Chapter 827: Dreta, You Are a Pig
The cold wind after the snow melted blew over the spire of the castle tower, waving a gold-embroidered flag.

On the flag, half is the guard bee of the Blue Bee family, and the other half is a kite-shaped shield.

Near the castle, tents and wooden houses were set up. In the reeds by the stream and the bushes beside it, countless laborers and soldiers were chopping wood and fetching water.

At this moment, in the knight’s hall at the core of the castle, an extremely suppressed war roar was heard.

“Ahhhhhhhh Dreta you are, you are just a stupid pig!”

Looking at the front-line battle report sent to him, no matter how well-mannered Laffer was, he couldn’t help but tear it to pieces with gritted teeth.

Rafele gathered a pile of shredded paper in his hand, crumpled it into a ball, and threw the ball of paper into the fire as if punching Dreta in the face.

Facing the battle report engulfed by flames, Lavle seemed to be shouting at Dreta from a distance: “Twenty thousand people were fighting against five thousand and were killed in return. Will there be a war?!”

Looking at the paper burning in the stove, only one royal priest couldn’t help but stick his head out to take a look.

The rest of the generals looked at each other, not daring to speak.

The hall supported by pillars is filled with the leading figures of the Kingdom of Leia.

Just from the clothing alone, they are incomparable to those ordinary businessmen.

Those wearing black silk robes, ruff collars like collars around their necks, and red and white plaid woolen trousers were all fashionable aristocratic attire.

If it were the Constitutional Hall, at first glance it would be filled with farmer’s hoods, padded jackets, waistcoats and Thousand River Valley clogs.

I don’t know, I thought I entered some guild hall.

But it was this army composed of farmers, craftsmen, urban poor and petty citizens that almost annihilated his army of nearly 20,000 people.

Raffl still can’t believe that the word was “encirclement and annihilation” instead of “defeat”.

Defeat means retreat and loss of important strongholds, but at least the troops are still there and can be put into battle after taking some time to reorganize.

Encirclement and annihilation means the complete loss of military strength.

At first, there were 23,000 troops on the direction of Adam Fort, and 20,000 troops when the troops were sent to Malenbo. The garrison of Adam Fort was 3,000.

After the Battle of Malenbo, two thousand of the Duke of Wing Nest’s troops broke through and escaped, and more than three thousand remnants escaped, died or went missing one after another.

The remaining 17,000-plus people surrendered to the Qianhe Valley people in an organized manner, even including two imperial command companies.

According to the accounts of the remaining soldiers, the infantry managed to resist for a while, but when the Imperial Command Company saw the fall of Adam Castle, they turned around and surrendered to the people of Qianhe Valley.

The Imperial Order Company, they didn’t even fight a hard battle, but they surrendered just like that?

Raffl really missed Prince Condé.

“This decree is too much. They eat the royal food and wages, but surrendered without much fighting!” A noble of Thorn Garden stood up and shouted indignantly.

In the Kingdom’s army, a noble from Heshang Island immediately stood up to defend himself: “Could it be that Dreta didn’t surrender? Could it be that the Imperial Order Company could defeat a hundred with one?”

Although the relevant battle reports from the front line were burned by Lavle in anger, an attendant still came forward to explain them to the dignitaries.

For a moment, the hall seemed to be in an uproar, with chattering sounds everywhere.

After capturing Xialu City, they had finally gathered and reviewed more than 60,000 people, but 20,000 of them were gone just after they arrived.

This is equivalent to the Osra family’s coalition forces providing support in vain, which is equivalent to no support at all.

Not only was the loss of manpower severe, the loss of civilians was equally severe.

Previously, there were nearly 30,000 military laborers near Fort Adan, some of whom were locals and some were drawn from all over Leia.

After the battle, all the prisoners, whether local or from other places, were sent to the rear as prisoners of war.

Damn it, the plan was going well, what went wrong?

Laffer had made a contingency plan. If they really forced their troops to support Castle Adam, there would definitely be weak points in their forces.

He could just attack that weak point, and although the effect wouldn’t be as good as breaking through Haji Castle, he wouldn’t have lost like this.

