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- This is the central command tent of the camp. Those who are qualified to be present are all lords of the new empire, including three dukes and their adjutants, nine noble marquises and viscounts, plus three divisions and two imperial electors. The entire tent was already a little crowded but no one was obviously interested in commenting on the scene just now.
They all have a tacit understanding and hide their opinions in their hearts.
Since Burgundy can produce a large amount of armor in a very short time, it is not a strange problem to equip a large number of crossbows - large-area force field arrays and the like are just excuses to cover up failure - magic It is indeed absurd that his creation was defeated by ordinary weapons, but in essence, it is just the inevitable result of arrogance.
But there is no harm in this kind of failure At least, I hope it can make those three old guys a little more honest.
"Three divisions that don't understand war and don't obey orders are simply a burden to a war. No, it's a disaster! Who knows how many losses their stupid decisions will cost their troops? And who should bear this responsibility? Even though His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can definitely understand the problem and will not pursue it, the loss of soldiers is quite painful for every powerful nobleman.
"Three masters, if there is such a well, a force field array, how much impact will it have on our attack tomorrow?"
The silence lasted for a while, and Sukhoi asked.
Regarding this failure, he was not in the mood to watch the excitement - although these gargoyles were the master's own property, they were also made with the resources of the empire after all. Each one was worth thousands of gold, and now the loss was so huge. The empire's military force was also severely weakened.
"The impact should not be big." Matthew Division responded: "As long as the plan goes well, we can rest in the city after a few hourglasses. Well, it is getting late, and we must take a rest. In order to prepare for tomorrow spells, and your Excellencies, I hope you can do your best to fulfill your responsibilities and lay a solid foundation for our victory."
He stood up, nodded to everyone, and then. The three divisions walked into a random door at the same time and left.
"For our victory? Apart from losses, what else did they dare to do? But if they win this time, wouldn't all the credit go to them?" Looking at the disappearing light and shadow of the three old mages, he stood behind Sukhoi Nicole finally couldn't help but sneer: "No wonder everyone wants to be a mage. This life is so smooth"
"Nicole. Don't talk nonsense."
The female knight's words triggered a burst of suppressed laughter in the tent, but Sukhoi just frowned, and then nodded to several nobles: "We will also prepare to attack the city tomorrow. I will take my leave now, Excellencies. ¡¡±
"Do you really want to follow their method?"
As the main force of the attack, the Feiyan Knights¡¯ tents were arranged in the center of the camp. They were not far from the command tent, but when they got close, they could not escape. Some vague noisy sounds still made the female knight raise her head in one direction - the light of the portal flashed in that direction, reflecting the night sky into a dark red, and subtle shouts were mixed in the wind. Shouting, and some sounds similar to the howls of wild animals, like crying, made her expression slightly change: "Isn't it too cruel? They are not soldiers, and there are also those women and children"
"We gave them enough compensation. Anyone who can survive can be free." Sukhoi replied: "Real freedom. You can return to their land and be with their kind."
But this answer. Obviously this does not satisfy the female knight: "What's the use? They will still die if they return to that barren place! And they will starve to death! It is more cruel than dying in battle!"
"What's wrong with you?" Sukhoi stopped and turned to look at her: "If you are tired, just rest early. We will still fight tomorrow."
"I just" Nicole lowered her head, as if she was also a little confused about her own reaction: "I just think that this method of fighting is too cruel and too despicable, and it is completely deceptive. ah!"
"I know, you pity those people. But no matter what, we need a group of these It is much better to sacrifice them than to sacrifice our own soldiers. In fact, even if they continue to work in the quarry If you continue to work in this place, you are destined to die, but sooner or later." Sukhoi said gently and slowly, and then took a slow breath. "Since you are destined to die, then why should you care about them anymore? Don't forget, they What exactly is it."
"but¡¡"
"Nicole, we are now shouldering the heavy responsibility of His Majesty. We can do whatever we want and we will?The entire army is in danger. "
The female knight¡¯s shoulders trembled slightly.
She looked at the figure in front of her At some point, the child who was smaller, shorter and thinner than her, who often followed her and called her sister, had disappeared. Only this young man who is taller than her, tall and strong, and decisive in dealing with things is left, the man, His Excellency the Legion Commander.
It¡¯s a little strange.
She knew that his decision could no longer be changed at will, and what he considered was no longer whether to tolerate his 'Sister Nicole', but for his emperor, his country, his legionhis sister. , is just a part of this legion, or he still occupies the most important place in his heart, but after all it is not everything.
