Chapter 4: Sweep and Resistance
In Doug's view, the empire did not drive them out, but gave them jobs and enough relief food, and they still harbored those rebels, if it weren't for the fact that the consul sent people to keep an eye on him, Doug wouldn't mind washing the old streets in blood and forcing the rebels to go out.
The tea shop and the secret passage had been found by the Crow Army, but they searched the gambling hall and did not find the box mentioned by their boss, only the remains of a group of Rook Army compatriots, these soldiers were all burned to death by the flames, and all of them were charred and blackened, and they could not be distinguished.
"The Magister of the Resistance. Doug thought.
Although he didn't know what the box he was looking for was for, since the other party attached so much importance to it, he couldn't keep his hand.
"After the order, those civilians who are unwilling to say where the rebels are located can be directly killed on the spot, as long as a few people are killed in front of them, there will always be cowards who will be recruited. Doug ordered the herald beside him.
In his eyes, if this group of people honestly accepts the favor of the empire, they can spend their lives in peace, although they have no hope of engaging in business and politics in their lives, but they can still live, and now they have to use some small means in such a place, which really makes him angry.
So for those who don't know the blessings of the empire, there is only one word, kill.
After the empire unified the western continent, the old nobles who were destroyed were mostly unwilling, and there were always large and small rebellions and turmoil throughout the country, but they were quickly suppressed, and this lurking resistance army was one of the many rebels, although it has been searched and arrested many times, but only a few people were caught, and there was no injury to the root, and the main resistance troops are still retained.
They used the old street as a base, secretly gathered people, discussed plans in the sewers, trained young people who participated in the resistance in places that no one could see, and at the same time relied on old connections and energy to build intelligence networks and dig out secret tunnels.
In this city, they are veritable underground kings.
In a room, when Fox the leader of the Resistance receives news from his men that the army is sweeping the streets again, it comes to the idea that Aiden may have something to do with the plan he mentioned recently.
The subsequent message from the dark tunnel and the box that had been cut in half confirmed his suspicions.
"The Oriental boy who sent this box said that he used this box to block a sword and solve the chasing soldiers, this matter was not a problem at first, but when I thought about it, the more suspicious I felt, how could he deal with those adult soldiers when he was only seventeen or eighteen years old. It was the man in the room who came to deliver the box, telling the story.
"You say that boy is the face of an Oriental?" asked Fawkes.
"Indeed, black hair and black eyes, I will never admit this. ”
"Then there is nothing strange, it is said that the martial arts of the Orientals are weird, they can compete with our magicians, and I have never heard of using the Orientals as spies, since the other party just wants to leave here, let him stay by himself and wait for the opportunity, and now Doug has started to kill people for this broken box, and we must stop it. "Fawkes kept the split wooden box handy.
Now it is estimated that there is no way to stop the other party's behavior by sending this thing out, rather than letting the other party really know that the box is in his hands, it is better to directly hit the other party by surprise, plus the empire attaches so much importance to this box, maybe there will be something to find out if you study it.
"Call Aiden and Lian over and tell them they're ready to go. ”
Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and after the residents of the Northern Empire moved here, these remnants of the former kingdom became the lowest level of society, even the civilians of the empire could bully them at will, and if they dared to fight back, they would inevitably be severely beaten and retaliated by the guards.
People who are uneasy about the status quo gather in the old street, little by little to accumulate strength, and find trouble for the imperial nobles in this city again and again, and at the same time secretly protect the personal safety of the civilians in the old street, this is the rebels.
However, although it is said to be an army, the number is too small, and there are only twenty or thirty people who can really be armed.
It wasn't long before a petite blonde woman and a tall man with a scar on his face entered the room.
"Aiden, that's what you're talking about. Fawkes placed the wooden box on the table and slapped it hard, and the tall man with the scar on his face hurriedly stepped forward to take it down and observe it.
"I received a report that they were transporting an important item from the Imperial Capital, how could it be an empty box. ”
How did the box of the Fox Sword get to him, and told Aiden about it.
"Your Highness, don't you think which boy took the contents?" said Aiden, frowning.
"If he did, there was no need to continue carrying this empty box, wouldn't he be asking for trouble with it?" Fawkes said.
"It's this empty box, the old street has been in chaos, and now Doug has started to kill people, and the things you provoked are naturally up to you to solve," Fox said coldly.
Aiden rested his right hand on his chest. He bowed his head and said, "I will take off the thief's head with my own hands!"
