Chapter 980: The Knights at the End of the Road
Although it was late at night, the hall of the Griffon Palace was brightly lit, like day, and the meeting of elders here had been held for a day and a night, but there was no end at all, and a group of elders were all sitting around the round table with worried faces, constantly discussing what they should do in the future.
It was the palace master Bosh and the deputy palace master Wade who presided over the meeting, and the two of them were also looking at each other now, not knowing what to do, they never thought that such a powerful Golden Knights would be so vulnerable in front of the Shura Gang, which made their current scene very embarrassing, after all, the Shura Gang planned to join forces with them at the beginning, but they sneered and refused.
The high-level people discussed and discussed, and some suggested maintaining neutrality, but now that the Shura Gang has surpassed their Griffin Palace, and is getting stronger and stronger, if they continue to dominate the Auckland Kingdom, what will the Griffon Palace do when the time comes?
Some people also suggested contacting the Shura Gang now and cooperating with them to deal with the Knights, so that everyone could get along as allies in the future.
But there are also a lot of people who oppose it, and the people of the Shura Gang are not stupid, you don't speak when people need help, and now they are immediately victorious, and when you respond to the gathering, you run over and hug your thighs to ask for benefits, how can people agree?
As for the suggestion that some people have proposed to unite the rest of the forces to deal with the Shura Gang together, after all, no matter how strong the Shura Gang is, it is impossible to deal with so many forces in the Auckland Kingdom, but this proposal is good, but it is too difficult to implement, after all, now that the Shura Gang is in full swing, at least there is a soup to drink when cooperating with them, and who is willing to stand up and fight against them?
In the end, they had no choice but to be cheeky and send someone to negotiate with the Shura Gang - called negotiation, in fact, it was to beg the Shura Gang to let them go, even if they paid a certain price.
This time they sent a large group of elders led by the deputy palace master Wade, this is also to show respect for the Shura Gang, Wade couldn't help laughing at himself in his heart, when Xiao Di, the leader of the Shura Gang, sincerely invited them to cooperate, why did he show that high-minded appearance, even if he didn't agree, how good it would be to be polite and have a good fate, I really knew it was like this, why bother in the first place?
However, he still has an illusion in his heart, he thinks that the Shura Gang must be a huge consumption to get the knights, and it will take a certain amount of time to digest the results of the battle at that time, and he will not be unhappy with the Griffin Palace again, as long as they give enough face and give some benefits, this negotiation is not without a chance.
However, Wade underestimated Xiao Di's ambition and the strength of the Shura Gang, with the support of the Iron Blood Gang and the Illuminati, coupled with the inaction of the rest of the forces in the Auckland Kingdom, as well as the contempt of the Golden Knights at the beginning and the ventilating report of Le Jier, the actual loss of the Shura Gang was not large, but a large number of soldiers were fully trained, and a large number of middle-level officers with seventh-order and eighth-order strength emerged.
You know, if you compare a team to a person, the high-level warrior is his soul, and the low-level warrior is his body, but the middle-level officers are his bones, which look inconspicuous, but they are very important, and it is extremely difficult to cultivate.
So Xiao Di is very satisfied with the result of this battle, in fact, the main purpose of his coming to the Auckland Kingdom is to establish his authority, just like every famous warrior on this continent is stepping on the bones of the enemy, a powerful force will inevitably damage the interests of the rest of the forces when it is born, and it will be seriously suppressed, and only after defeating these forces that dare to provoke and completely fear them, your majesty can be regarded as truly erected, and others will not dare to provoke you.
Whether it is the Wiggins family in the Twilight Forest Kingdom in the south or the Golden Knights in the central Oakland Kingdom, they actually did not attack the Shura Gang, but they just made provocative remarks or wanted to take advantage, and they were hit hard by the Shura Gang, which made all the forces in the entire continent probably have to weigh carefully if they want to do things that are unfavorable to the Shura Gang, so from this point of view, the Shura Gang has successfully completed Xiao Di's expected goal.
If there is no news of the Heart of the Mountains from Le Jier, Xiao Di probably won't have anything to do with the Griffin Palace, as long as they give them enough benefits, he will let them go, and take the men and horses back to Chiji Mountain, after all, that is his base camp, Auckland He only needs to control most of the resources through the Iron Blood Gang and the Illuminati, but now it is different, he is bound to gain control of the Auckland Mountains!
