Chapter 115: Homecoming
Maren glanced at Zacharaias angrily and said, "Your account will be settled later, go down to recuperate first." â
"Who are you?" The swordsmith asked, seeing that Zachareas was being taken, pointing his sword at Mullen.
"I'm Maren Buffett, Grand Duke of Roland," Mullen said to the swordman, handing the wounded Zacharaias to the soldier behind him, "My soldiers have surrounded you all, and you are now in a position to escape, I advise you to be restrained and not make unnecessary sacrifices." â
Hearing Malen's words, the swordsman did not answer, and raised his sword to attack Malen.
A young seventh-level high-level swordsman, Ma Lun suddenly fell in love with talent, and did not let the soldiers rush up and cut him into pulp, but raised his sword to meet him.
After all, he had been fighting with Zachareas for a long time, but in just ten or twenty minutes, the swordsman already felt that the fighting spirit was unsustainable, and after a few rounds of fighting, he was put on his neck by Malen with a sword.
The soldiers on the periphery saw Mullen's victory and instantly boiled, and the sound of "Wan Sheng" was endless, and the faces of the people on the side of the besieged Pust Town were like ashes.
"Convincing or not?" Maren asked the swordsman who had fallen to the ground and closed his eyes and was waiting for death.
"Humph!" Seeing that Ma Lun didn't kill him immediately, the sword master opened his eyes and said unconvinced: "It's just taking advantage of the danger of others." â
"Hehe, you've been fighting Zacaraias for a long time, and you're already exhausted, and I'm really invincible." Maren put away his sword and chuckled, "It's a pity that your talent is buried here, why don't you surrender to me?" â
"Hahahaha......" The swordsman laughed as if he had heard a big joke.
"Why, are my words so ridiculous?" Seeing that the swordsman was so presumptuous, Ma Lun was slightly angry.
"You said you were going to recruit me, do you know who I am?" The swordsman sneered, despite Mullen's discolored countenance.
"Oh," Maren became interested, and followed the words of the sword master and asked, "What kind of divine path are you?" â
"Listen, my name is Albert Puster." The swordsman puffed up his chest proudly when he said his surname again, and wanted to wait for the other party to make a surprised sound, but the other party didn't react at all, and couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and then said: "My father is Feo Pusterton. â
"Oh, so what's going on?" Still puzzled, Mullen asked, "Why don't you let your father stay with you and continue to be the mayor of Puster Town?" â
"Uh," Mullen's words made Albert Pust stunned for a while, and asked in a distrustful tone, "Are you willing to accept my father's surrender, not kill my father, and let my father continue to be the town lord of Puster Town, and not let your generals be the town lord?" â
"It seems that you still don't understand the rules I have set," Malen patiently explained, "Under my command, the town lord is not allowed to lead troops, and the general who leads the army is not allowed to act as the governor of any place, so as long as your father surrenders to me, I can still make him his town lord, but he must hand over the army of Puster Town." â
Listening to Mullen's words, Albert Pust glanced at his father, and Feo Pust walked out of the crowd, nodded to Albert, and then knelt on one knee with Albert and swore to Malen: "The Lord of Puster Town, Feo Pust, and Albert Pust othey allegiance to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Roland." â
Hearing the allegiance of Feo and Albert, Mullen happily helped them up, but at this time, Gullit, who was still in the encirclement, was like ashes, and led his diehards to break through while Mullen helped up Feo and his son, but was instantly hacked to death by the soldiers on the periphery.
After the capture of Pust Town, Mullen rested in Puster Town for three days, mainly to collect prisoners and settle the wounded, and Mullen was also busy domesticating magical beasts to make up for the losses in the siege battle.
The war in the era of cold weapons has such a little advantage, the soldiers on both sides killed in the dark, but the result is not many dead, usually the casualties reach 30% and are already considered elite before the rout, and the cavalry of Xiang Gurlitt died to the last person when the city was broken, which can be called a dead soldier, which is not achieved by nine out of nine soldiers.
The results of the post-battle statistics were that the besieging side had only 400 casualties on the monsters, while the defending side had collected more than 5,000 corpses, including 3,000 cavalry from Gullit.
