Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 231: The Hessen Knights' First True Demonstration of Strength (Today's th Update)
Freya's judgment was very accurate. It should be said that this female knight was absolutely extremely intelligent. Although she was always cold and taciturn, she had already seen through everything in her heart.

Su Li sighed in amazement. How could he not be nervous?

This was a war on a scale he had never experienced before. Tens of thousands of troops clashed fiercely, and corpses would fill the entire Central Plains. The outcome of this war would determine the survival of the entire territory and the fate of countless followers.

However, he also discovered that people are very resilient. Such great pressure did not crush his spirit. When the time came, he endured the inner anxiety and faced it all.

However, as Freya said, he really needed a way to vent and relieve the huge pressure in his heart, so he said, "So, did you wear it?"

Freya rolled her eyes at him and said calmly, "I wore it yesterday and took it off after the emergency assembly that night."

"You took it off without my permission." Su Li pretended to be angry, leaned back, crossed his arms over his chest, looked at Freya, and asked, "How do you think I should punish you?"

Freya walked over to Su Li and bent down. The full curve of her chest filled Su Li's eyes. Then she put her cool and pretty face in front of Su Li. Their warm breaths could blow directly on each other's faces, and they could feel each other's temperature at the tip of their noses.

Then Freya stared into Su Li's eyes and said, "If this can make you relax, then after the war is over, you can do whatever you want to me."

Su Li smiled and said, "Then I'll prepare a pair of ultra-thin stockings for you and play with your feet, okay?"

Based on Freya's understanding of him, what he said about playing with feet was definitely not that simple.

But Freya's feet are round and full, as warm and smooth as jade. When she steps on the white sheets, she will emit a soft luster. Her toes are round and crystal clear, as cute as nutmeg, and obviously very suitable for playing with.

So Freya said directly: "If you win, we can go to the hot spring village and let you have fun."

Su Li suddenly became more looking forward to the perfect life after the war!

In the hot spring, the beautiful female courtier's thighs were smooth and round, wet by the hot spring water, emitting a crystal luster, and then her pair of jade feet were played with carefully. What a comfortable and enjoyable life it was.

Seeing the smile on Su Li's face, Freya knew that her guess was right. He definitely had no good intentions when he asked her to wear stockings.

"Do you need some sleep?"

Su Li looked at the white sky. He wanted to sleep for a while, but he was afraid it was too late.
What if he just finished venting his anger and felt sleepy, and the monster came? Then he would be a coward.

Fortunately, before he could hesitate for long, a terrible scene appeared in the distance. A large number of monsters with hideous faces, sharp claws and fangs emerged from the white sky.

A loud horn immediately sounded from the tall walls of Hesse Castle, and then a large number of knights filed out of the castle, standing on the walls fully armed, looking at the endless tide of beasts in the distance.

The monsters did not come in a chaotic crowd. Instead, they formed into gangs, spread out at intervals, and filled the entire plains and mountains.

On the ground was an endless army of monsters, and in the sky were huge two-legged dragons flapping their wings, and huge shadows covered the sky.

Even at a glance, you can see that the main force of the monsters has come out. From the sky to the earth, the hideous figures of monsters are everywhere.

This seemed like an endless army of monsters, with great momentum and vigor. They roared cruelly, as if they were going to overwhelm everything.

Some of the less courageous and weaker-willed soldiers were trembling with fear, and would have collapsed to the ground if they had not been supported by their spears.

The free people were in even worse shape. Some of them had turned pale with fear, and despair completely enveloped their entire body and mind, because they really couldn't imagine what kind of great power could defeat this huge tide of tens of thousands of beasts.

This is not something that weak mortals can resist. I am afraid that only the gods can bestow their great power to use a double-tailed comet to smash away these monsters that defile the mortal world.

If I rely on myself alone, I will probably be completely unable to resist such a huge wave and will inevitably become the monster's prey.

Even Su Li took a deep breath. He was just a otaku who had only been traveling through time for a year. Could he really deal with such a huge scale and tens of thousands of monsters that covered the sky and the earth?
At this time, Orstein walked up to Su Li, looking at the monsters surging like a tide in the distance with his head held high. He said sternly, "My Lord, we need to break their might first to reassure the people. We can't let them march unimpeded to our city, otherwise many mercenaries and free militias will be frightened and flee."

Su Li immediately asked with concern: "My Marshal, what are you going to do?"

Orlstein pointed northeast and said, "After a night of deductions last night, we all agree that this is the monster's weakest point. Armed attendants and halfling scouts have discovered that there are two vanguard armies of the halfling army here. They will cross the Blackwater River and besiege our territory from the north. So we plan to attack them halfway across the river, and defeat this weak enemy force in one fell swoop, leaving them with no way forward or retreat!"

