Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

After Hildegard raised the banner and came to Su Li, she said to him, "Lord, this banner is a very powerful battle flag called the Black Knight Dread Banner."

"It is engraved with the Black Knight emblem of Mor, bathed in Mor's light. When knights charge into battle carrying this banner, it emits a terrifying howl, causing a slight decrease in the morale and movement speed of enemies within 55 meters."

Su Li asked in surprise, "Is the effect that strong? But we already have a banner, won't there be a conflict?"

Hildegard smiled faintly and shook her head, explaining, "No. Your family banner is the great banner of the entire army, meaning its effect applies to every soldier."

"And this kind of battle flag is a company banner, its effect applies to the company's soldiers. We also brought out two other shining banners from the dragon's nest, but those banners are of lower quality. Fluttering in the breeze, the banners softly whisper to the marching soldiers that victory is in their hands. These are flags produced by the Redemar Church, with effects similar to arousing loyalty and perseverance in the hearts of believers, which can improve the morale and willpower of soldiers."

Oh?

So magical? Su Li raised his eyebrows and asked, "Doesn't that mean our three companies of soldiers will be improved? Are there other kinds of battle flags?"

Hildegard nodded and said, "Of course. A truly powerful duchy guard should be equipped with a massive number of battle flags. Besides the difference in armor and equipment, another important distinction between an elite force and a rabble is the flags and banners."

"Theoretically, the perfect state is to have an army flag for the army, a battle flag for the company, individual flags for each squad, and even some standard-bearers have their own battle flags, such as the famous Fury Banner of the Winter God Uric Church. It got this name because the person holding this battle flag always charges forward like crazy whenever there is a battle."

After listening, Su Li surprisingly summarized, "Doesn't that mean our Black Forest Territory's army is only slightly stronger than a rabble?"

He had always thought that the Black Forest Territory's army was the unparalleled elite in the entire Border Prince Territory.

But from the perspective of flags, they are still far from being an elite force.

Hildegard said heroically, "Lord, you don't need to belittle yourself. In terms of weapons and equipment, we are actually very outstanding. We are better than most territories in the aspects that can be directly armed with wealth."

"As for the remaining ordinary flags, to replace them with magical flags with divine grace from various churches, we can wait patiently. As long as the monastery obtains divine grace, the priests will eventually produce enough magical banners."

Su Li stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, feeling that it made sense.

Monasteries of the Goddess of Dawn Church and the Goddess of Healing Church can produce various life potions.

Then it is natural that monasteries of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun and the Winter God Church can produce various war props!

The only problem is that the priest of the Black Forest Territory's Blazing Sun Goddess Monastery is currently Rong En, who was punished by the Goddess of Healing because his medical skills couldn't save the empire.

Therefore, he cannot currently sense the divine grace of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun, so he has been unable to produce banners.

This aspect can be considered both advantageous and disadvantageous. His God-chosen level of experience and theory greatly improves the training level and tactical understanding of the territory's army.

The opening and explanation on each day of rest can bring a lot of insights and benefits to the territory's knights and freemen.

After all, being able to listen to the teachings of a God-chosen knight at close range is something that countless territories desire but cannot obtain.

As for the issue of banners, Su Li can think of other ways to solve it.

For example, in the war with the neighboring territory, Fasterick burned the Slaanesh-corrupted village in the southeast of the Mirror Marsh to ashes with a fire, and their lord has sent a declaration of war, demanding Su Li to pay him compensation and apologize, otherwise he will enter a state of war with the Black Forest Territory.

He is ugly and thinks beautifully.

Su Li flatly rejected his request, so the war broke out directly.

In the south of the Mirror Marsh, the armies of both sides broke out in a fierce battle. Su Li only dispatched one company of soldiers and defeated the lord's main force in one fell swoop, killing more than 20 people, capturing four knights, eight armed attendants, and more than a dozen slaves. The rest fled back to the territory in a panic under the leadership of their lord.

Afterward, the opponent directly lost all courage to fight, shrank into the castle, and allowed Su Li to send troops to loot all his villages and farms on the plains. Except for a small number of people who escaped, the remaining villagers and serfs all became Su Li's prisoners, totaling more than 80 people.

If his castle wasn't too far from the Black Forest Territory and Su Li still had hill people and demon legions to deal with in the north, Su Li would have sent troops to continue chasing south for hundreds of miles and besiege his castle.

Recently, this pioneering lord has been sending diplomatic envoys and slave traders to Black Forest Town to negotiate the redemption of the prisoners.

He is willing to pay a large sum of money to redeem the four knights. The ransom is as high as 178 gold coins.

Su Li had not considered this issue before, after all, he was not short of gold coins.

But perhaps he can exchange these knights for the banner in his hand.

According to Fasterick's report, the opponent's team was carrying a banner during the battle.

This made Su Li very curious about the abilities of various battle flags. He asked Hildegard with great interest, "What is the banner of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun Church?"

"Ordinary priests make the Lily Battle Flag, and if infused with divine grace, a powerful priest can also make the Holy Lily Battle Flag."

