Chapter 331: You will not survive if you do something wrong
In the western part of Tiehua Region, there is a country road.
The sky was overcast, and light rain continued to fall.
For tourists strolling around, this may be a wonderful sight.
You can hear the crisp sound of drizzle hitting the leaves, the faint sound of frogs in the silent rain, and the clear bird calls that ring out from time to time and echo in the valley.
But for the soldiers who escort logistics supplies to the frontline troops, it is another matter entirely.
David is one of them.
As the child of serfs in an unknown village in the South Gordon River region, this was his first time walking such a long way.
The leather boots on my feet have been soaked by the rain, the outside is covered with mud, and the inside is filled with rainwater, making a popping sound with every step I take.
It took him much more effort than usual to pull the boots out of the dirt instead of leaving them in.
David hated this situation and hated the cannibal named Raven.
If he hadn't started the war, he wouldn't have had to leave his hometown and walk in this mess.
"Be energetic! Speed up your pace. There is a village ahead. Let's go there to rest!"
The Lord Knight in front shouted loudly, and the sound made David feel a spark of desire in his heart.
village!
A warm stove, a soft bed, and a pot of freshly cooked soup and bread.
The road under my feet didn't seem that difficult.
However, as the son of a farmer, the closer he got to the village, the more strange he felt.
Why haven’t the fields on both sides of the road been harvested yet?
The golden wheat ears are about to plunge their heads into the ground.
The rain at this time is the most annoying. If we don't harvest as early as possible, more than half of the grain will rot in the ground.
I didn’t struggle with this issue for too long, because the village I had longed for finally arrived.
The Lord Knight went to the two-story wooden building of the village chief's house, and the soldiers were assigned to the homes of the villagers in the village.
The person who received their team of 10 people was a kind old woman, wearing a long washed yellow linen dress and a headscarf on her head.
"Poor, come in and sit down." The old woman smiled and let them into the house: "You guys wait for a while, I will make soup for you."
David and a group of comrades walked into the house.
As a native of Eivor, the layout here reminded him of home.
The same empty house, the loess floor, and the blackened stove.
The firewood was a little wet, and it smoked when put into the stove, but fortunately the heat also came up.
David took off his leather armor and placed his leather boots by the stove to bake. He stretched out his wrinkled feet in front of the stove, enjoying the warm feeling.
Ten pairs of stinky feet were roasted in front of the stove. The smell was really overwhelming, but David couldn't care less at this moment.
So comfortable!
The cold and wet feet were gradually dried out, and the coldness in the bones was driven away. The sour feeling made people want to moan.
"Ah..."
David adjusted his position to make himself more comfortable, and was about to fall asleep.
At this moment, the surrounding comrades suddenly became confused. David straightened up and looked up, his eyes suddenly widened.
Someone brought a big pot of stew.
But the point is not the food, but the person delivering it.
The person who had just received them was obviously an old woman, but now it was an extremely plump woman who came out.
Her skin is a little thick and a little dark, but in the eyes of David, who was born as a serf, it is not a shortcoming, but a symbol of vitality.
The oval-like face has straight and generous features, long eyelashes, eyes that seem to be able to speak, full lips open, and a powerful voice:
"Everyone, come and have something to eat."
With his slender fingers, he placed the large pot of stew on the table, and then poured out bowls of it. When he lowered his head, the fullness in his chest was almost visible, and the body fragrance exuding from his body made David's heart beat faster.
The young woman delivered the stews to the soldiers one by one. If they dared to touch her hand, she was not angry, but just giggled, her dimples showing.
David was more daring and directly grabbed her palm and kneaded it carefully.
So soft and hot, almost hotter than this bowl of stew.
The young woman pulled out her hand without leaving a trace.
While staring at her, David put his mouth to the edge of the bowl and took a sip.
It's warm and has a bit of a burnt smell, but on a rainy day like this, in a country house, what else could you pursue?
"I said, why are you all women here, where are the men?" David asked.
"All the men, including my husband, have been taken away." The young woman did not hide it.
