Chapter 045: Song and Dance
Tiktis waved his hand and motioned for Caron to sit down first, and he opened his mouth leisurely: "William, what do you think?"
William was the centurion of the first squad, and I heard that he was personally promoted by Edgar, and he came from outside the mountains of Boundary Mountain, and even from outside Calradia, but his prestige among the mountain people was second only to Edgar himself. The pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info is usually very low-key, just taking his own team of 100 people to train in an independent training ground, and never allow outsiders to approach. At this moment, he also sat on it, but he did not want to sit upright like the big heads in front of him, but carefully wiped his huge sword with a coarse cloth. He rubbed it so delicately, as if he was bathing the woman he loved, his fingers were gentle and ambiguous, as if in his eyes, the whole world was left with his sword.
Everyone was waiting for him to speak, and he didn't wipe it until the last time, and flicked his fingers on the spine of the sword, and the long sword made a buzzing sound. After that, William took the sword back into his arms and said coldly: "Like that kind of scum, if he doesn't kill him, I will kill him!"
The audience was stunned, and then Caron jumped up again, he stepped in front of William, and roared: "William, what are you, kill Barkley or not, you are qualified to say? You are just a little centurion, you think that if you sit on it today, you are qualified to drag it up? You are just a small person, don't think too highly of yourself......" Caron's words suddenly seemed to be cut off by something, his eyes were round, and some sounds were held in his throat, and he couldn't make a "gurgling". I looked up and saw a pitch-black sword against his throat, and the devastating cold killing intent emanating from the sword made the room even colder than the outside.
William said coldly: "You're lucky, I just finished polishing the sword and don't want to stain it." But I swear, if you say one more word, it's your last words. ”
Cuarón's eyes slanted at Tiktius, as if he was asking for help, but only to see Tikdis tilt his head slightly, as if he couldn't deal with the problem here.
Mebius stood up suddenly, walked slowly to William's side, and carefully removed the sword from William's hand, pulling Caron behind him. He said softly, "William, we are discussing today about Emmons' murder of his colleagues. I've heard of your name at the headquarters, so why bother to lose your temper with an ignorant squad leader?"
William gave him a cold look, still not saying a word, but the sword was put down, as if the matter had been revealed.
Mebius's mood didn't seem to change. He turned around and looked at me coldly, "Emmons, I know you have ambitions. It's good to be ambitious, but there aren't many ambitious people in this world. You can't blame anyone else for what you did today. According to the rules of the base, I will give you hanging. You must rejoice that you died under such a simple punishment. As he spoke, he looked back at Tiktis, as if waiting for him to speak.
At that moment, I grabbed something, and what Edgar had said earlier flashed through my mind. Although Mebius is the archdeacon of the mountainous region, his responsibilities are limited to government affairs, and although he has added the position of overseer, he can only meddle in the personnel changes of the army and the basic military situation, and he has no way to get involved in the higher-level military law system and decision-making system. My estimate of what power he could exert was skewed. In other words, in Edgar's absence, it is not this Membius who has the highest decision-making power over the military justice system, but the deputy squadron leader and chief instructor Tikotis who even has some love for me.
No, the previous squad leader appointed and dismissed Tiktius as if he was wearing the same pants as Mebius, and it was impossible to count on him directly. I immediately set my eyes on William, who had just been so powerful, and who could only teach Tiktis and Mebius, although I didn't know what his true identity was, but it would definitely not be as simple as a small guard centurion. Thinking of this, my heart, which was already a little gray, immediately burned at this moment, and from my eyes, it was forged into a firm, tenacious, unyielding, and regretful gaze.
Sure enough, the moment I met William's eyes, I saw his eyes stunned, as if he had thought of something. I immediately found the state of mind in William's eyes at the moment when he was stunned, which was the unyielding after being abandoned, and the persistent belief in the future. I immediately hypnotized myself, allowing this gaze to occupy the main body of my eyes, and then projected ten times and a hundred times.
I saw William move, and he even moved the sword he was holding in his arms to the side and sat up straight and looked at me.
I increased the output of emotion in my gaze, and at this time, Tiktis also stood up, and he did not seem to see my eyes, but slowly put on his cloak. This means that the final judgment is to be made.
It's not enough, it's a little bit close......
Tiktis suddenly walked up to me, his wide black cloak obscuring my gaze, and I couldn't see William.
Tiktis looked at me condescendingly, with a dead indifference in his eyes: "Emmons, although you are very good at training troops, and your command skills are not bad, you are a talent. But rules are meant to be followed, and if you break them, you will be punished, so I have decided that you will be convicted of murder and you will be punished with the severest punishment......"
"Wait a minute!" a voice suddenly came from behind Tikdis, burrowed into my ears, and I felt my whole body go limp almost instantly, it was William's voice: "Tikdis, the charge of murder is not established. ”
Tickotis unexpectedly raised an eyebrow, then turned away: "William, are you questioning my trial?"
