king of the castle

Chapter 369 Mopping Up

Yinhai Oasis, located in the northeast of the Dry Water Desert, is the largest oasis in a vast area. 【】Several underground rivers converge here, and the underground rivers bring the meltwater from the top of the snow-capped mountains far away to here, and then integrate into a huge lake.

This lake is unfathomably deep, even under the blazing desert sun, the lake water is icy cold, even at the hottest noon, no one dares to swim in the depths of the lake, if they do that, they will soon be frozen.

I don't know what is at the bottom of the lake. When the noon sun shines directly on the big lake, the entire lake will reflect silver light, becoming a famous spectacle in the dry desert.People in the desert have no chance to see the sea in their entire lives, so they are used to calling the waters with a slightly larger area "sea", and this large lake is therefore called "Silver Sea".The oasis by the lake naturally has the name of "Silver Sea Oasis".

Yinhai Oasis has always been the strongest nearby relying on sufficient water sources.This time the Kingdom was going to send troops to attack the Thorne Kingdom, and Silver Sea Oasis sent a whole legion of front-line soldiers.These soldiers are all brave and good at fighting, and they got back a lot of spoils in the previous battles, which made the whole oasis very satisfied.

Information transmission in the desert was not smooth, and the people in Silver Sea Oasis knew nothing about the successive disappearances of supply teams and even the destruction of the entire army.They are still dreaming that their army will be invincible in Thorne Kingdom and get back more loot.

So when Roger led a large army to appear near the Silver Sea Oasis, it immediately caused a commotion.The army dressed up as obviously not belonging to the desert kingdom approached the oasis unhurriedly, and all the residents on the oasis were puzzled: Didn't it mean that the battle on the front line was winning every victory?Where did these soldiers come from?Could it be the surrendered soldiers of Thorn Kingdom?

Just when everyone was in doubt, Roger had already led the soldiers close to the oasis.

"Stop! This is the Silver Sea oasis of the Holy Mkai Empire, and foreign troops are not allowed to enter without permission!" A sentry with a dull mind stopped in front of Roger and shouted: "Report your background, or don't blame me for being rude! "

Maybe the sentry thought it would be a good thing to single-handedly stop so many soldiers in front of other people in the oasis; He shook his prestige in front of him; it is also possible that the sentry was simply in a bad mood, so no matter who came, he would find trouble for others.

But no one had a chance to know the real reason for the Sentinel's fury.Roger gave the other party a funny look, then raised his hand and made a gesture that no outsider could understand.

Before Roger could let go of his hand, the crossbowman behind him had already started to move.A whole group of crossbowmen attacked the sentry in unison, and hundreds of arrows shot at the target almost simultaneously, turning this guy into a hedgehog in an instant.

The huge impact knocked the body of the sentinel back several steps before falling to the ground slumped.Even though he was dead, the sentinel didn't fall down, but leaned on the ground in a strange posture, and a large number of arrows supported his body, so there was such a strange way of death.

The sentinel's encounter succinctly and clearly stated Roger's intentions, and the oasis residents who had been watching suspiciously before immediately fell into chaos.

Some people fled home in fear, slammed the door and added a bolt, as if this would protect their own safety.However, the panicked ones obviously didn't expect that it would not be difficult for thousands of soldiers to turn the entire oasis into ruins. What's the use of hiding in a simple house?

Some oasis residents obviously thought of this, and hurriedly rode various livestock sand beasts, horses, mules and even cattle, and fled out of the oasis in a panic.Although they could temporarily avoid losing their lives by doing this, if Roger's soldiers stayed in the Silver Sea Oasis for more than three days, these guys who were so busy running for their lives without even bringing any water with them would all die in the desert.And compared to being killed cleanly by the army, dying of thirst in the desert is undoubtedly slower and more painful.

Roger was completely unmoved by the reactions of these oasis residents. He just issued various orders on his own so that his soldiers could control the entire oasis.The scale of this oasis is very large, and there are tens of thousands of residents alone. It is not easy to quickly control all of them.Thanks to the rudimentary intelligence of the soldiers under Roger, they are much more flexible in executing orders, and can make decisions on many details, saving him a lot of trouble.This situation also made Roger a little relieved. If every soldier's every move needs to be controlled by him, it won't take long for Roger's brain to crash due to the heavy burden.

Under Roger's order, the soldiers gathered all the residents of the oasis in an open space, including those who hid in their homes and dared not go out.After the house was surrounded by burly troops and the thin door panels were knocked loudly, most people wisely chose to open the door and surrender.

Of course, there are also a few stubborn guys who feel that their humble residence is more impenetrable than a castle made of stone. No matter how loudly the soldiers outside knock on the door, these people just won't come out.The consequences of daring to disobey Roger were serious. These guys who thought their houses were indestructible before soon found out that they were wrong. In a blink of an eye, they had no houses.

The strong soldiers used violent means to tear down these guys' houses into ruins, exposing the original owners who thought they were safe to the crowd in an instant, and then dragged into the crowd by the soldiers.Of course, some casualties were also caused during the demolition process, such as the collapsed house killed the owner, and the residents who lost the house became furious and tried to resist, and the result was chopped into meat sauce without any accidents.However, Roger had long been determined to kill anyone who dared to resist, so these things did not affect his mood. Compared with what these desert peoples did in Seiya County, Roger is now very clear.

With the hard work of the soldiers, the residents of Yinhai Oasis were quickly gathered together, even those who tried to escape from the oasis were no exception.Under the surveillance of dozens of griffins in the sky, anyone who wanted to escape had only two choices: go back as a prisoner or be torn to pieces.

"I'm Viscount Roger Lee of the Thorn Kingdom." Facing the tens of thousands of panicked desert residents, Roger said in a casual tone: "I'm here to...sweep!"