Chapter 401: The Coming Catastrophe (Part II)
Three days later, the Davkny Plain was under full martial law, and groups of soldiers of the Eighth Army in armor and armed with cold spears were all over the watchtowers, bunkers, and defensive lines, and the magicians on the watchtowers stood guard in turn, twenty-four hours a day. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The Shviks sent patrols to gallop across the vast plains on war horses, each patrol was equipped with four magicians, twenty smoke bombs, seven mechanical crossbows, and twelve hand crossbows, and the number remained at about thirty.
Raffer's foundation is shallow, his strength is not enough, his new human army, with only five battalions at full, with a total of about five hundred, is not yet able to fight against Canaanite humans with an army of tens of millions.
In that year, Li Jun led a full cavalry regiment, plus a group of low-level demonic beasts under his command, to defeat Laf's army, in the imperial aristocratic circle, called this battle a battle against bandits, which did not attract much attention and was scorned by many military people.
Now Laphor is very shrewd, in the ancient castle, after reading so many ancient books, his horizons and knowledge have suddenly broadened a lot, and he knows what the Canaanites can't understand, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a wise man and a saint.
"Gather your army, take the outlying villages first, and bring them back to Laffer's castle as quickly as possible, both men and women!" Laffer gave the order, and five hundred new humans, armed with swords and great axes, roared excitedly like wild beasts, and after kneeling down and saluting to Laffer, they were led by a horned demon to touch a village in the night.
The village is not large, with only more than a thousand inhabitants, and because the Shviks have ordered martial law, the nomads of this village are armed and form a self-defense militia, numbering about seventy people.
Twelve knights, also under the command of the Shviks, were assigned here to serve as instructors and conductors.
Rows of fences were erected around the village, forming a rudimentary defensive wall, and more than twenty nomadic dogs, tethered to the door of their master's house, howled at the slightest disturbance.
In one room, Barry lay on a bed with three quilts, sighed, let the lamp light up, held a sword that had been purchased for nine silver coins, and the window was open, so that if anyone shouted, he would be the first to wake up from his sleep.
Like Barry, the rest of the eleven knights, in this village, all received the best treatment, each of them had an independent house, three meals a day, and the people of the village were in charge, and the treatment could not be better than that of the army.
"Alas, it's still the most comfortable here, no wonder the commander was saying that when he sent me here to guard, the rest of the knights were full of envy and jealousy, and said goodbye to the tired barracks, without so many restraints, drink when you want, sleep when you want, and give yourself a long vacation. Ballymet thought so.
Of course, Barry did not forget his duty, and during the day he was responsible for training the village's self-defense militia, teaching them advanced swordsmanship, as well as the skills of setting traps and ambushes.
Fortunately, these people are all nomads, with strong combat effectiveness, they are all existences that have seen blood, and they often deal with demonic beasts, and they know how to set traps and ambush and hunt, so it is not too difficult to teach.
"Well, what's the sound?" Suddenly, Barry slammed out of bed, looked through the open window, and suddenly saw several dark shadows, quickly skimming in front of his eyes.
Barry's heart tightened, and he hurriedly looked up at the watchtower where the mage was stationed, and found that there was nothing out of the ordinary.
Barry looked at his pocket watch, silently ticked the time, and mentally counted to the thirty-eighth second...... The patrol did not pass!
"Alert!!" Barry shouted, his voice like a spear, piercing the wall and waking up the eleven knights next door.
Squeak! squeak~~
One by one, the gates opened, and more than 60 militiamen, hurriedly holding weapons and bare-chested, came to the courtyard.
"Damn, it's been discovered!" a horned demon cursed, armed with a blood-stained dagger, and rushed into Barry's room through the darkness of the night.
Boom!
Barry hurriedly pulled out his sword, and the red fighting qi that symbolized the realm of the sword master turned into a cold sword qi and slashed at the dagger of the horned demon.
Rumble!
The horned demon retreated, and its body smashed directly into the wall made of clay tiles, exposing itself to the eyes of the three hundred militiamen gathered in the courtyard.
"It's ......"
"Devil!?"
The militiamen were startled, and subconsciously took a few steps back, until a knight drew his long sword and rushed forward heroically, then he raised the bow and arrow in his hand and shot out at the bull-horned demons around him.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The arrows rained down, like falling raindrops, densely enveloping the past, and one by one the horned demons were shot into hedgehogs.
