Blood tax

Chapter 572 Dictator’s Warrant

“We’re going to fight the mob?
"Eh...really?"

Fisher and his partners Badong and Winston received the order to attack. They need to lead a battalion of soldiers to capture a barricade and open the way for the large army to attack.

The first troops to besiege the barricades in Bayerland were troops adapted from the city defense army and the auxiliary army. Under the supervision of the garrison, they had been fighting the rebels from the first day of the uprising.

The rebels received many obsolete matchlocks and cannons. The ubiquitous shooting even threatened the safety of official Beyonders.

The siege was not well organized and the attack was difficult. Many of the besieging troops and rebels knew each other and even looked after each other on a daily basis. The soldiers were very inactive when attacking the barricades, often losing their weapons, and some even suddenly appeared on the insurrectionist side of the barricade.

Revolts broke out in Bijland at regular intervals, sometimes by dockworkers, the next by retired soldiers, and later by weavers from the south of the city. These workers and civilians recruited from all over the world rebelled because they did not have enough to eat or lived too hard, and they would soon be suppressed. The leaders were thrown into the river, and their families hid in the sewers and starved to death.

However, no matter how many times they are defeated, the next uprising will be more cruel and powerful! The small team of policemen soon became insufficient, and the city defense army was also overwhelmed. In the past two years, the Senate has had to use formal cavalry and regular troops to quell the situation.

This was what worried the dignitaries most—the army had become unreliable. Even the best garrisons were slow to deal with mobs, and many soldiers and sergeants even disobeyed orders from their superiors.

The situation is critical and there is no time to recall the good old days. The next person to rush to the battlefield is Griffith de Ravenel!
Fortunately, there is always someone available. Commanders like Griffith de Ravenel were still able to resolutely carry out the orders of the Senate. When they asked him to attack the veterans, he rushed and asked him to eliminate the regicides. He also took the heads with him. came back.

……

Loper was talking about the kind of dry food in the army, which is high-calorie food that is boiled with olive oil, honey, sesame seeds, dates, etc. and then dried and sliced.

According to the meaning above, all the credit cannot be given to Xiaoyugan. Noble sons like Fisher also had many armies and fought for many days. However, instead of achieving any results, they lost a street to the rebels.

"boom!"

The nobles and wizards rejoiced when they learned that the dictator had sent Griffith and the Grand Army of the Republic. Fisher and his partners Badong and Winston also came up with courage:
"No problem, I will win!"

Running around would definitely lead to death, being exposed to inexplicable flashes of light and mob fire, and not even being able to finish even half of the way back to the position along the street intersection. The three of them took a few close associates and went up the side slope, preparing to retreat through the ruins from there.

Suddenly, the surroundings became bright. Several bright fireballs flew into the air, and the intense light made the officers and soldiers under the barricade dizzy, thinking that it was dawn in an instant. Just when they were stunned, a loud voice shouted above their heads:

Guns roared and smoke filled the air. Soldiers fell dead in the water. In the blink of an eye, the team became a mess. Fisher grabbed Badong and Winston, who were running around, and asked them to follow him.

"Everyone is broken, how can I recognize it..." Tina said she was helpless.

"I'm serious!" Loper shouted, "With the results of the war, the Confederacy will be able to send more guns, cannons, and honey biscuits!"

"Heraldry, letters, diaries, look carefully!" Loper from Verona was an intelligence agent for the Confederacy and was responsible for understanding how much harm the rebels had caused to Beyelan. These vital data are an important basis for the assessment of the Confederacy's top leaders, and reliable old rebels like Loper were specially sent.

Double shots were fired into the crowd. A hail of bullets reduced the group to smithereens.

The man in charge of the cannon was convinced that they had killed several nobles. There's no mistaking the fine breastplate and handsome uniform.

There are plenty of goons willing to fight, if the price is right. If the troops in the capital are ineffective, new troops will be brought in from other provinces. It is impossible for the army formed by the farmers of Verona to be familiar with the mob of Byerland, so just use them.

