The mighty lord of online games

Chapter 396 Rescue 6
Although there are many desert robbers, as many as locusts on the ground and flies in the toilet, they are still not enough to face the elite infantry of the fourth and fifth ranks of the Kingdom of Swadia.

Especially after Zhang Qiang took over command of the entire army.

In less than half an hour, Zhang Qiang and the others had finished the battle with the desert bandits cleanly.

The low morale caused by the failure of the battle with Viscount Garrard had already been recovered a lot through this battle. The current morale can't be said to be extremely high, but it has reached average.

There is no problem in maintaining such morale and returning to the barracks.

After tidying up, Zhang Qiang took the team that had just defeated the desert bandits, took the spoils, 150 desert horses, and 20 pack horses, and drove to the camp.

But when they arrived at the camp, the camp was already empty, leaving only a mess.

Zhang Qiang had no choice but to send scouts to reconnaissance, and camped in the same place. Fortunately, there were spoils captured by the desert robbers, otherwise Zhang Qiang's team had to lie down wrapped in coats and clothes.

Yatiman and the others left in a hurry and did not bring any logistics supplies.

In the evening, the scout cavalry sent back news, a shocking news, Earl Reyes and the Rhodoks army fought under the castle of Fort Garmick.

Zhang Qiang didn't know what to do now.

The morale of my soldiers is not very high. In general, marching is okay, but fighting, fighting two small battles, maybe it’s okay. If you participate in the battle with the Rhodoks army, they have Fort Garmichi to rely on, supplies and so on There is no shortage, Earl Reyes and the others still have to go to Sharez to purchase supplies from nearby villages. Even if they retreat to the kingdom of Salander, with the current strength of Sultan Hakim, they cannot stop the Rhodoks army. If the Rhodoks were to attack Shariz, even Sultan Hakim would have to run with his men.

The Rhodok army did not suffer much loss. Basically, the battles with the Kingdom of Swadia were medium-intensity battles. There has never been a big scene like a large army meeting a large army. Moreover, the hinterland of the family, the city of Aaron, and even the city of Jelka Lacheng didn't suffer much loss, and its strength was still there, but Salander's army had already been destroyed.

Sultan Hakim is now recovering his strength. He has gathered his loyal lords and recruited soldiers to prepare to fight against the New Sarande Sultanate. He will definitely not fight the Rhodok Kingdom again at this time.

A large army of one country fights against the coalition of two earls. In terms of quantity, the coalition of earls must suffer. In terms of quality, you can't compare with others. If you don't have a good commander and a good strategy, you must be defeated.

Therefore, Zhang Qiang could only stay in the Kingdom of Sarande, and marched towards Sharitz, hiding in the city of Sharitz.

Self-cultivation.

He also needs rest.

From time to time, battle reports came from the scouts.

In the first battle, the Earls of Reyes and Montville surrounded Fort Garmitch.

There are 800 garrisons in Fort Garmitch. After suffering a loss, Earl Plais kept the garrison in the city to a large number. [-] garrisons, although there are more than [-] cannon fodder soldiers, but holding a crossbow, even a farmer Standing on the city wall, with the protection of the city wall, it also has certain combat effectiveness.

There are many things to do in the siege, and it cannot be done in a while.

First of all, we must manufacture siege equipment, then survey the terrain, and finally send some troops to test the enemy's defensive strength, find weak defenses, and then the infantry will cover the siege equipment and enter the field. After all, the enemy's scout cavalry It can cause damage to you and interfere with your approach. After a struggle, the enemy retreats into the city, pulls up the drawbridge, and closes the city gate. You have to fill the moat, and then push the siege equipment to the wall.

Put the siege vehicle springboard on the top of the city wall.

The trebuchets suppressed the enemy's watchtowers and crossbow arrows on the arrow tower, and the bed crossbows on the city wall, trebuchets, and finally the infantry climbed the wall... .

After all this was done, Earl Reyes and Earl Montville stood behind, urging their barons and viscounts to send out elite soldiers to follow the previous cannon fodder troops to attack the city.

According to the information Zhang Qiang got, Earl Reyes and the others had just reached this point after he finished fighting the desert bandits.

By the time he set up camp in the camp and waited for news, Earl Reyes and the others had already fought desperately with the enemy on the top of the city.

But they were beaten down by the enemy, and more than 1000 cannon fodder soldiers were wiped out by the enemy.

Similarly, there were also a lot of cannon fodder and some elites on the enemy's wall. The two sides took a rest, repaired each other's defense lines, replenished their troops, and then attacked again.

