Chapter 333: Give and Take, Demand
Although it was won, no one could be happy with such a disastrous victory. In the face of corpses all over the ground, the camp full of wounded soldiers, and the city full of wailing, Lu Faxi was ashamed! This is the tragic loss suffered by the expeditionary force for more than a year, the initial difficulty of this army's entry, he felt it deeply from beginning to end, and the confidence and morale that he gradually built up after a year, as well as all the belongings, were destroyed by this battle, and he was the main general, and he could not escape the blame no matter what.
Of course, he knew where those dead soldiers came from, because they had been besieged for so long, there was only one place to enter the city, and that long was the high mountain in the north, although it was steep, but there were often military and civilian roads to pick on the mountain, and Lu Faxi arranged sixty soldiers to guard there, which was of course enough for the enemy's attack, but if the enemy disguised himself as a citizen infiltrated three or two people every day, it would add up to a lot, and in half a year, there were as many as three or four hundred dead soldiers who entered Horqin City.
But what's the point of knowing now? Fortunately, the other party only wanted to take the city with all his heart, otherwise, if these hundreds of dead soldiers assassinated high-ranking officers or assassinated Blue Fairy, Princess Maria or himself, Lu Faxi didn't dare to imagine what the consequences would be.
The siege of the city ceased fighting in order to bury the corpses. There are corpses everywhere inside and outside the city, and it is now summer, and if they are not buried in time, no matter inside or outside the city, as long as there is a plague, it will cause a catastrophe to the two armies.
As a result of the discussion between the two armies, the corpses outside the city were buried by the attack and defense, and the corpses inside the city were buried by the defenders. On the first day, the defender opened the east gate and went out of the city from the east gate to find a place to bury, while the attacker began to collect the corpses from the west gate to find a place to bury them; The next day, the defenders opened the west gate and went out of the city from the west gate to find a place to bury them, while the attackers began to collect the corpses from east to west to find a place to bury them. This is the respect of both sides for the dead in the battle, but also for the comfort of the living, the two sides have reached a tacit understanding for the first time in more than half a year, the day before you were still alive and dead, today is the dead are great, make way for the victims.
After these two battles, although the Druid camp suffered more casualties, reaching 30,000 people, it only lost 30% of the 100,000 army; For Korqin City, 15,000 soldiers could not return to the battlefield, close to half, 50% of the battle losses, the comparison of forces between the two sides was still the absolute advantage of the Druids, and this advantage was expanded. But the druids lost eighty percent of their catapults and half of their ballistas, and although they had a large number of troops, their siege weapons could hardly pose too much of a threat to Korqin City.
Druid Morris knew very well in his heart that if he had a heavy army to attack the city with all his might, although he would pay a greater price than this time, the destruction of the city was already in sight.
"Ask Donutin for reinforcements!" After careful consideration, Morris was unwilling not to take Korqin City, and decided to send someone for help, but he knew that the other party was a patrol cavalry, so he secretly sent a small team, dressed as ordinary people, and scattered to Donauton City for help.
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On the road between the cities of Korqin and Donauton, it has been nearly ten days since the dwarf soldiers were nervously opening a new road.
Originally, the progress of road construction was good, but an unexpected heavy rain made their plan bankrupt. The druid leader angrily whipped the dwarven craftsmen and dwarven slaves, and even made some of the dwarven warriors take off their equipment and participate in the construction of roads. However, the soil that loosened after the rain was dug up and caused a landslide on the hillside, which not only buried half of the road that had been repaired, but also buried more than 30 dwarves who were working underneath.
The clear path became a long way off, which made the druid leader even more furious, causing the soldiers to whip the dwarves as they worked.
When Marissa returned to Camp Thomas, it was already the third day after the Battle of Horqin City.
The almost loss of Horqin City shocked both Blue Fairy and Thomas David, and if enemy reinforcements arrived, Horqin City, which still had more than 16,000 soldiers, might cease to exist.
"Marisa!" Lan Xian'er suddenly asked strangely, "What do you think of this army below?" ”
"The enemy focuses on guarding this transportation line, of course they are all elite!" Marissa asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”
"Hehe, there is a shortage of soldiers in Horqin City, isn't there just a soldier here?" Lan Xian'er smiled.
"You're going to capture this army?" Not only Marisa, but also Thomas and Corincha on the side were surprised.
