Chapter 44: Return to Paravon
Another battle victory. It's just that the victorious side didn't have any joy, and they were all licking the wounds of the mansion to clean up the dead and comfort the widow who was still alive.
After the victory in defending Dis Village, the village chief came to thank Zhang Yuan.
"Thank you, my lord, if it weren't for you, we don't know how much it would have cost us."
"That's what I'm supposed to do, no thanks."
"Praise your noble ......"
After the praise, the village chief saw Zhang Yuan's side, who also suffered heavy casualties, and recommended four villagers to join Zhang Yuan's team. It's all some great guys, and it's the only one left who died in last night's battle. This will not only make better use of their land, but also solve the problem of singleness. Although the peaceful village still can't avoid these filthy things. It was not intentional on the part of the village chief, but for the stability and development of the village, and at the same time to reduce the number of robbers, it was necessary to drive the orphans who could stand on their own to leave.
After accepting the recruits, Zhang Yuan's team counted Zhang Yuan, a total of 15 cavalrymen. After distributing armor and changing weapons again, Zhang Yuan left directly after dawn. Of course, before leaving, Zhang Yuan took advantage of the darkness to visit some families who had died in battle, and he did so when no one was around.
After Zhang Yuan left, when some fallen soldiers and villagers returned home, they all saw a pile of dinars on the table, which was another large-scale praise for Zhang Yuan. As everyone knows, this unintentional move made Zhang Yuan's untouchable and invisible honor rise rapidly. At the same time, Zhang Yuan's deeds began to circulate in Calradia, and as the spread became more and more mysterious.
After arming the soldiers again, there were 23 equipped knives on Zhang Yuan's carriage, 14 shields, 6 pieces of chain mail, and 3 pieces of leather armor. As for the horses, they were seventeen.
Now there are no extra horses to equip the soldiers, and there are still 2 days left before communicating with the robbers in Paravon, so there is not much time to recruit soldiers. Proceeding directly back to Paravon, a group of 10 cavalry surrounded two wagons in the middle. On the first carriage was Edward, who had been tied into a rice dumpling. The second carriage was Zhang Yuan's supplies. At the front of the convoy were Zhang Yuan and Manstein. At the front of the team 100 meters is the foodie trio to open the way.
After yesterday's battle, Zhang Yuan did not act according to the game, but thought deeply, arranging his troops according to the ancient novels he read.
Just as the foodie trio is opening the way, the foodie boss discovers the hidden people on the road.
"Who? Come out. ”
With the shouts of the foodie boss, the second and third foodies drew their swords and urged the horses to move towards the location where the boss might be hiding.
"Don't ...... Other...... Don't kill me, I ...... Surrender. ”
Just after the foodie threw a pebble into the grass, an intermittent sound came.
"Come out, or you'll shoot an arrow."
"Yes, yes, I'll come out right away."
Just like that, a wounded bandit emerged from among the trees. In an instant, two swords were on his neck. The foodie boss saw Lisuo's two brothers and nodded with satisfaction. Urging me to ask.
"Tell me, who you are, what you do, and how you are hurt."
"Don't kill me! I say! I say! My name is Pendy, and I'm the same guy who attacked Dis Village last night. Wounded during the battle. ”
"How many of you still have them? Where are they? ”
"I'm the only one, and the others are dead."
"Where's your lair?"
"We were originally in the west, and a few days ago a man named Edward came and grabbed our territory. We had to wander around, and we really didn't have any rice to cook these days, so we were ready to rob Dis Village. ”
"Is that so? Why do you feel like you're not telling the truth? ”
The foodie boss rubbed his chin and looked at Peng Di and said, but after speaking, Peng Di was so frightened that Peng Di knelt directly on the ground and begged, "My lord, what I said is true." You have to trust me. ”
"Really?" The foodie boss with a different brain circuit from his colleagues, was just about to learn from Zhang Yuan's previous appearance when Zhang Yuan drove the team over. Seeing Zhang Yuan brought, the foodie team escorted Peng Di to the side of the road.
"What's going on? What does this person do? ”
"Report to the general, we caught a fish that slipped through the net last night, and we are interrogating."
Zhang Yuan didn't even think about it, and looked at the foodie boss waving his hand directly at his neck, meaning that it would be solved after the interrogation. After all, he and Dis Village lost a lot of people last night, even if he was valuable, what could he do? You can't chill the hearts of your own people for the sake of an enemy.
Now Zhang Yuan is moving closer to a qualified leader, although there is still a flood of sympathy, but it does not affect his iron and blood.
The team moved on, with Manstein leading two men to clear the way, and the foodie team to deal with the prisoners behind. At the end of the line, the foodie boss continues to ask the same question after stabbing the tip of the knife into Pendy's thigh. The end result was the same as the original. Just when the foodie boss drew the knife back into the scabbard again, Pendy thought that he would live, and just as he was about to be happy, he felt that the world was spinning. Just because the foodie boss didn't kill him doesn't mean that others won't kill him.
Last night, Zhang Yuan's team suffered several casualties, and the injured were the second foodie. Now the shoulder that was stabbed is still aching, and after the interrogation, there is nothing worth questioning, and he directly slashes Pendy with a knife.
It's not that he is cold-blooded and killing, but the general told them that if we don't kill him, the outlaw, he will kill us. If we let him go, more innocent people will die at their hands, so we don't kill, but for the sake of more good people, we must be iron-blooded, and we must be able to be ruthless. And only dead enemies are good enemies.
As for what kind of killing prisoners is ominous or something, Zhang Yuan, who serves in Heavenly Court, cares? Could it be that Heavenly Court will come to Thunder and split Zhang Yuan? It's all Heavenly Court's painstaking resurrection, and it will solve it by itself? Unless he is really angry and resentful, or does something detrimental to the actual interests of the Heavenly Court.
The reason why Zhang Yuan said this is because there is no Geneva in this world, and there is no Geneva Convention. Bandits who are slain and filled with abundance in this world will not be talked about. As long as you don't kill the warriors captured on the battlefield, you are good people and worthy of respect.
Moving on, we finally arrived at the outskirts of Parabun unharmed. Just as Zhang Yuan was about to lead his team into the city, Manstein stopped him.
"General, your armor. No lord could not bring armor into the city, it would be confiscated. ”
"Huh? I see a lot of people wearing armor, huh? ”
"It should be leather armor or chain mail, iron plate armor like the general, you can't let them see it.
Those guards are vampires, and they always want to take advantage of everything, even if the civilians want to squeeze out an extra dinar, and they will do everything they can to keep the armor when they see it, even if there is a battle.
They can wear armor and turn it in for a reward. Some even sell their armor to outlaws to gain profits. ”
"Oh, is that so? Then Manstein, you take the team to the woods over there and set up camp. Who, Thor, take your brother into leather armor and escort Edward into the city with me. ”
"Yes!"
Just after the change of clothes, the four of them rode their horses and drove the carriage towards Parabun. As for the things in the carriage, there was nothing but Edward.