Chapter 30: Sweeping the Tail
Just when Leo and others were interrogating Andrew, the rebel general of the hundreds, in the barracks of the Southern Grand Duke, Wagner was deducing the military situation of the two armies in front of a huge model of the terrain of mountains and rivers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ The Grand Duke of Wagner, who was over fifty years old, felt that he was in the prime of life and full of energy, without a trace of old age, although his hair and beard were slightly gray, but the gaze in his narrow eyes was still sharp and wise, full of an emotion called ambition, and with a hooked nose that made the Grand Duke the most complacent, the whole face was full of aggression.
"Report!Commander of the front, Viscount Jules, ordered someone to send the military information!" The adjutant in a tight gray military uniform hurried into the camp and handed a document to the Grand Duke of Wagner.
The Grand Duke did not take the document immediately, but gracefully lowered the baton in his hand, turned and paced to his desk, and slowly took off the white gloves on his hands with his left and right hands and put them on the table, and then took the document that the adjutant had already held in the air.
"Hehe! The Imperial Army actually sent a reconnaissance team to infiltrate the three southern provinces to find out the details of us? This is too whimsical, isn't it?......? It turned out to be the private army of two inexplicable little nobles?!That guy Griffins is really not an ordinary idiot,...... Hmph, is Griffins taking me for an idiot, or is he trying to use me as a knife to eliminate dissidents?" said Grand Duke Wagner as he looked at the military intelligence report, muttering to himself.
"Where did you get this information?" After reading the information, Grand Duke Wagner threw the document on the table, looked up at the adjutant and asked.
The adjutant hesitated for a moment and then said, "This ...... This came from the Imperial military camp north of Rien, and it was the people over there who took the initiative to send it to our front-line military camp. β
"Heh, it's funny, it looks like someone is looking at these two little ones and wants to kill them with our hands. The Varu Empire was dragged into the abyss by these damn rotten nobles who only knew endless infighting, and even when the two armies were facing each other, they were all such dogs who couldn't change their appetite. What looks like. Grand Duke Wagner said mockingly with a sneering expression on the corner of his mouth.
"Tell the front-line commander to intensify the search and make sure to find this reconnaissance team!"
"Yes!" the adjutant was about to leave the command room, but was stopped by Grand Duke Wagner: "Tell the front-line commander to strictly investigate from now on, do not relax your vigilance, and prevent the enemy from sending two rookies to reconnoiter in the open and engage in some small means behind the scenes!"
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And at this moment, in the private army barracks north of the city of Rien, the marching mage Frank also received a report from his entourage, and the information about the reconnaissance team has been passed to the rebels, and it is estimated that the rebels' clearance team has been dispatched.
"Haha! It looks like our Imperial Capital Waste is really in danger this time!Ladies and gentlemen, I wish us a smooth success in this Imperial Counterinsurgency War!" Frank said to a few friends sitting in the mage's tent after waving off his entourage, taking out a bottle of good wine from under the table, filling a few glasses.
From the shadow of the tent, several figures stood up from their chairs, walked to Frank's desk, raised their glasses and touched Frank's glass, and drank them all. The dim light in the tent clearly reflected the faces of Baron Cullen, Sergeant Major Marcus, Todd and others.
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After learning from Andrew, the 100th general of the rebel army, that the rebel front-line military camp had known the goal of his group, Leo secretly cursed in his heart, and sure enough, as he expected, Frank and these people did not hesitate to betray the imperial military in order to eradicate themselves.
Raymond, who was a little embarrassed by his inappropriate behavior on the side, was deeply shocked by Frank and the others after listening to Andrew's confession: "How dare they?
"That's right, if you are caught, it is treason, but as long as there is no proof of death, who can prove that they betrayed us?" Leo also showed a trace of helplessness on his face.
"So...... Wouldn't it be proof if we took these captives back to the barracks and confronted Frank?" said Raymond, pointing at Andrew.
