The giant saved my life?

If it weren't for personal experience, who would believe that this is true?

...

At dusk, the area around Lock Dragon Pass has become calm, and everything means the battle is over.

Marquis Savedin was still very hardworking, and he faithfully fulfilled the part he promised in the agreement. As a result of the full attack of the main force of the Lord's Kingdom, he directly killed the entire Kingdom coalition camp and tore it apart.

Tianhao never thought of annihilated the huge white coalition under the Dragon Lock Pass from the beginning. That was an unrealistic fantasy. Even in the best case, being able to surround half of the enemies would achieve the expected goal. Moreover, Marquis Savedin performed very well, with as many as millions of white coalitions trapped in the encirclement, almost three-fifths of the total number of the Holy See, the main force of the Saxons and the remnants of the Porcelain Kingdom.

Yes, they were just surrounded by mountains, the remnants of the walls and the giant army. Although the battle on the periphery had ended, the surrounded people did not give in and did not put down their weapons.

Tianhao handed over the mission of persuading surrender to Marquis Savedin, after all, acquaintances are better at talking.

The negotiations were not long, and after nightfall, the besieged army chose to surrender.

They really couldn't find a second way out. Most commanders, including Bishop Somsen, had fled, and the encirclement was isolated from several major warehouse areas. Although there was a lot of food, enough to last for more than three weeks, the arms warehouse fell into the hands of the giants. Without ammunition, resisting stubbornly would be a dead end.

What's more, the envoy sent by Marquis Savedin repeatedly and swears to the gods he believed in public that the Giant King promised not to kill the prisoners, would not eat them as food, and would not cut off the prisoners' fingers as before. As long as he obeyed the orders honestly, all those who put down their weapons could be treated preferentially.

The messenger did not explain the word "preferential treatment". Because it was not necessary, the final interpretation was still in the hands of the giant.

The desperate trapped people began to surrender on a large scale.

Tianhao brought the guards and important officials to a temporary prisoner-of-war camp. Although there are many people here, they are very orderly. The dragon soldiers holding guns set up posts at high places and closely inspected the prisoners who were inspected in a queue. According to the relevant regulations formulated by the young Regent, all the dragon soldiers who were in close contact with the prisoners were equipped with cold weapons. This is mainly for the convenience of management and easy to resolve violently in case of emergencies.

All prisoners of war must take off their clothes for inspection. Doing so can prevent small weapons such as privately hiding daggers, and more importantly, confiscate personal belongings. The same process has been used on prisoners of war in the Viking Kingdom, and later Tianhao added a full body inspection.

The middle-aged man in the Saxon Kingdom uniform walked to the front of the team and took off his clothes honestly in front of the sharp sword and spear. The weather was a little cold, and he curled up, hugged his shoulders tightly and shook his way. His poor appearance did not arouse the sympathy of the Dragon Clan inspectors at all. It was a burly and tough head of ten people, and he signaled his followers to cut off the prisoners' hair in three or two in accordance with the regulations. Because it was too long, some delicate and cunning guys could hide the scattered gold and silver deep in the roots of their hair.

That alone is not enough, there is a last check procedure.

A dragon soldier holding a pliers in his hand walked up. It was not a pliers in the conventional sense, but an expander modified based on pliers. He obviously didn't like that he was doing this job, frowned, touched the shoulders of the white captain with his fingers, and issued an English word with a strong command.

"bend over."

The white prisoner curled up and bent down. The dragon soldiers stuffed the metal expander into his anus and squeezed the handle with a spring. The white prisoner suddenly tensed up all over and screamed loudly.

This is the best place to hide small objects.

As the sphincter is forcibly stretched open, an oval object about the size of an egg falls out from the middle of the intestine.

It was a polished and smooth barbarian kneecap. The body was beautiful and jade-white, and after modification, it could no longer be seen. It was just covered with dirty feces, and I felt disgusting just by looking at it.

