Chapter 69: [Clearly grievances]

[Seeing that everyone has been arguing in the book review area, some said that they should be killed, some said that they should not be killed... So quickly post the written chapter. Everyone, don't have to fight... Haha. 】
`
Plops and thumped, and the audience immediately fell to their knees. The villagers' faces were soil-colored, lying on the ground begging, and some saw corpses on the ground, and they were almost scared to pee on the spot.
"No! No!" A shrill voice was quite obvious in the crowd's pleading voice, and then a thin and thin figure climbed forward viciously on the ground a few steps, and hugged him and stood there blankly. Roddy’s thigh, crying: "My lord! My lord! They are all persecuted! They are all persecuted!" It was the little daughter of the village chief.
"Persecution!" Without waiting for Roddy to speak, Zieg furiously roared: "Just because they are being persecuted, can you be spies! Hell let me lose a hundred of his best brothers! Kill them all!" Qi Ge was already pale with anger at this moment, just because of the fierce battle just now, the two hundred most elite fighters he carefully selected from the 20,000 men under him actually lost half in one shot! Those are the best soldiers in the Spike Army! Just because of these cowardly villagers! Let one hundred of his rigorously trained elite soldiers die in battle!
"My lord! My lord!!" The girl was also frightened, but still clinging to Roddy's legs, she knocked her head like smashing garlic, and only heard the clashes. On her delicate face, her forehead had already been knocked. The blood came out, mixed with the dust and tears on his face, and his expression was extremely miserable.
Roddy tried his best to calm himself down, but a heart beat violently. He glanced at the more than 20 villagers who were kneeling on the ground. Among them, there were old and young, men and women, all of whom were prepared and looked terrified. He felt sad and sad again.
At this moment, he knew very well that as long as he waved his hand, these two dozen people would immediately fall to the ground. In accordance with the imperial decree, collaborating with the traitors are full of copies! Unforgivable! And these villagers just reported to the army of the Great Moon Kingdom that their army was attacked and more than a hundred people were killed or injured. The words "collaborating with the enemy and treason" can no longer escape...
but……
But they are also civilians! ! Roddy's heart shook! Let Roddy order the massacre of civilians, this kind of order is absolutely indescribable to Roddy anyway! ! Looking at these men, women and children crying sorrowfully, at the bottom of the empire, these poor people who are tired and tired for three meals a day... And only two or three months ago, I was still Isn't he a commoner like them? !
What if you encounter this kind of thing yourself?
If his parents and relatives were captured by the enemy and threatened him with the lives of their relatives... Roddy sighed in his heart... He didn't dare to think about it anymore.
For these civilians, empires, emperors, wars, and dynasties striving for hegemony are all remote things, and they are not as important as their closest relatives!
Seeing the uncertain expression on Roddy’s face, Zieg gritted his teeth and said: "My lord! Merciful is not a soldier! They have committed an inexcusable crime. If they don't kill, how can they lead the army! Why should they explain to the brothers who died in battle? !"
Roddy's heart was shocked. He glanced over the surrounding soldiers, and saw that those soldiers were full of indifferent faces--especially the remaining hundred soldiers under his own hands. He looked at the civilians who were kneeling on the ground. His eyes were full of hatred-after all, it was because of their whistleblowing that the comrades who got along with him died tragically! Especially the officer who was a soldier, his hand was already holding the hilt of the sword, his face gritted his teeth.
"My lord... my lord..." The girl at her feet had already cried and almost lost her breath, the blood and tears on her face had long been blurred.
"The decree of the empire, collaborating with the enemy and treason, all the way down!" Qige shouted.
Roddy gritted his teeth, he understood that he must not be relentless at this time! Whatever the reason, collaborating with the enemy and treason has caused such a big loss to his army, and more importantly, it exposed the whereabouts of this lone army! These consequences add up, no matter what the reason, these people will never escape the path of execution.
Zieg winked, and the two soldiers pulled up and dragged the girl away from the ground. Roddy sighed, and just about to wave his hand, the girl suddenly did not know where the strength was coming from, struggling violently, and cried as hard as he could: "My lord! Please wait, wait a second! I... I have something important to say. !"
