Farming with Entries: From Lord to Emperor

In this month, Luo De has almost daily meetings with different nobles.

Listening to their complaints, pledges of allegiance, and accusations against each other.

Sometimes he meets with six groups in a single day, leaving Luo De nearly dizzy.

But all of this is worth it.

The greatest achievement from this reform is that the number of regular troops under Luo De has reached four thousand.

The existing First Legion of Dragon’s Breath, led by Durant.

The Second Legion of Dragon’s Breath, mainly composed of surrendered soldiers selected from the Vanguard Corps and veterans of the First Legion, led by Chris.

The Vanguard Corps is led by Gang Le, who likes to charge at the forefront, instilling fear in all sorts of surrendered and erring soldiers.

Luo De wants Seronie to manage the Vanguard Corps together, but Seronie is not used to managing armies and prefers to stay by Luo De’s side.

The new battalion is commanded by Rein and Sharon, responsible for training new recruits.

These soldiers will in the future form a new legion, the Soul Hunting Blade, carrying on the traditions of the Hunting Team.

Four thousand soldiers may not sound like many, but the daily consumption of food is enormous.

Especially during training or combat, nearly eight tons of grain and one ton of meat are needed daily.

And that doesn’t include the forage for the horses.

Though they’ve collected quite a lot of wealth from various nobles, to avoid waste, the four legions have kept marching forward without rest.

Luo De has never attacked Frost Castle.

This castle, located atop a mountain, is easy to defend and hard to attack, and capturing it would certainly cost many soldier lives.

The only thing inside Frost Castle that attracts Luo De is the Treasure Vault of the Cold Blade Clan — which Lan Ao said might not even be in the castle.

So comparatively, the gains are too low for Luo De.

However, although Luo De hasn’t sent troops to attack Frost Castle, he hasn’t completely let it go.

Luo De often takes Frost and Thunder to visit the castle, breathing fire on its walls and courtyard.

Sometimes at midnight when the castle’s inhabitants have just fallen asleep.

Sometimes at dawn before the sky has fully brightened, dragon breath descends from the sky.

Sometimes at dusk when the people in the courtyard have just finished dinner and are ready to rest.

These irregular attacks keep the castle’s inhabitants in a state of high tension.

No one knows when the Giant Dragon will come or where the next attack will land.

Everyone lives in fear.

Afraid to sleep well, unable to live normally.

Every day is spent fearing and guarding against dragon attacks.

In less than three weeks, internal defection began to appear in Frost Castle.

First, a few guards fled under the cover of night, then some servants tried to sneak away but were discovered and shot by guards.

Even a few low-level knights secretly defected to Luo De.

— They would rather be regular soldiers than remain in a castle constantly under threat of dragon breath attacks.

And in Border City Manor, Luo De received a secret message from Frost Castle.

A Guard Captain expressed willingness to act as an inside agent for Luo De, opening the gate to let the army in.

"Could this be a conspiracy?"

Durant raised his head after carefully reading the secret message and looked at Luo De sitting in the chair,

"Although you’ve put a lot of pressure on them, we can’t rule out this possibility."

"What you say is indeed possible."

Luo De nodded slightly in agreement.

It can’t be ruled out that Viscount Wenner went mad and plans to use this conspiracy to lure Luo De’s army into the castle, then fight to the death.

"But it doesn’t matter whether it’s a conspiracy; I don’t plan to risk sending troops there."

Luo De smiled and instructed Durant:

"Reply to this Guard Captain, telling him that if he can burn Frost Castle’s granary, I’ll reward him with five maids and an estate, and make him a Knight."

Durant’s expression brightened, immediately understanding Luo De’s intent.

Once the castle’s granary is destroyed, those within will soon face starvation.

Then they will naturally become chaotic, making it unnecessary for the army to intervene; someone will naturally open the castle gates.

And if the Guard Captain does not do so, then it proves it was a conspiracy.

"I’ll send word at once!"

Durant nodded vigorously, about to turn and leave when Guard Serge hurriedly walked in.

"Lord, frontline scouts report."

Serge bowed respectfully and reported,

"Two envoy teams have entered the Northern Territory, heading toward Border City."

"One is from Riyue City, bearing the banner of the Queen, namely Eldest Princess Atrey."

"The team numbers about thirty, with guards equipped with fine weapons and armor."

"The other comes from the west, sent by the Duke of Flowers, but there’s also the Tulip Clan’s banner in their team."

Luo De’s brow slightly arched, smiling as he looked at Durant,

"Interesting, they’ve come together,"

Luo De is not surprised; his actions can’t be hidden.

However, Luo De originally anticipated army arrivals, not an envoy team.

It seems both the Eldest Princess and the Duke of Flowers are not too foolish.

"What do you think they want?"

Durant couldn’t help but ask, a smile on his face, "Do they intend to win you over?"

"We won’t waste effort guessing,"

Luo De instructed with a smile, "Send two teams to receive them, try to get them to enter the city simultaneously."

Luo De is curious.

When these two envoy teams meet at the city gate, what expressions will they have?