Verse 171: Sudden doom

Defoe is a general in the Griffon's Western Frontier Army, with more than 3,000 men under his command, responsible for the security of the kingdom along the border with the Gobi. He was born in a small aristocratic family in Didu, and he relied on his talent and married a fat and ugly lady in the Augustus family who was so bad that he could barely marry him, so that he got to where he is today. Don't look at the official is not big, but after all, he has real power. Except for a few pesky robbers, the border area is basically peaceful. Moreover, there are still many places where the caravans can be fished in the past, and there are tens of thousands of gold coins for oil and water every year.

And now, after more than ten years of fishing, he is tired of writing, and he always wants to go back to Yanjing to enjoy. And now, there happens to be a good opportunity in front of him. Just help the family get rid of that pesky little castle and take advantage of it. You can return to Yanjing as a hero, and a well-paid position will be prepared for him.

To this end, he did not hesitate to work hard, personally tossed for several months, and spent a little money of his own money, and finally cobbled together supplies and transportation materials that could allow more than 2,000 troops to penetrate deep into the Gobi. And through the connections he has accumulated over the years, he has invited 3 large mercenary organizations, and there are as many as four or five sixth-level masters alone. It can't be helped, after all, the inside of the dreadnought castle is not well understood, but there is one thing Defoe has received from his own family that there are at least 10 cyclops in the castle.

Defoe knew that the defensive power of this terrifying sixth-level ranged unit was very terrifying, so he hired a master so solemnly, and he didn't dare to slack off at all, for fear that something would go wrong. And even on the way to the road, he was also very careful, and every time he set up camp, he was extremely cautious, not only to protect the important water carts in the middle of the army, but even to send cavalry to reconnoiter around, for fear of being attacked by someone.

Defoe himself is also very good at leading by example, patrolling the camp every night and always being the last to rest, and today is no exception. Defoe, who had just made a tour of the camp, returned to his tent and sat on a blanket, too tired to move.

At this time, Defoe's orderly walked in with a plate of water, put it at Defoe's feet, and said with a smile: "General, you have been working all day, wash your feet quickly!"

"Oh, damn it, didn't I tell you that my water is precious?" Defoe said with immediate dissatisfaction, "now is not the time to waste water on washing your feet!"

"Don't worry General. The orderly smiled: "In another 10 days, we can rush to the oasis, and our remaining water can last for 12 days, you can wash your feet twice a day!"

"However, if you want to be known by the people below, it will not have a good impact!" Defoe said with some hesitation.

"Why? You're a general? Be special, too! Besides, I'll get rid of the water in a moment, they're all asleep, and no one will know, so you don't have to worry about it. The orderly hurriedly persuaded.

"Oh, is that so?" Defoe thought for a moment, but finally did not escape this temptation, let the orderly take off his shoes and socks, and then put his feet comfortably into the water, ah, suddenly an incomparably comfortable feeling arose, so that the tired Defoe almost intoxicated at this moment.

The comfortable feeling made Defoe, who was already very tired, in a trance, so that he unconsciously closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The orderly carefully pulled Defoe's foot out of the water and began to wipe it with a soft linen.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden boom outside, and a shocking explosion was heard. Defoe, who had already been sleeping, was suddenly awakened, jumped up on the spot, and didn't even bother to put on his shoes, so he ran out naked, and looked in the direction from which the explosion came, and was stunned.

It turned out that he saw the group of carts that were tightly guarded in the distance, which had completely turned into flames and debris at this time. I don't know what it is, it caused a super explosion in the dense car array, and nearly half of the hundreds of carts were lost, especially the water trucks filled with water, almost all of them were damaged, either completely shattered, or they were punched out of large and small holes by the flying debris, and the precious clear water gushed out, but no one could save it.

As soon as he saw this scene, Defoe was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but say, "It's over, it's all over!"

"General, call someone to help!" the orderly reminded loudly from the side.

Defoe came to his senses this time, and hurriedly used all his strength to shout: "Quick, save me Qingshui, hurry!"