So they suffered Wade and them, they promised one benefit after another, from resources to money, from beauties to exercises, and even took out two legendary equipment, as long as the Shura Gang could not infringe on their Griffin Palace's territory, but all of them were rejected by Xiao Di, Xiao Di had only one request, that is, the Griffin Palace gave up all the territory around the Auckland Mountains, otherwise everything would not be discussed.
The Griffin Palace occupies nearly half of their territory around the Auckland Mountains, which cannot be ceded in any way, and Xiao Di wants to obtain the heart of the mountains, and this condition is not negotiable, so the two sides can only negotiate in the end, and Wade and they can only leave in frustration.
The people of the Griffon Palace have never been able to understand why their high-level Thunderbolt Hall is indifferent to their request letter, and not only them, but even the Xuantian Fort behind the Golden Knights, who is behind this Shura Gang to support it, so that the two giants can remain silent?
What they didn't know was that there had already been many small-scale conflicts and negotiations between the wealthy families in the distant Stormwind City on this matter, but the Rafa family, which had a deep grudge with the Shura Gang, didn't know why it was abnormal this time, although they didn't say it openly, but secretly they were the Luo Gang, and even did not hesitate to send the clan's masters to obstruct other forces.
In this way, those giants were helpless, and some of Xiao Di's previous battle information also slowly spread, when they learned that Xiao Di already had the ability to fight with the legendary warrior, they decided not to go to this troubled water again, it was just a subsidiary force of the distant Auckland Kingdom, there was no need to pay such a big price, which is why Wade and they couldn't wait for a response.
And Xuantian Castle, the only one who knows the inside story, can't share the secrets of the Heart of the Mountains - in that case, even if so many forces don't know how to divide them, they can only quietly send masters to the Auckland Kingdom, intending to act in secret, and even the people of the Golden Knights haven't told them for secrecy.
In this way, the Shura Gang coalition is getting stronger and stronger in the Auckland Kingdom, and the last three fortresses of the Golden Knights have been besieged for half a year, in order to avoid excessive losses, Xiao Di did not order a forcible attack, but just choked all their supply lines, during which some of the Knights' allies wanted to sneak over the blockade, but after being killed several times by the Dark Moon Battalion led by Xiao Bing, and stripped their corpses naked and put them on the stakes and neatly arranged on the side of the road, no one dared to do this again.
Seeing that the morale of his subordinates was getting lower and lower, Le Jin and Le Jiajia were anxious like ants on a hot pot, but no matter whether they coerced or lured, it was useless, in order to deter everyone, he even killed an important general with his own hands, just because this person complained a few words in public and complained about Le Ji'er, who was sent down before, but this can only make everyone look calm, in fact, the undercurrent is below.
After all, everyone is not stupid, and the current situation is well known, although the Shura Gang seems to be unable to break through the defense of their base camp for the time being, but it is even more impossible for them to break through, and there is a very serious problem in front of them, that is, there is not enough food and grass...
The last men and horses of the knights are concentrated in these three fortresses, counting all kinds of miscellaneous servants, the retinue and production personnel add up to seventy or eighty thousand people, which is nothing in normal times, but now it is seventy or eighty thousand mouths, and the grain and grass consumed every day are astronomical, and their food has long been insufficient during this time, and they have to slaughter their mounts to satisfy their hunger.
Seeing that the precious mounts that had been purchased and cultivated at a great cost were slaughtered like pigs and sheep, the hearts of the high-ranking members of the Knights were dripping blood, but there was nothing they could do, who made the cavalry useless in the defense of the city, they couldn't let people starve to death and keep these mounts, right?
After more than a month of suffering, all the mounts bought in the city have been eaten, most of the people are hungry with green eyes, skinny, everyone looks at their companions is a fierce light, some people can never come out after walking into the alley after being alone, at this time there is no ethics and morality, only survival is the most important thing.
The situation of the troops is slightly better but it is also limited, everyone can only ensure the most basic rations, most of the combat strength is lost, and they are all ignorant of the orders from above, and the officers who usually show off their military might now do not dare to give any orders indiscriminately, and a few of them who are ignorant continue to whip people, but they are immediately swarmed by their angry subordinates, and they are cut to pieces on the spot while scolding.
Le Jin knew that this situation could not continue, and that night he gathered all the martial artists above the eighth order for an emergency meeting, and this time he didn't ask others again but directly put forward his own opinion - that is, abandon the city and flee!