Chapter 113: Kidnapping Lilith
Beginning in July, a strong and mysterious bandit army appeared in the wilderness northwest of the Havilland Empire.
They are said to be strong because they are well-organized and swift, like a tornado, which roars when they move, and disappears when they are quiet, and the bandit team has nothing to do with them.
The mystery is due to the fact that their leader, a very handsome young man who was less than twenty years old, called himself "Furywind".
The dough qi realm of this "Angry Wind" is only a junior battle master no matter how you look at it, but the leader of the Blood Soul Mercenary Group, as a peak battle master, was knocked to the ground by him in three or two moves, and he had no power to resist at all.
The strength is mysterious, and the life experience is also mysterious.
According to the time and place of the appearance of this "Knights" and the personnel structure of the predominantly untouchables, some people speculated that the "Fury" was Chang Sler, the top of the list of high-ranking students of the Royal Military Academy, who could not bear to slaughter the untouchable prey during the graduation exercise, saved them, and led them to the grass.
According to the official wanted notice, Chang Sler is Chang Le, a pariah in Kassel City, who concealed his identity and sneaked into the military academy, and had bad intentions from the beginning.
But whether Fufeng is Changle or not, no one who is familiar with him has witnessed it, and there is no way to confirm it.
There is another legend that is very widespread, saying that "Fury" has no parents, is a child who fell from the sky in the wind and lightning, and is actually the reincarnation of the Holy Emperor, the second time that the god of light has descended into the world.
This reincarnated Saint Emperor has shown his magical power, and he can defeat the war spirit with the realm of the War Master, and one day as long as the "Twelve Divine Generals" gather under his command again, he will be able to completely activate his divine power, sweep away the filth of the world with "Heavenly Punishment", and create a beautiful new world.
Fufeng and his subordinates never mentioned this matter to anyone in person, but the idea of the "reincarnation of the Holy Emperor" still spread among the people, and almost everyone knew about it, especially the untouchables.
It is said that Fury would send his men to infiltrate towns at night, distribute looted money to untouchable homes, and be very considerate in exchanging gold coins for bags of silver so that they would not be suspicious when they buy things.
The untouchables shook their heads in denial, but seeing that the yellow-skinned poor bastards were all fed and their complexions gradually became ruddy, even fools could guess what was happening.
Not only do the untouchables have food and clothing, but few people dare to bully them arbitrarily anymore, the "Reincarnated Holy Emperor" came for fairness and justice, with an army of untouchables, who may be killed at any time, and now everyone looks at the untouchables again, and there is already a trace of fear in their eyes.
Unfortunately, only a few areas in the northwest have benefited, and the pariah situation in most of the empire's cities has not changed, so everyone is eager to be saved.
Some young people could not wait, so they said hello to their families, or simply said goodbye, so they set off with wooden sticks and went all the way to the angry wind.
The untouchables see Fury as a savior, but the upper classes are different, and there is no doubt that Fury is a bandit.
This "Knights of Heaven", with the name of "Heaven" and "Knights", did the robbers who blocked the road and kidnapped tickets for extortion, so the merchants changed their name and called it "Paradise Bandits".
did not change the word "heaven" to "hell", also because the other party was polite and basically did not kill people, and the businessmen were somewhat appreciative.
Fury Wind has led the team to loot for a long time, and some people have summed up some patterns:
First, the attitude is friendly, if the robber does not resist, he will not be beaten, let alone killed, and the angry wind himself must be polite and smiling.
Second, it will never harm women, even the aristocratic ladies and ladies who have been kidnapped do not have to worry about being indecent to them, they live alone with good food and drink, and they will be released as soon as the ransom arrives. There are even some young ladies who are in a trance from time to time after returning home, and they are lovesick with the handsome bandit leader.
Third, with regard to the popularity of businessmen, they should let them go after collecting some "taxes", and they should not engage in the act of killing chickens and eggs, and would not affect the smooth flow of trade routes.
Fourth, it is very unkind to the nobles, if the nobles themselves or their families pass by, the property is not counted, but also a large amount of ransom, and the other party will not stop if he does not squeeze the other party dry. Even some of the small nobles whose castles are not tall and strong enough will be killed by Fury and completely ransacked.
Fifth, Fury has a grudge against Marquis Philip!
The scope of the Fury Wind overlapped with the Marquis's domain, and the Marquis and his vassal nobles were the most plundered and extorted, and all the caravans that went to the marquis's main city of Sesnek were all robbed, so that the people of Sesnek were panicked and commerce withered.
This is even more proof of the rumor that "the furious wind is Chang Sler", because the Marquis, as the provost, had a great enmity with Chang Sler when he was in the military school.
Fury is of course Chang Sler, that is, Chang Le.
