Chapter 441: Buy Your Life with Your Money
The flying demonic beast circled in the air and slowly landed beside Li Yunyang and Herris, and the bloodied deputy commander of the cavalry rolled down directly from his mount.
The deputy commander of the cavalry barely got up from the ground, and said to Li Yunyang with a frightened face: "Viscount Allen, no...... Oh no, the Burren led them to be attacked by a large number of unknown creatures, and the whole army was more than 10,000 people, and now there are only more than 6,000 left!"
"What!"
Li Yunyang, who was still waiting for the good news, heard this, and hurriedly asked: "The attack of unknown creatures? What happened to Shierdeken and Sujira? Where is the army now?"
"Lord Szeldeken and Miss Sujra are fine, but the army has abandoned the siege of the town of Pavas due to heavy losses and is heading towards the village where we were stationed in the first place, but fortunately the unknown creature has been wiped out. As the deputy commander of the cavalry spoke, a large pool of blood had accumulated under his feet, and he shook it twice on the spot, and fainted directly.
Li Yunyang hurriedly called the soldiers and sent the deputy commander of the cavalry for treatment, looking at the blood stains left by the deputy commander of the cavalry, his eyes suddenly widened, and he hurriedly squatted next to the blood stains, and reached out to take out a black blood clot that had coagulated from it!
"Is Watson Gil crazy enough to this extent?Sending the Hell Demon Leopard to attack the army, isn't he afraid of becoming the public enemy of the entire empire?" After a little identification, Li Yunyang recognized the black blood clot in his hand, which was unique to the Hell Demon Leopard.
Li Yunyang smelled the pungent smell of blood on it, but it was not as strong as the large demon leopard he had killed with his own hands. Presumably, the strength of the Hell Demon Leopard who attacked Bren's leader is only average, and I am afraid that it is because of the dark night and the number of reasons that will cause them heavy losses.
Just as Li Yunyang was looking at the black blood clot on his hand, Herris suddenly said to him, "Lord Lord, do you want to go and meet Miss Sujira first, and by the way, appease the soldiers of your army?"
"No, the next battle matters, wait until Watsongill is defeated, and then it's not too late to see them!"
Although Li Yunyang was very concerned about Sujra's safety, if it was not expected, Watson Gill would arrive at noon at the latest, and they were already on the weak side in terms of numbers in this war, and if he, the commander of the whole army, left again, there was a chance that this war would be lost.
Throwing away the blood clot on his hand, Li Yunyang immediately sent someone to call Wagle over and instructed him: "Wagger, now you go and gather all the hard laborers who Watson Gil captured in Fort Art, and then screen the residents of Fort Arte, and try to integrate a militia team that can go to the battlefield." ”
If it weren't for the sudden change in the situation, Li Yunyang would not have planned to recruit troops at Fort Arte so soon, and no one dared to guarantee that these soldiers selected from the residents of Fort Arteilla would not defect and open the door to Fort Artere for Watson Gill.
It's just that there are only more than 6,000 soldiers left under the commander of Bolen, and they are too far away from Fort Arte, if the plan of flanking the front and rear that was drawn up before is really useless.
Fortunately, Li Yunyang had the booklet that Herris gave him to record the information of the residents of Fort Arte, which allowed him to eliminate certain potential dangers when he temporarily recruited troops.
Handing over the booklet to Wagger, Li Yunyang ordered the army to make a fire and cook, and at the same time took advantage of this gap to let them move all the weapons and equipment in the armory of Fort Art.
"15,000 sets of standard infantry equipment, 8,000 sets of standard cavalry equipment, 11,000 sets of standard bows and arrows, 300,000 arrows, 30 catapults, more than 1,900 oil bombs, 20 ballistas, more than 1,600 crossbow arrows......"
Looking at the number of ordnance counted by Herris, Li Yunyang couldn't help but be a little stunned, it seems that Watson Gill started a plan to expand armaments after he became the lord of Fort Art.
If Watsongill is allowed to recruit enough soldiers and equip them with these ordnance, I am afraid that there are few lords within a hundred miles who can resist his army.
However, this qiē also belongs to Li Yunyang, and the effort spent by Watson Gill is only to make wedding clothes for others.
Li Yunyang didn't think about it, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to put all the equipment and ordnance on the city wall.
Looking at the catapults and ballistas lined up, as well as the longbows that all the soldiers carried behind their backs, and the quivers full of arrow feathers, Li Yunyang could imagine that when Watsongill's army came, all the catapults, ballistas, bows and arrows would be launched, it would definitely be a very spectacular scene.
"Lord Lord, Watson Gill is here!"
Just when Wagle had just gathered more than 3,000 laborers and more than 5,000 residents of Fort Arte under the city walls, Herris, who had been observing the military situation, suddenly discovered the traces of Watsongill's army.
