When Alpha returned to Gilliat City single-handedly, the battlefield below the city had already been cleared. All the corpses of the prairie wolves had been buried, and the loess above the battlefield was still seeped with bright red blood. As he rode his horse through it, Alpha could even still
Smell the strong smell of blood in the air.
In the sky, a few vultures were still circling in the distance.
Under the city and above the wilderness, the first thing Alpha saw was not Duwei.
Where the prairie people originally camped, hundreds of wooden stakes were densely planted on the ground. On those wooden stakes, the prairie wolf captives were stripped of their clothes and hung high on the wooden frame.
When Alpha got closer, he realized that these wooden stakes were all in the shape of a cross. From a distance, it looked like the prairie people were tied up, but when he got closer, that was not the case!
Everyone was stripped of their clothes, splashed with plasma, and then opened their hands to form a cross shape, with the palms of both hands nailed to the wooden stakes!
Under the scorching sun, some of the captives were already dying, and the corpse-eating vultures in the sky were watching with eager eyes.
Next to him, Du Wei was sitting on a chair, and behind him stood a dozen subordinates with murderous faces, looking coldly at the prairie prisoners tied to crosses.
"Sir, this is the last batch." A cavalryman from the Tulip family behind him whispered.
"Okay, let's load the car." Du Wei nodded: "Remember, give them some food and drink along the way, don't kill them all at once, do you understand?"
The cavalryman bowed and retreated.
After Alpha rode his horse closer, he turned over and walked up to Du Wei.
"You're finally back." Du Wei looked at Uncle Alpha and seemed to smile, with warmth in his eyes: "I thought you left me."
Alpha was silent for a while, shook his head and said: "Master, since I promised Mr. Raymond, I will not leave you until I die."
Du Wei smiled, but he didn't smile happily. He walked up to Alpha and looked at Alpha up and down. He could see the fatigue of the former captain of the guard: "Let's go in and talk. I think you disappeared suddenly."
It’s been a few days, there must be a special reason, right?”
Alpha nodded, but suddenly glanced at the prairie captives who were tied to the cross: "They..."
"I ordered this." Du Wei said lightly: "We captured thousands of people this time. I didn't intend to keep these beasts to waste food. All the people were nailed to the pillars. I ordered the use of large carts.
Drag these people around my territory! Let everyone who sees it understand one thing... Northwest Dessa. As long as I, Du Wei, am here, I will not let these prairie people attack our homes at will.
Come!"
It is indeed a good way to establish your authority and win people's hearts.
Alpha sighed inwardly, but looking at Du Wei, whose eyes were becoming colder and thicker day by day, for some reason, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Even some regrets. The young master has changed, and he is no longer the same person hiding behind the scenes.
He is the son of an earl who studies in a small building and is polite to everyone in his family.
Now he, the lives of thousands of prisoners were decided in a single thought.
However, Alpha was not the kind of pedantic guy who would do anything to the enemy. He just glanced at the dying guy tied to the pillar next to him, and then withdrew his gaze: "Master, I am here this time.
Go after that golden wolf head."
"Oh?" Du Wei's eyes lit up. After this battle, he defeated the opponent's 20,000 elite cavalry in one fell swoop. It was a great victory that had not happened in the northwest for more than 20 years. It was a pity that the golden wolf head escaped. It was really the biggest victory.
Hateful thing: "You chase after..."
He was about to ask if he had caught up, but when he saw that Alpha's hands were empty and there was no head hanging on the horse, he immediately changed his words: "You have worked hard to chase him, let's go back to the city first."
Alpha shook his head: "Not to mention hard work. I caught up with the golden wolf head, but I didn't have the chance to kill him and bring his head back. However, I discovered something even more surprising."
In the former governor's palace in Gilliat City, Duwei listened to Alpha recount what he had seen.
When they heard that the Northwest Army intercepted and killed Jin Langtou on the way, everyone under Du Wei started to curse angrily.
"What a cunning Northwest Army!"
"Damn it!"
"mean!!"
For a while, the one who scolded the loudest was Gaida. However, Du Wei's expression remained unchanged after hearing this. He just thought about it quietly and smiled lightly: "It's not strange. If it were me, I would probably do the same."
What he did... This General Lu Gao reacted quickly. Hmph!"
The Northwest Army is nominally a border guard army, but it dares to let the prairie people enter the imperial territory! This is already a serious crime! If it were the time in Niuli Town before, when the opponent's cavalry of about 2,000 were sent in to search for World of Warcraft, they would come and go.
Quietly, without causing any trouble, and there is no evidence afterwards, so that's nothing.
