Chapter 756: Mercenary Captain
After the tribe leader learned of the terrible news, he sent people to lock the young servant in the dungeon at lightning speed. He was furious when he learned that the two of them had been living in an affair. Then, on the one hand, they blocked the news, and on the other hand, they prepared to impose capital punishment on this "heretic" from the West, without any regard for the kindness of master and servant.
The next day, the young servant was ordered by the tribe leader to cut off his private parts and throw him into the team of mercenaries who were secretly raised by him and were not considered men. Rather than being mercenaries, these people are more like slaves and dead aides who kill for the tribal leaders.
There, they have no freedom. What awaits them every day is nothing but whipping and insults.
The longing for his lover aroused a strong desire to survive in the young servant's heart. Faced with such an environment, he did not choose to give up on himself, but learned to adapt to everything around him just like he had been begging on the street for many years.
Because he understands that there is nothing left after death. Only by living can there be hope and the chance to see the girl he loves deeply again.
As time goes by, three years have passed by very quickly.
The young servant is no longer the thin and cowardly boy he once was.
After training and beating in the camp day after day, the young boy back then has now become a strong and fierce slave officer. In addition, in the past three years, he has not missed his former lover for a moment.
After repeated observations and trials, he discovered the secret of the tribal leader commanding this slave army of more than 500 people - a scarlet leather whip that symbolized the power of life and death.
· Whenever a slave owner came to inspect the slave army he kept secretly in the valley, he would always carry a scarlet whip with him.
Only when they see the whip in the hands of the slave owner, the hundreds of dead-like soldiers in the camp will obey his orders. As long as the slave owner gives an order, the two soldiers who receive the order will immediately pick up the weapons in their hands to fight with each other, and will not stop until they end their opponent's life. Even if the two people are connected by blood, they will not show any mercy.
The whip was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the slaves, engraved into their bones, appearing in every visible or hidden corner of the camp, dominating all the words and deeds of the slave soldiers.
Normally, conversations between these slaves are not allowed. Each of them was given a different numerical number, and the only power they had was to give themselves an animal-like nickname so that they could be named by the commander of the slave army.
As a warrior, each person wears a black barrel helmet on his head, his face is covered by a black iron mask, and he wears a set of dark brown armor, equipped with a leather round shield and a short spear.
The young servant three years ago gave himself a resounding name - Gray Wolf.
This comes from his experience of being chased by a pack of gray wolves in the forest on a stormy night many years ago. He was planning to wander to another city when it was already dark when he passed through a forest. So he dragged his tired body to find a relatively warm cave, planning to sleep one night and start the journey again the next day.
However, the moment he entered the forest, the scent left behind on his body attracted a group of hungry gray wolves -"·
In the middle of the night, when he was huddled in the cave shivering with an hungry stomach, a "wolf roar" that made his hair stand on end suddenly woke him up from his sleep. Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he looked towards the entrance of the cave. Two eyes that glowed green like gems were staring at him fiercely.
The young man blinked, but the green eyes of the gray wolf guarding the entrance of the cave remained motionless. Breathing heavily, he tried to search in the darkness for the short sword that was placed with the luggage under his head.
But the small movement of the arm still aroused the gray wolf's vigilance. In the darkness, the beast let out a low growl, and immediately dived towards the young man~
In the panic, the fingers stuffed into the bag suddenly felt cold. Without time to think, the young man pulled out his dagger and stabbed the gray wolf that was charging straight towards him...
Since the small area where he lived and the wide entrance outside were connected by a hole that could only accommodate an adult, the moment the gray wolf leapt into the hole, the young man whose muscles were trembling all over yelled, raised his dagger and stabbed straight into the green-lighting left eye of the gray wolf~
As the gray wolf let out a scream, the dagger pierced the beast's eye socket as easily as it penetrated soft soil. As a warm current flowed out of the gray wolf, after a few mournful sounds, the beast stopped making any movement.
At this time, the cave became quiet again. Cold sweat broke out on the young man's forehead, and his heart was beating hard. Not long after, a ray of light came from outside the cave entrance. It wasn't until the golden morning light penetrated into the cave that the young man woke up from his fatigue. Rubbing his swollen eyes, he stood up and walked towards the gray wolf hanging at the entrance of the cave, pushing the beast out with all his strength.
Before leaving, he knocked off a gray wolf's fang and put it into the bag on his shoulder.
To this day, he still hangs the fang made into a pendant around his neck.
Now, his strong body makes him feel full of strength. This army of slaves whose mission was to kill the enemy made him its leader.
