1823 The Death of a Famous General (4)
Since last night, Algernonkatya felt that something must be wrong, the Vekia Falcon would not use the army to be busy all night just to show a breathtaking "funeral", sure enough, when the sky was completely bright, he felt that the Falcon army formation opposite was different from yesterday, but he couldn't detect the difference for a while, and then he heard the attendant next to him muttering in a confused voice, "It's strange, the two infantry regiments on the left flank actually ran directly to the edge of the river on the left!"
"What, the river on the left?"
Algernonkatya's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he followed the direction described by the attendant, and sure enough, he saw that without realizing it, the two camps on the left flank of the Falcon Army moved to the left about three hundred meters at the same time, because they were still from the left, so he just felt a little awkward, but he didn't pay attention,
It was facing the mouth rock wall on the side of the mountain city of Danny, a smooth cliff wall up to hundreds of meters high that could not be climbed at all, and it was a strategically meaningless position, a place where the city of Danny could never be breached, because no one could climb up from it.
But the abnormal movement of the Falcon Army shook him, his eyes flashed with a look of confusion and hesitation, a person like Vekia Falcon would never do useless work, painstakingly placed the two main infantry flag regiments there, occupied the river with heavy troops, and arranged hundreds of large ballistae to discharge an inclined long line that could form a long-range strangulation, obviously in order to completely block any attack that Danny might launch in the direction of the river, Algernonkatya shuddered.
This arrangement is not attacking! It is defending! What is the Vecchia Falcon defending?" Algernon Katya's eyebrows were completely twisted together, "Order someone to set up an observation post on the cliff wall on the left! Keep an eye on the movement of the Falcon Army in the river at all times!"
No one can turn a deaf ear to the arrangement of a military god, just like two chess players, the clever opponent made a discarded move, and the low chess strength could only follow the next move to scrap the chess for insurance, this feeling made Algernonkatya feel a little angry in his heart, but the new situation caught him a little off guard, and the city guard reported that the Falcon army besieging the city brought confidence to the Gauls in the city.
Can we really hold on, or how long can we hold out like this? Such voices of confusion flowed among the Gauls. The city guard law enforcement team immediately dispatched all of them, and as many as 120 people were arrested in just one morning, which was a very strict message, and the faces of the city guard officers who came to report looked a little painful. He was instructed to put an all-out effort into suppressing the rebellion in the city. But it was the Gallic compatriots who were caught. What to do with the 120 men at such a critical moment became a problem, and he reported the results of the arrest to Algernon Katya
"According to the wartime decrees of the Empire, such a person who does not want to serve the country should be executed!"
Algernonkatya's face was expressionless. Picking up the quill pen on the table, dipping it in a sapphire blue ink bottle, and signing his own order on the execution book with very elegant writing lines, in this way, 120 people did not go through any interrogation procedures, and directly executed the public execution order for the Falcon Army's spies who had infiltrated the city according to the Gallic wartime decrees, and the proclamator with goose feathers on his head held the proclamation he had just signed, and the blue clothes and red pants stood in the square in the center of the city to announce the execution of these spies on the mouth rock wall facing the river 100 meters high, and the faces of the Gauls who listened around showed a trace of indignation
At the same time, Algernonkatya, who was in his office, rolled up another letter signed by himself and handed it to the attendant: "Shoot an arrow at the Vecchia Falcon outside the city, and I invite him to watch at three o'clock in the afternoon under the mouth rock wall how these "spies" are executed!"
"Invitation to the Falcon...... My lord, is this good, those 120 people are all our Gauls! They may have some complaints, but is it not ...... to execute in front of the enemy's emperor?"
Erdenon Katya waved his hand with a gloomy face and interrupted him, "Of course I know that those 120 people have nothing to do with the Falcon Army, but now if you want to stabilize the hearts of the people in the city, you have to do this, as for the others believe it or not, it is because of this that I specially invited the Vechia Falcon to watch, as long as the battle flag of the Vekia Falcon appears under the rock mouth barrier, who will question that these 120 people are not spies of the Falcon Army"
The corners of Algernonkatya's mouth were slightly grinning, his eyes looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, and he said to himself, "Although it will leave a reputation for brutality, only in this way can we delay the chaos in the city as much as possible!
Algernonkatya's fingers were intertwined, and his face looked obscure,
At the Falcon Army camp. The fat man received a letter from the front, and in the face of Algernon Katya's so-called invitation, the corners of his mouth were a little angry and ridiculous,
The Falcon did not infiltrate the spies in Danny, let alone arrest 120 of them, and it was obvious that this was a superficial use of the situation, and Algernonkatya had already felt uneasy, and in order to suppress all kinds of chatter that might arise in the city, he did whatever it took to suppress all kinds of chatter that might arise in the city.
