Chapter 839: Doubts
When Gervis and his group of 70,000 to 80,000 people arrived at the river, what they saw was a burnt and charred broken bridge.
Judging from the marks on the bridge, it was not done by Batman and others. It was obvious that just like the ones outside the city of Saint Grace, they were burned down by the natives when they evacuated.
Faced with this river that is two to three hundred meters wide, and in the absence of boats, it would have been a huge problem for them to cross the river.
However, this time with Gervis's two thousand sea soldiers, their crossing of the river became easy and quick.
The army only needs to cut down big trees, tie them tightly with hemp ropes to make a simple large raft, and then put it into the river, and Gervis's sea soldiers will push the raft across the river.
With the help of the sea soldiers, the safety of the rafts was greatly guaranteed during the river crossing process, and each large raft could reach the other side safely.
Gervis and his team's river crossing operation lasted until the second half of the night.
After everyone reached the other side of the river safely, Gervis and his team set up camp by the river to rest.
Only after finishing their lunch the next day did their team start moving forward again.
They continued on their journey until the next morning, when they finally arrived at the first medium-sized indigenous city.
However, when they arrived at this medium-sized city, they found that it had become a ruin.
At this time, the city was full of ruins, and many of the burnt-out houses were still emitting smoke. What was even more cruel was that the city was littered with the bodies of the natives and no one had collected them.
"What do Batman and the others want to do?"
When Gervis, Edward and others came to the city, they frowned when they saw the corpses of the indigenous people and the ruins all over the ground.
"After Batman conquered such a medium-sized city, he not only did not occupy it, but burned it down directly! Could it be that the natives set the fire themselves?"
"It's impossible that the natives set the fire. Did you see the temple? It has collapsed! Even if the natives were defeated in the war, they would never destroy their temples!"
At this moment, the city lords also began to discuss.
Gervis and Edward listened silently to the discussions of the city lords, and continued to look around, hoping to find some clues.
Originally, every family came to this Land of God's Fall to occupy cities and lands, and then seize the resources within the Land of God's Fall. Destroying the cities that have already been captured is not in their interest at all. It is extremely abnormal for the Golden Shield Family and those holy cities to do this.
"Gevis, why do you think the Golden Shield Family did this?"
Edward looked around for a long time, but still found nothing. Finally, he saw Gervis next to him still looking around, so he asked Gervis a question.
"I don't know why the Golden Shield Family did this!"
When Gervis heard the question, he immediately withdrew his gaze, shook his head and replied to Edward.
Then, he paused before continuing.
"But no matter what, I think we should be more careful next time!"
As the saying goes, there must be something wrong when things are abnormal. Gervis felt that Batman might have some conspiracy in doing this.
"I think so too!"
Edward agreed deeply.
Next, everyone continued to search the city for a while. After finding no clues, they left the city and continued on their way towards the indigenous city.
Because of this incident, Gervis and his men became more cautious in their subsequent advance. The original scout reconnaissance range was only more than 20 miles, but now it was changed to more than 50 miles, and the number of people was also doubled.
In this way, Gervis and his companions continued to move forward for several days.
However, the rest of the journey made them even more confused, because the several indigenous cities they encountered afterwards were all in the same state as before, the cities had been breached and burned, and the indigenous people inside had been killed.
And a total of four such cities appeared later.
"Battman and these bastards, are they planning to kill all the natives? It takes so much manpower and resources to build a city, and it was burned down like this!"
"Yes, such a medium-sized city would be perfect to be used as a base, but now it has become a ruin!"
According to the reconnaissance of the previous two days, their current location was the last city of the indigenous people except for the main temple city.
In other words, if they go any further, they will reach the natives' lair.
At this time, the five ruined cities they saw in a row were all burned down. This situation was extremely strange.
More importantly, they didn't even see the shadow of Batman and others along the way.
"Let's keep moving forward! No matter what Batman does, we must fight for the indigenous city. If Batman occupies it, it will be very disadvantageous to us in the future!"
"Especially since many of the surrounding cities have been destroyed by Batman, if we want to use it as a base in the future, we can only take that big city."
Edward waved at the city lords who were cursing Batman for being a lunatic, signaling the army to continue on their way.
After hearing Edward's words, the city lords stopped complaining and continued to lead their men forward.
However, Gervis, who was following the team at this time, felt a little uneasy.
Batman's behavior reminded Gervis of the scorched earth policy in his previous life.
Although Gervis and his men had no shortage of food or siege equipment, he always felt that Batman might have such plans. Being able to abandon so many cities, Batman's plan was probably not simple.
Later, Gervis also found Edward and told him his concerns.
Although Edward agreed that Batman must have some plan, it was imperative to go to the big city of the natives, so no matter what, they could only move on and act according to circumstances.
The only thing we can do now is to cheer up the scouts.
In this way, if Batman really has any conspiracy, they will be able to discover it earlier and respond.
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After three days of careful travel, Gervis and his companions finally arrived at the big city where the main temple of the indigenous people was located.
This is a super city comparable to the City of Hope. The city wall is hundreds of meters high, and its length and width are so endless that you can't see the end at a glance. This city can accommodate at least millions of people.
What Gervis and others didn't understand was that the conspiracy they were worried about did not occur.
Because when they arrived at the big city, they finally discovered Batman and his allies.
Batman and his men, a total of more than 70,000 people, were now attacking the natives in the west of the city.
Gervis and his men had just sent scouts to observe the situation of the Golden Shield Family from the outside.
It seemed that they were serious in their attack this time, because there were already two or three thousand corpses piled up under the city wall.
Under such circumstances, the Golden Shield Family and its allies simply had no extra energy to plot against Gervis and others.
"My fellow city lords, the indigenous city is right before our eyes, and the Golden Shield Family and its allied Holy City to the west are already attacking the city. We must speed up our preparations for the siege and make sure that the Golden Shield Family does not get ahead!"
After setting up camp directly on the east side of the big city, Edward immediately summoned all the lords of the holy city to start discussions.
"I agree with Duke Edward's words. We must not let the Golden Shield Family take this great indigenous city away!"
"I agree too!"
"I agree too!" As Edward finished speaking, a group of city lords began to agree.
At this point, it has been confirmed that the Golden Shield Family and others are attacking the city with all their might, and they have relaxed a lot. At least for now, it seems that the Golden Shield Family has no conspiracy.
"Very good, since everyone has no objection, then we will rest for the morning and prepare the siege equipment! We will start the formal siege in the afternoon!"
Seeing that no one objected, Edward made the decision immediately.
"Well then, let's allocate the order of attack!"
It is impossible to capture such a big city in a day or two, so this was a protracted siege.
In order to maintain sufficient combat effectiveness, they must first conduct round-robin battles based on families, so as to ensure the combat effectiveness of each family.
"Duke Johnson, you guys should just shoot in the first round! Any objections?"
At that moment, Edward began to allocate the order of attack.
"No problem, Duke Edward!"
"Duke Osney, you..."
(End of this chapter)
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