[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence":3,"chapter-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-153":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Warlord: Starting with Daily Intelligence",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2338616,4572,"Chapter 153: Playing the Odds!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-153",153,"\u003Cp>【Ding! Daily intelligence has been refreshed…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence One: After three days of travel, you have finally reached the route of the Central Army from the steep mountain path.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Twenty li north of your current position lies the main battlefield between the Central Army and the Tribal Army!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Two: Days of relentless siege have pushed the Central Army to the brink.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Even though Commander Narsi daily reassures and warns the nobles to hold their ground, the rapidly deteriorating situation has inevitably stirred fear and dissent among some.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Farrio is one such man—he will, at midnight, join several nobles he has already contacted to once again open the camp gates and flee.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Among these fleeing nobles are two viscounts and five barons.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【His act of desertion becomes the final straw that shatters the Central Army’s morale.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The Tribal Army seizes this opportunity, storming into the camp and instantly fracturing it into chaos.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Three: After receiving the distress call, Marshal Miuxi went without rest for three straight days and nights, leading thirty thousand troops on a long-range march to reinforce.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The reinforcements are now only thirty li from the Central Army’s camp; according to timing, they will arrive after dawn.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【But this is precisely after the Central Army has already collapsed.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Four: Among the main force of the Tribal Army are over a dozen heirs of various tribes.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【These include the heirs of the Black Tiger Tribe, the Black Panther Tribe, and the Silver Wolf Tribe.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【To ensure the heirs’ safety, during the full-scale night assault, these tribal heirs will remain within the Tribal Army’s camp.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【At this moment, the Tribal Army’s camp will be at its most vulnerable.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Five: As the Tribal Army breaches the camp, nobles of all ranks scatter in desperate breakout attempts, including Lady Catherine’s unit.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Unfortunately, her Violet Army will be blocked by a thousand-strong Tribal force during the breakout.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【They will ultimately be surrounded in a valley ten li north of the camp.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Six: Five minor nobles who can testify against Farrio have, through relentless effort and long treks through the forest, finally reached the Central Road.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【But the Central Army has already collapsed—and unluckily, they encounter a Tribal force.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The Tribal troops mistake them for fleeing nobles and immediately attack. The five minor nobles, exhausted from days of flight and without food, are overwhelmed.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The outcome: three dead, two captured…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ding, today’s intelligence refresh is complete…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn! Gervas exclaimed Damn!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just arrived at the Central Road, and this is what I get?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That shameless bastard Farrio is still pulling his tricks—choosing to flee again right on the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse yet, he’s caused the Central Army, which still had a chance to hold until reinforcements arrived, to collapse on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. This cannot happen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas could do nothing about the destruction of the Left Army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only because the system gave too little clear intelligence, but because he had no voice at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So self-preservation was clearly the wisest choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Central Army must not fall now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Central Army falls, the Kingdom won’t muster another punitive force for years, maybe decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And by then, I’ll be deep in enemy territory—escape will become exponentially harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, if all the expeditionary troops are wiped out and those five minor nobles who can testify against Farrio die, won’t he walk free?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Catherine…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I need to find a way to change this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas gritted his teeth—he decided to play the odds with a daring gamble!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, three li ahead, a major road appears—there are signs of enemy supply wagons!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a subordinate’s voice came from outside the tent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Issue orders: the entire army rests for the day. Tonight, we move—everyone must rest and prepare for battle!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, my lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a full day’s rest, the Storm Army finally slipped under cover of darkness onto the Central Road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Presumably believing no danger could come from behind, the Tribal Army had posted no scouts along this pitch-black road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the vigilance of the Magxun Eagle squad, the Storm Army advanced without fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three hours passed. Ahead, Gervas’s party finally saw a massive camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were now less than three li from the Tribal Army’s camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this distance, Tribal cavalry scouts began appearing—so Gervas dared not press forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ordered his men to lie low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the intelligence system had already revealed everything that would happen tonight,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had fewer than four hundred men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only moment he could possibly win against overwhelming odds was when the Tribal Army launched its full assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for sending the Magxun Eagles into the Central Army camp to warn Commander Narsi—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas looked up at the hundreds of third-rank Eagle-Mouthed Dragons circling overhead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those beasts would crush his second-rank Magxun Eagles with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you all ready?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lord Farrio, are we really going to do this? If word gets out, we’ll be tried by the Noble Council.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Central Army camp, though it was deep night, fighting still raged along the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tribal Army sought to crush the noble forces as quickly as possible—even in darkness, they did not relent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the northern wall of the Central Army camp, several nobles had gathered in secret, whispering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the nobles who had decided to flee—led, of course, by the habitual traitor Farrio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Farrio’s leadership that had persuaded them to unite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing their hesitation, their lingering illusions, Farrio snapped: “Do you still believe the army can hold?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The walls fell multiple times today—if we hadn’t barely retaken them, the camp would already be filled with tribal savages!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I ask you: do you want to live—or die at the hands of those cruel savages, your heads mounted on their banners?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nobles shuddered, remembering the savages’ brutality—they were instantly cowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And indeed, the day’s wall battles had been terrifying; one misstep, and the camp would have fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing their expressions, Farrio exhaled—he’d finally swayed them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to die in this remote western wasteland, especially not at the hands of cruel tribal savages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already regretted coming here to gain glory—he should’ve waited, until the Kingdom later crushed peasant rebellions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those lowly peasants—he knew them well. A single cavalry charge would finish them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the safest way to earn merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he blamed himself for being too eager, too greedy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gentlemen, if you’ve made up your minds, act now! Once the watch changes, we’ll lose our chance!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And we’ll all cover our faces—who will know it was us who fled first?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Farrio pulled out a black cloth and pulled it over his face.\u003C\u002Fp>",1112,"2026-06-20T22:44:01.160Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9e13587027ad520280106ca704ee1a20e363f3bb5ffaf45c8d162fe74d8dde3c","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-154","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-152",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]