"Reply to the city, I will be in front of the cliff on time!" said the fat man to Hukochili, who had delivered the letter
"Your Majesty, the other party is obviously not well-intentioned, why do you still ......" Hu Keqili was a little puzzled
"It's such a good show, how can you not go!" The fat man smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, patted the shoulder of the important minister of the empire and said, Hu Keqili's face looked a little dazed, what is the plan of the falcon in his heart?" "Why don't you go, such an interesting thing, that guy seems to want to run away!" The fat man laughed and walked out of the military tent. The guard guarding at the door hurriedly put his right hand on his chest and saluted, and the fat man said to the guard, "Tell the carpenter in the army, before three o'clock in the afternoon, hurry up to make one hundred and twenty coffins, since they are all acting, then play a little more play!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" the guard nodded and turned away, and the carpenters who accompanied the army quickly made a hundred and twenty coffins,
At 2:30 p.m., on the cliff face to the left of Danny. The Gauls were black and crushed. The crowd was crowded, and the 3,000 soldiers who were dispatched to sustain the last, laboriously formed a blocking line with their spears, and shouted "Don't mess around." Don't mess around!"
The wind blew across the mossy cliff front. 120 soldiers selected from the army overseers stood at the front of the cliff. The stakes used to cut off their heads were lined up at their feet, all of them new ones cut down in the morning, and they still exuded the characteristic fragrance of elm.
The soldiers of the Overseer drew their swords, and the fragrance was tainted by another smell, the smell of human blood, and 120 Gauls judged to be spies were kneeling in rows, their heads covered with black hoods, their hands tied behind their backs, and their mouths seemed to be stuffed, and they could only make a whining sound, like a row of earthworms writhing
"Is the Falcon of Vicchia coming?" Algernonkatya asked the overseer in a low voice, he looked at the hourglass that represented time, the scene was about to be staged, but the main audience had not yet come, did they dare not come, or were they not interested!"Not yet, my lord!" The warlord replied with an uncertain face, Vekia Falcon will reply, but who dares to guarantee this kind of thing, at this moment, a team of black-armored cavalry appeared five hundred meters below the cliff, lined up along the raised mound, a golden falcon battle flag appeared like a wind roll, the battle flag burst, a killing aura made the Gauls on the cliff feel depressed, embroidered with the golden falcon battle flag, reflected in the gloomy sky, iron hooves sonorous,
The black armor shimmered with a dark sheen, and as the cavalry dispersed, a figure appeared in everyone's eyes
"Dimension...... Vekia Falcon!" A citizen of Denny turned pale with fright and his legs trembled
"Oh my God, it's that demon!" a Gallic woman almost collapsed on the ground, it was terrifying, "it's the embodiment of a pool of blood!" A white-haired old man drew a cross on his chest with both hands, swearing that he had never seen such a terrible person in his life, in front of everyone's eyes, that person was wearing a black eagle wing helmet on his head, riding a strong and beautiful armor chest armor like a tall war horse like a monster in the night, the chest was in the shape of a white thorn flower, and the shoulders of the armor were covered with sharp edges and corners, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but the whole person stood there, and his whole body was filled with a strong murderous aura, that feeling, like a demon god overlooking all living beings,
When the person raised his head and shot his gaze towards the cliff, he "whew" tens of thousands of Gauls at the same time felt as if their hearts were being violently entangled, "bang-la-la" footsteps were chaotic, and the crowd crowded and retreated back more than ten meters away, as if pushed backwards by an invisible giant hand,
It wasn't until the man's gaze was removed from this side that a sound of inhalation sounded in the crowd,
It's really terrifying, this rumored demon king who killed millions of people, with a shuddering coercion, even if it is separated by hundreds of meters, separated by a wall as high as 100 meters, it also makes all Gauls feel the cold winter in their hearts, there is silence all around, tens of thousands of people are suppressed by the momentum of one person, and they don't even dare to breathe,
"Mom, look, I'm not afraid of him!"
A little Gallic boy with withered yellow hair bravely picked up the stones at his feet, and wanted to rush forward and throw them in the direction of the mound below, but was dragged back by his mother behind him, and the mother, who had always doted on the child, slapped the little boy's immature face!
"What do you want to do! You're crazy, you're dead, and your mother is dying too!" the mother hugged the child with tears in her eyes, and her hands were firmly refusing to part
"Big ...... My lord, the Vikia Falcon is here!"
A squire trotted to the table where Algernon Katya was located, where more than a dozen tables were lined up, and the Gallic generals were sitting behind the tables one by one, discussing with great interest about this public execution, the execution of 120 spies at one time, for the generals who were familiar with the situation, it was like watching a joke, and when they heard that the Vecchia Falcon was really coming to the appointment, the generals' faces suddenly became very strange, and they glanced at each other, and there was a rare silence,," We have 100,000 troops inside the city and only 100,000 Falcon troops outside the city, and we are the defenders. They are the attackers, our army is waiting for work, the enemy is a continuous expedition, and the other side is making a common-sense mistake, thinking that our army will be trapped because of this swamp, but the other side is wrong" "In fact, with equal forces, if we do not take into account the inhabitants of the city, we can completely calmly break through the siege! But before again, we cannot show the slightest sign of a breakthrough, quite the opposite. We're going to use the blood of these 120. Let the Falcon Army think that our army will defend to the end, and let the citizens in the city think that we will live and die with the city" Algernon Katya, who had assigned the task, stopped in his voice, and his sharp eyes swept over the generals attending the meeting and said sharply, "This is the best secret of our army. If there is a leak. Everyone is going to die in Danny!"
