Glory Riding and Cutting

The remaining resistance forces in the city were quickly extinguished, the leading officers died and surrendered, and most of the soldiers who escaped were arrested and brought back. At this time, they were detained in an open space surrounded by a fence. Nan promised to allow them to join his army or go home to farm once they repaired the broken gate.

But there are not many people left. At the stop just now, more than half of the defenders of Butu City were killed or injured. Now less than a hundred people are less injured and will not be affected. The rest are basically wounded. The defenders of Butu City Most of them are locals from Arden Territory. The bodies of the soldiers who died in battle will be left for a day. If they are claimed by their relatives, they will be taken away. If no one claims them, they will be burned and buried.

The soldiers who died on Ronan's side were burned and their ashes were sent back to the large cemetery Ronan built in Fengming. The pain of war is inevitable, and aggression is always accompanied by bloodshed. Countless families have lost men on this day. They may be fathers, husbands, and sons.

But the people are forgetful. As long as the invaders don't oppress them, and their lives are better than before, the families that have not been hurt will be grateful, and the families that have been hurt will also forget their hatred under the washing of time. , or throw the hatred to some obscure corner, it will never sprout, after all, life still has to go on.

"This is the inferiority of human beings, my lord. For these people who are used to the exploitation and oppression of the nobles, as long as they reduce their taxes a little bit, or give them some small profits in other ways, they will be grateful to the lord, The pain of the past will soon disappear, and most people only focus on the present, because in this world, anyone may have no future at any time!"

Magna stood beside Ronan and said that the two were standing at the top of the castle spire in the center of the city lord's mansion, looking at the entire Butu city through the window. At this time, the residents in the city were still closed. They dare not go on the road yet, fearing that the invaders will re-enter their homes to burn, kill and loot.

Soldiers were consigning corpses from the streets, alleys and city walls, and gathered them in an open space outside the city. The blood on the ground was difficult to wash away, and they could only wait for two heavy rains to wash it away. Since there are no other nobles who are loyal to the sixth prince, the city has not yet been assigned a lord, and Ronan will temporarily manage it.

However, as the largest provider of troops for the Six Princes' uprising, and the first nobleman who chose to help him, it is not too much for Ronan to own more territories. After all, the combination of Fernando and Arden is worthy of Tana The size of the currently mastered marquis is only four-fifths, and because it is located in a place where the southern nobles are densely populated, this marquis is also the last in the ranking of the size of the marquis in the entire kingdom.

"My lord, the location of the hidden treasure has been found!" At this time, the soldiers sent by Ronan to search for the location of Dalaman's treasure in the castle also came back to report.

The Arden family has a short history, but they still accumulated a lot of wealth during the time they were located in the richer south of the empire. At least when Ronan saw the boxes of gold, silver and other precious metals in the treasure room of Dalaman, there were still some I am quite satisfied with other valuable jade and antiques, at least the cost of this expedition can be covered.

Of course, some of these treasures should be distributed to the sixth prince. According to the law of Gaoling, all the wealth received by the lower nobles when fighting for their lords must be handed over to their lords.

The more nobles in the upper class will be the most exploited. Usually, it would be good for the lower-level nobles to keep half of the spoils they won in a battle. A set of qualified armor weapons and war horses is difficult to get together.

The down and out knight family has a set of armor handed down for generations, tinkering with it is enough to deal with it anyway, and if it doesn't fit, it can only be modified to barely deal with it. Otherwise, why don't they go into battle shirtless? Without the protection of armor, their casualties may even be heavier than those of the conscript militia.

"Take a rest in the city for two days and set off again after preparing the food supplies. This time, we are heading southeast and returning to Tana's territory, trying to take this semi-circular position into our own hands, and then we will gradually advance. He and Wilfred attacked Tana on both sides, while putting pressure on Nick and He to try to surrender directly!

Among the five nobles originally planned, Monsef is the weakest, and his position is the most marginal. Let’s not consider it for now, just send someone to contact him to persuade him to surrender. The Arden Land is already under control, and Messes has also accepted Our conditions have been met, and less than half of the strategic goal has been achieved. Let's work hard, everyone! We're trying to get this place within a month! "

On a large round table, Ronan was placing a lot of flags on the map of an area above and constantly gesticulating, moving the flags representing various forces to more intuitively express the current situation.

Among them, there are three flags representing Wilfred, with the same number as Tana's flag, which means that the strength of the two parties is relatively even. Both Nick and Messes have two flags, only Monsef has only one flag on it, and Ronan's forces have four flags.

"We must further weaken Tana's strength, otherwise, if he is really determined to defend the main city, it is really not so easy for us to break through with their strength, and he may also suffer a lot of casualties .

Wilfred is not a docile person. He is a meat-eating beast. He usually trains the most professional soldiers in the southern part of the kingdom, and he also has the most senior fighters and knights under him. After all, he is a typical military nobleman. Once we lose too much, Wilfred may tear up the agreement he signed with us at any time.

And we have to be on guard. Wilfred has an ambiguous attitude towards the princes who claim to be the legitimate heirs. He has not made a statement for a long time. The possibility of him suddenly joining the second prince's camp cannot be ruled out. He may be at any time Hit us up and down. Magna also rubbed his chin beside him and said.

The sixth prince was confused, but he still put on a show and nodded, then asked:

"So what do we do next?"

"Tana hasn't summoned all the troops to return to Fangbo Border City, which shows that he is not willing to give up other areas easily, and he is lucky, but this is also our opportunity. We can quickly attack and cut off the middle of Tana's troops. Contact, separate them, and prevent him from recalling the army stationed at the junction with Nick's territory.

But in this case, we have to give up our plan to rest and recuperate here and start marching immediately. Otherwise, Tana knows that we have occupied Arden's territory, and it is very likely that he will make up his mind to defend Bodhi City and wait for the possible reinforcements from the second prince. Without reinforcements, we can't stand this delay, and his goal has been achieved.