Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

The biggest characteristic of war lies in its unpredictability; it never fully develops according to anyone's expectations.

Even the followers of the Radiant Goddess, with their extremely advanced military theories and tactical deployments that considered everything, did not expect the war to reach such an intense level from the very beginning.

Hundreds of towering river trolls roared as they launched a fierce attack on the elite human cavalry.

After the waves swept through, the muddy ground was very suitable for these river trolls to move around.

If the elite human cavalry could not escape their pursuit, then this battle could almost determine the victory or defeat of the war.

Losing the elite mobile cavalry, the remaining humans and the green dragon's legions could only be consumed by attrition, which would be an extremely unfavorable situation for the humans.

Sometimes, Su Li couldn't help but marvel at the advanced nature of Eastern military theories; relying on numerical superiority was indeed the correct path in warfare.

A large army size has unparalleled advantages; it can lose many times but still have the strength to threaten the enemy.

And as long as it wins once, the weaker enemy will be directly severely damaged and annihilated.

Therefore, Su Li kept a close eye on the actions of both sides on the battlefield.

Although he wasn't sure what Hilude was up to, the situation on the battlefield was becoming favorable to the Black Forest Territory.

Having more might not guarantee victory over fewer, but being stronger definitely guarantees victory over the weaker.

The one thousand one hundred elite knights that Hilude commanded far surpassed these river trolls in terms of absolute combat power.

Especially after the battlefield was pulled backward, a large number of stupid river trolls were unable to concentrate on a pursuit lasting ten miles.

During their pursuit, some idiots did nothing and started drooling while standing in place.

More were distracted by the corpses all over the battlefield and began to bend down to eat the monsters that had been cut down but were not yet dead.

Hundreds of ogres only pursued for a little over five miles before becoming scattered, and by the time they reached ten miles, they had become a scattered curve, unable to form an effective force.

Of course, this doesn't mean that the knights could easily kill them; they were, after all, members of the same warband.

If they saw their brothers within their line of sight being attacked by human knights, they would still swing their weapons and giant claws to attack the human knights.

When Hilude led the knights to a halt and ordered a counterattack, Rong En still didn't understand the meaning of Hilude's deployment.

"Lord General Manager, aren't we entering the muddy ground again by launching a surprise attack towards the rear?"

Rong En frowned; iron cavalry entering muddy ground was a major taboo in military strategy.

He still felt that the troops should be dispersed to take advantage of the Empire's cavalry.

The Empire's military theorists all knew that when a cavalry regiment encounters an enemy formation, it should use the 'crow-swarm scattering star formation' to engage the enemy.

The cavalry should scatter in teams, never clustering together to be surrounded by the enemy.

It is said that infantry should be orderly, while cavalry should be dispersed.

Divide when the enemy divides, and unite when the enemy unites.

Therefore, when the cavalry attacks, it may be far or near, many or few, gathered or scattered, appearing or disappearing.

Coming like a heavenly fall, leaving like a lightning flash!

With so many champion-level warriors and outstanding knightly orders in the Black Forest Cavalry Regiment, they could completely play with the river trolls at will.

They could let most of the river trolls only watch the cavalry besiege their isolated brothers, unable to quickly approach and provide support.

Those river trolls caught in the battle could only face the fierce impact of a large number of cavalry coming like a heavenly fall, with lances attacking their massive bodies from all directions.

At that time, even the strong river trolls could only be knocked away from all directions by the cavalry's unparalleled impact power.

But now, General Manager Hilude was completely going against the grain, just like the followers of Ulric and Redmar, who would only charge head-on with heavily armored knights.

Of course, Rong En was not denying the effectiveness of this tactic.

Sometimes, heavily armored cavalry advancing violently like a bulldozer could indeed exert unparalleled combat power, especially under the leadership of a large number of Redmar's followers.

It could awaken the soldiers' steadfastness and loyalty, crush the enemy, and even completely reverse the situation through a fearless charge under the protection of the gods in a desperate situation, making this strike full of legendary color.

But the current situation had not reached this point of desperation, where it had to be done.

The knights had not fought bloody battles, with loyalty and honor to the point of receiving a large amount of blessings from the gods.

At this time, the charge was entirely relying on the knights' personal strength and martial skills, as if giving the river trolls a chance to win.

Therefore, Rong En and some junior officers were already considering whether to refuse to carry out this absurd order.

The Radiant Goddess Violet gave her followers several tenets: Always uphold your dignity and honor;

Respect prisoners of war;

Show no mercy to the enemies of humanity;

Obey the orders of superiors; unless necessary, do not disobey instructions.

But Hilude sternly ordered: "Everyone, execute the order! I am the High Steward General Manager, and I will be responsible for the outcome of this battle!"

After speaking, Hilude took the lead, leading the Vengeance Sun Gryphon Knight Order to launch a charge towards the monsters, the stern sword light directly smashing a towering river troll more than three meters tall.

Seeing this, the other knights could only restrain their inner doubts and followed Hilude in a continuous charge.

Obeying "glorious" orders is a soldier's duty, as long as the order itself is "glorious".

