After careful liquidation by Stannis, 76 of the remaining 100 soldiers, excluding the NPCs, escaped safely, 7 were killed, and the remaining 17 plus one Somon were all captured.

Thankfully, the coalition forces did not take the opportunity to attack, and it seemed that their goal was to beat him up and relieve his anger, and they did not want to annex his territory, and they did not dare to risk being stripped of their title to carve off a duly canonized earldom.

Stanis, who had suffered a great defeat, did not have time to be discouraged, he still needed a lot of things to do, such as he first went to the barracks to make a tour to calm the soldiers, restore morale, and let Brother Romney do his best to treat the wounded soldiers, which made the monk who kept performing magic almost collapsed.

Most of the dead were bandits, and those who were caught were basically refugees from Ilisses, and these former soldiers showed their qualities as professional soldiers when they were defeated, and they spontaneously stayed behind and then surrendered professionally after being surrounded......

When Stannis came out of the barracks after being pacified, he saw Lucia looking at him from afar, and her eyes made the lord's heart ache, and he knew that he had failed them.

However, there is still something to face.

Stannis hurried to catch up with the woman with a grumbling look in her eyes, and he didn't want her to leave him because of a failure.

"Lucia, wait a minute, let's talk. ”

The woman wiped her eyes, which were red and swollen from crying, but she still pretended to be strong in front of him and her people.

"Do you want to apologize for my people being captured? No, they're soldiers, they already know their fate the moment they go to war, and their families understand that they don't always come back for dinner. ”

Lucia didn't even say a word of reproach to him, which was much to Stannis's surprise, but even though she said it, it didn't ease his guilt in the slightest.

"I'll find a way to bring your people back, please don't leave me, okay?" he kept, and now the people were panicking, if they left again, then his hard work to build the territory would be ruined.

Unexpectedly, Lucia nodded without hesitation, "We will stay, don't worry, we already regard this place as our home." ”

Listening to her words, it dawned on Stannis that he should know what to do, because this was also his home.

"I'm going to redeem them all. Stennis announced.

Iron Triangle, who had only two people left, looked at him with surprised eyes, and Robert was the most puzzled, "Boss, you don't need me to remind you, you should also know how much it costs to ransom everyone back, right?"

Stannis knew of course, but he knew it was his duty to bring everyone home, and he wasn't going to abandon anyone.

"Does it matter, anyway, except for the old man, those people will be sold as slaves, since there are so many moves, we might as well pay for them to buy them back, and save them the trouble of going to the slave traders, after all, after training for so long, it is a pity to sell them as slaves. ”

Robert shook his head and vetoed, "Boss, you should be stupid for them! how can they sell your soldiers back to the enemy, although these lords are stupid, but they are not stupid. ”

"That's right. Stannis nodded, but as soon as his eyes rolled, he thought of a way to ransom people, "They always sell people to find slave traders, fortunately, there are quite a lot of brokers in my territory who do this kind of business in the past." ”

He was not wrong, the market he built not only attracted all the merchants who were doing legitimate business in the surrounding territories, but also many merchants on the dark web, but Stannis had not yet launched an inventory.

Although Korodov was still confused about the situation as usual, the clever Robert guessed his thoughts at once, "You mean to let the slave traders come forward and buy our people, and then we will buy them back from the slave traders?"

Stannis snapped his fingers, still the kid was clever.

Soon, the biggest slave trader who had been hiding in the market, Ramon. Jr was pulled out and taken in front of the lord.

This slave trader has the same striking bald head as his father Ramon in Chancheng City, and it seems that people in this world have to be flamboyant in order to suppress people when they do underworld business.

But this guy obviously didn't have his father's aura, and he kept shaking in front of Stannis.

"Isn't it nice for you kid to hide in my market, don't you know that I have repeatedly ordered that no slaves be allowed in my territory!" Stannis shouted angrily, and now he had begun to have an invisible dragon power gushing from his body, but he didn't know it yet.

Little Ramon was frightened by him, and knelt down with weak legs, "Big ...... Adults, they're all ...... Are they all mixed food, and I definitely didn't buy the people under your rule as slaves, but just turned around the slaves collected nearby, and most of them were willing to sell themselves, I didn't accept them and cried with me, and I had no choice but to buy them!"

Just a little threat, this guy is noisy, in fact, Stannis doesn't want to know about this kind of thing.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, I know you're a reputable businessman, that's why I came to you to help me with something. ”

Xiao Ramon wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood up tremblingly, "Although you command, I will do what I can do, and I will do it well if I can't." ”

This guy is really good at talking, and Stannis is very satisfied, so he ordered: "I want you to come forward to buy a batch of slaves, and then resell them to me, but don't worry, I won't let you suffer, how about buying the slaves you got at a price of 20% higher than the market price?"

Little Ramon didn't expect this kind of pie to fall from the sky, no need to feed and drink for those slaves, and no need to think about the loss on the road, as long as he was a middleman, he could make a fortune, this kind of good thing is not something that can be encountered every day.

"So, my lord, from whom am I buying slaves?"

Stannis snapped his finger and motioned for him to come forward, the plan was to be kept strictly secret.

"You also know that I lost the battle yesterday, and some of my men were captured, so I thought if you could go to the coalition and buy them back as slaves and sell them to me?"

Little Ramon understood, and soon, his businessman characteristics began to make trouble, "My lord, it can be, but I'm afraid it's not enough to just add Liancheng, this kind of thing will be done without losing his head." ”

Unexpectedly, this bastard sat on the ground, and the fiery Stannis wanted to ask Robert to lead him to the river and cut him, but in the end he held back.

"Okay, you just need to bring them back safely, and I'll give you double, but no one is missing!"

This is exactly the price that the slave trader wants, "No problem, my lord, I promise that there will be no less." ”