But ordinary arrows only pierced into their flesh and sank a few millimeters deep, almost clinging to the surface of their skin, unable to cause substantial damage.
"Shred these stupid humans!" a horned demon roared in pain, wielding a giant axe that cut off four or five militiamen, and blood flowed out along with their intestines.
"Brave militiamen, kill for the king's sake!" one of the knights roared, stomped his foot, disappeared from the spot, raised his sword in his hand, and with a swipe, shook out a poignant sword light, and cut off the head of a horned demon.
The remaining sixty militiamen, shouting, formed three echelons and rushed towards the demons according to the battle formation taught to them by the knights, with the shieldmen in front, the pikemen in the back, and the crossbowmen as cover.
Click!
A huge scimitar directly slashed the crude and simple shield made of ironwood, and cut off the head of the shieldman, and the blood sprayed at high speed on the face of the pikeman militia in the echelon behind.
Burst!
A group of militiamen who have not undergone formal training and are poorly armed are not their opponents at all, and the sixty militiamen gathered in the courtyard, more than forty of them, fell in a pool of blood, either missing arms and legs, or their heads did not know where to fly.
Eight of the twelve knights also fell, and as they watched more and more horned demons gather in the direction of the courtyard, Barry knew that he was finished!
"For the Queen!"
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An hour later, six cavalry troops hurried in, and they looked at the village that had already burned into flames, and the accompanying water magicians hurriedly cast spells, and it took a full two hours to completely extinguish the fire.
A full cavalry regiment of the Eighth Army, which arrived in the early morning with a cloud of white smoke, entered the village and searched for a long time, and was surprised to find that in addition to the more than 60 corpses that had been slashed by knives and axes, the remaining more than 1,000 inhabitants had disappeared!
Where did more than 1,000 people go? Not even a trace of it was left?
Tens of thousands of people rode war horses, spreading out in a circle, searching for more than ten miles, until noon, when they stopped searching meaninglessly.
"Actually...... Not even a footprint!"
After hearing the news reported by his subordinates, the old Shvik general fell into a deep silence.
"General, although there are no footprints left on the grass, the traces are still there, and they must have been dealt with. The young adjutant said.
Shvik squinted, he was old, and he needed to spend more energy and time to think.
After a while, the Shviks spoke: "From now on, all the inhabitants of the Davkny Plain will be moved to the nearby military towns, and a small part of the cattle and sheep and horses will be kept, and the rest will be slaughtered, salted into meat, sold to merchants or used as rations, and the rest of the losses will be reported to Her Majesty, and money will be allocated to repay the losses of the nomads." ”
"General, once this order is issued, I am afraid that it will cause a great backlash, and the nomads have lived on the plains of Davk for generations, making them abandon their homes, and even slaughter cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock on which they depend, and before they enter the military town, they will rebel. The young adjutant said with a worried look on his face.
"Rebels killed! At such times, the army cannot be merciful. The Shvik slapped the armrest and said majestically.
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Before the order was issued, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eighth Army took control of various villages, towns and towns, and took over local law and order.
Because the Davk plain is considered a frontier, the population is very small, far less than the soldiers of the Eighth Army, when the military order arrived, although it caused a strong backlash, and even a mob mutiny, but under the cold suppression of the army, the heads of more than 1,000 nomads who were making a lot of noise were cut off and hung on the flagpole, everyone immediately became much more honest.
The nomads were escorted by the army almost half-pushed and half-done, and walked towards the nearby military town.
In Laffer's Castle, more than 1,000 villagers were escorted back by the horned demon, and the day after they were escorted back, they were transformed into 'new humans' with ugly faces and horns by Laffer's mutated version of the demon's power
Later, under the brainwashing offensive of Laffer, these nomads had to accept their identity, coupled with the deep bloodline, driven by the genetic factors of cruelty and murder, these transformed 'new humans' knew that they could not go back to the past, even if they escaped from Laffer's Castle, it was impossible to be accepted by the human world, and the best outcome was to be sentenced to be burned at the stake, and most of the 'new humans' were likely to become experimental mice, and the rest of their lives were miserable.
"Hey, hey, praise the great God, after decades, I can taste women again. A horned demon hugged the body of a female demon, laughed, took off her clothes, and "hummed" in public.
The rest of the demons laughed, looking for their prey, and simply and brutally stripped them of their clothes, like primitive people, losing the most basic human shame.
...... The scene was eroded. (To be continued.) )