In the afternoon, with thunder and heavy rain in the Iliad Kingdom, the defenders of Iru Town, dressed in robes, cursed the bad weather on the top of the city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"What the hell, it's raining so hard, and the Yar River is about to flood, will the Imperial Army of St. John really come to attack the city?"

"I don't think so, unless it's those heretics who have a nervous attack, didn't the commander take the army to patrol outside the city?

"Damn, it's raining, I haven't been living anywhere, my brothers helped to get off the job, I went home to collect my clothes......"

"Boom!" a huge thunderclap was deafening, and the lightning almost tore through the gloomy sky, and by the moment of light brought by the lightning, several militiamen who were about to go home to collect their clothes faintly caught a glimpse of the huge black shadow in the rain curtain outside the city.

"St. John's Imperial Army?" the militiamen were suspicious for a moment, and then quickly denied their thoughts, the commander was still patrolling outside the city, how could the Imperial army come to the city without making a sound? This must be their own dazzle.

The soldiers on the city walls were still chatting and complaining in groups, and from time to time some deserted on the pretext of "going home to collect clothes".

"Boom!" was another thunderclap, and several bloodied and dying scouts hurriedly alerted the city to the hostile attack. The militia in the city was like a thunderbolt, and they were stunned.

"Boom!" In an instant, there was another loud bang, and in the horrified eyes of everyone, countless flying stones weighing several tons poured down with the torrential rain, and all the fortifications were easily destroyed like tofu, and the inhabitants of the city panicked and fled in all directions amid the rubble and rubble. The shadow of death completely enveloped this small town, and the entire town of Iru was in chaos, as if the end of the world had come.

"The God of Light is with the Empire!" A huge roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the Ninth Division, a full twelve thousand imperial elites, let out a bloodthirsty roar in unison.

The war began.

The trebuchets and ballistae of the 9th Division, with the cooperation of the mage regiment, quickly suppressed the counterattack of the crossbowmen in the city, and the siege vehicles loaded with heavy infantry took advantage of the situation to advance to the edge of the city wall.

Although the defenders of Iru were no less large than the Ninth Division, and could defend with the walls, they were slaughtered one-sidedly, and the armed heavy infantry were outnumbered and invincible, and soon captured several key castles, and the steel torrents formed by the heavy knights poured into the city like a tidal wave from the gaps in the walls.

In the evening, the town of Iru was no longer able to organize any decent resistance, the battle was over, and the commander James led Marven, Mance and others into the city with the army on a mountain of corpses of the defenders.

The slaughter continued, and the soldiers of the 9th Division, chanting the name of the god of light, carried out a frenzied purge of all the infidels in the city.

All the houses in the city were destroyed, all the men were mutilated alive, and the women who were a little beautiful were subjected to crazy ** and cruel torture. Even newborn babies did not escape the fate of being killed.

Marven walked expressionlessly on the blood-splattered streets with the mercenaries of the "Quick Sword" team. They were the only ones who didn't take part in the massacre, but they were also powerless to stop the horrific slaughter.

"I didn't expect it to end like this......" Mercenary Mage Rogge was the first to break the silence, "When Michelle and I broke into here, we had already spread the news that the Ninth Division was about to enter the city......

"We have done what we should do, but they have always refused to trust the so-called infidels......" Marven smiled bitterly and shook his head, if it wasn't for the treachery of the Moses army and the sneak attack on the supplies of the imperial army, then they would have been completely safe, and the tragedy of the massacre of the city would not have happened at all.

Marven and his party stopped when passing by the main temple of Moses in the center of the town, this magnificent religious building had been smashed to pieces by the soldiers of the Ninth Division, the tall statue of Lord Moses was pulled down with a rope, and several soldiers jumped on the idol with cheers, unbuttoned their pants, and peed wildly on the head of the idol.

Marven smiled mockingly, these high gods, inciting their followers to fight and slaughter each other in order to spread their teachings, probably never imagined that one day, their gods and goddesses who were worshipped by the world would be treated as garbage and insulted by others.

There is also a lonely tomb next to the temple, which is abruptly built next to the side door of the temple, which looks lonely and lonely.

The soil on the mound was still fresh and soft, and it was clear that it was a new tomb that had not been seen for a long time, and even the burial had been carried out in an unusually hasty manner.

A few soldiers walked to the newly repaired grave with a smirk, picked up their shovels, and were about to dig up the lonely grave, when Marven stepped forward and dismissed them.

Marven walked to the grave with a solemn face and was silent. It was the tomb of the Saint Isis.

"I didn't expect her to die after all. Rogge couldn't help but feel a little sad, "She and Michelle are both good people, but it's a pity that this pair of hard-working mandarin ducks ......"