"No wonder there is no one to collect the crops in your fields." David lowered his voice: "If we collect the food in your fields for your family..."
The young woman smiled slightly: "Then I can let you take over my husband's responsibilities."
These words immediately aroused David's heart.
They are a logistics force and cannot stay here, but they can still talk cheaply and get some benefits.
Suddenly there was a banging sound on the table and a shout.
"Then, can you make a little advance?" David continued: "I heard that the women in Tiehua area are very good at dancing."
"Then you guys have to give me a beat." The young woman didn't refuse.
The soldiers began to knock on the table rhythmically.
The young woman began to dance.
Her dress was flying, and the buttons on her chest seemed to be loose. She jumped and jumped with the movements, ready to come out.
David slapped the table with his left hand, while holding a bowl in his right hand and slurping stew into his mouth, his eyes fell on the young woman's chest, waist and buttocks from time to time.
Gradually indulge in it.
Maybe my eyes were moving too fast and my head was a little dizzy.
Boom.
The head of a man next to him fell on the table.
"Hey, you're not drinking, why are you pretending to be dizzy?" David teased, but suddenly found that his tongue was numb.
Just as he was speaking, two more people fell down. One person rolled under the table and knocked over the wooden bowl with his arm, spilling the hot stew all over.
This is so wrong.
"No!" David held the table and tried to stand up:
"The food... is poisonous!!!"
But he still slipped under the table.
With a clang, the bowl in David's hand fell to the ground. He felt that his breathing began to be a little difficult, and the scene in front of him began to blur.
"Why..."
The young woman still had a smile on her face: "Ask my husband."
Those were the last words David heard before he passed out.
The 10-person team all fainted in the room. The old woman at the beginning came out, and together with the young woman, they pulled the legs of these people and carried them outside.
Every household is doing the same thing.
The logistics team of 500 people disappeared silently. Even the leading knight had his armor stripped off and was pulled out of the village chief's house.
The skinny village chief cut off the knight's head with his own hands.
Even in the rain, the scarlet blood was still conspicuous.
The young woman followed the example of the village chief, placed David's head on the wooden pier used for cutting firewood, and picked up the sharpened ax in the corner.
This was her first time doing this kind of work.
The village chief came over: "Do you need help?"
"No, someone has to do this." The young woman rolled up her sleeves, which still had scars burned by the fire.
That was the memorial left to her by Faraday's army.
The young woman swung the ax high and struck down hard.
With a thud, the ax blade fell on the wooden pillar, and David's head flew out with a cloud of blood.
The light rain is getting heavier.
In the heavy rain, there was a constant thumping sound.
……
Five days later, it rained heavily.
Sighing Under the high wall, Marquis Faraday was in his tent, staring blankly at a pile of documents.
His fat face was taut, and the blue bags under his eyes looked like two fat worms.
It has been 10 days since Raven arrived.
From the moment he arrived, Marquis Faraday seemed to be under some kind of curse, with bad news coming one after another.
The first is the rain.
From the second day after Raven arrived, it rained continuously.
The soil mountain was poured into mud, and the attack on the Sighing Wall had to be suspended.
Faraday couldn't organize a large-scale attack in this weather.
He could only watch helplessly as Lei Wen slowly erected camps and reinforced fortifications, and he had to always be on guard against harassment from King Lei Wen's troops.
The second point is the loss of human life. I don’t know what’s going on, but the teams sent out to collect grain and serfs have suffered a lot recently, and many people were never heard from again after they were sent out.
So far, more than 2,000 soldiers have been lost, including 6 knights.
The third point is similar to the second point, that is...
"Sir!" A knight pushed open the curtain of the big tent and brought in the moist and cool air:
"We know the whereabouts of those missing. They did suffer misfortune, but we also caught the murderer!"
"Oh?" Marquis Faraday raised his head, a trace of relief flashed in his eyes.
The third problem he faced was poor logistics.
The road from the South Gordon River Region to the Tiehua Region is difficult, so the logistics supply is basically a slow-flow model.
