Chapter 289 Reinforcements Arrive

More than an hour later, the remaining defenders of the Flower Vine Castle knelt down and surrendered, and Sarit led his army to occupy the castle completely.

At this time, more than 2,000 armored cavalry ambushed outside the west gate came in unhurriedly, and Count Bingol had become their prisoner.

This man is not of much value now, Simon is too lazy to meet him, and only asked Gallente to interrogate him, perhaps there is some useful information.

After the Flower Vine Castle was completely cleared, Simon led the guards in.

The bloodstains on the streets have not been completely cleaned up, but the bodies have been moved outside the city.

There are more than a thousand craftsmen of various kinds in the city, and they were all dragged out of the house by the soldiers and gathered in the small square in the south of the center.

The nearly 2,000 surrendered defenders were also disarmed, and they held their heads with their hands, lined up on the ground.

"My Lord, a parchment letter was found in the granary, which was written by Count Bingol."

At this time, Sarit came to report.

Guards mage Deli took it and checked it several times. She did not find any problems before handing it to Simon.

Simon unfolded the letter and read it several times, then sneered, and then used the spark spell to burn it, and the ashes scattered with the wind.

"Give Bingol's lover and maid to the meritorious soldiers, and reward them tomorrow at noon!"

Simon smiled faintly and ordered.

"Yes! My lord!" Hearing this, Sarit immediately started to make arrangements.

By the evening, the war losses were counted. The East Guard Corps had 1,756 deaths, more than 1,300 injuries, and more than 200 disabilities.

The South Guard Corps had 71 deaths, more than 140 injuries, and more than 30 disabilities.

About 60 to 70 percent of the deaths were new recruits who had completed standard training.

Because there were many mages accompanying the army, the injured soldiers received timely treatment, and the losses were not too great.

In the next few days, the soldiers repaired the Flower Vine Castle, the South Gate was brand new, and the bloodstains were cleaned up.

This castle is the best castle in Simon's hands besides Yongyi City and Changxiang City.

If the enemy army does not have killing weapons such as bronze cannons to clear the way, it will not be so easy to capture. The garrison of 3,000 people can almost block the attack of more than 10,000 elite soldiers.

At noon the next day, Simon rewarded the meritorious personnel in the siege in the small square in the castle.

In addition to rewarding a lot of seized coins, he also conferred five honorary knights.

For this kind of noble title, as long as the salary can be paid, Simon can confer as many titles as he wants.

Although the honorary knight is not a real noble, it is a stepping stone. At least it is not illegal to learn the knight's breathing method.

Without this stepping stone, even if you have made great contributions in the future, you cannot be directly promoted to a real noble, unless it is an inheritance relationship.

This is the rule of the Eagle Kingdom, and Simon is very satisfied with it. Even if there is no such regulation, he will set it up again.

In this way, the value of this title can be maintained to a certain extent.

After that, a few days passed in a blink of an eye.

Simon led his army out again. Before leaving, he temporarily stationed 3,000 men from the Southern Guards at Flower Vine Castle to maintain his dominance in this area.

Bingol has conferred a total of six barons and two viscounts on his territory, all of whom have independent administrative systems and must be conquered one by one.

Basically, you have to walk around this area, which is quite troublesome.

As for the reinforcements mentioned by Bingol's fourth son, they actually just sent out ravens and did not receive any response at all, so there is no need to worry.

However, Simon still arranged some scouts and a griffin knight to patrol along the northern border.

Even if there is really someone who is blind to mess up, he will be discovered soon.

Unknowingly, twenty days have passed.

Simon led his army to capture the castles of four barons and one viscount in succession.

Two of them are barely usable, and the rest are quick-made products that need to be further repaired in the future.

It didn't take much effort to conquer these nobles. Only one baron and the viscount resisted stubbornly, and the others surrendered.

A total of less than 800 people were lost, and the injured soldiers were healed by the accompanying wizards in a short time and could immediately join the battle.

However, on this day, Simon received a not-so-good intelligence that the reinforcements to help Earl Bingol really came.

At this time, they were still three to five days away from Flower Vine Castle, which brought together the forces of three earls and Marquis Val, a total of more than 15,000 people.

"Alas, why can't I make my opponents a little stupider...

It's just the beginning, and they are still fighting against the nobles of the River Bay, but these guys have united.

Don't you usually get along..."

After reading the parchment letter, Simon sighed and shook his head. He knew that this must be the work of Marquis Val.

"Leave 800 garrisons in the Viscount Castle and 500 in the Baron Castle, drawn from the Southern Guard Corps.

The rest of the troops will return to support Flower Vine Castle. I want to make a central bloom!

Let Sarrit and others lead the army to gather at Carrot Castle."

Simon thought for a moment and immediately gave a cold order.

"Yes!" Hearing this, Gallente immediately arranged for his men to release ravens to convey the military order.

In order to improve the efficiency of looting, Simon had previously asked Sarrit and others to lead their respective legions and attack separately, so it was difficult to gather quickly at this time.

And his current location was far away from Flower Vine Castle, which was not a good gathering place.

It would be better to let the other two legions gather at Radish Castle, which was the closest to Flower Vine Castle, only more than 70 miles away.

At present, Simon has the entire Courage Guard Corps and the Southern Guard Corps with more vacancies, with a total of more than 10,000 troops.

After the order was issued, he immediately led his troops to march towards the Radish Castle...

At the same time, the noble coalition army that rescued Count Bingol stopped in Blackstone Territory.

This place is about 150 miles away from Flower Vine Castle.

Marquis Val, surrounded by many cavalrymen, was concentrating on reading a parchment letter, and then he fell into deep thought with a gloomy face.

After a while, he sighed helplessly: "Flower Vine Castle has been lost. I didn't expect that Bingol couldn't hold on for 20 days with the castle defense.

He is also a good fighter, how could this happen..."

"Father, what should we do? Should we go to rescue?

At present, our troops are not dominant, and the orcs may launch an attack at any time..."

A young man in heavy armor beside him asked.

Marquis Val was silent for a while, then said, "Go! You must go!

Simon's strength has increased too quickly, and we cannot let him attack any nobles!

The current force is probably not enough, and we have to wait for a few more families to act together.

These few days, send scouts to contact and see where Count Tula and others have gone."

"Yes! Father!" The heavy-armored knight immediately took the order and made arrangements.

Afterwards, Marquis Val called the other three earls and the nobles under their command, and held a meeting.