I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 61 Rage Erupts
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In the first hour after establishing the breakout plan,
After the initial chaos of realizing there was no way to retreat, the troops in Pendenburg quickly restored order under Dagonet's command.

The first hundred cavalrymen followed Melly to make military banners and some small items that could symbolize royal power, while the other two hundred castle garrison soldiers quickly prepared their horses and weapons and gathered outside Pendenburg.

quickly,

At 8 a.m.,
Pendenburg,
More than a hundred cavalrymen, dressed in silver-white armor and blue cloaks, stood in ten rows, each with a captain holding a royal banner 4 meters long. There were ten banners in total, each bearing a blue background and a red dragon pattern, and they stood on the flat ground outside the fortress, awaiting inspection.

Two hundred infantrymen stood upright in two rows, stretching from the gate tower all the way to the castle grounds.

With a solemn expression, Dagonit waited at the inner gate of the fortress, leading a white horse.
As the morning mist completely dissipated under the rising sun,
At this time,

crunch--

With a powerful gust of air, the castle gates swung open to both sides!

pat!pat!
As a series of unhurried footsteps sounded,
Under the blazing sunlight, a pair of moon-white iron boots stepped out.

Under the burning gaze of three hundred soldiers,

A blond-haired young knight, wearing a blue cloak, moon-white cold-forged steel armor, and with two longswords at his waist, emerged from the castle.

He carried no unnecessary equipment, nor any fancy embellishments.

He simply stood there, one hand on the scabbard, gazing at us with a stern expression.
An aura belonging to knights, kings, and nobles swept across the entire castle!
Dagonit, who was standing at the gate, immediately led his horse over, knelt on one knee, and loudly proclaimed to everyone without any hesitation:
"My King—"

"Your knights are ready and await your inspection!"

The loud voice, without any magical amplification, resounded throughout the entire castle, causing all the knights awaiting the new king to stiffen in unison.

then,

"Boom!"

Three hundred knights raised their gauntlets, struck their hearts, and bowed their heads in unison!

"Thank you for your hard work, Lord Dagonet."

Suya nodded, grabbed the reins of the white horse, and mounted it with a somersault. Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers standing on both sides, he calmly drove the horse forward.

Dagonet, Lucan, and Meryl followed closely behind.

The white horse passed through the fortress grounds, the gate tower, and the drawbridge, arriving outside the castle before a hundred cavalrymen.

Everyone seemed to be waiting for Suya to say something to boost morale, even if it was just some meaningless drivel to give these soldiers, who were already in dire straits, a little boost.

however,
Suya glanced at the hundred knights before him, took a deep breath, and then...
Tell them your arrangements directly and in a deep voice:
"Knights—"

"Next, we need to gather our 30,000 scattered troops for a final struggle, a final breakout."

"The cavalry regiment was divided into ten detachments, each carrying a military flag, and proceeded in ten separate routes to announce our presence to the fleeing troops that were about to arrive in Bern territory."

"Tell them—"

"Their king, Sua Pendragon, is here!"
"And we will set off immediately to meet them!"

After all,

Suya raised his head and looked at the first knight of the cavalry, his gaze meeting his through the visor with only a few ventilation holes.
“Cedric, you are a native of Cornwall, and before enlisting you were a fisherman in Exeter. I have noted your name down.”

"You are to go to Iron Oak Manor under Byrne's control and recruit the 600 soldiers currently stationed there back to their ranks."

“I will take them home.”

When the knight named Cedric heard Suya accurately recite his name, hometown, and even his past profession, he trembled, looked up at Suya with disbelief, and stared at him.

"you"

"Go, Knight Cedric, and bring back my soldiers for me!"

Suya nodded calmly to him, as if it were nothing to boast about.
He immediately looked at the next knight carrying the royal banner.

“Rowan, Yorkshire shepherd, go to the village of Cumbria below Sir Hector’s estate. There you will find a friend from your country who is wandering the wilderness with 500 soldiers.”

"You are to go and recruit them!"

"Goo-woo! Your Majesty, you..."

"Oswin"

"Leofric"

"Woolfly."

