Chapter 19 Battle of Manada (Part 1)

[The crossing was successful. ]

Rustle...

The cold wind in the early morning blew, and the sound of fallen leaves rubbing against the ground reached Marvin's ears. He was sitting cross-legged in the woods. The woods and shrubs dyed the low earth hills dark green and withered yellow.

February 5th, it was not yet spring, and the temperature was a bit low.

Standing up in the sparse woods, I could see a large city surrounded by walls in the distance through the gaps in the shrubs.

Compared with the elves' Tir Na Lia and Novigrad, which I had visited once, the city in front of me was a bit small, but it was not small compared to other cities in the Demon Hunter world.

But it should not be any city he had been to.

[I have arrived in the Demon Hunter world. Identity after crossing: None. Tasks are being issued. The world begins! Please do not reveal the existence of the Order Paradise to any creature, otherwise you will be executed. ]

[Task prompt: Daughter of Destiny. Find the Daughter of Destiny, Cirilla Fiona Iren Leanlun, and start the blood transformation program. The program will be executed by the Void Tree. Make sure that no intelligent creatures are present during the blood transformation process, otherwise the mission will be considered failed. Mission time limit: 120 hours. Mission failure penalty: forced execution. 】

Marvin is numb to forced execution, so what?

120 hours, that's 5 days.

First, we need to determine where he is now?

[Hint: In view of the fact that pioneer 00000027 has a history of using unconventional nuclear weapons to kill civilians and destroy the ecological environment, hereby warn. No unconventional weapons of mass destruction may be used in this world, otherwise 30 attribute points will be randomly deducted. Civilians may not be killed indiscriminately in this world, otherwise they will be punished according to the degree of violation. 】

Well, the nuclear bomb cannot be used. Although the deduction of 30 attribute points is not a heavy punishment, he doesn't want to be punished.

Release the raven and let him go to scout first, and Marvin walked down the mountain.

A few minutes later, Marvin saw the blue-bottomed three-golden-lion flag on the top of the city through the visual picture shared by Modus. That should be the city of Cintra.

But the situation in the city is a little bit wrong. There were almost no soldiers on the city walls, and even on the palace castle, there were few people. The city was in chaos, civilians looked panicked, and some wealthy families were loading large and small bags onto carriages.

Marvin couldn't help but speed up.

Ten minutes later, Marvin saw the city gate, and there was no one to collect the city tax, which was too abnormal.

Cintra was founded on military power, and the laws were strict. What would happen if they couldn't even take care of collecting taxes?

...

Elton of Clarans, the centurion of the Cintra City Guard, had just arranged the work of his brothers and walked up the stone steps to the city wall.

The Nilfgaardians are coming, and I heard that there are quite a lot of people coming.

Tsk! What if there are more weak southerners...

The queen led the army to fight yesterday, and took away more than half of the city guards. I don't know when she will be back...

The officers all rushed to follow the lioness to fight the southerners, and he, a small centurion, was pushed up to do the work of a centurion.

But he wanted to go too! Who among the Cintra people doesn't want to show off their power on the battlefield? If you can kill two black soldiers, won't you be promoted immediately? Maybe the queen can even see it with her own eyes.

Elton stood on the top of the city and looked at the chaos in the city.

The master of the Newton family was urging the servants to load things on the carriage, and it seemed that he was planning to escape. There were more than ten well-informed wealthy families like Newton in the city.

Bah! A cowardly profiteer who is greedy for life and afraid of death...

The panic of the rich also caused tension and small riots among ordinary civilians.

I can't control it, let them go.

After defeating the southerners, these people will come back, there is nothing to worry about. Besides, the city guards are short of manpower now, and they can't control it.

A raven flew over Elton's head and landed on the battlements not far away.

The centurion took a look, didn't care, turned around and walked to the other side to look outside the city.

Suddenly, Elton was pulled by something and turned around involuntarily... and saw a pair of blue pupils flashing with fluorescent light...

Psychic bewitching.

Although the psychic magic has not been upgraded, with his mental power attribute of 68, it is easy to control an ordinary soldier.

Marvin asked: "Why is the city so chaotic?"

Elton's eyes were confused and he answered: "The Nilfgaardians are coming. The treacherous rich businessmen got the news and wanted to escape. The civilians..."

Marvin didn't wait for him to finish, and then asked: "Who is the current king?"

The timeline of this world has been distorted because of his appearance. Even if Ciri will definitely appear, it is unknown whether Ciri's grandmother is still the lioness he knows.

The centurion said like a mentally retarded patient: "Your Majesty Calanthe."

