Realm of Power

Following Algernonkaja's order, the young city gate officer ordered people to go to the city to find a cart of wood and a barrel of grease that was set on fire. The person who handled the matter reported that the white grease came from the enema shop in the city and was worth six silver coins. , the wood is taken from the lumberyard in the city, worth 2 silver coins, these are the best dry wood, I can use my reputation to guarantee

"I will give you 6 silver coins! There is also a reward of 2 silver coins! That's enough!" The young officer waved his hands with a gloomy face. He waved and ordered the soldiers to move the wood onto the city wall and throw it down from the city wall. Below, near the two corpses hugging each other to death, wood quickly formed a hill, and the sunset It has completely fallen, and only the last ray of light shines from the angle of the opposite ridge, as if the affectionate "qingren" is saying its final farewell to the land in front of him. He took a breath, and the young officer's hand smiled slightly. Zhuan picked up a torch on the wall and walked to the top of the city gate.

Under his feet was a completed pile of wood. The pile of wood was so large that it completely covered the two bodies. However, from the position of the young officer, one could still clearly see the tops of their heads. A woman with long brown-red hair and a slightly slender figure could still see clearly. Gray hair. It's like the two have never been separated, they have become one

"Lord Hassan Rimbaud, please forgive me."

The young officer murmured in a low voice with a pale face, and raised the torch in his hand with trembling arms. His mind was thinking about the crazy woman, and the man who never answered his question until his death, who used the torch to light the grease-filled container. Then he kicked the burning grease down, and watched the flames, like the light of stars falling from high altitude, splash down on the pile of wood, and then ignite, the fire was blazing,

The officer couldn't bear to look away and clenched his fingers tightly.

Just tonight, the empire's former number one general left this dirty world filled with humiliation and anger, filled with black smoke. There is a fire burning in the dark night, and in the night wind you can clearly hear the wood burning and exploding, making a crisp sound like "ta! da", like a pair of "qingren" whispering,

Suddenly, a choking black smoke came with the wind. The young officer coughed uncomfortably, and his expression changed. Dry wood did not have such moist black smoke. This is only the case with semi-dry wood where the outer skin is dry but the inner core is still moist.

"What's going on?" He angrily called the person who was doing the work and asked, "You guaranteed with your life that the wood is all dry wood!"

"Sir, the rainy season has been constant recently. It's hard to find completely dry wood." The waiter's face was ugly, but he just burned two corpses. The dead would not raise any objections, so only these semi-dry ones are fine, the waiter With an expression of embarrassment on his face, he told how hard it was to get a load of dry wood from the logging farm owner, and even just for it he charged 2 silver coins. That stingy logging farm owner was really evil!

"asshole!"

The young officer kicked the waiter with wide-eyed anger. The waiter screamed in pain and rolled on the ground. The panting officer stepped on him more than ten times before stopping. If it weren't for the fact that this guy has been his servant for many years, he would have killed him with a sword now. Moist The wood is very troublesome. If the fire is not strong and the body is not burned cleanly, he will be the object of ridicule to all Daniel tomorrow for being able to pull off such an own incident. The young officer felt that he could die now!

At the height of the city of Daniel, Algernonkaja folded his hands behind his back and let the cold night wind blow his hair. There were no stars in the dark night, and the firelight at the city gate was particularly eye-catching. "Why, even if Are you unwilling to be quiet even after death?"

Algernon Katya stared at the sparkling fire while listening to the distant roar. "Go find dry firewood immediately. If the fire goes out, I will kill you with my own hands. I will never allow an imperial general like Hassan Rimbaud to be sent on the road with wet wood!" That was the decisive voice of the young city gate officer,

Algernon Katya's eyes were solemn. Looking at the fire in the distance, he asked the attendant behind him, "This time Daniel was trapped by the army. Hassan Rimbaud had an unshirkable responsibility. He passed in front of the Falcon Army formation unscathed. He was also suspected of being a collaborator. Let him enter the city." He will undoubtedly die, and if he dies outside the city, at least he will retain his family's reputation and will not be implicated in this matter. Was my decision wrong? "

"Your Majesty's decision is always correct. Even if Hassan Rimbaud did not die outside the city, he would have died inside the city! The generals would not let him go. Compared with such an ending, dying outside the city would be a kind of Lucky!" the attendant bowed his head and replied,

"That young man is not suitable for the heavy responsibility of guarding the city gate. He can't even understand his position as a soldier. Let's find someone else!" Algernonkaja took a deep breath and waved his hands vigorously, as if he had put aside all his worries. , turned around and walked towards his office with firm steps,

At this time, he heard the slightly surprised voice of the attendant: "Sir, there seems to be movement in the Falcon Army opposite!"

"What! How could the Falcon Army be at this time...!!" A look of anger appeared on Algernonkaja's face. No matter how ruthless he said, he could not let go of Hassen in his heart. Rimbaud quickly leaned on his drooped head at the city gate.

That guy came to report a message, and he came here with all his might. Faced with the eager gaze of a hundred thousand falcon troops, he was fearless.

