Although it was late at night, it was not only Garland who couldn't rest due to unexpected events, but also some people in the camp where the Gasdad were stationed had difficulty sleeping.
Cole is from Kanal, and used to be a general under the command of the lord of a large city in Kanal.
When the Gasthards called, his city lord surrendered, with little resistance in fear, after hearing that the Gasthards would slaughter their city on the border of Kanar.
The city lord has surrendered, and as a subordinate, he can only surrender to the Gasdadians together.
The Gasdadians seem to be accustomed to organizing their conscripts into an army, and every time they attack a country, they take those countries' conscripts for their own use. Then they let these descendants act as vanguards and take the lead in attacking those countries.
As a result, the Gasdadians fell all the way, and the army not only did not decrease, but the force grew bigger and bigger like snowflakes.
And the soldiers who were recruited by the Gasdadians could no longer be accepted by their own country because they had betrayed their own country. They could only give their lives to the Gasdadians.
Even, they knew very well that if their country repelled the Gasdads, there would be nowhere for them to be traitors, so they were more eager for the Gasdads than the Gasdads. Germans were able to conquer and rule their own country.
In this way, they can be cleared of traitorous charges and transformed into supporters of the new dynasty.
Cole was tossing and turning in his tent that night, unable to sleep.
It was as if something heavy was pressing down on his heart, making him unhappy, and there was an emotion called fear that kept growing deep in his heart.
He was lying on the bed staring blankly at the top of the tent, when suddenly a voice came from outside, and his guards came in and reported to him that several generals were looking for him.
Cole frowned upon hearing the names the guard said.
these people…
He hesitated, then nodded for the guard to lead them in.
Because they are in a wartime retreat, neither generals nor soldiers will disarm their armor when they sleep at night, because they may be attacked at any time.
Cole is naturally the same, so he doesn't need to make any preparations, just get up and get out of bed.
The tent curtain was lifted, and those generals who visited late at night walked in with the cool air of the night.
Cole's eyes swept over those people. There were two people he was familiar with, and they were the descendants of Canal like him. The other two were unfamiliar, but he also knew them. One was the descendant of Aaron Landis, and the other was the descendant of the kingdom of Sida.
A group of people waited to sit down in his tent, silent for a while.
In fact, they all understand in their hearts, but they don't want to be the first to say it.
Finally, Cole, the owner of the place, spoke first.
He sighed and said, "You have also heard the wind in the army, right?"
The generals looked solemn.
This time, they were all ready to be left behind by Prince Tyr.
There is no way, they are soldiers of other countries, they are like second-class people here, dirty work, hard work, and dangerous battles are their first.
However, they never imagined that most of the troops left behind by Prince Tyr were Gasthards.
This surprised them.
But after the astonishment, followed by doubts.
They had followed Prince Tyr for a while, and they had a deep understanding of how ruthless this Prince Gasthard was.
It is impossible for such a person to issue an order to cut off the army of his own formation.
So, there must be an inside story.
And it's not the usual inside story.
Although they are generals from other countries, they are still generals after all. The generals that Tyr gave them are not low. When they deliberately search for news, they can always find some clues.
What's more, even if the army of Gasdade's army is trying their best to cover up, there will always be omissions on the way of withdrawing the army. Coupled with the fact that they tried every means to inquire, they soon guessed from the fragmented information. the truth.
"I'm afraid it happened in the army of Gasdade's army..."
A certain Canal general stopped abruptly in the middle of his sentence.
He didn't say that word, but everyone here knew it.
To be appointed as generals by Tyr, they must all have some abilities.
"The Gasdad soldiers sent by Prince Tyre to the rear are all..."
The other man also mumbled half a sentence.
But it was these words that made the hearts of the generals present unstoppable.
Yes, they all know it.
Those Gasthad soldiers who had caught the plague had been abandoned by Prince Tyr as outcasts.
Prince Tyr did not intend to spend time and energy treating the sick soldiers, but left them as trouble.
As the prince of Gastade, he discarded his people as useless things.
Not only that, but he also let those soldiers who were sick and so certain to die cut themselves off and intercept the army of Aaron Landis.
He relentlessly squeezed out the last bit of value from those soldiers.
This approach is really chilling.
And Cole and the others not only felt chilled, they were even faintly fearful because of this practice.
As the prince of Gastade, Tyr treated his people so ruthlessly, so he would only be more ruthless to them as aliens.
Once they have no use value, then the end...
"We continue to work for him... Are we really not going to be abandoned by him? Like those sick soldiers."
Cole finally asked the question that was lingering in the hearts of everyone at the moment.
No one answered, the tent was terribly quiet, and an atmosphere of unease enveloped everyone.
All the descendants were relatively speechless at this moment, they only felt that their chests were cold, and their hearts were even more shrouded in coldness.
After a long time, the speechless people got up and left, each returning to their army and camp.
It's just that they, like Cole, have been sleepless all night.
In the past, because they had nowhere to go, they had to work hard for the Gasdadians, and they were beginning to shake at this moment.
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"Your Highness, plague is no small matter, can you be sure? Maybe it's just a similar disease?"
Kareni asked cautiously again.
His expression at the moment was like a great enemy, even more nervous than facing Gasdard's army of hundreds of thousands.
And Kerry, who was on the side, was sluggish.
She was terrified.
After years of mercenary career, Kerry, who has been tempered to a tough temperament, may be saddened by the death of her relatives and friends, but she herself is not afraid of death.
But at this moment, facing the monster named 'Plague', she couldn't restrain her expression of fear.
Plague, that is, every time it appears, it will take tens of thousands of lives, turn countless living people into bones, turn prosperous cities into cemeteries full of corpses, and make panic and pain shroud the earth.
No one can't help but smell it.
Kaihos glanced at Garlan, he frowned, and his expression was solemn.