Gullit's army of more than 20,000 was captured when the city was broken, and eight or nine thousand people were captured, and the rest were all scattered, or they ran outside the city, and those who did not have time to run outside the city hid in the homes of the people.
Most of these soldiers hired by Gurlitt were some brave and ruthless outlaws, and their rash release was a very unstable factor for Mullen's future rule, so Mullen only released some soldiers with families recruited locally, and the rest were collected by Mullen and arranged in the baggage team.
These arrangements were only for soldiers of the third and fourth ranks, and for those officers above the centurion, Mullen's purpose was to come and go freely, but for the remaining officers, Mullen promised to reserve corresponding positions for them in future expansions.
Although the armies of the countries on the mainland are led by the strong, most of the important positions are held by those nobles who have made achievements, and it is precisely because the development space of the poor in the army is too small that those poor swordsmen who are not high or low become mercenaries and live a life of licking blood on the edge of the knife.
And because Mullen was suddenly rising, he had not yet formed a group of nobles around him who were united by interests, so most of the officers in Mullen's army were from poor backgrounds and did not have a high view of the door, so most of the captured officers chose to stay.
Three days later, Mullen left a brigade of soldiers with FÊo Putter to guard the town of Putster, and continued his march towards the city of Bille with the baggage collected from the town.
The army marched more than 60 miles in a day, and in two days reached the town of Roseville, another subsidiary of the city of Bill.
The town of Roseville is only 4,000 soldiers, and it can't stop Mullen's tens of thousands of troops at all, and the owner of Roseville Town is also an interesting person, seeing Mullen's army under the city, he hurriedly opened the city gate with the officials and people of the town to welcome Mullen's army into the city.
For such a town lord who knew the times, Malen did not make it too difficult for him, but asked for 4,000 town soldiers in his hands and took away the excess grain and grass in the city, and left a brigade of troops to maintain local law and order.
At this time, Mullen received a report of the battle of the left and right armies, and because Ulysses Birgia had sent a reinforcement of 5,000 men each to the towns of Fodes and Magnolia, the attacks on both sides were hindered, and Selwin and Bardas sent people to inquire about Mullen's battle plan.
Since Ulysses sent five thousand reinforcements to the towns of Fodes and Magnoria, the number of defenders in these two towns reached at least eight or nine thousand, and although the young men of the two cities could not play any role in defending the city, they could carry siege equipment and carry the wounded, which had liberated many of the soldiers defending the city, and it could be said that even if they fought in the field outside the city, their own army did not have much advantage.
Now that the goal of containing Ulysses has been achieved, Mullen immediately ordered Selwyn and Bardas to go on the defensive, waiting for Mullen to break through Bill and the city before turning back to clean up the rootless duckweed.
In order to ensure that the command can be secure. Quickly arrived in the hands of Selwyn and Bardas, this time Mullen did not let the soldiers pass the news, but each sent five horned bee beasts as heralds to fly to the left and right armies.
After another two days, Mullen finally led his army to the city of Billiah.
For the Maren army gathered in Bill and Yacheng, the entire Bill and Yacheng instantly panicked, although everyone knew that the Grand Duke of Roland in Youlan City had sent troops to attack Bill and Yacheng because of Ulysses taking in Gullitt and allowing Gullit to recruit soldiers privately, but after all, it was a matter on the border, and it was originally a very distant thing, but who knew that it had been beaten to the door of the other party in just over half a month.
When Mullen's army arrived at the city of Bill and Ya, Ulysses was directing his staff to arrange the food and grass for the more than 10,000 soldiers who had just gathered from the four towns in the west.
In fact, from the beginning of the war, Ulysses had already spread scouts to the east of Bill and Yacheng, but because Mullen had the ability to fly, the scouts could not get close to the battlefield.
Although there was no information from the scouts, Ulysses had learned from previous experience that even if Mullen's army had won, it would take a long time, and it should have been a disastrous victory, just so that it would be convenient for him to take advantage of the fisherman, and it was even possible to counterattack into Youlan City and seize the rich land that he had already coveted.
