Now Lorist understands what it means to underestimate the enemy and what it means to have an accident. From the bottom of his heart, he really regards those people who are huddled in the inner city as pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Originally, I just wanted to wait for the thunderbolt catapult camp of Ovekis to arrive after dawn, and use the catapult to destroy the defensive crossbows on the top of the inner city wall, so that the enemy would lose their long-range attack ability before launching an attack. After occupying the four walls of the inner city in one fell swoop, they can fight with The slave owners, slave merchants and slave catchers in the city have settled their accounts...
I just didn't expect those people in the inner city to jump over the wall in a hurry, and they fought for their lives. They gathered all the slaves in the inner city, modified some shield carts, erected the door panels on the trolleys, and forced the slaves to go to Norton outside the back city gate. The family's defensive vigilance line launched an assault. Immediately afterwards, people from the whole city swarmed out, and tens of thousands of people pressed on together, no matter how many casualties there were, they lowered their heads and rushed, and after rushing through the defensive camp, they ran all over the mountains and fields towards King Hamidas City...
Lorist suddenly remembered a joke. During the war of liberation in the previous life, the bald man yelled at his subordinates that they were inferior to pigs. Tens of thousands of pigs and rabbits had to be caught for two days and three nights. You had tens of thousands of pigs and rabbits cleaned up in one morning. it's trash...
But now the enemies escaping from the inner city learn from the pigs, which is enough to give Lorist a headache. Pigs can only run away, but these enemies will resist. They are also impatient when they are about to die, and they cannot escape and pursue them. The Norton family's armed forces fought desperately, and there were many swordsmen of the silver rank and gold rank among them.
Lorist had no choice but to send an order to all the family soldiers to form an formation before going after them. When encountering an enemy that could not be dealt with, he would protect himself first and hold the enemy back until the family knights arrived. Here I was busy rushing around to help, and on the other side I urgently ordered the tiger Rose Malek and other family knights who had just arrived at the dock area at night and had camped to rest to come for reinforcements.
He was busy until the afternoon when Lorist gave the order to blow the trumpet to withdraw the troops. At night, everyone gathered in the big tent. After receiving the casualty report, Lorist wanted to slap himself twice. There were more than 2,900 casualties, of which eight were killed in battle. One hundred and twenty-four people, almost a battalion was destroyed, and most of the sacrificed soldiers died heroically at the moment when the defensive line was broken when the enemy broke through.
Lorist's face was cloudy and cloudy, and he was extremely remorseful. When the old man's emissary came over last night, I should have pretended to have some discussions, and talked about compensation and other nonsense, first to delay the enemy, and let them wait for death in the city with peace of mind. Why did he tell the enemy clearly that his subordinates would not let them go without mercy, scared the old man back and collapsed, and ordered Bodfinger to stand in front of the city wall, forcing the enemies in the inner city to take risks and fight bravely.
Mistake! Lorist heaved a long sigh. It was time for him to learn this lesson. He regarded the enemy as pigs and dogs, and treated them as cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. In the end, he was slapped in the face.
Except for the strong troops deployed at the main entrance of the dock area, the other three city gates only have one heavy armored barracks and one steel crossbow battalion. Lorist always thought that a single steel crossbow battalion with five hundred steel crossbows blocked a city gate. More than enough, but forget that his family soldiers are not made of iron, they also need to rest. Like in the middle of the night, when the enemy forced those slaves to push the shield carts to attack the defensive position, there were less than a hundred steel crossbows that could shoot at the first time, so they were approached by the enemy and broke through the defensive line...
"My lord, we have counted." Bodelfinger entered the big tent, his left shoulder was bandaged and wounded again.
When the enemy broke through in the middle of the night, Bodfinger was the first to go to the rescue, just in time to save the life of the old man Injerek. At that time, the old man was forced to jump up and down by three great sword masters, and he couldn't escape. Fortunately, Bodfinger arrived and took over a great sword master, finally letting Injerek breathe a sigh of relief...
Compared with the great swordsman, Bodfinger is still a bit behind, but with his strong defensive swordsmanship, he can barely deal with the enemy. Then the tiger Ross came on horseback again, and the situation changed drastically. One of the two great sword masters who were fighting with Injerek saw that the situation was not good and abandoned his partner and fled. Beaten to death.
Now the great swordsman who was confronting Bodfinger was in a hurry and wanted to run away, but Bodfinger desperately entangled him, took a sword strike on his left shoulder, and persisted until Ingerek and Tiger Ross chased him away. However, the great sword master could only die in despair.
"Speak." Lorist said while covering his head.
"My lord, there are 7,432 corpses left by the enemy. Among them, nearly 5,000 people died on the road from the city gate to the defensive position during the breakout, but more than 1,700 of them belonged to those slaves. After a day's search, we captured more than 35,000 prisoners, most of whom were women and children."