But this time, it seemed as if tens of thousands of troops from the other side came in and openly attacked the city in the imperial territory! They also alerted the garrison, as well as the garrison of Governor Bohan from the neighboring province!
Such a big news cannot be concealed, and the imperial capital will definitely get the news!
Although the Imperial Capital has always been beyond the reach of the Northwest Army and lacks effective means of control, this is simply because the Northwest Army, although apparently independent, has been quite honest in recent years and has not done too many drastic things or touched the bottom line of the central empire!
But you can openly put tens of thousands of the opponent's troops in! Such an action, although it has not blatantly raised the flag of rebellion, is no different from treason!
Such behavior has greatly exceeded the bottom line of the central government of the empire. I am afraid that even if the central government can tolerate it, this kind of thing will never be tolerated!
The Northwest Army doesn't want to really break up, at least it seems that it doesn't want to rebel openly yet, so this approach is General Lu Gao's remedy!
Looking at his indignant subordinates, Du Wei smiled lightly and said to himself: "Well, it should be almost like this... If I guessed correctly, I am afraid that the Northwest Army sent someone to the Imperial Military Headquarters to ask for merit.
, is already on the way."
"Ask for credit?!" Little 250 Gaida suddenly roared: "They still have the nerve to ask for credit? If these sons of bitches hadn't let those prairie people in, how could so many of our brothers have died!! They still want to ask for credit!"
Gong? All these treasonous bastards should be hanged!"
Du Wei was not angry, and looked at Al Qaeda: "They have committed treason a long time ago. If they really had the ability to hang them, do you think the military would endure it until today?"
"But... no matter what, we can't talk about asking for credit! No matter what, the crime of letting the grassland army come in cannot be erased! For such a big crime, can we say that we will not investigate it if we don't pursue it?!
"Gaidah blushed and had a thick neck.
Du Wei sneered: "So what? Huh, kill the golden wolf-headed guard general! After all, he is a golden wolf-headed general! One of the four army commanders on the grassland! Al-Gaeda, for more than 20 years, the empire has had
Such a great achievement? Is there any record of killing such a high-level enemy chief on the grassland? This is the first time in more than 20 years! Such a great achievement. If the Northwest Army doesn’t invite it, who will?”
"We killed the enemy! We defended the city! We killed the people! If we want to talk about merit, it should be our Tulip family!" When Gaida said this, he suddenly added: "And Governor Bohan.
, they also sent troops to help us quell the chaos!"
"So what... the golden wolf head died in the hands of the Northwest Army." Du Wei sighed: "The Central Empire does not want to start a war. The Northwest Army does not want to start a war either! The so-called asking for credit is just a gesture of the Northwest Army. The Northwest Army
Sending the head of the Golden Wolf Head means: Promise, I don’t want to rebel yet. If the empire expresses its merits to the Northwest Army, it means: I don’t want to fight either! Once the two sides reach a tacit understanding... the credit of the Northwest Army is certain, and, moreover,
Maybe the imperial capital will do something superficial and give some rewards, or even money and food rewards."
After all, Gaida was just a rough man. His face turned red, but he couldn't say a word. Finally, he stamped his feet vigorously and cursed: "Damn it! I just can't figure it out!"
After saying that, the fierce general lost his temper and walked out, not knowing where to vent his anger.
Du Wei glanced at Robert and sighed: "Knight Robert, go out and watch this little two hundred and five, don't let him do anything..."
Robert smiled faintly: "Commander Al Qaeda is just a little tempered, but he still has a sense of proportion. At most, he would go out to find a few prisoners and give him a strong whip to vent his anger."
"That's good. Those prairie people can be beaten as they please. I won't feel bad if you beat them to death." Du Wei tapped his fingers on the table, with a weird smile on his lips, and whispered: "Lu Gao, Lu Gao... you
What are you thinking? You don’t want to rebel openly. Killing Golden Wolf Head will stabilize the imperial capital... But what about the grassland? If Golden Wolf Head dies on the grassland, will you be spared? This time the grassland people come in,
There is a Witch King behind you! Aren't you, Lu Gao, afraid of the Witch King's revenge? Daxue Mountain...well, Daxue Mountain..."
Thinking of this, Du Wei looked at Alpha: "Uncle Alpha, are you really sure that Lu Gao's son... is using frost fighting spirit? Is it a martial art of Rodriguez's lineage? But I heard that Rodriguez seems to
He is self-taught, I have never heard of him having any teachers, right?"
Alpha shook his head, Rodriguez had always kept a low profile, and few people knew his origins.
Du Wei sighed and thought that he could only ask Rodriguez when he met him in the future.
That day, Hussein came back from the frozen forest and brought the beauty under the moon. He told about the dragon clan coming to seek revenge. Rodriguez also asked Hussein to convey that he had listened to someone's advice and was ready to come.
