Chapter 48: Desperate Survival
Hearing this, Angeline did not rely on Carly for the first time, and personally spoke to coordinate the overall situation: "All mercenaries meet the enemy!
For the first time, when I saw Angelie taking the initiative to command her mercenaries, they couldn't help but be demoralized, and they raised their weapons one after another, and responded loudly: "Oh!-..."...
Carly, who has always spoken on behalf of Angeline, couldn't help but reflexively speak: "We..."
Angelie still uncharacteristically interrupted Carly's words, "Carly, let me speak. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Seeing this, Carly was quite relieved in her heart, and didn't say any nonsense: "Obey." ”
Angeline then stepped forward and gave clear instructions: "We must stop the attempts of the Vosfitta army and destroy them." The enemy must not be allowed to pass through the barn and harm innocent villagers. ”
At this moment, Duodu, who was standing in front of Angelie and had been looking at the distance with emotion, suddenly spoke, and announced loudly: "Look! someone is coming!-" I saw an old farmer in ragged clothes and gray hair coming from the entrance of the village, desperately rushing towards the barn.
The old farmer ran to the center of the threshing floor in one breath before he stopped, bent down, supported his knees with his arms and limbs, and said in a sweaty and panting voice: "The village chief... Chief!... Call... Whew..."
Seeing this, the village chief hurriedly stepped forward, his expression was unusually serious, and he asked the old farmer loudly: "Qiyi! Where have you been these days!?"
Standing behind the village chief, Kira, who was holding Liji, also saw Qiyi and called out urgently: "Dad!"
No one on the barn floor expected that as soon as Qiyi raised his head, he actually said these two sentences: "Everyone surrender quickly." Your Excellency the Governor will not do us any wrong. ”
When the village chief heard this, he couldn't believe his ears, and his eyes opened in astonishment: "What!?-"
Qiluo stared at Qiyi's face in disbelief and asked loudly in disbelief: "Dad, what's wrong with you!?"
Qiyi buried her head pitifully, stood in the middle of the street with her head down, and explained in an almost begging tone: "Your Excellency the Governor has promised me that as long as I do confess the hiding place of Crimson Flame, I will exempt our village from all future taxes. And you can't win the Crimson Flame, don't put up a useless resistance, for your own sake and our village's sake, please surrender now. ”
Carly was furious when she heard Qiyi's words, and she drew her knife out of its sheath and was about to force forward: "What did you say!?-"
Seeing this, Angelie immediately made a stop gesture and stopped Carly's behavior with words: "Wait!"
The village chief glared fiercely at Qiyi's face as his eyes were staring down at the ground, and he was extremely angry, and asked the other party in an extremely stern tone: "Qiyi! Don't you know that the Vosfitta army is actually invading and occupying Bagram under the pretext of liberation? Don't you know that the Crimson Flame is the great warrior who truly liberates our motherland?"
Qiluo burst into tears and persuaded her father: "Dad. How can you say such a thing!, have you forgotten how the Vosfitta army has been squeezing and exploiting us?"
Hearing this, Qiyi continued to droop her head, not daring to look up and see people sobbing: "I know what you said. But fighting against the Republic of Vosfitta, Crimson Flame has no chance of winning. Besides, they are stuck in the village, and they can't get rid of it, and they will implicate everyone and end up with them. We are peasants! It is already very difficult for us to survive in this world! They are mercenaries, and they can go anywhere!
Besides, whether it is General Andy or His Majesty Cleos, does it make a difference to us lowly peasants who will rule Bagram? Kira. Dad did this for you. Once the governor exempted our village from taxes. You won't be caught as a virgin and deducted from taxes, and you can be with your favorite Ligi with peace of mind. ”
When the village chief heard this, he continued to ask sharply: "So, you betrayed everyone!?" Qiyi nodded guiltily.
When several villagers onlookers heard this, they couldn't listen to any of Qiyi's arguments, and they raised their farm tools in anger and shouted and cursed: "Traitor!-" "Kill him!-"... Their houses and crops had been burned to the ground by the Vosfitta Army, and the anger was understandable.
