Power and Empire Chapter 1967: Empire Dawn (8)
At five o’clock in the afternoon, when the smoke outside the city enveloped the broad-leaved forest in a drizzle like a thick fog, hovering around the branches, the soldiers of the Second Army of the South of the Empire had completely sealed and locked Lisbon. At the gate, the densely packed lances rise on the ground like a piece of wood, and the full-armed sentry with guns and rangers are at the gate of the city.
All exits from the city have a 1,000-man squad strength enough to deal with any attempt to break through the barrier. Personnel entry and exit are all prohibited. The army has begun to move into the streets of the city, setting up obstacles, and controlling the city according to blocks. And gave the order of martial law,
At this time, any non-military personnel who appear on the street, the army has the right to kill directly,
No one knows why the army suddenly drove into Lisbon Torre, but the suppression of the smugglers by the Emperor’s army shows a lot. The citizens of Lisbon Torre can see black smoke pillars in the blocks southwest of the city. Go straight to Yuntian, where smugglers are most concentrated in the residential area,
A Lisboa citizen stood in front of the window and looked at the black smoke in the distance. His face was not astonished and angry, but happy. Lisboa had been damaged and then aroused by a large number of smuggling. This This city is known as the City of Gold and the City of Blood and Tears. In this city, smuggling, armed fighting, and slavery trading are all fair and honest things. Most people who can organize smuggling are related to various forces. Inextricably linked, the whole city is like a giant colosseum mixed with various forces,
In this case, not to mention that ordinary civilians are unable to resist, even the commercial alliance cannot contain it. The smuggling group is like a huge dark kingdom entrenched here, arrogant, although it has not yet reached the point of blatantly grabbing money. However, it is the norm to collect protection fees in every block. It is commonplace to kill people in order to **** docks and construction sites, and ordinary small merchants dare not provoke smugglers at all. The result of resistance is often either the shop being smashed, or the next day it turns into a scarred corpse lying in a sewage ditch. The smuggling with underground force has been grouped, and the methods of handling things are more cruel and ruthless, even completely disregarding the empire. The existence of statutes,
In Lisbonto, they are like the monarchs of the underground kingdom
A huge villa in the southwest of the city is the headquarters of the largest smuggling group Dark Snake. A sturdy bald middle-aged man is walking back and forth with a solemn expression. There are more than a dozen people in the hall, all of them are his subordinates. Boss. The middle-aged person is Pahela who planned the closure of the city, the head of the dark snake,
After receiving the news of the army’s entry into the city, this Lisbontoo, one of the biggest leaders of the underground world, immediately ordered all his subordinates who were making trouble outside to withdraw.
There seemed to be some panic in the lobby. These bosses were frightened. The Emperor ** team and the business alliance are basically two different things. One is a business organization. One is a violent and violent organization that is professionally slaughtered and killed. Everyone just wants to force the business alliance out of the tortoise, but they didn’t expect to hang a giant whale.
"My lord, what should we do now. If the army comes over, everyone will die." A leader looked at Pahela with a hesitant expression,
" What a panic, the army has been in Lisbon for three hours. Except for the customary closure of the streets, nothing else has been done. This should be just an ordinary means to deal with the commotion in the city. It does not necessarily mean specifically to deal with the commotion in the city. We!" Pahela threw the cigarette **** in her hand to the ground and smashed her foot fiercely. Her voice was dissatisfied and said, "It's just a general martial law, "Baidu Qihang has no words"! This situation is not unheard of. Every time the frontline starts a war, there will be martial law, which should be lifted in two or three days."
"But there is no war on the front line now!"
A leader in the hall said hesitantly, “Why did the army enter Lisbon? The army came for us. As for why we didn’t do anything, it’s not clear yet, but this stalemate won’t last long. Once the army moves Now, everyone will die! The Falcon Army has done this kind of thing!"
"Don’t mess around before you figure out the situation!"
