Rise of the Empire Total War

"All dead, all people dead..."

On the wide stone paved road, a thin figure walked slowly, holding a hen in his arms, judging from the hen's round belly, it was obvious that he was pregnant.

"Old Hart, Old Toad, Dipper...they're all dead..."

The young man muttered, not paying attention to what happened around him. Behind him, several ragged people followed him quietly, and one of them was holding a slightly rusted sword in his hand. iron sword.

"Chop him up, catch that chicken and roast it." One person's eyes kept hinting at the sword-wielding man. Although the latter saw everything in his eyes, he didn't do it for a long time. It seemed that he was hesitating about the consequences of doing it—— Although the young man they were following was only one person, it was not difficult to tell from the armor on his body that the other party was a soldier.

"Hurry up." The other urged softly. They hadn't eaten for several days, and if they didn't replenish their energy, they might collapse at any time.

"..."

The man with the sword gritted his teeth, and raised the iron sword in his hand to cut it down. Suddenly, there was a sound of horseshoes behind him. The cavalry suddenly appeared in their sight!

"No, it's the cavalry of the Royal Army!" One of them recognized the identity of the cavalry at a glance. Chad ordered his sergeants to be allowed to plunder civilian property and capture any living Cork in sight as a slave), if not lucky, might have been kidnapped with the villagers by now.

"Hide quickly!"

The man with the sword shouted in a low voice, ran forward and dragged the distraught young soldier directly into the bushes on both sides of the road, covered his face with his muddy hands to prevent him from making a sound, several of his companions took Seeing all this, although he was puzzled, he did not speak out due to the current situation.

Rumble——

After waiting for a while, the sound of the horseshoes of the cavalry came to the ears of several people from far to near. When they reached the place where they were standing just now, they could only feel the sound of horseshoes appearing above their heads. Trembling with fright, terrified all day long.

Fortunately, this team of cavalry didn't notice anything unusual, and continued to advance along the paved road. After a long time, after confirming that they would not come back, they breathed a sigh of relief and walked out from the bushes where they were hiding. When they all stood on the avenue,

All eyes turned to the young soldier standing beside the sword-bearer. The latter recovered from the sudden change, hugged the hen in his arms tightly, and looked at everyone vigilantly.

"Hello." The sword-bearer asked aloud, "We saved you. What's your name?"

"I, my name is Xi Rui, and I am a soldier at Omar's post." The young soldier said nervously, "What about you?"

"My name is Pierre, and I'm from Kiri Village." The sword-bearer first introduced himself, then pointed to his companions, and said, "He's Oleg, he's Gary, he's Sergio, From Killi Village like me."

After the introduction, Pierre continued to ask without waiting for Siri to speak, "You said you were a soldier at Omar's post, why did you appear here?"

"I, our outpost was attacked, and everyone died except me..."

"They're all dead?" Pierre was startled, and glanced at his companions. One of them, Gary, asked quickly, "Then how did you escape?"

"At that time, I was in the stable to take out weeds to build a nest for it." Xi Rui said, holding up the hen in his arms, "There was no sign of the enemy's attack, so I could only hide in the weeds. Watching them get killed by the enemy..."

As he said that, the tragic scene of his comrade who was pierced through the abdomen by a spear appeared again before his eyes, and his body couldn't help trembling slightly.

Seeing him like this, several people exchanged glances again, and finally the man named Oleg interrupted Xi Rui's memory, saying: "Si Rui, you haven't eaten for a long time since you escaped from the outpost. , why don't we divide this chicken?"

When Siri heard this, he didn't even think about it, and flatly refused: "No, this is the only thing Di Pu left behind, and I want to bring it back to Rob Town!"

...

"It's so delicious. I haven't eaten such a delicious roast chicken for a long time." The young Siri showed a satisfied smile as he gnawed on the chicken that was roasted by the fire and started to drip. You bake deliciously."

"That's right, Oleg is the person who knows how to bake food best in our village." Pierre bit off more than half of the chicken leg and said with a mutter, "He was once prepared by Rob Town for the mayor's banquet. "

"That's all in the past." Oleg, who was praised by others, was modest, but the bright smile on his face that could bloom directly told others that he was very happy.

Everyone chatted and ate the hen that could have lived for a while, and then they extinguished the fire and walked towards Rob Town.

This is the result of everyone's discussion. Villages and outposts without city walls are particularly vulnerable to being captured by the cavalry of the Royal Army. It is not safe to stay in the wild. In addition to being careful of possible troops, you must also be careful beasts and bands of rogue bandits.

No matter who was targeted, with the force of the five of them having only one iron sword, they could only wash their necks and wait for death.

However, four days later, when they escaped many crises along the way and came to the safe Robe Town, they were stunned by the tragedy before them.

This town with a permanent population of more than 1,000 has been captured by the Royal Army. Several sections of the wooden city wall have collapsed, civilian corpses can be seen everywhere on the streets, and black smoke from burning buildings rises into the sky. The peaceful town of the past no longer exists.

Seeing the abandoned town, Xi Rui almost sat on the ground. He thought of his family and friends living in the city. Regardless of Pierre and others' cries, he gritted his teeth and rushed directly into the collapsed city gate, stepping over The corpse of the soldier hacked to death by an iron tool stumbled towards the direction of his home in memory.

Finally, he came to the door of his house. The building in front of him was intact, not even the door was damaged. Xi Rui walked to the door full of hope, and knocked on the heavy wooden door once, twice, three times... No matter how many times he knocked or how loud the sound was, there was still no response from inside.

At this moment, an exclamation sounded from the other end of the street, and he followed the sound reflexively. It turned out that it was Pierre and the others. They surrounded a rough cross, and their faces were full of fear.

"What's the matter?" Siri shouted, and ran towards Pierre and the others quickly. When he saw the content on the cross, his face showed a look of horror.

On the rough cross, the bloody corpse of the old mayor was crucified, and on his chest was pasted a parchment written in Ravana:

"This is just the beginning. Any towns, villages, civilians or nobles who dare to support the Bandak rebels will be severely sanctioned by the Royal Army!"