Chapter 43: Revenge
After Jacobi was caught, the female lord immediately arranged for someone to interrogate him, but because the torture was too harsh, and Jacobi himself was determined to die, he died after only half a day.
But Miss Rabbit still squeezed a lot of useful information out of Jacoby's body, and finally learned the exact number of the dwarven army on the other side.
This time, the Dwarven Kingdom sent a total of 30,000 troops, intending to invade the western realm through the Dragonspine Mountains.
After fighting with the Marquis of Cullen and the army he led, he lost about less than a thousand men, and then was opened by the female lord with a small map, and killed 1,200 people without martial virtues, and now there are more than 27,000 people left.
On the other hand, Miss Rabbit, because she was in a hurry to enter the mountain, only had time to gather an army of 5,000 people.
Even counting the 3,000 people who had just been rescued, the gap in the number of people on both sides was still very large, and the opposite side was more than three times more than them.
The female lord also opened her eyes, "Will those dwarves die if they don't take advantage of it, and twenty-seven thousand dozen or eight thousand will also play this kind of conspiracy?"
Durham shook his head when he heard this, "If you go head-to-head, those dwarves do have a great chance of winning, but the loss will definitely not be small, and they released this time that they will fight all the way to Lionheart Castle, this slogan should be just bragging, but it should be true if you want to swallow the West."
"Although they should send more reinforcements in the future, the entire Dwarven Kingdom is just over a million people, which is about the same as the population of the West. If I were the commander of that army, I would have avoided hard battles as much as possible. ”
In addition to this news, Jacobi also confessed that there were three Winged people lurking in the Dwarven Kingdom, and they came to Brattis at the same time.
Jacobi was a late arrival, arriving in this strange continent about a year and a half ago.
After spending half a year learning the lingua franca, he met the dwarven king "Roaring" Hurley and successfully became Hero's personal military advisor.
This time, he went with the dwarves to provide them with military advice and aerial scouting.
Miss Rabbit also didn't know until this time that these Wing Clan had coveted the empire for so long, and not only did Gabriel secretly bring dragon eggs to participate in martial arts with Morn, but there were outposts they sent all over the continent.
However, Edward II seems to have sensed their plot, and after the tournament ended, he angrily denounced the dwarves and elves, exposing their dirty affair with the Winged people.
It's just that Edward II then drank poisoned wine and died violently, and Gals, who succeeded him on the throne of bones, is now not firmly rooted, and has to guard against his brothers, not wanting to offend the two neighbors at this time, so he didn't mention it again.
Maybe those dwarves were also suddenly exposed because of their relationship with the Wing Clan, so they decided to invade the western frontier immediately.
In addition, the female lord also obtained the whereabouts of another traitor, Ilkand, who was also the murderer of the Marquis of Cullen, from Jacobi's mouth.
Jacobi said that the dwarves had sent Ilkander back in search of reinforcements, asking him to trick them into coming to Gravel Hollow.
However, Miss Rabbit didn't see Ilkand, but the Dragonspine Mountains are huge, and it's possible that the two teams missed halfway.
After seven or eight days of looting and resting, the army has temporarily relieved the food crisis, and the wounded who had been rescued before have recovered and can return to the battle.
So the female lord gathered the noble generals of the army together again and announced.
"We want to avenge the Marquis of Cullen!"
There was no objection to this, they were all vassals of the Figuerola family, and it was their duty to avenge the monarch.
"There are three forces that killed the Marquis of Coulom." Miss Rabbit sorted out her thoughts and analyzed.
"First of all, our own traitors, Hugo and Morse, who each tricked the Marquis into that valley, and the other cut off the supply of the army, and finally put the Marquis and his 10,000 horses in danger.
"And, of course, Ilkand, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, betrayed his sacred oath and killed his own feudal lord with his own hands, which is an absolutely unforgivable crime!"
The girl's words aroused a chorus of approval, and some nobles even drew their swords and swore an oath to kill the three traitors.
The female lord waited for the discussion to be a little quieter, and then continued, "Then there are the dwarves, who are greedy and cunning, and have coveted our land for a long time.
"This time the army was secretly dispatched to invade our homeland, and it was they who besieged the Marquis in that valley, and they will definitely not be able to escape this revenge."
"That's right, make those bastard dwarves pay!" Fabreth chimed in.
This time, he suffered a lot, and he was trapped in that valley, and he thought that he would not be able to get out of it alive.
There are many nobles who feel the same way as him, and they all hate those dwarves to the bone.
"In the end, it's those Wing-Clansmen, all of this is instigated and planned by them behind their backs, the Wing-Clan named Jacobi I just caught, this battle plan is what he came up with, but he is dead now.
"So, we still need to defeat that army of dwarves and capture those three traitors."
But this time, the female lord's words were interrupted before she could finish speaking.
"And those wild men!"
"Huh?"
"I said don't forget the filthy savages, they are accomplices of the dwarves, we should kill them all!!" It was a representative of the Soto family who spoke.
And his words were supported by the majority of the people.
In the end, this incident was all because of those savages, if it wasn't for those savages who ran to the west to plunder first, there would not have been such a fiasco later.
"Uh......" The female lord hesitated a little, she actually felt that those wild people had a lot of responsibility, but it was definitely not okay to kill them all.
It's not that there are some women, children and old people, after all, there are no Geneva Conventions on the continent of Bratis.
The main reason is that this conflicts with Li Yu and her plan, and they also need the help of these savages to deal with the dwarven army together.
But now the clamor for the slaughter of the savages has gradually taken over.
Miss Rabbit subconsciously looked at Li Yu not far away, because whenever she had difficulties before, she would think of finding Li Yu first.
It turned out that Li Yu was also looking at her at this time, with encouragement in his eyes.
The female lord bowed her head and pondered for a moment, then drew the flintlock pistol at her waist and fired a shot into the sky.
The sudden loud noise and the light of the fire quieted the crowd.
When all eyes were on her, the girl spoke again, "We can't kill those savages. ”
"Why?" Someone asked.
"Because they're still useful, and they're the key to defeating the dwarves."
(End of chapter)