After Kyle Horton returned, Broken Bridge City was immediately sealed off inside and outside. The guardians of the city gate are all family lines.
When the young city lord Harding saw the second batch of knights returning from the battle, he immediately knew why the protagonist guarding the city gate had to solemnly report the matter, but he controlled the news to prevent leakage.
Because it was a group of wounded or seriously wounded who came back.
There were five knights in total, two of which had broken legs, and two of their torso opened wide. There is also a scoop on his head, which may hang up at any time.
This is simply a loss of baggage. Unless they can be reborn with severed limbs, these five knight masters are equal to abolishment.
The five knights were sent back by an old carriage. The driver was an old farmer outside the city, doing the work of giving people a letter in order to reward money.
The Young City Lord immediately gritted his teeth and put the old farmer in prison, and then asked the five knights who came back what was going on? Only one of the five knights with a broken leg could answer, roughly telling the situation last night.
"The city lord ordered to fight for honor, and we attacked the enemy. But the knights who rushed up in the first wave were all hung on the tips of their guns.
What if we kill them ten and a hundred? Those damn untouchables enchanted their weapons and easily pierced the armor of the noble. "
The broken-legged knight's face was pale and his breath was unstable. But he was still very unconvinced in his heart. It is shameful that ordinary infantry can use first-level arcane magic to add sharpness to their spears.
"Fortunately, they didn't have many spears that they could temporarily enchant. After the spears of the first row of infantry were broken, I rushed away from the second row of infantry, and also chopped off two or three heads of them."
Speaking of'hack and kill', the broken leg knight grinned again, which was already a very good feat last night. But soon he said more sadly: "It's too dark and the battlefield is too chaotic.
I followed a few colleagues desperately rushing out, dashing hundreds of meters only to find no one around me. We tried to return to the battlefield, but soon discovered that the enemy had not let us go.
A group of light cavalry attacked us in the dark. I swear, I had a desperate contest with them. Both sides were blushing, and each other suffered casualties.
Their combat skills are not good, but they have to admit that the opponent's cooperation is better than ours. They can always attack our weaknesses and pick out the lonely people to fight. Two colleagues soon died, and I and the other two had to retreat. "
The broken leg knight twitched the corners of his mouth a few more times, "The retreat is not easy. Whenever we feel that we are safe, the enemy's light cavalry can always come out of the darkness.
We can't tell the direction, we can only escape. Fleeing, I was separated from my colleagues. At that time, no one cared about anyone, just wanted to ride the horse and run farther.
But in the end, I found myself going around and back to the battlefield again, confronting the enemy again, only to lose my leg. I thought I was dead, but I didn't expect to be taken to Green Valley Town by them. "
Having said this, the Broken-Legged Knight drew a letter from his chest and handed it to Harding.
"I didn't stay long in Green Valley Town. The evil Hugo probably saw me useless, and sent me and several other knights back together with this letter.
He asked me to relay a sentence. There are probably more than 80 captured Horton knights in his hand, all of which are intact. He said that as long as we agreed to his terms, those knights could return it to us. "
The papyrus letters are very crude, the pages are stained with blood, and the handwriting is not very clear.
Harding stared at the broken-legged knight and slowly accepted the letter. The content of the letter was very simple, requiring more than 80 captured knights to be exchanged for something. If the Holden family disagrees, the knights will be executed.
"Monster Hugo captured more than 80 family knights?"
Harding felt unbelievable, shouldn't his own knight be brave and good at fighting, tenacious and unyielding? But by this calculation, more people were captured than those who escaped back, and more than those who died in battle.
The broken-legged knight smiled bitterly, "Yes, Hugo asked me to count. Not many people died on the spot last night, most of them were killed in the night escape.
More people surrendered in hopelessness. They probably thought they would be able to get back as long as they paid the ransom. But the evil Hugo obviously doesn't think so. "
The request in the letter is simple. Broken Bridge City must pay a sum of damages for defeat, lift the trade and traffic blockade, and hand in a certificate of submission.
