Chapter 0531 - It's Too Smooth
Healy led a cavalry team to the north gate of Coldwind City, blocking the path of the enemy's mass evacuation in one fell swoop. The nobles of the city fled because of this, and had to escape by climbing over the walls.
Losing the most convenient passage, there are only a few who can finally escape. At least most of the noble lackeys, including but not limited to their servants, attendants, dependents, and property, were left behind.
Without the latter, it would be difficult for a small number of nobles to make waves. Even if they can gather a small team, they can only become bandits in the wilderness, and they can't have the power to fight back like the long-legged family.
Before, the Arad family led the rebellion, and they fought back and forth to negotiate peace. If Zhou Qingfeng is changed to command, he will never let Fils go. Leaving with long legs, it is even more impossible to allow the other party to bring a large number of vassals and family property.
This is completely just letting the tiger return to the mountain, and there will be endless troubles in the future.
Now Zhou Qingfeng has come to clean up Arad and other powerful people. He'd rather lose something than let his opponent go.
Healy seized the north gate, and Mahan, who was maneuvering in a car, followed with an infantry battalion. The latter defended the gates and built a defensive line, freeing the former to join the lord and expand the victory.
Under the Sorcerer's Tower.
Todd wears a barbarian helmet and heavy metal rock-style full-body plate armor, and walks with a shaky landscape. The orc warriors carried shiny plate axes, and their burly figures marched in a procession through the streets, breathing murderously.
'Swift Shadow' is an undead half-demon, and his image is too evil and hideous. In order not to give a bad negative image to the city dwellers, it rarely comes to the City of Cold Wind.
Now this skeletal war horse rushed to the master like a joy, and the negative energy surrounding the body was like a netherworld fire, crying and howling wolves on the deserted streets, scaring the inhabitants of the city into not possessing their bodies.
"Master, I heard that you suddenly cleaned up the magnates in the city, caught them off guard, and still did not accept the other party's peace talks. You are so shameless and despicable. β
'Swift Shadow' was huge, but it was jumping around Zhou Qingfeng like a dog. Healy was so its back that she had to knock it on the skull.
Zhou Qingfeng re-mounted his mount, and Healy rode with him. The elven girl put her arms around his back and asked in a low voice, "Victor, why didn't you make a sudden move without prior notice?" β
Everything went so smoothly that Healy suspected that her man had prepared.
"I was supposed to do it at least half a year later, but that's how the opportunity came. I didn't expect the wizarding groups and nobles in the city to be so unbeaten.
When I find out who is behind the trouble, I must write about him and give the other party a whole corpse as a reward. Zhou Qingfeng turned his horse's head with a wry smile and waved his hand straight to the City Lord's Mansion.
With the support of a network of links within a range of 500 meters, Adrian's team reported to him from a distance on the situation at several points in the noble district.
The situation in Coldwind City is now under control. In the history of the coup d'Γ©tat in the Northland, it has never been so easy!
The scattered nobles were shocked to hear of the mutation, but lost the ability to fight back. Seeing the opportunity, they ran out of the city one after another, and the occasional lone ones were intercepted by the hunting team one by one.
The cavalry advanced in multiple directions, besieging the city lord's mansion, and the adjacent streets were in chaos.
Servants and ladies were scurrying around with large bags and small bags, and lost clothes, shoes, and even gold and silver ornaments were scattered on the ground. Many people were scrambling and screaming in the dark.
'Swift Shadow' appeared, its eyes lit up with two flames of evil in the dark night. Anyone who looks at it closely is subject to a volitional test, and failure will result in a state of stupor.
If they pass the test, the low-status slaves will also scream in surprise. They are like rats running around like cats.
Someone hit the wall without a head and brainless, knocking themselves out before pulling them down.
Adrian jumped out of the wall outside the City Lord's Mansion and reported in a low voice, "Your Excellency, Old Arad led people to hide in the Temple of the Frost Goddess, mainly stationed in the Hall of Winter.
There were at least two hundred more enemies, including more than twenty family wizards and more than seventy knights. They were caught off guard by us this time, and they were obviously understaffed. β
Adrian laughed excitedly, mocking the embarrassment of the noble. He also believed that this was the wisdom of His Excellency the Lord, who delivered a fatal blow to his opponent under the condition of tightly blocking the news.
This blow hit the magnates to the core, not only crushing the wizarding group, but also making the nobles extremely embarrassed. It is an art to be able to command such a difficult operation smoothly.
"Your Excellency Hugo, will you force those nobles to get out of Coldwind City? It's like dealing with the long-legged family in the first place. β
"Wouldn't it be better to slaughter them? Save them from coming back to me. β
"But they hid in the Temple of Frost."
"Then tear down the temple as well."
This.....?
Adrian knew that his lord was bold, but the destruction of a god's dwelling in the world still challenged his perception. Although the Frost Goddess is only a weak god, she is also a god.
"You believe in Aureur?" Zhou Qingfeng asked rhetorically.
Lying down, he called God by his name.
Adrian was frightened and quickly jumped away and looked up at the sky.
The sky had not yet dawned, but thunder and lightning pierced the darkness and tore through the clouds from time to time. The rumbling thunder rolled in, and the cold wind was already carrying ice particles, blowing on people's faces and causing pain.
The kingdom of God where Aulul lives is called Fury Heart, and she is the slave of Talos, the god of storms and destruction. The powerful Talos was extremely tyrannical and constantly plundered Aurul's divine power.
Aulull's temper was therefore extremely capricious, and he was often to blame. She constantly exerts power on the Northlands, allowing the cold to invade the land and keep the believers in fear at all times to make up for the loss of her divine power.
But there was no thunder in the sky.
'Swift Shadow' kicked the soil with his front hooves, and said in surprise: "What are you afraid of? Thunder doesn't hack you a clown, naturally it splits the master on my back first, and then splits me. You're third at best. β
Sounds reasonable.
"I don't believe in the Frost Maiden." Adrian shook his head, deciding that it would be better not to discuss it. "It's not easy to tear down the temple.
Old Arad and the others were praying in the Hall of Winter, and they wished that the divine power from heaven would freeze the entire Coldwind City. Now the further you go, the cooler it gets. Approaching the temple was already frozen. β
Without Adrian's reminder, Zhou Qingfeng had already felt the cold current surging above the temple, and he was constantly expanding externally. In just two or three minutes after he stopped, the surface temperature dropped by several degrees.
If the slave who fainted on the ground did not wake up and flee immediately, he was afraid that he would freeze to death. There are still many noble families hiding in the city lord's mansion, and these people will definitely be frozen alive into ice sculptures.
Auluel was ruthless, as well as his own followers.
Low temperatures do affect combat effectiveness. Zhou Qingfeng only beckoned to this. The orc guards who followed put down the large boxes they were carrying, and took out bottles and cans from them.
In order to deal with the cold of Aulull, he had been prepared.
The jar was no longer napalm, but wood tar from the dry distillation of wood. Peat can be found in the Black Forest, and some coal tar can be obtained by dry distillation.
The lightly dry distilled wood is used for further processing, and the charcoal obtained from the complete dry distillation is used for metal smelting.
Although the by-product wood tar is not as good as napalm, at least it does not occupy Zhou Qingfeng's daily transportation quota.
The jar containing the wood tar smashed directly into the ground, and the flame could be burned high when ignited, and the flame lasted for a long time. There are a few more fires on the streets, and people feel the warmth under the light and flames.
This is a simplified version of the fiery glue, the Molotov cocktail.