Chapter 247: Keep up the good work
The icy autumn rain continued until the early hours of the next morning, and in the ruins of Fort Cambert, the chieftain Kruren Stoneheart publicly executed his fellow men who had been tamed by their slave owners. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The hot blood stained the execution table red, and the rolling orc heads showed an expression of disbelief on their faces, more hatred and fear.
Their ancestors came from the Black Continent, and they were tortured by leather whips and shackles, and they also rose up to resist, paying blood and sacrifices, but it is touching that their descendants took the initiative to kneel down and kiss the boots of human slave owners.
Many orc warriors who were born as laborers could not understand why a clansman who looked exactly like him would turn his back on his orc identity and choose to bow his knees to the humans who enslaved them.
Kruren Shixin paraphrased Aldrich Triss to dispel their doubts: "When we were still running freely in the wilderness of our homeland, hunting, planting, and gathering, continuing the simple life close to nature for thousands of years, we did not expect that one day we would be captured and trafficked to the plantations by human slave catchers from far away continents. ”
"Put a collar of humiliation on us, like lowly cows, horses, and livestock. Whenever you work in the field, you will be punished with a leather whip. Fearing that they will have the strength to resist if they are well fed and drunk, they often set high targets and make us hungry under the pretext that they are not completed. ”
"There are people who can't endure the harsh slavery and don't have the courage to resist and choose to flee, and their fate is usually tragic. Hunters with a keen sense of smell and experienced trackers, all the slave owners joined forces so tacitly that fewer and fewer slaves dared to escape. ”
Of course, there were also a very small number of people who envied the good life of the slave owners, and even their overseers and stewards became the targets of curry favor and curry favor in exchange for being exempted from flogging and free from hard and heavy labor. ”
"These people were often very clever and self-righteous people, who escaped from slavery and became overseers and stewards, learning the culture of the slave owners and using their mastery of the language. For the sake of some benefit, they intensified their efforts against their own people, so as to ask their masters for merit and reward. They are the worst rebels of the extended family, withered trees whose cores have rotted and discolored. ”
"Where there is oppression, there is resistance!, Venerable Lord Delektar, embarked on the arduous road to freedom, and on the way to the Dragon's Back Mountains, he gained a long inheritance and transformed into a great shaman. Hearing our cries, he came to the cannon fodder that had been driven into battle by the slave owners, and led the enslaved laborers, and now the valiant warriors raised the banner of freedom. ”
"However, there are still many people who are enslaved by the whip, and we who cannot sit idly by and watch them suffer and gain freedom and honor, and we have the responsibility and obligation to smash the shackles on our people through war. As for those hateful rebellies, only a butcher's knife can make them understand that even with the exact same face, the scoundrel's rhetoric and sophistry cannot hide their crimes. ”
"Victory will be ours in the end...... Woo!"
Many orc warriors didn't understand the chief's words very well, but the last sentence was too inspiring, especially since yesterday's destruction of a fortress that had previously seemed invincible, giving them a lot of confidence, despite the great efforts of the human allies in the process, and the great help at the critical moment.
The proud orcs still take the lion's share of the credit for themselves, and are extremely concerned about their allies taking their rightful share of the loot, after all, no one can ignore the armor that protects against spell attacks.
Now there is a need for human musketeers to suppress the archers of the slave owners, and the artillery of allies to blast through strong castles and fortresses, without the need for the chief Kruren Shixin to personally appease them, and the orc warriors who understand what is at stake are holding their noses and holding back this breath.
The scene of the rebellion of the orcs was quite shocking, and then it was the turn to deal with the captured old and weak women and children and the militia and guards of the sub-fort who surrendered.
Thanks to Aldrich Triss's persuasion, the chief Kruren Stoneheart lowered the bloodied butcher's knife as a price for backing down, and the Knight of Virtue gave him an idea.
The newly transformed laborers came forward to identify the overseers and stewards who had the blood of the orcs on their hands, publicly accused them of their crimes, and hanged them themselves.
As for the unrelated people with clean hands, because they had enjoyed the blood and sweat of the hard work of the orcs, all their possessions were reasonably taken and driven into the empty sub-fort, where they enjoyed the taste of shackles.
After all this, the rain gradually became heavier, but the spirited orc army did not stop, ate a not sumptuous but ample breakfast, and immediately set off.
Instead of heading west back to the territory of the Land of Mountains, heading south along the Benniu River. In order to save more of his people, Chief Kruren Stoneheart stepped out and not only pressed all his gambling money, but also counted his human allies.
The drizzle brings the chill of late autumn, and the cold that burrows into the bones is quite difficult for humans with ordinary physique, and as for the orc warriors, as long as they are covered with waterproof fur on their heads, their wet bodies will not care about the inconspicuous wind chill at all.
The autumn wind that blows from time to time rolls up the yellow leaves, breaks away from the dry knots, and slowly falls with a whirlpool, prostrate on the ground, and the winter snow will send it into the natural cycle, the last link of the dust into the cycle of life.
An imposing army of orcs, stepping forward with their feet open, striding forward, the withered yellow fallen leaves trampled barefoot hundreds of times, melted into the soil earlier than before, and became fertilizer to nourish the land in the near future.
