Chapter Twelve(1/2)
If the Latvian Kingdom uses necromancers who can summon the undead army to the battlefield and cannot make King Romon too negligent, then the incident in Leipzig can completely make the old king lose his mind.
The war reports and intelligence sent back from the front line have turned into pieces of paper in the sky and are slowly falling.
The generals in the tent, including Marshal Elams, dared not breathe a little. Tearing the two reports could not even reduce the anger of King Romon. His eyes were blood red, and he suddenly drew out his sword and cut the table in front of him into several sections. Then he gasped and sat down.
Romon closed his eyes and thought, and after a long time of opening his eyes, he slowly said, "What do you think? Tell me."
A general hesitantly said: "Your Majesty, this matter is a bit strange. Logically speaking, Lord Rog is at an absolute disadvantage. Why did he abandon the city and fight the Latvian army to the death outside the city? Moreover, his troops are not sufficient, and he has to divide his troops before the decisive battle..." The suspicion in his words was already very obvious.
In fact, it was because of Ecrel's relationship that there was this great civil war of the Holy Alliance. The relationship between Ecrel and Roger is well known. Many generals of the Leighton Kingdom military were already very disgusted with Roger's blatant behavior of following behind the Leighton Kingdom to gain benefits.
"Master Rogge may not be a military genius, but he is not a fool," Marshal Elams also spoke, "From the information in our hands, if the Latvians had not used the despicable army of the undead, Lord Rogge might not have lost. In my opinion, in this case, it is an embodiment of the art of clever command. Lord Rogge may be too young and impulsive. Young people always have some romantic ideas about war, so he would go to the decisive battle outside the city. But it seems that the Latvians did not take advantage, and the total loss of 6,000 people was lost, especially the cavalry was almost wiped out, and the main general Adams was killed, which could be said to be a failure. After Rogge retreated to Bora, I think the Latvians could no longer break through Lord Rogge's second line of defense."
"But he gave up on Leipzig! The 50,000 people in Leipzig became victims of the anger of Latvians!" The general roared in anger.
"General Bolton, Leipzig is your hometown, I can understand your feelings. However, we have now occupied three cities in the Kingdom of Rivi and one city in the Kingdom of Latvia. Have we slaughtered the city?" said Marshal Elams.
The general was still angry, but he also knew that it was a bit reluctant to add the responsibility for the massacre of the city to Roger.
At this time, a messenger rushed into the camp and presented a tight secret report to King Romon.
King Romon only glanced a few times and his whole body trembled uncontrollably. He suddenly closed his eyes and threw the urgent text in front of the generals.
Marshal Elams had the most powerful position. When he picked up the document, his face changed drastically. Then, he remained silent and handed the document to the next general.
For a moment, the entire camp suddenly fell into peace before the storm.
This brief information was sent from Leipzig several days ago with a carrier pigeon, to the capital of Leyton, and then to the front line by magic.
The handwriting on the intelligence is very sloppy. It is not so much a secret report reporting on military information, but rather a short horror novel. It can be seen that although this intelligence officer was dedicated, he was also scared out of fear. What happened in Leipzig was not only a massacre, but also an undead creature wandering everywhere!
Although the letter was written incoherently, the generals understood at a glance that the 50,000 citizens of Leipzig City may have now become a 50,000 undead army!
Just at this moment, a urgent report from Roger was also delivered.
Rog retreated a hundred kilometers and gathered the originally scattered army, including five thousand local garrison troops of the Kingdom of Leiden. Currently, a total of 20,000 troops are stationed in Bora City. He is preparing to rely on the important geographical location and strong city defense to resist the Latvian army and their undead legion.
The letter also mentioned that the Latvians seemed to be trying to form an Immortal Legion in Leipzig. As a magician, Rogge knew what it meant to form an Immortal Legion, but he also pointed out that this was a very dangerous, time-consuming and unstable approach. In order to prevent the Latvian Immortal Legion from further expanding and preventing the tragedy in Leipzig from happening again, he had retreated all the Latvian citizens on the frontier to Bora.
But the grain storage in Bora City was not enough to support so many people, so in the end, it was natural to ask for food and money.
After all the generals read these two letters, King Romon spoke, and his deep voice had an unshakable determination: "Since the founding of the Kingdom of Latton, our warriors have never bowed their heads in front of any enemy! Although the necromancer and the undead legion are terrible, they cannot surrender the warriors of Latton! Pass my order and withdraw all our messengers in the Holy Alliance Council! The heroic warriors of Latton will never engage in any negotiations with the Latvian pigs colluding with the necromancers! Only the head of the Latvian king can rest in peace in Leipzig's 50,000 innocent souls. The messenger will spread the things that happened in Leipzig across the entire army, so that our warriors will know what the enemy has done!"
All the generals in the tent looked gloomy and terrible. These generals who had been through life and death for many years were soldiers who were stronger and stronger. Only Marshal Elams's face flashed through his face. At that moment, he seemed to have suddenly become a little older.
