The night was so thick that I almost couldn't see my fingers.

At this time, the moon seemed to be frightened by the cruel and hideous killings on the earth, so she hid in the thick clouds, and was not even in a good mood to open a line of eyes.

Viscounty of Nodara, a domain connected to the fiefdom of the Finlistine family. Although nominally a fief belonging to the Nodara hereditary Viscount Romes family, since a daughter of the Finlistine family married into the Romans family a hundred years ago, this territory has actually belonged to the Finlistin family, providing the Finlistine family with a large amount of considerable taxes and precious resources every year.

But tonight, the viscounty is destined for a catastrophe.

An army of 500 men responsible for guarding the security of the territory had been completely defeated by a cavalry unit just two hours earlier, and if it had not been for the fact that this cavalry unit had no intention of pursuing, I am afraid that this army would have been completely annihilated. However, even if hundreds of defeated troops were to regroup, they would have lost the courage to continue to fight against the defeated force.

At this moment, the entire Viscount of Nodara and others are completely undefended military blank areas.

But that's not the end of it.

After defeating Viscount Nodara's guards, the cavalry continued southward, destroying all the visible facilities it passed through, including towns and towns. In just two hours, the loss of Viscount Nodara was more than 30,000 gold coins, and even if Viscount Nodara was willing to reinvest a lot of money in rebuilding. It is not possible to complete the construction in a month or two, so if you take into account the losses accumulated over a long period of time, the conservative estimate of the loss of this account alone is at least more than 200,000 gold coins.

And that's just two months of damage. If the time goes any longer, or if this cavalry unit destroys more along the way, it will become more and more difficult and higher to estimate the losses.

No lord would allow such an enemy army to wreak havoc on his territory.

But this time, the Romes family had a hard time.

Although this cavalry unit numbered less than 300 people, it far surpassed their territorial guards in terms of equipment, personal strength, and the ability of its commanders. Therefore. In the first charge alone, they left behind dozens of corpses, and the wounded were no less than the number of the battle dead. After that, seeing that the opponent's entire cavalry unit completed a perfect arc U-turn charge at about 100 meters, the commander of the Romes Family Guard knew that there was no need to fight this battle.

Being able to perform such a precise and neat short arc is the minimum standard definition of the Knights in the entire Wonder Continent.

In other words, this cavalry unit that had sliced them apart like cream in the first charge alone was no ordinary cavalry. It's a knightly order!

After two rounds of charges. The Lord's Guards of the House of Romes were completely defeated, with more than two hundred casualties. After that, there was a new round of short-arc counter-charge, and the entire territorial guard was completely defeated, and it could no longer muster any courage to fight back, so it could only scatter and flee, and the number of people trampled to death by their own people in the process was at least dozens.

It was only after the third charge that the commander of the Territorial Guard of the House of Romes finally saw the insignia of the Knights.

It's a bright red base. It is engraved with a vulture-shaped shield and crosses the insignia of a knight's sword and a spear.

This coat of arms was used in the Second Founding War - Historians of Lane have already referred to this war between the Duchy of Lane and the Kingdom of Dabion as the Second Founding War. Because it was this war that made the Duchy of Lane rise to the status of a kingdom - no one knew about it before, but since the Second Founding War, this badge has instantly become one of the most important legion insignia in the entire Lane Kingdom.

Because the legion represented by this badge is none other than the Duke of the Void, Sean. The Knights under Connery's command are also the emblem of the only Knights belonging to the Kingdom of Lane today.

Crimson Knights.

In the face of a frontal attack by a real knight order, not to mention that the Dominal Guard of the Romes family only has five hundred people, and they are usually negligent in training, even if they have a scale of a thousand, they will definitely not be the opponent of the Scarlet Knights. Therefore, this big defeat is completely reasonable, and knowing the decision made by the Finlistin family now, as well as the situation in the territory of the Finlistin family, the Romes family naturally does not dare to continue to hinder the progress of this knight order.

Not only did he not dare, but at the same time, he no longer had the strength.

Therefore, for the destruction of the Scarlet Knights along the way, the Romes family can only consider themselves unlucky.

It's just that the panic that the Romes family is going to suffer tonight obviously doesn't stop there. Because two hours after the Crimson Knights defeated the territorial guards of House Romes, there was another Captain of House Romes, Quake. Fenlistine. The news came that Romes had fainted in fright.

One of the three main forces under the command of the Duke of the Void, the Thunder Lion has officially completed the rendezvous with the Scarlet Knights in the Grey Hills of Viscount Nodara. The town of Gray Nothing, which relied on the Gray Hills as its main industry, was directly taken over by the Thunder Lion and carried out military jurisdiction, and directly used it as a base to carry out military fortress rectification, and at the same time, it has also begun to deploy defenses, announcing that all areas within five kilometers of the surrounding area will be listed as a military restricted area.

The five-kilometer perimeter of Grey Hill is a defensive area that happens to include the Grey Hills, and this line of defense happens to be connected to the territory of the Finlistine family. The Lion of Thunder occupies this area, which is equivalent to establishing an outpost on the edge of the Finlistin family, and whether it continues to harass and raid the Viscount of Nodala, or invades Finlistin's territory, it is entirely up to the Lion of Thunder and the Scarlet Knights.

This kind of behavior is no different from invasion.

An invasion of another nobleman's territory would be tantamount to declaring war on that nobleman and his allies.

It stands to reason that such an unreasonable act as Sean's. It was sure to provoke a strong backlash from aristocratic circles, and even the usual signs of the outbreak of civil war. But this time, Viscount Nodara was not even in the mood to ask the Finlistine family for help. Because he knew very well that even if he asked for help now, the Finlistin family would not be able to spare anyone to help him, because they were now encircling Sean in the territory.

