Warlord: King of All Clans

Freya, who shoulders a heavy responsibility, is very dedicated to her job and patrols around Fort Bavanach with Sheeks.

They captured a puppy-headed man and insisted that he was a high-level extraordinary person in disguise, with the intention of assassinating Riomondo.

The little dog-headed man's eyes were filled with tears of grievance. He sang a dog-headed man's song in public to prove his identity and successfully escaped.

A little later, they captured another River Bend Musketeer, who was said to be an enemy spy with a strange smell.

The Musketeer, who had just returned from a visit to a prostitute at Bavanachi Castle, had no way of defending himself. In the end, he could only take out two silver coins, and only then was his bribery successful, and he was let off.

Originally, Freya wanted to repeat the same trick and continue to "take advantage of the enemy", but Leo was afraid that the opponent's high-level officials also had this plan, so he rejected this plan.

Leo himself was not idle either. He immediately organized young and strong people and prisoners of war to repair the city wall. He planned to temporarily hold Bavanachi and make a decision based on the enemy's next move.

As satisfying as it was to bombard the city walls back then, it is as difficult to repair them now.

Fortunately, the three rounds of artillery fire did not cause much damage to the main body of the city wall. Apart from the destruction of the top of the city wall and several collapsed parts, most of the damage was to the relatively fragile battlements.

During this period, the corner flags, unable to contain their excitement, proposed to split up their forces to plunder the nearby knight territories and replenish their food and grass.

This is a conventional means of warfare, which can not only effectively weaken the resistance of the enemy camp, but also alleviate its own logistical pressure.

However, Leo refused to allow all the corner flag soldiers to leave the castle, citing the reason that "the enemy is powerful and may attack the city at any time."

In order to defend Fort Bavanachi, Knight Hughes stored a large amount of food and fodder in the castle. Now all of them have become their spoils of war, enough to feed the legion for a month.

Coupled with the baggage they brought with them, they did not need to rely on looting to survive.

The eighth-level Great Knight Godwin and his army of ten thousand people do have enough deterrent power, and these corner flags cannot refute this reason.

After guarding the Bawanachi Castle for three days, Pegasus Knight Weir came back to report.

"The town of Ross was attacked by the Frovald Legion. The First Legion of Ilanrado withdrew to Ilanrado, and the Second Legion also stopped moving south and prepared to return."

"But the Arbroath Legion did not withdraw. It continued to move south and is expected to arrive here in two days."

Leo breathed a sigh of relief. "That means we have to face 6,000 people and an eighth-level knight."

Weier nodded and said, "This legion brought siege equipment, at least thirty carts of spare parts. Roughly speaking, they can be used to assemble five counterweight trebuchets and ten stone crossbows."

After becoming a Pegasus Knight, Weir not only began to learn to read and write, but also received training as a Riverbend officer, gaining a rough understanding of the army's manpower, baggage, and equipment.

In the past, she couldn't even count the 6,000 soldiers in the legion, let alone observe other details.

Leo was not worried about the siege equipment of the cold weapon era. These things were one era behind artillery and were simply unable to deliver projectiles to the city walls where there were artillery batteries.

The cold weapons in this world were superior to his inherent knowledge. Many instruments made of magical materials or enchanted by magic could generate twice the potential energy of conventional weapons. However, such creations were a minority after all and could not be compared with the large-scale and sufficient firearms.

"Well done, keep exploring."

To the north of Ilanrado, the town of Ross where Leo originally stayed had been destroyed by war.

This small town, once home to the abundant Frovald rabbits, has now become a ruin. Groups of orcs and troll warriors are wandering the ruins, searching for supplies worth collecting.

Count Hermann and his knights rode slowly into the town.

Looking at the devastation, Count Hermann couldn't help but look gloomy.

He didn't really care about the lives of civilians, but Ross Town was also one of the settlements in the Earldom of Fruilov, and there were less than twenty towns of this size in the entire Earldom.

Although it was occupied by his second brother Victor, Count Hermann's goal was to take it back.

Instead of destroying!

However, in order to test the combat effectiveness of the alien army, he mistakenly chose to let the alien army serve as the vanguard.

The effect was very good. The orc warriors and troll headhunters equipped with iron armor, despite the firepower of the Ilanrado Legion stationed in Ross Town, approached the city wall with less than 300 casualties.

The three-meter-high city wall could not stop the agile trolls.

Except for the extraordinary ones and the elite ones with heavy armor, few human soldiers can withstand the powerful blows of the orc warriors.

In the past, orc warriors could crush fully armed human regular warriors with stone hammers and wooden clubs. Now they have iron armor, steel two-handed hammers and two-handed battle axes, and can easily suppress the human heavy armored elite infantry.

The battle was decided in less than a morning.

The Ilanrado Legion led by Victor lost more than half of its troops. It abandoned its original garrison and subjects and retreated southward, all the way back to the city of Ilanrado.

After the alien army occupied the town of Ross, they couldn't wait to start the slaughter mode.

By the time Count Hermann arrived, no one in the town was spared.

The masters of Ross Town, the Ross family of the northwest banner of Ilanrado, chose to live and die with the territory. Now the heads of the entire family have been piled up in the square of the town by the alien army.

Many orc warriors and troll warriors spoke with blood in their mouths.

They come from a small tribe in the wilderness and eat any kind of meat to survive.

Although Count Hermann had repeatedly warned the soldiers not to eat human flesh during the military training, these alien warriors were so engrossed in the battle frenzy that they simply could not control their mouths.

Looking at the piles of heads and mutilated corpses, the knights behind Count Hermann felt sad.

A Frovald knight said in a deep voice: "My Lord Earl, what do you want to say?"

This Knight Frowald was a vassal who was clearly opposed to recruiting alien legions, but his voice was suppressed by Count Hermann. Now, seeing this tragic situation, he finally exploded.

Count Hermann was also very uncomfortable, but he could only reluctantly explain, "This is what war is like. Either you die or I die. The foreigners are indeed a bit excessive, but if they don't fight in the front, it will be our men who die."

Knight Frovald sneered, "Really? I would rather die on the battlefield than bear the eternal infamy of leading beasts to eat people."

Count Hermann said coldly: "You don't have to carry me."

Another bannerman who was loyal to the Freilov family did not want to see internal strife, and advised: "The world is in chaos now, so we must take extraordinary measures. The orcs in the north and Beboos in the east are eyeing us covetously. How can we protect our ancestral heritage by ourselves? Even our ally, Earl Beowulf, has some ill intentions."

"We agreed to fight together this time, but up to now, there is not a single person from the Beowulf family's army."

Upon hearing this, Count Herman sneered and said, "Uncle Beowulf has other plans, so you don't have to worry."