Here, the definition of "glorious" is whether it complies with other glorious war criteria, such as whether it avoids casualties among our soldiers as much as possible and whether it is slaughtering the enemy with the highest efficiency, etc.

When a soldier believes that there is a better plan, he has the right to speak out and even disobey orders.

But the assertion of the above power is based on the premise that the soldier does have a better strategic vision.

If a foolish suggestion is made on the burning battlefield, or the battle itself is disturbed by an inappropriate speech, it will incur punishment and even the anger of the goddess.

None of the knights dared to say that their understanding of tactics surpassed that of the Radiant Goddess's Chosen One.

Moreover, War Saintess Hilude was personally charging ahead; no one dared to risk the goddess's angry punishment to stand up and question Hilude's deployment.

And sure enough, when a large number of knights galloped, the dazed and drooling river trolls were attracted to their attention.

When they saw the knight order frantically slaughtering their brothers, they roared and rushed up.

Every step of the knight order's charge was bathed in blood.

Hilude had already killed to the point of bathing in blood three times, her whole body covered in the blood of river trolls, and even her perfect-grade orichalcum rune armor was emitting a hissing black smoke.

Behind her, a large number of Corona Knight Order knights had triggered the ability of [Steel Sun], and terrifying arcane magic exploded in place, as if this area had been washed by artillery fire, and like rounds of golden suns rising on the battlefield.

The powerful explosion was even too much for the river trolls to withstand, directly being blown to pieces, and the rumbling explosion sounded like thunder, shaking the earth.

Su Li stood on the city wall, watching the fiercely fought battlefield to the north, and couldn't help but take a deep breath: "This war is being fought too intensely; how did it reach such a tragic level as soon as it started?"

It should be known that although the explosion of the Steel Sun can use the Radiant Goddess's divine grace to blow the monsters to pieces, it basically means that a powerful knight is injured or even killed!

It can be completely regarded as a suicide bomb.

The undulating explosions riddled the riverbed, and even without binoculars, one could see how chaotic the war in the north was.

Orstein observed for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and said: "I finally see General Manager Hilude's intention; she is constantly killing monsters head-on, this is to forcibly activate her [Crimson Blood Divine Might Descends] ability!"

[Crimson Blood Divine Might Descends]?

"Isn't that to open the ability of a Divine General? What is she going to do? What is worth her going to such great lengths?" Su Li immediately raised his monocular telescope to look at Hilude, who was charging at the forefront.

At this time, the orichalcum rune armor on her body was damaged, and the gastric acid of the river troll corroded the armor on her shoulders, and a large area of her fragrant shoulders was corroded with holes, and some places even revealed scorched bones.

Su Li couldn't imagine how much pain she was enduring in this situation, but she didn't stop at all.

She bit a vial of Earth Blood Potion in her mouth, accelerated the healing of the wound, and continued to launch a violent impact towards the monsters.

Even if the monster's giant claw had swept her head and knocked off her helmet, she was not afraid at all.

With a sweep of her sword, she chopped off the giant claw, and then rode her gryphon into the dense beast herd, facing the siege of a dozen river trolls, and still remained calm in the face of danger.

Only Su Li personally witnessed that the number of river trolls that died in her and the gryphon's hands had reached as many as 17!

And all of this greatly deepened the monsters' fear.

They did have a great advantage in the muddy ground, and their attack power was also extremely great, posing a fatal threat to the knights.

Even the Chosen One may fall into the siege of hundreds of river trolls.

But the premise is that these river trolls can charge as fearlessly and successively as humans!

The courage of humans in this world is already at the level of demons and gods, especially those who believe in Ulric and Redmar.

Their courage, perseverance, and loyalty have crushed countless monsters.

In the eyes of the monsters, these humans are more like terrifying creatures.

At least the river trolls, which are low in intelligence and act entirely on instinct, are far inferior to these elite human knights in terms of courage and morale.

Compared with these human knights who are as hard as nails, the river trolls are more like a group of soft and rotten silt.

Although their meatiness is very high, their hardness is not enough, and they can be easily pierced head-on.

Without strong support, they cannot fight fearlessly under the siege of human cavalry.

On the contrary, when they saw a human female knight charging into the battle alone, rampaging left and right, and knocking down more than twenty huge river trolls by herself, they inevitably became afraid.

Dozens of stupid river trolls turned around and fled at the first time.

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This greatly angered the leader of the river troll warband, and he roared and rushed towards Hilude with a orichalcum rune club in his hand.

"Damn human sprout, I will smash you completely, first break your thighs and gnaw them clean, and then turn your leg bones into our weapons!"

With a roar, his huge figure suddenly leaped high, holding the terrifying orichalcum rune club in his right hand, smashing towards Hilude like Mount Tai with a fierce whistling sound.

He was sure that this female knight's strength must be inferior to him.

As long as this female knight dodged, he could directly sweep her off her horse with his left claw full of bone spurs!

But Hilude's reaction surprised him.

The woman did not dodge or avoid, but directly raised a golden shield to meet him.

