my armed maid

Chapter 28 27: A letter to the city lord’s palace
Nolen was a little dazed.

After stepping into this battlefield, under his feet were the severed limbs of mercenaries, the remains of chariots and sticky blood. The smell of burnt and rust filled his nostrils, and the cruel sight of hell made his face a little pale. whitish.

He has killed people before, but as long as he is in a real battlefield, he will understand that those previous scenes were just small fights.

On this battlefield, hundreds of people died like ashes. Nothing is more shocking than this.

"This is... war."

He took a deep breath and engraved the desolate and cruel scene in front of him in his mind.

"Nolen, come here quickly!"

The old wolf shouted from the side, "There is someone alive here, come and save him!"

Nolen came to his senses and hurried over.

I saw the lower body of a mercenary being crushed under the wreckage of the chariot. The old wolf used force to prop up the chariot, and the logistics staff on the side pulled the mercenary out.

His face was pale, blood was spitting out from his mouth, his lower body had been crushed, even the bones of his knees were exposed, and he looked like he was dying.

"This kind of injury..."

Nolen only took one look and made a judgment. He slowly shook his head and said, "I'm afraid there's nothing I can do."

In addition to external injuries, he also suffered serious internal injuries. Even if you feed him a healing potion, you may not be able to save him. The healing potion also takes time to take effect.

"Is there no other way..."

The old wolf's face was extremely complicated. Even though he was a seasoned man, he actually noticed that the mercenary was seriously injured. However, he still felt a little lucky in his heart, so he subconsciously called Nolen over.

After all, this injured mercenary is a friend he has known for many years.

"Don't waste your time."

The mercenary grabbed the old wolf's hand with his remaining strength, "Compared to this, did we win?"

"Of course I win! Otherwise, why would I come here?"

The old wolf sighed, "Have a good journey...I will bring your relics back."

"Old Wolf, take good care of my brother."

The mercenary's voice gradually became fainter. "He participated in the escort commission of this caravan. He is probably being imprisoned somewhere in the stronghold now. Help me find him. I can't make it..."

The mercenary's hand fell to the ground feebly, and the old wolf took a deep breath. He pulled off the mercenary tag worn around the mercenary's neck and stuffed it into his arms.

"My condolences." Nolen whispered.

"Ha, don't worry, this isn't the first time I've sent away someone close to me. Mercenaries are a profession where the tip of a knife licks blood."

The old wolf stood up, looked around and said, "Everyone is almost dead. It seems that your help is no longer needed here - Nolen, I just have a private request, can you listen to me?"

"You said."

"The guy who just died... he was my neighbor who grew up, almost like a biological brother. His younger brother is also a mercenary. He lost news while escorting the caravan. If he is still alive, he should be with the goods now. We were imprisoned together in this stronghold."

The old wolf quickly confessed, "Please help me confirm whether he is still alive. I owe you a favor."

"No problem." Nolen nodded, "What's his name and what does he look like?"

"His name is Xin En. He looks very similar to his brother. He is tall and thick, and his hair is naturally curly. It should be easy to tell him apart."

The old wolf patted Nolen on the shoulder, "I want to take charge of cleaning up this area. If I can't get over there for the time being, I'll leave it to you."

At the request of the old wolf, Nolen returned to the stronghold. At this time, Harrison was organizing people to move the goods.

The intelligence was correct, and the caravan's supplies were indeed temporarily stored in this stronghold.

"Harrison!"

Nolen walked over and asked, "Have the guards who escorted this cargo been found? Were they captured, or were they killed on the spot?"

"Most of them were killed, and some were captured." Harrison replied, "Why do you ask?"

"There may be people I know inside." Nolen scratched his head, "Where are they being held? I'll go find them."

"over there."

Harrison pointed in a direction, but suddenly remembered something and said, "But the situation over there is a bit complicated, you..."

Without hearing what he said clearly at the end, Nolen trotted away.

The direction Harrison was pointing seemed to be the location of the canteen in the stronghold. Along the road, you could see various animal bones scattered as well as the dark brown soil dyed dark with blood.

Next to this open-air camp that resembled a kitchen, there were some dirty cages lined up. There were prisoners in the cages, roughly estimated at around a dozen people.

Is this where the caravan guards are being held?Nolen took a few steps and suddenly felt something was wrong.

There was a chopping board in the middle of the open-air camp. On the chopping board were half-cut bloody pieces of meat. At first, he thought it was probably an animal corpse, but when he took a closer look, he found that it was not right at all.

