Chapter Eighty-Eight: Soul Sacrifice

"All gone?" Liu Lei asked tiredly sitting on the chair.

Liu Bushan nodded: "It's all gone, the army of the guards has just crossed the plain"

Liu Lei breathed a sigh of relief, the army from all walks of life was stationed in Qingfeng Town for five days, during which although the logistics troops continued to transport supplies, but as a local head snake to help coordinate every day, dealing with all kinds of people, it also made him exhausted, mainly because he couldn't afford any of these people, and he had to accompany everyone with a good face.

After reaching an agreement, the army of the Stormwind City-State retreated two days ago, but naturally it was not possible to cross the Warcraft Forest again, last time it was luck and a long time of preparation, and now that the war is over, of course, it is safe and generous, and after a day's skin, it was finally agreed that the army would "escort" through the territory of the Tianqi City-State, of course, the price paid was not small.

Liu Lei sent away a bunch of plague gods, but Qingfeng Town was in ruins, rubbing his temples, Liu Lei commanded: "Go, everyone call over, count the losses during this time, we still have to rebuild Qingfeng Town, the displaced people will come after a while, we have to prepare for resettlement"

When everyone came to the house, Zhu Dezhi held a piece of paper with a lot of names densely written on it, including those he knew before, but now they have become cold numbers.

Zhu Dezhi said with a sad face: "In this battle, we have a total of 452 dead and wounded, of which 372 soldiers were killed, 70 were lightly wounded, and 32 were seriously wounded, of which only 31 veterans of the first team remained, and the civilians who helped also died 12 and injured 5 people" At the end of the reading, Zhu Dezhi's hands trembled, and the tears in his eyes flowed down unconsciously, and he almost sat down on the chair and muttered: "Qingfeng Town.... Breeze Town... I almost died..."

Everyone looked desolate, Liu Lei's heart was even more like a knife, he was originally a self-made man, and he was almost half gone, and what made him most uncomfortable was those veterans of a hundred battles, as the backbone of the force almost, where the problem was the first to go up, these many soldiers who were over half a hundred years old, if they retired and had both children and grandchildren, it was because of one of his orders that all died here, Liu Lei hammered the table hard and said in annoyance: "It's all me!" It's all me! None of them would have died if it weren't for me! ”

Li Tianlong, who was sitting next to Liu Lei, grabbed Liu Lei's hand: "Young Master, you are not wrong, we are different from Shen Aojun, even if they defeat the city lord, they will look at the face of the entire southern family and will not be held accountable, and if we run away, it will be a scapegoat, one of these people will have to die, and we will give everyone an explanation with our lives."

"Manager Li is right, the young master doesn't have to blame himself, we old buddies are all members of the Liu family, some people should have died a long time ago, and if they can live and enjoy so many years of happiness, they are also earned, and the brothers who have been waiting for us for decades are also considered to have died well" Chen Bin said with a thick bandage wrapped around his chest, and said with tears in his eyes.

The comfort of everyone made Liu Lei's guilt even heavier: "Uncle Li! The wounded must be housed, and they must not be let again..."

Li Tianlong nodded and said: "Don't worry, young master, the military doctors in the army have already treated them some time ago, and now Old Man Li and Xiaocui are taking care of them, I went to see in the morning that most of the people's injuries have improved!"

Hearing that the old man Li had made a move, Liu Lei breathed a sigh of relief, this old man ran out when Wang Pengdao came two days ago, and he only came back today.

"Uncle Li, have you prepared everything I asked you to prepare?"

"Well, it's ready, a few days ago, the lord specially approved the construction camp in the army, and it was just built this morning"

Liu Lei stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go out and have a look"

A group of people came outside, tens of thousands of troops were stationed in the valley for several days, these days of time not only leveled out a large piece of land, but also left a lot of simple houses, a short time to worry about the house, of course, also left a lot of materials and garbage, the surviving people in twos and threes, only the sparse figures in the valley of Nuoda are busy, everyone's face is sad and dazed, some time ago the battle almost everyone has relatives, friends died.

Liu Lei couldn't help sighing, Qingfeng Town's hard-won popularity and spirit have dispersed, if it is not dealt with properly, I am afraid that it will not be long before people run away.

A few people came to the exit of the valley, the original wall had long been razed to the ground, and it was replaced by a simple fence built by the southern coalition army, but it was useless, after all, the initial plan was to run away if the chasing soldiers came, after all, the siege equipment carried by more than 100,000 troops was not something that could be stopped by casual fortifications, but because of a large number of casualties among the men in Qingfeng Town, they could only deal with it first.

At this time, there is a square with a base of two meters high, five meters by five meters, and a square with a height of 18 meters, and a statue of two swords crossed on a shield stands at the top of the square obelisk with a height of 18 meters, which can be seen at first glance when entering from the gate.

