Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 438 The King's Letter
Rhodes returned to the castle from the ruins, and it was almost time for dinner.

"Lord, someone is looking for you." Rhode had just entered the castle when a guard said to him.

"Which one?" Rhodes asked.

"A messenger from the king, he has a letter to deliver to you in person," replied the guard.

"Where is he now?" Rhodes asked again.

"Still waiting for you in your study," replied the guard.

Rhodes nodded, and then he walked towards his study.

After walking into the study, he saw a man in knight armor sitting upright on a sofa in the study.

After hearing the movement of Rhodes pushing the door, he stood up and said, "You are Earl Rhodes, right? You are as young as others said, unexpectedly."

Rhodes carefully looked at the man in front of him. He looked like he was in his 40s, with a smile on his face. He looked like a very easy-going man. He should be from a noble family, but he should be the second son of a noble family who has not obtained a title. , and became a knight under the king.

"This is a letter from His Majesty the King. He told me to hand it over to you. You can't tell too many people the contents of the letter after you read it." The man said again.

Rhodes took the letter, opened it and read it.

Is it going to war again?

After reading the letter, Rhodes casually put the letter into the space ring.

Originally, he planned to take advantage of this peaceful time to earn more money and develop the territory.

Unexpectedly, this peace was so short-lived.

Although the peace agreement signed between the Roman Empire and the Nord Kingdom is far from due, King Nord said in the letter that his spies arranged in the empire told him that the new emperor of the empire seemed to be preparing for a war.

The king of Nord decided to unilaterally tear up the peace agreement signed this year while the empire was not ready yet, launch a surprise attack on them, and strive to completely destroy the Roman Empire once, so he asked Rhodes to at least Bring 500 people to the Fortress of Glory before August.

There is not much time until August. Although Rhodes now has [-] troops, most of them have just been recruited, and the training time is less than a week.

Seeing Rhode's gloomy face, the knight delivering the letter said, "Since the letter has been delivered, I won't bother you anymore."

Rhodes nodded, did not keep him for dinner, but took out a small bag of gold coins and handed it to him: "I'm sorry to trouble you."

"This is what I should do." The knight accepted the money bag with a smile on his face.

Rhodes heard Hamer mention this when he was learning noble etiquette before. It is a rule among nobles to pay certain rewards to knights who deliver letters to the king.

The knight left the study, and Rhodes carefully checked the room. Except for the books on the bookshelf that Alvin took to the chief scholar, nothing was missing in the room.

Rhodes has a headache now. He originally planned to train the soldiers in his army to the level that they could fight ten of them before they could fight on the battlefield, but the King of Nord actually chose to make a surprise attack.

This kind of behavior that signed a peace agreement, not only did not abide by it, but also did not take the initiative to declare war, would be despised by most of the nobles in the entire continent.

However, King Nord's letter was written very cleverly, creating a feeling that the Roman Empire did not know what to do and was the first to violate the agreement, and he was forced to choose a surprise attack.

The Nord nobles, who are relatively simple-minded, will most likely fall into his tricks, and they may think that this is a just war.

Rhodes will go to urge the blacksmiths in the territory tomorrow. In case he doesn't even have the equipment to equip [-] soldiers in August, he doesn't want those soldiers to wear the clothes he took off from the soldiers of the Roman Empire last year. Equip for battle.

Afterwards, he planned to stay in the barracks and personally lead those soldiers to practice martial arts. Otherwise, these new recruits who couldn't even hold their weapons steadily on the battlefield for the first time would be used as cannon fodder.

When Rhodes returned to the first floor of the castle for dinner, he told Baron and the others the contents of the letter.

"I will go to the barracks to train those soldiers tomorrow. You should stay in the castle and read more military books. You will be in command of the soldiers you brought with you." Baron said while eating.

Baron has also practiced the martial arts for ordinary soldiers, and in terms of his understanding of martial arts, he is much better than Rhodes. It is more suitable for him to teach than Rhodes himself.

If it weren't for what Baron said, Rhodes would have forgotten that there is such a thing as commanding, and he subconsciously thought that he would just go up and hack and it would be over.

Rhodes still doesn't know how good he is at commanding battles. Although he wrote a few copybooks on 36 Strategies and Sun Tzu's Art of War when he was in elementary school, these copybooks are homework assigned by the Chinese teacher for the holidays. I hope he can have a pleasant holiday.

Rhodes still remembers a lot of the content above, if he can use it flexibly, he will definitely be able to beat the nobles of the Roman Empire.

"Are you sure he can learn to command in such a short period of time?" Hammer said after taking a bite of his meal.

"Actually, it doesn't matter whether you learn or not. All of my subordinates are recruits who have just joined the army for a few days. They don't know how to set up simple formations. Let it take its course. I thought of a clever strategy, but the soldiers under me are not capable of execution enough. Human." Rhodes shook his head.

During this period of time, Gilbert should have produced a lot of explosives. Rhodes felt that it was enough for his soldiers to throw explosives. Baron was asked to teach them martial arts so that they could survive on the battlefield.

One that Rhodes taught them was the iron cloth shirt that enhanced the ability to be beaten, and the other was the Treading Wuhen that increased the ability to escape.

He had already thought about it just now. If the battle situation is not good, he can be responsible for breaking the rear, and let his soldiers run away while throwing explosives on the shoulders of the rain of arrows.

"You'd better learn command, even if you don't need it this time, you can use it next time." Baron said again.

Rhodes felt a little regretful. If he knew that he would become a lord and command soldiers after crossing, he should play more games in the Total War series.

The only one he has played, although it is also in the middle ages and has a fantasy background, he only played for a while and then stopped playing.

"Your dragon scale armor should be ready the day after tomorrow, and then you can wear that set of armor on the battlefield." Hammer said again.

"Wearing golden armor and going to the battlefield will definitely become a target for everyone. Let's put it in the castle as a decoration." Baron shook his head.

Hammer took part of the golden dragon's scales, and he planned to build a set of armor for Rhodes himself. Rhodes had always underestimated Hammer's blacksmithing skills. In fact, Hammer became a blacksmith at a very young age. A master blacksmith.

"You said that if we send some dragon meat to the emperor of the empire, will he think we are provoking him?" Rhode couldn't help asking.

"Should be." Baron replied, he couldn't help retching after thinking of the taste of dragon meat.

The meat of the golden dragon is so unpalatable that it can't even be cooked with fire.

The meat of dragon meat is so tough that it is difficult to cut it with a knife, and it is even harder to chew it with teeth.

Although there is no peculiar smell, but after putting it in the mouth, you will see the revolving lantern of life, which is more fishy than rotten dead fish.

However, the white cat still prefers to eat it. Although it is eating while vomiting, Rhodes suspects that it just values ​​the energy in it.

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(End of this chapter)