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The family's chief knight, the governor of Syrovas Island, Shredder's whereabouts are unknown …
The family's silver knight, the deputy commander of the guard camp, Jim's whereabouts are unknown …
The family's silver knight, the captain of the third battalion, Benjamin, Rafat, Orison, and Crimbo's whereabouts are unknown.
The family's silver knight, the captain of the guard camp, Heritz's whereabouts are unknown.
The Sheriff of White Bird Town, Christon, the accountant Old Mike, and the clerk Hickard's whereabouts are unknown.
In addition, they have lost contact with the guards of the seven villages on Syrovas Island that were retired veterans of the family. It seemed that they were also in trouble.
It was confirmed that they had fallen into the enemy's hands, including the captain of the first fleet, Tork, and the mayor of White Bird Town, Hugo's father.
Those who died were:
The captain of the White Bird Town's garrison, Victor, and the tax collector Old Hart. They were killed while trying to protect the residents of White Bird Town from being evacuated.
The family's silver knight, the captain of the third battalion, Joseph, and Donovan died bravely while supporting White Bird Town.
The family's silver knight, the captain of the guard camp, Maud, died bravely while protecting the rear of a large group of people on the way from Farama Village to Flagfish Ridge.
The family's silver knight, the captain of the navy, Nois, died in battle at sea.
The family's silver knight, the captain of the first and second fleet, Rolin, Bosse, Trog, Warret, Moog … 17 people died at sea.
In addition, there were more than 3,700 captains and sailors who died, went missing, or were captured. Thirty-eight ships were lost. More than half of the six thousand people and fifty-nine ships of the navy stationed on Syrovas Island were destroyed. The losses were extremely heavy.
Only four of the five hundred guards of White Bird Town managed to escape. It could be said that the entire army was wiped out. Only four hundred of the three thousand soldiers from the third battalion returned. It was not enough to describe the situation as being severely injured. Only the two thousand or so guards from the Ocean Viewing Manor retreated with more than four hundred soldiers. They still maintained their formation …
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Laurist's hands were trembling. The list that Steward Hansk handed him seemed to weigh a ton, making it hard for him to breathe. Fatty Shi's whereabouts are unknown, Jim's whereabouts are unknown …
Struggling to support himself, Loriste slowly sat down. "Tell me, why did we suffer such heavy losses? Is the enemy very powerful?"
"Sir, I'm sorry for my incompetence …" Josk stepped forward.
Loriste waved his hand. "No, it has nothing to do with you. There are no more outstanding subordinates than you. What I want to know is, why did our family's armed forces suffer such a great loss after being attacked? Is the enemy very strong? "
Josk shook his head. "Sir, the enemy is just a motley crew. But, but the enemy has several Great Sword Masters … "
"Great Sword Master? How many of them? "asked Loriste.
"I heard there were seven, but there were four or five that appeared in front of us …" Josk recalled, "I was by Lord Shredder's side when I received Lord Freya's message. We were in Whitebird Town at the time. Lord Shredder informed the garrison of White Bird Town to prepare for battle while he ordered the 3rd Imperial Guard Battalion to rush to White Bird Town as reinforcements.
The enemy's first few ships broke through the docks, and a few hundred men were intercepted by the garrison. However, there were still many ships behind them. More and more enemies disembarked from the ships and flocked towards us. I killed two Gold-ranked enemies and a dozen Silver-ranked enemies. In the end, a Great Swordsman appeared and beheaded Victor. Victor's head fell in front of me.
I knew I was targeted by the Great Sword Master, but I was an archer and couldn't fight him in close combat. I could only retreat as I fought, and I soon lost Lord Shredder and the rest. By the time I made a detour and got rid of the Great Sword Master, I found that White Bird Town had already been occupied by the enemy. I had no choice but to retreat to Flagfish Ridge and organize the remaining marines to set up a defensive formation using the steep terrain. Later, I received the 3rd Imperial Guard Battalion and the remaining two squads of guards who had broken through from Falama Village. Finally, I was received by Lord Sunbarwood on a ship … "
That was the end of Josk's speech. Next up was Steward Hansk.
"After Knight Josk lured the Great Sword Master away, the garrison of White Bird Town couldn't resist the vicious enemies at all, and they suffered heavy casualties. At the critical moment, Knight Padt arrived with the 3rd Imperial Guard Battalion and drove the enemy back. Following that, Knight Jim arrived with 500 guards, and we immediately gained the upper hand.