The giant's bones are valuable, especially the joints polished into beads, which are more valuable. Although they cannot reach the one-to-one gold exchange price, they are enough to make ordinary soldiers rack their brains to secretly hide and even turn a blind eye to various bans.

If it were in the past, once such a thing was discovered, the white prisoners who had privately kept the objects would be executed on the spot. As for now... the dragon soldier in charge of the inspection showed a little anger on his face, and his hands increased his strength. The spring controlling the metal expander was pressed to the bottom, and the fork-shaped tip also opened to both sides.

The white prisoner of war screamed more and more violently. He felt that he was about to die, but he did not expect that the terrible power from behind him suddenly disappeared, and his whole body was relaxed, and he couldn't help but lose his strength and collapse on the ground.

The Dragon Soldier swept over him with disgusting eyes. The officer next to him who was responsible for maintaining order poked the white prisoner with a long stick that had been in his hand, and beat the limp guy to the ground like a frightened mouse. He put on his clothes in a panic, covered his butt, which was still releasing a scorching pain, twisted his weird steps, and limped into the prisoner-of-war camp in the north.

There is no need to kill people to establish authority now. After all, living people are more valuable than dead people. Tianhao had long thought about the places where these white prisoners of war were to go, in addition to the northern part of the mainland, the newly discovered islands also require a large amount of labor. The previous practice of cutting off the fingers of the prisoners and releasing them was actually psychological warfare. He specially selected 10,000 prisoners, and each kingdom had them. These people whose fingers were chopped off were the best propaganda machines. They would never understand that they were being used invisibly, and would only cry and cry to all the people they knew about their miserable experiences.

This is what Tianhao wants.

But he had never expected that this would directly trigger a series of terrible thoughts and fears from Marquis Savedin about the future. He even combined the Kingdom of God's religious belief with various issues, and then made a decision to change the position of the camp.

Tianhao, on the surface, maintained the majesty that a higher-ranking superior was indispensable to the nobleman of Marquis Savedin, but in fact he was smiling in his heart.

This is the most brilliant achievement achieved by the northern barbarians since the war broke out between the north and the south of the mainland.

Thinking of this, Tianhao showed a gentle and kind smile on his face. He stopped, turned his body sideways, and smiled at the Marquis Savedin who had been following him, "Select some people from your army and stay!"

Savedin was surprised by this and subconsciously thought about the bad side. He didn't know what to say for a while, and his expression became very awkward.

"You have proved the value of being an ally with practical actions. Next, I will give you corresponding preferential treatment." Tianhao smiled and comforted: "I mean, let your people stay and learn our language. We will inevitably have more frequent contacts in the future. If we don't understand the language, we will not be able to do business."

Marquis Savedin suddenly realized, and he nodded excitedly: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your magnanimity. Praise the Lord, He has guided me to find the right direction."

"It's tentatively set to be three thousand people!" Tianhao's laughter was full of special temptation and penetrated into the Marquis's brain: "You will decide the list. I believe that half a year will make their learning effective."

Immediately afterwards, Tianhao bent down, leaned close to the Marquis' ear, and lowered his voice: "To be honest, I don't believe in your king, but I believe in you."

This is heart-warming. Although Marquis Savedin, a veteran in the officialdom who has been struggling for decades, was still rippling by the young giant king's unveiled praise. This is by no means a good man card in the ordinary sense, but because he has taken practical actions to promote the union of the kingdom of God and the northern barbarians... As the leader, the Marquis has sufficient reason to think that Tianhao did not lie, and these words are indeed from the heart.

Tianhao smiled and raised his hand and patted Marquis Savedin's shoulder a few times. His eyes were filled with solemnity and trust: "We are friends."

...

The offensive and defensive battles at Shenwei Fortress are still ongoing.

The canyon to the north has been filled with more than one kilometer in length. Most of the filling is soil and stone, mixed with a large number of corpses.

Duke Kalis issued the strictest order for supervision of war than ever before: everyone must move forward and seize the Dragon Lock Pass at all costs. Those who violate the order will be executed on the spot!

