Chapter 107: Coincidental
From early morning until late evening, the kingdom's crusade against the coalition and the Harriz defenders were slaughtered in the dark. The walls of the www.biquge.info were littered with fallen corpses and broken weapons. Stains of blood left dark brown marks on the city walls.
As the besieging party, the kingdom's crusading coalition lost nearly 10,000 people, of which 2,000 were elite king's guards.
The Harriz defenders, who were on the defensive side, were also not comfortable, with more than two thousand dead and more than six hundred seriously wounded, and the losses were not small.
Although General Sharu was very unwilling, looking at the tired figure of his army, he could only choose to retreat. Continuing the offensive would only increase casualties.
Watching the bands of coalition soldiers turn around and return to the camp, Count Killian also breathed a sigh of relief. Today's battle finally persevered. Although he was almost washed up on the city wall by the other party, he still held on.
After ordering the soldiers to take turns resting and cleaning up the battlefield, Count Killian led his soldiers back to his mansion.
At night, the Earl's Court is lit up. In the meeting room, Count Killian and many nobles in Haritz discussed tomorrow's defense plan.
"Lord Earl, our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties today, and if this continues, I am afraid that our soldiers will be completely injured in a few days. ”
"Yes, Lord Earl, you have to think of a way as soon as possible. ”
"I don't think so, although we have suffered a lot of casualties, but the kingdom's coalition forces have suffered even greater casualties, as long as we show toughness, those nobles will not be able to bear the losses and will retreat on their own. ”
"That's a good thing to say, if the other party doesn't retreat, if you want me to say that it's better to ask a few wizards in the quiet woodland to take action, as long as the other party is willing to make a move, it will not be easy to destroy the kingdom alliance. ”
"Don't dream, the Lord of the Quiet Woodland has long stated that he will not directly participate in the battle on the front line, and the Lord Earl has asked several times to no avail. Let's think of something else. ”
Earl Killian also had a headache listening to the quarrels of the nobles below, after all, he himself didn't have a good way, after all, he belonged to the border here, close to the desert, and the biggest battle was to suppress bandits. I really don't have much experience in a terrible war like this, so I have to look at the shadow dancer who I rely on the most under me, oh, I can now call Viscount Natasha.
"Viscount Natasha, do you have any good ideas?"
Looking at Count Killian's expectant eyes, Natasha thought for a moment, "Although the other party has more troops than us, the other party must be sleepy and short of people when they come from afar. And the opponent's high-level combat power may not be as strong as ours. Everyone knows that professionals themselves are very scarce, and the kingdom may not bring many high-level professionals with them when they come to crusade. Moreover, the coalition forces are besieging the city on all sides, which undoubtedly reduces the density of the opponent's professionals. On the other hand, on our side, after the reward of the adults, everyone's strength has improved a lot, and there is not much difference between us in terms of high-level combat power. As long as we can assassinate the main general of the coalition army by surprise, the enemy army will definitely be leaderless, and we will have an opportunity to take advantage of it at that time. ”
After hearing this, Count Killian nodded and turned to the nobles below, "So do you have any other good ideas?"
Many nobles were silent, asking them to eat, drink, and be merry, and they could come up with countless ways. But when it comes to war, there is no good way. Besides, the war has been carried out to this extent, and it has already reached the point where the fish is dead and the net is broken. There was no room for maneuver anymore, and many nobles did not care about retaining their strength, and organized their own family's supporting professionals and those who were planted with witchcraft models, and prepared to attack the coalition camp in the middle of the night.
At the same time, there were also quarrels within the coalition camp. Many nobles blamed each other for not doing their work, accusing each other of indiscriminately directing and harming friendly troops, and the whole camp was as noisy as a bazaar.
General Sharu listened for a moment, and then smashed the table in front of him with an angry palm.
"Don't make any noise, all of them are like scheming peasant women, where there is still a little aristocratic demeanor, if your ancestors knew that your performance would be ashamed of having children like you. Now is not the time to point fingers, our main problem now is to figure out how to capture Harez City. If the 100,000-strong army can't even conquer Harez, which is guarded by 10,000 people, the entire kingdom will become the laughing stock of the whole continent. You too will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. Now whoever has a solution will speak, otherwise keep your mouth shut. ”
Perhaps it was because of the prestige of General Sharu, and for a while, many nobles were silent, and the entire tent was silent.
After a long time, the Duke of Zion stood up and said, "General Sharu, after a day of fighting, I think everyone has discovered that this rebel rebellion has been prepared for a long time. The equipment to defend the city is also very well-prepared, and if it is attacked, the casualties will be not small, and I think everyone will have more or less losses after a day of fighting, and everyone does not want to lose their precious troops in this desolate and small place. I have a way to break the city quickly, and I want to rely on some help from you, but I don't know if everyone here is reluctant. ”
"Lord Duke, you say, as long as it is reasonable, we will definitely cooperate. ”
"Yes, Lord Duke, as long as the plan is reasonable, we will definitely not be stingy. ”
General Sharu also interjected, "Lord Duke, you can tell me what plan you have, since there is a way to break the city as soon as possible, you can say it, as long as you can do it, I think everyone will contribute to the kingdom." ”
Duke Zion smiled, "After a day's observation, I found that the rebels' resistance is so stubborn entirely because the rebels' commanders are properly commanded. If we can infiltrate Harez and assassinate the opponent's commander, then the rebels will be leaderless, and we will be able to defeat Harez by then. It's just that this plan requires everyone here to draw out the professionals in their hands and form an assassination team. I just don't know if you adults are willing to give it up. ”
The Duke of Zion's words made the nobles present feel distressed. After all, the scarcity of professionals is obvious to all, and the professionals in the hands of which nobles are not hired at a great cost, but are their own personal guards. Now let them pull out the professionals under their command to carry out such a dangerous task, and no one is willing to do it. If you are injured or die, who will cry?
General Sharu knew at a glance what these nobles were calculating, "In this way, I will personally lead the team in this operation, and all the professionals in your hands will be sent out, as long as you participate in this mission, the kingdom will distribute an additional reward, and if you are injured and killed, the kingdom will make up the pension, so you can rest assured, right?"
When the nobles below heard General Sharu say this, they knew that the general was ruthless, and if they found another reason to refuse, they might be punished by General Sharu. In desperation, I had no choice but to agree.
General Sharu smiled with satisfaction when he saw that the nobles below had acquiesced to this plan.
Of all these people, he was the most stressed. If the rebels are not exterminated, these nobles will lose some troops at most, and they can return to their fiefdoms with a pat on the ass. And he will probably be put to death by the king. For the sake of his own net worth, he can only fight.
"Since everyone has no opinion, let's go back and make arrangements. At one o'clock this morning, we set off. ”