Blood tax

Chapter 142 In the name of the King's Senate and the people
The battle on March 3 lasted for a whole day. Griffith used up all his money and supplies, and finally defended the Boulogne Ferry with fifty legionnaires and a city defense force of 21 people.Although the rebels were repulsed several times, more and more troops gathered near the ferry.

More than 500 rebels attacked and threatened Griffith, several times more than his own, leaving him with no spare energy to support the direction of the manor.

The legionnaires following Griffith were also unstable.They are not the authentic Byelan Legion, but they are equally fierce and cruel.They robbed the food of the city defense army, scrambled for the property on the corpse, and charged and retreated without warning.

The battle on the 21st did not cause them to suffer too much loss, but Griffith was almost exhausted.

Dozens of legionnaires would ask him for rewards and wine after each battle.

Griffith needs these legionnaires to hold the position, so he can only gather the rest of his private money for purchasing supplies.He didn't dare to drink to this group of people, for fear that they would cause trouble.

"I have to muster more troops."

Griffith repeated in his heart.Reinforcement is not to deal with the increasing number of rebels, but to suppress the legionnaires under him.

Although he won every battle, he was about to lose control of the troops.The eyes of the legionnaires are like beasts, and when they look at people, they look like they are looking at steaks. It makes people feel that they will jump between the rebels and allies at any time, and stab their own people. The only ruler Is the price right.

Griffith had been worrying about the problem all afternoon and dusk, and needed urgent support from Yambol and Oldtown.

When night fell, he didn't dare to leave his army, for fear that the legionnaires would fight with the city defense army as soon as he left.

He didn't dare to fall asleep, he was very worried that someone would cut off his head at night and go to the rebels to claim credit. The sun had just risen in the east on March 3, and he immediately returned to the town of Yambol with his legionnaires.

As soon as he arrived in the town, he found that the remaining half of the legion squadron had arrived, and a large group of local city defense troops and militiamen were sitting on the ground in several piles waiting for breakfast.

These legionnaires are commanded by an officer.With blades of grass in their mouths, armed with swords, shields and spears, even if they walk casually, they faintly form alternate cover formations, like giant wolves, picking and devouring people, and the city defense troops retreat like waves wherever they go open.

In terms of time, the arrival time of this round of reinforcements was no more than an hour, but the army in the town had already been divided into two parts.A large number of city defense troops were guarding Fiona, and Paxiu, who was serving as the guard, still had blood on his face, as if he was on guard against an enemy.

The group of legionnaires guarded by the city defense army were sitting or standing, polishing and arranging their equipment, and from time to time cast lecherous glances in Fiona's direction.

As soon as Griffith came back, the town magistrate who was in charge of this group of legionnaires rushed to the apprentice knight as if he was in a hurry to shake off hot excrement, and handed over the legionnaires to him.

The legionnaires following Griffith jumped out of the boat and headed towards the rest of the squadron with a lot of harvest.

These dozens of legionnaires didn't move at all. Once they stood up, armored weapons and heavy footsteps rolled towards them, and a thick murderous aura and bloody smell that almost turned into shape evaporated.The city defense army gathered in the distance made another commotion.

Among the chaotic crowd, Fiona was in a very good mood.She walked around under the escort of Paxiu and a team of city defense troops, checking equipment, counting the number of people and supplies.

As she worked, she gnawed on stick-hard bread, which seemed quite suitable for the job.

"Good morning, Fiona," Griffith came to the side, waving the city guards to retreat temporarily.

"Please call me Commander Fiona, hehe!" The blond girl raised her head proudly and shook the letter of appointment for him, "I have been officially appointed as the supreme commander of the Fiona battle group by the Reserve Army Command, old The town and the army here are mine!"

"Really!?" Griffith was overjoyed.

The army in this area belongs to the two systems of Bayeran and Verona, and Bayeran is not yet in charge of the town of Yambol in name.Although I don't know how it was arranged specifically, at least the command power was formally unified.

