As the situation in the snowfield became tense, under Richard's order, the war machine in Northland began to operate rapidly.
Originally, tens of thousands of troops were stationed in Snowfield City for defense, but this time to prepare to completely solve the problem of Snowfield, tens of thousands of troops are definitely not enough. At this time, Northland's military strength is actually quite sufficient, because for a long time,
The Hunter family was all in a situation where they drew their swords and looked around but couldn't find any opponents.
The ogres to the west have had their backs broken and can no longer pose any threat to the Demon Suppression City. The city, which was originally used to defend against ogres in the wilderness, is actually used to resell kobold slaves and transit ogre slaves.
The rapid construction of the center and Northland is not only due to the extremely high administrative efficiency of the Hunter family, but also to the continuous supply of labor in the wilderness.
Facts have proved that as long as there is profit, human beings can always show amazing potential. Originally, kobold slaves were the mainstream slaves in the North. They are not too tiring to work, easy to feed, and they are very loyal to their masters after being tamed. They are still excellent.
Miners are favored by major chambers of commerce and nobles in the North.
But kobolds have a serious shortcoming, that is, lack of labor. It's not that kobolds don't want to work, but they are born with low strength, and it's almost useless even if they are willing to work.
Some slave traders in the wilderness finally, driven by profit, took action against the ogres who were previously feared like tigers. Some ogres and small tribes who hunted and lonesome became the targets of slave traders.
During their attempts, they actually found a way to tame the ogres into slaves. Since then, there has been another product on the slave market of Demon City.
As the manager of Demon Suppression City, Lint had a resigned attitude towards this. Under his governance, the core rules of Demon Suppression City were two. One was to allow these slave-catching teams to be lawless in the wilderness and return to human beings.
No trouble is allowed on the territory, especially after entering the Demon Suppressing City.
At first, these ruthless people who dared to capture slaves in the wilderness would challenge the rules of the Demon Suppression City. However, under the strong suppression of the Flying Bear Army, they soon understood that the habits in the wilderness must not be brought back to the human world.
The veterans of the Flying Bear Army who have come to be organized are not something that one or two knights can resist. The sword player holds a big shield and hits his face with dozens of powerful crossbows, and a single knight immediately has to take a break.
Therefore, no matter how cruel these slave-catching teams are in the wilderness, they must be good and law-abiding citizens when they return to Demon Suppression City.
As for the second rule, it is even simpler. No one is allowed to trade humans as slaves, including half-elves and half-orcs. This penalty is more severe than the penalty for causing trouble in the city. The use of force in the city only requires
Deal with individuals, but if it involves selling humans as slaves, then punish the entire caravan immediately, and everyone involved will start with the death penalty.
The Pandora's box of the slave trade has been opened, and we must find ways to restrict it, otherwise under the high profits, someone will always start to make crooked ideas.
Originally, the ogres in the wilderness had lost their most powerful tribe and could no longer pose any threat to the demon-suppressing city. Now, they are being continuously bled by large groups of slave-catching teams, causing them to not even dare to approach human territory.
The tens of thousands of flying bear troops in Demon Suppression City were completely idle. In order to maintain their combat effectiveness, Quill would even take a few flag regiment men to the wilderness from time to time to actively seek out ogres for training in order to maintain the army's combat effectiveness.
No matter how elite the army is, it will be easily destroyed if it is kept stationary. Only by moving from time to time to adapt to the battle can it maintain its combat effectiveness for a long time. But even so, the Flying Bear Army, which dominated several battles when the Hunter family started, is now in the wilderness.
The pacification also has the meaning of not being able to fight.
In the Demon City, a cavalry team of thousands of people poured into the city. Because the signal was given in advance, the soldiers at the city gate had already opened the door and placed their horses to stop them. The merchants who were originally entering the city were
The troops also moved to both sides to make way for the advancing army.
This cavalry is not an orthodox cavalry. Most of their riding skills are just for speed. They can ride on horseback, but their riding combat is relatively inferior. Most of the time they have to dismount and fight when they encounter the enemy.
The reason why such a cavalry was established was to have higher mobility in the wilderness and to chase down sporadic ogre tribes. This time, Quill led the troops to train and maintain combat effectiveness. The following of the Flying Bear Army
The flag regiment will go to the wilderness for rotation training every once in a while, for no other reason than to maintain combat effectiveness.
