Chapter 130: The Holocaust and the Rope Bridge

How did Paul Binns come back at this time? Didn't he stay with Josk to spy on Duke Lukins' army? Could something had happened? Lorist rushed to the front with questions.

"My lord, I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but after what happened, Lord Josk had no idea, so he ordered me to come back and report to you immediately, and wait for you to make a decision. A pale Paul Binns said.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Lorlist.

"That's right, it was about seven o'clock last night, and the city of Kitano was full of lights, and many people were wearing new clothes and walking towards the camp of Duke Lukins's army. Lord Josk sneaked up near the barracks, and after a while he came back to say that there was a big feast in the barracks tonight, as if to celebrate the four families of Kitano Town being canonized as barons by the Grand Duke of Northland. We were all very angry and decided to go over and make a mess of them so that they could not complete the canonization ceremony smoothly......"

Paul Binns seemed to be recalling: "Master Joske led us to sneak into the barracks again, and to our surprise, the enemy's external vigilance seemed to be very lax, and even the sentries on the watchtower turned to watch the movement inside the barracks. We were able to get to the outside of the fence of the camp and were about to fire rockets into the tent, but Master Joske stopped us, saying that something was wrong and that we should wait and see what was going on......

"Through the gap in the fence, I saw the people of Kitano sitting in the central open space of the barracks, they were drinking and eating meat around piles of bonfires, and soon two knights in iron armor came over, and those who were dressed in gorgeous heads in Kitano Town went over to greet them, and a knight with a goatee smiled and said a few words, so those people in Kitano Town knelt down. Then the knight seemed to say something very shocking, and all the people of Kitano Town were stunned, but another knight next to him drew his sword and stabbed it into the chest of an old man led by Kitano Town......"

"We were all stupid outside, only to hear a trumpet, and groups of heavily armed soldiers rushed out of tents near the center of the barracks and slaughtered the people of Kitano Town, where they were gathering. It was a massacre, the people of Kitano were unarmed, they were powerless to resist, and even those who knelt down and begged for mercy were killed. Lord Joske said that there were almost two thousand people in the barracks who came to the banquet in Kitano Town, all of them men, whether they were old people or children, and they did not let go of any of them, and the blood flowed like rivers and all flowed outside the camp, and in the end, when there were only five or six hundred people left, they gathered together and resisted with the firewood on the fire, and only a few tents were lit and were killed by the silver knight who rushed over on horseback......"

"Immediately after that, Duke Lukins's army divided into half to attack the town of Kitano, and they quickly smashed open the gates with slamming wood, and the town was filled with the sounds of killing, crying, screaming, and several houses burning. We were all numb with shock and didn't know why this was happening...... It was Master Josk who brought us to our senses and led us out of the barracks. In the morning, we saw the soldiers in the camp digging a big pit, throwing all the corpses in the camp into it, pouring oil on it, and starting to burn it, and then cleaning up the camp and driving to Kitano Town. The soldiers also came out of Kitano Town and dug a big pit outside, and then transported a lot of corpses out of the wagon and threw them into the pit to burn, and Lord Joske had a good look, and he said that the corpses transported out of the city were almost all old people and children......"

"Your Excellency, now that the army sent by Duke Lukins has occupied the town of Kitano, Lord Joske doesn't know what to do next, so he sent me back to report to your lordship......" Paul Binns finally finished talking about the events that happened last night, perhaps because he had not recovered from the massacre he had witnessed last night, and his whole body had been trembling as he reported what he had witnessed.

Lorist unfastened his cloak and draped it over Paul Binns's shoulders, and Paul Binns gratefully cracked his mouth to say anything but couldn't, just grabbed the cloak on his shoulders tightly.

Raising his head, he looked in the direction where Kitano Town was located, and sure enough, he saw two faintly distinguishable gray-white smoke columns winding upward. Although Lorist was shocked to hear that the inhabitants of Kitano Town had been massacred, there was a hint of joy in his heart. Betraying the Norton family, raising troops to resist, colluding with Duke Lukins, and leading the enemy into the family territory, the four major families of Kitano Town have acted beyond the tolerance limit of any territorial nobles, and their massacre can only be said to be self-inflicted, and they are not worthy of sympathy.

