On the third day after capturing Brilliant City, several good news came one after another.
The Coast Guard led by Arvid captured and destroyed the Hell Camp, several water forts of different sizes, shipyards, docks, etc.
Going upstream along the Han River, there are dozens of water villages and docks belonging to different demon lords, which are no match for the Coast Guard.
However, the demon lords do not pay much attention to the water village and the dock.
Except for one demon lord who launched tens of thousands of winged demons to launch a surprise attack on the fleet, the other demon lords didn't care at all.
The demon lord who mobilized the Winged Demon didn't take advantage either.
Above the Han River, the demon lord himself cannot fly and cannot cover the attributes of the winged demon.
The Coast Guard has nearly 20,000 shooters, 500 phantom marksmen, and countless long-range equipment.
The huge long-range capabilities taught these winged demons a painful lesson.
Even if these winged demons are allowed to board the ship by chance, there will still be at least a hundred sailors on each ship who are brave and good at fighting and have high morale.
At this point, there is no territory controlled by the hell forces on both sides of Hanjiang River.
However, the Coast Guard cannot clean up the various tributaries of the Han River and the narrow waterways further upstream of the Han River.
In those places, it is difficult for ships such as cruisers, even ocean-going gunboats and even large arrow ships to enter and exit.
And because of the unscrupulous behavior of the Coast Guard during this period, there have been large and small waves of refugees along both sides of the river.
When Arvid sees a human being, he will naturally find a way to take them away.
But even for an extremely fast magic-powered ship like a cruiser, even if it is just patrolling the main road of Hanjiang River, it will take at least two to three days for one trip.
Before the Coast Guard appeared, these refugees had to find their own way to avoid the inspections of hell demons.
Another good news comes from Jian Yuan. Xu Lai's strategy of rapid military deployment has achieved very good results.
When the demons were in chaos, the appearance of Jian Yuan and a large number of cavalry undoubtedly dealt a painful blow to these demons.
In the entire earldom, apart from Brilliant City, there are not many remaining base camps and fortress-level cities.
Indeed, most plains are basically dominated by towns and villages.
Firstly, these places are located in the heartland and are not prone to invasion by foreign enemies.
Even the borders between the Western Empire and the Grassland, the Northern Empire and the Southern Empire were all part of the Empire a few years ago.
As for bandits and robbers, large towns also have security teams, patrol teams, and militia, so they are not afraid of bandits.
Even if you encounter a special building like an underground passage, there are not no castles and base camps nearby.
Secondly, it is due to actual needs.
Rural areas are better able to gather productivity, but there is no place for crops to grow in cities.
While ensuring food, cities and towns are also necessary for economic prosperity.
Cities above the fortress level must need city walls, which are quite resource-consuming.
At the same time, fortresses and other buildings are all used for fighting, which also means that the space left for people's livelihood and economy is very limited.
Building a large city not only requires the construction of wider city walls, but also increases the difficulty of defense exponentially.
You can't just have a city wall but not enough troops to garrison it.
As for towns, there is no such demand. You can expand your town as much as you want. You only need to build roads and at most a few more watchtowers.
So although Jian Yuan did not take the cavalry to attack the city, he did take the cavalry and swept half of the earldom in 3 days.
Wherever the cavalry passed, the demons either hid back in the city, or had their heads chopped off and piled into hills.
This move not only dealt a painful blow to the demons in hell, but also brought great hope to the resistance forces everywhere.
Jian Yuan did not have time to stay. The towns and mining sites they captured would soon be taken over by the resistance forces from various places.
Although the number of rebels is not large, they still have fighting strength.
Once the demons send troops to try to seize it back, the resistance army only needs to be more aggressive.
If the distance is far, Elvi will fly back with the angel. If the distance is not far, Tahan will go back quickly with the elite cavalry.
Jian Yuan led the cavalry troops and had no idea about attacking the city.
On the contrary, because he never attacked the city, almost all the demons stationed outside fled into the city.
In the landing battles and siege battles of the past few days, the knights of Chivalry did not participate.
However, after the battles in the past few days, the 3,000 newly recruited nomads have basically advanced to level 4 or level 5.
After advancing, even without Xu Lai's blessing and with the statue of the God of War and the battle flag of knightly style, the speed of these knights is still not slow.
Those demons in the wild can hold on for a while longer if they stay strong.
As long as these demons escape, it will basically be a one-sided massacre, and they will not be able to escape at all.
The heroic knights led by Tahan suffered too much in pursuit because they could not be divided into too many teams.