Today, there used to be about 70,000 enemies in the inner city, but now only 40,000 have been arrested, and nearly 30,000 have escaped. It is conceivable that most of the escaped are young and strong. Women and children were thrown down. Now Lorist only hopes that Josk and Yuri's scout battalion can catch the enemy. They have horses and long-range shooting crossbows. They should be able to cause great damage to those enemies...
Shortage of horses! This time the scout battalion came with one person and one horse, not one person and two horses, because of the difficulty of sea transportation, it had to be like this. Even Ovekis' Thunderbolt sling camp, which was originally two horses and one cart, was reduced to one horse and one cart, and the speed was more than doubled. If there is another cavalry battalion, the pursuit of the tail can ensure that none of the enemies breaking through the inner city can escape. It's a pity that besides the tiger Rose who brought his beloved horse on board, even Lorist also set an example and didn't have a mount.
"The captured captives will be handed over to Hickerd, and he will pick out the women among them to set up a military prostitute camp, and the rest will be practiced in the newly formed slave guard camp. The heads are chopped off and embalmed. Rose, you can supervise this matter."
"Yes, my lord." Rose stood up.
"Malek, I will leave it to you to clean up the inner city. After cleaning, store all the seized property in the inner city first, as well as food and grass. The food and grass in the slave camp will be replenished once every three days. Do you understand?"
"Understood, my lord," Malek replied.
"Borg, you reorganize our family's armed forces, leaving two battalions of heavy armor and one battalion of single-wheeled crossbowmen here to defend the inner city and monitor the slave camp. Go ahead." Lorist ordered.
"Follow orders, my lord."
A guard outside the big tent came in and reported: "My lord, Tager is reporting to you."
Well? Why is Tagle still on the island? Lorist was taken aback. More than two months ago, he ordered Tager and El to infiltrate the Kingdom of Haneyabad through the Petersen Chamber of Commerce. On the one hand, he wanted to learn about the information about Nubit Port and Hamidas King City. On the other hand, I want to see if I can redeem those captured family knights and civil officials. As a result, there was no news after waiting for two months, so we had to take the risk of sending troops. Unexpectedly, Tager was still on the island for so long, what about El
"My lord, El and I pretended to be the nephews of the high-level executives of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce. Only when we got here did we find that the name of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce is not easy to use in Nubit Port. Because it has a close business relationship with the Kingdom of Haneyabad It’s the Chickard Chamber of Commerce, and the Peterson Chamber of Commerce has nothing to do with them, and the slave owners and slave traders here don’t buy it at all. But they treat us as young masters who have come out to see the world, and they treat each other politely.”
Even though he was neglected by the big slave owner and slave merchant in Nubit Port, Tager still got along like a fish in water. He made good friends with the middle and lower level people here, and he quickly got a lot of information. For example, how many slave-owner nobles and slave traders attacked Hilovas Island, how many migrant slaves were allocated, and where they worked.
Tagle even recorded the number of materials and supplies in various warehouses and commercial firms in Nubit Port, and rescued more than ten residents who were originally Hilovas Island through redemption and other methods. It was only when Tagle wanted to go back and report to Lorist that he was dumbfounded. There was no suitable ship...
At the beginning, the ship of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce sent the two of them to Nubit Port and returned after trading the goods carried on the ship. Now Tagle wanted to go back and couldn't find a suitable merchant ship for a while. Especially those friends who made him warned him not to take random boats, especially remember not to take those merchant ships who don’t know the details or have slave hunting teams. You take a dozen slaves by yourself, and most of them are female slaves. Merchant ships are likely to be attacked by these sailors or slave catchers at sea, and throwing you into the sea can wipe out the corpse.
It is best to stay for more than a month. It will be safe to wait for the fleet of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce to arrive at the end of October before taking their boat back. So Tagle had no choice but to stay in Nubit Port, waiting for Lorist's arrival. It's just that he was unlucky, and was coerced into the inner city by a few friends he made, and managed to hide and escape when the people in the inner city broke through. When the Norton family soldiers entered the inner city and he showed his identity, Lorist went to chase the enemy again, so he had no choice but to resettle the residents he bought back, and it has been delayed until now.
"Will the Chicod Chamber of Commerce's fleet come here at the end of October?" Lorist asked excitedly.
"Yes, my lord, the information I got is that the fleet of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce will come to Nubit Port every April and October to conduct transactions. Last April, the third young master of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce also came, and then in the reception They were drunk at the banquet and revealed that they wanted to attack our Hilowas Island, but they had to interrupt it because of the glass war. It is also what he said that our family gathered tens of thousands of refugees on Hilowas Island for development and construction. That's why those slave owners and slave traders came up with the idea of these refugees and attacked Hilovas Island." Tagle said.
