“It seems to be going better than I thought.”

Ash directly turned off the inappropriate screen for children and opened Heidi’s character attributes. There is a reason why this guy can become a marquis. His politics is as high as 88 and his talent is 82. However, his leadership ability is only 80, which is a little worse than Lacras.

As one of the core members of the Amabel faction, Heidi knew much more than Lacras. According to her confession, Amabel did not collude with Tahaqan, but only had a deal with the orcs.

As for why Tahagan suddenly attacked, Heidi had no idea.

On this point, it is similar to what Ash guessed. Don’t forget how the Iron-Blooded Grand Duke Amabel got her name. She killed 100,000 nomads and has a deep hatred for the nomadic people. What’s more, the nomads are the people she despises the most, so the possibility of cooperating with them is not high.

Well, there are two possibilities for the actions of the Tahagan tribe. Either they had planned to rebel long ago, or there were other forces secretly interfering.

Ash thought about it and didn’t act in a hurry. Instead, he developed secretly with the help of Heidi’s power.

The population of Gulandin City is 220,000, with 10,000 city defense troops, but Heidi has secretly developed another 10,000 troops. Like Lacras, she is storing troops and food, waiting for Amabel’s order.

[You have obtained the management rights of the city of Grandin. ]

Asher doesn’t plan to choose other types of troops this time, but instead plans to specialize in Khorne’s Guards. The cost of the Royal Guards is too high, so he can choose some of the Crooked Horses and then focus on developing heavy infantry.

The army of the Arctic Ice Kingdom is mainly composed of cavalry, but the cavalry does not use lances, but weapons similar to sabers, and their armor is not heavy. Overall, they focus more on strength than light cavalry, but more on mobility than heavy cavalry.

The reason is that they need to deal with nomads and orcs at the same time. They have to ensure their mobility and not be kite-beaten by the nomadic cavalry, and at the same time ensure their strength and not be overwhelmed by a wave of savage orcs. Over time, this unique cavalry profession in the North has gradually formed.

In addition, the Arctic Ice Kingdom has another very unique type of soldier – the battle axe soldier.

This is a type of foot-charging troop that can be considered as heavily armored infantry. The illustration shows a woman holding a battle axe and wearing heavy armor. She has bronze skin and is wearing armor, looking very wild.

Ash discovered that the women of the Arctic Ice Kingdom had blessed bloodline power. It wasn’t that the men of the Arctic Ice Kingdom were weak, but that they were truly no match for the women in terms of strength, so they had no choice but to be weak.

With the configuration of battle axe soldiers, ordinary soldiers really can’t play it well. Even the regular armies of the other three kingdoms can only play it rarely.

Honestly, Ash quite likes this type of soldier. It just so happens that he has it in the infantry illustration book, and right now he is in need of one that can charge into battle.

[In October 1778, the number of Khorne followers exceeded 10.]

As the Cult of Khorne grew gradually, the faith began to snowball.

Fifty thousand believers means he can develop five hundred Khorne guards.

However, the gift of Khorne’s personal guards requires the target’s strength to reach a certain level. Under the benchmark, the initial training difficulty is no less than that of the Iron Pagoda. Ash directly threw 20,000 people from Grantin City into training, and worked towards the Iron Pagoda’s standard.

Then he was surprised to find that out of the 20,000 people, nearly 10,000 had been trained to the standard of Iron Pagoda soldiers.

This is a pretty shocking number.

You know, some soldiers have a limit and their attributes cannot be improved no matter how much you train them.

In countries like the Zi Ling Kingdom and the Binicia Kingdom, the production rate of Iron Pagoda is about 30%, while in the Ji Bing Kingdom it is as high as 50%. Are these women taking drugs?

【The training of the magic armor iron pagoda is completed.】

【Current quantity: 9985】

Ash selected 500 soldiers with good qualities and gave them the profession of Khorne’s Guards. After the successful job change, each of Khorne’s Guards had an extra power in their body. Through fighting and being stained with the blood of enemies, this power will become stronger and stronger.

There are also some changes in the portrait. The background of the military illustration is black, with a blood-colored thread wrapped around the body, like a black knight walking out of hell.

Khorne Guards, crush them!

Asher asked Lacras to lead these 500 Khorne guards to develop in the wild. The North was a very suitable place for the development of Khorne guards. There were orcs and nomads everywhere. Even if he killed them all, no one would say he was a heretic.

For the remaining nine thousand people, Ash uniformly configured them according to the Iron Pagoda’s standards, and then continued to recruit soldiers and develop lame cavalry and battle axe soldiers.

The training of Crooked Horse is actually not difficult. Ordinary cavalrymen of the Arctic Ice Kingdom can be transformed by directly training in horse archery skills. Battle-axe soldiers are a type of soldier in the country, and the difficulty is not high either.