Suya gave orders to the ten leading knights one by one and watched as they led their cavalrymen away on horseback.

Then, he turned his horse around and looked at the two hundred or so lightly armored infantrymen behind him, "Finally,"

Sua slowly raised her head and looked at Dagonit, who was already mounted on horseback and holding the royal banner, along with Lucan and Meli.
He paused and said in a deep voice:

"Our 206 men will proceed at full speed to the territory of Burn, receiving scattered troops along the way, and meeting the approaching army of King Uther, consisting of 5,000 cavalry and 20,000 lightly armored infantry, which is fleeing towards us."

The morning sunlight fell on Suya's resolute face, and his emerald eyes shone with a fiery brilliance.

He drew his ceremonial sword from his waist and raised it towards the sun.

"set off!"

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Ten hours after the breakout plan was launched—

Berne Collar
An army with poor discipline, on the verge of collapse, crossed the western pass of the hilly terrain and arrived at this plain that had been trampled into a barren wasteland.

They were the last Cornish army belonging to King Uther, and whose organization was barely complete.

After being blocked by the army led by the conqueror king, who blocked their way to the Golden Curtain, they were forced to flee into Mount San Maias, where they relied on the terrain to avoid being strangled by the Macedonian army.

But at this time,

Commanded by Parmenion, the army of the Conqueror King, led by his son Philothas, no longer intended to play cat and mouse with them. Instead, they led their army forward to encircle and kill them.

This routed army had no choice but to retreat from Plantagenet Plains to Bern Territory.

After suffering nearly three thousand casualties, the army, with five thousand cavalry as its vanguard, broke through from the foothills of Mount Saint Maias to the hills, and with the deliberate concession of the Seleucid army guarding the area, successfully retreated to the territory of Bern.

But at this moment, everyone knew that they had simply fallen into another, even more desperate, encirclement.

The team was completely lost in enemy-occupied Cornwall.
Let alone withdrawing from the capital, withdrawing from the Golden Iron Curtain,
right now,

Without the hard-won supplies from the Iron Curtain, they could hardly even maintain the organization of their army.

Just when everyone was in despair

Hammond, the temporary leader of the defeated army and a master spearman, encountered a cavalry unit carrying the royal standard coming from the direction of Sol.

This cavalry unit of ten men was entirely clad in silver-white armor, draped in blue cloaks, and wore red ribbons on their arms, symbolizing the Pendragon royal guard. The leader of the unit carried a massive four-meter-long royal banner.

As soon as they approached, the cavalry sent word that the new king would be welcoming his army and bringing everyone home with him.

The routed soldiers looked at each other in dismay, and then cheered.

however,
Having just escaped death from the clutches of the heroic knight Philotas, Hammond, upon hearing these nonsensical words...
He just wanted to laugh.

He received the ten-man cavalry unit with the courtesy due to a subject.

And they were treated to a banquet.

When the ten knights responsible for delivering the order entered the military tent, Hammond ordered his guards to kill them all and seize the royal banner.

then,

He summoned the only remaining master-level knight among the routed troops, discussed the matter with him, and told him:

"Now, we are being hunted down by Philotas and trapped in Cornwall. It is no longer possible for us to retreat back to the Golden Curtain and the capital."

"Moreover, morale is about to collapse, and we will find it difficult to maintain the army's structure for more than a few days."

"But fortunately, I received a banner of the King of Britain."

“My plan is to lure the soldiers with the royal banner, telling them that the new king is under our protection, in order to maintain the morale of the army, and then head straight for Parthian in Persia.”

"If we sacrifice them, we might be able to break through the Conqueror King's logistics corps and reach Persia. There, we can hide our identities and escape from the magicians of Lycaon."

Another master-level knight refused.
That night, his body was separated from his head.

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The day after the breakout plan was launched—

early morning,

Bourne led the way.

Sua paced back and forth alone in front of Burn Territory, but never saw the return of the tenth squad of knights.

Looking at the more than six thousand people gradually gathering behind him,
He turned around,

He glanced coldly at the other side, at the 20,000 defeated soldiers stationed on the plain.

(End of this chapter)