Chapter 265 [No Choice]
"What!!"
Manninger stood up suddenly, the last glimmer of hope in his heart was suddenly extinguished, he shook it, barely stood firm, and shouted: "What's the matter!"
"Lord Morka took us to raise food on the spot, but it provoked a backlash from the people in Wildfire Town, they organized people all night and stole us, Lord Morka was defeated to the death, we were driven out of the Wildfire Theory Now Lord Morka and his subordinates are attacking the city outside the wildfire, send me to report to you, please ......"
"Idiot!!Fool!!Fool!
Manninger finally sat down on the ground, struggled twice, tried to stand up twice, and felt his hands and feet sore.
His face was gloomy, he suppressed the anger in his heart, his eyes forced a sharp gaze, and he said in a hoarse voice: "In the end...... What's going on?!
The two Odin warriors who had come to report also seemed to know that the stakes were important, and their expressions were even more frightened and depressed, and one of them stammered before finally telling what had happened......
Morka is now twenty-eight years old, and as a warrior of the Bashak tribe, he is the age when he is in the prime of life, and he is brave enough to fight the peak. As the eldest son of the patriarch Manninger, Morka has always been known for his martial arts and bravery in the tribe, this time Manninger poured out, bringing all the elites of the tribe out to invade the south, and his other sons did not bring him, but only brought Morka such an eldest son, Morka naturally understood in his heart how deep his father's expectations were for himself.
As the eldest son of the patriarch, he is naturally the most popular candidate for the heir of the future patriarch, although the Bashak clan is not the royal family of Odin, but the choice of the heir has always been the same as that of Odin's other tribes, survival of the fittest, and the strong are respected. Being the eldest son does not give him any advantages, the only advantage is that he has been with his father for a longer period of time and is more likely to have the support of other chiefs in the clan.
The Odin people are known for their martial prowess, and Morka is naturally a famous warrior in his tribe because he can give birth to a tiger and leopard at a young age. But Manninger, as a rare hero in the Odin Empire, understands better that if he just wants to become a "qualified" patriarch, then his eldest son is enough, but if he wants to become an "excellent" patriarch, it is far from enough to rely on martial arts. Manninger was in the world, and the reign of the Odin Empire was recognized as the strongest god in several generations, His Majesty Hannigan, and Manninger himself was also an excellent patriarch of the Bashak clan, and his talents were far better than those of previous generations, and he was determined to carry forward the Bashak clan in his own hands, although he did not have the slightest ambition to replace the royal family, but he was bent on making the Bashak tribe the second strongest tribe in the Odin Empire in addition to the royal family.
Therefore, he fully supported the talented Odin Divine Emperor, and used the trust of Odin Divine Emperor to establish a deep relationship with the royal family, and married the eldest son of the Divine Emperor, marrying him as a clan daughter, and the layout was far-reaching! In his heart, he planned that if it succeeded, then the Bashak tribe would be brilliant for at least three generations.1 But if he wants to achieve such a Japanese standard, it is naturally not enough to rely on the efforts of his Manninger generation, and the selection of his future successor is naturally excellent.
Therefore, his expectations for his eldest son Morka are naturally higher, and he brought Morka on this expedition in the hope that he would make more meritorious deeds and establish prestige among the tribe. Second, I also hope that he will be trained by the baptism of war more and make more progress.
Morka knew that his father had high expectations of him, and he wanted to do his best to make his position stronger in his father's heart.
So, when Manninger ordered him to take 5,000 people to stay in Wildfire Town to collect food supplies on the spot, Morka can be said to have gone all out.
But the problem was that he was too anxious and too eager to fulfill his father's orders.
As soon as Manninger left Wildfire Town with his army and headed south, Morka took his five thousand Odin warriors to disperse in the Wildfire Lock to collect food.
The so-called local grain requisition, to put it bluntly, is just one word "Rob!
Morka is also a little overbearing, he thinks that he has brought 5,000 male soldiers, this wildfire town is only a few people, and it is a well-known three-regardless territory, there are no local defenders and forces, his 5,000 male soldiers are scattered, who can resist?
