The villainous prince who bullied Feng Aotian was actually myself.

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The number of vampire angels of unparalleled rank is extremely small, making it impossible for them to be used to help Leon in this kind of battle.

However, Gonzales hoped to have a peerless vampire, because peerless vampires are all very beautiful and charming women. Gonzales had experienced pleasure with vampire women before, but never a peerless one. If he were captured as a war criminal this time, such mercenary reinforcements could be completely at the mercy of the authorities once they became war criminals.

The upper reaches of the Mixi River.

Thirty thousand soldiers from the Duchy of Ariel, with the clan's clan's secret assistance, are secretly filling in and digging up the riverbanks overnight.

Meanwhile, the eight thousand vampire warriors deliberately left their mark downstream to attract the attention of Gangsales.

"Everyone, work harder and dig faster to block the water in the riverbank. We'll calculate the credit based on the loads you carry. Whoever carries a load of stones into the river will receive a reward of 700 silver coins for each load completed."

Leon announced loudly from the riverbank.

Upon hearing this, the soldiers worked even more enthusiastically.

"They all got rewards, so what about me?"

Standing next to Leon, Leticia laughed, "Maintaining secrecy and preventing the enemy's detectives from sensing the presence of 30,000 people here, do you know how much that takes on me?"

"Thank you for your hard work, Lady Leticia."

Leon expressed his sincere gratitude.

"Alright, when it's my turn, all I can say is 'thank you for your hard work.'"

Leticia pouted and wrinkled her nose like a little girl, and said irritably. Although she was already a grandmother in her thirties, her body and face were like those of a teenage girl, so her behavior did not look out of place at all.

"We have already agreed on the compensation beforehand. The Empire will help the vampires restore their economy, provide industrialization assistance, and maintain a non-aggression pact. Furthermore, if the elves or other foreign races cause trouble in the Thorn Forest before Lilith recovers, the Empire will assist the vampires in defending themselves."

Leon answered seriously.

"Why are you acting so businesslike? You're so unreasonable. I don't understand why my precious daughter Philippa likes you so much."

Leticia looked at Leon with a seductive gaze, and she raised her hand, extending her index finger and teasingly placing it against Leon's chin.

"It's just you and me here now. Don't you want to create some beautiful memories with your aunt?"

“Lady Leticia, Philippa and I are married. I am your son-in-law. According to the rules of Fchester, I should call you Mother.”

Leon had a headache.

"There is no such rule among vampires. A mother can bestow her male lover upon her daughter, and similarly, a daughter can give her male lover to her mother."

Leticia laughed, her hand stroking Leon's face inappropriately. "The first time I saw you at my house, I wanted to take you as my male concubine, but that girl Philippa is so possessive of her food, I haven't been able to find an opportunity. Auntie, I really like you."

"Lady Leticia, please have some self-respect."

Leon refused sternly, stepping back to avoid Leticia's hand.

"You men just like to pretend. Actually, when you see a pretty girl, you instinctively look at her body and think about those kinds of things, right?"

Leticia persisted, "Am I not prettier and more feminine than Philippa? Don't worry, we can do it secretly. I will definitely not let Philippa find out."

"This isn't about whether Philippa will happen, but... it goes against the ethics and morality of our human race."

Leon explained, “In human culture, such behavior is incestuous, forbidden, and shameful... So for the sake of my marriage with Philippa, and for our respective reputations, I urge Lady Leticia to show some self-respect.”

"The more you reject me, the more I like you. I like men who reject me."

After Lydia smiled, she stopped physically harassing Leon, but Leon sensed that she had no intention of giving up.

cough cough...

I'd heard that Philippa's mother was a womanizer who slept with both men and women, and now it seems that the rumors are indeed true.

However, Leticia was indeed a stunningly beautiful young woman with captivating charm. It would be difficult for a normal man to resist the allure of such a woman, and Leon was a normal man.

Chapter Forty-Seven: The City Falls

This night was destined to be one where I would not be able to sleep peacefully.

Gonzalez sat on the city wall, a pipe dangling from his mouth, puffing out smoke rings.

They waited quietly, but even at 3 a.m., there was still no sign of any action from the enemy.

