"Master, these Lucernes are dying, it's not worth wasting precious food for them......"

On the night that the Blue Mountain Pass was recaptured by the Lorraine, the Lucernes who could run on their legs and feet were evacuated, leaving only seven or eight hundred Black Oak Legion soldiers who had lost their vitality because of the "Crazy Holy Water".

The Lorraine did not have a good face for these Luxon warriors who were sick and could not get up, and there were several incidents of torture of prisoners in a row, because not long ago, they killed a lot of Lorraine in the process of capturing the Blue Mountain Pass, and their hands were stained with the blood of the Lorraine.

But when Charles learned of this today, he immediately stopped this retaliatory action by his soldiers, and personally ordered them to be provided with enough food.

This move caused the incomprehension of the steward Roy and several other members of the Chevalier family, after all, Viscount Sangrad Chevalier had died in the Blue Mountains.

"They are dying, but they are not dead, and as long as they are not dead, they have value to use. ”

Charles walked into this lifeless area, seven or eight hundred emaciated and imhuman-looking Lucerne warriors were lying in the mud, and when they saw Charles and the others coming, many of them just raised their eyelids indifferently and closed their eyes again, while others lay on the ground and did not move, as if they were dead.

Looking at the protruding ribs on their bodies and the abscesses on their skin, Charles deeply felt the cruelty of war, and his heart as hard as stone softened a little pity.

"The Black Oak Legion has retreated to Clearwater and cut all the bridges in its path, and I don't think you don't understand what that means, you ....... It's the poor outcasts. ”

Charles's indifferent voice drifted away clearly, so that all the Luxnese could hear it clearly, but these Luxnese people did not have much emotional reaction.

Perhaps they no longer have the strength to be angry, or perhaps they have accepted the fate of waiting for death.

"You are all sinful losers, death is your only destination, if you want to be freed as soon as possible, then I will fulfill you now, return your ashes to Captain Leclos, and then have him pass them on to your family. ”

"Guess what Lecro said when she handed over your ashes to your family?"

"Oh, our warriors were tricked by me into drinking the 'Crazy Holy Water', and then I abandoned them at the Blue Mountains Pass, you fool ......."

"Of course, Leclow might have said, 'Those cowards have surrendered to the Lorraine, they don't deserve a pension........'"

Charles's voice rose a few decibels, and she snapped, "Are you fools? Are you cowards?"

The Lucernes in the mud finally moved, and some of the weak-willed began to sob softly.

If they lived, who would want to die, and who would want to be disgraced by being a coward?

"We ....... Don't go back to the legion, okay, let's go home......."

"My home is in Hongshan Village, which is more than ten miles away, and I still have some food at home, and I am willing to redeem my own ......."

Weakness is contagious, and the cry spread among the Lucernes, and at last someone begged for mercy.

"Go home? Can you still walk now? Will you scare your family to death when you go home like this?"

Charles' sarcastic mockery brought the scene back to deathly silence, and although they could not see their own faces, they could see their own skinny limbs and bodies, and they could see the ghostly horror in the bodies of others.

"I need to assemble a special force now, and if you are loyal to me and accept my gifts, you will be given a new life!"

“.........”

The Luxon captive, who was dying, looked up blankly, looked in the direction of the source of the voice just now, and wondered if he was having auditory hallucinations.

Charles grabbed a small flask and threw it on the ground, "There is only one chance, swear allegiance to me, drink this potion, and you can leave the present and become my warrior." ”

There was a noticeable commotion among the people in the mud, they had drunk a "holy water" not long ago, and then they were in a daze, and now that there was another potion in front of them, they really didn't know what to choose.

"Think for yourself!"

Charles turned around and walked away, there were a thousand ways to achieve his goal, he could give out of mercy, but he would never force it out of need.

However, he intentionally or unintentionally left the small potion bottle in the mud and did not take it away.

After all the Lorrainians had gone, the Lucers in the mud looked at the flask that had fallen to the ground, as if they were looking at the legendary Devil Fruit.

Finally, someone crawled over, picked up a small bottle of potion and drank it without hesitation.

One side is light, the other side is hell, and in the face of death, all faith becomes so fragile.

