Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 453 For Whom the Death Bell Tolls
"March 96, [-] Imperial Calendar.

clear.

Sergeant Ali is dead.

I didn't know the news until this morning.

They said that it was Sergeant Ali's turn last night to guard the northern section of the Tumu Fort's wall.

Just like the attack the day before yesterday, the orcs attacked again in the middle of the night. Don't these bastards ever need to sleep?This time the orcs used that kind of flesh-and-blood cannon carriage. According to Lieutenant Phillips, it should have been newly transported from the rear.

Sergeant Ali was killed by this kind of artillery vehicle.

Lieutenant Phillips told me that the entire north wall was destroyed, Sergeant Ali was dead, Sergeant Macho was dead, and Sergeant Huron was dead, all because of federal orc artillery and shaman curses .Lieutenant Phillips said that they went there in the early morning and couldn't find the body at all, and it was impossible to think about it now, because the craftsmen of the Eastern Army were rushing to repair the fortifications.

I asked Lieutenant Phillips, are we unable to hold the Burning Crystal Canyon?Are we going to withdraw to Eternal Sun City?
Lieutenant Phillips didn't answer me, he just smiled wryly.

But I know that everyone wants to withdraw to Eternal Sun City...

But Eternal Sun City should not be able to defend it.Since the federal orcs can even take down the Burning Crystal Canyon, how can they not take down Eternal Sun City?

But everyone still wants to go back to Eternal Sun City.I want to see those pretty elf girls again before I die.

I am standing on the central wall of the civil fort right now, I can see the Wyvern air cavalry on the opposite side of the canyon, I can see the ice demon mammoth group in front of the opposite camp, the shaman's war drums are getting more and more urgent, I Guess the orcs are going to attack again today.

Can I survive today?

......"

Corporal Finn was writing here with a charcoal pen in his hand, when he suddenly felt someone tap his shoulder, he quickly covered his notebook and looked back.

Captain Enrique of the Fourth Company of the Sixth Brigade of the Imperial Central Army smiled at him, showing his sallow teeth:
"So, your kid has also started to write a will?"

Corporal Finn blushed.He stammered and replied:
"Captain Enrique, I'm writing a diary..."

"Only idiots keep diaries. See those green-skinned bastards out there? They're going to come and chop off all of our heads soon—what you should write is a will now." Captain Enrique snorted and helped Holding his iron helmet, he squatted down next to Corporal Finn, grumbling, "Corporal, tear up a piece of paper and a pen for me, I also have a will to write."

Although Captain Enrique was not Finn's immediate superior, he still did not dare to neglect an officer, hurriedly tore off a page from the diary, wrapped a charcoal pencil and handed it to Captain Enrique.

Captain Enrique whistled, grabbed the charcoal pencil, and hummed a country tune from Longshan County in the Empire, while drawing something on the paper.Corporal Finn glanced at it quietly, but found that what Captain Enrique wrote on the paper were all intermittent names.

"Look." The captain of the Imperial Central Army noticed Finn's gaze, and proudly showed his "will" to the other party, "This is my will. The above are all the women I have fucked in my life .”

Finn opened his mouth, but said nothing.

Captain Enrique handed back the charcoal to Finn, then put his hands together, crumpled up the "will" he had just written, swung his arms round and threw it down the city.

"Let the green-skinned bastards be envious and jealous!" Captain Enrique laughed arrogantly with his hips akimbo.

After doing all this, Captain Enrique's smile remained on his face for three or four seconds, and then turned into a kind of bored depression.

He squatted down again.

"Corporal, how old are you?" Captain Enrique squinted at Finn.

"Report to Captain, I am 21 years old!" Finn hurriedly replied loudly.

Captain Enrique stared at Finn with his gray eyes for a moment, then looked away.

"West side. The checkpoint over the Fifth Brigade's camp. The military police in charge of that side escaped last night, and no one is guarding it." Captain Enrique whispered almost from the corner of his mouth, "Now you can leave the city wall while no one is paying attention. , and then take the fifth brigade's road to leave Burning Crystal Canyon—leave this disaster. Corporal, you can escape to Eternal Sun City—no, damn it, Eternal Sun City can't. You go to the Imperial Capital, or directly Go to Frost Maple Ridge in the Land of Cracking Souls, it should be the safest place in the whole empire."

"Boss, Captain!" Corporal Finn was stunned, trembling, "I'm not a deserter!"

