Chapter 342: Hunger and thirst
Higg had already sent someone to inform Green, asking him to prepare to take over the fortress of Holly, and his heart had already flown back to Korqin City. However, in the face of the siege of the flood and the unexpected encounter with Bols's army, Higg was once again forced to stop his journey home.
Bols's army of 40,000 is already a tired division, the camp is full of wounded soldiers, and it has been two days without food! To be honest, he was also very reluctant to touch this new force of Higg.
If you want to continue north, you must make a detour of at least 200 kilometers, and it is better to wait for the water to recede before leaving. If you go west, there is an endless low jungle area than the south, which is not suitable for the forest people's army masters, and it will be barren and sparsely populated, without even a decent city, and Bors will have to return north to the densely populated jungle city and return to the sphere of influence of his First Legion if he wants to be well supplied.
At present, the two armies have not made formal contact, and the two sides have only reconnoitred each other's situation on rafts while rescuing the survivors who have fallen into the water, and if they want to make real contact, they will have to wait until the water completely recedes after two or three days. It's just that when rescuing survivors, Bols saves the druids, while Higg, on the contrary, saves the dwarves and elves and kills the druids alone. The fighters on both sides had sporadic hand-to-hand contact on the raft, nothing more.
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"Marshal Higg!" Gege's laughter was heard in midair.
Hearing the shout, Higg was excited, because there was only one place where people would call themselves like this, and that was Korqin City, and there was only one person who would call themselves like this in mid-air, and that was Marisa! The voice sounded so beautiful and kind that it suddenly reminded him that he had been away from Korqin City for nearly a year.
"Hahaha, your own people, let them go!" Higg laughed loudly at the soldiers who were on guard beside him, and all the elven archers put down their bows and arrows one after another, and Marisa slowly descended, and with him landed, there were two hundred beautiful girl patrol cavalry, which looked straight at the soldiers of the advance detachment.
"General Marisa, if you can come, it means that Smecta has arrived in Korqin City, so I can rest assured!" Higg laughed.
"My dear young marshal, aren't you worried about Horqin City?" Marissa also asked, "Are you worried about the future and fate of the expeditionary force?" And your two wives? ”
"With the battle-hardened soldiers such as Lufasi, Corincha, and Thomas, what do I have to worry about!" Higg smiled, "Of course, the main thing is that you three smart and capable women are still present, hahaha!" ”
"Hmph, Horqin City has been besieged by an army of 100,000 for more than half a year, and the siege has just been lifted!" Marissa said, "The whole army is waiting for your reinforcements, and I can't imagine that you are here to create another battlefield, so I am very happy!" ”
"100,000 troops besieged for half a year?" Higg was surprised and asked, "How did you break the siege?" ”
"Hahaha, then let me tell you how to break the siege!" Marisa said triumphantly, "When I help you pack up these tens of thousands of troops, you will know how we broke the siege!" ”
"What?" Higg asked in surprise, "How many reinforcements have you brought with you?" ”
"That's all!" Marissa pointed to the two hundred patrol cavalry behind her and smiled, "I went to Hurley Fortress first, and I only found out that you are here, and I also know that you have recently made a small fortune!" ”
"What little fortune?" Higg wondered.
"You robbed more than 1,000 trucks of evacuated supplies!" Marissa grinned, "You're afraid of my idea of fighting these supplies?" ”
"It's none of my business, I don't plan to take it away, and I can't take it away!" Higg said, "Leave it to you! ”
"My Liberation Army?" Marissa asked curiously, "What do you mean?" ”
"Smecta didn't tell you about your mother, Josephine?" Higg asked rhetorically.
"My mother?" Marissa was surprised and said, "No, he just said that you are in danger here, and asked us to send reinforcements immediately, so I hurried here!" ”
"The Liberation Army is the army pulled up by your mother Josephine, there were originally nearly 100,000 people, and some time ago I joined forces with Bols on the opposite side, and both sides suffered heavy losses, and there were more than 30,000 people on hand. However, I have gathered more than 10,000 people for her here with General Green, and you have just in time to hand them over to you, along with those supplies! ”
"So, you stayed to save my mother?" Marissa asked.
"Hmph, if I hadn't learned that the Liberation Army was Josephine's team at the end, I would have the heart to destroy this army!" Higg said hatefully.
"Okay, let's talk about handsome righteousness, I won't say anything!" Marissa said, "Since you gave me a great gift, I will also give you a great gift!" ”
"What gift?" Higg asked, surprised.
"Forty thousand troops on the other side!"
"You're going to help me destroy them?" Higg gasped and asked.
"No, I helped you co-opt them!" Marissa smiled, "Do you want it, don't belong to my Liberation Army!" ”
"Do you have a way to persuade you to surrender?"
"I have a way to turn the dwarven warriors and elven archers against me! Druids and centaur warriors forget it! Marissa said mysteriously.
"Really?" Higg was skeptical.
"You don't believe me?"