Under his orders, 5,000 Odin warriors were divided into dozens of teams, and began to seal the shops on the wildfire, knocking on doors and asking for food. These Odin warriors are all savage guys, and they are not in the territory of their own clan, where is there anything polite?
This time, it's a hornet's nest!
What kind of place is the wildfire? The famous three-regardless zone! This can be described as a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and I don't know how many fugitives from the mainland are hiding here, and I don't know how many hermits and masters in the recklessness live in seclusion here.
It can be said that any tailor who does needlework in any tailor's shop may be a thief who was once famous all over the world!
Wildfire is indeed a place of three things, no matter what forces come to occupy here, those local residents don't pay much attention, as long as the forces that occupy this place are not too excessive, the taxes that should be paid, the locals will also pay them, and they will not find any trouble, but if the people who occupy this place are too much, do anything out of the ordinary, hum......
The first fire was lit on a small street not far from Black Street. A group of Odin warriors rushed into a restaurant and tried to forcibly remove the wine and meat from the restaurant, and such a snatch naturally caused a backlash.
Where do these Odin people care, they raise their hands to fight, and they draw their knives and cut them! As a result, Lao Quan did it! It was too a bully! There were still people who were so wild in the wildfire? At that time, the old man who did not look good-looking was like an Odin warrior who wanted to cut him with a knife, and flew directly through the wall and into the street.
The other Odin warriors who were alarmed swarmed up, but they didn't expect that this boss was a fierce thief in the past, although he only had a broom in his hand, he broke the legs of more than a dozen Odin warriors who besieged him. When Morka heard the news, he didn't think much about it, and directly transferred two more teams of people, and finally hacked the reclusive thief to death.
But the Odin warriors also suffered more than 20 casualties, and Morka, who was enraged, was furious, and in order to vent his anger, he ordered the restaurant to be set on fire, which caused the anger of the public!
There was originally a group of passers-by in the guest rooms of the restaurant. Originally, I didn't want to cause trouble, but the Odin actually set the house on fire?
These soldiers quickly rushed out as well, and somehow clashed with the Odin warriors.
Morka was furious, and only wanted to use thunder to deter the people here, so he ordered the street to be cordoned off, and then prepared to slaughter these resisting guys.
Unexpectedly, all of a sudden, there was a commotion in the streets, and in the dark, there were more than ten shops on this street, such as firewood and rice shops, jewelry shops, tailor shops, taverns, etc., and twenty or thirty people rushed out of Hulala!
Some of these people have cornices and walls, and some of them have a knife in their hands to chop wood, but they can emit a fighting light, and what is even more terrifying is that the owner of a medicine shop rushed to the street, and in the face of the two Odin mercenaries who killed him, he actually opened his mouth and recited two spells of fire magic!!
Although Morka has arranged more than 200 Odin on this street, who would have thought that in less than a moment's effort, they would be chopped up by these messy guys like chopping melons and vegetables!!
Immediately these fellows rushed out of the street, and if it weren't for Morka's bravery, they would have been killed.
These people shouted again and again in the darkness, and some of them took out their horns and blew them violently. Suddenly, the wildfire town in the dark night was awakened!
In the darkness of the night, there were voices of response from all sides, and these guys were obviously wildfire-fed residents, horsemen, coachmen, shopkeepers, mercenaries, and even beggars!
Seeing that Morka's people were defeated by the other side, he finally became anxious and ordered the whole army to hurry, and the army finally concentrated in the square in the wildfire-fed city gate, and thousands of Odin's elite warriors formed an array, only to finally gain a firm foothold and resist the other party's charge.
Although there are many strange warriors on the wildfire, and there are many fierce mercenary warriors and the like, once thousands of Odin elite warriors form an array, they will still not be able to compete with these stragglers head-on. Once the two sides fight to the death, I am afraid that both sides will suffer heavy casualties.
Morka himself is also a brave Odin elite warrior, at that time, he was angry in his heart, and was about to order the army to come forward to fight, and he paid attention to "Even if you fight to lose both, you will slaughter all the people of this baby!"
