Chapter 21 Burning Grain
Intense grief enveloped the villagers like a dark cloud hanging from the ground, and even the most optimistic people could not help but cry in low voices, and several strong men tried to break out of the encirclement, but they were immediately shot through the arms by crossbow arrows, and the people next to them rescued them and hid them in the crowd. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Conzes was completely oblivious to what was happening, or rather he deliberately ignored the villagers, and just enjoyed his lunch with the rice wine that the soldiers had found. The smell of the food spread, and there was another commotion in the crowd, and a very small girl hugged her mother's neck and cried, "Niangniang, I am hungry." ”
Ye Yu was like being struck by lightning, his eyes seemed to be a little moist, he took out half of the steamed bun that he hadn't eaten in the morning from his arms, walked a few steps quickly and handed it to the little girl's mouth: "Eat, eat." ”
The little girl looked at him stunned, as if frightened, and was about to reach out to take it, when a leather whip came from the side, just sweeping the steamed bun to the ground. Conzes stepped on the steamed buns, stomped them a few times and crushed them into black muck, and then yelled at Night Feather, "What are you going to do? ”
Night Feather looked at Conzes with some trepidation: "They are not enemies, just poor civilians. ”
"Master Kempinski says they are enemies, they are, have you forgotten the 21st Infantry Squadron? From the time these men crossed the Mdu River, they had abandoned their glory as subjects of the Empire, and could only be nailed to the pillar of shame in history for the rest of their lives. ”
The little girl was so frightened by the vicious appearance of this mustache that she cried out loud, and Night Feather held her head in her hands, as if she was struggling violently, and suddenly ran out, picked up a chicken leg from Conzes's lunch, and handed it to the little girl's mouth again.
Conzes was furious and whipped it down, and the clothes on Night Feather's back immediately shattered into several pieces, and a white scar slowly appeared, and blood slowly oozed out. Conzes lashed down several times, and Night Feather's back was soon covered with blood.
Mira couldn't stand it any longer, and stepped in front of Nightfeather, looking coldly at Conzes, who saw the blood stained on the horsewhip, and his head seemed to be clearer, and he was persuaded by his companions to step aside.
Night Feather was trembling all over, but smiled at the little girl and said, "Eat, it's okay, eat." The little girl hesitated to take the chicken leg, took a bite gently, and suddenly burst into tears.
When he left the village, Ye Yu was so painful that he couldn't walk, so he could only lie on the grain cart. Under the hateful gaze of hundreds of villagers, the fully loaded convoy set out on the way back to the camp.
Perhaps because of a conflict, Mira barely spoke to Conzes along the way, and he didn't bother to ride his horse anymore, so he snuggled up in the grain cart and talked to Nightfeather. The war horse that Mira trained often came over to lick his hands and face, and was driven away by Mila who was in a bad mood.
After a night, the wounds on Ye Yu's back were scabbed, and he was slowly able to sit up. Conzes may have felt that he was too heavy, but now that he thinks about it, he is a little uncomfortable, and several times he finds an excuse to run to the side of the grain cart and dangle, but Mira and Nightfeather ignore him.
In the endless wilderness, the withered yellow weeds swayed in the wind, and the heavy grain carts drove across the soft ground, pressing down on deep rut marks. Several weasels gathered together to pull the rice grains that had leaked from the cart, and suddenly they were alarmed by a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and they ran away in an instant.
Seeing that it was the scout who had been sent out to explore the way earlier, Conzes greeted him and asked, "What's the matter?" The scout saluted, "Captain, there are a lot of rioters in front of us, and they are all coming towards us. ”
"Rags?" Conzes touched his pretty mustache, "What are they going to do?"
"Their village has been collected by other teams, and all the grain has been collected, and now I don't know where to hear that our team's grain truck is here, and these rioters are ready to come and grab food. ”
Kang Zes was furious: "Grab the grain, is there any royal law?" Let's stop and line up first to see how they grab it. ”
When he saw the crowd of people in the distance, Kang Zes immediately felt a little bad, he really didn't expect that so many people would gather, it seems that he should have chosen another direction to make a strategic change just now. Many horses noticed the panic of the knight on their backs, and kept snorting and snorting to the ground. Several horsemen drove Mira and Nightfeather down from the grain cart and began to sprinkle fire oil on the cart, so that Mira and Nightfeather had to help each other onto their respective mounts.
