Lord's Log: "Huntington William Frederick II raided a dwarf village, defeated a large Swarm force (250-499), and obtained: 58 Tier 1 weapons, 52 Tier 2 armor pieces, and 6337 gold..."
Huntington William Frederick defeated the Zounds (large): 500-999 dwarf troops, gaining: 325 Tier 1 weapons, 221 Tier 2 armor, 70,000 gold coins…
You have intercepted a dwarven noble from the Golden Goblet Tribe. The dwarven tribe has demanded a ransom from you, and you have received a ransom of 3 million gold coins.
"Hahahaha. Ransom?"
"..."
Su Yue looked at the lord's log with a smile, feeling incredibly pleased.
"Lie down and take a nap, then wake up to huge profits—who could resist that?"
"It's a pity that I didn't get a share of the lord experience like Malekith did, otherwise it would have been even better." He was already looking forward to the battle breaking out in Qiweier City.
That way, I can gain lord experience from Malekith.
"I'm just one step away from leveling up!!"
"Upgrading allows you to unlock Lord skills."
"Demigod-level strength is one thing, but as a lord, the most important thing is still leading troops into battle."
But then, a piece of news almost made Su Yue burst out laughing.
Lord's Log: "Huntington William Frederick crushes Legions (countless): 2000+ Dwarf Milliford Castle".
"???"
"What is that?"
"Damn it, he attacked the fortress and succeeded?"
Su Yue was shocked and opened his global recruitment and military interface. He was stunned by what he saw. It was too amazing... In one night, his dwarf army lost more than 9,000 men, and in their place was a fortress called Millipo Fortress, which lit up with green friendly dots on the fog of war map.
"...Seriously?? I just made peace with the Dwarven Empire, and now we're fighting again? And they're even launching an attack! Huntington, aren't you just setting us up for disaster?"
Su Yue experienced both pain and pleasure.
The Imperial rebels are now below, and the High Elf Empire has declared war on him again.
Offend the dwarves again.
Ragnar said respectfully, “Sir, it’s Huntington’s letter.”
"Letters?? You can't trust even the punctuation in his letters!!" Su Yue hadn't forgotten that Emperor Bathor and the Dwarf Kingdom had been completely fooled by this German Emperor Huntington, losing all sense of direction...
However, that's what they say.
Su Yue still opened Huntington's letter, wanting to see how he would argue, and maybe he could learn something from it himself?
Huntington: "My lord, the Golden Goblet tribe, one of the seven great clans of the Dwarf Empire, may have disobeyed the Dwarf Empire's truce order and secretly mobilized its troops to attack. I discovered this and therefore launched an offensive to try to contain the Dwarf forces' advance... Please forgive me, my lord."
"..."
That reason is quite reasonable...
The Golden Goblet Tribe truly hates me to the core.
A clandestine attack to retake the northern fortress, swift and decisive, would indeed be very dangerous. Did Huntington anticipate the danger, resolve it, and proactively handle the situation?
It's like he did something meritorious?
"We need to proactively put pressure on the dwarves, forcing them to believe that our army still has the capability to attack the Golden Goblet tribe's territory outside the northern fortress, thereby threatening the dwarven army into a retreat..."
"...This strategy?"
"That's incredible!!"
"But how do you explain the fact that nearly 9,000+ dwarven soldiers were killed in one night? That's a huge loss. The dwarven fortress is inherently difficult to attack because it's an uphill assault. Without sufficient engineering equipment and preparation, how could you just throw it away like that?" Su Yue didn't believe that Huntington's decision to throw the enemy away was unreasonable.
He was shocked to discover this only when he looked at the messages in the lord's log.
The strategic objective was actually achieved?
Now that the strategic objective has been achieved, the tactical losses can be disregarded.
For an emperor, the most important strength is to control the overall situation.
However, overall success inevitably requires sacrificing local interests.
This is the issue between strategy and tactics.
