Chapter 37: A Pyrrhic Victory
Qin Feng sat on the chair in the camp tent, looking at the soldiers who were happily cleaning up the battlefield outside the camp tent, his face that had been tense finally relaxed, and he exhaled, even though the wound on his shoulder still hurt faintly from time to time.
The snow was falling heavier and heavier outside, and many of the soldiers' bodies had been buried by the heavy snow, which caused a lot of trouble for the soldiers' work.
The butler looked at the corpses of the soldiers who had been carried away, his brow deepened, and he wrote down the name of the last soldier who had died in battle, and closed the book.
"AmΓΌller," cried the butler.
"Teacherβ" Amul heard the butler's voice and immediately put down his work and ran over. He followed the butler to learn things, so he respectfully called the butler a teacher.
"I'll go see the young master, you can do everything I told you as soon as possible," the butler said instructively.
"Yes, teacher."
The butler nodded, and walked to the tent with the ledger.
"West Rigon." On the way, he met West Regon, who had the same purpose, and the butler saw West Regon's frowning brows and asked, "What's wrong?" Cirigon's brow furrowed, and the butler who had been with Cirigon's life for a while knew that this old fellow rarely had this expression because of something.
"It's the barbarians." Seeing that it was the butler, Sirigang nodded, and said, "In order to make up for the lack of cavalry, I have temporarily recruited some barbarians who can ride horses before, but now they don't want to return the horses to us. β
"What did the big boss say about this?" The butler asked.
"I can't find him at all," said Sirigon, smiling wryly, "and even the horse he picked up is gone." "Sirigon was extremely speechless about this, there could be such a thing.
"Where's Norma?" The housekeeper also felt that this matter was really fucked up.
"Norma said that only the big boss can call the shots in this matter," Cirigan was speechless: "These barbarians really love to take advantage of small advantages, and they don't admit it when they take small advantages." β
"I can't help you with this matter, you can only find the young master to solve it." The butler said with some schadenfreude.
"You...."Sirigon, speechless.
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By this time the tent had arrived at Rowell and Hank, and when the butler and Sirigon came in, they nodded to the others and sat aside.
Qin Feng looked at everyone and said, "We got this battle by gambling, although we won this gamble, but our losses are not small. But the result was that we were able to significantly reduce the number of orc armies around Boer Town, and we also gained a barbarian ally. β
"Of course, I also found that we have many problems, for example, our soldiers generally have a lack of combat effectiveness in the face of tall and strong orcs, which we must overcome in a short time." Qin Feng said.
"Young Master, this situation exists in the entire human race, and the human body is generally inferior to the barbarians, orcs, and other strong races," Rowell said, "We have no other way than to strengthen the soldiers in terms of discipline, skill, weapons and armor. β
"Yes, young master," the butler explained, "this situation is something that many people want to change, but there is no other way than to hire mercenaries of other races. But we still occupy the most fertile land on the mainland, not by physical fitness, but by our discipline and the spirit of not fearing death. β
Hank and Lowell looked excited, and even Sirigon's surprise was even more at the old butler, they didn't expect him to say such a thing.
Qin Feng sighed, in Qin Feng's opinion, the reason why human beings occupy such a good territory is probably more due to human lives. But he can't say anything frustrating, and it seems that if he wants to change this situation, he can only solve it from the system.
"Butler, how is our loss?" Qin Feng changed the topic and asked.
"It's not going to be good, young master." The butler said in a deep voice: "The casualties of the Roman youth army have reached more than half, of which more than 180 people were killed and more than 30 were slightly injured. β
"Most of the armor and weapons are consumed, even if the armor on the dead soldiers has been deformed and damaged under the great power of the orcs, and it cannot be repaired, so it can only be rebuilt. All the javelins were consumed, and there was still a lot of food, enough for the whole army to last for another 7 days. β
Everyone fell silent, even though they probably knew that the damage was great this time, but they couldn't help but feel a pang of grief when they heard the butler's specific data.
"What did we seize?" Qin Feng broke the silence and asked.
"We killed a total of 4,878 orcs, escaped about 400 people, seized a total of about 7,000 gold coins, 100,000 catties of grain and grass, and countless weapons and armor, but most of the armor and weapons are defective or unsuitable for human body shape, and cannot be used." The butler said.
The losses are very large, and the gains are also a lot, not only what the housekeeper said, Qin Feng can also see from the system that after this cruel battle, both the Roman Youth Army and the levies have all been upgraded, especially the Roman Youth Army, which has suffered the greatest losses, has all been upgraded to Brass Level 3, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.
"What about the cavalry?" Qin Feng asked again, "Xiruigon, how about the losses of the cavalry?" "The cavalry is an army that he has built up at great expense, so he is also very attentive.
"I'm not sure yet." Cirigon's truth.
"What do you mean not sure?" Qin Feng was unhappy: "What, don't you even know about your own subordinates?" β
"Young master," explained the butler for Sirigon, "because we have recruited many barbarians to join the cavalry, we have no way to count the losses after the battle, because the barbarians are unwilling to return their horses to us. β
Everyone was speechless, Qin Feng was even more so, he looked at Xi Ruigon, and said funny: "What about the big boss, and Norma, won't you ask them for an explanation?" β
"The big boss doesn't know where to go with the war horse, and Norma shirks it, so we can't do anything about it." Sirigon's old face turned red with anger, and he complained: "Those barbarians won't let go of their horses, and they will do something with us when they are in a hurry." β
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"Haha...."Qin Feng laughed, he could make this Xiruigang who didn't change his face like this, these barbarians were also capable.
"Haha...."Lowell and Hank's butler were laughing, and for a moment it diluted the sad atmosphere just now.
"Okay..."After laughing for a while, Qin Feng stopped and said: "Sirigon, you go and tell Norma, those war horses can be given to him, but we will ask for more if the orcs are captured, especially the captured weapons and armor, we can only give them a part, but the grain can give them half, as for the gold coins..." Speaking of this, Qin Feng was a little silent, to be honest, he was very short of gold coins now, especially the lack of combat effectiveness of the Roman youth army found in this battle, he urgently needed to build a more advanced military camp to train more advanced troops, The construction of a military camp costs a huge amount of gold.
"Young master, we can let them buy things from us with gold coins, such as food, salt, weapons, armor, wood, and all kinds of other things." The steward came up with an idea: "In order to prevent the orcs from retaliating, the barbarians will definitely repair the tribe, and at the same time, they also need a large number of weapons, which we can trade with them in exchange for gold." I think they'll be willing, gold is of no use to the barbarians, and only we in the surrounding town can trade with them. β
The housekeeper's words made Qin Feng's eyes light up, and he said happily: "This matter will be handed over to you." β
"Yes, young master." The butler nodded.
"Let's all go down, and in an hour, get ready to go back to the city." Qin Feng ordered.
"Yes..."