Unlike the aristocratic coalition that could only flee between the wilderness and the hills, the Cecil Combat Corps had always been able to receive support from the mainland, as well as from the Leslie and Kant regions, and although these support was not timely due to road and transportation constraints, it was enough to give the soldiers a little respite and rotation.

On the afternoon of the tenth day, the Knight of Byron arrived in the west with a thousand troops and a large amount of supplies from Cecil itself, and successfully joined the 1st and 2nd mixed corps led by Knight Philip. Perridge was leading the soldiers of the Second Corps to tie up the hordes of aristocratic coalition prisoners of war and send them to the rear.

Byron approached Philip, who was leading the team: "I've brought more 'Persuasive' light shells and replacement accelerator rail assemblies - by the way, you seem to be doing pretty well." ”

After many days of marching, Knight Philip had a hint of fatigue on his face, but his spirits were still high: "These things came at the right time - the food could be relied on by carrying dry rations and captured from the enemy, but the shells were really depleted. ”

Byron looked up at the captives with numb expressions, stiff steps, and walking corpses with their hands tied, and from the mental state of these captives, he knew that the chase was coming to an end.

"It is up to the lord to keep these people alive as much as possible," he said to Philip, "and the vast majority of the noble coalition were peasants and hunters recruited from all over the country, as well as all kinds of serfs and slave soldiers, and these people were laborers. ”

"I know," Philip nodded, "but to be honest...... The enemy scattered more and more, especially after entering the open area, several nobles led the group to flee in different directions, we eliminated and intercepted some of them with artillery fire, but still a few troops rushed into the forest further west, I think at least a quarter to a third of the enemy escaped. ”

"This is expected by the lord," Byron nodded, "We have powerful artillery and ray guns, but after all, there are only a limited number of people, and it is unrealistic to destroy or co-opt all the enemies. But don't worry, the lord said a word before I set off - the nobles have castles and estates they can't let go, they can't go on forever, and one day we'll get rid of those who run away. ”

"I hope so," Philip sighed deeply, looking up at the long, barely endless line of captives, "after this war is over, the whole southern part of the kingdom will become a whole......

On the twelfth day of the pursuit, the core of the aristocratic alliance, the team of knights and mages composed of the transcendents, and the nobles who oversaw the battle finally collapsed completely.

The aristocratic private soldiers, who were already lacking in organization and discipline, could not have held out to this day, and most of the reason why they were able to keep fleeing was because the transcendents in the coalition were still using strong willpower and deterrence to maintain the situation, but when the will of these transcendents also reached the limit, the collapse of the entire coalition army was almost instantaneous.

The coalition of nobles began to surrender in patches, and it was led by knights, mages, and even noble lords themselves.

In fact, according to the general law, the surrender of the nobles should be more easy - according to the usual "rules" of aristocratic warfare, the nobles who surrender on the battlefield and are captured will be treated in accordance with their status, as a bargaining chip in exchange for ransom, their lives will be guaranteed, and they will even be sent to the victor's castle with courtesy and become guests, but the terrible way of fighting of the Cecil and the Gawain ?? Cecil's non-observance of the rules of the nobility frightened the men, who did not dare to put their lives in the hands of those Cecil soldiers.

But when their physical strength and will are exhausted to the limit, even the amount of worry and fear cannot make them get up from the ground and continue to move forward.

The noble soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit, including the knights and levies, stayed on the plain like frightened goats, most of them had eaten their last bite of food, and even the horses they had ridden and the rats they had caught on the road had been used by them to satisfy their hunger, and they could not lie down to sleep, eat and drink for many days, and all that was left to their minds was the rumble of cannonballs, some of them were dozens in piles, some in groups of hundreds, scattered everywhere, and what Cecil's soldiers had to do, It is to run about the great plains and gather these people, and then give them the ropes and let them tie themselves up.

Wilder?? Perridge and his Second Combat Regiment were primarily responsible for collecting the captives and escorting them to the rear, and the number of prisoners was so large that the men in charge of the escort could not match the number of prisoners they carried, but they had no fear of the captives fleeing halfway through the way—those men had lost the will to resist after many days of flight, and even if they did, the unarmed levy captives would not be able to cope with the ray guns and molten swords in the hands of Cecil's combatants.

And as the number of prisoners increased and the battle line grew longer, an embarrassing and unexpected situation arose: Cecil was undermanned.

The Second Combat Regiment began to have a shortage of escorts, and even Wald's Knights had a reserve of 1,000 men from the Kant region to receive prisoners of war at the front were far from enough, not only did they not have enough men to transport them, but even the thousands of noble conscripts and prisoners of war who were in place in the plains were stretched thin.

When the two orthodox knights, Philip and Wald, were worried about this unexpected embarrassing situation, the Byron knights volunteered to take a team of men to the south to mobilize help.

Philip Knight Pinsuri complained about Byron's lack of knightly conduct, but he had to admit that the mercenary-turned-old colleague always had a brilliant idea for solving some unexpected situations - although his ideas were sometimes eye-catching, but overall they were still very problem-solving.

After waiting some days in anticipation, the two knights, Philip and Wald, waited for Byron, who had returned from the rear, with the same group he had taken with him, but not a single man.

On the plains of the already chaotic Hossmann region, Philip looked at Byron, who seemed to have returned in vain, in astonishment: "Didn't the lord send you a man?" You can also train soldiers......"

"I didn't go back to Cecil, otherwise I wouldn't have come back so soon," Byron said triumphantly, "and I went to Leslie to meet Viscount Andrew......"

