Because the ogres lost the material support of the Dark Trigod Church, it was impossible for them to stay in the forest for too long, and they were not prepared to stay in the forest, after all, they were also forced to come here, if they still stayed there, maybe those minions of the Dark Trio would come again, and when the time came, it would still be a knife in someone else's hand, and they would still be unable to help themselves. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

So this group of ogres thought that they still had a good strength in their hands to kill them, if they were lucky, they would really be able to make a name for themselves, at least loot a few cities, so that food would not be a problem. If you're unlucky, throw those slaves out as cannon fodder, save your strength and flee into the eternal wasteland.

Now they don't have much food in their hands, they have to go to war, if they wait a little longer, those slaves will all starve to death, and then they will use ogres to fight hard, it is not worth it, let those slaves play a role in the end.

The ogre set out en masse with the monster, and this movement is small, even the blind on the human side can see it. And the human side also wants to get rid of these ogres quickly. Now that spring is about to begin, if you don't clean up these ogres, those villagers will not be able to go home to farm, the spring in the north is already short, if you delay it for a while, you will miss the agricultural time, and then the harvest in this area will be over.

Once the harvest is over, then not only will the taxes be wasted, but the money and grain will have to be sent to help those civilians, and with the current state of the Silver Moon Kingdom, it will be even worse.

The ogres also knew that they would not be able to migrate properly without repelling these human armies, so they approached the vicinity of Locke Town in a very good way. It seems that they just want to fight to the death with humans here, but in fact, they can't help it, they don't have enough food, they don't have the energy to go around in circles with humans, and they can fight quickly and solve quickly.

And after learning about the movement of the ogre, the human beings simply did not move their nests, and waited for work, ready to consume the physical strength of the monster.

At the end of winter, on a sunny day, the snow on the ground began to melt, and the ground became muddy because of the snow, and the ogres drove a large number of slaves to the 30 kilometers outside of Locketown.

It was less than 20 kilometers from the human barracks, and the ogres didn't seem to have any intention of attacking immediately, but instead drove the slaves to build a camp here. Actually, it's nothing, just take some giant trees and put up a fence, it's simple to die, the ogre is okay, at least there are tents, and those monsters can only stay in the mud.

However, they were still very alert, and during the construction of the camp, many ogres and a group of gnolls kept roaming around the camp, apparently to guard against a human sneak attack.

In fact, the human side did plan to sneak attack, but the muddy ground limited the speed of the cavalry, and the enemy had already taken precautions, so he completely lost the opportunity to sneak attack, so the Earl of Marshall ordered the troops to stay still.

In the eyes of the Earl of Marshall, there is no hurry now, these monsters lack baggage, and they can only eat slaves when they are hungry, so they can naturally consume their strength. Human consumption is very close, this place is very close to the human city, their logistics are sufficient, although the agricultural time is near, but a few days can still wait.

The Earl of Marshall is now waiting for the sun to shine on the ground a little bit, at least not like now, where he can carry three catties of mud with one foot, so that the mobility of the cavalry can be guaranteed. On this muddy ground, the cavalry could not keep up with Ben, and had to guard against slipping soles of their feet. Those monsters did not rush to war, which can be said to be in the hands of the Earl of Marshall.

However, the Earl of Marshall is not in a hurry, it does not mean that others are not in a hurry, at least those old men in Rock Town are dying. A group of vicious monsters were just outside the town, and they trembled at the thought of it. Now the residents of Rock Town are also scared half to death, and they are all cats at home, and they dare not go out at all.

Moreover, these GIs stay here every day, they want to eat and drink, where do these come from? It stands to reason that it should be sent by Silvermoon City, but the problem is how to deliver it because the road was closed by heavy snow before, so it can only be supplied by Rock Town and Kohler City nearby.

Although Silver Moon City should compensate one or two after the war, the bulk of it will still be paid by the surrounding cities, there is no way, the state affairs are difficult, and Silver Moon City is now a little stretched to support the eastern front.

With such a big hole, what do you want those parliamentarians to do? If these monsters are not solved, then next year's tax iron will be poor. Now all they want is to quickly clean up these monsters, and then these GIs quickly get out, otherwise Locke Town will really go bankrupt.

However, the Earl of Marshall was determined to delay, and what could they do, they could only wait anxiously, while gritting their teeth to supply the army.

