While the Agate Principality has made comprehensive arrangements, the Northern Principality is actually carrying out pre-war work in full swing.
On the top of the mountain behind Oak City, in the majestic Earl's Castle, two earls were sitting in the conference hall.
"So, the Agate Principality has sent out teams to guard those checkpoints?" Earl Barnby asked the spy who was half kneeling on the ground in front of him.
"Yes, Lord Barnby, we have secretly asked many small nobles, and we have also seen with our own eyes those teams sent by the Agate Principality!"
"Very good! It seems that they completely believe the lack of war horses in the Northern Principality this year and are ready to attack the city again!" Barnby was determined, paused and continued: "By the way, is Her Royal Highness the Princess safe now?"
"Back to Lord Barnby, Your Highness the Princess asked me to tell you that you don't need to worry about her safety. You only need to launch the attack according to the plan. She will cause chaos in the Agate Principality army camp by then!" the spy continued to answer.
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"That's good. I will definitely act according to the plan. His Majesty the King and the Marquis have also assembled an army. In addition, a team of ten thousand people has also begun crossing the desert!"
"When the rebels in the Agate Principality see our sufficient cavalry and find that their retreat is cut off, they will definitely like this surprise!" Earl Barnby nodded with satisfaction.
After that, he continued to say to the spy: "Then you go to rest in my castle first. In order to keep the news secret, you can't see other people these days!"
"Yes, Lord Earl, Her Royal Highness the Princess has already given instructions to the villain!"
The spy was then taken down.
And if a group of minor nobles from the Agate Principality were here, someone would definitely think that this spy looked familiar.
Isn't this the steward of a caravan that has been following the army to do business?
Narant and Boris were drinking in his caravan tavern, and then they had a conflict with Prince Tony and others.
"Why, Brock, are you still thinking about your Maple Leaf City? Don't worry, didn't the spies tell you? The Agate Principality has not destroyed the city. I believe that within a few days, your Maple Leaf City and castle will be returned to their original owners.
!" After the spy was taken down, Earl Barnby looked at Earl Brock, who was frowning at the side.
"Barnby, I'm not worried about the city. I just didn't expect that the valley plan didn't succeed. Now even the trap we set in Maple Leaf City hasn't fooled the Agate Principality. Don't you think they are too lucky?"
"Brock, don't worry, it's just a little bit of luck. Little luck can only evade small calculations."
"And this time, it is an ambush set up by His Majesty the King with the help of the principality. It has been planned for no less than five years, and the Agate Principality is still unaware of it. Their good luck is about to end!"
"I hope so!" When Earl Brock heard this, his slightly frowned brows relaxed.
Indeed, with this plan, if they still cannot defeat the Agate Principality, then their land will be taken over by the Agate Principality, so there will be nothing to complain about.
"Haha! Let's go, Brock, let's go have a drink for the upcoming victory. The team from the Agate Principality should arrive the day after tomorrow!"
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"Narant, do you understand this map?"
After scraping off the paint, as the map slowly opened, Boris and Rail immediately rolled their eyes and looked directly at Nalant.
"It's okay!" Nalant replied without raising his head, but there was a rare lack of confidence in his tone.
The map of this fantasy world is truly worthy of being called a 'simple map', and is comparable to the map in the previous game.
The forests and rivers on the map are abstract existences, and then they are given names.
The same goes for the nobility's territory, which is to draw a large castle on the location and then mark the name of the noble to which it belongs.
What is even more troublesome is that the direction of this map is actually opposite to the direction of the map that Nalant knew in his previous life.
The maps that Nalant knew in his previous life were all "up, north, down, south, left, west, right, east".
But this map of his grandmother's was actually up, south, north, left, east, right, and west.
As for why this happened, Nalant knew it without thinking. It was because the Agate Principality did not want to be overwhelmed by the Northern Principality on the map.
But in this case, even though Nalant prided himself on having a sense of direction, he was a little confused all of a sudden.
Fortunately, their starting point and destination have been marked on the map, and a red route is also marked between these two points.
In this way, Nalant and the others only need to follow the red line to reach their destination.
"Let's go, let's set off first, and then we will separate from the fork in the road more than ten miles ahead." In the end, Nalant didn't care about the direction, as long as he followed the terrain on the map.
There is only one road around them at the moment, so they need to continue traveling towards Oak City for more than ten miles before they can turn from a fork in the road.
The fork in the road has a river on one side and a hill on the other, which is very easy to identify.
They followed the red line on the map and needed to follow the fork in the direction of the river.
Next, Nalant and others broke away from the principality army that had not yet set off and began to move forward quickly.
This time Bernard said that he would only send a team of more than a thousand people, but he was referring to soldiers fighting.
Among them, there are about 500 ordinary guards from the Tulip family, and about 300 to 400 from Boris and Reyer's entire team.
As for Narant, if you only count his guards, it is indeed exactly one thousand.
However, don’t forget that Narant took in the serf prisoners who came forward a few days ago.
So in total, their team actually has more than 2,000 people.
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The team marched in great force. When they reached the fork in the road marked on the map ahead, Nalant crossed the river directly according to the route and began to continue marching.
After they crossed the river, a cavalry squad of more than ten people looked at their retreating figures and immediately returned the same way.
Narant and others didn't pay much attention to this, thinking that these were just a team of rangers responsible for guarding.
"Your Majesty, Tulip's team has crossed the river!" Soon, Lakoff received the message back from that team of cavalry.
"Very good, let Tony take the team and set off!" Lakoff finally felt relieved. Since Nalant and others did not recognize the map error now, it means that his plan was successful.
In fact, the reason why he came up with this plan was that he was sure that the map was too simple, and Narant and others who were not familiar with the Northern Principality could not judge the authenticity.
In particular, the road checkpoints that each company needs to guard are not located in any city, so there are no names marked on the map.
After getting the map, unless several earls carefully identify it in person, they can rely on their familiarity with the terrain to determine whether the location is right or wrong.
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Nalant and others did not know that their destination had been changed, so they continued to move forward, walking through plains and forests for four full days before he finally discovered some clues.
"how so?"
The group of people stopped on the road, and Nalant stood on a slope, a little confused.
Because they have been traveling for four consecutive days, but they still have not reached their destination.
Yesterday, he thought something had gone wrong because he was traveling too slowly.
But they haven't arrived yet, which means that the problem is definitely not that they are moving slowly. After all, no matter how slow they are, they won't be slow for a whole day.
What's even more strange is that when Nalant held up the map and compared it with the surrounding environment, he found that the two matched perfectly.