Pahela stopped, and gave him an angry look, and said solemnly, "From the armor signs of the patrol on the street, the Second Army of the Local Southern Army was driving into the city. Salton’s army is not the first-line main force in the Imperial Army, so the other party has not had the courage to go. The tricky thing is that all the goods have been sealed, and some of the goods are very important. If there is a delay After the deadline, we will pay a large amount of compensation. That is a batch of goods worth 500,000 gold coins! And it is still a very sensitive thing! I have sent someone to spread the letter, as long as the Second Southern Army does not do it for three days. , Someone will come out to help us soon!"
"What do the chiefs say about those people?" Hearing Pahela's words, the chiefs cheered up, and one of them asked cautiously.
"Although it’s a bit troublesome, it should be solved!" Pahela nodded slightly, looked out the window with a gloomy look, and the drizzle fell on the window sill, which made him restless until the sky changed. In the dark night, there was no sign of a large number of troops outside, so he was slightly relieved, "Come here, turn on the lights in all the rooms!" Pahela pulled the collar and said to the housekeeper, tonight It feels very cold to him, no one from the other bosses speaks anymore, and there is a cold breath in the hall,
"Crack!" Just then, the door of the hall opened from the outside, and a young man in a black cloak walked in from the outside. The young man had a pale face, long arms, and a thin body. He took off The hood covering the face was placed on the table, and in front of everyone in the hall, he took a glass of wine on the table and took a sip,
"Lu Lin, what's the matter? Why has the letter spread after being there for so long?" Pahela looked at the young man who walked in and asked anxiously. This young man was sent to spread the letter. People
"No, it's just some accidents, so I wasted some time!" The young man replied nonchalantly
"What's the accident?" Pahela squeezed inwardly and asked eagerly.
" I used a military crossbow in my possession to shoot the letter onto the window of the small wooden house at the foot of the city wall. I didn’t return until I saw Lao Mu take the letter away. On the way back, I accidentally saw it. A good show! "The young man smiled at the corner of his mouth, deliberately bought a pass, and said triumphantly under the eager gaze of everyone" Do you remember the group of **** at the street? The one who specializes in robbing our slaves to buy and sell !"
"The defiler? What's the matter with them?" Pahela raised her eyebrows. The defiler was another big smuggling group in the city. Although the strength is not as good as the dark snake, it belongs to the kind of hob meat that dares to kill and fight, so although the number is only more than a hundred people, it is also mixed, especially in the smuggling of slaves and the dark snake. There have been a few frictions,
" They are over! "Lu Lin grinned and said, "When I came back, I saw the army surround their headquarters and regiments"
"What! The defiler's headquarters has been attacked?" Pahela's face changed, and the defiler is not much different from the dark snake. The main thing is that the army is attacking the defiler! The army may attack the headquarters of the Dark Serpent
" In fact, they deserve it! "Lu Lin curled his lips and said with disdain, "The desecrators are full of muscle idiots. I really think how fierce you are, a group of military patrol cavalry wants to check them. They thought that the army was here to destroy them, and they gathered a crowd to attack the military's patrol cavalry. As a result, they attracted thousands of regular troops. When I left, the gate of their headquarters had already fallen. I am afraid they have already been taken! "Lu Lin said with great gusto, and suddenly heard an inhalation sound around him. Other people’s faces are a little pale,
Lu Lin shuddered in his body, and looked at everyone in disbelief. "You... You don’t plan to do that too! That's not going to be death at all. When I came back, I paid attention to it. At least. There are tens of thousands of regular imperial troops that have locked up the entire city. As long as something goes wrong there, it will immediately attract thousands of regular imperial troops. Who moves and dies now!"
"So. The army is not specifically directed at us, as long as it is not directed at us!" Pahela's eyes flickered, and his voice slowly asked, "The military has blocked Lisboto now for other reasons. Let’s all get out of here! Don’t do anything these days!"