Twenty thousand people were a single attacking unit, slowly moving forward with the officers' curses and scoldings. Behind them was a thousand fully armed duke guards, wearing heavy armor and holding muskets. Once they found that the soldiers had signs of running away or avoiding war, they would aim at the target and pull the trigger without hesitation.

The Rhines made many long wooden ladders, but the loss in the battle was very fast. They had no choice but to change their fighting style, and still a large number of engineers carried sandbags filled with earth and rocks to attack with the combat troops. When they arrived at the bottom of the fortress wall, they began to pile up soil.

The storm soon saw through the opponent's thoughts, but he was unable to change. There were too many white people attacking, and the entire Dragon Clan Army Corps took turns to fight and suppress it with dense firepower. Although they achieved brilliant results, the ground outside the city was also rising at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was the overlapping and accumulation of various abandoned objects and corpses. In four days, the "ground" of the north city wall had risen by about eight meters, which was the result of the dragon clan defenders' bloody battle.

Qianchi felt very lucky. If the white commander on the opposite side had not been using a fixed style of fighting and wanted to bombard the city walls with heavy artillery, resulting in the discovery of the artillery positions, which attracted his own artillery fire to completely destroy all heavy artillery, resulting in no long-range weapons available now... Then the difficulties faced in this battle would definitely be much more than now.

There are too many white people. They have at least 100,000 corpses in the northern part of the fortress. However, judging from the current momentum, they still have plenty of manpower to continue to attack.

The Duke of Calis was making the same idea.

"Continue to attack and never stop."

"This is not the sphere of influence of giants, and they cannot get logistical supplies and support. As long as they maintain such offensive momentum and intensity, they will sooner or later run out of ammunition. By that time, we will be able to win this battle."

"We are not alone. Reinforcements are coming, and the giants will be attacked from both sides."

Kalis was not talking nonsense and deliberately deceiving the soldiers below. In fact, since last week, transport teams from the north of the major kingdoms have noticed that there are differences in the situation. Small infantry soldiers from Leizhou City on the eastern coast began to move south. Their attack targets were multiple temporary supply points within more than 80 kilometers south of Shenwei Fortress. The practice was rough and simple: kill everyone, burn all available supplies, contaminate the well with corpses and feces, and completely destroy various facilities.

This is a standard harassment tactic.

In this era without telegrams and telephones, news feedback takes a long time. According to the combat plan formulated by Tianhao, as long as the reinforcements from various southern countries are delayed for two weeks, the strategic goal will be achieved.

Kalis's guess is correct. The southern countries have indeed sent people to investigate the destroyed supply points. However, just investigations have not yet entered the process of finding out the truth and mobilizing troops to go north to support on a large scale.

Previous victory against giants can only be described as "glory". The occupation of Lock Dragon Pass is enough to be included in the epic. From the king to the common people, everyone thought that the northern giants were vulnerable. Under this all-round contempt thinking, the destruction of the supply points was naturally classified as horse thieves, bandits, and traitors. Those who were bothered and were overwhelmed by this were the local officials, rather than the high-level military institutions that decided whether the kingdom army was dispatched on a large scale, as well as the king.

Kalis takes the guards to patrol the soldiers every day. He is a real commander, caring for the soldiers, arranges high-quality food for those injured, and constantly cheers the depressed soldiers.

For officers, Kalisen gave a powerful gift. He gave a large reward of gold and silver, and commented on every attack. He selected officers who fought bravely to reward promotion and punished those who feared war. Cutting down the heads of living people and hanging them on wooden poles is not unique to giants. Similar objects can be seen in many camps in the Rhine Kingdom. The dead have begun to rot. While feeling the "care" of the duke, the soldiers also developed a stronger fighting will.

Not only did the morale decline due to long-term attacks, but it continued to rise... It has to be admitted that Carlis does have extraordinary military capabilities.

The first time the storm felt heavy pressure from the opponent.
Chapter completed!