Chapter 14 The Great Purge
Pitrleton just wanted Richard to know. He did have the determination to fight.
But when he turned around, he saw Richard Sen's cold gaze, and his heart suddenly jumped a few times. He also saw that the knights who were surrounding Richard had all turned their heads at the moment, as if they were looking at a dead man.
Without Richard issuing any orders, his troops suddenly moved, and after a series of dazzling interspersed positions, the originally scattered long snake formation miraculously transformed into a strong attack formation. And at the front end of the formation, there are so many constructed knights that make people's scalps tingle!
Earl Petraton was stunned for a moment, watching Richard's constructed knights begin to accelerate, and then the entire formation moved, following the constructed knights rolling in!
Then the Count saw his troops rout at a speed he had never imagined, and he realized that he had no determination, but he did not have the strength to match it. Moreover, his determination was originally very limited, and he actually preferred to frighten Richard with the number of private troops and the Tucson family insignia, rather than really wanting to fight.
The Count did have the determination to fight, but Richard was ready to fight.
The next day, news of the annihilation of the Earl of Pitraton's private army spread throughout the surrounding area.
The Count himself was spared, and he was not even injured, but the capture of more than 5,000 prisoners in the private army made the Count almost bankrupt, which was the result of Richard deliberately discounting the ransom.
After this battle, no one in the local aristocracy dared to provoke Richard. The people on Richard's list either abandoned their territory and fled, or they surrendered voluntarily in the hope of receiving a little preferential treatment. Richard had promised that if he gave up resistance, the charges would be mitigated.
For each betrayer, Richard crossed out the list of the corresponding names. For every betrayal who fled, Richard would take possession of their territory and expel their families as punishment for betrayal. As the names on the list were crossed out one by one, Richard's popularity skyrocketed. As much as his prestige rises, the prestige of the Marquis of Sauron will fall.
There were always people who were unwilling to learn from the failures of their predecessors and tried to frighten Richard with a background and a loud family name, as the Earl of Pitraton did. But their tragedy is that they are far inferior to the Earl of Pitraton, and Richard is a man who will give their opponents war whenever they shout war.
After defeating one more earl and three viscounts, no one dared to come out and 'theorize' with Richard again, and the nobles once again remembered the name of Akmund's "madman". Richard used his iron hooves and sword to make them understand that it often cost ten times more to snatch a piece of fat from Akmund's plate.
There are also branch families who would rather die and resist to the death, but Richard showed no mercy, and all the main members of the branch families who resisted with all their might would be executed, and the rest would be turned into slaves and sold to slave traders on the spot. The territory was directly confiscated by Richard, and as for whether it was reasonable or not, Richard would not care so much. From the point of view of the law of the alliance, it is enough for the patriarch to deal with the internal strife in the family without interference from the court of the nobility.
This was the first time that Richard punished the rebels within the family according to the principle of the wealthy family's handling of rebels, and also showed his iron and blood methods in front of the Norland nobles. His small army of more than 1,000 people was small in size, but it was like a scythe in the hands of death, spreading death and destruction everywhere.
However, just when there were only two names left on Richard's list, he suddenly encountered an unexpected enemy, Baron Suya.
It was said that it was an accident because Baron Suya put on a decisive battle posture, but he only brought two thousand people, and there was not even a knight in it. This number seems to be Baron Suya's own private army, and it is all the private army that a baron can normally have, and it has not touched the army of Marquis Sauron at all.
"Suya, do you want to fight?" Richard looked at Baron Suya opposite.
"Why not?" Suya's eyes lit up. It was the flame of true Akmund.
Richard looked behind Su Ya again, and was even more surprised: "Just this little person behind you?"
"How much does that need?"
Richard groaned and said seriously: "With the plain zhì of your army, even if you add zero in numbers, you can't beat me." Besides, you don't have more people than I do now. ”
"Win the battle?" Baron Suya suddenly laughed, the more he laughed, the louder he became, and then roared angrily: "If you can't win, won't you fight?"
Richard looked at Suya carefully, then nodded approvingly. With a wave of his hand, the knights behind him immediately spread out like a tide, discharging a dense formation. Obviously, Richard is not prepared to defend, and once Su Ya attacks, he will give Su Ya a head-on blow with an absolutely superior constructed knight.