The Holy Alliance's parliament is also in chaos at this moment.
It was clear that the two factions were in opposition to each other. Faced with the overwhelming questioning and criticism, the Latvian envoy looked gray and embarrassed, and would only say repeatedly: "This is impossible!", "This is the conspiracy of the Kingdom of Latvia!" "The holy Kingdom of Latvia has absolutely no collusion with the necromancer!"
At this time, even the envoys of the Rivi Kingdom, the most determined ally of Latvia, remained silent under the orders of the country.
It is difficult for the world to accept the undead legion to borrow the undead legion. The act of turning innocent civilians into undead legion is simply the public enemy of the entire human race!
Although it was still in the midst of a great civil war, some principalities still proposed to form an investigation team to find out the truth of the incident in Leipzig. However, this proposal was firmly rejected by the envoys of Latvia.
Latvia also has troubles. Even if they have great magical powers, they cannot turn the 50,000 corpses in Leipzig into living people. Moreover, among these 50,000, at least 20,000 were massacred by the Latvian army. Ironically, the reason for slaughtering Leipzig citizens is to prevent the attacks of more and more undead creatures.
From the day the Latvian army entered Leipzig, it was like falling into a nightmare.
The citizens of Leipzig kept rushing towards the Latvian soldiers as if they were crazy, and even if they were chopped down by random knives, they still tried to bite a piece of meat from the soldiers.
The Latvian soldiers who were intensified in their vigilance did not find that the tyrannical thoughts in their hearts were also quietly increasing.
The next day, a single soldier was pressed to the ground by more than ten citizens, and was bitten to pieces in a blink of an eye. However, when a team of soldiers came to the alarm, they were horrified to find that the soldier, who was originally dead, had stood up again, joined the citizens with bloodshot flesh hanging on their teeth, and rushed towards the soldiers...
Similarly, since entering the city, Latvian soldiers patrolling the city have been missing in small groups.
Late at night, hundreds of zombies swayed towards the Latvian military camp. Under the reflection of the fire, the sentries suddenly discovered that many of these undead creatures were actually wearing Latvian military uniforms.
The bowstring, which had been tense for a day, could no longer bear the huge tension and broke.
As undead creatures become more and more, the commanders of Latvia can no longer control the spread of fear and hysteria among the soldiers. A massacre finally opened...
At this moment, the soldiers in Latvia did not notice the three pigeons that suddenly flew up and soared into the sky. The middle-aged man who released the pigeon fell down immediately, not because of fear, but because of a sudden incision in his throat.
The fire that soared into the sky covered all this in the flames. Compared with the fires that ignited everywhere in the city, this fire was so inconspicuous.
A faint shadow crossed the city wall and spread out.
In Bora City, more than 100 kilometers away from Leipzig, there is a tense atmosphere everywhere.
Bora is much larger than Leipzig, but more than 100,000 sudden influx of refugees also made the city very crowded. But no one would complain. Every citizen with some strength would take the initiative to strengthen the city defense to resist the terrifying undead legion that would arrive at some time.
Although the army of the Principal of Alay became the main force in defending Bora, Roger did not give his troops any preferential treatment. The local garrison troops in the Kingdom of Leidon would eat whatever they eat. There was only one exception, that was the Ticton soldiers. As long as they saw these extremely tall and powerful soldiers, the citizens of Bora would feel much more at ease. Therefore, no one would object to let these Ticton soldiers eat enough and eat well.
As for the more than 10,000 new recruits from the Principality of Are, after learning that 2,000 colleagues were all killed in front of the Latvian Immortal Legion due to insufficient training and unable to retreat in time, the enthusiasm for training was unprecedentedly high.
In the big city of Bora, except for a very small number of people, everyone was extremely nervous and prepared to fight the undead legion they had never seen before.
As soon as he arrived at Bora City, Roger naturally occupied the city lord's mansion. He was leaning leisurely on the chair, closing his eyes to rest. As for what he was thinking, no one knew.
The door opened without wind, and a shadow gradually became clear, revealing Raphael's handsome face with a faint purple aura.
The Shadow Knight communicated with its owner in an unknown way, and Rogue seemed very satisfied. In fact, everything went smoothly beyond his expectations.
As soon as Raphael finished reporting, Charlie walked in with a gloomy face.
Raphael bowed to Rogue, hid in the shadow again, and left quietly.
Charlie put a battle report in front of Roger and asked, "Sir Roger, what's going on in Leipzig's Immortal Legion?"
Roger put down his raised feet and stood up. He always respected Charlie.
"Sir Charlie, there is no undead army in Leipzig. Don't you know this as well as me? Those undead creatures are completely uncontrollable. If they don't die at the hands of the Latvian army, they will fall down in less than two days."
Charlie stared at Roger without relaxing: "So can you tell me what happened in Leipzig?"
"I think this is no secret. Leipzig was massacred by the Latvians." Rogue said lightly.