And all I could do was to strictly close the city gates, watch coldly, and demand answers to questions that were impossible to answer. Not many people knew that at that moment, my heart was torn apart like a sword. This was the tacit understanding between two soldiers who had tried their best to protect the empire's western front.

Hassan Rambo knew that he could not enter Danni, and I knew that Hassan Rambo was not a traitor.

The moment Hassan Rambo appeared, he knew that he would be pierced by arrows and die like a real soldier, but the 100,000 Falcon Army did not fire an arrow, and watched Hassan Rambo walk through the thousand-meter swamp with difficulty and finally die for his country under the city gate. It was the man on the opposite side who deliberately instigated all this to happen!

Algernon Katya pressed his hands heavily on the triangular crenel of the city wall, a touch of red blood flowed from his cracked eyelids, and his eyes glared at the black-armored warriors of the Falcon Army who were forming a formation in the distance. If eyes could kill, there would be no living people on the opposite side! "He could have avoided this, that bastard. He didn't even want to make Hassan Rambo's final journey peaceful?"

Countless torches dotted with stars covered the wasteland ahead. The gleam of metal armor looked like the color of flames under the red torches. The black tide of Falcon Army crossbowmen with white-lined helmets on their heads lined up in a straight line.

"Attention, enemy attack"

At the same time, the bells on the fortress on the eastern section of the Danni wall suddenly exploded in the quiet night like the cry of a night crow, like a stick poking a hornet's nest. The soldiers formed a panic formation behind the wall shelter, with their spears standing upright. "Archers, move forward!" The captains of the infantry loudly urged the archers to spread out along the city wall. Countless infantry bows stretched their bowstrings, and long arrows burst out. The black army formation on the opposite side pressed towards Dani City, and the soldiers' breathing rose and fell rapidly. "If someone dies during the day, someone will be buried with him at night. I knew it..." Some soldiers whispered that they had bad luck. The infantry raised their shields, the officers looked at the distance uneasily, and the generals hurriedly ran to their own. The black falcon crossbow formation marched forward in an orderly manner, one flag regiment after another, and the military flags fluttered like the tide under the night sky, with huge pressure. The hands of the front-line Gallic archers who pulled the bowstrings tightly trembled slightly, and sweat rolled down their foreheads. The bowstring between the fingers was a little smooth, and it seemed that it would fall off without full effort.

"Hold steady, the whole army!"

Algernon Katya's eyes were burning, and the blood flowing from the corner of his eyes was wiped away by him. The Falcon Army stopped about 200 meters in front of Dani City, with the battle flag flying and the morale high. Shooting against the Falcon Army archers is definitely the most terrifying thing.

The range of the Gaul bow is 100 to 120 meters, while the Falcon Army infantry crossbow on the opposite side has a range of 150 to 170 meters. If there is a tailwind, it can reach a terrifying 200 meters. And tonight. The wind hits the face head-on, cold to the heart, against the wind! It's not a battle of the same level at all.

When both sides rush to shoot arrows, the one who falls must be our own people! But this is a battle of momentum. No one can choose to retreat! The tense atmosphere is like a tight silk thread!

"Raise your crossbows!" Rows of Falcon infantrymen lined up, holding up their heavy crossbows, and pointed in one direction. The fire under the gate of Danni City was as thrilling as the light of the North Pole before dawn. With the order of "shoot", countless arrows flew from the army formation like locusts, filling the night sky in an instant. The cold light of the arrows fell from the black sky, snap! snap! snap! snap! Dense as rain, a small part fell on the city wall, more fell on the city gate,

The somewhat sluggish fire suddenly became strong, the fire snakes rose along the city wall, and even illuminated the three-mile long half of Danerni,

The fat man stood silently on the mound behind the army, the night wind blew through the woods next to him, making a whimpering sound, the central general of the empire, Hu Keqili, stood half a meter behind him in armor, the fire in the distance was still on his face, and red dots flashed in his eyes. Hu Keqili looked at it intently, the warm and somewhat strange fire reminded him of the days of Riwacheze, when he was just a down-and-out swordsman, down and out. As a descendant of a minor noble family, even though he was recognized as having strength beyond that of a knight, he could only spend his time in the swordsman unit because he was too poor to buy a warhorse and knight armor. The woman he once loved eventually left him and married far away because of her identity. In a rage, he participated in the competition held in Zhiwacheze. All the changes originated from the choice at that moment. Different choices would bring different endings. No wonder His Majesty was so angry at that moment. It was a general's funeral and a gift for a couple who had "Qingren" to finally be together. After scolding the Southern Governor Statunko, His Majesty decided to personally deliver this belated gift! His Majesty gave Hasen Rimbaud the opportunity to choose. If Hasen Rimbaud had not chosen to stubbornly return to Danni, but chose to escape, he might not be unable to live secretly with his beloved woman, but this stubborn guy... As a respectable opponent, His Majesty would not allow Hassan Rambo to continue to live tenaciously. Only for the dead, His Majesty could give the other party a grand "funeral". Hukoqili's eyes were as bright as burning charcoal.