He also transferred 10,000 troops from the city of Skada, half of them were trained according to the standards of the Crooked Horse, and the other half were trained according to the standards of the Iron Pagoda. The quality of the Iron Pagoda soldiers was only higher than that of the Axe Soldiers, so it would definitely be better if they were stronger.

[In November 1778, the number of Khorne followers reached 11. ]

The Khorne virus shows signs of human-to-human transmission!

In fact, Ash’s energy in the previous life was basically focused on the national war. He had been mobilizing troops to fight. The development of the cult of Khorne was done by Amos and his men. He didn’t know the details, but he only knew that the number of Khorne believers was increasing like an ant nest.

This time, I personally developed believers and experienced firsthand how terrifying the power of faith is.

而且极冰之国这个地方基本没有圣庭的势力，各地贵族对自己领地拥有百分百的掌控权，这意味着恐虐神教在海蒂领地内的发展不会受到任何限制。

However, there is no such thing as an impenetrable force. Even if Ash deliberately controls the believers to prevent chaos, there will always be a few lunatics who rush out in broad daylight and shout, “All things are created to nourish man, kill, kill, kill!” Once or twice is fine, but if you shout too many times, it will naturally attract attention.

[In December 1778, the development of Khorne was taken seriously by the Kingdom of Ice, and the Queen of Ice ordered Amabel to investigate.]

【Amabel ordered Heidi to handle the matter.】

[In the same month, Heidi reported that cultists had appeared in the territory and she had sent troops to suppress them.]

Ash took a look and found that everything was fine, so he continued to attack his troops.

In the final analysis, in a place like the Kingdom of Extreme Ice, there may be mutinies and usurpations of the throne, but there will never be a large-scale expansion of foreign evil cults. Even the Holy Court cannot get in, and no one has ever heard of other gods. How can they possibly develop?

Moreover, he is not afraid even if they come to investigate. In the past few months, he has successively controlled all the earls in Heidi’s territory and has become the real “local tyrant” in this area. What can the people from the royal city do to him?

Of course, there is another reason why this incident did not attract widespread attention, that is, Esde’s trial mission has also reached a critical moment.

[In December 1778, due to the harassment of the nomads on the border and the frequent domestic public opinion, the Arctic Ice Kingdom declared war on Tahaqan, and Esder led 12 troops to attack.]

[In the same month, the Tahagan tribe sent 40,000 troops, together with the subordinate nomadic tribes who sent 30,000 troops, to attack the 70,000-strong army that attacked the Ice Kingdom.]

On the strategic map, the two armies are fighting on the Afest prairie.

[‘Kingdom’s warriors, slaughter these northern pests, kill! ! ‘]

On the screen, Esde was wearing a blue and white cloak, his silver hair was like snow, and his eyes were like swords.

[Acede uses the famous general skill ‘Ice and Snow Vortex’, all soldiers’ attack and defense are increased by 20%, and attacks add ice attribute damage. ]

The next moment, the soldiers of the Arctic Ice Kingdom were covered with a light layer of frost.

Among Esde’s 50,000 troops, 20,000 are cavalry, 20,000 are battle axe soldiers, and there are 10,000 archers and several magic cannons. Their strength is definitely at the elite level.

As the two armies fought, the number of nomadic soldiers immediately dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Esde looked calm. He stretched out his hand to pull the action skills on the interface and threw them out according to the changes in occupancy.

After so many simulations, this kind of scene is nothing to her.

[In January 1779, Esder defeated the nomadic soldiers and killed 1 enemy soldiers.]

[In the same month, Esder pursued the victory and joined forces with Kamil and his 10,000 men to attack Tahaqan’s army, killing another 8,000 enemy soldiers.]

【Acede’s reputation increased.】

[In February 1779, Esde led his army to attack the Tahagan territory, but was blocked by the united tribes of nomads. The two sides fought for several days, and both sides suffered losses.]

[Acede leads his troops to station at the Nason Mountains defense line. ]

“There are too many of these nomads.”

Academy, in Esde’s room.

She stared at the simulation interface, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.

The reason why nomads are difficult to completely eliminate is that although they are brutal by nature, the tribes can always unite together and hinder the kingdom’s attack at critical moments.

At present, the number of nomadic coalition forces has reached 60,000, plus the 40,000 troops assembled by Tahaqqan, a total of 100,000 troops are stationed on the border of Tahaqqan’s territory.

And after the reinforcement of her troops, the establishment of 50,000 people is still complete. The number of troops that can be mobilized at any time in the country is about 30,000. Queen Jibing will not allocate any extra people to her. After all, this is her trial mission of the King’s Selection.

If all the troops really push forward, anyone would know how to fight.