Jian Yuan led a mixed force of recruits and veterans, mostly recruiting knights. The smallest team could be divided into teams of 10 people.
This group of knights leads the new with the old, so there will be no accidents, the hunting efficiency is also high, and the experience will be a huge gain.
Of course, the Qingfeng Legion's infantry, shooters and priests have all been upgraded by two or three levels.
These knights have also been promoted by an average of 1.5 levels, and they basically recruit soldiers, which really cost Xu Lai a lot of gold coins.
But Xu Lai didn’t give any money, and even said he made a lot of money.
Because he mainly pays the soldiers' salaries and advancement fees, and the pensions and bounties for the war leaders have not yet been paid.
The demons will not be polite when they invade the city. After Xu Lai occupied the city in the grassland, he usually only raided the noble rulers.
For the middle and high-income classes such as businessmen and mercenaries in the city, they can't easily touch them.
Once these people are touched, although he can collect more wealth, he will also lose the support of the people.
It is impossible for Xu Lai to develop just by counting on ordinary farmers.
He captured so many trophies in each battle. If he hadn't relied on Xu Lai's good reputation, how could he have converted them into resources so quickly from merchants.
When he unified the grasslands and stationed officials, the mercenaries who supported him also made outstanding contributions.
However, the demons will not be polite. They don't care who you are, whether you are an official or a citizen, and they will leave all your people and property behind.
After occupying the Brilliant City, except for the part that had been used for sacrifices, the rest of the wealth that Mathias snatched would naturally return to Xu Lai.
Although Xu Lai will return the land and properties to the people, the resources are not possible.
No one can prove that gold coins, grain, ore and other resources belong to them, unlike real estate, where there is still proof.
If there is no proof, Xu Lai cannot give as much as they say.
If someone opened his mouth, would Xu Lai directly give away his entire eagle kingdom to them?
Secondly, it was not Xu Lai who captured the city, but the soldiers.
The Qingfeng Legion has good welfare. When the country was founded, a large bounty was just issued for its military merits.
Therefore, even if these people are new recruits, they are willing to trust Xu Lai and can do almost nothing under the requirements of military regulations.
This is something unimaginable in any army, especially an army that mainly recruits soldiers. But Qingfeng Legion did it.
But as long as Xu Lai doesn't reward them for their merits this time, will these soldiers still work so hard and obey the rules?
Therefore, if Xu Lai does not accept the money and resources, he will take out the money himself later.
Then let’s just not fight this battle. No matter how much Xu Lai reserves, he can’t withstand such consumption.
He also has the Angel Legion, and the pension can be reduced to an extremely low level.
But even so, Xu Lai probably wouldn't be able to continue the fight if he captured one or two counties.
So this money is what Xu Lai deserves. Even if someone has objections, Xu Lai doesn't care.
Who made these people lose their country? The Western Empire is no longer there, and there is no one who can make decisions for them.
Besides, Xu Lai saved the owner’s life after all, and it was not Xu Lai who robbed the money. If they had the ability, they could go find the devil and get it back.
The third good news came from Hantan City.
The Deep Sea Tribe, which was allied with Xu Lai, agreed to cooperate in depth with Xu Lai and jointly sign a strategic alliance agreement.
And when the old patriarch who led the team saw Xu Lai's Coast Guard, he immediately decided to leave Emilia and the Naga Guard she brought with her.
It is a pity that Xu Lai crossed the river early and could not meet the old patriarch in person.
Emilia and the Naga Guards are both amphibious creatures and will not be trapped on the Han River.
I received a warm reception in Hantan City today, and after a day of rest, I will rush to Brilliant City tomorrow to meet Xu Lai.
The old patriarch said that since it was a deeper cooperation, as allies, they were obliged to send troops to fight for Xu Lai.
Of course, Xu Lai will be responsible for the food and lodging of these allies during the dispatch of troops, and they should also share the spoils of war.
The number of Naga guards brought by Emilia is not large, there are 3,000 people in total, but the minimum is level 5, 4-armed Naga.
Different from the previous support to Qingfeng City, since it is a deeper cooperation, the old patriarch also specially mobilized a murloc troop to come over.
The Murloc troops are naturally not as good as the Naga Guards, but they are also amphibious creatures with an average level of 3, so they will not be held back.
The key to the number of murlocs is that there are a lot of murlocs, a total of 10,000 murlocs, mainly divided into murloc warriors and murloc hunters.
