The elite Golden King's Tiger Guards among the elites of the Nesiodin Empire have been fully mobilized at this moment and are roaming around the retreating tribes.

If the Broken Mouth Blood Cavalry attacks, it will inevitably receive a wave of hard blows.

In normal times, the Broken Mouth Blood Cavalry would definitely not be afraid of fighting a tough battle, even with the Golden King's Tiger Guard, which is said to be established to deal with them.

But after months of continuous fierce fighting and being exhausted, there was no need for them to make this uncomfortable.

Although the Golden King's Tiger Guards have been wandering around the battlefield as a supervising or threatening force, they have never been involved in the bloody battle from beginning to end.

How could the Theodin Empire be willing to devote its elites to such a siege and attrition war when it had sufficient manpower?

According to incomplete statistics after the war, a total of more than 150,000 people were killed in this all-out attack by the Theodin Empire, and the wounded were not among them. According to the current medical conditions of the Theodin Empire, there will be tens of thousands of people killed due to injuries and illnesses.

One after another they died on the way back.

This number sounds quite terrifying, but in fact, it does not have a particularly large impact on the Theodin Empire as a whole.

Because nearly two-thirds of these 150,000 were expelled herdsmen from the Eastern Odin Empire.

Even if such people are of the same race, in the eyes of the rulers of the Theodin Empire, they do not belong to humans, they are just a group of walking wealth.

Even if they were not killed on the broken line of defense, many of them would not be able to make it to the finish line as the army retreated to the Miracle Peninsula.

The number of Odin orcs who were scattered by the Broken Blood Cavalry and driven back to the grassland was probably the same.

Most of them will reattach themselves to various large and small tribes and become part of the Theodin Empire again. When the Theodin Empire next invades the south, they will be a potential source of troops.

This bloody battle did not bring any benefit to the Theodin Empire. It used blood and fire to temper those miscellaneous cannon fodder.

A large number of brave warriors have emerged from it, and they will be absorbed into the ruling class of the Theodin Empire in preparation for swallowing up the entire Odin Steppe in the future.

On the Broken Line defense line, a total of more than 12,000 people were killed, more than 10,000 were injured, more than 40,000 barrels of black powder were consumed, more than 2 million arrows of various types were used, and more than 20 fortresses were affected in different ways.

degree of damage.

This shows how much pressure the Theodin Empire has put on the Broken Vein Defense Line this time.

If it weren't for the new weapons produced by the Yong Ye Army Leader, the wave of troops that swept across Ulan Baz this time might have directly wiped out the entire Ashan Continent and taken the opportunity to dominate the world.

It is by no means a wonderful thing for the nomads to become powerful.

What they bring to the entire world is always conquest and killing.

At least that's the case for a short time.

This is destined by the culture they inherited. They are nomadic people with a desire to conquer in their bones. What they are best at is herding.

At that time, the objects of their herding will change from cattle and sheep to humans.

Although the war is over, there is still a series of follow-up work to be done in the Broken Mouth Blood Fortress.

There are corpses all up and down the defense line that need to be disposed of, whether they are those of Broken Blood Soldiers or Odin Orcs. This is the top priority. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. If they are not burned and buried as soon as possible, once the plague rages, it will sweep across the entire Broken Bloodline.

Line of defense.

When the Odin orcs come to attack next time, I wonder how many of them will be left on the city wall to defend.

It was obviously too late to burn them all, so most of them dug corpse pits and directly buried them on a large scale.

Then there is the treatment of the wounded and the repair of the city.

As for restarting border trade, we won’t think about it for a while.

After learning that the small tribes at the border were trading heavily with the Byron Alliance, Ulan Bage was once furious.

Those small tribes and ordinary herdsmen were unaware of the huge profits in this border trade. As the ruler of the Theodin Empire, how could he not be aware of it?

The Broken Line of Defense can be replaced on a large scale in a short period of time, and border trade is indispensable.

Previously, he was conquering the Eastern Odin Empire and had no time to take care of this matter.

Now I have taken the time to do large-scale renovations naturally.

First, strict laws were promulgated to strictly prohibit the Odin orc herdsmen from conducting trade with the Byron people without authorization.

Secondly, he mobilized elite troops and established several border patrol armies to prevent these herdsmen from violating his orders.

Although this approach only treats the symptoms but not the root cause, it cannot eliminate the needs of the Odin Orcs for various daily necessities.

However, it will be impossible for border trade to continue as unscrupulously as before and to seek huge profits.