One of the elderly villagers stretched out his arm with great excitement, pointed at Qiyi's nose and shouted angrily: "Didn't you see that as soon as the Vosfitta army came, they set fire to our houses and crops!? But they also understand that the guy who set fire to their village as soon as he came and wantonly expropriated was not a good person.
Qiyi lowered her head even more in shame, and stammered as she replied, "This is also... That's why you're determined to take in Crimson Flame!"
Kira's expression was very sad at this time, and he pleaded with his father in an almost begging tone: "Dad." There was a soldier from Vosfitta who wanted to arrest me. Liggie was almost killed in order to stop him. Thankfully, Carly, who has Crimson Flame, comes to the rescue. Now he and I can stand before you. Wake up and stop arguing for the enemy. At this time, a force of more than 500 people of the Vosfitta Army had appeared very clearly at the other end of the barn, in everyone's field of vision.
Qiyi lowered her head and replied with tears in her eyes: "This... I didn't expect things to turn out like this either... But this is the last chance for our village!---if we don't surrender again—" He went to Bagram with all his might, and met with Governor Gerrit, and only then did he win the Governor's promise, and if the people of the village refused to surrender, all his efforts would be in vain.
However, in order to hunt the virgins and achieve the goal of killing all the virgins, Gerrit deliberately secretly ordered the commander of the army to send a small team into the village first, search for the crimson flame and the virgin, and severely punish the villagers, and if the team could not do it, then send Qiyi into the village to persuade them to surrender.
I saw that opposite them in Crimson Flame, a man wearing silver and white steel armor, holding a long-handled command saber in his right hand, the captain of the Vosfitta army was already impatient, holding a spell megaphone in his left hand, handing it to his mouth, and asking Qiyi in a loud voice: "Old man!--have you done it!?--If we don't say anything, we will kill you!"
There was also a large group of Vosfitta soldiers with various weapons in their hands, wearing turquoise iron armor and helmets, huddled around the captain. Some of the soldiers, with their hands dragging on thick cables, pulled a large wooden wagon to the threshing floor. The wooden wagon was a wagon made of thick wooden planks and mounted on eight large wooden wheels. The carriage was also completely covered with a large white canvas, bulging like a small mountain bag.
The foals who came here with large wooden wagons were tied to the entrance to the village. Except for personnel in the regular army uniform of the Republic of Vosfitta. There were also seven large bald heads, wearing black cloaks with hoods and long-sleeved robes that were also pitch black, wearing equipment that resembled gas masks on their faces, covering the area below their eyes, and strange and grotesque looking guys standing in a row on the left and right sides of the back of the Captain of the Vosfita Army.
Hearing this, Qiyi hurriedly turned around, and while running back desperately, he shouted loudly: "Master Jun." Please give me a little more time. Listen to the little explanations..."
One of the mercenary archers standing beside Angelie saw the viscount make a gesture, and immediately cursed, drew his bow and arrow, and was about to shoot Qiyi: "Bastard!-"
Seeing this, Kira rushed forward desperately, and stood in front of Angeline and the mercenary archers, bowed, tears dripping down like bright dewdrops, and pleaded bitterly: "Don't!—please, don't kill my father! It's also for me. So I beg your forgiveness on him. If you want to punish me, please punish me..."Seeing this, the captain of Crimson Flame couldn't bear it, and made a gesture of stopping. Seeing this, the mercenary archer put down the bow and arrow in his hand.
I saw that Qiyi ran straight in front of the captain of the Vosfitta Army, knelt on the ground, and pressed his hands on the ground to explain: "Master Jun." They couldn't accept our offer for a while. Please allow me to lobby again. ”
Seeing this, the captain threatened Qiyi with a fierce face: "Dead old ghost! I've given you such a long time." There's no way you can handle this. Go with our army, and tell the villagers to hand over all the virgins. I'll spare them from death!"