It is nearly 1,000 people in the construction camp in three days, with a piece of one cubic meter of boulders to build, the construction camp is specially for the army to build a camp, siege equipment special troops, just under the command of Liu Tianyu, was borrowed by Liu Lei, everyone in it is a skilled craftsman, the craft is really nothing to say, the whole body of the mixed Yuan continent unique black granite with patterns, both gorgeous and solemn, is facing the gate with a black cloth cover can not see what is on it.

Liu Lei circled around, nodded and said, "Call everyone over, by the way, carry the wounded who can move over."

Zhu Dezhi hurriedly ordered to go down, and after a while, a soldier rang the gong on behalf of the assembly, and the people who were busy all put down their work and came over when they heard it, and after a while, all the people except for the seriously wounded gathered under the square reserved in front of the giant monument.

People didn't know what Liu Lei was going to do, they looked at each other and asked each other, this strange building in their eyes attracted a lot of people's attention on the first day of construction, but no one knew what this was for, after all, there had been no such building on the mainland before, and even Wang Pengdao couldn't help but ask a few words at that time.

Liu Lei looked at the sharply reduced number of people, his heart ached, but he still cheered up and stood on the steps and shouted: "People! ”

Everyone immediately closed their mouths and looked at Liu Lei.

I only heard Liu Lei say: "The war is over, the army of the Stormwind City-State is gone, our army is also gone, we have used our own blood to keep the Qingfeng Town we built with our own hands, although the battle of our Qingfeng Town is nothing on the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of troops, but for us, every inch of land under our feet is flowing with the blood of our relatives and friends."

Everyone silently shed tears when they heard Liu Lei's words, after a big war, almost everyone in Qingfeng Town died in battle, including slaves and their own friends died.

The sound of whimpering cries spread in the crowd, Liu Lei wiped his tears vigorously and said: "I know that everyone's mood is very sad now, but I want to know to everyone that their blood is not shed in vain, and what I say will be counted."

Liu Lei turned his head sideways and said: "Lao Zhu records"

Zhu Dezhi hurriedly agreed and took out a pen and paper.

"I now declare to the eldest son of the Liu family, the owner of Qingfeng Town: In this battle, all the elderly people in the family will be supported by the Liu family, and the Liu family will pay for the education of the children, and the pension will be 500 silver coins. All slaves were freed and regained their freedom, and all prisoners were exempted from their crimes and enjoyed the treatment of soldiers of the Liu family! ”

"Thank you, young master!" The first to react were the slaves, who immediately knelt down excitedly after regaining their freedom, and the rest of the people also loudly thanked Liu Lei for his kindness.

"That's not all, I want to ask the people, do you know who helped you stop the vicious enemy soldiers?" Liu Lei shouted loudly.

"Yes...... Warriors"

"Yes, Soldier"

The people shouted loudly.

"Do you know who is fighting to the death in the face of a hundredfold enemy?"

The "soldiers" were surprisingly unanimous.

"Do you know who guarded our homeland, our parents, our wives and children with blood?"

"Soldiers! Soldiers! ”

"Yes!" Liu Lei shouted loudly, walked under the giant monument and grabbed the black cloth on it and said: "When our Qingfeng Town was in the most danger, it was our soldiers who guarded us with blood, they did not abandon us, and Qingfeng Town will never forget them."

All the soldiers in battle armor, whether they were veterans or slaves, civilians and prisoners, had tears in their eyes and puffed out their chests with pride.

Liu Lei used both hands at this time, and the black cloth fell to the ground, revealing three bright red characters on the front of the monument: Yingling Monument!

"This monument, I call it the Heroic Spirit Monument, all the soldiers who died for Qingfeng Town will always be engraved on it, and their heroic spirits will always watch over us on it, guarding us, so that our descendants will always remember them, and Qingfeng Town will never be worshiped for a day!"

All the soldiers' eyes were fixed on the tall Heroic Spirit Monument at this moment, this kind of building that had never been seen on the continent made them feel honored, and it was the first time in the world of the entire continent that someone had engraved the name of a soldier on the stone tablet, making the status of a soldier so lofty.

Chen Bin was the first to take the lead and shouted: "Family glory, fight to the death and never retreat!"

"Family glory, fight to the death and never retreat!"

"Family glory, fight to the death and never retreat!"

The soldiers roared loudly, and even the wounded lying on the stretchers were excited, and the team of less than two hundred people shouted out the momentum of thousands of troops.

After the soldiers finished venting, Liu Lei waved to the stage: "Bring it up!" ”

Five deserters who were tied up by the five flowers were pressed up: "Brothers, people, when we are killing the enemy in blood, some people are greedy for life and afraid of death, these are deserters who betrayed us, what do you say?" ”

Angry people shouted: "Kill"

"Kill Them"

"Dog offal!"

Liu Lei nodded: "I said at the beginning, who wants to join the army voluntarily, these people are all voluntary, enjoy the treatment of soldiers, but discredit our honor, today I will use their heads to sacrifice to the Heroic Spirit Monument"

With a wave of Liu Lei's hand, the bodies of the five deserters were immediately separated, and the blood stained the steps of the Heroic Spirit Monument bright red.