The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 758

The surrender of the people in the deep forest valley is expected. The people in this area are not very stubborn and hard-headed. Of course, the premise is that you have to respect their customs and accommodate their mixed-race identity.

As we said before, most of the people here are some kind of elf-human hybrid, and these half-elves are always discriminated against in other regions.

Of course discrimination is different from discrimination.Because half-elves have the blood of elves and humans, they can be said to have the strengths of both. They have both the elegance and longevity of elves, and the intelligence and changeability of humans.

Therefore, when they walk among human beings, what they reap is the discrimination brought about by the envy and jealousy of human beings.The elves are a kind of discrimination similar to disgust and pity.

Sensitive half-elves are almost at a loss for either kind of discrimination.

Only in Deep Forest Valley and even High Moon City can the half-elves here feel the joy of being respected.Half-elves accounted for almost [-]% of the total population of the Deep Forest Valley. The [-]% ratio seemed small, but the success rate of half-elves was too high, even so high that all humans and elves were speechless.

To give a very simple example, in terms of the awakening of extraordinary professions, the success rate of human beings is about [-] to [-]%. That is to say, for every ten human beings, about one or two human beings can become respected big shots, and the rest Eight or nine of them can only become farmers or some handicraftsmen who plan in the soil.

The half-elves are just the opposite. Ten half-elves can basically awaken six or seven extraordinary professionals. Even the unawakened half-elves have mostly become highly skilled craftsmen and even artists.

In terms of racial influence alone, half-elves almost occupy a dominant position in the social system of Deep Forest Valley.Therefore, William showed enough respect and kindness to the half-elves in Deep Forest Valley. He appointed two highly respected half-elves to act as the local political officers and sheriffs, and entrusted them to recruit extraordinary professionals to form the guards of Deep Forest Valley. .

Although the half-elves who were forced to surrender did not have much loyalty to William, they still carried out William's orders to the letter, and soon a team composed almost entirely of half-elf rangers and bards was assembled .

Some human farmers are not very willing to submit to William, because they know how difficult it is to serve giants, and they worry that William will deliberately exploit farmers who have enough food in order to serve those terrifying giants.

No one is willing to give up their own interests, especially for humans who are famous for their greed and "stupid short-sightedness (from the evaluation of the elves)".

By the way, a little knowledge point, farmers are not equal to farmers, it should be more appropriate to call them landlords, although some farmers will also plant their own labor, but most farmers will hire some part-time workers during the busy farming season Raiders and mercenaries help with the work.

right!You read that right!An adventurer's career not only includes swords and distance, but more often has to work hard for a living.This is why mercenaries who are farmers are often more popular.

Just two days after William declared his rule in High Moon City, a group of farmers secretly assembled a group of mercenaries and gangsters, trying to fight him by occupying the village on the edge of the deep forest valley near the Setheron valley.

Perhaps in the eyes of these farmers, perhaps William was too busy consolidating his rule in Gaoyue City to take care of them.Or if it was time to be crusaded, they would pass through the Siren Valley and go to another valley. It is impossible for William to deal with them at the risk of offending the military power at the other end of the Siren Valley—Bow Valley Let's go stragglers.

It's a pity that William has never cared about the winks of any valley city-state, and he is not interested in stabilizing the situation in Gaoyue City. William knows very well what the basis for his unification of the Valley Alliance is.

He led his giant battle group to appear in the border area of ​​the deep forest valley almost as if descended from heaven, easily broke through the village occupied by the farmers, and killed all the rebels in the village on the spot.

Of course, those mercenaries who surrendered on the spot and the innocent people who were coerced were lucky enough to save their own lives. Only the rebellious farmers belonged to the unforgivable people.

There were [-] rebellious farmers in total, eight of them stayed behind in the border village, were caught by William, and then executed on the spot, and three of them went to Bow Valley at the other end of Setheron Valley to seek foreign aid.

Bow Valley is a well-known autocratic city-state in the Valley Alliance, where three guys with mysterious origins (known as the Three Swords) rule there in a military dictatorship.Regardless of Gonggu's small size and population of less than 10, its military strength is second to none in the entire Xingxinghai region.

