Hump Fort, inside the temporary residence of Kasha.

"Ladies and gentlemen, is the data on this chart true?" Behind the square table, Kasha held a piece of parchment in one hand, looked at the subordinates standing opposite him with a look of disbelief, and asked in a soothing tone.

The high-ranking members of the Prairly Collar who were present at the meeting looked at each other when they heard this, and after a while, Luna Maria stood up and replied: "Lord Earl, after we have checked several times, except for a few corpses that really cannot be identified, everything that can be confirmed has been recorded in the report. ”

"......" Kashya, after hearing LunaMaria's exact affirmative reply, couldn't help but take a deep breath to suppress the surprise in her heart - no wonder she was so out of shape, because the report in her hand clearly recorded the number of corpses of the enemy knight-level combat members who had been collected by her side during the battle of the Humpback Fortress after the battle to clean up the battlefield. There are twenty-seven in all.

These twenty-seven corpses are all knights of the Serpent Knights who have been identified by Manchado, and there are a total of five high-ranking warriors, including the deputy head of the Serpent Knights,. And that's not counting the eleven corpses that were so destroyed that they were unrecognizable, but that they were confirmed to be knights of the Serpent Knights.

If you count the results of the encounter (three) on the way to the Humpback Fortress of the vanguard troops, there are a total of forty-one knight-level combat forces killed in this battle, including six knights with the strength of high-ranking warriors.

If the five Serpent Knights captured in this battle, including the head of the Serpent Knights and the high-ranking warlord Hantes, are counted in the battle, then the number of knight-level combat power lost by Manchado Collar will reach forty-six.

The number of ordinary troops lost in Manchado was equally staggering. After some statistics, the number of Manchado soldiers killed in this offensive and defensive battle was about 600, in addition to more than 30 prisoners. Combined with the losses in several contact battles before the war, Manchado lost more than 700 ordinary troops. Compared to the capture, the captured enemy supplies were not much, except for the equipment on the dead and prisoners led by Manchado, there was only a small amount of baggage in the abandoned camp. After all, the territories of the two hostile sides border each other, and the supply of materials is very convenient, so there is no need to hoard a large amount of baggage in the camp in advance.

Of course, in the entire Hump Fort offensive and defensive battle, Praile's side also suffered a lot of losses. According to post-war statistics, there were 430 ordinary soldiers under the Prairly command who participated in the entire offensive and defensive battle (including the 300 reinforcements who did not catch up with the battle), of which 76 were killed in the battle and 23 were lightly or seriously wounded; The Knights of Rog took part in the battle with a total of fifty-eight knights (including the twenty who did not catch up with the reinforcements), of whom nine were killed in battle and eight were lightly or seriously wounded. In addition to the loss of personnel, there was also the loss of materials - the city defense materials in the Hump Fort were almost exhausted in this offensive and defensive battle, and nearly half of the section of the city wall as the main battlefield was damaged, and the cost of replenishing materials and repairing the city wall was also a lot of consumption.

However, compared to the enemy army, the losses in this battle led by Praley can be said to be extremely low. You must know that in this battle, the strength of the two sides directly participated in the battle was very different, and the strength of the Manchado army far exceeded that of the Prairie army, but the result was that the Manchado army was defeated and lost, and the battle loss ratio between it and the ordinary soldiers of the Prairly army was close to seven to one, and the battle loss ratio of high-end combat power was also close to three to one. Just looking at this battle loss ratio, you can see that the whole battle was almost one-sided, and the Prairie led to beat the opponent almost one-sidedly.

This is the biggest reason why Kasha has a hard time believing this battle report. His own family and the Bilgard family have been hostile for decades, and there have been nearly a hundred conflicts between them, not to mention the number of big and small conflicts, but there has never been a single case where they have really inflicted heavy losses on each other. Even if the Leopold family had won the largest battle between the two families a decade earlier, the result was only a barely defeating and retreating opponent, rather than a heavy blow – or a complete defeat – as is the case now.

"When did Old Bilgard's troops become so ineffective?" Kasha muttered to herself in disbelief.

"Lord Earl. Actually—" Luna Maria pondered for a moment, then decided to tell the truth. "-- After screening, the casualties inflicted by our Prairly Army on the opponent in the whole battle accounted for less than a third of the enemy's total losses. Most of the enemy's casualties were caused by our allies, the Xuanyuan family. ”

Kasha looked at Luna Maria in surprise.