"Hehe, Third Young Master, Chickde Chamber of Commerce, what a plan to borrow a knife to kill someone." Lorist understood, let's settle the score slowly in the future.
"Where's El?" Lorist asked.
"My lord, El has gone to the King City of Hamidas. This time, more than 1,300 soldiers from our family were captured on Hilovas Island. Except for more than 30 people who were tortured and died on the ship, the rest All of them were escorted to the Hamidas King City arena, and Shredder Knight and Jim Knight were also among them... "
Tager cried: "My lord, hurry up and save them, there are less than two or three hundred of them alive now. They were driven to fight with monsters in the arena and other slaves, and they are already dead There are too many people. During the national founding ceremony held last month, more than 500 soldiers of our family died in the arena. El and I sat on it and watched their tragic deaths with our own eyes. The audience also thought that they did not kill well enough, and demanded that all the injured should be executed... Everyone in Wangcheng deserves to die, my lord... "
Tager's words were like boiling oil poured on the flames. All the family knights in the big tent stood up angrily and shouted loudly, demanding that troops be sent to attack King Hamidas City immediately.
Lorist waved his hands with a gloomy face, and stopped the commotion in the big tent: "Don't make noise, the King Hamidas City is there, and none of them will try to escape, our family will retaliate against them. I am also sorry I want to send troops immediately, but you have to think about it. From the moment we landed yesterday morning, our family soldiers have not had a good rest at all, so the soldiers on the defensive front slept so dead last night that they were caught off guard by the enemy , broke out.
It takes a day for Nubit Port to go to Hamidas King City on a fast horse. If there are so many enemies in the morning, they will be able to spread the news to Hamidas King City tomorrow. Our family knights and soldiers in the Hamidas King City Arena should be safe for the time being. Now take a good rest for three days, recharge your batteries and go to Hamidas King City to avenge the heroic soldiers of our family! "
"Yes, my lord."
"Tager, what is El doing in the royal city?" Lorist asked.
"My lord, El plays a young master who is obsessed with swordsmanship. He bought off the steward of the arena and let the family soldiers and Shredder knight Jim Knight serve as his opponents for practicing swordsmanship. This will prevent them from being selected as great slave owners and masters. The gladiators who fought among the nobles died in vain. During the last national founding ceremony, in order to protect Knight Shredder in the arena, Knight Lafayette died in battle, and Knight Jim and Captain Tok were injured... "
"What about Shredder?" Lorist asked worriedly. Knight Lafayette was a captain of the 3rd Battalion of Guards. When Hilovas Island was attacked, he was ordered to lead a team to support Shiratori Town. He became a prisoner due to his injuries and coma. It's just that he didn't expect him to sacrifice heroically in order to protect Fatty Shi in the arena.
"Knight Schrader is fine, just suffered a slight injury, but that's how the boss of the arena suspects him to be a big shot. El wanted to redeem him but was rejected, so he could only visit him every day in the name of practicing swordsmanship. El wanted to connect all the slave gladiators in the arena to find a chance to resist and break out of Hamidas King City. But it was very difficult. There were two great sword masters sitting in the arena, and the slave gladiators had no weapons. Impossible to succeed..." Tager replied.
Fatty Shi was still alive, Lorist was finally relieved. Injerek stood up: "My lord, how about I sneak into King Hamidas City and rescue Knight Shredder and the others first?"
It is related to the lifelong happiness of his precious granddaughter. In order to keep his precious granddaughter from becoming a widow at a young age, and also to keep his lovely little grandson from losing his father, this old man has worked hard.
"You can't." Lorist shook his head: "You are sitting at the back gate of the city, and I don't know how many people are watching it. As long as you show up in Hamidas King City, it is guaranteed that the great swordsman will come to the door immediately Come on. Don't tell me you're going to die yourself, but don't implicate Shredder and the others."
The old man sat down resentfully, he knew that Lorist was telling the truth.
"It's me who wants to go. Except for the old man's emissary last night, the people in the inner city don't know what I look like. I will pay attention when I clean up the corpse, and then go to the captives to see if the old man has escaped. If If I don’t escape, I can go to Hamidas King City to see if there is a way to rescue Shredder and the others first.” Lorist said.
"My lord, you can't take risks..." The family knights in the big tent stood up one after another to persuade them.
"That's it. Don't talk about it. It's the right thing to get the troops in order and recuperate as soon as possible. They must be dispatched in three days. Don't worry about me. With my skills, I believe that there is no great swordsman in Hamidas King City. I am my opponent." , maybe I can cause some trouble for the enemy." Lorist laughed.
"Tager, please cooperate with Malek first, and point out the valuable warehouses in Nubit Port, and transport the property into the inner city for storage..."
Tager stood at attention and saluted: "Yes, my lord."
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