"Come on, young man..." Captain Enrique snorted, "Who doesn't know, we have already lost this war, and staying in the civil castle will only cost you your life for no reason, no Would have helped the war and the empire in any way - especially since the idiot Ryan Grant drove out Elliot Igor! Those hapless bastards who were beheaded for mutiny just realized it before all of us At this point..."

Finn's lips were trembling:
"Captain, I..."

"Go home. You still have your parents, don't you? You still have a great life." Captain Enrique took a cigarette from his ear and stuffed it into his mouth, "You are still too young , not worth dying in the claws of a wyvern. The orcs are about to attack, and we'll all die."

Corporal Finn stared down at his boots.

The pair of leather boots that were polished to a shiny finish before they set off from the imperial capital are now covered with red dust from the Burning Crystal Canyon and covered with fine and interlaced scratches. The gap was cut with a knife by an orc infantry who climbed to the top of the earthen castle during the battle of defending the city a month ago.

He lowered his head, the muscles on his face twisted, and finally he gritted his teeth and said:

"Captain...I can't go. Captain Greenspan is still here. He saved my life. I can't leave him alone."

"Greenspan!" Captain Enrique stared at Finn in shock, as if seeing a troll's favorite concubine in His Majesty Basil III's bedroom, "Damn... Holy Spirit! That bastard, What does that scumbag, that drunkard, deserve you to stay here and die? Greenspan should have died when he was in Black Creek Grove!"

But Finn still shook his head stubbornly:

"Captain Greenspan saved my life."

Captain Enrique glanced at Finn angrily and muttered something.Seeing that Finn was still silent like a gourd, Captain Enrique finally sighed and cursed dejectedly:

"Fuck, take him if you want! Son of a bitch Greenspan... he's out of a wheelchair and can walk, right? You take him with you! Damn it... But I remind you , if you leave with your 'Captain Greenspan', don't go to the Land of Souls! Greenspan once offended Eliot Igor, I heard that this Frost Maple The Duke of Ling is small-minded—”

The flames engulfed Captain Enrique, who was still talking.

The incendiary bomb fired by the "Flesh and Blood Disaster" chariot of the Glorious Federation exploded at the head of the civil castle, and the compound fuel filled in the incendiary bomb exploded into a raging cloud of fire that swallowed the world in just half a second. Corporal Finn, who was caught off guard by the surging explosion shock wave, was thrown into mid-air, and then fell towards the wall like a kite with a broken string.

With a loud "bang", Corporal Finn's entire body slammed heavily on a simple thatched shed used to store wood behind the front wall of the civil fort, splashing countless sawdust and sheet fragments.He lay convulsively in a mess for two seconds before he dared to move his body, but he felt a heart-piercing, almost unbearable pain in his chest, and realized that his ribs must have been broken.

Another loud explosion sounded next to his ears, which suddenly drew Corporal Finn's attention away from his own situation.

Just over 20 meters in front of his eyes, the front wall of the civil fortress that had guarded the frontline fortress for several months had collapsed and shattered, leaving a huge gap filled with rubble and flames—a head of a thorny and thorny fortress. The Ice Demon Mammoth has brazenly passed through this gap, and with its long fangs, instantly pierced the chest of a Central Army spearman and lifted him into the air.

The shaman war song is echoing in every corner of the world, and the flapping wings and chirping of wyverns carry through the sky.

Corporal Finn couldn't understand why the Federation's offensive came so suddenly and so quickly;
However, at the same time, countless things that he couldn't understand were irreversibly happening in this miserable world:

A Wyvern swooped down from high altitude, first used its thorny wings to smash the "Cromwell Annihilator" at the top of the Tumu Castle into pieces, and then swooped down, slamming its sharp claws into pieces. Vigorously inserted into the lower abdomen of the ballista engineer, and grabbed out a bloody large intestine;
The ice demon mammoth that broke into the Tumubao city, with countless rubble, wooden beams and human corpses hanging on its huge body, did not lose momentum at all, and recklessly rushed straight into the city wall. The imperial arsenal at the gap has crushed this blue-brick hut into ruins;
Immediately following the vanguard of the ice demon mammoth rushing into the civil fort was a regiment of wolf cavalry like a wave—orc cavalry riding a wolf in the frosty tundra. The wargs did not make a single sound, but the shiny steel blades of the cavalry knives in their hands still combined with the fragile armor and weak flesh of the imperial soldiers, playing the strong rhythm of this scene of death.