He said: "Your Excellency Kareni, the prince has sent three doctors to check the situation. When the doctors return, the matter will be confirmed."
Kareni sighed heavily, and said, "Excuse my rudeness, but I really hope that this time His Highness is mistaken."
"I hope I'm mistaken, too."
The boy sighed.
However, no matter how they wished, the development of things was never driven by the will of man.
The horror of the plague has never been its incurability, but its extremely rapid contagion.
Especially in densely populated places, it only takes a few days to infect nearly 10,000 people.
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Another two days have passed.
After much deliberation, late at night, Cole and the two generals who were also Kanars met again in secret.
"Perhaps we can try to take refuge in the crown prince of Aaron Landis."
Cole offered advice to the two companions.
They avoided the generals of the Aaron Landis specifically because they knew that the Aaron Landean traitors had killed their own king.
What a reputation the Lion King had among the Aaron Landis, even as a Kanar.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for these traitors of Aaron Landis to turn back, because if they go back, they will be torn to pieces by the angry Aaron Landis.
However, they are not the same. They are Kanars, they did not participate in the war in the city of Judas, and they did not share a feud with the people of Aaron Landis.
"The crown prince is known for being wise and kind, so he shouldn't be too harsh on us."
Cole said.
His two companions glanced at each other, and both could see that each other had a heartbeat.
After it seemed that all those in Gasdad who had been infected with the disease had been sent to kill them, Prince Tyr had already expressed his intention to send the army again today.
And this time, this dangerous task is likely to fall on them.
Rather than being an abandoned child abandoned by Prince Tyr, it would be better...
"How about we send someone to secretly contact the crown prince first?"
"Then... who to send? This matter must be kept secret, in case Prince Tyr finds out... "
When they thought of Tyr's cruel methods, several people shuddered.
"This kind of thing must not be faked by others, I will go there myself!"
Cole said decisively.
"You help me cover up."
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Under the cover of night, and with the assistance of his two companions, Cole disguised as a scout cavalry and sneaked out of the camp with two henchmen.
He made a big circle, and after confirming that no one was following him, he ran towards the camp of the Aaron Landis who had been chasing them.
The reason why he resolutely decided to go in person is that in addition to confidentiality, Cole also has other thoughts in private.
As the first person from Kanar who surrendered to the crown prince and went to see the crown prince, he would surely gain more attention.
Now that he has decided to invest in the Aaron Landis, he naturally has to plan more for his future.
However, it took twice as long as he had estimated before he reached the camp of the Aaron Landis.
This made him a little puzzled.
After all, these days, the Aaron Landis have been chasing after them and have always been close to them, but tonight the Aaron Landis camp seems to be much farther away from their camp.
It feels like... the Aaron Landis haven't been chasing much today.
Something is not right.
Speaking of which, it seems that the Aaron Landis did not engage in a contact battle with their rear army today.
When Cole got to the Aaron Landis camp, the more he felt that something was wrong.
It was already late at night, but there were so many bonfires in the camp that the whole camp was brightly lit.
And the layout of this camp is a bit strange, it doesn't look like a regular camp formation, it's not close, and the camps are a little sparse.
He approached quietly, and circled half a circle far away.
He found that there were still many soldiers walking back and forth in the middle of the night, all in a hurry. What made him even more strange was that many places in the camp were still using large iron pots to boil water.
Cole watched from a distance for a long time, and suddenly saw a group of soldiers pushing a wooden cart out of the camp.
He was stunned to see what seemed to be human corpses scattered on the wooden cart. Then, he watched the soldiers push dozens of corpses into the trench not far from the camp, dug up the soil and buried the corpses. .
The cold moonlight shone on the faces of the soldiers who were bowing their heads and burying their bodies, making their faces look like they were glowing with bluish-white light.
Their faces were pale and they didn't say a word. The action of mechanically digging and burying corpses in the dark night seemed extremely infiltrating.
Cole frowned, hiding in the bushes and watching from a distance.
After seeing the soldiers buried, he returned to the main camp, but it didn't take long before they pushed dozens of corpses over and continued to bury them underground.
Although their faces were pale, their movements looked very skilled, as if they had been done many times.
Looking at the inexplicably eerie camp standing in the dark night in the distance, Cole suddenly felt a shudder in his heart.
Is it—
Between lightning and flint, he suddenly wanted to understand everything.
Prince Tyr sent the plague-stricken Gasthod soldiers to the Queen.
Naturally, the broken army was routed by the Aaron Landis.
Then, many of those sick people will become captives of the Aaron Landis.
Consistently, prisoners of war were taken with the army and used as slaves.
That is to say—all the plague patients left by Prince Tyr stayed in the army of the Aaron Landis!
Wanting to understand all this, for a while, Cole only felt chills all over his body.
Prince Tyre...
How horrible and cruel this man is.
Prince Tyr's purpose in letting the plague sufferers go is not just to drop the burden.
Infecting the army of Aaron Landis with the plague was his real purpose!
Looking at the huge camp in the distance, Cole felt a chill in his heart.
He seemed to have seen the monster called 'Plague' shrouded in the sky above the camp, about to mercilessly devour the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the camp.
The god of death will brutally swing the scythe in his hand here.
Cole turned around, found the horse hidden deep in the jungle, and hurriedly got on the horse and left.
He didn't dare to stay here for a second.
His speeding back looks like he's running for his life.
Aaron Landis, lose!
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Far away, in the center of the Gastade camp, Tyr opened his eyes, who had also learned that something was wrong with the Aaron Landis army.
The lilac eyes glowed with a shimmer that was more cruel than the cold winter of the Gasstad snowfields.
At a glance, it is as if you can see hell in it.
Won.
The corners of the Prince of Gasdard's mouth raised an icy arc.