Rise of the Empire Total War

　　 Finally, the three of Sophia were found by Richard.

The cause of the matter was that Toby insisted on returning to the ground to check the situation. Sophia and Marlow couldn't hold him back, so they could only watch him crawling back down the tunnel with the captured iron sword. Toby was searched just as soon as he appeared. The feudal knight found out, but fortunately he called out his identity in time, otherwise the tragedy of falling heads would happen in the next second.

　　 After understanding the causes and consequences of the matter, Richard sighed helplessly. He could only be thankful that Sophia was not harmed and thanked Marlowe who appeared like rain in time.

　　 "Your Excellency Marlowe." Richard looked at Marlowe with a serious face, "Thank you for your helping hand. I am willing to give you a gift to show my gratitude."

　　 "It's just a matter of raising a hand." Marlow waved his hand, and just wanted to say the rejection, he blocked Chad's mouth without taking care of Chad's next sentence.

　　 "I am willing to grant you the status of a knight, and give you Bihac Village, a subordinate of Luwen City, as your fief."

　　 "hiss——"

　　 Marlowe took a deep breath, he looked at Richard in shock. He didn't expect that the noble boy in front of him would make himself a knight if he didn't agree with him.

"Richard, how can you do this? I want him to be my guard knight." At this moment, Sophia suddenly interrupted in dissatisfaction. She ignored the stains on her face and stood in front of Richard. : "I was rescued by him. He should be my guard knight."

　　 "……"

　　 Richard opened his mouth, still having no words to refute, he could only take a step back and stop talking. Sophia turned to look at Marlowe and asked, "Marlowe, are you willing to be my guard knight, and fight for the royal family from now on, dedicated to loyalty and life?"

　　 "I..." Marlow opened his mouth slightly, hesitated for a second or two, then nodded, kneeling on the ground, and said: "Your Royal Highness, I am willing to be your guardian knight, loyal to the royal family and devoting my life."

　　 "Okay." Sophia nodded in satisfaction, "When I return to Lavana, I will explain to my father..."

　　 Speaking of her father, Sophia suddenly stopped, seeming to remember the discord with her father before leaving, and bowed her head in a low expression.

Richard watched her changes, with a little guess in his heart. He reached out and patted Sophia on the shoulder, pulled her behind him, and then ordered the soldiers around: "Move here, destroy all the buildings. To prevent other forces from occupying this place."

　　……

　　On the way back to Lu Wencheng, Richard asked why Marlowe appeared in the thieves’ lair. In fact, this question appeared at the first sight of him, but he did not ask on the spot because of Sophia’s presence.

　　 Facing Richard's question, Marlowe hesitated for a while before he talked about his experience.

Before that, Marlowe was just a very ordinary caravan escort. The caravan he served was ambushed by the Ravis thieves when passing through this area. Was brought back.

Marlowe was imprisoned in a makeshift cell with a few of his companions. Out of his desire for freedom, he always wanted to escape from birth. Finally, on the fourth day of being caught, he found one that was hidden in the thick. In the tunnel under the wooden plank covered by thick straw, taking advantage of the time when his companion was sleeping, a person slipped in quietly.

　　 It's not that he doesn't want to call other people, but the probability of multiple people acting together will be greatly increased.

　　'S escape made him discover the new world—under the lair, there is a tunnel extending in all directions. This tunnel almost covers the entire lair, but embarrassingly, none of them leads to the outside!

　　 So Marlowe can only hide in the dark tunnel like a gopher, relying on the food that he sneaks out and steals from time to time.

Listening to Marlowe’s experience, Richard was deeply puzzled besides his emotions: why there is a tunnel network under the Laves Bandit’s lair; and why no one has discovered the existence of this tunnel, at least The fact that Marlowe has not been found is enough to show that no one noticed the tunnel during this period.

　　 However, these questions will not be answered after all, because the leader of the Ravis thieves has died under the sword of the knight, and his kingdom has been burned.

　　……

　　 After returning to Lu Wencheng, Richard found a better room in the city lord’s mansion and settled Sophia, and then returned to the study.

　　In the study, Governor Maximilian has been waiting for a long time. In his hand he not only holds the measures on how to manage the sanitation of the city, but also the plan for the formation of the security team.

In order to prevent the encounter of Princess Sophia from happening again, Richard decided to focus on the formation of the security team~www.readwn.com~ He took the scroll written in German, opened it and read it carefully. .

Maximilian’s plan can only be said to be quite satisfactory. Before the system was opened for recruitment of arms, he was restricted by certain restrictions and could only recruit local Ramirez people to form a temporary security team. The quality of this security team was not good. High, can barely cope with it for a while.

Maximilian’s plan is to recruit 300 locals to join the security team, conduct military training and then equip them, and then formally enter the battle in a few months. Of course, this battle only refers to the fight with the thieves. Fighting, let them fight against the existence of higher fighting power than thieves, it is simply self-defeating.

　　 This plan of his cost a total of 800 morse coins, in Richard's opinion, it is more appropriate, so he immediately decided after considering it and agreed with Maximilian's plan.

After 　　, he looked at another scroll. The method of how to deal with the sanitation problem was also quite satisfactory. There was nothing brilliant and there was nothing wrong with it. Richard only took a cursory glance and agreed, letting him take care of it.

　　 After dealing with Maximilian's affairs, Richard walked to the window and stretched, but he was thinking about returning to Nuremberg. It has been almost a month or two since he left Nuremberg, and he doesn't know what his nest has become.

Speaking of it, the refugees whom Lawrence had agreed to accept in Lavana City should have been sent to Kuban Island. If Richard does not go back to deal with the resettlement of them, the refugees are likely to become a factor that endangers his rule. .

　　 Therefore, Richard is going to return to Kuban with the feudal knights after he has taken care of his business in the next few days.

　　 As for the princesses Stephanie and Sophia, he is ready to be entangled.