"What is Faceless doing? Why hasn't he brought Ariel's gang to their deaths yet?"

Gonzalez suddenly felt uneasy.

"Tom, come with me for a walk by the river."

Gangsales called out to Tom, who was not far away.

The two soon arrived at the riverbank.

Strolling along the riverbank, Gonzalez looked at the water and felt something was off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Just then, shouts suddenly came from the man-made patrol tower on the riverbank, and the guards on the tower rang the alarm bell loudly.

Gonzales leaped to the top of the tower and looked across the river. He saw a large group of soldiers dressed in the armor of the Duchy of Ariel surging towards the riverbank.

However, the soldiers had no intention of crossing the river. They stopped some distance from the riverbank, but were visible from a higher vantage point, and began to form a square formation and drill on the spot.

This puzzled González greatly.

"Isn't Faceless's acting way too obvious? Isn't this just letting himself be bombarded with insults?"

But then, upon further reflection, Gonzalez was overjoyed.

"Pass down the order to have the artillery bombard that area directly."

"Gansares gave the order."

“Lord Gangsales, our magic cannons don’t have that long range. If we want to bombard them, we’ll have to pull them from the outer edge of the valley to the riverbank.”

Tom answered from below the tower.

"Then drag them to the riverbank and blast them!"

Gangzares said, "Hurry up!"

"As ordered."

Tom immediately went to make arrangements, and soon all the magic cannons were pushed onto the shallows by the river valley.

"Reporting to Lord Gansales, all thirty magic cannons have been moved over, and the enemy has entered the bombardment range."

Tom stepped forward to report.

"Fire immediately!"

Gangzarese gave the order decisively.

Soon, the magic cannons bombarded the "Ariel" soldiers who were training. The soldiers were instantly routed under the bombardment, but the enemy was not annihilated as expected. The enemy fled quickly and soon disappeared from the sight of the cannon fire.

Although the enemy could no longer be seen, it was impossible for them to escape the bombardment range so quickly. The artillery continued to bombard, but it was unknown whether anyone was hit by the indiscriminate bombardment.

The bombing continued for more than twenty minutes before Gangsares ordered a ceasefire. He then personally led a small elite squad across the river to inspect the bombing zone.

The bombed area was a scorched wasteland, with large amounts of vegetation still burning. Contrary to what Gareth had predicted, there were not corpses strewn across the land. He only found a few charred, smelly bodies, and judging from their appearance, although they were wearing the uniforms of the Duchy of Ariel, they were actually a group of vampires.

"Damn it, I've been tricked by these vampires!"

Gonzalez was furious and was about to retreat when he saw a huge commotion breaking out in the artillery position area on the opposite bank.

Looking towards the source of the riot, one could see that the once calm Mixi River had suddenly surged like a tidal wave, with a large amount of water overflowing from upstream and instantly engulfing the artillery positions in the low-lying valley area within half a minute.

Countless soldiers were swept into the river by the raging current, struggling in the water. Some soldiers were even swept straight down the riverbed next to Gonzalez and quickly disappeared from sight.

"This……"

Gonzalez felt as if his brain had crashed, completely stunned. Everything had happened too fast and too suddenly. The fact that the enemy would use the river to flood his artillery positions was something Gonzalez had never expected.

Right now, only two thoughts were on Gangzarese's mind.

First, Faceless has betrayed us.

Second, the lack of a facet exposed the issue.

Ganzarese and the soldiers in the camp had witnessed his loyalty to Naiden; he would never betray Naiden, so the only explanation was that he was the second.

But now it's too late to regret it. His entire artillery corps, more than 20,000 men, were completely thrown into disarray by this sudden flood.

At this moment, a great deal of shouting and killing arose in the grove upstream of Rivertan City. Countless soldiers of the Duchy of Ariel rushed out of the grove and chased after the guards who had swum ashore from the flood.

"Oh no, let's go, let's get out of here!"

Gonzales used his fastest speed to cross the river and rush to the other side. He cut down the soldiers of the Duchy of Ariel along the way and jumped back onto the city wall of Rivertan.

At this time, only the remaining 10,000 guards and the 3,000 Silver Blade Knights brought by Naden to fight against the vampires remained on the city wall of Hetan.

