Chapter Seventy-Seven: Assemble
The shoal is a flat place on the edge of the Banderling, formed by the impact of the Xiaoling River.
At this time, the shallows seemed a little noisy, and several nobles and thousands of people gathered here to meet the alliance.
If it weren't for Richard's requirements for the quality of the army, maybe these nobles could bring in more people, anyway, the least valuable thing is these peasant soldiers,
If it was in the past, these people would not be so honest and so generous to pull out their own ironclad elites to participate in the war, at least two-thirds of the peasant soldiers would have to make up the number.
But now the ogres have hit the doorstep, although they have not besieged their castle yet, but from time to time there is news that a certain nobleman's castle has been broken and the family has been killed, which makes the nobles panic.
If they can run, it is estimated that these people can run half of it, but the territory and castle are the foundation of every nobleman, and no one is willing to give up, so they can't help but die hard.
After all, they are willing to hemorrhage to ask for reinforcements, and they are not brainless misers, and when it is time to go all out, no one hides anymore, and they all pull out their families.
"What the hell are the Hunter family and the Bender family doing, the agreed time has passed, so many of us are waiting here in vain, it's really a big shelf."
Richard first led his army to eliminate an ogre tribe, but he delayed for some time and did not arrive on time, which made the nobles who arrived early a little impatient.
"Don't open your mouth for a while, you can talk about the Bender family, there are more than 20 knights in the Hunter family, don't mess with the people who are not happy, turn around and leave when the time comes."
"I'll talk about it."
As soon as he heard the reminder next to him, especially when he heard that more than twenty knights came to Hunter's house, he immediately put his temper back and replied a little stupidly.
"It's coming, it's coming!"
When the nobles and other nobles were impatient, an army finally appeared on the margins,
When this army got closer, the nobles gathered found that many of the people in this army still had some dirt and blood on their armor and blades.
It looks like it's just gone through a war, and it's an army that has come from victory,
Although the combined forces of the Hunter family and the Bander family did not take long to reorganize after destroying the tribe of Nur, they rushed to the shallows after a little tidying up, and the army was a little untidy.
But a discerning person can see the high momentum of this army that this is an army that has just won a battle.
What's more, there are some hideous ogre heads hanging on the horses of the front cavalry, which is even more terrifying.
Just when this group of nobles from the five war zones was observing the army under Richard's command, Richard, who was sitting on his horse, also took a large number of the coalition army in front of him.
The most conspicuous thing is the various flags embroidered with the family emblem that he can't understand what it is, compared with these strange family emblems, the original Hunter family's Mitsuya family emblem that Richard criticized looks a lot better,
At least it can be seen that they are three sharp arrows, which is quite compatible with the identity of the hunter family of the Hunter family.
The quality of this coalition army was barely qualified according to Richard's rough observation, at least everyone was wearing armor, and the auxiliaries were also wearing leather armor.
It's just that the team is a little chaotic, but after all, there was a lack of unified command before, and a little chaos is understandable.
"Baron Bender, what is this?"
While Richard was observing, several lords had already come up to greet him, but they didn't recognize Richard, so they first talked to Baron Bande.
"This is Lord Richard, and this time he is leading the army to help."
Richard didn't put on any show, and got down from his horse to greet everyone.
Speaking of which, he is just a white body without a title among these people.
"On the way, I wiped out an ogre tribe, and it took some time, so please don't blame you."
Richard said this calmly, as if it were a small matter to destroy an ogre tribe, and he could easily destroy it.
But the nobles present were about to blow up the ogre's head before, and Richard could be regarded as showing his strength in front of each family in this way, dispelling the doubts of each family, and being able to eliminate an ogre tribe so quickly, even if there were no more than twenty knights as the Bender family said, there should always be a dozen.
After reacting, the families complimented Richard for a while, and now the strength is more convincing than the title.
Richard was close to immunity to this compliment, and after a few words, he got down to business.
"The snake can't be headless, and the coalition forces must have a unified command when they get together, otherwise how can a plate of loose sand confront the ogre."
"What Lord Richard said is that I think the commander of this coalition must be Lord Richard."
As soon as Richard's words fell, Baron Bender on the side stood up to answer.
"I also think that the commander of this coalition must be Lord Richard."
“……”
Although several nobles around him were a few steps slower, they also expressed their attitudes, and Richard's question was what it meant, just to give face.
With the strength of Richard's command, no one really has any idea about the position of commander.
After successfully deciding on the position of commander-in-chief, Richard chose to rest in place for a day, and carried out a simple integration of various armies.
Counting Baron Band's troops, five nobles and five knights, more than thirty quasi-knights, and 800 professional soldiers with strong combat power, of which the cavalry made up almost three hundred,
There are also 1,000 auxiliary soldiers with good quality, and these are basically the limits that each family can draw out.
Richard spent a day in the shallows, unifying the most basic commands, and was able to do this in one day, thanks to the cooperation of the families.
Of course, in one day, you can only achieve the basic unification of orders, not to mention waving like an arm like a systematic army, even if you want to order and prohibit like the Flying Bear Army, you can't do it without two or three months of training.
Early the next morning, the coalition army marched towards the last ogre tribe in the five war zones.
Compared with the few hundred people when Richard set out from Ironwood Fort, the current coalition army has swelled to more than 2,000 people, and although the quality of the team has decreased a lot, the morale is still high.
In order to boost morale, the news of the first two great victories and the presence of nearly thirty knights in the ranks was vigorously publicized among the ranks,
It can be regarded as a relief for ordinary soldiers, at least it makes ordinary soldiers feel that ogres are not invincible, and their own strength is strong.
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In the ogre camp dozens of miles away, several obviously high-status ogres gathered in the big tent and said something
"Lord Chief, Bruce and Noor estimate that something happened on their side, and the movement of humans here is very abnormal."
This tribe was obviously a notch stronger than the tribes of Noor and Bruce, and of course the damage caused was much worse than the other two tribes.
There are nearly 1,000 people, and there are five or six thousand kobold vassals, and a few idle villages can't satisfy their appetite at all, and almost a radius of dozens of miles has turned Huohuo into a white land.
There are three ogre warriors in the tribe, and their leader Luz has reached the critical point from ogre warrior to chief.
Just this one tribe, if it weren't for the combined number of lords around Richard, it wouldn't be able to defeat it.
Originally, Luz also felt that the nearby humans were not to be afraid, but the two tribes of Bruce and Nur had lost contact one after another, and the movements of the surrounding humans still made him a little vigilant.
"Go farther and contact the other tribes, send the kobolds farther away, pay attention to the movements of the humans around you, and make the warriors more vigilant."
"Yes."
The other two ogre warriors answered,
At this time, Luz still didn't think about escaping, after all, the intelligence was too big, and Luz didn't understand the strength of the coalition army, or Richard.
He also has absolute confidence in the strength of his tribe, and he never thought that he needed to flee in the wilderness, and missed the best opportunity to evacuate.
At this time, several griffins hovered in the air high in the ogre camp, and Richard had already locked on the location of the ogre tribe......