At midnight, a blazing bonfire illuminated the dark square.
Tens of thousands of poor people lined up in long lines in the night.
Loren, the captain of the guard, held a spiked whip in his hand and spoke sternly. "Hand over the coins you received to me. If anyone dares to hide it secretly, then ask me about the whip in my hand first!"
"I remember it should be twelve silver coins!" Loren sneered.
The poor people present looked at each other in confusion. After a while, a poor man in ragged clothes spoke cautiously. "Loren, did you remember correctly? It should be ten silver coins..."
After the wizards occupied the town, they carried out a purge, hanged a large number of nobles and bullies who had done many evil things, and distributed most of the confiscated property.
Every poor person received ten silver coins as compensation for being exploited and enslaved by the nobles...
Although wizards have become synonymous with evil under the propaganda of the church, most of the poor people who live in poverty still accept the real temptation of money.
"You want to fool me?" A ferocious smile appeared on Loren's lips. He suddenly raised the whip in his hand and whipped the poor man hard.
There was a crisp sound of "pop", and the unlucky poor man suddenly screamed, his cheeks swollen.
"I said twelve, then it was twelve!" Loren snorted coldly, and whipped him again. The unlucky poor man fell to the ground in pain, trembling all over.
Loren stared at the fearful eyes of the other poor people, feeling very happy in his heart. Those damn wizards had robbed every noble manor, and his Loren family was no exception.
What made him even more incomprehensible was that the wizards actually distributed large amounts of treasures to these untouchables!
Loren thought that some kind of poor people must have secretly colluded with the wizards and secretly reported the news to get these rewards. Otherwise, who would think that the money was too much?
In view of this, Loren reported the matter of these poor people colluding with wizards to the bishop, and obtained the right to punish these poor people and get back the looted wealth. He was also prepared to give these rebels a little color, and the extra money Two silver coins is the punishment!
Under Loren's threat, the citizens who dared not speak out could only hand over their only financial resources.
Those who don't pay enough will be beaten severely!
Paying two more silver coins may not seem like much, but most of the poor are already poor, and this will undoubtedly cost them their lives...
One of the poor people could not even hand over a single silver coin. As the most devout believer of the Lord, he firmly believed that the wizards were not well-intentioned and must have used some evil witchcraft on the money, so he did not receive compensation at all. …
However, Loren didn't care so much. He didn't believe that anyone would not want the silver coins he got. He spread his whip and whipped it violently, spreading all his anger towards the wizards on these poor people!
I completely forgot that half an hour ago, I was kneeling on the ground like this, begging the presiding judge and the Holy Maiden for forgiveness...
In just one minute, Loren beat this devout believer to death. Just as he was about to beat him to death to scare the rest of the poor who wanted to lie, a burst of violent artillery fire suddenly came from outside the city!
This sound... is artillery?
Loren suddenly shuddered, and a heartfelt fear floated in his heart, because a few days ago, the wizards also used that kind of violent artillery fire to blast open the solid city gate.
But, how is this possible?
Didn't those wizards take the airship to attack the kerosene site?
At this moment, he should be running around like a squirrel being beaten by the Holy See's Crusade Army.
Could it be that the crusade was defeated?
Loren never wanted to believe this possibility, but soon he saw hundreds of city guards abandoning their helmets and armor, rolling and crawling towards this side.
"Run quickly, it's a wizard, and those wizards are back again!"
Several city guards shouted hoarsely, and then were knocked to the ground by a round of musket fire.
Under the reflection of the moonlight and the bonfire, thousands of wolf-like musketeers were coming towards us in the distance. Loren's ghost was so strong that he immediately ordered the guards around him to stop them, and he grabbed one. The war horse planned to flee.
The angry poor people were naturally not prepared to watch Loren leave so helplessly. They pounced on him one after another and dragged him off the horse. Then there was a burst of punches, kicks, and even biting with their teeth and scratching with their nails...
"Get away! You untouchables, when the Lord Judge arrives, you will all be thrown into purgatory!" Loren shouted in panic, but his guards had already disappeared. , he alone could not resist the beatings of this group of 'mobs'. Under the iron fist of justice, he soon became silent.
In a short time, the musketeers had already rushed to the square where people gathered. The poor people were waiting in panic and fear for the trial of the wizards.
However, after the leader Redel understood what happened, he directly asked Loren to collect the silver coins and distributed them back one by one, and the dying believers who were whipped by the long whip were also treated.
However, after the physical injuries were healed by magic, this devout believer seemed a little lost, as if he had lost his soul.
The poor people who received the coins again had disbelief on their faces, and a vague idea came to their minds.
It seems that there is nothing bad about being under the rule of wizards.
At least no one is trying to take away what little savings they have.
After a surprise attack, the Musketeers quickly regained control of the city.
The expeditionary army was busy pursuing the enemy, and the remaining defenders after the capture were very weak, so they suffered almost no casualties.
"Dean Lin En really knows what's going on..." Reidel couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
In the midday battle, they lost a lot of artillery and armored vehicles, and brought nearly 3,000 wounded soldiers with them. It was obviously not a suitable move to go head-to-head with the Holy See's crusade.
But it is difficult to evacuate. There are only a hundred or so airships, and it is impossible to take everyone away.
So Lin En proposed to hide the main force outside the city, and then create the illusion that they were going to seize kerosene in an airship to lure away the Holy See's crusade.
When the crusade army left and the enemy lowered their guard, they would come back and even be able to capture the poorly defended City of Fire and Oil in one fell swoop!
According to Dean Lin En's words, they successively used the strategies of empty city, attacking the enemy and rescuing the enemy, secretly crossing Chencang, and diverting the tiger away from the mountain!
So many wizards are very curious about what this magic star did before arriving in the wizard's land?
Could it be that he was a great lord of the empire? Otherwise, how could he know so many tactical skills?
(End of chapter)