Thanks to the long-term dedicated military development of the Three Swords, Bow Valley has the largest heavy armored cavalry in the entire Jianwan area. Three times the number of auxiliary soldiers) are invincible, and Bow Valley can even suppress the neighboring big country Sembia, forcing this merchant country to pay tribute to them.

There is no doubt that the leaders of Bow Valley are arrogant and greedy, but not bright enough.This can be seen in the Setheron Valley between Bow and Deepwood.

The former Setheren Valley was also a member of the Valley Alliance, but when Bow Valley competed with Setheren Valley for the thundering rift leading to Cormyr in the south, it used an excuse similar to the washing powder incident in William's previous life to call Sether Lord Ren secretly studies evil witchcraft.

The army of Bow Valley killed the lord of Setheren Valley, destroyed the entire structure of Setheren Valley, and expelled the local residents. They even completely destroyed the surface ecology of Setheren Valley by spreading salt. Make sure people who have migrated to Battle Valley and Deepwood Vale don't return to their old homes.

The bottom line is to harm others and benefit yourself!

When William led his giant battle group across the still desolate Cetheron Valley, he happened to meet the commander of the rapier, one of the three swords who was leading four cavalry companies to come to the deep forest valley.

It was an encounter in a narrow valley.Even though the cavalry in the Bow Valley dispatched scout cavalry in time to scout ahead, when they faced William's almost cheating perceptual foresight, they were ultimately the ones who suffered, and the old nose suffered a lot.

It should be noted that heavy cavalry generally do not wear armor on the way of marching. They will fully arm themselves only before the battle, and then launch a fatal blow to the enemy at a critical moment. Otherwise, just wearing armor on the road on weekdays is enough. The precious stamina of a heavily armored war horse.

With William's almost cheating warning, the cloud giants who had occupied a favorable position in advance threw two rounds of catapults as the first mover.It was these two rounds of stone-throwing attacks that almost directly destroyed the fighting will of the unsuspecting Bow Valley armored heavy cavalry. At least one-third of the soldiers fell under the rolling impact of the throwing stones, including the rapier commander Yordel Ella himself. .

Then the giants spread their feet and charged, almost destroying the tangled army in one wave.Victory came so easily that the fight was over before William could even get off the field.

According to subsequent statistics, there were about 1000 people in the intervention army from Bow Valley, of which nearly 600 were killed or injured on the spot, and the rest were basically captured, and only single digits were able to escape the battlefield alive.

The reason why this battle has such a near-total extinction situation is that a big factor is the limitation of the terrain.

Due to the vicious destruction of the Bow Valley people in the desolate Setheron Valley, the surface vegetation is almost pitiful, and it is basically difficult to provide effective cover for the retreating soldiers. , After cutting off their back route, all the soldiers of Gonggu who were still alive had no way to escape.

Perhaps this is the so-called "evil cause, reap evil effect".

It was also a reason why the commander of the rapier, Yordel Ella, was killed immediately. Due to the loss of the commander, the Bow Valley army, which was in a disadvantageous state, was at a loss, unable to make effective responses, and soon fell into chaos. among.

It's not that there are no enemies who have seen the opportunity and want to escape on horseback immediately, but in front of the cloud giant who runs faster than the fastest horse, they can only be smashed into a puddle of flesh in despair, and then Or dismount and beg for surrender.

In fact, except for the enemies who were stoned to death at the first time, there were not many enemies who were directly killed by the giants in the subsequent battles. It should be said that there were very few. Most of the casualties were actually caused by the soldiers of Bow Valley trampling each other. Caused.

Counting from the time when the giants started throwing stones, to when they charged through the enemy's formation and cut off the return route of the Bow Valley cavalry, the Frost Giant Cubs continued to press forward, and the enemy soldiers were still alive on the battlefield.The duration of the entire battle was as short as less than half an hour, but it took a full day to clean the battlefield, and even William had to call in some newly recruited deep forest valley guards to help.

The main reason was that William lacked the manpower to guard the prisoners. It was impossible for him to dispatch the main force of cloud giants or the simple-minded frost giant cubs to act as guards. They were not made for such delicate work.

To William's surprise, the newly recruited members of the Deep Forest Valley Guard were very interested in managing the prisoners of war in Bow Valley. Many of them were even willing to follow William to fight in Bow Valley, if William had the idea of ​​attacking Bow Valley.