The noble Fisher could not accept this. He led his men and took advantage of the darkness to get under the barricade. The soldiers held their rifles with bayonets stuck under the barrels, ready to charge.

This is so shameful.

"Fire!"

At dawn, Tina was called to identify the results of the battle. It is said that a force attempted to sneak up on the barricade last night and was crushed under the determined blows of the defenders.

The volley of guns instantly swept through the troops under the barricade preparing for the night attack. Everything was in white, and the army was so confused that they couldn't even identify the direction of escape and concealment.

Since yesterday, the rebels have eaten up the nearby birds and mice, and there is no other food. The city hall cut off the water supply, leaving only a few wells to support everyone.

They finally climbed up to a terrace, only to see several people pushing a cannon there. Both sides were taken aback, and the civilian commanding the cannon lit the guide rope without saying a word.

"Okay, you said so!"

"A word is settled!"

"Then give me half of the hidden piece first."

"You're so skinny, why do you need to eat so much?"

"The wounded need it!"

Loper fiddled with his pocket for a while and took out half a biscuit he had saved. Tina immediately rolled up her sleeves, reached out and dug out a notebook from the pile of broken pieces, and wiped it on her apron.

"Take it!"

The results of the battle were very good. Among those killed was a nobleman named Fisher. The presence of such a figure in person shows that the uprising must have put considerable pressure on Beyelan.

After Lobo confirmed the clues, he squatted on the ground and started writing a report using his knees as a table. The information must be sent out as soon as possible. Tina looked at her.

"You don't have to stare like this, I am sure everything I wrote is good!" Lobo said while writing, "And the Federal Intelligence Agency also has its own judgment, otherwise I would have killed Griffith twenty times in the report! "

"Why did you kill Griffith!?"

"He's broken!" Luo Bo muttered. "If the nobles can't break down our barricades themselves, they will send their most powerful minions and tens of thousands of people to kill us!"

"Griffith would not do such a thing," Tina shook her head repeatedly, "I know him."

"Huh?" Luo Bo looked up at the tall and beautiful receptionist, "How could you possibly know... Oh~ Could it be that kind of person?"

Tina smiled like a flower, slapped the shepherdess on the head, and laughed with a slightly hoarse voice: "I knew him earlier than those elf ladies and countesses!"

"Hahaha, it turns out you've heard of it too!" The two were chatting and laughing when an exciting bugle sounded in the air. The ground was shaking slightly, as if a new Byeran army had arrived.

The girls immediately lost their smiles. Beyeland was a toy factory, churning out a steady stream of well-trained and controlled tin soldiers.

"We can't win," someone said, and the rebels nearby heard it. "The fig leaf of the powerful has been torn off. This war has just begun!"

His words lingered in everyone's ears for a long time, full of worry and sadness. This was the most terrifying prophecy the rebels had ever heard.

Bayeran's army captured a nearby high ground yesterday. Cannon overlooking the rebel barricades. Under the muzzle, tens of thousands of troops besieging the rebels were gathering in an orderly position.

Reinforcements and haste from the rebels are coming, and the place will soon be attacked fiercely, and the battle will be fierce.

The person leading the team is called Sauron. It is said that he is the secretary of a certain noble family. This young man was very beautiful and pale, and Lobo felt that he would die of lung disease on his own without Bijerland's soldiers killing him.

"Sisters and brothers, this place is the gathering point of thinking people and suffering people; this barricade is not a pile of stones, beams and scrap metal, it is the combination of two piles, one A heap of thoughts and a heap of pain.”

Sauron stood on the barricade to mobilize, and his words were like a poem:

"Here misery meets ideality, where day embraces night and says to it: 'I died with you and you will rise with me.'

"In the embrace of all despair springs faith; where pain struggles in death, ideals will live forever. This fusion of struggle and immortality makes us die for it. Sisters and brothers, whoever dies here dies in the future of light. We will enter a tomb filled with light.”