"That's right!" Marven suddenly remembered something and patted Rogge on the shoulder, "Master Rogge, let's go to the execution ground, find out Michelle's body, and bury them all together......"

"Well, that's the only thing we can do for them. Rogge agreed, decisively took everyone to the place of execution, and with the help of memory, he found Michelle's broken body in a short time.

Michelle's body was bloodied and decapitated, and it was horrific to see. It took Marvin and Rogge a long time to put his body together.

Then, they buried this righteous guardian knight at the side of the holy daughter Isis, and the bitter lovers were torn apart by fate before their deaths, and after their deaths, they were finally with them forever.

After a few minutes of silence in front of the two newly built graves, Marven turned to leave, and as soon as he reached the street, he suddenly felt something wrapped around his ankle, and he couldn't help but bow his head in surprise.

A hand, a large, pale and powerful hand, grabbed him like a man in the water grasping the last straw that saved his life.

"Please, please...... Save our lives......" I saw a seriously injured middle-aged man crawl out of the pile of blood-stained corpses, his blood-stained clothes showing his aristocratic status.

Marven squatted down and took his trembling hand away from his ankle with an expressionless face, "You are not without a chance to live...... He raised his hand and pointed to the two new graves not far away, and muttered, "See, the dead there have tried their best to avoid bloodshed, but you yourself have not cherished the people who can save your lives, and in the end, you have resorted to the mercy of the executioner, is it possible......"

Marven got up silently, ignored the nobleman's pleading, and left directly, and the mercenaries beside him bypassed the noble man directly, without even looking at him.

"Don't go, don't go! I'm the richest man in Iru Town, as long as you save my life, I can give you as much as I want!" The aristocratic man still shouted at the backs of Marven and the others unwillingly, and struggled to climb out of the pile of dead.

"Ho! Look, there's still a living mouth here!" the aristocratic man's shout quickly attracted several soldiers of the Ninth Division who were patrolling.

"Please, don't kill me!I can give you money, you can eat as much as you want!" Seeing the blood-dripping long knife in the other party's hand, the aristocratic man was so frightened that he peed his pants.

"Damn, it's great to be rich, isn't it?" a soldier at the head kicked him hard, "All the heretics have to die, I advise you, if you know each other, hand over all your property, so that I can consider giving you a good time, otherwise, you bastard will wait to be skinned and Lingchi!"

The surrounding soldiers let out a sinister laugh, and they all swarmed like wolves that had spotted fat pigs, and a pig-killing wail rang out in the streets......

In the middle of the night, the torrential rain that had been raining for almost the whole day finally stopped, and the whole town of Uru was dead silent, only the heavy footsteps of the patrolling heavy infantry could be heard, and the stagnant water overflowed the streets, completely stained red with blood, and the whole Iru town exuded a strong smell of blood.

There was not a single intact building left in the city, so James had to sit at the top of the city with his subordinates to discuss the next military action.

Although the town of Iru was easily captured, the elite of the Iliad rebels withdrew ahead of schedule with almost no losses. Although their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Ninth Division, they marched extremely fast, and they completely disappeared in just one day, and the cavalry sent by James failed to detect them.

Much of the joy of victory in the war was immediately washed away, and as long as this army remained, the Empire's supply lines could not rest easy.

"Mance, Marven, you two come over here. After the meeting was dismissed, James called the two commanders of the Pioneer Battalion alone.

"Mance, you are a seasoned veteran, what do you think of the elite fighting power of these rebels?" James spoke softly and without reproach, and it was evident that he usually relied heavily on his vanguard officers.

"Your Excellency Commander, although the size of this army is not as large as our vanguard battalion, it can really be called the elite of a hundred battles, they not only have a large number of warriors and extremely well-trained, but also have extremely accurate control and judgment of fighters and intelligence. Mance pondered for a moment and gave an extremely fair and objective assessment of the enemy's capabilities.

After hearing this, James nodded again and again, and sighed: "Yes, they can escape under the nose of my Ninth Division, their methods are really extraordinary, I didn't dare to discuss this issue at the meeting just now, for fear of affecting morale." ”

He patted Mance on the shoulder and said with a wry smile: "Old man, I know that your pioneer battalion is understaffed and under great pressure, and it is really helpless to reach an armistice agreement with the rebels in order to save the chaplain of the army. But now that the holy war is raging, the Empire's supply lines are at stake, and there can't be any mistakes in any way, you understand?"

"Hmm. Mance nodded heavily, and said resolutely, "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely correct my mistakes and do my best to ensure the safety of the Empire's supply lines!" )