Chapter 1682: Family Unity
This family's cell has not been used for a long time. Zhao Hu is relatively relaxed in the farmers in his territory and will not be locked up here for ordinary prisoners. The local sheriff is responsible for handling them. Only enemies captured in the war will be locked in the dungeon of the castle.
The assassin still wanted to kneel down during the day, curly like a hunchbacked shrimp. When he saw someone coming in to interrogate, he screamed excitedly, "Sir, I am Liso from Dongbianlu West Village, I am here for a pilgrimage. Why do you lock me up here? I am an ordinary farmer."
"Ordinary farmer! Why does an ordinary farmer have traces of friction on his shoulder blades and waist and legs? A farmer will attack the artifact. If you refuse to say it, I will tell everyone outside about your blasphemy. I think they will peel you alive, or nail you to the wooden donkey rack, making you wail for three days and three nights before dying!"
Zhao Hu looked at the pale "assin" with a cold face. His cold tone seemed to reduce the temperature of the entire cell a little bit. The small stones playing with on his hands made the assassin's face look extremely ugly. It was the rock stone that the assassin was still facing the porcelain.
"Or maybe we've made a mistake. You may be really just a devout ordinary farmer. We should let you go." Zhao Hu's words turned, and hope was revealed in his tone, which made the assassin nodded excitedly.
Suddenly, Zhao Hu's tone paused, and when the assassin relaxed his will when he saw hope, he increased his strength to speak, secretly mobilized the sense of energy in his body. The loud voice echoed between the walls of the cell, and the sound like a sharp sword was directly imprinted deeply in the assassin's mind, like a bomb that suddenly exploded.
"Do you know why you can't stretch your body? Because this is God's punishment for the blasphemer! If you still don't say it, I believe you will be curling in pain in this life, like a poor little bug! The master you loyal to will not care about you, a useless and disabled monster, your subordinates will take everything for themselves! Your lover and your territory will belong to others, and even if you die, your soul will be burned to ashes by the raging flames in hell! God will make you suffer forever in the dark!"
Lenovo all the strange imaginations he encountered in front of the artifact and the miserable state in the future. The assassin, whose will was almost collapsed, could no longer bear it. His voice was miserable and obvious crying, "No, you can't do this. I am a knight. You can't hand over a proud knight to the untouchables outside to execute him. I said, I say everything."
"I'm leaving it to you here. It's so boring. I thought I had a tough heart, but I didn't expect it to be such a scary thing. It disappointed me so much!"
Zhao Hu looked at the messy assassin curled on the ground and cried with interest. He stood up and patted the mold on the wall of the cell stained with his hands. His face was full of regret. He moved his fat butt and twisted out of the cell door.
Stahn, who was following Zhao Hu, looked at his lord with a pale face. Is it really just a scare? Stahn knows too much about himself, the quirky lord.
When he told his lord that the assassin refused to confess the news, the extremely excited expression on the lord's face deeply remembered Starn.
Along the way, there were more than ten kinds of "torture" that exploded from the mouth of his excited lord, most of which were experimenting on assassins.
"Tell me, noble knight, if you don't want my master to really deal with you as he said, to be honest, it is your only way to live! You should be very grateful for your timidity, otherwise I don't know if you will still have your soul slipping away from my master's hands!"
Starn bent down in the presiding seat and said.
"Sir, the assassin has confessed. Unexpectedly, it was the bastard who was sent by Lord Zhao Hui from the north of the family to make trouble. Zhao Hui ordered him to mingle among the pilgrimage crowd and enter the castle, and take the opportunity to destroy the magical artifact that God rewarded to the family, so that he could spread rumors and slander the adults and be despised by the gods!"
Not long after Zhao Hu returned to his bedroom, Adjutant Starn excitedly knocked on the door of his bedroom. It seemed that the interrogation process was very smooth.
Zhao Hu took the record from Starn, but just flipped it around, and then put the report on the low table at the bedside in the bedroom, which surprised Starn, who was extremely excited.
"It's nothing to be surprised. The Zhao Hui family and the Zhao Ming family in the north where the family split have been seeking opportunities to invade our territory. The hunter leader Mengda, who just returned to the team, told me the day before yesterday that these two restless families have recruited a large number of soldiers in their territory in the past few months. It is said that four hundred soldiers and a squadron of knights have gathered, preparing to seize the most fertile Pinghu Town area in the territory from us when the family army goes to the north to serve His Majesty the Emperor.