Or never again
This is inevitable. Young people cannot always be young, and the perseverance and determination of young people also have a side that makes her fall in lovebut the inexplicable feeling still makes it difficult for her to let go. Her heart was in a mess. She almost didn't know how she returned to her camp, and she didn't know how she ended up lying on the bed. But no matter what, the faint crying and wailing always lingered in her mind. to her ears.
In fact, the source of the sound was two or three miles behind the camp. The distance made the sound blurry, but she knew it was crying and wailing because she had seen it in the evening.
She still jumped up from the bed.
Quietly, he tidied up his knight uniform and put on his breastplate. She put on her sword, but after hesitating, she did not hang up the other parts of her armor, gloves and greaves, but also put on a pair of soft deerskin boots. Quietly walked out of the camp and ran towards the other direction of the camp.
The three dukes' private soldiers have excellent abilities, and the camp is quite neatly built with many guards. However, it is not difficult for her to pass through - every bonfire is a convenient space door for the Scarlet Knight, so Just a moment. She had arrived at the side and rear of the camp, the noisy core area.
There is no tent here, but there is an earthen embankment about two people high, which was made by magic and circles the land about one mile in radius. The top of the embankment is about one person wide, with torches set up, and there are soldiers in twos and threes holding spears guarding it. Beyond their figures, you can see that in the center of the land, a gate with a light structure is approaching the Dijiang River. People' send it out and hoard it inside. Countless shouts were heard here, but it was not so noisy at the moment.
Nicole stopped.
in the air. A terrible smell was spreading, the stench of sweat and putrid sludge. The thick and dry smell of blood was a strange smell mixed with unknown things. Even the breeze of the summer night could not dissipate it. They rushed into the female knight's nose in a sticky way, making her dizzy. She subconsciously reached out to cover it. Cover your mouth and nose.
She shook her head until she barely got used to the smell. Then he stepped up the embankment and came to the place where the torches were gathered.
By firelight. She looked at the people under the embankment.
The firelight illuminates each one, leaning forward. With their crouched bodies, they formed small circles in twos and threes, sitting or lying down. There were strips of cloth-like things hanging on his body. But in fact, Nicole knew that they were - those strips of 'rags' were actually some long and short hairs, mixed with soil and rolled into felt.
They are orcs.
For humans, or most of the creatures on the continent, orcs are terrifying creatures.
They live in the deep mountains of the Central Mountains, eat a huge amount of food, eat a variety of foods, and their physical strength is far beyond ordinary people. They once built their own barbaric kingdom on the earth, but they are not involved in production, do not understand animal husbandry, and can only hunt. And enslaving other races To humans, they are equivalent to those bloodthirsty monsters, flies and maggots.
The way of survival of the orcs is always to plunder and use their minions to seek luck. Every ten years or so, when a new generation of orcs grows up, they will leave their nests and plunder - this is the only reason why they are close to humans, because humans mean gold coins, food, and even everything.
But humans still defeated them. Sophisticated weapons and powerful magic allowed them to become just like this
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? slave.
A werewolf huddled under the earth embankment, covering his body with his dusty tail, and huddled up as much as possible. The summer night was not cold, but the blood dripping from his back drained away the last of his body temperature. , the wound that was either pulled open or cut was constantly leaking blood, staining the hair with dark red mud. His body also twitched, and he raised his head unconsciously. Her green eyes met Nicole's gaze.
The female knight turned her head subconsciously.
The numbness and fear in it stung her like a knife.
"These guys haven't eaten?" After calming down, she summoned a team leader next to her.
"These animals usually only eat one meal a day. They have been deprived of food since yesterday and have no strength to resist." Everyone knows the vice-captain of the Scarlet Flame Knights, and the question from a beautiful female knight naturally made this The squad leader was particularly excited. He nodded and bowed in agreement, but the female knight's next words stunned him: "Then give them something to eat."
"What?" The squad leader's face turned pale: "This Mr. Deputy Commander, we did not receive the order and it is related to the mobilization of military rations. This is difficult to handle"
"Is my order not enough? Or, am I, the third-class Marquis, not a noble? Can't I use some military rations?" Nicole's face was as dark as water, and her voice was still calm: "Or, you think I didn't punish the general? s right?"
"This, this, thisyou must not say that"
The vague threat in the words made the squad leader almost burst into tears: "This, Your Excellency, Deputy Commander, this you know, orcs are just like wild beasts. Even if they have been hungry for several days, they will be very ferocious. If If we really resist, I'm afraidthousands of our brothers are not knights and can't control the orcsI can't make the decision on this matter. You should talk to our thousand-man leader, no, the Duke. Bar¡¡"
Nicole frowned.