William learned later that these people who were keen to fight for him were basically the former residents of Setheron Valley and their descendants. Their hatred for Bow Valley has not yet disappeared, and William's attack on Bow Valley is naturally Be welcoming and even supportive.

The same William also learned about the past of Setheron Valley and some practices of Bow Valley to its neighbors.William immediately understood that the power of Bow Valley could not be retained. Whether it was occupied or destroyed, if William wanted to securely dominate the valley, he had to get rid of other people's white gloves in advance.

Even William has roughly guessed whose white gloves Bow Valley is.

Ambitious Sambia!After annexing Moon Valley, taking control of Bow Valley, and destroying Setheren Valley, who is your next target to annex?

In this battle, more than 400 enemies were surrendered, nearly [-] high-quality war horses, more than [-] ordinary war horses and pack horses, more than [-] sets of fine tools and armor, and a large number of weapons and supplies were obtained.

There are nearly a thousand wounded and dead horses that can only be slaughtered for meat.

A small city-state with a population of less than 200 and a limited land area can actually provide nearly [-] horses for an army of about [-] people, including more than [-] armored and heavy horses, and there are almost as many horses in their old den. An army of the same size.

With this kind of financial resources, not to mention a small city-state dominated by agriculture and handicrafts, even many large kingdoms can’t support it, you mean there is no one behind your Bow Valley?

As the news of the victory spread back to the Deep Forest Valley, more recruits came to the Setheren Valley. They transported the captives and luggage back to the Deep Forest Valley, and left behind a group of about seventy people from the original Setheren. The Renren team joined William's crusade.

That's right!William decided to pull out the military power of the Bow Valley, or the military power of Sembia hidden behind the scenes.

Because this army is unruly, it can intervene in the politics of the valley wantonly and bring corresponding benefits to Sembia, but it will not be negatively affected by this wanton intervention, because those problems will be clearly The bow valley on the face bears.

At this time, William's army consisted of three main groups. The most powerful one was naturally the giant siege team composed of adult cloud giants. There were 27 members, including [-] male cloud giants and [-] female cloud giants. Four of them were William's chariot-bearers.

The second part is Phinea's cub battle group, including 91 frost giant cubs with combat effectiveness, four cloud giant cubs, and more than 30 younger frost giants with obviously unreliable combat effectiveness. Can be used as a mascot in the battle group.

The third part is this support team composed of the original Setheren Valley people.

Normally speaking, it is not a wise choice to rely on these people to attack Bow Valley. Human armored heavy cavalry are not vegetarians on the battlefield. As long as they are willing to launch a decisive attack regardless of casualties, even the mighty cloud giants Can't bear it.

However, William set off with a team of more than 200 people confidently.

Of course, William's crusade team not only has more than 70 more humans and half-elves, but also a group of high-quality horses to serve as mounts for some frost giant cubs and human support teams, as well as some pack horses for carrying supplies.

This made the whole team move a lot faster.

However, when William led the team to Bow Bridge, the capital of Bow Valley, the enemy was already waiting on the city wall.

[Epee] Jacques Miles, one of the remaining two leaders of the "Three Swords Leaders" in Bow Valley, stood on the outer wall of Bowbridge City. Although the wall under his feet was not perfect, [Epee] Jacques Miles is still confident in defending the city.

Because of Bowbridge's rapid development, its walls were always pulled down and rebuilt to ensure that the city had enough land to maintain its balance of prosperity and security.

When the cloud giant, who was even taller than the city wall, appeared in the sight of the Bow Bridge defenders, many Bow Valley soldiers couldn't help but gasped. The enemy was too tall, and the city wall under their feet could hardly provide them. How much security.

But Jacques Myers yelled: "The dragon hunting crossbow is ready! The troll gunners are in their positions!"

The Dragon Hunting Crossbow is a powerful alchemy weapon, and the poisonous crossbow gun it fires is even powerful enough to shoot down mighty dragons, and of course it is easy to kill giants.

However, the dragon-hunting crossbow is extremely precious, and it is a country's most important weapon like an artifact of a town. The only surrounding country known to have a dragon-hunting crossbow is Cormyr.

In another timeline, if Shadow Valley had a dragon hunting crossbow, Sieren would not have died in the dragon's invasion.

No one would have thought that the tiny Bow Valley would have such a deadly thing.

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