The lord's log contained a lot of information about the declining morale of the Golden Goblet Dwarf tribe. Their contrarian approach of sending dwarf soldiers to their deaths had actually triggered panic among the dwarf tribe... After all, Su Yue's side consisted of human troops and armies. Sending dwarf soldiers out to their deaths had caused them great morale damage and fear.
"……fear?"
The letter reads: "My lord, the Golden Goblet tribe outside the northern fortress of the dwarves is in a state of fear in all its fortresses and cities. They suspect that our human army is stronger, but in reality, I am just buying you time."
"Once this mentality of 'human military strength will be stronger in the future' is implanted in their minds, their subsequent actions will become rigid. The art of war is never about annihilating the enemy, but about crushing the enemy's morale. It is necessary to make the enemy emotionally unstable and feel pain."
"So my second goal was to burn, kill, and plunder the dwarf villages, killing a large number of civilians."
"They must feel the pain... only then can the fighting stop."
Su Yue looked at Huntington's letter and fell into deep thought...
"As expected of Frederick."
"..."
Su Yue seemed to see the bloody battle through the data. "These dwarves must be terrified, right? The breach of the northern fortress is a huge threat in itself, and this threat is still expanding? If I were in their shoes, I would definitely defend my home too."
Su Yue murmured, "What about tomorrow?"
Huntington wrote in his letter: "Tomorrow we will continue to maintain an offensive posture, but reduce the intensity and buy time. Given the speed at which you are developing your territory, this time gained will be invaluable."
"I will continue to train the new dwarven army, which is already growing in size."
Su Yue nodded.
He laughed when he saw the military spending figures.
"Hahaha……"
"That feels good."
Lord's Log: "Huntington unlocks Royal Court Memories, 'God-level Resurrected One' grows, obtains: Tier 6 building blueprint - Major Town - Schweidnitz, 4 Siege Towers."
"???"
"Holy crap, it exploded again?"
Su Yue was well aware of the value of the NPC "God-level Resurrector". Huntington William Frederick II was an old man who advised him and became an "advisor" to the council before dying.
Then the resurrection began with children.
This led to Su Yue collecting a large number of rewards, but unexpectedly, a new stage of his development was unlocked?
Just this wave.
He won't lose out.
Even if all 12,000 dwarf troops were wiped out, he wouldn't lose too much.
Lord's Log: "Your subordinate Huntington William Frederick has recruited prisoners of the Dwarven Empire: 1693 Tier 1 Dwarven Miners, 925 Tier 2 Dwarven Warriors, 533 Tier 3 Dwarven Surveyors, 127 Tier 3 Borgman Rangers, 217 Tier 4 Dwarven Golden Goblet Guards, and 86 Tier 4 Thunder Gunners..."
Su Yue smiled and said, "Well done!"
The subordinates he wanted were not the ordinary NPCs who only knew how to stick to their own opinions and obediently complete their duties. On the contrary, both Abraham, the sixth brother, and Huntington were the kind of people who could bring him surprises.
This is what reveals their strength.
If everyone just sticks to their own way, what's the point of a lifeless existence?
Unexpected surprises are what make things valuable.
"The difference between the strong and the weak is that they will take the initiative to attack, and the losses are not as great as I expected..."
"They even made a profit!!"
Su Yue watched as a map of the northern fortress in the distance lit up, then turned his attention back to the rewards and benefits he was currently receiving.
"Four siege towers???"
"This is a weapon of war... capable of engaging in a firefight with the city walls on equal footing."
— "Level 6 Building Blueprints—Schweidnitz: A legendary fortress town in Prussia that withstood the invasion and attacks of the Austro-Israeli allied forces, proving the glory of the successful victory in the Seven Years' War."
Troop maintenance costs (all provinces): -20%,
Melee Defense (All Provinces) +8
Public order +12.
Fortress-level building!!
"fortress??"
"If this thing is built on a high place, the defense of my territory will be greatly enhanced."
"What is a stronghold? It is a military fortress."
"And this 20% reduction in the province's military spending?"
