Due to Li Ang's warning in advance, Changhe Town once again closed the city gates, and the city was also under martial law, so there was no loss for the time being.

And the scouts of the Owl Knights are indeed very professional, and they are constantly relaying information back and forth, which allows Leon to even constantly mark the specific location of the Prophet Legion on the map.

According to the report, the Prophet's legion has now made its way north to Changhe Town, receiving many small forces along the way, and its strength is constantly expanding.

After determining the specific movements of the Prophet Legion, Orth stated that he was willing to provide military information all the time, but would not participate in the war, and the Owl Knights had less than a hundred men and could not afford to die.

The lord was not prepared to involve them in a frontal battle - in this day and age, a team that could extend the range of spying was extremely rare, and the purpose of these night owls was supposed to be eyes and ears.

There were enough men on the frontal battlefield, and Ralph and Charles had already arrived at McChung with a trumpet summoning ranger group and brought good news.

"Your Excellency, Baron Leofric was preparing to leave Fort Shield with food when your order arrived, and he was quite cooperative when he learned of Lady Bella's affairs. After receiving the letter from Lord Godric, he said that he would use that batch of food directly as food for the Combine, and now his troops are delivering food in the back. ”

Charles's reports had always been detailed and reliable, and he now seemed to be a decent lord.

After a day and a half of waiting, Baron Leofrick arrived outside the territory of Mai Xiang with a large amount of food.

Nearly 300 carriages formed a long line, and probably only Yongdun Fort had so many horses...... After all, in the face of the nomadic forces of Gatu for a long time, the army of Yongdun Fort will also have a large number of carriages to follow when fighting to ensure mobility.

Leofrick was a strong man in his thirties, wearing a simple but practical set of plate chain mail, and the griffin coat of arms on the cuirass was extremely prominent.

Probably because of the same use of the griffin as the heraldic pattern, Baron Leofric showed a certain amount of kindness to Leon, and he even gave Leon the food directly.

"Baron Leon, I know that you are a successful merchant, and that you have seen your business near the Château de Savoie, and I have received the Countess's letter...... I'll leave it to you, and I hope we can solve those heresies. ”

This seems to be a very heroic person.

Of course, the lord is willing to take on this errand: "Thank you for your trust, Baron Leofric, we can also support each other in the future if necessary." ”

Leofrick laughed and nodded, "Of course, with our flag, we should also support each other!" ”

The lord was stunned, is this guy implying something when he mentions the griffin banner at this time?

However, the lord didn't ask any more questions, and the most important thing in front of him was this joint operation.

The Combine completed the division by the river outside Mai Xiang's territory, and it was mainly composed of five men.

Coach Godric had 500 soldiers under his command. The approximate composition is thirty knights, with more than a hundred servants and a mixed army of two hundred people, forming a knightly conscription force of nearly four hundred people. And his own guard was led by Amy, a force of more than a hundred archers.

Baron Leofrick, the military officer of Fort Shield, led more than twenty knights, and his knights, with their retinues and levies, formed a mixed force of three hundred men - the same traditional way of knightly recruitment as Godric, Leofrick's own guard was only about fifty men.

Baron Leon led Mai Xiang to lead his small army of 100 men, Anson's medical team and Sarah and others were also incorporated into the team.

Ralph, the chief knight of the Horn Ranger, led three hundred rangers, which were essentially composed of more than thirty knights and their forest patrol cavalry.

Charles, the knight of Fletcher, brought more than 500 sentries from Long River, all of whom were elite archers.

But the Long River Sentinels should also be considered a dozen squads - they were commanded by a dozen captains, each with a few sentinels, and Charles was probably one of the captains now.

The current Horn Call Ranger Regiment is not actually a unified force.

After all, the Horn Summoning Ranger Regiment does not have a Grand Master now, and Baron Helward, the most prestigious sergeant major, is not here. Besides, the sentinels have always acted in small teams, and they have not been in the habit of obeying unified command.

Of course, they also organized themselves to fight together after discovering a large-scale enemy – just like now.

The total strength of the Alliance Army was 1,700 men, which is roughly equivalent to the strength of 150 knights if you evaluate the traditional number of knights, each of whom is a captain.

In fact, with the exception of Leon's team of more than 100 people, all the other troops can be regarded as traditional knight squads.

Godric didn't hold any mobilization meetings or oath-taking ceremonies, because it was completely unnecessary.

These troops are either from the surrounding knights or the local knights of Changhe Town, and they do not need to be mobilized to defend their hometown.

After knowing that the heretics had formed a large-scale legion and gone to the town of Long River, no one would think that the so-called Prophetic Legion was just organizing a group tour.

After all, Changhe Town has been a pioneer base for a hundred years, and the people here have faced wars for a long time, and their understanding of armed forces is often more simple and reliable - as long as a large army appears near their hometown, it will definitely bring disaster to their hometown.

