[{"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-402":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},2338865,4572,"Chapter 402: The Wild Wolf Knights Are Defeated!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-402",402,"\u003Cp>You don’t have to believe me, but if I truly wanted to hide something, would I have let him deploy the ‘Windbreaker’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, I do have a granddaughter in the Southern Frontier, but she did not join this conscription! So I swear, none of the Southern Frontier’s minor nobles are from the Hernade family!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Stoneshatter Duke and the Legion Commander fell silent, for the Hernade Duke’s words held merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he truly wished to conceal it, the ‘Windbreaker’ should never have appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing they no longer doubted him, the Hernade Duke continued, “Now, I find myself increasingly interested in those minor nobles!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And I’m beginning to agree with Lord Austin’s heir’s view—perhaps these minor nobles truly won’t fail!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And indeed, things unfolded exactly this way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Wolf Knights, having suffered another heavy blow, now lost thirteen knights outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This finally shattered the confidence of the Wild Wolf Knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, they hadn’t even touched their enemy’s sleeves, yet so many of their own had been cut down—something unheard of in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Wild Wolf Knight Captain refused to yield, “No retreat! Charge forward! Avenge our fallen Wild Wolf warriors!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the Wild Wolf Knights’ fighting spirit was weak, none dared disobey orders, and immediately surged forward again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Spearmen, thrust forward!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Stormtroopers reacted instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had already readjusted their stance, standing firm to meet the charge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the command, spears repeatedly stabbed toward the advancing Wild Wolf Knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the thrusts couldn’t inflict heavy damage on the beast-wolves, they instilled caution in the beasts who had witnessed their comrades’ deaths, slowing their advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the Wild Wolf Knight Captain was unwilling to let the battle stall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew the enemy’s strange weapon would strike again soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, as he used his longsword to deflect seven or eight spears, he relied on his mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Wolf Knight Captain and his beast leapt forward, breaking straight through to the front line of spearmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Die, two-legs!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, the Wild Wolf Knight raised his blood-smeared longsword and slashed at the nearest spearman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the whistle of the descending blade, the spearman’s face twisted in mortal terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this close range, he had no chance to dodge, let alone block with his weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CLANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the blade came within half a meter of the spearman’s head, a longsword blocked it before his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spearman blinked, turned his head—and saw Knight Captain Lei Meng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Meng had been watching the Wild Wolf Knight Captain all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For he was the strongest among all the Wild Wolf Knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the moment the captain charged, Lei Meng reacted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had Mi Gen lift him, then used the momentum to leap and land beside the spearman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Wolf Knight Captain hadn’t expected his killing blow to be blocked—his fury erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his mouth to shout, but Lei Meng spoke a single word: “Die!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Lei Meng’s battle aura blazed violently; his sword slashed with full force, knocking the captain’s blade away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this strike alone did no harm to the Wild Wolf Knight Captain himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made the captain wonder if Lei Meng’s display of full power was entirely unnecessary!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that thought faded, a series of hums suddenly echoed in his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second volley of crossbows, now reloaded, had fired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Wolf Knight Captain’s pupils shrank sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For one of the massive bolts was aimed directly at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instinctively, he raised his longsword to block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His subordinates might not have been able to stop such a bolt—but he could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in the next instant, his face turned pale: his sword was pinned by an unseen force, unable to retract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you think my ‘die’ was just an empty word?” came the cold, mocking voice of the two-legs knight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did the Wild Wolf Knight realize—the massive bolt was the real killing blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His back bristled with cold sweat; an unprecedented fear gripped his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the moment he raised his blade, he’d wasted his only chance to react—now, even to dodge was too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the thick bolt drew nearer, and he accepted his death, an anomaly occurred—his mount leapt upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SPLAT!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive body of the beast-wolf intercepted the bolt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the bolt’s immense force pierced through the beast-wolf’s body, drenching the Wild Wolf Knight Captain in a torrent of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He froze for a moment, then his face twisted with endless grief: “No!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wild Wolf Knights, they did not bind their mounts through master-slave contracts like humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, they raised the beast-wolf pups from infancy, living side by side with them, forging deep bonds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, even though he had narrowly escaped death, the captain felt no relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Meng hadn’t anticipated this either, but he reacted swiftly, charging forward with his sword, ready to slay the Wild Wolf Knight Captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the captain reacted faster—sensing the killing intent, he swallowed his grief and instantly retreated toward his comrades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, the Wild Wolf Knight Captain vanished among his fellows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had escaped death, his mount’s demise deepened the fear already stirring in the Wild Wolf Knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Meng seized the moment and roared: “Storm Legion, advance!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spearmen reacted first: “Spearmen, advance!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the swordsmen: “Swordsmen, engage!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, all swordsmen, with Mil and the serfs, spread out to flank the enemy, coordinating with the spearmen to press the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, the Wild Wolf Knights thought the human swordsmen on the flanks were easy prey—how dare they break away from the spearmen’s protection? It was suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when those human swordsmen surged forward, their faces turned ashen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For many of these human soldiers possessed strength equal to their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they rode beast-wolves, they were outnumbered ten to one—and could not hold back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid furious roars, four or five more Wild Wolf Knights fell within moments, overwhelmed by careless overconfidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar! Wild Wolf Knights, retreat!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wild Wolf Knight Captain had still hesitated to withdraw; seeing the enemy deploy swordsmen, he thought he might still turn the tide by slaughtering them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he hadn’t expected these swordsmen to be anything but soft targets—another few of his men were already dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart bled—he finally gave the retreat order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other Beastmen could die, but Wild Wolf Knights were the tribe’s elite warriors—losing even one was a devastating blow.\u003C\u002Fp>",1065,"2026-06-20T22:44:02.688Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","810c5d0e3f2f83fd4bba76cd10e6926022fff693deb20c82440878fa2ffac43c","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-403","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-401",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]