But the problem is that there are no abnormalities or weak points in the remaining fortresses.

They couldn’t use those 10,000 mountain knights because of illness and political reasons.

Even if Horn’s guards were deployed and another army was hired, it would never exceed 30,000 men.

Even among these 30,000 people, 5,000 to 6,000 were still in Upper River County, under the command of Andre to deal with the Stonewall Army. The Haji Fort-Adan Fort defense line had 5,000 field troops and 2,000 defenders.

It was outrageous enough that they had an army of more than 30,000 people in a place with less than 5 million people.

After much calculation, Laffer figured out that Horn would have to use 17,000 men to deal with their 40,000.

According to the battle report, during this period, he was able to squeeze out 5,000 people to attack Adam Castle.

This means that there are only 12,000 people on the remaining defense lines. They used 12,000 people to defend against 40,000 people, and have not revealed any loopholes or weaknesses?
Where did the army that captured Adam Castle in three days come from?
Could it be that the Franks were doomed? Lavr’s anger gradually faded and turned into a solemn expression.

Suddenly, he seemed to catch something from the noisy crowd.

Lavle called out a name: “What did you just say was the reason why the Imperial Order Company surrendered?”

The man was a little-known knight. He smiled and said, “This is just gossip from merchants. I’m not sure.”

“You said, I don’t blame you.”

After receiving Laffer’s reply, the little knight who was known to have a stink of money dared to stand up.

“I heard from the merchants that the people of Qianhe Valley signed an agreement with Faran called the Noble Prisoner Guarantee Agreement.

The content is roughly that in this war, the Leia nobles captured by the Qianhe Valley people will be sent to the Fran Kingdom.

The Kingdom of France would send supplies and gold pounds to the Thousand River Valley in real time based on two-thirds or half of the nobles’ ransom.

After the war is over, the Franks will demand a full ransom from us Leia people for these nobles.

In this way, on the one hand, the nobles of Leia will not be abused by the farmers who hate the nobles, and on the other hand, the people of Qianhe Valley will not have to worry about the ransom and resettlement of the nobles. “

Raffl fell silent. The knight had something else to say, but he knew what it was.

If the war is lost, the noble prisoners captured in the war will definitely be slaughtered by the peasants in the final stage.

Only if the war is won will the noble prisoners of war be worth ransom.

For Qianhe Valley, this protocol can convert the value of nobles into materials in real time.

For the Leia prisoners, this agreement would prevent them from being massacred after their defeat at Thousand Valley.

For the Franks, not to mention the profits from buying low and selling high, just the value of these Leia elites among the nobles, if they can be subdued, is no less than the value of their ransom.

This is obviously a win-win agreement for all three parties. No wonder the Imperial Guard was willing to surrender.

I just happened to get out of this muddy water. If I’m lucky, I might even be recruited by the King of France.

The people of Thousand Valley cannot tolerate noble knights, but the Franks can.

The nobles of honor were actually being sold like commodities, and could even be bought at a low price and sold at a high price.

This is really…

Lavle was speechless for a moment. He looked up and found that the nobles below all had thoughtful and even surprised expressions.

“Bang bang bang!”

Raffl tapped the armrests of the chairs three times to wake the nobles from their reverie.

“Losing a fight is a matter of ability, and can be forgiven.” Lavle warned them, “But attitude is unforgivable. Don’t forget, you are Leia people after all.”

After subduing these Leia nobles, Lavle turned to the main topic: “Next, the enemy’s strength is not much different from ours, and the offensive cannot continue. What suggestions do you have?”

The previously noisy hall suddenly became quiet, and then there were louder and louder shouts.

“I suggested defending the camp. Isn’t that just defending the camp? If that crazy pope can defend the camp, then we can do the same!”

“Not right. We should take advantage of their unstable foothold to retake Adam Castle.”

“We should reduce our forces and leave the fortress to the people of Qianhe Valley, which will inevitably dilute our forces!”

“Let’s wait until King Jinigis arrives. Otherwise, with 40,000 of us, we are no match for their 30,000.”

Looking at the quarreling nobles, Lavle held his forehead with his hand helplessly.

(End of this chapter)