Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

On the day he returned to Grizzly Castle, Pierce brought the information obtained from the interrogation to Harvey.

"Sure enough, Duke Ralph did not respond to the enlistment of Grand Duke St. Valen." Harvey snorted coldly, "The secret army found by Mr. Eye of the Illusion near Frostflower County can clearly understand their identity It's ".

"Frostflower County is only one day away from Grizzly Bear Castle. Why didn't they attack us while we were heading south to Sancha Town?" Pierce was a little puzzled.

Harvey shook his head and said, "After all, Grizzly Castle is still a solid city. Even if there are advanced mages in their team who can perform flight magic, they want to capture a border city with nearly 10,000 people with two thousand soldiers or horses. Somewhat difficult."

Pierce nodded in a clear way, "No wonder they kept holding their troops, only recruiting mercenaries nearby, and also plundered many local people as baggage men."

Capture the people... Recruit mercenaries...

Harvey's heart thumped and he instantly understood the enemy's purpose.

"Duke Ralph knew my intention to expand the population. He wanted to coerce a large number of civilians near the fiefdom lords and directly attack Grizzly Castle..." Harvey patted his forehead heavily and suddenly realized.

After all, in the eyes of such a great noble, lowly civilians are the cheapest consumables. Compared to letting the elite knights under his command directly participate in the battle, driving the people out of the Grizzly Castle, luring them to open the city gate to accept it, and then placing them with one another. The chaotic crowd launched a direct attack.

As long as the mercenaries scramble into the city among the refugees, civil strife will immediately occur in Grizzly Castle.

"What if we don't open the city gate and let them be outside the city?" Pierce felt that the solution to the problem was simple.

Harvey laughed, "This is the open plot of Duke Ralph. If I stayed in the door and let the refugees be frozen to death outside the city, then I would recruit people in the south to migrate northward, and the promise I made was immediately It turns into a shameless lie..."

Once the reputation and reputation as a fief lord collapse in the hearts of ordinary people in China, even if the civil war breaks out in full swing, Harvey will probably find it difficult to absorb a large number of migrant people in a short period of time. People who are desperate would rather choose to cross the border and flee to another country. .

"I can add some soldiers from the pioneering and leading, so that I can prevent them from storming the Grizzly Castle..." Pierce frowned and thought for a while, and decided to increase his troops in advance to prepare for possible troubles.

Harvey stood up and patted Pierce on the shoulder.

"This is how our enemies plan..."

After all, these people are living laborers. Although they are cannon fodder consumables in Duke Ralph's eyes, they are a valuable new population in Harvey's eyes.

If you want to control the situation and safely contain the driven refugees, you naturally need to dispatch troops from the base camp. As long as the refugees driven by them continue to attack Grizzlies Castle, you can force Harvey to continue to go here to the greatest extent. Increase troops.

That means that the troops in the wasteland base camp behind will gradually become empty... and then it will be the turn of the elite troops hidden in the dark, mixed with spell casters and blood knights.

"They plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain and attack our wasteland territory directly!" Pierce's mind finally turned around, and he was so angry that he hated him. "The nobles' plans are really sinister, and the lives of civilians are worse than those of ants in their eyes."

Harvey nodded, "The war in Sanchahe will soon be transmitted back to Fengyuan City. The fact that we have iron ships and gunboats will be learned by Duke Ralph. At most, the surprise soldier in Frosthua County will be in less than a week. We will also know how we operate and respond and prepare in advance."

Pierce clenched his fists and said hurriedly: "Sir, let me lead the troops of the two battalions directly to Shuanghua County to wipe out all of them!"

"If they let unarmed civilians stand in front, can you really order the fire with a hard heart?"

Pierce's face froze, and hesitated for only a few seconds before he said decisively: "If it is a necessary sacrifice and price, I am willing to bear it..."

"Okay OK! Even if you are cruel, it doesn't mean I'm willing to consume these fresh people..." Harvey waved his hand to signal his army commander to relax, and then slowly spoke out his response strategy.

Harvey naturally wanted to take all the people who were captured by Grand Duke Ralph from surrounding counties and towns. There was no reason why he worked hard to send people to the south to collect people, and even bought them from slave traders. All the people have been done, but I don’t want to do it when I encounter someone who takes the initiative to deliver it to my door.

As for the opponent's strategy of "trancing the tiger away from the mountain", Harvey was simply afraid and worried - even in this world where extraordinary power exists, the overwhelming advantage of "hot weapons" over cold weapons will not be due to the number of troops and strategies and tactics. This causes reversal and change.

Two thousand elite knights wanted to cross the Divine Ridge Mountains to attack their lairs... Harvey couldn't help but sneer, the city defense cannon and continuous magic guns would teach them how to be human...become a new person.

The only question to worry about is how many combat mages are installed in the opponent's army, and whether there are high-level spell casters... Although a hereditary master is unlikely to attract such a rank of spell casters as a mortal nobleman. He is committed to loyalty, but Harvey also needs to be guarded against possible accidents. Who knows whether the long-standing Ralph family will happen to cultivate a noble caster who stands opposite to the Federation.

Just as the two were discussing, Asdaren, who had just arrived from the wasteland, knocked on the door and entered.

"Sir, why not send Mr. Duncan directly... and his two students, three high-level mages, who are enough to deal with the enemy's possible ambush."

Before Asdalun finished his suggestion, the Eye of Illusion had already come in from the door of the study with a smile, bowing to Harvey.

"Lord... I'm sorry to interrupt your combat meeting without permission."

No mistake, one sentence, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

The Eye of Illusion rubbed his hands and asked for a fight: "As long as we don't get caught in the siege of a large group of bloodline knights, it's no problem for me and Ms. Astrologer to deal with the opponent's spellcaster team..."

Asdalun interrupted: "What if the opponent is equipped with an alchemical magic-breaking crossbow specifically for high-level spellcasters?"

"In the phantom state, I can withstand the frontal bombardment of two or three magic-breaking crossbows... Melissa also has a good defensive magic weapon." The Eye of Illusion is not a research-based spellcaster who only talks about war on paper, and has extremely rich combat experience.

"What if the opponent's high-level spellcasters try their best to hold you back, and then let the Blood Knights attack?" Harvey also joined the ranks of verbally "torturing" Mr. Eye of Illusion.

"Well... if the situation is not favorable, we will naturally not fight to the end..." Eye of Illusion scratched his head, his expression a little embarrassed.

Pierce ruthlessly added a knife at the end, "What if there is more than one high-level mage hidden in the opponent's team?"

Eye of Illusion was a little bit overwhelmed, and spread his hands and said, "What else can we do? Everyone has to die!"

Everyone immediately laughed.