Section 267 Pursuit of Victory (2)
After Aachen changed hands, the Delesty ** team successively took the nearby cities of Longke and Enbo, which made Moon Shadow depressed that the 40,000 main forces of the Blood Moon Legion and their commander Errigon simply passed through the city and did not stop in Aachen, this battle only wiped out tens of thousands of miscellaneous fish.
What is consoling is that because of the swift and sharp attack of the imperial ** team, the defenders of Aachen did not have time to destroy those materials, and basically all of them were captured by the imperial ** team...... Some floating wealth, such as gold coins and magic crystals, had already been plundered by the Wyvern troops who had entered the city in advance, and everyone knew it, but no one expressed dissatisfaction.
For the private army of the Hawaii Territory, including the Third Legion and the 101st Lancer Legion, it can basically be described in these two words---- shock and envy.
The earth-walking dragon and the flying dragon are all riding beasts that the ** party vigorously searches for, and the earth-walking dragon can also be captured, although the varieties are different, but they are also unsatisfactory, and the capture of the flying dragon is more difficult.
First of all, this kind of breathing wyvern is rare on the mainland, and occasionally a bipedal wyvern can be caught near the swamp, but this wyvern is not the other wyvern, and it cannot be compared at all; Second, the military and adventurers all know the habitat of the flying dragon, but the sea is not land, not to mention the long sea route and the demonic beasts in the sea, the group of flying dragons on the flying dragon island alone is not something that ordinary armies and adventurers can deal with, and the ability of the dragon clan may not be fully inherited, and the temperament of the calf protector is not reduced at all.
There are also daring adventurers who go to the island to steal eggs, but there are very few successes, and in the vast sea, searching for a person is easy for the wyvern. As for raising wyverns...... Hey, even if you get the dragon egg, you won't want to grow up in seventy or eighty years. As a result, Wyvern knights in the major empires are extremely rare. A little more than the Dragon Knight.
In the Duis Fortress, Count Andrassy turned around and asked Moon Shadow for the Wyvern, she refused without hesitation---- not because she was stingy, but this opening must not be opened, not to mention anything else, there are a lot of Bohou sons and men of the Warren family alone, one for each of them...... Really, she drove the Wyvern Farm?
There was only the icing on the cake, and there was no charcoal in the snow, and after the troops were stationed in Aachen for three days, some people came one after another. The first was Baron Creek, the former city keeper, who was strangely interesting, not only with the swordsman battalion, but also with the empty warehouse, and some of the inhabitants of Aachen.
For this kind of national calamity, the people who are currently abandoning the city. Moon Shadow was originally very disdainful, but after she saw those sturdy swordsmen guarding the city, she felt a trace of sympathy for him---- the average age of these swordsmen was over forty years old, and they belonged to the uncle level, and it was indeed a little difficult for them to expect these people to defend the city, and it was already a great contribution to leave no material resources for the enemy.
Baron Crick is still a man of affairs. After thanking Moon Shadow, they started to work, anyway, no one removed him, the city guard, no one could say anything, and Moon Shadow and the others were happy to have someone to manage those government affairs.
What disturbed her was the private armies that had sprung up out of nowhere, after the defeat of the Fats. Among them, there are many knights who are higher than her, shouting for money and food all day long, and even worse. He actually hit her with dirty thoughts.
"My lord, that Count Sorok is here again."
Fenna came in to report.
Moon Shadow thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's just in time, let him go to the conference room." ”
"Let him go to a meeting?"
Fenna didn't understand that this Count of Sorok was a gentleman at all, and he brought two thousand untidy private troops, and he was here to make trouble.
"That's right."
Moon Shadow nodded affirmatively.
Tonight's meeting included not only this Count of Sorok, but also several other nobles who wanted to take the opportunity to fight the autumn wind, and the purpose was their private army.
These private armies are not well equipped, though. It has not been systematically trained. But there are about 35,000 people, even pigs. It was enough for the butchers to slaughter for a few days, and the central topic of the meeting was how to completely defeat the army of the Fateh Empire.
In the middle of the night, the castle guard's mansion was still brightly lit, and Baron Crick yawned, but could not leave, and there was no one present who could be offended by his little castle guard, so he had to hold on here.
