Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 236 Iron Father, Hessian Tyrant, Ruthless, Order No. 225
Galeragon's cry can be described as the cry of a cuckoo, which makes the listeners sad and the hearers cry.

But it underestimated the brutality of the green dragon's rule. Alyria rejected its request for rest without hesitation, saying, "We must continue the offensive! Utilizing our overwhelming superiority in numbers, we will attack from all directions day and night for at least half a month."

"You've suffered heavy casualties, but haven't all the humans been killed or wounded? Their knights will be exhausted, and their city defenses will be in tatters. If you can't take down a human castle like this with a tenfold advantage, I'll turn you all into fertilizer!"

Galeregon roared indignantly, "But the morale of the Children of the Forest has collapsed! Days of continuous attacks have been ineffective, and now the soldiers on the front lines are terrified at the sight of the human knights and are fleeing in panic!"

The description of "running in panic at the sight of danger" is extremely appropriate and there is no exaggeration at all.

When the monsters attacking the city, especially those despicable gnolls, kobolds, and even trolls, saw the golden knights appear from the horizon, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, their countless spears and greatswords reflecting a cold light, their morale instantly collapsed in fear. Without even waiting for the dryads that had entered the city to retreat, they took flight, fearing that if they were even a step slower, they would be completely flattened and hacked to pieces by these knights.

This resulted in extremely heavy losses for the dryad army commanded by Galregon.

Of course, Green Dragon and Galeragon had thought about setting up an ambush. After all, insidious ambushes and treacherous tactics were Green Dragon's favorite tricks.

However, in this contest, it was not only Galregon who lost his mind. The green dragon Alyria was also furious several times and took out her anger on the tree monster who was so blind as to pass by her.

Ailiriya found that her ambushes were always avoided by humans, while places she didn't pay attention to were always attacked by human knights.

The entire Green Dragon Legion's deployment was always shattered by the human knights, and they were defeated in one or even several directions, with the defeated soldiers fleeing all over the mountains and plains.

It has guessed that humans may have some ability to obtain intelligence.

But no matter how it changed or struggled, even if it acted on impulse and decisively changed the deployment decided last night when it set out in the early morning, and it was a completely temporary battle plan it adjusted, it would still be ambushed by humans.

It’s as if when it itself doesn’t know how it will be deployed tomorrow, humans already know it in advance.

No matter how it struggles, or decides to keep everything unchanged, it will eventually walk into the ambush circle prepared by humans.

This forced it to give up the conspiracies and tricks that the green dragon was best at, and, under the advice of some "human ambitious people", fight the most rigid and direct battle with humans.

This made the Green Dragon very uncomfortable. Even if it won, it would not be happy to defeat the enemy with a grand formation and a righteous flag. It was totally not in line with the Green Dragon's style.

Don't think this is an insignificant issue of happiness and style. In fact, it is about the dignity, rank, and racial discrimination among dragons of the green dragon!
Of all dragons, green dragons are the most incompatible with red dragons. Red dragons think that green dragons are insidious and cunning, and they only dare to use all kinds of conspiracies and tricks in the dark, and never dare to show up and fight openly.

The green dragon, on the other hand, thinks that the red dragon is brainless and a typical mindless reckless man who only knows how to charge forward recklessly without any wisdom or tactics.

This involves the internal racial discrimination between the two dragons, just like the discrimination between knights and slaves among humans.

If the knights had to admit that their own tactics were ineffective and that they had to use the tactics of slaves to win, where would their dignity be? How could they still be proud?

If the knights had to rely on the contributions of the slaves to win, then all the knights would become like eggplants hit by frost, wilted and fall into deep self-doubt.

The green dragon is in this state now. If it were a red dragon, it would have a mental breakdown immediately. However, the insidious green dragon has a lower bottom line. It can do anything for gold, except using the red dragon's tactics personally.