"I believe it!" Higg laughed, "Otherwise, how will you break the siege with a hundred thousand troops?" It turns out that it's all your credit! ”
"You're wrong!" Marissa said, "Without your two women, Korqin City would have been gone a long time ago!" I only listened to the idea of the blue fairy, and I had a way to turn the dwarves and elves against me! ”
"Okay, then I'll watch from the wall!" Higg said, "From now on, my advance detachment, including me, will be under your command!" ”
"Okay, then let's get two hundred truckloads of military rations from Holly Fortress first!" Marissa said, "Send someone to transfer it now!" ”
"So much?" Higg said in surprise.
"Didn't you say they all listened to me?" Marissa laughed, "Why, didn't you listen to the first task?" ”
"Hehe, anyway, these military rations and materials have already been promised to you, you can adjust as much as you like, and it's not mine!" Higg said, handing his arrows to Marissa, and continued, "You better send the patrol cavalry yourself, there are dwarven slaves there to call!" ”
Marissa handed the arrow to the elf beside her, asking her to take someone to get the food, and then asked Higg, "Where is my mother now?" ”
Higg said: "I have never met your mother, I have heard about her situation from General Green, her home base of Heselna is at least more than 400 kilometers away from here, and she has just experienced a crushing victory, hehe! You can send someone to contact her, so that she had better move the base camp forward here, if you want to make a difference, don't always shrink in the rear, strength is not by preservation, but by fighting! ”
"Well, I'll convince her!" Marissa sighed and said, "Alas, if only Your Majesty could have half of your understanding, I still can't see the situation clearly, and I am still in Marishen's nest, I should also go to him and tell him about the situation here!" ”
"You've changed!" Higg laughed, "Lan Xian'er used to say that you were a stupid woman, but I think you understand it very well now and have become smarter!" ”
"Just getting smarter, not prettier?" Marissa Gege laughed, "Always with a bunch of crazy people, perverts, you have to be smarter if you don't want to be tricked, people always change, don't they?" ”
Marissa looked at Higg with a wicked smile on her face, and said movingly: "Seeing so many elves and dwarves suffering in the Druid Territory, in fact, I feel very uncomfortable, I have also lived in the Druid Territory for decades, and I know that what their inner world thinks is nothing more than food and clothing, ordinary, freedom and dignity, nothing more, but these have been away from them for thousands of years, I want to reawaken them and help them realize these simple and real things that they want in their hearts, even if they stay in a lot of blood and sweat, at any cost!" Of course, they will pay more, even with their lives, but I think it will be worth it for the sake of future generations, to restore the elves, to liberate the status of the dwarves! ”
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Two days later, the water gradually receded, but the road was still muddy and difficult to walk, and the two hundred carts of grain and supplies from the fortress of Holey had all arrived, Marisa ordered the dwarves to make ten carts of military rations into dry rations at once overnight, and reload them on twenty ox carts, and early the next morning, he ordered people to drive the ox carts to drive these dry rations to Bols's army, while her own two hundred patrol cavalry guarded the air.
By noon, the vehicles had traveled more than ten kilometers on the muddy road, and they were at least five kilometers away from Bols's camp. Marisa ordered the vehicle to be stopped, unloaded at once, placed boxes of dry rations on a clearing, and then ordered the patrol cavalry to escort the convoy back in place.
Alone, Marissa hovered over Bols's army, which by this time had begun to venture out into the mud of the road and slowly move north.
"All elven and dwarven brothers!" Marissa shouted in mid-air, "I know you're hungry, but you druids still eat and drink, regardless of your life and death, why do you still work for them?" I, the Restoration Army, have pity on you brothers, who are also elves and dwarves, and specially prepared 100,000 dry food for you, a total of twenty carts, in the open space not far ahead, you can go to eat at any time, I guarantee you with the future and fate of the Liberation Army, there is absolutely no ambush and danger, after eating, you can continue to hurry, of course, you can continue to wait there until the evening, we can still deliver food to you! ”
"Whoosh-" Several arrows shot into the air, and only fell back less than ten meters from Marisa.
Marissa smiled and then shouted, "Dear elf brothers, dwarf brothers, don't go too late, everyone else has eaten up before you go!" ”
The soldiers on the march look at me, I look at you, I look at you, hunger makes their eyes turn green, and they begin to be a little nervous, as if they must eat enough even if there is danger ahead.
"No one is allowed to go!" Bols said angrily, "That's the enemy's conspiracy trap, how can there be such a cheap thing, the enemy sends himself food, it's too whimsical!" No one is allowed to discuss this matter, otherwise he will be punished as an instigator of rumors! ”
But before Bols's words could be conveyed, people had already begun to break away from the group and run frantically in the direction that Marissa was pointing, at first a dozen people, and slowly hundreds, thousands......
"Stop them!" Bolts was furious and shouted at the guards beside him.
Hundreds of centaur warriors rushed forward, trying to stop the elves and dwarves who were galloping forward! The hungry elves and dwarves ignored all of this, bypassing the centaur warriors and continuing to rush forward......