When seeing the scene at the Stone Beach Camp, Date felt relieved, Howell's heart was filled with bitterness, and the others smiled and complimented Woolley and the Salt Marsh Army. Many of them almost stole the limelight from Dicaprio.
The flag of Hulett's First Legion was fluttering in the wind. The camp was divided into three large camping areas. It was obvious that they were divided into three parts. The flag of the center army was there, the flag of the right army was there, but the flag of the left army was missing...
Howell didn't even have the chance to utter the question he had been brewing for a long time, and no one would question the Salt Marsh Army's combat experience. The toppled guard wall, the messy bloodstains along the slope of the gap, and the defensive posture of the enemy camp could explain this.
"Thank you all for your kindness. This time we were able to achieve such a great victory thanks to the strong support of Lord Dicaprio, General Date and all of you. Our Salt Marsh Army has no worries and sufficient food and grass, so the soldiers can fight for their lives when fighting the enemy. As for killing Liehuo Lanting, it was pure luck, pure luck." Wu Lai smiled modestly.
"General Wu Lai is too modest. Everyone knows that killing Liehuo Lanting is as difficult as annihilating his left army. How can it be summed up by the word luck?" Dai Te naturally would not be stingy in praising Wu Lai. "General Wu Lai can be so modest, which makes me look at him with new eyes. According to Assyrian convention, if you can defeat a famous general of the enemy army, you are already a famous general. Alas, speaking of this, I can't help but think of General Lini. General Wu Lai was a disciple of General Lini, and he really inherited General Lini's bravery and fighting skills. General Wu Lai, within half a month, your reputation will resound throughout Assyria!"
"General Daite's words make Wu Lai ashamed." Wu Lai waved his hands quickly, but he also knew that Daite was telling the truth. The Assyrian way of judging martial arts has always been so simple and crude. The Salt Marsh Army defeated the Hurlit First Legion and was considered to be as powerful as the Hurlit Legion. The death of Liehuo would immediately make people think that Wu Lai's ability exceeded Liehuo Lanting. The reason is that if he was worse than Liehuo Lanting, how could he kill him? "Congratulations to General Wu Lai." Howell did not want to show his envy and jealousy too obviously. After forcing a smile, he said, "This time, the Salt Marsh Army severely damaged the Hurlit First Legion and achieved such a great feat. The reward of the territory is definitely indispensable. General Wu Lai has become one of the famous Assyrian generals in one fell swoop. Congratulations."
"It's just luck, it's just luck." Wu Lai laughed and turned sideways to make a gesture of invitation. "It's windy here. Please come to the big tent and talk. I will tell you how this battle was fought."
"That would be great."
"General Woolley, please go first."
"Everyone please go first."
While Woolley was exchanging pleasantries with the guests, Shelley, accompanied by Sarres, was watching the mules and horses and the laborers unloading the goods.
"It seems that General Wu Lai has gained a lot this time." Shelley said with a smile.
"Yes, in addition to the food, meat, and cloth for three hundred mules and horses, the gift list also includes 50,000 gold coins, a house in Kayiked City, and the entire West Point Village. From now on, that area will belong to General Wu Lei." Sales replied with a smile. Originally, he was arranged by Wu Lei to receive the gifts, but Shelley came just after he finished reading the gift list.
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When Trajan received the news of Liehuo's death, he had just attended a military meeting of the Hurrite Council. The bad news made him suddenly feel very tired, as if he had built fortifications all day, or perhaps fought many rounds with the enemy on the battlefield.
The loss of Agni was a huge blow to Trajan - Agni was his favorite general, his right-hand man, and had been taught by Trajan like his own son or nephew over the years. In the past years, Agni always completed his orders very well, even better than Hugo Simon and Nero.
But the fire can never come back.
Trajan was thinking and thinking, and tears slowly flowed from the corners of his eyes.
"Go." He waved his hand weakly and said to the servant, "Call Sain to me."
The attendant was surprised because Trajan's voice became extremely hoarse...
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A few days later, news of Wu Lai's victory was brought back to the city of Assyria.
The temple is full of surprises...
The Senate was extremely surprised...
The Supreme Conference was full of surprises...
The citizens of Assyria cheered and told each other after seeing the notice...
The hostility between Assyria and Hurlit has never been eliminated since the beginning. Every Assyrian was taught by his elders when he was still young that, look, that direction is the territory of the Hurlits, our Assyrians' eternal enemy, and the Assyrians' greatest wish is to defeat them, conquer them and then enslave them.