Lorist wanted to laugh out loud, but held back. He was glad that there was one less trouble piling up on his head, although he hated the residents of Kitano Town from the bottom of his heart, but after all, he came from another world, and the education he received in his previous life made it difficult for him to attack those old people and children, even if they were relatives of enemies, making it a little difficult for him to raise the butcher's knife for those defenseless old and weak women and children.

These dirt buns in Kitano Town are used to doing whatever they want in the family territory, do they think that the nobles of the territory outside are as kind and talkative as the ancestors of the Norton family? colluded with Duke Lukins to crusade against his lord, and still wanted to get the duke's canonization, but he didn't know how difficult it would be for a commoner to become a nobleman in the territory. They have never seen the world and do not know that they would believe the duke's promise to them, they have no self-knowledge at all, they do not know that their behavior of rebelling against their lord is a taboo in the eyes of all the nobles of the territory, and now they can only be blamed for the massacre, as a retribution for rebellion.

The massacre reported by Paul Binns was indeed good news for Lorlist, and Duke Lukins' army helped him solve this great cancer in his family's domain. Otherwise, even if Lorist captures Kitano Town, he will have a headache about how to deal with these rebellious relatives, and he will have to worry about the opinions of others, after all, he has a twisting relationship with many people in Maple Grove Villa. It is not appropriate to let it go, these old people and children will pass on the hatred of the Norton family from generation to generation, and they will become a buried mine in the family territory, a factor of instability in the future.

Lorist felt the pressure on his body lighten up a lot, but he really didn't understand why Duke Lukins' army would make such an unwise decision to slaughter the inhabitants of Kitano Town. It's not just a self-severing arm, it's putting the army in jeopardy, deep into the Norton family's territory. Lorist was already keenly aware of the opportunity to defeat the army sent by Duke Lugins to crusade against his family.

Could it be that Duke Lugins thought that his army of 4,000 men would be all right and invincible when he entered the territory of the Norton family, so he did not hesitate to poison Kitano Town, which led and colluded with them. If that's the case, Lorist would be happy to give Duke Lukins a big slap in the face and teach him a great lesson.

From Lorlist's point of view, the benefits of this massacre to the Norton family are numerous. If there is no massacre, the rebellion of Kitano will become a solid rear for the Duke's army, not only serving as a logistical base, but also guiding the Duke's army to attack the weak points of the Norton family. Like many people in Maple Grove Villa and Beiye Town, under the attack of the duke's army, Lorist is most worried that there will be **** inside, and the people in Beiye Town will instruct the people in Maple Grove Villa to cooperate with the outside and capture the family's main castle.

Now that the massacre has happened, the people in Maple Grove Villa will only share the same hatred and resolutely resist without wavering and want to surrender, because the example of Kitano Town is ahead, and everyone knows that there is no other way but to resolutely resist. Under such circumstances, it was delusional for the Duke's army to capture Maple Grove Villa in a short time. And the longer the attack doesn't go well, the better the chance of Lorist to emerge victorious.

Even from the perspective of military strength, the Duke's army's massacre of Kitano Town was also a failure, and this is what Lorist couldn't figure out the most. Why don't you temporarily appease Kitano Town? If nothing else, Kitano Town can send more than 1,000 troops to transport grain and grass and defend Kitano Town, so that the Duke's army will have no worries and can attack with 4,000 troops with all its might. Now a massacre, well, the duke's army has at least 1,000 men to defend Kitano Town, and the offensive strength is only more than 3,000 people. If attacking Maple Forest Villa is unfavorable, you will have to send people back to Kitano Town to deliver supplies. At that time, Lorist would never let go of these dishes delivered to his door.

The more Lorist thought about it, the more excited he became, at this moment he felt that he had a great confidence in defeating the Duke's army, and it was not the idea of taking a step by step and trying to find a fighter plane when he first set off in the morning, and he couldn't wait to rush to Maple Grove Villa now.

"Vasimma, order the troops to speed up and make sure to rush to Maple Grove Villa by evening. Lorist said.

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Lorist waited anxiously for three days at Maple Grove Villa, but he did not wait for the news that Jost's Duke's army occupying Kitano Town had sent troops to attack Maple Grove Villa. Lorist really couldn't understand what the duke's army was grinding into, could it be that the duke's army wanted to gain a foothold in Kitano Town, and then wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops?

