Chapter 183 Who is the noble?

The next day, Horn and others got up early, and it was still a cloudy day.

He stood on the mound, drying his face with a hot towel, after performing his daily pranayama routine.

He squatted on the pile of earth, eating breakfast while watching hundreds of students from the Holy Trinity Education Team digging the ground with great effort.

The subjects of these educations were either officers among the mercenaries, accountants and clerks under the Duke, or priests in the church.

Most of them were accomplices of the Duke. Although they did not directly harm the villagers, they all played a role in fanning the flames and aiding the tyrant.

Guilty, but not completely guilty.

In order to manage these 25,000 people, Horn must have his own talent system. He needs a large number of experienced people to help him train new talents.

Horn hoped that within three months, these new soldiers would be able to read simple military orders and write in simple terms so that they could have an accurate understanding of the strategic intentions.

To complete the primary education of 4,000 new soldiers and 300 child soldiers, people like Bonard alone are not enough. Horn needs more educated people.

Perhaps they cannot be used directly by Horn, but at least after education, they are qualified as new soldiers and future teachers.

"Your Majesty."

Horn had just taken a few bites of his Monster meat sandwich when he saw Victor jogging towards him.

"How is it?" Horn asked Victor, whose forehead was slightly covered with sweat. "Did the scouts return safely?"

"Your Majesty, they all returned safely." Victor pointed at the exhausted scouts and said, "An officer of the Holy Trinity team followed and drew a topographic map."

Victor handed Horn a topographic map.

Unfolding the topographic map, Horn looked at it carefully in the light of the sky, following Victor's narration.

According to the topographic map and the scouts, unlike the North Ze side which is full of puddles and shallow water, the South Ze is almost a large dammed lake.

Qiumu Island is located in the center of the lake, about 2 to 3 miles away from the shore. Originally there was a long stone arch bridge more than a mile long.

Originally, there was a mile-long embankment bridge connected to it, but due to the rising lake water and years of disrepair, it disappeared, and the long stone arch bridge left over from the El Empire became a broken bridge.

If you want to get to the island, you have to go to the barbarian kingdom near the arch bridge first, and then take a boat to the island. There are countless hairy monsters on the island.

According to the scouts' initial observations, the so-called barbarian kingdom basically lived on the shore near the stone arch bridge.

"Have the expeditionary force's 200 command companies and 20 holy musketeers arrived?" After swallowing the Monster Meat-filled Bun in a few mouthfuls, Horn stood up.

"We're all here. We just finished breakfast."

"Let's go." Putting on his cloak, Horn hung the Blood Cloud around his waist, "Let's go take a look."

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"Your Majesty, this way."

Led by the beastman Captain Hariba, Horn walked along the long embankment road for half a morning before finally reaching the foothills of the swamp.

Pasrick was assigned to dig swamp soil to extract peat, while Horn led more than 200 soldiers towards the barbarian kingdom.

After walking on the mountain road for more than an hour, it was almost noon when Horn saw the first barbarian kingdom.

The cold wind from the mountains blew on people. Horn was riding a horse, and in front of him was the beastman village.

In the land crisscrossed with streams and underground rivers, hidden among the reeds, twenty or thirty thatched houses and two or three wooden houses appeared in front of Horn.

Standing on the hillside, Horn could clearly see the appearance of the beastman barbarians below, which were almost the same as those in Beize.

Apart from the fact that their clothing was rather rough and barbaric, Horn really couldn't tell the difference between these so-called barbarians and the "nobles" of Kitazawa just by looking at their appearance.

"Your Majesty, what do you say?"

"Tell them that we want to borrow the road to go to Qiumu Island. If they are willing, they can open the road. If not, six divisions will be moved."

"Your Majesty, our scouts and messengers will be attacked as soon as they get close, and they won't have a chance to speak."

"If there is no opportunity, create one." Horn squinted at him. "You beat them to their knees, then you can ask them if they are willing or not, right?" "Ah, I see."

Soon, more than 150 Savior Army soldiers appeared in the sight of those beastmen, including 50 breastplate spearmen, 20 cavalrymen and holy musketeers.

Their opponents are more than 200 barbarian beastmen.

Apparently these barbarians had been somewhat prepared when they encountered the Savior scouts this morning. When the Savior appeared, they quickly took out weapons from their homes.

What surprised Horn was that the equipment of these barbarians was better than that of the so-called "nobles" of Carthage. Not only did seven or eight of them have leather armor, they even had iron axes and daggers.

Who is the noble after all?

He turned his head and glanced suspiciously at Haliba beside him. Haliba looked unnatural and looked up at the sky awkwardly.

The morale of the barbarians at the foot of the hill was quite high when they saw that they were humans, but when they saw the cavalry on their war horses, there was still a hint of fear in their eyes.

After all, they have no horses here, and war horses are rare monsters to them.

As for the Saviors wearing black cloaks in front of them, they did not take them seriously.

Even if the enemy is twice as strong as himself, as a descendant of the pure-blooded beastman nobles of Nan Ze, he will never bow to Bei Kui.

When they got to a point where both sides could almost see each other's outlines clearly, the beastman barbarians immediately began to roar in war.

"Urula!"

"For the Moon Goddess!"

Seeing the beastman barbarians charging, Horn simply said to the flag bearer beside him: "Blow the horn."

"Uuuuuu——"

The beastman barbarians formed a battle formation and rushed towards the Savior Army's phalanx. Although the beastmen were better equipped, the level of their military formation was completely inferior to those of the civilized kingdoms in Beize.

"For the first and second rows, the spears are placed horizontally, and for the third row, the spears are placed diagonally."

Victor shouted his command, and when he saw the beastmen approaching within fifty yards, he shouted again, "Charge!"

The neatly-organized ranks marched in neat steps, and two rows of long spears trembled as they ran, smashing heavily on the scattered formation of the beastman barbarians like a hammer.

The spear pierced into the leather armor that had almost no protection against fine iron, and blood spurted out like a fountain. The crudely made iron axes of the beastmen could only leave a dent when they hit the breastplate of the Saviors.

Almost at the same time, the cavalry led by Jeanne rushed over from the flank, their sabers slashed across the beastmen's necks, and the flashing electric light instantly penetrated the beastmen's army formation.

Within seconds, the beastmen in the front row and on the left fell down in rows like grass being cut, and blood and screams suddenly rang out in the valley.

The Holy Gunners didn't even have time to fire their clockwork guns before they were already in the pursuit, so this vanguard battle was over in less than ten minutes after it began.

More than 70% of the time is spent on traveling.

"This, how, this..."

Even though he knew in advance how powerful the Paladins were, Haliba still couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the brave barbarians being defeated in an instant.

It seems that I wasn't able to get the Pope to give his full strength yesterday. What a pity.

Rudilo rode his horse to the bottom of the hill and shouted to Haliba, "Hey, come out and clean the floor."

"How dare you! Don't you see His Majesty is here?"

"I'm not talking to Your Majesty, Your Majesty, a great victory, a great victory."

Smiling and waving to Rudilo to show that he understood, Horn turned around and patted Haliba on the shoulder: "There are about a dozen villages from here to the Broken Bridge. I hope you will be there when I ride over tomorrow morning."

After saying this, Horn looked at the sky, felt that the time was almost up, and ran towards the capital of Carthage.

Pasrick is preparing and investigating the peat matter there, and according to the time, the results should have come out.

(End of this chapter)