Of course, to save is to save, the sixth theater where Richard is located is an endless sea of forests to the west and north, and the south is next to the fifth theater.

The ogre is coming, either from the wilderness directly into the ironwood forest, walking for days and nights from infiltrating from the forest,

But people with a little common sense know that it is actually difficult for a large group of people to cross the jungle, and they generally do not do it as a last resort.

With a large number of people and horses, it is a big problem to enter the forest to drink water and logistics.

The ogre itself does not have a high level of logistics, and it can even be said to be very primitive, and the ironwood forest is not like the plains, and there are so many human villages that can allow them to supply on the spot.

Thousands of people really had to enter the forest, and if they hadn't prepared first, they would never have been able to meet the needs of the brigade just by hunting.

This is also the reason why the ogres who attacked the half-elf tribe last time only had a small tribe and did not bring a large number of kobolds.

And now that the Ironwood Forest has been planted with the nail of the city in the forest, there are elven sword dancers and centaurs patrolling day and night, and the possibility of ogres infiltrating is extremely low.

As long as the fifth war zone is not lost, Richard's territory will naturally not be damaged too much, war will always destroy production, and the war can be stopped outside the territory, and no lord will be willing to fight on his own territory.

Well, Richard already saw the entire Sixth War Zone as his own territory.

……

Ironwood Fort

The messenger from the Bender family came quickly, and less than a day after Richard received Yusidu's report, the Bender family's letter for help was placed in front of Richard's case.

The Bender family only holds the title of baron, but its lord, Baron Bender, is also the warzone commander appointed by Drifting Snow City.

Just because the Bender family has two knight-level powerhouses, if they only compare with other territories, they can be said to be strong and qualified to serve as this commander.

Generally speaking, the viscount and the baron belong to the lower nobles, and the viscount may have a slightly larger fief, but there is no qualitative difference in the strength of most viscounts and barons.

Even many rely on a generation of knights to keep their titles.

The barons don't have much reverence for the viscount, they just rely on strength to speak.

Only after arriving at the earl can the larger territory and resources be able to lead to qualitative changes from quantitative changes, and if nothing else, the stability of the family's strength can be guaranteed, and each generation can support three to five knights, becoming a real noble family.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Bande family can win the position of commander of the five war zones with the title of baron.

Richard was sitting in his chair, carefully examining the letter for help from Bender's family,

The messenger stood respectfully and waited for Richard's large,

This messenger's mission is not simply to deliver letters, he is also the messenger of the Hunt family for help this time, he is also a quasi-knight of the Bender family, and he is also a middle-to-upper class in the Bender family.

In addition to delivering the letter this time, he also had a task of persuading the Hunter family to send troops, and if necessary, he could agree to some conditions.

The messenger kept observing Richard's expression, hoping to see something wrong, but Richard remained expressionless until he gently closed the letter and put it down.

The Bender family was able to get to this point as a baron, and there were indeed some means.

Richard couldn't help but sigh after reading the letter.

The Bender family didn't say much in the letter, except for moving with emotion, knowing with reason, and talking about empty words such as human righteousness,

He also listed with Richard the practical problems of how much military rations would be provided and how much to pay for the promotion.

In addition to bearing all the grain and grass consumed by the troops under Richard's command, the four barons, including the Bander family, will also pay an additional 5,000 gold narr opening fee, which can be described as full of sincerity.

Of course, this also illustrates the urgency of the situation.

When the Jingbei army was defeated, Marquis Wade led the remnants of his army to retreat to Fort Herr, unable to stop the ogre's eastward advance.

In addition to leaving a considerable number of ogres to monitor the Jingbei army, tens of thousands of ogres poured into the north across Helburg,

For a time, the northland was full of smoke, a large number of villages were slaughtered, and more villagers fled as refugees, and even the castles of several minor nobles were breached.

Drifting Snow City is a little too busy to take care of itself now, and the Bender family doesn't expect to get support from Drifting Snow City now, so they can only ask for help from nearby Richard.

"Kinnar to ten thousand."

Richard was not polite, and the first sentence after putting down the letter was to add money.

Although the Bande family is very good, the basic process of asking for money to repay the money still has to be taken.

"This, I'm afraid it's too much."

Richard's lion opened his mouth, making the messenger a little embarrassed.

Although he was given a certain amount of authority to increase the weight, Richard's super doubling method was obviously not within his authority.

"10,000 jinnar, I will send troops immediately, and the vanguard will be able to set off today.

There were no less than twenty knights in the ranks. ”

Richard saw that the other party was a little embarrassed, and directly threw out his own conditions.

When Richard heard that there were no less than twenty knights in the reinforced army, the messenger of the Bender family was struck by it.

The Bender family had done their homework beforehand, and Richard hadn't thought about deliberately hiding their strength when they let the crusaders appear before.

Those who have a heart can naturally know that the knight-level powerhouses of the Hunter family have exceeded the number of two palms,

This is also the reason why the Bender family first asked Richard for help, they knew that the Hunter family had this strength.

I thought I had understood the strength of the Hunter family, but I didn't expect it to be underestimated.

The Hunter family was able to directly send twenty knights, and the Northland was probably the only one in the Northland with such strength except for the Lancet family.

Of course, the envoys of the Bender family just thought that these knights were hidden from the Hunt family before, and they would never have thought that they had only recently appeared.

"Are you sure, Lord Richard?"

"Twenty knights, only a little more, I won't take a penny for one short."

"Okay, just 10,000 kinnars, and ask Lord Richard to send troops as soon as possible."

Although it is slightly beyond the scope of Baron Bender's authority, the messenger of the Bender family is obviously not a pedantic person.

It's not just the Bender family who paid the money, the nobles of the Fifth War Zone, although 10,000 jinnars is a lot, but each family can still make it up with a little blood.

After all, money is nothing compared to the life of one's own family.

"Rest assured, the vanguard will be dispatched immediately, and the follow-up reinforcements will not be less than two thousand."

Richard is willing to send troops so quickly, except that the Bender family is more up-to-the-road,

It was also because the griffons who were scouting from afar had discovered that the ogres had begun to raid the villages below several nobles in the Fifth War Zone.

In the face of the wreaking havoc of ogres, several nobles closed the gates of the castle and did not dare to fight at all.

After all, the Jingbei army has been defeated, who has the courage to fight the ogre in the wild.

If you don't send troops, you really can't bear it until the nobles of the Bande family can't bear it, and the next thing to suffer is his territory.

"Then I'll go back with my lords."

The messenger of the Bander family was apparently waiting for Richard to send troops to act together.

Richard didn't care, and he didn't intend to fool around, so he just let him go down and rest first.

"Summoning the officers above the capital level to the council chamber."

"Yes, sir."

A herald waiting at the door ran away, fearing that he would delay Richard's order for a second......