This kid really relied on his military merits to stand in this position, not blood.

Lead the dragoons to charge and kill in a roundabout way, and kill the enemy in front of the battle to make meritorious contributions. The Prisoner Bull was not a brute force, he led the dragoons to constantly harass the Plantagenet Kingdom with ultra-high mobility, forcing the other party to form a crowd, and breaking through the camp of the Holy See army and the main force of the Lord Kingdom. This alone was enough to make Shi Rui look at him differently.

There is no shortage of warriors in the tribe. Any warrior can rush forward and kill the enemy at a critical moment. However, wisdom is really very rare, especially for a commander of the army, who needs to be calm and rational.

Thinking of his unsuccessful sons, Shi Rui sighed secretly in his heart. Happiness and pain are compared, and if possible, he is really willing to exchange any price for such an excellent biological son as Long Prison Niu. Unfortunately, good things have always been prefixed with "someone else's".

Woman...... Well, I don't know why the mind is back to women.

When Shi Rui saw Ayi for the first time, he never thought that the ugly monster was Tianhao's wife. She came to the front with more than 500 guards to offer condolences. All of them were women, handing the wounded soldiers small cloth bags filled with sugar cubes and dried fruits. They held more than a dozen performances in the field hospital, and the venue was sold out and received rave reviews.

The body is slender, bumpy and convex, with slender legs and feet...... In Shi Rui's opinion, these are not attractive in the slightest, and they are even synonymous with ugliness. The most fundamental reason is because of thinness, Ayi's slender waist seems to be able to be broken with just one hand. Although the butt is quite upright, it is difficult to arouse a man's desire. It's better to be fat, so that the skin will become smooth because of fat, especially in terms of fertility.

Ayi apparently doesn't have that bothering her. She has a strong fertility capacity. Including the prison cow, as many as four children before and after are the crystallization of her love with Tianhao. Ayi has always been proud of this, believing that Tianhao has never had an intimate relationship with another woman is a true manifestation of his love.

People like to inquire when they are old, especially Shi Rui is still the king of the tribe who has infiltrated the gossip factor in his bones. He was curious about Ayi...... Yes, definitely curiosity, not interest. Therefore, he sent someone to secretly collect information between Tianhao and Ayi. It's just that after seeing the relevant report, Shi Rui not only sighed and shook his head, but also had a deep admiration.

It is true that the young dragon regent did not have promiscuity, although as soon as he moved his fingers, countless women would take the initiative to stick to him.

His young wife was duty-bound and never relied on her status to act recklessly. Both internally and externally, it is an exemplary existence.

With such a family, it is not surprising that excellent offspring can be raised.

Think of the secret report sent by Wu Guo before: the dragon clan took out a large amount of supplies in exchange for the quilts captured from the main camp of the Plantagenet Kingdom, just to provide them with their children...... With such courage, such a move, and such consideration for the sake of the ethnic group and the people, Shi Rui thought that he would not be able to do it no matter what.

For the first time in his life, Shi Rui felt a sense of fear for people younger than him.

I can't have outlived him.

Once he dies, will my son be able to keep the legacy of the lion clan?

He fell into deep thought, but there was a majestic and oppressive command from Tianhao.

"Fire!"

"Attack!"

"Take the Dragon Pass!"

……

Two hundred 105 mm caliber guns, this is the limit of the logistics supply of the three ethnic coalition forces.

Including Hu Yongxian and Shi Rui, after seeing the power of the dragon artillery with their own eyes, they all remained silent on the question of "how to attack the Lock Dragon Pass". Because the facts are right in front of us, there is no need to say more.

The dragon artillery has a longer range than the white man's artillery, which has been proven countless times on the battlefield.

For this battle, Tianhao specially prepared three base shells. He had only one request———— to smash the wall that already belonged to the white people as quickly as possible.

……

Bishop Somson was awakened from his sleep.

No, it should be awakened.

The ground under his feet was shaking, as if an earthquake of magnitude seven or higher, the marching bed and table were shaking, and the silver tea tray was also making a "ding-ding" sound in the bump.

