Chapter 678 – Submission of a Letter of War

“Outrageous!”

“How dare he say that?”

Within the tent, the generals and lords present were filled with righteous indignation and opened their mouths to rebuke Dieter Evans.

“Such an insolent fellow!”

Montreat pressed his sword and rose, his eyes seeming to spit out flames.

He looked toward Catherine.

“We should behead this wildly paradoxical fellow and have his entourage bring it back to show their steppe warriors.”

Catherine shook her head and reached out for him to sit down.

“Messenger, you have entered the lands of Aldo without our king’s permission, and you have colluded with our traitors to invade the Watcher’s Fortress and kill our generals and soldiers, so much hatred exists between us, so please refrain from saying anything unrealistic.”

Under the stern gaze of those azure eyes, the orc messenger bowed slightly.

“Oh …… that’s so regrettable, Your Highness the Honorable Princess.”

The look on Evans’ face changed somehow, no longer the somewhat frivolous and provocative one from before, but replaced with a pilgrimage-like solemnity.

“I know that all of you here have grown up in the civilized world since childhood and view us as unenlightened and barbaric creatures, and psychologically hold a great sense of superiority over the orcs – it must be said that I am not being sarcastic, but rather agreeing with a part of what you are thinking from the bottom of my heart that yes, the It is true that in times prior to this, the orcs were backward in relation to the humans of the south, and even our Grand Chief Abar knew this. But-“

His tone did a heavy turn.

“Since the establishment of the new generation’s royal tent by Grand Chief Abar, the situation has been completely different, and I can now say with great pride that the orcs are by no means the unenlightened barbaric creatures of your old perceptions, and that we have our own system of state and our own civilization, and will henceforth interact with the human kingdoms from a position of equality. ”

“Ch!”

Dempsey uttered a disdainful snort.

“So it’s the orcs whose so-called communication is to invade another country’s land and slaughter its people?”

The sarcasm wasn’t too harsh, but Dempsey was immediately met with a counterattack.

“Don’t make yourself sound so innocent, sir.”

Evans held his head high, “Haven’t the human armies stationed in the Watcher’s Fortress been doing the same thing for a long time – so long that it was even before the establishment of the Kingdom of Aldo?”

“Humans swept across the steppe like a sandstorm, stirring up infighting among the tribes, expelling orcs who were grazing their herds, and even setting fire to whole patches of the steppe so that our livestock could only starve in large numbers, and the orcs who lost their livestock could only starve to death. It is also fortunate that the environment of the grassland is not suitable for the cultivation of crops, which left a piece of land for the orcs to rely on for shelter, otherwise my people would have long since turned into the dust of history.”

“What a bunch of nonsense!”

The younger generals were very angry, such as Montreat.

“How can you slander the warriors of Aldo like that, we have never done such injustice!”

“Oh?”

Evans narrowed his eyes, his gaze glancing around the older men in the tent one by one, finally resting on Duke Aramburu.

“This lord, I’m sure that with your life experience you will be able to confirm that I’m not telling a lie, right?”

Duke Aranbruh did not expect this orc to ask himself.

“Ahem!” He cleared his throat awkwardly, “Even in the human world, there is a lot of nastiness between neighboring countries, and who can tell the difference between feuds and grudges?”

The Duke looked away. Evans laughed coldly, “It was the decline of the kingdom that forced you to stop this behavior, not unwillingly, but unable to.”

He reached into his bosom and pulled out a roll of parchment.

“This is a letter of war from Grand Chieftain Abar to the Kingdom of Aldo, it was supposed to be delivered to the court of Jingyao, but since I met Princess Catherine right here, I don’t think I need to have to travel that far.”

The squire stepped to Evans’ side and took the roll of parchment in both hands and presented it to the desk in front of Catherine.

Catherine unrolled it and read it carefully, her brow furrowing more and more.

She looked up to Evans, “Please reply to Grand Chief Abar that the Kingdom of Aldo accepts his challenge.”

“In that case, I will take my leave!”

Evans bowed to her and turned to leave the tent.

After two more days, the orcs’ army finally arrived near the Sunset Valley in the evening and set up camp not far from the kingdom’s army.

In the evening, Catherine rode her horse and toured her side’s camp and had a final discussion with the people about the great battle that was about to break out.

The next day, around four in the morning, before the sun had risen, the whole camp was busy, everyone got up early, the knights put their armor on their bodies neatly with the assistance of their squires and checked their weapons, while the soldiers started to burn the fire to cook and replenish the heat for their bodies.

Time passed by, and the kingdom’s army began to line up in formation.

As the sun rose, the kingdom’s army was already deployed.

The army was divided into four parts, and located in the center was an infantry square consisting of a large number of knights and soldiers on foot, around 20,000 people.

Located on the left flank was a cavalry formation made up of knights of the Blackrock Plains’ lords, their squires, and ordinary cavalrymen, numbering around 10,000 men.

Located on the right flank was a cavalry formation made up of the Knights of the Royal Capital, numbering around seven thousand men.

There were also three thousand archers in three rows directly in front of them, of course when the enemy rushed up, they would use the bows and arrows in their hands to deal a head-on blow to the enemy army, but after the opponent approached, the archers would withdraw to the rear as soon as possible.

Woo–

Under the urging of the horn, the kingdom’s army began to advance towards the front. Not long after, the original formation began to be disorganized and gradually lost its initial appearance.

At that moment, as far as the people’s eyes could see, a row of figures walked over with the sun at their backs.

That was the orc army.

Many people began to get nervous, many of them had been hoeing the ground with hoes not so long ago, and now they were going to fight the orcs with swords and guns?
The officers vigorously pacified and assured them that the orcs weren’t as scary as they thought they were, and that if they stabbed them through the heart with a single shot, the other side would still have to hang.

With Princess Catherine’s order, the advancing kingdom army came to a screeching halt.

The orc army also stopped about 200 meters away from them.

Catherine raised the binoculars that Paul had given her and scrutinized the orc army.

A large number of cavalry – that was Catherine’s first impression after seeing them.

There were two types of orc cavalry: heavy cavalry and light cavalry.

Heavy cavalry were generally the same as human knights, covered in armor, and even their mounts wore armor.