So it threw all the pressure and internal friction onto Galeregon, forcing it to fight. In this way, it was the stupid tree demon who was reckless, not the green dragon.

Alyria's cold golden eyes swept across Galeregon, and she said forcefully, "After all, this is a dwarven castle! Do you still expect to take it down in a few days? Be prepared for at least two weeks of bloody battle! The dryads' morale has collapsed after only a few days of siege. You need to reflect on this and solve this problem yourself!"

Should I reflect on it myself and solve it? Galeragon's anger almost set the branches above his head on fire.

What should we reflect on? It is an indisputable fact that the morale of the monster army is inferior to that of humans.

In this world, there is no race that is not a monster! All races that can survive in this dark and hopeless world are in fact absolutely monsters, monsters in the literal sense.

It’s just that the forest monsters are monsters in appearance, while humans are monsters in their hearts and spiritual will.

The creatures of the forest are so ferocious and terrifying that humans call them monsters. But in the eyes of monsters, humans' unparalleled courage, extremely strong willpower, and superb morale also make them monstrous.

To use an Eastern proverb, humans know the horror of ghosts, but ghosts know the viciousness of human hearts.

The forest monster army originally had high attack and defense but low morale and courage. They could not be like humans, who were like soul-burning steel, with high morale, strong courage, and tenacious defense of their positions.

This is the characteristic that the ancient saints set for all races at the beginning of creation. How does Galregon reflect on it?
Can it also change the nature of the tree demons? If it was humans invading the forest, it would be fine, and the tree demons could fight to the death. But now the tree demons have come out of the forest, and they are already very resistant. Attacking human castles has no benefit for them. How can they be so motivated and fight bravely?
So, after holding back for a long time, Galregon finally couldn't suppress his anger and roared, "The morale of the Dryad Legion has collapsed. We simply can't take this place on our own. You are deliberately depleting our strength."

Anger also burned in Irelia's golden eyes. As expected, once a war is lost, internal conflicts will intensify sharply. In the past, these monsters would never dare to roar at it like this.

But seeing Galeregon's resolute attitude, Irelia still endured and gave in a little. She also knew that if she continued to put too much pressure on him, Galeregon would probably turn against her and would not attack the human castle again.

So Alyria thought for a moment and said, "Attrition is necessary! This kind of flesh and blood consumption is particularly detrimental to humans. We must go through brutal attrition to capture this city." Then, without waiting for Galregon to explode, it changed the subject and continued, "Humanity has been extremely weakened. We should launch an all-out offensive. You reorganize the army, and I will personally boost the morale of the legion and attack the castle. Let that idiot Skarros fight as well!"

After hearing Alyria's next words, Galeregon finally calmed down a bit. If the entire army launched a fierce attack now, it would be acceptable. It could even be said that it could seek the best outcome. At least if the entire army pressed forward, the main casualties would no longer be on it and its dryad army, but on the entire army.

If everyone consumes, then it means that no one consumes.

The monsters' huge scale advantage is still too great. As long as they don't fight among themselves, any attack will weaken humans.

Besides, this is the only way that Galregon can think of to restrict the human knights.

It immediately asked: "How do we deploy our offense?"

Alyria said calmly, "This time we will attack from all sides. The four chosen ones of the forest will all be present. We must completely block the human knights in the city."

"I will personally attack the castle. You lead your legions to attack the south, Skaros will attack the west, and Ostanka will lead his legions to attack the east."

"If we launch a simultaneous and fierce attack, fully leveraging our superior numbers, we will definitely be able to break through the limits of human defense! I don't believe that humans are truly an indestructible wall of steel."

Only attacking one side? Galeregon immediately put his heart at ease. It was still the most direct reason: the monster army's scale advantage was simply too great. Even if four, five, six, or seven legions were destroyed, there would still be a dozen left.

There were only two or three human legions in total. After such a long battle, there were probably less than two remnants of the legions left, and only a few hundred elite human knights were left.