But this can only be a wish. Over the long years, the Assyrians have always had more defeats than victories in their wars with the Hurrians. If it weren't for the frequent internal strife caused by the Hurrian territory's current ally, the Kimo territory, which forced the Hurrians to divide their troops for defense or attack, the military pressure on the Assyrians would have been even greater.
Just as Woolley had said to Helen - it was thanks to the low productivity of the territories on the continent and the constant consumption of fighting and stopping. Otherwise, if they worked hard to accumulate strength for ten or twenty years and then made a concerted effort, there would be no territory that could not be conquered.
In Wu Lai's view, the wars between the territories and the civil unrest in Kimo's territory were both child's play.
However, he had no intention of correcting this. Firstly, it was not worth it. Secondly, it was fine this way. At least it was beneficial to him.
The Big Three have different opinions on Woolley's victory...
"Woleglindo is a person favored by God. When he was still a child in Seneca City, the then high priest of the Seneca Temple, Scarlet Mikoyan, discovered this and gave the most positive and correct guidance, which inspired and stimulated Wuleglindo's potential, allowing him to gain more of the favor of the supreme god Amon..."
"...The victory that Wuleglindo achieved in the defense zone of the city-state of Kayikede is closely related to the favor of the god Amon. Think about it, the enemy of Wuleglindo is the most elite Hurriyet First Legion, which is known to be invincible and unstoppable. It is called the Demon Legion by the Assyrian regular army. Liehuo Lanting is a famous general in the Hurriyet territory. Looking across Assyria, the only ones who can match his fame are the commanders of the various legions. However, such a top-notch legion was defeated by the local army led by Wuleglindo, and even lost a brave general of Liehuo Lanting's level. Is there any other explanation other than the favor of the gods?" Saint Leon asked loudly.
A group of clergymen and nobles who were listening shook their heads. Yes, given Wulai Grindo's age, his original fame, and the "grassroots team" of the Salt Marsh Army, how could they have achieved such an impressive record without some other help? But in Qiyuan Duncan's mouth, Wulai's help was not a favor from God.
"You may not know, but Wuleglindo is a member of my Duncan family. This time he has made great contributions in the Kayikede Gap Defense Zone. He finally lived up to my and Weihuo's cultivation..." Qiyuan Duncan said proudly, while enjoying the envious gazes of everyone in the Senate.
Compared to Saint Lean and Qiyuan Duncan, although Connor was extremely happy, he was also the calmest. Wu Lai won a great victory for him in Kayikede that was enough to shock the continent. He felt that what he should do most now was not to cause trouble for Wu Lai, such as competing with Qiyuan Duncan to announce who Wu Lai belonged to, but to take advantage of the situation to gain as much benefit as possible for Wu Lai, because he believed that Wu Lai would not change his position at any time. After all, it was Lini who recommended Wu Lai to him, and Connor has always had no doubt about Lini's character and vision.
Therefore, Connor simply attributed the victory of the Saltmarsh Army to Woolley's good leadership and proper response, and then organized a discussion on what kind of reward to give to the Saltmarsh Army...
It is worth mentioning that it was not just the three giants who were willing to reward Woolley Grindo and the Saltmarsh Army. After learning of Woolley's victory, the Scheumann family, the Koch family, the Wright family, and the Seneca Kiwanis Alliance all took action. They either used their own channels to promote Woolley's reputation, or organized supplies to entertain the troops, or recruited soldiers to expand Woolley's strength...
The most interesting of them was Leiter, who spent a large sum of money to hire more than 20 minstrels in the shortest possible time, composed a long poem specifically praising Uleglindo, and then provided each minstrel with a carriage and entourage, and asked them to go to various cities in Assyria to sing.
"I want to make the name of my good brother, Uleglindo, resound throughout Assyria." When he first decided to do this, he said this to his followers in a decisive tone.
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Two days later, the temple decided to award Wu Lai the title of Honorary Golden Knight. The reason why there is a prefix of "Honor" before this title is because Wu Lai is not a clergyman. You should know that Golden Knights are very rare. Although they are called temple protectors, in terms of status and respect, they are definitely on par with scarlet priests.
In addition to the title, the temple also allocated 250,000 gold coins from the temple treasury for rewards, 50,000 of which were for Wu Lai personally, and the other 200,000 were naturally rewards for the Salt Marsh Army.
