North of Ellington and south of Jinhu Town, the winter snow is melting and the sun is still slightly cold. In this weather, a force is moving south on the muddy road.

In the cold weather, they wore cold armor, but these soldiers did not complain. The atmosphere in the whole team was terrible.

Only one Ranger team is a little more lively.

"Oh, damn it! The mud got into my boots!"

The ranger of caspamiburg, Lord Lawrence's scout, Riley, a young and lively young man, complained and cursed: "this damn ghost weather, why do we leave our warm home and run to search for what escaped farmers?"

"Stop talking nonsense," Aaron, Riley's comrade in arms and also a black iron Ranger, stared at him, then nervously looked at the Silent Army next to him and whispered, "don't you realize the real purpose of this time?"

"Real purpose? What purpose can it have?"

Rayleigh was very puzzled: "didn't he say to hunt down the farmers who fled the territory without authorization?"

"When will you be able to use your brain? I don't understand how you awaken your talent!"

Another comrade in arms sighed, quietly pointed to the dull army next to him and said, "don't you see these soldiers? They are private soldiers led by Lord Lawrence himself. Don't you find how elite they are? In this damn weather and road, they have marched in armor for a day, but no one speaks!"

"That's because they are all wood."

"Even wooden people will complain unless their mouths are sewn!"

Aaron lowered his voice and said, "I accidentally noticed them eating raw meat in the tent last night! Bloody Warcraft meat!"

Several friends nearby suddenly widened their eyes. Just about to speak, Aaron hurriedly made a silent gesture, and then his voice was lower: "Lord Lawrence's soldiers and cavalry are a little wrong, but it's certain that they didn't come out to catch the escaping farmers. They're more like preparing for a war - haven't you seen that they've prepared food and grass for more than a month? And it's said that there are more materials behind them."

"Damn it, he's preparing for a war? But who's the target? Since these soldiers are so powerful, why does he want us to fight?"

Aaron said calmly, "maybe it's because he needs some sober scouts. Rangers are the best scouts. Those soldiers don't seem to have any response except to obey orders."

Riley took a breath of air conditioning, couldn't help holding his arm and said, "listen to you, I suddenly feel a little scared. Can we stand by a group of monsters?"

Aaron secretly glanced at the carriage of the commander in the distance and couldn't help sighing. If it was a monster, it would be easy to say that it was a group of things more terrible than monsters.

The silent troops crossed several empty towns along the way in a straight line. They didn't mean to disperse the searchers at all, and went straight south.

As far as Aaron knows, Ellington was the only one before entering the ladia forest in the south.

The territory ruled by Donne who killed former Lord duvier Kadir.

Thinking of this, Aaron couldn't help but worry. The goal seemed obvious. I'm afraid Lord Lawrence, like duvier, wanted to attack Ellington.

After all, Ellington is now accumulating a steady stream of wealth, and the mayors of several surrounding towns will be jealous, not to mention the Lords of caspamiburg.

Before Ellington became famous, among these towns in the west close to the ambris mountains, Castle palmy was the only one in the top row. It made a lot of money from the military by supplying products to the scar of the holy sword. Now Ellington has robbed the limelight. Lord Lawrence can't help but blush and wants to start.

It happened that the farmers who fled in winter gave him an excuse to send troops

Aaron sighed a long sigh. Obviously, they are all people of the same country, but they have to fight and kill for the interest disputes between these Lords. It's really sad for people to live.

In the carriage, Lawrence looked at the troops ahead with great satisfaction.

Elite, this is the real elite!

What kind of soldiers are the soldiers left by duvier? Just a group of worthless waste. Look at these soldiers. They march without complaint. The heavy armor is like nothing. They are well disciplined and powerful. Any soldier can tear the second-order demon beast!

And obey orders absolutely, even if they are ordered to die - Lawrence really tried this command, and the soldier did not hesitate to execute it.

This is the Iron Army!

The satisfied Lawrence couldn't help feeling. He really wanted to ask the patriarch how to train these powerful dead men, but he could only dispel his curiosity when he thought of Charles's explanation in the letter.

The only trouble is that these soldiers consume a lot, and their requirements for food are troublesome. They need fresh flesh and blood.

