An extremely cruel scene was taking place in Dick's room, as if five large beasts were tearing and eating a weak, pitiful and helpless lamb.
Dick's big head was held by Lukoya, who was sucking on him with a sizzling sound, while his slender white neck was bitten by Yoel, leaving a string of bloody red marks. The black and white gunmen attacked from both sides, holding Dick's protruding handle with brutal chest pressure. After he finally managed to get out a small half, he was swallowed by Hongye in one gulp.
Dick could not tell anyone about this helpless pain and could only endure it silently.
It is Dick's duty as a master to replenish the magic of his subordinates. Although they can be replenished by resting naturally, the replenishment efficiency is not as good as physical negative distance contact.
Perhaps this behavior may seem absolutely licentious to outsiders who do not know the truth, but imagine that if King Zhou were to become like Daji, and his civil and military officials could only be rewarded with the Queen's body if they made meritorious deeds, then the warriors of the Shang Dynasty would not be invincible, but they would certainly be very good at fighting!
After tasting the appetizers, everyone prepared to enjoy the main course. However, when it came to the question of who should start eating first, no one was willing to yield to each other, and in the end they had to follow the old routine and discuss who had more achievements.
Hei Qiangdai thought that she should go first because she got the most kills, but was immediately protested by Lukoya, saying that she was the one who killed the strongest one, so she was the MVP.
The two were arguing and wanted Dick to judge. But when they turned around, they found that Joel, who seemed the most honest man on weekdays, had secretly taken advantage of the chaos to sneak into the house!
In fact, after spending time together, it is not difficult to discover that Joel is an out-and-out carnivorous girl at heart. Before she had tasted meat, she simply did not know the smell of meat, but now she has tasted it and has become addicted to it. She has also degenerated into a half-demon with pink hearts in her eyes. Dick doesn't even need to take the initiative, she can develop herself!
But no matter how much they fought and snatched, everyone knew that they were currently on the front line of the war, and the purpose of replenishing mana was to speed up recovery, not simply for pleasure. If they really wanted to have fun, they had to wait until the war was over and they returned.
"Master, after this battle, let's go back and have a date, okay?"
"Hey, hey! Don't set such an unlucky flag!"
Dick was shocked to hear Joel's sudden words, and quickly used his tongue to block her talking little mouth. At the same time, his hands followed the smooth curve of Joel's waist, climbing from the plain to the peak, and rubbed the two small vital points with his fingertips to stop her not-so-smart little head from always thinking about weird things.
After all, they were at the front line, so Dick didn't want to go too far. He simply pounded the piles for two hours, then came out of the room with five rosy-faced and energetic girls.
When they arrived at the hall, they saw Earl Banner sitting there eating and drinking. His sons were sitting opposite him. When they saw Dick and the others, their expressions were very subtle, with both envy and loss.
The old earl didn't care about the reactions of his boys and waved at Dick with a smile.
"Boy, you must be exhausted after fighting so many tough battles. Come and have something to eat with us."
The old earl's words were suggestive, but there was no malice in his teasing, and his eyes were full of admiration.
He has brains, strength, and a bunch of strong women under him, and he can keep them under control. No matter what method he uses to keep them under control, if his children can have this ability, he would probably wake up laughing in his dreams.
Dick sat down next to the old count, and the other five girls also sat down next to Dick. The Hoffman family's waiters immediately brought steaming hot food. Not long after, they were shocked by the amazing appetite of these beauties. They thought that the bulges on their chests might be external stomach pouches, otherwise it would be difficult to explain where the food they ate was stored.
Dick, on the other hand, had a serious conversation with Count Banner about the future direction of this war between humans and beasts.
There were some things that Dick knew very well but pretended to be ignorant of, but Count Banner pointed them out directly.
"We can't count on the reinforcements from the imperial capital."
"Are you worried they'll be too late?"
"No, I don't think they'll come at all."
The old earl said with a sneer on his face. The power center of the empire had long been rotten. Those greedy politicians only knew how to fight for power and didn't care about the lives of local people. And their great emperor, I don't know when it started, seemed to not care about anything.
Dick had a similar opinion in his mind. The idea of those court nobles was to do nothing but do good. Instead of trying hard to achieve some political achievements, it would be better to just sit there and do nothing, waiting for their opponents to mess up, and then they would jump out and blame them. This has become a rule of survival for them.
