Chapter 863: The Real Fire That Sets the Field ablaze
Chapter 863: The Real Fire That Sets the Field ablaze
[General Abusek, I am Emperor Akbar of Xilan. I am sending you a telegram today for no other reason than the safety of the people of Xilan.]
[I admit that the previous king’s treatment of the Gray Wolf Army was indeed inappropriate. The orphans and widows were not settled, and the wounded were not properly treated. However, even so, this is not a reason for you to be treasonous and disloyal.]
[However, I am not a dictatorial and arbitrary person. For the sake of our friendship, I will allow you to surrender now and avoid death, and confer the title of Grand Duke of Lion State, and keep your wealth and glory unchanged.]
[If the general persists in his mistakes and causes the people of Xilan Empire to suffer and bear the infamy for all eternity, don’t blame me for not giving you a chance to turn back…]
In a plainly decorated office in the court of Xifan Port.
Akbar Xilan bent over the desk and wrote a 2,000-word surrender letter, then stood up and respectfully handed it to the Weilant officer behind him.
”How did I write it?”
The little emperor raised his eyebrows, with a hint of pride and a hint of flattery in his smile.
However, the Weilant man didn’t even look at it, but just replied coldly.
”That depends on how the person who received the letter responds.”
Akbar’s smile was awkward on his face, but he still laughed dryly twice.
”You make sense… I hope that Abusek doesn’t know what’s good for him and surrenders early.”
The Weilant officer grinned, reached out and patted his shoulder, and suddenly touched his face, like touching a very obedient dog.
What a good dog.
There was a hint of obvious ridicule and contempt in his smile, which was contempt from the heart.
Akbar’s mind buzzed, staring at the man in disbelief, not understanding what the guy meant by touching his face, but misunderstood it as something between a man and a woman.
This guy…
could he be into that?
He got goosebumps all over his body, and took a step back in fear.
The officer did not explain anything, but strode out of the door with the letter.
There was another person standing in the office, a silent old man of the Lion Clan.
He was just a citizen of Xifan Port before, a sweeper working in the court. One day, he was suddenly given a title for no reason, and then was asked by the Willant people to follow Akbar as a servant, and at the same time monitor the emperor for the Southern Legion.
As for the original servants of the emperor, they have all been driven away and replaced by people from Xifan Port.
Including the so-called imperial cabinet, even the people next to the emperor are like this.
This is not an ally, it is clearly a group of kidnappers.
The old man sighed softly, looked at the angry little emperor and comforted him a few words.
”Your Majesty, please be patient… You don’t have to argue with them.”
Akbar calmed down and shook his head.
”The people of Weilant are all emotional, sometimes they are rough and crude… I can understand.”
The old man was stunned and stared at the little emperor for a few seconds, as if he saw the deceased king.
Looks like.
It’s so much like…
…
The 300,000th Army broke through the Lion City!
The victory message reached Xifan Port and also reached another front in the war zone of the Southern Legion’s Borneo Province – Sulak County on the northern line.
Looking at the shocking battle report in his hand, Captain Otley couldn’t help but grin.
”This madman.”
Bombing a gathering place with a population of one million with incendiary bombs, this guy is really willing to do it.
Isn’t he afraid that the fire will not be controlled and all these one million animals will be burned?
Fortunately, this is the rainy season, and the thick smoke from the fire has caused rain to fall from the sky.
Otherwise, I’m afraid the whole city would be burned!
The staff officer standing by nodded and said in a very light voice.
”But I have to admit that this is indeed very efficient.”
The six 10,000-man teams on the opposite side collapsed directly and were beaten to pieces by several 1,000-man teams.
There were also millions of survivors in the city, who were beaten to the point of crying and wailing.
Although the consumption of ammunition was a bit high, the cost was completely within the acceptable range compared to the benefits.
If Captain Ryan chose to pursue the victory and continue to march eastward at this time, I am afraid that Tiandu would be in chaos, fighting against friendly forces over whether to resist this matter, and fighting against each other.
Especially that Abusek.
According to their analysis of this person, the “little citizen” would almost certainly escape.
Otley nodded approvingly, agreeing with his staff officer’s statement.
”…When the reinforcement airship arrives, we can follow suit.”
On the other side, at the garrison in the central part of Sulak County, several patrolling soldiers were also talking about this matter.