It seems that because the Daughter of Destiny is bound to appear, Queen Calanthe has also been brought out.

Marvin continued to ask: "Where is the queen now?"

"Your Majesty Calanthe and His Highness Tuersek took 5,000 people to meet them. I also want to go..." The decapitator's expression fluctuated a little, and the control effect was weakening.

Marvin took the time to ask, "How long have they been walking? Where is their destination?"

"Your Majesty left yesterday at noon... They are going to Manada Valley to block the Black Army's way north. That is the only way to Cintra City in the south..."

Marvin cut the soldier's sinus on the side of his neck with his palm, and Elton fainted.

Marvin jumped down the wall and ran into the city.

...

The Battle of Manada, the beginning of the First Northern War. Marvin remembered that this is how it was described in the original book.

In 1263, the Nilfgaardian Black Army crossed the Nasir River by unknown means and attacked rapidly to the north.

Calanthe, the then Queen of Cintra, thought that the natural Nasir River could at least stop the Nilfgaardians for a month, and was still haggling with the noble lords about how many troops each family should send. Note ①

The Queen suddenly received the news that the Black Army had entered the country, so she could only lead the royal army to fight against the Black Army, but was ambushed by the enemy in the Manada Valley.

In the ambush, the troops were very different, and Cintra was defeated. Not only was the royal army abolished in one battle, but the Queen's husband, Ester Tursek, was also killed in the battle.

Then the Nilfgaardians captured the city of Cintra and carried out the Cintra Massacre that shocked the world.

There was still time.

Marvin snatched three saddled horses from two wealthy families who were about to escape, rushed out of the city gate and galloped all the way to the southeast.

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Cintra is bordered by the sea to the west, and faces the Skellige Islands across the sea; the northern border of the kingdom is the Yaruga River, and the kingdom of Temeria is on the other side of the river; to the east are vast mountains, and there is no one; to the south is adjacent to Nasir.

Further south, Metinna has been destroyed by Nilfgaard. At this time, Cintra is the first gate to resist the black army's northward advance.

The people of Cintra are proud of their bravery, and Cintra is also the toughest kingdom in the north. The lioness Calanthe is not afraid of the southerners...

When Calanthe Fiona Leanron was 14 years old, her father died, and the young girl took over the power of the king. The following year, the 15-year-old Queen Calanthe led the army to defeat the army of Nasir in the Battle of Hauchebz.

She not only won the war, but also earned herself the reputation of "the Lioness of Cintra".

If any noble lord regarded Calanthe as a barbaric woman who only knew how to fight because of her military achievements and bravery, he would be very wrong...

The nobles of Cintra were very unhappy that the king was a woman. They kept instigating the royal men to seize power.

Although the surrounding area of ​​Cintra City was very stable, if it continued like this for a long time, it would not be able to withstand the constant chaos of the royal family and nobles.

In order to keep the throne, Calanthe must get married and give birth to offspring as soon as possible.

But because of rumors of promiscuity, many kings and princes avoided her. In the end, Calanthe found the Duke of Ebin, Rogna de Salm.

On one side was his own small principality, and on the other side was a kingdom with superior terrain. There was no need to choose. Rogna was very happy. Was he going to become a king?

The two hit it off.

Although Rogna became king, the power was still firmly in the hands of Calanthe.

Two years later, Princess Pavetta was born, the mother of Ciri.

After that, Calanthe had two miscarriages, and she lost the ability to give birth again, and King Rognar began to act like a demon.

Then he died, and the cause of death was unknown.

Calanthe planned to remarry, but either she looked down on the other party, or the other party looked down on her. Among the suitors was the King of the Skellige Islands, Ester Tursek, known as the "Sea Knight".

Although the power of the country was still firmly in the hands of Calanthe, the nobles of Cintra always came up with ancestral laws. They were still unwilling to accept being led by a woman.

So under the unremitting pursuit of the Sea Knight, the two got married.

For love, Tursek was willing to rule the country with the queen in the name of the king's husband, and also gave up the position of king of the Skellige Islands and gave it to his younger brother.

Despite the challenges of all sizes, the strong Queen Calanthe still governed Cintra well, and the kingdom was in an unprecedented period of rise.

…

The sun was setting, and the sunlight shone through the treetops on the top of the mountain and shone on Marvin's side face.

The reins were tightened, and the horse slowed down immediately, spraying water from its mouth and nose. The last horse was almost exhausted.

There was a sound of fighting in front, and we had arrived.

Modus: "Boss, we found the woman in silver armor. You have to hurry up, they seem to be unable to hold on."

