When the Saintess Arrives, No King Exist

The next day, Horn and others got up very early, and it was still a gloomy day.

After the routine daily breathing exercises, he stood on the mound, wiping his face with a hot towel.

Then he squatted on the dirt pile, eating breakfast while watching over a hundred students of the Trinity Education Team laboriously digging the ground.

These students were either officers among the mercenaries, accountants and junior officials under the Duke, or priests from the Church.

Most of them were the Duke's accomplices, though they did not directly harm the villagers, they aided and abetted in a way.

Guilty, but not entirely guilty.

To manage these 25,000 people well, Horn must have his own talent system, he needs many experienced people to help him train new talents.

Horn hopes that within three months, these new soldiers can understand simple military orders and write simply, so as to understand strategic intents correctly.

To complete the primary education of 4,000 new troops and 300 Child Soldiers, relying solely on Boned and others is not enough, Horn needs more educated people.

Perhaps they cannot be directly used by Horn, but at least after education, they are qualified as new soldiers and future teachers.

"Your Highness."

Horn had just taken a few bites of beast meat sandwich when he saw Victor running over.

"How is it?" Horn asked, looking at Victor with sweat slightly oozing from his forehead, "Did all the scouts return safely?"

"Your Highness, they all returned safely," Victor said, pointing to the exhausted scouts, "An officer of the Trinity Team followed and drew the terrain map."

Victor handed a terrain map to Horn.

Unfolding the terrain map, Horn, using the daylight, carefully examined it with Victor's narration.

According to the terrain map and the scouts' reports, unlike the relatively shallow swamps of Beize, Nanze is almost a dammed lake.

And Autumn Dusk Island is located right in the middle of the lake, about 2 to 3 miles from the shore, originally connected by a stone arched bridge over a mile long.

There was also a dam bridge about a mile long connected to it, but due to rising lake water and years of disrepair, it still vanished, leaving the stone surface arched bridge left by the El Empire a broken bridge.

To get onto the island, one must go to the nearby Barbarian Kingdom first, then take a boat to the island, where there are countless long-haired monsters.

According to the scouts' preliminary observation, the so-called Barbarian Kingdom is basically settled by the lakeshore near the stone arch bridge.

"Did all 200 chartered companies and 20 Holy Gunmen of the Expeditionary Army arrive?" Horn gulped down the beast meat sandwich and stood up.

"They all arrived, just finished breakfast."

"Let's go." Cloaked, Horn hung the Blood Covering Cloud at his waist, "Let's take a look."

......

"Your Highness, this way."

Under the guidance of Beastman Captain Hariba, Horn followed the long dam road, walking for half a morning before finally reaching the mountain slope of the marsh.

Assigning Patrick to dig marsh soil and refine peat, Horn led over 200 soldiers towards the Barbarian Kingdom.

After walking over an hour of mountain roads, almost reaching noon, Horn finally saw the first Barbarian Kingdom.

The cold wind between the mountains brushed against him, Horn rode on horseback, and in front of him was the Beastman barbarian village.

On the land crisscrossed with creeks and dark rivers, hidden in the reeds, twenty to thirty straw houses and two or three wooden houses appeared before Horn.

Standing on the hillside, Horn could clearly see the appearance of the Beastman barbarians below, almost indistinguishable from those Northern Beastmen.

Aside from their coarse and savage clothing, from appearance alone, Horn couldn't really find any difference between these so-called barbarians and the "nobles" of Beize.

"Your Highness, what do you say?"

"Tell them we want to pass through to Autumn Dusk Island, if they agree, open the path, if not, six divisions will move them."

"Your Highness, as soon as our scouts and envoys approach, they get attacked, there's simply no chance to speak."

"Create an opportunity if there isn't one," Horn gave him a sidelong glance, "You drive them to their knees, and can't you ask them if they agree?"

"Ah, I understand now."

Soon, over 200 Salvation Army soldiers appeared in the sight of those Beastmen, among them were 150 Cuirassier Long Spear Soldiers, 50 cavalry, and 20 Holy Gunmen.

Their opponents were over 200 barbarian Beastmen.

Obviously, these barbarians, having encountered the Salvation Army scouts this morning, were somewhat prepared, and when the Salvation Army appeared, they quickly retrieved weapons from their homes.

What surprised Horn was that the equipment of these barbarians was actually better than those so-called "nobles" of Carthage, not only did seven or eight people have leather armor, but they also had iron axes and short swords.

Who exactly are the nobles?

Turning his head, he glanced suspiciously at Hariba beside him, whose expression was quite unnatural, awkwardly looking up at the sky.

The barbarians below the hillside, seeing it was humans, had quite high morale, but upon seeing the cavalry on horseback, fear flickered in their eyes.

After all, they didn't have horses here, war horses were rare creatures to them.

As for the Salvation Army in black cloaks before them, they didn't consider them a threat.

Even against twice their number of enemies, as descendants of Nanze's pureblood Beastman nobles, they would never bow to Bei Kui.

As soon as they approached close enough to discern the outline of the opposite side, the Beastman barbarians immediately began their war cries.

"Ulu!"

"For the Moon God!"

Seeing the charging Beastman barbarians, Horn merely said casually to the bannerman beside him, "Sound the horn."

"Wuuu wuuu wuuu——"

The Beastman barbarians charged in formation towards the Salvation Army phalanx, though their equipment was better, their formation was no match for those civilized kingdoms of Beize.

"First and second rows, spears horizontal, third row, spears inclined."

Victor commanded loudly, seeing the Beastman barbarians enter a 50-yard range, he shouted again, "Charge!"

The neat ranks stepped in unison, two rows of spears shaking as they sprinted, like an iron hammer smashing into the disorganized formation of the Beastman barbarians.

Spears pierced the leather armor with little resistance against iron protection, blood fountain-like spurted out, while the crudely made iron axes of the Beastmen left only dents when slashing at the Salvation Army's cuirass.

Almost simultaneously, the cavalry led by Jeanne charged in from the flanks, the sabers slicing through the Beastmen's necks, flashes of lightning pierced their formation instantly.

Within seconds, the front and left side Beastmen fell like mown grass, blood and screams filled the valley in an instant.

The Holy Gunmen didn't even have time to fire their spring guns before entering a pursuit phase, thus the vanguard battle ended in less than ten minutes.

More than seventy percent of the time was spent on the march.

"This, how could this be..."

Even knowing in advance about the strength of the Holy Knights, seeing the brave barbarian warriors collapse in an instant, Hariba still couldn't believe his eyes.

Apparently, the Pope didn't use his full power yesterday, what a pity.

Rudilo rode up to the hillside, shouting to Hariba, "Hey, someone come out and clean up."

"Presumptuous, don't you see Your Highness is here?"

"I wasn't speaking to Your Highness, Your Highness, a great victory, a great victory."

Smiling and waving to Rudilo to show acknowledgment, Horn turned and patted Hariba's shoulder, "From here to the broken bridge, there are still about a dozen villages, I hope when I ride over tomorrow morning, you'll already be at the bridge."

After saying this, Horn looked at the sky, feeling the time was about right, and headed towards the Great Carthage Royal Capital.

Patrick is over there preparing and investigating peat matters, according to the time, results should have come out already.