Chapter 59: Just Beginning
It is said that this time the transaction is to exchange the son of the marquis's family, and it should be completed now. As for General Zhenbei's son, it should be another deal, and it will be his turn in two days.
However, today the Marquis of Chandelier and his side mobilized the army, and let the reinforcements of the bandits rush over overnight, and now they have succeeded in besieging the kidnappers on the hill, in this case, how can they retreat easily.
The Marquis of Chandelier checked his son's condition and found that he had no other abnormalities except that he was hungry and weak, which was reassuring. However, today's matter is definitely not over, and it is impossible for the Marquis to forgive the murderers who made his son suffer.
For private reasons, the Marquis almost bankrupt this time, not only did the family's funds take out, but even those real estate and valuables were mortgaged, so that he could scrape together these two million gold coins. Now that the kidnappers have been surrounded, he wants to recover the money while taking revenge.
Yu Gong, with so many teams mobilized today, if you work like this to no avail, you can't explain it. Whether or not the murderers are caught, they must do something, otherwise they will not be able to write a report just to the top. Moreover, the marquis's son was rescued, and the son of General Zhenbei could not be left alone, otherwise, General Zhenbei would probably hold a grudge against the Marquis of Shangzhan Deli.
Therefore, after completing the content of today's agreed exchange, the army surrounding the mountain has no intention of retreating at all. The large army did not move, and a few people on the hill were not in a hurry, and Stink and Nirvana even set up a chessboard on the big rock and played chess.
The Marquis of Chandeli and the general of Zhenbei, as well as another commander of the reinforcements, were observing the situation on the mountain with telescopes in different directions. When they saw that the two murderers actually started to play chess, they all had gloomy faces. The other party is obviously ignoring their existence, and they don't pay attention to them and the tens of thousands of regular troops at all.
Originally, these people thought that these kidnappers would definitely panic and lose their breath when they were besieged by a large army, and when the other party opened their mouths to make demands first, they would bargain. If it goes well, they can get the hostages back first, and then encircle and suppress these murderers.
But who knew that these murderers would be so rampant that they completely regarded the army under the mountain as air. And when the people calm down, it will be difficult for them to do it, so many troops, it is impossible to stand all the time like this, and when the people are sleepy and the horses are tired, this encirclement will have no effect, so the generals of the kingdom will not be able to wait.
There was no way, the Marquis of Chandley had to send someone out to shout, since they didn't care about being besieged, they could only speak first. Although they will be passive in this way, they can't keep the stalemate, and of course they are not afraid of a stalemate if they only have a few people, so don't they need to set up camp with their large troops. When it was time to bury the pot and cook, their encirclement would no longer be able to last, and they could only take advantage of the fact that the soldiers were still energetic to solve the matter.
The officer who came out to shout first shouted a bunch of nonsense such as "I hope you will disarm and surrender, and the government will be lenient" and "stubborn resistance will not end well". After shouting for a while, he finally asked what kind of conditions he needed before he could release the hostages.
After asking several times, Stink said the price of two million gold coins. This number, the adults under the mountain will naturally not agree, although General Zhenbei is in the border defense area and has the power of life and death, but he is not as rich as the Marquis.
This time, General Zhenbei brought all the family's funds and mortgaged some property, less than a million gold coins. If he really wants to come up with two million gold coins, then he will have to borrow from these colleagues, and other people, who would be willing to lend their belongings to others, let alone this kind of thing that has no benefit.
As a result, the mountain shouted up and down for a long time, and finally shouted out a price of 1.6 million gold coins. This figure is the highest price that these officials can get now, and it is impossible for other people to do their best like the two parties. And to be able to make up this figure, these people still think that this money can be taken back. If it weren't for the kidnappers who were besieged, these people would definitely not have come up with so many gold coins.
The next step was to exchange hostages, this time with an officer going up the hill first, handing over 600,000 gold coins to Stink, and then the son of the general of Zhenbei descended the mountain on his own with the help of this officer. When the hostages were halfway down the mountain, the second officer sent an amethyst card of one million gold coins up the mountain.