" is "the bosses left the manor one by one, the army controlled the main road, but as gang members, they have enough secret roads,
The rain scoured a nearby street brightly. The sharp tip of the spear reflected a terrifying light in the rain. The cold faces of the soldiers revealed a gloomy murderous aura. A group of cavalry passed by, just audible. There was a puff of low horseshoes and the sharp clanging sound of armor. There was a rapid sound of horseshoes ahead. A cavalryman appeared at the corner of the street. He ran directly to a civilian house next to the city gate and jumped off his horse to salute a general at the door Later, he said, "Report your lord, except for four of the targets on the list who committed suicide, all the others have been captured!"
"Got it!" The general lifted the helmet mask, revealing Salton's chiseled national character face, bóbó's lips are tightly pressed, his eyes are slightly narrowed, and the entire Lisbonto is a huge cage. , Now waiting for the panic prey to call, he believes that tonight there will be a lot of superstition spread from inside the city to outside the city,
Sealing the whole city by myself is just a gesture. The real purpose is to force the backers behind these smugglers to show up!
Lisboa’s commerce and trade stopped before it, and logically, for the smuggling group holding the market, the commerce suspension happened to be the result of its secret operation, but a large number of smuggled goods in its warehouse were also seized by the army and could not be smuggled out. That's another matter. The entire smuggling network in general is completely paralyzed, and it finally offends many people's nerves.
In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a deputy head of the logistics department began to allude to the domineering, fussing, and misbehaving of the Second Army of the Southern Empire. "Just because of a small commotion, a business center with millions of commerce and trade stopped functioning, causing The empire suffered heavy losses, this is an irresponsible act!"
The accusation of the undersecretary of the logistics department is like a drop of water falling into the oil. Accusations of the Second Southern Army and the head of the Phu Tau area, Varisian, slaughtered merchants quickly increased within the empire.
"Your Majesty, this is all the reports in the past ten days that demanded severe punishment of Varisian's massacre of merchants"
Hu Keqili put a stack of hòuhòu's papers on the young man’s desk. The fat man turned it over. The cold in his eyes was a bit permeating. Most of them were ministers from the Swadian faction, even the deputy chief. Prays was among them, and the fat man looked at it again in disbelief, and angrily threw the report of Prays on the table
"This guy is basically thinking that he is a bargaining chip, or is deliberately trying to die!" The young man cursed angrily, he believed that with Prais's keenness, he would not be able to see this. The matter is a bait, but the empire’s adjutant who has been entrusted with the important task is still on the side of the Swadians at this critical juncture. In Prais’ report, he said about the massacre of Varisian. "There are enough dead people, even if it is trimming the vines that grow wildly. Please be sorry for the fragility of the vines, your Majesty!"
The young man glanced over the letter on the table with a half-foot hòu, took a deep breath, and asked, "How many families are there in here?"
"One hundred and seventy families are involved, about three thousand people!" Hu Keqili's face was a little weird, and he read this number that shocked him a little,
Although I don’t want to admit it in my heart, Hu Keqili believes that Prais is not at fault in his position this time. Your Majesty is obviously preparing to carry out the murder this time, and the main target is the Swadian faction. The pit has been dug. . The knife is also sharpened, just wait for the order, countless heads fall to the ground, if Prais continues to remain silent on this matter, Hu Keqili will look down from the heart of the man who once resisted the iron hoof of the Dongting people. The deputy chief, after all, is a compatriot of the same country, and the Swadian faction has suffered an irreparable damage. Who else will protect the interests of the millions of Swadianites, I am afraid that by then, the Vikya faction and the East Court faction will be the most powerful. Will not hesitate to quickly swallow up the share already occupied by the Swadians. This is a race between nations where no swords, lights and shadows can be seen. It’s no wonder that Prays also put on a posture of martyrdom at all costs
"Three thousand people..." The young man said to himself, Hu Keqili stood in front of the young man and did not dare to speak out
"What about Princess Haraudian. Is there a letter!" The young man wanted to drip water with a gloomy face, tapping the table lightly with his fingers,
"There is no letter from the princess!" Hu Keqili replied, sweat already on his forehead. With a heavy breathless feeling, he knew that Prays' performance made his lord angry, but everyone knew that Prays had nothing to do with this. I'm desperately trying to be a knife,
My lord cares more about the attitude of the instigator’s Swadian royal family. This grace can be sold to Prais, but it must not be sold to the Swadian royal family. If the letter from Princess Haroldian is in it, don’t say it. Three thousand people, or thirty thousand people, his lord will not hesitate to sign his name on the execution order. As for Prais, at least he will be deprived of the position of deputy chief. This is not between husband and wife. The struggle for spirit is a fundamental struggle for state power. According to the nature of the monarch, tens of thousands of blood will inevitably be used to tell the entire empire that it is the Falcon Empire that rules everything now, not the Swadian dynasty, who decides life and death. Is the emperor of the empire.
