[{"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-410":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},2338873,4572,"Chapter 410: The Skeptical Lord Austin!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-410",410,"\u003Cp>Adams left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Gervas’s praise, he happily returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, before leaving, he handed Gervas a letter, saying it was something he had wanted to show him—his reflections after the Gray Stone Bridge battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas was naturally surprised that Adams carried a letter on his person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Adams explained that he hadn’t known when Gervas would send someone to find him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he had to carry the letter with him, to avoid missing Gervas’s subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Gervas didn’t know what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, this marquis's son had clearly struck it lucky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Believe in yourself, your future is limitless! Work hard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he returned to his own camp, Gervas opened the letter and couldn’t help but laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Adams, having experienced the “Dragon King’s Return” scenario, didn’t even realize it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm. Adams, why are you back so late today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Adams returned to camp and reached his tent, he found his father still awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, I had a great time today, so I stayed out a bit longer!” Adams casually made an excuse, not thinking much of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no intention of telling his father that Gervas was Lord Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had already promised Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he also concealed this from his father because he feared his father might develop other thoughts upon learning Gervas’s true identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just regarding things like sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But also, in case his father looked down on Gervas, and so on…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, his father had never interacted with Gervas and certainly didn’t share Adams’s level of approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So continuing to conceal Gervas’s identity benefited both his family and Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that so?” But as his father, Lord Austin knew exactly what Adams was like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this answer, he wore a face full of suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, even when invited by friends, Adams always returned early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after returning, he never looked this cheerful—sometimes he even carried the exhaustion of social obligations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But today, he had completely changed his demeanor; if there were no problem, Lord Austin certainly wouldn’t believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course! Father, why are you still awake so late?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard you didn’t return until late, so I was worried and waited for you. By the way, the one who invited you today was Lord Just’s son, Larni, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Father. What’s wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nothing. Since you had such a good time, you should socialize more with them in the future.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Socialize more with them?” Adams instinctively frowned. If not for Lord Gervas, he wouldn’t have gotten along so well with Larni and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So naturally, he wouldn’t be socializing with them further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the problem?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“N-no problem. I’ll socialize more with them from now on. Father, I’m tired—I’m going to rest!” Knowing he’d say too much, Adams slipped straight into his tent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Lord Austin frowned. “Could he have met a woman he likes?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already realized his eldest son’s change tonight wasn’t due to Larni.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But aside from Larni, he couldn’t think of any other possibility—only a woman remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed, and two days later arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the great victory two days prior, the army rested in Red Stone City for two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the rest, the army set out again, as vast territories still lay in the hands of the beastmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During these two days, the rangers had scouted the region north of Red Stone City and gathered valuable intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the intelligence, after their defeat, those beastmen had retreated to a small city two hundred li from Red Stone City, where they joined forces with another group of beastmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Preliminary reconnaissance indicated the consolidated beastman army numbered around fifty thousand, with ten to fifteen thousand being bimons, the rest being vassal troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this information had been secretly passed to Gervas by Adams, obtained from his father, Lord Austin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Gervas already had the exact beastman numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the city called Bokacheng, there were eleven thousand bimons and forty-three thousand vassal troops, making the total beastman force fifty-four thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, the consolidated beastmen had fully restored their former combat strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After four days of marching, the royal army of ten thousand finally reached the outskirts of Bokacheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps due to their caution after the battle outside Red Stone City, these beastmen didn’t even send out patrols to harass the royal army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was rare—previously, in battles with humans, beastmen had won far more than they lost, breeding a habit of taking the offensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as their strength wasn’t vastly inferior, they never relied on city walls for protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the beastmen inside Bokacheng had sealed their gates and silently observed the royal army from the ramparts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is troublesome—the beastmen aren’t moving at all!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. Beastmen on the steppe were already hard to fight; now we have to attack their city? The difficulty has skyrocketed, and casualties will be enormous!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard there are two roads north from Red Stone City. I suggest we bypass Bokacheng and advance along the other route. These beastmen can’t hold Bokacheng forever—once we reclaim the other directions, they’ll likely have fled by then!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Baron Eyn, your idea is good, but what if these beastmen notice our detour and follow us secretly, then strike us from both front and rear with other beastmen from the north? We’d be finished!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the ten-meter-high walls of Bokacheng ahead, the minor nobles grew tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, such a tough target would demand a heavy cost to capture—and that cost would fall on the minor nobles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the other route, it did allow bypassing Bokacheng to head north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as Mil said, the risk of detouring was equally high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Commander-in-Chief orders: the entire army shall set up camp!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, several mounted messengers began galloping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the order, everyone knew this hard bone had to be chewed through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the army began setting up camp, then rested and prepared for battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until dawn the next day, the assembly horn finally echoed across the entire camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All troops, assemble! Prepare for battle!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid repeated shouts, the minor nobles led their men out of camp and spread out before Bokacheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What reassured Mil and the others was that their attack order remained at the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the noble forces were divided into five groups of twenty thousand each, and Gervas’s unit was assigned to the fifth group.\u003C\u002Fp>",1071,"2026-06-20T22:44:02.688Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a0a006905423d7538c7311eb6b7fef8a48981f10b7143a7442034e2d9f7e4688","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-411","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-409",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]