William said coldly: "That's right. Although Emmons ordered Barkley to be killed, it was not on the charge of murder. As far as I know, it was Barkley who provoked the first to disarm the Emmons Division as a peer, which no commander could tolerate, and which provoked the dignity of the warriors. Emmons was just there to defend his dignity. Moreover, Emmons did not suddenly set out to kill, but was warned first, but was provoked by Barkley even more severely, which can already constitute an act of self-defense. So, the murder charge is not acquitted!"
Tiktis seemed to have a problem, he tilted his head and thought for a moment, and said, "Then what charges do you say should be prosecuted?"
William didn't even think about it, and said: "Self-defense, acquittal!"
Mebius frowned and said, "This can't be!"
"How about taking a step back, compromise, and giving him an over-defense that will lead to the death of a parishioner?"
Mebius stopped talking, and Cuaron's eyes were about to pop out.
William thought for a moment: "The punishment for this sin can be big or small, what kind of punishment do you want to give?"
Tiktis glanced at me, and suddenly reached out and tore off the rag on my mouth: "Emmons, I will give you two choices, one is to duel with me, defeat me, and you will be acquitted immediately, and the other is that you will do a great job for our Drua Sect and pay for this sin." The choice is yours. ”
Without hesitation, I chose the second one, and I said, "Draw a line for what you want to do." ”
Tiktis looked like he had already guessed, nodded and said: "It's very simple, the base has been short of supplies recently, and if you have three months, you must hand over 100,000 dinars, 1,500 fine weapons, 1,500 fine armor, and ...... At least five hundred war horses. Listen, it's a war horse!"
I thought about it for a moment and said, "How many people can I bring with me to do this?"
Mebius immediately screamed, "You still have to take someone to do it, what are you kidding, you have to do it alone!"
I glanced at Mebius: "This is a good thing, if I bring enough manpower, I will be able to do it well, and our base will benefit from it at that time." You're not going to give up such a good opportunity just to hurt me, are you?"
Tiktis interrupted Mebius's roar with a wave of his hand: "I know the military affairs. Emmons, you can only lead your own team of hundreds, and within three months, whether you can do it or not depends on your own ability...... If you can't, I don't think I need to spare your life. Isn't it, William?"
When William heard this, his mouth opened, and he didn't say anything, as if acquiescing to the proposal.
I rubbed my tingling wrist and glanced at the crowd, especially on the faces of Cuarón and Mebius. I'm going to imprint these two faces in my mind. Then I pushed open the door and stepped into the snow.
In the valley of the East Ville River, a burdened caravan trudged through the snow-covered roads without the slightest hint of self-awareness of being targeted. Walking in front were the leaders of the caravans, wrapped in thick fur coats, and a dozen executioners in thick bearskin vests, whose faces were marked by the blizzard.
I watched the caravan from afar, as they slowly approached our ambush circle. Caesar, with twenty-five swordsmen, hid on the east side of the trade route, and Molodov and I were in ambush at the front of the road. Twenty-five long swordsmen, led by Jack, made their detour along the riverbank to the flank of the caravan, and their detour went completely unnoticed in the snowstorm so fierce that even a man's eyes could not open it.
Molodov whispered in my ear: "Boss, can you do it this time?"
I didn't answer him. Before that, a total of three caravans walked into our ambush circle, and walked out intact, and we did not move. Because those three caravans are all small businesses, and they live on this single business, otherwise who would be willing to run outside in such a big snowstorm. I thought of the days when I was wandering in the wind and snow, and my heart softened, so I let them go free, and they didn't even know that they were so close to death.
But this caravan is different, as can be seen from the Snow Eagle badge printed on the carriage, this caravan is the private property of a lord of the Nord Kingdom. Braving such a heavy snowstorm to transport, it must be a luxury for winter, and with this ticket, I am a big step closer to my goal of 100,000 dinars.
By the time the caravan had reached the center of the encirclement, I could even faintly see the well-groomed face of the caravan leader, and I finally gave the order to attack. In an instant, the brothers in ambush lifted the camouflage above their heads, jumped out of the hiding holes, and rushed forward with a shout of knee-deep snow.
I immediately felt a headache and felt like I had neglected one problem - combat training in the snow. Because of the heavy snow blocking the road, the brothers rushed forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the formation and everything were completely chaotic, and the speed of movement was greatly slowed down. Sure enough, as soon as the brothers roared, the leader of the caravan was the first to startle, turned around and ran, while a dozen executioners behind him pounced on him, buying time for the carriage to evacuate.
A young man stabbed a pack horse in the chest with a short rifle in his hand, but he was cut off from the horse and slashed his neck, and blood splattered three or four meters high and fell to the ground like a string of bright plum blossoms.
This was the first attrition in my military career.
Before the fallen runner could stand firm, he was pierced by two short-handled guns stabbed from front and back. I turned my head and tried to harden my heart away from the brothers who were fighting to the death. I picked up the long-handled military hoe in my hand and yelled, "Caesar, strike!"