Chapter 178 Entering the City
Under the intimidation of the golden soldiers, these more than 20,000 collapsed enemy troops all chose to surrender without exception.

The soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt down on the ground tremblingly, and the miscellaneous personnel who followed the army also knelt down one by one when they saw the murderous appearance of the golden soldiers.

Among the countless kneeling people, the extraordinary knights who were still standing stood out.

Several teams close to the Super Knights looked at them.

What? You don’t want to surrender but still want to resist?
Looking at the extraordinary knights, they all came over with their swords sharpened.

However, as they approached, the still standing Super Knight finally couldn't hold it anymore.

They had originally planned to put on airs and wait for Roland to come in person to persuade them to surrender, but seeing Roland not moving at all and the golden soldiers approaching, they panicked.

A super knight was pushed out by them.

He looked in Roland's direction, mustered up his courage, and spoke loudly.

"Your Excellency Wizard, we will lay down our weapons, but we demand treatment that matches our status."

Hearing his words, the approaching golden soldiers were also disappointed, as were several soldiers holding spears, ready to attack them quietly. They could only continue to observe quietly.

However, although the soldiers were somewhat disappointed, they still remained vigilant. Several approaching teams stopped and stared silently at the enemy in front of them.

On the periphery, Roland, who heard their words, raised his head slightly and looked at them calmly.

Looking at their eyes that were still filled with dissatisfaction and pride, Roland said calmly.

"Lay down your weapons and surrender unconditionally, or die."

Roland was not interested in playing the unspoken rules between nobles with them. Prisoners were prisoners. They had to either surrender or die. Why say so much nonsense?

According to the previous rules of the game in Donnar, nobles would not be killed by default. Even if they were defeated and captured, they would still receive the proper treatment. If they were of a higher status, they would be provided with good food and drink.

However, the order of Donnar had long been destroyed by the Green Tide. Donnar now had entered a turbulent era where there was no order. All the explicit rules had been shattered, not to mention these implicit rules.

Moreover, if he didn't wipe them all out physically, how could Roland successfully take over Green Grass City?

He was not interested in ruling Green Grass City with this group of insects. Once Green Grass City was conquered, Roland would start a massacre.

Roland never intended to follow Donnar's traditional rule. In Roland's plan for Green Grass City, there was no place for hereditary nobles and knights. Officials directly appointed by Roland would replace them in Green Grass City.

Feudal aristocratic hierarchy? No.

Centralization? Yes.

Perhaps when Roland needs to unite some powerful knights and nobles in Donnar in the future, he may compromise in order to unite all forces to fight against the Green Tide.

But, at least now, Roland would not take the nobles of Green Grass City seriously, let alone make any compromise with them.

As Roland finished his words, the soldiers surrounding the Extraordinary Knight began to move again.

They struck their shields with their daggers, stopping after three strikes. The uniform sound shook the battlefield, and then they advanced in the direction of the extraordinary knights.

As the golden soldiers kept approaching, the group of extraordinary knights finally gave in. After witnessing how other extraordinary knights were killed by the golden soldiers' simple and unpretentious combos, the timid knights had long lost the courage to fight.

One by one they dismounted from their horses, laid down their weapons, raised their hands, and squatted obediently on the spot.

In their final stubbornness, they still did not kneel down like the other soldiers.

However, since they had surrendered, Roland would not kill the prisoners. After sealing their powers, he simply treated them as ordinary prisoners.

After the battle, Roland assigned two thousand soldiers to control the twenty thousand prisoners and directed them to simply clean up the battlefield.

At the same time, Roland randomly selected a lucky man from all the captured extraordinary knights and reconfirmed the situation in Green Grass City.

After Roland had led the captives to collect all the corpses and burned them, he led his army and 20,000 captives to once again embark on the expedition to Green Grass City.

Because Roland did not launch an attack while the enemy was marching, but attacked head-on, it gave them enough time to gather into a group.

Therefore, Roland used the few to defeat the many and caught them all in one fell swoop, without leaving any one escaping.

Moreover, Donnar is a region where knights are the mainstream, and communication tools are also quite expensive and rare. At least, the enemy army that Roland captured did not have any of them.

Therefore, Qingcao City was completely unaware of this battle and its outcome.

When Roland arrived at Qingcao City with his army, Qingcao City was not only completely unprepared, but even when they saw the captives being led by the golden soldiers, they thought they were their own people and took the initiative to open the gate.

Roland and the thousands of golden soldiers under his command were so conspicuous.

Riding on a captured warhorse, Roland looked at the wide-open city gate, then raised his head and glanced at the few soldiers on the city wall who were guarding their posts but were also gambling and having fun. He really didn't know what to say.

He felt that there was really no need for him to be so cautious and lead the team here in person.

With a stern face, he watched in silence as the guards at the city gate drove away the pedestrians at the gate and helped him clear a passage into the city.

Roland sighed deeply, not wanting to say anything more, and waved his hand silently.

He actually came here to attack the city and had no intention of deceiving the city, but since they were so proactive, he could only accept it with peace of mind.

Then, the soldiers filed in from both sides of him, and with the gate open to welcome them, they easily broke through the defenses of Green Grass City and entered the city.

With the whole city unprepared, the golden soldiers once again divided into small teams and quickly took over the city's town hall, granaries, armories, traffic arteries and other important buildings based on the map Roland had found from other people's memories.

The golden soldiers came in a menacing manner, and one could tell they were not to be trifled with just by looking at the golden equipment on their bodies.

Therefore, they took over important buildings smoothly without even being questioned.

It was not until they began to surround the local forces in Qingcao City and started to attack that the guards of the local forces discovered something was wrong, started to question them, and then a fight broke out.

Soon, fierce battles broke out at the headquarters of various local forces in Qingcao City.

(End of this chapter)