The dwarves suffered losses in the Dragon's Back Mountains, and later had to give up their plan to invade the Western Territory and instead attack the Golden Valley.
They relied on surprise and won several battles in the beginning. However, when the nobles in the Golden Valley reacted, under the leadership of the Campbell family, they quickly gave the dwarves a head-on attack.
The two sides started a fierce battle in the Long Neck River area, and the nobles of the Golden Valley gradually gained the upper hand, but as the Penlos family also fell to Solomon.
They set out from the Elk Valley and marched all the way. Finally, they were caught between the dwarves on the other side of the river and the local soldiers.
The nobles in the Golden Valley persisted for four days despite an extremely unfavorable situation, and were finally completely defeated in the early morning of the fifth day.
Duke Theodore, the head of the Campbell family, was captured and taken to Lionheart Castle, where he was soon executed on the order of Solomon.
As a vassal of the Campbell family, Wilder also participated in the tragic battle by the Long Neck River, survived, and returned to his territory with more than 20 remaining cavalry.
Wilder knew that the Golden Valley could not be saved after losing this battle, so he posted a notice in the city, telling the residents of the city that the Wing tribe and their allies were coming, and asked everyone to evacuate quickly.
And he himself rushed to the green field with the remaining men to join his granddaughter.
During this period of time, Wilder has been following the female lord on various expeditions. This short-statured nobleman from the Golden Valley with warts on his eyes is very brave during battles and often rushes to the front with his battle ax.
He also competed with the nobles in the Western Region to see who could kill the most enemies. In just half a month, he won the respect of many people.
In addition, everyone made an oath together to resist the invasion of the Yi tribe and watch each other.
At present, everyone has taken back their own land one after another, and only Wilder is left. Therefore, when Miss Rabbit announced that she planned to lead her army to march eastward and attack Cape Plenty, no one objected.
Although many people are already eager to return home and want to return to their own territories to count their losses and resume production.
But Ilea relied on the reputation she had accumulated during this period to convince everyone to accept this expedition. Moreover, the Cape of Plenty was not far away, just on the edge of the Western Border.
It's less than seven days' journey from Songshi Castle, and it won't take much time to go there. I just don't know what the current situation is in the city.
Due to the limited number of radio stations at hand, Li Yu could not equip every town with them. Wilder, the city lord of Corner of Plenty, was half his own, so any news would be conveyed to him, so Li Yu did not deploy additional intelligence officers there.
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According to Tristan and other prisoners, there were probably less than two thousand defenders left in the city when they left, but Solomon had issued orders to many of his allies.
They were asked to participate in the war against the Western Territory. Some of them were far away and arrived late. Solomon was not willing to wait any longer, so he took the 80,000 men on hand to go to war first.
Those who came later were asked to assemble at Cornucopia and wait for his orders later.
After such a long time, it is estimated that there should be at least 20,000 to 30,000 people in the city. If there are more, there may even be 40,000 to 50,000 people.
The female lord couldn't help but frown. She now had only 30,000 people at her disposal, and it was the result of accepting many nobles like Perls who came to seek refuge.
There is no way, the newly recovered land also needs manpower to rebuild and maintain order.
The good news is that she still has a dragon on hand, and six more Italian cannons have been sent from the gun factory.
There are now thirty-three Italian cannons in the girl's hands. When they fire together, the power is amazing, and it feels like the whole earth is shaking.
Ilea thought for a while and felt that there was no use just thinking about it here. It was better to go to the city of Cornucopia first.
Wilder was also very excited when he heard that the female lord planned to help him regain the territory. He had already taken the lead with less than a hundred soldiers under his command and went to investigate the enemy's situation.
Ilea set out in the afternoon of the next day, and the journey went smoothly. Although there were many more robbers and bandits during this period, as well as some previously defeated troops, they only dared to rob some farmers and small caravans.
When they saw the huge army, they wanted to hide as far away as possible, and there was no way they could rush up eagerly.
After leaving the Western Territory and entering the Golden Valley, Ilea slowed down her marching speed a little. At the same time, she also observed the surrounding villages and found that those villages looked even more dilapidated than those in the Western Territory.
You must know that the Golden Valley was previously known as the granary of the empire. The land here was extremely fertile and the climate was very suitable for crop growth.
The Campbell family was so rich that even the emperor asked them to borrow money. However, their wealth eventually brought disaster to them.
After those invaders invaded this land, the first thing they did was to burn, kill, and loot, not even a small village being spared.
Moreover, many of the allies summoned by Solomon later were not clean, and they also looted and robbed along the way.
After all, everyone knows that Jingudi is rich, and even if they come late, they still want to get a piece of the pie.
So it became what Miss Rabbit sees now.
When the remaining villagers saw another army coming, they were frightened out of their wits. Some went into the woods with what little food they had left, while some skinny people simply lay down on the roadside waiting to die.
Although their eyes were still open, there was no hope at all, and both Niu Xiangui and Liu Xuebin were stunned.
Both of them are not too old, only in their early thirties and less than forty years old. They were both born after the reform. It had been peaceful for a long time, so they had only seen this kind of scene in movies and games.
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Although the Western Territory was invaded before, Solomon almost kept going all the way in order to capture the green fields as early as possible, so the damage was not so great.
Niu Xiangui originally thought about giving some of the bread he brought to the poor people, but because there were so many people starving to death on the roadside, he had to give up this naive idea.
But some people didn't give up.
——Adele, this time she went out with the army. The soldiers here at Shuangxiujiao basically obeyed her orders. In addition, there was also a force of about 300 black dog guards who were responsible for protecting her and others.
Hugh's safety.
Adele and a few knights carried the starving people on the roadside into the carriage, gave them a small piece of bread, and ate them with water.
The reason why there was only a small piece was Liu Xuebin’s suggestion.
I am worried that these people have been hungry for too long, their stomachs are weak, and they will eat too much food at once and cannot digest it, and they will die.
However, after carrying it for a while, Adele also found that there were too many people and the carriage could no longer accommodate them.
So she contacted the cult using the radio, hoping to send more manpower and carriages to help, and then went to the front of the team to find Ilea.
This chapter has been completed!