Chapter 113: Abandoned Prisoners of War
The dragon hero Beccaria looked at the human in front of the Ming Dynasty, and quickly recognized the human who was pretending to be a Pegasus knight and using strange magic to interrupt his dragon horns when the two sides of the old dam knife were fighting.
Although there was nothing to do with the dragons in this operation to claim the remains of the elves, after hearing that the lord of Hammondale had personally come to lead the way, Beccaria ran to see the excitement.
Beccaria was curious about this mysterious human lord who could defeat Ifa.
He wanted to take a good look at what kind of outstanding person this lord really was.
As a result, it's okay not to look at it, but at a glance, the golden dragon's nose is crooked. It turned out that the legendary mysterious human lord who destroyed all the plans of the Elf King turned out to be the cunning guy who dared to interrupt his precious dragon horns! He also once deceived himself by pretending to be a Pegasus knight! He also got all of himself down and still hasn't seen anything! If nothing else, the poor golden dragon that disappeared must have been killed by this lord by now!
Thinking of his own wounds, of the possible fate of his companions. Beccaria snorted heavily with his nose angrily, and the wave of air rushing out of his huge nostrils blew a large amount of snow on the ground, and the flying snowflakes fell on Chen Jian's face all over his face.
And after Lord Chen Jian saw this golden dragon that impressed him quite deeply, he was surprised and his heart was also on fire.
It was this golden dragon who secretly set a big trap for himself in the battle, if it weren't for the blessing of the various magic blessings of High Priest Ryan, I am afraid that he would have died under the sudden attack of the dragon's breath from the mouth of a golden dragon.
It was also because of this golden dragon that I hurt myself. The great escape in the air also had to play all kinds of thrilling actions in the air several times, if it wasn't for his foresight to transform the saddle on the silver pegasus in advance, he would have fallen to his death on the land of Hammondal.
Thinking of how many times he narrowly escaped his life, and was a little disgraced by the other party's heavy snort, Jian Chen's face couldn't help but change color.
This is in the military camp of the Erathia Emperor's ** team, and there are several archangels who came with the golden dragon, of course Jian Chen is not very afraid.
Yilong and his eyes were wide on the spot, and he gritted his teeth and met them.
Beccaria was the first to speak, and he opened his big mouth, revealing a dragon's tooth as sharp as a sword: "Human! I'm that. What about chasing your companions? What did you do to him? ”
However, of course, such intimidation could not scare Jian Chen, who was in the empress's camp at this time. He pursed his lips rather disdainfully, and took it for granted: "That stupid gendar dares to be rude to the master of the ability, of course, it was destroyed by the master of the skill with the magic of his hand!" There are no bones left! Does this need to be asked?
"You Beccaria was so angry by the other party's words that you almost couldn't help but move.
"What are you!" After seeing that the archangels found that the situation was a little wrong, Chen Jian was already secretly on guard, and couldn't help but feel even more relieved, and immediately interrupted Jin Long's words, and teased: "You haven't tasted the methods of the master of skills!" ”
Ever since High Priest Ryan mistook a laser for a form of magic. Jian Chen has always claimed that he uses magic, firstly, he does not want too many people to know that he has the weapons of the Miracle Age, and secondly, the magician who can hurt the dragon clan sounds more majestic, which can satisfy the little vanity of the lord who has always wanted to be a great magician.
The angry golden dragon was about to say something more, but was stopped by the strange-looking elf next to him.
"Both, calm down, now the Erathia Empire and the Elven Kingdom have re-signed an alliance, and now we are allies, not enemies!"
The male elven messenger with long red hair smiled, reminding the dragon and the man who were in tension. He had also noticed the abnormal performance of the envoys around him, and the hands of these envoys had been pressed on the hilt of the sword.
His words were not only a reminder of the golden dragon and this human lord, but also a reminder of the envoys.
"The previous fight between the two sides was just a misunderstanding, but now the misunderstanding has passed, and everyone is still friends! Forget about the past, the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and some accidents will inevitably happen! At that time, it was either you dead or I lived. I can't help but do your best! Beccaria, you know these things! ”
Although the golden dragon Beccaria was still a little angry, he still endured this breath after thinking about it, but a pair of giant eyes stared at Jian Chen viciously.
Jian Chen originally wanted to say something, but when this elf envoy said this, it was not good to speak again. I had to keep my mouth shut.
The relationship between the two sides is still very delicate, and it would be bad if a big thing was ruined because of a little verbal dispute.
This is very clear to both the Golden Dragon Beccaria and Jian Chen.
One man and one dragon reverted to their previous situation of glaring at each other.
At this time, the elven envoy spoke again, and he performed the etiquette of the elves when they met with distinguished guests to Chen Jian: "This must be the current Lord of Hammondal, His Excellency Chen Jian, right?" In the Lower Elven Kingdom Messenger, Half-Elf Gru, I have seen Your Excellency! ”
Gru? Half-elf Gru? After being taken aback by the golden dragon, Jian Chen was taken aback by this guy who claimed to be a half-elf Gru.
