Chapter 179

With that said, Wirtz kicked the adjutant in the stomach a few more times until he was next to the corpse of a soldier. He curled up and trembled before temporarily stopping.

It was impossible to settle the matter just like that. That would be too advantageous for the adjutant who relied on his power.

And just when Wirtz took a rest and was about to take action again, the adjutant saw this opportunity, pulled out the sword from the soldier next to him, and used the blade of the sword to grind a hole in his rope.

"Huh? What are you doing?" Wirtz felt uncomfortable when he saw the adjutant's body squirming up and down. Then he quickly stepped forward, preparing to stop the adjutant's behavior, but the other party had already cut the rope at this time and quickly said Rolling to avoid Wirtz's attack.

"Fuck you!" The adjutant threw the stool at Wirtz, causing him to stumble. Then, he threw Wirtz to the ground, straddled him, and strangled his neck.

"Die!" the adjutant said with all his strength, trying to strangle Wirtz, but he had been away from the battle for a long time and his body was very thin. Even if Wirtz was injured at the moment, he could still use his full strength to strangle Wirtz. He pinched the adjutant's thin neck.

"The damn person...it's you..." Wirtz squeezed out these words from his throat, then his eyes widened and he strangled the adjutant's neck with all his strength.

The two people were confronting each other like this. Finally, Wirtz felt the pressure on his neck suddenly reduce. Then, the adjutant's body fell softly to the ground, completely losing his voice.

Wirtz lay on the ground and looked at the sky.

He was not feeling well at the moment, as if there were stars all over the sky in front of him. The joy of surviving the disaster made his whole body feel light and airy, as if he would rise from the sky in the next second.

However, there should be nothing more satisfying than getting revenge.

…

The fighting continued until daylight the next day.

After the base camp was breached, the Napoli army's defense line in Florence collapsed instantly. In this battle, Napoli invested 100,000 troops, but in the end only less than 10,000 came back.

In Romulus City, Giovanni looked at Garibaldi, who was standing in front of him with his head lowered and silent, and sighed helplessly.

"General Garibaldi, I know that the defeat is not your fault. It is the enemy who is too cunning and adopted a alienation strategy."

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Duke, for your understanding. I sincerely request Your Majesty the Duke to allocate another army to me. I will definitely take the blame and perform meritorious service!"

"That's no need. At present, the Dukedom doesn't have many soldiers to fight. After the rich lands in the north fell, most of the lands in the south are farmland and pastures. We only need to defend the city of Romulus for now, but , all this should have nothing to do with you."

"Your Majesty the Duke, do you want to dismiss me from my post? No, Your Majesty the Duke, I have served in the army for so many years and I have lost this battle. There is no credit but hard work." After hearing Giovanni's words, Garibaldi Feeling bad, he immediately knelt down and began to plead with himself.

But Giovanni just shook his head.

"Nothing, General Garibaldi, don't I know your status in the army? It's just that we lost this battle so miserably. It seems that the losses caused to the enemy were only a fraction of ours, right? This kind of Can't you let me take the blame?"

"...I understand." Garibaldi nodded. He knew that no matter how much he begged for mercy, he would definitely not be able to keep his position in the army. But fortunately, he had made a lot of money in the army and would retire next. Life will definitely not be bad.

It just so happened that after leaving the army, I could live a stable life.

"Then, Donny, send General Garibaldi back." Giovanni said, calling his son Donny over.

"I understand, Father." Downey walked over from the side and nodded politely towards Garibaldi.

"General, please come this way."

"Yes." Garibaldi nodded. He knew that this might be the last time he came to the Duke's Palace. He turned back and looked carefully.

After taking one look at the carved decorations of the Duke's Mansion, he finally nodded and left.

Sitting in the carriage, Garibaldi looked at Downey in front of him, as if he was eager to relieve his embarrassment, and he quickly excused himself.

"Master Tangny, you may not believe it, but that Li Te is really a scary kid. He can play with people's hearts. Do you know, his alienation plan..."

Downey smiled the whole time and waited until Garibaldi arrived at his home.