I was about to go to Kitano Town to have a look, but I saw the guards outside the door come in and report: "My lord, Hosky is back." ”

The dusty Hawski was dressed in rags and his face was full of exhaustion. After entering and saluting, he took out a map of animal skins from his bosom: "My lord, I have found the path of the enemy to enter......

Unfolding the map, Lorist discovers that Hawski has drawn a zigzag line with black charcoal on it.

"It's ...... here," Hosky pointed to the Blade Mountains: "We followed the traces left by the enemy's brigade along the way, reached the Blade Mountains, and found a cave, through which was a valley, and after walking for half a day it was another cave, this cave was very long and dark, and we walked for almost a day to reach the exit." At the exit was a cliff, and next to it was a cliff with many vines hanging from the cliff. The people of Kitano Town used these vines to build a rope bridge, which is more than 200 meters long and more than a meter wide. The rope bridge is so strong that even a fully loaded four-wheeled freight wagon can pass through it. ”

"After the rope bridge, there is a cliff on the opposite side, but there is a mountain path down to the sea, which is a big sandy beach. When we were resting on the beach, we were attacked, and we ran away, and when we took two prisoners, we found out that a lord named Mairad on the other side was curious and wanted to make a fortune because the army of Duke Lukins passed through his territory, so he sent more than 300 family troops to follow, and it was their scouts who were driven away by us. These scouts were black-hearted when they saw that we were only two or three mercenaries, but they didn't expect that there were still about twenty of us lying under the sand dunes to rest, and they didn't see it, and they suffered a big loss. ”

Hawski laughed when he said this: "But we didn't fall well, and those scouts who went back soon led three hundred people to take revenge, including three silver knights. We had to retreat, the enemy was in a hurry, we lost four men, when we arrived at the rope bridge, I ruthlessly asked everyone to sprinkle all the fire oil they had brought with them on the bridge and the vines hanging down from the cliff, and when the enemy chased to the bridge, I set fire, and burned the rope bridge and the vines hanging down the cliff. Counting the luck of those who pursued the enemy, half of them escaped out, but only one of the three silver knights fled back, and there was still fire burning on their bodies, and it was enough to fight if they did not die, who told them to chase them in the front. ”

Lorist was overjoyed: "You mean that the rope bridge has been burned down and the road is no longer usable?"

Hawsky thought for a while and replied: "It should be like this, this rope bridge is more than 200 meters long, and if it burns down, there are cliffs next to it, and there is no way to pass it at all." Unless it takes another three or four years for the vines on the cliff to grow and hang up again, you can use the vines to build another rope bridge to pass it......"

"Great, Husky, you've done us a great job for the Norton family, and now I don't have to worry about Duke Lukins sending troops into our family's territory through this road. As for the Duke's army in Kitano Town, it has become a turtle in an urn and can no longer escape. Ha ha. Lorist patted Hawski on the shoulder with great pleasure.

"By the way, Hawski, what reward do you want? If you want to be a knight of our Norton family, you can do that, and I will immediately promote you to be my knight. Lorist said.

Hosky smiled bitterly: "My lord, you should still cash it out, it's not my credit alone, there are also my twenty-four companions, and four comrades-in-arms who sacrificed for us." If I become your knight, it will feel like a betrayal to them. There is another reason, my lord, I am almost forty-five, and I am too old to be your knight. I've been a mercenary for over twenty years, and I'm tired and I don't want to continue. I used to have a dream of starting a mercenary group and then handing it over to Jim when I was fifty years old. But now Jim went after the adults. I don't think I need to set up any more mercenary groups, it's time to go home and retire. ”

Loris nodded, "Well, Hawski, I don't think you're old, but I respect your wishes. What do you think of the mercenaries who went this time are 10 goldfords each, and the mercenaries who died are 20 goldfords each?"

"Thank you, sir, for your kindness and generosity. Hänski bowed.

"By the way, after this war is over, I will build a few towns in my family's domain. If you wish, you can bring your family to settle in my territory, and I will leave you the position of captain of the garrison. As for your fellow mercenaries, if they wish, they can join my family's armed forces, and I am sure they will have a good future. Lorist said.

"Yes, my lord, thank you for your kindness, I will pass it on to everyone. Haupski replied.