Esde pondered for a moment, stretched out her hand and clicked on a city behind her, and called out her capable general, Marquis Alice.

卡米尔和阿莉斯，都是她阵营的紫卡，将才，而且忠诚度相当高。

[In March 1779, Esde sent Camille and Alice to lead 3 men each into the prairie to attack the territories of the allied tribes.]

On the strategic map, wherever the army of the Arctic Ice Kingdom passed, there were corpses everywhere, flames of war were burning, and a large number of ordinary nomads died under their war horses!

There is no mercy in the war in the North, only endless killing!

[In the same month, the nomadic coalition sent 30,000 troops to support, but they were ambushed by Esder, and more than half of them were killed or wounded.]

“You played well.”

亚修眼神一亮，这一招相当于变相的围点打援了，将兵力分散进攻游牧部落，这些小型部落出兵支援塔哈干后，所剩下的兵力并不多，根本不足以抵挡极冰王国军队。0

If you don’t come, they will continue to kill.

If you come, I will ambush you.

[In April 1779, the nomadic commander Egard ordered an attack on the Nasen Line in an attempt to force the Ice Kingdom to withdraw. Esde led 4 men to defend the line. The two sides fought for five days. The nomadic soldiers’ rear supply was attacked by Camille’s troops, and the granary was destroyed.]

[Egad retreated and was pursued by Esder’s troops. Alis led 2 men to set up an ambush on the retreat route of the nomadic army, and surrounded Esder’s army, killing nomadic soldiers.]

[The nomadic coalition was defeated, with 9 of the troops lost, and retreated to the border of Tahagan.]

[In April, Esde ordered the entire army to attack the Tahagan tribe. They were attacked by the orc army at the border of Tahagan, and more than 4 people were killed.]

“These damn orcs!”

Esde was furious.

She had finally managed to defeat Tahaqen. As long as they crossed this border, Tahaqen would surely be defeated.

But the orcs messed up her plans.

[At the end of April, Tahagan and his subordinate tribes once again gathered 4 nomadic soldiers to launch a counterattack, and joined forces with the orc army to attack the Ice Kingdom. Esde led his army to resist, but was defeated, and the kingdom’s army withdrew to the Nasen Line. ]

[In early May, the Nasen Line of Defense was breached, and the nomadic coalition launched an invasion. In half a month, they captured two cities in a row. The kingdom’s army was badly defeated, with 5 casualties.]

On the strategic map, the nomadic coalition forces are the main attackers, while the orc army retreats and spreads out to attack, mainly playing a supporting role.

[In mid-May, chaos broke out in the kingdom, and various places blamed Esde for his defeat.]

【Ace’s support rate has dropped significantly.】

[In the same month, Grand Duke Amabel personally led a 40,000-man Iron Blood Army and ordered nobles from all over the country to send troops to stop the nomadic coalition.]

[‘He is just a nomadic person, worse than pigs and dogs. Killing him is like killing a dog.’ – Amabel]

[Amabel uses the famous general skill ‘Invincible’, and all the attributes of all soldiers are increased by 20%. ]

“Ok?”

Ash, who was watching the show, raised his eyebrows, feeling unhappy that his abilities were being stolen.

However, it is not uncommon for skills to appear the same in other situations except for exclusive skills.

From this point, it can be seen that this Iron-Blooded Grand Duke is definitely a gold card-level attribute.

At this time, the 40,000-strong Iron Blood Legion, plus the armies of the nobles from various territories, surrounded the nomadic coalition.

[The Iron Blood Legion killed 3000 nomadic soldiers. ]

[The Iron Blood Legion killed 4000 nomadic soldiers. ]

【…】

【…】

On the interface, as messages popped up one after another, the nomadic soldiers’ offensive array began to be frantically compressed and swallowed up.

[‘Iron Blood Legion, kill!’]

[Amabel boosts morale, all soldiers’ morale +8. ]

The momentum is like a rainbow!

In addition to the improved attributes, Invincible also has the added bonus of mind-shattering abilities.

[The nomadic coalition was defeated.]

“No wonder Esde couldn’t beat him, this guy is really strong.”

Ash shook his head secretly.

Gold card, strong offensive attributes, high command value, no weaker than Amos.

However, as the protagonist of “In the Name of the Princess”, Esde naturally cannot be worse than the supporting characters. As far as Ash knows, Esde can fuse the relics of the kingdom to awaken in the middle stage, similar to the transformation of Irelia, unlock new portraits, and the overall attributes will increase a lot.

but.

That’s done in the real game, with the help of the players, not a simulation.

At this moment, Esde was looking at the situation on the battlefield in a daze.

“too strong…”

She had to admit that Amabel was much better at leading troops in battle than she was.