Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 329 Crime and Punishment

If someone is passing by the "Kingfisher's Feather" inn in Peacock City at this very moment, he will definitely wonder whether the owner of this dilapidated and in disrepair hotel has suddenly made a fortune recently ——

——Because of the ping-pong noise coming from the hotel, it seemed that it was being renovated.

However, in the meeting room on the second floor of the hotel, Marquis Moby Dicko, the giant whale city, saw the human tragedy unfolding in front of his eyes with great clarity and panic:

The young Duke of Shuangfengling, with cruelty and sternness on his face that did not match his age, walked slowly in front of one stunned nobleman after another, and then used his empty voice like a religious priest to tirelessly say Ask the same question:
"In the past half month, how many soldiers have you sent to the north bank of the Lion Heart River?"

Then, whenever there is an answer of "no send", the metal boxer of the blond female swordsman will hit hard like a battering ram, knocking out those who are usually invincible and have never cracked their nails once. Southern nobles hammered to the ground:
As the champion of the empire's "St. Augustus Festival" tournament, and after a life-and-death fight with a powerful orc in the Red River Valley, Miss Alice Comstock can only use "too wonderful" to grasp the strength. It can be described as “peak”—the strength of each of her Doomfist strikes is exactly in the middle of making these nobles “roll on the ground” and “spleen burst”;
Xia Houyan deeply believed that if her beautiful bodyguard was in modern China, she would definitely be a legend of a generation who would walk on the standard line of minor injuries in street fights with every move at any time.

Fortunately for many aristocrats, not all the southern lords kept their soldiers and horses in Peacock City, and there were still many unlucky ghosts with limited political power who conscripted their troops under the coercion of the big nobles. Sent to the Lionheart River front;
Therefore, when these nobles faced the cold questioning of the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge, they were able to answer a specific number of troops sent, instead of being unable to pronounce even a decimal point like the pig-headed nobles.

——For these nobles who have actually dispatched troops, the Iron Fist sanctions by the head of the Frost Maple Ridge's female guard are certainly inevitable, but the Frost Maple Ridge Lord obviously does not intend to carry forward the spirit of generosity and understanding:

He supported the "President Southern Military Affairs" on his waist with his left hand, stretched out his right hand, and gave each of these nobles a clear and loud slap.

The southern aristocrats are not vegetarian either—they are pampered and pampered on weekdays, how have they ever been insulted like this?
When Xia Houyan and his men broke into the door, they were simply overwhelmed by the power for a moment, so they honestly answered Lord Shuangfengling's question in a daze, and then they were slapped several times with iron fists;

But after the first few nobles were beaten for no reason, the southern nobles in the room suddenly recalled:

This is the territory of the empire under the glory of the Supreme Holy God, the land of His Majesty Basil III's favor, everyone is also a noble lord, Elliot Igor, you little bastard with a hairless face, why are you here to show off your power? , Hit anyone you see?
Feeling the severe pain in the chest and abdomen, watching the bright red palm prints on each other's faces, several nobles immediately raised their eyebrows and strode forward, wanting to grab the arm of the young lord of Shuangfengling to ask for an explanation ;

But as soon as they took a step, they involuntarily stopped their prepared actions:
What stopped them was not Lord Frostmaple Ridge and his beautiful female guard, but the cold gaze of Count Anthony Dimitri, Governor of the South of the Empire, who came from behind Lord Frostmaple Ridge.

They suddenly realized that Elliott Igor's blatant violence here was actually acquiesced by the Governor of the South!
This... what's the situation? !

What kind of world is this? !

The nobles who wanted to ask for an explanation hesitated for a moment, but the other southern nobles could not just watch Shuangfengling continue this indiscriminate iron fist trial.

Immediately, an old aristocrat with white beard and hair, who was recognized as a respectable person among the southern celebrity circles, stood up and said with a smile to the frost-faced official Xiahou:

"Master Igor! What are you doing? Talk about something!"

"What are you doing?" Xia Houyan looked at the old man who spoke tremblingly. After all, he didn't have the nerve to betray the traditional Chinese virtues of respecting the old and loving the young. He put away the unsent slap and said with a sneer, "You see, I seem to be doing What? I am implementing military law!"

The old man was stunned for a while, but Xia Houyan turned to the southern noble in this room, and asked with a cold face:
"How long has it been since you heard the news of the orc invasion? Governor Dimitri and I came from the Lionheart River. Guess how many garrisons we saw?! For more than half a month, you are in Do you eat dry food here?! As lords who are supposed to secure the land and defend the empire from foreign enemies, shouldn’t you suffer these fists and slaps?!”

The room was silent.

Of course, the nobles were not ashamed and speechless for their corpses, but began to think quickly:
The nobles who were stunned by Shuangfengling's iron fist didn't realize it until this time. Don't look at the young Duke of Shuangfengling, but there is a "President Southern Military Affairs" command knife bestowed by His Majesty on his waist. Woolen cloth!
But then again, there are many lords in history who were ordered to command the noble allied forces, but who the hell really smashed other noble allies under the banner of military law? !