The theory of "the reincarnation of the Holy Emperor" was made up by Caidie for him, and he sent people to spread it in various towns, which can not only boost morale, but also help him gain more followers, which is conducive to the rapid expansion of the team.
And the word "Fury Wind" cannot be regarded as a nickname, but a new name that Chang Le gave himself.
His parents concealed the past experiences of the Dark Knights, as well as the two tense names of "Gale" and "Dark Lan", and renamed him "Yongjian" and "Kangning", and named him "Chang Le", hoping that he would be content with poverty and contentment.
But now that Chang Le has embarked on the life path of blood and fire, and has also decided to revive the Knights, he naturally has to change his parents' real names.
He took the word "wind" from his father's name, combined with his "anger" towards the world, and continued the habit of naming members of the Knights, according to the name structure of "a cool adjective and a good noun", hence the name "angry wind".
His area of activity was deliberately chosen in the area of Marquis Philip's fiefdom, the meaning of revenge was very obvious, and it was also to reduce some enemies for himself, Duke Stennis was happy to see Philip anxious, and he would inevitably prevent other faction nobles from coming to support.
The marquis himself was in the imperial capital, and sent his subordinates to lead the army to recruit twice, but the first time the small army of 200 people was completely annihilated, and the second time he gathered a number of vassal nobles, and the large army formed could not find the enemy, and he still returned in vain.
Since his own troops were insufficient, the Marquis asked the royal family to send guards to encircle and suppress them, and the royal family, under the influence of Duke Stennis, only gave one reply:
"A little thief with dozens of people, it's not worth using the Guards, please solve it yourself".
Due to the last time he led troops into the imperial capital, the marquis was deprived of the post of deputy military minister, and he no longer dared to transfer the Fifth Division of the Guards casually, so he had to ask for the support of the cultivators of the Blood Soul Valley instead.
Blood Soul Valley was furious, and the sect leader Nomadeus let out a word, there were only three war spirits in his sect, and two of them were sent to help the marquis, but their whereabouts were unknown one after another, if the marquis did not find out the truth, the blood soul valley would no longer care about his affairs.
The Marquis of Philip is really overwhelmed!
However, Chang Le knew very well that this marquis would never give up, and according to his reconnaissance, the other party was already mobilizing the peasants and planning to organize a larger private army, which was likely to exceed 10,000 people.
The most direct way to prevent the marquis from forming a large army is to further blockade the city of Sessnek and crack down on the city's commerce, as long as the tax revenue is reduced, the military budget will inevitably be insufficient.
You must know that maintaining a standing army of more than 10,000 people consumes an extremely staggering amount of at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins a year.
So Chang Le increased the scope of his attack, and his old nest "Red Mountain" is located in the southwest of Sesnek, which used to be active on various roads in the southwest of the city, but now it has expanded to hundreds of kilometers away, east and north of Sesniek City.
The problem is that there are too few horses, although many untouchables have come to defect, so that the team has expanded to more than three hundred, but it is not possible to completely blockade Sesnek, not to mention that the military training of the new members has not yet been completed, and it is the first hundred people who can fight.
Therefore, the only way to attack around and make the merchants feel that no road around the city is safe, can the purpose be achieved.
The villages and towns didn't matter, and the main city of Sesnik was the bulk of the marquis's gold income.
As a result, business travel in and out of Cessnek has also become Changle's main source of income, and he doesn't care at all about "killing chickens and eggs" or "fishing in the dry waters" for these people.
For example, today, Chang Le led a team to travel 400 kilometers to the north of Saicheng, which is so close to his hometown of Kassel that the people he catches, whether merchants or mercenaries, look a little familiar.
However, Chang Le was cheated by profiteers in Kassel City, and he has no good feelings for the merchants there, as long as it is not his friend Miles and his Mario Chamber of Commerce, the rest of them will only be dealt with "strictly".
The mercenaries wanted to resist at first, but after seeing Chang Le's black banner, they threw down their weapons, knowing that they would be defeated if they used force, so they didn't need to trouble the "Fury Wind" to take action personally.
Merchants did not expect to meet the "Heavenly Bandits" here, this bandit is known to do things, the caravan to other places can "pay taxes" according to the value of the goods, if they go to the city of Sesnek, even their pants will be snatched.
After a period of panic, they began to deny it, claiming that they were going south through this place and would never enter the city of Sessnik.
However, looking at their direction and heading straight for Saicheng, they were obviously talking nonsense, and the goods on the car were mostly cotton, and Saicheng was famous for its textiles and clothing.
But before Chang Le could speak, the voice of an immature girl beside him suddenly sounded:
"They're lying!"
