[{"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-423":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},2338886,4572,"Chapter 423","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-423",423,"\u003Cp>“There are beastmen lying in wait inside the city?! This…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Adams finished reading the contents of the letter, he froze solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The news in the letter had shocked him beyond measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the latter half of the letter, Gervas wrote that a elite force of beastmen was secretly hidden within Lindongcheng!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had evaded the kingdom’s army’s search and slipped into the city without a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would launch a deadly strike against the kingdom’s army tonight, coordinating with the main beastman force outside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This news was earth-shattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the letter had not been written by Gervas to him, Adams would have immediately shouted “Madman!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was he being treated like a fool?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the kingdom’s army first occupied Lindongcheng, it was I who led the exhaustive search.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a task arranged by my father specifically to train me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I know better than anyone—Lindongcheng had been turned upside down by the kingdom’s army; no enemy could possibly remain hidden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now this news came from Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I had personally inspected every corner, I would still believe Gervas without question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Adams’s breathing grew rapid and shallow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great victory at Grey Stone Bridge had already granted him unprecedented honor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this time, he could truly help the kingdom’s army recover from its losses,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this achievement would be no less than ten Grey Stone Bridges combined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, everything depended on the arrival of night!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ooooh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sun rose in the east, its rays spilling across the land; flowers and grass drank the morning dew, birds sang from the branches—a scene full of vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ooooh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a sharp horn blast erupted from nowhere, shattering the peace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, Lindongcheng was thrown into tension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main beastman force had finally arrived!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the dense ranks of beastmen emerging on the horizon, even though the kingdom’s soldiers had built up high morale from previous victories,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they still could not suppress a suffocating sense of dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beastmen’s oppressive presence was simply too overwhelming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar! One army commander, two human dukes—looks like the Old Griffon King takes our tribe’s southern hunt this year very seriously!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the beastmen, humans were two-legged sheep; thus, their southern raids were no different from a southern hunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Beast King, surrounded by his guards, slowly appeared beyond the city walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Beast King, you beastmen refuse to till the land or feed yourselves, yet every year you invade our Griffon Kingdom’s northern border!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s the most despicable, cowardly act—don’t you fear the day when we humans will completely settle accounts with you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah! Army Commander, settle accounts? If your two-legged sheep could do it, why wait until now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, I’ve heard your nobles live in luxury by exploiting your own kind—the so-called serfs, your two-legged sheep!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So we’re no different—you and we both survive by plunder!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And after all, the world belongs to the strong, the weak are slaves—so neither your nobles nor our tribe are wrong!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The weak should be meat, should be servants!” The Beast King laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admittedly, though the beastmen’s actions were despicable, the Beast King’s words—while absurd—somehow carried a twisted logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, nobles did indeed live in luxury by oppressing serfs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was war, not a debate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Army Commander could not let the Beast King’s words undermine his army’s morale: “Beast King, you speak nothing but nonsense!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Serfs produce; nobles arm. Without noble knights, our people would have been wiped out long ago by your predatory barbarians!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, I speak on behalf of the great Griffon King, Your Majesty: this is your final warning. Withdraw all your beastmen from Griffon Kingdom territory—immediately!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Otherwise, you will suffer a terrible fate!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah! You want us to retreat from the Griffon Kingdom? Then see if your two-legged sheep have the strength to make it happen!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Beastmen warriors, prepare for battle! Break Lindongcheng, tear this army of two-legged sheep to shreds!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar! Roar! Roar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ooooh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pre-battle taunts ended. At the Beast King’s command, the beastmen army sounded the attack horn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, the vassal troops formed ranks and charged toward Lindongcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kingdom’s heroes, today we fight for our kingdom, for our honor!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Slaughter these despicable beastmen, drive them from our land!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For honor! Kill!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ooooh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the cries of battle echoed inside and outside the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, vast hordes of vassal troops carried siege equipment and rushed the walls like madmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the city, the five stone-throwers, long ready, fired first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But against the dense masses of vassals, the stone-throwers were like drops in the ocean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the vassals reached the base of the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, Lindongcheng had been surrounded by a moat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the beastmen had seized the city, they ordered the moat filled in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although since yesterday the kingdom’s army had dug some ditches and erected fences,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>these were merely crude defenses—and under the vassals’ relentless, fearless assaults, they were quickly breached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the vassals had reached the wall’s foot and began scaling it like ants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what awaited them next would be even more brutal and bloody.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kingdom’s army had already prepared stones, rolling logs, oil, and boiling gold juice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, though the vassals’ assault was fierce, the kingdom’s army, well-prepared, faced no great pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed second by second; the battle raged from morning until dusk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout, both sides employed rotation tactics to avoid exhausting their troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet since the attackers held no numerical advantage, and the Beast King had not yet dared to commit his true elite—the minotaurs—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for the defending kingdom’s army, today’s battle had been remarkably easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the vassals being smashed off the walls, every soldier of the kingdom’s army believed the battle was unfolding exactly as they hoped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Filled with such optimism, as night fell,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even though the beastmen’s assault continued, many nobles could not resist pouring themselves drinks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By tradition, drinking was strictly forbidden during battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lindongcheng stood impregnable, with no real danger to fear—so the nobles ignored the rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the nobles’ revelry, time swiftly reached midnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exhausted from battle and drink, the nobles finally could not stay awake and prepared to rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one-fifth of the nobles were assigned night watch duty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Adams, tonight there’s no watch duty for our House of Austin—why aren’t you sleeping?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Austin had also drunk several cups with other high nobles today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning to camp, he was surprised to see his eldest son still awake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, I can’t sleep. I beg you—give me command of the eight thousand family soldiers!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Austin’s drowsy eyes widened in shock. “Adams, what did you say?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1100,"2026-06-20T22:44:02.688Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","61ce1d1efbc43ce67003912c7f359dcd83e23e12dca69745c47347af3aac67e2","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-424","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-422",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]