Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 234 - 234 123 Unexpected Reinforcements_2

234: Chapter 123 Unexpected Reinforcements_2 234: Chapter 123 Unexpected Reinforcements_2 Besides occasionally accompanying her and ensuring her safety, following the dispatch from beginning to end, Sir Redo’s love for Adelina was what Azeryan called “Knight’s Love.”

The love of the spirit.

According to the gossip from Azeryan, the reason for this situation wasn’t that Knight Redo was born Platonic.

Rather, when he was young, he had expressed his love to Adelina but was declined.

Not wanting to trouble her excessively, he switched to a way that could be publicly accepted, hoping to protect his loved one for life.

In the culture of this world, this is considered a romantic knightly tale.

Furthermore, Knight Redo had already married and had children in his fief in the northern part of Farolis, having his own family.

It’s unknown whether Sir Redo’s legitimate wife would consider this a beautiful story, but since they were married, she must have forgiven him before the wedding.

And setting aside that noble gossip, the current army naturally belongs to Knight Redo…

or rather, Lady Adelina’s personal guard.

They had always been stationed north of the territory of the Thorny Flower family, only recently being relocated to protect Adelina in the south.

Leon, after listening to his companion’s explanation, felt somewhat powerless and rubbed his head.

This was his first time experiencing such a clear cultural shock.

After all, the original owner was just a young hunter, with mostly rural and common memories in his mind, not understanding the culture of knights and nobles.

Honestly, with his deeply rooted Eastern traditional views, this special knight culture of the Felu people was indescribably bizarre.

Although having a wife who is overly adored by others, and admired as such, could also be seen as a matter of pride to some extent.

But if the man who loves his spouse was constantly around her…

I didn’t get it, I was just in awe.

Leon’s expression became like that of a certain Director Lee, shaking his head repeatedly, feeling, “I can’t understand, but I am greatly shaken.”

Even if the person disciplined himself strictly, fulfilled his duties, and adhered to his vows without overstepping bounds, it still felt uncomfortable to even think about.

This was true for both parties; one was like a god-level excited sheep, and the other was…

somewhat too open-minded.

However, as an outsider, the local customs and culture were not his place to comment.

Without further dwelling on possibly offending the assisting Sir Redo, Leon changed the topic and asked about the situation in places like Selva.

At present, based on his understanding of the military distribution of the Thorny Flower family, Baron Eriv who marched south to Kantadar had taken the vast majority of the troops, pulling away nearly four thousand people.

Currently, Farolis City was guarded by only 300 regular troops, not many, and not likely to be redeployed easily, but if the main city were truly attacked, Eriv’s eldest son, remaining in charge, could immediately summon militia from the large population of the town to help defend it.

So, there was no need to worry too much about the safety of the main city, especially since the inner castle was tall and sturdy, unlikely to fall without being attacked by an army ten times its size.

Aside from Farolis City, the remaining military forces of the family were concentrated in three locations.

One was at Wacht Castle where Knight Marcello was stationed, deploying two hundred soldiers.

In the east of Selva, a supply transfer camp housed one hundred soldiers.

And here in Longka, he had scrambled together a force by exhausting the manpower resources of his territory on an emergency basis.

Including the commanders and the reinforcements sent by Lady Adelina…

the number of combatants was around two hundred fifty.

Leon assessed the force at his disposal.

The total of one hundred eighty infantrymen summoned from three territories were roughly divided into three equal infantry squads by their origins.

The formations from Platon and Longka consisted solely of spearmen.

And Selva’s formation, on the other hand, was a special infantry formation composed of a ratio of two spears to one mace.

Only this squad had gone through brief and special training on cavalry tactics with Mr.

Brian Sr.

This were the highest morale troops among the three locations, as after all…

residents of Selva, having received their ransom, were now all well-off.

However, with the addition of Knight Redo’s elite troops, the heavy responsibility of potentially facing a cavalry unit in the future could still be handed over to them.

This was also necessary, as right now the troop types in Longka’s army were pitifully few.

Excluding his six personal Heavy Infantry guards, there were only about twenty archers.

And as for cavalry…

even if including the four temporarily picked from the wealthy households of Platon, wearing surplus armors from the stores to make up the numbers, and himself and Kovis along with the newcomers.

There were no more than a dozen riders in total in Longka.

The good news was, they were all Heavy Cavalry, clad in heavy armor.

The bad news was, considering the command needs during combat, the number of cavalrymen able to charge together would still need to be somewhat discounted.

Who let the real battlefield of the Farolis family be to the south, where Baron Eriv’s two hundred heavy cavalrymen had crossed Nightmare Forest and were dispatched to the southern battlefield, unable to spare attention for the current conflict.

…Later, Leon gathered everyone and held a military meeting with his assistants.

Having received a batch of extra elite troops, Mr.

Brian Sr.

looked much more relaxed.

He and Knight Redo revisited and adjusted the original tactical proceedings.

Ten people gathered around the terrain map drawn after the recent reconnaissance, expressing their opinions until the meeting lasted until dusk.