Opening the door to his home, Garibaldi was stunned for a moment.

"General, what are you doing standing there at the door? This is your home. Come in quickly?" Downey said with a smile.

"..." Garibaldi turned to look at Downey, stared into his eyes for a long time, and then said tremblingly:

"Who...who did this? You?! Donnie! Is it you!!!!"

He yelled out, as if he wanted to use this to cheer himself up.

But Downey was not frightened by him. He just looked at Garibaldi quietly and waited until he finished speaking before speaking with a smile: "General Garibaldi, don't forget, my father said before that the battle failed. You need to find someone to bear the blame, and you are the best person to bear it, right? "

"No...impossible. It's impossible for the Duke to do this. Donny, are you overstepping your authority? I've been working for the Duke for so long. I follow all the Duke's orders word for word. It's impossible for him to want to harm me. It's impossible... …”

"Why is it impossible? General Garibaldi, it is because you have always listened to your father that your father believed in you. Now that your father wants you to die, will you choose to do so and become a loyal minister, or will you choose to betray your father and become a traitor? "What about being executed?"

After listening to Donnie's words, Garibaldi could no longer hold on. He knelt down, without the airs of the previous general.

"Master Downey... No, Master Downey, I beg you, you have already killed my family, please let me go... Please, I have done my duty for Napoli for so many years. Credit also comes with hard work, I just want to survive..."

"General Garibaldi, I feel that sometimes I am really similar to you, which really disgusts me." Downey said, and then asked: "Then, let me ask you a question?"

"What's the question? Mr. Tangny, feel free to ask."

"Compared with me and Liteuk, who is more terrifying now?"

"You...are you, Mr. Downey!"

"But I don't like the word horror." Danny said, shaking his head.

Then, behind Garibaldi, a strong man suddenly jumped out and strangled his neck with a white cloth strip.

Garibaldi's fat body tried to resist, but it was all in vain.

Downey just stood in front of Garibaldi, watching his cheeks slowly turn red, and his thick limbs gradually lost their vitality from flapping randomly at the beginning.

Until there was no more life left.

"It's a pity that the old minister who worked hard for the dukedom finally ended up like this."

"Master Downey, do you want his body to be hung from the ceiling?" After strangling Garibaldi, the strong man raised his head and asked.

"Yeah." Danny nodded, walked into the house, and looked up at the hanging corpses on the ceiling. "Just put him...here. I remember this is his wife. They are reunited as husband and wife."

"It's so funny. One had a wife and kept going to nightclubs, and the other kept a man. These two are really a match made in heaven." Downey said this, mocking Garibaldi sarcastically.

"Finally, the fabricated news is that General Garibaldi committed suicide due to negligence in the war and took his whole family to be buried with him. Well, this news should be able to shock the entire Romulus."

Saying this, Donnie couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha, father, you really understand your son very well."

…

One day later, Giovanni was sitting in the living room, watching today's news. When he saw the biggest column, he let out a cold snort.

"Who taught you to do that, Donnie?"

"Isn't it you, father? If you hadn't taught me these things, how could I have brought them out at this time?"

"What you did was okay, but it was a bit too arbitrary. Why did you kill his whole family?"

"Is it possible to leave one or two scoundrels waiting to come to us to settle the matter later? Father, you have told me personally before that you should not keep any of those who are displeased."

"I did tell you this." Giovanni nodded after hearing this.

During the conversation between the two people, their faces

He has always been quite calm. Even if the topic is about killing people and whole families, it is still like a normal daily topic, and he even laughs occasionally.

…

In Florence, after Antica's army took over the city, it still fulfilled its promise and quickly restored the administrative and political security system of Florence with the original team. The soldiers were also allowed to take a vacation and rest in Florence.

"Whatever you say, I'm right. We won't break our promise. At least it will remain like this until Naples changes its owner." Standing on the city wall, Little led Virgil and Martin to patrol the city.

The soldiers have strict military discipline. After entering the city, they do not bully men and women just because they are soldiers. Instead, they use the military pay from the army to shop legally.

