honor me as god

Chapter 263 Cruel War
Although the desert area is an enemy territory and is very unsafe, in fact, Twilight City is more dangerous, because it is now during the invasion of reincarnation, and there is no guarantee when the reincarnation will do it.

While the desert seemed dangerous, in fact, there was Bolton's personal guards, so the safety factor was very high. Solandelle went to Bolton, which also saved Chino a lot of thoughts.

This time in the reincarnation invasion, Kino's range of action was limited to the eastern part of the Beacon Province by the brand of the rejecter. He could leave Twilight City and shuttle between multiple cities, and he would no longer be trapped to death in the city like last time.

However, Kino is now trapped by something else - the government order.

Kino's status as an administrator is a layer of protection, but also a layer of restraint. It provides Kino with a large number of contacts in local forces, but it is also constrained by the kingdom's political system.

Like the transfer order document just now, the superior asked Chino to do a good job of resettling the entry army. He had no way of refusing, he could only complete the military order.

This also means that even if Chino has no restrictions on the scope of action and there are government orders here, even if he knows that he will be attacked if he stays in Twilight City, he has nowhere to hide.

Benefiting from the bonus of the official position, but being bound by the official position, this is the big problem that Kino is currently facing.

Although Kino is the youngest administrator in the kingdom, did he get it through his own efforts?Perhaps there is one thing, after all, the victory of annihilating the horse bandits in Xilin Town last year was real.

But in the end it was Resakhar who made the final decision. The governor of the province took a fancy to him. First, he felt that the young man had potential and was worthy of promotion; Use it for yourself in the future.

In this way, he became an administrator.

In the final analysis, it depends on the favor of the royal family.

This is the disadvantage of being born in a down-and-out aristocrat. It seems that the future is boundless, but in fact there is no foundation. The road to promotion is completely in the hands of others.

Like those civilians and slaves, Kino's room for advancement was also blocked by his own background.

Just like those civilians who had potential since childhood, were sponsored by the nobles to go to school, and became patrons to feed the nobles after graduation, Chino’s position in Resakhar’s heart is also the same kind of person—promote you, work hard, and what will happen in the future? Remember to stand on the side of the dragon banner.

Everything that Kino owns now. In other words, everything owned by most of the minor nobles, whether it is connections, military strength, wealth, or status, is all based on the favor of the royal family.

If the Wangling family nods, your strength will flourish day by day, and you will rise to the top.

The Wangling family shook their heads, no matter how outstanding your strength is, how great your achievements are, and how powerful your subordinates are, they are still just duckweed in the water.

In front of the higher powers of the kingdom, everything you own is given to you by them. How they can support you before, they can knock you down in the future.

In this kind of country with a strict hierarchy and an endless stream of extraordinary people, it is difficult to overcome such a thing.

Even those who refuse, with triple shackles, can hardly get rid of the shackles of the rules, let alone override the rules.

Desperately doing good deeds, earning the respect of others, harvesting respect, replacing powerful weapons, establishing an industrial system, setting off a technological revolution, allowing productivity to flourish, breaking the old pattern, and finally becoming the rule-maker of the new world?
When you take the initiative to reveal a technology, even the smallest technology, as long as it does not match the power system of this world, countless pairs of eyes will immediately stare at you.

At least it will control you, monitor you 24 hours a day, force you to use these technologies to serve the nobles, and become a tool from then on.

More seriously, you will be directly listed as a "heretic" and "blasphemer", and you will be killed on the spot.

Incarnation of a demon, madly slaughtering cities, harvesting infinite fear points, and exchanging one after another for powerful extraordinary powers, people can block people, gods can block and destroy gods, become the strongest in the world, and trample all those who dare to disobey?
The horse bandit massacre town has already made the royal family not hesitate to launch a conquest war. Hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers will be sent as soon as they say it. If you dare to massacre the city, the kingdom will send the top extraordinary person to tear you to pieces before you become invincible. part.

You know, the supreme existence still talks about "martial ethics". No matter how strong you are now, it will send a team with an average strength similar to yours to carry out hunting missions.

But the local forces in this world don’t do this. They won’t send a bunch of experienced babies to level you up like the mentally handicapped BOSS in the movie, honing you to become stronger and stronger, and finally they will take action in person. You kill.

Once there is an uncontrollable threat, there is a high probability that the superior will directly send the strongest subordinates to kill you in the bud.

Therefore, Kino must cooperate with the rules now, and even if he is often outside the rules, he must not touch the red line, so as to ensure the most basic survival.

But it is obviously not enough for Kino just to ensure survival. If he stays in the rules made by others, he is destined to become a tool-like existence.

If he wants to break through the shackles and transform from a pawn on the chessboard to a real chess player, he needs an opportunity.

