Law of the Devil Chapter 619: [The “gift” of falling snow]
Chapter 619 [The "gift" of falling snow]
"What did you see?"
On the walls north of the fortress, under the orders of falling snow, there are no other figures on the surrounding walls, only falling snow and Dewey holding the wall to look north. Rohat stood silently about a few steps behind him.
Luo Xue pointed to the north and asked Du Wei with a smile.
Following the fingers of falling snow, Dewey looked. To the north, far below the city was the river defense that was once considered by humans to be the most stable. The Roland Empire consumed a lot of manpower and invested a lot of money to excavate. Of course, the wide artificial river channel has a lot of gold coins donated by Dewey.
This river, plus this fortress, was once considered as the eastern defense line by humans. And now, the river has become the world of the orcs.
Just in the direction of falling snow fingers, Du Wei can even see faintly. In the shallow water of the riverside, there is a huge figure soaking in the water. Those who once annihilated the human warfare stationed here Marine warrior of the orcs hippos.
At this moment, this river has become the site of the Hippo tribe. Those huge figures are roaring and roaring in the water, and are enjoying the fun of the water.
Seeing this scene, Dewey ’s muscles in the corners of his eyes gently picked. It was already early morning. After a long talk with Luo Xue, he was slightly tired. When the morning sun fell on the river, The surface of the water was full of golden light, the hippopotamus was playing, and the scene was very interesting, but Du Wei's heart suddenly thought of a thought: Will the souls of the sailors who died in the water find this scene interesting?
Also, the wreckage of a sunken warship in the river. I'm afraid we're still crying in the cold river water!
"What did you see?" Luo Xue said again, asking gently.
Du Wei raised his eyelids and said a little coldly: "What do you want me to answer?"
"I see ... peace." The tone of falling snow was almost saintly pure, but Du Wei was disgusted with no reason. At this moment, he suddenly hated the elegant elf in front of him, I feel that it is extremely hypocritical!
"Peace ?!" Du Wei laughed, his laughter was full of irony and faint anger: "Really? Did you see peace? Just because these beasts in the water are joking and joking? Enjoying Their good times? But sorry. I can't see a trace of peace! Seeing this, I thought of the souls of thousands of human army sailors who died in the river water! I thought of ours who were sunk in the water Warship! "
His voice gradually became sharper, and gave Xue Xue a severe glance: "You see peace, but I see the ground, only ... shame! Defeat of defeat!"
Luo Xue was speechless, it was silent for a while, then sighed softly: "It seems that war does make people change, Duke Tulip. You are now radical and warlike."
Du Wei didn't want to let it go, saying arrogantly: "From the perspective of the saint, war is certainly not good. But from me, a human being, emotionally. I am willing to stop the war, but only if we are defeated On the premise of peace! Peace does not depend on the powerful enemy 'reward'! "
"Sharp, cold, and belligerent. Cruel ..." Luo Xue gently spit out one word after another, and finally looked at Du Wei with a grin: "Is this how you feel now?"
Luo Xue did not respond positively to Du Wei's questioning, it was silent, not knowing what the elven king was thinking at the moment.
After a while, it continued to say, "So, further north? What do you see?"
There are countless orcs on the north side of the fortress, and the walls around dozens of meters away. In this cold morning, naked upper body, naked muscles, long black hair, toiled in the morning breeze.
They used wooden sticks, shovels, and levers to build humans' hard-built north wall. Place those complete stones. Demolished one by one, a solid wooden bridge has been set up on the river. The orcs use round logs as wheels, laying wooden boards on top of them, and stacking the removed stones on the wooden boards, and the orcs are transported to the North Shore little by little like ants.
And on the north bank of the river, in the distance, piles of stone are standing there, the sound of the other bank is full of noise, and the orcs work hard all night.
Too far away, Dewey can't see clearly, but it seems that he can faintly see the dwarf in the chaos.
On the north bank of the river, not far from the river, a stone wall is beginning to take shape under the orc's hard work. And the surrounding area was circled, and the stones were lifted up by lifting equipment made of wood one by one as if building blocks.
"That's a castle."
The falling snow interrupted Du Wei's wait-and-see: "That will be our first military castle built on the land of Roland. A barrier built entirely according to orc standards."
"What is it for?" Du Wei sneered.
Luo Xue glanced at Du Wei: "built on the north bank of the river to protect our territory."
Probably the words "Our Territory" deeply stabbed Du Wei's self-esteem. He was furious and had no seizures on his face, but his tone was involuntarily sharpened. Territory? Wherever you used to go, as long as you carried swords and weapons to drive away the original inhabitants, you called it "your territory"?
"Evoke the original inhabitants with a sword ..." Luo Xue smiled gently: "Don't forget, this is exactly what you did to us ten thousand years ago."
