Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Their children would also receive a large amount of compensation or a piece of land as an estate.

Wealth and glory both ensured their high spirits and eagerness to strategize, setting up various defensive fortifications here.

Freya saw Su Li approaching, raised an eyebrow, and asked in surprise, ”At this time, shouldn’t you be in your room sleeping? Why are you here?”

Su Li replied confidently, ”Lying down is the greatest help to the territory. Inspecting the camp, comforting the wounded, and setting up alerts are things that don’t require my personal attention, which is why they’re entrusted to you. So, how are things here?”

Freya said calmly, ”As you said, Marshal Oerstein is leading the knights around the camp, resolving various issues. Captain Constantine is comforting the soldiers, preaching Her Majesty Violet’s doctrines to inspire the soldiers’ morale.”

”Captain Rong’en and I are setting up defenses here. Progress is swift; the Dwarf Engineers and Ogres left these two gaps for easy access and to speed up clearing the outside channels and traps. According to the Dwarf Engineers’ estimates, these channels can be preliminarily cleared by the second half of the night, and the gaps can be closed by tomorrow.”

Su Li raised his hand and decisively stated, ”We can’t wait until tomorrow. The Centaur group will attack our camp tonight.”

Hearing Su Li’s words, Freya was slightly taken aback and said, ”The Green Dragon is so cunning? Just after being defeated, when we all thought it wouldn’t dare fight again, it sends a troop for a sudden attack?”

Su Li nodded, looking around at the soldiers who had taken off their armor, working vigorously on the fortifications. In this situation, if the enemy launches a night raid, it’s almost a guaranteed success.

However, after her shock, Freya quickly reacted just like Hilude, saying, ”Lord, with your foresight, this is a great opportunity for us. By setting traps and ambushes, we can severely damage the Green Dragon’s mobile legion. If this elite mobile legion is wiped out, in our subsequent battles with it, we will gain absolute strategic initiative with our cavalry’s mobility advantage.”

”Even though overall, it’s leading a massive Subordinate Legion to launch an overwhelming attack on us, we can entirely choose whether to engage in battle with our strong defensive fortress and various defensive lines. At that point, we can take the offensive against its subordinates in certain directions, forcing it into passive defense. With our elite, battle-hardened knight forces, we can establish absolute superiority locally and encircle and smash each Monster Legion.”

This is indeed an advanced version of the divide-and-conquer tactic.

Why are knights the absolute trump card on the battlefield?

Because once they choose a target, it’s usually many against few, attacking the weak. Through mobility advantages, they form a superiority in scale and combat power, easily surrounding and smashing the enemy.

As long as the opponent lacks particularly strong will to fight, facing an encirclement by massive heavy cavalry, the cavalry only need to charge once or twice, and the enemy’s morale collapses, leading to total defeat.

Su Li desperately needs to win this battle to return to Heisen Castle to prepare for the upcoming assassination.

The white terror in Sulande Province has gone mad; the nobles have already hired four Divine Chosen Assassins from the Aisin Clan to Hesse Territory to assassinate Philis.

If knights are the emblematic troops of the Empire, then assassins are the most iconic troops of the Aisin Clan.

The clan of these Rat People has a maxim: frontal strength is not the way of the Aisin Clan; stealth in shadows is.

These Rat People, having returned from advanced studies in the Far East, have mastered the most mysterious arts of assassination.

In human, elf, and dwarf territories, the Rat People’s assassinations are particularly hard to guard against; even in the Emperor’s court, some nobles and their entire retinues have died mysteriously. The powerful Elf Mage Frisen was found skinned in his own study, a room heavily guarded by magic with only one entry point;

As a result, many attributed this to Chaos, but anyone with some knowledge knows that Chaos would never just kill so few and then vanish.

This is the masterpiece of the Aisin Rat People assassins.

Frankly speaking, Heisen Castle’s defenses are far inferior to the Emperor’s court and a Great Master’s study.

If Su Li doesn’t return to oversee, these terrifying Skaven assassins are very likely to infiltrate the castle and skin Philis.

Philis is currently carrying the only bloodline of Su Li.

The arrival of these Rat People assassins won’t be far off; their espionage operations are scattered at witchcraft cities’ posts.

Upon accepting the assassination bounty, they are likely to dispatch a Divine Chosen from nearby.

Do not underestimate them just because they are called a clan.

They are one of the most fearsome clans among the Rat People, capable of comparing in overall strength to an Elector’s Territory of the Empire.

If they go insane with an undying and unyielding frenzy, launching a mad attack on an Elector’s power, even if that Elector can win on the battlefield is uncertain, the family’s lineage might be wiped out.

Compared to such a massive clan, Su Li’s conflict with the Green Dragon is nothing but a minor skirmish.