Chapter 94 Summary
Garris drank some water and ate some food. Now there were only four people left in the room: himself, John, Simon and Isabel.
Since he woke up, Isabel started chasing people away on the grounds that Garris needed to rest, without giving those people a chance to ask questions.
But John and Simon were retained by him. One of these two people was the general person in charge of specific affairs, and the other was Gareth's right-hand man.
If Garris wants to understand the current situation, the fastest way is to communicate with the two of them.
Moreover, Garris and Isabel can have absolute trust in them.
It was already evening, and the room was not bright enough under the dim sunlight.
After resting for such a long time and drinking water and eating, he felt much better.
During the previous melee at Taniguchi, his body had reached its limit. In the following time, Garris had difficulty concentrating his thoughts, so much so that he ignored a lot of useful information.
Coupled with the "absolute" time zero achieved due to the burst of adrenaline hormones, it can be said that his physical strength and energy were completely exhausted.
Even now, Garris' mind has returned to normal, but his body is still exhausted.
"How long have I slept?" The voice was full of exhaustion.
"About four hours," John replied.
"Fortunately, it didn't take long." Compared with the time when he fainted for the first time, Garris was quite surprised that he only slept for four hours.
Then Garris immediately asked the question he was most concerned about: "Have the casualties been counted? Are our losses high? Has Dr. Abdullah arrived?"
After hearing Garris's question, John thought for a moment and answered directly: "In general, there were not many casualties. There were only 9 casualties and 6 serious injuries. 2 of them died of their injuries and 12 were slightly injured. Abdul Doctor La has arrived and is treating the wounded.”
When John spoke, he went straight to the point, neither beating around the bush nor talking nonsense in useless places.
After hearing this casualty number, Garris couldn't help but sigh. Eleven deaths were indeed a number he could accept, but it would still make him feel uncomfortable after all.
After all, this is the first time that a comrade has died in battle, but this is just the beginning, and there will only be more and more in the future.
[The bones of those who died because of my instigation fill the Holy City; those who died because of the oppression of tax collectors have already overflowed the mountains and seas. 】
——"The Gospel of Simon" 2:16
"Where is the enemy?" Garris asked again.
"The total number of the previous gangsters was 214, 53 of them were killed, 18 were seriously injured, 8 of them died, and the number of minor injuries has not been counted."
When the number of 53 people killed was mentioned, even a veteran like John couldn't help but tremble.
It wasn't that this number was scary, but he thought of Gareth's heroic appearance on the battlefield.
Nearly half of those 53 people were killed by Garris himself.
When he thought of Garris's extraordinary swordsmanship on the battlefield, John was a little frightened.
A layman looks at the fun, an expert looks at the door.
It is precisely because John has experienced battles for a long time that he understands the terrifying skill of Garris's swordsmanship.
Garris often has two speeds when he draws his sword. One is the normal state, which seems to be parryable, but Garris's sword will suddenly speed up and stab or chop from another angle. Don't act according to common sense or intuition at all.
John didn't know how Gareth did it. Maybe it was a miracle.
"However, many of them fled. Excluding the wounded, we only captured 48 prisoners."
Garris nodded, indicating that he understood the situation: "According to previous experience, John, find someone to divide the prisoners into several groups for interrogation. Those who are stubborn and do not turn into criminals will be executed directly by guillotine."
"For those who have committed minor crimes or have obvious repentance, find someone to set up a court and discuss their term of torture."
Although the construction of Skar Village has been initially completed, if other villages want to be transformed, a large number of manpower will be needed. Naturally, Garris will not let go of these prisoner-of-war manpower.
Different from the soldiers sent by Leonard before, most of the soldiers Leonard asked Eric to bring were free people recruited from the manor, and they were the main body of the feudal army in Western Europe. If the Celestial Empire is released, the free people will be closer to the concept of a good family.
Most of these freedmen soldiers had no blood debts. Some of them had records of adultery and massacre, and they were screened by Garris and executed by guillotine. The rest were relatively easy to reform.
But these gangsters are different. According to Abdullah's letter, Maher and his group are notorious throughout the Levant.
Although their number is small, they make a career out of catching slaves and often work part-time as mercenaries, appearing at every massacre scene.
For this group of habitual criminals, Garris cannot "love to the end" like Brother Jesus, nor can he have the miracle of making all sinners repent like Brother Jesus.
Therefore, he could only select some of the usable ones and try to carry out labor reform. Let those sinners use their hands to atone for their sins and contribute to the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven.
"We have also found out the reason for the attack of the Maher gang. The Maher gang was previously active near Damascus. But not long ago, they were hired by someone. The hirer pointed out the attack location, named the [false prophet] to be killed, and was willing to The total bid for this was 4,000 gold dinars, and 2,000 was paid directly in advance.”
"Tsk." Garris couldn't help but sigh, 4,000 gold dinars is not a small number, it means at least 16 kilograms of gold, and there are only a few thousand taels of silver in China.
As for who would pay so much money to die, Garris could actually make a guess.
And obviously, the knights of Kaler have two tasks.
As soon as they came to monitor the Mach gang, if that group of gangs successfully conquered the valley, Kaller and the others could kill Isabel calmly.
When they discovered that the war situation was not conducive to the Mach gang, this gang decisively stabbed Isabel in the back. By selling the Mach gang, they gained the trust of Garris and the others. They also took out forged letters and looked for opportunities to assassinate Isabel. .
Even if Garris and the others were overly vigilant, ignored Europe's feudal traditions, and asked Kaler and the others to take off their armor and weapons, Kaler would still be able to take out the dagger from the letter box.
The whole plan is truly a grand one, with no leaks left.
If the scene or person is changed, they will succeed.
But they failed to pay attention to the most critical point. Garris, the [false prophet], really has "divine power"!
"Damn it, Leonard and the others, if they only focus on the political situation of the kingdom with their infighting, how could the country be so ruined!"
"I can't bear it anymore, I can't bear it anymore!"
Second update, today I can only write four thousand because my hands are burned.
(End of chapter)