Far from the sparsely populated farmhouse, marching at an unhurried pace in the wilderness, the ground absorbing enough moisture and gradually turning muddy, the horse-drawn flatbed cart at the front of the procession unconsciously came to the back of the procession.
It was carrying the seriously wounded who had been in difficult motion, and the chief knew that he could not abandon them, and he did not want to add to the burden, but Aldrich Tris gave him an idea.
Collect the horses of the sub-fort stables, make temporary carts out of wood, put the seriously wounded on them, and cover them with waterproof tarpaulins.
Newly converted soldiers from hard labor, who had not yet seen blood, acted as auxiliaries for the troops, caring for and caring for the wounded, and taking care of the war supplies they had collected.
Mainly the food of Fort Cambert that has not yet been burned by the war, bows, arrows, javelins and other ordnance, Kruren Stoneheart attaches great importance to the long-range attack arms of the Legion, and he is very interested in the musketeers and mortar squads of the human allies.
Under the cover of the continuous autumn rain that obstructed the view, the orc expeditionary legion swooped down on the next target - the Black Castle at a speed close to the rapid march of humans.
The Black Fort, which has taken out a large number of main forces and is garrisoned by militiamen, is a soft persimmon that can be kneaded at will, and as long as the hard walnut shell on the outside is broken, the fruits of victory can be easily picked.
However, after the siege of Fort Cambert, the orc legion, which lost one-fifth of its strength, did not want to waste the veterans who had experienced the experience of war in vain, although they replenished their full strength through conversion labor.
They are all seeds, reliable backbones and backbones for the formation of large-scale legions in the future. The orc chieftain, who is not short of wisdom, is hungry for learning in the war, and he wants to try to outwit this fortress that is strong and strong.
Approaching the crocodile hills of Blackcastle, Crulen Shixin took out the monocular he had with him and carefully observed the movement of his target.
The militia, who had not experienced war for many years, had negligently not sent out a sentry, and perhaps what had happened in Cumbert had not reached the ears of the lords of Blackcastle.
"Foolish people...... I like such an opponent! ”
The orc chief commented on the Black Castle garrison with a mixture of delight and contempt, and Aldrich Tris, standing beside him, could not penetrate the invisible protection despite not wearing a waterproof poncho.
Catching a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye, Kruren Shixin's mood was a little complicated, "There are both despicable slave owners and noble heroes in the human race. The human of the Makgora Death Ceremony, who killed the vampire Viscount with one move, deserves the title of Palanturu. ”
Reaching out to the Overseer Krum to roar, he selects the slender, thin, stealthy and stealthy orc warriors.
Due to the relationship between skeleton and physique, such people are difficult to find, but there are exceptions to everything, especially since some of the warriors in the legion have human blood, which is commonly known as half-orcs - their experience is no different from that of ordinary orc labor, and they do not receive special treatment from slave owners.
They don't have the muscles to move freely in heavy armor, they don't have the incredible grip to wield steel weapons to rush to the front line, but they also have the agility that ordinary orc warriors lack.
Twenty short knives with blackened ink, with sharp edges on both sides, were provided by Ian McCallane, who chose to walk side by side with his friend Aldrich Triss instead of clamoring to stay on the armoured flotation ship.
Watching the orc warriors turned wanderers sneak into the waterfront Black Castle from different directions, Aldrich Tris didn't stay where he was.
Wet and cold rainy days had a great impact on the flintlock pistol, and even if the trained musketeers wrapped it in tarpaulin and tucked it under the poncho, it could not prevent the barrel from getting wet.
"The limitations of front-loading guns, maybe it's time to introduce breech-loading muskets, copper shells are too expensive, maybe you can use paper shells first...... Well, there are copper mines in the West, but this matter has to be put aside for a while. ”
In the vision of the Eye of Discernment, he saw the Black Castle not far away, flashing a large canopy of scarlet blood, and the assassination of the orc wanderer began.
Aldrich Triss stood up in abrupt form, and the chiefs Cruren Stoneheart and Ian McCallane looked at him in unison, and immediately understood that the killing feast was underway.
Under the cover of the rain, the orc wanderers easily bypassed the frontal protection of the Black Castle's sentry posts, lookouts, and arrow towers, and quietly infiltrated key locations such as the main entrance of the castle and the circular walkway on the outer wall.
Approaching the target from behind, covering his mouth with his left hand, and swiping the knife on his neck with his right hand, he was unable to prevent the vital wounds, except for the blood caused by the wound, and the spasms of severe pain made the body curl up and tense, and there was no resistance - after all, they were all a group of militiamen who had never been on the battlefield.
Their training is basic, not even combat skills, and the only experience they can provide for talking about is capturing fugitive slaves, often with the help of large hounds.
As more and more people died, and the smell of blood could not be concealed by the icy rain, a lich Safi Frostfeather, who had been fed by the Lord of the Black Castle, was busy experimenting in the basement room of the moldy tower, but his keen sense of smell still caught the faint smell of death.
After learning of what had happened to the Cumbert Territory through a special channel, the lich thought that the orcs were still in the ruins, and when he opened his vision of the revenant, he found familiar and strange figures, and the hills outside the castle, the seemingly endless army, and the terrible knights that made his scalp tingle, and he could not imagine that they would reach out their dirty claws to their territory.