This time, Charlotte did not delay his journey. He soon encountered routed soldiers.
As before, Charlotte gathered these defeated soldiers under his command. He had brought ten ordinary combat squads specifically for this purpose. By the time he neared Mostarburg, he had more than five thousand men under him again.
At this time, Mostarburg, the capital of the Duchy of Behemoth, had been surrounded so tightly by South Seraph's army that not even water could pass through. Gloom hung over the city walls, and the soldiers were few and scattered.
Charlotte spotted the banner of "his old friend Hughes," as well as the banners of several other South Seraph Restoration Army forces. The encirclement had likely just been completed, and their formation was still somewhat loose.
Charlotte immediately abandoned his plan to take advantage of the opportunity to break into Mostarburg. Entering Mostarburg now would be like becoming the turtle in a jar; getting back out alive would be difficult.
Several dozen kilometers from the South Seraph Restoration Army camp, he used carriages to form a temporary camp. He brought Dobbin with him to scout out the enemy.
Dobbin had a Divine Steed and was originally responsible for gathering intelligence, with a small cavalry unit under his command. But at a life-or-death moment like this, Charlotte did not trust anyone else. He had long since made up his mind: if the battle situation looked bad, he would retreat at once. His own life was the most important thing.
He was not the sort of person who believed, "Life is nothing more than a trivial little matter!"
The two set out together. Dobbin soon discovered that Charlotte ran astonishingly fast, no slower than Dobbin was while riding his Divine Steed.
Since cultivating Radiant Battle Qi, he had been able to travel