When he approached the front of the position, he didn't need a lookout scope to see the group of refugees. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

There were men and women, of all ages, in rags, with slow steps, and weak stature—not to mention the Inquisition, not even ordinary militiamen.

The nail was more convinced of his judgment.

However, he also knew that the church also had a secret medicine that could instantly increase his strength, and considering that the other party might use the madness pill, he asked his teammates to set up the barrel of the gun within the suppressive range of the heavy machine gun, and he stepped forward alone and shouted, "This is the border defense line of the Grey Keep Kingdom, no one is allowed to break in! Now stop immediately and stay where you are, or we will shoot!"

The group of people obviously saw him as well, and their faces showed excitement, and instead of stopping their advance, they quickened their pace.

The nail fired two shots into the air and repeated the warning, but to no avail.

"Nailhead, come back!" cried the veteran behind him, "they don't know what a musket is, and they won't stop if you scream at your throat!"

Nails' heart moved, and he quickly replaced the shooting in his shouting with an arrow, and this time the comers finally reacted—but they only hesitated for a moment, and then continued their march towards the position, and this time waved their hands at the First Army, shouting something as they ran.

The shouts were so loud that he could only faintly tell that he was calling for help.

"No, stop!" Nail made one last attempt until he was dragged back to the line by his teammates - as the gang crossed the first row of stakes, the two bunkers erupted in flames almost simultaneously. The bullets whistled across the nails' heads and landed around the stakes, stirring up pillars of snow and drowning out their shouts.

A mist of blood suddenly rose at the front of the crowd.

This time they finally stopped moving forward.

Nails saw that except for the refugees who had been swept down, the rest of them were falling to their knees one after another, lying on their stomachs in the snow, and despite the look of fear on their faces, they did not flee backwards, as if something more terrible was waiting for them in the rear.

"Stop, stop, don't shoot!" Nail took off his coat and, risking being hit by a stray bullet, got up and swung it in the direction of the pillbox, and finally let the machine gun squad release the trigger. Presumably noticing his strange behavior, two more squads left the bunker area and converged on the front line.

Passing through the still smoky position, a five-man squad with rifles in hand slowly approached the stranger behind the nails, who shivered and did not dare to move even in the bitter cold of the snow.

"Where are you all from?"

No one spoke up.

"Didn't you hear the squad leader's question!" shouted the veteran, "if you don't answer, you will be hung up and killed!"

"Big, big, big...... Your Excellency," someone finally spoke this time, "I—We're all from Hermes. ”

"So you're churchgoers?" Nail frowned.

"Yes...... No, no, we are not," the man kowtowed, "we were deceived by the church before, and now we have gone astray! The gods did not protect the church at all, we were wrong, please give us something to eat!"

After this sentence was spoken, it immediately caused an uproar in the crowd, "Adult, please, just take a bite of wheat porridge, my child is dying!"

"The army of the church was chasing us after us, and we had to throw away our bags. ”

"My lord, I haven't eaten in three days. ”

Looking at each other's withered faces and more than a dozen bloody corpses, a trace of unbearability flashed in Nail's heart, and after escaping the Holy City, going to the Gray Fort was probably the only way for them to survive. He reached for the dry food in his waist pocket, and was about to throw it to the group, but the veteran grabbed his wrist.

"What are you going to do?"

"Give them something to eat. ”

"Are you sure? These guys are from the church," the veteran said in a low voice, "our enemies. ”

"But now they're not anymore — don't you hear? They admit they've been deceived. ”

"Tsk, deceit?" said the veteran disdainfully, "when they can't survive, they will even believe in the devil as a true god, and these guys are just grass on the wall compared to the inquisitors who rushed forward and followed." ”

"Boss, Uncle Sang is right, maybe the weapons and armor used by the church army were created by them. ”

"Hell knows if they ever had the blood of the First Army on their hands. ”

"They deserve to be mixed up to this point, who let them go against Your Majesty? I don't want to give them food. ”

Nail took a deep breath and made a quiet gesture to his teammates, "Listen to me, when Your Majesty didn't come to the border town, you should all know what the situation was in the town, didn't everyone be deceived by the church to a greater or lesser extent at that time? But Your Majesty didn't give up on us, let alone treat us as grass on the wall, should we spit on them now? Of course, I don't mean that it is the right thing to do to spare those who have committed crimes, to give them food first, and then to bring them back for interrogation. ”

"Uh, this ......"