"Alas!" Leo rubbed his face with his hand and continued, "They must have been prepared, looking at the appearance of that Sergeant Major Marcus, it is likely that he is in the same group as Frank, if we go back like this, they can completely leave the combat post without completing the reconnaissance mission, and take out us first." When the time comes, we will have to bear the charge of desertion, and we will die worthless. β
"That'...... Now if we can't turn back, we can only move forward?But what about these soldiers' prisoners? After the traces are exposed, how can we escape the pursuit of the rebels?" Raymond, who came out of the greenhouse of the imperial capital for the first time, never thought that the world would be so dark, and that there would be such despicable and shameless people, and he felt a little helpless for a while, and he didn't know what to do.
Leo pondered for a moment, and immediately ordered: "We will proceed according to the original plan, but we must speed up our pace and lurk before the rebels notice!" Griman took little Tom to collect the spoils of war, and take all the military rations and drinking water. Olix leads your soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and we'll continue to set off in ten minutes!"
After hearing Leo's order, the Roman infantry dragged the bound rebel soldiers into the dense forest. The rebel soldiers were shocked and begged for mercy, but the Roman infantry dragged them away in pairs. The rebel hundred people took care of Andrew's sore muscles, struggled to get up, pointed at Leo and said angrily, "You...... I've told you everything, why do you want to kill them all, you despicable little who doesn't keep your word!"
"When did I promise you to spare them?" asked Leo amusedly.
"It's ......," Andrew recalled, and Leo hadn't promised anything at all.
"Even if you didn't promise, how can you kill an unarmed captive, where has your noble glory gone?" Andrew asked, still stiffening his neck.
"I'm sorry, I'm only the second son of a viscount of the Empire, and I don't have an official title yet, so the noble glory you are talking about has nothing to do with me!" Leo choked Andrew at a loss for what to do. Before Andrew could come up with anything to refute, Olix grabbed him by the collar of his military uniform from behind and knocked him unconscious without saying a word.
After the Roman infantry dragged the rebel soldiers into the dense forest, they began to spread floating soil and grass clippings on the ground to clean up the trail marks.
During this time, Leo took the time to look at his Arena of the Gods, and the pleasure value had climbed to more than a thousand points, and the battle of the outpost and the rebels just now brought him more than a hundred points, which made Leo's mood brighten.
The struggles, screams and begs for mercy of the captives before death in the dense forest were mixed together, making the whole dense forest look even more eerie and terrifying, Raymond couldn't help but shudder in such an environment, and looked at Leo who still had a smile on his face and couldn't help asking: "Leo, is this really good?"
Although Raymond's words were not very clear, Leo naturally understood the meaning of his words. With a smile on his face, Leo asked in a heavy tone, "Then what do you think will happen to us if we were defeated just now and caught by them?"
Raymond muttered, "Probably...... I'm going to interrogate us too!"
"And then, what will they do with us if they get the information they want?" asked Leo patiently.
"Hmm...... Well...... Surely they won't let us go, maybe they'll take us back to the rebel camp?" said Raymond himself with some uncertainty.
"What is the use of them taking us back to the camp after receiving the information, will they still serve us with good food and drink?" Leo said categorically, "When they get our confession, they will kill us as I am doing now." Remember, Raymond, this is war! There is no room for the slightest difference, to be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself, compassion is absolutely necessary, and it will kill us all. β
Leo's categorical words resounded in Raymond's mind like a flood of bells to Raymond, shattering Raymond's last simple and naΓ―ve thoughts, and also making Cahill, Feng Xifan and others nod in agreement.
Originally, as an archaeology student, Leo's temperament was steady and introverted, and the experience of following his mentor to go around archaeology made him less impatient as a young man. After crossing over, a sense of estrangement from this world coupled with getting along with Feng Xifan day and night, under Feng Xifan's subtle and deliberate guidance, Leo was even more decisive. Although Leo and Raymond seem to be not much different in age, in terms of mental maturity, Leo is enough to throw Raymond a few streets away.
Since coming to Rien City in the past few days, everything Raymond has experienced is completely different from what he had known in the previous ten years, war, human nature, these things that Raymond had never considered constantly appeared, there were too many rules in books that were broken, and too many things beyond Raymond's imagination appeared. Cahill looked at Raymond as if he was stupid, and sighed in his heart, this is what the flowers that have been raised in the greenhouse since childhood must withstand the wind and rain, I hope that Young Master Raymond can wake up in time and get rid of the previous innocence and innocence.