Chapter 169 (1/2)

Prelude to the war!

The Radiant Empire had finished their preparations for war One cloudy , the Duke of the Tulip Fa God's Whip soldiers together with twenty thousand garrison soldiers, ere escorting supplies, to the North

The North had already been classified as a war zone A Northern Coenerals from the Iminkstonewebnovelcom/chapter/view/cbid/6831835502000105/ccid/21586831057414212perial Command Center were sent to the front while the Duke of the Tulip Family was appointed as the Supreme Commander of the war zone At the northern war zone, even the Northern Legion was subject to the command of the Duke of the Tulip Family

And so, the war began

As everybody aiting for the news to arrive froly quiet

Although the coalition forces of the dozen kingdoms on the Northern Continent had prepared to cross the ocean, they had not moved

While everybody thought that the Duke of the Tulip Family would become the first hero of the war, the real first hero of this war eed elsewhere

That hero was not from the North but the Northwest, at Watt Fortress While everybody was paying attention to the North, in the course of a e in the Northwest A shi+ning star rose

The Regiion, General Elliot, was a forty-two years old noble Coraduate of the one hundred and sixty-ninth class of the Imperial Academy He was a Grade 4 swordsman with excellent military school records He once served as a sarrison of the E bandits during some chaos and was proround as well, he was transferred back to the Imperial Ar in the Coh experience to be transferred to the Central Cavalry as a Deputy Regimental Commander After the war in the Northwest, he was then transferred to the Northwest as Northwest Are the military there

After reading this report, the opinion that Andy had was: Everything is as expected There is nothing special about it

In fact, fro special about that General Elliot He was born in an aristocrat fae of twenty After twenty-two years service, he held the top coi and he also did not have any dazzling military achievement

The only credit was that he had 'exter However, this was often the tactic used by soldiers froh a noble could not secure a high post i the army, he would usually take a shortcut He would first work as a low-level officer He would accumulate some experience and when it was almost time for pro bandits' in his resume However, how could the Empire have so many bandits to exterminate?

He would then gradually climb the ranks in the ar, he finally becae of soh tihest post in the Northwest

Most of the high-level officers climbed the ranks that way

However, Andy then saw so unusual with the information he obtained That General Elliot passed the assessment for title succession at twenty-two years old and inherited the title of an Earl

That was an a! The fact was, in the Empire, the noble's succession assessments were very strict It was not easy to pass the assesse of twenty-two In fact, General Elliot was not the eldest son of the family but his older brother had failed an earlier assessment to inherit the title After that, Elliot took the assessment and even passed on his first attempt!

Andy checked the records for that year and found out that General Elliot sat for the Grade 3 swordsman exah to reach a Grade 3 swordsman qualification at 22 years old was not particularly difficult, it was very rare ast the spoilt nobles To be awarded the title, most of these nobles deliberately sat for a Grade below their actual capabilities tothe time when Rody participated in the assessrade assessed, Grade 1 swords General Elliot's tined up for the Grade 3 swordsman assessment

Elliot did not conceal his strength and took a Grade 3 succession assessment Was he not afraid that the assessment for Grade 3 swordsman would be harder? If he was not afraid, then it could only th

There was a reason why Andy earnestly studied information about Elliot

A o, Reuenthal had launched a surprise attack on Trier Fortress (Trier Fortress was captured by Reuenthal previously but had been redee the postwar negotiations) However, General Elliot auard troops and defeated the enedom's men were killed

After that, Reuenthal's ainst the Northwest Legion The Northwest Legion was no rasslands and they retreated However, before Trier Fortress was besieged by the arave up Trier Fortress and charged out of its gates

That was undoubtedly a surprisingdefensive military fortresses: the Trier Fortress and the Watt Fortress These tere strategicas he controlled these uard the mutual corners and help each other to defend, then he would be able to protect the Northwest region

However, his following action surprised Andy

Before Reuenthal's two hundred thousand soldiers could gain a proper foothold at Trier Fortress, Elliot had immediately counterattacked

The Northwest Legion had immediately surrounded Trier Fortress This action was a very clever trap

Before withdrawing from Trier Fortress, Elliot had poisoned the wells in the city After that, following the terrain of the city gate of the Trier Fortress, he laid nu and sharp cheval-de-frise initially gave Reuenthal a headache when he attacked Trier Fortress He orried about suffering a big loss during the siege But when Elliot suddenly abandoned Trier Fortress, Reuenthal was able to capture it without losing a single soldier

However, before Reuenthal had tiion launched their counterattack

Trier Fortress was surrounded and Reuenthal faced a difficult situation

The cheval-de-frise that were packed close to each other outside the city gate prevented Reuenthal's cavalry fro out of encircleion were also sirassland cavalry which depends on a large-scale charge as a strategy, that was a death trap Every move he made would be lethal for his troops in this death trap

Elliot was like a arded potential losses and dispatched heavily ar those wearing heavy armor as human shi+elds As there were tens of thousands of human shi+elds and many cheval-de-frise, Reuenthal's cavalry could not rush out and create an advantage Elliot had already found the grassland army's Achilles' heels That was, Reuenthal had no proper infantry They did not have any good infantry at all The grassland had strong cavalrymen but the moment they dismounted froht at all When faced with the Radiant Eht infantry array, Reuenthal's grassland cavalry, without their horses, were at a dead end