Dane showed a somewhat surprised expression and asked, "You were the one who decisively ordered the troops to retreat last night?"
"Otherwise, who do you think it is?"
"I thought it was General Morneau..."
"Don't be funny!" Chapple gritted his teeth and said, "Late last night, the command of the troops was not smooth. When I heard Morno's order to continue to let the brothers rush to the depths of Shizui Slope, I felt that Something was not right. So, I took advantage of Morneau’s inconvenience to command all the troops personally, and changed the order without authorization. It was not until dawn that Morneau realized that something was wrong. He scolded me severely After a while, I think, if it weren't for the battle, he might have killed me with the ax in his hand."
Hearing this, the corners of Dane's eyes twitched, and he suddenly thought of a thought that made him feel a little creepy-Morno should have been heavily protected after he fought an orc sword master and was wounded.
However, the soldiers of White Wolf Fort have not yet completely collapsed. Ouze, who was supposed to be protected, was suddenly captured by the enemy on the battlefield. This is a very suspicious thing. He was very suspicious of this before. do not understand.
However, looking at Chapple's attitude now, he seemed to understand something.
Dane opened his mouth, wanting to ask a question tentatively, but he had some scruples in his heart. It was not convenient to ask such a question.
Seeing Dane's expression, Chapple seemed to have guessed what Dane wanted to ask. He showed a miserable smile, and said in a low voice: "Hehe, are you wondering if it's me? That's right, you guessed it right."
Dane fell silent for a while, with a heavy expression on his face, but his mood was full of ecstasy! Chapple's attitude is so in line with his wishes!
Chapple didn't notice the true mood under Dane's heavy expression, and there was a trace of regret and guilt in the madness of the miserable smile on his face, but there was also a kind of relief.
I just heard him continue: "When the general was seriously injured, he wanted me to lead the troops to turn around and fight the orc army. I directly refused his order at that time. He was very angry and wanted to leave me and let the Redis gang He did this. However, I killed the messenger he sent out, preventing Redis from receiving his orders. Then, I deliberately led the troops to break out with all my strength, and took out most of the protection around him strength, only a small team of guards was left for him. Then, we were stopped by an army of orcs, and he was fighting hard in the back. I knew that if he didn't turn back, he and his personal guards who were seriously injured would definitely be surrounded by hundreds of orcs But I didn't close it, and I continued to charge forward with the army. As we charged, we saw his body hanging from a wooden pole."
Having said that, he suddenly started to cough violently, and the cough was mixed with a desperate smile, and his face became flushed.
Dane stepped forward and patted him on the back lightly.
After a while, Chapple's breath subsided, and his cough finally stopped. He fell limply to the ground, covering his face with his hands.
Dane, who put his hands on his shoulders, felt the man's body twitching slightly, and from his tightly covered face, there was a low-pitched sobbing sound.
"I am a traitor... I killed the general with my own hands..." He was still sobbing, "But... I can't help it!... More than a thousand brothers, I can't just watch them die... I killed them with my own hands In the end, I only saved the lives of three or four hundred brothers... Hehe... I am a traitor... "
His emotions completely collapsed, and he fell into painful despair.
Dane understood why he was like this. Chapple has been following Moreno for many, many years. Moreno has been kind to him, and he has always been valued and trusted by Moreno. Otherwise, how could he have climbed to the position of leader of the White Wolf Cavalry, White Wolf Cavalry? The status of the second person in the castle? And he has always made it his duty to be loyal to General Morno.
Now, he betrayed Morno because he asked his soldiers to complete the mission of death, because he wanted to save the brothers who were born and died together. The death of the half-orc general can be said to be caused by him alone.
If he did not make the final decision to withdraw the guards around the general, but obeyed Morno's order, sent troops to the rear to die, and then escorted Morno to break through with an elite squad, then perhaps more White Wolf soldiers would die, but General Morno has a good chance of being able to survive when the rescue comes.
But he made the opposite decision, which meant that he personally pushed General Morno, whom he had sworn allegiance to, into the abyss.
But who can say for sure about such things as betrayal? If you really want to talk about betrayal, isn't Morneau's series of orders issued by commanding the army in the middle of the night, except for some that were changed by Chapple without authorization, also tantamount to betraying the soldiers who deeply trusted him
It seems to be fate that Morno made that choice and suffered a backlash.
Dane sighed in his heart about the impermanence of fate, making Morneau, who was smug and dreaming of becoming the next Governor of Oze, die on the battlefield; he also felt that Chapple, who was always loyal to Morneau, but in the end, for his own life, For the lives of the brothers who fought side by side, the fate of the officer who pushed his own monarch into the cliff with his own hands.
However, with emotion, Dane's heart of stone quickly brought his thoughts back to the most utilitarian position: how to use Chapple to seize the political legacy left by Morneau
Looking at this guy's complete mental breakdown, Dane dare not say that he is fully sure that he can persuade him, but it is 70% to 80% sure. However, no one can guarantee that now that Chapple is convinced that he is willing to follow Dane, he will not regret it after a while. Don't look at his pitiful appearance now, but Dane will never forget that no matter what his original intentions are, the death of his boss Moreno must be blamed on him no matter what.
He can even betray Moreno, let alone Dane? Although this possibility is not too great, at least it seems that as long as Dane does not do anything to harm his subordinates, Chapple will not be like this, but as a lord, he is really unwilling to take such a risk.
What's more, who can guarantee that after this guy agrees for a while, when he turns around and arrives at White Wolf Castle, he won't have the ambition to become a king by himself
Dane himself is an ambitious man. He instinctively doesn't believe in the loyalty of all those he can't control. Just like when Patience first arrived in Comilla, he had great feelings for female elves. alert.
He was wondering how to keep Chappelle's loyalty, and then he heard soft footsteps. Looking up, I saw Cecilia, the high-ranking priest, who seemed to have sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere here, and was walking slowly with a worried face.
"It's too late..." Dane laughed silently. (To be continued.)