alien army

Chapter 416 The Butcher
The sunset on the Horqin Grassland is the most beautiful scenery in Begram Province.

When the huge sun disc, rolling with gold and dark red melt flow, slowly falls to the west, the Horqin Grassland bathed in the majestic glow looks like a magnificent golden picture scroll.

On the scroll, there are shepherds riding horses and waving long whips, cattle and sheep floating like clouds in the sky, and felt tents emitting smoke from cooking.

This is a pure land away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and it is also a paradise away from the smoke of war.

Nalan quietly looked at the scene in front of him, his expression seemed a little dazed.

Naya's departure took away the most beautiful memories in his life.those who have spent by her side
"Perhaps, all the fighting is to protect this eternal tranquility."

Looking at the scenery in front of him, Nalan sighed softly in his heart.

The beautiful rivers and mountains came into his eyes, which made him feel a little better.

Since Naya left, he has embarked on a dark path.The generation of famous generals who used to be high-spirited and high-spirited disappeared, and replaced by a "professional" soldier whose hands were stained with blood and who would do anything to achieve his goals.

Walking on the dark road, he has no time and mood to appreciate the surrounding scenery.But this time he stayed on the Horqin Grassland, he discovered one thing: there is never a lack of beautiful scenery in life, and the reason why you can't see it is because you keep your head down.

"Naya, the war is over, I will come to this grassland and accompany you quietly, okay?"

Looking up at the sky, Nalan whispered.

There was a sound of horseshoes in the distance.A group of cavalry is quickly running towards their position.

"General, they are coming!" An officer beside him reminded in a low voice.

"It seems that you intend to protect me, Marquis Liuyun!" Nalan smiled and went up to him.

The cavalry stopped more than ten meters in front of Nalan.The leading general got off his horse and ran in front of Nalan.

"General Nalan, Willy is ordered to lead the First Army of the Third Army to report to you!"

Willie, when Liuyun returned to the imperial capital for the second time, he got acquainted with him in Tianxiang Tower, and Liuyun appreciated his military talents.Under Liu Yun's secret care, he quickly stepped into the ranks of the generals of the empire.

Nalan: "Your Commander sent you here, right?"

Willy: "Yes, General. The Commander-in-Chief ordered me to help you take the Cold City!"

"Okay!" Nalan nodded, "How many cavalry do you have?"

Willie: "Twenty thousand cavalry!"

Nalan: "From today onwards, the cavalry will be under my unified command. After the cold city is taken down, it will be garrisoned by your first army!"

Willie: "Yes!"

At this time, a young officer came forward from behind.

"General, this is Major Aylmer from the Dahangshan base!" General Willy introduced the officer to Nalan.

The young major saluted Nalan with a snap.

He looked at him full of curiosity, because of the sudden change, the general he hated once became a hero in his heart overnight.

"General, Commander Long Yun ordered me to bring you a batch of weapons. These weapons are now stored in the First Army camp, waiting for you to receive them!" He said loudly.

Nalan raised his hand to return the gift, and said, "Okay! When you get back, please tell Captain Longyun that every weapon will be drunk with orc blood in Nalan's hands!"

"Yes, General!"

"Marquis Liuyun, thank you Nalan!" Nalan looked leisurely into the distance.

On the evening of July 754, 7 in the Imperial Calendar, the orc army stationed in Cold City was attacked by the Nalan Army and the First Army of the Third Army.The dead soldiers who had been lying in ambush in the city before Nalan surrendered to the enemy desperately opened the city gate before the battle started, and the army that attacked Hancheng greeted them.

At dawn, the war is over.8000 of the 2000 orc defenders in Hancheng were wiped out, and [-] were captured.

On July 7th, at the top of the cold city wall, the Huoyun military flag fluttered high in the wind again.

In the early morning, accompanied by Willy, Nalan walked out of the cold city gate.

"General Willie, I will leave the cold city to you! Be sure to defend it!"

Nalan looked back at the huge castle behind him, and said to Willy beside him.

"General, don't worry, people are here in the city!" Willie responded generously.He knew that the recovery of Hancheng would have a great impact on the entire Huoyun battlefield.

Nalan: "Yes. This is the lifeblood of the orc army on the Huoyun battlefield. As long as you strangle it, the orcs will have to spend a lot of time crossing the border mountains and dense forests to send supplies there. I think the commander of the allied army is Don't give them too much time!"

"I know that. But General, I'm worried about you—" Willie frowned.

"This is a battle I have longed for, and I must go!" Nalan interrupted him.

Willie stopped talking.

The eyes of the two fell on the orc prisoners in the distance at the same time.

Twelve thousand prisoners of war were escorted out of the city early in the morning.The [-] cavalry of the Third Army were responsible for escorting them.

"General, do you really want to do this?" Willie's eyes flashed a trace of unbearable.

Nalan nodded indifferently.

