After crossing the White Blade River, the New Minister Army finally chose to go northeasternly, crossing the northern territory of Holwood City horizontally and entering the eastern part of the northern border. This direction is closer to the North Sweeping Army controlled area stationed in the terror fortress, and relatively far from the defense line of the Baigang Garage Army.

"The commander, the Tie Family Fortress and the nearby woods did not find any enemy scouts."

"Notify the former army and keep moving forward."

"yes."

The army marched in the dense forest, and William rode his horse in the middle of the team, surrounded by the accompanying Gripen guard rangers. The scouts would report the news on the established marching route every once in a while.

Only when the news was received would the central army of the New Minister Army follow up and face the enemy deployment at the position, William remained cautious and rational.

After the army passed through the dense forest, a undulating northern grassland appeared in front of it. The grassland was not flat, but was just empty.

The grass all over the place has long turned yellow. Not far away, you can see a wooden fortress built on the hillside. On the fortress wall, you can still see a few gray-green stripes with four black horseshoes, surrounding a black long sword, fluttering in the cold wind.

The Tie family was a small nobleman who was not well-known in the northern border. They once served the Bodon family. After the fall of the skinned man, they hid in their own small castle and lived a self-sufficient life.

William's horse slowly lowered its speed, and the surrounding horses slowed down.

"It is hard to believe that this place was not targeted by the Esos' army. Listen, the front army continued to cooperate with the sentry team and advance in concert. Regardless of whether there were enemies fifty miles away, they would stop and camp. It is absolutely not allowed to approach the Duanzhi River Basin. The river is connected to the sea estuary of the Gongyangmen. The Esos have no reason not to guard the Broken Lie River.

Tormond, enter the war zone, I now appoint you as the adjutant of the combat command of the former army. If the two combat battalions of the former army encounter an emergency, you have the right to participate in combat command together. Go and catch up with the troops in the front. Those two combat troops are quite the most brave and free people. When the war comes, remind them not to forget the combat discipline of the new army army.

And I plan to visit the Tie family's castle to see if I can hear some news, and wait for the baggage and heavy troops to catch up.

The commander, send my orders, send more sentinels to detect any situation in the woods in the ten miles of the grassland, be careful not to be discovered by the enemy's secret sentry. The Ersos did not capture Holwood City, but this is the junction of Holwood City and the terror Fort army. There is no reason for the enemy to not be able to detect the importance of this place."

"Yes, Commander."

Tormond and the two teams of scouts turned their heads and left.

William turned his head and shouted to his personal guards, "Carlo, go behind and urge those girls, so that the rear army will not leave as slow as an old man. Leave three hundred brothers outside the castle to guard the crowd, and the others will follow me to rest in the Tie Family Fortress, waiting for the scouts to return."

"Yes, commander." A personal guard left after being ordered.

William and the army officer Kanter led a hundred guards and rangers to head towards the gate of the old Tie Family fortress in Muzhai.

However, just half an hour later, William and his guard Rangers emerged from the castle again.

William left the castle with a bad face. The news he received from the mouth of the Iron Clan leader Carter Tie made him unable to rest in the castle with peace of mind. The Ethus people had long been eyeing this Muzhai Castle. The messenger of the Ethus people once sent a letter yesterday, threatening the Iron Clan family to surrender and surrender to them. Otherwise, the Ethus people's army would arrive here in a day and personally demolish his home.

If the enemy's threat is true and will arrive here in one day, it means that the enemy's army is likely to be nearby, but the front-line mail cavalry clearly found nothing in the direction further east.

"Commander-in-Chief William, I guess that was just an enemy's intimidation against the Tie clan? The outpost found no abnormalities. Although the castle of the Tie clan is not large in size, an army that can easily stave off here requires at least hundreds of elite troops, and hundreds of people are not so easy to hide their traces."

Kanter breathed, and the breath spurted out from his mouth and nose, scattering into white mist in the cold air.

William looked cold and his brows were like the undulating hills outside, "I don't think so. This is in the middle of the territory of Holwood City and the Fortress of Terror. The last time they attacked Holwood City, the North Mopping Army stationed at Fortress of Terror was to reinforce Holwood City here. As long as the Ursos still wanted to go westward, then solving Holwood City was the only choice. To seize Holwood City, you will inevitably have to remove this inconspicuous nail, so as to hinder the reinforcements of the North Mopping Army."

"You mean, this is a place where the enemy must fight?"

"Yes, I thought this place had been seized by the enemy before, and I even thought that our army's first Eastern Expedition would start with re-competing this area. I didn't expect that the enemy was not as smart as I thought. However, they finally reacted, but in this way, our New Minister Army's first battle would still break out here."

"But……"

William saw the doubts of the affairs officer Kanter and chuckled, "I know what you are doubting. You must be thinking, even though there is no shadow of an enemy in front of you, then the enemy cannot appear behind us, right?"

"Well, that's true, Commander, can the enemy really come from behind us?"

"No, of course not." William's voice was extremely cold under the cold wind. "However, we all know that there is a tributary of the Broken Branch River connecting the Ram Gate that can reach the territory east of Holwood. Last time the Ursos transported the army to attack there, so I guess they would do this this time, but they can't rush to start a war against Holwood, but sneak attacked the north from Holwood's territory."

On a high hill outside the Tie Family Castle, the army soldier Kant lowered his head, picked up a branch on the ground, and drew a simple map within a 50-mile radius that he could remember. Gradually, his face became darker and darker, his hands were frozen red in the cold wind, and not far from his arms, his war horse was gnawing on the short dead grass on the ground.

The hard mud was turned up by the horse's mouth, and the simple map on the ground was slowly covered with splashed mud and slowly disappeared. Kanter slowly stood up and said, "I think your guess is indeed very likely to find out, then Commander, we should send someone to inform the former army to withdraw and reinforce the place, right?"

William looked at the undulating wilderness that was almost invisible, without woods and rivers, and it was not suitable for ambushing, but it was very suitable for a war.

He was silent for a moment in the wind and shook his head, "No, let the front army hide. Since there is no detective of the enemy in that direction, it means that the enemy has not discovered their movements. Let them hide and station on the spot first. If the war really breaks out here, the enemy will never expect that we will have reinforcements in the east."

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Chapter completed!