Livius indeed saw with his own eyes the troops fighting Three Lions Banner chasing the troops of Li Ang.
Out of some evil thoughts, Livius had no intention of helping Li Ang to rescue him--he actually preferred to see Li Ang killed by the chasing troops...
But when he was about to watch the show, he saw that the army holding Three Lions Banner turned away and stopped chasing. Probably they saw his army of civilians...
Livius was so excited that he quickly asked his subordinates to raise the banner of "Imperial Second Legion".
Then White Deer Fortress's army of about 400 people stopped.
It seems that they were frightened?
And Li Ang's small army went in a circle, quickly came to 'Imperial Second Legion', entered Livius's array, and began to confront White Deer Fortress's troops.
Livius It's a pity that Li Ang didn't die here.
Then he saw thick yellow smoke over White Deer Fortress - it seemed that Lord Fabius had succeeded, White Deer Fortress had been captured!
Livius was excited for a while, and then he led the civilian army and began to slowly advance towards White Deer Fortress.
But then, his smile froze on his face.
Because White Deer Fortress's troops began to march towards him!
Does this mean that the two thousand people on your side have little fighting power?
Yes, it is indeed easy to see from a close distance.
Fortunately, there are about a hundred people Shadow Infantry and Li Ang beside him. There are also about a hundred people under Li Ang. If the two sides work together, they should be able to withstand it for a while.
It won't be long before Lord Fabius will send troops to respond. This place is only a few dozen miles away from White Deer Fortress...
Livius thought.
He didn't worry too much and asked his men around him to form a defensive formation.
Li Ang seems to be very cooperative, and he also spreads his troops to Livius's lineup to assist in defense. It seems to be making up for the shortcomings of Shadow Infantry's single unit being easily targeted.
The current terrain is mountainous, which is very suitable for defense. Two hundred people can defend it for a long time as long as there is no chaos.
As long as we can control those civilians from causing chaos, that's all.
Livius still has a lot of experience in fighting, and he didn't panic at all. He also deliberately asked the civilians to retreat and not join the battle, so as not to disrupt their position.
The civilian husbands were actually not in trouble at all.
Li Ang is 'actively cooperating' with Livius directing the civilian workers to retreat.
It can even be said that Li Ang is directing the civilians to retreat...
"As long as you obey, no one will die. But if anyone dares to run away, I will kill everyone..."
The lord held a makeshift loudspeaker made of rolled leather and shouted.
Since Baron Li Ang, the 'monster general' who was so praised by Bax in the country, is currently on their side, the civilians are not only not afraid, but are also looking forward to how powerful this 'monster general' will be on the battlefield, so they follow the command of Li Ang in an orderly manner and break away from the ranks of combatants to watch the battle from behind.
But a minute later, Livius and the civilian husbands basically collapsed at the same time...
Because, just when Li Ang completed the 'defence' and came to Livius, Livius was about to talk to him, and Li Ang suddenly attacked him!
Whether it was Livius himself or his subordinates, no one expected that Li Ang would make a surprise attack at this time...
And as the lord said "take action", Li Ang deliberately scattered the "helping defense personnel" in the Livius lineup, and all raised their swords to slash at Shadow Infantry, who was the most comfortable next to him...
Half of the hundreds of Shadow Infantry under Livius were killed or injured almost instantly.
White Deer Fortress's troops also rushed into the chaotic battlefield at this time.
Before those two thousand people could turn around and run for their lives, they heard the voice of Li Ang shouting again.
"Everyone stop! I just said, as long as you listen to me, no one will die... But if anyone dares to run, I will kill everyone. You can't outrun the cavalry..."
The Lord is still holding the piece of leather rolled into a trumpet...
Only then did the villagers realize what they meant by what they just shouted.
But now no one really dares to run away. This notorious monster general is said to be the number one swordsman in the mainland. He can kill anyone he wants to kill.
Isn't that right? Wasn't a big shot like Livius, a governor-level figure, easily tied up by him?
Livius is indeed a man with a flexible mind and is very good at adapting to circumstances - he knew that he was no match for Li Ang, so he surrendered again and became a prisoner, with basically no resistance.
And these two thousand civilians were also coerced by Li Ang to go to White Deer Fortress.
Only Li Ang can control these civilians with a small number of people. The reputation of the monster general is actually very useful.
Amy continued south with a force of 400 people to carry out her real mission.
Li Ang's strategies were indeed successful. Amy arrived at Shield Wind Fortress smoothly, and the castle was caught in fire without much effort.
In fact, Amy's mission is the most important - everything is for Amy to set this fire smoothly. Others, including Li Ang, are just a part of this process.
In order to ensure success, the Lord also asked Amy to bring enough manpower to avoid accidents.
However, due to the lord's acting skills and some coincidences, Livius did not leave any manpower at Shield Wind Fortress. Amy easily succeeded in Shield Wind Fortress without encountering any decent obstacles.
There are less than thirty people in Shield Wind Fortress, all of them are servants of Livius.
The governor had just taken office not long ago, and he didn't plan to live in this border fortress for a long time, so he didn't bring any of his family members with him.