But just as Morka was about to give the order, a middle-aged woman who looked bloated and rude ran out of the group of "mobs" opposite......
"What are you? When did the Odin become like this?"
"Hmph, look at you kid is just a bad thing. "Oh, you're from the Bashaks? Hmph, is that old Manninger still dead!"
"Ah, you are his son? Then for the sake of your old man's face, I will spare your life.
Don't get out of here! You're so stupid at a young age! Even if that old Hannigan thing is standing here, you're going to give me three points of face! What are you?
Listening to the Odin warrior in front of him relay these words, Manninger's face suddenly became heavy and puzzled, and his brows tightened: "That woman, really said that?"
"Not a word is bad!" the Odin man raised his head and wept with a sad face: "Patriarch ......"
Manninger waved his hand to stop the other party's complaints, and asked in a deep voice, "And then, thousands of you, can't beat these mobs?"
"Patriarch, Lord Morka wants to ...... too But we were no match for the mob, and even less for the woman.
The Odin man who reported the news showed a little panic: "I have never seen that woman so strong in my life!" Lord Morka wanted to make a move, but she rushed into our team alone, but in the blink of an eye, dozens of our warriors fell! Lord Morka was even more poked by her and fell to the ground. ”
"What about the results? I'm asking about the results!"
The Odin warrior's face became even more fearful, and he clearly felt the anger that Manninger had forcibly suppressed: "We...... We, we fought to the death, but the woman was like a ghost, and I was in the middle of the ranks, and I heard the shouts of my brothers, and then they fell in pieces...... When the woman stopped, at least 600 of our brothers had been knocked to the ground by her. However, it is not ......"
"But what?"
"However, she did not kill anyone, more than 600 brothers, each of whom broke a leg, and she also said that for the sake of the old man's face, she did not kill your subordinates, and broke a leg, which is a slight punishment. He also said, let's get out of the wildfire, and if one more person dares to set foot in it, she will kill a thousand first!"
Manninger was even more angry when he heard this, roared, and pulled out his long knife: "Where did you come from, you insult my Bashak warriors so indifferently!!"
Although he was angry, he was also frightened in his heart, listening to the description of this subordinate, the other party knocked down more than 600 self-saint warriors in a moment, and did not hurt a single hair of the other party?
However, as the dignified Bashak patriarch and the commander of the Chixue Legion, he was annoyed at the moment, and he was about to order someone to send people back to the wildfire to fight, but then his heart moved again, and he said in a deep voice: "Wait...... What did the woman say? She said she and I were old friends?"
The Odin soldier who reported the news was sweating profusely, and hurriedly said: "Yes, the original words she said to Lord Morka were: 'You send someone to tell Manninger that I kicked him in the Odin palace back then! "Well, that's it. ”
As soon as these words were spoken, Manninger's face became very exciting.
The monstrous anger on his face suddenly became stiff and sluggish, and then it became embarrassing and weird, and then, gradually, a trace of deep jealousy and fear was revealed. His eyes flickered, as if he was hesitating in his heart, and in the end, he stood there for a long time, before he suddenly took a long breath, stomped his foot hard, and lowered the hand holding the long knife. There was some frustration and helplessness in his expression, and the original anger changed into a helpless tone: "You...... You...... You go back at once, and let Morka lead the people out of the wildfire lock, and don't set foot in the wildfire baby without my orders!"
Although the Odin soldiers who reported the news were strange, they dared to ask more, so they hurriedly went down. But Manninger's order made the other leaders of the Bashak tribe around him very dissatisfied, and some people shouted: "Patriarch, what do you mean by this! Someone actually insults my Bashak warrior so much, no matter what way she comes from, even if she is a reclusive role, I have tens of thousands of male soldiers, are you still afraid of this kind of stragglers! You bring me a thousand people, and I will immediately bulldoze that town!"
There were other people who also responded, and everyone had an angry look on their faces.
Manninger listened, but did not speak, just quietly listened to the shouts of these people, and after a while, when everyone gradually quieted down and the sun was facing him, Manninger slowly shook his head and whispered: "Do you think I am afraid!"
