Rise of the Empire Total War

General, there is a farm house ahead, let's rest there, brothers are exhausted.

A sudden sentence interrupted Randall's memory. He woke up from the memory and glanced blankly at the speaker. It turned out to be a brigade commander under him. He only glanced at the other party, then retracted his gaze, and looked in the direction his words pointed, only to see a two-story farmhouse standing in the white snow field, and the chimney on the top of the farmhouse stood tall. There was still smoke.

Go, control the civilians inside as soon as you go in, don't let them run around and reveal our whereabouts. Randall urged.

Of order. The brigade commander replied, and then led a group of soldiers to run quickly towards the farmhouse. Randall watched them run to the door and kicked in and smashed the weak wooden door. Afterwards, they swarmed in, and there was a panic inside.

Seeing the soldiers rushing in, he took the rest of the soldiers there unhurriedly, passed over the fragments of the wooden door scattered all over the floor, Randall lifted his foot and walked in, and the inside was already under the control of the soldiers. The owner of the farm house shivered and knelt on the ground with his head in his arms, not daring to breathe. Randall looked around, the furnishings inside were very simple, and it could almost be described as bare walls, but it was also very warm - there was a fireplace in the house, and the flame inside was burning vigorously, supplying heat to the house.

Old man, my family has already handed over everything, and there is nothing to pay taxes on. The old farmer kneeling on the ground said tremblingly. He and his wife were shaking like chaff, and Randall even doubted that they would not pay taxes. Will tremble and die straight away.

No wonder, after all, anyone who is suddenly broken into by a group of vicious and heavily armed soldiers and forced to kneel on the ground will be very scared, let alone they are old people.

We don't take your things, we just need some food and water. The brigade commander said to the old farmer, his tone was not very good, almost an orderly tone. Hearing what he said, although the old farmer relaxed a lot, his body was still trembling, and he begged: Food, the food is in the pot in the kitchen, and there is boiling water. Go and get it yourself. I beg you to let us go. .”

Don't worry, as long as we're full and we'll leave naturally, you just pretend it didn't happen. The commander of the brigade comforted him, and motioned for the soldier to go into the kitchen to check. After a while, the soldier left Come out, said: He is right, there is indeed food and water inside.

Hearing this, the old farmer kneeling on the ground breathed a sigh of relief. If the officer in front of him hadn't lied, then his and his wife's lives would have been saved.

Looking at the old farmer kneeling on the ground, Randall fell into memories again, returning to that dangerous night two days ago...

Run,

rush out!

Follow them! Kill the Winsters! Retake Fort Meglen!

Hearing the shouts of the thugs coming from behind, Randall, who was running, glanced back, but was terrified by this look, and turned his head quickly and continued to run forward. There were only a few soldiers left around him. The others all separated from them after leaving the barracks.

That's a trap! Randall thought angrily in his heart, the soldier who was staring at the stone and reporting to them turned out to be a thug in disguise, and the other gate had already been attacked and captured by a sneak attack, only because he didn't have time to recognize the opponent's Miganis accent in the chaos (Many people in the Spear Sergeant Brigade were recruited from the Kingdom of Winster, so they are all using the common language of Vadasia to communicate. Although all countries use the common language, the accents of each region are still different. Listen carefully. easily recognizable) and listened foolishly, which led to the soldiers in the barracks being ambushed by mobs as soon as they rushed out of the gate.

Although the spear sergeants who were caught off guard by the ambush wanted to form a hedgehog circle defense at the first time, they were still scattered by a large number of mobs and drowned in the crowd. Randall and a few soldiers around him escaped luckily. He was hunted down mercilessly.

The whole city has fallen into chaos. On the way to escape, they saw many thugs violently breaking open the closed doors of the store, rushing in to grab the goods inside, and some people directly set fire to it after grabbing everything. Cheers loudly under the light of the fire. Among the unrestrained thugs, it is not only the Winster army in the city that has their eyes on the city, some of them also took the opportunity to stretch out their hands to the weak civilians, forcibly breaking into the houses, and facing the old and weak inside who were unable to resist. Violence against women and children.

Randall saw with his own eyes that in a residential house with an open door, a woman holding a baby knelt on the ground and begged the mob to let them go, but the mob was unmoved, kicked her over, and robbed her of any valuables in the house. Items, when they found that there was nothing valuable, they turned their eyes to the woman lying on the ground moaning, their eyes were full, and they worked together to forcibly lift her to the bed...

Just when Randall and the others ran to the street close to the city wall, a group of heavily armed soldiers appeared in front of them. They held kite-shaped shields and spears and approached them under the shout of the officer. They, Randall and the others seemed to see a life-saving straw, and ran towards them at a faster speed regardless of everything. After recognizing them, the soldiers on the opposite side quickly opened a passage to let them pass, and then merged together, looking warily at the thugs who were chasing them all the way. The latter retreated slowly after seeing so many soldiers, a little timid.

General, it's time to eat.

A voice interrupted Randall's memory again, pulling his consciousness back to reality. Randall glanced at the brigade commander who was speaking, then glanced at the bowl of pea soup he handed over, and nodded, I took it.

Sedkar, let's rest here for one night first. He said to the commander of the brigade beside him, Those thugs won't come after them. Now that the weather is so cold, they won't want to leave the city.

As you wish, General. The brigade commander said, to be honest, even if Randall didn't say it, he would find an opportunity to mention how warm it is here, and he would rather stay here than blow the cold wind outside here.

What about them? Seidekar glanced at the two old men kneeling on the ground, and then asked.

Let's lock it up first, it's just two thin old people, they won't pose a threat to us, Randall said. As if he had heard their conversation, the old farmer who was kneeling on the ground suddenly shivered, feeling a deep sense of uneasiness in his heart.

After finishing speaking, Seidkar left to carry out his order. Randall chewed some rotten peas in his mouth, but he was thinking about how to explain to Richard in the future. Richard gave him six The brigade was almost wiped out, leaving only the forty or so people around me, and many people were trapped in Fort Miggelen, whose whereabouts were unknown. Not only that, the brigade stationed in Fort Meggeren also lost contact.

What a loss. he thought uneasily.