At that time, Lord Shredder was commanding the battle at the town hall, and he thought that our reinforcements could drive the enemy out of White Bird Town. In fact, the enemy was not our opponent at all, and we quickly defeated them. Just as we thought we could drive the enemy out of the town, more than a hundred large merchant ships came from behind, and many of the enemies disembarked and attacked us.
This group of enemies was much stronger than the ones we defeated. They had many Silver-ranked and Gold-ranked warriors, and two Great Sword Masters. The Imperial Guard Battalion suffered heavy losses, and nearly a thousand of them died. The first captain of the 3rd Imperial Guard Battalion, Joseph, and the fourth captain, Donovan, died in battle at this time.
Lord Shredder saw that the situation was not good, so he ordered us to organize the residents of White Bird Town to retreat to Falama Village as soon as possible. He decided to go to the refugee camp and mobilize the young laborers to pick up weapons and drive the pirates into the sea. At that time, we all thought that they were pirates, and no one thought that they were slave traders and slave hunters from the Haneabada Kingdom.
Lord Shredder left in a hurry with Knight Jim and more than 20 guards. From then on, we didn't know Lord Shredder and Knight Jim's whereabouts. At this time, a few soldiers at the frontline carried the seriously injured and unconscious Knight Padt back. I happened to have a few bottles of healing potion with me, so I quickly fed him a bottle. Then, I prepared the carriage and brought Padt back to Falama Village.
There were more than three hundred soldiers of the 3rd Imperial Guard Battalion that followed us to Falama Village, and more than a hundred guards, all of whom were injured. Together with the 6th Logistics Battalion that stayed in Falama Village, the number of people we could use for defense was less than a thousand. There were also more than a thousand residents of White Bird Town that followed us to Falama Village, and they were all women and children. They were the ones who told me that Mayor Hugo's father was captured by the enemy.
At this time, the Captain of the Imperial Guard Battalion, Knight Maud, who stayed in Ocean View Manor, gave up on Ocean View Manor with five hundred guards and rushed to Falama Village. Coincidentally, the enemy followed and launched an attack on Falama Village. After repelling the enemy, Knight Maud entered Falama Village, and we finally had enough defensive power.
However, there was a Master Swordsman among the enemy that arrived later. He wanted to rush into Falama Village alone. Fortunately, the 100 steel crossbows that the 3rd Imperial Guard Battalion was equipped with were all on the fortress wall. The 40 or so steel crossbows in front of him shot the Master Swordsman into a hedgehog. This caused the enemy to suffer a great loss, and they temporarily retreated to a distance to monitor us. They didn't dare to attack us … "
"Are you sure that the person who was shot dead was a Master Swordsman?" Laurist's spirit was lifted as he interrupted Head Steward Hansk's narration.
Head Steward Hansk recalled carefully, "Sir, I think the person who was shot dead was definitely a Master Swordsman. At the beginning, there were a few enemies who ran over and asked us to surrender. These few were Silver-ranked, and one of them was even Gold-ranked. His longsword was flashing with a golden glow.
At that time, the Captain of the 6th Logistics Battalion, Knight Orison, wanted to use the steel crossbow, but was stopped by Knight Maud. Knight Maud said that we should use the longbow to drive away the enemies first, so that the enemy would think that we didn't have any long-range weapons. We would only use the steel crossbow when they launched a large-scale attack to deal heavy damage to the enemy.
Then, the Master Swordsman came in a carriage. The enemies over there were cheering, including the Gold Knight. The Master Swordsman was very arrogant and arrogant. After asking the enemies a few questions, he took his longsword and went straight to the fortress wall. At 100 meters, more than 20 longbows fired at him, but they couldn't even touch him.
Seeing that he was getting closer and closer, when he was less than 60 meters away, Knight Maud gave an order. More than 40 steel crossbows that were mobilized to the front fired in two batches. Even so, the Master Swordsman managed to deflect four iron crossbow bolts that were aimed at him, but the second batch of crossbow bolts that followed immediately pierced through his chest, killing him on the spot. Knight Maud was afraid that he wouldn't die from the injury, so he ordered the longbows to shoot two rounds, turning the body into a hedgehog.
As soon as the Master Swordsman died, the enemies over there were all dumbfounded. They all stood there dumbfounded, speechless. Knight Maud saw that they were only about 200 meters away from Falama Village, so he immediately ordered the steel crossbows to shoot in that direction. The enemies didn't even dream that our steel crossbows could shoot so far. After two consecutive rounds, they left 40 to 50 corpses and ran far away crying for their parents.
