Duke Dodge The three of them walked silently in the corridor, their expressions solemn.
"Duke!"
The speaker is Lester.
"I request to patrol outside the fortress in person so that I can check and verify what the scout said. Based on his description, Soldiers generally 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 next day, the Duke collected the reports of several consecutive batches of scouts who went out for reconnaissance. However, he found nothing unusual. Some of them had fought against the rebel scouts, but they had never encountered the situation last night.
It seems... what the injured scout encountered was just an exception? Or is he lying? After much consideration, he agreed to Viscount Lester's request and allowed him to lead his elite scout cavalry out to participate in patrols.
Before that, they had a "tacit understanding" with the rebels, and neither entered the other's warning range. But in last night's incident, the rebels clearly broke the "tacit agreement," which may mean that they have to make some changes to the status quo.
Thorn Fortress There is a small town not far to the south, but its original appearance is no longer visible.
A high and thick stone wall was built outside the town, covered with various Defensive Fortifications. A deep trench was dug outside the stone wall, and there were dense wooden thorns stuck in the bottom of the trench. If someone accidentally fell into the trench, he would definitely not survive.
From time to time, heavily armed patrols could be seen walking back and forth on the stone wall. They looked to the north vigilantly, not daring to relax at all.
It has been transformed into a small fortress by the rebels.
Originally, the place where they were stationed was farther 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 Duke Giles was just to keep an eye on the Kingdom Army of Thorn Fortress and not let them run around.
However, one night a small group of troops suddenly emerged from the fortress. After successfully killing the outpost Hidden Sentinel in the corner of the camp, they sneaked in. Then they started setting fires everywhere, causing a lot of chaos.
Fortunately, there were not many people on the other side, and they were quickly forced back by the Soldierss' spontaneous counterattack. However, the fire caused and the resulting panic caused the whole camp to suffer all night.
After such a shameful thing happened and reached the ears of "Greedy Wolf", Grand Duke Lei was furious and immediately appointed a new general to take over the army.
The general who took over this rebel army - called "Southern Army" in their own name - was named Samar, and he was a powerful general under Giles.
When Samar received the appointment, many of his colleagues felt sorry for him, because at that time Southern Army was dealing with those lords who disobeyed Duke Giles. After Samar took such a "guardian" job, he had fewer opportunities to make military exploits.
But Samar is secretly happy. He has long seen that Duke Giles will march north sooner or later. Even if the Grand Duke does not go north, Royal Family's army will also go south. So he who is keeping an eye on Thorn Fortress will most likely be the vanguard. The enemies to be dealt with at that time are not these small shrimps in the south. Naturally, opportunities for military exploits will continue to appear.
After Samar took office, considering that the original garrison was too close to the fortress and that morale was low after a sneak attack, he ordered the entire army to move south to the current town and recruited a large number of local laborers to build the town into a semi-permanent and crude fortress.
Anyway, the current task is not offensive, so we have to put more effort into defense.
At this moment, in a dungeon in this fortress, an inhumane interrogation is going on...
"Say or not?"
Accompanied by threatening roars, the sound of loud whips sounded in the dungeon again and again.
A prisoner was tied up and hung in the air, and he was whipped hard with a whip dipped in Saline Solution.
If the seriously injured scout in Thorn Fortress was here, he would definitely be able to recognize that the beaten man was one of his companions. Several people were captured by the rebels that night.
Obviously, Southern Army wanted to get some information from these "tongues" and tortured them constantly. Moreover, it seemed that the fabricated false information could not fool them...
After being captured, relying on willpower to survive the torture of the enemy, this kind of plot usually 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 have the consciousness to sacrifice their lives cannot withstand various interrogation methods. There are too many ways to make people unable to survive or die.
No matter whether a person has received anti-torture training or not, as long as he is a human being, he will be afraid of pain.
In addition to the physical aspect, there are also various notorious methods of mental torture. This is the most will-destroying method. No matter how well-trained spies or soldiers are, they cannot withstand it.
Therefore, once you become a prisoner, you will be recruited by many.
In order to cope with forced confessions after being captured, prisoners will provide false information or half-truths to make the enemy believe it is true. The true part of the information often does not affect the overall situation or is outdated. 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 hoarsely, "Everything I know has been explained. I really don't know other things... ah!"
The loud sound of the whip sounded again, and the other party obviously did not believe what he said.
As a scout with a high possibility of being captured, he was naturally always prepared with a lot of information to deal with the current situation. So after the interrogation began, he pretended to "rather die than surrender" and received a few whips, and then continued to tell the prepared information one by one.
Then we can only pray for Interrogator's mercy. Generally speaking, after Interrogator feels that the value of the prisoner has been squeezed out, he will either give him a good time or send him to the rear to do hard labor. The probability of encountering a pervert who likes to torture people is still very low.
Of course, a qualified Interrogator would definitely not believe that all the information given by the captives was true. However, by peeling off the cocoons from a large amount of information that was both true and false, and carefully picking out the useful parts, another set of techniques came to life.
In this situation, Interrogator in front of him just didn't believe that he had finished speaking.
Interrogator, who was tall and very visually intimidating, pinched the prisoner's chin, slightly raised the prisoner's head, and made him look at her.
"I'll tell you again! Tell me what you haven't explained yet!"
"Sir... I... really... really... don't know anything else..."
The prisoner groaned in his heart: This is already the fifth confirmation, is it almost over?
He would not dare to say anything about a situation like the fortress's lack of troops. Once the rebels found out, they might immediately organize an attack. Not to mention the military brothers who usually ate in the same pot, his own wife, children, and children also lived in the territory of Duke Dodge.
In this era, bandits are like a comb and soldiers are like a grate. Especially with the feud between the Dodge Family and Giles Family, the fate of the Dodge Territory common people can be imagined, and the army under Giles is notoriously bad. Although the crows in the world are generally black, there are always one or two crows darker than the others.
Interrogator cast his questioning eyes to the other side, where a man sat. He wrapped himself in a cloak, and his face could not be seen in the hood.
"Hmph!"
The man in the cloak laughed sinisterly.
"He's lying!"
"He must have something he hasn't confessed yet!"
The words that sent chills down the prisoner's body came out of the cloaked man's mouth. How could that guy tell that he was lying? He thought to himself that the information he had given before was perfect, and as a low-level scout, it was natural that he had limited information.
As if aware of the prisoner's doubts, the cloaked man stood up and slowly walked to the prisoner's side.
"You must be wondering, over and over again, how I'm so sure you're lying?"
The cloaked man slowly raised his head, and the prisoner could see his face clearly. There was nothing surprising about his appearance, but the key thing was his eyes...
His pupils are shining, they are really shining!
It's not reflecting the light from the torch next to it, but the pupil itself is the light source!
"Because..."
As he spoke, the cloaked man's pupils seemed to become brighter and brighter.
"I can see the color of your soul..."