Because of the time constraints, Yun Xiaohan did not stay in the village, and immediately continued to move southwest along the coastline after disembarking, and soon found another giant village. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The scale of this village is the largest among the villages that Yun Xiaohan encountered in this battle, and it may not be much closer to being upgraded to a city, so there are still more defenders in the village, about a thousand.

The fleet that followed Yun Xiaohan immediately blocked the sea outside the village, but because there were more than a dozen shore defense guns at the dock, it didn't go deeper, as long as the ships docked in the village didn't run away.

The fleet did not dare to approach, so naturally it could not provide artillery support. However, Yun Xiaohan didn't have more than a thousand defenders to take it to heart, and without artillery support, he could still easily take the village.

I have to admit that in positional warfare, especially without walls, Maurice is more effective than Garibaldi, especially his BUFF that increases the range by half is too useful, the troops he commands can hit others, but others can't hit him.

Fearing that Cassis City would be attacked again, and because there were a large number of prisoners of war and soldiers to manage in Cassis City, Yun Xiaohan left the four NPC officials Basso, Kos, Astori, and Telb in Cassis City.

Basso has 5-star management and leadership skills, 7-star personal combat potential, and although the command potential of the army and navy is weak, it also has 3 and a half stars, and it may be insufficient to fight in the field, and it is not possible to command a large number of troops, but it is still no problem to just defend a city, not to mention that there are NPC generals on Nelson's side. The key is that Basso is good at commanding mage soldiers, and he is old and serious, and Nelson's thunderstorm army has many mage soldiers, and with him, Cassis City will not be easily captured.

However, Basso's political and diplomatic potential is only half a star, and he can manage his own troops, but it is completely impossible to expect him to negotiate with the prisoners and civilians of the merchant alliance, so he needs to be assisted by others.

Astori's personal combat potential is 3 stars, and the army command potential is 4 stars, and he assists Basso in defending the city as a lieutenant general.

Although Kos could not lead troops, he had a 4-star personal combat potential, a 5-star management ability, and a 6-and-a-half-star political and diplomatic potential, and could negotiate with prisoners of war and civilians and manage them in the city of Cassis. Terb is in a similar situation to Kos, with a 6-star managerial leadership potential and a 4-star political and diplomatic potential and a personal combat potential, which can further improve the efficiency of management in Cassis.

Yun Xiaohan just didn't understand this before, so he didn't keep anyone, and later he arranged for NPC officials to take prisoners of war back to the city alone, and NPC officials automatically put into management after returning to the city, and Yun Xiaohan found out the differences and skills.

Removing these four people, Yun Xiaohan still has Garibaldi, Maurice, Parolo, Insigne, Emmanu, Mattia, Giaccherini and seven NPC officials by his side, as well as Rosie Pierre. Garibaldi is a follower and does not occupy the quota of 10 NPC officials in the territory, and Rosie Pierre is an ally and is assigned by Leah, so it is naturally even more unlikely to occupy the quota.

Garibaldi was still in charge of the Red Shirts, Rossi Pierre was the Guard, and the two men each led an elite force of 1,000 men, with Maurice in command of the remaining 3,000 men, and the remaining five NPCs under Maurice's command. (They can't command the Red Shirts and the Guards)

Because of the absence of Basso, Morris's task is a bit heavier, and he needs to balance bow and spell attacks when guiding ranged coverage attacks, but the other five NPC officials are not just watching the show, which can still help somewhat.

Insigne's personal combat potential is 6 stars, the army command potential is 7 stars, and the management leadership potential is 6 stars, and he has strong command ability and individual combat, and is a relatively all-round talent, but he doesn't have the talent to guide long-range coverage attacks. He was second only to Morris, and the 500 mountain veterans were still under his direct command, but they were not as independent of Morris's command as Garibaldi and Rossi Pierre.

And Emmanu and Mattia are also all-round talents, with good personal combat power and command ability, but they are a grade lower than Insigne, and they do not have direct troops.

As for Parolo and Giaccherini, both of them are based on their personal combat strength, the former has a personal combat potential of up to 7 stars, and the latter also has 5 stars, but the command ability of these two is somewhat insufficient, and they can't command too many troops, and they play more of the role of a powerful turret or charging arrow in battle. In fact, Yun Xiaohan's role positioning in the battle is almost the same, but he is also responsible for strategy and tactics.

Especially Parolo, his firepower output alone is almost as good as three low-level magic crystal cannons, and the range is still long, don't look at his command ability, but when it comes to the number of enemies killed, no NPC official can compare to him, and even three hero-level NPCs are inferior to him.

Under the command of Morris, with the assistance of other NPCs, it was only five salvos and three spell bombardments that the enemy had to take the initiative. Of course, there was cover in the village, unlike the uncovered battle in the plains just now, so the long-range attack was much less effective, but even this caused more than 200 enemy casualties.

Seeing the enemy attacking, Morris unhurriedly commanded the troops to bombard a few more rounds, and without cover, the enemy's casualties were even greater, but they had no choice but to rush out.

But at this time, it was the turn of Yun Xiaohan, Garibaldi, Rossi Pier, Insigne and others to play, not to mention the huge power of Yun Xiaohan's [Lonely Charge] in this kind of melee, not to mention a few hero-level NPCs, even the weaker NPCs were completely abusive when they beat ordinary NPC soldiers, coupled with the impact of the Pro-Guards and the Red Shirts, only one wave knocked the other party out of confidence, and the enemy instantly retracted back into the village.

Yun Xiaohan had limited troops in his hands, so he naturally wouldn't follow up to fight hand-to-hand, so he immediately ordered the melee troops to retreat again, and then the long-range troops continued to attack, and after a few rounds of bombardment, the Shang Alliance troops in the village finally couldn't survive anymore and chose to surrender.

The time of the battle was limited, and Yun Xiaohan's main purpose was to loot supplies, so there was no need to rush to kill them all, so he immediately accepted the surrender of the other party.

After entering the village, Yun Xiaohan immediately ordered people to take over the shore defense artillery and assist the navy in controlling or capturing the merchant alliance ships. Because the general trend has gone, the merchant alliance, which is dominated by merchants, has no determination to resist to the end, so it did not make too much resistance, let alone sink the ship.

In this way, there were 8 more ships in the detachment, but 6 of them were merchant ships, and the other two were only small warships.