Chapter 856 What can I do?!
The dwarf troops came and left quickly. Seeing their quickly leaving backs, Shi Lei breathed a sigh of relief.
They have just finally solved the problem of the greenskins. If they turn around and face the dwarves again, it would be a real nightmare.
While Shi Lei and Woking were talking, the medical team in the city had already started rescuing the cavalry troops outside the city as quickly as possible.
Unlike the infantry units fighting in the city, the cavalry units led by Xie Liancheng directly bore the brunt of the head-on attack with the Goblin Wolf Cavalry, suffering heavy casualties. Xie Liancheng even fainted, and Li Tie was also covered in wounds.
After giving brief instructions on what needed to be done, Shi Lei went to look at the two of them.
Li Tie was seriously injured, but his life is basically safe, so there is no need to worry.
But Xie Liancheng is still unconscious...
"Lieutenant Colonel Xie has woken up, notify me immediately."
After giving this order, Shi Lei turned and left.
As the commander of an army, a war had just ended and he had a lot to do! The detailed casualty report was quickly delivered to him.
In this battle, the casualties of the infantry units in the city were relatively minor, but it was their cavalry units that suffered heavy losses.
Of the three hundred Great Zhou cavalrymen, in this bloody battle with the Goblin Wolf Cavalry, one hundred and ninety-seven were killed, thirty-one were seriously injured, and the rest were mostly slightly injured.
In addition, a total of 173 war horses were lost, and 21 were lost.
This is not a small number.
You have to know that the war horses of their Great Zhou cavalry are not just any horses. Each war horse is carefully selected and trained before it can be used as a war horse. The investment cost is very high.
Not to mention the cost of training and raising cavalry.
Adding up the cost of horses and cavalry, this wave was equivalent to the loss of an infantry unit of 2,000 people! Of course, if you think optimistically, they at least defeated the greenskins and defended the New North District, and they didn't have to hand over the land they had just occupied.
With this feeling in mind, Shi Lei began to write a report to their Majesty.
At the same time, outside the lumberyard in Greenwood City, Centaurs with shackles on their hands and feet were sweating and dragging carts full of wood towards the timber processing plant.
Needless to say, these are the Centaur mercenaries who were captured by Jie Liancheng and his men.
They in the Great Zhou Dynasty have never kept idle people, and the same goes for the Centaurs.
At first, they were held in a nearby recruit training camp, but as autumn approached, the pressure of autumn harvest gradually increased in the New South District.
Zhou Xu had previously recruited 5,000 soldiers, and his impact on the labor force in the New South District cannot be ignored.
In this way, they simply sent this group of Centaur captives to Green Forest City temporarily to use them as cheap labor.
In the New South District, Green Forest City is not only a major city that produces timber, but is also the second largest grain-producing city.
When the Centaur captives arrived here, the job assigned to them, to put it simply, was to pull carts, and their main responsibility was to transport crops and wood.
Outside the farm, accompanied by heavy muffled sounds, the farmers put the bagged grain onto the carriage one by one.
"Almost done, let's go!"
As another bag of grain was put down, the farmer patted the carriage, indicating that the Centaur captive could set off.
“Is this the last batch for today?”
As he spoke, the Centaur captive turned his head to look at the two bags of food that had not been loaded yet, and then looked at the carriage that was already full.
"Yes, this is the last batch for today."
The Centaur prisoner nodded after getting the answer, then pointed.
"Put those two bags of food directly on my back so I don't have to make another trip later."
"Is it okay? This cart of food is already very heavy."
The Centaur prisoner couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this.
"How can I not do this?! Find a rope to fix it, and I can carry ten more bags without any problem. Come on, we have to eat dinner!"
After hearing this, the farmer was not angry, but laughed happily twice.
"That's fine!"
As he spoke, he moved the two bags of food directly onto the back of the Centaur captive.
Feeling the weight pressing down on him, the Centaur captive tensed his body.
To be honest, it's heavy!
But considering the old man watching on the side, the Centaur captive immediately snorted and pretended to be relaxed as he pulled the cart of food away.
When they arrived at the place and unloaded the grain cart, the Centaur captive stretched his muscles, but did not rest. He trotted all the way towards the canteen not far away, where the fragrance of food was already wafting out.
He met other tribesmen on the way, all of whom looked the same as him.
"What do you think will be for dinner tonight?"
"I want to eat braised pork."
"I want to eat ribs."
"The braised pork and spareribs are good, but I still want to eat the fried chicken with vinegar."
“…”
After all, they were a special race to be recruited, and as the Centaur captives worked hard, Zhou Xu did not treat them harshly with their food.
As of now, they are quite satisfied with the canteen food in Green Forest City.
A group of people came to the cafeteria, talking to each other. If it weren't for the shackles on their hands and feet, who would have thought that they were actually a group of captives? In the cafeteria, many people had already arrived before them. There were humans and other centaur captives.
When they saw them come in, they even greeted them very familiarly. Everyone was used to their presence and no one thought there was anything strange about their appearance in the cafeteria.
To be honest, the Centaurs themselves didn't understand why they became like this.
If you think about it carefully, when they were first captured, they had to do hard labor here in order to survive while their hands and feet were shackled. Each of them was filled with hatred and resentment, and at least they were still unruly in their hearts.
However, in their subsequent work, they inevitably came into contact with the people of the Great Zhou, and it was in this process that their ideas began to subtly change.
You know, in their past contacts with humans, the humans they met mostly looked at them with fear, disgust, or even hatred.
They are mercenaries who earn money from war. Over time, they are almost tied to war. Whenever they appear, war is bound to occur.
This made many humans regard them as disaster stars.
As soon as they showed up, the war broke out, as if they had brought it upon themselves.
The Centaurs have always felt that they don't care about these things. After all, they do make money from war. So what if it's a disaster? They don't care what humans think of them.
But until now, they have been working as laborers in Da Zhou for a quarter. In their interactions with the people of Da Zhou, they slowly realized that they still cared about...
(End of this chapter)
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