In the second attack, the troops led by Viscount Rogerson smashed the jack gate on the gate of Fort Garmitch with heavy casualties, opened the gate, and then they found that the gate was blocked by rocks.

Viscount Rogerson had no choice but to weep and continue to send people forward, braving the rolling logs, rocks, hot oil, and crossbow arrows on the enemy's gate tower to clean up the chaotic rocks.

On the other side, the barons and viscounts under Earl Reyes attacked the wall where the enemy Viscount Rogerson attacked the city gate.

The viscounts of the Earl of Montville laid siege to the remaining three walls.

The [-] troops of the two viscounts stood still, consuming the troops of the lord below.

And Zhang Qiang's remaining infantry and elite cavalry units led by our Earl Varisian were responsible for the attack on one city wall and three walls. Their wall was the most violent, and it was the real main direction to attract the enemy to join the troops.

Behind them was the direct troops of the Earl of Montville, and they sent hundreds of cannon fodder soldiers as cover.

Hearing that the two earls used his troops as the main attack, Zhang Qiang's heart was bleeding. It was an elite army that he spent a lot of money to build, and it was wasted on the city wall.

I couldn't help but feel good feelings towards the two earls.

In Sharitz, Zhang Qiang ran all over the taverns and inns, waving the million dinar gold coins in his ring, recruiting troops, and the two earls used his elite troops in this way. When there were 200 people, he had no hope of staying in the barracks, and now the [-] elite troops led by Earl Varixien had no hope.

After this battle, even if he wins, he doesn't have to think about how many of his two hundred elites will be left.

Even if the enemy sends out one hundred elites to resist the two hundred elites, then as an offensive and defensive battle, the attacking side will basically have a casualty ratio that will not be too small.

So even if the mercenary's loyalty is not high, the cost is extremely high, and although the combat ability is high, but they can only fight against the wind, he has to hold his nose and admit it, and quickly recruit enough troops to supplement his viscount status.

Although the overall combat capability has declined, making up for it with quantity is the best way Zhang Qiang can think of at the moment.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Qiang, who had been running for a long time, fell asleep in a daze where he had landed in Sharitz.

I don't know when I was shaken awake.

It was Rolf, Yatiman, and An Jianhui.

"What's going on?" Zhang Qiang asked wearily.

After running for a long time, Zhang Qiang has only recruited more than 200 mercenaries so far.

The strength of the army has recovered to more than 350, but the overall combat effectiveness has not increased much. Since his relationship with Sharize is not very high, they still treat themselves as strangers. Therefore, they can recruit either homeless people, refugees, or farmers , Thief, a limited number of dozens of hired sentries, hunters, adventurers, and a few hired riders.

This bunch of people is a bunch of cannon fodder soldiers.

Yatiman said anxiously: "My lord, Earl Reyes and his son were defeated. After they were surrounded by the Rhodok army in the first half of the night, they fought hard to break through. At present, only five hundred elites are fleeing towards Uruzdak. Go, the other thousands of soldiers except Earl Varicion's more than 100 people took down Fort Garmitch, and after being surrounded by the Rhodoks army in the castle, everyone else was scattered."

Rolf said: "That's right, there are hundreds of deserters and remnants of defeated soldiers scattered around the entire Fort Garmitch, and the Rhodoks are spreading out to collect them. The Duke army left Earl Plais's army behind, and the others followed Earl Reis and his troops towards our territory, judging from their situation, it seems that they want to take the opportunity to take our territory."

Zhang Qiang got up, put on his armor, and asked, "How did the Kingdom of Swadia respond, or did they make any progress in the battle against the Kingdom of Rhodok?"

Rolf said: "According to the news I heard from Sharitz during the day, Earl Getlas is leading several of his lords to besiege Earl Getlas and Cunha of the Rhodok Kingdom in Twarinburg. The earl's army, Earl Glenward, is resting in Fort Agorron, and the rest of the lords have not received the call-up order of Earl Starmar Marshal, and are patrolling around their territory. It seems that although the Kingdom of Swadia is still Being at war with the Rhodok Kingdom is actually equivalent to being in a semi-peaceful period, because no bigger battles broke out."

Zhang Qiang rubbed his forehead, "Is there any good news?"

Rolf shrugged his shoulders, Zhang Qiang closed his eyes, Earl Plais, one hundred elite soldiers in his hand are facing more than 1000 soldiers of the opponent, and there are at least two hundred to three hundred elite soldiers among them. This is still the past few days Earl Plais suffered heavy losses, otherwise, at least [-] to [-] elites will come out, how to fight?
Yatiman rolled his eyes, "It's not without good news, you sent someone to Earl Aguer to send a letter earlier, and he wrote back that at most tomorrow morning, he will bring his newly recruited troops, About [-] people came to Sharuez City."