Chang Le turned his face to look at the sweet girl beside him and couldn't help but smile.
After Amin was rescued, she was depressed, grieving and blaming herself for the loss of her mother, because she killed the five bad people, but her mother was tortured and died.
The little girl's riding skills are surprisingly skillful, Chang Le summoned the horse out from the beast soul space, she rode and left, which is very unusual, because the untouchables have no chance to ride a horse at all, and nearly 100 people in Changle's team all learned riding skills from scratch, and it took more than a month to fully master it.
But Changle asked her about her life experience, but she didn't say anything.
When she was camping, she also stared at the campfire and was silent, asking three questions without an answer, only correcting Chang Le's misjudgment of her age, she said that she was not ten years old, but thirteen years old, but the development period caught up with the upheaval, so she was extremely thin.
Chang Le wanted to hand her over to Caidie to comfort and raise, and to be a companion to a poor girl like Ah Hong.
Unexpectedly, after arriving at the Red Mountain camp, Amin found that it was a robber cottage, and suddenly laughed three times.
The truth is revealed, she was born and raised in a robber cottage, her father was a bandit leader, and later the cottage was exterminated, and her father was also killed in battle, so she wandered around with her mother.
Before, Amin refused to talk more, because he was worried that Chang Le would be unfavorable to her if he found out.
Since Chang Le is not only her life-saving benefactor, but also a bandit leader, what can be the difference? Amin immediately regarded him as a relative, and also showed a high degree of adaptability to the life of a bandit and rich experience.
Amin's beautiful big eyes are full of magic, in addition to being able to control objects with his gaze and kill people with his gaze, he can also see at a glance whether others are sincere or not, and he has a super ability to recognize lies.
As a result, the little girl who was supposed to be raised by others became a good assistant that Changle always had by his side.
After smiling appreciatively at Amin and nodding his head, Chang Le looked down at the convoy down the slope and said to the people around him:
"This merchant has more than a dozen truckloads of cotton, obviously to be transported to Sesnek, you go down to deal with it, we won't have to worry about running out of quilts in winter!"
The men took the order, raised their swords and threatened them, and soon forced the merchant to tell the truth, and the result was, of course, predestined, and all the belongings they had, and all the carriages and horses were taken away, leaving only a carriage for them to sit on and go home.
"Boss, there's a woman in the car, dressed beautifully, and looking pretty, like a nobleman!" one of his men shouted.
"I'm not a nobleman!"
A young girl screamed and was dragged down, still protesting:
"I don't have any money in my family! I went to Sesnek to learn tailoring, and if my family had money, I wouldn't have to be a tailor!"
"Miss Table......" Chang Le snorted in surprise.
"Miss Table" Lilith!
The scene from more than a year ago suddenly came to mind.
If it weren't for Lilith's forcible kiss, which caused him to be whipped by the young master, maybe he wouldn't have known and loved Xue Ying, Xue Ying might not have died, and he was afraid that he would still be a well-behaved little slave, and he would never be dressed in a military uniform and immediately high!
Lilith always went to Baron Baron's Castle to find her aunt and cousin, but she was a dilapidated nobleman and her family didn't have much money, so she didn't have a special convoy and guards, but paid some travel expenses and followed the caravan, and naturally, it fell into the hands of Changle.
Lilith's gaze looked up the slope, and it was because Chang Le was standing on a high place, surrounded by his men, and was clearly a leader.
But Miss Biao didn't recognize him at all, and she didn't see the look of an acquaintance, so she just stared at Chang Le and shouted:
"Are you the legendary Fury?"
It seems that Lilith kissing Chang Le is just nonsense, just to make her cousin jealous, as for what Chang Le looks like, although she seemed to praise it at the time, she didn't remember it at all.
Later, Chang Le was sentenced to fifty lashes, and it was added to one hundred, she just giggled and frolicked with her cousin, not to mention helping Chang Le intercede, and she didn't even have a little unbearable look.
Even if she still had a little impression of Chang Le's appearance, the beaten little slave and the famous bandit leader in front of her were only a year apart, and they really couldn't be connected.
"I'm Fufeng, please Miss follow me back to the cottage and write a letter to your family to raise money to ransom people. ”
"My family has no money!"
"If you don't have any money, you can sleep with me to pay the bill!"
As soon as these words came out, not only Lilith was stunned, but even Chang Le's subordinates also showed incredible looks.
Changle has always been very disciplined with women, and he strictly prohibits his subordinates from violating women's meat tickets.
How could he say such a thing today?
Lilith was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly stomped her feet and shouted:
"You're a fake! You're not Fury! They say Fury is very good at women!"
"People change!"
Chang Le turned around and ordered his subordinates:
"Take her with you and camp at the eighth place tonight!"