Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Enemy of the Villagers
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Clermont covered his shoulder with his hand and struggled forward, his left hand suffering multiple stab wounds in the shoulder, and he had been shot in the calf with a crossbow arrow, which he still hadn't pulled out. www.biquge.info But even so, he fled the battlefield with three members of the rebels, and fled to one of the hidden mine entrances.
When they fled into the mine, a mountain man who had not left the mine was looking around.
"Is it a cadre of the Rebel Army???How's the battle going outside?!" The mountain man was dressed in a miner's clothes and an iron pickaxe leaning against the wall, his anxious expression a little solemn.
"We have failed, and it is estimated that the heroic mountain people have been killed or captured, and the evil mercenaries and city dwellers have long since turned this place into a slaughterhouse. Clermont exhaled, closed his eyes and found a corner that was not exposed to the sun, and slowly sat down.
The mountain man showed a frightened expression, these seriously wounded rebels had already explained everything, the rebels who were more organized and powerful than the mountain people had been defeated, and it seemed that those mercenaries who had invaded their homes were indeed demons.
"It's over... My wife and children don't know if they can escape, our homes and lives are over..."The mountain people slowly fell to their knees at the thought of the terrible images of the burned villages and the slaughtered families, which were passed on to them by the rebels, and every incited mountain man feared that the tragedy would become real.
Clermont opened his eyes slightly, and vaguely saw two people approaching the entrance of the cave, and he immediately struggled to his feet, and blew his own whistle, trying to call the black eagle eagle to come and protect himself.
But when Clermont saw who was coming, the short sword that he was about to draw was retracted, "It's Orbi and Octavia!"
The woman with a nice face, light yellow hair, a handful of hair braided, and a circle around her forehead was none other than Octavia, and the short knife at her waist had been replaced with a new one, but she also showed a look of humiliation after being defeated twice by Feder. Standing beside her was Olbi, a high-ranking cadre of the Rebels, a tall, bald man with dark skin and yellow eyes.
"Clermont... It's good that I ran into Olbi, otherwise I would have died in the chaos..."Octavia's face was haggard, but it couldn't hide her delicate fair skin and delicate features. If it weren't for the fact that both attacks were at night, perhaps Feld would have seen that the person who wanted to kill him was a beautiful woman who was even more beautiful than Mave.
Olbi didn't speak, his mouth closed like a line. The mountain man wanted to step forward to learn about the situation from this tall and sturdy bald man, but Olbi suddenly pulled a special mechanism, and a short club-shaped iron cone instantly popped out of the clothes in his right hand, directly piercing the mountain man's heart. The mountain man had his hands forward, but Olbi's arms were so long that the mountain man could not catch the rebel who had killed him so suddenly that he was dying.
The other three rebels were also taken aback, they obviously didn't expect Olbi, a senior cadre of the rebels, to do this, and what they didn't expect was that after Olbi pulled out the iron cone, he immediately killed the three injured rebel members, all of them sealed their throats with a cone, like a cold-blooded killer, and sent a few sheep to heaven cleanly.
Clermont's mouth was wide open, and the young man, still dressed as a miner, did not draw his weapon to resist, or perhaps because he realized that no matter how much he struggled, it was useless.
"I won't pursue your failures for the time being, but if you lose so many rebel subordinates next time, your family will also bear it with you. Olbi shook the blood from the iron spine, and Octavia, the cadre next to him, only tilted his head slightly, as if he had to agree with the approach of a cadre who was one level higher than him.
Clermont knew the reason for forgiving himself, and he lowered his head in frustration, "I will keep the matter of inciting the mountain people secret, but I swear! There will never be another failure!" The black eagle owl flew from a distance, but it was just standing on the branch of a tree, staring vigilantly at the tall dark-skinned man, "I will definitely kill that guy named Feide with my own hands next time, in honor of those comrades who were killed by the devil!"
By the same time, Fidel and the other captains had finished interrogating the mountain men and rebel prisoners. All the rebels and mountain captives combined were just over a hundred, and most of the enemy died in the melee. Fidel did not allow Ligu's medical team to treat the injured mountain people or the rebels, and he was unable to calm his anger, believing that what happened to Ayana was the fault of all the rebels and mountain mobs.
Maev and her knight of the Guards also arrived later, and it was still far from lunchtime, so Maeve, who had just woken up, was still sleepy, and she immediately rushed to Fidel excitedly after learning about the battle of the Potato Mercenary Regiment, hugging the other party.
"Wonderful! You are such a hero! No wonder my mother thinks so highly of you!" Meifu cried with joy, the wound on her thigh had not healed, but the corpses everywhere and Fed, who stood outside the corpse, made her forget the pain.
Phaedra took the other man's hand away and let the knight hold Maev, "Your mother admires me?"
"That's right! it's Lady Eli, the owner of Fontale City, sheβ" As soon as she said this, she couldn't help but sit down on the ground, and the wound on her thigh was faintly oozing blood. Winoti could tell at a glance that the wound had ruptured due to Mave's agitation, and she and the knights immediately helped the noblewoman to a distance for treatment.
It wasn't until Mave's thigh was re-bandaged that Fid understood what the other party meant. It turned out that the person who sent Maeve to Dutree City was Lady Eli, the ex-wife of Count Endrida had already heard of the name of the Potato Mercenary Regiment and the head of the Feder Regiment, and she had some relatives living in Doret City, and she was very impressed by this young mercenary who could capture the Python of the Wasteland, protect the Holy Maiden Golia, and kill Carlos, the leader of the Knights of the Lightning. So when Fidel entered the Duchy of Magini, Madame Eli tried to send someone to contact the potato mercenary group, but Fidel happened to stay in the Dulumber City, and Count Endrida obstructed his ex-wife's actions in every way, because he also wanted to take Fide for his own use.
Later, it was only by the only daughters of the two city lords that they met Fide at the banquet. That's why Lady Eli is willing to pay a higher price and hire a group of potato mercenaries to do things for her. After all, the Iron Ore Mountain Range here is located in the middle of the line connecting the two cities, and everyone has the right to send troops to deal with the rebels here, but no one has the right to belong to this mountain range. The former husband and wife both want to solve the problem of the Iron Ore Rebels and then expand their own power.
Mave also tells Fidel that Herman is only Endrida's nephew, but that Endrida already sees him as his heir. In order to prevent this young nobleman from bearing the infamy of "invading and killing mountain dwellers", they found the potato mercenary group to deal with the problem of the iron mine rebels, and avoid the aggravation of the conflict between the nobles in the city and the villagers outside the city. Even if the regular army led by Herman kills the mountain people this time, the nobles of Dumus will put all the blame on the potato mercenary group commanded by Fidel. And the credit for solving the rebel gang will be taken by Heman, which is why Heman will wait until Feid's troops enter the mountain before besieging other mountain outlets, in order to consolidate his reputation, and by the way, to deal with these mountain people who do not obey the command of power, and complete the plan of killing two birds with one stone.
Maev told her father's plan and plan, and I don't know if it was because she was on her mother's side, but Fidel was still grateful for Maev's frankness, after all, he also realized that the potato mercenary group had become the sword of the people in power, and became the enemy of the villagers outside the Duchy of Mageni.
The angry scolding of the mountain man just now is still in his ears, "Damn mercenaries, moths of war! demons that invade our homeland! Even if I die, I will curse you! I will be killed by my own butcher's knife!"