So even though Dick had Ruby Eye, who stayed behind, continuously send letters for help to the imperial capital, he never really counted on the reinforcements from the imperial capital.
They might come, but by the time they arrive, it will surely be too late!
"So, we northerners still have to rely on ourselves."
After Count Banner finished speaking, his eldest son, who was sitting opposite him, immediately coughed violently, reminding his father not to speak without restraint. Because what he just said was quite "politically incorrect". It was fine to say it at home, but how could he say it in front of outsiders! ?
But Count Banner didn't care at all and continued speaking to Dick.
"By the way, kid, I heard that your family has a high-yield crop that can adapt to our northern climate, right? Sell me some seeds! You name a price, and I'll give you a little daughter, how about that? My fourth daughter is Alita, she's just seventeen years old this year, and she's very beautiful."
Count Banner wanted to form an alliance with Dick, but as soon as he said this, he was stared at by more than one pair of sharp eyes. However, the old man remained calm and continued to promote his little daughter.
Generally speaking, marriages among nobles were not based on love, but rather on political tactics. If the families of both parties were of similar background, the couple would often go about their own business, tacitly not interfering with each other.
So in Count Banner's view, even though Dick is a playboy and surrounded by beautiful women, it does not hinder the marriage between the two families.
You should just have fun and marry my daughter.
But Dick didn't want to marry, not only because his girls would mind, but also because it would be a big problem where to put the person when he got him. After all, he had many secrets that could not be disclosed to the outside world, and he really didn't trust the woman he was marrying.
So Dick declined Count Banner's proposal for marriage, but immediately expressed his interest in an alliance, and what he wanted was not just an alliance with the Banner family, but to take advantage of the opportunity brought by the orc invasion to unite more northern lords and form a joint defense alliance.
Since the imperial central government doesn't care about us, why don't we just take care of ourselves!
132. Darkest Hour
In the coalition field hospital, due to the thousands of new casualties from last night's fighting, Natasha and her colleagues worked busy for more than ten hours before finally completing the initial treatment.
Most of the wounded were not soldiers who participated in the war, but human captives rescued from the orc camp by the assault force. These captured humans were treated extremely cruelly. The orcs treated the men as food and the women as breeding beds, and did not care about their lives at all.
Especially since it is winter in the north of the empire, and the temperature after nightfall is close to minus 20 degrees Celsius. The brutal orcs have locked these human captives in the open air overnight, so many people have suffered severe frostbite.
Even though Natasha had rich experience in dealing with frostbite, she was busy from dawn to dusk, and many lives were saved because of her.
After treating most of the wounded, Natasha dragged her tired body back to her clinic in the hospital, rubbing her stiff shoulders while looking through the medical records that the nurses had just brought her.
At this moment, a pair of small but warm hands pressed Natasha's shoulders from behind, scaring the unaware female doctor.
"Who? Dick! You scared me."
"You must be exhausted. Your vigilance has dropped so much."
"Yes, there are too many injured. Some of them are in serious condition and may not survive tonight."
Natasha showed Dick the medical records. Her compassion as a doctor made her want to do her best to help these poor people. But conventional medical skills have their limits. At times like this, she had to resort to supernatural powers such as magic. But the priests of the church were unwilling to help, arguing that their magic should be used for more important things, not to save a few insignificant civilians.
After several negotiations, Natasha's impression of that group of charlatans had hit rock bottom. Some of them even cast lustful and malicious eyes at her, making Natasha want to pull out a grenade launcher on the spot and shoot them in the face!
Dick listened to Natasha's complaints while massaging her shoulders. The female doctor was exhausted both physically and mentally at the moment, so she really needed someone to talk to to relieve her mental stress.
Dick listened for a while, then hugged Natasha from behind and comforted her gently.
"Thank you for your hard work. My Natasha is an amazing doctor. Don't worry, I will go and negotiate with those charlatans. I just happen to have some conditions that they can't refuse."
Dick hugged Natasha for a while and felt that her body, which was originally stiff due to fatigue, became much more relaxed. He was about to let go and stand up, but unexpectedly, Natasha silently pulled Dick's hand, passed it over her shoulder and placed it directly on her round breasts, and then said in a mosquito-like voice.
"Can you give me a massage for a while longer? I told them I need to rest. No one will come to the clinic in the short term."
