Chapter 44: Refugee Force
Jing Ling, who had no other choice, had no choice but to take off his leather armor in front of the four big men, and he also untied the gauze, revealing the wound that had been sewn. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"It's good pretty fast." Jing Ling looked at the wound and muttered to himself, then tied the equipment to Hualong Ma's back, looked at the riverbank in the distance while wearing a pair of pants and said depressedly: "Hualong...... Do you know how to swim? ”
Jing Ling just subconsciously wanted to complain, but he didn't expect Hua Longma to let out a low sound, as if responding to Jing Ling's question.
"You know how to swim!?" Jing Ling was surprised.
Hualong Ma let out a low cry again, which confirmed Jing Ling's guess even more, this horse can understand human words!
I have long known that horses are psychic creatures, and many war horses are even more for the sake of their owners to be able to go to the soup and fire, at this moment Jing Ling realized that he had a smart horse, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: In this troubled world, how long can we survive?
Feeling generous, the river is going to jump after all, I saw Jing Ling resolutely jump into the river after thanking the fishermen, and Hua Longma also followed closely and swam all the way to the riverbank. Fortunately, there was no Nolan army patrolling on the bank, after all, the river bank line is so long, if you want to block it all, it is impossible to do it without tens of thousands of troops.
And the generals of the Nolan army are not fools, and if they lay their soldiers in a line to defend the river bank, they will definitely be broken by the enemy army one by one. Therefore, only in some places where large warships can dock in some depths of the water, the Nolan army has arranged some battery passes that are not very strong.
But these barriers are just a buffer zone, and the white point is cannon fodder. If the Blackland army crossed the river, these passes would soon be pulled out by the enemy, but in the process of being pulled out, the Rock Gravel City and Ice City not far from the river bank could take the lead in a defensive posture in response to the enemy's onslaught of fierce attacks.
Although he knew that it was unlikely that he would encounter the Nolan army on the bank of the river, Jing Ling quickly put on his equipment, bandaged his wounds, and then rode his Hualong horse cautiously avoiding the avenue and sneaking quickly towards the forest path.
Although the Rock Gravel City and the Ice City are separated by ten kilometers from north to south, they are both close to the Li River, and the distance between the city and the river bank is also about 500 meters, and the shells in the city can even destroy the enemy ships in the Li River.
Although Karl City is fifteen kilometers away from the Li River, it is just behind the center of the Ice City and the Rock and Gravel City. If you look at it from a macro perspective, this is like a triangle, and the three cities form a triangle that echoes each other, which the soldiers call the iron triangle.
Such a formation is undoubtedly the most difficult to break, because no matter which side is attacked, the other side will be able to retreat to the location of the other two, which also means that it can be supported by friendly forces from both sides.
At this moment, there are 60,000 Nolan troops stationed in Rock City, 5,000 in Ice City, 50,000 in Karl City, and all Nolan troops in the Iron Triangle add up to more than 100,000.
If you include the militia that was urgently conscripted during the war, then the number of Nolan troops in the Iron Triangle would exceed 200,000.
And Nolan only placed 5,000 defenders in Ice City, and it was obvious that they were trying to give a reason to call the Black Land.
Nolan's ambition is already clear, as long as the army of the Blacklands is contained, whether it is annihilated or repulsed, the slave-owning class and the Light Cult will gain more time to cooperate deeply, in order to maximize the mobilization of the country's materials and troops, and at the same time buy time for the Cook Khanate adjacent to the Blacklands and Albertan to gather troops.
One day in the future, it is likely that a million Nolan troops will enter the territory of the Black Land.
But wars are always complicated, and the one who is still standing until the last moment is the winner.
Although no one could have predicted who the final victor would be, everyone knew that this year there would be an unprecedented war between Nolan and the Black Land, which would involve the four kingdoms of Eastern Turkey and invest millions of troops.
The times create heroes, Jing Ling still understands this truth, but he doesn't want to be a hero, in order to be able to protect more people, he can choose to become a hero like Patch without hesitation, and now what he has to do is to pull up an uprising army of his own......
The muddy forest trail is not easy to walk, fortunately, Hualongma is also a good horse, all the way galloped down and ran about four kilometers, at this time the sun gradually sank in the west, although the mechanical watch has been invented in this world for more than a hundred years, but Jing Ling has no watch, so he can only judge the time by the position of the sun at about two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
On a high ground, Jing Ling looked at the ice city on the skyline, which seemed to have only one black spot, and he suddenly pulled the reins and began to think about how to get the two thousand gold coins, if he wanted to enter the city, he also needed to take off the equipment of the black ground army.
Just as Jing Ling was pondering, dense footsteps suddenly sounded in the bushes in front of him, and Jing Ling's eyes were fixed, and he looked ahead with a wary face.
A lot of people, and the pace is flustered, as if they are running away from something......
I saw a group of ragged people running in the direction of Jing Ling with tired and panicked faces, this group of people was at least a hundred people, men, women and children. Judging from the dress, the identities are even more varied, including servants, serfs, workshop laborers, and naked children.
