Chapter 168 Everyone has their own talents, and they can only play a role if they are placed in the right place
"You shouldn't be so impulsive!", Todley glanced at Philip standing next to him with a smile on his face, and advised Sean again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info"The most important thing you should do now is to develop your own power, your reputation in Venier is getting better and better, and there are more and more civilians who support you, these are the foundations for you to dominate the world in the future. You should still be sitting in the city lord's mansion and taking care of political affairs, instead of attacking a pointless city with an army like you are now. ā
Sean was silent for a moment before looking at Toddelli, "There are some things I can live with, like I used to do with Angelo, I can pretend I don't know anything if someone insults me." But not this time, this time they touched my bottom line, if I endure it any longer, I am afraid that I will be disappointed in myself, and I am afraid that the people will be disappointed in me. He looked at the procession slowly moving forward on the plain like a silver-gray python, and his heart was heavy, "People won't like their leader to be a coward, even if this war will be lost, even if I will die in Xiliu City, I will definitely go." ā
"Everyone always has some insistence that they have to carry out, even in the face of a certain death situation. If you have given in for the first time, you will have given in for the second time, and this humiliating concession will take root in your heart. When you face something more humiliating again, you will still choose to back down because you have become accustomed to bowing your head. But I'm going to say no, I've been obedient for too long, it's time for me to stand up, I'm going to stand in this world with my head raised and smash everything that shames me with my fists. ā
"I want those who are humiliated to know what price they will pay for humiliating me so presumptuously, and I want others to choose to surrender, to submit, to retreat. ā
"And not me, go and be that coward!"
"Todley, my friend, if you were to stand in my place, you would choose to be a warrior who dared to face reality and wield a blade against it. ā
"Or be a coward who packs himself in a box?"
Toddley wisely kept his mouth shut, as a Byronic man, in the context of the great national integration, appropriate concessions are the national policy to maintain stability. In Byron, officials will tell everyone, including humans of all races, as well as non-human orcs, bestiads, and whatever, that selective concessions will make peace last. Although the confrontation makes you happy for a while, it will bring long-term torture and disaster. So it can't be said that what Toddley said is wrong, just because he is not a Desi and does not understand the extremely contradictory and pathological character of the Desi.
This time, Sean not only has to kill Bowen, a nobleman, but also his former mother with his own hands.
Yes, his former mother, the mother who brought him endless shame and hatred. If Eller had just done something ridiculous with Bowen, he could have kept his cool and acted as if nothing had happened, because he had already broken off with the woman. But what he didn't expect was that the woman actually touched the taboo in his heart again and again! To tear apart the protection he had built up over the years, Chi Guoguo tore all his insignificant things out of his chest, tore them to pieces, fell them to the ground, and stepped on them a few times.
He had already heard the wind, and some people in the city had begun to talk about it, and some of the evil wind blowers even said that he Silver Fox Sean had only climbed up by making Angelo's male pet.
It was an insult and a blasphemy against his personality and his past for his bloody path out of untold danger, and yet people believed it more than the orthodox explanations, which were apparently sarcastic, mocking, and contemptuous. Not everyone can like Sean, and there are some mud dog legs who are jealous of the sudden rise of this Shaun, who used to be also a mud dog leg, jealousy is a terrible thing, this kind of emotion can ignore all the good and magnify all the ugly.
So Sean also had to prove with iron and blood that he was not a, not a male pet, and had never sold his cheeks - the last one was true, although only once.
Veneer was on the west side of the city of Xiliu, and the distance between the two cities was only about one hundred and seventy kilometers in a straight line, and it would take about three to four days if the march was carried out at a normal pace. There are some differences between this world and the other world, I don't know whether it is because of the race or the air quality and environment, but when people are in their youth, their physical fitness far exceeds that of ordinary people in the other world. For trained soldiers, it is not difficult to march 40 to 50 kilometers a day, it is relatively common.
This distance can be described as fleeting, and on the evening of the third day, the city of Xiliu in the distance was already vividly visible. The calm waters of the Thudoen River are like a silver belt spread on the ground, and the lush crops on both sides sway in the wind in the sunset, and a small number of farmers still stand guard on the edge of the farmland at the risk of being swept away by the war.
As soon as Sean and his army appeared, two farmers came running on their horses.
