Chapter 286: Spoils of War

The Lyra Territory was undoubtedly the biggest winner of the Battle of Eagle's Nest Mountain, not only successfully solving the threat of enemies on three sides, but also unexpectedly harvesting priceless bouquets of precious roses and sword staffs, lost sword weapons, and a staggering number of prisoners, weapons and armor and other trophies - including 16,785 prisoners, 50,000 weapons, 23,000 sets of armor, and enough war materials for 80,000 people to use for half a year!

Nearly 10,000 people surrendered directly on the battlefield, and then the Tianqin patrol guards rescued nearly 6,000 wounded soldiers from the pile of dead; Hayden directly took away nearly 10,000 Federation soldiers and rescued nearly 4,000 wounded soldiers at the same time; that is to say, nearly 50,000 people were killed in the battle of Eagle's Nest Mountain! The battle loss ratio was nearly 60 percent, which shows the tragic extent of this battle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Of the 16,785 soldiers, 10,345 were recruits, 3,623 were elites, and 2,817 were knights. And most of the more than 2,000 knights and followers are Rolanders, that is, the reserves from the Death Knights - although the army brought by Gagawan is only 20,000, there are 5,000 knights alone, which is more than the high-ranking soldiers of the two armies of Grace and Hayden combined! And the remaining 15,000 are all second-order elites, which is also one of the main reasons why Gagawan's army can almost compete with the army of the two.

There is no doubt that this group of captives means a huge wealth to the Lyra Territory - when Leitch bought the Niu Yi Qi brothers, he spent 4,000 gold coins, with an average of about 571 gold coins per person, and at that time, the strength of Niu Yi and the others was only second-order low, and their potential was limited, if it weren't for the fact that Minotaur septuplets were not common, they would not have been able to sell for such a high price. However, in most slave markets, a first-order low-level slave can sell for 40 gold coins, a second-order intermediate 50 gold coins, and a second-order high-level slave can sell for about 400 gold coins, an intermediate 500 gold coins, and a high-level 600 gold coins.

Of course, this is the commodity price of the slave market, and if the Lyra Territory wants to dispose of these captives as slaves, unless it has its own slave market, it can only get about half the price of selling it to those slave traders. But even so, it is estimated that these 16,785 captives are worth at least 16 million gold coins! This wealth is not small, think of the Sheep's Head Basin that Leqi laid in the Succubus Sea - 100,000 square kilometers of land, three cities, and millions of demons, and the annual tax revenue is only two or three million; although there are limitations of the abyssal social system, and the Starmist Valley is obviously more prosperous than the Sheep's Head Basin, but Leitch estimates that the annual income of the Tianqin Territory will definitely not reach this amount!

Now that Reich's rule in the Sheep's Head Basin was in dire need of expanding the human army to establish his rule, he couldn't help but think of more than 10,000 captives at first, but soon Reich gave up on the idea - the Red Devils aside, Reich didn't even know if they were even human now, and for such a new species that was almost unknown to him, Reich really couldn't ensure their loyalty. Moreover, the Red Devil Knights still retain the power of the ancient gods in their bodies, and putting them into the abyss is like letting a tiger return to the mountain, and it is difficult to guarantee that no accidents will happen.

As for the Rolands, or the Knights of Judgment, they are known throughout the Valley of Dawn for their loyalty and fear of death, and Retch himself is not from the Inquisition, so it is not ordinary to establish the loyalty of the Knights of Judgment to himself. However, in terms of brainwashing, Leitch admires the Inquisition very much, and it is worthy of almost emptying the entire Roland Empire in the past 10,000 years, making all the lords of the Dawn Valley smell it!

However, in terms of tangible benefits, the more than 10,000 captives were not comparable to the weapons and armor captured this time, including 20,000 black iron-grade weapons, 22,000 bronze-grade weapons, and 8,000 silver-grade weapons, in addition to about 15,000 sets of bronze-grade armor, and 8,000 sets of silver-grade armor. Note that this refers to the number of sets of armor, not the number of pieces, and a complete set of armor includes helmets, armor, bracers, leggings, and boots.

As for why the number of weapons is nearly 30,000 more than the armor, there are naturally factors of damage, but the most important thing is that the armor on the first-order Red Demon warriors and second-order Red Demon elites cannot be lifted at all, unless the skin of these corpses is removed! This kind of thing, these Tianqin patrol female guards are naturally impossible to do, although they are much stronger than ordinary women, but this is not a strong or not, it should be called a perversion!

And this does not include the part returned to Hayden, this time the Abyss Territory obviously suffered a secret loss, if he swallowed the part of the weapon armor that was divided again, it would undoubtedly cause great displeasure to the other party, and with Leitch's current strength, he was not qualified to wrestle with the Kovich family in the Federation at all! And once he coveted this momentary advantage, he gave Hayden a reason to remove himself, but when the time came for the Lyra Territory to bear the wrath of Duke Gondor and the Death Knights alone, it would be extremely happy and sad......