"Look at the people in the Second Flag Regiment, all of them have sullen faces. They must have gained nothing."
When the soldiers on the city gate looked at the cavalry who lined up below the city, they sounded a little gloating, because the team did not lose the battle, but everyone took the credit again. This kind of gloating is not excessive.
"It's so easy to gain something. Ever since those slave traders began to domesticate ogres for slave trade, the ogre tribes near the border have been disturbed by them and moved inward. Even if you go deep into the wilderness to search for several days, you may not be able to find them.
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"Look, they just captured some kobold slaves, and they can't even get the money back for horse feed."
"Come on, forget about the Second Flag Regiment. Next time it's our turn, we may not be able to gain anything. I, the leader of ten people, don't know when I will be able to go up."
The Hunter family valued military merit. In the early days, the military merit of the ogres was quite impressive. However, since several large tribes were broken up, the value of the ogres' military merit has been greatly reduced.
There is no military merit at all in defeating kobolds. Capturing some kobolds and selling them to slave traders often doesn't even get back the cost of launching an army, so there is no military merit.
"That Matt from the village next to us didn't join the army much earlier than me. Since joining the Dragon Army, he has been promoted to the capital after fighting a few battles. It's really enviable."
"Why, you kid wants to go to the Dragon Army?"
"How is it possible? We were born into the Flying Bear Army..."
"Come on, it's no big deal if you want to go to the Dragon Army. They are all troops under Lord Richard. It makes sense that the Dragon Army is promoted quickly. I heard that in the battle of Xueyuan, 20,000 to 30,000 people died in the Dragon Army alone.
When a person is fighting with those big guys who are more than ten meters tall, if he is accidentally slapped, the person will fall directly to the ground. When the body is collected in the end, you have to use a shovel to lift the person up."
"Hey, this doesn't scare me. You won't feel anything after you die anyway. Is there any difference between being hacked to death and being beaten to death? I have six brothers in my family, including me. If I can achieve the military prowess of a giant,
At least a centurion will be a knight after two weeks of training camp."
"Master Richard, don't forget about our Flying Bear Army. If the Dragon Army can fight a giant, so can our Flying Bear Army."
"Okay, okay, stop complaining here, Master Richard has his reasons for doing this."
"What's the point?"
"What's the truth? If I knew what the truth was, I would still be here guarding the gate with you Qiuba!"
"Stop talking nonsense. The army has passed. Hurry up and close the horse."
The ten-man leader finally stopped complaining that his men had nothing to fight. Anyway, whatever Sir Richard did was reasonable, although he couldn't understand why.
After Quill led the team back to the city, without much delay, the soldiers entered the camp and he headed directly towards the city lord's palace.
Nowadays, Quill's strength has reached the peak of the Great Knight. As a local talent who emerged in the early stage, Quill's performance has been good. Richard also used the various resources obtained from the system without hesitation on these early confidants.
A peak knight in his twenties can be called a super genius no matter where he is, but unfortunately in this local system, peak knights are so common that even Quill often feels a sense of crisis.
I never dare to slack off at all. To put it simply, with the huge investment of resources by the Hunter family, the entire Hunter family has become somewhat involuntarily involved.
This is also the reason why Quill is eager to gain military exploits. Only by continuously accumulating meritorious deeds can he exchange for more resources.
Quill walked into the city lord's palace with his armor still on. The soldiers around him didn't stop him. They saluted and let him in. Quill's face did not look good. The soldiers at the city gate guessed it right. This time
He led his army into the wilderness and failed again, only wiping out a small tribe of dozens of people. The larger tribes had fled long ago, and basically had no military exploits at all.
He came to the city lord's mansion this time just to find Lin Te and get a chance to fight.
Quill walked until he was in front of Lint's yard when he was finally stopped.
"What's wrong, Lord Quill?"
"Mr. Sander, I want to see Lord Lint!"
Sander followed Lint from Lanster's house to Hunter's house, and has always acted as Lint's personal guard. The great knight's peak strength can be regarded as a respectable strong man, and Quill did not trust him in front of him.
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"Let him in, Xander."
"Yes, Master."
Xander nodded to Quill, and Quill walked into the house.
"Congratulations to General Quill on his triumphant return."
