Riding and Slashing

The road in the valley was gone, and the ground was covered with dirt and gravel. Occasionally, some Snake Cult warriors could be seen curled up on the ground, shivering with their round shields covering their heads.

More Snake Worshipers should have been buried shallowly by the sprayed soil.

In fact, the tens of thousands of troops in the valley must not be completely wiped out by just one violent landslide artificially created.

Although most of the Snake Cultists were buried in the mud, there are still many lucky ones who are still alive, and even many Snake Cultists were not injured.

But at this moment, none of them dared to stand up, or even raise their heads.

Although these snake worshipers are not afraid of death, they are very afraid of the power of heaven and earth, even more than ordinary people.

After all, superstitious and ignorant people are more likely to attribute all disasters to divine punishment.

The previous movement, in the eyes of the Snake Worshipers, seemed to have offended the gods...

Until now, there are still stones falling from the cliff, but the Snake Cult army in the valley basically dare not move.

Li Ang didn't know how many people were still alive in the Snake Cult army at this time, but he didn't plan to take the troops directly to investigate - it was too dangerous, who knew when the bombed places on the cliffs on both sides would collapse again ?

And according to common sense, the collapse of the mountain and the fall of earth and rocks can cause at most half of the direct casualties to the Snake Worship Cult army.

Those living Snake Worshipers are currently afraid of Tianwei lying on the ground and dare not move, but if they lead their troops down the valley to face them directly, they may have to fight another uneconomical battle.

In fact, in order to ensure that all hidden dangers can be completely resolved, Li Ang had already made preparations for the guards.

Wendy had already appeared at the entrance of the valley with the Noldor Guard.

The previous explosion was caused by her leading people - the valley is very big, and the fuse is not so long. To create such a large-scale explosion, one person must be arranged to ignite the fuse every short distance.

This meant climbing to the top of the cliff to ambush, and running away immediately after lighting the fuse. Only the rangers of the Noldor had such efficiency and skill to escape the landslide after the explosion in time.

At this time, Wendy had reorganized the guards and blocked the entrance of the valley.

That is behind the army of the Snake Worship Cult.

The entrance of the valley has also become extremely narrow due to landslides, a large amount of mud and gravel mixed with trees are blocked in a mess, leaving only a gap of less than ten meters.

Wendy's task was not to guard the gap. In fact, no one could have predicted what would happen here before the explosion, and it was also difficult to predict whether the Noldor would be able to reach this position in time after the large-scale landslide.

The arrangement Li Ang gave her was to find a way to light a fire at the entrance of the valley.

A fire that can last through the night and seal the mouth of an entire valley.

As a Noldor elf, Wentierf had never touched fire before she met Leon, but she never expected that she would always be doing things like murder, arson, and explosions after meeting the lord...

With only a gap of about ten meters left at the entrance of the valley, the task of lighting a fire to seal the entrance was indeed quite easy for two hundred Noldor.

All kinds of messy trees were dragged and piled up together, blocking the entire mouth of the valley with branches and leaves.

Afterwards, the pile of trees with their branches and leaves mixed with some soil was filled with intense smoke.

The fire didn't look too big, the head of the open fire was only three to five meters high, but the thick smoke made it impossible to get close.

But no matter what, no one can get out from here.

At the entrance of Feidner Village, Li Ang himself was also preparing to light a fire at this end of the valley.

"Your Excellency Fabius, light the fire... As a lord, you must do one good thing for your own territory... although this may be the only one."

Li Ang handed Fabius a torch and motioned him to light a few rows of stakes.

Those messy things stuffed among the stakes were actually kindling.

The villagers in the village dragged a large pile of trees, and they seemed to be adding firewood to them after the fire was lit.

"This...lighting the fire here won't burn the Snake Worshipers in the valley, right?"

Fabius obviously didn't understand what this meant, but he didn't dare to be disobedient, took the torch and started to light it.

"The fire is never easy to burn people who can run and jump... The vast majority of people who die in the fire scene die from the thick smoke..."

