[{"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-450":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},2338913,4572,"Chapter 450: The Sealed City Gate!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-450",450,"\u003Cp>That’s really terrible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, thirty li from the border, Gervas recalled today’s intelligence and silently mourned the main army for ten minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their grain supplies had been burned, forcing them to eat tree bark and grass roots—the kingdom’s army had truly reached its last extremity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the current situation, if the kingdom’s army can hold out for less than a week… no, less than three days, then they’re impressive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the reinforcements the kingdom’s army was waiting for, the system also provided a judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the emergency order permitting troop deployment had already been issued from the Wang Gong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from the capital all the way to Heilongcheng, then to Hongshicheng, and then the army must march to Lindongcheng—that would take at least ten days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the grain had not been burned, the kingdom’s army still had more than enough time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But under these circumstances, the army has likely already been wiped out by the beastmen, while the reinforcements are still halfway there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the beastmen finish off the kingdom’s army inside Lindongcheng, they could even ambush the reinforcements in the wilderness and swallow them whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this truly happens, then for a long while, the entire northern frontier will have no force left to resist the beastmen, who can then march straight in and seize the entire northern frontier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The beastmen truly have a brilliant plan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas now finally understood the Beast King’s original scheme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although his own presence had disrupted some of it, the betrayals of Weilade and Suolite had brought things back on track.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, thinking about it didn’t help—Gervas had no way to aid the kingdom’s army right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he himself was still in uncertain danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The latest intelligence given today was the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the fortress’s fall had caught Moral by surprise, giving him a harsh lesson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Moral no longer dare underestimate Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he disregarded the safety of his main army and sent all twenty Bloodbat Riders given to him by the Beast King to Xueyuancheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only to reinforce Xueyuancheng, but also to inform Xueyuancheng of Gervas’s exact situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent Xueyuancheng from suffering the same fate as the fallen fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty Bloodbat Riders were a serious threat to the Storm Legion, which had only five Griffon Riders and ten Swift Eagles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the coming battle for Xueyuancheng would likely be dozens of times harder than the assault on the previous fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, no matter how hard it was, to survive, Gervas had to take Xueyuancheng!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, look ahead! A city has appeared—surely that’s our target, Xueyuancheng?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several hours later, Migen, who had been scouting ahead, cried out as they rounded a hill and the vast flat plains came into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On these flat plains stood a modest earth-walled city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This earth-walled city was Xueyuancheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the lack of stone sources nearby, Xueyuancheng had been built primarily from packed earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, its fifteen-meter-high sturdy walls still possessed considerable defensive strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the banners fluttering atop the walls were those of the beastfolk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Correct! That’s Xueyuancheng!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding-dong-dong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Gervas and his men spotted Xueyuancheng, the beastmen, already on guard, immediately noticed these unwelcome guests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Urgent alarm bells rang out sharply, echoing throughout Xueyuancheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within moments, twenty aerial riders rose from within the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without needing to say it, these were clearly Moral’s Bloodbat Riders!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar! Human noble, you must be Gervas, whom Moral the Grand Leader spoke of?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Correct, green-skin beast. Since you know it’s me, why haven’t you surrendered? If you surrender, I, Gervas, treat prisoners well—I might even grant you a quick death!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good heavens! Migen and the others exclaimed inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was their lord really trying to persuade them to surrender?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a fool inside Xueyuancheng would choose to surrender!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas knew full well the beastmen inside wouldn’t surrender—this was purely meant to provoke them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True to form, the beastman leader flew into a rage. “Damned two-legged sheep noble! Do you think I don’t know? You’re trying to anger me into leaving the city to fight you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph, I won’t fall for it. The Bloodbat Riders have already told me everything about you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I’ll hold this city with my six thousand troops and wait for Grand Leader Moral’s arrival!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that so? I didn’t expect you to see through it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas was impressed by the beastman leader’s smug “I’m so clever” expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d actually guessed Gervas’s “motives.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Gervas didn’t bother with further words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ballistae!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plop! Plop! Plop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Gervas’s command, twenty ballistae fired simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was clearly something the beastman leader hadn’t anticipated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Bloodbat Riders had informed him of Gervas’s strength, they hadn’t witnessed his assault on the fortress, so the beastman leader had made no preparations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, forty to fifty beastmen and conscript soldiers crowding the battlements were impaled by massive bolts, collapsing into pools of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beastman leader roared in fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas paid him no further attention, turning instead to the artillery squad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, Gervas intended to replicate the method he’d used to take the previous fortress and seize Xueyuancheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, even against two thousand beastmen, he hadn’t dared launch a direct assault with ladders—now that the city held fifteen hundred beastmen and four thousand five hundred conscripts, it was even less likely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Artillery! Fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, three cannons fired in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shells struck the same targets as before: one aimed at the wall, two at the city gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cannon aimed at the wall quickly succeeded—several beastmen who thought they were safe behind the battlements were blown into bloody pulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the two cannons aimed at the gate encountered an unexpected problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that they failed to pierce the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They pierced it—but found the gate’s rear already completely blocked by the beastmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a situation would have been unthinkable in normal times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beastmen’s confidence meant they rarely sealed their gates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They always prepared to burst out and crush the humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the arrangement of Lindongcheng’s gate was clearly designed specifically to counter Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The facts confirmed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Moral hadn’t witnessed Gervas’s capture of the fortress firsthand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he could see from the shattered, toppled gate that Gervas had breached it to enter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, beyond warning the Xueyuancheng commander to treat Gervas with caution, he had ordered the gate to be sealed shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To leave Gervas not the slightest chance of breaking into Xueyuancheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha! Human, Grand Leader Moral already warned us—you people might use strange magic to destroy the gate!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I had every one of the city’s few stone houses torn down and used to block the gate passage.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, even if you break the gate, you won’t clear the debris in any short time!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha! Just wait to die! Grand Leader Moral will arrive in half a day—and then, it’ll be the end of you two-legged sheep!”\u003C\u002Fp>",1160,"2026-06-20T22:44:02.688Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a2359d1248d4220bd778079b2afcf654e9a0c9994bda3064400286990a1b60be","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-451","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-449",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]