At the moment before the orichalcum club collided with the golden shield, a dazzling light burst out from the golden shield, and then all the knights' shields seemed to be blessed by the Radiant Goddess, refracting dazzling light.

Ugma only felt that his eyes were about to be blinded, and the ultimate light brought the ultimate darkness.

The blinding effect caused him to lose all vision, but he felt the great power from the shield exceptionally clearly, as if a force twice as powerful as him slammed into his chest, and his entire body was flattened in an instant.

Fortunately, he didn't have to suffer more pain, and a sharp golden flash directly chopped off his head.

Hilude only killed the powerful leader of the river troll champion in one blow, which immediately made the knights cheer excitedly.

Tyberus raised his battle axe high and followed behind Hilude.

Seeing this scene, he roared to the sky: "Lord General Manager is mighty! Our attack has taken effect, even if it is a frontal attack, we have pierced the monster's defense line."

A large number of river trolls are fleeing in terror!

Originally, they had a chance to be equal to the humans, and even possibly severely damage the human knight corps, at least at the beginning of the fierce battle between the two armies, they successfully did it.

But the courage and morale of the river trolls cannot be compared with the steel-hard human knights.

When a Chosen One stood up, they could not restrain the fear-inducing effect and could only turn around and flee.

Without external intervention, these hundreds of river trolls will be completely killed by human knights on the way to escape, and it will be another one-sided slaughter.

And obviously, the spellcaster hidden in the Blackwater River could not accept this tragic failure!

It was clear that these river trolls had the strength to defeat the human knights, but because their courage was inferior to that of the humans, it turned into a one-sided slaughter and defeat, and eventually hundreds of river trolls would die tragically on the riverbank.

In order to prevent this from happening, the spellcaster hidden in the Blackwater River finally came out of the turbulent rapids.

It was an incomparably huge cyan-black figure, almost twice as tall as an ordinary troll!

Even standing in front of a giant, its height was not far behind.

And with its appearance and walking ashore, a sky full of stench permeated the entire battlefield, and even the jackals with sensitive noses on the opposite bank of the river could not stand the stench and fell to the ground convulsing.

The human knights also clearly saw this terrifying figure, its head and face were extremely ugly, its skin was morbidly gray-green, covered with dirt and scars, its eyes were deep-set, flashing with a sinister red light, as if it could see through the fear in people's hearts.

Its hair was long and messy, like a tangled mass of dead branches, covered with all kinds of filth, exuding a disgusting smell, and its mouth was full of sharp fangs, these fangs were jagged and sharp as knives, capable of easily tearing the flesh of prey.

In stark contrast to its ugly exterior, its physique was exceptionally large, with thick, powerful limbs. Both its arms and legs were equipped with sharp claws capable of easily tearing through enemy armor and flesh. A faint, eerie green glow emanated from these claws, indicating they were highly venomous; any scratch would rapidly fester.

Its hunched back was adorned with massive bone spurs, sharp as blades, capable of inflicting fatal injuries. Additionally, it carried a crude net slung over its shoulder, filled with various dead things.

Unlike other River Trolls, it wasn't clad in scales or iron plating. Instead, it wore tattered garments pieced together from various animal furs and fabrics, stained with blood and mud. Multiple potion bottles hung from its waist, filled with various poisons and cursed concoctions. The twisted tree stump it carried, adorned with a human skull and potion bottles, could inflict significant debuffs on its enemies.

Priest Ron took a deep breath, exclaiming in shock, "A River Troll Hag! The Green Dragon actually managed to hire such a terrifying creature."

Hild, however, remained composed, stating, "As I suspected, the hidden spellcaster is indeed a River Troll Hag. Only it could conceal itself beneath the raging rapids without being detected."

"This must be the mercenary force hired by the Green Dragon."

In this world, almost every faction hires various mercenaries. Humans have their Free Companies, and other races naturally understand the concept of hiring powerful creatures to fight for them.

Trolls typically roam the wilderness, hunting animals or preying on travelers and livestock. While easily distracted and dim-witted, they are formidable in combat, making them a favored choice for many factions to hire.

Greenskin tribes often "bribe" these trolls to join their Waaaagh!, promising them opportunities to eat humie shrimps, stunties, and many other enemies, even their own goblin brethren.

River Troll Hags, though rare, are not impossible to hire. When the winds of magic are strong, River Troll Hags will answer the call of wizards, who can then bind the hag's will.

Forest factions and Orcs will use goblins dangled from the end of long fishing lines as bait to lure the hags from their lairs. Once the hag is full, she will happily accompany the monster tribes to the battlefield. There, the hag's greedy nature, immense strength, and wicked ability to inflict countless curses upon the enemy make her a terrifying opponent.

Ron cautiously warned, "General Hild, a River Troll Hag's strength is never below Chosen-level. It is likely the strongest Chosen-level mercenary the Greenskins have hired. We must proceed with caution!"

But Hild paid no heed to Ron's warning. Gripping her longsword tightly, she declared sternly, "I went to great lengths and spared no expense in this attack precisely to lure her ashore. Today, we must slay her in a single battle and eliminate this threat once and for all!"

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