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Chapter 366 Sonia Wants to Sleep in the Master Bedroom in Griffith's Territory

"Let's start." Miss Elf looked at the knight indifferently, but her pointed ears betrayed her deeply.

Calm down, calm down... Griffith hastily took a deep breath.

What are you afraid of, Grandmasters are also very watery, aren't they!The Mystic King battles against four factions - Canaan, Bajaran, Orcs and Rebels.Galadia chose Canaan elves, and my army is the Byelan regular army.

The elves' primary troops are mainly high-mobility rangers, who have the same ability to blink as in reality, and can move a certain distance regardless of the terrain.However, this ability cannot be reused in a short period of time. It is threatening, but it also has disadvantages.And my Bayeran army has firm infantry and artillery, as long as I rely on the terrain to build a tight line of defense, can she still jump in and eat me? !
Griffith carefully and nervously arranged the position and formed the army.This Extraordinary's war chess game needs to consume spiritual energy. In theory, the higher the computing power of a chess player, the higher the efficiency of organization, operation and combat.

Griffith is already an Extraordinary, and his computing power and spiritual power are beyond the reach of ordinary Extraordinary.Soon, he formed a 50K unit, and the infantry battle line covered the artillery and firmly held his position.

"Griffith, here I come~" Miss Elf said suddenly, "Don't be nervous, it's just an ordinary punch from the scouting troops."

Griffith hastily deployed his troops.Then, from the mist of the chessboard, Galradia's ranger troops appeared.

"Come on!" Griffith trembled nervously, "Rangers are too fragile, our artillery won't let them, ah——!"

Before the words fell, the ranger had turned into a phantom, and directly passed the infantry line of Bayeran and appeared near the artillery position. One round of activation exploded the artillery team.

Griffith almost bit his tongue and shouted:

"The ranger who has used the flash can't stop the front of the legion!"

The Byeran infantry turned and rushed at the rangers in the rear, and charged them, almost crushing them.Suddenly, the damaged ranger troops disappeared one by one, and appeared behind the Bayeran army again.Whenever Griffith was about to destroy a ranger unit, they were evacuated and jumped to the starting point of the attack to rest.

Repeatedly, Bayeran's infantry also suffered huge losses in the attack, but barely eliminated a few rangers.

"Why can you flash twice!? It's not fair!"

"Why? Why why?" Miss Elf knocked on the chessboard, and a shadow of a floating prism appeared in the mist, "Didn't you see this tactic in Raven?"

……

uh, so miserable...

I was actually killed by a reconnaissance scale attack, is this the Grandmaster?Horrible... My thesis, what to do...

"Is it too fierce for you to bear?" Miss Elf asked the frustrated knight with a smile.

"..."

Griffith slumped in a chair, covering his face.At this time, Fiona brought Lana to the study room, and as soon as she saw the chessboard of the King of Mysteries, Lana yelled:
"Griffith, you lost to the girls!"

"..."

Before Griffith had an attack, Sonia walked briskly into the study room.

"good evening."

The dim study room suddenly brightened.Griffith immediately came alive.

"Sonia, play a game of King of Mysteries with me! If I win, give me the paper for reference!"

Galadia looked at him in surprise, then at Sonia, then stood up covering her mouth, leaving the study room to them.The Countess thought for a while, then nodded.

"Okay~"

Sonia chose the Bayeran camp, which was the same as Griffith's. The strategy was much gentler than that of Galadia. She didn't launch an attack in the early stage, but her defense was very tight.

Griffith also took a sigh of relief from the failure just now, and deployed the army in an orderly manner.Fiona and Lana sat side by side on the sofa not far away, pretending to be reading a book, and glanced at the chessboard here from time to time.

The scene was very calm for a while.

"The Senate has prepared a new fief for you as a reward for the Odessa battle. The size of the territory is equivalent to a baronial territory." Sonia chatted casually with her knights while playing chess.

"Really?! I haven't heard of it yet," Griffith said with some surprise, "If so, it would be great!"

Since becoming a knight, Griffith has not been to his territory in Verona once.

According to the ancient practice, the territory of each earl exceeds 30 square kilometers, and there are no less than 5 families living there, with a population close to [-].There are five to ten barons under each earl, and their respective territories and strengths will not exceed one-fifth of the earl.

Ravenel is an ancient family. Before the population withered and declined, it was once a baron family with a large territory and judicial power.After the family fell, most of the land and population had been lost. The land that Griffith had obtained before was a manor with a size of 500 acres and more than [-] residents.Whether it is population, area or income, it does not exceed one percent of the earldom in the traditional sense.

According to Sonia, the conferment of land this time will greatly expand Griffith's territory.

This practice is not common.The king and senate of Bayeran had been accustomed to replacing the lands of the lords with annuities many years ago, while compensating them with public offices and parliamentary seats.In this way, the nobles can live in the prosperous Bayeland all year round, and the management of the territory is handled by local administrators and tax officials, and finally the annuity is allocated to them by the central treasury.

Earl Lamor has a large territory on the northern border of Odessa, but that is because the earls have retained assets under special political circumstances as border guards due to mission requirements.Sonia hardly ever goes there.

"Can I go there for the winter vacation?" Sonia puffed her chest out, looking at Griffith expectantly with her big blue eyes.

"Why do you want to go there? The countryside in Verona is very desolate."

