CHAPTER XV. Versailles IV
"Ah, it was Burroughs' group who died just now?" said Captain Raul when he heard Burroughs's name, and hurriedly asked the team leader.
"It's Jem of the Burroughs group, who was ...... by the city defense crossbow," the team leader said half of it a little unbearably.
"Dare to kill the soldiers of my detachment!" Anger suddenly appeared on the face of the leader of the Raul detachment, but the Burroughs group was the people of the second detachment! I saw the usually more cautious Raul detachment leader, after roaring angrily, he directly drew his saber and strode towards the city wall.
"Stop!" Captain Payne called out to Captain Raul, "It's the Emperor's faction who wants Burroughs' life, and he knows something he shouldn't know." ”
"......" Captain Raul heard this, and his footsteps stopped unconsciously, he was a little stunned.
"We ...... Let's start by thinking about how to explain this to the Stronghold Commander. Payne Yaser was a little decadent, and he finally chose to compromise and save his family......
"Captain, you ......" Captain Raul didn't seem to know the captain a little...... He suddenly thought that the commander of the fortress was going to send Burroughs alone to the Warcraft Forest to do a mission, why didn't his captain refuse, it turned out that he also agreed.
"I see...... It turns out that the nobles and governors of every country are like this, and the life of a small soldier is like a piece of grass in your eyes, if you cut it, you will cut it, and it will grow ......" Captain Raul Ostrovsky, with a somewhat suppressed voice, reached the ears of the captain who was a little afraid to look at him.
"I ...... "My family is controlled by them, this sentence Captain Payne is a little speechless, because if Payne really wants to protect his soldiers, there is actually a way to get the best of both worlds, but he didn't do it, just because it was too cumbersome and a bit dangerous......
"Actually, as a foreigner, I was promoted to the captain of the detachment, and at that time I felt that the Atlanta Empire should be good, at least it would not let the peasants be peasants forever and the slaves would always be slaves. It turned out that Captain Raul was not from Atlanta before: "Do you know? When I was asked to carry out the mission of leading the team to the North Gate today, I was so excited, excited that I had finally melted into Atlanta, and that I had finally been recognized. Captain Raul lowered his head and his hands clenched.
"My kingdom abandoned me to come to the Atlantan Empire, and my commanders killed my comrades at will for fun, so I came to the Atlantan Empire...... Now you are like this, how different are you!, I am a small soldier like Burroughs!" Captain Raul said, let go of his fist, tore off the captain's emblem from his body, threw it on the ground, and then ran towards the wall without looking back......
"Captain!" The team leader next to him was a little stunned, shouted Raul, saw Raul's decision and gave up, and then looked back at the captain who was still stunned, and said, "Captain, this ......"
"Bang!" Suddenly an explosion from the south interrupted the group's inquiry, and he, the team leader, and the Ranger soldiers not far away, including the soldiers of the logistics brigade who were held by the Rover, all looked south.
After that explosion, several griffon knights appeared in the sky above the south city gate, as well as more than a dozen siege bombs with magical light thrown by siege catapults!
Under the opening of the north gate, the tank held a spear in both hands, pointed the spear into the city, stood against the wall, and blocked Burroughs to prevent the sudden appearance of the enemy in the city and attack the team leader who had not yet recovered.
Burroughs leaned back against the wall, looking a little sad, Jem was a soldier he had brought with him for about a year, because Jem was like him, some good eyesight, Burroughs personally snatched Jem from the infantry brigade, and before coming over, he remembered that Jem had made a request.
Because Jem was a national soldier of the Imperial Capital Dispatch Army, he was recruited in a village around the Imperial Capital, and when Jem was named by Burroughs to take the Rangers Brigade, Jem asked Burroughs to give him higher treatment because his home was in the Imperial Capital and his living expenses were high......
"Haha, I remember when that kid Jem was first brought to the Rangers by me, he asked me to give me more Atlantans, and he thought I paid his money...... He was such a cunning soldier that he didn't even know that the Ranger Brigade was the best treated in the fortress...... What a good fellow, but he was too thin to be my observer a long time ago......" Burroughs' voice was a little hoarse as he thought about it.
"Captain, it's also that kid's bad luck, if I had been on his side just now, I probably wouldn't have ......" Tank said in a more hoarse voice next to him, tears already welling up in his eyes, and Jem had been closest to him before.
"Well, when it's safe to do so, go and collect the body for him, now ......" Burroughs, knowing that he must recover as soon as possible, took a rice ball and water bag out of his bag, and sighed after eating a little, but before he could finish speaking, the explosion in the south of the city interrupted him.
"Look south, Captain!" the tank shouted to Burroughs, pointing at a griffin knight who had appeared in the south. Since they were under the cave, they only saw this one griffon knight in their field of vision.