After saying that, Defoe himself didn't care about putting on his shoes, so he boarded a horse beside him barefoot, and then rushed to the place where the accident happened with dozens of his own soldiers.

When I got there, the sky was full of broken corpses and pieces of wood. The most conspicuous are several large craters in the ground, and it is clear that you are the center of the explosion. And there are almost no intact vehicles around, especially the loss of the waterwheel, just far away, can not see clearly, now closer to find that the other party seems to have deliberately chosen the waterwheel to start, so that most of the waterwheel has been blown up, only 3, 5 have not fallen apart, but there are cracks or holes in the side wall, clear water is constantly flowing.

The soldiers who arrived early did not bother to save their wounded comrades, so they first went to plug the mouth of the running water with their hands and clothes. It's a pity that there are too many rifts, they can block one or two, but they can't block dozens?

Seeing this, Defoe hurriedly called his own soldiers to help, and then he himself looked around to find out who was attacking. But he watched for a long time, and he didn't find any battles around the barracks, it seemed that he was calculated, and other places were fine!

Seeing this, Defoe immediately couldn't help but scold: "Damn, there must be a Jianxi infiltrating! Otherwise, they wouldn't just destroy this place." Guards, where are the guards guarding here?"

"Report to the general, the more than 200 people stationed here are either killed in battle or seriously injured and unconscious, and none of them have woken up yet!" reported an officer who arrived early.

"Oh, no!" said Defoe angrily, "that means we don't even know who is the annihilation?"

"No, General, I think it's easy to deduce that such a terrible explosion is obviously the work of a magician, but there are no magicians among our people?" the officer reminded, "but a few of those mercenaries seem to be mages." ”

"Ah, I see!" Defoe couldn't help but nod his head, "Obviously, those mages are suspicious!"

At this moment, the leaders of several mercenary groups also arrived, and they were all stupid on the spot after seeing all this, after all, they were all people who often walked on this road, so they naturally knew what Qing Shui meant. Now that they found that the water had been lost, several people couldn't help but change their faces, and one of them immediately exclaimed, "Oh! Damn, how can this be? General Defoe, what the hell is going on?"

"What's going on?" said Defoe angrily, "Isn't it obvious that a slayer has infiltrated our camp and destroyed our most precious water source!"

"Where's the hell?" the guy asked immediately, confused.

"I should ask you that!" said Defoe, angrily.

"Ask us?" the guy immediately sneered: "General, I must remind you that it is your people who guard the water source!"

"It's the magician who destroys the water!" Defoe roared, "You don't think I have that thing in my hands, do you?"

"Not necessarily, maybe you're hiding a mage in the army. Besides, there are 200 living people watching here, and a mage can come in without knowing it, and release so many spells in a row?" The other group leader sneered: "A spell with such a power is above level four, are you a master of the Holy Domain?"

"There will never be a mage among my people, and besides, what's in it for me to sabotage this mission? I've spent a lot of money building vehicles, gathering my subordinates, preparing food and grass, and I'm going to invite you, and I'm here myself, is it just to watch the fireworks?" Defoe roared, "That's!"

"Then what do you think of this incident?" said one of the regiment commanders, "You know, we are all very reputable people, and we will abide by the agreement after receiving the money, and we will not do such a thing at all." ”

"Yes, you are very reputable, but the problem is, I don't know if you just took my money, I suspect that one of your teams, in addition to mine, also took the money of the bandits in the castle. So he's here to wreak havoc!" said Defoe angrily.

"......" Several regiment commanders frowned after hearing this, obviously they also knew themselves. Knowing that the reputation of the mercenary group is not very good, maybe something like this will happen. It's just that they don't know who it is, so they don't dare to speak, for fear of becoming the object of suspicion.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Defoe became more and more sure of his guess, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Damn, this must be the case, we must find out the thing that eats inside and out!"

"Oh, may I ask what you're going to find?" said one of the regimental commanders, a little helplessly.

"Hand over all your magicians, and I'll 'ask' them one by one!" said Defoe proudly.

(To be continued)