People who have faced war for a long time usually do not have any unrealistic illusions about the so-called prophets, they believe in their own swords.

In late April 355 of Pander's calendar, Godric, lord of White Hartburg, led a combined army to march towards the town of Changhe.

But with the latest military reports coming from the Owl Knights, several barons of the Combine Army faced a dilemma.

The Prophet's legion had set up camp outside the town of Long River, but had not launched a direct attack.

Their total strength has exceeded 3,000 men, and small groups have been joining the Prophet's Legion from the west.

The small units were not women, but knights, but each team had a woman with strange equipment.

According to the Owl Knights, the women in the knights' ranks were dressed in the same way as the tall women Amy and Klose had seen at Lady Bella.

The Owl Knights also sent back the current composition of the Prophet Legion quite professionally.

The leader was supposed to be three women, riding fast horses, wearing some kind of ornate red armor, and they had under their command about a thousand female soldiers, of whom about two hundred looked rather peculiar - all covered in black cloaks.

The Owl Knights only had time to see these things, and then they were no longer visible after the Prophet Legion encamped.

The other 2,000 people, probably all brought by the knights who joined in one after another. At present, there are at least two hundred knights, with two thousand troops of all kinds, presumably rogue knights and deserters from all over the continent.

The number of troops of the Prophet Legion is not too surprising.

The problem faced by the barons was that the Legion of the Prophets would continue to have troops joining, which didn't sound good......

And they are all knights from all over the world.

You must know that just those more than 200 knights are basically the full strength of a duke - on average, each knight will bring five or six servants and a few armed soldiers, and more than 200 knights usually means more than 2,000 troops.

The Lion Knights, the strongest legion in the Lion Kingdom, actually only have three hundred lion knights, and with the lion servants, there are less than two thousand members.

And an archbaron like Godric, who actually had the strength of an earl, but he also had only fifty knights under his command.

The forces brought by the knights who joined the Legion of the Prophets alone were already more powerful than the Combine.

So, the combined forces temporarily camped on the El River, less than thirty miles from the town of Changhe, intending to find out what was going on.

The location of the camp was chosen with the help of the Owl Knights, and there is a bridge near it that leads to Fort Shield to the northeast, and is the only bridge over the River Eyre.

Here you can not only quickly rescue Changhe Town, but also have enough open vision and abundant water sources. It is a suitable camp that will not be ambushed and can prevent the enemy from going to the border villages and towns behind him.

The Owl Knights have survived to this day, probably because they are quite professional in these areas.

In the camp, several barons were discussing countermeasures.

The lord was a little puzzled: "Why do there continue to be troops joining the army of heretics?" Do these people all believe in heresy? Does anyone know anything about the so-called Three Prophets? ”

It is very difficult for a reasonable person to understand the thoughts of the ignorant and foolish, and the behavior of some people is indeed unimaginable.

People like Leon always have the upper hand in confrontations with smart people. But when faced with fools, they often get into trouble because they can't understand - which is why many good people are beaten by society.

So the lord really didn't understand why those people would rather be deserters than join the heretics - and when the heretics didn't attack them.

Baron Leofrick replied, "I have heard rumors of the Three Prophets...... There are many rumors about them, and it is said that they are all soothsayers with mysterious powers, and there are many people who want their guidance, and it seems that many people have succeeded because of their guidance. ”

"Does that sound like three fortune tellers? Or an entrepreneurial mentor or something? ”

Lord Lord, he didn't expect that the Prophet Legion would have this kind of function.

I also know that many people have been guided by them – but those who have succeeded because of the guidance of the Three Prophets have paid a terrible price. Misfortune flies, wives are separated, brothers turn against each other, and blood is cut off...... It's like a curse. The more successful the person becomes, the more bad luck suffers, and almost everyone who collaborates with the Three Prophets dies tragically in both physical and mental agony......"

It was Baron Godric who spoke, and he shook his head and sighed: "Mad King...... I mean, the last generation of the Lion King, he seems to have worked with the Three Prophets. I don't know why a king would ask for the help of those witches, but there is no doubt that the rest of his life was not very good......"

Baron Leofric also sighed and did not speak, obviously he also knew the 'deeds' of the Mad King, but he did not dare to criticize the previous generation of kings as casually as Godric.

But that's all they know about the Three Prophets—heresies in the eastern part of the kingdom are rare, and they haven't seen much of them.

Orth could only let his Owl Knights find out the enemy's forces and movements, and as worshippers of the goddess of order, they had always kept a shy away from heresy and lacked more understanding.

The lord felt that this was not the way to go—the number of enemies was increasing, and there was no certainty, and no one knew what the enemy leader was. If we don't have more information, this battle will be much more difficult than we imagined.

