(516) General of the defeated army
Today's Solan Kingdom is no longer the grand state of the world's first power, slave rebels, pro-king factions, voodoo cathars, city-state armies, warlords from all over the country, and rebellious bandits...... The multi-faction factions are fighting each other, and the situation of civilians is difficult.
It was an afternoon in a rich village, the air was filled with the smell of burning, the barn was ablaze, and black smoke billowed into the sky.
A desperate village woman held a bloody baby boy, her son, who had just died, and his mother wept and wailed.
"Why! Why! ”
Next to the village woman was an eight- or nine-year-old girl, tugging at her mother's petticoat with her big brown eyes flickering, watching in horror at the militants who were fighting fiercely in the distance.
"Mom...... We have handed over the barn...... Why are they still killing? Why kill father and brother? ”
The poor village woman was so grieved that she could not hear her daughter at all, but she held the body of the baby boy in a daze, and sang a lullaby in a sickly tone:
"O child,
Don't cry.
Don't care about the thunder rolling outside the window,
Mom and Dad closed the window,
Tomorrow morning will be a bright sun,
Let's go to the market together......
”
She was about to sing the last lyrics, when the next second she was hit in the forehead by a rifle bullet, and her brain burst instantly.
The village woman rolled into the pit on the side of the road without saying a word, and did not let go of the baby's corpse in her hand when she died.
The girl was so frightened that she tried to jump into the mud puddle to find her mother, but she heard heavy breathing.
A large, lizard-like, scaly-covered six-legged monster crawled out of a nearby moor, spray-painted with the imprint of a Voodoo cathar.
It opened its bloody mouth, revealing its thin and dense teeth, and its serpent-like forked tongue, and began to tear the body of the mother and son, chewing and swallowing the bones and tendons, and suddenly turned to look at the girl,
The tender body of the human cub made the monster salivate, gritting its teeth and sticking out its tongue as it approached.
"Phew!"
A gunshot rang out, and the monster was shot in the neck, followed by a salvo of rifles, and countless bullet holes were punched out of the huge body, and green slime oozed from the wound.
Someone shouted, "It's alive, do something!" Don't be that kid! ”
"Boom!" Finally, a precision-thrown grenade resulted in a monster, the munition fragments blowing its belly to pieces, and slimy guts spilling down the ground with a disgusting smell.
"Baby, come with me!"
A tall man rushed over, picked up the girl with one hand like a cat, and handed her over to the female officer under his command, "Samantha, you come to protect this child!" Then the man continued to direct his men to fight and retreat:
"No, this battle can't be fought, the cathars are well-armed, and there are monsters to help, our ally the King's Army has suffered heavy losses, and we have to withdraw."
The adjutant beside him shouted: "You all heard Andy's boss, the rebels are retreating on all fronts, give up this mission!" ”
When the artillery fire gradually subsided, the gunfire gradually thinned out, and a battle for food supplies ended, and the slave rebels suffered another crushing defeat.
By the mill, in the field, by the river,
The cypress was littered with corpses, including Voodoo cathars, kingdom troops, slave rebels, and abominable monster corpses.
Andy Whitefield, the leader of the rebels, was shot in the left arm, and because he was in a hurry to retreat, he simply bandaged it and continued on his way.
A female officer of the slave rebel army approached the rescued girl with her arms in her arms:
"Andy, Boss, this kid is frightened, he doesn't say a word, his face is as white as white paper, and there is no blood at all."
Andy turned his head and touched the girl's messy hair with his huge palm:
"Poor fellow, she watched her mother and brother being eaten by monsters."
The girl suddenly came to her senses, glared at Andy with brown eyes, recognized him as am, and shouted:
"You hateful big villain! Why come to our village? You've killed my whole family! ”
A bearded rebel officer scolded, "Fuck, keep your mouth clean, this is the boss of our rebels!" ”
"Smack!" Andy gave the officer a gentle slap in the face:
"Fred, you should keep your mouth clean!
She was just a child, and she knew what it was, and she was not wrong at all, it was I who chose her village to get the supply points to attack, and it was the cathars who attacked her, and it killed her whole family. ”
The bearded officer covered his cheeks and looked quite aggrieved: "Boss, we're hungry for two, and it's dangerous if we don't look for supplies!" ”
"It doesn't make a difference to this child, she just knows that we brought the cathars and the monsters to the village."
The girl's eyes were aggressive: "That's right! I want you to die! Big slave! ”
She raised her chubby, white hand and pointed at the bearded officer, and the female officer who took pity on her very much:
"And you...... Bearded, you ...... Female slave! You all deserve to die! Damn slaves! ”
"......"
The bearded officer was about to scold, but when he saw Andy's eyes, he had to "hum", swallow his anger and go to the side to smoke.
The female officer walked up to Andy:
"Boss, don't blame Fred, others are not bad, but they are ...... short-tempered"
"Of course I know, I don't blame him."
Looking at the slave brothers and sisters who followed him from birth to death, and at Fred who was smoking and sulking, Andy looked a little depressed, full of guilt, and frowned:
"With a leader who has a whole battle, no matter how good-tempered people are, they will be in a hurry, blame me, I am the one who disappointed you, I'm sorry, Samantha."
"You don't need to apologize to anyone!" The female officer lowered her head, her blue eyes filled with tears:
"Boss, there is no one other than you who is worthy of being the leader of this slave rebel army, and everyone here owes you!
You are a legend in the Blood Arena, strong and wise, and it is you who break the shackles and give everyone freedom!
If you hadn't come to my rescue, I would have been locked in a dark room, toyed with and insulted by those slave owners and old men! ”
"Thank you, Samantha, I know you'll always have my back." Andy gratefully, he glanced at the dilapidated ranks of slave rebels behind him:
"Our situation is simply terrible, we have suffered five defeats in a row, and the number has plummeted from 140,000 to less than 30,000.
Moreover, the ammunition supply is seriously insufficient, and I have not been able to get food supplies today, and the big guys are going to be hungry...... For the time being, gnaw on the bark of the tree and catch some rats to satisfy the hunger. ”
"It's okay," Samantha said, wiping away her tears and smiling.
"After being a slave for so many years, being treated as an animal by the slave owner, who has not been hungry for a few times, and now without the whip of the slave owner behind him, everyone is happy.
Even if I die in battle, starve to death, and be swallowed by monsters as a snack, I have no regrets.
I, Samantha, were born a free man and don't want to die in chains! ”
Legend of the Heroes of Valstad