Chapter 619: Haze (3)

When Kyle Holden returned, the bridge was closed immediately inside and outside. The gatekeepers are all family descendants.
When the young city master Harding saw the second batch of returning knights, he immediately knew why the guards who guarded the city gate should solemnly report the matter, but controlled the news to prevent leakage.
Because it was a group of wounded people who were seriously injured.
A total of five knights, two with broken legs and two large torso openings. There is also a scoop on his head, which may hang at any time.
This is simply a loss of baggage. Unless they can regenerate their limbs, otherwise these five knight masters are all abolished.
The five knights were sent back by an old carriage. The driver was an old farmer outside the city who was doing the job of giving and delivering letters in order to reward money.
The young city master immediately gnawed the old peasant with his teeth, and then asked what happened to the five knights who returned. The five knights have only one broken leg and can answer the question, roughly speaking about the situation last night.
"The lord of the city ordered to fight for honor, and we attacked the enemy. But the first wave of knights who rushed up was hung on the tip of the gun.
What if we kill ten of them? The enchanted their weapons and easily pierced the armor of the noble. "
The knight with a broken leg looked pale and unstable. But he was still very unconvinced. It is shameful that ordinary infantry can use the first-level arcane to add sharpness to their spears.
"Fortunately, there are not many lances they can temporarily enchant. After the rifles of the first row of infantry broke, I rushed away the infantry of the second two rows and killed two or three of their heads."
Speaking of ‘hacking’, the broken leg knight grinned again, which was already a very good feat last night. But soon he said more sadly: "It's too dark, the battlefield is too chaotic.
I followed several colleagues to rush desperately, rushing out a few hundred meters to find no one around. We tried to return to the battlefield, but soon found that the enemy did not let us go. ::
A group of light cavalry attacked us in the dark. I swear, I had a fatal contest with them. Both sides killed their eyes and had casualties.
Their combat skills are not good, but they have to admit that the other party's cooperation is better than ours. They can always attack our weaknesses, and pick and drop singles to besieged. Two of my colleagues soon died, and the other two of me had to retreat. "
The broken leg knight twitched his lips again, "The retreat is not all smooth sailing. Whenever we feel that we are safe, the enemy's light ride can always escape from the darkness.
We can't tell the direction, we can only escape. I fled, and I was separated from my colleagues. At that time, no one cares about anyone, just want to steer the horse away.
But in the end I found myself making a lap and going back to the battlefield, confronting the enemy again and losing my leg. I thought I was dead, but I didn't expect to be taken to Green Valley Town by them. "
After saying this, the broken leg knight took a letter from his chest and handed it to Harding.
"I didn't stay long in Green Valley Town. The evil Hugo was probably useless to see me. He sent me and several other knights back with this letter.
He asked me to retell a sentence. He had about eighty captive Holden clan knights, all with good hands and feet. He said that as long as we agreed to his conditions, those knights could return us. "
The papyrus letter is very rough, and the pages are covered with blood, and the writing is not very clear.
Harding stared at the knight with a broken leg, and took the letter slowly. The content of the letter is very simple, requiring more than 80 captured knights to change things. If the Horton family disagrees, the knights will be executed.
"Monster Hugo captured more than eighty family knights?"
Harding felt incredible, shouldn't his knight be brave and warlike, tenacious and unyielding? But in this way, more captured than escaped, and more than died in battle.
The Broken Leg Knight smiled bitterly, "Yes, Hugo made me count. There were not many people who died on the spot last night, most of them were killed in the night's escape.
More people surrendered in hopelessness. They probably thought they could come back as long as they paid the ransom. But the evil Hugo obviously doesn't think so. "
The request in the letter was simple. Broken Bridge City had to pay a defeat compensation, at the same time lift the trade and traffic blockade, and submit a letter of nomination.
The first two requirements are easy to say, but the last one is troublesome. Victor Hugo named directly in the letter: "Hand the old wizard Bank who visited Broken Bridge City last night to Hanfeng City for disposal."