"Holy crap, a building that reduces military spending..."
Su Yue's joy was about to reach the heavens. He had been suppressed and troubled by military funding, especially after the emergence of the 7th-tier Reik Empire Guards, his military funding problem had been a major headache.
"Frederick, you are truly my lucky star."
Although it seemed like a long time had passed, in reality, only a short period of time had gone by for Su Yue.
Just as he was about to enjoy breakfast, Eric respectfully said, "My lord, the envoys from the Bato Empire have arrived. Are you still preparing for war today?"
"An envoy? Bring him to see me in a moment."
Su Yue was quite curious about what the emperor of the Bato Empire thought of him.
Before the envoy Hales arrived, he immediately went to inspect the four enormous siege engines... "Holy crap..."
The little griffin from Soss circled in the sky.
And in the darkness of night.
Lord's Log: "Your hero, Gregorio, led his army back from exploring the dungeon, achieving a glorious victory, defeating Legions (countless): 1000+, and obtaining: Tier 1 weapons x420, Tier 2 armor x223, Tier 3 weapons x120, and 350,000 gold coins..."
At night, a dense array of small-scale battle information appeared on Gregory's battle panel.
Su Yue discovered that he had leveled up again?
"??"
"Gregory's leveling speed is a bit too fast, isn't it?"
"I've gained a new skill: Eagle Eye..."
"He can work as an investigator from now on."
—The Noble One: "Probability of rebels among the host's territory's inhabitants -5%, fatigue of territory's residents -10%, endurance of territory's residents +10%."
We have to protect him.
Su Yue nodded toward Gregory's returning troops not far away.
Gu Longqing sent another message: "Boss, a conflict has broken out between us and the European players."
"oh?"
Gu Longqing: "A large-scale decisive battle, involving more than 20,000 troops."
"What?"
Would you like to visit the United Front Work Group?
Currently, players in the seventh stage only have a few hundred troops per unit, with very few exceeding 500 troops. The fact that they can engage in conflicts with a scale of 20,000 or more means that a large number of Chinese and European player lords are gathering.
In any case, he still holds the position of vice president of the Dragon Green Guild.
"There's no need for fighting today, and we can see there's nothing wrong with it."
Hales approached the mysterious white horse lord and sensed that he seemed somewhat distracted.
"Lord Su Yue?"
"Hmm? Please continue? I'm listening."
Hales's lips twitched...
"Your Majesty Henry..."
Seeing that Su Yue did not value the imperial envoys, he secretly began to plot against the Canaanite territory... That very night, he met with Joanna and many opposition nobles of the Bathor Empire, gathering information about Canaan. He discovered that these nobles harbored great malice towards Canaan.
He also claimed that the Canaanite lord Su Yue was a "vicious beast with venomous fangs".
“Holy faith cannot take root here, and the power of the Vatican cannot spread the faith. They worship the power of a spiritual sect called the Dominican Order, the Devil's Church.”
"The Canaanite territory is rife with evil..."
Baron Heles, an envoy from the Barton Empire, was resting in Canaan when he was shocked to see a messenger from a human empire delivering a message from afar:
"My lord... the High Elves... the Kingdom of Krado High Elves has declared war on the Empire..."
"What??"
Hales asked in shock, "What's the reason? What is the reason?"
The subordinate exclaimed in shock, "...They were attacked by Canaan...and the dwarves, and new condemnations have been issued from the dwarves, claiming that the Canaanite lord intends to continue attacking the Golden Goblet clan dwarves at the northern fortress!"
—Terron the High Elf Lord was killed by Canaan, and a thousand elite High Elves perished at sea.
—The fall of Milipo Fortress of the Golden Goblet Tribe in the North…
—The imperial rebels were defeated.
And this Canaanite lord was just moments ago calmly discussing the empire's rewards with him? What's the point of giving rewards now, after all this?
"How could this happen?! Is he out of his mind? He's offended both dwarves and high elves?!"
