Soon, the battlefield was cleaned up, and these people directly stripped off all the weapons and equipment on the demon hunters and templars.

If Richard hadn't stopped them, these people would have even stripped off their clothes.

After all, these exiles had almost nothing. Although these clothes were stained with blood, they didn't care about it.

The templars wore two sets of armor, but there were damages on their chests. The other nine demon hunters and demon hunter instructors wore iron-studded armor. In addition to these, there were more than a dozen war horses, more than a dozen gold coins, more than a dozen silver coins and some copper coins.

"What are you going to do next?" Richard asked the witch in front of him.

"Thank you for saving my life." Aleiya looked at Richard and felt that he looked like the person in a recent rumor, so she asked: "Are you called Richard?"

"Yes." Richard nodded.

"So the rumor is true!" Aleiya said in surprise.

"What rumor?" Richard asked curiously.

"It is circulated among our group of 'heretics'. It is said that in Gaul, a child of destiny who can save us has come." Aleiya said self-deprecatingly.

"In the past few decades, we have heard this rumor more than once, but all the rumors have failed without exception."

"At first, we found Julian and wanted to fight against monotheism by supporting him to become emperor, but in the end we failed."

"Then we tried to resist in various ways, but unfortunately none of them succeeded. After that, our prophecy never got an answer."

"There is only a sea of ​​fire and darkness."

The sea of ​​fire should symbolize that the witches will eventually be burned to death, and the darkness refers to the medieval era that lasted for a thousand years, which was also the darkest era in Europe.

"We have heard the recent rumors, but we used prophecy, and the results did not change, so we think that there is no child of destiny."

Richard glanced at her and did not comment on the results of their predictions. Not to mention their prophecy, even the prophecy of the gods could not predict Richard.

They were just making predictions unintentionally. If they were to predict Richard directly, the backlash of the prophecy would probably kill them.

"The prophecy is not accurate, and if you can predict, others can predict, so what do you think the result will be?" Richard said with a smile.

The spell of prophecy can only be used as a reference. If you really take it as the real future, you will be close to death.

Many prophecy wizards in the history of Motela died in this way.

What's more, can you be sure that the prophecy you see is definitely true? The prophecy school also has a spell that can let you see the prophecy he wants you to see. Of course, it is difficult to cast this spell successfully.

"Sir Richard, can you leave a way to contact you? I need to attend the witch gathering this time, and when I come back, I want to do something for you." Aleiya said.

Richard told her the contact information. Although these witches have declined, they still have a lot of power in their hands. For example, this Aleiya, she is not only a noble who owns several manors, but also controls several fleets.

The fleet trades from Egypt, Damascus, Carthage and other places, but the fleet is also affected by the war.

This time she went to Gaul to attend the witch gathering, because the Roman Church has begun to liquidate heretical witches. In order to protect themselves, these witches have to form a witch gathering to seek self-protection, and at the same time they are preparing to escape from Rome.

However, her whereabouts have obviously been known by the Roman Church. In Rome, because of her noble status and many marriage families, the Roman Church is not easy to trouble her. But after leaving Rome, the church couldn't help but take action.

The Roman Church swept polytheism into the garbage dump of history, and these people were just some remnants of polytheism hiding from place to place.

After today's pursuit, Aleiya has decided to evacuate in advance. But before leaving, she needs to deal with her property in the empire.

Even if you want to escape from the empire to other places, you need money. The purpose of the witch gathering is to work together to find a place where they can live.

After knowing the location of Richard's camp, Aleiya left hurriedly with the remaining three guards.

Richard returned to the camp with the convoy. This time he brought back a large amount of supplies, enough for the people in the camp to live for a long time.

In the following time, Richard continued to look for other escaped slaves, deserters, and remaining Celts in the mountains and forests, while continuing to build camps and expand the output of ironworks.

With the arrival of troubled times, weapons and armor became particularly important. During this period, these things were in high demand and could not be bought at all, so they could only be produced by themselves.

After trading with the outside world, not only some supplies were replenished, but also a lot of news was obtained.

For example, in recent times, the garrisons of some towns outside have been withdrawn. It is said that the empire's defense in the province of Pannonia was defeated by the Huns. In order to resist the Huns, the Roman emperor could only withdraw troops from various places to resist.