She was about to speak, but a gentle voice sounded out, and the familiarity in it shocked her.
"They are going to the battlefield tomorrow. Do you want to send half-dead guys like this to the division for dispatch? You don't even need to give them much rations. One meal is enough."
She turned her head and looked at Sukhoi, who had been standing behind her at some point. That familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar figure suddenly made the female knight's nose feel a little sore.
Even with the permission of an imperial elector, the rations issued to the orcs were not much.
??In fact. No one was prepared to give them any food at all, and it was indeed not easy to transport and distribute rations for ten thousand people Even Sukhoi's order, in the end, only about four people were transferred after an hourglass. It's just food for a thousand people - this is the dry food originally prepared for the four thousand servants of the rear guard. As for the food prepared by the dukes for their elite soldiers, they cannot be used casually.
For those soldiers who were deprived of one meal of rations and had to carry these things overnight. Although those flour cakes and dried vegetables were dry and rough, and even dogs wouldn't eat them, they were at least food. Feeding a group of wild beasts like this is really beyond their comprehension, so when transporting and distributing it, they will inevitably roll these things on the ground a few times without paying attentionor give some to horses and cattle Oats and beans, which were only used as feed, were sent to the earth embankment by mistake.
So, these are mixed with soil. Beans, oats or weed stuff. and introduced a river into the earth embankment, it became the last meal for most of the orcs in this world.
Yes. The last meal¡
No one knows what the three divisions wanted to do when they ordered to gather these orc slaves. Their orders were simple and vague. They just ordered more than 10,000 people to be dispatched from the slaves of the new empire. As for how to use it, the three divisions also strictly kept secrets from the few nobles who led the troops.
However, in fact, the purpose is not difficult to guessit is simply to use these orcs as death squads and drive them to attack the city¡ª¡ª
Of course, if it is this simple way, it is actually quite stupid.
The strength and physical strength of orcs are indeed far superior to humans. At the western foot of the Central Mountains, it is not uncommon for orcs to harass human cities. Among monsters such as hybrid orcs and half-orcs, some can jump over ten feet of city defenses in one leap. Guys, it's not like there aren't any - but facing Burgundy, a city armed with sixty-foot-high walls, batches of manufactured weapons, and magnificent magic, only the flesh and blood of these orcs without weapons and equipment How much achievements can be made with this body This is a completely unknown question.
If you only rely on these orc slaves who have been enslaved to half-death, it will be difficult to even launch a decent charge, right? Sending them under the city would, at best, consume some of the city's defense arrows and magic, but since Burgundy has a magic core, those things are almost unlimited.
Even if there is a real possibility that they can rush to the city wall, it is impossible to really cause too much damage to Burgundy - don't forget that behind the first wall, there is another one-story higherThe narrow space between the two city walls is an obvious place of death. Even if you rush into it, it will only make it easier for the enemy to focus on killing unless the Burgundy defenders will care about the civilians there.
But will they really care about the refugees collected from the imperial lands?
Or, the method that the masters can come up with should not be that simple Maybe, these orcs are just a tool for casting spells, similar to summoning spells In the end, the masters will use their lives to release huge Destroy that city in one fell swoop?
The chaotic night passed like this amid countless people¡¯s speculations.
When the morning light had just begun to show on the horizon, the empire's camp had already begun to move.
The orcs were driven out of the fence of the earth embankment and slowly walked towards the city from one side of the camp. Despite being tired, restless, and afraid, their dust-covered bodies were driven by those sharp swords, like a gray torrent, moving forward slowly but firmlyit also seemed to contain some power.
Smoke and dust were billowing, and the knights of the empire were riding horses and shouting loudly in the team, driving the troops forward. Behind them, the flag was flying, and they were surrounded by elite knights of varying numbers. Their swords and spears created an arc-shaped blockade. Always be ready to protect your general and fight with enemies or deserters.
In the empire, every year, noble armies enter the northern foothills of the Central Mountains for military training, and their 'trophies' are orc slaves. For the new empire that has obtained the land in the west of the empire, bordering the Central Mountains, the more than 10,000 orc slaves here are nothing new, but generally speaking, this number of orcs will not be gathered together. At the same time, even in slave farms such as mines, the number of orc slaves usually does not exceed a thousand, because the individual strength of the orcs is too strong, and if a riot does occur, it will be difficult to suppress it (to be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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