Because one party was concerned about the safety of the hostages, and the other party had other plans, the exchange process went smoothly. The kidnappers got the Amethyst card, and the boy also returned to General Zhenbei's side. However, both sides of the transaction know that these two hostage exchanges are just the first thing today, and the real dinner has just begun.
After General Zhenbei also checked his son's state, the three important ministers of the kingdom here tacitly prepared for action. The cavalry of the 20,000 bandit reinforcements and the 10,000 guards of Molde City began to change their formations after each received the order, and the encirclement narrowed little by little, and the extra soldiers formed a sharp cone formation one by one, moving towards the hill step by step.
This way of advancing of the regular army was relatively slow, but it was very steady. The whole encirclement was tight and there were no gaps, and although the pace of the cones was slow, if they were left alone, the whole mountain would eventually be filled with soldiers.
On the periphery of the encirclement, the three important ministers of the kingdom each led a few sixth-level masters to suppress the formation, and they were preparing to face the murderers who broke through the mountain. In their opinion, the murderers on the mountain will definitely break through, because if they do not rush down, they will be drowned in the mountain little by little by the large army. At that time, even if these murderers are really seventh-level existences, they will fall in the sea of people.
And even if those murderers rushed down, they would have to face these masters under the mountain, and it was also a confrontation between seventh-level existences, and it was difficult to get rid of each other at once. And once entangled by a master of the same level, he has to deal with the attack of the sea of people, and even a relatively strong seventh-level existence will be consumed to death in this predicament.
This kind of truth, even the son who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it knows it, and the son of the bad boy of General Zhenbei knows it. So this boy was very excited at this time, he was in a carriage not far from the rear of the army, waving his fists vigorously, stuffing food into his mouth, and scolding inarticulately.
These two days of hunger and cold are the experience that this bad boy has never had, and now he seems to have seen those guys who have bullied him, being pulled over and stepping on him as much as he wants, he can't help but be excited.
However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is often skinny, and many things often do not develop according to people's assumptions. While the delinquent boy scolded excitedly, the servant who served him raised his head in confusion and looked at the sky. It's a cloudless sunny day today, why are there so many dark clouds now?
As the commander of the whole army, the Marquis of Chandley also noticed the change in the weather, but he didn't think much of it at first. The first to notice the anomaly was a sixth-level mage of the wind system, who noticed a slight disturbance in the elemental particles in the air. The change made the magician notice the increasingly dense clouds in the sky.
It is said that these dark clouds gather so quickly, there should be some thunder and lightning or something, but today's dark clouds are quiet, except for the accumulation of more and more, there is no movement, as if they can absorb the lightning that should have appeared.
Thinking of the word absorption, the magician's expression became solemn, and under his careful observation, he found that those dark clouds were really absorbing, and they were absorbing light, no wonder it was dark so quickly.
After discovering this anomaly, the magician was unable to hold on, and this phenomenon was obviously man-made, so he stepped forward and grabbed the arm of the Marquis of Chandelier, and then wanted to report his discovery. But because he was too nervous and excited, he stammered for a long time, and he didn't express his meaning clearly. The Marquis of Chandley looked at him suspiciously, thinking that he was nervous before the war.
The sorcerer also noticed that his mouth seemed to be in trouble, so he took the Marquis of Chandelier by the arm and pointed to the dark clouds in the sky. At this time, several masters of the first team on their side also noticed the movements of the magician, and some of them immediately understood what he meant, and immediately began to contact the masters of the other two teams.
At this time, the magician also realized that it was better to use words than to act, and he gathered some of his magic power and released a tornado towards the dark clouds in the sky. The tornado swayed into the sky, blowing away a dark cloud.
When this dark cloud was blown away, the Marquis of Jandley and a group of high-ranking officials saw that in the place where the dark cloud disappeared, a huge crystal ball that was almost transparent was floating silently in mid-air. On the periphery of the crystal ball is a circle of something resembling metalwork, and inside the crystal ball is a faint flash of electric light.
Seeing this thing, there was no need for the magician to say anything, everyone understood that they were surrounded by counter-surrounding. Look at the dark clouds in the sky, how many of these crystal balls must be there. I don't know what these things are for, but at this time, they appear in this place, and they are definitely not used to appreciate them.