Chapter 42: The Massacre
The sudden flying hammer killed the middle-aged knight with a headshot, and this scene shocked everyone.
And it was Gehr who threw the hammer.
The sister of Ledim, who had the sharpest senses in the audience, turned her head for the first time and looked in one direction.
There, a carriage drawn by four silver-hoofed horns was slowly approaching, driven by a strong, tall one-armed and one-eyed Gehr.
"Thank you for your help, my lord!"
Ledim also looked at the carriage and expressed his gratitude to Gehr.
But the latter just had a flat expression, and did not mean to speak, but stretched forward with one arm and spread his big hand, only to listen to the "whoosh", and the big hammer that killed the middle-aged knight flew back into his hand at a very fast speed.
The hammer was made of blue-gray metal, and it looked very old and old, but it was still hard because it was a magic weapon.
It is a weapon that Geer has been using before, and now he has been given a treasure weapon giant sword by Zhou Chen, but it is very powerful, and the small scene is naturally still with a magic sledgehammer.
The greatsword had been tied to Gehr's back, and at this moment the sledgehammer was withdrawn, and he hung it on his waist.
"Clean up the enemy first!"
Seeing that Geer silently withdrew his weapon and never meant to speak, his sister whispered to Ledim.
"Good!"
Ledim also saw that the enemy's only remaining soldiers wanted to escape, and immediately waved his long sword and rushed out.
As soon as he rushed, the other guerrillas around him rushed forward with him.
Losing the backbone of the middle-aged knight, the last few imperial soldiers had no parry power at all, and they were all killed in three or two clicks.
So far, the operation led by Ledim has finally won a crushing victory.
"Sister, go to the prisoner camp and rescue everyone. ”
"Ves, you can help that kid deal with the trauma, Enlune, Balk...... Gather the bodies of your companions and cremate them later. ”
Ledim now showed the demeanor of a captain, and assigned the task neatly, and then he roughly straightened his clothes, probably wiped the blood from his face, and walked to Geer's carriage with a solemn face.
"Thank you again for your help, my lord, and what can I repay?"
Anyone can tell from Gehr's appearance that he is very powerful, and neither is Ledim.
Combined with the shocking headshot just now, and the subsequent recall of the hammer in the air, it was either a spell or the hammer itself was a magic weapon, which made Ledim deeply understand that Gehr was a big man he had to lower his profile.
"You just need to answer me a few questions......"
Still expressionless, Gehr collected some information about the Coronia Empire from Ledim, and then drove out of the town.
Watching the carriage leave, Ledim guessed what kind of big man was in the carriage, and even used a strong man like Gehr as the coachman.
"Maybe it's just a woman and a child. ”
Ledim made the most probable conclusion.
By this time, the men had gathered the bodies of dozens of their companions and prepared for cremation.
Ledim's sister also walked back from the prisoner camp not far away, her face was not good-looking, and when she came over, she deliberately pulled Ledim aside, obviously having something important to say.
"What's the matter, sister, why didn't those civilians come out?"
Ledim asked, confused.
The hundreds of captives should have been imprisoned and unattended, and his sister only needed to help loosen the ties and release them.
"Brother, those people are hopeless. ”
My sister said with a more gloomy face.
"What's going on? Could it be that the Imperial Army executed them ahead of schedule?"
Radim's face changed, but he quickly thought about how the woman who had been holding the child in her arms would have appeared if everyone had been killed.
"No," the sister shook her head, "they're all alive, but their hearts are dead." They were treated like this by the Imperial Army, but they only wanted to survive, and they were unwilling to join us and contribute to the resistance. ”
"Don't they listen to my sister's persuasion?"
Ledim knew that he had led the team this time, and there were actually two tasks.
The first is to free these civilians, and the second is to persuade them to join the rebels.
The rebels were composed of ethnic minorities, and their numbers were too different from those of the Imperial Army, so even the elderly, weak, women and children, the rebels did not refuse to come.
"Yes, no matter how much I try to persuade them, they just want to continue to live in selfishness and humility. ”
The elder sister's tone was solemn, and she looked directly at Ledim and said, "Now, I also have to tell you about another plan of the general. ”
"General, what's his plan?"
Ledim's heart tightened, the general was one of the three brains of the rebels, and it was this big man who personally promoted Ledim to become the captain of this guerrilla force.
It's just that Ledim didn't expect that the general, who didn't even know about the plan that he didn't know as the captain, would bypass him and give the plan to his sister as a deputy.
"The general's plan is to kill these civilians and blame the Imperial Army for their deaths!"
My sister's face was serious, and she said it clearly from her mouth.
"What! Why do you want to do that?"
His sister had spoken clearly, and Ledim had heard it clearly, and he couldn't believe that his sister would say such a thing.
"Brother, you should see clearly. We have been to many places to recruit people, and only a few of our compatriots are willing to join us, and they are all young people whose blood is not yet cold. Most people are content with the status quo, resigned to it, and will not resist as long as they starve to death. We have too few troops, and if this continues, this uprising will fail!"
The elder sister stared at Ledim's eyes, and her face showed a hideous expression: "Only by carrying out the general's plan can we save the situation, sacrifice the civilians here, and spread the slaughter and atrocities of the imperial army, and the rest of the compatriots everywhere can stimulate the blood, and their hatred will rise sharply, and then join us to take revenge on the empire!"
"But it's us who will be slaughtered! There are hundreds of civilians here, hundreds of lives of our compatriots!"
Ledim couldn't agree that the general's plan would be such a massacre and atrocity, and if he did, he thought the rebels would be even more brutal than the Imperial army!
"This is war, brother!"
The elder sister saw Ledim's reluctance, and took a step forward with a gloomy face: "The general is right, and the partial sacrifice is for the final victory." And his orders must be carried out by us as subordinates!"
"No, no!"
His sister approached and Ledim retreated, his face full of struggle, his conscience telling him that it was all wrong.
"Recognize the reality, brother, I understand your kindness, but if you are too indecisive, you will only bury the chance of victory. ”
At this time, Weiss, who had been holding the child in his arms, had always been Ledim's right and left hand.
"Do you know the general's plan, but only from me?"
Feeling betrayed, Ledim looked at his sister, who was completely different from his usual life, and listened to the cry of Vis holding the child, and his mind became more and more confused.
"Don't! don't push me!
Radim suddenly yelled, turned and ran away.
"Brother, it seems that you have made a choice. ”
There was disappointment on my sister's face, and at the same time, the left hand holding the wand suddenly waved, and a long-brewing ice pick shot out.
Burst!
Ledim, who had run far away in a short time, was still sturdy and stricken, and the icicle stabbed in from the heart of his back, knocking his body forward.
"Wow!"
Ledim spat out a mouthful of blood, endured the severe pain, and crawled up with the support of the magic sword, and used all his strength to escape faster.
"Don't you pursue?"
As he said seemingly casually, Vis slammed the child he was holding to the ground, causing his constant crying to come to an abrupt end.
"No, he's been hit by my spell and his heart is badly injured, and he won't be able to get far before he dies. It's time for us to hurry up and carry out the general's plan. ”
The elder sister's gaze was withdrawn from the direction where Ledim had fled, and with a faint reply, she turned and walked towards the prisoner camp.
Vis shrugged his shoulders and followed.