On the Seven Towers

Baron Bocas was in his thirties and a little fat. Perhaps the city guards who managed the city put too much pressure on him, and he was already bald. In Li Tianrui's eyes, he was more like an official than a soldier.

However, he still admired the courage of this man. When Li Tianrui's army arrived and sent someone to deliver the Duke's letter and badge to the city, Baron Bocas personally ran to the city to meet him, even without a guard.

No matter who was in charge of surrender, they would not be in a good mood. Baron Bocas looked a little gloomy. He took out the badge sent by the Duke and sighed: "This is the badge awarded to the bravest warrior when the Duke led us to capture the enemy's castle for the first time. That time he personally led us to the city and was hit by four enemy arrows.

He made five badges in total. He kept one for himself, I have one, Amelia has one, and the owners of the other two have died in the subsequent battles."

Li Tianrui felt the heavy meaning in his words. Perhaps out of respect for the soldiers, he did not say much, but waited for the other party to finish speaking.

"At that time, as long as we fought bravely, we didn't need to think about anything else. But... now everything is different." Baron Bocas gently stroked the badge with his fingers, and then carefully put it in his arms. He raised his head and said seriously: "I have always obeyed the Duke's orders, and this time is the same. But I have a few requests of my own, and I hope you can do it."

"You say it. If it is a reasonable request, I will consider it." Li Tianrui replied.

Baron Bocas said: "First, all the city guards surrendered voluntarily, please don't turn them into slaves."

Li Tianrui said: "We never treat prisoners as slaves, you can rest assured. But now is a war, we will not let those who leave the army run around. We will uniformly identify and transform them. Those who are not suitable for military service will be dismissed, and those who are suitable for retention will be used to enrich our own team."

"Okay." Baron Bocas said again, "Second, don't harm the civilians in the city."

Li Tianrui laughed, "Our army, if there is any army in the world that cares about the people the most, it must be our army. You only need to see what our army did after arriving in Arano, and you will know what kind of team we are."

"I heard that Arano's trial executed many people." Baron Bocas said.

"But none of those people did not hold human lives in their hands. In other words, they all deserve to die. As long as they are law-abiding people, we will never embarrass them." Li Tianrui said.

Baron Bocas did not argue with him, but said: "Okay. I hope you are really as fair and principled as you say."

Li Tianrui asked: "No other requests?"

"No."

"Aren't you going to ask for something for yourself?"

Baron Bocas shook his head and said: "If you are ready, follow me into the city. The news of surrender has not spread yet. After a long time, some restless guys may emerge."

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Li Tianrui left the artillery battalion and the five battalions of dark elves outside the city just in case, and followed Baron Bocas into Green Forest City with three battalions of humans.

All the city guards laid down their weapons and walked down the city wall as required by Li Tianrui. Except for a small number of people who maintained order on the street, most people were required to stay in the barracks and not go out. All citizens were also required to stay at home and not move around casually.

Baron Bocas called several of his knights to cooperate with the guards. Li Tianrui sent two battalions to block the city gates and key points, including the city defense barrier center, the Duke's Mansion, the city guard barracks, armory, granary, library and other facilities. The third battalion was responsible for maintaining public order in the city.

When everything in the city was stable, he asked the dark elf infantry battalion and artillery battalion outside the city to enter the city to consolidate the city's defense.

Li Tianrui himself, accompanied by Baron Bocas, took a guard squad to check key points.

Li Tianrui went to the city guard barracks first. The barracks were located in the north of the city. He found that most of the city guards stayed in the barracks obediently, and they were in good spirits and didn't seem to worry about their fate. For them, avoiding an impending war means saving their lives, which is more important than anything else.

Several captains in charge spoke flatteringly in front of Li Tianrui, and their words were all about being loyal to the Chinese and serving the guards. It was obvious that they wanted to leave a good impression first.

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. Li Tianrui fought with them for a while, and finally picked some people to join the team to maintain public order. With the help of these local snakes who are eager to show off, his team will be much more convenient in maintaining public order.

Li Tianrui secretly observed Baron Bocas. Even though several captains who were originally directly under him now looked indifferent to him, he didn't seem to have any emotional fluctuations. He just often lost his mind, as if he was reminiscing about something far away.

After coming out of the city guard camp, Li Tianrui looked at the key points one by one. He got the key to the center of the city defense barrier, established a regiment headquarters in the Duke's Mansion, and blocked some other important locations. Finally, he came to the elf community.

The city where the elves are located has an inner city wall, but now the city gates are closed and it has become a city within a city. The elves have also arranged a large number of magic circles on the ground outside the city, forming a 20-meter-wide Defensive belt.

According to Li Tianrui's own magical attainments, it can be roughly concluded that whoever sets foot on this land will be ignited by the flames released from the magic circle and burned to coke. Moreover, part of the magic circle also had a certain isolation effect. Although Li Tianrui didn't know what the elves wanted to isolate, it was impossible for them to have no goal. Behind the magic circle is the city wall of the elf community. There are also many elves with bows patrolling the city wall.

"It seems that the elves have a strong sense of prevention?" Li Tianrui asked.

Baron Bocas said: "The elves are afraid that the war will affect them. They started making this magic circle a few weeks ago. But they only activated it today. I can understand their worries. After all, everything can happen in a war." It could happen."

"It seems that they are still very defensive against humans." The elves on the city wall also saw them. Several people gathered and pointed at this place. Li Tianrui said: "Maybe I should ask the dark elves to send an envoy. Communicate with them.”

He looked back at his team and saw that there was no suitable candidate among them, so he decided to take control of the entire city first and deal with the elves tomorrow. Just send a platoon to guard here first.