Chapter 32: The Captive

The gnolls are defeated! The few remaining gnolls fled back to their tribes, and after giving the mercenaries orders to clear the battlefield, Sharif led the sentinels to pursue the gnolls to their tribe. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

At this time, the gnoll tribe was already in chaos, some smart gnolls fled here and disappeared into the wilderness, but the vast majority of the gnolls remained in the tribe, they were scared and trembled, many gnolls were still a little hysterical, they frantically destroyed the few buildings in the tribe.

When the heavily armed human army arrived, one or two completely insane gnolls charged. But they also use their blood to make their companions understand that they don't try to resist, or those sharp spears will pierce them!

The remaining gnolls of the tribe were gathered, numbering no more than fifty, mostly old and weak, with many cubs. Someone found a hyena with a nose locked in a place that resembled an animal pen, apparently a domesticated pet.

"Your Excellency, you should come here to take a look." Just as Xiao Yi was carrying a gnoll cub to study, whether it was male or female, Christine came to Xiao Yi and said.

Well? Leaving behind the howling gnolls, Christine followed Christine to a wooden cage that had now been opened, and emaciated refugees had emerged from it, leaving a few others lying in it forever.

"It's a refugee!" These gnolls don't really eat people, do they? Although I had heard a lot of refugees before, when the jackals were short of food, they would not be humans, but I had never seen it with my own eyes, and Xiao Yi had never had this concept.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Yi entered the encirclement of the sentry guards and asked a man.

The man looked at these soldiers surrounding him in horror, and in the face of Xiao Yi's inquiry, his mouth trembled and he couldn't make a sound, he was already frightened!

Xiao Yi coughed in embarrassment, and shouted loudly in lingua franca: "Can anyone tell me how you got here?" ā€

"Your Excellency." After Xiao Yi shouted, a sturdy woman pushed away the crowd and walked out. She has long brown hair, which is casually coiled on her head, her figure is tall, at least not much shorter than Xiao Yi's height of 1.75 meters, and the tattered clothes can only barely cover the vital clothes, and she can't cover her strong arms and eight-pack abs at all, as for her appearance, her face has been covered with mud, so that people can't see what she looks like.

"Stand back! Woman! ā€

The woman tried to get close to Xiao Yi, but was stopped by Christine, the guard pulled out his cross sword, and at the same time, the guards surrounding the refugees also laid their spears flat, and the cold and shining spear tips made some timid refugees scream in horror, and the man who was questioned by Xiao Yi before sat directly on the ground.

After seeing the woman take two steps back and raise her hands, Christine said to Xiao Yi: "This woman is a swordsman, and her swordsmanship should be good." ā€

Xiao Yi nodded, Christine's swordsmanship is very skillful, since he can admit this woman's swordsmanship, it means that this woman really has some strength.

"Woman, who are you? Why is it here! ā€

The woman glanced at the sentinels and saw that the guards had withdrawn their spears, and this time she lowered her hand and said, "Your Excellency, my name is Thea Crowley, I was originally a guard at the Westspring Fortress, and later fled here to meet the Gnolls, thank you for your rescue,"

"Westspring Fortress?" Xiao Yi frowned and thought for a moment, then showed a playful smile: "A deserter? ā€

Although Xiao Yi didn't know how Stormwind City treated deserters, Xiao Yi heard a joke later:

King Wa and Brain Dead Roar had a talk, during which they made a bet that they had more courage than their soldiers, so they ordered their soldiers to commit suicide, and the orc warrior after receiving the order, said to Brain Dead Roar, Chief, I still have my family! Braindead Roar then lifted the order.

But the human soldier did not hesitate to stab himself in the chest with his sword, and the brain-dead roared in horror and asked him why. The human soldier's answer was: I still have my family!

Although this is the tribe in the Black Alliance, it can be seen that the army discipline of the alliance is still very strict!

"Do I need to hang you? Deserter? Xiao Yi asked malicefully.

The female deserter didn't have a panicked expression, she shrugged her shoulders and said indifferently, "I think anyone who encounters any green-skinned monster will choose to run away." ā€

Shaking his head, Xiao Yi stopped talking nonsense with this woman, he said: "Take them away, Christine, look at this woman!" Seeing that many people were already hungry, Xiao Yi added: "Give them something to eat." ā€

"Yes, sir!"

Returning to the gathering place of the gnolls, Xiao Yi looked at the frightened gnolls, he was thinking, what should these captives do, according to their cannibalistic practices, he should not hesitate to kill these beasts and cut the grass to the roots!

But from the perspective of the jackals, cannibalism is not unacceptable, just like humans eat monkeys, everyone is not a race, and at most moral people complain a few words of inhumanity.

Of course, the most important thing is that Xiao Yi intends to free up manpower, instead of using precious manpower to mine and build! So in the end, Xiao Yi decided to leave them behind, throw them into the iron ore, and let them go to mining!

At present, the City of Angels has a small iron mine, but the problem is that due to the lack of manpower, there are very few people who mine, and these are the people who Xiao Yi announced to be reduced to slavery at Jason Farm.

Ordinary refugees refuse to work in the mines. Not only is the storage of minerals scarce, the mining of minerals is more difficult, and due to technical problems, it is often dug up, so the production has not been high.

After barely raising the iron needed to recruit soldiers, the current residents of the City of Angels want to have an iron pot is a luxury. Even the wear and tear of tools is almost satisfied, who has the kung fu to make a pot out of iron?

But even if you use slaves, you have to save them, otherwise they will all die, and who will go down to open the mines? Did Xiao Yi swing the pickaxe himself?

But it's different with a gnoll, throw it in, and if you don't take out the ore, then don't even think about eating! If you want to eat, you can exchange it for ore! Overwhelmed and dead? It's okay, there are many jackals in the western wilderness! It's really not good, go and see if there is a kobold who is a master of holes.

Therefore, Xiao Yi waved his hand and said, "Bring them back, I think Mr. Edi will like them very much!" ā€

Then, he returned to the City of Angels with the army after a battle, as well as the rescued refugees and captives after less than half a day.