Chapter 259: The Cursed Plague (I)
"General Thor, there's a troop of iron horsemen coming here!" shouted a soldier who ran up to Thor with a panicked look.
"How many are there?" asked Toll on crutches, standing up with the help of two maids.
"Probably...... More than a thousand?"
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More than 1,000 horses rode in the wind and sand, and the wind and lightning rushed over.
Li Jun stared at the majestic city wall in front of him, and the big cow under his crotch was already tired, constantly sticking out his tongue and humming.
"Yes, open the gates!" the gatekeeper shouted with ecstatic expressions, and the mechanical doors rattled to open a gap for one person to pass through.
Toll hurriedly greeted him, kneeling on the ground trembling and kowtowing.
"Your Excellency, Your Majesty is guilty, please kill me with a sword!" Toll said loudly, raising a short sword with his only remaining hand.
Li Jun looked at Tuoer, and when he raised his foot, he kicked the short sword in Tuoer's hand away.
"Get in here!"
"Yes!" Tuo pushed everyone away, and he followed Li Jun on crutches into the Desert Duke's Mansion.
The castle was very large, and Thore, who was missing an arm and a leg, walked with great difficulty, falling down more than twenty times.
Li Jun had a cold face and walked in front of himself.
"Master, you're finally back!" a pretty maid ran from a distance with excitement on her face, and suddenly threw herself into Li Jun's arms.
Looking at Blaise with red and swollen eyes who were already crying, Li Jun chuckled and rubbed her hair, patted her back, and whispered, "It's okay, isn't your master back well." ”
Blaise snorted, greedily inhaling the smell of Li Jun's body, and then, her face turned red, she broke free from her warm embrace, lowered her head, and stood aside prettyly.
"Blaitze, cook me a bowl of noodles. Li Jun pinched Blaitze's face and said with a smile.
Blaise let out a well-behaved sigh, glanced at Toll with a pair of beautiful blue eyes, and whispered: "Master, you can't blame Toll for this matter, he has done his best......"
Li Jun shook his head with a smile, walked into the house with his hands behind his back.
Toll calmly followed, throwing away his crutches and falling to his knees with a thud.
"More than 100,000 brothers died because of me, and if I hadn't been too negligent and fell for Nilo's plan, the eastern city would not have fallen in the blink of an eye...... Please give me my sin!
"Of course you are guilty! I gave you all the 200,000 troops of the principality under your command and had full authority to deal with the war with the Fifth Empire, but you, not me, but the entire principality, the family of the 200,000 brothers!!" Li Jun scolded, foaming at the mouth.
The whole hundred thousand soldiers, because of Thor's carelessness, one person's mistake, just gone, all died.
The principality occupies a favorable geographical position, and is familiar with this desert, the city has farmland, there is a water source, it is completely self-sufficient, as long as it sticks to the city, let the other side attack, even a million army may not be able to take it.
It has been several months since the start of the war, and in the face of the frantic attack of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Fifth Empire, not a single city of the Principality in the east has been conquered by the enemy.
However, because of Tuo's carelessness, he personally led 80,000 iron horsemen to raid the other party's granary, fell into Nilo's ambush, and was divided and surrounded by tens of thousands of iron horned rhino troops, and he himself was seriously injured and fell into a coma for a while, and as a result, he was lost in the desert under the protection of his personal guards.
Ten days later, when Toll woke up, he learned the news of the fall of more than a dozen cities in the east from his guards, and had to flee back to Modu.
200,000 people were scrapped like this, and in addition to the defensive forces stationed in the rest of the city, there were only 100,000 soldiers and horses left in Modu.
"With immediate effect, all duties of Toll shall be abolished...... Retain the hereditary lord title, you ...... Go home and retire!"
Tuoer was stunned, and immediately cried bitterly, this man who is nearly half a hundred years old has followed Li Jun for nearly ten years, and the establishment of the Principality of the Desert is inseparable from him, and it is inseparable from the deceased old man Dela.
Li Jun sighed, helped him up, and whispered: "There will be a place for you on the wall of the Principality, and in a few years, my statue will also be placed there...... Founder and pioneer of the Principality of the Desert!!"
Tuo'er's voice was already choked, tears soaked his clothes, and Li Jun clenched his empty sleeves, as if he was clenching again, the big hand covered with calluses and scars.
No matter who it is, they must take responsibility and consequences for their own failures and mistakes, and remove Tuoer, Li Jun is unwilling, very unwilling! He hopes that Tuoer, every old man of the principality, can live to the moment of retirement, with countless glory and scenery, and closely linked with the history of the principality.
In 4836 AD, General Tuo, one of the three giants and one of the three founders of the Principality of the Great Desert, was removed from all positions by Duke Li Jun, and only retained the title of hereditary lord and a vast fief.
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The duke returned, and Modu's military spirit suddenly stabilized, and in the eyes of all the soldiers, Li Jun was invincible, and there were not only a large number of fierce demonic beasts under his command, but also the magical means to turn defeat into victory in adversity and danger every time.
In the area east of the Desert Principality, more than a dozen desert cities fell, and hundreds of thousands of people of the Principality were controlled by the Alberon Empire.
At this point, the title of Nilo Army God has spread far and wide, and it is well known to many people.
Li Jun knew very well that Nilo was about to set out with the idea of revenge.
When he learned that Angela was dead, he got drunk for three days and slashed dozens of maids and slaves.
Nilo also knows very well that whether there is evidence or not, Angela's death Li Jun will definitely not be able to escape the involvement.
