Warlord: King of All Clans

Leo felt happy when he saw the enemy militiamen using their own farm tools and weapons to cut down trees, clear stones, fill ditches and repair roads.

"I didn't expect the enemy to build roads for us. That's great!"

Then he asked Vicky, "Do you think we should send some food and charcoal to reward them? It's freezing cold, I'm afraid they can't hold on, there are still 80 miles to go."

Vic rolled his eyes. As the military commander of Stonebreak Castle, when he heard the news about Gladstone's Legion, he immediately assembled all the wild hunters and kobold scouts, preparing to give them a surprise along the way.

But when the scout brought back the news, he hesitated and kept his troops on hold for the time being, waiting for Leo to come and make the decision.

Apparently his hesitation was right, and Leo also advocated patience.

The other party is repairing the road!

Although the Anzeno River basin is not as cold as the Arctic Ice River basin, it is still possible to freeze people to death in winter.

A few days ago, heavy snow blocked the mountains, so that the production in the entire Hewanling area almost stopped, and all field operations were terminated.

Everyone hid in the warm houses, lit the charcoal distributed by the lord, ate delicious and clean food, and waited for the heavy snow to stop.

As the owners of this land, they haven't even started construction yet, but this group of outsiders have already started building a road.

His heart is despicable, but his actions are encouraging!

Before Vicky could speak, Leo asked again, "Are there any other threats around here?"

Vicki replied: "Basically gone, just a few packs of wolves and two small tribes of gnolls with about a hundred people."

"Go away! Don't offend the noble man and delay the progress of the project."

Vicchi could only obey, "Yes..."

Leo had been in Hewan for a year and was considered an experienced contractor. He observed the construction speed of the enemy militia and calculated in his mind, and he knew the enemy's marching speed.

"Let's go home and sleep!"

The pine plains between the Hewan Peninsula and the gravel hills are divided into two large areas by the Hewan. The western part close to the foothills is called the northern pine plains, which is the back garden of the Hewan.

The area from the Great Swamp to the south in the east all the way to the World Tree Avenue is called the Eastern Forest.

This side is even larger and is an undeveloped primeval forest. The wild hunting teams hunt and clear it out day after day, and there are not many wild beast groups and alien tribes left.

Because of the existence of Gravel Castle, the foreign tribes migrating from the north did not dare to face the sharp edge of the river bend, so they turned at the Gravel Hills, passed through the eastern forest, and went to the World Tree Avenue.

To some extent, what the Gladstone family said about the River Bay Territory joining forces with foreign tribes to plunder the villages north of Isenbol does have some basis.

After all, these barbaric and brainless foreigners, instead of plundering the river bend right in front of them, turned around and crossed a hundred miles of forest to plunder those outside the Wolf-Driving Plain. There must be something fishy going on!

The Gladstone family's attack also confirmed Rigolav's view.

In this world, others will not follow the rules just because you are willing to do so.

If the Knight Family does not show its edge, does not make a name for itself, and just stays in a corner to develop, it will only be looked down upon and then invaded.

Not all knight families uphold chivalry. Some knight families were recruited by bandit leaders. They don’t even have a book in their homes and can barely recognize a few words.

They are nothing more than thugs hired by the upper lords. As long as they don't rob places blatantly, the upper lords will not care.

It is impossible to ask such people to farm and manage the land in peace. Once they smell blood, they will flock in and use the blood of the weak to satisfy their own selfish desires.

Many Knights of the Corner Flags would take their troops to clear out the wild folks when they had nothing to do, demonstrating their bravery. Their target was not the Basaka people in the Wolf Plain.

Little-known fact: in addition to traditional savages, bandits, and robbers, small natural villages formed by refugees are also called savage tribes.

The fact that Edward was able to recruit fifteen Corner Flag Knights to form a legion was not entirely due to the influence of the Gladstone family.

As the commander of the legion, the square-flag knight Edward was actually feeling very uncomfortable.

After a series of blows, the Gladstone family has begun to show signs of decline.

Among the knights of the corner flag recruited this time, except for a few diehard ones, the other knights did not obey his orders very much.

It is extremely difficult to build a road through the mountains in the cold winter.

Commanding two thousand people to march in an orderly manner in the wilderness also tests the general's command ability.

However, some corner flag knights expressed their dissatisfaction on the first day, feeling that the marching speed was too slow.

During the evening military tent meeting, a flagman even suggested that the legion abandon its baggage and march forward with half of the soldiers, carrying the other half on their backs.

Half of the soldiers were on the road, while the other half were sleeping on the backs of their comrades, waking up in the middle of the night and then taking turns.

In this way, the soldiers' physical strength can be saved, and they can even travel day and night, covering a hundred miles a day, plundering like fire and launching surprise attacks on the enemy.

If this knight with the corner flag was not a qualified heavy knight with more than 30 regular infantrymen under his command, and if his two uncles and three cousins ​​were not also corner flags, Edward would have ordered him to be dragged out and beheaded on the spot.

Edward could only suppress his anger and comfort her kindly.

But the other corner flags were not so cunning and started to mock loudly on the spot.

The Knight of the Corner Flag, who came up with the ingenious plan, felt that this was a deliberate suppression of him by Edward, and immediately expressed his intention to leave the legion and act on his own.

And he wanted to share the humiliation from the Gladstone family with his uncles and brothers.

With Edward's encouragement and support, the 2,000-man army spent five full days building a mountain road that was passable by carriages, and finally passed through the eastern forest.

Arrived at the twelve-meter-high wall of the Gravel Fort.

Edward, surrounded by more than a dozen corner flags, came closer to observe.

A corner flagger recovered from his shock and asked, "What is this?"

Another corner flag answered with difficulty: "This is the city wall."

The corner flag who asked the question said angrily: "I know this is a city wall! The question is, why is there a city wall higher than Isenbol in this wilderness?"

The wall of Isenbol is only nine meters high!

Knight Edward also had mixed feelings as he looked at the walls of Gravel Fort. His spies knew of the existence of Gravel Fort and had said that the walls were very high, but they did not say how high exactly.

In the perception of the people in the North, except for a few earl's main cities, there are almost no city walls in the North that are higher than ten meters.

Knight Edward could only wave his hand to interrupt his subordinates' venting quarrels, "Then we can set up camp, build siege weapons, and take this place down."

"How many regular soldiers can a knight's territory, which was established less than a year ago, have? They just gathered a group of refugees. There is no need to worry."

When Edward was blocked at the western watchtower by the Knights of Solovie during his first expedition, he did not give up on River Bend.

The spies of the Gladstone family later followed the merchants and adventure groups into the river bend to explore, and they had visited the river mouth town, the river bend peninsula, and Gravel Fort.

However, after the appearance of the Black-Armored Elite, River Bay entered a state of alert, adventurers and traders were monitored, any adventuring group with more than thirty people would be expelled, and Gravel Castle even became a restricted area.

Gladstone's spies could only take a quick glance.

The information Edward obtained was that a large number of refugees gathered in the river bend, opened up the wilderness, built castles with very high walls.

But in his opinion, what fighting power can refugees have?

When tens of thousands of refugees were driven to the western wilderness, the lord's army responsible for driving them away consisted of only a thousand people.