The northern wall of the human fortress has been demolished and broken, and some places are even invisible, stones, iron, etc ... everything that is useful is carried by the orcs to the north bank of the river And build a new castle there.
"Why not use the one you already occupied? Don't you like its shape?" Du Weishen said, "Or do you not like all human buildings, must be demolished and rebuilt?"
"I said, you're a little bit extreme now." Luo Xue shook her head, and under the morning sun, there was a slight smile on her face: "This is just a pure military consideration. Yes, but this is the territory of your humanity. And it is backed by rivers. It is not conducive to defense. We will rebuild one on the north bank, so ... "
"In this way, if we counterattack, you will have a complete defense system of rivers and city walls ... this is the way we humans used to defend you before, right." Du Wei sneered.
"I said, I have no territorial ambitions for the place south of your river." Luo Xue emphasized again.
Looking at Du Wei's indifferent expression and cold eyes, Luo Xue sighed in the heart: "I know I said this. You can't understand everything for a while. Or you understand in your heart, but you can't accept it." /
"I'm not a saint." Du Wei said coldly: "But you ... elf king, you seem to be planning to be a saint."
Luo Xue was silent for a while, it did not fight back against Du Wei's counterattack, but only whispered after a while: "Let's go down. I have other gifts for you."
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Du Wei understood all the methods of falling snow: including the construction of Xindi Castle in Hebei.
Because from a military perspective, unless the criminals intend to continue their aggressive invasion south, the fort they occupy is not suitable for defense.
If the river is added first. Only when the defense system is complete.
From this perspective, Luo Xue also euphemistically expressed his position: under its leadership, the sinners did not plan to invade south.
Or rather: Snowfall intends to control the war to a limited extent. And once the south invades aggressively, both sides will fall into the quagmire of war and can no longer withdraw.
While falling snow on the wall said "gift". Du Wei finally saw it.
East of the fortress was originally a barracks where the human garrison was stationed, but now it has become a "prison of war camp."
The human guard. On the day that the fortress fell, some thousands of soldiers finally fell with the fortress, and some of them were killed and some were captured after being surrounded. Some of these people are unwilling to run away because of courage, of course, there are also some. I want to run without being able to run away.
But anyway, these soldiers who persist in fighting until the end are a group of people worthy of respect.
When Dewey came to this prisoner of war camp, there were a few teams of elven warriors guarding them around. Those elven warriors were wearing gorgeous armor and carrying space behind them, like a helmet wrapped in leaves. Handsome appearance ...
"I can only let my soldiers guard here. Because. Orcs are hostile to humans." Luo Xue whispered: "I know, before that. Orcs and the army have killed all the captured humans and even The habit of eating. But after I arrived, I have restrained this practice. These prisoners of war are alive and well, and I have not abused them. However, what is not good to prevent the orc's hatred of humans I can only let my people guard here. "
Du Wei nodded, and then just spat out "thank you" from his mouth.
Walk into the prisoner of war camp. In the morning, Dewey saw the hordes of human fighters lined up.
Even though they lost their weapons and armor, and each wore a uniform, they did not seem to have been abused during this period of capture.
Du Wei even surprised him to find out that, despite being captured, they are still carrying out their usual morning exercises in the army.
A team of defenseless soldiers, lined up in this team, running and playing on the playground in the military camp. Although everyone is very silent and can see from their gloomy expressions that their mental state is low, but ... after all, they still keep exercising, they have not completely lost hope because of being captured, and they still maintain the true nature of the soldier.
When Luo Xue and Dewey came in, at the beginning, these prisoners of war didn't pay attention, they only thought that they were coming from the elves to watch. But then, some human soldiers saw Du Wei's appearance clearly: his dress, and his ears.
Human! It is actually a human and an elf walking together!
"Let all the prisoners of war come together, I have something to announce."
Soon, these prisoners of war were gathered on the playground, and they still kept the queue barely in accordance with the pre-capture. Occasionally some of the queues are scattered, also because the organizational damage is too severe. But most people hold their heads up and try not to show frustration in front of the enemy. They still keep fighting spirit!
Du Wei sighed: These people are the true elites in the Stormwind Legion.
Different from those who were chased dozens of miles by thousands of wolf cavalry, like dogs of a bereavement.
"All human warriors." Luo Xue had no politeness, it quickly stood at the front of the queue of these prisoners of war, and said aloud, "I announce something, according to me and your Eastern Front of the Roland Empire. The result of deliberations by the Supreme Commander. From today on, you will be able to leave here and go home. "
It's uproar!
There were a lot of exclamations in the crowd, and more people cast doubts. However, the queue remains intact.
"I respect you these days. Although you were captured, you fought to the last minute in order to surround this fortress. You are worthy of respect for our soldiers, although we are in a hostile position." Luo Xue finished, Nodded. Take a look at Dewey.