Given that his own guards had fought with heretics, Leon planned to lead a team with the Owl Knights to investigate at close range.

The reason why I want to be with the Owl Knights is mainly because the lord himself is a little weak in his heart, and the 'prophet' who can lure so many knights around him may not be able to do some kind of witchcraft.

And the Owl Knights seem to be very good at saving their lives - their scouts have brought back so much information without any loss.

In fact, Ors, the head of the Owl Knights, expressed doubts about the Lord's ability to reconnoiter together, saying that none of them were killed or injured by spying on the military because they could see at night.

However, neither the Lord nor the Mettenheim Muscle Men are deficient in vitamin A, and their eyesight has always been very good.

So, on a dark and windy night, a small team of about 20 people quietly approached the huge camp outside Changhe Town by taking advantage of the night.

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Or rather, 'camp clusters'.

Because it was made up of a large camp and hundreds of small camps - it looked like some particularly lively outdoor camping spot, with countless tents scattered all over the place, and piles of people gathered in separate groups, which looked distinct.

The camp was obviously the camp of the Three Prophets, about four miles from Changhe Town, and it was a large area, but it was all covered by a veil, and it was completely impossible to see what was going on inside.

It is estimated that the situation in the camp cannot be seen clearly from the city wall of Changhe Town, and the distance is still relatively far.

The Prophet's legions were walled outside the camp with a curtain—a nod to the extravagance, and the king had never done anything like it when he went out on a campaign.

The curtain obscured the view, and only a few tall tents and goathorn flags were raised high.

And those small camps may be the knights who keep joining, and they have built hundreds of small camps outside the main camp, and the large camp that was covered by the veil is impassable.

The lord watched for a while, and even at night, there was a small group that continued to come and camp.

Moreover, there were even outlying camps fighting for places, and there was some noise in the relatively quiet night.

It was obviously the first time for Orth to investigate in person, and it was a bit surprising to see this situation.

The lord wrapped his black cloak around his body and began to crawl forward.

Leaned closer and listened for a while, then crawled back: "Ols, I think I hear them fighting for a place closer inside...... These people do not seem to know each other, and there is no unified command...... Do you have a tent with you? ”

Ors was taken aback: "Lord Leon, what are you going to do?" Are you going to ......?"

The lord nodded as a matter of course: "They don't know each other, of course we can also set up a tent and go in and have a look......"

"This is not camping! This is the camp of the heretic army! In case ...... is discovered"

Orth whispered through gritted teeth, looking at the lord like a madman.

"Shh......h Be quiet, I need to know why they are getting more and more! If it continues to develop like this, maybe they will reach tens of thousands in a few days, so it's still a hair...... Do you have a tent? Hurry, hurry! ”

Li Ang stared intently at the camp, looking like he was already looking for a pit.

Shaking his head like a pendulum, Ors handed the two packages to the lord: "There are only two portable tents!" ”

Leon flipped it open and looked at it: "You don't have your owl coat of arms on it, right?" ”

Orth sighed: "I'm not stupid...... This is an ordinary marching tent...... Sir Leon, I'm not going to go in with you......"

"I'm not going to let you in, you're just here to watch, and it's easy to contact you if there's any situation. First, send a message to Lord Godric and ask him to prepare for battle......"

After saying that, the lord got up with a vote of Metenheim and walked towards the camp with a swagger.

As Leon had expected, no one stopped them, and the knights didn't seem to know each other at all.

Outside of this Changhe Town, it looks like it has really become an outdoor camping area.

Li Ang had already aimed at a very good position just now—it was about a hundred meters to the side of the main camp of the Prophet Legion, which was the location of the 'inner circle' of hundreds of small camps.

It was occupied by a thin-looking knight, and there were only seven or eight men in the camp.

The reason why I chose this place is because there are many tall trees behind it, and although it is a sparse grove, there is no one camping in the woods.

The lord felt that if he climbed the tree, he would probably be able to see the inside of the Prophet's Legion camp.

Plus, if something happens, you can get out of this grove - this grove forms an escape route without a camp.

There were several horses tethered under the tree, presumably the knight's.

There was still an unextinguished bonfire in the small camp, and the people sat around it.

Among them was a tall woman, wearing a half-concealed helmet, with only her eyes, chin and mouth exposed, and wearing ornate and revealing leather armor, who seemed to be more intimate with the thin knight.

The lord gestured at Klose, who nodded and whispered, "This woman is dressed exactly like the warrior I saw at Lady Bella, except that this one is not that tall. ”

But it was still quite tall, and Leon looked at it, and the woman was half a head taller than the thin knight, at least one meter eight.

Touching the cruciferous powder in his pocket, and checking the equipment on his body again, feeling that there would be no horses' feet, the lord walked forward in a circle through the woods.

"Hey, friend, can I camp next to this?"