It has been more than half a month since the start of the attack on Bill and Ya, and Mullen estimates that Ulysses has gathered the soldiers from various towns, and these soldiers are different from the rabble of Gullit, they are all battle-hardened veterans, so Mullen is ready to fight a protracted war.
As Mullen had expected, the more than 10,000 troops who had gathered in the city of Bill and Asia on the orders of Ulysses were now stationed in the barracks west of the city of Bill and Asia, and the barracks were only temporary garrisons that had just been built, and had little defense capability at all.
Mullen's tens of thousands of troops came in a mighty way, and the smoke and dust raised covered the sky for more than ten miles, and the officers and soldiers in the barracks outside the west city were all battle-hardened people, and the number of enemies could be judged from the dust raised, and at this time, the commanders of each battalion were in the city lord's mansion, and there was not even a person in charge of the battalion, and the soldiers of the whole battalion ran around in horror.
Whether it is in the past life or in this life, it is often some uncertain factors that play a key role, the main thing is whether you can grasp it or not, and this time Malen has grasped it.
Upon receiving the news that the horned bee beast serving as a scout had returned from the west of the city, Mullen immediately ordered the army to go around the city and storm the military camp west of the city.
The armies in the west of the city came from four different places, and the sudden attack caused them to turn into a situation of fighting on their own, and with the fact that their respective commanders were all in the city, they lost the possibility of coordination with each other, and as a result, they were broken by Malen's army.
When Mullen's army attacked the military camp west of the city, Ulysses, who had fainted in the lord's palace, also woke up under the treatment of the priest.
The first thing Ulysses did after awakening was to order the 5,000 troops in the city to immediately support the troops outside the city, and the commanders of the armies outside the city also went out of the city with the army to take over the troops outside the city, and at the same time ordered 3,000 guards to take over the city defenses of Bill and Yacheng, and to patrol the streets to prevent small disturbances.
Of course, the troops in the city could not hide that Maren, who was engrossed in deploying his mental power to command the battlefield, was immediately blocked by the sixth building led by Zacharaias after the defenders in the city were assembled and left the city.
At this time, the sixth building had been garrisoned by many divisions of troops, and the losses on the battlefield were now less than 4,000 men, and it was very difficult to fight against the attack of the 5,000 troops of Bill and Yacheng, and it was only by virtue of the morale aroused by the victories of the past few days that it was able to block the attack of the other side.
Although Zachareas has a bit of talent in leading the army to fight, after all, he is young and inexperienced, and he does not have the ability to defeat the strong in front of the opponent's battle-hardened veteran generals.
The two sides had been fighting for less than half an hour, and Zacharias's sixth building had already begun to show fatigue, and by about an hour of fighting, although the officers and men of the sixth building were still fighting hard to kill the enemy, they still could not stop the decline of the retreat.
For Zachareas's successive defeats, Mullen, who commanded the battle in the large array, has been watching, but at this time, the main battlefield has reached a white-hot state, and under the blow of Mullen's superior forces with a thunderous momentum, the four-party alliance army in Xicheng has been on the verge of collapse.
At this time, it was already the most critical time, and Mullen, who was in the command center, only gave Kazalaias one order - to hold on for another half an hour, otherwise military justice would be involved.
After receiving Malen's military order, Kazalaias ordered the herald to spread this military order to the entire battlefield, and every soldier in Youlan City who heard the military order had a belief in time in their hearts, and at the same time, they also burst out with one hundred and twenty percent combat effectiveness, and stabilized the decline of defeat and retreat.
Ulysses, who was standing in the city of Bill and Ya, also spotted the fighter plane, although there were tens of thousands of enemy troops outside the city, but there were less than 10,000 human troops and about 10,000 Warcraft troops who could fight, so as long as they defeated the enemy who was blocking the way to support the army outside the city, it was possible to break up the opponent's army formation and take the army west of the city down, and it was even possible to turn defeat into victory.
Ulysses was also a decisive man, and immediately ordered the chief of the guard to gather his only three thousand guards from all parts of the city at the west gate, but fortunately the one thousand guards who were wandering in the city were the only cavalry troops in the city of Bill and Ya, and they were assembled in only seven or eight minutes after receiving the signal. (To be continued.) )