"The Holy Lily Battle Flag allows the radiance of the Blazing Sun to shine on the knights. The knight company holding the Holy Lily Battle Flag will have a layer of dazzling halo on their bodies and weapons, and their weapons and armor will be plated with a layer of brilliant gold, greatly increasing their defense and attack power with divine grace."

The lily is the symbol of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun. Her followers, after festival celebrations and wartime triumphs, carry her statue in a grand parade with flower palanquins decorated with flowers, gold, and skulls.

Among them, lilies and skulls represent the purity of mankind.

So this Lily Battle Flag is very in line with the characteristics of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun, it can make the knights golden, and the Holy Lily Army Flag is a super-enhanced version of golden!

The knights of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun usually blind the enemy's eyes. Strength aside, various cool strong lights are a must.

Su Li was also very much looking forward to these battle flags and said, "I hope that one day we can obtain a Holy Lily Army Flag and distribute it to our Black Forest Guard Knights as soon as possible."

After his personal selection and creation, the Black Forest Guard Knights have initially taken shape.

He selected 24 elite knights to form this flower of the nobility unit. All members of this unit are at least elite-level knights, and champion-level soldiers can serve as captains, leading a team of elite knights.

Now Fasterick and Gerald are serving as the captains of the first and second teams respectively.

Su Li gave them both perfect-level armor, weapons, and runes as standard equipment.

Su Li even gave them two dragon bloodstones each, one for the knight to wear and one tied to the front of the warhorse's neck.

The other soldiers are also wearing shiny star iron armor, all using lances, and equipped with a sword and a shield, even their warhorses are uniformly equipped with heavy barded horse armor.

They are not riding ordinary warhorses, but the strong horn horses that Su Li captured in the green hills. These steeds have two horns, one long and one short, on the top of their heads, and are one of the most extreme impact warhorses in the empire.

With the assistance of the intelligence system, Gerald personally took action and even captured the horse king of the wild horse herd in the Green Leaf Hills.

This valiant steed is extremely majestic and wild, and can be said to be the most magnificent warhorse in the entire Black Forest Territory. Its diet even includes meat, and it can climb mountains and wade through water, even on steep mountain cliffs it is as if walking on flat ground.

Faced with raptors such as griffins, other horses would feel fear and tremble, but only this horse king, it is not afraid, but faces the griffin's gaze with a high-pitched neigh and powerful kicking hind legs, ready to fight at any time.

Gerald gave it a loud name, called Thunderhoof, because when it gallops, the sound of its hooves is rumbling, like thunder.

In addition to Thunder, this gifted steed, each of the other Black Forest Guard Knights was assigned two horn horses.

All of this is enough to ensure that the Black Forest Guard soldiers are elite, the warhorses are majestic, and the equipment is strong, it is the elite of the elite, and all the soldiers in the territory take joining this army as an honor.

When they charge, it is even more spectacular, with flags and armor, shining on the heavens and the earth.

If they are equipped with a more powerful Holy Lily Army Flag, their military power and momentum will be even more magnificent.

In order to cultivate the sense of honor of this unit, even if the Black Forest Territory has more elite-level knights, Su Li did not record them all, but carefully selected them, and those prisoners and slaves who had just joined the territory, as well as knights who did not have enough merit and performance, were all rejected outside the selection.

After several days of selection and publicity, joining the Black Forest Guard Knights became one of the honors that knights pursued.

An elite knight, if he fails to be selected into the Black Forest Guard Knights, then he will be extremely annoyed and regretful. Because everyone will look at him with suspicion, suspecting whether he was brave in the previous battles, whether he had ever shrunk back or retreated on the battlefield, and wondering why he had not obtained dazzling military exploits and heroic performance?

And those knights who were successfully selected as the Black Forest Guard Knights were even more ostentatious, and there were cheers from the crowd wherever they went.

Su Li also personally experienced this feeling of glory.

Due to the expansion of Black Forest Town and the addition of a large number of new immigrants and new caravans, many people do not know him, the lord.

He appeared on the street wearing the armor and badges and logos of the Black Forest Guard Knights, and the young and handsome face instantly detonated cheers throughout the city.

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Su Li smiled and left a very narcissistic boast: "In those days, when I was young, I wore golden armor, rode a horse and leaned on a slanting bridge, and the whole building was filled with red sleeves!"

And he is really not deliberately showing off his power with the attire of the Black Forest Guard Knights, it is very reasonable for him to wear this set of armor and badges.

Because he is the marshal of the Black Forest Guard Knights!

According to the tradition within the empire, when many elector counts inherit, they automatically also serve as the marshal of the territory's guard knights.

In the future, if he dies, his son will also serve as the marshal of the Black Forest Guard Knights when he inherits the Black Forest Territory Lord.

However, Su Li may not need to face this kind of thing for a while.

With the life-extending effect of the Holy Wisteria Tree Pods, he may be able to live forever.

