Chapter 414: Poison Ploy and "Old Friends" (Third Watch Completed)
Unexpectedly, Chen Rui's first sentence was not to stop the battle, but to instigate, "The strongest blade of the Dark Moon, the elites of the Flame Light Army, answer me, can you easily destroy the defenses in front of you and level this town?"
"Yes!" The loud and loud voice exuded great determination, the high morale, and the invisible pressure made the soldiers and civilians of Pesa even more nervous, and no one doubted that the enemy could completely wipe out their poor guard Liliang with a single charge.
"If we were faced with the enemy, our Legion Commander Athena would immediately order the whole army to charge, turning the enemy into powder in an instant! Although this territory has recently invaded our territory ungratefully, slaughtering and plundering our relatives and property, it is only their rulers who are at fault, not the innocent soldiers and civilians in front of you! The invaders have paid the price of blood, we are the strongest army of the Dark Moon, and we will be the strongest army in the Demon Realm in the future, we don't need to prove our courage by killing and slaughtering innocents!"
The voice amplified by the human through some kind of magic prop was sonorous and powerful, as if it made people see the brave man who took the lead in rushing towards the Red Shadow Army: "Tell me, what is the purpose of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess sending her strongest flame army to Blue Melt?"
"Help Blue Melt!" Under the leadership of Athena, 10,000 people shouted in unison.
Chen Rui nodded with satisfaction, took a few steps forward, and shouted to the guards of Pesa Town: "Soldiers and civilians of Pesa Town, I am Chen Rui, the financial officer of Dark Moon, first of all, I would like to pay tribute to your courage in defending your homeland, but we are not coming to Lanrong today to invade your homeland, let alone revenge and killing, but for peace and friendship!" Our eldest princess, Her Royal Highness Thea, received an urgent distress letter from Chandler, the lord of the Blue Melt, and considering that the people of the Blue Melts are suffering from the depths of their suffering, they sent us to help the Blue Melts put down the rebellion and restore the economy and prosperity. Please remove the magic circle and put away your hostility, we will not allow any soldier or resident to be harmed. β
The soldiers and civilians of Pesa Town looked at each other, this Chen Rui's name had been heard, it seemed to be an important task to make the development of the Dark Moon take off, and he was still a human being.
This human was right before, with such a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, it is indeed impossible to resist, and in this case, the other party can completely sweep away this poor defense of their own side.
No one wants to die, and hearing that there is hope for survival, many people's eyes fall on Mayor Ryan. Ryan Sr. is a dark elf, more than three hundred years old, and has great authority in the town.
After learning of the arrival of the Darkmoon army, the captain of the defense guard in charge of the military fled early in the morning, and it was he who mobilized the townspeople to participate in the defense with all his might, buying time for his daughter and children to escape.
Although Old Ryan is old, it doesn't mean that he is not afraid of death, on the contrary, the older people are, the more afraid of Zuihou's moment comes, but the dark elf still cautiously asked in a loud voice: "I'm Mayor Ryan, this lord, you said that you were entrusted by the lord to help Lan Rong put down the chaos, weishenme We didn't receive an order from the lord?"
"Mayor Ryan, do you think that with the current chaotic situation in Blue Melt, can the order still arrive on time?" Chen Rui shook his head and said, "Your lords themselves have encountered intractable troubles, otherwise they would not have pulled down their subordinates to ask for help from their neighbors who have just attacked." β
The mayor of the dark elf town groaned for a while, and did not respond - withdrawing the magic array is equivalent to completely giving up resistance, in case the other party turns his face, this terrible army can kill everyone with impunity, but if the magic array is not removed, if his side disobeys the lord's order, the other party can still slaughter without scruples, at most it is just a small resistance, the problem is that those women and children should not have fled far ......... the present,
Seeing that the other party fell silent, Chen Rui added: "We are here with a sincere friendship regardless of previous suspicions, and we don't want to see senseless bloodshed and conflict." In order to prove this, you remove the magic array, and I will come here alone now. β
This kind of initiative has already taken the initiative to act as a hostage, and in the case of the Dark Moon Army's steady victory, this human treasurer actually made such an "unwise" risky move, is it really Lord Chandler who asked them to come to their aid?
Now Chen Rui's reputation has gradually spread in the Fallen Angel Empire, although this human is not a liliang, he is the most trusted financial officer of Princess Darkmoon Xia, and he is also the lover of Athena, the leader of the Flame Army!