"It's a griffin knight! Only the Imperial Guard has a griffin knight formation! No, judging by his dress, he should be a private soldier of a nobleman in the north who violated the laws of the empire and kept him in captivity!"
"The nobles of the North, they've all sent griffon knights, are they the ones who made the explosion?" said the tank, even more surprised.
"I don't know, it's getting more complicated now...... "Burroughs wanted to tell Tank more, but his words were interrupted again......
"Tank, where is your team leader?" It turned out that the captain of the Raul detachment ran to the city gate with a knife, and wanted to go up to the city tower, but when he saw the tank that was like an iron tower and covered up a little, he stopped and walked to the tank and asked.
"Captain?" Tank was shocked, he was now a little wary of everyone except his own crew, and he didn't look back, and asked Lower Burroughs in a low voice.
"Tank, it's okay, you get out of the way. Burroughs, leaning against the wall, slowly stood up, patted the tank, and said.
"Squad leader, I have important information to hand over to the captain and the commander of the fortress, and the contact person sent by the emperor to contact the northern orcs is Vena Mitre, the deputy dean of the Military Academy of the Imperial City University. If he travels overnight, he will be able to leave the Warcraft Forest early tomorrow morning!" After Burroughs saw the Captain of the Raul Division, he directly reported the most anxious information in his heart to the Captain of the Division.
"Burroughs! I heard that some people in your group have sacrificed ......" After seeing Burroughs, Captain Raul was also a little anxious to ask Burroughs what had just happened, but he didn't expect Burroughs to tell him more important and more shocking information.
"Team leader, is this true?" asked the tank, a little incredulous.
"Well, my injuries were caused by Vice Dean Wiener......" Burroughs nodded.
“...... The Fortress Commanders actually ...... Burroughs, what is the order you brought back from the imperial capital the day before yesterday?" Captain Raul wanted to say that "the commanders of the fortress actually know the news you have to report", but he held back, and now he needed Burroughs not to be too depressed, so the captain suddenly asked another question.
"I didn't look at it...... What is this?" Burroughs habitually touched the collar of his jacket where he used to hide documents, and he found that there was a little hard thing inside! It turned out that Burroughs had just brought back an order to the commander of the fortress from the imperial capital the day before yesterday, and then Burroughs was assigned a task early yesterday morning (pretending to be a lone mercenary, joining the mercenary group entrusted by Dean Wiener, and getting rid of the principal of Dean Wiener, who was doing trouble with the Orcs in the north), Burroughs set off without even changing his clothes (in order to pretend to be a lone mercenary), but he didn't expect that there was still something hidden in that order, and he didn't find it yet, and he didn't take it out when he took the order document. For much time afterward, Burroughs would recall the accident, but he was never sure if it was good or .......
"What is it?" said the squad leader hurriedly.
"It's ......" Burroughs took out the somewhat hard thing and found that it was a small note, folded into a small piece, so it was a little hard to the touch, and there were very few words on it, so it was not thick. When Burroughs saw the above content, his eyes slowly widened and widened, and he looked frightened.
"Show me......" The captain of the detachment took three steps and two steps, and snatched the note from the stunned Burroughs: "The emperor will purge the council and the nobles of the north!"
"Bang bang bang bang ......" more than a dozen explosions sounded to the North City Gate Gate, and several people in the cave were shocked to make their ears buzz a little because of the echo enhancement of the explosion sound, and at the same time, a little dust and gravel were shaken off the top of their heads, making several people disgraced......
It was completely dark at this time......
Atlantic Empire, Imperial Capital, Imperial City, Upstairs in the attic of the Imperial Study.
Standing at the railing of the attic, the emperor held a translucent white jade cup in his right hand, which contained half a cup of red liquid, which was a red wine from the "blood of the gods" in the northwest region of the empire.
The emperor was drinking wine while looking at the night scene of the imperial capital outside, a little intoxicated, a little confused, and a little crazy. He held the white jade cup with four fingers in his right hand, and pointed his index finger at the night view of the imperial capital, and the red liquid spilled out, and from a distance, it looked like blood flowed out of the ordinary jade cup.
"Haha, Grand Duke, you also stand up and take a look, my country, magnificent!" the emperor pointed to the night scene, and called out to Archduke Oslan Frederick, who was standing a few steps behind the emperor, hunched. After that, regardless of the Grand Duke's reaction, he poured the remaining liquor from the jade cup into his mouth with a bend of his right hand.
"Haha! I have been low-key in the court for more than ten years, and I have been in the same league as the council. Tonight will be the beginning of my domination of the world, and it will also be the beginning of the empire's struggle for supremacy in the world!" the emperor shouted excitedly and frantically into the night sky.