"Is there anything you haven't said!" Qige said coldly.
The girl was already trembling with fright, she just looked at Roddy, bit her lip, and tremblingly said: "I, I know a path that can lead to the north...From this path to Trier Castle, you can save half a day. If you go north, you can also save a day...I...I can show you the way...Please, my lord, please let them go...They are also being persecuted!"
Roddy glanced at her, then swept across the audience, and coldly said: "Split these people from house to house! Then everyone who set fire was caught out, the others...the others let go!"
"My lord" "My lord Duke!!"
Zieg and the guard captain exclaimed at the same time.
Zieg's face was sullen, and he gritted his teeth and said: "My lord, all collaborators must be executed, regardless of whether they are men or women, otherwise they can't be used as an example!"
"I know! I know the laws of the Empire! I feel sorry for the soldiers who died just now! But... But have you ever thought about... They are all civilians!"
Roddy took a deep breath: "I think everyone... Except for some officers, most of the people here were born civilians! We are soldiers! We are soldiers of the empire! The duty of a soldier is to defend the empire. Territory, guarding their homes and giving shelter to these civilians! They did commit a crime! They were forced to do that because their relatives were captured by the Great Moon Kingdom! But why were their relatives captured! Why!!!"
Looking across the audience, Roddy said solemnly: "It's because of the negligence of our soldiers! It's because we didn't perform our duty to guard our homeland! Let the army of the Great Moon Kingdom wreak havoc on the territory of the Empire! These are all of us. The military's negligence!! If the army can keep the enemy out of the empire, if the army can protect their homes well, how can they, these civilians, be forced to do these things under the butcher knife of the Great Moon Kingdom!"
No one speaks...
Taking a deep breath, Roddy continued to slowly say: "I know you are not reconciled, and your comrades-in-arms die like this! But it is not these civilians who should be punished! They shouldn't have faced the enemy's butchers! Those Things should be done by us! Your hatred should not be poured on these unarmed villagers, but on the butchers of the Great Moon Kingdom!"
Still no one speaks...
"Master Duke..." Only Zieg gritted his teeth, but finally did not say anything.
Roddy didn’t look at Zieg, but slowly glanced at the villagers who were kneeling on the ground, and slowly said:
I know that you are involuntarily forced and helpless. But after all, you have done collaborating with the enemy and treason! One hundred of the empire’s most heroic fighters died tragically! Therefore, I can’t forgive you either..." At this point, Roddy gritted his teeth and said as if exhausting all his strength: "You, the person who set the fire just now, stand by yourself. Come out and be punished! Your family will be safe and forgiven!"
The audience was silent for a while, and the soldiers looked at Roddy, but no one moved.
Roddy's face was gloomy, and he suddenly shouted: "What are you doing! Do you have to kill them all!! Is the saber of'Thunder God's Whip' for these civilians!!!"
Suddenly hearing such a loud shout from Roddy, all the soldiers couldn't help but shook their bodies and stood up straight.
"Criminal Law Team hears the order!" Zieg suddenly shouted: "Execute the order!"
Finally, the soldiers moved. They separated more than two dozen people. After a commotion, ten villagers stood up. They knelt on the ground, and the others behind were dragged behind by the soldiers.
"Is that the fire you set just now!" Roddy's voice was gloomy.
After a moment of silence, a middle-aged man among the ten people whispered: "I put it." The other nine people also nodded.
"Because of you, one hundred of the most heroic fighters of the empire died tragically! I understand that you were forced to do this for the safety of the captured family members! But! You killed another hundred people! You are human, Isn’t the one hundred soldiers who died a human!! You have a family! Don’t they have a family after you die!!! You deplore your family... But these brave fighters, don’t their families feel sad? Huh!!!"
Silence...none of the kneeling villagers dared to look up at Roddy.
Roddy said solemnly: "I am now executing you according to the empire's decree. Do you have anything else to say?"
