"Kill!"

On the outskirts near Drifting Snow City, several scouts are chasing a small group of fleeing kobolds,

Cleaning up kobold scouts has almost become a regular entertainment program for the Northland cavalry,

"Poof!"

Another kobold was cut down from behind by the human cavalry,

Kobolds basically use their lives to investigate, and as long as they encounter human scouts, they can only scatter and flee.

In the past, these kobolds were able to run away with their numbers and their own flexibility, but this time the situation has changed a little.

"Wow!"

The griffin in the air galloped down, and the kobold, who had already fled far away, was caught in the air by the griffin without the ability to resist, and threw it down after a few circles playfully.

These griffins, although very tame to Richard, were in fact extremely ferocious omnivores.

"Bang!"

With a heavy sound of landing, the kobold's screams came to an abrupt end, and the entire kobold reconnaissance team was wiped out.

This is the order given by Richard to cover the battlefield after approaching Drifting Snow City, using his own cavalry and air superiority to completely clear the eyes and ears of the ogre.

More than a thousand cavalry in the coalition army and dozens of griffons in Richard's hands have been working at high loads, trying not to let go of a kobold.

In this way, even if the ogre army wanted to take the lead in dealing with him, they could not find the specific location of Richard's army.

…

Ogre Battalion

"Lord Grugosh, there are nearly fifty thousand human troops to the south."

A few days after Richard's army arrived near Drifting Snow City, reinforcements from the valley, which were obviously closer, finally approached the battlefield.

Compared with Richard's troops, only a dozen lords sent troops to follow, and after Sol set out from Zhenbeiguan, dozens of nobles brought their own dry food to follow.

On the road from Zhenbei Pass to Drifting Snow City, the army actually walked more and more, from more than 40,000 people walking to more than 50,000 people, so that Thor had to stop for a few days on the road to reorganize the army before setting off, and only now was the ogre discovered the specific location.

"Let Amu lead a team of three thousand people, and then recruit a few tribes to keep an eye on them."

Grugersh paused and said his arrangement,

Grugash's goal is clear, it is no longer his main goal to destroy the human army,

Attack Drifting Snow City, take away the wealth and craftsmen of this city, return to the wilderness, and completely integrate all the ogre tribes before they are qualified to continue the confrontation with the Golden Dragon Kingdom.

"Yes, sir."

Amu is one of the ogre chieftains under Grugosh, and it is important for him to keep an eye on Thor with three thousand armored ogre elites and a larger number of tribal warriors.

Even if you can't defeat the Legion of the River Valley, you can contain it and wait for Grugesh to send someone to help.

"Lord Grugersh, all the kobolds in the northwest have lost contact."

Trapped, a thousand-man squad fell in the northwest direction, and several tribes were wiped out, and of course Grugersh would not ignore this threat,

It's just that Richard is much more slippery than Sol, and the terrain of the valley is not suitable for cavalry combat, so there is no cavalry tradition.

In the early days, the river valley was also dominated by heavy infantry, and of course, the heavy infantry in the river valley is not very good now.

The consequence was that there were not enough scouts in Thor's army, so they could only rely on the dependent Northland nobles to reluctantly organize a light cavalry, and there was not enough air power to cooperate, so it was difficult to completely cover the battlefield like Richard.

"Continue to send kobolds to reconnoitre, regardless of whether kobolds return to the camp or not, send kobolds in the northwest direction every day to double the number"

"Yes, my lord"

In response to Richard's use of cavalry and air superiority to cover the battlefield,

Grugosh quickly figured out how to deal with it as well,

Anyway, the kobold's life Grugersh didn't take it into his eyes, as long as he kept sending the kobold to investigate, the kobold in which direction could not come back, it would naturally show that the enemy army was in that direction,

Although I can't completely determine the location, I can know a little bit about it and be prepared.

……

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

At the head of the Drifting Snow City, after calming down for a while, it finally became noisy,

Under the commander's order, the defenders on the head of the city poured a rain of arrows into the city in waves.

Every salvo can bring the screams of countless kobolds, and bows and arrows that are almost ineffective against ogres are still very effective when used against kobolds.

But these kobolds are completely like they can't be killed, and no matter how many corpses they drop every time, they can replenish enough in time.

Under the supervision of the ogres in the camp, they kept filling the moat with mud and gravel, and the moat, which was seven or eight feet wide, was about to be filled out by them in a few days.

In the distance, the ogre, pushing a huge well fence and a ladder, also began to move, and waited until a few passages were filled in before the real attack began.

…

"Lord Richard, we've contacted reinforcements from the Upper River Valley, and Lord Thor has let us act cheaply ourselves."

In the coalition camp, Richard has also been paying attention to the situation in the Drifting Snow City, although most of the griffins are involved in the battle to shield the battlefield.

But Richard still kept two griffons to keep a close watch on the situation in Snowdrifter,

He could see that in the past few days, the ogre's offensive preparations were about to be completed, and the next step was to find an opportunity to cut into the battlefield, if he didn't do anything, with the ogre's current combat power, Drifting Snow City would not be able to hold out for a few days.

"Pass my order, the whole army is ready to move, don't make any changes in the big battalion, try to bring as little capital as possible, and move quickly!"

"All the cavalry stayed where they were, continued to clear the kobolds, and expanded the cover area for another five miles as much as possible."

"Yes, Lord Richard!"

Of course, Richard will not show up under the Drifting Snow City with his troops, in case he is bitten by an ogre, all his men and horses will be trapped.

It's just that through the advantage of reconnaissance, Richard is keenly aware of a hint of a fighter, and the opportunity to break the game is just around the corner.

…

Reinforcement barracks in the valley,

A knight of the sword and eagle landed in the open space in front of the camp gate,

"Lord Thor, news from the Hunter family..."

The letter from the Sword Eagle Knight was delivered to Thor as quickly as possible.

After reading the letter, Saul fell into a long thought, as if weighing something, and finally made up his mind:

"Tell the Hunters that we will cooperate with their actions and let them feel at ease to do it."

"Yes, Lord Thor."

"Lord Thor, are they really that strong?"

Watching the herald go away, Kuz on the side couldn't help but say that he was puzzled,

The letter to the Hunter family claims to have 8,000 elite warriors, more than 60 knight-level combat power, and three great knight combat power.

This kind of strength is not lost to some of the top nobles of the kingdom in the slightest, and it is difficult for Kuz to imagine that a small nobleman in the Northland can have this strength,

"It's okay, he doesn't dare to lie to us."

Even if there is information from other channels that shows that the Hunter family is strong, it is certainly not as detailed as the information given by Richard like a tyrant.

Thor is actually skeptical of the strength of the Hunter family, but he believes that the nobles who can manage this strength are definitely not insane.

If you don't have this strength to pretend, let alone ask for the crime by lying about the military situation, Saul can sell Richard directly on the battlefield, in this case there is no point in bragging, no one will joke with their lives.

"Go down and prepare, be ready to send troops at any time."

"Yes, my lord"

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