Chapter 154： trial

The three of Duke Dodge walked in the corridor silently, their faces solemn.

"My lord duke!"

It was Lester who spoke.

"I request to go to patrol outside the fortress myself, so as to check and verify what the scout said. According to his description, ordinary soldiers cannot deal with that kind of situation."

Duke Dodge thought for a while, and said, "Let's listen to the reports of other scouts."

In the following day, the Duke collected the reports of several consecutive batches of scouts who went out to investigate, but he found nothing unusual. Some of them had fought against the scouts of the rebels, but they had not encountered the scouts from last night. situation.

It seems... what the wounded scout encountered was just an exception? Or is he lying?

After much consideration, he agreed to Viscount Leicester's request and allowed him to lead his elite scouts out to participate in patrols.

Prior to this, they had a "tacit understanding" with the rebels, and neither of them entered the other's alert area. In the situation last night, the rebels clearly broke the "tacit understanding", which may mean that they Make some changes to the status quo.

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There is a small town not far to the south of the Thorn Fortress, but the original appearance is no longer visible.

The small town wàiwéi was built with a tall and thick stone wall covered with various fortifications, and a deep ravine was dug in the wàiwéi of the stone wall, with dense wooden thorns stuck in the bottom of the ravine. If Shen falls into the ditch, he will never survive.

From time to time, heavily armed patrol soldiers can be seen walking back and forth on the stone wall. They watch the north vigilantly, not daring to relax in the slightest.

It has been transformed into a small fortress by the rebels.

Originally, they were stationed further north and closer to Thorn Fortress. This part of the rebels had no intention of attacking Thorn Fortress, because the task given to them by Grand Duke Giles was only to keep an eye on the king of Thorn Fortress. Team, don't let them run around.

However, one night, a small group of troops suddenly came out of the fortress, and after successfully killing the bright and dark sentries in a corner of the camp, they sneaked in, and then they started setting fire everywhere, causing great chaos.

Fortunately, there were not many opponents, and they were quickly forced back by the soldiers' spontaneous counterattack, but the fire caused and the resulting panic caused the entire camp to toss all night.

After such a shameful thing happened, the Grand Duke Lei Ting was furious when it was heard by "Tan Lang", and immediately appointed a new general to take over the army.

The general who took over the rebel army—the "Southern Army" as they called it—was named Samar, one of Giles' tough men.

When Samar received the appointment, many colleagues felt sorry for him, because at that time the Southern Army was punishing those lords who disobeyed Grand Duke Giles. The opportunity itself is less.

But Samar was secretly happy. He had already seen that sooner or later Grand Duke Giles would march north. Even if the Grand Duke did not go north, the royal army would also go south. So he, who was staring at the Thorn Fortress, would most likely be the vanguard At that time, the enemies to be dealt with at that time were not these small shrimps in the south. Naturally, opportunities to make military exploits would continue to appear.

After Samar took office, in view of the fact that the original garrison was too close to the fortress and the morale was low after being attacked for a while, he ordered the entire army to move south to the current town, and recruited a large number of local laborers to move the town Build a semi-permanent crude fortress.

Anyway, the task at this stage is not offensive, so we have to work harder on defense.

At this moment, in a dungeon in this fortress, a brutal interrogation is going on...

"Speak or not?"

Along with the threatening roar, the sound of the loud whip sounded again and again in the dungeon.

A prisoner was tied and hung in mid-air, and a whip dipped in salt water was whipped severely on his body.

If the severely injured scout in Thorn Fortress was here, he would definitely be able to recognize that the beaten person was one of his companions. Several people were captured by the rebels that night.

Apparently, the Southern Army wanted to extract some information from these "tongues" and kept torturing them, and it seemed that the fabricated false information could not be fooled...

After being captured, relying on willpower to survive the torture of the enemy, this kind of plot generally only exists in novels and dramas. It cannot be said that it does not exist in reality, but it rarely occurs.

Even those who are ready to sacrifice and hold the consciousness of giving their lives, can't stand the various interrogation methods. There are too many ways to make people unable to survive or die.

Regardless of whether a person has received anti-torture training, as long as he is a person of flesh and blood, he will be afraid of pain.

In addition to sex, there are also various notorious means of mental torture, this is the one that destroys willpower the most, no matter what kind of spies and soldiers have received strict training, they cannot bear it.

Therefore, once you are a prisoner, you will recruit more or less.

In order to cope with the extortion of confessions after being captured, the captives will provide false information or half-truthful information to convince the enemy that it is true. The true part of the information often does not affect the overall situation or is out of date. At this time, it does not matter whether it is leaked or not.

The captured scout opened his eyes as he was dying, and said in a hoarse voice: "I have already explained everything I know, and I really don't know anything else...Ah!"

The loud sound of the whip sounded again, and the other party obviously didn't believe his words.

As a scout with a high possibility of being captured, he naturally prepared a lot of information to deal with the current situation in his head, so after the interrogation began, he pretended to "rather die than surrender" and received a few whippings, and continued Said out the pre-prepared information one by one.

Then I can only pray for the mercy of the interrogator. Generally speaking, after the interrogator feels that the value of the captive has been almost exhausted, he either gives the other party a good time, or sends him to the rear to do coolies. The probability of human biàntài is still very low.

Of course, a qualified interrogator will definitely not believe that the information given by the captives is true, but to pick out the useful parts from a large amount of information that is both true and false is another set of skills. .

In this situation, the interrogator in front of him just didn't believe that he had finished speaking.

The tall and burly interrogator, who was visually intimidating, pinched the prisoner's chin, slightly raised the prisoner's head, and made him meet his eyes.

"I'll tell you again! Tell me what you haven't explained!"

"My lord...I...really...really...don't know anything else..."

The prisoner groaned in his heart: This is already the fifth confirmation, and it is almost over?

He dared not say anything like the emptiness of the fortress. Once the rebels found out, they might organize an attack immediately. Not to mention the brothers in the army who usually ate in the same pot, his own wife and children also lived in the same pot. In Duke Dodge's domain.

In this era, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, especially with the feud between the Dodge family and the Giles family, the fate of the common people led by Dodge can be imagined, and the army under Giles is notoriously poor , although the crows in the world are generally black, there are always one or two crows that are darker than others.

The interrogator turned his questioning eyes to the other side, and there was a man sitting there, he wrapped himself under a cloak, so he couldn't see the face in the hood.

"Humph!"

The man in the cloak smiled darkly.

"He's lying!"

"He must have something to tell!"

The cold words that made the prisoner's whole body come out from the mouth of the cloaked man, how could that guy judge that he was lying, he thought to himself that the information he had given before was flawless, and as a low-level scout, he knew It is natural that the information is limited.

It seemed that he was aware of the captive's doubts The cloaked man stood up and walked slowly to the captive's side.

"You must be wondering, time and time again, why am I so sure you're lying?"

The man in the cloak slowly raised his head, and the captive saw his face clearly. There was nothing surprising about his appearance, but the key was those eyes...

His pupils are shining, they are really shining!

Instead of reflecting the light of the torch next to it, the pupil itself is the light source!

"because…"

As he spoke, the cloaked man's pupils seemed to brighten even more.

"I can see the color of your soul..."