It's not because Gru's fame is too big, so big that Jian Chen remembers such a number one person, Jian Chen remembers a lot of famous people on the mainland, but he doesn't have any special images of these people, just like last time, he obviously heard about the deeds of High Priest Ryan, but he will only remember it after being reminded by Master Yu.
This time, Jian Chen can remember the half-elf hero Gru, or because this guy who is famous and famous on the continent, but can mix in the elf kingdom with strong racism as a half-elf half-elf, is his captain of the guard, and he is also the idol of the half-elf Pete.
Usually when he has nothing to gossip, Half-Elf Pete often mentions this guy in front of Chen Jian Pete really admires this guy too much, because Gru has done what he can't do, and Pete, who is also a half-elf, has always longed to be able to integrate into the elven society, and the elven blood flowing in his blood makes him full of good feelings for the huge forest.
Of course, Pete's yearning and goodwill are now gone.
After being stunned for a long time, Chen Jian realized that he was really a little rude, and quickly returned the salute and said: "I am Jian Chen, I didn't expect it to be the famous hero His Excellency Gru who came in person, it is really rude!" ”
"We haven't met before, we don't know each other, and it's normal that Your Excellency Chen Jian doesn't recognize me!" Gru smiled, his tone flat, "I have been ordered by the King of the Forest to come to collect the remains of the Hui people, and I ask Your Excellency to lead the way
Gru's attitude made Jian Chen a little puzzled, in his opinion, he killed such an important figure in the elf kingdom, and the elves should have no good face for themselves like the golden dragon. But he didn't feel a trace of anger in Gru's words, on the contrary, there seemed to be some faint kindness in it, which was really a strange thing.
Could it be because of his half-elf status that he has a crush on humans?
Jian Chen vaguely remembered that the female magician once said that this Gru was adopted by a human general of the empire when he was a child, and grew up among humans, but later saved the life of the elf king in the war, so he was appreciated by the elf king and joined the elven army, and gradually rose to his current status, and it is rumored that the elf king wants to accept him as a righteous son.
This made Jian Chen unable to figure out how to think about it, he was adopted by humans and grew up in the empire, why did he defect to the elven kingdom when he became an adult?
Even if he wants to join the army and make contributions, he has the opportunity to join the emperor's ** team, and the human who adopted him is a famous general! It's impossible to do this, and his ability is so outstanding.
But now was not the time to think about these things, after saluting the half-elf hero again, Jian Chen turned over and put on his silver Pegasus, ready to lead the way.
Seeing the silver flying horse under Jian Chen, the golden dragon Beccaria was annoyed again.
Like Jian Chen, Gru also rode a silver pegasus, and the two of them flew into the sky one after the other, followed by several envoys.
Beccaria thought about it and followed.
On the ground, a convoy of human soldiers, elves, and centaur soldiers followed them, rushing along the road, ready to load the remains.
After arriving at the destination, hundreds of corpses, complete or mutilated, were neatly arranged on the ground, making the elves and centaur soldiers look at Jian Chen with some hatred in their eyes.
Originally, the elves were still skeptical that this lord could defeat Ivo and the army led by Ivo under the condition of taking advantage of the disadvantage, but now those corpses on the ground have proved that the truth of the matter cannot be questioned.
In this regard, Gru, who was accustomed to seeing big scenes, remained silent, he just calmly commanded the elven soldiers to start working, and then he himself began to observe the remains of the soldiers of various races on the ground one by one.
It's okay not to look at it, but the more I look, the more surprised Gru's heart becomes.
According to the latest information, the Elven Kingdom's speculation about the reason for the defeat of this battle should be that Ivo and his army were lured into the castle by this lord by some means, and then the enemy quickly destroyed the entire castle from the outside, which led to the defeat of Ivo and the total annihilation of the elven army.
But Gru's situation in front of him shows that things are not so simple.
The corpses of many centaur warriors bear obvious signs of battle, and in Gru's experience, a significant number of centaurs have been killed with sharp weapons such as swords, and some of the dead have traces of magical attacks.
And Ivo's body, which was finally identified by the soldiers, shows how fierce the battle was at that time, this former hero is now not even a human body, if the head is not relatively complete, the elven soldiers really may not be able to recognize him.
Gru could certainly see that the cause of Ivo's death was a magical attack, not the fall of the castle. This makes the half-elf hero even more puzzled.
The large hole in the middle of the chest and the traces of magic left on the corpse of another female elf mage also indicate that something unexpected must have happened in the castle at that time.
At this time, the golden dragon Beccaria also saw some clues, and thinking about the encounter where he was almost hindered by the sneak attack of humans and angels, he was very sure that this human lord must have played some tricks again.
So he snorted heavily with his nose again, to show his contempt for this human being.
Under Gru's command, elven soldiers and centaur soldiers began to carefully carry the corpses onto the wagon, ready to be loaded back to China for burial.
To Jian Chen's surprise, although they collected all the corpses, they did not propose to take back the prisoners of war.
