Duke Saldo is the current patriarch of the Saldo family, the most powerful family in the Mars Empire, perhaps Duke Saldo is not as strong as several mountain warfare masters in his empire in mountain warfare, but Duke Saldo is indeed the most proficient general in the Mars Empire to command siege warfare, which is also the emperor of the Mars Empire - Mars the Scar. His Majesty Klebold is good at mountain warfare this time.

Although the Mars and Michaal empires originally had many intelligence agents lurking in the territory of the empire, they were beaten to pieces by a Theban at the end of last year. But the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and after the purge was over, the two empires still had many elite spies in Edinburgh and Fort Biliga. Thanks to the efforts of these elite spies, the personnel of the two empires have finally collected data on the defense capabilities of all the cities within the empire.

After learning how terrifying the city defense capabilities of the surrounding cities in the Empire's two territories of Edinburgh and Fort Biliga were, Kleberd, who was still worried about who should be the commander-in-chief of the first expedition, immediately chose Saldo.

Duke Saldo is a good general in the Mars Empire, not only familiar with mountain warfare, but also has a wealth of siege experience, and is very good at operating siege equipment to attack, compared to those Mars generals who only use siege ladders and rushing carts to attack, Duke Saldo will not only use light torsion catapults, but also let an engineer as his follower build siege towers for the troops. However, even such a good general, after leading the army into Edinburgh, ushered in the most tragic moment of his life.

Upon entering the periphery of Edinburgh, an excited Duke of Saldo slaughtered several villages on the outskirts of the realm under a full-scale raid at the beginning. Although these villages were not inhabited by soldiers of the Sunset Empire, and even in each village there were only a few dozen families of Lansters, not even a single Sunset, and there was nothing of value in these villages, except for some strange farming tools that looked sharper and brighter, but to Saldo's delight, the fields near the village were planted with large fields of wheat, which looked like golden waves from a distance.

After asking the militia to harvest all the wheat, Saldo was surprised to find that after the harvested grain was evenly distributed to each soldier of the expeditionary team, it could at least offset the food and grass consumption of the expeditionary force, that is, 100,000 people for three days. This kind of news can make General Saldo very happy, you must know that 100,000 is 100,000 mouths, to fill the stomachs of these people, the daily consumption of food is calculated in tons. Although the Mars Empire had a lot of money and not only collected millions of tons of grain from the country for this battle, but these were still not enough, in fact, the two empires chose to launch an attack in mid-June, half of which was indeed to grab land, and the other half was to harvest grain from the territory of the empire.

Now all the inhabitants of the Northwest Continent have a witchcraft that has been passed down for thousands of years in the Empire, which can not only make these lands harvest twice a year a year after a little transformation, but also increase the yield several times (this is the explanation made by the ignorant humans of the Northwest Continent after not knowing what the fertilizer is).

But perhaps because the Duke of Saldo was so unconscionable that he killed at least 2,000 Lansters in one day, or because Duke Saldo's good fortune came to an end at the end of the day, the Mars army was attacked by 5,000 Hobila Rangers patrolling the area, and overnight, the Marsians who did not know what the cavalry was lost nearly 400 professional soldiers and more than 1,000 militia fighters under the sneak attack of the Rangers.

And this is not over, the day after the second sneak attack, the Mars Imperial team suffered no less than 10 riots, these lightning-fast Hobira Rangers will follow the instructions of General Andert every time they charge, they will first throw an iron javelin to see if they can cause panic among the enemy soldiers, if so, they will rush down, each of them will use a rifle to put down a few soldiers and immediately retreat; On the contrary, if not, this time there is still some distance from the enemy line, these Hobyra Rangers will immediately turn their horses and scatter in all directions, even the archers in Mars's army will not be able to catch them.

This situation lasted for 3 days, and all the soldiers and officers of Mars's troops were panicked, and they would look to the side as if they had suddenly had a convulsion, to see if there was another cavalry unit from the Empire on which the sun never sets.

Originally, Duke Saldo thought that after leaving the hilly plain area and entering the forest, his army would finally no longer have to worry about riots from the troops of the Imperial cavalry on which the sun never sets. Because he himself has also learned that in the current cavalry units of the Empire, only heavy cavalry units with slightly worse movement speed can fight in the forest, like the Hobila Ranger troops wearing leather armor and inlaid armor that attacked them before, and this kind of light cavalry unit with extremely fast moving speed is not able to fight in the forest. But it didn't take long for Mars's army to penetrate a distance of more than ten kilometers into the forest area, and the Duke of Saldo realized that his nightmare had not ended, but had only just begun.

First received a piece of bad news, as the vanguard of the Mars troops, a total of 6,000 people, composed of the Bobcat troops and Mars archers (using animal tendons, elm and other materials to make composite bows, archery may not even be comparable to the archery skills of the Lance guerrillas, but these Mars archers have a high physical fitness, endurance and movement speed is also good, if necessary, they can draw their short swords to fight with the enemy attackers) mixed troops, and when advancing, they were ambushed by the side of the Empire on which the sun never sets, The 6,000 people were only about 1,000 who escaped, and some of them were useless, and even if they were rescued, it would be impossible to fight.

In the next two days, although the Duke of Saldo sent dozens of reconnaissance teams in various directions, they were all ambushed by the Yoman longbowmen, and the scout who returned alive also told the Duke of Saldo a piece of distressing news, that is, there were traps everywhere in the vicinity, and if you were not careful, you would die.

The battle attrition has reached more than 8,000 people, and at this time there is not even a shadow of the enemy, and His Majesty the Emperor has sent a herald to ask him to speed up, and he must take down the outer cities guarding the city of Edinburgh before the Imperial reinforcements of the Sun Never Sets arrive, and finally, the duke finally couldn't hold his breath and decided to let all the 200,000 troops press on it and clear the soldiers of the Sun Never Set Empire in this forest.

Reckless, Saldo believes that sometimes numerical superiority can prevail.