Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

After Su Li personally led three squads of knights out of the castle, they spurred their horses and galloped westward along the downstream of the Brienne River and the Blackwater River confluence.

The Phoenix Wing Rune finally demonstrated its unparalleled strategic value at this moment. This area was originally an endless, flat grassland. Cavalry could gallop at over sixty Imperial miles per hour. With the blessing of the Phoenix Wing Rune, the cavalry was even more powerful, reaching a top speed of nearly 80 kilometers per hour!

If warhorses weren't so valuable and didn't have as much stamina as humans, the cavalry could have galloped more than 200 kilometers in three hours.

Now, after galloping for more than two hours, the cavalry stopped to rest on the riverside grassland for a while.

Su Li looked at the surrounding environment. In fact, from the castle, one could see this endless green plain to the west.

Geographically, this place is still within the central plain of the Black Forest, with soft soil and vast pastures, making it an absolutely fertile land. It's just a pity that the territory doesn't have the energy to develop it, so it has remained barren.

If a manor could be built here, cultivating farmland and grazing livestock, it would serve as a警戒 outpost and provide a place for the knights to change warhorses, making its strategic position very considerable.

As he was thinking, Friedrich rode his demi-griffon back from afar.

As a powerful magical beast, the demi-griffon has much better stamina than warhorses. While other warhorses were resting and grazing here, the demi-griffon had already run far ahead to scout the situation.

Under the watchful eyes of the knights, Friedrich went straight to Su Li, then dismounted and reported: "Lord, I discovered a Halfling team ahead, but this team is not easy to deal with. They have an ogre guard."

"Ogre guard?" Su Li frowned. He should have thought of that! These small Halflings carry a large sum of money with them, but they like to travel around, so they must have a guard!

Halflings are a very famous wealthy race in this world. They like to live together as a big family, even sleeping in the same bed. Everyone in the family works and shares wealth together, so there is almost no private space in their daily lives, and the possibility of family bankruptcy is also very small.

It is worth mentioning that Halflings and ogres have a natural, or rather, a very complex relationship. Ogres in the Empire (rather than their barbaric relatives in the mountain ranges at the edge of the world) respect Halflings very much. This may stem from the different concepts of "eating" between the two, but they are equally enthusiastic. At the same time, their love of travel perfectly matches the ogre's travel addiction.

This allows the two to usually get along perfectly. The former acts as a cook and agent for the latter, while the latter serves as a mercenary to earn commissions to fill their stomachs and provide security.

"How many ogre guards do they have?"

Friedrich recalled for a moment and said, "I didn't count them in detail, but the size of their team is very large. I feel that there should be no less than two teams of ogres."

That is, 24 ogres!

A qualified ogre mercenary is at least equivalent to a formal knight. They can easily defeat seven or eight human armored soldiers, and even apprentice knights who have awakened extraordinary abilities. Two or three people working together may not be able to take down a frenzied ogre mercenary.

So, the knights around Su Li right now may not be able to easily win against this ogre team in a head-on confrontation.

The biggest advantage of the Black Forest knights is that there are as many as 6 elite knights in the team. They take the lead in the charge, which is a powerful edge that ordinary ogres cannot stop.

But if there are more powerful bull warriors or man-eaters among the ogres, then the elite knights may inevitably suffer losses.

The knights surrounding Su Li also felt the difficulty of the problem. Someone said: "Knight Friedrich's information is very important. As he said, this team is not easy to deal with. Ogres alone are a difficult target, and Halflings cannot be ignored. Although they are small, they are not bad at fighting. At the beginning of the Empire's creation, after recognizing the Halflings' legality in the Empire, Halfling archers have been fighting side by side with human soldiers to defend the Empire's borders."

"That's right, and because they are usually relatively wealthy, their equipment is very sophisticated. If two teams of ogres are in front for melee combat, plus dozens of Halfling archers harassing from behind, we recklessly launch a charge, it is easy to suffer damage."

This is what Su Li is most satisfied with. Among the knights in this world, the teachings of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun are very popular. Although the knights are irritable, they are not reckless or scattered in military affairs. It is rare for the French knights to have such poor military discipline and reckless charges.

The knights have always advocated using the mobility advantage of cavalry to continuously compress the enemy's battle line from the flanks, until they have gained an advantage, and then they will launch a full blow and a full army charge to determine the outcome in one battle.

After Su Li discussed tactics with the knights, he ordered the entire army to mount their horses and said loudly to all the knights: "We have a mobility advantage. Whether to fight or not is up to me. Everyone, follow me forward and test the strength of the opponent!"

"Hooray~" The knights raised their weapons and cheered to the sky.

Regardless of whether the knights are strong or not, this world respects knights, and the human desire for battle is absolutely unparalleled, which is simply an enhanced version of the Guanzhong military group. Hearing that the battle was coming, everyone was full of fighting spirit, wanting to kill an ogre on the battlefield and add a military honor to themselves.

With the rapid advance of the cavalry, near noon, Su Li finally saw the Halfling team marching slowly in the distance.

As the knights guessed, this team was very well-equipped. Every male Halfling wore a helmet, a green uniform, a sleeveless leather jacket inside, and a chain mail shirt outside, holding a longbow made of purple cedar.

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Seeing the three teams of knights spread out in formation, with flags fluttering, charging like griffons with their wings spread, the Halflings in the team immediately shouted vigilantly: "Be vigilant along the river, hide behind the carriages, the ogre mercenaries go to the front, don't let the human knights rush over and drive us into the river!"

The ogres were all extremely powerful. Their height of nearly three meters quickly helped the Halflings arrange the carriages into a simple defensive fortification. Then, these simple-minded, strong monsters ran forward, stood in front of the convoy, waved their clubs, battle axes, and machetes, and roared at the human knights.

Obviously, these monsters did not have much intelligence. They did not think about avoiding the knights' charge, but wanted to stand in front of the convoy and use their burly bodies to block the wave of cavalry charges.