However, the church has not found any evidence for a long time, and Nilo has not been able to produce the slightest evidence to prove that Li Jun is the murderer.
As for the church, they prefer to believe that it was a certain bronze swordsman, archmage, or even a Sanctuary powerhouse who violated the "Holy Guardian Alliance Agreement" and did this to Kangbisna, Angela, and Begi, and they didn't want to believe that their deaths were actually at the hands of a duke.
The answer of the Church must be: Yes!
From their attitude towards the kings of the empire, it can be known that the kings of a large empire, in their eyes, that is, the existence of equality and mutual respect, the status is equal to that of the cardinal, and when they see the pope, whether you are a duke or a king, you must bow down.
"Since you want to seek revenge on me, you should have a sense of failure. Li Jun stood in a secret prison, looking at the group of prisoners, and the corners of his mouth suddenly hooked up a cold smile.
For some reason, Li Jun always likes to conduct divination experiments at night.
The cold evening breeze blew the earth, rolling up a few leaves, and shivering.
These were a few drugged enemy soldiers, and now, lying in a cold underground chamber, not far away, there was a vessel, and in front of the vessel, a young man stood.
Li Jun was dressed in sacrificial robes, fiddling with turtle shells, copper coins, animal blood, and various medicinal materials.
Li Jun closed his eyes, chanted words, and sacrificial words kept spitting out of his mouth.
The pot full of blood suddenly bubbled and bubbled, and from time to time hot bubbles burst.
In the end, the turtle shell turned into powder and melted into a ball of blood, and Li Jun divided into six bottles, and came to the six soldiers who were drugged unconscious one by one, and slowly dripped the blood in the bottles at the center of their eyebrows.
Airplanes~~
A light tremor came out, and the blood quickly melted into their eyebrows, without a trace.
Li Jun's face showed a hint of exhaustion, his eyes were very indifferent, looking at the six soldiers who were sleeping, the corners of his mouth suddenly outlined a smile that made people palpitate.
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"Forwarded to your dear Excellency Nilo, after several years, I often recall the voice of the deceased, I originally planned to take some time to go to the palace of the Fifth Empire to see you, but I didn't expect that you and I would meet in such a way today, I am embarrassed, embarrassed......" Nilo roughly swept the useless nonsense in the first half, this is Li Jun's consistent style of writing letters, sprinkled with thousands of words, even tens of thousands of words, nonsense, no substantive content at all, only a few sentences in the second half of the paragraph, highlighting the meaning of this letter.
This is not to blame Li Jun, it is really due to the habit of writing reviews in his previous life, I remember that the teacher often asked Li Jun to write hundreds of words, thousands of words, or even tens of thousands of words of review, if you don't use a long paragraph of nonsense to make up the number of words, you can't write it at all.
"Exchange of prisoners of war?" Nilo was slightly stunned, he groaned for a while, sneered, and said to his adjutant: "Write back to him, and say that I agreed." ”
The prisoner exchange ceremony began two days later, with hundreds of soldiers from each side arriving at the exchange site in prison carts.
No one is doing any tricks, because both Li Jun and Nilo have different vicious intentions.
The prisoner exchange ceremony went surprisingly smoothly, and after the two sides counted the number of people, which were roughly the same, they went home separately.
Three kilometers before Modu, Li Jun was holding a few herbs to feed the cows.
The big cow has become fat, eats and drinks well every day, plus a few beautiful female rhinoceros waiting, living an emperor-like life, how can you not get fat?
Therefore, in addition to formulating a set of weight loss plans for Jiu'er, Li Jun also formulated a set for Da Niu Niu, and pulled it out and ran away when he had nothing to do.
"Subordinates, see Lord Duke!" Among the prisoners of war, several older men ran out, and they knelt on the ground with excited expressions, all of them were officers and generals of the Principality of the Great Desert.
Li Jun chuckled and nodded at them, "You have worked hard, but you still need to stay here for a few days and be inspected by the priests." ”
Everyone was stunned, their expressions were slightly frightened, and a soldier shouted eagerly, "Dear Duke, are you suspicious of us?"
"No, you are all the most valiant warriors in the Principality, and you have endured countless trials, but I need to make sure that you are not infected with other diseases, and that you do not have the risk of infecting your wives, sons, daughters, parents, and brothers!" Li Jungao shouted.
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The results of the inspection came out, and there were no problems, however, Li Jun was still not at ease, and quickly whipped up, and invited several experienced priests from the imperial palace, and after their careful inspection, it took three days to finally come to a shocking conclusion.
The bodies of all the captured soldiers were injected with a terrible toxin, which was extremely contagious, but it was still dormant in the body, and it would take thirteen days to attack!
Li Jun blocked the news and asked several high priests to hurry up and develop an antidote.
"Thirteen days of dormancy......" Li Jun muttered softly, his scalp tingled, one is not good, these warriors with infectious toxins will infect all the people in the desert and make this city a dead city!!
According to the thinking of ordinary people, after the pastor takes turns and has a detailed examination, there is no problem with the body, and there is no further detailed investigation.
However, because Li Jun also took the same approach, he was always uneasy, so he had to write a letter of request to Tilan, asking her to send the best priest of the empire to check it out.
As a result, the problem was really discovered.
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The same measures were taken by Li Jun, who specially invited several court priests to King Alberon to conduct a comprehensive examination of the captured soldiers and inquire in detail about their capture.
"General, we have checked everyone's bodies in turn, and there is no major problem, except that their bodies are a little weak and there is a trace of restlessness in their blood, there should be no major problems. An elderly court priest said respectfully. (To be continued.) )