Fortunately, the temperature is not high yet, fresh flesh and blood will not be damaged during transportation, and there are magic freezers - thank Datang chamber of Commerce, whose products are of great use at this time.

Above the hills in the distance, several human figures flashed away.

"Are these people? They obviously came for Ellington. What else do they say about hunting refugees and cheating ghosts?"

Danny stared at the man angrily: "less nonsense. Our task is to investigate and feed back the situation."

"Well, well, you're the boss. You're powerful. How many enemies are there?"

Danny inspired his talent eagle eye and roughly swept Lawrence's troops: "I'm not sure. About 1000? 1500? You can see shield soldiers, crazy soldiers, light cavalry, heavy cavalry and archers... Oh, wait, the other party has Rangers!"

The difference between the Apocalypse Ranger and the soldier Archer is still obvious. Because they awaken their talents and cultivate their strength, Rangers rarely wear useless defense equipment. They mostly rely on their own flexibility, wind spells and various unique auxiliary skills to avoid damage, while archers can't. their fragile bodies are easy to die when hit, So we need to prepare some defense equipment.

Danny said strangely, "other troops are quite normal and courageous, but why doesn't that Ranger team feel like a regular army? Are they mercenaries?"

Because the other phalanxes are well disciplined, the Ranger team has been magnified countless times just a little carelessness, which is very eye-catching.

"No matter how many he is, how many people?"

"I'm not sure. There are nearly two thousand people by visual inspection, maybe more."

"Only more than 2000 people?"

Next to a recording guy, he said, "it's probably not enough."

"Just your words... Wait! The ranger of the other party has started to act. Clean up the traces immediately and we will retreat."

When Danny noticed that the other Ranger began to accelerate forward, he immediately issued an order. The team immediately cleaned up the traces and evacuated the scene. With the gain of wind magic, they were as fast as the wind and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Ellington.

"You see, I mean what I say?"

Donne stood in the freezer, pointed to a house made entirely of all kinds of candy and said to Nora, "the candy house promised you, life-size scale, do what you say!"

Nora didn't have time to answer his questions. The moment she saw the candy house, she couldn't control her impulse. She screamed and rushed up, and then "snapped" on the door.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Nora didn't look embarrassed after being taken off by Donne. She just lay on Donne's hand and stared at the candy house with a silly smile and a happy blush.

After a while, she flew up again, tried to open the door and went into the candy house.

Donne glanced at the palm of his right hand, a small pool of wet water stains.

"Really, I'm still drooling... It should be drooling..."

Donne sniffed. There was no strange smell. After wiping himself casually, he turned and went out.

As soon as Tang en left the warehouse, a bright green light appeared in the candy room. Then a delicate and lovely little girl with green hair appeared in the room, lying on the soft cake bed, looking at the muffin ceiling dotted with fruit candy and smelling the sweet smell around. The little girl with green hair was almost knocked unconscious by the sudden gift bag.

"Ah... Sure enough, it's still the happiest... But the mini form can eat longer! If you knew earlier, it would become this general form, and then ask for a bigger candy house!"

Yes, this little girl with green hair about one meter six is Nora who has been drilling around Donne's head and pocket.

Donne, who has left, obviously can't see this amazing scene, because he has now received information from Danny and them.

Donne glanced at the record: "estimated to be more than 2000? Will it exceed 3000?"

Danny said very honestly, "I can't see clearly because of the terrain."

Just as Fiona was about to speak, Aurelia frowned and said, "according to the scale of the territory and the standards of imperial law, caspami Fort should not have more than 500 private soldiers and 1000 regular soldiers. Even if she gave up all public security patrols and mobilized all these people, it should not exceed 2000."

"But now the fact is that there are at least two thousand people on the other side," Fiona's eyebrows twisted. "Where do the extra people come from?"

"Hey, the other party is ready to attack us. Do you still care about these things?"

Donne couldn't cry or laugh: "no matter how many people they came, if they don't accept it, they will fight and kill it. It's that simple."

Fiona thought, "how many of us?"

"At present, if all the members of the guard add up, it will be 4000 less."

Aurelia stared, "why so few?"

According to imperial law, as an earl, Donne could have 1000 private soldiers and 5000 regular soldiers. She didn't expect that Donne had only 4000 soldiers.

Donne smiled and said faintly, "the soldiers are not many but fine, and will not be brave but scheming."