Chapter 765: Playing a triumphant song
Solomon still doesn't know what's going on in the Cornucopia, and even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care much.
From his personal point of view, he actually hopes that Lanita can survive, so that he can have an easier time explaining to Zebulon and the Wizards.
But he thought he had done everything he could. Lanita was captured because of his own mistakes and had nothing to do with him.
But as the coach, he risked his life and personally exchanged the captured Wing Clan girl back.
If he could achieve this, even if Lanita did die in the end, it would be difficult for Zebulon to use this matter to provoke him and remove him from the position of commander of the expeditionary force.
As for the Wizards' Association, it's a little more troublesome, but those wizards are also a group of very realistic and cold-blooded guys. If Lanita is still alive, they may come to trouble him.
But after death, there is no need for conflict between the two parties.
Solomon no longer wanted to think about this matter, but focused on the current war.
As soon as they entered the Western Territory, they encountered the enemy.
The raiders hid in the woods and swamps and attacked the troops as they passed.
However, once the attackers react, they will quickly retreat and use the complex surrounding environment to avoid pursuit and detection.
Of course, their hiding place was not flawless. Solomon sent Wing Clan warriors to cooperate with the dwarves and imperial noble allies in the sky. They searched bit by bit and finally found all the twenty-five sneak attackers in the woods. .
They were driven out into the open space and knelt in a row.
The Wing Clan warriors used them to compete in archery. With the trembling sound of the bow strings, the prisoners fell to the ground one by one.
Most of the people were shot to death on the spot, and those who were still alive had their heads cut off by the people who came to check.
The Wing Tribe people were very excited about doing this. They even stripped the knight leading the team naked, gave him a wooden sword and forced him to choose an opponent for a duel according to knight tradition.
There is no doubt that those Wing Clan warriors had the absolute upper hand in this funny duel.
However, they were not in a hurry to kill their opponent. In the end, the knight was hit by more than a dozen arrows before he died in pain.
Solomon was not very satisfied with this. It was not that his soldiers were too cruel, but that it took too long to capture and execute these twenty-five people.
It was not until dusk that the army set off again, and they encountered another sneak attack before they had gone far.
So everyone repeated their old tricks and started searching on the spot. However, this time the sky had already darkened halfway through the search, so they had to give up temporarily and surrounded the swamp, preparing to search again tomorrow.
But Solomon frowned at this time.
These enemies are all in small groups. Their actions are mainly harassment. They appear suddenly with the help of terrain. They will disappear quickly regardless of whether they succeed. The damage they can cause each time is actually very limited.
But in order to capture their army, it takes a lot of energy and time.
The commander of the Wing Tribe was vaguely aware that the purpose of these people's appearance might just be to slow down their march.
So early the next morning, Solomon changed his strategy and ordered the noble lords to send out cavalry to roam near the army. If they encountered sneak attackers, they did not need to annihilate them, but just drove them away.
This move quickly took effect, and the army's marching speed was increased.
Arriving outside the first town the next morning, the lord of that town opened the city gate himself and led his two sons out of the city to greet him as a sign of surrender.
They prepared six boxes of gold, two boxes of jewelry, and three hundred young virgins.
But they failed to see Solomon. Only a dwarf named Willy came forward to accept their gifts.
Then he led his men and sacked their town without hesitation.
The lord and his two sons stood awkwardly outside the city, watching the dwarves move various belongings from the city, and listening to the crying and wailing coming from the other side of the city wall.
It wasn't until the goods were piled up like a hill that the dwarf named Willy came back and found the lord, asking the latter to send people and carriages to deliver the goods to the Corner of Plenty first.
After hearing what Willy said, the lord's face turned green.
This doesn't matter. His territory has been looted, and he still has to find people to help the bandits who looted him carry the loot.
Perhaps the only good thing is that the dwarf named Willy also said that they only took away half of the goods this time, leaving him some wealth.
However, before the lord could be happy, another member of the Winged Tribe found him and asked him to take a good look at the remaining half of the treasure. After Solomon conquered the Western Territory, he would send people to count it and take it away.
After hearing this, the lord felt like he wanted to die. He couldn't help but regret not listening to Ilea and choosing to resist.
However, after seeing the army in front of him, he felt that resistance would not end well. Although surrendering was shameful, at least he could save his life anyway.
In short, Solomon captured the first town in the west without any bloodshed. He also sent people to collect most of the food in the city, effectively alleviating the army's food shortage problem.
Solomon took little rest after that and chose to move on.
But this time they finally encountered some trouble. The attackers still emerged from the woods, but this time they were particularly large, with a total of three hundred people.
The cavalry patrolling nearby were captured by them as soon as they met, and then they set fire to part of the food and grass.
It's not much, but it's enough to be annoying.
The main reason was that the number of attackers in the previous waves was not large, which made everyone relax their vigilance. However, unexpectedly, the opposite party suddenly suppressed a large wave.
This time Solomon did not choose to forget it. Even from a rational point of view, this person could not cause greater harm. If it was just to quickly conquer the Western Territory, it would be more appropriate to leave it alone.
However, not everyone can think about the problem from a rational perspective. If they leave it alone, it will undoubtedly affect the morale of the army.
So Solomon could only spend another half day, but this time he only found less than a hundred people.
Since the army was dispersed, those who were captured did not know where the remaining two hundred people had gone.
Solomon only learned from their mouths that most of them were from Hongta City and were members of the Treles family, while the rest were warriors from some small noble families.
Solomon asked people to write down all the families behind them, intending to slaughter them all when the time came.
He left a thousand dwarves behind and asked them to continue looking for people, while the rest continued on their way.
In the next two days, they passed through three towns without encountering any decent resistance. The lords there either surrendered out of the city or ran away early.
The 10,000 Winged Clan warriors brought by Solomon have not made any move until now except for their help in finding people. They even feel a little bored.
The only attrition was actually due to illness. (End of chapter)