When these servants saw Amy's troops approaching, they raised the white flag in the city and surrendered. Amy didn't even have time to verify his musketry skills, and the city gate was already opened...
Amy said when she returned to the army that this mission was too simple and she had no chance to perform.
But in fact, having no opportunity to perform is the best situation!
Lord Lord now feels that many things will suddenly become easy as long as Amy is present...
The same goes for the last time I went to the Bacchus Empire to help Meitengheim people solve the famine problem. Amy was like being protected by Goddess. He got corn and potatoes easily, and even kidnapped an agricultural water conservancy expert...
Think about the musket technology of Amy again - the accuracy of muskets these days really depends on character, the barrel has no rifling, the charge is not fixed, and the trajectory of the spherical lead after being ejected from the chamber will sometimes fly into an S shape!
But Amy was surprised to be able to hit accurately, and he said that he relied on feeling...
If there is such an attribute as 'lucky value', Amy should be at full value, right?
Another guy with very high luck is probably Lord Fabius.
When he entered White Deer Fortress, he stood at the front and faced countless arrows and crossbow bolts, but miraculously he was not shot to death on the spot.
You must know that the more than 300 Shadow Infantry who followed him into the city were basically wiped out in White Deer Fortress. After several rounds of arrows, less than a hundred people surrendered alive.
Of course, Lord Fabius was still seriously injured and his whole body was pricked like a hedgehog, but he was lucky - not a single arrow hit his vital part.
The four hundred people outside the city originally planned to retreat, but they encountered Li Ang who forced two thousand civilians to intercept them. Sir Roland behind White Deer Fortress pursued them with soldiers and horses, and encountered a pincer attack from two sides.
In addition, Owl Knight Order's scouting ability was quite outstanding. These four hundred people were unable to escape and were unable to fight. After losing about a hundred people, Li Ang asked Livius to come forward and order them to surrender.
With the smooth return of Amy, White Deer Fortress will no longer have to face the threat of the Bacchus Empire for a long time.
The only problem is that the prison is not enough - the original prison was converted into a cellar to store potatoes. It is not easy to accommodate more than 400 Shadow Infantry prisoners...
Fortunately, Li Ang's "prestige" is quite effective. Those two thousand people are quite obedient, and the lord can even let them do some work - such as building a new temporary prison.
After cleaning the battlefield, the lord released several injured Shadow Infantry and asked them to return to the Bacchus Empire with a letter written by Livius to demand ransom.
This time, the ransom he demanded was relatively high...
The wholesale price is 150,000 dinars.
Who allowed so many prisoners to be taken this time? This is a 30% discount, which can be called a bargain price.
Moreover, payment is only valid within one month, no waiting will be done if it is overdue!
In terms of retail price, one Shadow Infantry is five hundred dinars, a total of more than four hundred.
Lord Fabius is priced at five thousand dinars.
Livius Well... I'm sorry, the Governor sold it last.
In other words, the Governor will have to stay in prison until others are ransomed.
The lord has always done business on a "voluntary basis" - so Governor Livius voluntarily wrote the letter, asking Shadow Infantry to quickly bring it back to his family to raise money...
As for the two thousand civilians, after the lord knew that they were forcibly recruited by Livius, he had no plans to release them for the time being. He planned to try to see if he could reform them...
These peasants are all descendants of the Pande aboriginal people. They don't even have land in the Bacchus Empire. They are all tenant farmers - Livius would not dare to forcibly recruit people from the Bax ethnic group.
The lord felt that as long as he gave these people a little land, he might be able to have two thousand more young people under his rule, and he might even be able to let them bring their families over...
So, he asked Sir Roland to take these folk husbands to Wheat Fragrance Territory, and asked him to try to persuade these folk husbands to become his subjects.
The main reason why Sir Roland is asked to come forward is because the current image of the lord himself is at the level of 'demon' in the eyes of the common people, and he is probably not friendly enough.
Besides, Li Ang actually thinks this image is good, and it may be useful in the future, so I don't plan to change the character for the time being...
Emperor Marius may not have expected that after he exaggerated the lord into a monster-like and terrifying general, the people of the Bacchus Empire actually developed a strange sense of trust in Li Ang...
Since the monster of the Lion Kingdom is so powerful and no one is his opponent, even the governor was easily captured by him, would it be safer to join him?
Yes, the mentality of ordinary people is so simple...
After all, the life of everyone in the Bacchus Empire seems not to be very good. The governor and general of the empire usually either arrest young men or collect taxes, so they don't have a good life all year round.
On the contrary, this so-called 'Aier County devil' is willing to let them farm, and also provides rations and seeds...
In addition, Sir Roland and a group of old people from Wheat Fragrance Territory showed up to give their own testimony. After learning that this terrible lord never harassed civilians, many civilians were indeed a little tempted.
Within a few days, the lord asked Roland to erect two other statues of Goddess in Wheat Fragrance Territory - the statue of Goddess of Justice was placed next to Goddess of Order, while the statue of Goddess of Harvest Damia was placed in a small open space surrounded by wheat fields.