Millifour Castle has been occupied...
Seeing the shocked expressions on the faces of the Barton nobles, Hales said, "He's gone mad! He's absolutely gone mad!!"
Meanwhile, Su Yue was looking at the messages in the united front group. Zhou Zhuo, who was about to go to sleep, said with dark circles under his eyes, "Big boss? What brings you here too?"
Su Yue said, "I'll just take a look."
Zhou Zhuo suddenly said, "Boss, rebel forces from the Human Empire have been discovered north of Canaan!!!"
"oh?"
He now has over 5,500 Imperial troops, all of whom have been mobilized to Qiweier City, leaving him with a ragtag army of less than 2,000 men.
Orcs, half-orcs, elven surrendered troops, and ratmen units—this ragtag force, along with over 500 dwarves, formed the core. The newly recruited Cthulhu Tier 2 investigators numbered over 100, making them the core force.
The artillery units were not mobilized and were also engaged in sniping in Balayamakan. These were his prized possessions, and he was afraid that the city of Qiweier would be destroyed by the artillery, so he kept them all.
"I should be leveling up soon..."
"There's no rush for a siege... Anyway, there aren't any villages or towns near the Canaan territory."
"Defend the city and buy time."
He soon realized that he had been too optimistic.
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The shepherd, Cedric Charles, is said to have been a nobleman by birth, but he has now lost his "illustrious" status and become an ordinary weaver in Bruj.
"Now, the only territory of Canaan that remains unrecovered in the entire 'Kavrwit' is the Canaan region."
“You are responsible for the Guelphs.”
“You are accountable to His Holiness Pope Innocent IV.”
They were divided into two factions: the Guilf faction and the Ghibern faction. Both were high-ranking rulers of the Eastern Expedition. At this moment, their 20,000+ Imperial rebel troops, along with the Papacy's friars, converged in the distance, forming a line stretching nearly 15 kilometers.
The troops, arranged in a block-like formation, were spread out in the "Drengen" forest area.
Unlike the "Manishini" forest on the left side of Canaan, the forest here seems to have been ravaged by war, with black, burning trees everywhere.
The personnel composition of Cedric Charles's forces is as follows.
"650 officers of the Eastern Expeditionary Rebel Army".
"120 heretical shepherd banners, and 20,000+ Imperial rebel troops."
On the Canaan city wall on Su Yue's side, there were more than 10 Tier 5 Griffins and Tier 4 Pegasus as a regular reconnaissance force. Su Yue was standing on the city wall at this moment, not paying much attention to the battle between the Dragon Kingdom players and the European players. The most important thing for a person is to take care of his own little territory.
It's the stupidest thing to do to study others when you haven't even figured it out yourself. You can't let your attention wander. He looked up at the distant troop display and asked, "What's the enemy's formation like?"
Ragnar: "There are a large number of Tier 3 Imperial Greatsword Warriors, probably more than 3,000, and more than 1,400 Tier 4 Sons of Sigmar. There are also more than 500 spearmen in two rows. There are two cavalry groups hidden in the forest, the number of which is currently unknown."
"In terms of ranged attacks, the enemy has a large number of Imperial Tier 3 archers (3000+), Tier 2 Imperial hunters (700+), Tier 3 Free Militia (1000+), and 800+ mercenary troops."
Lord's Log: "Your Soth Griffin has discovered 240 Tier 6 Imperial Silver Bullet Musketeers."
"Do all main combat units at Tier 3 and above have 10,000+ troops?"
"The rest are all second-tier, first-tier thugs, and are there any supply trains?"
"...This is troublesome."
Su Yue gazed into the distance. He had known for some time that the imperial rebels were making moves, but after waking up from his nap, they were less than 30 kilometers away. "What about the catapults?"
Ragnar and the Innsmouths, Cthulhu's forces are all diving, Ragnar said:
"The number of catapults is 50 or more."
Su Yue frowned even more deeply.
A dozen or so Innsmouth people had just begun to emerge.
