Chapter 33: Siege and Interception
"Captain, can't you bury them?" asked one of the surviving guards, Barron knew the man named Monlia, and in Barron's impression, he was on excellent terms with Benjamin, Baroff, Roble, Jack, and Adam.
The funeral customs of the Nader Kingdom, or most of the members of the Seven Nations Alliance, are similar to those of Barron's previous life, mainly based on burial, and rarely use cremation and sky burial, unlike the free city-states in the southeast, which are mainly based on sea burial and cremation, and burial is a minority.
"Impossible. Pande shook his head and said.
"Don't forget where this is? Char Grassland! The entire Nader Kingdom and even the worst wolf disaster of the Seven Nations Alliance! If we use burial, when we don't need 3 hourglasses, the corpses of your comrades-in-arms will be dug out of the soil by the wild wolves, and there will be nothing left in the end! If you want your comrades-in-arms to finally be in the wilderness, you can choose not to be cremated!"
The surviving guards and Monglia didn't know that what Pande said was right, but they couldn't accept it emotionally for a while. If they really bury their comrades in their way, it is estimated that they will be dug out of the soil by the wolves in the end, and eventually the bones of their comrades will be in the wilderness, which is even more unacceptable to them, and in the end they can only choose to cremate the bodies of their comrades, so as not to be discovered by the wolves.
After everyone reached a consensus, Pande took Barron and the few remaining people who could move, some of them piled up the corpses of more than 20 guards, and the rest gathered all the hay and firewood that could be collected, and then piled all these hay around the corpse pile, and then poured all the liquor they brought with them, and finally set fire to all the more than 20 corpses.
As for the corpses of the cavalry of the Golden Lion Battalion, Pande and Barron wished they had found them by the wolves.
"It's getting dark, where are we going next?Do we go back to Makushin City or continue to Yez Town?"
"You can't go back to Curtain City, now to go back to Curtain City is to find death!" Since Harold even sent out the Golden Lion Battalion, it means that their actions this time are very big, not only the two caravans in Yezi Town, but even our escort team is also among their targets, I estimate that when we leave Curtain City, our back road has been cut off, and now we can only throw ourselves into the net when we go back. Pande first rejected the decision to go back to Shogunate.
"It's impossible, we've already routed a whole cavalry squadron just now, as you said earlier, there is a high probability that there will be an ambush on the other two roads leading to Yezi Town, and at least it's not weaker than the cavalry squadron we just crushed, plus it's estimated that it will take about the same number of soldiers to cut off our retreat, so many soldiers can be dispatched by Harold's territorial nobles?" Barron was a little unconvinced, in order to deal with their small escort team, he would send so many people to chase and intercept them.
"As far as I know, the number of private soldiers in the hands of the nobles of the four major territories exceeds 2,000 people, plus the mercenary groups, horse bandits, thieves, etc. they control behind the scenes, this number directly exceeds the 3,000 mark, and almost all of them are professional soldiers, not serf soldiers like ordinary lords, and the number of cavalry among professional soldiers is more than one-third, do you know what this represents?"
"That is to say, the four nobles, the actual cavalry that can be used is more than 1,000 people, which can be formed into 10 squadrons, and these people are basically mobile troops, they can be drawn at any time, we just defeated only one of the squadrons, and they can also use 9 cavalry squadrons of the same size at any time to round us up. ”
For the first time, Barron truly realized the strength of the nobles of the four major territories, and he didn't expect that he would face such a powerful armed group, and it could even be said that it could even be said to be a warlord force!
However, Barron did not have the slightest fear, but looked forward to it even more, originally Barron was still thinking about joining the army or a mercenary group or something, but now it seems that there is no need, as long as he stays honestly in the Johnny Chamber of Commerce, he will definitely have a greater conflict with the nobles of the four major territories in the end, and there will definitely be no shortage of battles at that time. In his opinion, this is the life he wants, and the warrior heart in him tells him that his life will be more and more wonderful in the future!
"But there's no way they're really pulling so many people to deal with a 'little character' like us, because neither Curtain City nor Silver Snow Castle can watch Harold and them be so unscrupulous. ”
"4, if I'm not miscalculated, the cavalry squadron that Harold transferred this time, after removing the second cavalry squadron of the Golden Lion Battalion of the 'Silver Wolf' Andrea, there are at most 4, and the remaining brigade of cavalry He has to use to deal with the changes in Ending City and Silver Snow Castle, no matter what, he doesn't dare to move!"
At this time, Pande no longer cared about the still burning fire, but squatted down, picked up a short spear on the ground, and began to paint on the grass.
"Four squadrons of cavalry, one of which should be behind us, cut us off from Fall City. ”
Pande drew two circles on the ground, representing the city of the end and the town of Yez, and drew three arrows connecting the two circles, representing the three roads leading from the city of the end to the town of Yez.
"There are two other ones that should be on the other two roads leading to Yez, and I guess their mission should be the same as Andrea's cavalry squadron, in addition to preventing us from supporting Yez, the other mission is to completely cut off Yez once we learn that the caravan is trapped in Yez. ”
Pande found a few more small pebbles, the smallest one represented the escort team, and the other slightly larger stones represented several cavalry squadrons sent by Harold, and they were placed in corresponding positions around the escort team, and even Andrea's cavalry squadron, which had been kicked out, was also blocking the escort on a certain route on the simple map, and was not kicked out for the time being.
Pande is worthy of being a figure at the level of the leader of the mercenary group, and he simply guessed the arrangement of Earl Harold's family.
"The last remaining cavalry squadron should be their mobile unit, both reserve and support, but where will they appear?" Barron asked.
Pande didn't answer Barron, but placed the pebble in his hand directly next to the pebble representing the convoy, and then said, "I guess they're probably near us!"