Pushing open the castle door, Ronan said to the soldiers guarding the door:
"Take care of the inside and find a place to bury him properly. When Magna comes back, ask him to come to me and I will clean it."
After that, he walked back to the castle to find a place to take a shower. Finally, he found a pool on the third floor of the castle. He took off his armor and rinsed briefly. The cold pool water poured on Ronan's hot and red skin after the battle, and white spots appeared on his skin.
steam.
Another convenient thing about artifact plate armor is that it does not stain blood. Just rinse it with water and apply oil, so you don't have to wipe it off hard.
Ronan had just put on a set of light and loose clothes when he heard a knock on the door.
"You are looking for me, Lord Lord." It was Magna. It seemed that he had already cleared away the deserters.
"How is it going?" Ronan opened the door and walked out, asking Magna as he walked out.
"Most of the escaping soldiers were caught. With a little scare, the residents handed them over. I tied them all up somewhere in the square."
"Well, if you are willing to submit, just break them up and integrate them into our army. If you are not willing to submit, you can temporarily renovate a prison in the city lord's palace and temporarily take them into custody. Just make sure you don't starve to death every day."
"Most of those soldiers are locals, and there may be family members who want to ransom them."
"Let them redeem it. Loberon is the territory of Marquis Francisco, and he will never give it up easily. What do you think we should do?"
"Of course, the soldiers came to cover up the water and the earth. The nobles inside Gaoling rarely have private soldiers. Francisco can't pull out an army that is enough to threaten us in a short time. We left some soldiers and Ravenluck stationed here.
After adding his men, building the city gate properly, and adding an iron gate, it will be difficult for Francisco to break through Loberon before our support arrives."
"He will definitely fight back, whether it's to regain territory or to express his position."
"This just gives us an excuse to continue to annex their territory. If we can control Francisco's territory to the west, we will be equivalent to controlling nearly half of the coastline in the southwest of Gaoling. And there is only one thing between us and the royal capital.
There is only one viscounty left.”
"Well, then you should stay here for now. Raven Lark said that he has finished handling the matters at sea. When he arrives, you will take over the handover. I will return to Fengming with some of my guards. You and Raven Lark
Come back to me after the handover."
"Okay, Lord."
Ronan walked out of the city lord's palace. There were already soldiers waiting outside with their horses. Ronan took the reins and got on the horse, then set off back to Fengming with more than a dozen Swadia knights who had been prepared.
Two days later, Magna and Ravenluck had basically completed the handover. Ravenluck, who had a mouth full of fangs and three stripes on the left and right sides of his face that looked like shark gills, was listening to Magna plan the next strategy.
"The Lord has only one request, and that is to control the pirates under your command. Don't see the streets full of pirates burning, killing and looting next time we come. It should take some time for Francisco to gather his forces to counterattack here.
, but the number of people will not be too large, nor will it be very strong. When the time comes, you only need to report to the lord.
You keep part of the financial reports collected here, and send the rest to Fengming. Your mission is currently only this, to defend this city, your maritime power will be needed later."
"Okay, General, I know what to do. I will restrain those brats. They dare not disobey me. I am very confident about this." A cruel smile appeared from the corner of Ravenluck's mouth.
Combined with his mouth full of fangs and tattoos on his face, he looks even more ferocious.
Ravenluck is a hybrid between a human and a mermaid. His fangs were inherited from his mother. The mermaid mentioned here is not the mermaid in fairy tales, but a kind of human-like upper body and a thick water snake in the lower body.
They are carnivores with large bodies. They can use their appearance and unique abilities to deceive people on passing ships. Once people are tricked into going into the water to look for it, they will become its delicious meal.
But later, the mages discovered that these mermaids were actually a species created by a curse passed down from ancient times. Through spells or potions, people could temporarily relieve their curse and allow them to temporarily transform into human form.
Unfortunately, those big pirates and big nobles are all proud to have such a pet.
Later, the mermaids were hunted and had to go to deeper seas, easily hiding from humans. Ravenluck was the child of his father and a mermaid slave, but his father was not kind to him. Since he was a child, because of his appearance
And because he despised him and called him a little bastard, Ravenluck's status was like that of a slave.
Later, Ravenluck's talent became more and more obvious. Mixed-bloods like him were stronger, better at water, and more ferocious. When Ravenluck grew up, he gathered a group of mixed-bloods like him, overthrew his father, and gradually
It developed into a powerful pirate group composed of mixed-bloods and wreaked havoc for a while.
The Iron Lung Special that Ronan got from him is quite useful. It can greatly strengthen Ronan's lung capabilities, such as vital capacity and breath-holding time. Combined with Ronan's Qi posture, the effect is significant.
Leaving aside Ravenluck for the moment, Aldridge and Meluseus waited for a few days and finally received the reinforcements Sneko had mentioned. The speed of dispatching troops was much slower than Sneko expected.
There are less than 2,000 people in the coalition, and there are more than 20 noble flags alone. However, according to Aldridge's observation, there is no famous noble in it, and they should all be composed of vassals of those nobles.
Most of the nobles loyal to the second prince who are closer to the royal capital have joined the second prince's expeditionary force. It is not easy for the remaining troops to squeeze out so many troops. It is estimated that there are not even many defenders left in their territory.
Most of them were farmers recruited temporarily, and the more elite ones were only servants of noble knights. Aldridge came to a conclusion after observing on the city wall.
There were not many guards patrolling the city wall, in order to make the reinforcements think that most of the troops had evacuated after capturing the city, leaving only a part of the defenders, which might attract those guys to launch an attack.
"If they launch an attack, open the city gate and I will charge out with the cavalry. You will lead the infantry and charge with me. Only a small number of archers will be left on the wall. If they withdraw, we will go out of the city to pursue them."
, their speed is not as fast as ours, and Mathias has already brought the lions and black warriors nearby.
In short, this power must be annihilated here!" Aldridge said to Meluses beside him.