The countess didn't think so, she was not so curious about Griffith's territory.Ever since the war subsided, she had always wanted to play in her knight's manor.For her, it is a vast wilderness, with little rabbits jumping around in the flowers, farmhouses and waterwheels with scattered stars, and romantic stories in every small forest.

As soon as he heard the Countess' fantasy, Griffith felt dizzy.

"It's really just a small village there, and the estate is just a stone house with a yard."

"But but, that's your manor, no one cares what we do!" Sonia clapped her hands, "I've never slept in the master bedroom!"

Please stop talking, if the earl hears that her daughter is going to do something nobody cares about with me and sleeps in my master bedroom, why don’t you hang me!Griffith was so anxious that he was about to bite his handkerchief.

"Sonia," the knight gritted his teeth, and patted the countess on the head across the chessboard, "there are no gas pipes or copper heating pipes in that place, and it's so cold that the dripping water turns into ice in winter."

"We can light the fire, spread a rug by the fire, and eat there!" Sonia's blue eyes sparkled, and she outlined the picture in her heart, "Dad won't let me lie down by the fireplace at home!" , it’s no fun.”

"The rooms there are dark, with no floor-to-ceiling windows or lighting."

"I'll have a lot of candles ready and lit in the bedroom and bathroom! There must be a lot of roses in there."

"There are no roses in the winter, and there's no plumbing in the washrooms, and down there is, well, a big pit for excrement, and sometimes the boards in disrepair let people fall."

"En~" The Countess tilted her head and thought for a while, "I can't imagine..."

"Yes, it is unimaginably difficult."

"So I'm curious!"

Oh no!Sonia, why are you curious about everything.If it were known that you and I were going to spend a few weeks at the estate, the gossip would do you a disservice.

"You're so stingy~" Sonia puffed up her cheeks when she saw hesitation on her knight's face, "Then let's discuss the planning of the territory and the formation of the manor militia!"

She even took out a pen and paper to write and draw while playing chess.

The aristocratic students of Homemonwarts must study military and political courses, carefully study the organization and organization of the army, and weapons and equipment, which is also the knowledge they will inevitably use in the future.In contrast, how to march and fight, how to train soldiers, and lead them to charge is the job of junior officers and knights. If it is not based on interest, the nobles don't need to care too much.

Griffith had already discussed this issue with Roland.He explained to the Countess that within the controllable cost range, the territorial militia would form a square formation, using long spears and arquebus as weapons.

After hearing Griffith's introduction, Sonia nodded again and again: "Gunpowder weapons are very promising. They don't need to rely on the strength of the user. Ordinary people can pose a threat to armored knights after simple training; longbowmen don't have years of training. It cannot threaten the heavy armor."

Roland's arquebus has been tested by the Senate, and many military experts and generals have visited the test firing.Griffith has also carefully studied and practiced the actual combat effects of this weapon with other Shutorals.For muskets, his evaluation is not as good as artillery:
"That's right, it is more accurate and has an armor-piercing effect. The greater power lies in the rapid training. Even the militia can severely damage the regular army through medium and short-range salvos. However, this situation is limited to small-scale battles of mortals.

"The operation of matchlock and gunpowder has a certain degree of danger, and this limitation prevents musketeers from forming dense formations.

"The musketeers in regular combat are still in an auxiliary position in combat with other troops, especially the pikemen. They cannot independently form a front line. Once hand-to-hand combat occurs, the loose formation and firing interval of the musketeers will expose dangerous gaps. Under the assault of Extraordinary and cavalry, it melted instantly.

"For a long time, muskets were only auxiliary, and the combination of artillery and cavalry was the way to win."

"Really?" Sonia expressed disbelief, "When muskets become popular, do you still have to find a way to come back~"

"Trust me!" Griffith insisted, "Professional military officers must dare to make judgments!"

It was quiet for a while in the study room.

Sonia stroked the ends of her blond hair and turned her attention back: "I'm going to attack~"

"bring it on!"

Griffith has assembled an army of 120K, with a perfect combination of infantry, artillery and cavalry.If he had more time, he could gather more troops, but the opponent was Sonia, who was not good at tactical operations, so it was almost enough.

"How are you going to attack?" Griffith tapped his fingers on the chessboard and asked curiously.The two were chatting and operating at the same time just now, and some details are definitely not perfect.

"I'm not very good at tactics," Sonia said honestly, "I've prepared the second phase of troop attack and defense, with 200K troop, let's fight in a normal way."

200K! ?
Sonia, did your army come out of a magic bottle?

Griffith paled.I saw Sonia's army pushing forward like sea water, and the reinforcements behind were like rivers flowing into the sea, stretching endlessly.

I can't beat Sonia!
I can not accept!
Griffith's fingers stiffened instantly, as if falling into an ice cave, he lost his faith in the world.

"Griffith lost to the girls again!"

Lana didn't know what happened and was very excited.Hearing the movement, Galadia returned to the study room. Ophelia, Berthier, and Nona appeared from nowhere, huddling around the chessboard and watching Griffith's position being attacked by Sony. Ya flattened.

"So, what are you going to do next?" Miss Elf asked.Everyone else looked at Griffith with a hey hey expression.

Griffith, who was already on top, stood up angrily, and pointed to the favorite Fiona:
"Let's fight!"

(End of this chapter)