1011. News of the Demons
The Surdak Legion captured the town of Hatangada and did not sack the town as the nobles and merchants had expected.
On the contrary, after the heavy infantry regiment occupied the town hall, it began to actively reorganize the guard battalion to maintain the chaotic order of the town.
There were no looting thugs in the streets, the trading houses along the streets, the vacant houses in the wealthy areas, and the various public facilities in the town were well preserved, and the people of the civilian neighborhoods had already poured into the streets on the day the war was over to welcome the resistance troops entering the city.
The free market was only closed during the siege, and after the Resistance took over the town, a large number of cheap and exquisite items appeared in the free market, and the prices in the market were relatively stable, basically slightly higher than the average price.
The town of Hatangada has a resident population of almost 200,000, and Surdak fought a very decisive siege this time. McDonnell was caught off guard.
Otherwise, it would not be easy for Sellers to take turns to defend the city by simply sending a part of the militia from the town, and it would definitely not be easy to attack a town with a population of 200,000.
The day after the capture of the town of Hatangada, Surdak organized a census of the town.
The civilians in the town had a good impression of the Resistance, and when they heard that the Resistance had entered the city, they all ran out of their homes to welcome them.
The aristocrats who lived in the wealthy area closed the door, and there were some armed guards at the door, but there was some nervousness in the eyes of these guards.
Some nobles and merchants fled to Mukuso with their belongings before the resistance entered the city.
But there were also nobles who insisted on staying in the town of Hatangada, and these nobles who did not leave hid in the manor in fear, waiting for the resistance to storm the manor, hoping that they would be able to grab less because there were people left in the manor.
In fact, this looting did not take place in the streets of the town of Hatangada.
The day after the town was occupied, the nobles living in the wealthy area received an invitation to the meeting from the town hall......
A council of lords is held in the town, and the noble lords, who are still attending the meeting for the first time, can keep their territory.
The noble lords who did not attend the meeting would have to take out gold coins and magic crystals to buy their land back, and if the nobles did not want to buy the land back, then the idle land would be confiscated, and a third of the land would become the private property of Viscount Surdak.
The town needs a new consul, and most importantly, Surdak has to take over the town's idle land.
Surdak is ready to continue the tax exemption policy in the town of Hatangada, and vigorously support agriculture, small workshops and shops, and any monopoly industry in the town of Hatangada will be severely cracked down.
It was also at this time that the nobles of the town of Hatangada learned that the army of Surdak represented the coalition of lords of the province of Bena.
The nobles, wanting to regain their lost land, wanted to find a breakthrough in Surdak.
Every day, the nobles of Surdak who want to see each other can almost line up from the central square to the south gate of the town.
Of course, the reasons are also strange, most of them invite Surdak to private balls, some invite him to afternoon tea, visit the manor, etc., and even some famous ladies in the town invite him to eat cookies at home.
At this time, every noble lord wished that he could have two more daughters.
Even if one of them can get the favor of Viscount Surdak, then he will turn around in Hatangada Town......
The next day, it is unknown who revealed to these nobles that Surdak's fiancée was the beloved daughter of the Marquis of Luther......
The nobles immediately stopped thinking about marrying their daughter to Viscount Surdak, but the invitations did not stop.
Surdak didn't expect that the prestige of the Marquis of Luthor was so high, even if it was separated by a plane, the nobles did not dare to offend the Marquis Luthor.
It didn't take long for some rumors about Surdak to spread in the town of Hatangada.
Some people say that he likes to be pompous wherever he goes, and he always likes to live in a house with a pool and an attic.
Some say he was cruel and irascible, and often enjoyed barbecuing in the courtyard with his men, and eating able-bodied captives.
It is even said that he is the adjudicator elected by the Magical Guild to deal with heresy specifically for the Magical Guild.
In any case, the defeat of the Third and Second Legions of the lord's army with 20,000 heavy infantry soldiers made him the hottest topic of conversation on the streets.
The heavy infantry regiment of Surdak lost more than 600 casualties in this siege, which is a brilliant number for a large-scale siege.
But there were a lot of wounded, almost two thousand heavy infantry soldiers were wounded, and the serious injuries amounted to more than half of the number of casualties, and the Hellhound head sacrifice captured by the Constructed Swordsmen at Black Raven Ridge was almost completely used up by Surdak.
This treatment time was also a bit long, and after Sia was busy with Surdak, he shared most of the pre-order work for Surdak, but he was still busy for nearly three days before he took turns to treat these wounded soldiers.
