HCB Chapter 304: Rebellion
Chapter 304: Rebellion
Compared to the bustling streets and squares of Basque, the mansion where General Basque was staying was very quiet. This was partly because the general was too old to stand the hustle and bustle, and partly because Wei Li was replenishing his energy for tomorrow's work.
Outside the mansion, a team of soldiers were guarding the door. As a guard to protect the general's safety, even though it was night, they were not sleepy at all and stared ahead with their eyes wide open.
At this time, five carriages drove towards the mansion from across the street. When the guards saw them, they immediately stepped forward to stop them.
When the carriage stopped, an officer leaned out of the window and said:
"The mayor said he has something urgent to discuss with the general. Please notify the general."
The captain of the guard ordered the guards to inform the general, then glanced at the carriage behind and asked:
"Why did your patrol army come to notify us? Do you need so many carriages?"
"The mayor is busy right now, so he sent us to inform you."
The captain of the guard felt more and more strange, so he said:
"Let everyone in the carriage get off. I want to check it out."
"No need for that. We are all family, there is no need to do this."
"For the general's safety, routine inspections are a power given to me by the general."
"Okay, okay, brothers, get out of the car."
Looking at the patrol soldiers getting off the carriage, the captain of the guard ordered the guards to check the carriage and said to the leading patrol officer:
"Do you have the paperwork from the mayor?"
"Of course there is the document. It is in the carriage. I will bring it to you."
The officer returned to the carriage, took out a document and handed it to the captain of the guard. However, when the captain of the guard opened it, he saw that it was an arrest document for Sander and there was no signature of the mayor.
"You, the clerk..."
The captain of the guard was about to speak when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen. He looked down with pain in mind, only to find that a dagger had been stabbed into his abdomen and the wound was bleeding continuously.
"Do it!"
As the officer shouted, the patrol soldiers immediately drew their weapons, dragged out the guards who were searching on the carriage and hacked them up. At the same time, several patrol soldiers pointed their crossbows at the guards at the gate and pulled the trigger, shooting them all to death.
"Sir, here are the keys."
Looking at the lights in the mansion, the officer realized that the general might have known what was happening here, so he immediately shouted:
"Open the door and rush in!"
The soldiers rushed into the front yard of the mansion and came to the door of the house. Seeing that the wooden door was locked, the officer waved his hand and ordered two soldiers to chop at the wooden door with axes. For a while, wood chips flew everywhere, and the light shining through the wooden door became stronger and stronger.
"boom!"
As the wooden door fell, the soldiers immediately entered the mansion and began searching.
"Report, there's no one in the living room."
"Report, there is none in the bedroom."
"Report, there's no one in the backyard either."
There was no one in several places in the company, and the officer couldn't help but wonder if the person was hidden in some cellar or something like that, but the result came out soon.
"There's someone here!"
The officer heard the noise and walked over. A servant was hiding in a closet. The officer pulled him out and asked:
"I ask you, where did the general go?"
At this time, the servant was so frightened that he was trembling all over and couldn't speak at all. The officer was so anxious that he put his sword on the servant's neck and asked:
"If you don't tell me, I'll kill you!"
"Master... He climbed up the wall with a ladder and left."
"Damn, this old Deng runs pretty fast."
The officer cursed inwardly, then slashed the servant's neck with the sword. Blood gushed out instantly, and with a scream, the servant's body fell down weakly.
The officer then went to the backyard and searched, only to find a ladder placed on the wall behind the tree.
"Leave a few people here to guard, and the rest of you will form teams of ten to search the entire area."
……
A banquet was being held in a magnificent hall of a restaurant near the city hall. The lights were bright and the guests were dressed in gorgeous clothes, chatting with each other in groups of three or two. The long table was filled with delicious food and fine wine, and the band played melodious music.
As the commander-in-chief of the city defense forces, Centurion Alonso was surrounded by a group of people as soon as he appeared. Most of these people were his subordinates and some land merchants, who mainly discussed land smuggling with Alonso.
"Then let us drink to Master Alonso's health and victory!"
"cheers!"
Alonso looked at the various people around him and couldn't help but feel very proud. From a poor boy to the strongest of the three major Basque armed forces, he had invested countless time and resources.
At this moment, he had already planned his future plans in his mind. First, he would wait until the general retired and then bribe the congressman to take over his position. Then, he would accumulate power little by little to get rid of Sander and his accomplices. Finally, he would be able to get his hands on the position of mayor of Basque City.
But at this moment, he found that some people seemed to be missing, so he asked:
"Why are the centurions of the third, fifth, and seventh hundred teams gone?"
"Oh, it seems like they had something going on at home, so they didn't come."
"Oh, I see."
Alonso thought so, but it suddenly occurred to him that the parents of these three people died during the plague and they were not married, so what could have happened to their families?
"Forget about it. If they want to go home during the holidays, they can go. Why should I care about these things? I can't expect them to stop working with me the next day."
At this time, a soldier entered the banquet hall, trotted over to Alonso and whispered:
"Sir, something's happened to the general."
"Ok!"
Hearing this, Alonso blurted out without thinking:
"He's having a heart attack?"
"That is not the case, my Lord."
The soldier said nervously:
"Someone reported to our people that a fight broke out in the general's mansion. A group of soldiers got off a carriage and entered the general's mansion. Then they began to block the area around the general's mansion. Not to mention the citizens, even the soldiers on the city wall saw it."
"This is nothing."
Although Alonso didn't know what happened, he immediately became alert when he heard about the bloodshed near the general's residence.
"All centurions return to their respective centurions and wait for orders. Block all four city gates and do not let anyone out of the city."
After saying this, Alonso walked out of the restaurant, got on a carriage and headed for the City Council. However, when he saw the patrolling soldiers at the door of the City Council, an inexplicable sense of danger arose in his mind.
“Stop the car first!”
The driver stopped the carriage by the roadside. Alonso lifted the curtain and began to observe the patrol troops on the opposite side.
"This is a team of at least a hundred people."
Although Alonso didn't know why so many patrols gathered outside the city hall, when he thought about what the soldiers had told him before, a terrible guess came to Alonso's mind:
"The patrol troops are not planning a military coup, are they?"