There are a total of about 20,000 people and 43 logistics teams, continuously delivering supplies here.
In the past half month, nine logistics teams have disappeared, with a total of more than 4,000 people.
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No one can be seen alive, and no body can be seen dead.
The personnel were still second, those guys who couldn't go to the battlefield in the first place, but the material losses gave Faraday a headache.
100,000 crossbow arrows, 12,000 sets of cotton-padded clothes for the winter, and a full 3 million pounds of grain.
"Tell me more about it," Faraday said.
"Yes!" the knight saluted: "We were ordered to check for news along the road, and when we passed a village, we went to rest inside, but they actually poisoned us!"
"Fortunately, we were alert enough at the time and noticed it. We killed the resisters on the spot and caught a few tongues."
"One of the girls is pretty good-looking. Do you want to interrogate her personally?"
Faraday immediately said: "Bring it up!"
The knight was already ready to show off his merits. He clapped his hands and someone escorted a young woman in immediately.
The young woman was still wearing peasant clothes. Although she had been given a bath in advance to please Faraday, her slightly rough and dark skin could not be faked.
The clothes were somewhat torn, half-covering and half-exposing her plump body, and there were still traces of flames on her tied arms.
She was the young woman who chopped off David's head.
Of course, Faraday didn't know this.
He licked his lips, a hint of lust rising in his eyes.
The girls he usually plays with are very delicate, but this style is rare; and he has not touched a woman in the military camp for a long time.
After waving his hand for others to go out, Faraday walked up to the young woman, pinched her chin, and asked casually:
"You were the one who killed my soldiers?"
He originally thought that the young woman would tremble and beg for mercy, but he did not expect that the young woman was not afraid at all, and stared at him with big watery eyes:
"I didn't kill your soldiers, I just slaughtered a bunch of animals!"
"Watch your attitude, woman." Faraday said slightly with his fingers: "Although I am kind-hearted, I am not a weak nobleman who can be bullied."
"Why do you want to kill my soldiers?"
"I have already told those beasts under your command." The young woman's forehead was covered with sweat due to pain, but her tone was still extremely strong:
"Since they don't understand, I'll tell you again."
"Because we hate you!"
"You came to our hometown, robbed our food, captured our fathers, husbands and sons, plundered our property and insulted our women! I am just retaliating with tooth!"
Faraday frowned. He didn't like hearing these arguments.
Serfs were originally the property of the nobility, so it was natural for them to help the soldiers vent their anger.
He decided to give this village woman a good education:
"But you have to remember that you are Eivor's people, and we are also Eivor's army."
"We are fighting the demon Raven for Eivor!"
"Levan's army also collected grain and serfs. You don't hate him, but you want to hate us?"
"Fuck you Eivor people!!" The young woman struggled hard, blood flowed from her wrist, but she couldn't move:
"Levan's army is a thousand or ten thousand times better than yours!!"
"They did expropriate serfs, but my husband, as the only son in the family, was not expropriated; in our village, none of the men who served in Raven's army died, and they even sent money home!"
"It was you who took away my husband, other men in our village, and even boys aged 13 and 4. In just 8 days, we received more than a dozen news of death, but we even saw their bodies. Not there! ”
"Moreover, Raven's army did not break into our home and steal our remaining copper coins; they did not press a woman like me on the bed and use an oil lamp to roast my hands for fun!!"
"Not to mention giving my 9-year-old daughter alive..."
At this point, the young woman was like a crazy lioness, her eyes were full of anger and hatred, and her eye sockets were almost torn open.
At this point, Faraday no longer had any intention of having fun.
He couldn't accept that his team's reputation in Eivor's land was not even as good as Raven's.
"No, you are lying!"
"It is impossible for your village to kill so many people if they are all ordinary people!"
"You are Raven's spies, spies who have been lurking for a long time, right?!"
The young woman seemed to have heard the most ridiculous thing in the world and started laughing until she was out of breath.
She cut into Marquis Faraday with her knife-like eyes:
"You think we're the only ones doing this?"