"......" everyone hesitated for a moment, and finally shouted in unison......;
"Don't dare. Manninger smiled bitterly: "I'll tell you the truth, I'm really afraid, I'm afraid of this woman, there's nothing to hide and avoid, I can't say the identity of this person, but it's definitely something we can afford to provoke, hmph, it's not difficult to send someone to bulldoze that town, but if you annoy this woman, I'm afraid it will cause a big mess......! Even if His Majesty the God Emperor is here, he will put up with her for a few points. ”
Everyone who said these words looked at each other, and they were a little sluggish for a while, and Manninger immediately lowered his face and shouted: "I only say so much, I am not allowed to talk about this matter again, and I am not allowed to ask again!!"
He is the patriarch and has great prestige, since he has issued a strict order, although everyone is full of questions, they dare not say anything.
Manninger looked strange, sank for a while, and sighed: "It seems that the gods are not blessed, why did I meet this person...... Alas......
He stomped his foot harder, his face even more worried.
There is no need to count on food in Wildfire Town...... If that woman is here, don't say anything about collecting food, and it's a blessing not to provoke the other party to fight for your own trouble.
But without the food supply fed by the wildfire, his tens of thousands of male soldiers will start to go hungry tomorrow...... Looking up at the walls of Denzel City, which was not far away, although he was very unwilling, he also knew that if he gritted his teeth and persisted, he would definitely be able to capture this city in a day or two at most......
But what good will it do to oneself if the defenders of the city are determined to die, and even if the warriors are really allowed to endure hunger and thirst and take this city, if the defenders of this city finally set fire to the food stored in the city before the city is opened...... Then it is in vain to do so.
With the ruthlessness of the defenders in the city, Manninger had no doubt that he had really cornered the other party, and that guy named Char Leiming in the city really dared to do that!
"Herald ......"
After pondering for a long time, Manninger's eyes finally flashed a trace of absoluteness: "...... Let the cavalry slaughter the reindeer first, supplemented by deer blood to drink, to replenish the army rations!!"
There was no objection to this order, anyway, everyone in the tribe also eats livestock, cattle and sheep, and since there is no food here, there is no choice but to slaughter the mounts.
But Manninger's second order made everyone dissatisfied!
"Order, the whole army will be reorganized, tomorrow we will not attack the city, leave here and go directly south!"
As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately attracted a lot of opposition, and some people shouted on the spot: "Patriarch, we have injured a lot of warriors today, and this city is not broken, and the anger in my heart will not be extinguished! Now that I have slaughtered the reindeer, I am not afraid of starving if I eat venison, and I am afraid that I will not be able to destroy this small city in two days!"
"Hmph!" Manninger said slowly, "two days later, even if we break the city, but the venison is finished, and then what are we going to do?
After a pause, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes: "What if those Byzantines are like the people here along the way to the south, and they scorch the earth on their own?
He is the patriarch, and what he said makes sense, so although the people below are still a little unconvinced, they can only do it silently.
Manninger's eyes gradually became fierce, and he suddenly sneered: "Hmph! That Char Thundering in this city is a cunning guy! I think about it now, he is afraid that he has already calculated that we will not dare to delay too much time here! But I know that he has fallen for him, but this person, I have to do it, this person is dangerous, he must be our enemy, I must kill him!"
He squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and then laughed slowly: "This guy really has some ability, but I see that this day is attacking the city, and the defenders in his city are weak, and it is only because we have no favorable siege equipment that we can barely hold it, and the troops in the city must be scarce! Hmph...... Although I can't continue to spend my army with him here, I can't let him go easily!"
He immediately shouted: "Order, let Morka's men come here at once, and I will leave another thousand reindeer cavalry for him! Let Morka trap this city for me here, and leave him a thousand reindeer cavalry to kill deer and feed him! 1,000 deer, slaughtered slowly, and more than enough to support for twenty days! I will bring my own army to the south to conquer, as long as my army to the south collects food, I will send someone to bring it to him, and when the time comes...... PJ Thousand Warriors Guard, Can't Run Away!
