As the goddess said, Grace's identity is indeed not simple.

Early in the morning, Hawkins, who was also a heavy task, rushed to the eighth squad again, ostensibly to bring tasks to the team, but in fact, he greeted Grace everywhere, and even if he was blind, he could see that he was the daughter of the captain of the first brigade in everyone's hearts, and they were in awe of her one by one.

"The order has been down, and the eighth team has been transferred to the Fallen Leaf Castle to garrison, pack up their equipment, and get ready to go. The armored samurai are already waiting in the reserve camp, and this is the clerk for you, Al, who will lead you to the reserves. Hawkins gestured to the young man beside him, who immediately stood up and saluted Herman.

The clerk is a position in the military responsible for conveying orders, recording documents, and counting military exploits. Because for ordinary knights, combat merit is equal to everything - contribution points, honors, and positions must all be recorded by the clerk before they can be treated accordingly. This position is generally held by ordinary people, but in the Order, it is held by relatives of the members of the Order, although they are not professional soldiers, but they have been exposed to it since childhood and are not afraid to go to war.

Herman straightened up, held his head high, and said, "Yes." ”

After receiving the order, Herman asked again, "Captain, what is the situation in Fallen Leaf Castle now?" ”

Hawkins said: "On the second front, the army of Vault Dwellers cannot enter, but there are many small groups of wanderers around. These people are all masters of ambushes and assassinations, ordinary armored samurai can't deal with it at all, and it is too wasteful to use knights to clear them, so the knights temporarily abandoned the surrounding farmland and concentrated their forces to defend important fortresses. This time you only have two missions to the Fallen Leaf Castle. First, it is responsible for safely escorting the more than 2,000 peasant households inside back to the rear; The second is to protect the hundred tons of wheat and ten tons of chestnuts in the castle, which is the harvest of the castle territory for a year, and cannot be used by the enemy. ”

"Yes!" Herman nodded in response.

He also knew that Sagacona was one of the most important food producing areas of the Wizarding Society, and these farmers were all old farmers who had been in operation by the Wizarding Society for a long time and had spent a lot of effort to train them, and each of them was a valuable productive force.

In addition to food, the population of the underground world is also extremely scarce, once the fight comes, these senior planters will definitely not let go of the other party, and the wizard will definitely not be the enemy, and they will start to move the farmers near the front line to the rear early.

"In addition to the fact that people must ensure safety, you don't have to defend the Fallen Leaf Castle if it can't be defended, but the food inside can't be used against the enemy, understand?" After giving the order, Hawkins approached again and whispered, "Besides, Grace can't have an accident, you know?" ”

When Herman heard this, he didn't agree, but said: "My subordinates do their best, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, and no one dares to guarantee ......."

Hawkins looked up at him deeply and interrupted, "I want you to know what it means to allow you to give up the Fallen Leaf Castle at any time......"

"It turned out to be her." Herman was shocked, Huo Ran was cheerful, and then said, "My subordinates know." ”

After the explanation was clear, Hawkins, who was busy with official business, also left in a hurry.

Herman gathered all the people to invite Claire, and a group of men and horses led by the clerk Al left the knights' barracks and went to the reserve barracks a mile away to take the two hundred armored warriors assigned to the team.

The armored samurai were composed of soldiers who volunteered to stay behind and re-undergo military training after failing to cultivate their fighting spirit, and although they did not have fighting spirit, their strength far exceeded that of the kingdom's secular armies, and there were quite a few of them. Most of the missions of the Wizarding Guild were completed by a small number of knights and a large number of armored warriors.

The Knights have equipped the squad with 200 armored warriors, and in addition to dealing with the unexpected siege of the Vault Dweller, the most important task is to transfer the planters.

The Knights were at the front, followed by the armored warriors. Herman took the lead, while Claire the wizard, Al the scribe, and Moore the archer were surrounded by the crowd, and the brigade marched towards the north.

It's the end of winter, and although there is no more blizzard to bury the village, the snow does not melt in winter, and the roads are covered with snow on both sides, and there are only fox and squirrel footprints on waist-deep snow covers.

This kind of weather, not to mention the war, is the difficulty of walking. If it weren't for the wizards of the Order who melted the snow along the road, they estimated that they would not have been able to reach the Fallen Leaf Castle five hundred miles away in two months.