"If this is the case, just send the order! All those who reported will be demoted to the third level." The young man's expression finally improved. He took out a document from the drawer, signed his name and handed it to Hu Keqili "Tell Salton, close the net! The old man is in a bad mood, and all the people caught are put to death!"
"Yes!" Hu Keqili respectfully accepted the document, with a little touch in his heart. As expected, his majesty's heart still can't be as cold as steel, and he doesn't know if this is the misfortune of the empire, or the empire. Fortunately! When he ordered Salton to close the net, the Second Southern Army Corps, which had completely controlled the situation, began to move towards several targets in the city. Because there was no movement for ten consecutive days, the major smuggling groups in the city had already relaxed their vigilance. , It seems that no one thought of running away, or that there was no time to escape!
As a group of soldiers from the Second Southern Army flocked to the manor fortress of the smuggling group, what made the commander in the group feel interesting is that facing the regular army armed to the teeth, the smuggling group also gathered hundreds of people, low The exterior wall of the manor was suddenly brightly lit, and countless large lanterns were just as punctual as the dating couple. They were lit in exactly the same rhythm, and the arrogance was extremely high.
"Go forward!" The commander who has been fighting for a long time will naturally not be confused by these little tricks. The smuggling group puts on the lights to prevent the army's broken city equipment from approaching in the dark. Who knows that the army used to see strong walls, there In the eyes of such a small house with earthen walls, the advancement of the Nord fighters who constitute the Southern Second Army~IndoMTL.com~ is a standard Nord style, rampaging and seeing obstacles as nothing. The outer wall was swung with heavy hammers by a group of tall and strong infantry. Amid the continuous cracking sound of "clicks and stabs", a large piece was smashed out. This majestic scene looks at the manor walls standing on them. The smugglers are a little stupid,
"What do you want to do, this is a private property!"
A brawny man with a brutal face stood and roared wildly under the night breeze, and the sound shook all over the country. In response to him, the piercing sound of regular crossbowmen, thousands of crossbows raised flat, and countless pairs at once. Looking at him with his eyes, the strong man is swinging his whole body, feeling like a dead leaf that will wither in the autumn wind at any time, deterring! This is a typical deterrent! The Second Southern Army received an order not to leave prisoners, so the officers who led the team felt that it was meaningless to be idle with these smugglers. Go forward, charge, kill all, and then evacuate. This is the standard Nordic thinking
Although only facing a wall of soil, the Nord Warrior Group advancement is very distinctive. At the beginning of the charge, the heavy infantry walked forward, and then began to accelerate slowly. In accordance with the command of the captain, the neat pace and majestic aura can make opponents with poor psychological quality collapse without contact.
For example, now, hundreds of smugglers on the wall have begun to weaken their feet, and the carved iron fence that forms the gate is immediately shot off by heavy arrows. "Go ahead, leave no prisoners!" The officer drew his command sword, and the rain of arrows was like a black waterfall falling from the sky, flooding this poor manor. "To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to ◤first release◢to vote for recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m,, to read. 』