Go to the northwest to help yourself.
It's just that whose persuasion he listened to made a paladin-level master willing to work for him... The person who persuaded Rodriguez was really powerful!
At this moment, Du Wei didn't know that the person who persuaded Rodriguez was the Blue Ocean University scholar.
He still doesn't know at this moment that Lan Hai's real name is Lan Haiyue, and he is also a disciple of Daxue Mountain.
He even didn't know that the relics of Gu Lanxiu he found from the underground secret passage, the former Witch King of Snow Mountain Gu Lanxiu, was also Lan Hai's master.
"I know about this... Lu Gao's son is actually such a powerful master... Uncle Alpha, from your perspective, how powerful is that guy? How is he compared to you? He has not reached the holy level, right?
"
Alpha shook his head: "There is no holy level. But...if he compares with me, I'm afraid I may not be his opponent. His appearance, his strength should be level eight or nine. And I am only level eight."
"A young genius." Du Wei sighed: "Our Hou..." At this point, he coughed, immediately changed his tone, and said with a smile: "The traitor in the temple back then, that Hussein, was known as
The first knight in the mainland. It seems that when he reached the eighth level, he was not as young as the major general, right? Why have we never heard of Lu Gao's son being so powerful before?"
Alpha shook his head: "It was my dereliction of duty, young master. Among the information I collected on the Northwest Army, there was not much information about Lu Gao's son."
Du Wei shook his head: "Maybe he keeps a low profile. I don't blame you for this matter. If the other party deliberately hides it, it will be difficult for outsiders to find out clearly."
During the few days Du Wei stayed in Gilliat City, news came. The two divisions of the Northwest Army surrounding Loulan City had withdrawn. Longbottom and Hussein had previously led a group of people.
, heard about the battle in Gilliat City, and each brought their own people to join Du Wei in Gilliat City.
Although everyone hates the Northwest Army's bullying behavior, after all, they are much stronger than themselves now, and there is not much they can do.
After another discussion with most of his subordinates, Longbottom and Gaida led the remaining cavalry and continued to patrol the entire Desa Province to eliminate any remaining troops on the grasslands.
Finally, Du Wei issued a strange order.
"Have someone prepare a carriage for me... I'm going on a long journey. Then, have someone make a banner for me! The bigger the better! The workmanship must be gorgeous and beautiful! On the flag... embroider some big characters for me
!”
Alpha was a little confused: "Master, what words do you want to write? Why do you want a banner?"
"Of course it's a gift." Du Wei sneered: "The flag is embroidered with... well, 'Meritor of the Country, Model of the Army'! Just write it like this. The bigger it is, the better!"
Alpha vaguely guessed something: "Master, you want to..."
"I'm going to visit General Lu Gao of the Northwest Army." Du Wei sneered: "It's been a year since I came to the Northwest, and I haven't met the Army Commander yet. It's really rude. Since he didn't come to see him
I, I'll just go and see him."
After saying that, Du Wei didn't let Alpha say anything more and waved Alpha down to prepare the big banner.
"Duwei, what do you want to do?"
Hussein and Duwe were the only two people left in the room.
"I want to go see this old bastard." Du Wei smiled lightly: "This time we were tricked by the Northwest Army. If we don't cause them some trouble, I won't have to hang out in the Northwest!"
Hussein frowned: "But you came to see him. Aren't you afraid of a sheep like a tiger's mouth?"
Du Wei smiled strangely: "The Northwest Army took the initiative to kill the golden wolf head and showed favor to the empire... Although this is very smart, it also exposed Lu Gao's bottom line! He doesn't want to rebel now! At least not now!! So
.He won’t really do anything to me! On the contrary, instead of detaining me or harming me, he will step up to protect my safety and never let anything happen to me on his territory. Otherwise, if a
The Duke of the Empire died in his home, so even if he doesn't rebel, he can't do anything! So...he will never dare to hurt me, and he will try his best to protect me!"
Speaking of this, Du Wei said slowly: "A month has almost passed... Speaking of which, in the past few days, the second prince of the dragon clan should also come to trouble me, right? By then... it will be troublesome.
There are more than 200,000 soldiers in the Northwest Army, please ask them to act as our bodyguards!"
Du Wei smiled extremely sinisterly: "Let people go out to spread the news. Let's say that Duke Tulip personally went to visit the commander of the Northwest Army, General Lu Gao, and also personally sent the labor banners and consolation gifts to the Northwest Army. Make the news as big as possible.
Some, the propaganda should be more obvious... I want that Long Er Prince to know that I am in the Northwest Army!"