Chapter 157

"Sean?"

Sal saw that all the lines on general Sheen's face were stiff. When he and sheen grew up together, they hardly saw him show such an expression.

"Sean?"

General sheen crumpled the letter into a ball and held it tightly in his hand. The wind was blowing across the dry land, blowing the young general's untidy blonde hair. He was still wearing the armor he hadn't had time to take off. The sunlight fell on the armor and reflected on his handsome face. His eyes were hard to distinguish under his eyebrows.

"Summon our knights."

General Sheehan's voice seemed to come out of his teeth.

"Burning granaries."

"What?"

Sal looked at sheen in amazement. Before he had time to understand what the command meant, the chill was on his back.

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The fire sprang up from the southeast of the city, rolling up into the sky in the hot sun. The flames are blazing. It's not that one or two rooms are on fire, but the mountain of dry food and horse grass is lit. The fierce fire made the sky in the south of the city blood red.

At first, people didn't know what it was, but soon, the whole city became angry and frightened. These days, under the heavy pressure of the approaching army, almost all adult men in the whole city are preparing to fight. But before they set foot on the battlefield, the last tiny hope of the city was burned.

Anger, despair, fear.

People who witnessed the burning of the granary by the rose cavalry flocked to the center of the city, and more and more people gathered outside the official residence. In the roar and questioning sound, big and small stones, like raindrops, were smashed into the official residence.

"You didn't give the order!"

Thrall kicked the door open. He pushed the crowd open with his shield and was able to rush in with difficulty. He was shocked by the anger of the crowd. He had no doubt about the innumerable curses and hatred of general sheen. Once general sheen came out of here, people would not hesitate to eat his meat raw.

"That's the king's order! That's not your order

General Sheehan was wearing armor and a sword. He stood behind the window with a bloodstain on his face, which was left by glass debris when the stone broke the window.

"Sal

General Sheehan's voice suddenly rose, more serious than ever. They had been together for so many years that Sal had never heard him speak in that tone.

"The king didn't give us any orders."

He speaks clearly, turns and stares at his best friend.

Thrall fell into the ice cave. He watched the blonde general standing in front of the window with a straight back. Outside the window, there are desperate people around the official residence, yelling, "traitors", "cowards" and "cowards".

"I didn't receive any orders from the king."

General sheen looked his friend in the eye.

The moment he gave the order, he had foreseen everything.

Standing alone in front of the window, Sean thought of the old man with white hair again. What the imperial Knight said in the snow. The old man said he was too idealistic. At that time, he said, if people wearing armor and holding swords don't protect the weak, who will protect the weak. The old man said that justice, greatness, heroes, these things can not be used to describe the monarch.

Today, however, it dawned on him that the Duke of Buckingham had told him only part of it.

The just and the great are heroes, knights and never generals.

The general is not fighting for one or two, but for the whole country. In this world, many people need justice, greatness and heroes. But there are more people who are not qualified to think about what justice is.

"Go and gather our soldiers."

General sheen said, his face twitching.

It's impossible for the five thousand men of the rosary to fight against the seventy thousand men of the sacred army on the sea. Whenever there is a glimmer of hope, he will not give up the retreat of Bubbas. But now, only by retreating to the Keya mountains and relying on the terrain, can they resist their enemies dozens of times.

If the rose cavalry is destroyed in bubas, then the southeast of Legrand will no longer be able to resist the attack of the holy army!

The defense that the king wants to pull up on the land of Legrand will be torn open with an absolutely fatal crack!

In the king's letter, there was only one simple order -

"burn down the granary and weapons depot, evacuate bubas, and defend Keya."

Every word is clear.

At the end of the order, the king's name was heavily signed.

"I'm the general of the rose cavalry, the commander in chief of the southeast defense line of Legrand. Parliament and the king gave me the power to take all actions in the southeast. Now, I order -- "general sheen, word for word," to leave bubas and hold on to Keya

"This is me! I'm Sean rolanster's order

In the old year, the old generals of the Empire told the young generals that people would only remember who gave the most cruel order, not who carried it out. All the anger from despair will only be directed at the person who gives the order.The young monarch has carried enough abuse, but this time it's different!

The whole of Legrand fell into a frenzy, into an unprecedented struggle. The king himself can not care about his reputation or the hatred of the people he protects. But as a knight of the Empire, as a general of Legrand, he can't help caring! At such a time when the whole country is fighting, the king is the flag of the whole country and the sustenance of all the Legrand spirit!

The king must play the role of "protecting the people". It is absolutely impossible for the king himself to give up the people's orders.

Sean disobeyed the king's orders for the first time since he was the general of the rose cavalry.

"This is my order!"

He roared.

"Now -"

"execute now!"

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Five thousand knights, five thousand silent knights.

The day was so bright that the flames were still burning. Sal was riding on his horse, holding the reins tightly in one hand and the hilt of his sword in the other. In this summer, his hands trembled with cold, and his worry really happened -

when the rose cavalry, who carried out the retreat order, arrived at the gate, the angry crowd had formed a human wall here, blocking their way. Everyone knows what it means to leave here. There are skinny old people, mothers holding children, angry and unbelievable men blocking the way of the horse.