——The commanding power of the so-called "President Southern Military Affairs" is actually equivalent to an honorary title throughout the ages. The soldiers and horses of the coalition army are sent by everyone. "Trial" other imperial lords? !

The lord is only responsible to His Majesty the Emperor!

If you let the "President Southern Military Affairs" talk about it, what is the "war council" formed by the coalition lords for? !

——The southern aristocrats who have figured out the joints here have a slap in the neck, and they want to argue against Shuangfengling, who is fighting hard, and ask questions from the three aspects of imperial tradition, human righteousness, and lord's responsibility. They insist on going out tonight The outrageous breath of inexplicable beating is unacceptable;
However, before the nobleman consciously found the flag of righteousness, he was accidentally interrupted by another person before he could speak up.

"Wait! You said that you and the Governor came from the other side of the Lionheart River?!" Marquis Moby Dicko stood up from his chair, and asked a question that the southern nobles didn't really care about, "Then , Where is the orc army? Is it still in the land of the cracked soul?"

Earl Dimitri and Xia Houyan turned their heads to look at the Marquis of the Giant Whale City at the same time, with meaningful eyes.

"Not here." Xia Houyan paused for two seconds before giving the answer with a sneer, "Now, the invading orc divisions are not in the Land of Cracking Souls."

"But didn't you say that in Frost Maple Ridge..." Marquis Moby Dicko was still wondering, and there were nobles behind him.

"Eliot Igor! That day you said that the orc army had invaded! But now! You said they are not in the Land of Souls! Are you funny?!" A nobleman slapped the table and roared involuntarily. The ground floated to the elation of seizing the opportunity to win back the city, "You fucking lied about the military situation, didn't you! You fucking have to give an explanation to the lords and brothers of our war council!"

"An explanation? I'll give it to you." Xia Houyan gave the idiot a playful look, and said with a smile, "The explanation is...the 1 orc divisions that invaded have all been wiped out by Shuangfengling."

The angry color of asking questions on the faces of the loud nobles has not faded.

Because his brain had already shut down, he couldn't process this overly rich answer.

So he relied on the inertia granted by Newton's first law, and continued to slap the table and roar:
"What do you call 'saying'! I ask you! Invading orcs, what the fuck are you doing now—"

Then he finally realized something, and the voice stopped abruptly.

"Master Igor..." Marquis Moby Dicko felt his voice trembling, "...you...you say it again? You...what did you say?"

Xia Houyan sneered, raised his hands and clapped them.

The door of the conference room was slammed open again.

This time, accompanied by Sean Mountbatten and Karen Lepage, it was Chris Mann, the deputy commander of Igor's pioneering army, who strode into the conference room.

With a wave of his hand, Chris threw a round and heavy object on the round table in front of the nobles, and shouted loudly:

"The head of the Glorious Federation' Hammer of Purgatory, Gullit Gale, has been crusaded by the people of Shuangfengling and the Igor pioneer army!"

The round thing rolled several times on the table.

Immediately afterwards, screams and fear erupted in the conference room.

Because the noble lords around the round table were shocked to find out that the one thrown onto the round table by this young officer in gray woolen military uniform turned out to be a huge orc head that smelled of antiseptic!
What covered the horrified screams of the nobles was another burst of heavy metal friction and the bang of the wall breaking:
A group of soldiers in heavy steel armor just squeezed through the narrow door of the meeting room, and lined up behind Lord Shuangfengling with their hands tied.

The steel armor worn by the soldiers, which was too large compared to the size of a human, was obviously once displayed by the orcs, which stopped the hearts of the southern nobles for half a beat;

But now, the goshawk coat of arms of the Igor family hastily imprinted on these steel armors made their lungs forget to breathe.

"This... this..." Marquis Moby Dicko was the first to recover from the shock, "this is..."

"Right now, a total of [-] orc corpses are lying in the ice cellar of the East Icehouse in Shuangfengling, waiting for all the 'noble brothers' to go and inspect them." Xia Houyan said in the coldest and most pretentious tone, "Now, I ask You guys, I, Elliot Igor, as the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge and the 'President of Southern Military Affairs', am I qualified to chat with you about military law?!"

For the first time tonight, the conference room on the second floor of "Kingfisher Feather" fell into silence again.

"No! You lied! You lied!" The pig-headed noble who fell on the ground might have finally recovered from the severe pain, and wailed unyieldingly on the cold floor, "That's ten thousand orcs! Ten thousand! Orcs! How can you, that rubbish territory of Shuangfengling..."

Xia Houyan stopped talking nonsense, and kicked the head of this brain-dead noble with one boot. If Chris Mann hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and stretched out his hand to hold the lord, if this kick really kicked up, it would definitely make this man The fiery brains of the pig-headed nobleman painted an abstract painting on the floor.