Pannonia is actually today's Hungary, Romania, Serbia and other regions. Now it has become the territory of the Huns.

At the same time, Rome could no longer resist the barbarian attacks in Germania. The Danube defense line had been breached by the barbarians, and the northern provinces of the empire had now become a racecourse for the Germans.

These Germans came and went as they pleased. Rome was simply unable to resist.

At this time, the Roman Empire had become precarious, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was going to perish.

In the following time, Richard used various methods to subdue the exiles scattered in several other camps in the mountains and forests.

This allowed the population under his rule to continue to expand, and the population has now grown to more than 4,000 people. And the mountains and forests within hundreds of miles nearby have basically been searched by him.

If you want to gather more people, you can only go to other places. There are tens of thousands of exiles scattered in the Gaul Mountains, and these can all be attracted.

However, Richard can't feed so many people now, and the development of the mountains is limited after all, and it is impossible to expand indefinitely.

After the population reached 5,000, Richard finally formed an army of 500 people. Five hundred people were divided into five hundred teams, of which Sean, Cruz and Betley led one team respectively, and the Celtic priest Drenos led one team.

The remaining team was led by Richard himself.

After several months of development, the camp is now developing well. In the past, these refugees were skinny and pale. After several months of recuperation and training and sufficient food supply, their bodies have become very strong.

After rigorous training, the five hundred soldiers can form a qualified military formation.

Although they are taken out individually, their martial arts are very ordinary and they only know some simple assassination moves, but after forming a military formation, they are enough to compete with the same number of Roman soldiers.

The only problem is that the army's armor and weapons are still insufficient. Although the output has been increased several times, the output of armor and weapons in the camp is still not high.

Twenty pieces of armor can be produced per month, 5,000 bow and arrowheads, 500 javelins, 300 spear heads, and some long swords.

Now in the entire army, the number of armors added up just over 100, and the armor rate just over 20.

With such a low armor rate, if they were to fight against the Roman garrison and the Germanic barbarians, they would probably be defeated in one battle.

In order to make up for the lack of armor, Richard could only ask people to make a large number of shields. He wanted to use a large number of shields to make up for the lack of defense.

The problem now is that the development in the mountains and forests has reached a bottleneck period. If he wants to continue to grow and develop, he must obtain more resources.

Seeing this situation, Richard decided to start intervening in the war between the barbarians and the Roman Empire. Of course, he did not rush straight into it, but led a small force to deal with some small forces or defeated troops.

At this time, the Germania region was already in a mess. The Germania region was very wide, including Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc.

Almost the whole of Europe was in chaos, with barbarians, rebels, and Huns looting everywhere. Richard did not want the empire to collapse completely here yet.

Now the empire is here, and the invasion of the Germanic barbarians is resisted by the Roman Empire, but if Rome falls and the Germanic people enter here, he will have to fight the Germanic people if he wants to develop.

With the little strength in Richard's hands, he is no match for the Germanic people.

So he needs Rome to continue to stand in front and give him enough time and space to develop. At the same time, the training of the army must be tempered in actual combat. Only through actual combat can this army be qualified.

Richard took the most elite 100 people to hide in the mountains and forests. On the plains outside the mountains and forests, the two armies were fighting on the plains. The scale of this battle was not large, and the total number of people was no more than a thousand.

It was a battle for strongholds.

The Roman army mainly relied on these strongholds to resist the invasion of the Germanic people. Once these strongholds were broken by the Germanic people, a large number of Germanic people would rush in from here and plunder.

The battle ended in the evening, and the two sides barely tied. In fact, the strength of the Roman legion has fallen behind that of the Germans, and it can only barely defend itself under the attack of the Germans.

Richard led his men to continue hiding in the woods. Soon, night fell. The German barbarians set up a military camp nearby, but their military camp defense was not tight. Obviously, these Germans did not think of the Romans' night attack at all.

In fact, these Roman legions did not have the idea of ​​a night attack at all. Night attacks require extremely high organizational skills for the army, and the current Roman legions do not have this ability at all.

But these Germans did not know that another army had already regarded them as prey.

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