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Chapter 891 Surrender and Search

After resting for about 3 minutes, the fatigue level was almost recovered, and Yun Xiaohan led the troops to continue to set off.Because he didn't know the terrain and the location of the enemy's town, Yun Xiaohan still sent a large number of Red Shirt Army teams as scout teams to investigate as before.

After traveling northward for about half a minute, the Red Shirt Army team received news that a city named "Lerov" was found not far to the northwest.

After Yun Xiaohan received the news, he immediately asked Garibaldi to lead the troops to turn and head towards Lerov City.

It took about 2 minutes for Yun Xiaohan to arrive at Lerov City.The city of Lerov is much smaller than the city of Cassis, and its population is estimated to be just over 5000 people. Such a small city cannot gather a full 5000 people.Obviously, these [-] people were gathered together from multiple towns, and it is likely that the only troops in the city were concentrated.

Yun Xiaohan launched an attack on Lerov City without hesitation. Although Yun Xiaohan's troops did not carry heavy siege weapons, they still carried a lot of simple siege ladders, not to mention that the manufacturing process of the ladders is very simple. The required materials are only the lowest grade of wood, as long as there are trees nearby, there is no fear of running out of materials, so even temporary manufacturing does not take much time.

But something unexpected happened. Before Yun Xiaohan's troops climbed up the city wall, Lerov City took the initiative to open the gate.It turned out that there were no defenders in the city of Lerov at this time. There were only less than a hundred militiamen, and these militiamen had no combat effectiveness at all.Since they definitely couldn't keep it, the seven nobles in the city were considered sensible and chose to surrender on their own initiative.

Now that the other party has surrendered, Yun Xiaohan didn't take it too seriously, he spared the few nobles who voluntarily surrendered, and did not extort ransom, but only asked them to return to their mansion and not to come out.But Yun Xiaohan will also send people to search their mansion. They can not move their personal belongings, but they will take away military supplies.In addition, if materials temporarily transferred from the warehouse in the city are found in the mansion, then the nobles who transferred the materials will be in bad luck, because those materials are already the spoils of the imperial army, so if they have already transferred the materials, it is better to be honest. He does not pursue responsibility, but if he is found out, he must bear the consequences of deceiving the empire.

Hearing what Yun Xiaohan said, two noble families immediately confessed, while the other five noble families did not respond.Three of the five nobles did not transfer supplies, but the other two tried to get away with it, but the Red Shirts can be regarded as the top scout troops, and Garibaldi presided over the search. The transferred materials could not be concealed at all, and he tried to bribe Garibaldi but was rejected by him. As a result, the mansion was completely ransacked by Yun Xiaohan, and the members of these two families would also be taken back to Cagliari as prisoners of war.

This move of Yun Xiaohan seems a bit excessive, but in fact it is reasonable and restrained. He has read a lot of books in the library, many of which are about the rules of the nobility.

For the nobles on the continent of Yar, defeat and surrender in the war are not a big mistake. Everyone has their own masters on the battlefield, and victory and defeat are very common. No one is always victorious. It's just that the ability is insufficient, and the winner can't guarantee that he will not be unlucky in the future, so some rules that everyone defaults to must be followed.But if you deliberately deceive after surrendering, you are actively violating the unspoken rules among nobles. Since you have already violated, the victim will naturally no longer need to talk about the rules, so Yun Xiaohan is still acting within the rules now. , and will not arouse the disgust of the entire aristocratic society.

The city of Lerov is very small, and naturally there are not many supplies. Basically, the transport fleet in those villages can evacuate all the supplies in just one or two trips. It is estimated that Lerov City only needs four trips. Because Yun Xiaohan robbed a lot of extra supplies in the process of looting the two nobles, otherwise, it is estimated that three trips would be enough.

However, Lerov City is not near the sea, so Yun Xiaohan needs to use a truck to pull all the supplies to the villages and towns near the sea.After thinking about it, he decided to take the supplies to Cassis City. Although this would delay the completion of Cassis City's transportation, Cassis City is also more secure in terms of safety, unlike those villages that basically It is undefended. More importantly, Cassis City has more manpower, and the voyage from Cagliari City is the shortest. There are also more ships that can berth at the dock at the same time, which can significantly speed up the efficiency of material transfer.

But in order to get the goods to go to Cassis City, Yun Xiaohan had to allocate 500 more troops. At this time, he only had 6700 troops left, and it would take a while for the 2000 prisoners to return to Cassis City. time to return.Fortunately, after killing those 5000 people, it was difficult to gather more troops to fight back in this area in a short time.

Of course, as far as the entire Masset area is concerned, there is still a certain amount of troops. After all, the 15 people cannot be all the troops in the entire Masset area. The local nobles in the town also have selfish intentions, and no one is willing to risk their own damage to send out their only troops in order to rescue other towns. Besides, the lords in the Marset area have basically gone out with the army, and there is no real talk in the territory. People, they have plenty of excuses not to send troops.

This is naturally a great benefit for Yun Xiaohan. He seized the time to capture seven villages and two cities. These towns were the towns where 5000 people were gathered together before, so there were basically no defenders left. , all in one go, or simply surrendered to Yun Xiaohan directly.

However, the continuous capture of towns made Yun Xiaohan have to continuously allocate troops to escort supplies and prisoners back to Cassis City. Even if it is possible to hire civilians to help with transportation, Yun Xiaohan still has fewer and fewer available troops.More importantly, the next towns no longer lacked defenders like the previous batch of towns.

Attacking the village is not difficult for Yun Xiaohan, and the loss is extremely low. After all, under the command of Morris, they have a range advantage. The village defenders cannot hit them, but they can hit the village defenders.

But the siege does not have this advantage. After all, with the city wall, there is a disadvantage of height difference. In addition, there are generally defensive weapons such as crossbows and magic crystal cannons in the city, so as long as the defender has a certain degree of defense Without an army and enough will to resist, it is difficult to avoid losses during the siege process, and usually the losses will not be small.More importantly, once the defenders resolutely resist, it will be a lot of trouble to occupy the city. Just attacking the city wall will not be able to take down the city, and street fighting will be required. You must either occupy enough facilities in the city or wipe out the enemy army. This is undoubtedly a waste of time. plenty of time.

(End of this chapter)