Heart of Empire Chapter 201: Mental breakdown

Dain showed a somewhat surprised expression and asked: "You were the one who decisively ordered the troops to retreat last night?"

"Otherwise who do you think?"

"I thought it was General Morneau..."

"Don't be funny!" Chapple gritted his teeth and said, "Late last night, the command of the troops was not smooth. When I heard Morno's order to continue to let the brothers rush to the depths of Shizui Slope, I felt something was wrong in my heart. So, when it was inconvenient for Morno to personally command all the troops, I changed the order without authorization. It was not until dawn that Morno realized that something was wrong. He beat me hard I scolded me a lot, and I thought, if it wasn’t on the battlefield, he might have hacked me to death with the ax in his hand.”

Hearing this, the corners of Dane's eyes twitched, and he suddenly thought of a thought that made his hair stand on end--Morno should have been heavily protected after fighting an orc sword master.

However, the soldiers of White Wolf Castle have not yet completely collapsed. Ouze, who was supposed to be protected, was suddenly captured by the enemy on the battlefield. I really don't understand it.

However, looking at Chapple's attitude now, he seemed to understand something.

Dyne opened his mouth, wanting to ask a question tentatively, but he felt a little scruples in his heart, it was not convenient to ask such a question.

Seeing Dane's expression, Chapple seemed to have guessed what Dane wanted to ask. He showed a miserable smile, and said in a low voice: "Hehe, are you wondering if it's me? That's right, you guessed it right."

Dyne fell silent for a while, with a heavy expression on his face, but his mood was filled with ecstasy! Chapple's attitude is so in line with his wishes!

Chapple didn't notice the true mood under Dane's heavy expression, and there was a trace of regret and guilt in the madness of his miserable smile, but there was also a kind of relief.

Just listen to him continue to say: "When the general was seriously injured, he wanted me to turn around and fight the orc army with my troops. I directly refused his order at that time. He was very angry and wanted to leave me to let Lei Diss helped him with this matter. However, I killed the messenger he sent out and prevented Radis from receiving his orders. Then, I deliberately led the troops to break out with all my strength, and took time out of the large crowd around him. Part of the protection force left him with only a small team of guards. Then, we were stopped by an army of orcs, and he was fighting hard in the back. I knew that if I didn't turn back, he and the guards who were seriously injured would definitely die hundreds of times He lost his life under the siege of the orcs. But I didn't close it, and I continued to charge forward with the army. As we charged forward, we saw his body was hung on a wooden pole."

Speaking of this, he suddenly started to cough violently. The cough was mixed with a desperate smile, and his face became flushed.

Dain stepped forward and patted him on the back lightly.

A moment later, Chapple's breath subsided, and his cough finally stopped. He fell limply to the ground, covering his face with his hands.

Dyne, who put his hands on his shoulders, felt the man's body twitching slightly, and from his tightly covered face, there was a low-pitched sobbing sound.

"I'm a traitor...I killed the general with my own hands..." He was still sobbing, "But...I can't help it!...More than a thousand brothers, I can't just watch them die Die...I killed the general with my own hands, but in the end I only saved the lives of three or four hundred brothers...hehe...I am a traitor..."

His emotions completely collapsed, and he fell into painful despair.

Dain understood why he was doing this. Chapple has been following Moreno for many, many years. Moreno has been kind to him, and he has always been valued and trusted by Moreno. Otherwise, how could he have climbed to the position of leader of the White Wolf Cavalry, White Wolf Cavalry? The status of the second person in the castle? And he has always made it his duty to be loyal to General Morno.

Now, because Morno asked his soldiers to complete the mission of death, because he wanted to save the brothers who were born and died together, he betrayed Morno. The death of the half-orc general can be said to be caused by him alone.

If he did not make the decision to transfer the guards around the general in the end, but obeyed Morno's order, sent the army to the rear to die, and then escorted Morno to break through with an elite squad, then maybe the White Wolf soldiers would die more There are many, but General Morno has a good chance of being able to survive when the rescue comes.

But he made the opposite decision, which meant that he personally pushed General Morno, whom he swore allegiance to, into the abyss.

But who can say for sure about such things as betrayal? If you really want to talk about betrayal, isn't Morneau's series of orders issued by commanding the army in the middle of the night, except for some that were changed by Chapple without authorization, also tantamount to betraying the soldiers who deeply trusted him?

It seems to be fate that Morno made that choice and suffered backlash.

On the one hand, Dane sighed in his heart about the impermanence of fate, which made Moreno, who was full of ambition and dreamed of becoming the next Governor of Oze, die on the battlefield; For the lives of his brothers, for the lives of his brothers who fought side by side, for the fate of an officer who pushed his sovereign into the cliff with his own hands.

However, emotionally, Dane's heart of stone quickly brought his thoughts back to the most utilitarian position: how to use Chapple to seize the political legacy left by Morneau?

Looking at this guy's completely broken mind, Dane dare not say that he is fully sure that he can persuade him, but it is 70% to 80% sure. However ~IndoMTL.com~ no one can guarantee that now that Chapple is persuaded to follow Dane, he will not regret it after a while. Don't look at his pitiful appearance now, but Dane will never forget that no matter what his original intentions are, the death of his boss Morno must be blamed on him no matter what.

He can even betray Moreno, let alone Dane? Although this possibility is not too great, at least it seems that as long as Dane does not do anything to harm his subordinates, Chapple will not be like this, but as a lord, he is really unwilling to take such a risk.

What's more, who can guarantee that after this guy agrees for a while, when he turns around and arrives at White Wolf Castle, he won't have the ambition to become king by himself?

Dyne himself is an ambitious man, and he instinctively does not believe in the loyalty of all those he cannot control, just like when Patience first arrived in Cormyr, he had a crush on the female elves. Great vigilance.

He was wondering how to keep Chapple loyal, and then he heard soft footsteps. Looking up, I saw Cecilia, the high-ranking priest, who seemed to have sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere here, and was walking slowly with a worried face.

"It's too late..." Dane smiled silently. (To be continued.):