And those ogres also began to attack the old, weak, sick and crippled among the slaves, and any slaves who lacked combat effectiveness became food, in just three days, those ogres had killed nearly a thousand slaves, and finally let those monsters who had been hungry for a winter be fed, although there was material support from the Dark Trigod Church, the ogres did not let those slaves be fed.

First, the supplies are limited no matter how you say it, and it is impossible to feed so many monsters, and second, if these slaves are fed, isn't that against yourself? These slaves are not faithful, and when they are full, they will definitely get some moths. Now that there is going to be a war, it is a bit too much to say that if you don't get enough to eat.

At the same time, the ogres also know that they must act, otherwise there will not be enough slaves to eat, and only by defeating these humans can they get through it. So in the early morning of the fourth day, after eating the last corpse, the monster began to set off towards the human barracks.

The human side has been staring at the monster, and when they saw the monster move, they quickly responded, and immediately left the camp to set up a formation to prepare the camp. The Earl of Marshall led the elite army at the front, followed by the soldiers of Locke Town and Kohler City, and those private soldiers were placed last, the quality of these people could not be compared with the regular army, and the morale was just like that, and it would only be bad to be at the front, so it was better to stay at the end.

At the head of the human formation were all the crossbowmen, numbering about 800 or so. In addition to their powerful military bows, these crossbowmen were armed with swords and leather armor. Behind are the hoplites, all of them are wearing heavy armor, most of them are heavy long weapons such as halberds in their hands, and they are also equipped with some one-handed heavy weapons around their waists, such as battle axes, war hammers, etc., and they also carry heavy tower shields in their hands, these people are the elite infantry under the Earl of Marshall.

If it were in a previous life, it would have been impossible to form such a combat unit wearing heavy armor. Because it's too heavy, everyone wears the same as a tin can, not to mention fighting, it's very difficult to move a few times, and the heavy armor on the body alone is almost 150 pounds, but this world is so unreasonable. These people are wearing such heavy armor, but they are as energetic as a nobody.

This is also the main force to resist the onslaught of monsters, and the professional level of these hoplites is not low, the only drawback is that the number is small, less than 800 people. Count Marshall always thought that if he had more than 3,000 such hoplites in his hands, he would not bother to think about it so much, what Solam, what cultists, he didn't need to spend so many brains at all, just crush the past.

However, this class of troops is too resource-intensive, not only equipment, but even soldiers must be carefully selected, and it takes a lot of effort for the Earl of Marshall to build this 800-strong hoplite.

After the hopping, there was a group of lightly armed infantry, although these infantry were not as exaggerated as the previous hoplites, but they still wore half-body armor, and the weapons were also standard long weapons plus a melee weapon, plus a shield. These people have the largest number, about 1200, according to the opinion of the previous life, this is not light infantry at all, it is okay to count it as heavy infantry, but in this world light infantry is counted like this.

After that, there is the personal guard regiment, these personal guard regiments are the elite of the elite, each person's professional level is more than level 12, among which there are more than 15 masters, the equipment is not uniform, basically the individual is good at it, the number is not much, about 150 people, but the combat effectiveness is outrageously strong, because the Earl of Marshall is a legend, and they don't need the protection of others at all, they are generally the existence of the mage's escort and battlefield reserve.

The army mages and priests are under their protection. Of course, the manager is also under their protection.

And those cavalry were arranged on the two wings, these cavalry are the elite of the elite, the impact of the enemy battle formation depends on them, these cavalry except for a few reconnaissance cavalry, the rest are all heavy cavalry, the number of men and horses are all batch armor, the number was originally only about 500 people, and later many knights were recruited to come in, the number skyrocketed to about 800, 400 people on each wing.

Behind the cavalry were the soldiers of Locktown and Kohler, whose quality was barely good, but their morale was not bad, and they could be used as soon as they broke through the formation, and when the cavalry broke through the formation, they would fight into it. However, they were only operating on the two flanks of the enemy, and the Earl of Marshall did not expect them to penetrate into the center of the enemy, mainly for a diversion purpose.

Finally, there are the private soldiers, who have the least role of protecting heavy long-range attack equipment such as catapults and ballistas, and can also be used for auxiliary tasks such as carrying ordnance and carrying the wounded.

On the human side, there is an elite legion leader, the morale is very high, the speed of the formation is very fast, and it will be ready in less than a while. Compared to humans, the ogre's side is much rougher, looking up, there are a vast number of monsters rushing towards this side, there is no formation at all, it is messy, you can only tell that it is the slave running in front, and the ogre is supervising the battle in the back.