Unlike eliminating those fortresses, each garrisoned by thousands of soldiers,
those fortresses had plenty of enemy firearms, Battle Qi Knights, and mages.
These small castles, one by one, had few mages, and hardly any firearms at all.
The only difficulty was their sheer number: every village was a castle.
But the enemy wasn't united. Under the feudal system, did they know what it meant for every village and every Earldom to have different laws?
There were other counts and viscounts she could fight, after all.
There was even Louis's Central Army to fight.
Elizabeth was simply trying to protect her own little patch of land.
The Frontline Staff Department had also gathered information on Elizabeth and conducted an investigation.
She was forty years old, the wife of the previous Count of Baritelli. She had no children. The previous count had died three years after Elizabeth married him, and afterward, the countess had faded into obscurity.
Judging by her academic record, she couldn't be called a genius, only a talent. She had ranked among the top students in her class.
Of the Four Elements, she excelled most in earth magic.
Compared with twenty years ago, her Earldom had gone downhill. She was strict in her rule but poor at managing the territory, and had driven many people away.
She appeared fairly wealthy.
After analyzing the information, the Frontline Staff Department immediately concluded that she wasn't very clever—or at least, she lacked foresight and couldn't see the bigger picture.
If they left her alone and attacked others, she would probably preserve her strength.
In a word: when allies were in trouble, she stood as immovable as a mountain.
So they immediately turned their attention to another count's son, who had a force stationed in a town to the east.
Louis's Central Army,