Li Ang said indifferently: "Just like the good things you father and son did, although you didn't say you were going to kill people when you forcefully expropriated food, your subordinates killed most of the old people like thick smoke in a fire... "

Fabius' hand holding the torch trembled violently: "Your Excellency Li Ang, you said you would let me go...otherwise my father will definitely kill all the women and children!"

After all, the fire was lit, but Fabius' heart probably cooled down.

The wooden piles at the entrance of the village have all been set on fire, forming a wall of fire, and the villagers are still throwing trees and corpses into it.

Severe thick smoke and stench began to sweep across the entire valley, gradually covering the entire bottom of the valley—this is what would inevitably happen after a fire was lit at the mouth of the valley.Coupled with the ignition at both ends, the smoke could not escape, and the thick smoke kept accumulating in the valley, forming a tumbling gray carpet within a few minutes.

Coughing one after another, heart-piercing wailing sounded together, accompanied by the dull sound of falling stones from time to time, adding another layer of torture to the valley that had already become purgatory.

The coughing in the valley only lasted for less than half an hour before it fell completely silent.

Fires ignited at both ends of the valley, completely blocking all exits. The Snake Worshipers who were afraid of the power of the landslide and did not climb out of the mud and rocks in time, now it is completely impossible to climb out again.

The sky gradually darkened, but the fire illuminated the entire valley, and the pervasive gray-white smoke gradually accumulated in the valley into rolling smoke clouds, burying everything at the bottom of the valley.

The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Snake Worship Cult were buried in this valley without having much direct contact with Li Ang's troops.

In the evening, in the village of Fidner.

"Febius, to be honest, you father and son threatened me with women and children from your own territory. This approach is actually very stupid... Do you think I will be threatened like this?"

Li Ang is now basically sure that the Snake Cult army must be finished. Although it is impossible to go to the valley to check it now, as long as they are not the walking corpses of the Dread Legion, they will definitely suffocate to death in the valley.

He looked at the aggressive Fabius, and began to think about how to deal with the father and son.

Levius was not really here, the governor was still hiding in the mountains, in the same place as the women and children of the village—he did not bring them back.

After knowing that Fabius was arrested and forced to return to the young man in the mine, Livius probably wanted to use those women and children to protect the safety of his father and son.

In order to deal with the Snake Cult army first, Li Ang didn't have time to deal with them before, and letting women and children hide in the mountains is also the way to deal with the enemy.

But now, this matter always has to be resolved.

"This is not a threat, I just want to save my life... You let me go back to Qingzhuang, and I put all of them back. I don't want to fight against you... Now that the Snake Cultist has been killed, you should keep your promise and let go I!"

Fabius explained weakly.

"Febius, I said that I will only let you go after killing all the Snake Cultists—all of them, understand? And now, there are so many Snake Cultists standing in front of you... "

Li Ang pointed to the two hundred or so soldiers who were surrounded by the villagers wearing the costumes of the Snake Cult warriors.

It was a private soldier of the Levius family, wearing a green burqa, but they were all unarmed now.

"This! But they are not Snake Worshipers! They are..."

Fabius sat down on the ground slumped in the middle of his words, then turned his head and closed his mouth, no longer looking at the soldiers.

"Aren't they Snake Worshipers?... Are they the ones who kidnapped the villagers? Are they the ones who forcibly expropriated food? Are they also the ones who murdered and set fire? Isn't this what the Snake Worshipers do? It seems that you have already understood It's..."

Li Ang turned to look at the panicked soldiers: "Then...do you understand?"

"My lord...we are just following orders...we...please don't kill us! It's not fair!"

A wiser soldier fell to his knees and began to cry.

Obviously, he already understood that Fabius wanted them to die!

"According to orders, who ordered you? When did I order you to kill the old people in the village? When did I order you to burn down the houses in the village?! I just asked you to recruit soldiers and food, not to let you kill and set fire!"

Fabius turned his head to refute, obviously unwilling to take the blame.

"It seems that you want fairness... Well, I will give you fairness. You take the villagers to find all the property that the Levius family has looted over the years, capture Livius, and rescue all Women and children. I will let you go after all this, otherwise, you will all be Snake Worshipers."