”At least 10,000 people must have been burned to death.”
”10,000?! I think there must be at least 100,000!”
”Damn, it’s so fucking satisfying!”
Several Willant soldiers gathered together and excitedly discussed the victory news from Lion City.
They were all under the command of Captain Ross, and they were also witnesses of the tragedy in West Sail Port.
Due to the Union envoy’s nonsense and General McLen’s cowardice, they didn’t kill enough people in West Sail Port.
Now there is finally a ruthless person who avenged the more than 3,000 dead Willant residents, and the anger in their chests has finally been relieved. Sure enough,
the orthodoxy of Triumph City is still the Southern Legion.
Those civil servants who were corrupted by gold and the landlords of the Eastern Legion have long been corrupted!
Standing next to them, Centurion Pete smoked one cigarette after another. He couldn’t stand it anymore and couldn’t help but interrupt.
”What’s the point? Even if they don’t bomb, those
natives with fire sticks can’t stop them.” He thought of the serfs who died in the woods with red soil in their pockets.
His superiors asked him not to say anything, but he couldn’t help but say, what kind of hero is it to massacre a group of unarmed civilians?
He has never hated his identity and honor so much, and being with this group of people only made him feel humiliated.
Several soldiers were stunned for a moment, looking at each other in silence, and only one old soldier spoke.
”It still has meaning, even if it is to undermine the fighting will of the Borneo people–“
”What if there is no collapse?” Pete asked back, “The same tricks don’t always work, and the opponents we met this time are many times more powerful than us.”
”We just want to tell them that numbers are meaningless!” The old soldier’s temper also came up, his neck was red, and he argued with him, “At least 100,000 people died in one day. We are telling them with actions that 100 million or 200 million are not enough for them to die in a year!”
How can it be so easy?
Even if they can kill 10 billion mice a day, it is impossible to kill all the mice in the world.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, they have never really conquered the land in their hands.
Since the day when Yavent City was established, their war has never ended.
Maybe they are the farthest from the new era.
Not wanting to quarrel with his comrades, Pete shook his head, extinguished the cigarette butt in his mouth and threw it aside.
The serfs watched from a distance, met his eyes, and hurriedly fled.
Pete always felt a sense of disharmony, but he couldn’t tell where the disharmony came from.
It was not until those serfs disappeared that he suddenly realized that no one was snatching his cigarette butts…
…
In the southern part of Lion City, the densely packed houses had become ruins.
The fire not only burned the southern city, but almost burned down half of the city.
Ryan did not deliberately slaughter the local residents when he entered the city, because there was no need to do so.
Enough people had died.
The survivors dared not even breathe in front of their noses, let alone resist.
He was not so crazy as to kill for the sake of killing. Instead, he ordered his centurion to hire a group of locals to form a defense force to maintain order in the city.
There were still some remnants of the Borneo Army in the city, and many of them had mixed in with the civilians.
These people were a hidden danger.
Since they chose to hide instead of running away, it meant that they had not given up fighting.
But they could not hide for too long.
Because soon he would follow the example of General Gullion in the West Sail Port period, allowing some of the colonized people to share a small piece of the colonial pie, making them rich, powerful, and dignified… and even become new nobles.
In this way, no one will miss Abusek, and they will even praise the colonists of the Southern Legion for coming in time and taking them away from the sea of suffering.
This is called using both kindness and force.
When the local survivors feel happy as slaves, even the wheat grown in the fields can be transformed from the credit of the farmers to the credit of the Willant people.
At that time, a fertile colony will be born.
There may be some resistance, just like the large and small rebellions in various parts of the Legion, but it will never become as mighty as an army of 200,000.
The command vehicle of the 300,000th team drove low-key on the muddy road. Captain Ryan opened the observation window and took a look at his “great achievements”.
In the pouring rain, desperate people searched for the bodies of their loved ones in the ruins, and some people stared at the houses that turned to ashes, or lay on the ground and cried.
Those lost souls did not make him feel any pity, but made him feel indescribably happy.
This is the end of going against the Legion!
However, it was boring to see all the same faces. Captain Ryan closed the window after he was satisfied and looked at the adjutant sitting opposite.
”Have you found the guy named Yudono?”
The adjutant shook his head and said,
”No… I heard he died in the fire.”
Ryan sneered.
”Hehe, he is still a warrior.”
