Leaving these nobles to continue the discussion, Leo and his party did not return to the hall but walked directly out of the Duke's Palace, time passed so quickly, close to dusk, the sky outside the setting sun emitted a charming golden thread, and it was slowly receding below the western horizon. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The riots in White Moon City had mostly subsided, and in the deserted streets and near houses, teams of well-armed champion swordsmen, led by one or more knights, were carefully patrolling and searching for the rout of the noble coalition.

For ordinary civilians, the soldiers only scolded them to return to their homes and not to go out for the time being, and from Leo's position, from time to time, they could see groups of noble soldiers in the prescribed places, according to the orders of their lords, laying down their weapons one by one, and then being temporarily guarded.

This is also a normal situation for the army in the cold era, since a large part of the army is not a professional soldier, so it is not unacceptable to surrender under order or disadvantage.

After explaining a few words to the punishment knight who was in charge of guarding the captives, Leo and the others rode to the city gate, on the city wall, the storm wings in charge of the vigilance were holding a heavy crossbow and patrolling back and forth, and a few Noldor elves under the city wall rode on their horses and watched with great interest as a group of soldiers were desperately pulling the damaged city gate.

I couldn't stand the laziness of the Knights of the Dawn, coupled with Finn's previous report, Leo ordered Aldarian with a dark face, "Let your people take care of the prisoners and help the Knights of Discipline maintain order, they don't have enough people left there!" ”

"As you wish, my lord......"

Looking at the back of Lord Noldor who was a little reluctant to leave, Finn shook his head on the side, "In terms of strength and obedience to orders, in fact, Noldor is very reassuring, but their arrogant character is really not easy to make people feel good. ”

"Come on, Finn, how do I feel that your attitude towards those elves is so much better than before?" Keith quipped

Nodding his head, "I respect every strong man, and I never shy away from this, Keith, you know, this is not Pander, as long as it is our comrade-in-arms, it doesn't matter if he is an elf or something else" Finn said seriously

"Okay, okay, anything will become so serious on your lips......" Keith shook his hand and quickly ended the topic.

Hearing the conversation between the two subordinates, Leo just smiled, conversations like this often happen to these two people, ignoring Keith, who had a sour tooth expression, looked up at the soft sunset, and suddenly came out with an inexplicable sentence, "Dear friends, am I sometimes too kind and pedantic?" ”

"Huh?" The few people who accompanied him were a little stunned when they heard these words, and Lester frowned and asked with concern, "My lord, are you okay?" If you're referring to our casualties in the war, I don't think you have to, there is no victory in this world that can be achieved without bloodshed......"

"No, Lester, you don't understand what I mean, I feel sorry for the normal sacrifice on the battlefield but I can still convince myself, I mean the other day I ordered the Knights of Aurora to stop the attack for fear of accidentally injuring civilians."

As if relieving the burden that had been weighing on his body, Leo's words became more and more fluent: "I've been thinking about it afterwards, if it weren't for the coincidence that Case's impulse made me think of a solution, I'm afraid we'd still be outside the city now......"

With a long breath, Leo laughed at himself a little, "What's even more ironic is that now I don't know if my choice is the right one!" ”

"Hmm~ My lord, I don't know how to answer your question, but I think there is nothing wrong with kindness itself, but we need to choose where to use it, and these can only be decided by you as a superior person!" After thinking about it, Lester gave an ambiguous answer, but Leo could still sense from his words that he was actually a little against the original decision.

Nodding, Leo looked at Finn and Keith with an inquiring gaze, the opinions of the two leaders of the Punishment Knights in his heart were more important!

"Your Excellency, the Knights of Punishment will always follow you and obey your orders," Finn replied firmly, thinking for a moment before adding, "It's just this era that is wrong...... Hopefully, we will never draw our swords against civilians for the sake of victory! Fein nodded his head as well, the honor of being a true knight made them disdain to do so.

"I see!" Leo had already gotten the answer he wanted, yes, as Fein said, it wasn't himself who was wrong, not even people like Duke Orlando and those nobles, but the whole era was wrong.

If he wants to change all this, Leo also needs more strength and more talents, of course, he also understands that there is no way to rush these things, and the most urgent thing in front of him is to further integrate the northern territory after dealing with the follow-up of Baiyue City, so that these nobles must be wholeheartedly vassal to themselves whether they are willing or unwilling, only in this way can the power be used in one place.

However, this incident also reminded Leo that in order to prevent others from using this kind of method against him in the future, he could spread the Duke of Orlando's misdeeds of forcing civilians into the battlefield through various channels, so that some people could not use it arbitrarily for the sake of face and honor.

In addition, if such a thing happens again, in order to save his soldiers, he can only make the worst choice without harming civilians, no matter how he convinces himself, or anesthetizes himself, he must pay a certain price if he wants to change something.

After the knot was untied, the gloom on Leo's face finally dissipated, he did not lose his self-persistence, but after experiencing this setback, his heart became stronger and more adapted to this cruel era......

Let go of the reins and let Keeli walk around at will, and chatted casually with a few people who followed behind, Leo inquired in detail about the casualty data of both sides of the war, except for the casualties of the first day of storming the city wall, there was not much loss in today's melee, the champion swordsman had 4 wounded and 2 killed, and the Storm Wings and Highland swordsman combined only had dozens of wounded.

Instead, Leicester and Tron's forces lost another hundred and ten men, including, of course, those who had been martialized.

Such a trivial loss still depended on the scrapping of the city wall that the defenders had high hopes for, and under the great psychological gap, coupled with the unexpected resistance of the civilians of the city wall, most of the defenders who belonged to the new soldiers surrendered almost as soon as they came into contact, coupled with the terrifying killing speed of the two knights and the death of the duke, the resistance was much lighter than expected.

On the side of the defenders of White Moon City, the army of more than 8,000 people, with more than 3,000 casualties, most of them were the result of the first day of siege and the Knights of Dawn in the following days.

During this period, there were officers or knights who led the team to report some situations, most of which were about the data on the seizure, Leo listened to it and didn't care about it, the few gold coins left in the vault, as well as the confiscated armor weapons, were all given to Lester and Tron, and these things that he didn't like were still more needed for them.

The only thing that made him happier was that the Dragon Tears gem that Duke of Orlando had purchased and collected was found in the vault by the Punishment Knight, which gave Leo, who sold Dragon Tears on impulse at that time, a little psychological comfort.

While talking and laughing with a few close subordinates, Leo suddenly remembered something, and said to a few people with a smile, "I suddenly thought of a way, a good way to deal with those nobles"

With an unpredictable expression, Leo stopped Lester's question, and Leo first sent him and Finn to arrange for the soldiers to rest and eat, "Okay, go and arrange the rest and meals of the soldiers first, and take care of the wounded!" The captives will also send some food, and when we come down to the Duke's Palace to dine with me, I will tell you what I think!" ”

Although Leo said this, several people always felt a little weird when they looked at his expression, and the two of them who couldn't figure out what bad ideas their lord had prepared, could only take the order in confusion now, after all, it was important that so many soldiers and prisoners needed to be properly arranged.