This color, this shape...

Isn’t this bloody piece of meat a human corpse?

In an instant, he only felt cold all over his body, and a chill rushed straight to his forehead. A fact that he could hardly accept was laid bare before his eyes.

These grassland people... are actually eating people! ?
Moving his eyes downward, he saw several heads piled up beside the chopping board. He endured the discomfort and walked over to identify their appearance, and quickly settled on a target.

The head is square and looks like the mercenary who died in the battle. His hair is naturally curly...

That's right, it's his younger brother.

Nolen took two steps back and took a breath, trembling all over for a moment.

With the cruel style of prairie people who frequently slaughtered villages, both he and Lao Lang had actually accepted in their hearts that their younger brother might have been killed.

But it's one thing to be killed. It's another thing to have the body abused after killing, or even used as food rations... that's another thing.

After a brief shock, anger swept through his body.

What kind of animal behavior is this?
After learning about the history of the Lebus Grassland, he still vaguely felt that the grassland people were just poor people expelled from their homeland by the Roland Empire.

But now he has no sympathy at all, and even wants to ask - why didn't Roland I drive out all these barbarians when he conquered the grassland?

"It's shocking, isn't it? I was also shocked when I saw it with my own eyes. It turns out that the ancient rumors circulating on the grassland are true."

Harrison came to him at some point and said with emotion, "Lebus Grassland is not suitable for production, and Linfeng City relies heavily on food imports every year.

"This is true for Linfeng City, which is located in a relatively fertile area of ​​the grassland. The situation is even more serious for the grassland people on the border. It is said that when food is in short supply, they will even eat the corpses of their own people.

"This is how we treat our own people, let alone our enemies. It is the tradition of the Lebus people to eat the flesh and blood of the defeated, as a symbol of complete conquest of the enemy.

"For them, cannibalism is just a normal way of eating. Even leaving some alive after the slaughter is not out of humanitarianism. It may just be a way for them to collect food."

"Normal eating channel...?" Nolen frowned deeply.

The civilization of this world is slightly behind compared to the previous life. Even if he has a modern thinking, he can understand this phenomenon of human cannibalism, but he will never accept it.

From his position as a Linfeng person, who could see his compatriots being eaten alive by the enemy and remain indifferent?
Different from ordinary personal grievances, this has risen to the antagonism between nations, civilizations and even human nature.

No matter what traditions and difficulties you have, since you dare to kill my compatriots and eat their flesh and blood, then I can only destroy you.Since you follow the law of the dark forest where the weak eat the strong, let me tell you who is the real strong one and who will be the one being bullied.

At this time, the goods had been roughly counted, and the troops had freed up their manpower. They cut down the prison cells and freed the surviving prisoners.

Some prisoners screamed in panic when they saw someone approaching. It seemed that the scene of prairie people eating people had scared them crazy.

"Hurry up and get them settled, we are going back to the city!"

Harrison glanced at his pocket watch and shouted the order, "Everyone gather, get ready to go!"

"What should we do with these prairie people?" Someone asked for instructions.

Not all the troops in the stronghold are prairie troops, there are also some logistics personnel, most of them are the old, weak, sick and disabled of the prairie people.

Most of them were killed in the stubborn resistance, and the rest were captured and awaited Harrison's death.

"Kill." Harrison said coldly.

At this moment, someone else ran out of the tent next to him and shouted:
"Sir, there are still many refugees imprisoned here, what should we do?"

"Are there other people locked up?" Harrison walked over quickly.

It is said to be a tent, but it is actually a large cage covered with cloth. At a glance, there are actually 30 to [-] people being detained here, like a group of livestock in captivity.

The cage stinks so much that the prairie people don't care about the sanitary environment inside.

"These should be refugees who were homeless and unable to take refuge in the city, and were finally caught by the prairie troops."

Harrison said in a deep voice: "That bunch of beasts did not kill all these refugees, but left some here. I'm afraid... they want to use them as their reserve rations."

"We have to bring them back to the city together." Nolen breathed out, "If we leave them alone, they will definitely die!"

"I'm afraid I can't take it with me."

Harrison's eyes flashed, "We are conducting a surprise attack. We didn't reserve any extra positions when we came."

Nolen glanced around: "There are prairie people's carriages in the stronghold. They can get on these carriages and leave."

"Uu~——!"

