our family is gone

Chapter 279
The news spread quickly, because the teams were not advancing too far, and their positions were not far from each other.

The fastest to come was the team led by William, because he was in charge of the second echelon.

"How about it?"

"It's very serious, but the armor protects the vitals, and this hemostatic powder is easy to use, so my life is saved."

Paracelsus' hands were covered in blood just after treatment, and the muffled sound coming from under the bird's beak mask could hardly conceal her praise for the effect of these powders.

"It's fate that this didn't die."

William was looking at the wounds on the two of them. There were dozens of wounds of different sizes on their bodies. They were almost stained with blood. When they were dragged out of the corpses, they thought they were dead.

However, a set of first aid was given according to the rules, and unexpectedly, it was stabilized.

As long as he is not dead yet, I have to say that the emergency medical treatment is really powerful.

Of course, it was also the full armor that Lance spent money on, as well as the expensive medical methods.

Lance can accept spending some money, because he really has it and is not short of money.

But the dead cannot be accepted, because this is all he has, and these will be the backbone of the army expansion in the future.

By the time Disma and Barristan arrived, the situation had already been controlled on Hamlet's side.

"how is the situation?"

William roughly explained the situation, and the people who rushed over had to look sideways at the lying wounded.

The two desperately stopped the enemy for their teammates, killed the enemy bravely, unexpectedly stopped the enemy, and waited for the support of their teammates, this is not dead yet.

This is simply...unspeakable loyalty!

"It's good that I'm in charge here, and the lord's plan can't be delayed." William was a little surprised at the appearance of the two, because each of them had their own responsibilities, and the lord had said it before coming.

"Handing the front lines to the captains of the teams will not affect the arrangements of the adults. It's just strange because the resistance we encountered is too weak."

Disma directly explained why he was able to come back so quickly in one sentence, because the captains of each team have the ability to command.

At the same time, it was because he found that the believers were killing less and less, otherwise, if the front line was urgent, they would not be able to come over so quickly after hearing the news.

This is not nonsense, but it is estimated that there are at least a thousand enemies here before the battle, but apart from a little resistance at the beginning, there will soon be no one.

But when they searched those houses, most of them had signs of life, and it was impossible for people to disappear out of thin air.

"So there is only one possibility."

Barristan added, and everyone understood where he was pointing—underground.

"What should we do now?" Disma had a headache, because no one knew the situation below the tunnel, even if he didn't know how to command, he understood the danger below.

"Have you ever caught a mouse?" William had a strange look on his face, "We train our hounds to often find mice to practice, but if the mouse hides in the hole, the hounds can't do anything about it, and there are many rats. If there is an exit, if you want to catch it, you can use smoke to let the mouse run out by itself, and you can also find other exits of the mouse hole by following the flue."

"But if there are many exits, it may cause confusion. I think it's better to notify the lord first, and then withdraw the people and set them on fire." Doesn't Disma know such a simple method?But if those hidden below come out at once, I'm afraid it will be thrown into chaos.

"I have a way." Paracelsus on the side spoke at this time, and saw that she took out a pack of unknown things, "Add these when smoking, I have tested that it can make people Excited, inhaling too much will cause a heart burst and death."

This is the incense material seized from the cultists a long time ago. Lance is actually trying to develop one of them, and selects some relatively safe formulas from them for Paracelsus to test. These are one of the semi-finished products.

William also seemed a little surprised when he heard this. He knew more or less about the nursing home, and it was precisely because of this that he felt a little uneasy about Paracelsus.

It was difficult for him to accept people as experimental materials, but those people were heinous guys, even he couldn't say much.

"Okay!" In contrast, Disma didn't have such a deep sense of morality. When he heard this, he immediately agreed to this method without hesitation. Although he knew that many rats would die below this method, as long as it wasn't Hamlet who died people will do.

What's more, these guys can no longer be called human beings.

With one order, a lot of sundries and the package were thrown to the exit of the tunnel. Disma took out a Molotov cocktail and lit it and threw it down. Flames burst out instantly.