Willie: "They're all prisoners of war!"

Nalan sneered: "When they take up arms again, they will be fighters!"

Willie: "But..."

Nalan: "General Willie, I'm leaving, please come back!"

"Take care, General!" Willie shook his head helplessly, then turned and walked towards the city.

"Today's right and wrong, leave it to history to judge!" He thought.

When his figure disappeared at the gate of the city, the gate of Hancheng was closed.

"General, do you want to do it now?" The deputy general walked to Nalan's side and asked in a deep voice.

"Send down the weapons and order the cavalry of the third army to launch an attack!" Nalan said coldly.

The bound orc prisoners of war were soon stuffed with a weapon in each hand.

These orc soldiers who were captured in their sleep didn't know what was going to happen, their eyes were full of confusion and panic.

In front of the cavalry of the third army, a general drew out the long knife in his hand.

"All-army assault!"

With the long knife raised high, the [-] cavalry of the third army rushed towards the orc prisoners.

Killing, once started, will not end easily.

Many of the cavalry of the Third Army had no actual combat experience.But today, they got their first taste of what it's like to kill.

Once the hands are stained with blood, killing becomes an easy task.

When the face and body were splashed with fishy and hot animal blood, the arms and heads of the enemy were flying in front of their eyes, and there were constant screams in their ears, the young cavalry quickly fell into madness.

An assault left corpses all over the ground, as well as countless orcs groaning in pain in a pool of blood.

The cavalry of the third army, after experiencing the initial fear and nausea, felt a hearty joy in their hearts.

"assault!"

"assault!"

"assault!"

The leading general gave orders to the cavalry again and again.

The war horses galloped away stepping on the muddy flesh and blood, and the weapons in the hands of the cavalry kept slashing at the remaining orcs.

After going back and forth for several times, not even a complete orc corpse could be found on the battlefield.

The [-] cavalry who became blood men lined up again.

Imperial history records: On July 754, 7 in the imperial calendar, 10 orc officers and soldiers captured in the First Battle of Cold City rushed out of the prisoner-of-war camp, captured the cold city arsenal, and broke out of the city after grabbing a large number of weapons. The general led the cavalry to wipe out all the cavalry.

Continental history records: The "Blue Moon Law of War" promulgated in 756 of the Continental Calendar is a law that regulates and restricts war behavior in the Blue Moon Continent.The reason why it was quickly unanimously approved by all countries and became a legal norm prevailing in the mainland was largely influenced by the massacre of prisoners of war in Hancheng in July 754.

Nalan walked up to the cavalry formation.

"This is the real battlefield, a cruel war! If we don't destroy the enemy, the person who will lie on the ground tomorrow and be chopped into a pulp by the knives will be the closest person in your life! The army of orcs is on our land The motherland is groaning under the iron hooves, the people are suffering in the flames of war, and the soldiers are fighting to the death on the battlefield! Now, I will lead you to burn the flames of war to the enemy's land, and let the aggressors swallow the consequences of the war!"

On July 754, 7 in the Imperial Calendar, Nalan led 10 cavalry to leave Cold City and directly entered the territory of the Beastman Empire.With no support from follow-up troops, no cooperation from friendly forces, no logistical supplies, and no intelligence, Nalan led a lone army to start the most icy and cruel series of battles in his military career.

This is an army that opens the gates of hell.

Wherever they passed, the villages and towns of the orcs were turned into scorched earth, and the young and middle-aged orcs were slaughtered.The other old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children were forced by them to watch their relatives die tragically before being released.The officers of the Nalan Army told them when they released them: As long as the Orc Empire's war against Huoyun does not stop, their massacre will not stop for a day.The orcs soon believed that what the enemy said, they could do.Because news of the enemy's massacre continued to spread from all over the place, and all the captured orc soldiers were executed by the enemy on the spot.Bloody killings can bring hatred and arouse people's will to resist, but more often than not, what it brings to the people is deep fear of the enemy and hatred of war.

This sentiment, along with the penetration of Nalan's army, spread like a plague within the territory of the Beastman Empire.When people really felt the pain of the war and clearly realized that the tragedy happened because of the fire cloud of the imperial invasion, the anti-war sentiment continued to rise.Even many ultra-nationalists who initially supported the empire's war of aggression against Huoyun began to waver.

Under the butcher knife held high by Nalan, the image of human beings being weak and deceitful was completely shattered, and brutality and bloodthirsty were no longer the monopoly of orcs.

"Compared to the butcher's army, the orcs are like sheep!"

Many years later, those old orcs who had personally experienced the war would still sigh with trepidation when they mentioned Nalan's army.

The series of battles launched by Nalan's lone army deep into the territory of the Orc Empire were called "The Butcher's Expedition" by later mainland historians.

It was this expedition that caused drastic changes within the Orc Empire and accelerated the process of ending the Continental War.

(End of this chapter)