"In front of tens of thousands of monsters, we chopped them down in one fell swoop. The enemy could only roar helplessly across the river. Watching our cavalry show off their might and then return victorious not only undermined the enemy's morale, but also boosted our own."

Makes sense!
Su Li nodded and said decisively, "My Marshal, the command of this battle is now fully entrusted to you. I believe that if you can openly chop down thousands of monsters in front of the public, and then lead the army back in triumph, it will greatly boost our soldiers' confidence in victory!"

After all, there are only tens of thousands of monsters. If more than 4000 of them are chopped into pieces at once, it won’t take more than a few times to completely kill them all.

What surprised Su Li a little was that it was not Orstein who led the troops into battle, but Hilde.

The high-ranking chamberlain sat astride the back of her massive demi-griffon, and behind her were the members of the Demi-Griffon Knights of the Vengeful Sun, now numbering 12.

Then came the golden-shining Knights of the Hessian Guard and the Knights of the Corona, the most luxuriously equipped armies in the territory.

Especially the knights of the Order of the Corona invest in weapons and equipment at all costs, because their order's banner, the Iron Sun, will endow the soldiers' armor with a powerful arcane magic. When the soldiers' sophisticated and gorgeous armor is penetrated for the first time on the battlefield, the power of the sun contained in the armor will be stimulated, like the wrath of the Sun Goddess, causing devastating sun explosion damage to the surrounding enemies.

In the current strongest state of the territory, if the [Steel Sun] magic is triggered by a knight wearing perfect-grade vibranium rune armor, he can even directly kill 1 to 2 elite monsters, and more than a dozen monsters below the elite level may be blown to pieces.

These knights all rode majestic wildebeests with two horns on their heads, one long and one short. They were extremely strong and explosive. They rode out of the north gate of the castle. The dazzling golden light rose from the castle like a scorching sun, illuminating the night sky at dawn.

Behind them, thousands of elite knights came out one after another, holding high banners.

These are the core elite of the territory. Thousands of heavily armored cavalrymen charge forward at full speed, and can violently crush all enemies in front of them.

These cavalrymen moved at an extremely fast speed. It took less than 1100 minutes for the 5-man team to rush out of the castle and complete the formation of the charge array.

Hildre held the Knight's Glory Relic, the Blazing Sun's Shield, in her left hand. In her right, she held high the golden rune sword. Blazing flames like the blazing sun clung to the sword, its light stretching over two meters. She shouted awe-inspiringly, "Knights, follow my glorious charge. The Sun Goddess will protect us and give us a worthy death!"

"For glory!"

"For glory!" All the knights immediately raised their lances and swords and shouted wildly.

Under the command of the chosen one of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun, this army, whose members are all at the lowest elite level, has high morale and high morale.

As Hildur pointed his sword forward, thousands of cavalrymen rushed forward like thunder and an unstoppable tide, rushing towards the banks of the Blackwater River north of the city.

Listening to the thundering hooves of thousands of heavily armored cavalrymen, everyone on the city wall was excited! The powerful knight corps had been the foundation of the empire for thousands of years.

All the people of the empire firmly believed that no matter how difficult the situation was, as long as the elite knight legions launched a charge, everything would be fine.

This extremely elite heavy cavalry regiment certainly didn't disappoint the onlookers. Almost instantly, they crushed the first band of monsters that rushed forward to try to stop the cavalry's charge. The battle between the two sides was completely unstoppable, like mowing wheat, they instantly crushed the defense line of over two hundred monsters.

The coalition forces of humans and dwarves on the city wall immediately burst into excited cheers, and the cheers shook the wild land and spread in all directions.

This scene was truly inspiring! It boosted morale to the extreme.

In front of the heavy cavalry's vanguard, the monsters' line collapsed completely and could not delay the knights at all.

This golden-shining heavily armored cavalry was like a long sword breaking through bamboo and mercury pouring out on the ground. It instantly crushed all the obstacles of the monsters and rushed towards the place where the monsters were more densely packed across the river without any pause.

And this impact did not happen once, but three times!

The terrified monsters sent out three war gangs in an attempt to stop the human knights' unstoppable charge and buy time for the monsters to deploy their formation. However, all these struggles were in vain. The three blocking troops were instantly chopped into pieces by the knights. The heavily armored knights stepped on the monsters' corpses and rushed forward to the place where the monsters crossed the river.

Su Li was standing on the city wall, holding a monocular telescope in his hand and looking towards the north excitedly.

Although the northern part of the Central Plain is a rare area with undulating foothills, it happens to be high in the south and low in the north. The more than 1100 cavalrymen launched a charge from high to low, and the geographical advantage further increased their momentum.

So from a distance, it looked like a long sword shining with golden light piercing straight into the monster's heart.

Moreover, because the cavalry used a sharp cone-shaped formation, the two armies were in large-scale contact, and the knights charged forward in waves, hammering down like an anvil.