"And then?" Philip asked suspiciously, and kept looking behind Byron, but he couldn't see any support except for the team of people and many carriages that Byron had taken and brought back at that time, "Is the person sent by Viscount Andrew still behind?" ”

"I've borrowed five thousand axes," Byron said, pointing to the wagons he had brought, "and then Viscount Andrew will send a shipment of grain for a temporary transition, and nothing else—Leslie doesn't have many men on the side, and they're helping to watch over the thousands of people fished out of the Whitewater." ”

Philip didn't react at once: "Axe? What are you doing with five thousand axes? ”

"Send it to the captives to cut down the woods on the east side of the Horsman Territory and build a prisoner of war camp on the spot, and wait for you to find out from the prisoners of war, there should be survivors from Count Horsmann, take them to the nearby farmsteads and granaries - if not, bring a few more cannons."

Philip was stunned for a moment, and couldn't imagine how Byron's magical operation came about: "What do you mean...... Let these captives go and build a prisoner of war camp and lock themselves up? ”

"You can give them ropes to tie themselves up, why can't you let them build their own camp and lock themselves up?" Byron waved his hand, "These people have been completely exhausted, at least it is impossible to recover in a short period of time, while they are still in this state, they should be completely controlled in the shortest possible time, and then transported to Cecil in batches - the last sentence is explained by the lord." ”

Philip was speechless and had to admit that Byron had a point.

So, on the last day of this long pursuit, the last noble coalition on the Horsmann Plains ended their long and painful escape in an unprecedented dramatic way.

Under the supervision of thousands of Cecil soldiers, the Coalition POWs, wielding axes lent to them, cut down a grove of trees on the edge of Horsman's territory in three shifts, day and night, and then built a prisoner of war camp and locked themselves up.

While the last of the Coalition prisoners of war were being taken in by the Cecil, Viscount Carroll and his last retinue and companions were trudging through the muddy wetlands of the northern part of the Hossman region.

The once high-spirited young viscount was gone, his gorgeous coat had become dirty, his breeches and boots were torn by thorns, his intricately patterned cloak had a few bullet holes pierced by a heat ray gun, his hair that had not been washed for many days stuck to his forehead like greasy aquatic plants, and beside him were even more embarrassed than him, Viscount Consco and Mari?? Viscount Oran.

They had narrowly escaped from the hungry wolves of Cecil, but they had no idea where to go next, and the three nobles were exhausted by severe exhaustion, and they only felt that their lives were as bad and shabby as the muddy wetlands, and that there was no hope in sight.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from behind, causing Viscount Carol and his companions, who were struggling to trek, to a nervous and frightened halt.

But when they turned around, they realized that it was not Cecil who had appeared in front of them.

Penny Lo Penny?? Baroness Gülen stopped in front of them, followed by a sizable procession.

"Baroness Gülen, you escaped too?!" Viscount Carol looked at the lady in front of him in surprise, he found that the other party's situation was much better than his own, although she also looked a little embarrassed, but not only did she have horses to ride, but the guards around her also seemed to be fully equipped, I really don't know how this lady did this in the chaos, "These people ......"

"I have gathered the people who have been scattered on the plains," Penny smiled, "Viscount Carol, it seems that you have been separated from the party again. ”

This scene seems familiar, Viscount Carol vaguely remembers that this lady appeared in front of him in this way when the army fell into chaos on the mountain road of Gravel Ridge, and gathered those scattered and disorderly teams, and at this moment this situation was completely reproduced, and he had to sigh the wonder of fate: "My embarrassed appearance is always seen by you......"

"Come along—I have a few extra horses," Penny Ropeña?? Gülen reached out to the down-and-out nobles in front of him, "We have to unite. ”

Several of the fallen nobles and their last retinue joined Penny's party, Mali?? Viscount Oran couldn't help but wonder about the future of this team: "Where are we going?" ”

"To the north," Penny Lo Penny?? Gülen looked back at Mali?? Viscount Oran glanced at him, "We're going to Rock Fortress." ”

"Rock Fortress?" Viscount Carol couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this familiar name, "Then we will pass through my territory...... Those Cecil ......"

"The Cecil people have already departed from there, and they certainly can't imagine that we will return after we have managed to escape the pursuit," said Penny?? Gülen said, "They are limited in number, and it is impossible to occupy the territory of every nobleman in a short time. ”

"They left...... Carol heard Penny's words, and suddenly couldn't help but feel a stir in her heart, "Then I'm ......"

"Don't think of going back to your castle, Mr. Viscount," Penny Ropeña?? Glenn knew what Carol was thinking, and she immediately turned her head and warned solemnly, "Don't forget, those Cecilians blew down your first wall in front of you—then they can blow up your castle too." ”

As she spoke, she turned her head, and there seemed to be infinite fortitude in her gaze: "There is no place in the south that is safe, gentlemen, our only hope is to seek the help of the Plains of the Holy Spirit, to seek the help of the Count of Pompeii, and that is to go to the Rock Fortress - it is an incomparably strong fortress, its walls are poured with magic metal, which can withstand the attacks of the great magician, and it is completely different from the walls of the Carol Territory, and the Cecil people cannot break it." ”

Perhaps it was the same confidence in the Rock Fortress, or perhaps it was the severe exhaustion that affected Viscount Carol's judgment, and he was easily defeated by Penny Ropeney?? Gülen persuaded, and he nodded: "Okay, let's go to Rock Fortress......"

"Of course, but until then, we'll have to gather our lost companions as much as we can," Penny Ropeña?? Glenn smiled, and that smile was particularly contagious, "There are several other teams that have escaped from the pursuit of the Cecil, and we have to gather all the lost people, and only if our team is large enough and the nobles gathered enough will the Rock Fortress realize the gravity of the situation and receive us more seriously......"

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