"Oh...... Oh...... Oh....... Oh......."

The breath of light diffused and flowed through the body of the "crab eater" like a rainstorm moistening the parched earth, and the wanton flushing and stinging caused the first person to drink the potion to let out a sour cry.

The messy, irritable, and crazy spiritual molecules were expelled from their bodies by the breath of light, and the vigorous vitality quickly manifested itself in the body of the "crab eater" at a speed visible to the naked eye, the shriveled skin became elastic and shiny again, and the withered hair quickly grew new hair after falling out.......

"Whoa!"

The fierce competition began to erupt in an instant, and these Lucernes, who seemed to be not far from death, burst out with the last trace of potential in their bodies, and tore at their own kind like hungry lone wolves.

The effect of "Urea Brand Holy Water" is very good, so the portion is not large, a small bottle is no more than the size of a finger, but Charles's palm is not as big as a fan, and a bottle is no more than ten bottles, and it was quickly swallowed by the person who grabbed it.

The same scene happened again, and the lucky ones who had nothing to love just now had the desire to live again.

The mud of chaos fell silent, but the seven or eight hundred Lucernes no longer lay in the mud like dead dogs, but looked in the direction of Charles's departure, and their resentful eyes were as pitiful as those of a pet dog whose food bowl had been trampled flat.

But Charles, as if he had forgotten about them, ignored them for two days until Roy came back to report.

"Master, they are all waiting for you to go back, and they won't even eat dinner tonight......."

"Do you know now that you're begging me?"

While enjoying his dinner, Charles said coldly, "Go and tell them that opportunities don't come every day, and not everyone has them, and I can't exchange eight hundred holy waters for eight hundred disloyal dogs." ”

"Sir, your wisdom is admirable, and the few Luxanes who have recovered their health have begun to maintain order in the prisoner of war camp on their own initiative, and they swear allegiance to you every day in the direction you left. ”

Charles put down his knife and fork, reached out and dragged a small bag from under the table (in the Spiritual Void) and tossed it to Roy casually.

"You are in charge of choosing the right people, and tell them that I can not only give them new lives, but also land, women, and even the right to lead soldiers. ”

"Well, sir, are you too merciful?" Roy disagreed with Charles' decision.

"No, you have to give them a better tomorrow, so that they will be obedient, the dog that eats meat is not the same as the dog that eats, I want to build a pseudo-army......... Phew. ”

"I'm going to build a black dog army loyal to me!"

...........

...........

The news of the "dividend" distributed by Charles to the shareholders who held the "war stock" was expected to be a slow fermentation process, and it would take a while for adventurous shareholders to come to open up the wasteland, but they did not expect to receive a response quickly.

And the shareholder representative who first came to Blue Mountain Pass turned out to be an unexpected person from Shire.

"Lord Marquis, I have been commissioned by Madame Butret Moyanno to receive her booty, and this is her handwritten letter to you. ”

"And this is the eleven war shares I have just purchased from someone else, and this is proof that Miss Olive has shown me, and I beg you to divide a suitable, contiguous piece of land between our two families. ”

At this time, the girl standing in front of Charles had long brown and blonde straight hair, royal blue almond eyes, a small straight nose and sexy and charming lips, and two long legs were even longer and straighter, which must have been very elastic with Charles's sharp eyes.

"Ahem, Dear Miss Veronica, are you sure you're going to fight with your cousin over those barren lands, and if I'm not mistaken, you probably own more land than the land outside the Blue Mountains?" Charles said as he put down Madame Butret Moano's letter, and said helplessly to the young knight in front of him.

That's right, the girl dressed as a knight in front of her is none other than Vironica, the cousin of Madame Butret Moano, the precious daughter of the Duke of Boryan, and a classmate of the Shire Knight Academy.

"Lord Marquis, don't you understand a truth? How can the land inherited by my ancestors be as valuable as the land I conquered? You have provided me with an opportunity for my descendants to remember my name, how can I not make good use of it?"

"And this is a war waged with the cooperation and support of merchants, and for the first time merchants have joined the war as direct participants rather than spectators, which has never been done on the mainland, shouldn't we leave our names in this great war?"