Fiona wiped her mouth and shared the half-eaten bread with Griffith:
"There are two pieces of good news. The first piece of good news is that the local aristocrat, Earl Syndra, summoned his vassals and brought a group of Verona garrison troops from the north to attack the rebels and relieve the baron. Old Town told me It is said that the main force of a rebel army has already gone north yesterday, and the pressure on Sonia and the others will be much less.

"The count has 35 militiamen, the city defense army, and the Verona local garrison under his command. The core strength is a cavalry team composed of [-] knights and apprentice knights. In addition, he can also get an extraordinary wizard and three garrison soldiers. Assisted by mages. After the defeat of Magrius's legionnaires, this force is the largest in the vicinity."

Before Fiona could say the second piece of good news, there was a commotion in the square, followed by two screams.

The legionnaires who were resting and the city defense army quarreled and fought in front of the two of them.The fierce legionnaire suddenly moved his knife and stabbed the two city defenders to the ground.

Fiona, who was still happy, was stunned.

The city defense army was defeated in a blink of an eye. They lost their weapons and ran everywhere, even the town officials and helpers dispersed.

"Paxiu! Come and protect Miss Xialong!" Griffith shouted, grabbing the halberd beside him hastily.

It all came so suddenly.

Griffith had been guarding against the mutiny of the Legionnaires, but he didn't expect them to do something in the town.A whole squadron of legionnaires drew their swords, roared and clamored under the leadership of the officers, demanding that the town hand over all the money and wine, and even a group of people looked Fiona up and down.

"Stay back, put away your weapons!" Griffith ordered in a mighty voice.However, these people were not city defense troops who had never seen the world. They ignored Griffith's orders and threats, and began to approach Fiona with unkind eyes.

"Back off! Put down your weapons!"

Griffith stood in front of Fiona, knocked down a legionnaire who rushed forward, and ordered them to retreat again.

The legionnaires froze for a moment, looked at the comrades who had fallen to the ground, then at the glaring Griffith, the bright and charming Fiona, and looked at Paxiu and the cowering city defense army with disdain. It was Qiqi who raised his sword and surrounded him with a grinning grin.

It's a pity that this legion of soldiers can be regarded as an important combat force...

Griffith no longer hesitated.The ice cold surged around him, and the unfathomable evil and darkness enveloped him.

Frost molded a shield around him, filling his halberd with a deadly chill.Legionnaires who die under his halberd will become mindless corpses, falling on their former comrades.

Griffith is determined to ravage them with extreme cold and terror, and make them surrender!

"Woo-!"

The resonant bugle sounded suddenly, dispelling the ferocious malice covering the square, strangling Griffith and the legionnaires who were about to fight bloody.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of drums was loud, and the sound of dense footsteps rolled from behind the street.

The legionnaires turned around in surprise, only to see a mighty hussar rushing into the square on horseback.Behind him came a battalion of spear and shield infantry.

They were dressed as the city defense army, but they held up the military flag with the Xialong family's double swords and rose emblem, and pressed towards this side.

The chaotic square suddenly came to a standstill.The legionnaires realized that the situation was not good, and in a blink of an eye they formed a battle formation, staring fiercely at the hussar and his spear and shield soldiers.

The hussars raised their horse swords without fear, and swept across the soldiers blocking in front of them with mighty eyes:

"I am LS, a cavalry raider under the command of Count de Char!
"In the name of the King and the Senate, you lay down your arms at once, and confess your crimes to Mademoiselle Fiona de Chalon."

The legionnaire responded with swearing.

Reinforcements have arrived.Griffith was determined.

This is Fiona's second good news.From the moment LLS appeared here, the legionnaires were no longer Griffith's confidantes.

The tense marching drums sounded from all sides.Exclamations and thunder roared on all the roads leading to the square.

In a blink of an eye, four city defense troops, led by four fully armed armored soldiers, appeared at the intersections around the square. The more than 100 legionnaires were immediately surrounded like mice that fell into a wooden barrel.

"Miss de Sharon." The proud L. S. Er did not dismount, and immediately bowed to Fiona, "Please let me disarm these rascals."

Then, he turned around, raised his saber to the city guards who were rushing in, and pressed it down on the heads of the legionnaires:

"Surrender, or die!"