"Honorable Lord, humble farmer, I salute you with the highest respect. The farmer turned over and dismounted, took off his hat, and bent down deeply, the humility and caution on his face made him look very "weak".
Sean looked at the two farmers, one older and one young, and he raised his horsewhip slightly, "Hello, farmer, please get up." ā
The cautious farmer wiped the sweat from his face, and the scraped layer of plaster touched his blackened trouser legs. The old farmer said cautiously, "My lord, I am a farmer in this neighborhood, and I hope you will understand and forgive me for my rudeness. I hope that you, and your army, will try to avoid destroying these farmlands during the fighting. We have always heard that you are also a strong person who has come out of the common people, so you should also know that for us farmers, crops and farmland are our second life. ā
Polite and polite, Sean looked at the farmer in a trance for a moment, and then he nodded, "What you said is very reasonable, I will never refuse a reasonable request." Even if there is an unavoidable circumstance that damages your crops and fields, I will compensate you after the war is over. If I were alive. ā
He then told all the soldiers not to spoil the fields and crops, otherwise they would be dealt with by military law.
Sean had the farmer let go, he turned over and dismounted, and set up camp on the spot. Standing on the slope, looking at the majestic city of Weststream, Sean smiled and said to Toddley and Philip beside him: "You see, that is the persistence of the farmer, he is a great man. I've always wanted to be such a great person, not a small and humble person. I always wanted to straighten my back in the face of power, but I couldn't do it at that time. Now that I've done it, I don't want my back to bend down. ā
"What do you think about attacking Weststream?", Sean waved his horsewhip in his hand, smashed some weeds, and stepped on the black earth soaked by the water of the Thudorn River, and couldn't help but sigh. The River Siudon has nurtured countless Desi people, and people affectionately call it the Mother River. But tomorrow, he will start a war on the banks of this mother river.
For some reason, Sean has become sentimental since he killed Angelo, he wasn't that kind of person before. Perhaps it was because he took on more responsibilities and carried the hope and future of a city that made him change dramatically.
The silence of Philip and Toddley did not affect Sean, who were very good at handling government affairs, but were obviously not so good at fighting wars or anything. Wren lifted the weeds and asked, "Have we already arranged for our inner should?"
After suffering a loss, he naturally knew the horror of Neiying, and a few days ago, he let three hundred elites infiltrate Xiliu City as merchants and civilians. As he asked, Philip and Toddley looked at each other and shook their heads with a wry smile.
Philip said with some shame: "I'm sorry sir, Bowen blocked the city gate with sand and gravel the day before yesterday, and even if we had internal responses, we couldn't open the city gate. ā
"Your brains are too dead. Sean raised his head and looked at the exceptionally beautiful Xiliu City in the sunset and said: "Their role is not necessarily to open the city gates, their role in the city is greater than opening the city gates." Find a way to send a message to them, and when the battle is deadlocked, let them enter the lord's mansion. I am sure that in order not to let his head roll to the ground, Bowen will definitely put all his forces on the city. ā
"If the lord's mansion can't be captured, let them destroy it, set fire to all the granaries, assassinate the magnates and the merchants on the list, in short, I want chaos in the city of Xiliu City, the more chaos the better!"
Toddley stared at Sean's back, and he suddenly felt that this man might really be able to do something big. He has only lacked an opportunity, a stage where he can display his abilities. The country of Orlando is really too rotten and degenerate, such talents are buried in the people and humiliated by the aristocracy, no wonder many people are less and less optimistic about Orlando.
If a person like Sean had put him in the Byron Empire, he would probably have become a nobleman long ago and suppressed one side.
The sun finally threw its little remaining glow into the earth, and after slowly sinking into the horizon, the moon climbed into the sky, and the silver glow fell all over the world.
The sound of insects chirping one after another, the smell of the earth, the water of the river, and the fragrance of the grass and trees made all the people outside the city sleep extra peacefully this night. Everyone slept deeply, because they understood that in the next few days, there might never be such an opportunity to get a good night's sleep again.
Some people slept well and some people slept badly that night.
Bowen's eyes were blue and his chest was rising and falling violently, he looked at his chief of staff, the teapot in his hand smashed to the ground, the fragments cracked and splashed, and even scratched the back of the chief of staff's hand, "Why, why did people come to tell me after being gone for so long?" (to be continued.) )