“...........”

"Okay! Now we only have control over the area within fifteen miles outside the Blue Mountain Pass, you can send a scout to investigate in detail, and you can choose my butler to register!" Charles covered his forehead, feeling as if he was not a suitable strategist, and many things were still not well thought out.

Charles expressed his intention to see him off, but Veronica did not go out immediately, but looked at Charles with some hesitation, and bowed deeply to him after a while.

"I'm sorry Charles, I owe you an apology, I'm ashamed of some of my previous words and deeds, you are an excellent heir to the title. ”

“.........”

Charles was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered some past events, when she and Veronica first met on the "Night of Divine Punishment" in Aurelian, when Veronica expressed strong contempt for Charles's status as a count, and said that if Charles was a qualified heir to the title, then she would apologize to Charles.

Veronica probably never imagined at the time that this apology would come so quickly.

Charles bowed slightly, and said sincerely: "I accept your apology, and admire your honesty and ease, you are a ....... A girl who is different from others!"

Veronica blushed, nodded and pursed her lips and walked out, but for some reason, she didn't look as carefree as she had just walked in.

"Roy, Roy!"

Charles didn't notice Veronica's strange appearance at all, and instead called Roy, the butler, in a frustration.

"Sir, what do you command?"

"Hurry up and summon Olive in Nancy City, ask her to immediately stop issuing certificates of transfer of war stocks, and let her stop the free transfer of war shares for the time being, and let her quickly find out if anyone has recently bought war stocks in large quantities, especially those who are powerful people, such as the royal family, my cousin, and even the church, etc. ”

"This ......."

The butler Roy said with a sad face: "Master, we originally announced that the war stock can be freely transferred, and now we suddenly regret it, but it is a ....... that damages your reputation."

"Oh, why are you so stupid?"

Charles looked at Roy with disgust, and explained to him in a low voice: "You said that we will make a major decision on war stocks in the near future, and we will stop trading freely in order to protect the interests of shareholders, and we will resume the free transfer of shares after the major decision is announced." ”

“............”

It took Roy a long time to understand what Charles meant, and continued to ask half-understandingly, "This kind of big decision....... How do you explain it in detail?"

Charles waved his hand and said very formulaically: "You tell them, maybe it's a re-allotment, maybe it's an asset reorganization, anyway, you just need to keep in mind one thing, all the final interpretation of war stocks belongs to our Marquis of Lorraine's mansion." ”

“.........”

Roy looked at Charles intently, and endured it for a long time before he couldn't say the word "really black" directly.

............

............

The hundreds of Lucerne captives in the Blue Mountains Pass were slowly recovering their health, and there were occasional whispers in the newly built "Atonement Camp", but the Black Oak Legion garrison in Qingshui Town was gloomy.

"What did you say? The monks of the Luxon Dawn Church refused to come and heal our soldiers, and why is that?"

"Captain Leclous, they say....... The church does not get involved in the aristocratic strife between the world, and the Church of the Dawn is not the same sect as the Abes Monastery, so there are many inconvenient ......."

The captain of the Black Oak Legion, Lecro, gritted his teeth and spun in circles, but in the end, he couldn't do anything about the Twilight Church, not to mention that he was just a legion leader, even the Grand Duke of Lucerne was not enough to see in front of the Twilight Church, not any monarch had the same energy as King Florence, King Pruth or even Emperor Rus.

"What about the Church of Light? The monks from the Monastery of Abes are all 'Bright Ascetics'. ”

"Legionnaire, the Church of Light has given us some holy water, but I've tried it on the warriors, and it doesn't have much effect......."

When the 1st Brigade of the Red Oak Legion arrived at the Blue Mountain Pass, the Black Oak Legion sent some of the wounded to the rear, among which nearly 2,000 people are still enduring the torture of "Crazy Holy Water", if they don't want to cure them, who would dare to defect to the Black Oak banner?

"Then send them home!"

"This, Legionnaire, they are not fit to go home now, and if they die at home, it will be an even greater blow to the prestige of our Black Oak Legion. ”

"I'm talking about sending their ashes home!"