Text Chapter 32 The Burning of the Main Village and the Bloody Banquet
The fire spread in front of Shuangfeng Village, engulfing the defensive wall and burning the corpses on the wall. The ground in the stockade was littered with corpses, disgusting.
According to statistics after the war, 37 bandits were annihilated in the battle of Qianzhai and 6 surrendered bandits were captured, but our side suffered serious battle losses, with 11 soldiers killed and 2 seriously wounded. In addition to Witt and Cass, there were seventeen soldiers who could barely fight if they were lightly wounded, including nine infantry and eight archers.
The chain bridge has been burned down, and it is impractical to attack the main village in a short time, and the former village is mainly the residence of bandits, and the materials stored are limited, presumably most of the materials are stored in the main village.
Witt suggested to Cass that the soldiers should rest in place and regain their strength before fighting. Originally, Witt had already had an idea, although the wooden planks on the chain bridge had long been burned and made impassable, but several thick iron cables could not be easily cut. Witt thought that the soldier could be tied with a thick rope, and then the other end of the rope was tied to an iron lock and the thick rope could be kept moving. In this way, it can not only put a layer of insurance for the soldiers, but also successfully capture the main village. As long as the archers on this side can successfully suppress the bandits on the other side of the main village, the infantry attack should not be too risky.
However, Cass insisted on refusing to take Witt's suggestion, but refused to take it on the grounds that the plan was too difficult for the soldiers to take risks, and insisted on attacking the main village with fire, and burned the main village with a long-distance attack, so as to wipe it out.
Cass has a basis for this idea. Because when attacking the front village, it was found that the bandits fell from the top of the defensive fence not hot water, but boiling oil, since it was oil, let the archers take fire attack plan has a chance to be implemented. Witt had no choice but to follow Cass's arrangement.
Cass ordered the archers to wrap the highly absorbent strips of cloth available in the front of the foreshore around the front of the arrowheads, and then soak the arrowheads in oil drums to absorb as much oil as they could. After absorbing sufficient oil on the arrow cloth, the oil cloth was ignited and shot in the direction of the main village.
The main village is surrounded by rocks on all sides, and only one side facing the chain bridge is the exit, and the wooden fence at the exit is surrounded by a defensive wall. The flaming tongue of fire flew in, and the fence, which was originally a powerful protection, suddenly became an auxiliary weapon for the opponent. The rocket flew into the wooden fence and continued to burn with fuel from the tarpaulin, and soon the wooden fence was ignited. Under the "waiting" of wave after wave of rockets, the wooden fence was soon engulfed in flames.
The main village may have limited vents, but there are crowds of people there, and the bandits are blocked behind the fence where the fire is spreading, and they let out a sensational coughing sound.
As time passed, I saw that the figure over there gradually disappeared, probably choking on the black smoke. The fire began to spread into the cave, engulfing the "corpses" lying on the ground. The spread of the fire may have touched the fuel on the side of the main village, followed by the deafening explosion, Witt can feel the visual impact when standing on the opposite side of the peak, but thinking about the great damage of the explosion, the bandits in the main village must be dead.
The fire has spread throughout the main village, a large amount of black smoke spewed out from the mouth of the cave, as if a certain mountain god is swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and it is very spectacular from afar.
Witt looked at the main village where the fire was raging in front of him and asked, "My lord, how do you explain to the captain of the garrison, Maligapoye?" "Maligapoye had told Cass before he sent out his army that the box would be handed over to him in its original form, and now that the box had been consumed by fire, the task must not be explained.
"You don't have to worry about this, I'll take care of it!" Cass looked extremely calm, as if he had long forgotten Maligapoye's words, and turned away.
The sky had completely darkened, and it was not suitable to march late at night, so Cass ordered the soldiers to go back to the camp at the foot of the mountain to rest for the night, and the division would return to the court early tomorrow morning. Sleepless nights, long nights together.
Witt had long wanted to leave Fesd's eerie and disturbing fortress, and had been tossing and turning on the camp's grass beds all night, unable to sleep. After thinking about it for a long time, Witt decided to take advantage of tonight's perfect opportunity to sneak out of the camp and escape from Fesdena from then on.
As he spoke, Witt gently got up from the grass bed, Cass was already asleep, and the soldiers rested in the other barracks. Witt's wound had just been treated, and the twist hurt him a lot. I had to endure the pain and quietly put on the oak bow, tied the quiver, pinned the black axe to my waist, rolled up the burden and tiptoed out of the barracks.
Witt looked around, trying to avoid the patrol's gaze. Unbeknownst to him, the patrol in the camp may have been physically and mentally exhausted from today's continuous fighting, and actually took a nap at the edge of the camp's protective fence. God help me! Witt's heart was happy, and a cat's step sped out of the camp, into the bushes at the other end of the hill, and disappeared into the night.