Lin Te was sitting in the house handling official duties in the Demon Suppressing City. Although this place is far away from the City of Miracles, it is very important. As a transit place, the Demon Suppressing City supplies almost all the beef, mutton, and kobolds in the North.
Slaves can bring a huge amount of Jinnar income to the Hunter family, and even involve the mining of the strategic resource of magic crystal.
This is an important source of financial revenue. Not only did Richard place the entire Flying Bear Army here, but he also placed Lint here to take charge. Lint was familiar with all aspects of the Demon City's affairs and could provide these things.
Straighten it out and have enough gold in it every month for Richard to spend.
When Lint saw Quill come in, he gave a perfunctory compliment and then immersed himself in the matter at hand, but it was okay if he didn't say anything. As soon as he mentioned this, Quill began to pour out his bitterness.
"Lord Linte, please stop talking. Killing dozens of ogres is not a military achievement. Some of my men have not seen blood for almost half a year. If we don't fight, they will be useless."
Quill's words are of course a bit exaggerated. Although a long period of inactivity will indeed cause the army's condition to decline, the Flying Bear Army maintains good training. From time to time, they go to the wilderness to fight with the wind and play hide-and-seek with the ogres.
The combat power will not drop so fast, and the team will definitely not be ruined in at least half a year.
But what Quill wants to express is still very clear, he wants to fight.
"Oh? What does General Naquil mean?"
"We should go to the snowy fields to fight again this time, right? Can you suggest to Sir Richard that our Flying Bear Army also go to the snowy fields to see those giants?"
"General Quill is well informed."
"There is no news. Materials have been mobilized frequently during this period, and we in the north cannot go south to attack the kingdom. The wilderness is not worth such a big war, and we can only fight against those giants in the snowfield again."
"I do have an order from Lord Richard, but it may disappoint General Quill."
"What order?"
"The order arrived this morning for the Flying Bear Army to quickly set up defenses at the border connecting the wilderness and the snowfield. General Kerry will also come with the Tiger and Leopard Army to provide support."
"It's the flag waving again, alas!"
Quill did not dare to question Richard's order, but he inevitably showed disappointment. If he went to the border between the wilderness and the snowfield to set up defenses at this time, what kind of big battle could there be? The snow giant had no special circumstances and would not cross the border at all.
, the wilderness is not a suitable environment for them to survive.
"Lord Quill, don't be careless. There is a crystal vein where the Ice Flame Department was originally stationed. If there is a problem with the mine..."
"Don't worry, Mr. Lin Te, if there is something wrong with the mine, I won't be able to come back alive!"
“It’s always better to nip things before they happen.”
Richard's arrangement was not to let Quill lead people to attack from the wilderness to the snowfield. He was not that crazy. With the extreme temperatures in the snowfield, half of the army might freeze to death before Quill led the army to the battlefield.
What he was thinking about was that if he defeated the snow giant again this time, the snow giant without the royal court would definitely fall into chaos. It was winter again, and it was not unusual for the snow giant to cross the snowfields and hunt in the wilderness in winter.
Some sporadic tribes went south, and crystal production in the Influence Wilds was a big problem.
Just when Quill turned around and went back to make preparations, Lint said a word of relief.
"General Quill, don't worry, fighting the snow giant is just a small fight, the real drama is yet to come!"
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In the wilderness, the Flying Bear Army was just to prevent the small tribe of snow giants from scurrying over, but here in Miracle City, they were preparing to defeat the main force of the snow giants.
"Quickly, transport those divine crossbows over there. We can install more on the teleportation array."
The main forces of the Dragon Army and the Griffin Army have been assembled. The original 100,000-person Snowfield City now has more than 300,000 troops stationed there. Coupled with various war equipment, Snowfield City is beginning to look crowded.
Fortunately, the supply of Snowfield City relies on the input of the teleportation array in Miracle City, otherwise even the power of the North would not be able to support an army of 300,000 to fight on the Snowfield.
At this time, a large number of divine crossbows were deployed in the snowfield city, and their positions and angles were all adjusted according to Christine's wishes. Compared with the last hasty battle, the Hunter family was much more prepared this time. At least they could
Nearly 500 divine crossbows, feared by the snow giants, were prepared this time.
This time, both sides are preparing for this battle with the mentality that they must win...