Conzes rode out and shouted, "You people, are you going to rebel?"
The crowd of people who were walking slowly stopped, and a young man who looked rather thin walked to the front and said: "Lord, I am a good citizen living in the vicinity, and we have never done anything to harm the interests of the Empire, why do you have to put us to death? If there is any possibility, we do not want to be hostile to you, please return to us the food that we have taken, our parents and family need this food." ”
Conzes sneered: "Good people, good citizens of the Empire, or good citizens of the wilderness? You are just a bunch of untouchables." The so-called monarch wants his ministers to die, and his ministers have to die, and now the empire wants you all to starve to death, and you still have to live shamelessly, you are simply the scum of society and the scum of the empire. ”
The young man's face turned pale with anger, but he held back his anger and asked, "Then, Lord Officer, if the empire needs you to starve to death now, will you also die obediently?"
Conzes touched the mustache on the side of his mouth: "Joke, how could the empire let me starve to death? I'm a nobleman, how can I compare to you pariahs." ”
The crowd erupted in a roar: "Don't talk nonsense with them, since they want us to die, we will fight with them, everyone go up together, grab food." The crowd was furious, and the boundless crowd rushed forward like a tidal wave.
Conzes smiled contemptuously: "Hmph, do you think I didn't guard against your hand, ignition." ”
The grain cart poured with fire oil has instantly become a prairie fire, and the people, who were only slowly advancing, suddenly panicked and rushed over like crazy, and their shouts were already accompanied by crying: "Food, save food, help." ”
Conzes withdrew some distance with his men, and without the burden of the grain carts, these people would never be able to catch up with the cavalry that was like the wind. And they didn't care about it at all, everyone was trying in vain to salvage a little clean food from the raging fire, but often all they found was a large patch of coke.
Countless people cried like thunder in the air, and many women with babies in their arms sat on the ground crying to the core, and the whole wilderness presented an apocalyptic scene. Night Feather's whole body trembled, and he rode his horse forward a few steps, as if to say something.
A strong man roared, "Kill them, kill these things that are not human." After saying that, he threw the steel fork in his hand towards Night Feather. He shot out angrily, the steel fork was faintly carrying the sound of wind and thunder, and Ye Yu didn't know what kind of demon he had hit, so he stood in place and didn't dodge.
With a snap, Conzes whipped the steel fork to the ground with a horsewhip, and scolded at Night Feather: "Are you scared stupid or what? Why don't you run?" Under his command, all the cavalry turned their horses and quickly retreated to the periphery, and Night Feather, who was still in a daze, was also led away by Mira.
The light cavalry did not encounter any obstacles, but Conzes saw the other cavalry squads triumphantly driving the grain cart back to the camp, and cursed the untouchable people who forced him to burn the grain cart all the way. And Night Feather has always been that dumbfounded, even when Mira shouted in his ear Golden Dragon Grass, he just turned his eyes, like a clay sculpture of wood.
Kamir is a densely populated town and a major supply depot on the edge of the Gunya Desert. However, as soon as Lord Kempinski set foot on this land, he immediately announced that Kamir would be under military control, and both fish and dragons were driven out of the town and refuted in an oasis not far from the town.
As soon as they entered Kermir, Conzes and his party parted ways with Mira, who inquired for a long time before finding One-Eye and the others in a small tent. Seeing Mira's safe return, a smile appeared on the one-eyed face, and the fast legs happily circled around Mira, but immediately cried with a bitter face that although they sent the water convoy to the camp safely, because they lost the regiment commander, they were judged by the steward to fail the mission, and they didn't get a single silver coin, and they lost the regiment commander twice, and now several of them have become a laughing stock, and they can only be trapped here and don't know where to go.
Mira was furious, does his disappearance have anything to do with the task reward, this is obviously to see that the dragons in his group are bullying people without a leader, he was about to go out to ask for an explanation, and suddenly heard the little sparrow exclaim: "What's wrong with Night Feather?"
Everyone turned around together, only to see Ye Yu lying on the marching bed, burying her face deep between the military blankets, her shoulders shaking violently. After a while, the entire military blanket was soaked with wet marks, and Ye Yu finally cried out in her voice: "So many people, so many people are going to be starved to death, do evil, do evil." ”