Wood tar is a good thing, but the output is still too low, even if Lance wants to equip it, he can only get a few small bottles for a few key people to deal with important enemies.

The same thing also has a disadvantage, that is, it has not been purified and rectified, and there are too many impurities in it to appear burnt black, and the reaction shown is that billowing black smoke will rise when it is ignited.

And it is even more exaggerated when there is not enough oxygen and complete combustion cannot be carried out, and now these have all become advantages.

She has a bird's beak mask and is not afraid of poisonous gas, but Desma and the others always feel that there is something in the air, so they quickly cover the floor, even so, smoke seeps out from the gap.

"Exit, and inform you to be careful of enemies when you see smoke."

The others in Barristan understood that all they needed now was to wait for the rats to come out...

In fact, Lance guessed right. The core of Ascension Church is in the central church. At this time, the city gate has been breached, the warehouse has also been taken, and the army is constantly advancing.

"They beat back the believers we sent out."

"The warehouse has been occupied by them, and our people have been compressed here."

"Three troops are strangling towards us, and we don't have many believers to confront them head-on."

"If the deacon launches an attack, everything will be fine." The Ascension Priest wearing a black robe in the room looked weak.

"My lord priest...the deacon...he..." Several believers seemed hesitant, but they said it after they met each other's eyes, "The deacon was beaten back by a team led by a barbarian, and he lost most of his troops and did not launch an attack. "

Hearing this, the soaring priest suddenly fell silent, slammed the table with trembling hands, raised his head and roared.

"Trash! Becoming a deacon is just God's favor, how can he still have the face to return to God's side!"

And at this moment, everyone saw that the priest's face was not human at all, the muscles seemed to dissolve into wax, and dense black eyeballs grew on one side, trembling due to anger.

Several people didn't dare to refute when they heard this, but they still advised them.

"Master Priest, our people can't stop it anymore, we should retreat into the tunnel and leave here and wait for the counterattack."

Do cultists get scared?

No, they are just worried that they will not be faithful to God, at least they think so, if they don't leave here, they will be taken away.

It's just that this kind of emotion belongs exclusively to the upper echelons of the Ascension Church. Can those low-level believers who don't even belong to their own minds really be able to ascend?

The priest also understands the situation. This place is very important to the Ascension Sect. Once it is broken, not only the communication will be broken, but also the transportation route will be cut off. The power of the sect will be greatly weakened like a broken leg.

Then the only way to get back to the old place is through Hamlet, because even they don't want to go through the middle of nowhere.

But will Hamlet allow them to do so?
It may have been possible before, but now everyone knows that the army outside is Hamlet's.

We must preserve our strength and prepare for a counterattack.

"Notify them all to withdraw into the tunnel and prepare to launch a full-scale counterattack!"

The priest quickly made arrangements, and even he himself hid in the tunnel, and the church fell into an empty silence in an instant. Only the altar placed explained what they were doing here...

Rats dig tunnels not because they like tunnels, but because they want to survive.

The same is true for the Ascension sect digging tunnels. In fact, although they clamor for the great cause of Ascension, those guys know that they are a cult, so whether it is a city wall or a moat, they are all guarding against the enemy.

It is impossible for 1 people to break through this fortress-like town with these two things, because the defenders are not soldiers, but believers, and they are not afraid of death at all under their fanatical beliefs.

And the surrounding area couldn't even pull out an army of one thousand or several hundred people, so this place was originally impenetrable.

This tunnel is the last insurance, even if the church knights come in, they can hide and continue to entangle with the enemy.

But what happened today made everyone stupid.

The first two lines of defense were breached before they even played a role, which was different from what they imagined!

The soldiers came fiercely. They originally planned to fight, but who knew that the other side was not only well-equipped, but also frankly more fanatical than themselves, killing anyone they saw.

Crazier than them!
But now the two teams sent out to harass the enemy's rear, one team was wiped out by scattered teams, while the other team was actually stopped by two people.

