Weeks has passed since the meeting with his stewards.
He just wakes up he was doing what he did on every day washing his face, wearing his clothes and signature black coat 🧥 but this wasn't like any other day as today will be the day when the march to eliminate tha usurper once and for all this making his barony whole again letting to focus on bringing the industrial age to this world and also to focus on his path of mage since from the information he got he need to study his main element to a certain degree and polish his mental power before trying to advance to a seconde grade mage.
Then he also has to finish refining his blood and also from a memory he awakened after his last advancement as he is now due to the blood of the wyvern,white tiger and black lynx he advanced to a peak grade 1 vampire 🦇 and to become a grade 2 he need to consume the blood of a grade 2 creature and the higher is the better since he can chose one of the innate talent of that race and become his so he has to chose carefully.
But this is all tasks for a later time as for now he has to concentrate on the battle ahead.
After he got his breakfast 🥞 then bid farewell to Crowley as for this trip kikyou and Victor will follow him this time to the battlefield he will not be going alone.
As for the goblins he chose to not let them participate in this battle first as to not cause unnecessary friction between them and his army as he could tell that most of them still taught of them as evil to be honest he can't blame them for that and second to acte as guardian against any attack coming from the forces of the tribes or other spirit animals living in the forest at same time to support Stonehenge incase get attacked as the forces are barely able to keep the peace.
As for the army he is leading this is much bigger and better equipped let's start with numbers first it's close to a four thousand man if he includes everyone from the legionnaires to the knight to the administrators responsible for pay,food and all the logistics second the composition of the army as fallow sixty percent was legionnaires for close combat, thirty five percent are musketeers as for the final five percent it includes the cannon batteries, a cavalry unite of one hundred.
It was a large army for a newly created barony by the standards of this world and it's almost equal to some of the weak viscounties but the most important thing about isn't the numbers is the standardised steel made equipment for all the soldiers thus making it easier to replace.
And lastly it was equipped with the newly made cannon the twelve pounder modeld over the one used by Napoleon in his wars nicknamed the cannon for the empire it's has a range of over one thousand and two hundred meters since they will be using the new smokeless gunpowder so it probably hit further and with a lot of power but it's best features is mobility and can be used in seige warfare to tear down walls and fortifications.
As for the alder versions some are still in use and smaller one will be in reserve or on the flanks to guard against the cavalry.
As for the target of their army is the usurper army stationed on a plain terrain between the two towns as for how he knew two days ago he received a letter from the traitor Dylan accusing him of ruling like a tyrant and betraying humanity by allying with the goblins in the end he challenged to face in the battlefield in a plain called the shine land as for why he probably he was pressured by his subordinate to acte as for chosen place for the battle he must know that Damien lack an meaningful number of cavalry on the other hand he has a good numbers if the intelligence gathered by knigh bruise to be believed he has around five to six thousand soldiers and among a staggering number of cavalry around a thousand.
As for why he would accept for two simple reasons fighting an army behind walls is a lot a harder than on a plain terrain and more so since he already had an idea of the enemy plan as for the second one he is the baron of this land the highest authority and if he shrink in face of a usurper his authority will eroded for life even if he get rid of Dylan later as he would have shown a weakness and the wolves will smell blood.
From this Damien understood what he wanted to go engage him with the infantry and the finish him with a flanking manoeuvre from the cavalry the truth is thus tactic would have worked against a normal army made of levies and farmers at same time lacking in cavalry but no-one told him what he will be facing is a new kind of army.
Thus in the war counsel with his retainers they came up with a simple plan the new cannons first will be used against the infantry as even if Dylan using as a fixer there's in its rank a goof numbers of veterans of the guards and the pirates.
As for how to counter the cavalry Carl said they will the cannister shoot from the cannons and muskets to sap the cavalry charge of in momentum then finish it with a charge of our own cavalry plus a contingent of legionnaires a company of them and they will have to hold until they are finished with infantry then will turn to either support them or attack the cavalry from the flank.
After hearing his proposal while the plan is sound their is a risk for the connons to not cause the expected damage after all they aren't the goblins who lacked discipline and organisation be taken down so he taught about the famous swis tactic of pike and shit so he told them that they will commission a four metres long spear made entirely of steel as for it's use is simple it will be planted in the ground to absorb the charge of the ones who will survive being bombarde.
Thus the metting came to end that's how he found himself three days later moving to face his greatest threat to his barony for the time being.
After a day of march they arrived at agreed upon battlefield he found his enemies army already waiting for him so half of the army formed while the other half start building their makeshift camp and fortifications as for why they were standing guard he couldn't put his full trust in the word of a usurper.
Just as they finished building the camp as he was going to his tent a messanger under a white flag arrived delivering a message from Dylan asking for a meeting tomorrow morning.
First to speak was Carl saying:' my lord do not trust his words it's probably a ruse to take hostage '.
Hearing this it's a validé concerne after all he is a traitor but he really wanted to meet him.
Do he looked at the messanger and said:' I will meet tomorrow he will bring only two escort and same will be for me '.