had no choice but to compromise.

Who would have thought that when the caravan completed the trade and prepared to return, Lionheart Castle actually asked them for another 30% of the dividend share!

In this way, Lionheart Castle easily got 60% of the dividend share with almost no effort.

Zhang Wei's caravan looked at the Lionheart Fort army that was ready for battle, and their hearts were filled with fear and helplessness.

They knew very well that they could not fight against it at all and had no choice but to obey.

So, under the ridicule of the Lionheart Army, they swallowed their anger and handed over their money, then headed south to Newt City sadly.

However, the Lionheart Castle's army did not seem satisfied with this. They continued to provoke Zhang Wei's caravan with words, and even hypocritically expressed that they were looking forward to the next cooperation.

Both parties knew that this was just a one-time deal.

Zhang Wei suffered a huge loss this time. After spending a lot of time and effort, he actually helped the enemy make a lot of money!

When Zhang Wei learned that he had been teased in this way, anger surged in his heart.

He immediately summoned all his advisers and generals and held an emergency military meeting. At the meeting, he said only one word: "Fight!"

This concise and powerful order made everyone present understand Zhang Wei's determination. Then, everyone began to discuss how to retaliate against the Duke of Lionheart.

After careful consideration and heated discussion, everyone agreed that if they went north directly to attack Lionheart Castle, they would probably fall into the trap set by the Duke of Lionheart. On the contrary, it would be the wisest choice to join forces with the Blood Moon Cult to attack Jinhou Town.

Zhang Wei agreed with this strategy and decided to send Tian Feng to Huai'en Town to contact the Blood Moon Cult to discuss the specific time and plan for the joint operation.

After arduous efforts, Tian Feng finally completed the task successfully.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Wei began to deploy troops and generals: he appointed Gao Lan as the commander-in-chief to be in charge of military affairs, Tian Feng as the chief of staff to give advice, and the brave and warlike Qu Yi was appointed as the general of the army.

After everything was ready, this elite army set out from Sahel City in a mighty manner. They cleverly chose to cross from the north side of Zhang Xiaodan and Shen Mudan's base, and thus joined forces with the Blood Moon Cult army heading south from the town of Huai'en, and together they headed south to attack Jinhou Town.

At the same time, in order to resist the possible counterattack from the Lionheart Duke, Zhang Wei made careful arrangements and ordered Zhang Xiaodan to lead a large army of vampires and ghouls to build a solid defense line between Sahel City and the two mountains to the east of the Korno Fortress.

In addition, he also appointed Shen Mudan to lead the brave and fearless goblin army to set up camp between the Corno Fortress and the two mountains east of Naville City to form another unbreakable barrier.

This would ensure that the Duke of Lionheart's army could not use these two uninhabited places to raid his territory.

Zhang Wei himself stayed in Newt City, on high alert to prevent the Lionheart Castle's army from daring to invade the south and attack Newt City.

Not only that, he also sent Shen Pei to guard the city of Sahel, Feng Ji to guard the Korno Fortress, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou to guard the city of Naville together with Ju Su. As for the port of Xina, Zhang Wei did not worry too much because the powerful Yuan Shao was there.

At this point, the battle situation seemed clear, but Zhang Wei felt the lack of talent more and more deeply. At this moment, he truly realized the true meaning of the saying "You only regret not having enough people when you need them" - when facing a big war, he regretted that he did not have enough capable people around him!