"There are soldiers!!"
A middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper of a manor in front of him exclaimed, and everyone stopped to look at Jing Ling in front of them.
"Behold, it is the soldiers of the Black Land!!"
"We're saved!!"
"Thank God, Thank God Heavenly Father......"
As soon as the fleeing troops saw Jing Ling wearing the equipment of the Black Ground soldiers, they immediately cheered and prayed with their palms together, as if they had seen their savior.
Jing Ling controlled the horse with his legs and slowly came to the middle-aged man dressed as a butler. "What are you running away from?"
Although the middle-aged man of the "Soldier ......" looked honest and honest, his brown housekeeper robe, combined with the two whiskers above his lips, looked like a half-immortal warlock holding a banner to swagger.
Especially his exposed two front teeth and slightly cockfighting eyes, the contradictory appearance characteristics formed by the sharp-beaked monkey gills and honest temperament made Jing Ling impressed him after seeing it.
The rabbit-toothed man breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "We are escaping from the slave masters, and we must escape to the west bank of the Li River before they catch up. ”
"Where did you come from?" Kyoling examined the fleeing troops, some of them were dressed in cook's coats, some were dressed in domestic servants' skirts, and most were shirtless, their trousers covered in mud, and their muddy toes looked like serfs working in the fields all year round.
Could it be that these people all escaped from a manor?
The rabbit-toothed man's next words confirmed Jing Ling's guess, "We used to be the property of a manor owner, and we usually keep to ourselves, and we don't dare to think anything wrong. But the lord of the manor is a brutal man, many people in the manor either overworked to death or were tortured to death by him, last night the city of Karl was attacked by a sudden army, we who have long been unbearable to be enslaved took advantage of the chaos to kill the lord of the manor and his lackeys, and finally fled here, as long as we can swim across the Li River, we can regain our freedom! ”
The rabbit-toothed man's last sentence was almost shouted, and he waved his hands to cheer the others on.
Jing Ling's heart trembled, and he rushed and said, "Who attacked Carl City!?" Did they succeed in capturing Karl City!? ”
"I don't know if the city of Karl has been lost, because we were not in the city when the enemy attacked, but in the manor half a kilometer outside the city." "But what happened last night was very strange," said the rabbit-toothed man, "and I heard that the attack on Cal City was an army of bandits from eighteen hills, numbering more than 30,000. But they did not burn and loot in the affiliated villages outside Karl City, and they did not kill civilians along the way, but went straight to Karl City. However, when we were not far away, we saw Karl City in the distance in flames, and I think Karl City has been broken through by the Ringing Horse Army, but I don't know how the battle is now. ”
His uncle's! Jing Ling scolded in his heart. The Ringing Horse Army began attacking Karl City last night, and regardless of the final ownership of Karl City, it will be a bomb planted behind the ice city.
What should I do now!?
Jing Ling couldn't help but feel confused, his entire plan had been disrupted, did he want to give up such an opportunity to uncover the uprising?
That's right! Uncover the uprising!
Jing Ling's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked the rabbit-toothed man, "Do you know how many slaves have escaped from Karl City?" ”
"That's a lot of money." The rabbit-toothed man made an extremely exaggerated expression and exclaimed: "Our fleeing army is small, once a refugee who rode past us on a horse said that there are more than 100,000 fugitive slaves behind us, and the largest of them is tens of thousands of fleeing troops, and I heard that the leader is the brother of the gladiatorial king." ”
"Gladiator?" Jing Ling wondered.
"You don't know who the Gladiator King is? He's a big hero! The rabbit-toothed man looked reverent, as if his idol was right in front of him.
"Two days ago there was a great competition in Karl City, and the frantic slave owners had a thousand slaves kill each other. It was at that time that the great gladiator king appeared, shook the sky with a cry of rage, stopped the slaves from fighting, and stood up to demand that the generalissimo of the Light Army, Bais, stop the athletic tournament. In the end, Bais was also impressed by the heroism of the Gladiator King, and announced in public that the Gladiator King would be freed again. Although there are rumors that the Gladiator King was killed by a traitor, I believe that the Gladiator must be wandering somewhere on the continent now, and one day he will come with an iron-clad lion to rescue the enslaved people. ”
Looking at the sparkling eyes of the rabbit-toothed man, Jing Ling couldn't help but feel a burst of amusement, when did he become the king of gladiatorial fights?
Wait a minute! He just said that the fleeing force of tens of thousands of people was led by the brother of the gladiator king!? Jing Ling's eyes suddenly widened with an incredulous look, "Do you know the name of that gladiator king's brother?" ”
"Of course, his name is Lin Yan, which is a good name."
As soon as the rabbit-toothed man finished speaking, Jing Ling let out a hearty laugh, causing a group of refugees to wonder why the soldier master suddenly went insane?
"Hahahaha...... Lin Yan's kid also escaped, and he still led such a huge fleeing force, there is still hope, we still have hope! ”
"What hope?" The rabbit-toothed man wondered.