Chapter 43: Execution

"Of course, my Earl Commander, Your Majesty has bestowed upon me such an honorable Red Hand Court Guard, and it is not just a symbol of my pomp. You have to show the role of preparing the elite army on the battlefield, and at this time you have to embody the role of George. Para Rogus is the commanding authority of the royal stables, for I am an agent of His Majesty the Emperor. George held the token in his hand and said with a sigh.

Eventually, Farov shrugged his shoulders, took the token, and then turned back to all the samurai and servants standing in the red-hand detachment,

"Now there are rebels and defeated soldiers who are completely contrary to military discipline, plundering the villages and towns of Gallipoli and slaughtering His Majesty's people, so I have received an order from Your Excellency the Warden to lead you to arrest these who have become bandits, and to justify Lord Caesar."

Gawain thought that this Farov looked rough and contemptible, as if he were a barbarian who knew nothing, but he had been immersed in the Roman court for many years, and it seemed that he had already learned how to speak well: when he gave orders, he did not mention the emperor at all, just to avoid danger; And he also said "to correct the name of Lord Caesar", which also means that he is not willing to cooperate with McAulinus. Ducasse is the enemy. Faroff was not a fool, and he understood what it meant for Captain George to call his men and horses instead of his own company to carry out the task.

"Order!" All the Red Guards' chain mail trembled with a roar in unison.

"Remember, Earl Commander. Now that the soldiers had become bandits, and the most hated strippers of the people, if any of them resisted during the arrest process, they would be killed on the spot as enemies. George added the order with a blank face, and then he gently pressed his hand on the top of the elder's head, and the villagers scrambled to kiss the back of his hand and boot in a very casual manner.

Gawain did not expect that the first military mission he carried out was to execute his own defeated soldiers, but he did not hesitate in his heart, when he came to Gallipoli with Diognis, he witnessed the atrocities of Caesar's Myacollinus' army along the way, and he felt that killing this group of people was similar to killing a group of insects.

After walking for about seven curls, Gawain's guard saw the burned wheat fields, the smoke was in the air, and they could see a few rebels with scattered armor laughing, scattered around the fields with torches lit. Behind the smoke were the same red-hot villages and farms, and the screams of boys and girls rising into the sky.

During these three months, this had become the norm in the Gallipoli Fortress, where Caesar's rout was cut off from the roads and raided by passing merchants, and then it turned into looting the bustling towns, and when there was nothing left to rob, they targeted the most ordinary villagers.

In short, Gallipoli, the former barrier of Constantinople and the most prosperous "satellite city", has now been completely reduced to hell.

Farov stood on the side of the road, and the flag-bearer next to him raised the flag stained with the red hand totem, and then the commander of the detachment, Nunu, waved his hand down, which was equivalent to giving a silent order to the soldiers—and then the Varangian warriors of the Red Hand detachment, carrying battle axes, formed a large evacuation queue, and walked slowly along the endless wheat field towards the place where the flames were burning.

In strict accordance with the requirements of the discipline, Gawain marched forward with a two-handed axe that shimmered with cold light, and in front of him, about three or four comrades, fell one after another, and the long grass and wheat stalks on both sides swayed and retreated with a rustling sound. Then he heard the first howl: at first, the hapless man who bore the brunt of the attack, thinking that another army had come to "share the spoils", stepped forward to stop him, and then he was greeted by the axe of the Varangian warrior, and in an instant, half of the creature's body was cut apart, and the blood and entrails stained a large field of wheat stalks the color of scarlet, and fell sideways on the dirt.

Then came the sound of metal chopping bones, "They're going to run!" With this command, all the warriors of the guard hurried to their pace, like hunters rounding up foxes and rabbits.

Gao Wen, who was in the back, saw a "fish that slipped through the net", the other party was seriously injured, the tendons of his thighs were all severed, he was still holding a murder weapon in his hand, a torch that had not yet been extinguished, his neck and body were full of looted things, he was sitting on the bale in front of the ditch like that, his face was full of horror, and the original hunter was now a prey. Then Gawain saw that there was a silver-plated amulet hanging around the guy's neck, and as far as he knew, this amulet should be worn by an underage child, so it was conceivable what happened to the original owner.

That guy, seeing the rosary dangling on the hilt of Gawain's sword, could still ignite a trace of hope in his heart, so he sadly stretched out his hand covered with blood, trying to touch Gawain's rosary to beg for forgiveness.

Although Gawain remembered Faroff's guidance and used inertia to control the movements of the tomahawk, he was not skilled enough, and he still gave a heavy hand because of anger - blood and brains flew all over his face, and he almost felt that after the tomahawk fell, the opponent's head was equivalent to an explosion, it was really an explosion, and then the man fell to the ground like a broken tree trunk.

It took a lot of effort for Gawain to pull out the axe, fly over, and kick this thing into the ditch with a sharp kick that could no longer be called a corpse, and then ripped off the silver amulet on the other party's body.

The rout in the wheat field was quickly slaughtered, and the rearguard "stormed" the village, where Gawain saw a woman covered in mud, trembling and holding her dead child in swaddling clothes, her hands covered in blood from the child, and her eyes fixed on the amulet in Gawain's hand.

Gawain stepped forward and gave the amulet back to the woman, then he looked at the child's bloody little face, stretched out his finger, drew a cross on it, and then heard the woman's trembling voice, "Beasts are in the barn, kill them, kill them all, and send them to hell!" ”

Under the control of some terrible and agitated emotion, Gawain had no panic, his worries were like being burned by a blazing fire, and without the cover of his comrades, he carried a bloody axe, simply untied his chain and turban, his hair jumped with the fishy wind, strode a meteor, and kicked open the door of the barn according to the woman's instructions.

But the fear of danger was also unnecessary, and in the barn, Gawain saw three worms nested under the haystack, they trembled, although they still held swords in their hands, how violent they had been with civilians just now, and how timid they were in the face of Gawain now.