Many of the eyes of the Flame Army were on the body of the legion leader Athena, although the other party was weak, but the action of the treasurer this time was too risky, you know, Lan Rong had a hundred thousand troops killed in the dark moon, who could guarantee what those guys who showed strong hostility would do? It's just that the expression of the legion leader Athena was firm and calm, and it didn't stop his lover.
Old Ryan saw that Chen Rui really rode over alone, and immediately asked the soldiers to withdraw the magic array.
Chen Rui entered the checkpoint, looked at the soldiers and residents who were still suspicious, and said: "Everyone, from your faces, I see fear, panic, and a trace of hidden hatred. Undeserved hatred has arisen between us because there should be some war. This kind of hatred may be hard to forget for a while, but because the dead are dead, the living should live better. This time, we are under the order of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess Thea, the eldest princess of the Great White Night, with the sincerity to dispel hatred, and will help Lan Rong out of chaos and famine and restore stability and prosperity in the same way as we did to the rest of the territory. β
These words touched many people, and Ryan Sr. finally nodded: "The fact that an adult can take the risk of coming here alone is enough to prove everything." β
When the soldiers and townsfolk of Pesa Town heard this, they laid down their weapons one after another, and then the checkpoint was opened, and the Darkmoon Army entered Pesa Town without any problems. To the peace of mind of Ryan and the townspeople, the army did not burn and loot as expected, but chose a suitable location to camp in a very disciplined manner, and did not cause any harassment to the townspeople, but under the leadership of the legion leader Athena, donated a part of the food to relieve some of the townspeople who were particularly in need.
Qiu didn't commit any crimes, and he also helped him righteously, even Lan Rong's own army couldn't do it.
Old Ryan completely relieved his heart and exclaimed: "He is worthy of being the elite soldier of the strongest territory in the empire!"
In fact, this discipline was born through strict training and a strict system of rewards and punishments, and there was a time when a small leader could not hold back the male hormones during a military dispatch to support a small territory, and in a semi-forced situation, he snapped a dark goblin woman in the territory, and as a result, the small leader was beheaded by a military judge in front of the entire army.
(According to unreliable gossip, the leader's body was eventually buried by the Dark Goblin Woman)
After several incidents of killing one person and setting an example for hundreds of people, coupled with the ideological indoctrination after hard training, the discipline of the army has been markedly improved, and these elites have been able to truly carry out the four words of order and prohibition.
"Mayor Ryan has won the award," Chen Rui thought for a while and said, "In fact, our eldest princess, Her Royal Highness, only received a secret letter of help from Lord Chandler's cronies, and if it wasn't for the secret imprint unique to the Abbas family, he thought it was a forgery. We just heard that there are a lot of strange events happening in Lupin Town, and the deputy commander of the Blue Army, Sumen rebelled, and we don't know anything about the specific situation, so we asked the mayor to inform us about it. β
Ryan Sr. thought for a moment and said, "Lupin Town is in the southernmost part of the Blue Melt, and after passing Lupin Town, all the way south is the Sea of Death. It's a long way from us, and I don't know the exact news, but I've heard that many of the townspeople there have disappeared and that the lord has ordered the town of Lupin to be closed off and no one to go out. As for the matter with General Sumen ... γ»γ»γ»It seems that there is another hidden matter, at present, the Blue Legion has almost disbanded in name, and we have soldiers from there, and it is said that General Suman has an important relative in Lupin Town, and the so-called rebellion is likely to be related to this.........,
Chen Rui asked Old Ryan a few more questions, and the answers he got were similar to the information of the Dark Demon, but judging from the conversations between Old Ryan and some townspeople, the excessive taxes were already quite serious when Teutons were in office, and now Chandler's exorbitant extortion is even more miserable. In order to quell the discontent in the realm, Chandler instituted rather brutal punishments, intending to use bloody means to strengthen his prestige and position as a temporary lord.
It's just that this method seems to have been counterproductive to some extent, and it should be seen from the reaction of the townspeople and Sumen's secession from the Blue Legion, if Sumen chooses not only to break away from the Legion, but to really rebel, there will be more people who respond.
Just when Old Ryan and Chen Rui were talking, suddenly a soldier came to report that a large number of poisoned people suddenly appeared in the town, their whole bodies were swollen and swollen, unconscious, and some soldiers in Dark Moon were also like this, and it was estimated that the nearby water source was poisoned.