Archduke Cedric has already tasted the sweetness of trade, and it is obviously intolerable for him to return to the previous situation of seeing the faces and moods of those lords and nobles.

Border trade has temporarily shrunk, but the internal market of the Byron Alliance is booming.

After all, it was not only the Broken Mouth Blood Castle that got the benefit, but also the merchants.

During the battle between the Broken Veins Defense Line and the Odin Orcs, they were not idle either.

Some of them turned around to expand the internal market of the Byron Alliance.

Others continue to run to the broken line of defense, transporting various military supplies to support the frontline war.

Most of these supplies are half sold and half given away to gain the right to purchase them first.

Prioritize the purchase of special products produced during the war - Odin Orc Prisoners.

Although the Byronic League had abolished slavery decades ago.

But this only applies to the Byrons themselves, and does not include the Odin Orcs.

It is not uncommon for serfdom to still exist in some relatively remote manors.

Because of the outlawing of slavery, they lost the source of serfs and had a large gap. Now that they had such a good opportunity, they naturally took advantage of it blatantly.

In this regard, the mine slave owners led by the Carter Army will always be the biggest buyers.

As the business market within the Byron Alliance became prosperous, bandits who wanted to get something for nothing also became active.

This in turn stimulated the businessmen's demand for mercenaries.

During the trial operation last year, retired soldiers from the Duankou Blood Fort had already established a good reputation in this industry.

This time Archduke Cedric even mobilized his newly established private military staff to conduct semi-official operations.

If you're lucky, it won't be a surprise to hire a real Broken Blood Rider from there.

Due to the formalization of the mercenary industry, those who began to hire them were not just businessmen.

Some local lords and nobles also began to pay to hire them to perform some anti-bandit tasks.

It was not only the merchants but also the local lords who benefited from commerce.

In addition to geographical conditions, a good public security environment is also an excellent condition for attracting businessmen.

Compared to sending people to suppress the bandits yourself, it is far less troublesome than hiring regular troops who came from the Duanmai Defense Line, which is safe and efficient.

For these bandit suppression missions, Broken Mouth Blood Fort usually attaches great importance to them. Not only does it send out elite soldiers, but the price charged is usually not particularly high.

The reason why Broken Mouth Blood Castle did this was of course not because they regarded themselves as messengers of justice to maintain the peace of the alliance, but because they found other interests in it.

Compared to hiring money, if you can directly destroy the lairs of these bandits, you can still get a lot of loot from them, which will go directly into their pockets.

Even if the bandits themselves don't hoard much wealth, if they are captured alive, it will still be a fortune for the Broken Mouth Blood Castle.

Their manpower supply has always been a big problem, especially in such a super-large battle. After a large number of casualties, a large number of soldiers are urgently needed to be replenished.

In the past, they passively waited for other lords and nobles to send them to them.

This time they took the opportunity to capture it themselves.

Of course, out of respect for the local lords and nobles, these bandits would usually be handed over to them for trial first.

If the crime is serious, they will be sent directly to the border gate and escorted away by mercenaries from Broken Mouth Blood Castle.

If the crime is minor, it will be handed over to the local lords and nobles, but the salary will be further increased.

Having said that, it's worth the money spent by the local lords and nobles to hire regular soldiers from the Blood Castle.

Most of them are extremely evil people, and the Broken Mouth Blood Castle is willing to accept them. Most of the local lords and nobles don't mind, and even welcome them.

Otherwise, if left in their hands, most of them will end up on the gallows.

They would not engage in such a loss-making business if they spent money to buy a corpse.

All of a sudden, the mercenary industry in Duankou Xuebao was booming.

The big and small bandits of the Byron Alliance are all in danger of themselves.

Either he washes his hands in a golden basin, and becomes an honest and obedient citizen in anonymity, never daring to stand out easily again.

Or he could go somewhere far away, such as joining the Commons family's piracy business, a place that the Broken Blood Castle could not reach.

Or just pack up and go directly to the Broken Mouth Blood Castle.

Anyway, sooner or later, he will not be able to escape his life in the army. Instead of letting others capture him, he might as well go to the army himself and receive some good treatment.

It is said that those bandits who were forcibly captured did not have a very easy life in the first few years. Not only did they have to undergo the most difficult training, but they also had to perform the most dangerous tasks, in order to polish off the bandit spirit in them and make them more capable.

They transform into real soldiers.

The battle that just happened on the Broken Vein Line of Defense is something that has never happened in a century.

However, within the Byron Alliance, the impact in a short period of time was still relatively limited - because the Strachey family repelled the invading enemies.
To be continued...