Chapter 427: Plenty of Results
"So you really arrived on July 7?" Catherine asked in disbelief. "You should have just arrived at Xiaochi City and driven out the besieging army."

"It turns out that the noble coalition is not that scary." Horn patted Catherine's soft waist and said, "Aunt Catherine, please go down. Don't always take advantage of me."

"Who cares?" Catherine, who had been attacked by Horn using her age and weight before, finally got angry.

She jumped off Horn's lap, but lost her balance and almost fell to the ground. She glared at Horn with her eyes wide open: "How old are you? You call me aunt?"

"I'm nineteen, how about you?"

Catherine seemed to choke on her food, and after a while she gritted her teeth and said, "Twenty-one."

"Impossible. Martin said you're older than him."

"So what?" Catherine puffed out her strong pectoral muscles. "My life span is 150 years. Thirty is just 20 for ordinary people."

"I'm a male witch, so I'm nineteen years old, so what's wrong with me calling you aunt?" Catherine provoked Horn's stubbornness, "Why are you pretending to be a little girl when you're already old?"

A surge of blood rushed to Catherine's forehead, and the sound of her heart pounding could almost be heard with her ears.

Blood pressure is high.

I have to say, Catherine suddenly felt that it made sense that she mistook Horn for Juanno. The two big shit mouths looked like they were carved from the same mold.

It’s just that Horn is relatively sarcastic, while Juanno is more direct and talks about old women all the time.

"Get out, get out!"

"Why?"

"I'm going to change my clothes, you get out!" Pushing Horn's back, Catherine pushed him out of the bedroom and slammed the door behind him.

Horn brushed the dust off his shoulders but did not leave immediately. Instead, he kept his head against the door for seven or eight seconds. When he heard the rustling sounds of someone washing inside, he slowly exhaled.

After all these jokes, this witch probably doesn't have much will to die anymore.

When Horn saw her before, he could clearly feel that she still had the determination to die, and even her desire to live was very weak.

This witch who can stimulate the growth of plants is exactly what Horn needs right now.

Can't die, still useful.

In order to feed her blood in time and prevent her from giving up treatment, Horn stayed by her side for three days.

Otherwise, with Horn's busy schedule, how could he find time to sit by the bed and read?

As for the fact that his own blood could regulate his violent mana, it was really a pleasant surprise, but...

Horn touched his neck. For some reason, when he came into contact with Catherine, whose rage had not yet dissipated, he felt a pulling sensation on his neck again and blood flowed out.

The feeling lasted only for a moment, and he even wondered if it was an illusion.

Walking out of the inner bedroom, Horn sat down on the main seat in the conference room and looked at the busy people in the conference room.

The battle of Rapid City has ended for three days, but the post-war statistical work and review meeting are still going on.

This battle involved tens of thousands of people and covered hundreds of kilometers. For such a large-scale operation, there are too many things that need to be counted and reviewed.

Fortunately, Horn gave them a deadline, forcing them to produce a brief report within the specified time.

Seeing Horn sitting down, Armand, who was writing on paper, picked up the report and walked quickly to Horn's side.

"How many of those knights of the imperial order ran away?" Horn took the report from Armand, but did not read it. Instead, he asked Armand directly.

"There are 300 people in Arman's command company, among which 18 command knights escaped, 25 square flag knights escaped, and 52 squire knights escaped." "So many squire knights escaped?" Horn scratched his head and opened the report. After reading it for a while, he suddenly realized.

This squire knight is a lightly armored unit and was deployed to the battlefield early to fight guerrilla warfare.

The battle situation was not favorable for them as they ran very fast, and the Savior Army's main target was the Knights of the Imperial Order, so they naturally had no energy to deal with them.

"What about the imperial decree company in the city?"

"We attacked from the south gate, and the Imperial Order Company fled from the west gate. The total number of their Imperial Order Knights is unknown, but we left more than 30 of them behind."

After a period of training and practice in Cassia County, Armand became much more capable. He concluded: "Overall, the number of Order Knights we annihilated and captured is definitely more than a hundred, and the enemy probably only managed to escape with an understaffed Order Company."

Horn counted on his fingers and found that Prince Conte had a total of nine companies of imperial orders. One was killed in the Battle of Pavia, one and a half were killed in the Battle of Rapides, and one was killed by Meliati.

So Prince Kongdai now only has five reorganized imperial command companies and one under-commissioned imperial command company.

There were four battlefields in Upper Rivershire, one led by Barnifors in Feiliu Castle, and half led by Elad.

If there hadn't been a heavy fortress detention dock blocking the waterway downstream, Horn would have wanted to take the opportunity to take a boat downstream and destroy Feiliu Fort in one go.

With the scant military strength of Hotam County, who could stop him?
"What is the overall situation of the Salvation Army in this battle?"

“The ten old legions suffered 127 killed, 388 seriously wounded, and 1253 slightly wounded;
The two Black Cap Recruit Corps suffered 115 killed, 110 seriously wounded, and 222 slightly wounded;
As for the militia of Xiaochi City, only about 500 of them have arrived at the camp outside the city, and the rest should have fled."

Compared with the Battle of Pavia, which also annihilated an Imperial Order Company, the Salvation Army at that time lost more than a quarter of its soldiers (not including minor injuries).

Today, if we only consider the proportion of regular troops, only about one-tenth has been lost.

Of course, the number of troops is similar to the previous Battle of Pavia, but the biggest difference is:
In the Battle of Pavia, the Saviors only had to deal with 500 extraordinary people, but in Rapid City, they had to deal with more than 1200 extraordinary people.

"And what about the Church's army?"

"If we exclude the squire knights, they have 1200 true extraordinary knights." Armand scratched his head. "If we only count the extraordinary knights, we have annihilated or captured nearly half of them."

Following Armand's narration, Horn flipped through the report.

The great battle three days ago took place in a plain area and the enemy had too many troops.

Although the Saviors defeated them, the number of those actually captured or killed was not as high as in the Battle of Pavia.

But compared to the other rebellious cats and dogs, this annihilation rate is frighteningly high.

Of the 1200 extraordinary knights who went on the expedition, only about 700 escaped from the vicinity of Rapid City. The total number of guards and squire knights captured by the Savior Army was nearly .

Upon hearing the news of the king's defeat, other nearby troops quickly fled, even the garrison officer of the important town of Ansenburg fled.

After the Battle of Rapid City, the Imperial Order Company was severely damaged, and the remaining noble knights did not dare to act recklessly. They could only defend the Deer Horn Township in the north of River County.

At present, Horn did not continue to attack this part of the army. On the one hand, there were many castles on the opposite side and it was not cost-effective to take them down bit by bit. On the other hand, there was no need for that for the time being.

The main attack direction he chose was Gouhu Township, and currently Jeanna is leading her troops to attack there.

Once Gouhu Township is captured by the Salvation Army, the southern part of Lower River County, the eastern part of Kasha County and the entire Langsander County will be connected.

The political talents of Kasha County and the economic talents of Xiarefu County can all feed back to the Salvation Army government of Langsander County.

Just as Horn was still thinking about the complementary nature of the Three County Alliance, the sound of a door being pushed open came from behind him.

Catherine, wearing a set of casual clothes, appeared in front of Horn.

(End of this chapter)