Charlie said heavily: "If I sacrificed the lives of two thousand soldiers to achieve the final victory of the war, I can accept it. War cannot be separated from death. Blocking, breaking the rear, and charging can actually be regarded as intentional sacrifice of the lives of soldiers. However, sacrificing the lives of 50,000 civilians for the victory of the war, this is not something I can accept. Without our arrangement, this would not have happened in Leipzig."
"Sir Charlie," Roger's voice became hard, "What would you do if you occupied a city where citizens could riot at any time?"
"I will strengthen my guard, collect all weapons, and limit the scope of activities of citizens."
"What would you do if your soldiers were killed by mobs?"
"Investigate the truth, catch the murderer, and publicly execute the murderer."
"What if there are undead creatures suddenly appear in the city?"
Charlie quickly replied: "Summon a small number of undead creatures, almost every magician can do it. I will destroy these undead creatures and try to find that magician."
Roger said: "Sir Charles, we all know that there are actually ties between the countries of the Holy Alliance. The citizens of Leipzig will never riot because of their occupation by Latvia."
Charlie nodded in agreement.
Roger said lightly: "In order to create a tense atmosphere and make countries think that Latvia is using the Immortal Legion, you know that I set up a barrier in Leipzig that can transform corpses into undead creatures. But this barrier has not been effective for a long time, and it is impossible to summon powerful undead creatures out of thin air. In fact, the problem is very clear now. There are not a few undead creatures that appear in Leipzig. So, where did the original corpses come from?"
Charlie was stunned for a moment, thinking for a moment, and he thumped heavily on the table in anger: "It turns out that the Latvian army is really massacring civilians!"
"That's right." Roger smiled. "Although I framed them a little, compared to what they did, it was just to reveal the true face of the Kingdom of Latvia to the world. If their commander was a knight like you, then this tragedy would not have happened anyway."
After Charlie apologized to Roger, he went out to inspect the city defense again.
A gentle sigh came from behind Roger.
Roger didn't look back and said, "What's wrong, Anne? Don't you know all about my arrangement in Leipzig? The responsibility is not on me when this ending occurs."
Androni sighed softly: "Rogue, I am not Charlie, and I don't have any knight's creed in my heart, and I have killed not many people. But 50,000 civilians... it's really too many."
Roger said angrily: "In any extreme situation, massacre should not be the choice of the occupier. I thought Leipzig would have to pay a maximum of thousands of lives, but who knew that the Latvians would massacre the city!"
Androni came to Roger and looked at him and said word by word: "Mr. Roger, at least half of the reason for this is lies in you!"
Roger frowned and looked at Androni coldly.
Under his cold gaze, Androni was a little timid, but she still said, "I suddenly understood everything when I saw Raphael just now. Did the first corpses in Leipzig come from Raphael, right? And in your style, you will at least order Raphael to create a thousand corpses."
Roger's body was shocked.
Androni continued: "You have set up a triple barrier of fear, bloodthirsty and death in Leipzig. Although the undead creatures awakened by the death barrier will only attack nearby creatures unconsciously, under the influence of fear and bloodthirsty, it is difficult for Latvian soldiers to not lose control. Once the battle between soldiers and civilians begins, it is very possible to massacre the city. Lord Charlie does not know the existence of the fear and bloodthirsty barrier. But I know!"
Under Androni's gaze, Roger suddenly felt very tired. He came to the window and looked at the people who were still busy everywhere, and said lightly: "Anne, you are very smart. Since you have guessed it, I might as well tell you that this time the massacre of Leipzig was as expected. It can even be said that the purpose of my arrangement was to let the Latvians massacre."
"But...that's fifty thousand civilians..." Androni whispered.
"Yes. The lives of these 50,000 people are exchanged for the immortal hatred of Latvia by the Kingdom of Latvia. This war that would have ended will turn into an endless war. Moreover, since the Latvians did this, they will inevitably arouse a strong rebound within their alliance. I think that at least the six small principalities will most of the alliance will withdraw from this alliance. This is equivalent to easily breaking their alliance. Moreover, no matter what means I use in the future, no matter what means I use, I will only be considered as a matter of course. Even if I really summon an undead legion on the battlefield to attack them, it can be said that it was the undead counterattack caused by the opponent's necromancer's loss of control."
"Of course, this will be of great benefit to my next arrangement. I won't tell you about these for the time being." Roger turned around and said to Androni: "Now I have explained everything clearly, what are you going to do next?"
"You ask clearly!" Androni stared at Roger and sighed softly.
Roger was stunned and said, "I really don't know."
Androni bit her lip slightly and whispered: "I don't care so much! No matter what kind of person you are,...I...I have to help you!"
This was beyond Rogue's expectations.
He felt a stir in his heart, and he grabbed Androni's hands and said, "Annie, I really didn't expect..."
In a state of inaction, Roger pulled Androni closer and wanted to kiss her.
Another dizzying twist.
To be continued...