"And it's not just the killing and wounding of the enemy's ordinary troops, but even the loss of the enemy's high-end combat power." Luna Maria continued, "According to statistics, as many as ...... of the knights of the Serpent Knights have died at the hands of the Xuanyuan family Thirty. ”

"Thirty Knights" Kashya's heart beat heavily, and he suddenly felt a little dizzy.

"Yes, my lord, thirty," Luna Maria repeated again, "and that includes at least four high-ranking warriors, such as the Serpent Knights' Deputy Master. ”

Although the Xuanyuan family's display of strength had repeatedly been unbelievable to Kashya, this time she was shocked far more than all previous times combined.

With the power of one family against the previous lord's power, not to mention the victory, the lord's power was still crippled. "The strength is enough to crush the family of a lord?!" Thinking of it, Kashya shivered. "Is it really a good thing to form an alliance with such a family?" Kashya felt a faint uneasiness in her heart.

"Lord Earl? Lord Earl? ”

"Huh?" Kasha, who was recalled by the call of his subordinates, looked at the subordinates who were looking at him, raised his hand and pressed the corner of his eye to hide his previous momentary distraction and responded: "Ah--I didn't expect to get distracted during the meeting, it seems that I was really a little tired-by the way, what were you going to say just now?" ”

"Your Excellency." Seeing Kashya's question, Luna Maria hurriedly said, "All of you colleagues have proposals, should we take this opportunity to launch a counterattack against Manchado?" ”

"Fight back?" Kashya's fingers pressed into the corners of his eyes, and he stopped suddenly.

"Yes, fight back." Luna Maria Luna Maria repeats it once. "My lord, according to the statistics of the results of this battle, the military strength of the Manchado Collar has lost nearly seventy percent. It can be said that today's Manchado collar is close to an empty shell. At this point, Luna Maria paused, then spoke in a demagogic tone. It's a great opportunity, maybe we'll ...... this time We can make the Bilgard family ...... Completely become history. ”

Kasha's eyes lit up when he heard this.

The two families have been fighting for so long, and each of them knows a lot about the strength of their opponents. Of course, Kasha understood that Luna Maria was right, and the number of knights killed and captured in this battle was as high as forty-six, which was almost half of Manchado's high-end combat power. Both the Prairly and Manchado realms are counties located on the southern border of the kingdom, and they are often attacked by uncivilized humanoid biomes outside the borders of the kingdom, so they maintain a high percentage of armed forces throughout the year. If it were left in the interior of the kingdom, some of the weaker counties might not be able to gather the number of forty knights.

The loss of more than 700 soldiers also depleted Manchado's standing army. At this moment, Manchado's territory only has a standing army stationed near the border of the territory (i.e., the border of the country), and the territory can only rely on temporary militia and mercenaries as a garrison.

This is indeed the best chance for Prellis to eliminate his opponent.

Thinking of this, Kasha suddenly made a decision in his heart, and said to the subordinates in front of him: "Okay! In that case, then ......"

Before he could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door, and then an attendant pushed the door in, bowed and reported, "Sorry to disturb the meeting, my lord." ”

"What's going on?" Kashya's brows furrowed, and there was a faint hint of a bad premonition.

"That's right, sir." The attendant cautiously reported: "A convoy of horses has arrived at Fort Humpback, saying that it is the envoy of the Viceroy Viscount Karimane, who has been ordered to come and mediate the dispute between the Prairly and Manchado Lords. ”

As soon as the attendant spoke, there was a hum of whispering in the room.

"You said the person who came claimed to be the Governor's envoy?!" Kashya asked in a loud voice.

"Yes, yes." The squire replied nervously, handing over a roll of parchment in his hand. "This is a letter from the man."

A Rog knight near the doorway took the letter and took a few steps forward to hand it to Kasya. Kasha opened the scroll of the letter and read it, only to see that the contents of the scroll were nothing more than a request for the Prairian and Manchado to temporarily stop fighting, and wait for the envoy to further mediate the dispute between the two families, so as to achieve the goal of resolving the dispute in the form of a non-armed conflict. The letter bears the signature of Governor Carriman and is stamped with the Governor's inscribed and the personal insignia of Viscount Carriman.

"Damn!" Seeing this, Kasha understood the identity of the person who came, and was sure that it must be the governor's envoy, and also understood that there was no need to continue the implementation of the counteroffensive plan he wanted to carry out next.