Chapter 856 Can I? !
The dwarf troops left just as quickly as they came. Seeing their quickly leaving, Shi Lei breathed a sigh of relief.
They have finally solved the greenskin trouble. If they turn around and face the dwarves again, it will be a nightmare.
While Shi Lei and Wo Jin were talking, the medical team in the city had already started rescuing the cavalry troops outside the city as quickly as possible.
Unlike the infantry troops fighting in the city, the cavalry troops led by Jie Liancheng directly withstood the head-on attack by the Goblin Wolf Cavalry, resulting in considerable casualties. Among them, Jie Liancheng even fainted. Yes, Li Tie was also covered in bruises.
After briefly giving instructions on what needed to be done, Shi Lei took a look at the two of them.
Li Tie was seriously injured, but his life is basically safe, so there is no need to worry.
Xie Liancheng, on the other hand, is still unconscious...
"Lieutenant Colonel Xie is awake, please notify me immediately."
After giving these instructions, Shi Lei Then he turned and left.
As the commander of an army, a war has just ended, and there are many things that require him to be busy!
The specific casualty report was quickly delivered to him.
In this battle, the casualties of the infantry units in the city were relatively good, but the heavy losses were suffered by their cavalry units.
Three hundred Zhou cavalry, in this bloody battle with the Goblin Wolf Cavalry, one hundred and ninety-seven were killed, thirty-one were seriously injured, and the rest basically suffered minor injuries.
In addition, a total of 173 war horses were lost, and 21 horses were lost in running.
This is not a small number.
You must know that the war horses of their Zhou cavalry are not just used by any horse. Each war horse is carefully selected and supplemented with careful training before it can be used as a The investment cost for using war horses is very high.
Needless to say, the cost of training and training the cavalry.
Adding all the costs of horses and cavalry together, they lost an infantry unit of two thousand people in this wave!
Of course, optimistically, they at least defeated the greenskins and defended the New Taipei District, without having to hand over the newly occupied land.
With such a mood, Shi Lei wrote a report to their Majesty.
At the same time, outside the lumberyard of Green Forest City, centaurs with shackled hands and feet were dragging carriages filled with lumber towards the lumber processing factory, sweating profusely. Go.
Needless to say, these are the centaur mercenaries who were captured by Jie Liancheng and the others.
They, the Zhou Dynasty, have never raised idle people, and neither do centaurs.
At first, they were held in a nearby recruit training camp, but as the season entered autumn, the pressure of the autumn harvest gradually increased in the New South District.
Zhou Xu had previously conscripted 5,000 troops, and the impact on the labor force in Xinnan District cannot be ignored.
In this way, they simply sent these centaur prisoners to Green Forest City temporarily to use them as cheap labor.
In Xinnan District, Green Forest City is not only a large city that produces timber, it is also the grain-producing city with the second highest grain production.
The centaur captives arrived here and the job assigned to them was, to put it bluntly, pulling carts, mainly responsible for transporting crops and wood.
Outside the farm, accompanied by heavy muffled sounds, farmers placed the bagged grain one bag after another on the carriage.
"It's almost done, let's go!"
As another bag of grain was put down, the farmer patted the carriage and signaled to the centaur prisoner that he could set off.
“Is this the last batch today?”
While speaking, the centaur prisoner turned his head and glanced at the two bags of food that were not loaded next to him, and then He took another look at the already fully loaded carriage.
“Yes, this is the last batch today.”
The centaur prisoner nodded after getting the answer, and then raised his hand. "Put those two bags of grain directly on my back to save me a trip later."
"Is that okay? This cart of grain is already very heavy."
The centaur captive couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this.
"Can I?! Find a fixed rope and fix it. It will be no problem for the labor and management to carry ten more bags. Hurry up, we are in a hurry to have dinner!"
When the farmer heard this, he was not angry. Instead, he laughed happily.
“That’s okay!”
As he spoke, he directly moved the two bags of food onto the back of the centaur prisoner.
Feeling the weight of the pressure, the centaur prisoner tensed up.
To be honest, it’s very heavy!
But considering the old man watching from the side, the centaur prisoner suddenly exhaled from his nostrils and pretended to be relaxed, pulling a cart of food away.
When they arrived at the place, they unloaded the grain truck. The centaur prisoner stretched his muscles, but did not rest. He trotted all the way towards the canteen not far away, which had begun to smell the fragrance.
I also met other tribesmen on the road, and they all looked like him.
“What do you think we will have for dinner today?”
“I want to eat braised pork.”
"I want to eat pork ribs."
"Although braised pork and pork ribs are also good, I still want to eat jealous fried chicken."
"..."
After all, I want As a special race, even though the centaur captives worked hard, Zhou Xu didn't harsh them on the food.
So far, they are quite satisfied with the food in the canteen here in Green Forest City.
A group of people came to the cafeteria talking to each other. If it weren't for the shackles on their hands and feet, who would have thought that they were actually a group of prisoners?
In the cafeteria, many people had arrived before them. There were humans and other centaur prisoners.
Seeing them come in, they even greeted them very familiarly. Everyone was used to their presence, and no one thought there was anything strange about their appearance in the canteen.
To be honest, the centaurs themselves didn’t understand why it became like this.
Think about it carefully. When they were first captured, in order to survive, they were still shackled on their hands and feet. They had no choice but to do hard work here. Each of them was in a state close to The suffering is great and the hatred is deep, but at least I am still rebellious in my heart.
However, in the subsequent work, they inevitably came into contact with the people of Zhou Dynasty. It was in this process that their ideas began to change subtly.
You must know that in their past contacts with humans, most of the humans they encountered looked at them with fear, disgust, and even hatred.
They are mercenaries who earn war money. Over time, they are almost bound to the war. As long as they appear, they will inevitably be accompanied by the war.
This makes many humans directly regard them as disaster stars.
As soon as they appeared, the war broke out, as if they had brought it.
The centaurs have always felt that they don't care about this. Anyway, they do make money from war. Disasters are disasters. It doesn't matter what humans think of them.
But until now, they have been working as coolies in Dazhou for a season. As they get along with the people of Dazhou, they slowly realize that they still care in their hearts...
(End of this chapter)