Suddenly a warning whistle came from the sentry tower. Harrison's face tightened and he said quickly: "The rangers have discovered something abnormal. There is no time to do anything else. We must evacuate immediately!"

He took two steps and saw Nolen still standing there, taking something out of his arms, and his voice couldn't help but become stern:
“Nolen, now is not the time to be indecisive!
"The Rangers are the elite of the prairie people, and each unit has more than one high-level knight. Now Leod is temporarily unable to go to war. We are currently short of manpower and must not have any more head-on conflicts with them!"

Before he finished speaking, Nolen lit a firework.

The fireworks rose and turned into sparks and exploded in the air. Harrison looked at him in surprise: "W-what are you doing?"

"This is a flare, I'm calling for my reinforcements."

Nolen said slowly, "Everyone here, I want to take them back alive."

Harrison had made so many preparations to plan this raid. How could he not consider anything and just rush into the battlefield with enthusiasm?
In order to leave a layer of insurance for this battle, he sent a letter to the city lord's mansion in the morning.

The recipient of the letter is Evelyn Bayhart, the eldest lady of the City Lord's Mansion.

The letter actually wrote a lot, from the defense of homeland to the liberation of Linfeng City, and finally a big book about the necessity of fighting.

However, he was afraid that these principles were not convincing enough, so he threatened at the end:
"——Jie Jie, no matter what, Yuna will also participate in this battle tonight. If you don't want her to have an accident, come over and help us!"

Although he only had a one-time acquaintance with this young lady, he could feel that Evelin had a deep obsession with Yuna and her feelings were also very complicated.

She felt guilty towards Yuna, thinking that she had failed to help her friend and that Linfeng City had failed its people.

In a sense, she and the City Lord's Mansion have completely opposite views, and they are the main militant faction on their side.

This is why he thinks Evelin can help in this battle. With her character, if she sees her friends encounter mishaps again because of her inaction, she will definitely regret it for the rest of her life.

Then before setting off in the afternoon, he received a reply from the city lord's palace.

Evelin only wrote five words in the letter:

"You wait for me!!!"

There were three big exclamation marks on the back of the book to vent the intense emotions in her heart.

When Nolen saw this reply, he knew that he had made the right bet.

"Are you serious, Nolen!"

Harrison looked at him in surprise, "Where did you find the reinforcements? This is no joke!"

As if in response to his question, a firework was also raised on the other side of the stronghold the next moment.

"Another force is approaching quickly from the east!"

A warning was issued from the sentry tower, "It is an unknown force, numbering about a dozen people!"

Nolen nodded slightly towards Harrison, Harrison took a deep breath, finally made a decision, and responded loudly: "Don't panic, that's our reinforcements!
"Rescue the people in the cage, prepare carriages for them, and prepare the rest of the people, we are going to break out!"

The Rangers' return to defense was much faster than he expected. Even if they evacuated now, they might be overtaken halfway.

In this case, it is better to join up with the reinforcements first, and the chance of winning will be better.

"Noren!"

On the other side, Yuna hurried over and asked worriedly, "What's the situation now?"

She didn't know that Nolen and Evelin had reached a private cooperation. She only knew that the Rangers seemed to have returned too quickly, and they were not completely ready to evacuate.

Nolen didn't want to stay in this man-eating open-air camp for too long. He was worried that the environment here would irritate her, so he took her hand and walked in the direction of the fireworks rising outside the stronghold, and said:
"Reinforcements are coming, let's go and pick her up."

"Reinforcements?" Yuna was surprised, "Is it the reinforcements that Harrison called for?"

"No, it's our reinforcements."

Nolen corrected, "You should know her. To be precise, this support army came because of you."

"You came because of me?" Yuna was confused for a moment.

Just then, she saw an army rushing out of the night and speeding towards her.

Her face tightened, and she subconsciously held the hilt of the sword at her waist. But when she saw the face of the girl who was leading the army, she was stunned.

Elegant long chestnut hair, radiant blue eyes, bright red lips...all the features put together the girl's familiar yet unfamiliar face.

"Eve...?" Yuna opened her mouth, but was speechless for a moment.

Evelin was wearing close-fitting leather armor and a white cloak. She drove her horse to Yuna, pulled up the reins high, and stretched out her hand towards Yuna like a Prince Charming descending from the sky.

After returning to Linfeng City, this was what she wanted to say to her countless times in her heart, and now she could finally say it out——

"Yuna, I'm here to save you!"

　Thanks to Hanshuang Linyue for the tip

　　
　
(End of this chapter)