Chapter 56: The River of Blood of Garriwall
The important thing about Garyvour is not that it is the only fortress on the western border of the Plainau Empire. The most important thing about it is that it is the only channel on the Western Frontier Mountains between Lufos and Plainau. The Western Frontier Mountains stretch for thousands of kilometers and the lowest altitude is over one thousand meters. In the entire mountain range, there is a natural gap, or valley. This gap extends to the hinterland of Pyinau. Garyvour is built in front of this natural channel, blocking the only gap in the barrier.&1t;/p>
Lufus could not allow their troops to cross the mountains and march towards Plano. Lufus itself is not a great power. Once the war time is extended, it will collapse first, so it must be decided.&1t;/p>
The western border of Plano is barren and the people here can only barely make ends meet, so Lufus cannot take the approach of fighting to support the war. They must transport food from the country to the front line. Even if their troops can cross the mountains, their grain trucks cannot cross over.&1t;/p>
Therefore, Jiaruiwall is crucial to them. It can be used as a base for Lufus' marching and as a turnover station for food and grass. If the war fails, Jiaruiwall's solid city walls can also be used to block the empire's army.&1t;/p>
Therefore, this battle to capture the city in Jiaruiwall was particularly tragic.&1t;/p>
——"Song of Thorns and Troubled Times"&1t;/p>
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When the blade of Judgment moved, there were only a dozen soldiers around Ido, and Lufus's soldiers seemed to have been ordered to capture him alive.&1t;/p>
As the only passage in the western border, Jiaruiwall naturally cannot be strong, and solid defense is not safe enough. A stone wall is built behind Jiaruiwall, several meters thick and dozens of meters high. Of course, a wall of only a few dozen meters cannot play much role. It is not difficult to push down such a wall in front of the army.&1t;/p>
This wall is a door leading to the hinterland of Plano. In other words, this wall is the only entrance to a huge defensive barrier. This is called the "Gate of the Rebels".&1t;/p>
At the beginning of the founding of the country, Princess Enola knew that this would be the only weakness of the entire border. She summoned magicians from all over the country to set up a defensive barrier here, leaving only this wall as a passage. Unfortunately, the barrier was not laid out, Princess Enola was executed due to a coup, and the project was put on hold. Until the 67th year of the Empire, Gamore, the second king of the Empire, tried to regain power from the nobles, and planned to clean up the aristocratic forces of the Empire at that time. The nobles plotted rebellion and even introduced foreign enemies. They walked this passage.&1t;/p>
This rebellion caused the situation where the nobles of Palano have been in power since then. Gamerle died in the rebellion and he left no descendants. The successor was his nephew, the son of his brother who died early. After putting down the rebellion, he picked up the plan again. Not only that, he also built a rock city in front of the stone wall, which is Garywall. He engraved the names of the rebellious nobles on the wall to warn the later generations.&1t;/p>
Lufus' soldiers seemed to have mistakenly thought Ido was the commander of Garyvoll, thinking that he knew how the "Gate of the Rebels" was opened. However, those who knew this had already run away with his treasures, and no one here knew it.&1t;/p>
Although this defensive barrier is difficult to break, Ido still fights to the death. He is not sure whether Lufus has such a powerful magician that is powerful enough to unlock this barrier. For the sake of Plano, he would not allow him to live even if there is a one-in-one possibility.&1t;/p>
His comrades fell down one after another, some of them were close friends who grew up with him, and some of them came with him to be apprentice knights. They were all dead. He was covered in blood and his armor could no longer see his original form.&1t;/p>
However, suddenly, he felt that the magic power in the air had changed, but he had not learned magic, and he was not sure what had been born. And the soldiers of Lufus seemed to have noticed something, and they suddenly stopped attacking. Ido was exhausted, and he knew that he should take advantage of them to counterattack, but now there were only a dozen people around him, and he knew that he could do nothing.&1t;/p>
He looked at the soldiers of Lufus, who were stunned and stared at the sky. A living entourage of Ido came over and wanted to support him who had lost too much blood, who was a little unsteady. Ido barely stood up, and he also raised his head to look at the sky. The dizziness of blood loss made his eyes dark for a moment, and then the screams of the entourage's soldiers of Lufus came from his ears. When his eyes returned to brightness, there was nothing strange in the sky. He looked around. All the soldiers of Lufus were dead. They fell to the ground, and some people struggled to escape, but they died in a state of reaching out to break free. Blood continued to flow out of their bodies, but there was no wound. Blood flowed on the ground, gathered at their feet, soaked in their ankles, passed the railings, rushed out of the hall, and flowed to the street.&1t;/p>