Instantly, Du Wei understood the purpose of falling snow!
I heard Luo Xue continue to say, "You do n’t need to thank me, because we are enemies. If we meet again on the battlefield in the future, we will not show mercy to each other! I make the decision to let you go back. For a large reason Yes, because of one person! "
Speaking, his finger pointed to Du Wei: "This lord, as a noble nobleman. He came here from your human place alone, and came into our army, and he used his Perseverance and courage moved me and admired me, Lord Tulip, do you have anything to say to your soldiers?
Du Wei walked up silently, stood in front of the falling snow, and looked at the thousands of pairs of eyes with amazement below.
Then he raised his hand. Made a standard military salute throughout the Roland Empire.
A military salute immediately made thousands of eyes glow with great excitement and fiery!
His voice was a little trembling: "Dear brave fighters! I think everyone must have heard my name. My name is Duverin Rudolph, the empire conferred the title of Duke of Tulips, and the empire, And. The current Eastern Front Master! "
Boom!
The crowd can no longer remain silent. There was a loud noise and shouts immediately, and the sound was full of joy and excitement!
"Duke! Lord Duke Tulip!"
"Master Duke is here to pick us up!"
"We haven't been abandoned!"
Voice shrouded Dewey. He took a deep breath and shouted loudly with the loudest voice: "Be quiet! Everyone! I am here today and I will take you all back! You can leave here and go home !!! As our enemy said You do n’t have any place to be inferior, because you have done your job well, fighting here to the last minute! Being captured is not your fault! So, now, please raise your chest! "
After listening to Du Wei's words, everyone unconsciously tried to straighten the waist, even many people with bandages and wounded people stood upright!
"Remember what I said! You returned to the ground with pride!" Du Wei said here, and performed another military salute.
At this time, among the prisoners of war, several people suddenly strode out. These people quickly came to the front of the queue, turned around, and roared loudly with a bold voice: "xxxx team lined up XXX battalions line up !!! **** line up lines !!! "
The order sounded, and the queue that was slightly chaotic just now was tidy up quickly. People with excitement, laughter, and even tears quickly recovered from the order. The true colors of the soldiers are arranged in a neat line.
The few people turned around, raised their heads, and strode in front of Du Wei.
"Master! The 6th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Division of the Storm Corps ..."
"The Fourth Heavy Infantry Regiment ...
"The XXth Regiment of the Second Division of the Theater Task Force ..."
"..."
"........."
Several captured senior officers reported to Dewey with an excited and trembling voice. Dewey did not have a marching ceremony, but went up one by one and hugged the officers forcefully. After being embraced by him. Some officers even burst into tears on the spot.
Captive soldiers, senior officers include four commanders, six deputy commanders, and even a deputy division commander who was seriously injured in the battle with the Dragons, and a number of low-ranking officers.
Each of these people is full of excitement and excitement in the eyes of Dewey, and there is a deep gratitude that cannot be described in words!
Du Wei was stared at these eager eyes. Excited in his heart, he couldn't calm down, and it took a while before he issued an order: "Everyone prepare, we will leave after noon ... to go home!"
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"Do you like this gift?" As he stepped out of the POW camp, Luo Xue looked at Dewey, and his smile was somewhat unpredictable.
"A big gift." Du Wei's expression suddenly became cold.
"Most of these people are real elite warriors." Luo Xue said lightly: "There are some officers of not low level. After they go back. I think many people are under your protection. They will soon be restored and even promoted. Well, let me think, according to your human ranks. Those command levels can be promoted to major generals, deputy commanders promoted to commanders ... and these people will become senior officers! More importantly ... Because it is you who came to save them out. So, in the future, these people will feel kindness to you. Your prestige will be firmly established among them! With such a group of people Go back and re-dissolve into your army, and you will make your reputation in the army forever! Lord Duke, my land! "
Du Wei watched the falling snow alertly: "It's a great gift. But what do you want?"
"An ally." Luo Xue said the answer without concealing it.
It paused, staring deeply at Dewey: "I have told you my ideals and I will choose a very difficult path. On this path, I can't do it myself. I need to be among you humans. In the camp, there is a real intelligent and high-weight person. Hold on to the same goal as me! "
Du Wei did not answer this question directly, but stared at the falling snow's eyes: "I am your enemy!"
"Yes, it's the enemy. I'm also your enemy." Luo Xue smiled: "Isn't this a challenging and difficult cause? Enemies and enemies can have the same goal."
Speaking, it reached out and looked at Dewey.
Du Wei didn't shake hands with Luo Xue, but walked directly past it, and kept walking forward. Far away. Then I looked back and threw a sentence: "Are you really a saint? Falling snow? I never believed in saints because saints are hypocritical."
