Bradford came up with a sinister plan.

Pretending to promise Norris to give up his resistance, then repenting and killing him.

Lambert was a little tempted by the idea, but eventually refused to do so.

Indeed, as Bradford said, it would save a lot of effort, at least not a war. If you attack hard, thousands of people, even ordinary workers, are armed, basically only equipped with light weapons, but after all, they are stubbornly defended in the reinforced factory, and if you want to conquer it, you need to put some effort into it, and even need to bear a lot of casualties.

But Lambert was going to do it anyway.

The main reason is that he doesn't want Gu Hang to bear the name of a traitor.

In private, any means are fine, but on the surface, as a ruler, credit is very important, and even represents credibility in a certain sense, representing whether the policy is easy to be trusted by the people.

In this case, pretend to be above board.

Playing smart here may indeed save a lot of effort in getting Norris done, but the cost of taking shortcuts at the moment may be doubled from elsewhere.

After making this decision, he also used it to mock Bradford, saying that he could only be a businessman in his life, and would never understand the pattern of a politician who did great things.

Bradford was speechless.

And Lambert's actions also received additional support.

He mobilized two infantry battalions that had entered the city with the governor, and also pulled out a dozen heavy artillery pieces from the captured military weapons to make a strong attack.

Norris sent an emissary to negotiate the terms of surrender, but was once again sternly rejected by Lambert.

Lambert demanded that all those who resisted in the factory surrender unconditionally, lay down their arms, and await the Governor's trial.

This is an ultimatum, and Lambert will only give them an hour of their time.

The messenger brought the message back to the factory, and the people inside fell silent.

An hour later, no one came out to surrender, and Lambert ordered the battle.

Pulled by him to help Perbof, he ordered his 2 battalion to start fiddling with the newly acquired large toys.

That's 5 155mm howitzers; The 6th Battalion, which was brought in to work next door, was also equipped with 5 captured artillery pieces as battalion firepower.

Ten heavy cannons fired in unison, and one shell after another was fired into the factory.

As soon as the salvo went down, black smoke billowed from the factory.

The Governor's soldiers did not rush inside.

When the enemy is completely besieged, there are heavy artillery that are not well used, and it is a fool to fill it with the lives of soldiers. Anyway, there are a lot of shells in stock, and ten artillery pieces will hit the fucking ten or twenty rounds first, and after hundreds of heavy artillery rounds are fired, let's talk about the infantry going in to clear it.

And in the process, Lambert also received additional assistance.

Sister Gurrite came here with six nuns.

……

It was not the first time Lambert had met the nuns of the Holy Lily.

To be honest, he prefers these battle nuns who always have a gentle smile on their faces than the undead birds who have a black face all day long and look like they are not allowed to enter the living.

Although the war started, these nuns were just as ruthless.

However, seeing and seeing each other, but this was the first time to communicate, Lambert seemed a little reserved.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Your Excellency, and thank you very much for coming to our aid."

"No thanks," said Goritle, "we are all fighting for the Empire. Mr. Lambert, I have heard of what happened to your family, and I am sorry that this happened to you. ”

"Thank you. However, I remember that you and your subordinates should be checking the traces of the cult in the city? How can there be time to participate in the battle here in the factory? ”

Gruet responded, "There is evil lurking in this factory. Moreover, the activities of the cultists may be related to the catastrophe that has befallen your Hodgson family. ”

Lambert immediately paid attention.

"Can you tell me?"

"Yes."

Then, the nun told Lambert, the descendant of the victim, in more detail about her discoveries during this time.

She went to investigate the scene of Hodgson's death Sr., and found the remnants of heresy in the Hodgson family's mansion.

As a result, she believes that the assassination of Hodgson Sr. was involved in the heretical involvement.

The other sisters went to investigate other clues, and she, with six people, came here.

Originally, the mastermind of the assassination of Hodgson was Mondalk, but the man was already dead; The remaining two participants, both of whom are here, are here to find out.

Upon learning of this, Lambert immediately dragged Bradford out.

In the details of Hodgson's death that this guy revealed earlier, he didn't mention anything about the cult.

And Bradford, after hearing the nun's inquiry, was also confused.

He doesn't know!

He didn't lie, he got to the point where he is now, he is trying to stay alive and seek a possible commutation of his sentence. If he knew about the cult, how could he help those cult members hide it? He wished he had sold all those brainless guys.

But he really didn't know about it. The assassination incident was masterminded by Monddock, and Bradford was only involved in the aftermath and partition operation, so he didn't care how the assassination was made.

In his opinion, it is not difficult for Mondoch, a guy who has mastered the military power of the alliance, to do this.

And so it turned out, and the Hodgsons disappeared from their home one night.

After confirming that Bradford was indeed not lying, and that it was indeed not on him, the head nun let him go.

Then, she turned her attention to the factory area in front of her, which was still under artillery bombardment.

There, there was the last mastermind involved in Hodgson's assassination, which was Norris Sr.

In the factory, she could feel the fluctuations of the storm's evil energy.

It was the sorcery energy of heresy—the supernatural power that did not believe in the Emperor and prayed from somewhere else, and was heretical in the eyes of the state religion.

Even, some radicals believe that spontaneously generated psionics are heretics and that there should be no legitimate psionics in this world.

And these extremists are usually accused of heresy by the Imperial Spiritualists, and it is a daily occurrence for both sides to fight with each other, and even to destroy each other's bodies physically.

The Holy Lily was not an extremist, otherwise the first person they would be hostile to would be the Governor himself.

It's just that from other transcendent beings, through the connection of faith, through the transcendent energy of heretical rituals, the members of the state religion of any faction will hate it.

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