However, this poses a huge problem to the Lyra Territory - what to do with the corpses of these Red Demon soldiers?!

According to the custom, when the war is over, the corpses on the battlefield are either buried nearby, or they are cremated on the spot by fire mages using advanced fire magic, but the latter is relatively rare, because the countries of the Valley of the Dawn attach more importance to the corpses of the dead, such as the Karachi Empire, which believes that only when the bodies of the dead are buried, the souls of the dead can rest in peace, so as to set foot on the legendary soul homeland!

But that's not all, like the Dawson Free Federation to which Leitch belongs is more open on this point- Because the Dawson Federation existed as a slave area of the Karachi Empire for a long time in history, and the treatment of slaves was naturally not much better, most slaves were fortunate to be buried by the slave owner after death, and they were generally directly discarded in the wilderness or wrapped in a straw mat and thrown into a mass grave, but the most common was cremation by the slave owner's personal mage with fire magic, so as not to cause plague or corpse mutiny. After the establishment of the Federation, the Karachi people were expelled, although the practice of cremation was preserved in some areas.

In addition, the Dawson Federation pays attention to the development of commerce, and the maritime trade is extremely developed, but the sea trade also means risks, especially in the endless sea where there are endless sea beasts and all kinds of dangers, and there are not a few seafarers who die at the bottom of the sea every year! Over time, this has formed a peculiar sea burial custom in some coastal areas of the Federation.

But whether it is cremation or burial at sea, the deceased is considered to have no body left after death.

According to Retche's thoughts, it would be better to cremate all these corpses, because for now, the Valley of Dawn is bound to enter a period of turmoil with a lot of corpses, and at that time, the evil necromancers will often come out and stir up trouble!

And because of the concept formed on Earth before rebirth, Ricky couldn't help but think about "pollution" when he saw the corpses of these Red Demon Soldiers, because a large number of Red Demon Soldiers' corpses meant a large number of Red Demon Crystals! What kind of changes this Red Demon Crystal would bring to the Dawn Valley was unclear, but it would not be a good thing to think about it.

However, the corpses of these Red Demon soldiers still have armor attached to them, so it is not easy to cremate them, unless they cast fire magic above the arcane level, and a considerable amount is required, but unfortunately, the Lyra Territory undoubtedly does not have this condition at the moment. But no matter what, one thing is certain, the corpses of these Red Demon soldiers must not be left in Starmist Valley!

Well, it's a bit far, let's talk about the value of these weapons and armor -- a whiteboard black iron dagger is ten gold coins, the bronze level is a hundred gold coins, and the silver level is a thousand gold coins; the long sword, mace, hand axe, and so on of the same level are a little higher, and the two-handed weapon is two or three times as much! As for the price of armor parts such as helmets and leggings, the price is about the same as that of a one-handed sword of the same level, and the most expensive of them is armor, which is five times the price of a one-handed sword!

Roughly converted, the price of a set of whiteboard black iron grade armor is about 100 gold coins, the bronze level is 1,000 gold coins, and the silver level is 10,000 gold coins. However, each of these weapons and armor seized this time has different degrees of wear, and the armor is about sixty percent new, and the average weapon is only fifty percent new! However, as long as there is a sufficient number of blacksmiths, it may not be impossible to restore these weapons and armor to ** into a new one! But not to mention how it will be repaired, just in this state, the value of this batch of weapons and armor is also more than 32 million gold coins!

With the Great War in the Valley of the Dawn coming up, weapons and armor will be in high demand, so Reich will advise Mavis to keep the loot as a reserve for war supplies in case of emergency.

In the end, what was left was enough war materials for 80,000 troops for half a year, including food, tents, siege equipment, fuel, and even healing potions, etc., but what made Leitch most excited was the nearly 10,000 war horses left by the Rolands! These war horses were all Gagawan's father, and the knight chief of the Death Knights equipped his son with excellent war horses according to the standard configuration of the Death Knights-Death Charge War Horses!

This kind of war horse has a black body, red eyes, and a sneezing nostrils will emit a fire with the smell of sulfur, it is rumored that this is because this kind of war horse contains the blood of a certain plane demon! It is worth mentioning that this mysterious plane does not belong to the abyss, and it has nothing to do with the dusk grave, that is, the demon blood in the body of the death charge war horse is not the abyss demon line, and it is not the spirit demon line!

The Death Charge War Horse is tall and strong, galloping like the wind, and has extremely strong endurance, and can launch magic attacks on the enemy like a magical beast, and is the first-class elite war horse in the entire Dawn Valley! The price of a second-level Death Charge War Horse alone is more than 700 gold coins, which is seven times that of a one-handed weapon of the same level! And the price of a third-level war horse has reached 7,000 gold coins! In the black market, such a price will be even higher, but even so, ordinary people who want to find a Death Charge War Horse have no way to find it!

And what makes Leitch sad is that the number of death charge horses brought by Gavin this time is far more than that, but a considerable number of them died in the war, and only about 10,000 of them survived in the end......

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