Maurier tugged at his beard and snorted, if it wasn't for Orson to stop him just now, he would have drawn his sword and cut people, and several captains of the Hawai Command peeked at the lord who was sitting in the first place...... The Old Moon Shadow sat there, grinning as the nobles put on an impassioned performance.
“…… It is the honor of our nobility to serve the Empire, but our equipment is so poor, the cavalry's mounts are all horses, and if Count Alice can support a group of Earth Walking Dragons or Wyverns, we may be able to fight the Faters! The pot-bellied Marquis of Sayar blushed with a shy face.
Idiot!
Not only did Maurier and Orson despise him, but even the lords next to him rolled their eyes --- whether this marquis's head was brains or fat.
Moon Shadow smiled slightly and said, "Lord Marquis is loyal to the Empire, it is obvious to all, as long as it is to serve the Empire, a few riding beasts are not enough. But---
Seeing the Marquis of Sayar overjoyed, she changed her words: "As long as your family works hard and is rewarded for their merits after the war, those with high merit can get a dragon on the ground!" ”
"What about us, Lord Count?"
The rest of the lords also asked.
"Of course, it's the same."
Moon Shadow said with a solemn face: "Two days later, we will use troops against the Koren Fortress, this battle, in order to completely defeat the remnants of the Fateh Empire, in order to unify the order, all the troops are under the unified command of Benjue Before she finished speaking, those lords all shouted, the content was nothing more than not wanting to hand over their military power."
"Humph!"
Moon Shadow snorted coldly, and several noisy fellows immediately felt as if their heads had been hit hard, and they felt dizzy.
"The matter is urgent, this military operation is for the sake of secrecy, from now on, all the lords are temporarily living in the city lord's mansion, and they only need to hand over the troop transfer order, presumably you have no opinion, right?" Moon Shadow asked, smiling.
A lord was just about to stand up when a hand suddenly appeared on his shoulder and pressed him back to his seat, and when he looked back, a white skeleton was glaring at him with two empty eye sockets, and the upper and lower jawbones opened and closed for a while, and it was actually a smile...... Cold sweat immediately oozed from the lord's forehead.
The other lords weren't much better, each with two skeleton warriors behind them, similar to the man-to-man tactics of playing football.
Watching these lords hand over the troop transfer tokens as if they were mourning, Moon Shadow nodded in satisfaction and said, "I know that after the guards around you handed it over, they had doubts about safety. Rest assured, however, there is no doubt about the loyalty of these undead warriors, and from now on, they will provide you with round-the-clock personal protection, and as long as you don't leave the city to defend the palace, your lives will never be in danger! ”
That is, if you go out of the city to guard the mansion, your life will definitely be in danger, right?
The lords were not so stupid that they couldn't understand the meaning of the words, and the faces of several people immediately turned as white as the skeletons behind them. At the signal of Moon Shadow, the skeletons escorted the lords out of the conference room.
"Hahaha......"
When the lords had left, Maurier burst out laughing: "Rejoice! Count Alice, I didn't expect you to have such means. However, there are a few guys here who have a bit of a backstage, so be careful that they're doing little things behind their backs! ”
"Whether it's in front of or behind people, you must also have strength." Moon Shadow said nonchalantly.
This world is actually very fair, as long as you have enough strength, you will be respected everywhere.
In terms of Moonshadow, neither seniority, age, nor title are at the top, but her Wyvern Dragon Knights, Earthwalking Dragon Knights, and the three-headed dragon are the strongest in Aachen City, and she naturally sits on the top spot without the Empire's orders.
However, Moon Shadow is not blindly arrogant and arrogant, and the reason why she has to act so strong is only to prevent others from using her troops as cannon fodder, and professional matters still have to be handled by experts.
Maurier is certainly a professional soldier, and Orson has always been Hammett's right-hand man, both of whom have extremely rich military experience, whether it is marching or fighting, Moon Shadow humbly asks the two for advice...... Of course, there will be no free lunch under the sky, and Moon Shadow promised Morrier a wyvern, as for Orson...... Of course, Moon Shadow will not let him suffer, and her brother-in-law will never hide her secrets from her sister-in-law, and the captains under her command are very impressed with Orsen, and they vigorously pry Moonshadow to pry Orson to the Hawai Territory, but this orthodox knight is very stubborn, and Moon Shadow has turned and sharpened how many times he has tried to get an accurate answer.