At the time of the war, Aiden and Doug fought many times, at that time Doug often carried out assassination activities in Osling, and it was Aiden who dealt with this matter, at that time, as the prince's guard, he defended Doug's assassination of the prince many times, but the other party was cunning and fled many times, until the city was finally broken, and the situation between the two was reversed.
"Lian, you command one to three armies, and follow plan one, Aiden, remember what you said, otherwise you won't have to come back. ”
"Yes!" the two replied.
After watching the man enter the well and leave, Zhou Lie talked to Frem in his head, looking forward to prying out more things about it from his mouth and why the empire took him so seriously.
As a result, Frem said, "I have amnesia, I only remember my abilities and the very important thing I am going to do, and I don't remember anything else." ”
For this kind of answer, Zhou Lie was very speechless, originally from the beginning of the wariness of this thing in his body, gradually turned into helplessness, he didn't even know what he was, what to do, which made him not even know where to start the investigation. Do you want him to ask Augustus to tell him the secret of the box and of Frem?
However, in terms of the ability to manipulate fire and heat, it must be a terrible thing, and perhaps the Empire intended to give Frem to someone to use, and he got this power by mistake.
But this is also an opportunity to probe the secrets of the empire, and maybe he can delay for a few more years for Great Xia.
In the room, the woman who stayed behind watched Zhou Lie talk to herself from time to time in the seat, saying some strange things, and then grinned inexplicably, and couldn't help but shake her head.
This calm was broken by the shouts of killing in the streets.
"What's going on?" Zhou Lie frowned.
When the two came to the window, they saw a group of soldiers holding a family and asking them to tell them the whereabouts of the rebels, but the other party just cried and said that they didn't know, and when the soldiers drew their knives and were about to kill, a group of poorly equipped troops armed with all kinds of strange weapons rushed out of the street corner and killed the group of soldiers.
"These are our rebel soldiers, and it's a good thing they came in time, otherwise the family would have been miserable. The woman pointed to the group of soldiers who rushed towards the soldiers, and said excitedly.
"This group of Imperial soldiers has indeed gone too far and occupied the territory of the other side, then the people of the other side are their people, and they should be treated equally, so that there will be no rebels like you. Zhou Lie frowned and muttered to himself.
Not only here, but also in many places, those rebels poured out from all kinds of secret passages, secret doors, brandishing shoddy weapons towards those soldiers, the number of imperial soldiers gave them the courage to fight, the grandmaster their weapons and armor were poor, and the appearance of being fearless was enough to make those soldiers feel terrified.
"Don't panic, there are many of them but they don't have any useful equipment, as long as they form a formation, they won't be able to break through!" During the conflict, the soldiers who could still keep their calm shouted, directing their comrades back to back, and the five of them formed a circle to deal with the enemy from all directions.
As the voice had predicted, the rebels' weapons were too rudimentary to hurt the soldiers unless they hit them in the head, and at first they managed to knock down the extreme soldiers with the momentum of their attacks, but when the soldiers were back to back and looked out for each other, the rebels had no chance to attack.
Battles broke out in all the streets and alleys of the old street, and the scene was chaotic, which was exactly the situation that Zhou Lie was expecting, and the battle between the rebels and the guards would inevitably affect those whistles, so he could fish in troubled waters.
News of the outbreak of fighting in the streets and alleys soon reached Doug's ears.
"A team of five, a team of five, send four teams to clean up the old streets, leave those civilians alone, kill all the families and countries with weapons, and leave a few alive," Doug quickly ordered.
There is more than one secret passage in the old street, they extend in all directions, distributed like a spider web underground, under the command of Lian, a group of rebels drilled out of Ali from an unexpected place of the other party, cut and surrounded the opponent's troops, and the soldiers who failed to react quickly could only accept the fate of being killed, and those soldiers who realized that the opponent's attack power was insufficient could only be tired of defense and were pinned down in place.
At this time, the elite troops led by Aiden quietly came to the bottom of the square from the tunnel, and as long as they waited for the signal released by Lian, they began their decapitation operation.
Fawkes knew that they could not defeat this group of regular troops head-on, so they had to mobilize the opponent's troops and then take the opportunity to attack the opponent when they were weakest, and these tunnels were dug for this.
A large number of soldiers poured into the old streets, and the rebels who had been operating underground took up arms and began to resist the atrocities of the Imperial army, and these oppressed and bullied people used their blood to tell the Empire that although their country was defeated, they did not want to oppress us at will.