The bishop dressed as fast as he could, and hurried out of the room, just in time to meet the personal priest who had rushed over to report the news.

"Lord Bishop, the northern giants are on the attack." The priest's face was pale and bloodless: "They are firing cannons......"

The latter words were interrupted by a shrill whistling in the air, and Bishop Somson, who had experience in the previous battle, quickly turned around and threw himself on the ground. Not far in front of him, a cannonball exploded, and a Papal Army guard who had no time to dodge was blown away on the spot. It was too close, and scattered pieces of flesh splattered onto Bishop Somson's face, wet. He subconsciously wiped it with the back of his hand, and found that it was a piece of skin with a little muscle layer, and there was a small half finger at the very end.

"No matter how strong the defense is, it can't stop the northern giant!" The bishop's mind crossed with such a thought.

Without hesitation, he got up, didn't have time to pat the dirt off his body, turned around and walked briskly towards the newly built barracks to the south, and instructed the priest who followed him as he went: "Order everyone to be on standby, and order the logistics commander to load the food and important supplies away now." ”

The priest was very capable of comprehension, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Your Excellency, shall we withdraw now?" ”

"Let the baggage team withdraw first." Bishop Somson's face had never been more solemn than it was now: "You have to bring the spoils back, otherwise Your Majesty will not have a good time." ”

The priest said no more, he bowed, and hurried away.

Bishop Somson forcibly suppressed his fear and confusion, and took several deep breaths in a row, feeling nothing but gunsmoke and blood, and not feeling the freshness that should be felt in the morning.

Suddenly, he saw another priest running in the distance, mixed with morning mist and smoke. His face was full of panic, and after rushing to the front, his whole body was trembling, and he even stammered: "My lord...... You...... Go and see, the giants have done it...... They, they did it to our people. ”

A bad premonition suddenly rose in Bishop Somson's heart, and he exclaimed, "What the hell is going on? Don't panic, speak clearly! ”

The priest still couldn't control the rhythmic tremors, and he had apparently seen something so terrible that a terrifying memory formed in his mind that was difficult to erase: "They are killing...... No, they unleashed our people. But...... But...... They're incomplete, incomplete! ”

……

To the south of the Dragon Pass, the camp of the Lord's Kingdom.

The Marquis of Savitin was the commander-in-chief of this expedition. He was a young and experienced nobleman and a cousin of the king.

It is difficult to unify the differences at the level of religious consciousness. After all, the Kingdom of God is in natural opposition to other countries and the Holy See. Although there is little difference between the "Lord" and the "Holy Lord" in terms of titles, they represent two gods.

The difference is more in the image of the gods and the doctrine: the Lord has three mounts: the ox, the camel and the white elephant. The Lord has always walked barefoot. In the eyes of the Lord's followers, filthy, fat animals are not to be eaten, except for beef and lamb, and the damned word "pig" cannot even be mentioned.

The Lord's followers also worship monkeys. It resembles a human being, and in the land of the Lord it is considered a messenger of the gods, not only will it not be hunted, but it will be fed with plenty of food.

"All infidels are enemies." This is the most important part of the Gospels of both the Kingdom of God and the Holy See.

If it weren't for its strength, the kingdom of the Lord would have been wiped out of this world by the other four kingdoms and the Holy See.

The best thing to do is to temporarily become a friend and deal a fatal blow when the opponent is at his least vigilant.

The Marquis of Savitine believed that the Pope and the Kings understood this, but that the Kingdom of God had the same idea. Because of this, when the papal emissaries came to lobby for troops and promised that "they will definitely be able to capture the Suolong Pass", the Marquis and another military representative, Duke Abbas, chose to believe it. Under their influence, the king finally decided to send troops.

The Pope did not lie. The Marquis of Savidin also witnessed the whole process of the "Sixth" capturing the Suolong Pass. During that time, for the first time, he had doubts about his faith, feeling that the strength of the Lord was inferior to that of the Holy Lord.

At this moment, his faith was shaken again.

There was a soldier standing in front of him.