"It turns out that the lord has already known the origin of the assassin. What should we do now? It is not long before the deadline stipulated by His Majesty's recruitment order. Even if we send troops to attack Zhao Ming, who is now in charge, I am afraid the time limit will not be enough."
Starn looked at his lord worriedly. Starn, who had always been training soldiers outside the castle wholeheartedly, did not expect that the family had fallen into such a dangerous situation.
This time, the emperor's order of recruitment was only issued to the patriarchs of various families. For the already declining Falcon family, its lord had long lost the power to order other branches. The main force of the family army went north, which was equivalent to giving other branches a rare opportunity to compete for the patriarch of the family.
"So, we want to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys! You immediately mobilize all the troops gathered outside the castle. I want to take back the city of the Zhao Ming family. I want these ignorant families to know that before His Majesty the Emperor agreed to their noble independence application, I am still the patriarch! If you want to be a stable lord, just be honest with me!"
Zhao Hu raised his head with a cold expression. Stars flashed under the black sky outside the castle, and the mountains in the distance lurked in the dark like dark beasts under the night.
This assassin incident made Zhao Hu very angry. Zhao Hu never disagreed with the family's side branches' peeping at him. However, this time the two families' side branches openly recruited troops on a large scale to target him. If he was indifferent, when he really came back from the northern front line, the clan leader of the family might have been replaced. It seems that he really regarded himself as a "fool" in such a blatant recruitment!
"But sir, if we openly attack the territory of the family branch like this, we will be morally responsible by other forces!" Starn reminded his lord with concern.
In the imperial decree, as long as the family's side branches have their own territory, they are still within the scope of the nobles. It is illegal for the master to attack his side branches without authorization. Even if he occupys the territory of the side branches, it will not be officially recognized by the empire. Therefore, many master families adopt the method of supporting puppets to control the side branches.
"This confession is the reason for our troops! Attacking the side branches of the main family will be punished by the main family in any decree!" Seeing his Lord raised the interrogation record on the head of the bed, Starn suddenly realized that the Lord had planned for a long time!
"Yes, sir, I believe that the family army will definitely defeat all enemies under the leadership of sir! Let the Falcon's battle flag fly proudly in the queue of first-class families in the empire once again."
Starn bent over to his lord with excitement and respectfully bowed to his lord. His glittering eyes burned with the desire to fight, and turned around and disappeared into the night in the castle corridor.
The winding line of torches was like a giant dragon walking on the winding mountain path. The light leather armor on the soldiers crossed the gap between the leaves in the mountains, making a rustling sound.
"Sir, good news, the hunter team in front of him is now receiving the 150 soldiers and 20 knights of the Zhao Ming family in Ha City. Zhao Ming, the patriarch of the Zhao Ming family, had led the twenty guards of the family to the castle of the Zhao Hui family two days ago. This is really a good luck brought to us by the gods."
Starn rode his horse back from the front of the team with joy. This time, with the family's own guards, Zhao Hu brought out a huge army of 1,400 people, and gathered overnight to attack the city of the Zhao Ming family. Such a huge queue made Starn very excited.
Most of the hunters in charge of the vanguard were hunters who made a living in nearby mountainous areas and were very familiar with the complex environment of the mountainous areas. Therefore, with the protection of darkness, 1,400 people bypassed the checkpoint set up by the Zhao Ming family on the border through a hidden mountain path. People unconsciously entered the hinterland of the Zhao Ming family's territory, and rushed overnight and actually touched the outer edge of Hacheng.
In the black night, the lights in the beautiful Ha City are twinkling like stars. Ha City where the Zhao Ming family is located is the city closest to the Falcon Family Castle. It is one of the three most luxuriant commercial towns before the Falcon Family splits.
Hacheng's real name is Kasha Town and Feishui Town, which is directly under Zhao Hu, and is known as the three pearls in the mouth of the Falcon. It has always been a territory directly under the patriarch.
The Zhao Ming family near Hacheng took advantage of the opportunity when the new patriarch was an idiot and his troops were dispersed. They forced knights to Kasha Town to announce the management of Kasha Town, and renamed Kasha Town to Hacheng as the family's new residence.
"boom!"
Chapter completed!