Picking up the healing tooth hanging around his neck, the slave officer who named himself Gray Wolf whispered softly: "It's time for revenge!"
Thus, he began to wait, waiting for the tribal leader to come to the camp again for inspection. Finally, one afternoon half a month later, the tribal leader came to the camp again with his personal bodyguards, intending to select some elites from this slave army to fight against the Eastern Expedition army.
With his excellent skills, Gray Wolf was successfully selected and served as the adjutant of this elite team.
That night, the team followed the leader back to the tribe. They will wait here for the unassembled army, and then head to the west to fight the infidels at the edge of the desert.
For the gray wolf, this is simply a god-given opportunity for revenge.
Hence, the night before departure, the gray wolf, full of revenge, sneaked into the tribal leader's mansion alone. While he and his wife were sleeping, he cut off their heads with a machete, and found the scarlet whip that commanded the slave army in the bedroom.
But the gray wolf did not leave there. Instead, he quietly dealt with several guards and servants in the mansion, and then came to the outside of the bedroom of the girl he thought about day and night.
At this time, the girl's bedroom was still lit by candlelight. The happy gray wolf gently opened the door and walked straight to the bed.
The moment the girl turned around, she saw a tall slave standing in front of her with blood on her hands, and she couldn't help but scream. But no one came.
Gray Wolf took off his mask, looked at the beautiful woman in front of him with tender eyes, and couldn't help calling her name.
Even though they hadn’t seen each other for three years, the girl recognized him quickly. Excited, the two hugged each other tightly.
While the woman was tenderly leaning against the gray wolf's solid chest, she inadvertently noticed the scarlet leather whip fastened to the gray wolf's waist. Looking at the blood on her sweetheart's hands, the woman pushed away the man she once loved deeply. And asked him where the whip came from.
Gray Wolf did not hide anything and truthfully told him that he had beheaded the woman's parents.
The result can be imagined. The woman quickly ran towards her parents' bedroom~
When she saw the blood stains on the floor of the bedroom and her parents whose heads were missing, the woman roared and rushed towards the gray wolf standing outside the door, crying and beating his chest fiercely.
Even if the two once loved each other, the woman would definitely not be able to accept the fact that the gray wolf brutally killed her parents. Coupled with the mutilated body of Gray Wolf, the woman suddenly became violent. She pulled out the scimitar from Gray Wolf's waist and swung it at him. Seeing that it was getting dark, Gray Wolf planned to take the woman away by force, but she intensified her efforts and slashed at Gray Wolf's left arm~
At this time, heavy footsteps were heard outside the mansion, and reinforcements finally arrived.
In desperation, the former young man looked back at his former lover lovingly, covered his wounds and fled quickly from the back door of the mansion.
On that day, the assassination of the tribal leader and his wife spread widely among other tribes. Immediately, the other tribes issued death orders one after another, vowing to avenge their leader.
After a night of escaping, the gray wolf finally returned to the camp. When he took out the scarlet leather whip and planned to order the slave army of hundreds of people to leave with him, he was strongly obstructed by the commander-in-chief.
The commander-in-chief is a close confidant of the tribal leader and is responsible for training this team. At the same time, he also participated in the castration of gray wolves. Gray Wolf always keeps this in mind.
While the commander was fighting for the whip, the two began to struggle. Seeing that he was no longer able to defeat the gray wolf, he yelled at the slaves in the stands to kill the traitor, but to his surprise, no one pulled out the scimitar in their hands and went up to help him.
The moment the commander turned around, the gray wolf had already slashed his scimitar into his waist and abdomen. Seeing the blood constantly splattering, the commander-in-chief fell to the ground immediately. Gray Wolf raised the scarlet whip in his hand, and hundreds of slave soldiers in the audience immediately stood up to attention.
After a passionate speech, Gray Wolf made a promise that as long as these people are willing to follow him through life and death, he will treat these officers and soldiers who have the same fate as him with brotherly sincerity, and let them have true dignity and freedom. Those who are willing to leave will be given two silver coins and can leave on their own. Those who agreed to stay followed Gray Wolf and used the machete at their waists as professional mercenaries in exchange for money from their employers.
The result was beyond his expectation, no one wanted to leave.
For these people, fighting on the battlefield has already been deeply ingrained in their bones. At this time, they abandoned their swords and became farmers and hawkers in the fields, which was a waste of their skills.
So, that afternoon, Gray Wolf left here with this mercenary team and headed west. After years of development, this mercenary team that originally only had more than 500 people expanded to more than 3,000 people. As the leader of the mercenary group, Gray Wolf led this team to achieve brilliant results and become famous throughout Europe.