To Chen Jian's thoughts, although the empress's order is not mentioned, two. Both were recovered for the corpses. There's no reason to leave prisoners of war alone. Therefore, Chen Zhaodian was reluctant to give up these dozens of free laborers, but he also instructed the people below to prepare for the transfer of prisoners of war, and wondered if there was a lion to open his mouth in terms of ransom.
As a result, Gru, the elven envoy, didn't even mention this matter at all, so he said goodbye to Jian Chen and left, leaving Jian Chen is second monk confused.
However, the other party didn't mention it, and of course Jian Chen wouldn't take the initiative to mention it, it was best if these prisoners of war could stay, and he would be of great use in the future.
In fact, this matter is also a confused account, Chen Jian did not mention the matter of prisoners of war to the empress, so the empress took it for granted that the enemy was all buried under the pile of ruins, so when the elf king proposed to recover the remains of the war dead and prisoners of war, the empress was very proud to tell the elf king that without prisoners of war, all the elven invaders would have turned into cold corpses in the battle.
This sentence almost choked the elf tip to death.
So those dozens of unlucky dwarves and centaurs were abandoned in Hammondale by the Elven Kingdom for no apparent reason, and became Chen Jian's second batch of free coolies.
And these free coolies, at this time, were still very happy because of the boycott of the two countries, they felt that the two countries were allies again, and the bodies of the war dead had been returned, so of course their own prisoners of war would also be returned.
Seeing the dawn of freedom, dwarves and centaurs are starting to feel a little uneasy these days. They began to refuse to obey orders, and deliberately did not work hard when excavating the ruins of the castle.
As a result, they waited left and right, but they didn't wait for the news of Jian Chen's release of them, and secretly asked the guards. Only then did I know that the messenger of the elven kingdom had already returned home with the remains of the war dead.
"Die to this heart! I was there too! I didn't hear the elven messenger named Gru mention the return of the prisoners of war! After they took the corpses, they had already left! Not a word more! ”
One of the guards soldiers who had been specially explained by Jian Chen told the dwarves and centaurs this way, and expressed his sympathy for them: "If you want me to see, you must have been abandoned by those elves, otherwise why would they leave without even asking?" I must be reluctant to spend money to ransom you useless waste! ”
"It can't be!" The prisoners of war were in disarray.
"Impossible?" The soldier glanced at the prisoners of war, quite disdainful, "There are many people who know about this matter." I'm not the only one who saw it, believe it or not! Besides, if you guys who eat for nothing can be exchanged for ransom, will the lord agree to it? ”
This sentence silenced the prisoners of war.
Think about it too. These people have also finished teaching their martial arts, and they are all ordinary soldiers, so there is no reason why they will be left behind by that terrible lord and not exchanged for ransom.
The prisoners of war were in a state of gloom, and they began to recall the elves' rejection of the aliens. The centaurs are thinking about the unfair treatment they have received in the elven army. The dwarves began to regret that they had not left the forests of Turalion with the hill dwarves and went to Baildes.
Although this had never happened before, it seemed that it was not impossible for the elves to do so.
Although some dwarves and centaurs were skeptical, most of the prisoners accepted the truth.
And over time. They also had to resign themselves to their fate.
When the prisoners of war were gradually despairing, Chen Jian, the lord, was happy, and according to the empress's instructions, soon after Gru and the golden dragon and the elven soldiers left Hammondal, he quietly transported all the magic mercury in his hands and the magic materials obtained from the dragon's corpse to the empress's barracks for handover.
After all these things were converted into gold coins, they brought nearly 50,000 gold coins to Lord Chen Jian, but these gold coins have not been delivered to him for the time being, the empress said, there are not so many gold coins in the army now, and even if there are them, they are military expenses, and they cannot be used casually, so this money will not be paid until the empress returns to the imperial capital.
In this regard, of course, Chen Jian has no dissatisfaction, he believes that an imperial empress will never covet her own things.
And as the woman magician expected, the empress did not return all the dragon corpses to the elven kingdom, at that time the empress had a total of four dragon corpses, one golden dragon and three green dragons, but when they were returned, the empress detained two green dragon corpses.
For this kind of thing. Beccaria, the envoy of the Golden Dragon Clan, could only pinch his nose and admit it.
When encountering such a thing, the forest dragon clan has no good way except to admit that it is mildew, and the great Erathia Empire, the Elian Dragon City cannot afford to provoke.
However, Chen Jian felt very strange that the empress had not returned to the imperial capital for a long time but had been staying in Hammondal.
"Hammondale is too important to the current empire, and Earl Mrak hasn't arrived yet, so I can't leave with peace of mind, but it's almost over, speaking of which, I've been away from the imperial capital for so long, I don't know what tricks those old nobles will come up with." The Empress sighed as she spoke, a little distressed. But she quickly put those things behind her for the time being.
"Jian Chen, this is the planning map of Harmmondale Castle and Harmondale New Town, you can help me take a look, is there anything inappropriate!"