It is said that the guy is also an old member of the Heavenly King Army.
If the guy is not dead, he will not kill him, but take him with him, let him see with his own eyes the place where he fought, his hometown, and even the entire Borneo Province… What will happen next.
That is the real revenge.
After a pause, the adjutant continued with a serious look.
”… In addition, news just came from the rear that our 902mm heavy artillery was intercepted. The one who intercepted us was the Skeleton Corps of the Alliance. More than half of the 340,000 troops were killed or wounded, and it was the armored division of the Alliance that defeated them. They are currently staying with the transportation and logistics troops, retreating towards the direction of Xifan Port.”
The casualties of the 340,000 troops can be described as tragic.
However, there was nothing they could do about it. After all, they just ran into the Alliance’s armored forces, and then they were attacked by the Alliance’s air force.
Ryan’s face was unhappy, but he didn’t say much, just nodded calmly.
”I already know.”
The adjutant hesitated for a moment and asked.
”Don’t you need to worry about it?”
That railway is still very important.
Including the armored train and the 902mm heavy gun on the train.
But Ryan was not worried, just said in a calm tone.
”There are still 22 10,000-man teams in Xifan Port, and they will handle the next matter. General Gullion has long guessed that the Alliance will do its best to snipe our logistics, and he naturally has corresponding trump cards. We don’t have to worry about this matter.”
The adjutant still had some concerns in his heart, but it was not easy to ask more, so he could only change the subject.
”Then… what should we do next?”
”Tiandu.”
Ryan uttered this word, and the corners of his tense mouth also curled up.
”Why should we wait until that guy Otley takes over the Dog State before we start? We can just destroy the entire Boro Kingdom in one fell swoop while they are still dithering.”
The adjutant was refreshed upon hearing this, and the original concerns in his eyes were replaced by the burning fighting spirit.
Tiandu!
The capital of Boro!
As long as it is taken, there will be no suspense in this war.
Looking at the adjutant with a burning fighting spirit in his eyes, Captain Ryan said with a chuckle.
”…I heard that there is an absurdly large starship there. I am curious about what it looks like.”
The adjutant sitting opposite him also said with a smile.
”It is a waste of natural resources to leave such a legacy in this depression. Those useless civil servants are actually indifferent. We may be able to use it to build an airship larger than the Horn.”
Captain Ryan smiled meaningfully.
”That depends on whether the brothers in the Air Force have any expression. We can’t let them get this bargain for nothing.”
…
The heavy rain fell for a long time, from Lion City all the way to Tiandu.
The sentry in a raincoat was patrolling along the muddy road, and suddenly saw a horse running from a distance. There was
a man sitting on the horse.
The commander-in-chief had already requisitioned all the horses nearby and sent them to the front line. There might not be many horses in the whole Niuzhou.
Seeing the unusual figure, the sentry immediately became alert.
He raised the rifle in his hand, aimed at the rider running through the rain, and shouted.
”Stop!”
The man didn’t answer, but just ran over here.
The sentry swallowed his saliva, and he and his companion beside him were hesitating whether to pull the trigger, but they saw that the horse suddenly seemed to be exhausted, and fell to the ground with a long sigh.
The man was thrown out, and the mud and water were splashed. The horse fluttered around in the mud, and finally died with white foam at the mouth.
The sentry and his companion looked at each other and immediately trotted forward, only to find that the man lying on the ground was actually a centurion. They were so scared that they hurriedly helped him up.
”Sir, sir…”
Isher looked at him numbly, then looked towards the direction of Tiandu City. Without saying a word, he pushed away the man who was supporting him and limped towards the city gate, not caring about the dying horse lying on the ground.
His hair stuck to his face like wet straw, and his lifeless face looked like he had lost his soul.
The sentry stared at him in a daze, watching the limping back walking away silently, and finally gritted his teeth, threw the rifle on his back, and quickly chased after him.
”Sir, our sentry has a bicycle… I’ll carry you! This way, faster!”
After saying that, he put the raincoat on the man’s shoulders.
This time Isher finally responded, muttered a thank you, and then let the young man carry him on his back.
Two overlapping figures passed through the rain curtain and rushed into the nearby sentry post.
Soon, a bicycle was pushed out, and the sentry straddled it, pedaling vigorously, wishing that the chain would spark.
