Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

It took Knight Orstein and Knight Schwartz, along with four other knights and six armed squires, to rescue Su Li from the crowd.

After escaping the clutches of those frenzied followers, Su Li took a deep breath, straightened his robes, and said to Schwartz, "Are these people crazy? If you had arrived any later, I feel like I would have died before even getting started."

The way they looked at him was as if they were seeing a 'Congenital Ashen Saint Physique'; their fervor and envy were frightening.

Schwartz quickly replied, "Young Master Su Li, this is thanks to Knight Orstein's strong physique that we were able to squeeze through. Rumor has it everywhere that you can help knights break through in strength, and many people want to join our ranks."

"Help knights break through? Who is spreading this nonsense!" Su Li frowned and said, "I don't have that ability. Don't spread rumors."

Don't I know whether I have that ability or not? It's completely random! After four daily intelligence updates, there was only one piece of information about Knight Orstein's breakthrough.

If so many knights flock to his command, and he can't help them break through or bring them rank upgrades, wouldn't they tear him apart?

Schwartz and Orstein exchanged a look, both wearing expressions that said, 'We understand,' "Young Master Su Li, don't we know whether you have this ability or not?"

Su Li gasped inwardly. Why did he feel like their words meant something completely different from what he was thinking?

"Where are Friedrich and Hildegard?" He couldn't explain it clearly, so he shifted his attention elsewhere.

"Knight Friedrich is currently screening people who want to join us," Schwartz immediately replied respectfully.

"Take me to see," Su Li felt that if he didn't go and take a look, something would definitely go wrong.

And soon, reality was as he had imagined. In front of his residence, two long queues had already formed.

Su Li immediately stepped forward, interrupting Friedrich's recruitment, and asked, "Knight Friedrich, how many people have you recruited?"

Friedrich saw Su Li, his eyes gleaming with excitement, and immediately stood up, saying excitedly, "Hahaha, Young Master Su Li, the results are very gratifying!"

"Basically, all the adventurous talents within the Crimson Bastion have been brought into our team. I feel like we've plundered all the knights in the Crimson Bastion who are willing to leave, hahaha! If we weren't leaving today, I'd really want to run to every village and castle within the Crimson County and promote it vigorously."

"This must all be your arrangement, right? Only now do I see how perfect your plan is, with each step interlocking."

"Huh?" Su Li looked in surprise at the elite knight whose face was full of excitement and agitation. What are you imagining again?

Friedrich said excitedly, "On the first day, you didn't recruit anyone, only two women, and amidst everyone's ridicule, you successfully guided them to break through. This planted a seed, making everyone curious and attentive to your abilities."

"Then, on the second day, you helped me obtain a half-griffin and helped Schwartz obtain a Vibranium rune armor. This step successfully stirred people's hearts, and everyone was full of expectations for your next move. It's like the eve of a volcanic eruption, always hidden and not yet erupting."

"Until today, when you helped Knight Orstein break through to the Champion level, it instantly detonated all the fervor. Without all your arrangements, how could we have recruited four elite knights, ten formal knights, and twenty-two apprentice knights? The armed squires they brought alone number more than 110!"

Su Li looked at Friedrich in astonishment. If you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known that I had such a deep plan, even deeply understanding the essence of building up strength before unleashing it.

Four elite knights! This was a number that Su Li didn't even dare to imagine when he left the Earl's room.

At that time, he thought it would be amazing if he could take away four formal knights.

But now, the team already has one Champion Knight, six elite knights, a squad of formal knights, two squads of apprentice knights, and a whole company of armed squires!

Just like Friedrich said, one-third of the Crimson Bastion garrison is about to be recruited by him. If he continues to recruit, the Crimson Earl might turn hostile.

You must know that even the armies of the Imperial Electors are only of this level in terms of average strength. Each of their soldiers is a formal knight, and elite knights can be knight commanders.

Only those famous knight orders are made up entirely of elite knights.

Su Li's current team is equivalent to two squads of the Elector's army, or to be precise, two squads of regular soldiers led by a Champion Knight Commander.

This military strength far exceeds that of most kingdom knights. Of course, Su Li was born into a noble family, and those like him who obtain status through relationships with those in power and family ties should not be compared with ordinary kingdom knights.

But even compared to some noble sons who were driven by dukes and earls to the border principality, his starting point is considered relatively high.

Some tragic duke's descendants are exiled and driven away with only this many knights around them.

So Su Li took a deep breath and said to Friedrich, "Knight Friedrich, haven't you realized how serious the problem is? If you continue to recruit like this, we won't even have the money to pay the troops."

Friedrich waved his hand heroically and said, "It's not a big problem. Those who are willing to join our team are prepared for this. Even if you don't pay them for the first two months, you won't be able to drive them away."

"What about after two months? What about food, clothing, shelter, and transportation?" A dozen people going out is called traveling, but hundreds of people is called marching!

Even a company outing with a hundred people needs to plan all the things like toilets and medical care in advance.

He is going to the frontier territory, and there is no supply line behind him. Leaving Crimson Bastion means he has cut off logistics.

This might not be a big problem for other imperial armies, as they can just plunder on the spot. But Su Li can't plunder the kingdom knight fiefs along the way that belong to the Crimson family.

And if he relies on buying food, which village can provide enough supplies for so many troops?

And more importantly, others don't know, but Su Li knows. He doesn't have the ability to help knights break through. This kind of thing is completely random. And the serious problem is that so many elites are pouring into his small frontier territory, but they can't get the treatment and stage they want. After these people find out they've been cheated, Su Li can forget about relaxing; he'll be lucky if they don't tear him apart.

Hearing this, Friedrich finally began to think seriously and said, "This is indeed a problem. Well then, anyway, the elites of Crimson Bastion have already been prioritized for recruitment into the team, and most of those waiting for assessment are armed squires. It will be in time for us to recruit more in Mareburg. I will now go to Crimson Town with Knight Schwartz to purchase a batch of grain."

Mareburg is the bridgehead for the Empire to enter the frontier principality. Because the Empire was worried that directly sending great nobles into the frontier principality would cause fierce alliance resistance from local forces, after taking it down, the Imperial Electors decided through voting to entrust it to a group of merchants to manage, helping the Empire to infiltrate a large number of Imperial Pioneer Knights into the frontier principality. Finally, with gentle means, without provoking fierce resistance, they achieved the goal of controlling the entire frontier principality with a large number of low-level knights.

Therefore, this city possesses huge wealth. Merchants from all over the world bring all kinds of goods and rarities, making it the most prosperous trading town.

In this bustling and magnificent market square, you can see guild merchants selling elven wine, fabrics, and weapons, dwarves selling silver, lead, and iron ingots mined from the Black Mountains, and a large number of slave traders selling slaves of various races.

Most pioneer territory lords set off with only their core team, and after arriving in this city, they purchase slaves to supplement their armed squire forces.

Once everything is ready, most lords will spend lavishly, indulging in a life of luxury, spending all their wealth, and then lead their troops into the war-torn and turbulent frontier principality. Once they go, they either lose everything and have their heads chopped off to be used as balls; or they rise to prominence in one fell swoop, conquer a large territory, and after stabilizing their rule, successfully obtain a title conferred by the Empire.