"And His Majesty Roland has said in his book that the kingdom of the Grey Keep is a whole, and as long as the sinless people are willing to submit to the Grey Keep, then they should be regarded as the king's subjects, not persecuted and excluded them. "If there are innocent people in it, and we don't save them, wouldn't it be against Your Majesty's will?"

After a moment of silence at the scene, the veteran grinned, "Nailhead, I know why Lord Blair elected you as the captain, it's different if you've read the book, you used to be a person who couldn't speak smoothly at a critical moment, if you want to know, you will definitely applaud you." ”

It can be seen that he does not very agree with the remark that "those who take refuge in the Grey Keep are all subjects", but the whole army of the First Army has reverence for His Majesty Roland Wimbledon, and naturally does not want to resist the nail's action again. "But you can't just throw the food to them, that will only cause a robbery, pick out a few who are about to be unable to hold on, and let them line up to get it." ”

......

As more and more soldiers came around, the deputy battalion commander in charge of commanding the Northland garrison, "Eagle Face", also rushed to the front line - this tall man with round eyes and pointed mouth, like the gray eagle of the Western Realm, and the iron axe, was also the first outstanding hunter to join the militia, "Can anyone explain what the hell is going on?"

The nail stepped forward with a military salute and briefly recounted what had happened.

"Escaped from the Holy City?" Hawkface looked thoughtful as he listened, and then asked his men to bring one of the refugees to him, "What happened in Hermes, if you can tell me everything, I can fill your stomachs." ”

"Great, great......" the refugee swallowed, "the cathedral of the new holy city...... Collapsed ......"

"What?" Nail couldn't help but be stunned, even he had heard that the Hermes Cathedral was the immortal symbol of the Church, and that the Tower of Babel was the tallest building ever built by mankind before His Majesty's "Miracle Building" was completed. At the beginning of the Battle of Coldwind Ridge, he also fantasized about following His Majesty into the Hermes Plateau and occupying this legendary tower that could reach up to the sky. But this magnificent building ...... It doesn't even exist?

"I heard that there was a big crater under the church and that the whole tower had sunk into it......," the refugee said intermittently, "and the Inquisitors cordoned off the site, but with such a large building disappearing without a trace, and with the earth-shattering noise, everyone knew what had happened." The church is about to end, my lord, the gods no longer care about it, and the inhabitants of the outskirts began to flee secretly, and we left a little late, only to meet the pursuing Inquisitors, and we were the only ones who escaped out of the hundreds......"

"So, there's chaos in the Holy City?"

"It's messy, it's messy......," the man nodded repeatedly, "not only the west gate, but also the south gate and the east gate are left unattended, and they are so open that it is obvious that the guards guarding the gate have all fled." I've heard that the situation in the Old Holy City is even worse than in the New Holy City, and it's been a long time since I've seen a caravan from outside enter the city. ”

"I see, you go down. ”

After his men took the people away, Hawkface had an excited look on his face, "This is unexpected good news, maybe we won't have to wait for the army to arrive, we can take Hermes in advance." ”

Nails naturally knew what the deputy battalion commander was happy about, and if he could become the first commander of the First Army to set foot in the Holy City, he would undoubtedly be able to add a heavy stroke to his resume. However, he didn't care about whether he could get more victories at the moment, he cared about those who had fled from hunger and cold.

After expressing his worries, Hawkface looked at him deeply and pondered for a moment before replying, "It is impossible for the camp to take in these outsiders, give them some tents and food, and let them camp in a position where the heavy machine guns can shine." ”

"Is it in this unsheltered wilderness?" "If the weather changes, and it snows or storms, they won't last a night." ”

"I am the head of the garrison in the north, and the safety of the First Army must be a top priority. Unmoved, Hawkface said, "I'll inform Duke Kant to take them in, and it's up to their luck to see how many of these people survive until the helpers from Glen arrive." ”