"Don't panic, fire the arrows! Fire the arrows!"

Gangzares raised his long sword high and shouted.

At that moment, a fireball carrying intense heat exploded not far from him, blasting several soldiers who were drawing their bows and shooting arrows into the air, and setting the ground ablaze.

On a clearing at the edge of the woods, soldiers of the Duchy of Ariel set up a cannon array of ten large-caliber fireball magic cannons, which were bombarding the walls of Rivertan City at a rate of one shot every five seconds.

Countless fireballs rained down on the city walls, engulfing the entire city road in flames. The archers were utterly overwhelmed by the magic cannons' firepower, suffering heavy casualties.

"Damn it! Only one day! It's already lost after just one day!"

Gangzare was so anxious that he scratched his head and ears; this was an immense humiliation for him!

If we don't take down the enemy's artillery positions, it's only a matter of time before they capture Hetan City.

"You lot, charge with me!"

Gangsales immediately selected several elite Silver Warrior squads and had them follow him as they jumped off the city wall. In this way, more than two hundred soldiers from Rivertan City formed an assault regiment and charged toward the artillery positions of the Duchy of Ariel.

But as Gonzalez approached the artillery position, a large group of soldiers armed with crossbows immediately emerged from the trees and bushes behind the artillery, unleashing a dense barrage of bolts towards Gonzalez's charging regiment. It was as if they had anticipated Gonzalez's impending charge.

Except for Gangsales, who used his strength to create an air wall and withstood the attack, all the other soldiers were riddled with thorns and wiped out in an instant.

"asshole!"

Gangsales' anger had reached a breaking point, and his momentum surged as he charged towards the artillery position like a cannonball.

The soldiers in the artillery position were completely stunned by his imposing manner and abandoned their cannons to flee, but they stopped after running only a few steps.

Suddenly, countless thorny vines sprouted from the ground, tightly binding Gonzalez's body and abruptly stopping the shell that was about to explode in the artillery position. More and more thorny vines appeared, forming a dense, intricate thorny prison that firmly bound Gonzalez.

"Gonzares, surrender."

Leon emerged from the woods, with Leticia by his side.

"you……"

Gangsales forcefully broke free from the thorny vines. Despite being covered in bloody welts from the vines, his powerful physique seemed undiminished.

But as soon as he tore off the vines covering him, new vines immediately appeared, and he could never tear them all off.

"Leon, you're quite the schemer. You discovered long ago that Faceless Man was impersonating Hawkeye and had infiltrated your ranks, didn't you?"

"Gangzares asked."

"Yes."

Leon nodded. "So I chose to play along. This is my first time commanding a war, and I didn't expect you to be so easy to fool."

"Using floods to wage war? This is a direction I've never considered before. I underestimated you. You're a genius when it comes to tactics."

Gangzarese snorted coldly.

"Genius? I wouldn't dare call myself that, I was just a bit lucky."

Leon smiled.

As Leon read through the history of this world, he discovered that their wars were simply battles of mutual charges. A super empire that once swept across the continent, ruled by the great emperor Proart, used a cavalry phalanx with iron-framed spears.

They equipped their warhorses and soldiers with light armor, and then the cavalrymen, each carrying a spear over three meters long, lined up neatly and charged toward the enemy lines.

To Leon, who had read Sun Tzu's Art of War and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, their tactics seemed like children playing house.

Hoyle I was so powerful that he directly destroyed the orc kingdom. First, the human knights were strong, and second, the orcs mostly lived in dry grasslands.

Most of the houses they lived in were thatched huts that were extremely easy to catch fire, and King Hoyle I dared to set fires, showing no regard for flowers, plants, or forest resources. When he fought against the orcs, he launched a "fire attack" that burned the orcs to the ground, causing them great suffering.

As for water attack, it was the most commonly used move by the God of War Bai Qi when fighting annihilation battles. Before Leon, no one had ever used this move to win a war. Therefore, Leon was not afraid that Gonzalez would think of this. He only needed to conceal it slightly and induce him to succeed.

"Gonzares, you now have two choices."

Leon said, "First, surrender. I will send you to see the Faceless. After the war, I will give you your freedom."