At this time, Richard raised his head and said to everyone, "Tomorrow, we will not be able to surprise His Highness Sarenwell......

When everyone was puzzled, Richard added: "Because he is used to being kicked out by us!"

"Hehe......", "Uh-huh......", "Ha......", these listless responses all come from Richard's followers. They were clearly not impressed by Richard's sneering jokes.

On the third day, Sarenwell did not receive a surprise, but gave the order to withdraw his troops with a gloomy face. There were many fewer warriors who had withdrawn from Oasis City than in the morning.

On the fourth day, Sarenwell threw all his forces into the siege, even the cavalry, which was not adapted to street fighting. So, by dusk, he had also reaped the biggest casualty figure in four days.

Day 5...... There is no fifth day.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, Sarenwell finally disappeared into the northern horizon with his troops. Compared to the size of the army he brought back, it was only a third of the original size.

In the oasis city, there were bursts of cheers for a long time!

After four days of fighting, 50,000 lives ended here. The emperor left nearly 20,000 corpses on this small land, while Richard paid the price of more than 30,000 people.

The battle of the Blue Water Meat Grinder had little impact on the Iron Triangle Empire, but it was an extremely heavy blow to Sarenwell. After this battle, Richard's name gradually spread out of the bloodstained land.

After receiving the news that Sarenwell had withdrawn, reinforcements from all over the Redwood Kingdom realized that it was too late to intercept them, so many of them withdrew. However, the troops who planned to participate in the Vertical Line plan were still rushing to Oasis City. There were also many people who had not planned to participate in the longitudinal line project, but after hearing about the results of the Oasis City City, they also changed their minds. Originally, there was no place for them in the Second Vertical Line Plan, but these nobles were prepared to create a fait accompli. Their idea is that we are here to help you, and now that the troops are in Oasis City, you must give me some places, right?

On the seventh day after the end of the Great War, the armies of the Redwood Kingdom arrived in Oasis City one after another. The largest of these forces came from the Duke of Glasburg, a massive army of 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, led by an acquaintance whom Richard had never met, the Count Latour.

The second force, to everyone's surprise, turned out to be the army of Countess Catherina. It was a force of 4,000 men, but it included a full 500 elite hoplites. The servants of this group of knights were also elite cavalry, reaching 1,500 people. This group of knights with an average rank of nine ranks was no worse than the knights of the Duke of Glasburg, and the luxury of their equipment was even better.

When he received this force, Richard couldn't help but be a little speechless. Truth be told, being in the Bloodstained Lands is not at all suitable for heavy knight action. Countess Catherine's move was more to show off her financial resources and strength. However, as long as this force is willing to obey the command, Richard does not mind having an extra force under his command to attack the fortifications. In the past, the hardest part of the battle was actually done by his humanoid warriors.

However, hearing the arrival of this force, Viscount Chim's face was a little ugly. Countess Catherine is showing off her strength nakedly, and she is showing off to the viscount.

The Duke of Blue Wolf sent a force of more than 2,000 men, a force of scout cavalry, light cavalry and regular cavalry, and a thousand infantry, without hoplites and hoplites, but well trained and suitable for operations in the bloodstained land. This is a practical force.

The troops put together by other nobles also numbered 10,000 people. When the Oasis City troops gathered, Richard also breathed a sigh of relief from the war. It was only when he inspected the city that had been reduced to ruins that Richard felt once again the horror of Sarenwell. If he hadn't mobilized the slaves, and made the most of his abilities in the melee, relying on the complex terrain of Oasis City for four days, he would really have been cleared out of the bloodstained land.

Next, Richard realized that he had too many things to do. First of all, his power swelled unprecedentedly, and the army under his command exceeded 10,000 for the first time. But this was a complete false prosperity, and nearly 9,000 of the 10,000 troops were original slaves, who had accumulated enough military merit to break away from slavery status and become Richard's warriors. Richard's original promise was that if he killed an Imperial soldier, he would be freed from slavery and become a civilian warrior under his command. Originally, the number of slaves who were given weapons was 30,000, but after only two days of fierce fighting, their number was reduced to less than 10,000. Neither the nobles nor Richard could have imagined that under the inspiration of fighting for freedom, these slaves would be so fearless of death and so disregardful.