"Not a prisoner, but a surrender!" Lan Xian'er said with a smile, "It's been more than ten days, and I've been continuously disturbed, I can't sleep well, and no matter how elite the team is, it's about to collapse!" Marisa, most of the composition of this team are dwarves and elves, and the centaur warriors are less than two thousand, and these dwarves and elves are all enslaved to join the army, so they naturally have a lot of dissatisfaction in their hearts. Although they also served the druids wholeheartedly in the army, they were all forced, and it was also the result of their long-suppressed servility. If you can guide them, awaken their sense of rebellion, oppose the druids, and receive them may not be impossible! How's that, Marisa, you're good at that, I'll leave it to you, right? ”
"That's unlikely!" Marissa said, "Although the dwarves and elves hate the druids in their hearts, a thousand years of slavery have made them forget themselves and think that they deserve to be enslaved. As long as these druids and centaur warriors are still around, they will never be able to hold their heads up! ”
"Marisa, you're wrong!" Lan Xian'er shook her head and said, "Do you know where Higg went?" Why haven't you come back yet? ”
Marissa said, "Didn't you say that you were going to help an army of rebels so that they could help us contain the druids?" ”
Lan Xian'er then asked, "Then do you know who that rebel army is and how it was formed?" ”
"You didn't say that!" Marissa said.
Blue Fairy said: "Because the druids sent troops to the village to collect heavy taxes, because the mother of a child named Smecta was ruined by the druids, and the child took a scythe to find the druids for a long time, and the child's father, an elf named Schneider, hurriedly took a few villagers to save the child, and as a result, there was a battle between the villagers and the druid army, as a result, almost the elves and dwarves of the entire village spontaneously went to help the child, and wiped out the druid army of more than a hundred people, and that's it, Thus a rebel army was formed. It was only because of a child, because of a mother, that this fire was ignited. And the elven warriors and dwarven warriors in the druid army also defected after the battle and joined the rebel army. What is even more unimaginable is that this rebel army has grown to 50,000 or 60,000 people in less than half a year, and once occupied Yaxa, the capital of Frodo! ”
Marissa listens attentively, Corincha and Thomas listens attentively, because a child, a mother, triggers an army of tens of thousands of people, the story is indeed wonderful and thought-provoking!
"Maybe you don't know yet!" Lan Xian'er continued, "Since Schneider raised his army, all parts of the neighborhood have followed suit and risen up. According to Maria and I, on the way back, we have heard of at least ten rebel armies, although the scale is not large, some are thousands, some are only more than a hundred, but I believe that the spark can start a prairie fire, and these rebels will become the druid's gravediggers sooner or later! ”
Seeing that everyone listened attentively and didn't speak, Lan Xian'er continued, "Didn't Benjamin want to rely on a bottom-up approach to recover the Forest Country and the elves? That's bottom-up! ”
"What is my mother doing?" Marissa said to herself, "What is Your Majesty doing?" In the territory of the druids, the whole country is burning with beacons, and they have not done anything yet, is it really like Higg said, wait until others have recovered the forest country, and then he will come out to pick peaches? Do people let him pick such peaches? ”
Blue Fairy said, "That's your Forest Country's business, Higg and I only do what we should do!" Benjamin is willing to hibern, so let him hibernate. When someone else ascends to the throne, he will no longer be an elven king! What is King? If others respect you as a king, you are the king, and if others do not respect you as a king, even if you are really a king, no one will listen to you, and you will be killed! To be honest, Benjamin let me down so much! ”
"yes!" Marissa sighed, "As a king, but you have always been giving what you want, you are doing all your best for his affairs, my mother is also breaking into the enemy camp for his affairs, those who have nothing to do with it, Smecta and Schneider, are also spilling blood for the forest people, but he only knows how to ask people for money, and ask others to do this and that, I even wonder if I am looking at the wrong person!" Auguston's approach is now much brighter than his! He has no progress except to preserve his pitiful strength! However, he is always my king, and I am willing to help him no matter what! ”
Lan Xian'er asked: "Marisa, I used to look down on you, I used to look down on you, I was too impulsive, and I put a lot of personal hatred into things, but your character is because of the enslavement and oppression of the druids, and your childhood was too unfortunate!" Now I'm willing to share this story with you, do you understand? ”
Marissa nodded and said, "You're telling me that those dwarves and elven warriors down the mountain are not brainless, but they just lack someone to guide them, they don't think it's safe to rely on, and they lack a fire to light them!" I listen to you, and I'm willing to light a fire, but only if they are given safe to rely on, and that is to destroy more than a thousand centaurs and fifty druids! ”
"How?" Blue Fairy turned to Corinth and Thomas and asked, "Are you their safer?" ”
Thomas said, "As long as we can separate the druids and centaurs from the dwarves and elven warriors, we promise not to leave any of them!" ”
"Don't talk big!" Blue Fairy smiled, "It's impossible to separate them, but Marissa can do the work to keep the dwarves and elven warriors out of their hands, and even when you have the upper hand, she may even help you!" ”
"It's done!" Colin Cha got up and said, "I'm tired of playing these days, change the way I play, play big, hahaha!" ”
"Good!" Thomas said, "As long as the other dwarves and elves don't do anything, we can be sure that we will destroy the power of the druids!" ”
Marissa said with a smile: "Madame can encourage us to fight and kill just by using her mouth, but she doesn't have to do anything, such a style is embarrassing to say Your Majesty Benjamin!" ”
"Hey, I'm not doing anything?" Lan Xian'er said with a smile, "More than three hundred trucks of supplies, which of you can transport them into the city?" ”
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