Lord Harland

Chapter 92 Refugees
The time has entered September, and the autumn harvest has just ended.

After a year-long construction by more than 3000 people, more than half of the construction of Sophia Fort has been completed.

The foundation of the city wall has been completed, and most of the rammed earth walls have been completed.

When the outer wall is covered with bricks next year and some fortifications are built, the construction of the city wall will be considered complete.

The main project of the city lord's mansion has been completed, only the decoration works are left, the main road has also been laid, and even the sewer work has been completed before the snow this year.

More than half of the houses in Sophia City have been repaired this year.

Li Cha was inspecting the construction site and arranging the latest work. Jennings hurried to his side.

Li Cha looked at the crowd, and bid farewell to everyone calmly.

After many people in charge of the construction site left, he quietly said to Jennings: "What's the matter?"

"Lord Baron, a group of refugees came to the territory after winter, and were discovered by our patrol members. These people are so bold that they even shot arrows at the patrolling soldiers?"

"How about the casualties?"

"No one was injured. The patrolling soldiers saw that there were a lot of people in this group, and they were protected by professionals. They were not reckless."

Li Cha nodded, and said to Jennings: "Send someone to Fort William, call in the No. [-] Squadron, and look for these refugees tomorrow, and see where they have gone?"

Although the No. [-] Squadron where Jennings is in has been trained for almost a year, it is out of the category of recruits, and its combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to that of the two main squadrons.

Since according to the information, there are professionals among the refugees who broke into the territory, Li Cha must not underestimate them.

The lion fights the rabbit with all its strength.Li Cha will never show his flaws easily.

Now that the territory is short of population, since this group of refugees broke into the territory, Li Cha will naturally not miss the opportunity.

Now that the fat was brought to his mouth, Li Cha naturally wanted to take a bite and swallow the refugees.

Jennings paid a military salute, and immediately sent troops to Fort William to deliver a letter. With the transfer order written by Richard himself, the No. [-] Squadron left Fort William in a hurried march and arrived at Fort Sophia at nine o'clock in the evening.

Li Cha arranged for someone to prepare dinner for the No. [-] Squadron, and held a meeting overnight with the main officers of the No. [-] and No. [-] Squadrons to discuss countermeasures.

Everyone unanimously decided that soldiers are precious and fast, and raid the refugee camp tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning.

Li Cha led two squadrons of soldiers and ran fifteen kilometers to the refugee camp.

This group of refugees was very vigilant. After being spotted by patrolling soldiers yesterday, they immediately sensed the danger.

Although very tired, they still chose to transfer overnight.

But a cunning fox is no match for an experienced hunter.

The refugee army of more than 2000 people marched very slowly in the forest.

There are footprints left by humans everywhere in the forest, and the traces are very obvious.

After walking for a long time, the refugee team was already looming.

This group of refugees came from the Orc Empire.

Last summer, in order to repel the invading Grant Kingdom armed forces, the Orc Empire mobilized a large number of troops from the northern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range.

In July, the Orc Empire was defeated and the legendary wild boar was killed. After the news spread, the human slaves at the northern foot of the Eagle Mountain Range rebelled one after another.

After these human resistance armed forces were defeated, they crossed mountains and ridges this spring and summer and entered the south of the Eagle Mountain Range.

Seeing winter, the climate in the mountains is getting colder and colder, so this group of refugees took the risk to choose to move south.

Realizing that Li Cha led his troops to catch up, the refugee team immediately became very chaotic.

Seeing that the team was about to collapse, several strong refugee leaders organized soldiers and formed a loose queue.

The first squadron stopped, and the veteran took out the armor from the backpack, and put on the armor with the help of his comrades.

This squadron has been established for three and a half years. It has fought several battles without too much reduction in personnel. After practicing breathing techniques for more than three years, more than a dozen soldiers have been promoted to advanced soldier students.

Most of the soldiers in the No. [-] Squadron are veterans, and many of them have more than four strength points.

Despite carrying dozens of kilograms of iron armor, their physical strength is still very good.Putting on armor before the battle did not panic.

The officers at the grassroots level were all wearing snake-body human scale armor, and they looked very capable at first glance.

The steel factory has been in operation for a few months, and the steel output of the territory has increased greatly. Dozens of new armors have been added, basically equipped with two main squadrons.

More than half of the soldiers in the main squadron were wearing iron armor, and the remaining soldiers were also protected by leather armor.

This kind of equipment is not weaker than that of the second-line army.

The refugee leaders were all captured officers who had fought in battle.

Some of them came from the Kingdom of Grant, and some came from nearby neighboring countries.

Seeing this scene, these people immediately knew that they had no chance of winning.

"You have invaded the territory of the Harland family, now put down your weapons and surrender immediately."

Li Cha and the soldiers shouted.

"Drop your weapons and surrender immediately!"

Seeing that the soldiers of the No. [-] Squadron had already raised their bows and set their arrows, several leaders looked at each other and sent people to shout: "Don't shoot the arrows, we are willing to negotiate."

Under the absolute disadvantage, unless they are warriors who see death as home, most people dare not fight to the death.

Several people walked over tremblingly.

In the Chenxi Continent, there is also a rule that the two armies do not fight each other.

Generally speaking, noble lords will basically not violate it.

Integrity is the virtue of knights. Violation of integrity will deal a heavy blow to the reputation of nobles, spreading bad reputation and affecting future development.

The leaders of the refugees were very cautious. They did not trust each other with Li Cha. Most of them sent their cronies and did not come to negotiate terms in person.

Only one daring leader of the refugees came forward in person.

"Who are you, why did you break into Harland's territory?"

"We are free citizens of the kingdom, and there are three noble officers in the camp."

"What's your name?"

"My name is Frank, my lord."

Li Cha lightly picked up the whip, calming the iron wildebeest.Pointing to Frank's chest, he said, "I already know your identities very well. This year, many slaves captured by orcs fled to nearby territories. There are more or less incidents of refugees entering the lord's territory.

My territory is short of people, no matter what you say, it is destined to become a meal on the plate of Master Harland.I hope you will recognize reality, give up illusions, surrender your weapons and surrender. "

"We hate our status as slaves. From the day we took up arms, we made up our minds that we would never be slaves. Without freedom, we would rather die."

"Only those who are afraid of death will be captured by the orcs. The real warriors will only die on the battlefield and let the orcs bleed. Master Harland standing in front of you looks young and has participated in many battles. Created a hereditary baronet.

Your threats will only make you shed blood. "

Li Cha pointed to his chest and said loudly to Frank: "Negotiation or war? The conditions are up to you?"

(End of this chapter)