……

It was a reinforcement called by Viscount Lobbau, himself a professor at Homemonwatts and head of the latest staff traveling party.When he heard the news of Weitzleben's attack, he immediately recruited hundreds of city defense troops and militia near the old town.Most importantly, he also sent 5 Shutorals from Homenworth.

They are LS, Miyo, Gerard, Reyer, and Mira in the same grade. LS is their team leader, a ruthless character comparable to Griffith and Lana in the first grade.

The magic science students at the same level were all with Professor Luobao. The professor was unwilling to let noble young spellcasters go to the battlefield, and their families would not let them take risks.The teaching tasks of professors and classmates just changed to mobilizing troops and managing logistics.

They retreated to the old town dozens of miles away, where they safely organized reinforcements and supplies.Command of the battle was nominally given to Fiona.

Local lords and knights are hardly here.Either they were beaten away, or they were trapped in their own castle like Baron Bate, or they gritted their teeth and joined Earl Syndra's main force coming from the north.The big shots on Bayeran's side were blocked by the Duke of Verona at sea and prevented from entering.Therefore, the Fiona battle group that was made up of everything had almost no reliable Beyonder officers.

The five newly arrived Sutoral will each lead a squadron. Such a number of people does not exceed the command radius of the sergeant, so they should be competent.

There was also a young local cavalry officer who came along with him. His name was Warren Haydn. He seemed to be quite prestigious in the city defense army. He was the second son of a viscount and a third-year student at the local military academy.He and two or three young nobles and trainee knights did not accept the call to join the earl's main force, but stayed on their own initiative and came with the support army.

……

The battles are very short.

Griffith launched an attack on the panicked Legionnaire Extraordinary Squadron Leader, stabbing him to death in three rounds. LS Er rushed into the crowd and chopped down several of them. When the city defense army surrounded them with their guns raised, the group of legionnaires shouted to surrender and were disarmed like lambs.

Count the troops coming from the old town one after another.The Fiona battle group has a total of more than 700 city defense troops, 6 militiamen, and 120 Xiutorals. The organization also includes [-] legionnaires who have just been disarmed.Senamon's engineering squadron of dozens of people also obeyed her.Most of the garrison and militia did not know each other, had never practiced or fought together, and many were terrified of the legionnaires.

Although the time was short, the limited army urgently needed to be rectified, and new reinforcements were needed at the ferry, but all the Xiutorals stopped.They summoned the city defense army to line up outside the town, with spears like forests.

The air became solemn and oppressive.Fiona, who was almost attacked, immediately sensed that something was wrong in the atmosphere, and something was about to happen.

In the short rebellion just now, two city defense troops, a militiaman, and a town resident were killed by the legionnaires.

The Extraordinary officer who led the squadron of this legion has been killed, and the Extraordinary characteristics he released were randomly thrown on a small table.Those who killed friendly troops and civilians were singled out and cast aside.The other legionnaires were disarmed, stripped of their armor, and driven into a clearing outside the town.The militiamen and engineers who did not line up, and the residents of the town hid behind the windows and on the roofs, watching them without breathing.

Fiona saw Griffith and all the Shutorals assembled, as if they were voting on something.

"This matter must be handled according to our tradition," L.S. Er said murderously, "They actually harbored ill intentions towards the Countess, and I want them to learn this lesson with blood."

"I agree." Miyo said coldly, "Hurry up, I have to straighten out the soldiers."

"I agree." Gérard was also very firm. "With a large bounty and sufficient supplies, he dared to rebel. If he is not severely punished, he will definitely turn around and attack us during the battle."

"I have no objection," Mira sighed, "but is it really necessary? Miss Sharon is watching."

"There is nothing to be sorry about. They are not veterans who went to Bayeran. The brigade and squadron retained by the nobles of Verona are scoundrels found on the street. We all know it, and you know it, Mira," Reyer wrote. Throwing the written voting paper on the table, "I agree."

Griffith slowly wiped the blood on the halberd. After his comrades expressed their opinions, he stood up, dropped a vote on the table, and turned to order the city defense troops lined up:

"In the name of the King, the Senate, and the people, sentence XII Squadron of the First Legion of Verona,

"Decimation!"

(End of this chapter)