The lord smiled sarcastically, and resorted to the routine that the Bacchus nobles used to harm the common people.

……

The next morning, the villagers returned.

They brought back most of the women and children, as well as the food that originally belonged to them.

Levius was also brought back, but sideways.

He died, a terrible death.

The bald governor had many fine wounds on his face, and there was a huge gap in his neck—it looked like he had been bitten, and more than half of his neck was bitten off.

In addition, most parts of the body seemed to have been smashed, and the body was almost rotten into mud.

It looked worse than those Snake Worshipers who died under the collapse of the mountain. If Li Ang hadn't said that he would bring them back, it is estimated that the Governor would not even have a complete head left.

In the distance, many villagers still did not rest, and did not leave around the group of soldiers.

Fabius sat among all the soldiers, shivering.

"What's going on? Did he encounter an ogre?"

Li Ang seemed quite calm. He didn't care about Levius's life or death, but he had to ask about his death.

"It was bitten by a villager..."

Lisa Dilan explained: "There were many women who died in the house where Levius was hiding, all naked and with signs of abuse... and some young girls. At that time The situation cannot stop the villagers..."

In order to avoid accidents, Lisa Dilan brought some troops and followed the villagers there, witnessing the whole process.

Originally, the villagers were just saving their wives and children, but then, in the cries of the women who were still alive, they found that many women had been abused, and then they saw corpses everywhere behind the house in the mountain.

A villager went mad after seeing the dead body of a young girl. He rushed into the yard, and like a beast, he took Levius by the throat and never let go.

It was his daughter, who was said to be only seven years old.

And other villagers rushed forward immediately, it was hard to say whether Levius was bitten to death or beaten to death.

"He won't let go of the young children?"

Li Ang frowned and looked at the rag-like corpse of Levius.

Lisa Dilan shook his head: "My lord, it's not just a few female corpses, but hundreds of them—as far as I have seen, there are hundreds of female corpses, and the youngest girl seems to be only five or six years old. And the villagers After they came back, there were at least three or four hundred families who did not find their wives."

"Three or four hundred?! In two months... He certainly can't harm so many women by himself!"

Li Ang turned to look at the two hundred soldiers who were tied up at the other end of the village: "I'm afraid none of them are innocent!"

Lisa Dilan nodded: "Yes, my lord, I think so too... But you said last night that you would let them go, so I tied them up first and waited for you to deal with them."

Those private soldiers really wanted to catch Levius in order to survive, and they seemed to work very hard when leading the way, and even brought back several carts of property.

But they never mentioned before that so many women died...

"Go, throw that body into the fire...it's an eyesore."

Li Ang walked to the side of the soldiers and ordered.

The soldiers' eyes lit up. They probably thought that Li Ang was going to keep his promise to give them a way to survive. Several soldiers worked together to lift Levius's body, intending to throw it into the still burning fire.

"...No! What are you doing?"

Fabius rushed over and pushed away several soldiers, trying to grab his father's body.

But even with ropes tied to their hands, several soldiers still worked together to subdue Fabius.

Levius' body was then thrown into the fire.

"Levius was burned to death by these Snake Worshipers, are you just watching? Why don't you kill these Snake Worshipers?"

Li Ang said indifferently, and took a few steps back to make room.

The villagers did not understand.

But the aged tribune understood.

He stood up and shouted: "Burn them..."

The villagers already hated these soldiers, but now that they had received clear guidance, they all rushed forward and drowned the two hundred soldiers together with Fabius in the crowd.

"Since we want to kill them... Of course we should kill them, but why do we have to let these villagers do it themselves?"

After returning to the manor on the mountainside, Amy looked at the villagers who kept throwing the corpses to the fire, and asked Li Ang strangely.

"Because I want to take all these villagers away..."

Li Ang replied: "Let them kill the local lord and the soldiers of the lord's family with their own hands, and they can only follow me...Speaking of it, my behavior is not noble, but at least I can let them live..."