Everything was in order, even the curfew system implemented during the previous siege was cancelled, and the city of Florence regained its former vitality.

Seeing what the city looks like, Martin, who grew up here, is naturally very happy.

"It's really good. I hope you can stick to this idea in the future."

"But ask about his actions, not his heart." Lee Teuk said. "I don't know what future lords will do to this place, but under our current governing principles, your people and the people you protect are all protected, right?"

"Yeah." Martin nodded.

At this time, he saw a flower shop and stopped here.

At the door of the flower shop, a young girl was standing at the door selling flowers, but for some reason, the girl didn't have much of a smile on her face. Instead, she seemed to have something on her mind.

"What's wrong?" Lite asked curiously as he watched Martin stop in place.

"I...maybe have something to take care of, and I can't patrol the security with you anymore."

"It's okay. It must be something very important to you, right? Go ahead." Lite said with a smile.

"Thank you." After Martin thanked him, he walked down a staircase in the city wall and quickly ran to the flower shop.

…

It was a few days ago that we received the news of the defeat on the front line.

When the Antica army took over here, the whole city was in panic. Although there were rumors that their army would not disturb the people, these were all rumors and could not be true. No one dared to go out on the streets at will. If they really disturbed the people, they would be the ones who suffered.

But as officials began to notify every household on the next day that they could resume normal economic life, everyone reacted.

There was no military parade or curfew, and the fall of Florence was not experienced by ordinary people at all.

Although some families did lose their children, there was nothing they could do about it. How could there be no death in war? Soldiers died on the battlefield, there was nothing they could do about it.

These days, everyone around Judith showed smiles, only Judith herself was frowning.

There was no news about Martin.

Although soldiers passed by her flower shop these days, when she asked about the name Martin, these Antica soldiers did not know.

Therefore, although it was a good thing to resume business, Judith was not happy.

"Alas, Martin, you big liar, you clearly promised me that you would come back, now the war is over, where are you..." Judith muttered softly, and at this moment, her eyes went dark.

"Hello, are you here to buy flowers? We have violets, the city flower of Florence, all grown in our own garden, and the fragrance of the flowers can last for a whole week!"

Judith was selling familiarly, but when she saw the person in front of her, she was stunned.

The person standing in front of her was the one she had been thinking about day and night.

The iconic smile on her face also froze, and her eyes became wet.

"Judith, I'm back, I didn't... lie."

Hearing the other person's words, Judith couldn't help it anymore and threw herself into the other person's arms.

The violets fell from the sky, and the two people hugging each other at this moment formed a beautiful landscape painting.

"Tsk tsk tsk." Standing in the distance, Litt looked at the two people hugging each other and sighed.

"I didn't expect that Martin, who looks quite honest and simple, actually has a sister."

"I feel that it's quite normal. He's handsome and cheerful. It's abnormal that no one likes such a man, right?" Virgil commented.

"What about you? Where's your man?" Lit asked Virgil quickly.

"This..." Virgil showed an embarrassed expression when he heard it.

"Master Lit, it's impolite to ask more."

"Bah, it's not polite. Didn't you have a good relationship with the half-orc sister in the Orchid Tavern before? I saw that after dealing with Mudrick, she often asked you out for a drink?"

"This... don't mention this." Hearing that his affairs were exposed, Virgil blushed and refuted.

"It's great, if Orson could be so proactive to me." Lit looked at the two people hugging each other and muttered softly.

"Master Lit, what did you say?" Virgil didn't hear what Lit just said clearly, but only vaguely heard the word Orson.

"I said, it's okay!"

"But, our battle should be to protect a group of people like this, right?" Litt suddenly changed the subject.

"Yeah." Virgil agreed.

If Litt had not used the strategy of alienation, but had attacked directly, he would have certainly captured Florence faster, but what about the losses?

There are still many people like Martin and Judith, right?

If the war really turned out like that, the damage would only be more serious.

When thinking about the current situation of the war and the group of people following him now, Litt suddenly became a little afraid of the war.

"It's okay." At this time, Litt suddenly remembered what Orson had said to him before.