Isher sat behind him, staring straight at the noisy rain curtain.
He tightly grasped the package in his hand, which contained a camera that a reporter had given him. The camera contained the photos he had taken on the front line.
He would never forget those faces
in his life. And the fire that engulfed everything…
…
Tens of thousands of kilometers away, in the sunny and windy Yunjian Province, an ideal city with thousands of benefits.
In the tallest building of that prosperous utopia, the last hearing on the recent uproar was being held.
The members of the board sitting here will make the final decision on how much budget the company will put in to stop the Legion from continuing to expand eastward.
The supporters have their reasons for being supporters. Whether it is to get arms orders or for morality, they must do something.
Unfulfilled contracts are meaningless, and blind appeasement will only make the Legion more arrogant.
The opponents also have their own opinions. After all, these budgets are ultimately paid by all the residents of Ideal City. They have spent enough Cr on irrelevant people in the past two years. It is
indeed meaningless to fail to fulfill the contract, but the Legion is like a cockroach that cannot be killed and has no memory. They can’t play “war games” with those big noses again and again.
The shareholders of the Endpoint Group spoke at the meeting. Perhaps they should change to a method that can solve the problem once and for all, such as completely dismembering this group of militarist lunatics, instead of sending them in waves like this.
Of course.
As for how to dismember the Legion specifically, he actually has no reliable ideas in his mind.
But that can be discussed in another meeting.
Due to the tit-for-tat views, it is almost foreseeable that the quarrel at this hearing will be extremely fierce.
However, the development of things is completely the opposite. Those directors who were arguing until yesterday are now terribly quiet.
In the center of the wide meeting room, on the cube-shaped holographic screen, a city with a population of one million is burning in flames.
The settlement was not much smaller than the Ideal City, and was even a little bigger, although the former did not have those bizarre technologies or those towering buildings.
In front of the cube, there stood a human-shaped holographic light and shadow.
That person was Li Ke from the Academy’s Research Department.
Until this hearing, the most glorious thing in his life was the fall at the gate of Falcon City.
And now, his research ship has flown to Yunjian Province.
”…The above is what the Legion is doing in the Borneo Province. Theoretically, it can happen anywhere in this world, just as it has happened countless times before.”
”The directors can continue to argue. I hope that the video materials we provide do not disturb your interest.”
No need to say more.
The silent image has said everything for him.
Li Ke nodded slightly, and the light blue light and shadow disappeared in the wide conference hall.
The people sitting in the seats were silent.
Every face showed astonishment, anger, and disbelief or unbearableness.
At this time, Shu Yu, the ambassador from the alliance, stood up, looked around at the directors present and continued.
”…We have not participated in the negotiation of that ancient contract, but we know very well that a contract alone is not enough to bind anyone.”
”In addition to ending the war itself, we must try the war criminals and settle the mistakes… Only in this way can we ensure that similar tragedies will not happen again, just like what we did in Haiya Province.”
Looking at the whispering directors, he spoke in a solemn voice.
”You can leave the things you don’t want to do to us. We don’t mind burning ourselves for the suffering survivors.”
”But on the contrary, we need your support, support within our capacity!”
After saying these words, he sat back in his chair and left time for the meeting.
The meeting room was quiet again, and this time there was no whispering, only eye contact.
People seemed to have lost the reason to quarrel.
In the face of higher interests, the things they care about are too small.
Seeing that no one continued to speak, the host of the meeting raised his hand.
”Vote.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he put his hand on the voting machine and cast his vote.
In less than a minute, the vote was over, and it was still an astonishing 1000:0:0.
In the past two centuries, this kind of thing has never happened, and there was not even a person who abstained.
History seemed to repeat itself.
Just like their fathers decided to stay on this land, they once again made the same choice.
Surprised expressions appeared on every face, and then they were surprised. Even the host of the meeting muttered in disbelief.
As the hammer in his hand fell, an aid plan with an unlimited budget was also approved by the Council at the same time.
They will provide the Alliance with all the help that Ideal City can provide, and support their allies to bring the instigator of this war to the solemn court! At
the same time as this aid plan with an unlimited budget was passed, a piece of news in the special edition also shook the entire Golden Gallon Port at the same time.
”Lion City Massacre! Southern Legion Sets Fire on the City!”
The headline of the newspaper was a line of shocking large characters, and the red ink looked like human blood.