It's just that unlike Sean's approach, they all do it secretly and secretly, at least they know how to wear a layer of camouflage.

But this Duke of the Void has no scruples about mobilizing troops to invade. He was unwilling to do even the slightest disguise, and such a grandiose invasion was really unacceptable to Viscount Nodara. But he also knows it. The current situation is no longer for him to speak, whether he accepts it or not, he can only choose to bear it. As for things like launching a counterattack, this Viscount Nodala has completely chosen to give up.

Because he has learned in just over two hours. The commander of the Thunder Lion unit this time. It was Alfred who single-handedly swallowed the Mountain Lion Legion and won the name of the "Lion King". Vorster. More importantly, being able to include a five-kilometer radius as a defense zone is enough to prove that the Thunder Lion is not a small force like two detachments, but the entire Thunder Lion Legion has been dispatched.

But before that, Viscount Nodara hadn't heard any news, and the more he thought about it, the deeper his fear of the Thunder Lion became.

Anyway, though. He believed that by tomorrow, it was estimated that all the lords in the surrounding territories would know that the Thunder Lion and the Crimson Knights had invaded. And with the official debut of these two armies. Storms that originate from this site will soon sweep through the surrounding territories, and even a steady stream of armies will be mobilized and thrown here, and the war zone will officially become a meat grinder-style killing battlefield.

Thinking that the coming war would likely destroy the entire Viscount of Noordara, Quake. Fenlistine. The lord of Romes wanted to weep without tears.

At the same time, in the outpost that has been established in Grey Void, the soldiers of the Thunder Lion are constantly driving away the inhabitants of Grey Void. However, most of the Thunder Lion soldiers were naked, not even armored, but wielded tools such as giant hammers, demolished all the houses marked with red crosses, and then transported stones, wood and other materials to other designated locations, and began to build corresponding defenses.

The so-called reorganization of military fortresses refers to the fact that the defense of the stronghold is the core consideration, and at this time, whether it is personal assets or houses and other things, if necessary, then all of them must be demolished. Therefore, once a town is designated as a stronghold and is fortified, it usually means that the town will be completely destroyed.

In a makeshift command center in Grey House, Alfred was staring intently at a map on his desk, which had been circled with red ink and a red line connecting them all. In addition, there are several places that have been painted with red slashes and are marked with words like one, two, and three.

There was a sudden sound of footsteps.

Alfred looked up and saw three knights walking towards the command center, and the two knights, who were slightly half a body behind the young knight in the middle, stopped at the door of the command center, and only the knight in the middle stepped in.

"Lord Alfred." Upon entering the command center, the young knight gave a military salute and stood straight across from Alfred.

"Captain Dwight, you don't need to be so strict." Alfred smiled, "The raid at night and the destruction along the way afterwards have been hard for you. ”

"I'm just following the instructions of the adults."

"That's not my instructions, it's William's." Alfred smiled, "The combination of William and Hela is simply terrifying, I'm afraid that Viscount Nodala doesn't know how we infiltrated now." ”

Thinking of this, Yan Sù Dwight not only raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "So what are we going to do next?" ”

"According to the information provided by Hela, William has analyzed the places where Sean may be routed, but Hela also said that those nobles will definitely not let Sean leave so lightly, so if you go deep into the territory of the Finlistin family, you will inevitably have an encounter with the enemy army, so be prepared for a lot of battle attrition." Alfred's expression also became stern, "At this time, our biggest advantage is that the other lords have not yet discovered our actions, but according to William's speculation, the whole of Lane will know about our invasion by noon tomorrow at the latest, so you don't have any time to rest, Captain Dwight." ”

"Lord Alfred, please." Dwight said in a deep voice.

"You have to memorize these routes." Alfred pointed to the places on the map that were circled in red, "Because the possibility of encountering enemy snipers is extremely high, so before arriving at Bai Mengsen, you must do not love to fight, do not divide troops, and do not take the initiative The three requirements, after which the search area will change in the north and south directions, so you can only take the way of dividing your troops to explore, but no matter what the outcome, you will eventually meet in the River of Green Springs, once your troops reunite and there is no trace of Lord Sean, Then you must return here at once, no matter what. ”

As he said this, Alfred nodded to the diagonal area marked two on the map: "I will set out after you, and here I will leave three thousand soldiers to defend, and I will establish two more strongholds along the way south." …… This is our second supply point, and once the enemy knows that we have set up an outpost in such a deep area, they will definitely launch a strong attack and cut off our rear routes, so it is likely that we will need to regain the safety of the logistics line at that time, so I will need the help of the Crimson Knights. ”

"I see, Lord Alfred!" Dwight nodded heavily, "I'll do as I am told." ”

"One more thing, please remember." Alfred spoke again, "According to Hela's estimates, you have only three days to operate, and by the morning of the fourth day, you must return to this stronghold immediately, whether you reach the River of Green Springs or not, and whether you find Sean or not. ”

"Then if you still don't find Sean-sama by then......"

"Don't worry, if you still don't find Sean by then, William said, we can let it go." Alfred's eyes became sharp, and his true ferocity as a lion king was also revealed at this time, as strong as Dwight, he only felt that the murderous aura that rushed in his face almost suffocated him, "I will gather all the troops and ...... directly here" Alfred pointed to the slashed area with "three" written on the map: "...... Build a battle base. ”

Dwight looked at the markings on the map, his eyes narrowed, but not fear, but excitement.

Because the place Alfred pointed to was the most important heart of the Finlistine family's territory - Fort Finlistine! (To be continued......)