Hearing Hathaway's almost gritted teeth, Count Platini's face became extremely ugly: "I just want to live!" I didn't do anything wrong! ”

"yes, you want to live."

Hathaway looked at him coldly: "You are abandoning this city today because you want to live. But you're enjoying the city...... Why do you feel at ease when those civilians are worshipped?! ”

"What can I do?"

Count Platini's eyes sparkled like beasts: "Everyone has run, even those officials have run, the orcs will soon enter the city, I did not ask those civilians to stay here, they can run too!" ”

"Shameless!!"

Almost everyone rebuked in unison, and in the face of many pairs of angry eyes, Count Platini was really afraid: "You guys...... What do you want to do? I am a nobleman canonized by His Majesty the Emperor, and you have no right to control me! ”

"Yes, in peacetime, you can go wherever you want. However, in wartime, according to the imperial decree, the lord or lord of the city abandoned the city and fled without a fight during the war, which was regarded as giving up the status of nobility, and those who were severely punished for treason. ”

Hathaway walked up to him and looked at him coldly: "Count Platini, you should know this better than me, right?" ”

"You ...... If you let me go, I will give you ten thousand...... No, 100,000 gold carats. Please, Count Bell! "The Count of Platini begged bitterly, and such a big man was almost on his knees when he was in tears.

"You don't deserve to be a nobleman!"

Hathaway had a look of disdain on her face. He took a step back slightly, as if he wanted to avoid something dirty, "Squadron Leader Sheldon, please take control of the City Lord's Mansion immediately, from now on, Lankallows City will be taken over by us." ”

"What about this Earl?" Sicconi. Sheldon asked.

"He's not a nobleman anymore."

Hathaway said lightly: "Give him a carriage, take his guy, drive him away from Lancais, and confiscate all his belongings as a reward for the soldiers defending the city." ”

"Nope. You can't ......" Count Platini heard. Immediately struggled and rushed towards Hathaway.

"What's not to do?!"

Sicconi. Sheldon stepped forward and kicked him over, "If I didn't kill your sacrifice flag, I was already an extrajudicial favor from Lord Earl!" ”

After speaking. Instructed his subordinates to help the former city lord move...... Of course. Out of grace. He did not completely confiscate the belongings of the Count of Platini, and for his fellows, personal belongings were also allowed to be kept. Finally, they were sent away together.

At the time of this qiē, most of the servants and guards in the city lord's mansion dispersed, but there were still more than a dozen guards standing there and did not leave.

"Why don't you leave?" Hathaway asked with some curiosity.

"Our home is here." One of the guards stepped forward and replied.

"And what are your options?"

Hathaway's gaze swept over the faces of these men, "You can take up arms and defend this city with us, and defend your families." You can also leave here and take your family with you. ”

"Lord Earl, we are willing to stay and defend this city!" A dozen guards glanced at each other, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said.

"Very good, from now on, you will help maintain law and order in the city, and anyone who causes chaos will be killed!" Hathaway commanded.

The war itself was terrible, but the negative effects of the war were even more terrible in her opinion, and if the law and order situation in Lancaith City could not develop in a good direction, then defending the city would be an extremely difficult task

That night, Hathaway and his party moved to the City Lord's Mansion. However, she is destined to have no rest.

When the lord of a city leaves the city, the next best thing will cause the collapse of the city defense army, so Hathaway first gathered the commander of the city defense army and the senior officers of the city defense army to pacify, and gave a part of the property left by the previous city lord to the army - the officers and soldiers who are far away will be brought back by a special person, and the officers and soldiers who are at home will be distributed and sent home on the spot.

Civilians are actually the best to fool, a very simple reason, let them believe that Hathaway is currently the city lord, a series of combination punches down, not only morale improved, the security situation in the city has also improved, civilians can rest assured to get out of the house, more than a dozen middle and low-level officials who did not escape began to work, barely resuming the operation of the city hall, especially the dozen or so hanged corpses hanging in the square in front of the city hall, they are all criminals who want to take advantage of the fire in the city, after being arrested, they are immediately executed, Several of them were mercenaries.

In addition, Hathaway sent people to persuade all the residents around Lancastes City to leave, or gather them in Lancastes City, and carry out the siege to the end. Although some people thought that it would be extremely unwise to squeeze so many evacuees into Lanches and consume the city's food in vain, Hathaway insisted that Lanches City be opened as a place of refuge for civilians.