The next morning, before dawn, Cass and his party searched for Witt to no avail, so in order not to delay the journey, Cass ordered the whole army to return to Fesdna.
When Cass and his party arrived at the outskirts of the fortress of Fesdena, Maligapoye and many other nobles had already learned from the fortress guards that they had returned from the destruction of the bandits' den, and they were immediately waiting outside the iron gate of the fortress. Marigaboye ordered everyone to get dressed and rested, and then led Kas into the lord's hall in the fortress with a smile on his face, where he was given a feast that night.
The banquet was delicacious, the beauties were like clouds, the musicians sat in the open space above the hall playing pleasant tunes, and all the nobles dressed in expensive silk clothes were basically present. The banquet made the nobles forget themselves and revel in the world of luxury. In order to celebrate the return of the Kas bandits, Maligapoye stood up to toast Kas, but Cass refused on the grounds that "drinking would slow him down". Although Maligapoye was a little unhappy, he did not say much.
In the middle of the feast, two strong men dressed as chamberlains and with a slight face walked in front of Maligabouye, and then closed the door of the lord's hall tightly and bolted it, and stood guard at the door, as if fearing that the people inside would go out or the people from the periphery would come in, which caught Maligapoye's attention. Maligapoye looked around the hall, and then realized that his guards, except Joey, were no longer in the hall, but were infected by the atmosphere of the banquet, and followed the other guards outside the hall to drink and shout.
The subtle change in the atmosphere at the banquet deeply unsettled Maligapoye. Marigapoye had a flash of inspiration and stared at Kas's subtle expression. Cass was also unfazed, staring at Maligapoye with the same straight eye. Maligapoye's heart was uneasy, and he quickly lifted Cass's sleeve, and his face changed drastically. The Kas nobles are wearing chain mail under their robes!
Cass smiled evilly, still staring at Maligaboye silently. At this moment, the music at the banquet came to an abrupt end, and the musicians sitting at the top of the hall picked up their bows and crossbows out of nowhere and shot at the nobles in the hall, brutally killing them one by one. The originally joyful banquet suddenly turned into a slaughterhouse, and the hall suddenly turned into a pool of blood, and the nobles fled in all directions, but their lives were taken by the daggers taken out by the attendants around them.
Just as Maligaboe was terrified, a dagger came out of his throat, soaking his clothes with blood, and he fell to the ground. Maligaboye never dreamed that it was his own bodyguard, Joey, who killed him with his own hands.
Just as the nobles were wantonly slaughtered in the hall, the nobles outside the hall and the personal guards of Maligapoye were drinking and having fun, but they were suddenly stabbed in the throat by the dagger that the guards who were still laughing with him out of nowhere, and fell to the ground. The entire fortress suddenly became chaotic, and all corners of the fortress were staged to chase and be hunted. The nobles who did not come to the banquet were also killed, and were broken into the room, and then died in their beds for no apparent reason.
The nobles in the Hall of Lords were quickly slaughtered, leaving only Lady Oksha, Cass, Joey, their cronies, and the few terrified nobles who had expressed their support beforehand.
Okasha slowly walked down from the hall platform, moved her bewitching figure to Joey and Cass, patted them lightly on the shoulder, and said in that delicate and numbing voice, "You two did a good job." From now on, I am the only surviving member of the family, the supreme ruler of Fesdena. Of course, I will keep my promise. From now on, Cass is the captain of the garrison of Fesdena. And you, the pro-guard Joey, I will officially crown you as a knight, enjoy the treatment of nobility, and hereditary repudiation. Joey immediately drew his sword and presented it to Okasha with both hands as a knight.
It turned out that Okasha had already united with Maligapoye and colluded with Vizan's lord Rudi Boye to ambush his brother Lord Warisi Enpoye. Wounded in a battle with the Nord army, Warisinpoye was about to return to Fesdena with the remnants of his army, but was ambushed and killed by Rudi Boyer, who was mistakenly believed to have been ambushed by the enemy and died. And Joey's father happened to be in the team of Varishin Boyer, so Oksha borrowed a knife to kill people, saying that Marigapoye killed old Joey, and coerced and lured, and finally Joey compromised, which is why such a play at the dinner party was staged. Cass, on the other hand, chose to cooperate with Okasha only to pursue his own interests.
Maligapoye's body was soon hung on the gallows on charges of treason. Maligapoye's accusations soon spread throughout the area of Fisdena in the area of Ivachandze. The nobles in other places don't know the details, and besides, the affairs within the family are not their own business. However, the crime of treason caused the villagers of Fesdena to spurn their anger at the rebels and throw them at the corpses with garbage and stones. The news of Okasha's becoming the ruler of Fesdena soon spread throughout Fesdena and throughout the Zhivacheze region, and the lords of the region also turned a blind eye. Since then, Fesdena has been in turmoil, and there has been no peace.
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