And the picture accompanying the headline was a photo taken when the “Horn” airship dropped incendiary bombs!
This photo was taken by a reporter from the Survivor Daily. It was said that it was brought back from the front by a captain named Isher.
Seeing the ironclad atrocities, all the survivors had anger in their eyes.
”…Damn the Willant people!”
”Damn it! I’m going to join the army too!”
”Didn’t you say you were going to Camp 101 to learn technology?”
”Go to hell! If you want to go, wait until you kill all those big noses!”
”Fuck… they are worse than animals!”
Captain Ryan misjudged the situation after all.
The survivors of Lion City were still immersed in the pain of losing their loved ones. Although many people did bow their heads, that bowed head did not mean surrender.
It was not just the survivors of Lion City.
There were also survivors of Golden Gallon Port, survivors of Mammoth City, survivors of Tiandu City, and thousands of survivors.
He actually knew that the rebellion on the Legion’s territory had never stopped, but he still wanted to use a bigger fire to suppress the anger burning in the hearts of the survivors of this land.
Not only did Ryan misjudge the result, but even Captain Otlevan and General Gullion, the commander-in-chief of the Battle Zone of the Borneo Province, were also wrong about this matter.
After learning about the tragic situation in Lion City, Abusek did not run away like a coward. Instead, he changed his previous indecisive image and personally took command as the commander-in-chief of the Niuzhou Battle Zone as the commander-in-chief. He even sent a murderous telegram to the entire Borneo Province, calling on all Borneo people to unite and threatening to fight the legion to the death!
No one knows whether this is a political performance, but at least he did not run away at the moment.
The morale of Tiandu was unprecedentedly high. This time, even those grassroots officers who were dissatisfied with Abusek no longer cursed this “hypocrite”.
Although he was not as happy as Janusch, at least he had the courage to fight to the death, which was worth praising.
At the same time, reinforcements from outside were also arriving one after another.
The expeditionary force of the Borneo Province had contributed to the annihilation of the Torch Church, so the survivors of the eastern provinces would naturally not leave them alone.
A dozen transport ships arrived at the port of Golden Gallon Port.
A group of soldiers wearing gas masks and carrying rifles on their shoulders stepped silently onto the dock of Golden Gallon Port and walked towards the military base amid the flowers and cheers of the locals.
They are the Death Corps.
In the Battle of Sunset and the Chewing Bone Rebellion, they had made great achievements. Their fearless fighting style frightened countless plunderer tribes and the expeditionary forces of the Eastern Legion!
A total of 5,000 people landed this time, and it is expected that another 5,000 people will arrive in succession.
Looking at the girl throwing flowers on the roadside, Debt Eyes couldn’t help but complain.
”Why do we have to wear gas masks? Is it so shameful?”
The edge of the team rolled his eyes and complained in a low voice.
”Do you think it’s really appropriate for us to show up all day long given our losses?”
Debt-ridden Big Eyes: “… Damn, what you said makes a lot of sense!”
Those walking in the queue wearing gas masks are not only players, but also many of Xiaoyu’s fruiting bodies.
After repeated training by Big Eyes, these fruiting bodies that looked like mentally retarded people have finally evolved from lobster soldiers lined up for execution to World War I infantrymen, and can charge forward with bayonets like the clone cannon fodder of the Legion.
The genetic blueprints of these fruiting bodies are the cheapest gnawers, and the cost is much cheaper than those clones.
A LV10 intelligence player can bring about ten fruiting bodies, and his limit is two hundred!
As for the possible pollution caused by the mutant slime mold, there is no need to worry, the red soil bacteria will be responsible for collecting their bodies.
After the group arrived at the base and updated the save file, they took a car to the port and changed to a ship to Tiandu City.
The inland port was busy.
Except for a royal merchant ship floating alone on the river, almost all cargo ships were requisitioned by the authorities of the Borneo Kingdom and the Golden Galleon Port to transport supplies and personnel needed for the war.
Looking at the brothers boarding the ship, Edge paddled and shouted at them.
”The Willant people have already captured Lion City. We must not let them take Tiandu again! The brothers from the academy have already helped us deploy weapons to fight against airships in Tiandu. Our mission is to hold on at all costs!”
He was responded with a roar of high morale.
”Ahhh!!!”
(End of this chapter)