He was then targeted by a Tier 6 Imperial Silver Bullet Musketeer, "Bang!!"
The blood of an Innsmouth man stained the river red.
"..."
"Crush the Canaanite territory!!!"
"Justice will surely triumph over evil. The enemy of the Bhato Empire, the evil lord of the Canaanite territory, has interfered with the coming of God. The Holy Son will descend from the stars in the sky to punish all the wicked beasts of the world."
"Their spirits will be lifted up in the sky."
"attack!!"
Joanna arrived at the city walls, where large numbers of Bartolomeo nobles stared in horror at the long, dark mass of troops stretching like a dragon in the distance.
"We're doomed."
"We're fucked……"
“I’ve met Cedric Charles. He’s a terrifying guy. He’s the one who crushed General Qatar’s forces!!!”
The Bartorian aristocracy undoubtedly displayed their "spineless" characteristics.
“My lord, you shouldn’t have mobilized over 5,500 elite core Imperial troops to Chiwell City.” This wasn’t Joanna’s accusation, but rather from Viscount Martin Jim, the large, fat man standing nearby.
Su Yue smiled as he watched in the distance. Cedric Charles was riding a herd of black warhorses, surrounded by numerous adjutants and generals, who were calling out towards the Canaanite territory:
“Open the city gates and surrender, or we will massacre the city after we have destroyed the Canaanite territory.”
"Slaughter!!! Slaughter the entire city???"
Cedric Charles's words terrified the spineless nobles of the Bathor Empire. Most of the Bathor nobles were themselves exiles who had lost their territories, and they were immediately given a second shock, recalling the fear of losing their territories and being defeated.
Su Yue turned his head and looked at his brother-in-law, Viscount Eli:
"Viscount Elijah, what do you think? Should we open the city gates and surrender?"
Eli looked extremely nervous.
The young viscount had already encountered danger on his ship in Chivel, and now, looking at the massive, dark army pressing in from afar, he felt a surge of fear.
The morning light shone on the vast array of silver armor worn by the empire, reflecting patches of deep blue light.
Eli said, "...You." He meant to say that you really shouldn't have mobilized troops to Chivel territory overnight.
"you……"
The two "you"s have completely different meanings.
Su Yue glanced at Joanna.
Joanna gazed at her tenderly, as if to say, "No matter what, I support you."
Su Yue smiled at her, then turned and walked towards the foot of the city wall.
Sleipnir's five hooves burned with the hoofprints of nightmares.
Su Yue was fully armed, wearing heavy imperial armor, and riding Sleipnir.
The city gates opened.
Throughout the Canaanite territories, the imperial rebels in their eastern campaign heard a cold, sharp voice: "Surrender to Canaan now, and I can plead with His Majesty Henry VII on your behalf..."
A domineering, cold, and arrogant voice came from inside the city gates of the Canaanite territory.
A white horse, followed by a dozen imperial cavalrymen.
The black and red catfish-shaped military flag fluttered in the wind.
Cedric Charles sneered, "You think you can stop me..."
"What?????"
"The White Horse Lord... he's charging towards us???"
"!!! Protect the adults!!"
When two armies clash, the commander and ruler should be exchanging words and conversations. But at this moment, the lord riding a white horse actually led a dozen or so cavalrymen and charged directly at the massive, dark mass of imperial rebels who formed a Great Wall.
"He's going to his death??"
"This...this is like walking into a trap!"
The nobles of the Bato Empire on the city walls were terrified.
Martin Jim looked into the distance in shock, then burst into laughter: "The foolish Canaanite lord Su Yue is charging into the enemy's ranks, trying to surrender and die!"
Sir Oswald Mosley was completely bewildered; he had no idea what was going on.
Joanna gripped the wrinkles in her velvet dress with worry.
Eli exclaimed in shock, "This...this is??"
The Canaanite lord, the heroic lord riding a white horse, faced with the unusual movement of his 20,000-strong army, and his resounding voice rang out: "Who dares to fight me?"