Although Du Wei didn't agree. But Luo Xue smiled happily, he retracted his hand and strode up.
"I agree with you: war should be controlled to a limited extent, and we can't completely destroy the absolute side. But ... even if it is the pursuit of peace, I still insist: I must be the victor Under the ground! "
"I agree strongly with this."
Luo Xue and Dewey walked side by side: "So, in this 'limited war', let's have a good fight! See who can finally stand in the stance of the winner to talk about peace! "
"You are not only a saint, but a lunatic." Du Wei sneered.
"I have carefully read the history of your human beings. In your history, all saints were originally lunatics."
In the evening, about fifty miles south of the fortified fortress, a human cavalry of about a thousand people waited nervously in the wilderness by the road.
Everyone was nervous from junior officer to soldier, and the leader of this cavalry was the captain of the military academy, Yalor, with Gabri, Du Wei's brother beside him.
The two waited anxiously for a while, Gabri was already a bit unbearable: "No! I'll take someone to see!"
"Be patient." Yalor sighed and drew Gabri, "Isn't the Lord Duke saying that, he naturally has an idea."
"But ... **** it!" Gabri exclaimed angrily: "Brother, how can he go to the enemy camp by himself !!!! He is the coach. Such a move is too dangerous!"
Speaking, he glanced at Yalor angrily: "You tell me the truth, you know this beforehand!"
"If I knew it, I would definitely stop the adult from doing this even if I lost my head! If it couldn't be stopped, I would follow him." Yalor smiled bitterly: "I and Like you, it's all this morning. The magician named Gegewu told me. "
Speaking, he sighed: "Master Duke has always been very sure of things, maybe he really has any plans."
"When he comes back, I will definitely ..." Gabri pumped his warhorse angrily.
At this moment, a cavalry in front yelled out loud: "Look, there's motion ahead!"
After a roar, all the cavalrymen immediately mounted the war horses and were ready for battle.
It's very open. On the north side of the road, a figure appeared in the distance and approached, and I saw the front of the queue above a warhorse. It is Dewey himself! Behind him, several battle horses were several officers wearing the simplest military uniform of the Empire. (Luo Xue even gave Dewe some captive human war horses before Dewe left. Anyway, these horses are left in their hands. There is not much use for them. Orcs do n’t ride horses. The biggest use of these horses is Serves as food.)
There is a long queue behind. There are thousands of people, all human soldiers without armor and weapons. These people are walking in a row on the road. They are in a hurry and maintain a strict queue. Many people still have scars on their bodies ...
Du Wei saw the banner in the distance and recognized that it was his army to take over. He then stopped the horse and smiled at some of the officer-level prisoners of war behind him: "The people in front of us ... guys, now we are truly going home."
At this time, one of the most injured generals in the queue reluctantly led the horse to Dewey's ground. The man was on the horse, but fell down deeply. A most respectful etiquette to Dewey.
"Sir." The general's face was pale because of injuries. But at this moment it has become red: "Go to the enemy camp alone and rescue us ... such kindness. I will never forget it in my life! As long as I live for a day, I will die for every order you have!"
He opened his mouth first, and then many officers from behind came to Dewey's ground one by one, walking on one floor, kneeling on the ground with one knee, saluting Dewey, and turning over and saluting with land. . Although the people behind didn't say anything, everyone's expressions and eyes have already explained something.
Du Wei understands that these people, in the future, their hearts have vowed to work for themselves.
As long as these three thousand people return to the army, re-melt into the army, break up and separate, according to their performance in the battle, take care of themselves and do some promotion, many people will become officers, and then ... More than 100,000 troops will firmly establish their prestige ...
The royal family far away in the Imperial City, the wise regent, may not have thought that he would bring himself to the front line and throw himself into the hundreds of thousands of strange troops. Such a strategy is clever.
But ... in this special situation, everything has changed dramatically!
However, no matter the expression on Du Wei's face or his heart, there is no trace of joy at this moment ...
When meeting Yalor and Gabri, Dewey said nothing, and his face was serious. Gabrielle and Yalol, who had complained in the stomach, closed their mouths involuntarily, and put away the original complaints.
The queues of prisoners of war and cavalry quickly merged together, and the soldiers began to cheer.
Du Wei and his brother looked at each other for a while before they said the first sentence: "They are all captured fighters, treat them well, they are all warriors."
Yaror and Gabri were a little surprised, and Gabri then said, "You ... you saved all the prisoners of war?"
"Not all of them." Du Wei said here, his lips slipped: "Not all."
Rohart, the young man, stayed in the falling snow before he left.
Luo Xue generously released these thousands of prisoners of war to himself. Rohat alone stayed firmly. Even if Dewey spoke with him, Luo Xue firmly rejected Dewey.