"Baron Raven has long issued a reward. Every head of you filthy pigs can be exchanged for 5 gold coins, ten pure gold, without any discount!"
"A lot of your men have died recently, right? Don't worry, there will be more in the future!"
"For the evil things you have done before, the entire Tiehua Region is full of hunters watching you!"
"Don't think it's important to have weapons in your hands. People are destined to sleep and eat and drink!"
Marquis Faraday shivered violently.
Each head was worth 5 gold coins, which was an astronomical figure for the serfs, and it was completely worth risking their lives.
Even for many nobles, it is not a small amount.
20 heads equals 100 gold coins, which is more than a knight's annual income; 100 heads equals 500 gold coins, which is the same as the Baron family's annual income.
What's more, the armor and weapons worn by the soldiers were not taken into account.
No wonder there were so many manpower losses during this period!
Wait, now I have lost 6,000 people. Earl Palmer has not ventilated yet, but I am afraid he has also lost a lot. The total number should be tens of thousands.
With a reward of 50,000 gold coins, where did Lei Wen's army get so many gold coins?
By the way, Boland Gold Mine!
Raven captures the Boland goldfields.
Damn Raven, he actually used Eivor's gold coins to bribe the Eivor people, turning the Iron Birch region belonging to the Principality of Eivor into a nightmare quagmire for their Eivor army!
Absolutely ridiculous!
No wonder he was late for so long, probably just to wait for the team from the Bolan Gold Mine to join him!
"You untouchables!" Faraday pointed at the young woman, the fat on his face couldn't help but tremble:
"For a mere five gold coins, you have neglected the righteousness of the principality and undermined the overall situation of the empire. You deserve to suffer such a tragic fate and deserve to die!"
"I will give you a choice now." Faraday gasped: "Now, kowtow to me and plead guilty, and I can spare your life, otherwise..."
"Otherwise? Kill me?" The young woman smiled miserably:
"Anyway, my family members are all dead, and I just happened to be reunited with them."
"Or do you want those men to torture me? Do you think I still care about this now?"
"Also, I might as well tell you, noble Marquis, that our village killed 272 of your soldiers, and all the gold coins obtained in exchange were given to the mercenary guild to put a bounty on your heads!"
"Shut up!!!" Marquis Faraday roared angrily and slapped the young woman to the ground.
The young woman's cheeks were red and swollen, but she stared at Marquis Faraday with an unyielding gaze, and then spat a mouthful of blood on his face.
Marquis Faraday wiped the blood on his face and roared:
"Come here, drag her out for me. I will chop her into pieces with a thousand knives!!!!"
Soon some soldiers dragged the young woman out.
There was a faint sound of swords piercing flesh, but Faraday did not hear the screams.
In the wind, the tent curtains fluttered and rolled up, letting in cold wind.
"Raven...Raven..." Marquis Faraday clenched his fists:
"I must kill you... kill you!!!"
"Ah sneeze——" In the camp, Raven sneezed suddenly:
"Huh, someone scolded me again?"
He shook his head, and just as he was about to have someone close the curtain, Vesdon ran in happily:
"Brother, good news!"
"Baron Poch has sent 300 more heads of Eivor soldiers, including 2 extraordinary ones! They are clamoring to show their merits to you in person!"
An extraordinary human head is worth 250 gold coins.
"Then give him 2,000 gold coins." Raven said with a smile: "The face has disappeared. I still have business to deal with here."
"Okay, you go ahead and do your work first." Wei Dong was about to leave, but he couldn't help but feel curious.
"Brother, are gold coins so powerful? But if it is so simple, why have I never heard of a war that can be won in this way?"
Raven stopped his movements, looked at Vesdon and said: "Gold coins are useful, but they are not that big."
"Actually, I didn't expect that a little gold coin could bring such a harvest."
Vesdon became more and more confused: "What on earth is going on?"
"The human heart is like water, and the people are like smoke." Lei Wen sighed:
"People's hearts are something that cannot be seen or touched, but it is real."
"The current situation can only be said...
It is your own fault and you will not live! ”
……
(End of chapter)