The hiccup at the gatekeeper of the fortress soon ended - especially at Allen's "strengering" request, Edward had to stop this "rather embarrassing behavior" and the wagon parked in the wilderness finally entered the fortress in the Greeny River Valley.

At this time, the soldiers of the Battle Banner Legion, who were gathered by the bell of the fortress, looked at this incomparably large team one by one—the knights of Fort Hague holding high the red cross flag on a black background proudly escorted the huge four-wheeled carriages, and even the horses pulling the carts looked a full head taller than the native pack horses of Hantu, as if they were monsters.

And when they really learned of the supplies that these wagons were carrying, the whole square was filled with exclamations—baskets of vegetables, chests full of bacon and olives, spears, arrows, broadswords, shields, chain mail, robes, ingots, wine, bread, ...... Incomparably huge and huge supplies, one by one horse-drawn carriages almost filled the entire fortress square!

"With the Radiant Cross above, these supplies will be enough to arm at least both legions!" said the distracted clerk Virgil Brutus as he stood in the crowd, holding in his arms the account that had just been handed to him by a silver-haired wizard, "Where did this Lord Edward Wittwood get all these things?!"

"Maybe it's his family's money, didn't you say it, this Lord Edward is a nobleman from Turin. Lebinus, who was standing on the side, shrugged his shoulders: "Then it shouldn't be difficult to come up with some money to fund it, right?"

"Oh my God, my dear Lerbinus, do you still have a little common sense, the family's funding?" Virgil looked like he was going to die: "Do you know how much these supplies cost? Light can be categorized. Gather all the supplies. It's not something that ordinary nobles can do!"

"It takes more than just money - of course, I'm afraid that there are thousands of Turin gold coins for so many things alone, but it is impossible to coordinate all of them, from purchase to transshipment and so on, without a huge organization!"

At this point, Virgil was speechless, and looked at Edward standing on the high platform in disbelief, and the blonde girl beside him who looked like a knight—who was this adult. How did he get all the way from Turin to Handi?

Because of the Marquis Holard Minest, of course. In fact, Edward was also surprised when he saw these supplies-because the "gift" that the Marquis of Minest had prepared for himself was half as much as the weight of Anson's expeditionary force!

Or rather, this is the terrible thing about the Minest family - just one order from this Marquis of Minest, the countless chambers of commerce in the entire Seahorse Harbor will take care of everything, and within a few days, they will be able to gather the supplies of two entire legions!

At the port of The Hague, Madame Angelica did not lie to herself - the grain trade in the south of Turin was only a part of the Mineste family's wealth, and her actions were far from being painful to this behemoth.

It can even be seen from this that it is only the Minest family of the Marquis. Why does he have the ability to confront the entire Turin aristocracy, and even Berion, who is directly related to the Marcherus family, because of the hands of this family. Holding the lifeblood of the entire kingdom, and there is absolutely no exaggeration in this.

And in addition to these important materials, there are even huge amounts of silver coins. Of course, it was not from the port of The Hague, but directly from the Goodwin Chamber of Commerce in Turin, and all of them were new silver coins, which had an indescribable purchasing power in the wild land of Turin, which even exceeded the value of many of the fine gems and pearls that were abundant in the region.

When they saw the chests full of silver coins being moved to the front of the wooden platform, all the soldiers were shocked - Edward had given them more treatment than not only the auxiliary corps, but even the guards of Hantu City!

"All the weapons and the transfer are not your own, and all the soldiers who are willing to fight under the red cross banner on a black background can be paid enough - a recruit who has served within a year will receive fifty silver coins, a veteran will receive a hundred, and all centurions will receive two hundred, and at the same time have double the salary!"

"Those who don't want to stay in the Battle Banner Legion can also leave after receiving severance pay - but there won't be many, our war has just begun, and you can only get half of it at most!"

Generous treatment, as well as severance pay that was halved...... Many soldiers began to retreat, especially after seeing the terrible wealth of the chief flag officer, it seemed that it was not very difficult to accept to serve such a powerful lord.

In the final analysis, this legion is only an auxiliary corps, not a pro-army of Berion, and does not have too deep feelings for this "Lord Duke".

And Edward Witwood, who had established contact with the lords of the South and had the support of the Mineste family, was now not short of money at all - he lacked only soldiers, especially veterans who had actually been on the battlefield, even if it was only a dilapidated auxiliary regiment that had never won a battle.

The soldiers of the Battle Banner Legion, who had been hesitating, finally stopped "thinking nonsense" and gathered in the square to swear an oath to the Flaming Goshawk Banner and the Red Cross on a black background, declaring their official allegiance to His Royal Highness Anson Marcherus, the Duke of Hentu, and the Chief Flag Officer, Lord Edward Wetwood, from today!

When he heard this, Allen, who was standing next to Edward, always felt that something was not right, but in the end he didn't say anything - although he didn't know much about the land, Alan at least knew that the chief flag officer only had the qualifications to command the army, and the soldiers could not be required to swear allegiance to him.

But even if she knew, Alan didn't have any intention of standing up to stop her—especially when she saw the little smugness hidden under Edward's seemingly calm expression, the blonde girl couldn't help but sneer secretly, as if she had discovered some little secret about Edward.

She knew very well that this guy, whom she had entrusted all her life, had very big dreams, if they could really call them dreams.

But even if it's not a dream, it's something else...... What's the problem, Alan thought quietly, an indescribable, small sense of happiness filled the girl's heart, as long as she could always be with this annoying guy, no matter how dangerous it was, what did it matter?

Eventually, all the remaining eight banners of the Battle Banner Regiment in the entire Castle Valley were joined by Edward - only more than 200 soldiers chose to leave, and Edward had no intention of stopping them, just let them wait for the next supply convoy to return together, and until then they could still be considered part of the Legionnaires and receive food and weapons.

A full 1,200 hoplites and 1,500 light infantry joined Edward's command to form the deployment of the new Battle Banner Legion, as well as the entire fortress of the Green Valley, which officially became Edward Wittwood's base camp in the entire Hamlands!

This is the first capital of his own land in the land of Hantu - a dilapidated but still strong fortress, countless defeated legions, and a heavy cavalry of the Knights of the Holy Tree, nothing more.

But this is definitely not the end, it is just the beginning. A heroic smile rose from the corner of Edward's mouth - finally, he had the strength to fight hard, and became a member of the likes of Horard Minest and Mercer Kane.

Although, I am still very weak now. (To be continued.) )