There are rumors that someone from the Darkmoon Army wants to poison everyone in the town and silently wipe out everyone, and many townspeople who don't know the truth have gathered outside the barracks.
Old Ryan and Chen Rui were taken aback, and hurriedly walked out, only to see a large group of people surrounded outside, shouting at the sound of the Dark Moon Man rolling out of the blue melt under the provocation of someone with a heart.
"Everyone, be quiet!" Ryan shouted loudly, and the prestige of the old mayor of the dark elf made the commotion quiet.
"If the Darkmoon Army really wants to destroy us, they don't need to poison us at all! even their own soldiers are poisoned!" Old Ryan shouted, in fact, he was more thinking about Pesa Town, if Darkmoon really turned his face and acted because of this, it was the townspeople who suffered.
Seeing the soldiers who were also poisoned in their bodies carried out, the townspeople immediately fell silent, there was no such stupid trickery, and even their most elite soldiers were buried together.
"Who knows if this is some kind of conspiracy? Maybe even the old mayor was bribed by them! Before they came, there was no such thing in the town at all!" a voice shouted, and many people shouted along with them.
"Huaimi!" the old town elder was dazzled, and at a glance he saw the guy who took the lead in the coaxing, and said angrily: "You damn scum! When your father brought you to the town, he was about to starve to death, who helped you and let you, an ungrateful white-eyed demon wolf, live until now? Now he has framed me and been bribed?"
For a while, all eyes fell on the dark elf named Huaimi, the guy was speechless for a while, Chen Rui's ears remembered Pagliu's voice: "This dark elf's waist exudes the breath of that poison, it should be an unused poison, and it is estimated that he wants to poison it again." β
Chen Rui said a few words to Old Ryan, and Old Ryan was furious, rushed forward, separated the crowd, and grabbed Huaimi: "It turned out that it was you who poisoned it!"
Huaimi was taken aback: "Nonsense, why are you ......?"
Before he finished speaking, he was pulled by old Ryan's belt and immediately grabbed a bag of things: "What is this?"
Huaimi's dark face turned white all of a sudden, and he couldn't speak.
Old Ryan has ruled the town for many years, so he naturally has his own prestige and means, and shouted: "Do you want me to feed you now?"
Huai Mi fell to his knees with a puff: "The town chief spares my life! It was a guy in black who asked me to do it! said it was to avenge the soldiers who died in the dark moonγ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»
Athena immediately made a decision and immediately ordered: "Flame Army, immediately block the entrance and exit of the town, and no one is allowed to enter or leave!"
Old Ryan was anxious to clear the innocence of Pesa Town, and hurriedly asked, "What does that guy look like?"
At this moment, the cloaked figure of Pagliu appeared in front of him ghostly, and his fingers caught a sharp crossbow arrow that appeared behind Huaimi's head like lightning. ..., Huaimi knew that he had silently swirled on the edge of life and death, and the cold sweat on his head came out.
Everyone was taken aback, and almost at the same time, Pagliu's figure disappeared again, and then a black figure was thrown to the ground.
The frightened dark elf Huaimi immediately jumped up, pointed at the black shadow and shouted, "It's him......! Threaten me with poison!"
Old Ryan looked at it as a strange face, with a fierce look in his eyes, but he couldn't move, and it seemed that he had lost the ability to resist.
"This matter is already very clear, someone is using tricks to frame the Dark Moon Army and provoke friendly relations between us," Chen Rui took the opportunity to say loudly: "Everyone, please rest assured, we have the most Haode military doctor in the army, and I myself am also proficient in poison, and I will definitely help those poisoned townspeople to relieve the poison!"
Chen Rui's proficiency in poison is naturally a pretense, with Pagliu here, it is definitely not a problem to detoxify this poison.
At this moment, the townspeople let out an exclamation, and it turned out that the real murderer's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose burst out with silver light at the same time, and the whole person exploded, but the power of this explosion had not yet spread, and it had been controlled by an invisible force field, and it could not pose a threat to the surrounding townspeople at all.
When the power was exhausted, the invisible force field disappeared, leaving only the powdered limbs scattered in dust, and it was Pagliu who was pretending to be "Agulie".
Chen Rui's eyes narrowed slightly, this kind of self-explosion is quite familiar, it seems that this trip to Blue Melt is likely to meet "old friends".
PS: Today's three more are ten thousand, begging for support, seeking ambiguity, and asking for takeaway. Clear