Corporal Finn realized with horror that the Federation Orcs hadn't even dismounted their wary regiment of Wolf Riders in this sudden onslaught—the Orcs hadn't intended to rely on ladders and infantry climbs from the start of the battle. The city took down the central bastion of the Burning Crystal Canyon defense line; from the beginning of the battle, the orcs wanted to smash the wall with a single blow, and then use their favorite violent offensive to crush every imperial creature in the earthen fortress. !

Explosions, death and destruction, the ultimate form of war is being staged everywhere in this small fortress.

For the first time since the defense line of the Burning Crystal Canyon was established, the civil fort fell—this weighty fact undoubtedly weighed heavily on the minds of Corporal Finn and all the imperial soldiers in the city.

However, no one even had the slightest chance to breathe carefully to savor the impact of this fact on the history and future of the mainland:
Because, to be or not to be, this is the most pressing question before everyone's eyes.

Finn watched as an orc wolfrider, gleaming with shaman blessings, galloped past him, and then started a killing party in the crowd on the left.

Perhaps it was because Corporal Finn was lying immobile in the rubble due to rib injuries, and the red-eyed Federation wolf cavalry didn't even notice him.But Finn didn't even have time to rejoice, he was scared out of his wits by a crossbow bolt that went straight into the wood beside him.

Suddenly, there was only one thought left in his mind:
run!Must run out of this land of death!In this imperial fortress that is about to fall, there is no possibility of "survival"!

Although his ribs were still suffering from severe pain, Corporal Finn somehow obtained a burst of strength, and managed to hold his body and struggle to crawl out of the ruins.With his hands on his chest and clenched teeth, he stumbled around the ruins, avoiding the wild eyes of the Federation wolf cavalry, avoiding one after another small battle groups where humans and orcs were fighting each other, and staggered towards the city. flee.

A round of scorching sun, as the footsteps gradually appeared on the top of the dark high wall of the civil fort, Corporal Finn could almost see the steel fence of the southwest gate of the civil fort——

Immediately afterwards, he saw a scene destined to be unforgettable in this life:
That was Lord Lane Grant.

The guardian of the imperial capital, a rising star in the military during the fifth war, and the "lion heart" praised by all peoples——Ryan Grant, the commander of the Imperial Central Army, is standing at the door of the west side gate of the civil castle, holding a stick in his hand. Wielding his iconic greatsword "Durandar".The long hair of the commander of the Central Army fluttered in the wind as usual, like the blood-red hunting mane of the leader of the lions.

In front of Marquis Ryan Grant was a federal cavalry riding a tundra frost wolf.

Humans and orcs, the general of the empire and the cavalry of the federation, the two sides just looked at each other in silence for a second, then let out a roar at the same time, rushing towards each other with a strong desire to fight to the death——

Finn nervously saw that the moment before the Marquis of Lane Grant was about to come into contact with the opponent, he made a sudden dodge, and would pass by the attacking wolf; then, the imperial general raised his hand The giant sword cut off the knight on the back of the wolf with one blow.In the rain of blood splattered all over the sky, the Marquis Grant, who had just beheaded his opponent, rolled to the ground due to inertia, and Gu Lulu rolled all the way to the stable next to the city gate, barely stopping the momentum.

Corporal Finn subconsciously wanted to rush over to help Marquis Grant, but he staggered a step because of the severe pain in his chest.

So, the Marquis Grant still held his giant sword and gritted his teeth and stood up—this blood-stained imperial lion stood in the pool of the enemy's blood, raised his head to the sky and let out an earth-shattering roar, obviously not celebrating his victory in the duel, but It is questioning the goddess of victory overlooking the world, why should the balance of this war be tilted so much——

Without warning, a crossbow plunged into the forehead of Marquis Grant.

The imperial general was still standing there, but motionless. "Lionheart" Ryan Grant looked forward in disbelief, at the orc shooter ten meters away with a wooden crossbow in his hand.Marquis Grant's facial features were distorted due to intense anger and unwillingness, but then all the brilliance of life quickly faded away.

Corporal Finn, who was stunned by this scene, stood there like a puppet, and then watched the heroic orc who shot and killed the enemy's supreme commander in one fell swoop, quickly turned the direction of the crossbow, and shot the arrow with the cold light Aligned to my side——

Then, the majestic figure of the giant dragon flew across the sky, its huge shadow covered the blue sky, the sun, and all the success and failure in the world.

The majestic tune of "Lord and Lord before the Horse" rang out over the fallen Tumu Fortress.

(End of this chapter)