These three Goddess each represent several different beautiful values created by human beings. It is possible for the citizens to become believers of any of them Goddess.
In fact, in Li Ang's opinion, the best way to prevent your territory from being controlled by religion is to introduce a variety of gods - as long as the doctrines are good and lawful.
When there is only a single god worshiped in a place, fanatics will inevitably appear, such as Dawn Knight Order. And there will definitely be organizations that seek personal gain in the name of religion.
Because this is a monopoly - and it is a monopoly on worldview and ideology, which is more terrifying than a monopoly market.
But in the case of multiple gods, even if religious organizations will be formed, competition between organizations will continue. Just make sure that no one can completely occupy the market. Before completely occupying the market, everyone will only try their best to attract "customers" with various benefits.
Of course, having said that, the Lord placed the statues of Goddess of Justice and Goddess of Harvest mainly because there are already many faiths in the territory.
The statue of Damia actually played a big role. After the statue was completed, some civilians tried to find Sir Roland - they were willing to stay here to farm, but they hoped that Sir Roland would agree to let other people who did not want to stay return to Bax, so that their families could move here.
Roland still didn't know how to deal with it at the time - with his true heart, of course he hoped to meet the requirements of these people.
But he also knows that many Baxian will not come back if they go back. These people are currently considered prisoners, and it depends on Li Ang's opinion whether they should be released...
But what Sir Roland didn't expect was that the lord actually agreed to this request, and also asked Roland to distribute some food as payment for the peasants who planned to go back.
In other words, those who are willing to go back to Bax can go back, and just send a letter to the families of those who stayed in Wheat Fragrance Territory, asking their families to move here.
In order to maintain his character, the lord also added a threat - you can go back if you want, but if you catch them again next time, you will have to kill them all...
As a result, under the prestige of the Monster General, only one third decided to return to Bax.
More than 1,300 people stayed at Wheat Fragrance Territory.
Nearly seven hundred civilians were released and returned to their hometowns. They traveled together without any danger, and soon passed by the camp that Livius had asked them to build before.
But these peasants didn't know that they had just passed by danger - not long after they passed the camp, a team appeared in the forest next to them.
That's a bunch of Noldo Elves.
"Your Highness Isildur, why don't you let us launch an attack? There are many humans in the north who have entered the forest, including that nasty Ebony Gauntlet Knights. And these people in the south have built a camp here. This is obviously that humans are going to launch a full-scale attack on us..."
A Nodo who was dressed almost the same as Risadiran said to another tall Noldo Elves.
The tall Noldo Elves looks extremely heroic - of course, every Noldor looks handsome, but this one looks more elegant.
In other words, there is a kind of nobility.
His whole body was dressed very gorgeously, with various mysterious runes all over his armor, and a huge square-shaped sapphire embedded between the eyebrows of his helmet, which looked like a crown only used by a king.
The arm armor and boots are also silver rune equipment. He wears a special scimitar on his waist, and carries a bow inlaid with gems on his back. The gems are still shining faintly, like a living creature.
Standing next to him were several Noldor knights dressed in silver and white equipment, who looked very extraordinary.
The plate armor on his body looks ancient and mysterious, and the shield, sword, bow and other weapons seem to be better than those of Risadiran - just by looking at them, they feel more lethal.
These are Twilight Knight, the best of the Noldor nobles, and the leader of Noldo Elves's troops.
Powerful knights like them would appear behind others as followers, so the leader would naturally be the great lord Noldo Elves.
"Perhaps humans are indeed going to attack... but those people who just passed by looked like farmers, and we should not attack a group of unarmed people, even if they are our enemies."
The Noldor lord known as Isildur squinted his eyes slightly and spoke a little indifferently, probably thinking about something.
"Your Highness, we should warn these ignorant humans."
One Twilight Knight said.
"If you want to warn humans, you can't kill civilians... Did Lord Aldarian go to the north?"
Isildur shook his head and asked a question.
"Lord Aldarian said he wanted to kill those stupid Ebony Gauntlets. He organized a large army to wipe out the humans who entered the forest from the north."
The name Twilight Knight nodded.
"Since he has gone, we don't have to worry about it. That Ebony Gauntlet Knights should indeed learn a lesson... But I would like to find a human lord to ask, why did humans suddenly attack in large numbers?"
Isildur doesn't seem to be as arrogant as other Noldor, and he probably has a stronger affinity among the Noldor.
"Hmph... what else are humans for? For selfish desires, they will do anything..."
A Noldor shook his head with disdain.
"But this time it looks different. Humans have assembled an army of more than 3,000 people between White Deer Fortress and Brave Shield Fortress... They haven't done this for three hundred years. There must be a reason. I have to find the crux. If we can't coexist peacefully with humans and keep fighting like this, we will eventually become weaker and weaker. We have lost too many tribesmen over the years..."
Isildur sighed, "There are tens of millions of humans, but our clan members are less than ten thousand... We cannot afford to die."
All Twilight Knight were silent.
After a long time, a Twilight Knight finally spoke, "Your Highness, do you still remember the Risadiran who was exiled by you?"