The Senate's generosity was no less than that of the temple. In addition to the same 250,000 gold coins, Wu Lai also became a special attendee of the Senate - this was a seat specially added to reward Wu Lai, so Wu Lai was considered to have set a precedent in Assyria.
In addition to the above, the Duncan family also presented a thousand sets of fine armor as gifts.
Compared with these two giants, Connor's contribution was a bit shabby. In addition to engraving Woolley's name on the Military Merit Wall of the Supreme Council, the Supreme Council only allocated 150,000 gold coins for reward, and the 150,000 gold coins were also designated to be divided equally between Woolley, DiCaprio and Date.
However, the Supreme Council gave Wu Lai a big advantage in calculating military merits. After voting, the Supreme Council unanimously agreed that starting from this victory, the Salt Marsh Army and other armies led by Wu Lai would enjoy the privilege of doubling their military merits. In other words, the previous calculation method of calculating one "star" of military merit for killing one enemy and two "stars" for capturing one prisoner would be doubled for Wu Lai.
Connor's purpose was simple: to increase Wulai's appeal. Just imagine, if local troops and private armies followed other legions to gain military merit, it would be equal, but when it came to Wulai, it would be equal, with such a generous reward, would Wulai still have trouble recruiting soldiers in the future? Compared with the Big Three, the rewards from the people were quite varied. In addition to gold, silver and jewelry, they also had everything from food, clothing and daily necessities. Even their entertainment convoys set out earlier than the Big Three. The strength of the Shuman and Koch families was also demonstrated - in addition to money, they also sent more than 2,000 young and strong slaves to Wulai.
As for Wright, his actions were even more exaggerated. He paid out of his own pocket to build a statue of Wu Lai in Seneca City and Salt Marsh Town. He was now asking about the appearance of Liehuo Lanting, because he planned to carve the statue of Wu Lai into an image of a man with his feet on Liehuo's head, to highlight Wu Lai's "impressive martial arts"...
It seemed like in the blink of an eye, almost a month had passed since the Battle of Fiery Death. In the twenty days or so, not only did more than 80% of the Assyrian territory know about Wulai's victory, but Hulit, Kimo and even Tianjuan territories also learned the outcome of the war.
Thus, Wu Lai's reputation spread slowly but steadily across the continent.
His name made many Assyrians happy and admired, but also made Assyria's enemies hate him, but these things were no longer within Wu Lai's consideration. After so many days of fighting, he knew very well what the enemies in the Shitan camp continued to transport materials from the other side of the river to reinforce the fortifications meant. Compared with false reputation, how to defend this defense zone was his primary consideration.
Hulett's First Corps was building and reinforcing, and Wu Lai's defense zone was also building, reinforcing, and adjusting its layout. In addition, Wu Lai's most important job was to teach the commanders, urge them to train, and let them and the soldiers master more things as soon as possible...
When some are happy, others are sad. While Wu Lai's victory boosted the morale of the entire territory, Gosmondo was having a hard time.
These days, seeing the Wulai craze spreading slowly centered on the city of Assyria, Gosmondo was furious. When Howell suffered a heavy blow last time, he was thinking about how to save his face. Finally, he gritted his teeth and decided to recruit 10,000 horses from the Mondo Woye to expand Howell's strength, and then find a way to re-station the Gap Defense Zone. At the same time, in order to increase the chances of the Woye Army's victory, he personally invited several Assyrian celebrities to make a complete set of defense deployment plans based on the terrain of the Gap Defense Zone.
However, when the reinforcements of the Woye Army were still on the way, the news of Wu Lai's victory was passed back to Assyria. If it was just an ordinary victory, it would have been fine, but they defeated the most powerful enemy that the Assyrian legions feared the most, and even killed a famous general.
In this case, can the position of the Salt Marsh Army in the Gap Defense Zone be shaken?
One day, Cosmondo was returning home from a meeting at the Supreme Council. Just as the carriage had gone a short distance, a black covered carriage caught up with it and drove side by side. Cosmondo frowned and was about to tell the driver to speed up when the window of the black covered carriage suddenly opened, revealing an extremely beautiful woman's face: "Excuse me, are you Lord Cosmondo?"
When he saw this familiar face, Gosmondo's heart skipped a beat: "Is it you?"
"No." The woman chuckled and replied.