The focus now is still on continuing to strengthen the strength of the territory's army. Hearing Su Li's idea of equipping the Black Forest Guard Knights with a Holy Lily Army Flag, Hildegard naturally supported it very much.

She said, "Lord, you can also pay attention to collecting information in this regard. Many wandering nobles will carry a banner and wander around, seeking assistance from other lords."

But the progress in this area still needs time to advance, as Hildegard said.

During Su Li's thinking, Hildegard, in cooperation with Raun, quickly sorted out the last batch of treasures in the dragon's nest.

Raun reported: "There are 11 remaining dragon nest treasures, which are valuable props. Although they cannot directly enhance the strength of our army, they can improve our development speed in all aspects, and at the very least, they can sell for a good price."

Many things in the green dragon's collection are valuable, and these treasures that have been brought out have good functions.

In addition to the dwarf [Bergman's Flame Generosity], there is also the [Elf's Wild Hunt Horn]. As long as you blow this horn, all the hidden animals around will become restless and attack all outsiders who break into the forest.

The original purpose of this thing was for the wood elves in the forest to summon beasts, tree spirits, and forest spirits to launch a wild hunt against invaders.

But when the hunter is strong enough, this is also a very good hunting tool. When the horn is blown, various wild rabbits, forest wolves, wild boars, and even grumpy deer will rush over, which is simply a live target for the hunter.

As long as the hunter does not enter the forest too deep, they will not have any problems with safety, but the number of prey obtained will suddenly increase several times. A person can easily hunt back hundreds of pounds of prey a day. If they are lucky, they will encounter some precious magical beasts, such as fire velvet rabbits, wind whisper deer, and thunderbirds, then the harvest may be as high as tens or even hundreds of gold crowns.

Of course, more of these 11 treasures are dwarven and elven crafts. If they can be sold to Maleburg, they will have very good returns.

This dragon nest trip, the adventurer team may have brought back no less than 50,000 gold crowns to the Black Forest Territory, which is several times the value of all the wealth Su Li had previously obtained, not to mention the value of the ancient dwarven relics.

So Su Li held a banquet to grandly entertain these heroes, and then ordered the blacksmith to use moon crown tree flower quenching to forge enchanted weapons that would deal more damage to demons. He hoped that before the decisive battle with the demon army, the territory could have hundreds more demon-specific weapons.

After the banquet, Su Li couldn't wait to take Hildegard back to the bedroom.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and Su Li and Hildegard had a very enthusiastic knight training session to conduct.

Hildegard was also very obedient. A woman who loves you can't help but want to have intimate communication with you.

For them, this was the most pleasant and intimate way to deepen their relationship, so how could they resist? It was simply delightful.

And on this night when Su Li and the female courtiers were diligently cultivating, the Moon Crown Tree in the courtyard outside the bedroom was in full bloom. Around it, various spiritual plants were growing vigorously at a visible rate. The calming flowers in the flower field bloomed in patches, and the Lion's Mane Mushrooms grew lushly, their roots constantly expanding.

Su Li and Hilde both underestimated the effects of this spiritual tree. When it flourished, the prosperity and thriving effects it brought to the territory were comprehensive, far more than just the military aspect.

The first to be affected was the territory's agriculture. Its blossoming flowers caused many fantastical species to begin to gestate in the fertile lands of the Black Forest Territory.

In the hilly valleys, on the highland cliffs, on the ridges of fields, by the riverbanks, and even near many ancient trees, new life was gestating.

Ingrid, as a forest witch, was the first to feel all of this, and the feeling was so vivid!

In her magical garden, various spiritual energies were slowly湧出 from underground like springs, indicating that some precious spiritual plants were about to be born.

Especially in the dense clover patch under the Blessed Purple Vine Tree, mysterious, deep spiritual energy flashed from time to time. In this silent night, a seed broke its shell, slowly germinating, and the sound of the sprout growing in the soil was so sweet and clear.

Even in her treehouse, due to the particularly abundant spiritual energy, several flowers suddenly grew out of thin air.

Then, the veterinarian in the pasture felt the change. In the stable where he was treating, the warhorse that had been lying down sick and weak suddenly seemed to have its illness peeled away like silk. In less than a night, the weak warhorse seemed to have received some kind of blessing and was even able to stand up from the ground.

The early-rising milkmaids were surprised to find that the milk produced by the cows had increased significantly. In the past, a cow could barely squeeze out two buckets of milk, not quite full.

But today, not only were two large wooden buckets filled to the brim with milk, but the newly brought third bucket also had a finger's depth of milk at the bottom.

The milkmaids talked and realized that it wasn't just the yield of one cow that had increased, but all the cows, sheep, and mares in the entire pasture had improved to varying degrees.

The grass-cutting worker confidently declared that it was entirely thanks to the more lush pasture grass they had cut back, providing the livestock with more ample nourishment, which led to these livestock being more productive.

The pasture manager initially didn't believe this statement, but when he entered the feed room and flipped through and chewed on the new pasture grass, he couldn't help but brighten his eyes and acknowledge the statement. Even the pasture grass in the territory had become more lush and juicy.