Chapter 272 The Uncompromising Night Elves
It didn't take long for Illidan to come to Tyrande with Duke Webster. The demon hunter, who was originally full of dominance, was a little overwhelmed after seeing Tyrande. However, Tyrande ignored him and talked to Duke Webster.
While Tyrande and Duke Webster were discussing the redemption of the nobles captured by the night elves, Illidan's current vehicle, the Dark Magic Tiger, came to the white tiger lying on the side to rest. Yu Fei, who was paying attention to the negotiation scene at this time, was very speechless when he saw this scene.
If this Dark Magic Tiger really hooked up with Tyrande's white tiger, what kind of offspring would it give birth to in the future? Panda tiger.
Because according to Yu Fei's meaning, those captured nobles were originally used to ask for ransom, and Tyrande also implemented Yu Fei's instructions. Therefore, in the negotiation of redeeming those noble children and private armies, Tyrande and Duke Webster quickly reached a consensus.
However, the two sides disagreed on the issue of redeeming the captured regular soldiers of the kingdom. The price given by the Duke of Webster to redeem the nobles was very high, but the redemption price of those regular soldiers was incredibly low.
In fact, this is also an unwritten rule on the continent or within the human race. When the two sides are at war, the redemption price of the captured nobles is generally very high. In addition to the fact that a noble has a private army under his command, the most important reason is that the money for redeeming the noble does not need to be paid by the country.
If a noble son is captured by the enemy in the war, then the redemption of his property must be paid by his family, and the country is only responsible for negotiations. If an exchange agreement cannot be reached, then the family has given up the noble son, and it has nothing to do with the country.
The army is different. The army directly under the country usually flees or is killed, and there are rarely hundreds of thousands of prisoners like this time. Therefore, under normal circumstances, captured ordinary soldiers are rarely redeemed by their country.
This time, it was because the number of captured regular troops of the kingdom was about 300,000 that Severn IX asked Duke Webster to redeem the soldiers. If this part of the army was lost, it would not be a serious loss, but it would be a huge loss.
However, Tyrande was extremely dissatisfied with the price proposed by Duke Webster to redeem the soldiers. There was no other reason. Compared with the price of redeeming the nobles, it was too far. Even if the price of the nobles' ransom was divided by the number of their private armies, the price was much higher than the price given by the Kingdom of Severn to redeem the soldiers.
Duke Webster had no choice on this point. The ransom of the nobles did not need to be borne by the kingdom, but these armies were different. No noble would pay for the kingdom. And the number of 300,000 was too large. If the redemption price was slightly higher, the Kingdom of Severn could not afford it.
The night elves certainly would not understand the difficulties of the Kingdom of Severn. Although it seemed that they were negotiating peacefully now, in fact, both sides knew that they would never give up after this. The goal of the night elves to capture the Kingdom of Severn is unquestionable, and the Kingdom of Severn will naturally rise up in resistance.
Until the end, the two sides did not reach an agreement on the issue of redeeming the soldiers. Illidan on the side suddenly sneered, "Since you think these humans are only worth this much, then there is no need to redeem them. After releasing these soldiers, they will still be used by you to fight us. The great night elves will not do such a thing of shooting themselves in the foot!"
After saying this coldly, before Duke Webster carefully thought about what he meant by this, Illidan turned around and walked out of the temporary negotiation hall, and then there was a commotion outside.
Tyrande was also startled by Illidan's sudden interruption. Illidan rarely spoke so long in such a tone in front of her. She was about to go out to check what Illidan was doing, but the Father's divine thoughts suddenly arrived. After concentrating for a moment, Tyrande was stunned for a moment, then calmed down, and gave up the idea of going out to check the situation.
But Duke Webster couldn't help but walk out of the negotiation hall and observe the situation in the Brak Fortress. At this time, the gate of the Brak Fortress facing the territory of the Kingdom of Severn was already open, and countless soldiers of the kingdom were queuing to walk out.
What is this situation? Duke Webster turned his eyes to the followers waiting outside the hall. The followers were also very sensible and quickly explained to Duke Webster what had happened before.