I saw that on the plain in front of Fort Arte, the army with no end in sight was rushing towards Fort Arte at a rapid speed. At the front of the team, several large black demon leopards the size of small elephants, with green fire in their eyes, roared in the direction of Fort Artre from a distance.
Inside the gate of Fort Art, the laborers and militia had just gathered, but Li Yunyang was not worried about letting them go to the battlefield like this, so he ordered Herris: "The time to prove your ability is up, Herris, within ten minutes, let Watson Gill not have the idea of ordering an attack." ”
Herris yawned and exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Ten minutes, my lord, according to Watson Gill's temper, if he sees that I have surrendered to you, it is estimated that he will not wait for ten seconds, but directly order the siege of the city......"
"That's your business!" Li Yunyang didn't have time to rub his tongue with Herris here, he knew what Herris wanted, so he immediately promised Herris a benefit, and said with a smile: "If you can do my order, I can give you another reward of 50,000 gold coins." ”
Hearing the words of 50,000 gold coins, the embarrassed expression on Herris's face instantly dissipated, and he bowed respectfully to Li Yunyang and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I dare to guarantee that Watson Gil will definitely not have any motive to attack the city within ten minutes." ”
After getting the answer that Herris was sure of, Li Yunyang nodded, and prepared to go under the city wall to solve the problems of those temporarily recruited soldiers.
However, as soon as Li Yunyang turned around, he heard Herris continue what he had just said, and asked in a tone of a wealth fan: "Rich and generous lord, why don't we discuss, if I stop Watson Gill for ten minutes and stop him for a while longer, how about you add another 10,000 gold coins to me every minute?"
"Fuck off. Li Yunyang turned around, laughed and kicked Herris, this greedy guy actually regarded the war as a playhouse, and dared to bargain with him.
"Your Excellency, I'd better think about it, why don't I give you a discount, eight thousand gold coins per minute, five thousand, three thousand ......."
When he came to the city wall, looking at the hard workers who were full of anger and seemed to be eager to go to the battlefield, as well as the militia of Fort Arte, who looked a little reluctant, Li Yunyang did not feel surprised at all.
These laborers were captured by Watson Gill and taken to Fort Arte, where they toiled all day, starved and whipped or even beaten to death.
The hatred of the laborers towards Watson Gill has accumulated to the extreme, and it is not too much of a problem for them to go to the battlefield, but because of their physical strength, the combat effectiveness of these laborers is worrying.
However, the militia of Fort Arte, which has good combat effectiveness, is a little resistant to going to the battlefield, although Watsongill is not very good and does not have much popular support in Fort Arte, but Watsongill was once the lord of Fort Arte, and these militiamen were also trained from him.
Moreover, the army led by Watsongill also had a large number of residents of Fort Art, and it was really difficult to get these militias to do it against their own people.
However, Li Yunyang didn't care about these problems at all, he walked up to the temporary high platform, and shouted at the whispering laborers and militiamen below: "Now that Fort Arte has reached the stage of life and death, I know that some of you can't bear to attack your own compatriots, but have you ever thought that if my army is defeated, even if you don't make a move, Watson Gill will definitely not let you go!"
As soon as these words came out, it immediately caused an uproar, and the laborers looked at the militia of Fort Arte with a sneer, they could not be clearer, according to Watsongill's brutal character, if they learned after the war that the militia of Fort Arte, when Li Yunyang attacked Fort Arte, they did not resist, these people would all have to die!
And the militiamen in Fort Ate were also pale one by one, and it was obvious that many of them had their thoughts in Li Yunyang's words.
The militia all thought that it didn't matter to them who the lord changed anyway, at most they had a better life, or a little harder. No matter how hard life is, it is better than going to the battlefield desperately, and no one can be sure whether they can survive or not.
However, Watson Gill's brutality has penetrated into the hearts of the residents of Fort Art, and although they do not want to admit it, they have to say that what Li Yunyang said is very likely to become a reality.
Looking at the reluctance on the faces of the militiamen, which gradually turned into hesitation, Li Yunyang knew that the heat was almost enough, he directly opened the space ring, raised his big hand, and a bunch of golden imperial gold coins fell on the high platform with a bang.
Li Yunyang poured gold coins from the space ring and said to the laborers and militiamen: "If you are willing to participate in this war and besiege Fort Art, regardless of military merits, as long as you participate, you will be rewarded with twenty gold coins! Moreover, if you kill an enemy soldier, you will be rewarded with ten more gold coins, and if you kill an enemy officer, you will be rewarded with one hundred to one thousand gold coins, and the more you kill, the more gold coins you can get! If anyone can kill Watson Gil, they will be rewarded with 200,000 gold coins!"