Chapter 85: Victory and Sacrifice
The battle at the city gate ended quickly, and even though the 100 Noxus soldiers showed good military qualities and the will to never give up, in the end, only more than 100 corpses were left on the joystick that controlled the opening of the city gate.
Ling Tianmao sat on the edge of the city wall with his back against the wall, he always felt very tired after every battle with Bambi's slag, and his men stood in front of him.
Although Ionia did not have the absolute respect for the strong like Noxus, Ling Tianmao's performance today had completely conquered them. They had never imagined that this unassuming commander would be able to use elemental power.
"Why are you looking at me like fools here?" Ling Tianmao leaned against the wall and slowly stood up.
"We're waiting for your order." Miles, the eldest, said in place of the others.
"Now there's nothing wrong here, we need to figure out how to get them out."
At this moment, the resistance army that had just flanked the Noxian army with them also ran up, and it was Captain Norton who was in charge of commanding them at the forefront, and he gave Ling Tianmao a big hug as soon as they met.
"It's not easy, do you know that I thought you had failed when I saw the flare being released here."
"It's just a little bit, it's still harder than I thought, there were too many accidents, but in the end I didn't mess things up." Ling Tianmao sighed, "By the way, Hank and Mike were captured by the city defense army before, let's think about how to rescue them now." ”
"What's going on?"
"When we first entered the city, something went wrong with my command, and they were discovered while they were on a mission." Ling Tianmao glanced at Miles and them, since they had obeyed their orders, there was no need to report these matters to Norton again.
"Do you know where they're being held?"
Ling Tianmao nodded, he had already inquired about the location of the prison in the city from Teres before coming over today.
"Then we'll go now!"
Norton followed Ling Tianmao with his own troops and rushed towards the direction of the prison, he didn't bring many people, it was originally to support Ling Tianmao in the city. It doesn't make much sense to return to the frontal battlefield now, on the contrary, everyone in this squad has been handpicked by Norton, so Norton decides to rescue Hank and Mike almost without hesitation.
At this time, a large number of Resistance troops had entered the city, and shouts of killing could often be heard nearby. Although the enemy released flares, a large number of resistance troops rushed to the defenders' camp before they were fully prepared.
After the previous capture of Kanpur City, Noxus transferred the most combat-ready personnel of the army to the front line to participate in the attack, and the defending troops here were originally second-line troops. Originally, they could resist the attack of the resistance army with their strong walls, but after the city wall was lost, they were attacked by the other side, and most of the defending troops were quickly annihilated.
Now the basic ones who are still fighting are some small groups of soldiers who have escaped and patrols in the city, and on the way, Ling Tianmao and they also encountered two Noxian squads of more than ten people, but it didn't take too much time and effort to solve them.
Just when they were already able to see the prison, a group of people ran over from a distance, Ling Tianmao and Norton immediately prepared their soldiers for battle, but when the other party came closer, they found that most of these people were wearing prison clothes, including Hank and Mike, who were about to go to the rescue.
But before they could be happy, Hank and Mike ran up to Ling Tianmao and shouted:
"Captain, you're ...... Go and save Tris. ”
Terres? Ling Tianmao suddenly chuckled in his heart, when he led the team to set off tonight, Teres didn't go with him to say that he had something, at that time Ling Tianmao thought that Teres was greedy for life and afraid of death, and now it seems that this matter should have another hidden meaning.
Ling Tianmao didn't bother to ask too many questions, and he and Captain Norton quickly rushed towards the direction of the prison with the troops.
Arriving at the prison gate, Ling Tianmao and the others met dozens of heavily armed Noxian soldiers, who had just come out of the prison gate, and Ling Tianmao and the others rushed towards them without saying a word.
The battle ended quickly, and after only a few minutes, the Noxus soldiers fell at their feet.
However, so far, he had not seen Teris, and Ling Tianmao already had a faint sense of foreboding in his heart. Sure enough, when he entered the prison, he saw Tris's body lying in a pool of blood, and there were seven or eight Noxian soldiers lying beside him.
He walked over to Terres' corpse and picked up the long knife he held in his hand from the ground.
At this time, Mike and the others also ran in from outside the prison, and when they saw Teres lying on the ground, tears fell on the faces of the prisoners.
Most of these people were imprisoned after the Noxus occupation of Kanpur after they participated in the resistance, and some were as young as fifteen or sixteen years old.
"What just happened?" Ling Tianmao called Mike and Hank to his side.
"We learned after we were captured that if the Noxus-ruled area were to fall, they would dispose of all the resistance prisoners they held before they could evacuate, because we would probably become their enemies on the battlefield in the future."
Ling Tianmao was also a little surprised when he heard this, Teris had not mentioned to them before that Noxus would deal with these fugitives before evacuating.
"So just at night, Teris came to the prison alone, and when there was a commotion outside, he immediately killed the guards and let us out."
"Why didn't he do it sooner?" Miles asked from the side.
Ling Tianmao didn't say anything, he could probably understand Terex's thoughts, if they failed to break through the city gate, he would eventually be hunted down by the Noxian army in the city if he let these people out, and the escape from prison was likely to directly lead to them being captured and executed, so he had to confirm that the resistance army had entered the city before starting to act.
"I don't know, he didn't tell us, but as soon as he released us, a law enforcement team of dozens of people rushed over from outside. We were supposed to accompany him in the fight against the enemy, but he took us to the back door and locked it from the inside. ”
Mike didn't say anything more about what happened after that, but everyone could imagine that Teres blocked the back door with his body in the process of breaking off, buying time for their escape.
"By the way," Hank suddenly thought of something, "he has something for me to convey to you, Captain: 'These children are the people I care about, and I want them to live well.'" ’”
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