Manninger is worthy of being a hero, and he said: "The other party is not afraid that we are besieging the city, and there are no waterways in this city, I think there are many wells in the city! Since there are wells, there must be dark water underground in this area! Let people dig more deep wells on the spot at once, and they will definitely find a water source! Although it may not be enough for so many of our troops to drink in a hurry, if only Morka's team stays, the number will be smaller, and it will barely be enough. ”
When it's not dawn, summer. From the top of the city wall, he saw that the Odin were slaughtering deer for meat, and they were very busy, and in the morning countless cooking smoke rose from behind the Odin army. After killing some of their mounts, the Odin men replenished some food, and immediately set out to march south.
Char watched from the top of the city as the tens of thousands of Odin's troops started to move south, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
At this moment, Green was also standing side by side with him on the city tower, and Char saw that the Odin people had really abandoned the city, and excitedly restrained Green's shoulder: "Ha! Your calculation is really good, the Odin people are short of food, and they dare not spend time with us here!"
Green also looked a little lighter, but when the army gradually left, there were still thousands of reindeer cavalry who stayed where they were, and even set up some tents, and many Odin people in the camp could be seen busy digging wells......
Char and Green glanced at each other, and both of them showed a little uneasiness in their eyes.
Immediately at noon, on the main road to the north, I saw another army of the Odin coming from afar, and there were thousands of people, and they came to the city, and joined the 1,000 Odin reindeer cavalry left behind, and sent people to search for woods, grass, trees and water sources, with great fanfare, and put on a posture of long-term confrontation......
"Fuck. Char's face was a little ugly: "Although this Manninger was fooled, he was only half of it! Although his army is gone, he has left thousands of people behind, trying to trap us!"
Green also frowned deeply: "We have less than a thousand defenders in the city, and it's ...... Weak, definitely not as good as these Odin elites. Manninger obviously saw through our hypocrisy, these thousands of people were placed here, although they were not able to attack the city, but it was enough to trap us! Hmph, this Manninger was still a little cunning. ”
Both of them stood on the city wall and thought hard, but after all, the strength in their hands was too limited, with this little capital alone, where could they come up with any good way?
The defenders in the city are seventy-seven eighty-eight, and all those who can be mobilized add up to only one thousand, and the battle to defend the city the day before also damaged one or two hundred, and the rest of the people are also rabble such as some local garrison soldiers, tax soldiers or prison guards, and they don't need to think about it when they go out of the city to annihilate the enemy......
Hundreds of miscellaneous servants want to defeat the elite of Minqian Odin, and the opponent also has the strongest cavalry in the field...... Although Char is strong, he also understands that his own martial arts play a very small role in the battle against Min Qianren. He himself is not a strong man......
The two of them thought about it for a long time and couldn't do anything, Char simply felt heartbroken, and said with a smile: "Anyway, Manninger is going south, and he can't come back for a while, so let's just think of a way slowly." ”
He and Green went down the city tower and were about to go back to the garrison mansion, but when they went down the city tower, they suddenly heard a commotion in the distance, and saw a group of city defenders holding swords, crowded together, and there were faint shouts, as if they were shouting "catch spies" or the like.
When Char heard this, he sneered: "There is a spy? Ha! I just have no place to spread the fire in my belly! I'll go and see!"
As saying, he strode over, and when he got closer, he heard a few cries of pain from the crowd, and he saw that the group of defenders of the city kept retreating and scattering.
Char was dissatisfied, when she heard the voice of a cold young woman coming from inside.
"I'm not a spy, and I don't want to hurt anyone! I just want to get out of the city! If you don't give way, I'm going to kill someone!"
As soon as Char heard this voice, he felt a little familiar, and when he pushed away the person in front of him, he saw that there was a woman standing inside, strangled the neck of a defender leader, but the defender's small leader had his own knife across his neck.
And this woman, with purple hair, is tall, dressed in a black robe, but has a face with half an iron mask, and carries a strange-shaped bow behind her!
Char looked at this woman, where did she not recognize? Standing there_ stunned for a moment, then blurted out laughing: "Ah? It's you?!"