When Qiyi heard this, he was shocked and puzzled, and continued to kneel on the ground and asked: "What!? Didn't Your Excellency the Governor promise the little one, as long as the little one takes you to find the Crimson Flame, you will be exempted from paying taxes for the whole village?"
The captain explained with an unusually arrogant and contemptuous attitude: "What Your Excellency the Governor has promised is to exempt your village from all taxes at that time. Later, however, His Excellency the Governor issued a new tax decree that increased the poll tax of ten gold coins per person for all the people of Bagram. Can your village afford to pay it? If you can't afford to pay the tax, every household has to pay the tax with a virgin who has reached the age of 12 every year. ”
Immediately afterwards, the captain raised the command knife in his hand, and strode forward, while shouting the whole army: "Attack!-" Gerritt gave him the order that once the Crimson Flame was discovered, it must be completely annihilated, and except for the captured virgins, all those who harbored and harbored the Crimson Flame were to be killed, and no one was to be spared.
When Qiyi heard this, he immediately despaired; the old tears rushed to the feet of the captain, and he hugged the other party's calf tightly; desperately tried to stop the other party from advancing, desperately cried loudly, and shouted: "What!? You can't! You can't do this!--..."
Hugged by Qiyi, unable to move forward, the captain scolded with a hideous face: "Dead old ghost! Boom!—Red blood splattered out.
Qiluo saw this bloody scene from a distance, and exclaimed: "Dad!--...", and then, facing where Qiyi was, she knelt on the ground in pain, tears flowed uncontrollably like a spring, and she was almost uncontrollable.
Seeing that Qiyi was stabbed, the captain still hugged his calf and refused to let go, and immediately became furious, and stabbed down with a continuous swing of the knife: "Dead old ghost! Why don't you let go of the tower!?-..."Cluck!cluck!cluck... The captain poked the old farmer at his feet more than a dozen times in one breath, only to feel that the other party's body was loosened, and kicked away Qiyi's body.
At this time, his entire lower body had been stained red by the blood splashed from the old peasant's body and mouth. Seeing this, the mercenaries and villagers gritted their teeth in hatred, their eyes blazing, and they wanted to tear the Vosfitta army to pieces with their own teeth.
Looking at the approaching Vosfitta army, Angeline turned and ordered the village chief, "Stand down!" When the village chief heard this, he and Liji supported Kira, who was sobbing, and led the other villagers to retreat to the rear of the threshing floor.
Angeline turned back and commanded the priest in a loud voice: "Duodu, and your people are ready for the rain of arrows!"
Sure enough, as the captain of the Vosfitta Army raised the command knife in his hand high, he shouted: "Attack!-" More than two hundred archers among the more than five hundred soldiers of the Vosfita Army pulled their bowstrings and shot a rain of arrows in the direction where the Crimson Flame Mercenary Regiment was. Including Angelie, the mercenaries added up to just over fifty people. The balance of power between the two sides can be described as a huge disparity.
Looking at the more than 200 arrows flying in front of him, Duodu led several mages to disperse on the threshing field, raising the staff in his hand, releasing the magic energy, unfolding a hemispherical, light blue transparent mana barrier, and protecting all the mercenaries and peasants on the threshing field, not missing a single one. Bang! bang... A rain of arrows then struck the mana barrier.
Every time an arrow is fired, a small crack will appear in the corresponding position on the mana barrier, like a glass shatter. However, the mages who fought side by side with Duodu were the elite of the Mercenary Guild, and they were methodically, rhythmically, and very skillfully, constantly absorbing and releasing the magical energy that controlled the nearby space, and continued to consolidate the strength of the spell barrier. Therefore, each arrow only left a ripple of glass crack on the spell barrier, and then fell to the ground, never able to penetrate it.
Seeing the scene in front of him, the captain of the Vosfitta Army saw that the archers on his side had failed to succeed, and the mages of the mercenary association were also tired of coping, so he ordered the remaining more than 300 melee infantry: "It seems that these mercenaries do have two hits." It doesn't matter if they're Crimson Flame or not. Assault on the whole army!-"
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