At that time, I was finally relieved, thinking that we could rely on the fortress wall of Falama Village to hold on for a while. However, Knight Maud and Knight Orison decided that Falama Village couldn't hold on after listening to the report from the guards camp soldiers and guards who came back. They said that the enemy had at least two Master Swordsmen. It was fine during the day, but the visibility was poor at night. The effect of the steel crossbows' defense was greatly reduced. Once they sneaked in, everything would be over.
Knight Maud thought that we should take advantage of the enemy's retreat to break through immediately. Only by reaching Flagfish Ridge could we rely on the steep mountain to hold on until the family's reinforcements arrived. As long as we used the chariots and steel crossbows to guard the only way up the mountain, no matter how many Master Swordsmen came, they wouldn't be able to take us down.
Knight Orison ordered the Sixth Logistics Brigade to load all the steel crossbows onto the chariots as guards on both sides. It was still a little bright when we set off, but it darkened in less than an hour. When the enemy discovered our whereabouts, they followed us and kept calling for reinforcements. At that time, the Knight of Orison volunteered to stay behind. He brought more than a hundred soldiers of the 3rd Royal Guard Battalion and guards to lay in ambush, hoping to ambush our pursuers.
We didn't go far before we heard the sounds of fighting coming from behind, but it was over in less than half an hour. However, by that time, we had already arrived at the foot of Flagfish Ridge. The road up the mountain was not easy to walk, and the enemy would soon catch up. We let the women and children go up the ridge first, while the chariots formed a circle to guard the passage up the mountain.
After a stalemate for about an hour, the chariots and steel crossbows had consumed a lot of arrows. Knight Maud ordered twenty steel crossbows to be dismantled and half of the crossbows to be carried up the mountain. The remaining crossbows were distributed to thirty steel crossbows, and the fifty crossbows without crossbows were all dismantled. Knight Maud said that the crossbows must not fall into the enemy's hands.
Next, Knight Maud used thirty steel crossbows to resist the enemy's attack. The crossbows that had run out of crossbows were immediately dismantled. When I was halfway up the mountain, I looked back and saw Knight Maud disregarding the enemy behind him and slashing the last steel crossbow in half, but he was also pierced in the chest by the enemy's spear. "
Maud … It was as if two beggars had appeared in front of Lollister's eyes, standing there waiting for him, then hugging his legs and crying bitterly. It was Ruhr and Maud. As messengers of the northbound convoy, they had experienced many hardships along the way. The guards accompanying them were all dead, and only the two of them were left. They had finally come to him from thousands of miles away.
Laurist's eyes were moist. Ruhr had been shot by a crossbow when Laurist was raiding the Bread Hill at night and had died early. Mo De had always been by Laurist's side, working diligently in the royal guards and advancing to the Silver rank step by step. Then, Mo De was accepted as a family knight and became the captain of the royal guard camp. Now he had also left, and he had left so bravely. Even if he died, he would protect the secret of the family's chariots and steel crossbows …
Head Steward Hansk continued.
"All of the soldiers and guards of the Imperial Guard Camp fell into a bitter and desperate battle. At this critical moment, Knight Josk rushed down from above, and with one shot of his godly arrows, the enemy was left in a mess, and they finally retreated. Only then did the survivors come up to Flagfish Ridge. With twenty steel crossbows and Sir Josk's divine arrows guarding the only path up the mountain, we finally had a good night's sleep.
The next day, the enemy did not attack Flagfish Ridge, but Cilowas Island was on fire everywhere. Standing on the ridge, we could see the enemy pushing the villagers towards White Bird Town from time to time. Cries shook the heavens, and from time to time, the elderly villagers were pulled out of the group and beheaded because they walked too slowly. We were furious, but there was nothing we could do.
In the middle of the night, Sir Sembarwood brought the fleet to the small bay and went up Flagfish Ridge to meet us. After understanding the situation, he told us to board the ship immediately. He said that the enemy was currently looting and robbing, and did not have time to care about us. There was no fortress built on Flagfish Ridge, and we could not defend it for long. When the enemy had time to send a fleet to attack from the small bay, we would not be able to escape even if we had wings.
So we started moving. First the women and children, then the injured soldiers, and finally, Knight Josk and his guards moved the twenty steel crossbows onto the ship. But it took too long, and by the time we were all on the ship, it was already dawn. The enemy discovered our whereabouts and blew the horn. Soon, the enemy sent a fleet to chase after us.