The former is basically the cannon fodder of the Naga tribe, while the latter is one of the few long-range forces of the Naga tribe.
The murloc hunter can shoot at a semi-long range by throwing the bone spurs on his back.
The so-called semi-long-range is usually used to refer to those whose range is much lower than the shooter's standard range.
For example, if the limit range of a normal shooter is 100 meters, the limit range of a semi-long-range shooter unit is less than 50 meters.
The general throwing shooters are almost all semi-long-range, such as Xu Lai's wind knight, the orcs in the stronghold, and the big goblin who throws hammers from the tower.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as the boulder-throwing cyclops from the stronghold, the lightning-throwing Titan from the tower, etc.
The bone spurs of Murloc Hunters can only be thrown about 30 meters. The good news is that they can automatically generate bone spurs, so they don't need to carry a large bag of axes like Orcs do.
This 13,000-man amphibious force will be added, plus the Qingfeng Corps transferred by Xu Lai, and the Xianden Death Squadron collected in place.
In terms of military strength, there is no big gap between Xu Lai and the devil.
In fact, because the devil wanted to defend the entire Western Empire, although there were many troops, they were scattered everywhere.
Xu Lai may not be as powerful as the hell demons, but he can condense them into fists, and any local demons will not be his opponent.
"The sun is about to set. How many families have moved out of the city?"
Xu Lai was just calculating his strength. When he looked up, he saw that the sun was about to set and asked Yu Lan quickly.
Yu Lan looked at the information compiled by the secretary and replied:
“A total of more than 630 households have moved out of the city, and they have been resettled in three villages near our farm.
There are more than 200 households in one village, and we need to continue to expand a little more on the original basis.
The three villages are already full. It is unlikely that other households will be moved here in the future. Isn’t it too close to Brilliant City?”
Xu Lai shook his head and said: “Okay? They are arranged together to give them a sense of security
But this is only temporary. After they have washed away the stains on their bodies, it will be difficult for others to bully them
Fortunately, since we are close to the city, we can use it as a role model for publicity in the future. We can also get some care from Brilliant City later. "
Yu Lan nodded and didn't say much. In most cases, Yu Lan was extremely indulgent to Xu Lai.
Unless there was a real problem, Yu Lan basically didn't Will deny Xu Lai’s intention.
“There are more than 800 men from these 630 households, and they have all reported to Brandi. "
Xu Lai touched his chin and said, "Only more than 800? I remember that there were quite a few slaves in Brilliant City. ”
Yu Landao: "It is impossible to count the specific numbers, and some people, even slaves, do not need to work in front of others.
For example, the cooks in the castle, the personal servants of the devils and so on.< br>
As soon as Brilliant City was liberated, they quietly blended into the crowd, and no one could identify them.
Of course, there are still many who are simply afraid of death, and you also said, no. Those who allow others to break the law are probably lucky.”
Xu Lai sneered and said, "Ignore him. What do the rebels I asked you to contact yesterday say, are they willing to accept their incorporation?"
Yu Lan smiled bitterly and glanced at Xu The expression on Lai’s face suggested that he must be in a good mood, so he told the truth:
“There are more than a dozen groups of rebels, large and small.
The big ones have thousands of people. There are only a few dozen people in the small ones.
There are some who are willing to accept our recruitment, but most of them are small teams with a few dozen people.
The rest of the troops are also willing to accept recruitment, but they have to negotiate terms with us and are not willing to join us unconditionally. "
Xu Lai snorted again and said: "What conditions do they have? "
"Well, most of them are actually okay. I think the conditions are acceptable.
Some of them are professional soldiers who escaped, some are mercenaries, and there are also private armies of nobles and trained militiamen.
What most people want is nothing more than to give their families more land and property.
When we recruit soldiers, we also receive settlement allowances. These rebels are all pretty capable, so I think it’s acceptable to give them more land.
Some are unacceptable, such as Yan Wenjun, Xiong Zizheng, Alex and others. "
Xu Lai frowned. His memory is very good now, and he instantly thought of who Yu Lan just said.
Yan Wenjun and Xiong Zizheng are both descended heroes, rely on With his expertise and the few soldiers he had left, he gathered hundreds of people around him
And that Alex was the leader of the largest resistance army, with 34,000 people under his command. So much.
Among these 34,000 people, in addition to the elderly, weak, women, children, and non-combatants, there are still more than a thousand middle- and high-level warriors.
It is said that Alex was the leader of the largest mercenary group in Glory City.
"What conditions did they put forward?" (End of Chapter)