The first two requirements are easy to say, but the last one is troublesome. Victor Hugo directly named in the letter: "Hand over to Coldwind City, the old wizard Bank who visited Broken Bridge last night."
In just one day, how did Monster Hugo know that Bank from the Long Legs family was in Broken Bridge City
Unless..., there is an insider in the city.
Thinking of this, Harding couldn't help sweating profusely. A series of names and avatars flashed through his mind, and the nobles who refused to send troops looked suspicious last night.
How can this be done
The city lord fainted, and the young city lord had no idea at all.
Accepting Hugo's request is undoubtedly tantamount to drawing a gap with other aristocratic forces in the North. If the Long-legged family is successfully restored that day, the Holden family will never be let go.
But if you don’t agree...
Harding couldn't help but feel even more alarmed-more than 80 family knights are in the hands of the enemy, which is a precious asset. If these subjects can be returned, the Holden family's position in Broken Bridge City will not be shaken.
Where are the lessons for the long-legged family? If the family's strength is weakened, it will immediately end in despair. How to decide is a test of the ruler's ability.
At this moment, in the same night, and also after the war, Zhou Qingfeng cleaned the battlefield in the unknown village, preparing to withdraw the team back to Green Valley Town.
The heavy-duty four-wheeled carriage pulled the dead bodies and limbs of the war dead, rumbling one step ahead. More than one hundred wounded soldiers lay in the temporary medical tent built on the road outside the village, waiting for the second batch to depart.
Zhou Qingfeng has a large number of spell slots every day that can all be converted into healing magic, but only a small part of the wounded can be rescued. The followers of the "Mother of Diseases" acted as military doctors, caring most of the wounded with homemade herbs.
"The infantry regiment suffered one hundred and eighty-two casualties, of which 57 were unrecoverable serious injuries and deaths. The others should be able to return to the team after treatment."
Outside the medical tent, Ma Han, the commander of the infantry regiment, reported the statistics to Zhou Qingfeng.
The casualty rate is quite high. The total strength of the infantry regiment is 500, but there are only about 400 combatants, and the rest are logistical support.
If the team loses more than 40%, it is equivalent to a complete loss of combat effectiveness.
Neither of them looked very good.
"Transfer from the supplementary regiment and restore the combat effectiveness of your three battalions as soon as possible." Zhou Qingfeng ordered.
After winning Coldwind City, he immediately trained a three-hundred-member supplement team. The training of the supplementary group is not enough, and the equipment is much worse. But now it’s not as good as it is.
The cavalry squadron of more than 100 people also suffered more than 30 casualties, and the permanent loss of force reached 10%. The infantry is okay to replenish, but it is difficult for the cavalry to even replenish.
The only thing that made Zhou Qingfeng happy was that he defeated the Horton family in Broken Bridge City and eliminated the threat to the west of his home. He bet that with the fiasco of last night, give Kyle Holden ten more guts, and the other party would not dare to make trouble.
In the fierce battle last night, more than two hundred noble knights were beaten and fled. This battle will definitely give the opponent a deep memory.
In the dark night, the light cavalry under Zhou Qingfeng couldn't stop the opponent from fleeing. But the next day, the light cavalry in Coldwind City drank the physical potion and rushed to grab the prisoners.
The fleeing aristocratic master panicked at night, and the horses were weak. Basically, they were within five kilometers of the surrounding area.
There were more knights captured than hacked.
All the prisoners were handcuffed and sent back to Coldwind City like prisoners. What noble dignity is inferior to Zhou Qingfeng's eyes, and the defeated are not qualified to make conditions.
"With this group of prisoners in hand, I am not afraid of any trouble on the west flanks. I can concentrate on dealing with the Buche family that has been killed from the south. I heard that the family crest is the Gorgon. I don't know how powerful it can be? "
Zhou Qingfeng thought to himself that it was the Banshee Fort that threatened Coldwind City. At this moment, a messenger came from the direction of Coldwind City to ensure that he had timely communication with the city.
There is nothing wrong in the city. At most, the strange maids sent a message-the modification of "Shiying" is very successful, and the master will get a brand new mount.
But Jiying himself has reservations about this sentence.
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