At this time, as long as Galregon gathered several legions of tree demons in the south of the city, the human knights would definitely not dare to attack them.

Therefore, it is almost predictable that in this first full-scale attack by the entire army, the pressure on the south of the city will be the smallest.

It naturally had no objection, and even feared that Alyria would change the deployment, so it immediately said, "I will go down and gather the legions, and be ready to set off at any time!"

After its massive figure completely disappeared from the vicinity of the Throne of Thorns, Ostanka spoke in a muffled voice, "Ailiriya, are you really going to attack the human castle yourself? I heard that the human castle is full of dragon-hunting crossbows. This is too dangerous. Is this war really worth the risk? Why not retreat to the forest? We can live a happy life in the forest. After all, humans can't get in anyway, and they pose no threat to us."

"But if our troops suffer heavy losses here, humans might actually threaten our lives. And the longer we stay here, the easier it is for our wealth to be stolen."

Alyria touched Ostanka's head with her huge dragon wings. This elemental giant bear had followed it since it was born and was its most loyal big cat, so Alyria's attitude towards it was completely different from that of other guards.

"I will never tolerate a group of despicable thieves stealing the treasure from my dragon's lair and getting away with it! These damn thieves must pay the price! This concerns the dignity and bottom line of the dragon, and there is no room for compromise."

"Besides, if this human lord dared to steal from us once, he'll dare to do it a second time, a third time, even a hundredth time! I've heard there's a proverb in the East: 'How can I allow others to sleep peacefully beside my bed?' If we don't deal with them, they'll definitely come back to steal our treasures while we sleep!"

How can you allow others to sleep peacefully on the side of the couch?
Ostanka's eyes suddenly showed admiration. Ailiriya was always so smart and could say such philosophical words.

Every time, the Emerald Ring is where it and Ailiriya hibernate, and no one else can be allowed to disturb their sleep again.

It roared to the sky, "Ailiriya, I'm ready. I will tear these despicable humans into pieces!"

Ailiriya nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then let's get ready to go!"

While the forest minions were busy mobilizing their entire army, humans were also gritting their teeth and rapidly deploying their forces. After several days and nights of continuous war, the monsters could still take turns resting, but humans could only rely on their mental will to fight to the death.

At the beginning, the command was still able to insist on rotating and resting the soldiers, striving to ensure that the soldiers could fight in the best condition, with high spirits and in an orderly manner.

But as the Green Dragon Legion's immense numerical advantage began to manifest, and their relentless attacks continued day and night, the High Command quickly abandoned this extravagant idea and harshly issued Hesse Order No. 225! All soldiers were required to hold their positions to the death. Anyone who retreated a single step would be executed without mercy! They wouldn't even be enslaved; the knights supervising the battle would execute them immediately in the streets.

This decree applies equally to everyone, no matter if they are halflings, dwarves, mercenaries who come to help in the war, believers of the Sun Goddess, etc. Anyone who dares to withdraw from their position will be executed without any mercy.

This caused Su Li's virtues to plummet. In just a few days, his reputation went from being a kind and bright future star to being a ruthless person, an iron father, and a tyrant of the Hessen Territory.

Some mercenaries have already started to escape in the middle of the night, such as the members of the Red Brotherhood. They really didn't expect the war to be so bloody. This is not a battlefield that thieves and looters like them should set foot on.

The knights of Hessen, guided by Su Li's intelligence, immediately tracked down these deserters and brought them back to the battlefield without hesitation, executing them all in public! They didn't even have the chance to atone for their sins by joining the Death Battalion.

This frightened the mercenaries, forcing them to fight even more resolutely. After all, fighting against the Green Dragon's minions only gave them a one in ten chance of death. Currently, less than 30% of Heisen's troops had been killed. Deserting would be a 100% sure thing.

The knights have sought a lot of glory in this war, so they still firmly support Su Li's rule. These grassroots soldiers cannot make much waves.

(End of this chapter)