"Everyone... my dear... 'noble brothers'." Xia Houyan patted Chris on the shoulder, motioning for the latter to let go of himself, then straightened his neckline, and smiled at a room of southern nobles who were stunned and aphasia Without a smile, he said, "More than ten days ago, our Igor pioneer army in Frost Maple Ridge was in a valley to the east of the Land of Broken Soul—I recently learned from the territorial newspaper "What the Lord Eats Today" that the people of the territory We named it 'Red River Valley' - in this Red River Valley, we set up an ambush to block the entire [-] troops of the Orc Purgatory Hammer Division.

"Dear 'noble brothers', in order to be able to keep the enemy out of the country in the land of the cracked soul, and to ensure that none of the people of the southern empire will die tragically under the knife of the orc wolf cavalry, we, Shuangfengling, have paid almost all of our wealth since our establishment. , paid an unprecedented painful price... We consumed tons of ammunition and equipment, and we sacrificed the precious lives of countless soldiers in the process of blocking the wolf cavalry. Hands smeared with blood...

"Yesterday, when Governor Dimitri and I crossed the Lion Heart River, the news I received was that you, you my dear 'noble brothers' from the south, are wasting money in this peacock city. For more than half a month... Your soldiers are not standing on the front line of the Lion Heart River where they should be, but are busy here harming the women?!
"Then I would like to ask, my dear 'noble brothers'... have you ever thought that if our Frost Maple Ridge's strength is a little bit weaker, if our people in Frost Maple Ridge are a little bit more right on the battlefield?" Fear of death, if I, the lord of Frost Maple Ridge, are lucky enough to learn the cynical, free and easy indulgence of you, and if the orcs really capture the land of broken souls——then, with the things you have established on the Lionheart River How many fucking orc soldiers can the stupid defense line stop?! What kind of fucking fate has befallen the people in the south of the entire empire?"

"Answer me!!!" Facing the silent imperial nobles in the room, Xia Houyan kicked the round table in front of him, and the head of General Gale on the table also flew up, bumping into a young nobleman in the arms.

The young nobleman was holding a huge orc head in his hand, neither holding it nor putting it down. He trembled under the roar of the lord, and finally cried out with a "wow".

Xia Houyan gave the young nobleman a hard look, and then said slowly:
"Dear 'noble brothers'... When I decided to stop the orc army on the land of the cracked soul, I considered your temperament-I have long thought that if you plan a war with you trash, it will only be counterproductive , it would be better to rely on the strength of our Frost Maple Ridge to fight the orcs in the land of cracked soul first, no matter how bad it is, we can buy you a little time to build a defense line... But now it seems that I was wrong, and I respect everyone! I don’t know enough about mediocrity—I didn’t expect that when you got half a month’s time, what you made in the end was a fucking piece of rubbish!”

Xia Houyan stroked the handle of the command saber, sneered and said:
"Everyone, I came here today to cut down a few people to comfort the soldiers of Shuangfengling who died heroically and the civilians of the empire who died on the front line of the eastern border. I believe that even if I pull out the handle of 'President Southern Military Affairs' I hacked everyone to death with my command knife on the spot, so I should be forgiven and forgiven—will the Southern Governor-General forgive me?"

When asking this last sentence, Xia Houyan still stared coldly at the nobles in the room, but Earl Dimitri replied in response:

"The Governor of the South will forgive you."

"Will the Imperial Army and Grand Duke Rosario forgive me?" Xia Houyan asked again.

"Lord Rosario and the Imperial Army will forgive you." Eldridge replied.

"I think this knife means His Majesty Basil will also forgive me." Xia Houyan shook the command knife at his waist, "Also, even if I hack everyone to death, the Supreme Holy Spirit will definitely forgive me, I believe you all After death, you can personally ask the Supreme Holy Spirit to verify this matter..."

Xia Houyan paused, then smiled slightly:
"But on the other hand, if I don't let you, my dear 'noble brothers', if you don't pay a little price for your stupidity, greed, shallowness and viciousness, then the people of the empire will not forgive me. And every human and orc who died in it will never forgive me."

Among the southern aristocrats, there was clearly the sound of spitting out of fear.

Xia Houyan said lightly:
"In the end, you are lucky - because Governor Dimitri, he is a pious man who believes in the good nature of human beings; because Governor Dimitri advised me on the way here, save everyone a dog's life Maybe there is still a big use—so, now, you have to do something really useful to the empire in order to win back your life that is not worth half a copper coin—this is an order, do you understand? "

The southern nobles scrambled to nod their heads.

"Then get out of here. Tomorrow morning, I will see you in the big tent of the military camp outside Peacock City, and there must be no one left." Xia Houyan waved his hand, "You, go and set up the table again. Ask the tavernkeeper to bring some bottles of ale, roast a suckling pig, and some olives and bread. The governor and I rushed all the way here from the Lion Heart River, and we haven't had time to eat."

(End of this chapter)