Faced with this hint which was not even a hint, Dick understood what she meant. He asked Natasha to sit on the desk, and while he was kneading the big treasure on the female doctor's chest, he kissed her red lips. Soon the suppressed and low moans of the two were heard in the treatment room.
Feeling the heat of Dick deeply inside her body, Natasha's pink eyes seemed to be filled with spring water. Her fleshy thighs were tightly wrapped around Dick's waist. She supported her body with one hand and stroked Dick's face with the other hand, almost greedily seeking his lips.
"Mr. Dick, am I really that bad to do such a thing in the consulting room?"
"No, because I seduced the pure female doctor."
"Then...can you seduce me more often in the future?"
"of course can."
During the break, the two of them relaxed in the clinic. Natasha felt all the fatigue was gone, and her body felt numb and warm. Dick had injected so much energy into her that it was about to overflow.
The two of them hugged each other tenderly on the small bed for a while, until Joel came over. Dick reluctantly left the clinic. Before leaving, he tucked in the quilt for Natasha and gave her a final kiss before leaving.
When Dick left, Natasha first stared blankly at the ceiling, and then she felt an uncontrollable smile on the corners of her mouth. Like a little girl in love, she was so shy that she curled up in the quilt and rolled around.
On the other side, after leaving the consulting room, Dick asked Joel what happened?
Joel said she didn't know the details, and it was Count Hoffman who came to her and said he had something important to discuss.
Soon, Dick met Hoffman, and even Count Banner was there, and both of them had serious expressions.
"what happened?"
"There are two bad news. First, the female shaman ran away."
"Wait a minute! He ran away? How did he run away?"
"We don't know either. Half an hour ago, the dungeon guard discovered during his inspection that the cage holding the female shaman was empty. Also missing was the Blood God statue in the black coffin."
Hoffman's expression was very awkward when he said this. After all, the person was locked up in the dungeon of his house, and he had temporarily placed the statue of the Blood God in a treasury with mechanisms, but it was lost in the blink of an eye. This made the Hoffman family seem very incompetent.
"What about the other bad news?"
"The central reinforcements can't come, and they sent this to us via magic communication."
Hoffman said as he handed a note to Dick. Dick took it and looked at it. The words on it reminded him of a past event.
"Hold on firmly, there will be a way. Fuck!"
Dick sneered and shook the paper lightly, and the note turned into ashes in the flames.
Although he and Count Banner had long anticipated that Dick would most likely not send reinforcements to the north, when things really came to this point and the imperial capital sent such an irresponsible statement, it still made people genuinely angry!
In fact, Dick only found out later that the reason why the central government did not send reinforcements was because at the same time when the north was invaded by orcs, a shocking scandal broke out in the imperial capital, which was the sensational "Guards' withholding of military pay incident."
Over the past few years, the bugs in the Imperial Capital Military Supply Department have systematically deducted money from the 300,000 guards in all aspects, from the military pay to their daily food, clothing, housing and transportation. They dared not take advantage of anything, and because they deducted money from every soldier indiscriminately, they were never discovered by the people below. It was not until this corrupt group had an internal conflict due to the uneven distribution of spoils that the matter was deliberately exposed by an insider.
After the incident became a big deal, many guards went to the military headquarters to demand an explanation. The whole thing was at one point on the verge of a mutiny. Even the emperor could not command these angry soldiers, let alone let them go out to fight.
As for mobilizing the local lords south of the Central Mountains to send troops to support the north, there were only a few who responded. Moreover, because the main force led by the Beast King Ramon had already arrived at the pass fortress, these reinforcements could not get through at all.
133. Take the initiative
The imperial capital can no longer be relied upon, and the people in the north can only rely on themselves.
This is the basic consensus reached by the three giants of the coalition at this small meeting.
Even though the coalition forces had just won a victory, the situation in the entire north was still very serious. The invading orc army of 100,000 and the 20,000 elite troops led by the Beast King himself were attacking the pass fortress in the central mountain range. This elite orc main force was not something the coalition forces had the strength to deal with.
In addition, there are more than 30,000 troops confronting the Border Legion. Attacking them can help the Border Legion to break out, but they are too far away from the coalition forces, and long-distance marching is very risky.
So after much thought, they decided to deal with the mopping-up army that was right in front of them first. These orcs had gone crazy buying things for free on human territory, and their troops had become disorganized and undisciplined bandits, which made it convenient for them to concentrate their superior forces to defeat them one by one.