And this opportunity is much closer than imagined
After Solandelle and Lorna finished packing their luggage, Kino sent them on the back of Fei Ye's dragon, and they were ready to fly to the desert.

"Kino, let's go first."

"No, come and play with me when you have time. I'll show you my brother."

The two girls wave goodbye to Kino.

Chino: "It will come, be careful on the road."

"Huh—" Fei Ye spread her red wings and flew into the air.

At this time, Kino suddenly felt something was wrong, the desert was in the east, why did Fei Ye fly to the west?
Kino shouted: "Lorna, it's flying backwards! The desert is on the other side."

"Hey, I, I, I know, I'll take Solan for a ride!" Lorna insisted, and hurriedly pulled the dragon rope, steering Fei Ye to turn to the southeast.

After the two left, Chino began to prepare for the placement of the entry legion.

According to the transfer order, 3 legions will enter the country the day after tomorrow and need to be stationed in Twilight City for rectification. The total number of people is about 24000, of which 20% are wounded soldiers.

Twilight City has a population of 20, and 2.4 soldiers will be poured into it all at once, and nearly 5000 of them will be wounded soldiers. This is definitely a huge burden, and Twilight City alone cannot handle it.

Chino immediately returned to the office, wrote down a government order, and sent it to the 11 towns under Dusk City by the messengers, mobilized all available resources, recruited taverns from all over the place, set up military tents in the open space of the square, and found A group of nobles who were willing to accommodate soldiers at home solved the problem of accommodation in a smooth and orderly manner.

At the same time, Chino mobilized the logistics force to buy a large amount of meat on the market, opened the emergency granary, prepared sufficient rations and supplies for the soldiers, and called all the doctors on the job of the medical association, the civilian barefoot doctors, and various Such workers with medical experience are ready to cooperate with the military doctors in the army to treat the wounded.

Two days later, the Legion troops arrived one after another.

在奇诺的调动下，下属的11个城镇以“15比1”的原则——即平均15人合力供养1名军团士兵——收纳并安置了总计8000余名士兵。

The remaining 16000 soldiers were all placed in Twilight City—limited by the medical conditions of the subordinate towns, except for some slightly wounded, most of the wounded soldiers were placed in the main city, and the number of wounded soldiers was more than 3400. .

It can be seen that the bloody sand battle that lasted for half a year was extremely tragic.

The Royal Army fought in a different place, and the soldiers under its command were not familiar with the harsh desert climate, and the situation of acclimatization was very serious, and their combat effectiveness was greatly restricted.

Moreover, the horse bandits themselves were not vegetarians. These light cavalry came and went without a trace. Their combat experience was not weaker than that of the regular army, and they also had home court advantage. They caused great damage to the Royal Army in the early stage.

Especially the riding and archery skills that the horse bandits are famous for. In the desert wind and sand with extremely low visibility, once they fall into a mobile battle, the kingdom's archers can't shoot at each other, and the kingdom's knights can't catch up. The situation where the full-scale army was shot down by the horse bandit thousand-man team.

Later, if Bolton hadn't been well versed in the art of interspersed and roundabouts, he used his strong command ability to chase and intercept the horse bandits, gradually compressing his guerrilla space, and finally completed a large encirclement of the main force of the horse bandits, abruptly turning the mobile war into a war of annihilation, the kingdom and the desert It's really hard to say who wins and who loses.

At this time, the soldiers entering the city one after another were almost all unkempt, their eyes were full of bloodshot eyes from fatigue, and their armor was covered with a mixture of blood stains and gravel, which had hardened in the dry wind of the desert, and it was difficult to pick them off with a knife. I don't know how many are the enemy's and how many are my own.

Among the wounded soldiers, the ones who were stabbed in the body and stabbed through the legs can only be regarded as minor injuries, and they did not even receive the usual treatment for the wounded. The carriages were divided among the handicapped and the dead.

The tall war horses were hooving sickly, the once beautiful fur had long since faded away, and the handicapped and wounded with missing arms and legs sat on them, listlessly drooping their heads, some were weeping secretly while clutching their amputated arms, and some kept crying. He covered his mouth and coughed, wiped his sleeve, and got bloody saliva.

The handicapped and wounded were able to sit on horseback, but the wounded in the carriage were all near death.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the dying and wounded soldiers were lying in it. Some of them had their jaws smashed by the war hammer and were dying. They needed a military doctor to insert a tube into their throats to drink some porridge.

Some people's stomachs were cut open by the machetes of the horse bandits, and the military doctors could not close the wounds with suture needles and threads, so they could only press with their hands by the side in 24-hour shifts to prevent the wounds from bursting and bleeding on a large scale.

