Unknown Knight

After clearing out the hostile forces around Shariz, the organization's entry ceremony was very effective, which immediately accelerated the progress of recruiting relatives' armed forces. Niza even set strict assessment standards, and the quota of more than 1,200 local new troops was quickly filled.

Although these newly recruited local armed forces may be lacking in combat formations, each of them has excellent martial arts skills and is much stronger physically than the average local people. The key is that they basically provide their own weapons and equipment, and the wealthier ones even provide their own horses. In addition to allocating some land that does not belong to him as official land, Aix almost got an army for free.

Through integration and classification, Aix had his relatives armed with horses gathered together to form a light cavalry battalion of more than 300 horses.

Aix also classified the remaining personnel according to their martial arts specialties. He formed an elite archer battalion of more than 300 people with those who were good at using hard bows, formed a light infantry battalion of more than 500 people with those who were good at using javelins and had relatively poor weapons and equipment, and formed an elite commando team with about 100 people who were good at using scimitars and shields and had good armor defense and martial arts.

After the newly recruited troops were classified, Zeb, Mathilde and others were responsible for giving them some simple training. Aix also selected some veterans to serve as the backbone to train and manage these newly recruited soldiers in military discipline. Only after they could look a little like regular troops would they launch the next military operation.

However, plans in this world often cannot keep up with the rapid changes. On this day, Aix was discussing the next military plan with Niza in the palace of Shariz, when suddenly a cavalryman patrolling near the village of Havaha came to report in a panic that a Rhodok army of about two thousand people had occupied the village of Havaha and would attack the city of Shariz at any time.

His Highness King Gryfus of Rhodok is a typical businessman, and like all businessmen he is also an opportunist. When His Highness heard that the neighboring Sarand Emirate had just replaced the new sultan, the caravans returning from Dukuba, Amrad and Barie also brought news of the rebellion of the princes and chiefs.

King Gryphus, who believed that the opportunity was not to be missed, would not let it go. After some thought, he made a decisive decision to summon the army and attack in the direction of Shariz City.

But it was his bad luck, because it was because Aix's army took too short a time to capture the city of Shariz, and it only took one day to break through the city. Coincidentally, there was no caravan from the Rhodok Kingdom in the city at that time. Afterwards, Aix ordered the army to blockade Shariz inside and outside. Until now, not much news about the army in the city has been heard.

Besides, the seventh prince Niza is unknown. He is neither as prestigious as the eldest prince Nubia, nor as strong as the third prince Azzam, nor as famous as the fifth prince Sharif. It is said that his biological mother is just a lowly singer from the far east, a rootless person in the local area.

Judging from King Graves' decades of experience in political struggles, this so-called new Sultan Nisa must not be very strong. He might be a person who came to power through conspiracy and trickery. Otherwise, there would not be three princes' rebellious forces in the country at the same time. However, such usurpation of power generally cannot last long.

This is undoubtedly a great opportunity for King Graves. As the king of a prosperous commercial kingdom, King Graves has long coveted his neighbor Sarande's spice and rose salt business. These two commodities have high added value and high profits, and are good products that every businessman dreams of.

However, these two kinds of commodities have always been controlled by local merchants in Sarand. Even if the Rhodok caravan bought them to sell before, the purchase price was a high price after layers of markup, and they could not make much profit from it. On the contrary, due to the high value of the goods, selling such goods is easy to be coveted by robbers, and there is a lot of risk. They dare not purchase too much and can only watch the local merchants make big money with envy.

If we can take advantage of this golden opportunity to occupy some of Sarande's territory and even control the production of their spices and rose salt, then these two commodities will become the country's pillar products like velvet, bringing immeasurable profits to the country.

King Griffith became very excited when he thought about this possibility. In addition, he had been preparing for this idea all these years. In Fort Gamichi, which was only a day's journey away from the city of Sharez, he secretly stockpiled a large amount of food and military supplies, enough for thousands of troops to use in the attack.

If the Rhodok Kingdom wanted to launch a war against the Sarand Emirate, it would not need to spend time preparing military supplies in advance. It only needed to gather the army and march lightly to Fort Gamichi, where it could obtain supplies. It could then use it as a base, and by taking the enemy by surprise, it would only take more than a day of marching time for the army to arrive at the city of Sharez and catch the new Sultan Niza off guard.

According to the pre-planned strategy, King Griffith's army set out at dawn that day. The march was very smooth along the way. The army marched to the village of Havaha near the city of Shariz before being discovered by the patrol cavalry sent by Aix.

However, King Graves no longer cared about being exposed. There was not much time left for the new Sultan Niza in Shariz City to prepare. In his eyes, it would be good if the new Sultan Niza could gather a team of 600 to 700 people at most. However, he was cautious and still ordered his subordinates:

"Order the entire army to speed up the march. The army must arrive at the city of Shariz before dark, then surround the city and attack it tomorrow morning."

The entire army immediately sped up its march and rushed towards the city of Shariz with great momentum. Everyone believed that this surprise attack was a success, and the determination to win made the marching speed much faster.

What King Gryphus could not have imagined was that the city of Shariz, which seemed unchanged on the outside, was now like a large military camp. Including the newly recruited relatives' armed forces and the temporarily organized militia, there were now more than 5,000 troops in the entire city of Shariz, more than twice the number of soldiers of the Rhodok Kingdom.

The Rhodok army came rushing in, thinking that Shariz was just a bunch of low bushes that they could easily trample on, but they didn't expect that it was actually a towering tree, and they bumped into it head-on without knowing it.

Moreover, after receiving the letter, Aix reacted very quickly. He immediately sent more than 800 cavalrymen out of the city to ambush, waiting for the army of the Rhodok Kingdom to attack, so as to give them a big surprise, a big surprise that would make them unable to return.