East of Drifting Snow City

An army of more than 6,000 men was marching south at a speed of several pieces,

Richard rode a black-maned and naked red flame horse at the front of the line,

The production of red flame horses is not high, and forty horses have been bred since this time, and it is unrealistic to equip the army on a large scale.

For the time being, it could only be assigned to high-ranking officers and nobles who were entirely subordinate to Richard, and Viscount Sauter and Richard's two uncles also took one horse each, and the rest remained kept in stables.

"Speed up and make sure you get to your reserved location before dark!"

After leaving behind the cavalry and some auxiliaries, as well as most of the seniority, Richard led his troops around lightly, and skillfully avoided the detection of ogres through the detection of the royal griffin in the sky.

The light cavalry who remained in place still tried their best to cover the battlefield in the northwest direction, and there were still hundreds of auxiliaries in the place where they were originally encamped, singing empty city plans.

Unless the ogre is attacking in a big way, with the kobold's reconnaissance, even if the kobold breaks through the blockade of the cavalry and comes to the vicinity of the camp, it will be difficult to see through Richard's disguise from so far away.

Of course, the worst outcome is that the kobold reconnoiters the location of the camp and transmits the information back, and the ogre decides to defeat Richard's support army first.

When the cavalry can still run away, it is estimated that none of these auxiliaries will be able to escape.

But by that time, Richard had already led the main force and joined forces with Thor to complete the raid on the ogre's division.

As for the danger of the remaining auxiliaries, it can only be said that Ci is not in charge of the troops...

…

"Kill!"

"Fire oil, fire oil! Fast! ”

At this time, the Drifting Snow City finally ushered in the real test, and while the kobold used blood to dye the moat red, they finally filled in a passage directly to the city wall.

The first mixed team of ogres and kobolds finally set up the ladder on the walls of Snowdrifter.

Unfortunately, the ogre, who was the first to climb the ladder, was doused with boiling oil on the city wall before he could climb half the height of the city wall, and fell down in pain.

"Artillery carts, artillery carts! Aim for the well fence to hit! ”

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The sound of continuous stone throwing suppressed the sound of killing for a while.

The dense stones smashed into the ogre and pushed it onto the well fence, which directly caused the well fence to collapse.

"Oh!"

Seeing the most intimidating well fence smashed by the cannon trucks, the defenders on the city wall let out a burst of cheers.

The city defense facilities of Drifting Snow City are completely incomparable to those of Fort Herburg.

The Lancet family was originally a military nobleman, and Drifting Snow City was the base camp run by the Lancet family for several generations, and the perfect city defense facilities made the Grugersh who watched the battle unexpected.

Even if the moat is counted, there are many pits along the city wall.

In addition to the well fence that was smashed by a large number of artillery trucks with dense stones, there was also a well fence that had just been pushed through the moat and fell into the trap and could not get out.

He was ignited by the fire bolts on the city wall and was about to reach the edge of the city wall.

"Woo, woo..."

With a low trumpet sounding, the army of ogres that were still struggling to attack retreated like a tide,

This round of offense ended in a hurry.

Only Gregosh was left with two gloomy faces, looking at the majestic walls of Drifting Snow City,

I have to admit that the capture of Helburg, which is quite strong, made Grugesh a little inflated, thinking that he could easily take down Drifting Snow City with the same routine, and now it is a bit difficult to ride a tiger.

"Keep letting the kobolds attack until all the safe passages are tested!"

"Yes, my lord"

…

The night was dark

Richard led more than 6,000 allied troops to bypass all the ogre's reconnaissance and quietly arrived at a place more than twenty miles east of Drifting Snow City and set up camp.

The camp is now in a place with a terrain drop, mainly to block a certain amount of firelight and avoid being directly discovered by kobold scouts in the distance.

Because of the overnight stay, the camp had to light torches, but the number of torches was controlled as much as possible.

A battalion of 6,000 men, if there is no light at all, is a disaster for an army.

Richard scattered all the griffons and ordered them to kill all kobolds who came close, so that the kobolds who had a scouting could not discover his secret marching army.

Griffons have great night vision, making night as clear as day, and any kobold who might spot the coalition camp will not have a chance to leave alive.

Richard is now going to fight a poor intelligence and jet lag, even if the kobold doesn't go back in time and arouse the ogre's vigilance, it will be the next day,

Waiting for the ogre to respond, Richard estimated that he had accomplished his strategic purpose.

In the darkness of the night, most of the soldiers had fallen into a deep sleep,

Only Richard was still in his tent, staring at the candlelight, as if thinking about something.

"I don't have a choice this time!"

Today is the beginning of a new week, and it is in a hurry during the day that Richard opens up the system and studies it at night.

The city in the forest itself is a subsidiary city, lacking functional buildings, and now there are no rare resources to build a fourth-order barracks, and nothing can be built this week, and the depressed Richard can only recruit all the refreshed soldiers and turn off the interface of the city in the forest.

And the situation on the side of the Boulder Castle is actually not much better, there is only one blacksmith shop left to build,

Richard skillfully recruited the soldiers of Boulder Fort this week, and then went to the building interface to complete the construction of the blacksmith.

The function of the blacksmith shop has changed slightly from memory.

Function 1: Provide a rune ballista, which will automatically appear in the army after the start of the war (free)

Function 2: Damaged treasures can be repaired after paying a certain price (the cost depends on the value of the treasure and the damage)

Function 3: Ten sets of fine-level equipment can be provided every week.

The first two functions Richard can't experiment with now, but he has some expectations for the rune ballista that can appear directly on the battlefield, hoping to have a little surprise.

Although I don't know how much sophisticated equipment can go, but in line with the principle that the system must be a high-quality product, Richard believes that these ten sets of equipment must be above the level line, at least not worse than the cost-effective equipment produced by his ordnance factory.

Ten sets a week, adding up to a lot and saving money for the old nose...

After repeated research, Richard, who couldn't find any new information, was also a little sleepy.

And to keep your spirits up for tomorrow's big war...

"Whew"

Turn off the lights, go to sleep...