His lips trembled silently, as if he were continuing to talk to himself, which made people look at him attentively and want to hear him continue. There was no applause, but everyone talked in low voices for a long time. The words were like a breeze, and the wisdom shone like the rustling of leaves.

"I'm going to send the letter," Luo Bo finished writing and urged Tina, "You should leave quickly and notify the hospital to prepare bandages."

There was a roar in the sky. The roaring sound was like spring thunder, so dense it was unbelievable.

Neither the 6-pounder nor the 12-pounder made such a sound. The huge black shadow smashed open the roof, and a house collapsed near us.

"Artillery attack, take cover quickly!" Tina hurriedly pushed Lobo and ran towards a nearby building.

Smoke and dust billowed. The black shadows of the cannonballs made a terrible whistling sound, and fell on the assembled teams and buildings one after another. Nothing could stop these black beating iron balls.

The Beyeland artillery detected the gathering of rebels and bombarded it with heavy artillery. Screams and wailings came one after another, and were soon covered up by louder explosions and earthquakes.

Luo Bo didn't know how he was knocked to the ground, and he didn't know how to wake up. When the smoke cleared, she was covered in ashes and wounds, and she couldn't stop coughing. She didn't even have time to feel the pain, so she went to dig through the rubble around her. The shelling destroyed the building and buried many people inside.

The broken stone slabs were extremely heavy and could not be pushed by the thin shepherdess. She dug into the rubble on the side again.

There she found a hand still holding half a cookie.

……

“Byeland became the winner in the world not because of the superiority of its ideas, values ​​or religion… but because of its greater ability to use organized violence.

"The rebels can't win."

Erza was fully clothed and stood at the forefront of the army. She handed the general newspaper to Berthier and commented: "The rebels lacked systematic construction and guidance, their tactics were rigid, and they lacked strategic planning. They used their precious courage and lives to try to tear off a piece of flesh from the giant who ruled the world. . Holding on will only bring more pain.”

Griffith replied: "But their sacrifice was great. It was this fearless sacrifice that brought down the Senate and made the giants who ruled the world know their weakness.

"Even if it claims to be a god, as long as it bleeds, it will fall one day."

He caressed the hilt of the sword, and stood on the streets of a small city called Wallen City on the upper reaches of the Aiyu River. In front of him was the elegant white stone and the majestic temple towering among the flowers.

The palace is solemn and majestic, with five tall towers arranged in an arc on the top. The high steps and the five spires at the top are all inspired by ancient designs, symbolizing the wisdom of the secret method that breaks away from the mundane and sublimates to a higher realm.

Huge statues of the four builders decorate both sides of the 72 steps at the entrance.

Under the steps were Griffith, Erza and the 10th Army.

"Commander, the Arcane Council Committee requires you to explain immediately. You and the army should go to Beyelan City," the envoy of the Arcane Council shouted, "get your army out of here."

Two committee members, Athor Ahan and Osidis, led many wizards to stand in front of Griffith.

"I will never allow you to enter the temple of knowledge for inspection," Yasol Ahan shouted. "We have the highest judicial immunity."

"Don't even think about setting foot in here," Osidis tore up the search warrant and threw it to the ground. "Aaron is not here. Damn it, how could you have such ridiculous information that the Son of Prophecy is the culprit who destroyed the Legion? And we're harboring him."

"Conspiracy! Slander! Who instigated you?!"

"The dictator made a mistake and left the army in the hands of a bastard like you!"

"Go back with your lies or we'll attack!"

The wizards raged, magic surging through their wands and weapons in arcane flashes. Soldiers from each squadron and battalion of the 10th Army formed a square formation, carrying rifles with bayonets on their shoulders, and stared at the commander who surrounded them with cold eyes.

Erza gracefully came behind Griffith, turned around amid the heavy siege, and faced him back to back. She raised her neck like a swan, and her winged helmet lightly touched the conqueror.

"They said they were going to attack us~"

"Oh?" A cruel smile flowed from the corner of Griffith's mouth, "That's——

"Treason."

(End of this chapter)