Those ascension believers were also dumbfounded, they were still standing upright with dozens of knives in their fucking bodies, and were fighting the enemy bravely. Is this something that humans can do?
But they had no more chances, because William arrived, those retreating believers fled back to the tunnel, and soon thick smoke spread along the tunnel.

"Cough cough!"

"Damn! Run away."

"what!"

The teams above killed no more than two to three hundred people, and the rest were all stuffed into the tunnel, so densely populated in the narrow tunnel.

When the smoke came, it caused panic in an instant, and before the poisonous smoke took effect, they themselves started fighting each other in a mess.

When the power attached to the smoke makes them excited, all this is hard to stop even those fanatics, because they themselves are the craziest hackers, and a scene even more tragic than the above happened in the tunnel.

However, there are still some who have accepted enough flesh and blood rituals, have enough physique to carry the poisonous smoke, or are close enough to the exit to escape.

"Huhuhu~"

They gasped for fresh air, but their lungs were burning and their brains were suffocated, making it difficult for them to recover in a short time.

They desperately needed more fresh air, so they instinctively rushed out of the building after escaping from the tunnel.

And they will be greeted with a warm welcome.

"Bang bang bang!"

A row of musketeers fired, almost close to the face, and there was no possibility of the shot being missed.

After they finished shooting, they retreated to one side to reload, while the next team continued to raise their guns to aim, and shot at the moment someone rushed out, harvesting those believers like leeks.

Looking at the many believers lying on the ground, we can see their harvest.

The smoke led them to find more exits. As long as the soldiers squatted down, the believers who could wait until they were in extremely poor condition and had no power to resist would rush out by themselves.

It's like digging a hole in the ice, those fish that are lacking in oxygen and dizzy will take the initiative to come over, just raise your hand and catch it.

By the time Lance received the news, the situation had been completely brought under control. To be honest, he didn't expect those guys to be so stupid and hide in the tunnel by themselves.

You must know that those people put it on the bright side, and the three hundred soldiers would have to pay a very high price to completely wipe out the believers in the town. Lance even had the ability to hear the news of death.

Even if it was a hundred pigs, he would have to catch them for half a day, but the pigs ran back to the pigsty by themselves.

They hid in the tunnel by themselves, and the poisonous smoke killed most of them directly. Even if they didn't die, they were blinded or dizzy and lost the ability to resist.

After finally escaping from the tunnel, the first thing he faced was the musket that had been prepared for a long time.

Squatting down at each tunnel crossing is to be shot in a row, just like cutting leeks, as many as escaped and fell down.

To be honest, Lance didn't expect to win this battle out of nowhere, and now he seems to understand how cool it is to be the opponent of a fool.

"The situation has stabilized, as long as you rest well, you will be fine."

Lance withdrew his hand to check the two. In fact, the two were seriously injured, and Paracelsus only temporarily suspended their lives.

The arrival of Lance directly erased the life-threatening injuries of the two, leaving only some insignificant flesh injuries.

It's not that he doesn't like to use [Flesh and Flesh Reconstruction], nor is he stingy with the spirituality, which is not universal.

Worried that soldiers would become dependent and not value their own lives, that's why he promoted modern medical care, even if the treatment had to be covered.

The behavior of the two of them was reckless, but it is undeniable that it greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers.

Geralt, who was on the sidelines, looked up and saw that many soldiers were injured, but none of them showed the frustration that wounded soldiers should have. On the contrary, they showed excitement.

If the lord ordered them to continue fighting, I'm afraid they would really join the battle again without hesitation regardless of their injuries, until they died.

But Lance did not do this. He inspected the wounded soldiers, asked if they had been properly treated, and at the same time comforted them to have a good rest.

"Boss!" Boudica walked quickly, and then raised the thing in his hand, "Look, I finally killed him."

Lance looked over and saw that Boudica was holding a mutated head, or he should be called a deacon.

The last group of believers who resisted was wiped out, and the whole town was completely under his control.

(End of this chapter)