Chapter 525 The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop
On the tree-shaded path, an elf team was slowly advancing. The general led by Ye Xiao was very puzzled why the elf king Tuling gave him this order. Chen Bing, the border of the Aolong Empire, waited for an opportunity to attack the Aolong Empire and occupied Lindan City, the former resident of the Feiyu Legion. Due to the civil strife within the Feiyu Legion, most of the Feiyu Legion divided the people either went to Feng Yangling and accepted the reorganization of Feng Yangling like the Tiger Roar Legion, or went south to cross the Langcang River and defected to the second prince Long Shouyi. Those who were still in Lindan City were basically veterans who had already started their families and careers in Lindan City and were unwilling to live a life of life. Lin Feiyu did not make things difficult for them to treat these people. After giving them enough severance payments, they also left some weapons for them to protect themselves before leaving. After all, this is a border, and there are many desperate people.
At this time, there were about 4,000 people in Lindan City, of which about 1,000 people could directly participate in the battle. As usual, after changing shifts with his companions, Madi, the veteran in charge of guard, was about to go to the tavern for two drinks and then go home. But before he could get off the whistle, he heard his companion Hans, who had changed shifts with him, ask in a trembling voice: "Old Ma, please see if those people in the distance are enemies?"
When Madi heard this, he immediately snatched the only clairvoyance in the city held by Hans and looked into the distance. Thanks to Lin Feiyu, he left one for them before leaving, which was usually given to their sentry.
"Don't be stunned. Sound the alarm bell quickly and let everyone pick up their weapons and go to the city to prepare for battle. I'll report to the master." Seeing that Hans was still in a daze, Madi couldn't help but slap Hans and yelled.
Hans, who was sober, didn't bother to slap Madi and quickly ran to the alarm bell placed on the city tower. Madi ran down the city wall and headed straight for the city guard.
"Clang~Clang~Clang~" As the alarm bell rang, Lin Dancheng, which was originally shrouded in the snow, started to move. The men from every household quickly put on armor and took the weapons handed over by their wife. After lowering their heads and kissing their children, they quickly walked out of the house and headed straight to the gate of the city where the alarm bell was ringing.
"Damn it~ This is the case? Didn't the information say that the Feiyu Legion has been withdrawn? Why are there still troops left here?" Ye Xiao couldn't help but curse.
Although he didn't want to fight Ye Kaihuai's army, his military orders were as high as a mountain. Since His Majesty had already given the order, even his own Huke, Ye Xiao could only order his subordinates to attack.
"Send someone to negotiate first. If they are willing to give up Lin Dan City, I can order them to leave safely." Ye Xiao ordered the personal soldiers beside him.
"Yes, sir." The personal soldiers took the order and urged them to step forward.
After a while, the personal soldiers came back to report and said that the people in the city hoped to give them time to think about it. When Ye Xiao heard that there was a way to tell the matter, he immediately asked the personal soldiers to give them time to think about it, but it could not be too long. If there is no answer in half an hour, he would start to attack the city.
Faced with Ye Xiao's answer, the main person in charge of Lin Dan City urgently summoned people in the city who had a certain appeal to discuss countermeasures. Should we defend ourselves or follow Ye Xiao's words and take our little one to leave Lin Dan City.
Lindan City is actually a city that does not care about three people. The so-called city guards in the city were just the highest-ranking people in the military before, and other positions in the city were also held by those who used to serve as officers in the Feiyu Legion. Each of them had dozens or hundreds of people under their command, and everyone was in charge of each. For example, the city guards' work in the city was responsible for the city guards, while the public security work in the city was responsible for another group of people. This management system could barely deal with it when nothing happened, but once something really happened, the disadvantages of this management system would be revealed.
The small city guard's mansion was crowded with people and debated endlessly. Some agreed to take people to evacuate, and some wanted to fight the invading enemy to the end. The city guard has basically become a decoration, and no one among the people present listened to him.
"When will it take for a quarrel if you have enough noise? The elves outside the city won't give us too much time to argue. State in advance that I don't want to fight with them. I have a wife and a child, and I just want to live a stable and stable life. Now that the army outside the city has given me such a way of living, I decided to take my wife and a child to live in the mainland of Aolong. Now Lord Feng Yang is the master of his family. I believe that even if I don't join the army, I can still do other things to support my family." Cheng Shou slapped the table suddenly and told everyone what he thought.
"Hmph... Coward. I really don't know how you did in the Feiyu Legion. A person like you is actually higher than mine." An officer said to Chengshou disdainfully.
Cheng Shou was not annoyed, but just glanced at the person who said him coldly, and then said, "I have expressed my thoughts. If you want to go with me, I welcome you. At least we can take care of you on the road. And those who are unwilling to go with me will not force you. From the moment I decided to stay, I was no longer a soldier of the Fierce Rain Legion. Now I just want to protect my wife and children and be safe."