In the first wave of impact alone, hundreds or even thousands of monsters were directly knocked into the surging Black Water River.

These monsters that fell into the water died in an extremely miserable way. They didn't even get to swing a knife or a sword, and didn't even see the knight's violent arrogance, but were pushed into the water by the surging tide of beasts. Hundreds of monsters piled up into a ball, so dense that they couldn't stand. They fell into the surging Black Water River but were washed away without even a wave.

But the monsters that remained on the shore were in an even worse situation than those who fell into the water. Every beastman warband found themselves facing the fierce hacking of teams of knights riding past.

Obviously, they had more people and the monster army was larger, but on the battlefield, they were madly besieged. The monsters guarding the front line had to face repeated attacks from at least three or four knights.

It's not that the difference in their troop strength is just that big. In fact, if a small group of orcs stays in place, a full 60-man knight regiment may charge past.

However, it was an exceptional performance for these monsters to be able to block two or three attacks from the elite knights. Even most of the monsters were chopped into pieces by the elite knights with their swords and battle axes in just one pass.

Even if they managed to block an attack, before they could stand firm, the knight would pass by and the next knight would charge and kill him.

But while they were enduring wave after wave of attacks from the Knights, the bloated monster infantry in other directions were huddled together and had no way of rushing to support them quickly. They could only watch helplessly as the knights of the Hessen Territory chopped up the surrounded monsters on the front line one by one.

Su Li observed for a moment, then put down the telescope and said excitedly, "Hilde's command is perfect. With just one charge, they seized the key node on the battlefield and controlled the throat of the monsters' formation. Those monsters can't break through the knights' blockade and can only crowd on the shore, watching the knights compress their space again and again. It won't be long before they are completely crushed by the knights!"

In fact, the cruelty of the battlefield was even worse than Su Li described. On the road after the Knights' charge, the broken limbs of monsters were everywhere.

The river was filled with the corpses of monsters, and blood had dyed a large area of ​​the river red. It flowed down from the upper reaches of the Blackwater River and had become a river of blood when it approached the castle.

The Blackwater River, a natural barrier, greatly increased the killing efficiency of the Hessen Knights. When thousands of monsters stepped into the river, the remaining monsters did not even have the strength to resist.

On the west side of the Black Water River, it was a completely one-sided massacre.

This wasn't a scenario the Church of the Blazing Sun Goddess wanted to see. It was common knowledge that Violet's followers adhered to the values ​​of "honorable war": a glorious conqueror should bring civilization and stability to the occupied territories, not chaos and death. Therefore, even when forced to resort to force, generals were expected to minimize the suffering and death caused by war: harming civilians and looting occupied towns were strictly prohibited, and enemies who surrendered voluntarily were to be treated with courtesy—assuming they also adhered to the values ​​of "honorable war"!

If the opponent was not a monster, the knights would have stopped killing in this one-sided massacre.

Since the knights all had this idea, one can imagine how terrified and angry the monsters were.

On the east bank of the Blackwater River, thousands of monsters crowded on the shore, cursing and roaring angrily, and could only watch as their fellow creatures were wantonly slaughtered by their opponents. The blood even dyed the entire battlefield red, making the ground muddy.

As the sun rises, the golden light shines even brighter on the knights' glittering golden armor. These knights who charge forward on horseback, fearless and unstoppable, are as proud as the rising sun.

No matter how much the commander of the monster army whipped and urged them, the river trolls on the river bank did not dare to go into the water and wade across the river to provide support on the other side.

This one-sided slaughter is so horrifying. Even the dull minds of the trolls can see the situation clearly. If only they join in, it will not change the situation at all.

The opposing force is composed entirely of elite knights, and there are more than a thousand of them. If only a few dozen river trolls were to go over there, they would probably be chopped into pieces in less than ten minutes.

They needed a powerful force that could change the situation and threaten the knights' flanks in an instant.

While Su Li was excited, Orstein had also noticed the monsters on the other side of the river. It would be difficult to change the situation if only relying on the power of mortals.

But this is a fantasy world, and the monster army is filled with all kinds of strange creatures, so he didn't dare to be careless. He said, "The monster's dryad army is still resisting. These dryads have grown a large number of vines on the ground, greatly slowing down the attack of the governor Hildurd. We need to have the knights speed up. Perhaps it's time to use the power of the chosen one."

Use the Thunderhorn to end the battle as quickly as possible?
Su Li also saw the tree monsters defending the shore. They were indeed the most powerful infantry corps in the forest. At the cost of great sacrifice in mobility, they greatly enhanced their ability in positional warfare.

Not only did these hundreds of tree monsters take root in the blood and mud, but vines also grew out of the ground, making it impossible for the frontal attacks of several regiments of the Knights Legion to push them into the river. However, they had already fought a desperate battle, and the Knights Legion had no way to launch a surprise attack on them from the rear.

(End of this chapter)