"They pay their taxes so that they can have the protection of the state when the orcs come to invade, if they are turned away at this time, then what kind of country is it? The prosperity of Lancaith City was based on them, and it must depend on them in the future, and they cannot be thrown to the orcs for ruin. And you can rest assured, food is definitely not a problem, even if the city is besieged by orcs for several months, it will not run out of food. ”

When the city defense commander Thomas. After Hauke worriedly reported to Hathaway about the city's grain reserves, Hathaway comforted him.

"How's the city's ordnance ready, Commander Hawke?" Hathaway asked.

Thomas. Hauke replied, "There are currently 2,260,000 arrows, 400,000 crossbows, more than 1,000 sets of armor, and enough other weapons and equipment. And we've gathered all the blacksmiths and we're crafting arrows day and night. ”

"Well, this work can't be stopped."

She paused and continued, "One more thing. Together with the officials of the city hall, the refugees were also assembled and taught them the dos and don'ts of avoiding the arrows. Able-bodied men are selected and properly trained to form a number of ambulance groups, transport groups and combat replenishment teams. ”

"I'm afraid it's hard for them to do that." Thomas. Hauke asked.

"It has to be done."

Hathaway's expression was indifferent: "Sue them, if they don't do it and don't work hard, then the orcs will come, and they will die or become slaves." Whether it is for themselves or their loved ones, fighting is their only choice and only chance. ”

At Hathaway's insistence, the civilians who fled to the city for refuge and the civilians who had existed in the city were fully mobilized. It's just a pity that Hathaway was that there were originally two magicians in the city, but because of the nervousness of Zimbuwe City, the two magicians were ordered to help, and they never came back. This made Lancais's combat effectiveness greatly reduced, but fortunately Hathaway came over in person, otherwise the city would really collapse.

The sky was covered with dense dark clouds, and the morning sun was surrounded by lead-gray clouds, and occasionally a hint of purple-red glow shone through the cracks on the banner that gently swayed in the breeze. On the towering hill outside the city, on a huge beacon tower, suddenly the fire was blazing, and the wolf smoke soared into the sky.

The orcs are finally here!

Hathaway was followed by several senior officers of the city defense army and Inona and others, and walked up the north gate tower along the horse road, which was already heavily guarded, and behind each battlement stood a soldier with a bow and arrow, the quiver at his waist was bulging with arrows, and the horn bow in his hand was wrapped with strips of cloth, which was conducive to protecting the tiger's mouth in the fierce battle. The buttresses were piled with rolling wood and stones, and the crossbow machine was ready for firing. The spear-armed sergeants hid in a series of towers one after another, and the pikemen were ineffective until the enemy advanced into the city.

Hathaway led everyone to the front of the tower, raised her eyes to look at the orc army that was constantly pouring in from the northwest, and suddenly felt as if there was a bucket of cold water poured under the water from the head, all kinds of bold words, all kinds of careful planning before the battle, the moment you stood on the head of the city and looked at it from afar, it became a blank in your mind.

This army was different from those bands of thieves, neither in terms of momentum nor individual soldiers, and she only now knew what war meant.

Hathaway looked back at the faces of the officers and soldiers, and all of them showed a bit of horror on their faces, even worse than Blene. Hegel and Alia. Forgu, especially Alia. Faugu, with the iron rod on his shoulder, slowly looked back and forth in front of the battlement, as if to see every detail of the dense army outside the city more clearly.

Hathaway took an inconspicuous deep breath and said lightly, "It's all said that those orcs are so fierce, I think they are similar to humans, at most some of their organs are more like beasts, I don't see how powerful they are than us." ”

"This time there are also orc shamans with the army, and some of their spells are very weird." Thomas. Hauk reminded.

"So what? I don't believe that these uncivilized barbarians will defeat us trained warriors. Hathaway said confidently.

The soldiers and civilians had heard of the brutality of the orcs, so after seeing the orc army, they were very nervous and even afraid.

However, Hathaway, as the highest governor in the city, personally walked to the head of the city, and said and smiled, not taking the army outside the city seriously at all, which was a great encouragement to the soldiers and civilians, especially her status as a great magician, which was more powerful than the original two magicians in the city, and for the soldiers at the head of the city, it was like a needle for the sea. (To be continued......)