So after only one day of rest, the coalition forces gathered their elite forces to form a mobile force, ready to take the initiative to attack, while annihilating as many small orc forces as possible and guiding the refugees to move to the coalition camp.
It is worth mentioning that after the plan was announced, some lords strongly opposed this operation, thinking that taking the initiative to attack was too risky. If they were ambushed, the troops would suffer heavy losses or even be wiped out, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
This was because this mobile force not only integrated all of the coalition's nearly 3,000 cavalry, but also drew away most of the high-level warriors and mid-level and above magicians, all of which were valuable high-end combat forces.
Most of those who raised objections were small lords with little wealth. They could not afford to support high-level warriors and magicians, and their private armies were a mob that had not received any real military training. Their men were not included in the attacking force.
These people joined the coalition forces not to contribute but to seek protection. Therefore, they were unwilling to see the coalition forces send out their elite forces, which made them feel very insecure.
Fortunately, at this time, Count Banner stood up. The old man had a high rank and seniority, and his voice was loud and full of energy. He directly scolded these opponents in the face, and none of them said a word.
In this way, a mobile force that gathered more than 70% of the coalition's elite troops set out. Dick and Count Banner were also in this force.
Not long after the troops crossed the river, they faced their first battle, where they encountered a group of orc cavalry who were hunting refugees.
The orcs were not numerous, only about a hundred cavalrymen, while the refugees they were hunting numbered over a thousand. The orc cavalrymen were like a group of vicious wolves attacking a flock of sheep, constantly lingering around the refugees and harassing them, but not in a hurry to launch an attack immediately.
Dick and the old earl watched from a distance for a while and thought that these orc cavalry were just trying to contain the refugees and buy time until the main force arrived to surround them.
So the two of them quickly formulated a tactic. The old earl led 300 cavalrymen to rescue people, while Dick led the large force to lurk in the downwind position first. After the large force of orcs sacrificed themselves, they would rush out and give the other side a big surprise!
After the tactics were decided, the old earl immediately rushed forward with the 300 cavalrymen assigned to him. Dick was afraid that he might make some mishaps, so he specifically asked the calm and steady Bai Qiangdai to follow him and be responsible for protecting the old man's safety.
The sudden appearance of 300 cavalrymen from the side really scared the orcs, but for the refugees who were trapped in desperate situation, these warriors were like angels bringing them hope, and they dispelled the dark clouds covering their heads like a whirlwind.
All of these 300 cavalrymen were warriors who had trained in martial arts, and most of them were private soldiers of the three earls’ families.
The investment made by a powerful lord in his private army is beyond the imagination of an ordinary noble, especially for elite cavalry. The lord will select young people who are qualified to practice martial arts from among the civilians in his territory for training.
Because no matter how weak a low-level warrior is, it is not something that an ordinary person can easily fight against.
These 300 cavalrymen killed the orcs in a single encounter, and the most eye-catching performance was undoubtedly Bai Qiangdai. In order to protect Earl Banner, she rode her horse in front of him and killed the orcs on horseback. The old man ran behind them all the way and was shocked to find that his lance had no chance to see blood. He felt a little indignant.
"That boy, is he sending his woman to steal my limelight?!"
Soon, most of the orcs were killed on the spot, and then a few were deliberately released so that they could go back and report to the main force.
The old count who failed to grab the "beast head" came to the group of refugees, took off his helmet to identify himself, and then asked them where they had escaped from.
At this time, an old woman in the crowd was supported and came to the earl. Old Banner recognized her at a glance and couldn't help exclaiming.
"Anna! It's you, you're still alive!"
"Eugene, it's so good to see you again."
The old lady Anna was the old earl's distant cousin. They had lived together when they were young and had a very good relationship. Even though Anna was later married to a viscount whose family owned mines through a family marriage, she still kept in touch with her natal family through correspondence and would occasionally visit each other.
When the old count saw his cousin among the refugees, he immediately knew where these people came from.
"What happened to the Goodman family? Their castle is built on the mountain, so it shouldn't be so easy to capture, right? Where's Boris? Why isn't he with you?"
Faced with the old earl's anxious questioning, the old woman's eyes revealed sadness.
"Goodman Castle is gone. We were able to hold it at first, but four nights ago, a traitor opened the gate and let the orcs in. The castle fell quickly. I and some family knights took these old, weak, women and children and escaped through the secret passage. Boris... he said he was the head of the family and couldn't escape!"