Marvin urged the horse to speed up again.

Because of the description in the original book, he actually didn't think much of Calanthe. It was not because she was promiscuous when she was young, which was too common in the aristocratic circle, but because of the ignorance and stupidity of that woman.

But there was no way. To drive away the Nilfgaardians and prevent the destruction of Cintra, we couldn't use nuclear bombs, so Calanthe, the core of power, could not fall and must be saved.

If Queen Calanthe died, he couldn't stop the Nilfgaardians from annexing Cintra alone.

Amavette was just a prince of Temeria 90 years ago. 90 years later, this identity was almost useless. Even if he was useful, he couldn't lead the Cintra people to resist Nilfgaard. If the Cintra Massacre cannot be avoided, Ciri will still experience the destruction of her country and her family. I will break my promise to myself!

Although according to the plot that Marvin knows, Calanthe will not die in this battle, but since Ciri already has it, the queen's mission has been completed. Who knows if there will be any accidents in this detail.

The battlefield is getting closer and closer. The endless black army blocked the entire valley and was driving thousands of blue and white Cintra troops to a col in the west, trying to encircle and annihilate them.

Although Marvin has never fought a war and the battlefield in front of him is also messy, he still has a pair of eyes in the sky, and it is no problem to understand the whole situation from the sky.

A person is not conspicuous at all on a battlefield with tens of thousands of people, and his arrival did not attract anyone's attention.

Marvin turned his horse westward to the foot of the mountain, gradually approaching the battlefield, and then dismounted and went up the mountain.

This horse was exhausted and not a war horse. After losing its rider, the battlefield filled with murderous aura made it panic and flee north immediately.

Marvin dismounted and fought on foot not only because the horse was not good, but also because he did not know how to stand on horseback. In the ever-changing battlefield, it was no different from seeking death to use a fighting method that he was not familiar with in order to show off.

Although he had high defense and thick blood, he would still be injured and bleed. If a soldier stabbed him 0.1% of his defense, he would soon break his defense; if a pawn cut his blood by 1 point, he would soon die, and no amount of healing potions could withstand it.

…

Time went back to an hour ago.

As soon as the 5,000 Cintra troops entered this preset battlefield, they were attacked from the side by a wave of crossbows, and then the Nilfgaardian black army, which was several times larger than their own, rushed to the south of the valley. Fortunately, the royal army was elite enough and the Cintra people had not lost their bravery, so they were not flattened by a wave.

Despite this, the Cintra army, which was outnumbered, was still forced into the western valley step by step.

The brave Cintra soldiers were not completely trapped in the valley under the queen's order, leaving a glimmer of hope. If they were really trapped in the valley, even if a small part of them could escape from the hillside behind, it would be considered a complete annihilation. Everything happened too fast...

Now the soldiers of both sides were intertwined on a short front line, with no formation at all.

In the valley, a middle-aged woman in a white robe and silver armor was surrounded by the guards in the center.

Queen Calanthe now regretted that she should not have rushed into the valley so rashly. She didn't expect the Nilfgaardians to march so fast, and ended up being ambushed. She didn't expect the number of the black army to be more than doubled than expected, and the soldiers who came back to report the news should be hanged!

The war horses had already been placed in the rear, and it was not a good idea to ride on horses at this time, as they might be shot to death by crossbowmen who were hiding somewhere.

Except for the Ain Sidi elves, there are no organized archers in the whole continent, but the Nilfgaardians have organized crossbowmen, and their weapons and war technology are much higher than those of the northern countries.

The southerners did not send out the famous black cavalry in this raid, but the excellent armor of the black army still has the advantage. The soldiers fought very hard.

Calanthe held a kite shield with three golden lions in his left hand and a sharp half-hand sword in his right hand, frowning at the battle in front.

There was a strong back fighting hard, it was her husband, the sea knight, the former king of the Skellige Islands, Ister Tursek.

Tursek swung the enemy's long sword with a short sword in his left hand, and chopped the enemy's chest with a short axe in his right hand. Turning around to avoid a sword, he kicked a black soldier over, knocked away the friendly soldiers blocking the way, and stabbed the falling enemy's neck with a short sword and pulled it out.

Calanthe looked around, something seemed to happen in the northwest? There are no one of our own. The location is too low to see clearly...

This battle is lost! While the soldiers are not seriously injured, it is time to consider breaking out. I hope more people can escape back, otherwise how can we suppress those greedy ministers.

There was another movement in that direction just now. The black-clad soldiers were screaming. Could there be reinforcements?