But the enemy was not prepared, and the first dozen or so ships that caught up did not have enough manpower, so we quickly destroyed them. Sir Sembarwood and Knight Josk worked together and managed to snatch two of the enemy's medium-sized merchant ships. But the enemy quickly caught up with more than forty ships. Sir Sembarwood's fleet had fought a few battles with the enemy, and many of the ships were damaged. Secondly, the ships were stuffed full of people, so the speed of the ships was a little slow.
So, Lord Sembarwood and Lord Josk discussed and chose ten armed merchant ships that were in the best condition. They were equipped with sailors and guards who could still fight, and they stayed behind to counterattack. They killed five of the fastest enemy ships, and finally fought with the rest of the enemy ships until evening, when all the enemies finally retreated.
After Sir Sembarwood and Knight Josk returned and interrogated the captured sailors, we found out that it was the Haneabada Kingdom's slave traders and slave hunters who attacked and pillaged Shirovas Island, and not the pirates we had thought. The prisoners said that almost all of the major slave owners and slave traders in the Haneabada Kingdom participated in this operation. There were more than four hundred ships, nearly thirty thousand people, and seven great swordsmen. It could be said that they had mobilized in full force … "
Hansk handed over a thick leather folder. "Sir, these are the interrogation records of the prisoners."
Laurist flipped through the interrogation records. "Men!"
Shi Huard came in. "Sir …"
"Order the guards to erect a cross on the beach and crucify all the captured prisoners on it!" Laurist's soft voice determined the tragic fate of the captured sailors of the Haneabada Kingdom.
"Uh …" Everyone in the tent could not help but suck in a breath of cold air. Hanging or beheading was much better than being nailed to death. They had to be tortured on the cross for a long time and bleed out all of their blood before they could breathe their last …
"Sir …" Hansk stepped forward and tried to persuade him.
"Enough, don't say anymore." Laurist waved his hand. "They are the henchmen and accomplices of the slave owners and slave traders. They are a hundred times more despicable than pirates. They treat people as goods and never care about the lives of others. I only hate that there is no crueler way for them to die! Shi Huard, what are you waiting for? "
"Yes, Sir, I will go and pass the order!" Shi Huard hurriedly ran out.
Laurist stood up and walked in front of Sembarwood. "You did well this time, very well. It was beyond my expectations. Sembarwood, I ask you now, are you willing to become a member of the Raging Bear family? "
Sembarwood was stunned, but he quickly reacted. He knelt down on one knee in front of Laurist. "Sir, I am willing."
"Sembarwood, are you willing to charge and break through enemy lines under the horn of the Raging Bear family and fight to the death?"
"I am willing!"
"Sembarwood, are you willing to follow the flag of the Raging Bear family and fight to the end?"
"I am willing!"
"Sembarwood, are you willing to dedicate your life to the glory of the Raging Bear Emblem?"
"I am willing!" Sembarwood was already shouting.
Laurist took out his longsword and patted Sembarwood's shoulders twice with the blade. He sheathed the sword. "Rise, my knight. You have won the trust of the Norton family with your bravery, courage, and loyalty. Welcome to our family, my brother. "
After Loriste gave Sunbavood a tight hug, Sunbavood was followed by a group of Knights in the tent. Finally, it was Bodefinger.
"Welcome to our family, my brother." After the hug, Bodefinger pinned a golden emblem of the Raging Bear on Sembarwood's left chest.
"Sembarwood, how many ships do you have left in your fleet?" After the knight promotion ceremony, Laurist returned to his seat.
"My lord, there are still eleven ships in perfect condition. Thirteen need to be repaired. Eight need minor repairs, and five need major repairs."
Sembarwood's second fleet originally had twenty-nine ships. They had lost seven ships in the naval battle when they returned, but they had snatched two more ships, so they still had twenty-four ships in total.
"Repair them as soon as possible. In three days, Bodefinger will lead his troops to Cirvas Island. We need transport ships. Also, your sailors should rest as soon as possible. Those who are not injured will set off in three days, "Laurist said with a frown. The family's naval army had suffered great losses this time. They had lost more than half of their forces on the water, and the number of sailors was very limited. They could only let the sailors who had returned from the bitter battle rest for three days before setting off again.
"My lord, I request to fight you!" Sembarwood stood up.
"We request to fight you too! My lord … "All the knights in the tent stood up.
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