Unconsciously, a dark tide surged in the capital of Trellara.

Was it an accidental joke at a banquet of a noble young master? Or was it an inadvertent sentence in a letter written by His Royal Highness to a friend? In a word, the idea of ​​"use a few elites to attack the Great Swamp ahead of time this year" quickly spread among the young people of the great nobles.

This idea does have a certain feasibility-to gather those veterans who have participated in at least two swamp invasions, and take advantage of the autumn harvest when the crops are busy, so that the stupid barbarians and scaled creatures in the swamp can never think of it.

For offensive warfare, "surprise" is a great advantage. And as long as it takes advantage of the early stage, the offensive army will immediately turn into the defensive army, firmly holding the occupied land. At this time, follow-up helpers can also come gradually to help consolidate the defense line, and the rest is to slowly digest the results.

The biggest advantage of this approach is that most of the results belong to the "attackers", and the later "defenders" can only share some soup. It means that those nobles and knights who participate in the attack will receive far more credit and glory than usual.

The risks will only be lower, but the benefits will be much more. The allure of this plan can be imagined.

So soon, the younger generation in the capital was persuaded, and they each preached this plan to their elders.

Among these people, the one with the most voice is naturally Prince Zion. However, his suggestion was overruled by his sister, Princess Fesna - Her Royal Highness thought that no matter how much credit the battle was given, it was not worth risking the kingdom's heir.

It is true that the risk may not be too great, but fighting a war is a very uncertain thing. Even in a war that is 100% sure to win, accidents may occur.

Neither the Terrera Kingdom nor Prince Zion himself could afford the consequences of this "accident".

The prince was not convinced by this, so the princess cited the example of the Thracian civil war.

"Before the Thracian civil war started, who would have thought it would end like this?" she asked. "If you were some great nobleman on the Thracian side, would you have imagined that it would end in a situation where both sides are almost dead?"

The prince suddenly widened his eyes, and said somewhat dissatisfiedly, "That was just an accident!"

"Accidents can always happen!" the princess sighed, "and war is the easiest place for 'accidents' to happen!"

The prince was speechless and turned to look at his father.

This time, His Majesty the King supported his daughter's view.

"We don't need to fight for this credit and glory." He said, "We don't lack this... Zion, the king doesn't need more credit and glory. On the contrary, he should get used to giving credit and glory to his subordinates. Because of all the credit and glory, in the end, he's a part. I hope you understand that."

The discussion of the king's family came to an end, but the withdrawal of His Royal Highness did not make the confident young people give up. On the contrary, when they learned that His Highness the Prince would not participate in the Great Swamp Invasion Army, they became more and more active - if the Prince His Highness is gone, then the leader of the army must be him, and the main credit must be his. But if the prince doesn't go, everyone can fight...

In this case, let alone the children of the great nobles, even among the royal family, there are some young people who want to become famous.

The old men in power saw the young people so positive, and they were relieved but also a little worried-they could of course understand the merits of this plan. On the surface, this plan seemed to be really impeccable. However, as the princess said, there are always accidents in war, and no one wants their children to encounter such "accidents".

So, it was the turn of the old men to discuss urgently.

They didn't discuss for a long time before they made a decision - to form the Everglades Invasion Army, but this time the army was commanded by Singold Hallett, the son-in-law of Duke Hallett.

The choice of Singold as coach was the result of careful deliberation and serious discussion among the old men.

This civilian-born general is capable and has a wealth of experience in fighting the Great Swamp—he participated in eleven Great Swamp invasions before and after, and although there were victories and defeats, the army he led never suffered a single attack. severe losses. This steady style and reliable luck are exactly what the old men need.

Moreover, since Singold's background is low and limited by his identity, no matter how much merit and honor he gets, it is of little significance to him--as a married person, he has no right to separate his family and stand on his own. His military exploits can only bring some insignificant benefits to his son-unless he makes extraordinary feats beyond imagination, if this credit is to be "discounted", the price that the old men need to pay will be far more than that Others are even smaller when they are coaches.

On this point, the Duke of Harrett himself is very opinionated. He said that this credit can be obtained by his daughter, and it is not that her daughter cannot be sealed.

However, other old men would not just hand over their interests like this. They immediately said that as long as your daughter goes to the battlefield, everything is easy to say.

Duke Harret has no love for a son-in-law who is married, but he loves his daughter very much. So he immediately shook his head, and the topic naturally came to an end.

Time passed quickly, and before August was over, the entire battle plan had been finalized. In the first ten days of September, an army of about 2,000 people had been reorganized and was ready to leave at any time.

The elite level of this army is shocking, the entire army is almost entirely composed of cavalry, and at least one third of them are from noble families. All the great nobles in Terrera and even the children of the royal family have joined the army one after another, so much so that some folks maliciously said, "If this army is wiped out, more than half of the nobles in Terrera will have to change their heirs."

They will start from the capital and go directly to the Great Swamp to launch military operations. After they set off, the follow-up troops will follow up with luggage to meet them.

And the leader of this army is the general who has always had a series of seemingly contradictory reputations, such as "brave, cunning, steady", Singold Hallett.

On September 10, the army was officially launched. Two thousand cavalrymen marched mightily along the road towards the east of the capital.

In the castle of the traversers, a small command post was temporarily established in the communication tower.

Alice, the "big devil" who presided over the script writing, put on a serious black dress, held a microphone made of magic, coughed a few times, and then said "the show is about to begin" , announced in the chat channel.

[Puppet dramatist: I announce that the time for the show has come! 】