The streets were full of blood, and the blood of the soldiers of Lufus was drawn out and gathered in Jiaruivo, forming a fierce river of blood, which fluttered everything, both the dead and the dead were inevitably stained with blood. The river of blood flooded the corpses on the street, and the splashed blood struck the faces of the wife who had lost her husband, making their pale faces a hint of redness; the flowing river of blood swallowed the calves of the helpless children, they fell in the rushing blood stream, and they got up in panic, and their clothes were soaked in blood; the xylophone broke to the ground, and the blood flow rushed through the strings that had not yet broken, and the sound of the piano was swallowed by the river of blood.&1t;/p>
The survivor stood in the rushing river of blood, and finally couldn't help crying. The woman who was forced to take up a weapon to protect the child pounced on the blood, groping, murmuring her father and mother, murmuring her husband's nickname, and murmuring her brother's name. But she found nothing. In the end, she fell into the river of blood, covered her face with blood, and cried with tears.&1t;/p>
Ido, with his shaky body, walked step by step in the blood river. The streets were full of corpses, and the bodies were immersed in the blood river. Almost all the men died in battle, and the last one was fighting was women, women they promised to protect. Embrace the old couple who were hacked to death, the babies who were snatched out of their cradles, the children who were half-large but took up weapons, and countless bodies of Lufus soldiers.&1t;/p>
"We couldn't protect them..." Yido said in a hoarse voice. The entourage quickly said, "It's not your fault. Yido, it's all Corden, he... he actually ran away..." "Go quickly and find His Highness Tangalo. He has come, and he has saved us." Yido was exhausted.&1t;/p>
The entourage was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously: "Did the third prince save us?" Yidu nodded: "Yes, it's His Highness Tangala. He should be outside the city now and go to find him. Your Highness is here, and there will be no trouble for Jiaruivoor!"&1t;/p>
The entourage's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly said, "I will immediately summon the remaining soldiers and immediately welcome His Highness the Third Prince. Then, sir, you..." He hesitated for a moment, looking at Ido's broken left arm. Ido waved his hand and signaled that he was fine and asked him to go quickly.&1t;/p>
Ido asked the remaining people in the city to gather in the square at the gate of the command post. So the living people supported each other and walked towards the square in a daze. Some people held their dead relatives and refused to leave. There were also mothers who had lost their children holding their children's small body, and their eyes were empty and walking step by step.&1t;/p>
Not many people are alive. Men try their best to protect women, while women try their best to protect children, but in the end they are not able to protect them.&1t;/p>
Ido stood at the place where Corden had given orders, looking at the survivors in the square, he knew that he should appease them and encourage them, but he didn't know what to say. No one knew that there were corpses everywhere, blood was flowing out of the command post, flowing through his feet.&1t;/p>
A little girl was crying. She lost all her relatives within ten days, and she didn't understand what she had given birth. She had just learned to walk, and was walking in the square with bumps and bumps. She fell down and got up again. She was looking for her parents. They would feel sorry for her and would hold her in their arms and kiss her chubby cheeks. Perhaps her mother would blame her for being so careless and making her dirty. But she couldn't find her, and her parents hid and didn't let her find her. So she cried louder. She knew that her parents couldn't bear to cry, and they would definitely come out.&1t;/p>
Yido walked over and picked her up. Seeing that his face was covered with blood, the little girl cried even harder, and she cried and called her parents.&1t;/p>
Ido looked around and could only see decadence. Someone cried and asked him: "Why didn't the gods save us earlier? Do they have to help us when we see us despair?"&1t;/p>
Everyone was looking at him, waiting for his answer. Ido opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and finally he spoke. He raised his voice and said, "It is not the gods who saved us. The gods are dead. However, even if they are still alive, they will not plead with our suffering. They will be happy to see us in a desperate moment and can only beg for their name to live. It is ourselves who saves us. We have not given up. We have been fighting and we have been fighting. We have been fighting until the arrival of Dangalo. Corden gave up us and gave up Jiarivoll, but we have not given up. We have been fighting. We have been fighting until hope comes."&1t;/p>
“But, what have we saved?”&1t;/p>
Ido looked at them, he didn't know how to answer, the little girl in her arms was still crying and struggling, and even grabbed his face with her chubby little hands. He suddenly knew the answer, he raised the little girl high, and he shouted, "We have saved her!"&1t;/p>
"We saved her, and the battle of her parents saved her. Everyone we survived is what the dead want to protect. Think about them, they fight for you, and you fight for them. Don't let down those who want to protect you!"&1t;/p>
"We have already been able to hold on, the reinforcements have arrived! We have succeeded." Yido was a little unsteady, and he suddenly burst into tears. All his friends died here. They came here for him without being remote, and eventually died here because of him.&1t;/p>
The blood river is still flowing, and the strong smell of blood permeates every corner of Jiaruiwall.&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!