After watching for a few more minutes, the queen found that there seemed to be reinforcements.

After the sent guards reported, Calanthe, who was good at battle, finally saw the situation clearly.

The Nilfgaardians took advantage of the shrinking formation of Cintra and finally penetrated to the northernmost part of the battlefield along the foot of the eastern mountain. They dispatched several hundred teams to cross the valley to block the only gap in the north, so as to completely block their retreat... but they were dispersed by one person...

One person? !

If this was not on the battlefield, she would definitely execute the lying guard.

...

Tursek, who had been fighting on the battle line for more than ten minutes, also found something wrong. He slowly retreated to avoid being too forward while looking to the north.

A man was charging into the center of the battlefield in a rather violent manner.

He moved aside to avoid the enemy's sword, and with his backhand, he slashed a black-clad soldier's neck.

Tursek could tell at a glance that the man was holding a single-edged sword that he had never seen before.

The man kicked another black-clad soldier with his back to him and continued to charge forward. The southerner who fell to the ground never stood up again after being kicked.

As the distance got closer, Tursek saw that the man seemed young but had a strange short white hair, and his swordsmanship was quite powerful.

The white-haired young man cut off the crossbow arrow that attacked from the side with a knife, raised his left hand, and shot a white arrow, nailing the crossbowman to death.

Warlock? Demon Hunter?

A Nilfgaardian officer rode a horse and rushed over, roaring and rushing towards the white-haired young man from behind.

The young man easily avoided the collision of the warhorse by taking a step sideways. At the moment when the man and the horse crossed, he raised his hand to pull the officer off the horse's back, turned around and smashed the officer with his armor towards the two black-clad soldiers.

When the officer was thrown out, Tursek saw clearly that the single-edged sword had already penetrated the chest of the Nilfgaardian officer. The Black Sun Plate Armor, which was famous for its defense, was as fragile as the skin of a water ghost and had no effect at all.

The white-haired young man ignored the crossbow arrows shot from the side and beheaded a black-clad soldier with one sword. The crossbow arrow that hit his shoulder was blown away like a stone, and the young man was fine.

The young man's figure was blocked by two black-clad soldiers, no, not two, but four black-clad soldiers.

Not good! He was surrounded.

Tursek was about to raise his foot to rush over, and a burst of white mist and dust suddenly rose there, and the black-clad soldiers turned into ice sculptures in an instant.

Bang!

The ice sculpture shattered, and the white-haired figure rushed out of the encirclement in the smoke and dust.

Where did this young man come from, so brave?

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Note: This book has already slapped the neck of the goddess of fate, and many plots and character details will be different from the original.

For example, if there is no Prince Amavite who likes married women in the original, the prophet Idalia will be gone, and Queen Calanthe will be motherless.

In the original Demon Hunter by Andrzej Sapkowski, the god of fate cannot be violated, and fate cannot be resisted. Whoever resists fate will suffer miserably.

But the protagonist's soul comes from the blue planet, and there is still the Order Paradise on his head. The goddess of fate of a world can't do anything to him. Now he is fully included in the Order Paradise camp. If he can't even mess up a world, wouldn't it be a joke?

Don't be too serious, textual research party. Save your life.

What exactly is God? The author's thoughts on this will be expressed in the next few volumes, in a world you can't imagine.

Note ①: The current system of the Demon Hunter Continent is similar to the feudal system in the Middle Ages in Europe. A kingdom is composed of noble lords of all sizes. Most noble lords are completely autonomous and have their own armies. When the king goes to war with a neighboring country, he needs to discuss with the lords first and gather the lords' army that supports him before going to war. Whoever leads the army in the war, they fight on their own because of the chaotic command system, so their war level is actually very poor.

The European Middle Ages on Earth generally refers to the period from 476 AD to 1453 AD, and the political system is basically the same. So many small countries in Europe exist today because of this.

Our Dongda abolished the feudal system as early as 221 BC and realized centralization. Who did it? Zulong A Zheng. So awesome!

Compared with the northern countries that have always maintained the status quo, the Nilfgaard Empire is different. Nilfgaard used to be a feudal system, so it could only live in the southernmost part of the continent. But it was different after Enhyr var Enreis killed the usurper and came to power. He not only achieved the unification of politics and religion, but also changed Nilfgaard's political system and realized feudal centralization.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Nilfgaardian Black Army can sweep across the continent. The most fundamental reason is the institutional advantage. Whether it is the number of troops, the quality of soldiers, the level of warfare, the ordnance technology, or the organized mage corps, the root cause is that they only came into being after centralization.