The pressure was suffocating, but Suya was not intimidated, but turned back to his warriors and shouted, "Akmunds, let our enemies show us, we also have the courage to fight to the end!"
Su Ya shouted, but there were few responders.
Many of his warriors have shown signs of fear, and in Norland, the established Constructed Knights are the kings of the battlefield. Once these monsters with a comprehensive strength of up to the naked Sanctuary charged, any ordinary warrior who stood in their way would surely die, and there would be no luck.
This kind of mortal ending is the source of fear for the Constructed Knight, if you know that you will inevitably be crushed into powder if you stand in the way of the Constructed Knight's charge, but you can't stop the opponent's speed a little, and your colleagues next to you can survive, then even the bravest warrior will hesitate.
And the biggest headache for the commanders is which troops should be placed on the frontal charge route of the constructed knights, which is the position of cannon fodder, without exception and luck.
The soldier's cringe surprised Suya a little, and then he became even more furious, he drew his sword to the sky, let out the traditional battle cry of Akmund, and rushed towards Richard on his horse, no matter how many warriors followed him!
Most of the warriors stayed where they were, and only a small number of warriors followed Suya and rushed towards Richard, but half of them rushed halfway through, and they couldn't withstand the fierce momentum of the knights on the opposite side, and quietly slowed down, and some even slipped away. In the end, there were only a hundred people who rushed towards Richard after Su Ya.
A hundred ordinary soldiers, not to mention facing ten times the number of super elite troops, their number is not even as large as Richard's knights! It can be said that this is a decisive charge, but from Su Ya, who took the lead, to the dozen or so infantry who ran wildly on their feet, they all had red eyes, ripped their throats, and screamed and rushed towards Richard!
Richard was slightly surprised, and then couldn't help but be a little moved, not because of the strength of the opponent, but because of their courage. From these warriors whose personal strength was not worth mentioning at all, and even in Baron Suya, whom he had always despised, Richard saw the soul of Akmund.
Richard raised his hand, and his followers and the Constructed Knights clenched their weapons, and when Richard's hand fell, they would rush back and crush their opponents with sheer strength.
However, Richard's hand representing the killing did not fall, but was taken back and replaced with a sentence: "All of them were caught alive." ”
The followers and the constructed knights were a little surprised, but although capturing alive was much more difficult than killing, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, and the constructed knights did not feel that there was any difficulty, and it was a little difficult to deal with one Su Yaluo.
Su Yatong's red eyes were already only Richard, and he didn't look at how many people were following around and behind him. From the moment he launched the charge, perhaps earlier, when the assembled army appeared here, he was ready to go and never return.
It's only twenty meters away from Richard!
There was a burst of killing behind Suya, and the knights in costume forcibly inserted from both wings, separating Suya from the warriors. And Su Ya, who was charging, suddenly noticed that a large shadow was shrouded in the side, and the entire sky seemed to become dark. He turned his head in shock, only to see an unimaginably huge body wrapped in a vicious wind, pressing down on his head!
In an instant, Suya felt like a mountain.
Su Ya only had time to stab the long sword with all his might, and the epic long sword actually cut a large spark on the opponent's armor, and then barely broke the armor, but the strength was exhausted. Then, the mountain pressed Suya underneath.
When Tiramisu got up from the ground with a curse, Suya was almost crushed to the ground. If it weren't for the fact that there was a horse under him, I am afraid that he would have been crushed to death by Tiramisu directly.
Under the impact of the tremendous force, the epic-level long swords were all bent and twisted, almost breaking. The sword looked like half of its blade had sunk into Tiramisu's abdomen, but the small wound was nothing compared to the ogre's massive size.
The ogre mage's attack just now was completely different from that of a mage, and he smashed Su Ya half to death with just the impact of his weight, and he had no skills at all.
Finally, Su Ya raised her head from her dizziness, her confused vision gradually became clear, and there was still a huge roar in her ears. He struggled to make out it, and finally saw that the person standing in front of him was Richard.
At this moment, the world was still shaking, and the bones in Suya's whole body were as if they had just walked out of the boiling oil pot, and they were so soft that they were not enough to support his movements. But in the end, Suya stood up and stood in front of Richard.
Looking at Richard Ping's and Ning Ding's eyes, Su Ya suddenly felt a depression in his heart. How long has it been since he was not even qualified to fight Richard face-to-face?