After five days, the team finally entered the confines of the Fallen Leaf Castle.

"Look, the castle is there, and I can finally take a hot shower and sleep comfortably." Barron raised his whip and pointed excitedly at a hillside, where a square ring fort made of stones appeared in front of everyone.

Smoke curls over the castle and farmland below. Scattered farmhouses are scattered from below the castle to the far distance.

(Fortunately, the slight slope is not enough to charge, and the square ring fort is also built completely according to military needs, otherwise such a large plain can be broken by a random team of knights.) There are no perforations in the walls, and it seems that there are no black artillery, not even ordinary artillery...... What about bows and arrows? ）

Herman was thinking about how to defend the city, when he suddenly saw a black figure in the distance, riding a tall green lizard on the ground in the thick snow, and beside him, there was a fiery red figure jumping around, extremely agile.

When he looked at the other man, a cruel smile appeared on the man's gray face.

"Enemy!!" Moore also noticed it at this time, and everyone looked at him in unison.

At this time, the other party slowly raised his hand and made a throat-cutting action, clearly expressing the intention of hunting, which made everyone unhappy, Moore immediately pulled the bow and arrows, ready to give him a moment, but the other party was also very alert, even if he was far away, he didn't give a chance, and urged the mount under his crotch to quickly disappear from everyone's sight before Moore pulled the bow.

"Damn, running too fast." Mur foolishly lowered his bow and arrows.

"He's only one person, shall we chase?" Barron said excitedly, and the others were eager to try, obviously not taking the other one seriously.

But Herman didn't speak, and no one dared to assert himself. In the Order, unconditional obedience is more important than anything else.

Herman shook his head: "Our mission is not to kill the enemy, but to hand over first." Seeing that everyone's expressions were downcast, he said, "Do you see the other party's mount?" It was a first-class demonic beast stepping on the moss, although that thing was not a carnivorous creature, but it could control the wind element, and it ran fast everywhere, although our Urpema was a first-class good horse, but it was not enough to see the demonic beast. ”

"Okay, now that you're in Sagacony, you don't have to worry about not fighting." Herman glanced at William, "Cousin, go call the door." ”

The knights of the Fallen Leaf Castle had already seen them, and before William could call the door, the gate opened, and the two source knights came out on horseback to join them.

"I'm Reese and this is Borgis. Who of you is the chief? The old Knight of the Source introduced himself.

Herman replied, "I am the captain, and I have come to take your place on orders of the Knights. Reese, the Knights order you to withdraw to the base camp pending new orders. ”

Reece and Bulges suddenly looked relieved when they heard this: "This is really good, we really don't want to stay in this place for a moment." ”

Seeing this, Herman asked, "Why, Deciduous Castle has been attacked?" ”

Reese nodded with a heavy face: "At present, there are only sporadic Vault Dwellers causing trouble, but you must not underestimate them. Although they are all lone wolves, they are all very strong, and to tell you the truth, if it weren't for the castle and the armored samurai, we would have planted it many times. ”

"Hmph, I'd like to see how strong those brutes really are. It's just a bunch of rats hiding underground. Barron said unconvinced.

Reese's face turned red when he heard this, and a wave of anger appeared in his eyes.

"Thank you for your hard work, let's go into the city." Before the other party got angry, Herman smiled and interrupted.

"Please!" Reese said politely.

After entering the city, after counting the materials and personnel, and confirming that they were correct, Herman officially took over the guard duties of the Fallen Leaf Castle, and arranged for the samurai to take over the guards of the previous place.

Reece and Borgis and twenty armored warriors would leave the castle the next day.

At night, Herman found Reece and Birchith, took out two hundred C-grade power stones and handed them to the two, and when the two of them didn't know why, they heard Herman ask: "The Knights sent us here, in addition to guarding the castle, they also asked us to move all the growers here to the hinterland." It just so happens that I am going to send the first batch of 300 people back tomorrow, can you ask the two of you to help escort these people to the Roa area? ”

Looking at the energy stones in their hands that were equivalent to half a week's salary, the faces of the two knights who had been trapped in this small castle were filled with sincere smiles: "Dear captain, this is an obligatory matter. ”