After hearing what Cheng Shou said, everyone fell into silence. Everyone knew in their hearts that they were actually just a group of deserters, but Lin Feiyu, the commander of the Feiyu Legion, was very kind and did not treat them as deserters. Now that they heard what Cheng Shou said, they finally remembered their original intention of being a deserter.
"Now we raise our hands to vote. We are willing to do what the elf general outside the city said, please raise our hands."
"Swish~" Many hands raised, and some of them didn't want to raise them. Seeing that most of them were raised, they slowly raised their hands.
When the south city gate opened, the residents in Lindan City began to brave the wind and snow, drag their families to leave their homes, and went south step by step to find their new homes. Ye Xiao from the north city gate looked at the snowflakes floating above his head, and knew in his heart that he had taken this step today, which was a destruction of the good relationship that had been maintained between the Elf Empire and Feng Yangling.
"I really don't understand what Your Majesty thinks?" Ye Xiao murmured in a low voice. Since the mysterious elf appeared in the Elf Palace, the Elf King often made some unintelligible actions. Every time he asked his father about the origin of the mysterious elf, he always scolded him from his father. He really didn't know what the elf was? He could actually make his father so scared.
"Sir, Lord Geramu is gone." A soldier who was ordered to monitor someone quickly came over to report.
Geramu, one of the several elves who appeared with the mysterious elves, took advantage of the mysterious elves' relationship with the mysterious elves, several elves with similar identities as Geramu were placed in various important departments of the empire. In his Silver Moon Legion, in addition to Geramu, there was also an elves named Banlam.
"Go and look for it quickly, is he the only one missing?" Ye Xiao asked anxiously, with a slight premonition in his heart.
"Not only, except for Geramu, Banlam disappeared, and their troops were gone."
"Bastard, where did they run at this time?" Ye Xiao cursed in a low voice.
The indigenous residents of Lindan City took their wives and children in the wind and snow toward a small town forty miles away, because it was the closest place to Lindan City. After resting in that town for a night, and after nurturing, they set out to settle in a warmer place in the south. Now the north of the empire has just been pacified, and it is time for everything to be done, so they don’t have to worry about finding a job to support their family.
"Just pass through the woods in front and walk five miles, you will reach your destination tonight." Chengshou of Yuan Lin Dancheng said in his heart.
"Everyone work harder, you'll be at your destination soon." Cheng Shou suddenly cheered loudly to everyone who was silent and rushed.
The sudden roar did not impress the people on the way, but instead alarmed a group of people with ulterior motives in the woods. A neigh of a war horse suddenly came from the woods.
"There are people in the forest to quickly form a formation to defend themselves. Women and children hide in the formation and don't run around." When Cheng Shou heard the horse's scream, he immediately understood that there was an ambush in the woods. Thanks to his whim roar just now, otherwise he would not understand how he died until he died.
As soldiers of the original Feiyu Legion, after a brief panic, a thousand people quickly formed a round formation just like they had been trained before, and the muzzle was consistent to protect women and children in the middle.
Geramu, who knew that his whereabouts had been exposed, glared at Banram, the culprit who exposed their whereabouts, and had already asked him to block his mount with something like himself, but he refused to listen. Now, he had failed.
"There are not as many people on the other side as us. Rush out and destroy them." Geramu pulled out his battle knife and urged the horse to rush out first. Banlam, who was guilty, followed closely behind, raised the half-moon axe in his hand and rushed out. The soldiers who had been trained by Geramu also rushed out immediately.
The battle was very fierce. The thousand people from the Feiyu Legion were originally the elites in the legion, but they chose to retire if they didn't want to fight again. But they were still elite soldiers. They were not inferior to the elite soldiers of the Silver Moon Legion. But as Geramu said at the beginning, the Feiyu Legion was not as many as the other party, and the other was that they had to distract themselves from taking care of their wives and children. In this unfavorable situation, the thousand people from the Feiyu Legion, including their families, more than 2,000 women and children, were all killed. The white snow was dyed red by blood.
"Cut off the heads of those soldiers and take them back to ask for merit." Geramu put away his knife and ordered his soldiers. In this battle, half of the people he brought out lost, while Banlam was even worse, two-thirds less. However, the result was acceptable, at least his first battle ended with victory.
As soon as Geramu's order was delivered, a loud shout came from a distance: "Stop it."
Ye Xiao led his troops over with an angry look on his face. Looking at the dead bodies on the ground, Ye Xiao closed his eyes in pain. He knew that there must be a battle between the Elf Empire and Feng Yangling. With Ye Kaihuai's vengeful personality, he would never give up without finding this place.
"Mr. Ye Xiao, you are a little late. The battle has been completed." Geramu said to Ye Xiao with a proud look on his face.
Ye Xiao glanced at Geramu and said coldly: "Come here, take down this crazy man who acted without authorization and did not obey the general order."
Geramu was stunned when he heard this. Just as he was stunned, two elves soldiers stepped forward and pulled him off the horse, pressed him to the ground and got trapped.
