Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 482: Chapter 1: Golden Honeysuckle Vine and Freya’s Bathhouse Training

Marshal Oerstein’s open source strategy made Su Li somewhat tempted.

Ultimately, financial improvement boils down to the four words of open source and economizing. In the military aspect, thanks to the Sun Goddess’s divine blessing, each of the more than two thousand soldiers now possesses abilities like Eagle Eye Perspective and Kill Seal. This can be said to be the emblem of honor for participating in this legendary victory. Every one of them is a veteran of numerous battles, with extraordinary combat power.

Since cutting them down is not a wise means, only the open source strategy remains.

The key is that open source really fits the current situation of the territory. A major reason why the general army finds it difficult to expand outward is that once involved in marching and fighting, military supplies become a gold-devouring beast. Especially in grand mobilizations, with daily consumption of tens of thousands of pounds of grain, monthly loss of tens of thousands of pieces of military equipment, coupled with the costs of recruiting laborers, transportation of goods and horses, it can be said that gold coins are expended like flowing water, costing a thousand gold coins a day.

But the current conquests of the territory are relatively limited, only within the recesses of the Hesse Territory and the Hesse Mountain foothills, those blank zones among power centers, such as the Beastman’s Demon Rock hidden in the valleys, the Green-skinned Warlord camps, Goblin Tribe camps and raider camps.

The fertile foothill lands cause dangerous Monster Beast Groups and Monster Battle Groups to fill the blanks between each Pioneer Territory.

As long as Oerstein can ensure victory, he can continually have targets to clear out.

After thoroughly clearing these targets, the settlements of the territory can expand from the areas adjacent to town centers, gradually encroaching upon the power void areas where monsters once lived.

As the size of the territory gradually increases and borders link to other Pioneer Territories, then, naturally, it becomes time to expand territory and conquer the surroundings.

However, before this, the thing Su Li currently desires most is undeniably to enjoy a period of free and unfettered life!

The Green Dragon crisis was finally overcome, and the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head was lifted. He must indulge and enjoy himself unrestrained for a period of time. That is the meaning of being Lord.

So after briefly discussing the territory’s open source matters with Marshal Oerstein and asking him to formulate a sweep plan, Su Li led him into the banquet hall.

Moonlight like flowing silver gauze passed over stained glass, casting colorful shadows over the banquet hall. Whale oil candles in bronze chandeliers flickered as they swung on iron chains, complementing the dancing bonfires in the three stone-built hearths at the hall corners. The firelight reflected the twelve embroidered gold battle banners hanging from the dome, making them appear like burning banners.

As per the Empire banquet hall style, during such celebrations, long tables are moved to the walls to make room for the Knights’ jousting and wrestling.

The Knights skewer roast chicken and lamb legs on their swords, while oak barrels needing three people to hug around are pried open, with amber-colored malt beer gushing forth under the Dwarves’ bronze axes. A talented Knight, hoisted on the shoulders of drunken soldiers, with beard froth-covered musician using a horn to play a modulated triumphal march.

Once Su Li entered the hall doors, he was enveloped by a wave of cheering, and a silver horn-embedded goblet was immediately thrust into his hand, as soldiers tapped their swords on shields, issuing rounds of enthusiastic cheers towards him.

In everyone’s eyes watching him, fervent flames burned as Su Li entered the scene holding up the goblet. The Knights simultaneously drew their longswords, the clanging sound momentarily suppressing the boiling crowd noise, with the bright sword blades reflecting the golden emblem of the Bauhinia family on the dome battle banners.

This is the Commander-in-Chief leading them to repeated victories, no matter how hopeless the situation or how massive the enemy, this young Commander-in-Chief can always lead them from one peak of victory to another. The radiant victory of this battle has reached its pinnacle!

How can this not drive the Knights wild? They all firmly believe that following the Lord will certainly earn them incomparable glory!

Then the Knights began to cheer, various praises converging into one voice: ”Sun God’s Chosen One! Star of Light!”

”Lord, say a few words to us!”

”Lord, we eagerly await every word you utter!”

”Indeed, Lord, we await your every instruction.”

Amidst the Knights’ cheers, Su Li walked towards the main seat of the banquet hall, his generous voice as resonant as an eagle: ”My loyal soldiers, has any among you counted the number of the Green Dragon’s Fangs? When those scaly mongrels surged from the forest like maggots, even the sky was tainted with a color of plague! When that vast dragon wing extended across the sky, whose prayers tore through the poisonous fog?”

”It was the Sun Goddess! When Her Majesty Violet’s Holy Fire filled us, our swords were sharper than dragon claws! When the holy hymn of prayer resounded, our Long Lance could pierce dragon scales and city walls!”

”Three months of bloodshed, even against a force ten times our number of the Green Dragon’s Fangs, so what? Ha! Those moss-covered beasts, how could they withstand our iron cavalry infused with the faith of the Fiery Sun? All monsters turned to ashes beneath our blades.”

Then Su Li raised his glass, shouting to everyone, ”Warriors, drink this cup to the brim, for today we toast not merely to victory, but also solemnly proclaim that land trampled by the Fiery Sun cavalry, even if it’s ground of chaos, will bloom with the flowers of light!”