"It's very lively! I wonder if the Gauls in the city have been completely stupid now!" Hu Keqili heard another guy next to him who didn't know what emotion was commenting in a low voice, which was shocking. The fierce face was reflected in the firelight. Salon subconsciously touched the one eye with the blindfold with his right hand, as if touching the trauma of the past, and grinned,

He said to himself, "Hassen Rimbaud, this bastard, I'm really jealous of him. Even when he dies, he has a beloved woman who is willing to accompany him. As a man, what qualifications does he have to regret? You know, my My left eye was gouged out by that crazy woman Bai Linna. I was like that at that time I loved her, and for her, I even took on the impossible task. But I failed, and as punishment, the woman dug out one of my eyes and gave it to her employer, but what could she do? People who have lost their eyes will never be able to live again!”

"I heard that before you set off from the Southwest District, you just got married to the Baslow family. A man who married two wives in half a year doesn't feel ashamed to say such a thing!"

Hu Keqili's face turned pale with a stern look at this guy with a face as thick as a city wall. Since Salon became the governor of the Southwest Region, he married two wives in a row in just six months. He has been regarded as a self-degenerate by his colleagues. typical. Compared with this guy who has no sense of honor at all, Hu Keqili, who is still single, feels as pure as a baby.

"As a soldier, you should fight bravely and never retreat in front of thousands of troops. Who knows whether you will go back alone or a corpse!" Salon licked his chapped lips nonchalantly, "We are welcoming the unknown. Before fate, it would be a sin to let the woman you like stay alone without any pretext, even if I really die in battle! At least those women who get my name can still share my rich inheritance. I am worthy of them!" Salon stopped and looked at Hu Keqili confidently. "And I am not the kind of person who swears for life. The ascetic swordsman who doesn’t even lay a finger on a woman is a pervert, I don’t know what he thinks!”

"asshole!"

The veins of Hu Keqi's strength protruded from his forehead. He used to call himself an ascetic swordsman in Zhiva Cheze. Because you are too poor to have the money to buy the armor and horses required to be promoted to a knight, if you are an ascetic swordsman, you may be lucky enough to get funding from a big family and become a guard knight belonging to the family. Such a knight does not have a fiefdom, but at least he has a decent Weibo income, which is much better than staying in the Swordsman Camp with no future, and no one knows when he will become cannon fodder on the battlefield.

"Say such words at someone else's funeral... You two bastards, please stop it!" His Majesty Falcon's heavy groan came from the front, and his generous back with his hands behind his back projected a domineering aura in the firelight. The two empire generals, Kokili and Saron, immediately stopped saying anything like docile kittens.

After half an hour, the fat man turned around from the front and glanced at the two guys behind him. "After such a commotion in Daniel City, the morale of the military must have been shaken. Salon, are you sure the supplies will arrive tomorrow?"

"No problem!" One-eyed Salon burst into laughter and replied, "The prairie cavalry used 60,000 horses to bring two-thirds of the food in the southwest region, enough to feed an army of 300,000 people for a month. The southern army was cutting down trees in the upper reaches. The wood made up more than 300 transport rafts. When the time comes, they will be fully loaded down the river and the grain will be unloaded here. Such a quantity will definitely make the Gauls completely despair."

"Have the losses on Kezi been calculated?"

"Seventeen wooden houses collapsed, 11 people were injured in the flood, and one person is missing. In terms of supplies, about a hundred bags of horse materials were washed away! The others are gone," Salon replied

"Horse stuff?" The fat man frowned slightly.

"The missing person is the one guarding the horse feed!" Salon replied: The horse feed house was also destroyed. It has been a few days, and the situation is very bad!

"Try your best to find the body, consider it a death in battle!" The fat man nodded. It would be difficult to survive in such a flood. He only arranged a thousand troops in Kezi. He didn't expect that it would also cause such a disaster. Casualties, floods rushed into the city, causing the collapse of houses, which shows the extent of the flood that night

"Close the team!"

The Falcon Crossbowmen were in uniform order. Every time they fired a row, they turned around neatly and replaced the next row. There were tens of thousands of people in the military formation, as many as hundreds of queues. Until they finished shooting, countless arrow clusters filled the city. It seems that no one has touched the masonry of the door. Taking a look at other city wall positions, in the city of Daniel, "Go crazy, the Falcon Army must be crazy!" The low voice of discussion spread in the dark night. "There are two madmen during the day, and tens of thousands of madmen at night." .

At the city gate, the flames extinguished silently in the early morning wind,

A ray of morning light illuminated the earth. The Gauls who were waiting in full array in the city were stunned by the scene in front of them. Countless white feathers of arrows were deeply inserted into the cracks between the stones of the city gate. On the ground, the towers were Externally, as if overnight, a snow fell that covered the city gate alone. The sword in the hand of a Gallic officer fell to the ground, and he looked at it with a complicated expression. It had completely turned into ashes.

The white wood ash swirls in the wind, flying into the distance, unrestrained, as light as nothing,

"You got your wish. At this moment, no one can separate you!" Algernonkaja murmured in a low voice on the high castle. "Finally everything has been reduced to ashes. To be able to enjoy such a grand courtesy from the enemy, Hassen Rimbaud, you can close your eyes in peace!"