He wore the uniform of the kingdom of God, which was torn and dirty, but not forged in style.

At least four people were able to prove his identity, and all evidence suggests that he had been captured in the previous battle and now released by the giants.

The poor man, along with the other freed prisoners, ran to the forward position and was escorted by the officers.

He kept his hands up, and both arms were shaking.

There are no fingers, and the ten fingers of both hands are cut off from the part that connects to the palm. The wound had turned black, but it was not festering and infected, and the surface was smeared with a thick layer of black substance, which seemed to be some kind of medicine used to stop the bleeding.

"Those giants cut off our hands three days ago. Everybody. They caught a lot of people, Vikings, Plantagenets, Rhines, Saxons, and clergy of the Holy See, all with their fingers cut off. ”

"The giants clearly have no intention of killing us, and they don't like to eat human flesh as legend has suggested. They stopped the bleeding for us and used the powder that had been milled with herbs. ”

"We have been carried by giants from the north, and for four days we have not been fed. We were tired and hungry, and we had very little water, so we couldn't hold back and had to drink our own urine. But it's okay, they finally let us go......"

The wounded soldier had a grateful look on his face, and he kept whispering prayers and saying things like "Thank you, Lord." It seemed to him that this was completely common sense, after all, not everyone was so lucky to be able to get out alive from the brutal northern giants.

The Marquis of Savidin shuddered, and a cool breath rose from the soles of his feet, running through his body to the top of his head.

"How many are there?" He struggled to control his tone and emotions without appearing overly agitated: "I mean, how many captives did the giant release?" ”

"I, I don't know." The wounded soldier shook his head blankly: "It should be no less than 200,000!" Because when I came from the north, I saw at least half a million captives along the way. Although we were held in different camps, there were some opportunities to exchange information privately. As far as I know, a lot of people have had their fingers chopped off by giants. ”

When he heard the number "two hundred thousand", Marquis Savitin's body trembled slightly. He clenched his left fist hard and ordered the adjutant in a flat tone: "Take him down and let him eat something." ”

This is the normal treatment given to returnees.

Soon only the Marquis of Savidin was left alone in the room.

Shelling continues in the distance. The Marquis thought it was because of the remoteness of the place, and the giant's cannonballs could not hit, but he never thought of anything else.

For the first time in his life, he developed a fear of aliens that he had never felt before.

200,000 ...... This number is not accurate.

The northern giants successively annihilated the main forces of the Viking Kingdom and the Plantagenet Kingdom, and roughly calculated, the white captives that fell into their hands were at least hundreds of thousands, and perhaps even more than a million.

The reason why they wanted to cut off the fingers of these captives was not because of hunger, nor because they had a special interest in the fingers in terms of appetite. It is understandable that the people of the land of the Lord like chicken feet and the people of other countries like pig's trotters, and that the feet of animals are so active that they taste good when cooked. For a long time, the countries of the South thought that the giants' choices in terms of recipes were cruel and terrible, but now it seems that all this is speculation.

Compared to amputating both hands, cutting off a finger is a simpler process to stop bleeding and is less likely to cause death due to excessive bleeding.

Anyone who doesn't have a finger is waste. They could not hold a sword in their hands, pull the trigger with a musket, or even do even the most basic farm work, let alone work in other trades.

People with disabilities are common. In the countries of the South, many of the poor in the slums are disabled. Generally speaking, according to the minimum standard of human survival, one labor force can support one disabled person. As long as the number is not too large, it will not be a burden on the kingdom's finances.

200,000 fingerless wastes sounds like a lot, but considering the huge population base of the countries of the South amounting to billions, it is actually nothing.

What made the Marquis of Savitine fearful was the practice of the giants of the north.

The fact that the Suolong Pass was breached by the "No. 6" means that the long-term confrontation between the north and the south has been broken. Regardless of the outcome of this victory, the war will become a sustained long-term act. If the giants did the same to all their captives, cutting off their fingers and releasing them, over the years, day after day, add up to a lot...... It was a terrible scene that the Marquis of Savitin didn't even dare to think about it.