After learning that Lord Algernonkatya had decided to break out of Danny. The generals collectively chose silence, and Danny had become a dead city, and the 200,000 Danny civilians in the city would eventually drag down the army. Instead of having to slaughter a large number of civilians in the end to get respite, it is better to use the blood of these 120 people to buy time for delay, the time for the breakthrough has been set for the night after tomorrow, the kilometer swamp is the biggest problem, but as long as it is such a hot weather for several days, as long as it does not rain, the swamp will become dry and hard,
In order to deceive everyone in the city, Algernonka demanded a public execution of 120 Falcon spies in the wide terrain of the cliffs.
From here, you can also see the mound below, Algernonkatya stood up from his seat with a solemn face, he has always regarded the Vekia Falcon as his fateful opponent, he saw the situation just now, it was worse than expected, one person frightened tens of thousands of people, what kind of force is this!
He didn't even doubt that once the 200,000 civilians in Denny City knew that they would be abandoned by the army, there would be an irrepressible chaos immediately, and a decision must be made! He said in a cold voice, "I see it, my eyes are not blind, let's execute it!" "My lord, didn't you say that you were going to denounce the Vecchia Falcon in public?" a general reminded in a low voice, "You also saw the situation just now, this is already the situation, what is the point of denouncing!" Algernonkatya rolled his eyes, he did have such a plan at the beginning, and scolded the Vekia Falcon below at the height of the cliff to improve the morale of the army and the people of his side, at that time, the scene just now made him completely unconfident, and the voice of the "all raise their swords" Overseer was cold and loud, "Huh" The soldiers of the Overseer Brigade's stern faces raised their hands neatly and raised the infantry two-handed heavy swords that could cut off people's necks with a single sword, and the smooth sword faces made of one hundred and twenty Bode steel were like raising a river of light under the gloomy sky, and the surrounding crowd stirred again,
The crowd was like a flock of ducks that had been held by the neck, stretching their necks one by one, shouting "Raise your sword, raise your sword!" and some of the sinners' families howled in the crowd.
Algernonkatya slowly raised his right hand, and the eyes of the soldiers of the Overseer were on him, as soon as the hand fell, the heavy sword would fall, and then the head would roll
The fat man raised his head and looked at the execution ground above the cliff, his eyebrows frowned slightly, from the moment he received the deliberate letter from Algernon Katya, he had a suspicion, this guy arranged such a farce with such fanfare, I am afraid that it is not only to suppress the abnormal movement in the city, this farce is for himself, but also for the residents of Danny City, since Hasenranpo died under Danny City, the fat man guessed that Algernon Katya had already started to run away
The light of the knife flickered, blood spurted out of the headless chest, and the man who was still struggling in front of the stake collapsed, his head falling off and rolling according to inertia, all over the ground,
The farthest one rolled out more than 20 meters, and rolled to the feet of the watchers, the head was originally covered with a black cloth, but there was no neck, and the black cloth fell off in the rolling, and the human head inside rolled out, and suddenly there was a commotion, a fat face, a pair of dead fish bleached eyes bulged out of the eye sockets, and the tongue in the mouth was only half cut, and half of it didn't know where it went,
It was Locke, the pig butcher in the city, someone recognized the name of this head, because when selling meat, he joked that there might be no food in the city, but there would definitely be meat, and he was arrested in the name of a spy, according to the city guard, this guy must be thinking about scraping the dirty business of selling human flesh after the food is eaten up, such a person should be killed in advance, otherwise I don't know how many people will eat human flesh, kill a butcher for a lifetime, and today I have been treated the same, the bone rub with the cervical vertebrae cut off, in the red flesh looks extraordinarily white, white dazzling, disgusting, like a fat pig's head, more than one person began to make vomiting sounds
"Someone, send one hundred and twenty coffins to the city of Danny!"
The fat man felt bored and waved his hand, this play is not very exciting, he would think that Algernon Katya would generously preach loudly to himself, the villain, in order to play the role enough, who knew that he would not even dare to let go of a fart and end it in a sloppy end!
But he still has to follow the rules, one hundred and twenty coffins, and if he confesses this false accusation, a smart guy like Algernonkatya will understand! This is a war book, there is no point in deception, it is impossible to escape quietly, if you want to leave, you must fight with dignity, or lie in the coffin and leave Denny. One hundred and twenty coffins, spread over the heads of those middle and upper Gallic officers, should be about the same!(To be continued......)