"War, but Lord Baron, didn't you go to mediate?" Ignas asked, puzzled.

"Unfortunately, Lord Zach has no desire for peace talks, and he not only rejected our desire for peace, but also ordered his men to attack us." Bruce said to Ignath.

"That guy is a complete lunatic." Baron Leopold cursed.

"However, the serfs of my land have never fought, and this is a peaceful land." Ignas had a pained look on his face, unlike his fognacious aristocratic neighbors to the north, where the nobility had enjoyed peace and quiet for generations, and their people rarely fought.

"But Zach's men are fierce men, and you have to be prepared." Baron Leopold advised Ignas.

"But if I give up that land, will this fight be avoided?" Ignas was still hesitant, not every nobleman had the courage to fight.

"Honey, I'm afraid it's too late to give up the fight." At this time, Ignas's wife came up, took her husband's hand, and encouraged him.

"Well, I'm willing to fight, but we lack fighters." Ignas said embarrassed.

"I have a good idea of this." Bruce touched his chin and said to Ignath.

As Bruce and the others fled back to Ignas Manor, Zach lashed out at his men, the first time he had been so humiliated since returning to the Duchy of Bemessy.

"A bunch of waste, what's the use of me raising you?" Zach whipped the soldiers with a whip in his hand.

"I'm sorry Lord Zack, don't worry, they're supposed to have fled to Ignath's manor, and we'll catch them." Zack's soldiers said to him.

"Well, it's okay, there's just an excuse to kill the Ignas family." Zach thought for a moment and agreed, he had long coveted the land of the Ignas family.

"But we definitely don't have enough manpower, and now that the Ignas have the support of two barons, they must be prepared." But the balding soldier said with a lot of experience.

"That's right, so I'm going to gather people." Zach threw away the whip in his hand, and he also felt that things were a little tricky at the moment.

"Don't worry, sir, a friend of mine said there is a group of mercenary camps on the border of our territory, maybe we can hire them." The bald soldier said to Zack.

"Mercenaries? Hmph, it's better than deserters, they're all those people, are they cunning southerners? Zach asked the bald soldier.

"No, it should be far away." The bald soldier reached out and scratched his head, and he said to Zack.

"Farther away?" Zach was a little puzzled, but then he no longer cared, there were mercenaries in all countries, and these adventurers who could not survive, or nobles who wanted to find a way to glory and land, would form mercenaries and sell their forces to kings, dukes, and lords everywhere.

"They are from Amar and are the warriors of Amal." The bald soldier said.

"What, infidels? Ha, that's funny. Zach didn't expect this group of mercenaries to come here from the distant kingdom of Amar, but this is also normal, mercenaries are often hired by various employers, from one place to another, if the contract period is over, the two parties will terminate the contract, and the mercenary's whereabouts of the original employer have no right to ask.

"Yes, sir." The bald soldiers were not worried that Zach would refuse, because the lords only valued the mercenaries' combat power and did not care about the mercenaries' beliefs.

"A group of mercenaries from afar, then we should not be afraid of them slacking off, and immediately go and hire them in my name." Zach immediately said to the bald soldier.

The bald soldiers immediately went to the border to find the group of mercenaries from Amar, and the storm of war was finally about to blow in this calm land.

Bruce's suggestion to Ignath is also to let him hire his own soldiers to fight, so that from a legal point of view, this is a private battle between the nobility between Ignas and Zack, and has nothing to do with Bruce and Baron Leopold.

"Hire your soldiers?" Ignas said in surprise.

"That's right, if it's a mercenary, it's a personal relationship, and it won't cause us to have a conflict with the Duke's family." Bruce said to Ignath.

"I see." Ignas nodded, he was actually angry in the face of Zack's oppression, and now with Bruce's soldiers as a counterattack, he also mustered up courage.

"Then please find parchment and let us sign the contract." Bruce said to Ignath.

"Wait, Lord Baron, there's something you seem to have forgotten." At this moment, Stukov said to Bruce.

"What?" Bruce asked, puzzled.

"The mercenary's contract can only be signed between the nobleman and the mercenary captain, so you still need a war agent, and it must be a civilian." Stukov reminded Bruce.

"It's not simple, Stukov, you act as an agent of war, anyway, as a retainer of Lord Baron Bruce, you are not an outsider." Baron Leopold solved this problem for Bruce and others, and after Bruce listened to Baron Leopold's words, he felt that it made sense.

"Let me be an agent of war?" Stukov looked a little embarrassed, and he didn't seem willing to take on the role.

"Do you have any difficulties?" Bruce asked curiously.

"Lord Baron, you might as well ask the others." Stukov refused the authorization, his expression somewhat gloomy, as if it would be difficult to make him the leader of a mercenary army.

"Then let's discuss this matter tomorrow!" Bruce glanced out the window at the sky, they had been discussing in the house until evening, when there was no electricity, and it was already late in the evening.

"Ignas, let's dine! I have instructed the servants to take out the food from the barn and distribute it to the soldiers. Ignas's wife said to her husband.

"Of course." Ignas reacted and said quickly.

"Thank you for your kindness." Bruce hurriedly expressed his gratitude to Ignas and his wife, it was not that the owner of the manor was stingy, food was very precious in this era, and without food, I am afraid that the rights, land, and glory would be empty.

"We need to thank the Lord God so that we can harvest such abundant grains." Stukov said to the others.

"Oh, few people are so grateful to the Lord God, have you lived through the time of the Frost Season?" Ignas asked Stukov curiously.

"Frost season?" Bruce asked curiously.