During this period, Surdak had to not only treat wounded soldiers, but also reorganize the hoplite regiment.
Every time there is a victory, there are always some people in the legion who will seem very impetuous, and at this time, someone needs to suppress these fighters, such as strengthening physical training to calm them down.
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The Heavy Infantry Regiment harvested a large amount of supplies in the town of Hatangada......
Quartermaster Louis Fitch had become a little numb along the way, and the supplies he had captured far exceeded the 100,000 magic crystals he had brought with him.
Viscount Surdak seems to have intended to turn fifteen hundred green-scaled horses and two thousand Gubolian horses into his personal trophies, but he, the quartermaster, could not say anything from the accounts, and some of the proceeds of these battles should have belonged to Viscount Surdak.
Surdak provided all the war materials in the early days of the war.
Although this heavy infantry regiment was nominally part of the Bednar Army, during the war, Surdak had absolute command, and all the gains in the war belonged to Viscount Surdak, except for those that were to be allocated to the infantry soldiers.
In addition to these precious horses, there were also a hundred sets of magic pattern structures on the books, and in addition to these, Louisfici also needed to pay Surdak for the purchase of twenty-seven thousand warrior weapons and armor with magic crystals.
He even felt that if the war continued in this way, Viscount Surdak might form his own Constructed Knights at the end of the war.
Although second-turn powerhouses are rare in the army, in the huge Bena Province, this kind of powerhouse is actually not a few.
They tend to appear in major battles, but there are not many commanders like Surdak who use the power of the second-turn powerhouse to change the tide of battle.
Moreover, the total number of troops in Surdak's battles is not large, but there is always a scene of troop suppression on the battlefield.
Only now did he understand how poisonous the Marquis of Luthor and the Marquis of Gulas had been to use the money to invest in Viscount Surdak with the Formation Swordsmen......
If the military department can use 100,000 magic crystals to get 20,000 elite heavy armor infantry, this deal can't be considered a loss.
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In the last week of March, the magicians brought worse news from the north.
There are a large number of demon cryptmen in the northern towns, although this low-level class of troops is weaker than the hellhounds, but there are a large number of them, they are not afraid of death, they are very brutal when fighting, and they basically drag the enemy to death on the battlefield.
With a large number of low-level northern towns occupying the Gampo plane, the humans there were almost reduced to slavery and food, and refugees could always be seen fleeing in the mountains.
In the fallen towns of the north, humans were captive by demons, and those low-level demon gates opened by black magicians in various towns.
Moreover, a large army composed of Hell Demon Clan is constantly invading the south, and the First Legion of the Lord Army is currently fighting against this Hell Demon Legion, because the Hell Demon Legion has the support of black mages and countless Cryptman warriors who are not afraid of death, so the situation of the First Legion is not very optimistic.
The mages were a little worried about this, but after all, there were only forty of them, and even if there were eleven second-turn high-level mages, they still couldn't fight against these hell demons.
So they need Surdak's help, just as they did with Surdak.
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Sheldon, the mage, also arrived with the army in Hatangada, and he was shocked to hear from the mages that the demons of Hell had appeared on the Gampoo plane.
However, he belongs to the magicians of the astrologer union, and his attitude towards the demons will not be as sensitive as the magicians of the magic union law enforcement group.
The sorcerer Arvid came to the town of Hatangada and came to visit Surdak that night.
Surdak invited him to chat on the terrace of the mansion, and the two of them were a little worried about the demon's capture of the northern region of the Gampoo plane.
Surdak thought of the Hellhounds besieging the city of Voljmara on the maca plane, and almost forcibly took over the maca plane.
How tragic the battle was at that time, Surdak, as a knight who participated in the battle, naturally felt deeply, and now the situation in the Ganbu plane is worse than that of the maca plane, which will inevitably make Surdak even more headache.
Arvid Magician stood on the terrace, looking out over the town of Hatangada.
"I didn't expect you to hit Hatangada so quickly."
"Dark, do you remember...... We wanted to live here! If we had stayed here instead of running to Takkale, we might have returned to Bena City and none of this would have happened......" Wizard Avid said to Surdak with some emotion.
"Probably!" Surdak felt that way, too.
If he had lived in Hatangada and had not been captured by the rebels and recaptured by the lord army, the Evid Wizard would have left the Gampoo Plane with his group.
In that case, I'm afraid that the province of Bena will really lose contact with the Ganbu plane completely.
Whether it will be hell or not, no one knows.