Fort Hull is located in the westernmost part of the Northland, closely adjacent to the wilderness. Generally, once you pass through Fort Hull, you are considered to be out of human territory.
Although Hull Castle is located on the edge of the Northland, it is actually a large castle.
There are various caravans here for rest and transit every day. Although the wilderness is dangerous, it also contains business opportunities. The caravans bring some cheap commodities from the human world into the wilderness and exchange them for various precious materials. They can almost make money every time.
Every bowl is full,
But the wilderness is also full of crises. Whether it is the ogre tribe or the more widely distributed kobold tribe, it will cause fatal crises to the caravan. However, as long as the benefits are sufficient, there will always be people willing to take the corresponding risks.
Hullburg also gradually prospered relying on this unique wilderness trade advantage.
However, life in Fort Hel has not been easy these past few days. Due to the approach of the super-large ogre tribe, even the boldest caravans dare not continue to trade in the wilderness. The entire Fort Hel has been in a state of depression.
Of course, what worries the Hull family even more is the thousands of ogres and tens of thousands of attached kobolds that are gradually approaching. If they want to invade the human world, then Fort Hel will definitely bear the brunt.
Although the Hull family has grown and prospered by relying on wilderness trade, it is still absolutely unable to fight against such a large number of ogres and kobolds. Fortunately, the news of Piaoxue City's troops has been spread to Fort Hel early, and finally the Hel family is worried.
A little more settled.
"My lord, the Jingbei Army is coming soon. Marquis Wade is personally leading the army."
"Okay, okay, let's inform everyone and let's go out of the city to meet the Marquis."
"yes"
Upon hearing the news that the Jingbei Army was about to arrive, Earl Hull said two good words in a row:
After being on tenterhooks for several days, fearing that the ogres would arrive before the Jingbei Army arrived, I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
The Earl of Hull led a long procession outside the castle to welcome the arrival of Marquis Wade.
Although the Hull family has the title of earl, the Hull family is completely different from the Lanster family in Piaoxue City.
The entire Hel family only has five knights and more than 2,000 professional soldiers. Without the support of Piaoxue City, they would be completely unable to defend their territory.
Soon, Marquis Wade led the vanguard to the foot of Hull Fort.
"Good day, Marquis Wade."
The Earl of Hull, who was standing in the middle of the road, took the initiative to greet Marquis Wade as he approached.
Wade didn't know anything, so he dismounted and exchanged greetings with Earl of Hull with some senior Lanster officers and senior officers around him.
Marquis Wade also began to observe Fort Hull during the conversation.
Although Hel Fort is almost incomparable with Piaoxue City, it can definitely be said to be a qualified military fortress.
Because it is located on the edge of the wilderness, the Hull family has always maintained a sufficient sense of crisis. The five-foot-high city wall is densely covered with arrow towers, and there are many iron pots on the wall. It is definitely a nightmare for the attacker.
Marquis Wade was quite satisfied with the defense of Fort Hull, and he chatted with the Earl of Hull and entered the castle with the forward troops.
The army that arrived later set up camp at Fort Hel. After all, although Fort Hel was large, it was only a military castle and not a city. It could only accommodate more than 10,000 troops.
"Is there anything unusual about the ogres these days?"
After entering the castle, the first thing Viscount Wade did was to ask about the situation ahead. After all, the aerial reconnaissance by the Sword Eagle Knight was not as detailed as the close observation by the spies.
"Most of the ogres are still stationed thirty miles away, but a small group of ogres have harassed several villages, and now a large number of refugees have fled."
Marquis Wade frowned when he heard this. This was the situation he was most worried about. The ogres were attacking the village and destroying production, causing a large number of villagers to become refugees. If the ogres could not be blocked to the west of Fort Hel, the ogres would surely march in.
It caused erosion throughout the Northland.
"There is a situation. The behavior of the ogres that attacked this time is somewhat abnormal."
"Huh?" Marquis Wade looked at Earl Hull and motioned for him to continue.
"This time the ogres were different from usual. In addition to robbing, they also killed people with a purpose. This time, a village had no time to escape, and no one in the entire village survived."
This is indeed very abnormal. Although the ogres are cruel, they will not do many meaningless killings. They will only loot food and take away some reserve rations at most. This time, they looked like they were killing everyone.
This time the ogre's behavior revealed something strange, and Marquis Wade unconsciously thought of Lin Xuan's last reminder.
"How much food is left in Fort Hull?"
"Enough for an army to last for a month."
This kind of inventory actually shows that the Hel family is very wealthy. You must know that in the past, Hel Fort's food reserves only needed to supply Hel Fort itself, and the Hel family's army and the servants of the entire castle combined were less than 10,000.
But this time the Jingbei Army came with a total of 80,000 troops, and the food reserves in Fort Hel could actually last for a month.
However, Marquis Wade was not satisfied with this grain reserve.
"It's not enough. We will store more food and grass at Fort Hel in the future. The Earl of Hull will send more people to collect food. At least we will have enough for the army in March."
Marquis Wade made an unceremonious request to the Hull family. After all, Piaoxue City was the rescue party. Although it was for its own sake to save people, it would not bear all the food and grass by itself. It was also reasonable for the Hull family to share part of it.
Reasonable.
"Yes, call someone to make arrangements immediately."
Although Earl Hull looked embarrassed, he quickly agreed. After all, they were the party being rescued.
"The army camped on the spot, rested for two days and marched out into the wilderness."
"yes"
The senior military officers present responded one after another.
Marquis Wade only listened to half of Lint's suggestions and used Helburg as a retreat and hoarded a large amount of supplies.
But according to Lint's opinion, we should rely on Fort Hel, set up camps, fight hard, and advance step by step to ensure nothing goes wrong.
However, Marquis Wade only stockpiled supplies, but had no intention of making progress step by step.
This does not mean that Marquis Wade does not understand the key points. Everyone knows the benefits of a steady attack, but according to that attack method, tens of thousands of troops may be delayed here for a year, and the consumption of manpower and material resources will increase exponentially.
The ground may not be dragged up, but the Hull family will definitely be dragged down.
"Okay, let's all go down and get ready."
After everyone was ordered to retreat, Marquis Wade and Lanster and other senior officials accepted the banquet hosted by Earl of Hull.
In order to show their friendship as landlords or to take advantage of the opportunity to please the Lanster family, the Hull family emptied the bottom of their boxes, provided them with all kinds of fine wine and food, and the maids who served them all were pretty pretty.
However, Marquis Wade was a little restless and even felt a little bored in the end.
After drinking the last sip of wine from the glass, Marquis Wade simply stood up and said loudly:
"Today the army has just arrived to rest, and from tomorrow onwards no more banquets, drinking or having fun will be allowed."
If someone else had said these derogatory words at a banquet, no one would have paid any attention to it, and it would have even aroused disgust. But since Marquis Wade said it, everyone had no choice but to obey.
The candlelight shone brightly, and the wine still flowed into the glasses, but there was no noise as before. Everyone's interest was disturbed by Marquis Wade, and the banquet ended quickly.
Under the guidance of his maid, Marquis Wade went to the luxurious room prepared for him by Hull's house with the intention of falling asleep early, but unexpectedly he suffered from insomnia.
Perhaps, we really should follow Lint's suggestion at all costs?