It turned out that after Illidan walked out of the negotiation hall, he opened the city gate directly. Then he announced that the regular army of the kingdom would leave the city, and the nobles would stay here temporarily and wait for the ransom to arrive before being released. In addition to the soldiers' surprise shouts when they thought the night elves had released them, there were also protests from the nobles.
These followers were the same as the soldiers of the Kingdom of Severn who were released from the Brak Fortress, thinking that the night elves had let them go. Duke Webster was also stunned when he heard this. Could it be that because the conditions offered were too low, the night elves just released all 300,000 soldiers without any consideration?
No, no, absolutely not. Judging from the previous negotiations, these night elves are definitely not fools. After releasing these soldiers, they will still be organized by the Kingdom of Severn to fight against the night elves. The words of the terrifying elf who brought him all the way to the Brak Fortress also showed that the night elves did recognize this point.
So what does the behavior of the night elves mean now? Judging from the more than 10,000 unsightly corpses and the corpses of human soldiers outside the Brak Fortress, the night elves are definitely not kind people. They will definitely not let go of these 300,000 potential, no, confirmed enemies easily.
Combined with the words of the terrifying male night elf, Duke Webster suddenly had an ominous premonition. As more and more human soldiers left the Brak Fortress, the inexplicable sense of depression in Duke Webster's heart became heavier.
Inadvertently changing his sight, Duke Webster saw a group of horned eagle knights taking off. With a start in his heart, he looked elsewhere. The female hunters were also gathering at this time, and the night elf archers walked down from the ancient guardians and climbed up the undestroyed walls of the Brak Fortress facing the interior of the Seven Kingdom.
No! Duke Webster had an idea in his mind that he could not believe. As the last wave of regular troops of the kingdom left the Brak Fortress according to their own organization, the actions of the night elves also made the terrible idea in Duke Webster's heart become a reality.
The night elf archers who climbed the tower opened their enchanted longbows expressionlessly, and some archers also used skills such as split shadow arrows and scattered shadow shooting. At the same time, the female hunter troops also followed the human soldiers who thought they were safe out of the Brak Fortress through the city gate that was not closed.
The horned eagle knights took off early and were above the human soldiers who left the Brak Fortress. The human soldiers at the back had already discovered the night elves following behind them, and more soldiers discovered the elf knights riding strange birds in the air who had caused them 100,000 losses before.
This, isn't this letting us go? What are these night elves going to do? Without giving the human soldiers a chance to think more, the rain of arrows from the wall behind them quickly woke them up. Under the threat of the female hunters who were chasing behind and throwing moon blades and the horned eagle knights who were shooting in the air, these human soldiers who had long been frightened by the terrifying night elf troops and lost their courage to fight began to run away.
Duke Webster, who hurried to the city gate, closed his eyes in pain. Although the relationship between the nobles and the royal family in every country is not as harmonious as imagined, the power of the kingdom has suffered such a loss. As a great noble of the kingdom, Duke Webster is unwilling to see it.
While Duke Webster rushed to the city gate, Tyrande quietly walked out of the negotiation hall, organized her own Moon God Guard, and activated the legion skill to connect the female hunter troops and the 100 bloodworm souls brought to the Brak Fortress.
Previously, the mountain giants and claw druids defeated the enemy without using bloodworms as backup. Now, although the female hunters have become heavy armored units, the human troops may suffer some losses in desperation.
Now the bloodworms and the part of the female hunters who rushed to the front share vitality, which can ensure their safety.
However, although Tyrande made such a foolproof preparation, it was not used at all. Under the attack of the night elves, whose number was only a few tens of their own, the human troops driven out of the Brak Fortress all chose to flee, and almost no troops turned back to fight back.
In the previous battle, they had been completely shattered. Maybe turning back to fight back can kill some female hunters, but if those stone giants and monsters are dispatched, we will definitely die more miserably! Almost all the human soldiers who were fleeing had such thoughts.
However, their speed was far inferior to that of the female hunters riding black panthers and the horned eagle knights in the air. Although they escaped the range of the night elf archers on the city wall with their huge numbers, which reduced the death rate a lot, many of the hundreds of thousands of human troops had already fallen outside the Brak Fortress.
Gradually, with the relentless pursuit of the huntress and the Hippogryph Knights, the bodies of the human soldiers spread from the Brak Fortress to the nearest city of the Librak Fortress.
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