Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

The work of cleaning the battlefield continued until midnight, and it was necessary to stop because the temperature was too low at night.

Three armored ships approached the shore, and felt tents specially equipped for winter combat were built on the river beach. The wreckage of the enemy's beached sailboat was mercilessly dismantled, all of which were used for heating fuel for soldiers camping in the field.

After finishing the battlefield cleaning, the soldiers dispatched teams to guard and patrol at night according to the instructions of the commander. Those who were free sat around the warm bonfire in groups, took out the cans distributed and heated and baked by the fire, and whispered from time to time. Discuss interesting things that happen during the daytime battle.

Wayne and the adjutant personally escorted the two prisoners into Commander Pierce's camp.

Before Pierce could ask, one of them started yelling in advance, "I am Baron Scott, please let me meet the lord of Grizzly Castle, and I ask for the respect and treatment that the noble prisoners of war deserve!"

Another person also hurriedly said, "I am Hanson Brick, the second son of Baron Brick. Please allow me to meet the chief officer of the Grizzly Castle. We are willing to pay the ransom."

Pierce frowned impatiently and responded coldly: "There is no lord of Grizzly Castle here, I am the supreme commander myself."

He paused and asked in a deep voice: "Why did Grand Duke Ralph send troops to Sancha Town? Is the Baron's seizure of the slave caravan in Grizzly Castle due to his direct instruction?"

The two looked at each other in surprise, and Baron Scott moved his shoulders with difficulty, "We are just responding to the Lord's recruitment of the noble knights to fight. The officer in charge is the nephew of the Duke, but he has been killed..."

"Diet?" Pierce raised his eyebrows in disappointment, "It seems that your commander is unlucky enough, so let's answer my question just now. How many elite knights are there in Fengyuan City? Spellcaster Consultant How many people are there? What are the plans for Grizzlies in the future? Let’s say as much as you know. I naturally have a way to distinguish the authenticity of your words.”

Baron Scott immediately closed his mouth and turned his head aside with a proud expression. Baron Brick's second son hesitated for a moment, "Your Excellency Commander, we are all the official positions who have sworn allegiance to the Grand Duke. Knights will never do anything that violates the spirit and oaths of the chivalry…”

"Oh..." Pierce chuckled disapprovingly, "Take them onto the boat."

After the soldiers took the two away, he ordered Wayne: "Thank you tonight and don't sleep. Use the methods I taught you to question these two noble knights."

Wayne said with a quick look: "Is there no limit to methods or means? Do you want to keep them in exchange for ransom?"

Pierce shook his head and said coldly, "The Lord told me before he set out that you don't have to consider the issue of prisoners of war and ransom, you just need to take out enough information from their mouths."

...

What surprised Pierce was that a very fast battle at the mouth of the river attracted the attention of the Baron of Sancha Town. Just as dawn was dawn, soldiers patrolling outside the camp caught a team of soldiers coming to inquire about the situation. The spy.

After shooting and trying to escape on the spot, the remaining three immediately rolled off their horses and slumped in the snow and begged for mercy. Then they were trapped by the soldiers and dragged their legs back to the riverside camp.

"Let you go back to the town and bring back the message to the Baron of Sancha Town." Pierce ordered impatiently, "Tell the Baron that he will release our caravan immediately and give up armed resistance. The fleet will be in the afternoon today Arrive at the town pier…”

He said as he pointed to the enemy's corpses piled up on the river bank that were about to burn, and added with a grin, "Of course, if you still decide to fight us, I don't mind burning more corpses..."

The spy looked at the dead people wrapped in the emblem and flag of the Ralph family. They piled up in a row, most of the corpses were incomplete, as if they had been gnawed by some huge monster.

Without waiting for Pierce to urge him, even the horse gave up and rolled and crawled towards the town.

In the afternoon, when the iron-armored icebreaker slowly sailed to the dock of Sancha Town, he found a group of ordinary soldiers wearing simple leather armor surrounded by a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes, waiting tremblingly outside the shed at the dock.

"Sir! Sir!" The man in the Chinese uniform did not seem to be a noble at all. Under the guidance of the spy, he quickly came to Pierce, rushed to the ground and started begging for mercy, "We did not hurt your caravan at all, I just received instructions from the Lord of the Lord to detain them, and I also specially set up three barns to shelter them from the wind and rain, and cooked porridge every day for them to eat..."

Pierce said in surprise: "Mr. Baron, don't tell me that these people are deducted just to collect the temporary poll tax..."

The man in the Chinese uniform shook his head like a rattle and quickly distanced himself from it, "Sir, I am not the Baron of Sancha Town, I am just the new tax officer in the town... He ran away overnight last night!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Pierce, who was ready to settle accounts with the local noble lord, was stunned on the spot and could not speak for a long time.

Run away? Still running overnight...

The tax officer said with a bitter face: "Last night, the Baron's spy returned, "You... your fleet fought with Duke Ralph in the river mouth, saying that he saw... he saw the high-level spellcaster master... he took action and was defeated directly. The Duke's fleet, so…”

Wayne stood aside and couldn't help but sneer and shouted, "Then why don't you run away?"

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"Sir... I am a local. I have long been dissatisfied with the baron's random taxes and withholding the passing caravans. There is not even a decent patrol in the town. The tax increases every year have caused the caravans to go around. , the residents of the town have long lost their livelihoods, and they wish the Baron would get out sooner."

Pierce asked a few more questions carefully, and found that the other party's attitude was not as fake, so he said slowly: "Since that's the case, you don't have to be exploited and exploited by Duke Ralph anymore. From now on, Sancha Town will be returned to the Grizzly Leadership. In jurisdiction, in two days, noble officials will come to the town to Grizzly Castle, and you can complete the handover well."

Soon after, the soldiers reported that the secret police in the territory who had received the release and the hundreds of serfs he bought from human traffickers. Although they had been detained for a long time, fortunately, local officials in the town were unwilling to offend the Grizzly Bear Castle. , did not treat this group of people badly. In the cold and cold weather, only a few serfs who were already sick died unfortunately, and the rest were imprisoned in the barn and barely survived.

After arranging the serfs to board the icebreaker one after another, Pierce decided to set off and return immediately and not stay for more. Anyway, there will naturally be a vassal noble of Grizzly Castle who will send people to take over the affairs of the town, and only a hundred people in the Northland will be left. The military squad can maintain order here.

Before leaving, he looked at the tax officer who was humble on the dock and kept bowing to them, and his heart suddenly moved.

"This tax officer is a good management talent..."

"Take him up and go back to Grizzlies with us."