In the northern rebellion, the knights who could walk on a floating bridge from the turbulent Lacey river without fear and charge against the rain of arrows were silent like statues in the face of these unarmed people who were not even soldiers. The horses snorted uneasily.

"You can't go! What shall we do when you are gone? "

A carpenter opened his hand and stood in front of the horse.

The crowd was in turmoil, and the children didn't know what war was, but they were frightened by the heavy atmosphere and burst into tears.

"Get out of the way!"

General Sheen's face muscles twitched. He drew out his sword and waved it.

Sal closed his eyes.

Blood splashed, and the noisy scene died down in an instant.

"I'll kill anyone who dares to stand in here again!"

General Sheehan had a bloody sword, and his voice was cold.

Thrall opened his eyes and fell into the ice. He realized what general sheen wanted to do.

"Rose cavalry obeys orders -"

General Sheehan raises his sword high.

"Out of the gate!"

Stepping on the iron hoof, the rose cavalry went towards the gate, and the silent crowd was boiling again. People poured up from all directions, desperately trying to stop the cavalry from leaving. The war horse stepped over the unarmed people like a cold sharp knife. They carried out the general's orders.

In every battle in the past, the general who was at the front of the team stopped at the back of the army this time.

He took off his helmet, showed his face, raised his sword high, and roared at the people who tried in vain to stop the cavalry:

"I am the general of the rose cavalry, and the commander-in-chief of the southeast defense line of Legrand. Parliament and the king have given me the power to take all actions in the southeast. "

"I ordered the burning of grain!"

"I ordered the burning of the armory!"

"I ordered them to leave Bubbas!"

A stone was thrown from the crowd and hit him hard on the head. General sheen snorted and fell from his horse.

"That's him! traitor! coward! Coward The stone thrower trembled and pointed to sheen, who had fallen from his horse.

The crowd rushed towards general sheen, who had fallen from his horse, and surrounded him heavily.

Sean struggled to get up from the ground and yelled to the rose riders who finally rushed out of the gate because the crowd was loose, but stopped: "go! Go to Keya! It's an order

Outside the city gate, Sal looked at the man surrounded by an angry crowd.

Sal clearly realized that sheen couldn't go.

The anger of the rioting people needs an outlet. General Sheehan, who gave the order, was the center of all the anger.

Anyone can leave Bubbas except

Sean.

Can they really kill people who are abandoned by themselves? They should have protected these people.

Sean, he stayed on purpose.

Sal stood still, his horse hissing impatiently. He didn't know whether he should move forward or backward.

"Sal! Take them away

General Hearn roared at thrall. He was an outstanding knight, but he was surrounded by a group of ordinary people who didn't know anything about martial arts, but he never waved his sword again.

"Sal! We will be knights to protect the weak

The seven year old blonde boy held up his wooden sword high and turned to him.

Great sadness rushed to his chest, and sal watched the angry crowd flood the armored man. He is a knight with excellent swordsmanship. His sword fell to the ground - the sword he swore to protect everyone!Sean rolanster.

General of the rose cavalry! Good knight of Legrand!

He didn't die on the battlefield. He didn't die in order to protect the weak, as he said when he was young. He wanted to protect people holding stones, hit him on the head, blood flow down the countless ladies infatuated face. His blonde hair was torn by desperate mothers, who were tearing his flesh and blood alive.

Sal! We want to be knights to protect the weak!

To be a knight to protect all the people in the world!

A boy with a wooden sword, a general submerged by the crowd The boy's smiling face overlaps with the man's bloody face. The world is as absurd as a huge joke.

"I'm the general of the rose cavalry, I order you --"

sheen was pushed by the crowd, blood flowed down his forehead, and his eyes were dark red. He screamed in the direction of the city gate.

"Get out of Bubbas!"

His voice was drowned in the curse of the crowd.

"Go! Let's go! Go

Sal growled.

Let's go!!!

At last, the rose cavalry started to move towards Keya. At the end of the team, Thrall looked back for the last time.

The Golden Knight has been drowned in the crowd, and the abandoned people cut off his neck with his own sword. A carpenter grabbed his head and held it high.

Heaven and earth in a moment of gray.

Sal was dizzy and nearly fell off his horse.

He watched as people threw his fuzzy head to the ground.

The burned granaries were burning in the southeast of the city, and the sky was red with fire. The rose cavalry headed south and evacuated the city. People drowned in despair and anger howl hysterically in hopeless castles.

Old people, women, children It's all crazy.

It was as if the day of judgment had really come.

The civilians who should have been protected smashed every bone of the general who gave up on them, and his head was nailed to the gate.

Drop by drop of blood.

The first man to lift the stone sat down on the ground, crying hysterically.

Crying and flames flooded the city.

Five thousand roses rode away, and seventy thousand holy army rushed to bubas.

Above the city gate, the head of a madman hangs high.

At the end of the third volume the head of a madman