"!!!"
"!!!"
Cedric Charles's sharp, hooked nose gave him an unusually somber look. Beside him, a pagan knight commander, Spencer, wearing a visor, charged toward the Canaanite lord on the white horse.
A colossal, nearly 3.5-meter-tall, terrifying knight's lance, a dragon-blooded warhorse fully armored, and the leader of the heretical dragon riders charged fiercely towards the Canaanite lord!
The massive black flag of heresy behind them echoed the military flags of the Canaanite army beneath the city walls.
"Pierce him!!!"
"Pierce him!!"
Spencer, the commander of the heretical Papacy's dragoons, had a terrifying vortex formed at the tip of his massive lance...
But the next moment, an incredibly shocking scene unfolded.
The dark longsword of Arachnid, a divine artifact.
It unleashed a powerful black wave of energy.
"???"
"!!!"
The massive lance was swiftly dodged by Sleipnir.
"puff……"
The head of Spencer, the heretical dragoon commander, was severed... Even more bizarre, shocking, and incomprehensible was that the White Horse Lord, Su Yue, was still charging towards the main force of the Imperial Heretical Eastern Expeditionary Rebel Army?
"He...he's still charging forward?!"
"The commander of the Heretic Knights has been beheaded??"
A large number of guards rushed past Cedric Charles, showing no intention of retreating. At this moment, both he and the White Horse Lord before him represented the strength and weakness of morale; if one side retreated, morale would inevitably plummet. Therefore, the guards, including dozens of elite fifth-tier heretical axe-wielding assassins from the Free Militia, all charged towards Su Yue's direction.
"The White Horse Lord??"
"Kill you, and I can get promoted to officer..."
The image of hundreds of guards charging back at the White Horse Lord was clearly visible to everyone in the Canaan territory.
Abraham looked at the scene and laughed.
"!!!"
A large axe came slashing down with the cavalry, but Su Yue's body bent at a 90-degree angle to dodge the blow, and seven or eight cavalrymen surrounded him.
"Get out of here!!"
"!!!"
"What????"
"How is that possible??"
Large swathes of blood exploded in all directions like shotgun pellets, and the white horse lord seemed to be a "cartoonish combination of an octopus, a dragon, and a human," with numerous tentacles growing from his body.
"Sir, you must retreat."
Cedric Charles watched as the White Horse Lord's horses were stained with black and red blood, but he showed no intention of backing down: "The gods will punish all the Antichrists and traitors."
"He will die in front of me."
"Otherwise, I will go to heaven and repent to God."
Black turbulence, corpses, and blood burst forth like a light rain in front of the battlefield.
Countless rebels of the empire turned their shocked gazes toward the very front of the battle line.
The Empire's Free Militia, the Imperial Rebels' Sons of Sigmar's 1400+ high-ranking guards, Tier 6 Silver Bullet Musketeers, and a barrage of artillery fire were all preparing to attack the White Horse Lord. But at that moment, the White Horse Lord had already charged into the very front of Cedric Charles's guard.
It's like the sharpest knife in the world.
"puff!"
Cedric Charles's head flew into the air, plunging the surrounding troops into immense panic. A sense of horror, fear, despair, and bewilderment swept over the hearts of all the judges and all the "lowly men."
The entire battlefield fell silent instantly.
As if gripped by an invisible force, the 20,000-strong army remained silent. Above the city walls, Joanna stood motionless, while Eli gripped his longsword with his right arm, enveloped in a deathly stillness…
Blood splattered across Su Yue's face. Cedric Charles's head, still seemingly praying to God, remained fervently in his hands. Su Yue held Cedric Charles's head high and roared, "Soldiers of Canaan, fire!"
"Cedric Charles is dead! Kill him!!!"
"Avenge Lord Cedric Charles!!"
The flames of revenge, mixed with a sense of panic, began to spread beyond the territory of Canaan... The morale of the 20,000-strong army not only did not decline, but rose instead.
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