Earl Aguer, Zhang Qiang remembers that he gave him a lot of funds earlier, and he also took care of a village territory for himself. Although part of the tax has to be paid to him, there is still a large part left for him to support a group of ordinary troops. , is enough, a farmer is nothing more than a few dozen copper coins.

During these days, he has probably recruited many elite soldiers with the hundreds of thousands of gold coins he gave him.

If Count Aguer's 600 people are added, although the overall combat effectiveness is still not as good as that of Earl Plais's army.

But Earl Plais first traveled long distances with the Rhodok army, and then fought with Earl Reyes and the others. In his opinion, the elite troops led by Earl Varithien inside had at least a [-]% chance of defeating him.

At least he can be expelled.

However, Earl Aguer will not arrive until tomorrow morning. During this time, Earl Varisien, who has been exhausted by the siege, faced Earl Plais's siege troops, although he had several hours of siege equipment preparations. Time, but once the city is sieged, that is, in an hour or two, Fort Gamic can be taken, so he has to find something to do.

Rolf, Yatiman, each of you bring a few knights and servants, and a few cavalry to harass the enemy, wipe out the enemy's scout cavalry, or bring them to the rear, An Jianhui, Yan Fuxi, you take Xuanyuan Long Fei, White Bread, [-] knights, and [-] elite archers, go to help Rolf and Yatiman, eat the enemy scout cavalry they lured over, eat up the small troops, if possible, burn Drop the enemy's siege equipment that is being built, and delay the enemy's equipment preparation time.

After dispatching these people, Zhang Qiang continued to collect soldiers in the city of Sharuiz.

This job is difficult, and he has nothing to do with Sharize City.

That is to say, people in the city have heard of him, but they are still a stranger in real contact. In addition, because he secretly took in Chief Varishen, his relationship with the city has not been very good. Hakim Sultan The relationship also declined somewhat.

Despite his efforts, not many high ranking soldiers wanted to join him.

After running for a whole morning, he only recruited [-] caravan guards again. Due to the decline of business, many caravan guards lost their jobs and had to join his army.

Seeing that there was no further progress, Zhang Qiang rushed out of Sharuiz City with more than 100 original soldiers, found a place, and continued to practice his logging skills.

After practicing in the afternoon, by the evening, his logging skill had actually risen to level 20, and his logging proficiency had reached an astonishing 100 million.

His individual weapon proficiency has risen to D+ level, and the number of two-handed weapons has also risen to F level.

When he was free, he also practiced spear sprinting. Of course, he practiced spear sprinting in the desert with those desert robbers.

There are 20 elite soldiers for protection, and more than [-] recruited cannon fodder soldiers to increase the number. The general size is [-] or [-]. The forty or fifty desert bandits and outlaw troops really dare not confront him. They run away when they see it. , He chased for dozens of miles in one breath, and killed the nearby desert robbers who were crying for their fathers and mothers, and the outlaws near the city of Sharuiz were all wiped out by him.

It is no longer possible to gather troops of more than a hundred people.

When he returned to the city, he unexpectedly met the mayor of Sharitz City who visited him and made him an honorary citizen, thanking him for his contribution to the commercial prosperity of the city of Sharitz.

The desert robbers have been cleared, and those caravans can finally go out of the city to trade with cities in other places.

Zhang Qiang walked into one of the largest taverns wearily, threw down a thousand gold coins, and said to the tavern owner, "Give me a drink for every guest who drinks here, and let them drink with their stomachs open today. The money for the wine is mine. This is enough not enough?"

The owner of the tavern widened his eyes, respectfully, and said flatteringly, "Enough, enough, one thousand gold coins is enough for them to get drunk."

"Hahaha!"

Zhang Qiang laughed painfully.

As soon as the tavern owner announced the news, all the tavern guests immediately greeted Zhang Qiang with appreciation.

The tavern owner said: "Money is such a good thing. It can buy people's goodwill towards you. I think within a day, your reputation of generosity and righteousness will spread throughout the city of Sharitz, and people will thank you. friendly."

The game ring prompts, "Your relationship with Sharize has been raised to 1, people know you, and expect you to do better."

Zhang Qiang picked up a glass of wine from the tavern owner's counter, raised his head and drank it all, and bowed to everyone, which attracted unanimous praise from everyone.

(End of this chapter)