Chapter 2084: Vendetta

Audrey raised her head to meet Qiao'an's gaze, tears filled her sapphire eyes.
"Joan, I'm sorry, we knew it was too late."
"Stop going around, what the is going on!" Qiao An couldn't help being impatient.
"On the night of the river valley town tragedy, Mr. Logan, Harkon, and Slud were all in Stone Pillars town and survived."
"So what about Mrs. Istar?" Joan heard the sound in his throat so stiff that even he felt strange.
"It's a pity that Logan's big house was also burned that night. The pregnant Mrs. Istar insisted on trying to put out the fire. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Colonel James found out that he immediately ordered his cavalry to shoot collectively to prevent her from putting out the fire. ..."
Miss Paladin finally lost control, tears in her eyes, choked up and insisted on finishing the last paragraph.
"After a burst of gunfire, Mrs. Istar fell in a pool of blood, pitying her belly, and there is a little life about to be born..."
Although Qiao An had a hunch, when he heard Audrey personally tell the bad news about the murder of Mrs. Istar, he couldn't help feeling a darkening in front of him, almost unable to restrain the urge to cry.
In a daze, it seemed as if he was returning to three years ago. During his stay in Shizhu Town, his leg was injured. Thanks to Mrs. Istar's careful care, he felt the warmth of a mother...
Then I remembered that more than a month ago, I and my friends went to River Valley Town at the invitation of Slud and saw those cute little clothes and shoes made by Mrs. Istar for the baby who was about to be born. Were completely burned by a fire...
The more Qiao An thinks, the more the heartache is like a knife cut, and the stronger emotions than grief are anger and self-blame.
If you didn't escape from reality and hid in Yunzhong City, but stayed at home, if you can learn about the attack on Hegu Town for the first time, you might still have a chance to stop this tragedy from unfolding.
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In the carriage, the depressing atmosphere continued for a long time, and Qiao An finally spoke again.
"What happened?"
Hailar looked at Audrey with red eyes and took the initiative to take Qiao An's words.
"On the day of the incident, Uncle Logan took Slude and Hakon to Stone Pillar Town to participate in the tribal meeting and accidentally escaped the catastrophe. However, I think... they might prefer to guard their loved ones at that time... "
"Joan, of course you also know that Uncle Logan is different from those conservative aborigines who hate colonists. For so many years, he has been friendly to colonists and is committed to regulating the contradiction between Assa and colonists. I hope the two sides can live in harmony."
Qiao An nodded slightly.
That's right, Uncle Logan once revealed his dream to him personally. In the New World, in this vast and fertile land, he facilitated the integration of immigrants and natives, and eliminated disputes as a family.
With such a dream, in the war concerning the survival of the Midgard colonial government two years ago, Logan stepped forward and led an Asa group to join the Midgard colonial government in spite of the opposition of the elders. In the Degardian camp, they fought battles on the banks of Lake Aosta, shed blood and died in the evening plains, paying nearly half the cost of casualties, helping the Midgardians repel the invaders from the north and defend their homeland.
However, after the war, what did Uncle Logan and those Asa warriors who shed blood and sacrifice for the Midgard finally got?
The "Treaty of the Holy City" became the menu for the three old world powers to carve up the colonies of the New World, but the interests of the aborigines were completely ignored. The land originally promised to be returned to the Walsung tribe was also occupied by the colonists. The emperor’s edict form The same empty paper.
Even if he was betrayed by his allies, Uncle Logan did not give up on his ideals. He took his family and followers away from his hometown and migrated from the remote Stone Pillar Town to the Vimur Valley. He started from scratch and spent countless sweat and effort to establish the Valley Town and lead his followers. They gave up the traditional nomadic fishing and hunting life, cultivated farmland, planted crops, and opened schools in order to establish a model, trying to prove to the colonists that the aboriginals, whom they saw as savage and backward, could also integrate into civilized society.
However, overnight, a fire destroyed all Logan Walsung’s efforts, turning the ideal he had worked hard for all his life into a cruel joke.
The town of River Valley was burned by the forces of Lieutenant Colonel James. His beloved wife and the little creatures in her womb were brutally killed... This heinous and massacre completely changed Logan Walsung’s conception and prompted this one to The war hero who was wounded and shed blood while defending the colony inspires a bitter hatred of the colony garrison.
The tragedy in River Valley is not only a tragedy for the Logan family, but also shocked the aboriginal societies in the northern part of the New World, awakening the aboriginals' hatred against the colonists for generations.
The Asa tribe in the Vimur Valley took the lead in responding, and riots broke out in various places. Asa hunted and madly slaughtered the colonists and burned the settlements as revenge for the "River Valley Town Massacre".
"Just a week ago, Uncle Logan, who had tried his best to restrain the tribe to avoid conflict with the colonists, issued an order to summon the Asa warriors of the Vimur Valley to retaliate against the colonists."
"On the evening of May 2, nearly a hundred Asa hunters, including the Logan family of three, raided the immigrant settlement closest to River Valley Town, which is the'Grizzly Town' where we had a short stay in early April."
Hailar sighed, and then said: "Even if he suffered the pain of losing his wife, Uncle Logan still did not lose his mind. He ordered Grizzly Town to be surrounded, but he prevented his men from slaughtering the innocent residents of the town. He just put on a siege posture. , The purpose is to lure the real enemy to the door."
"Lieutenant Colonel Henry James, stationed in the Vimur Valley, received a distress letter from the sheriff of Grizzly Town, and quickly led the cavalry battalion to rescue in Grizzly Town."
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Historical Sources: The Atrocities of Baron de la Val ("American Story", Bi Lan)
Baron de la Val, a nobleman, was an iron-fisted leader and a brutal soldier who participated in the British conquest of Ireland.
He moved the policy of dealing with the Irish intact to deal with the Indians, that is, burning, killing and looting.
In August 1610, he sent people to attack a tribe in Poitan and provoked the "First Anglo-Poitan War" (1610-1614) that lasted four years.
In this attack, they burned down Indian houses and cornfields, killed more than 70 people, and captured the wives and children of tribal leaders.
When they returned along the river, they threw the children from the boat into the water one by one, and shot them at the same time, in order to "smash their brains." In Jamestown, they pierced the sword into the heart of the wife of the tribal leader.