There was also a soldier whose left hand and both legs were broken, and both eyes were shot blind. The only remaining right hand was tightly holding the amulet given by his wife before the expedition. The two eyes with only blood holes could not be closed. Can't see anything either.

Both sides of the street were already crowded with people who came to greet them spontaneously, and almost everyone held flowers in their hands. In their expectation, the triumphant Kingdom Army should be like the one that Chino took office last year, with tens of thousands of troops in front of them. The horse bandit captives followed closely behind, and every soldier held his head high and his arms high.

Didn't "Daily Records" say that the Kingdom Army won a complete victory, this is a great victory~
The people have made up their minds that as soon as the soldiers enter the city, they will give them the warmest applause. Men will shake hands and bump shoulders, and greet each other; The triumphant warriors look at each other in love, and at a glance they decide for life.

It was supposed to be a high-spirited, extremely romantic scene.

But the scene in front of him was bloody impacting the imagination of the people, and the cheers seemed to be stuck in their throats, and they couldn't shout out.

The bloody sand battle was won, without a doubt.

But it's not as brilliant as it is in "Daily Journal".

In the crowd, a young woman squeezed out. She was not a native of Twilight City, but came from other places after hearing the news, and wanted to welcome her husband who had joined the war home.

"Jason, Jason" the woman visited back and forth in the military ranks. She trotted to a senior officer with the badge of the commander on her shoulder, and asked softly, "Excuse me, is this the Luming Army? I heard that the deer The Ming Legion will be stationed in Twilight City today, have you seen Jason?"

"Jason." The commander's tired eyes were bloodshot, his pupils began to focus, and he asked in a deep voice, "You mean Jason Cicero?"

The woman immediately said with relief: "Yes, you know him? Where is he? Is he in the back line?"

The commander's eyes were struggling and dark, and he said to his subordinates: "I found Jason's family members, leave it to her."

A soldier lifted the curtain. The woman was just about to welcome her husband, but her smile froze. She didn't see the familiar figure.

The soldier took out a small bag from the car, bent his waist almost respectfully to 90 degrees, and presented it to the woman with both hands.

The woman took it blankly, opened it with trembling hands, and found a burnt ring inside.

No matter how distorted and deformed it is by burning, she can recognize it at a glance, because it is a token of love that she and her husband gave him when they were passionately in love.

The commander's eyes were full of tears, and his voice was hoarse like a broken copper bell: "Honglian's main battle on the 7th, the horse bandits raided our camp in the middle of the night, they filled the carriage with "Desert Flowing Fire", lit it, and charged us with horses army front. "

"In order to protect his comrades in arms, Jason Cicero, the centurion of the Luming Legion, dragged a burning carriage out of the barracks with both hands, and finally the desert inside was burnt to death, and the flames engulfed him. We cleaned up after the war Battlefield, only to find this ring in a pile of coke"

The people around couldn't help their scalps numb after hearing this. Needless to say, the power of the desert fire, this Jason dragged the burning carriage away with both hands in order to protect his comrades. I dare not even think about it.

The commander-in-chief was already in tears, beating his chest heavily to the young widow, and almost shouted: "At least 1000 people have survived because of his brave actions, your husband is a hero!"

The woman couldn't hear the latter words for a long time. When she saw the ring, she sat on the ground in a daze, crying, the wind dried the tears hanging on her face, and there was a new one. With tears streaming down her face, her world was torn in two from this moment on, and the lost half was buried forever in the wind and sand of the desert, never to be found again.

Amidst the women's cries, more and more people came out to recognize their relatives, and urgent calls came and went.

"Dad! Dad! Mom! Dad is here! Dad!!!"

"Charles, where are you, Charles? Has any of you seen my son Charles? Why can't I find him?"

"By God. It's good that you're all right. Come home and take you home mama"

"No!! I don't believe it!!! You give me back the child!!!"

Gradually, some people hugged the surviving soldiers, their faces were full of joy for the rest of their lives, and wept with joy.

Someone hugged a physically disabled soldier and felt dejected, tears streaming down his face, but at least they were reunited, and there was still a way to go in the rest of their lives.

However.
More people, like the weeping woman, found their husbands, fathers, and sons in corpse carts or relics.
Children hugged their dead fathers, old people hugged the body of their sons, and widows fell to their knees and wailed.
Behind the great victory are the blood-stained limbs of the wounded, the fragmented corpses of the dead, the despair of parents who lost their children in old age, the longings that widows can no longer convey, and the feelings of young children longing for their father to return home. Eye.
The only lessons humanity has learned from history is that no lessons have been learned from history.

The war will not end here, but will repeat itself again and again in the future, and batch after batch of soldiers full of ideals and eager to win will rush to the battlefield.

But every person who has participated in the war will use his own scars to remember a sentence-there is nothing good in war, except its end.

(End of this chapter)