Baron Baucus was in his thirties and a little chubby, perhaps because the city guards who ran the city had put too much pressure on him, and he had already given up. In Li Tianrui's eyes, he is more like an affairs officer than a soldier.

However, this man's courage still made him admire, Li Tianrui's army arrived, and sent someone to hand the duke's letter and badge to the city, and Baron Baucus personally came to the city to meet him, and did not even bring the guards.

Surrender is such a thing, no matter who does it, it will not be in a good mood, Baron Baucus looked a little gloomy. He took out the badge that the Duke had given him and exclaimed, "This is the badge awarded to the bravest warriors when the Duke led us to the first capture of the enemy's castle. On that occasion he personally led us to the city, and he himself was struck by four arrows from the enemy.

He made a total of five badges, one of which he kept for himself, one for me, one for Amelia, and the owners of two of them had died in the battle that followed. ”

Li Tianrui felt the heaviness in his words, perhaps out of the soldier's respect for the warrior, he didn't say anything, but waited for the other party to finish speaking.

"At that time, as long as we fought bravely, we didn't need to think about anything else. But...... Now everything is different. Baron Baucus stroked the badge lightly with his fingers and carefully took it into his arms. He raised his head and said, "I have always obeyed the duke's orders, and this time it is the same. But I have a few requests of my own, and I hope you will be able to do so. ”

"Say it. If it's a reasonable request, I'll consider it. Li Tianrui replied.

Baron Baucus said: "First, all the city guards surrendered voluntarily, please don't turn them into slaves. ”

Li Tianrui said: "We never treat prisoners as slaves, you can rest assured of this. But this is a time of war, and we will not let those who have left the army run around. We will identify and transform them uniformly. Those who are not fit to serve as soldiers will be dismissed, and those who are suitable for retention will be used to enrich our ranks. ”

"Okay. Baron Baucus added, "The second is not to harm the civilians of the city. ”

Li Tianrui laughed, "If we say which army in this world loves the people the most, it must be our army." You only have to look at what our army has done since it arrived in Arano and you will know what kind of team we are. ”

"I've heard that the trial of Arano resulted in the execution of many people. Baron Baucus said.

"But none of those people don't hold human lives in their hands, in other words, they all deserve to die. As long as they are people who keep to themselves, we will never embarrass them. Li Tianrui said.

Baron Baucus did not argue with him, but said: "Okay. I hope you're really as ...... as you say you are. Impartial and principled. ”

Li Tianrui asked, "There are no other requirements?"

"It's gone. ”

"Aren't you going to ask for something for yourself?"

Baron Baucus shook his head and said, "When you're ready, follow me into the city." Now the news of the surrender has not spread, and after a long time, maybe some restless guys will come out. ”

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Li Tianrui left the five battalions composed of artillery battalions and dark elves outside the city just in case, and followed Baron Baucus into Green Forest City with a battalion composed of three humans.

All the city guards laid down their weapons and walked down the city wall according to Li Tianrui's request. With the exception of a small number of people who maintained order on the streets, most of them were asked to stay in the barracks and not to go out. All citizens were also asked to stay at home and not move around.

Baron Baucus recruited several of his knights to cooperate with the escort. Li Tianrui sent two battalions to block various city gates and various key points, including the city defense enchantment center, the duke's palace, the city guard barracks, armory, granaries, libraries and other facilities. The third battalion is responsible for policing the city.

When everything in the city was stable, he let the Dark Elf infantry battalion and artillery battalion outside the city enter the city to consolidate the city's defenses.

Li Tianrui himself, accompanied by Baron Baucus, took a guard squad to inspect the points everywhere.

Li Tianrui went to the barracks of the city guards first. The barracks were located in the north of the city, and he found that most of the city guards were obediently staying in the barracks, most of them were in good spirits, and they didn't seem to worry much about the fate of the future. For them, avoiding an impending war means saving their lives, which is more important than anything else.

Several captains in charge of affairs spoke flatteringly in front of Li Tianrui, and they all wanted to be loyal to the Chinese and serve the escort army. Obviously, try to make a good impression first.

As the saying goes, don't hit smiling people, Li Tianrui fought with them for a while haha, and finally really picked some people to join the team of maintaining law and order, with the help of these eager snakes, his team will be much more convenient when maintaining law and order.

Li Tianrui secretly observed Baron Baucus, even if the captains who were originally directly under him now looked ignorant of him, he didn't seem to have any mood swings, he just wandered from time to time, as if he was recalling something far away.

Coming out of the city guard barracks, Li Tianrui looked at one key point after another, he got the key to the center of the city defense enchantment, established the regimental headquarters in the Duke's Palace, and blocked some other important positions, and finally came to the elf community.

The city where the elves are located has an inner wall, but now the city gate is closed, and it has become a city within a city, and the elves have also arranged a large number of magic circles on the ground outside the city, forming a defensive belt that is twenty meters wide.

According to Li Tianrui's own magical attainments, it can be roughly seen that if anyone sets foot on this land, they will be ignited by the flames released in the magic circle and burned to charcoal. And some of the magic circles also have a certain isolation effect, although Li Tianrui doesn't know what the elves want to isolate, but they can't have no goals. Behind the circle is the wall of the elven community, and there are also many elves with bows patrolling the wall.

"It seems that the elves seem to have a strong sense of precaution?" asked Li Tianrui.

Baron Baucus said, "The elves were afraid that the war would affect them, so they started making this circle a few weeks ago. It was only activated today. I can understand their fears, after all, anything can happen in a war. ”

"It seems that they are still very wary of humans. The elves on the city wall also saw them, and several people gathered to point at this side, Li Tianrui said, "Maybe I should ask the dark elves to send a messenger to communicate with them." ”

He looked back at his team, and there were no suitable people in it, so he decided to take control of the entire city first and deal with the elves tomorrow. Just send a platoon to guard it here.