In just one day, how did the monster Hugo know that the long-legged banker was in Broken Bridge City?
Unless there is a traitor in the city.
Thinking about this, Harding couldn't help sweating. A series of names and avatars flashed through his mind like electro-optical lights. The big nobles who refused to send troops last night looked suspicious.
What should I do?
The lord of the city was dead, and the young lord of the city had no idea at all.
To agree to Hugo's request is undoubtedly to draw a gap with other noble forces in the Northland. In case the restoration of the long-legged family is successful that day, the Houghton family will never be let go.
But if you do n’t agree
Harding couldn't help but feel more apprehensive that more than 80 family knights were in the hands of the enemy. This is a valuable asset. If these subjects are to be returned, the Holden family's position in Broken Bridge City will not be shaken.
Where are the lessons of the long-legged family? If the strength of the family is weakened, it will be the end of the disaster. How to decide will test the ability of the ruler.
At this moment, at the same night and after the war, Zhou Qingfeng cleaned the battlefield in an unknown village, preparing to withdraw his team to Green Valley Town.
The heavy-duty four-wheeled carriage pulled the dead body and residual limbs of the war dead, rumbling one step ahead. More than 100 wounded soldiers lay in temporary medical tents built by the road outside the village, waiting for the second batch to set off.
Zhou Qingfeng has a large number of spell slots every day that can all be converted to healing magic, but only a small part of the injured can be rescued. The believers of the "Mother of Epidemic Disease" act as military doctors, using homemade herbs to care for the vast majority of the wounded.
"The infantry regiment had 182 casualties, including 57 unrecoverable serious injuries and deaths. Others should be able to return to the team after treatment."
Outside the medical tent, the infantry regiment commanded Ma Han to report the statistics to Zhou Qingfeng.
This casualty rate is quite large. The total strength of the infantry regiment is 500, but the combatants are only about 400. The rest are logistical support.
If the team loses more than 40%, it means total loss of combat power.
Neither look is very good.
"Transfer from the supplementary regiment to restore the combat effectiveness of your three battalions as soon as possible." Zhou Qingfeng ordered.
After winning the Cold Wind City, he immediately trained a supplementary group of 300 people. The training of the supplementary regiment was not enough, and the equipment was much worse. But now you can do it if you do n’t.
The cavalry squadron of more than 100 people also suffered more than 30 casualties, and the permanently damaged troops reached 10%. The infantry is okay to add, the cavalry is difficult to supplement.
The only thing that makes Zhou Qingfeng happy is that he broke the Horton family in Broken Bridge City and eliminated the threat from his west. He bet that if there was a fiasco last night, he would give Kyle Holden ten more guts, and the other party would not dare to come to trouble.
Last night, more than two hundred noble knights were scattered and fought. This battle definitely gave the other party a deep memory.
At night, Heilongongdong and Zhou Qingfeng's light cavalry couldn't stop the other party from running away. But the next day, the light cavalry in the cold wind city drank physical potions and riveted to grab the captive.
The noble lord who fled was panicked and chaotic at night, and the horses had no energy. They were basically within five kilometers of the surrounding area.
There are more captive knights than hacked to death.
All captives were tortured, and sent back to Hanfengcheng like prisoners. What nobles' dignity is not as good as Zhou Qingfeng's eyes, the defeated person is not qualified to mention conditions.
"With these captives in hand, I'm not afraid of any trouble on the west flank. I can concentrate on the Buchi family killed from the south. I heard that the family's emblem is a snake-haired banshee, I wonder how powerful it can be? "
Zhou Qingfeng meditated in his mind that the real threat to Hanfengcheng is Banshee Castle. At this moment, a subordinate soldier came from the direction of Hanfeng City to ensure that he had timely communication with the city.
The city is safe and peaceful, at most it is a message from the strange maids that the modification of 'Jiying' was very successful, and the owner will get a brand new mount.
But ‘Jiying’ himself has reservations about this sentence.
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