Richard didn't need so many troops, but when he saw the number of aristocratic troops that had been assembled, he changed his mind and took in all the slaves who were willing to join the army, and then slowly screened them later. The aristocratic army also needed to be reorganized, and in the end, as Richard had expected, it was to leave an army of about 10,000 people. But whose troops to keep, how much to keep, and how to adapt were the three major problems facing Richard. Richard knew that if he could solve these problems in a month, it would be fast.

Finally, Richard was also faced with the problem of rebuilding the city of Bluewater Oasis. Fortunately, he now had the full support of more than a dozen merchant groups, and the small nobles of the Sequoia Kingdom were also on his side, so the reconstruction process was much faster than expected.

Duke Greywolf's general also brought news from the Duke that in ten days, the Duke would secretly arrive at Bluewater Oasis City with Perrin. The letter also mentions that the Duke has brought a special item that will be used for some special ceremonies.

Hearing this, Richard was very surprised, in such a short period of time, could the Duke have found another sacrifice?

However, there was still some time before the Duke arrived, so after Richard arranged the affairs for the next few days, he took Gonde, carried the prepared supplies, and quietly teleported back to Norland.

When Richard walked out of the teleportation array, he happened to see Grand Priest Nolan coming in a hurry. When Nolan saw Richard, he was stunned at first, looked Richard up and down carefully, and then said, "Richard!

"Changed?" Richard was also stunned, and casually touched his chin habitually, and felt a layer of short and stiff beard, and then he understood.

Nolan glanced at Richard with a complicated expression, and in her eyes, Richard still looked unusually young despite having a beard. In her impression, Richard had only been gone for a few days, but when she came back this time, she had changed too much. The original elegance and delicacy have faded a lot, and a little greenness is gone, replaced by the taste of blood and fire. If the original Richard was like a tall green tree, now he is a blazing rock.

Nolan has seen a lot of people going back and forth between planes, but he has rarely seen someone change so dramatically in a short period of time.

Nolan said, "Richard, I felt the teleportation array activate, so I came over and took a look." How long are you going to stay this time?"

Richard placed the sealed box almost as tall as himself on the ground behind him, and let out a muffled tom, obviously weighing at least several tons. Only then did he exhale a fiery breath, move his aching body, and say, "I'll have to go back after a day at most." Ship something back. ”

The dimensional teleportation array flickered again, and Gangde walked out of the array. The majestic man was hunched over, his muscles bulging all over his body, and every step he took made the entire temple tremble. Gangde obviously activated the power of his own bloodline, and carried three bundled demon sealing boxes behind him. After walking out of the teleportation array, Gangde snorted, threw the demon sealing box on the ground, and then sat on the ground and began to pant desperately. The demon sealing box that Gangde was carrying was at least ten tons or more, and the big man with the power of the earth was exhausted.

When Grand Priest Nolan saw this, he couldn't help but say, "With so many things, just the two of you to move back, why don't you bring a few more?"

"Poor, the teleportation fee is too expensive!" said Richard unabashedly.

Compared to the other giants, Akmund was notoriously poor. In fact, any militant family is not much richer, and war is a huge profit, but that is for a very small minority of the victors. Most winners will find themselves winning miserably, and the losers will have nothing to lose.

Those who can be sure of profiting from the war are, of course, arms dealers of all kinds. For example, enchanters, weapon craftsmen, alchemists, etc. Of course, the builder is the one who can make the most money.

So Grand Priest Nolan, for a royal constructor crying poor in front of him, his first reaction was to throw this guy into the turbulence of time.

"What did you all bring with you, so heavy?" Nolan was a little surprised.

Richard opened one of the sealing boxes, and it was full of gray pieces of raw ore mixed with cloud patterns. Nolan was good at identification, and when he looked at it, he whispered: "Yuntie raw ore!

Most of what Richard and Gangde carried back was the raw iron ore, as well as hundreds of kilograms of Lafite refined iron. In fact, the difference in the price of fine iron between the two planes is not large, only 50%. But all the cloud iron ore has been carried back, and Gangde still has some weight, so naturally it can't be wasted. It costs 20,000 gold coins to teleport a person!

Richard picked up a piece of cloud iron ore and said to Nolan, "Grand Priest Nolan, can you help me recruit a group of magicians, at least level ten or above, and about fifty." At this moment, I also need a group of alchemists and weapons craftsmen, who can handle all kinds of common precious metals, and the number of them is thirty each. ”

Nolan's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile, "It seems that you have found a plane rich in rare ores! You're hiring a mage to make all kinds of enchanted metals in bulk, right?"