The tragic slaughter was going on, and the surrounding villages were unfolding extremely cruel scenes, one by one wearing well-dressed chain mail, wearing iron cross armbands on a white background, holding sabers and shields in their hands, and light cavalry riding high-headed war horses under their crotches slaughtering the old and weak.

Of course, they were just old and weak people who dared to resist and didn't have much use, and those young men were either enlisted in the army or had been controlled by the light cavalry, after all, William let them plunder, and the population was also a very important part.

Even if William's current territory has a lot of population, but population usually determines strength and territory potential, and no one will be too small.

The light cavalry acted separately to deal with scattered villages, and only a dozen or even a few light cavalry were needed to complete the plunder, so the light cavalry had even run as far as a hundred kilometers around, and almost all of Issamdenburg had been visited.

Although most of them fled due to lack of control, the seven hundred hussars still managed to control the population of 30,000, and there were more than 20,000 fertile women among them.

To tell the truth, the entire Issamdenburg is not large, the population is not large, and there were a lot of losses in the last battle with Denlenburg, and it has not recovered until now, coupled with this call-up, the young adults in Issamdenburg are extremely rare.

The light cavalry went out to plunder without concealment, and all movements were carried out under the watchful eye of the enemy, even the first wave of light cavalry was exposed to the enemy's nose after the plunder.

"Damn Count William!"

The Earl of Cansville slammed his fist on the ledge at the highest point of the castle, and his heart was bleeding as he watched the people and property flowing into William's hands below.

It was all his own thing, and those people were the cornerstone of his rule, and now that these were in William's hands, how could he have a good time.

"Wait! Sooner or later, I'll say everything is out of your hands, and I want you to pay it back! ”

His face contorted, his expression now like that of a painting of a demon in a church, covered with evil and hideousness, as if he had imagined the ravages of William after his victory.

"Talisa, pass my order to reduce everyone's food ration again, but make sure that the soldiers are well fed before they can fight hard!"

He knew very well that the soldiers needed to be well fed in order to be able to fight hard without affecting their morale and physical strength, even if the food in the castle had begun to be scarce.

The last time he went out to Denlenburg, he drew out a lot of food, and this time a large number of people poured into the castle, so he had already transferred a lot of food to the castle, but it still couldn't support the daily food of more than 40,000 people.

Even if the food was gathered together and the strict rationing system was carried out, it would last for twenty days at most, after all, the castle was prepared according to the amount of seven thousand people to eat for half a year.

Six days had passed, and more than thirty of the ninety trebuchets had been scattered outside the castle, and the wooden structure could not withstand much force, so after a period of ejection, they were scattered.

The rest of the trebuchets are assembled from scattered parts of the trebuchet that are not damaged, and then formed into a complete trebuchet.

Oil canisters and stones were bombarded into the castle, and up to now, William had not launched even a single attack, and he did not want to waste his precious troops on things that could be solved by other means.

"Well done, Urimu!"

William said with a smile in the tent, he was very satisfied with what he had brought back this time, especially the huge number of people.

You must know that after four full years, William went through four full years of hard governance to make the population of the territory grow from about 200,000 to more than 300,000, and in the eyes of the people of the Celestial Dynasty in the future, this is not a large amount, after all, even if this number is the population of a small county, the population of those first-tier cities is not more than 10 million.

But in this era and this world, this kind of population is quite rare, after all, even the first-class kingdom of the Cikma Kingdom, the population is only more than three million, even the top power on the road, Astra, the population is only seven or eight million.

The Holy Rhoderan Empire has a population of 13 or 4 million, and the Kyrgynian Empire, which is adjacent to the Sejika Dynasty with the title of the Desert Wall, has a population of about 1 million.

"Of course, don't look at who I am!"

Yu Limu's expression was triumphant, and he said very coquettishly.

"Hmmm! Very good indeed! William nodded in agreement and said, "In order to reward you, I have decided to find you a noble and beautiful noble lady as your wife, and you should also start a family!" ”

William said half-jokingly and half-seriously to Urimu that he was now twenty-six years old, one year older than William, but William's children were already four years old, and he was not married.

"Haha, forget it!"

He said curtly, rejecting William's proposal.

Night had fallen, as if a curtain had suddenly shrouded the sky, and the whole world was plunged into darkness, and only a few sporadic fires could bring some light to this world full of darkness.

A muscular, petite figure weaved through the curfew-defrained streets of Isamdenburg, and the night provided cover for her from being spotted by passing patrols.

She is a nail buried in Issamdenburg by William's dark dagger, and the female spy Ariel, who is not so cold to William.

Ariel lurks near a granary, one of the places where Isamdenburg stores food, and she needs to find a way to ignite it, scarve the enemy's food, and demoralize them.

This is what she negotiated with the masked man, and she is the best executor.

As time passed, it was almost dawn, and this was the time when people were most sleepy, and just when one of the guards was dozing off, a crossbow arrow flew out with the power of ten thousand jun and the sound of breaking the sky.

In her hand, Ariel held a very well-looking hand crossbow, and the crossbow string was still trembling slightly due to the great force.

The bolt was stuck in the guard's neck, and even pinned him to the wall behind him, and the tail of the bolt nailed to the wall around his neck was still trembling slightly.