"Yexiao, you take your private revenge. I don't accept it." Geramu, who was tied to a rice dumpling, shouted loudly.
"It doesn't matter if you don't agree. If you have anything to say to the Senator, go and say it to the Senator." Ye Xiao responded coldly, pointed to Banlam and said, "He and he are tied up together."
"I'll see who you touched me?" Banlam shouted with a sharp axe in his hand.
"Dare to resist, and you will be killed without mercy." Ye Xiao ordered coldly.
With the order, dozens of bows and arrows pointed at Banlam at the same time. Seeing this, Geramu hurriedly shouted: "Banlam, don't do anything wrong. Put down your weapons, we will be fine."
When Banlam heard this, he looked at Geramu. Seeing Geramu nodding and assurance to him, he believed his words, threw away the axe in his hand, looked at Ye Xiao and scolded: "Coward, coward who can't stand his subordinates' meritorious coward."
"Insult Shangguan, twenty military sticks. Execute immediately." Ye Xiao ordered coldly.
Four soldiers came over immediately, held Banlam and took off their pants, and beat them up in a row, making Banlam scream in pain. Geramu stared at Ye Xiao and said, "Ye Xiao, you are jealous of the virtuous and capable, and you wantonly beat the meritorious ministers..."
"I'll go to your grandma, he's a meritorious minister who opens his mouth and shuts up. Who are you a meritorious ministers?" Ye Xiao, who couldn't bear it, kicked Geramu to the ground and cursed angrily.
The kicked Geramu stared at Ye Xiao with dissatisfaction, which made Ye Xiao even more angry. He pointed at Geramu's nose and asked, "What is the order His Majesty's order to the Silver Moon Legion? Occupy Lin Dan City and wait for an opportunity to act. This order did not allow us to provoke Feng Yangling at all, but you were so good that he even encouraged Banlam to lead the team to ambush without permission. Who are you a meritorious minister?"
"I won in the end." Geramu shouted dissatisfied.
"Did you win? A total of 5,000 people ambushed a team of only 3,000 people, including women and children. As a result, the loss was more than half. Are you winning?" Ye Xiao asked angrily.
"I..." Geramu retorted, but couldn't find a suitable reason.
"For your personal face, you sacrifice your subordinates for nothing. You are not worthy of being an officer, and you are not worthy of being a soldier. No matter who you are in the backstage, I will tell the Elderly Council what you are doing. Even if your backstage is well-informed and you are finally acquitted, I will never let you enter my Silver Moon Legion again."
Geramu lowered his head and was taken down with Ban Ram. Ye Xiao looked at the more than 3,000 corpses that had been gradually covered by the corpses and ordered everyone to say, "Go and find some tools to let these people fall into custody."
The news that Lin Dancheng was seized made Ye Kaihuai, who was handling the post-war affairs in Anping, couldn't believe it. He didn't understand why the Elf Empire, who had always been with him, chose to turn against him at this time. Before he could figure out this problem, the deputy commander of the Feiyu Legion, Vivian, brought people to the door and strongly demanded that the troops of Lin Dan be sent immediately to avenge the more than a thousand soldiers who died in the Feiyu Legion and their families.
When Ye Kaihuai heard that the dead included more than a thousand children, he lost his calmness. Fighting on the battlefield, life and death are all in peace, and no one can blame each other. It’s just that you choose to go to the battlefield. But killing children is an unforgivable act. This is not a battle, it is a massacre.
The angry Ye Kaihuai immediately prepared to lead his army to Lin Dan to seek justice for the people who died in vain. Unexpectedly, before he could go out, another group of guests arrived. Facing this group of guests, Ye Kaihuai was so angry that he could only temporarily put it away.
"Father, mother, why are you here?" Ye Kaihuai asked Ye Wentian and Long Xiangling with a strange look on his face. He didn't blame himself for what he did before, they just watched silently. Unless he asked them for help, they would never intervene. What's wrong today? He actually told himself the first time he saw him that they came for the Elves Empire.
"Well... kid, you already knew our identity before, so you must also know that there are not only two of us in the Six Sages." Ip Man-ten said carefully.
"Well, I know. But does this have anything to do with what you are talking about?"
"Of course it's relevant. Except for your mother and I, the other four of us are different races. The beasts, demons and dwarves are all people who deal with more, but the only woman in the elf tribe is a person who hates other races very much. When we were on missions together, she had always kept a certain distance from us. Since we decided to persuade the leaders of all races to unite and deal with the future invasion of the divine world, she has not had any news. The situation of the beasts and demons is similar to ours. We already know that there is no hope of uniting all races, and the dwarves are just a panacea and like to follow the large army. As long as we persuade the leaders of all races to succeed, they will act with us. So what we are most worried about now is the woman in the elf tribe."
"What do you mean is that the elf empire's actions against me this time may be that elf woman is plaguing the trick behind her back?" Ye Kaihuai asked with a frown.
"It's totally possible."
Chapter completed!