All ten people bowed their heads and remained silent. Even the daughter of the village chief did not speak any more, but looked at Roddy with tears on her face. She also seemed to understand that the family members who were able to forgive these people were already extra-legal.
Roddy stopped looking at them, turned and walked back. Qige's face was cold, and he waved to the soldiers of the criminal law team...
After a few chirps, Gulugulu's head fell to the ground, only to hear a cry of sorrow suddenly erupted in the distance behind him, and then Qige strode up behind him.
Roddy glanced at him and slowly said: "Commander Zieg, I know you are not reconciled, but I believe you can understand my approach! I can punish the sinner, otherwise the dead soldiers will die! But the innocent ones! Villagers, I will not raise a butcher knife against them anyway!"
After a long silence, Qige slowly said: "My lord, I understand. Today's hatred, I will ask the Great Moon Kingdom! They killed 100 of us, and I will kill a thousand of them! Ten thousand! people!"
Roddy shook his head and said faintly: "Well, our whereabouts have been exposed, and we can't stay here now! The order goes on, and immediately start! And... the girl, she said there is a path, take her! If we can get to Watt Fortress early, we can be safe one day sooner!"
Zige nodded and waved for the soldiers to bring the girl up.
"What's your name!"
"Gardalina..." The girl lowered her head, with a bit of crying in her voice.
Roddy said sternly: "You just said that there is a small road here that can lead to the north... Is it possible to reach Watt Fortress from this small road?"
"Yes!" Gardalena whispered, and then she hesitated, as if she had had the courage to speak: "Only my brother and I know this road... He was from Trier through that path. Fort escaped. From that path to Watt Fortress, it saves one day than the road."
Zieg asked some more questions carefully and determined that the road was indeed very hidden (Gadalena said that the road was discovered by accident when his brother went hunting in the mountains.), but the road is not easy to walk, horse riding is fine Pass, but the rugged mountain road is absolutely impossible for vehicles.
"Very good." Zieg glanced at Roddy, thinking that riding a horse would be enough, anyway, they didn't bring any heavy food.
"Give her a horse! Can you ride a horse?" Roddy whispered.
"Yes...Yes!" Gardalina didn't seem to dare to look at Roddy again. In fact, Roddy was covered in blood at the moment, and his face was still stained with blood and not dried, which looked a little scary.
Seeing that the messenger had already stepped down to deliver the order to open up, Gardalena suddenly summoned the courage to plead: "My lord! You... can you go and rescue the people who were captured from the village? They..."
"Impossible!" Roddy simply refused, and then his eyes became indifferent: "I tell you, the people who have been arrested are already dead! The people of the Great Moon Kingdom came out to find food! They will arrest them. Do those who leave keep food for consumption! The people arrested in your village must have all died long ago!"
"Boy, do you still think it is a pleasant thing to hold power now?" Andy's voice said coldly in his head.
Roddy only felt so depressed that he could not breathe, his heart seemed to be pressed against a huge boulder... He said miserably: "I don't know... Andy... I found that many things, I can't understand..."-
[Update in the middle of the night, please drop your tickets:)]
[There are more than 7,500 votes left before the total ranking, the big guys work hard and strive to complete the task tomorrow! ! :)】
`
ps: I'm dizzy. After reading the opinions of everyone in the book review section, many readers said that the handling was correct, and many readers said that the protagonist did not handle it well. Should all be killed...
My thoughts are this: If the protagonist is a character like a hero, maybe he will kill. If it were a man of iron and blood, perhaps he would move the knife without hesitation.
But the protagonist is not that kind of person, at least not yet. Please pay attention to his background, a person born as a commoner, a person who has just stepped onto the stage of power. No matter how good his current performance is, no matter how eye-catching he is, it seems unreasonable to become an iron-blooded "star" at once. When I wrote this chapter, I tried to use normal psychological transformation steps to describe Roddy in the current stage. According to the maturity level of his current stage, or his psychology, it is impossible to kill all of them. Human.
Perhaps, in the future, Roddy will become iron-blooded, a little bit cruel, and a little bit evil... but not now, it is too early.