(455) Salvation and betrayal
"Here comes the rebellious slaves! They smashed the gates, not good...... They're rushing in! Cathars, fire! ”
The cathar guards inside the gate fired a volley of guns, and several men pushing the battering rams were shot and fell.
"Don't go in yet, shoot inside the door! The grenadiers light the fuse! Andy ordered.
Hundreds of guns blasted into the lobby on the first floor, followed by a dozen cluster grenades.
"Boom!"
The violent explosion blew away the wooden wainscoting in the hall, and the glass was shattered by the blast wave.
Andy Whitefield took the lead, holding a pistol in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, and entered the hall on the first floor of the assembly hall filled with gunsmoke.
The bodies of the cathar soldiers had been buried in the bricks and stones, and a seriously wounded man lying on the ground saw Andy approaching and struggled to pick up the rifle next to him to reload it.
"Heart! Big Brother Andy! ”
The maiden Vera rushed over and grabbed her rifle and shouted at the wounded cathar soldiers:
"Obsessed guy...... Don't resist, they'll kill you. ”
With a strange smile on his face, the wounded soldier whispered, "Damn stinky slave, how dare you invade the sacred realm of the Soskaya Voodoo Sect......"
He suddenly pulled out the dagger hidden in his sleeve and stabbed at Vera.
Andy had seen a lot of such tricks in the arena, and he snorted contemptuously, kicked the dagger away with a violent kick, and watched the blade tremble back and forth against the wooden pillar.
Vera realized that she had almost lost her life, and was so frightened that she hid behind Andy and shivered.
Andy Whitefield cleanly pierced the heart with a sword, ending the pain of the wounded soldier:
"I have to admit that the voodoo apologists are indeed very powerful, and for some reason, many of them are willing to fight for this cult to the last breath."
He put his sword in his sheath and shouted: "Brothers, search the rooms on the first floor and in the basement to see if there are any survivors, all the shackles should be shattered, there are no slaves in the city of Capua today, only free men!" ”
The slave rebels were in high spirits: "Long live freedom!" Long live Big Brother Andy! ”
With the freedom of the imprisoned slaves on the ground floor and in the basement, the rebels grew in size.
After a burst of gunfire, the recalcitrant cathar soldiers on the stairs were quickly reduced to corpses.
Andy led the crowd into the second floor of the assembly building, and everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.
Andy gasped: "Is this a meeting house or a slaughterhouse?" ”
The center of the second floor has been transformed into a hall with mysterious circles and symbols engraved on the ground, which is apparently one of the places where the Voodoo cult holds religious ceremonies.
The corpses of slaves who had been sacrificed lay flat on the ground, and the victims were three people, their entrails in clay pots painted with mysterious markings.
The girl Vera remembered her brother's tragic experience, and big tears fell down, hugging Andy's thighs and crying bitterly.
"Good boy...... Don't cry, I'll avenge your brother, these cultists will pay for their monstrous crimes! I swear! ”
A volunteer soldier walked to the center of the sacrificial hall and saw a skinned corpse next to him, and his mouth opened wide in shock:
"Hell, are these bastards demon worshippers? They treat their fellow human beings like they slaughter livestock! ”
Another said: "Maybe they don't think of themselves as human anymore; These rotten creatures have long since fallen into the devil's path. ”
"Look at these evil gods, they are all ghosts and demons!"
Andy smashed the wooden shrine on the wall with an elbow: "Okay, there will be time to study these in the future, we are not occult professors, we are slave rebel soldiers!" The priority is to save lives.
Follow me, brethren, and get on with your work! ”
After a fierce shootout, the front continued to advance upstairs:
"We're on the third floor...... There are still a lot of cathars resisting, great, there are slave survivors in this room, smash their shackles! ”
The rebels invaded the center of the third floor of the meeting hall, where the non-load-bearing partition walls were torn down to create a vast hall where large sacrificial ceremonies could be held.
Hundreds of butter candles illuminate the place as if it were daylight, the ground is piled with the bones of sacrificed slaves, the heart, liver, intestines, stomach and lungs are soaked in preservatives for safekeeping, and the wall is fastened with thumbtacks by a long human skin tattooed with slave tattoos.
The eerie sight was enough to unsettle even the hardest-hearted.
Suddenly everyone became quiet, and Andy Whitefield took off his hat and paid tribute to his fellow slave sufferers:
"I'm sorry...... Poor friends...... I'm late......"
At this moment, only a rush of footsteps could be heard on the stairs, and a volunteer scout rushed upstairs and shouted:
"Big brother, it's not good! An inner demon has betrayed your whereabouts, and a large number of Kingdom Army and Cathar soldiers have entered the city! ”
Andy trembled in shock: "So, what about the people left on our city wall?" ”
"They were all stabbed in the back by the traitors, and they were basically all dead."
"Damn! Which bastard did it? ”
The scout scolded, "It's John the Bull, this shameless traitor! He betrayed the rebels, he betrayed you! It must have been the king and the Dark Sect who bought him at a high price! ”
The rebels upstairs looked at each other, and gradually became panicked and agitated, Andy had no idea for a while, and helplessly spat on the ground:
"Damn, you've been tricked!"
"Boss, what now? I saw the Kingdom Army cavalry through the window, and they were still three blocks away! ”
"What to do? What else can I do...... Run! ”
Everyone went downstairs together, and Andy picked up Vera, the girl next to him, and lifted her to the back of the only horse nearby:
"Quick, scout, there should still be our people watching at the north gate, take my righteous sister over to try your luck!"
Vera grabbed Andy's clothes and refused to let go, she cried and fussed:
"I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving! Big Brother Andy...... I will die with you! ”
Andy was really angry this time, and slapped the girl with a big mouth: "You naughty girl! Stop talking nonsense! Get out of here! ”
The scout asked, "Wait...... Boss, what about you? ”
"I have to stay here and lead everyone to find a way out, I swore before I came that I would rescue all my slave brothers."
"You always put your life on the line for others, it's not worth it, Bull John is the best example, you smash the shackles and set him free, he, En will take revenge and stab you in the back!"
"Stop talking nonsense, scout, get out of here with my sister-in-law! Otherwise, it's too late! ”
"It's too late, look at the flag over there, the north gate is also controlled by the Kingdom Army, and we are surrounded."