Chapter 315: Imperial Envoy Urgot
The Glorious Executioner is more than just a lowly executioner in Noxus.
The fact that this position is called "honorable" actually explains its status.
Urgot has always believed that he is a qualified person.
As the executioner of the weak, he is the living symbol of Noxus's philosophy: only strength is the truth that rules all things. His glory grows higher and higher with the pile of corpses behind him, and his majesty is also the guarantee of military discipline for countless warbands.
In other words…
Normally, the Executioner is an alternative star idol sought after by the people of Noxus.
During wartime, the executioner is even a supervisor of military discipline and an enforcer of military law to some extent.
The soldiers of Noxus are notoriously arrogant, and the people who can supervise them are certainly not ordinary people.
Urgot's background is not ordinary. He is a loyal dog of Emperor Darkwill, and he has the support of the old nobles who are in charge of the command. Naturally, he has the capital to do his own thing and look down on his peers.
then……
"General Urgot, welcome to the province of Baru..."
In response to Lester's smile, Urgot said rudely during their first meeting after leading his army to Yipu River Port:
"Don't be polite with me, General Lester."
"I'm here to fight, not to make friends."
The smile on Lester's face suddenly became a little stiff.
He looked at the General Urgot in front of him: tall and sturdy, with a body as strong as a bull, carrying a giant executioner axe that gleamed with cold light, and with the armor on, he looked like a living steel giant.
Teacher Swain called him a fool.
But by Swain's standards, there are few people in the world who are not fools.
At this moment, standing in front of the aggressive and hostile Urgot, Lester could still feel some pressure.
really……
“General Lester.” Urgot came prepared and went straight to the point. “I heard that your regiment has discovered traces of Wind Leader guerrilla activities in the Yipu River Basin many times in the past half month, is that correct?”
"Yes." Lester replied calmly, "Many officers reported this."
“What about the main force of the Wind Leaders?” Urgot asked again. “They took tens of thousands of people away from the Yipu River. Tens of thousands of people were stationed near the Yipu River. It’s impossible that there is no trace of them at all, right?”
"This..." Lester was also prepared: "The Yipu River Basin is quite large, and the search will take some time."
"Moreover, the upper reaches of the Yipu River are all mountains. If the main force of the Leader is hiding in the mountains, we won't be able to find them for a while."
"Yeah." Urgot nodded.
It seemed as if he believed it, but also as if he had some doubts.
Then he said, "Lester, I'm going to get this straight."
"The Command sent me to Barue this time to monitor the progress of your search for the main force of the Leader in Barue."
"Didn't your battle report say that many of your troops encountered the Leader Guerrillas near the Yipu River? If that's the case, I'd like to see these officers and soldiers in person."
"Oh?" Lester raised his eyebrows.
This requires checking the source of the news directly.
"No problem." Lester was also prepared.
Although the Leader Guerrillas were fake, this group of junior officers were killing innocent people for credit, and if they were discovered they would be beheaded.
They don't need anyone to teach them, they just hold on until they die.
Lester had also confirmed in advance that these people were veterans with strong psychological qualities.
Those who are not mentally strong enough would have been , and it would not be Urgot's turn to judge at all.
really……
Urgot asked several officers and soldiers, and the conclusions he got were all -
The countryside of Yipuhe Port is full of Leader's guerrillas, and the main force of Leader must be hiding near the Yipu River basin!
"Are you satisfied with this, General Urgot?" The other party started to check here and there, so Lester simply didn't want to give him a good look.
"Humph." Urgot replied coldly, "Tens of thousands of Wind Leaders are hiding on a mere island called Barue, and you've spent more than half a month only to find some traces of the so-called Wind Leader guerrillas."
"Moreover, after several encounters, the number of enemies reported killed was quite a lot, but not a single one was captured alive—"
"Isn't this suspicious?"
"You..." Lester frowned: "Urgot, what do you mean?!"
Urgot didn't answer, but his cold eyes said it all.
He, or rather the bigwigs above him, were no longer satisfied with the slow progress of the front-line troops' search in the Barue Province.
Regardless of whether Lester's intelligence was true or false, there were too many suspicious points in his military intelligence .
"We need more evidence to prove that the Leader is active in the Yipu River Basin."
"Otherwise, I think we need to change our strategy of concentrating our forces on searching the Yipu River Basin as soon as possible, and instead disperse our forces to search the entire island of Barue Province."
The Immortal Bastion is eager to find the main force of the Leader and start a high-intensity local war in Ionia.
So Urgot made his purpose clear in a very blunt manner.
Either Lester can't come up with more evidence, or he will have to follow Urgot's lead and change the army's search strategy in the Barue Province.
"This..." Lester was speechless.
Of course he couldn't produce any solid evidence.
Whatever...
When Urgot came here to "supervise the army" with the instructions of the old nobles, he was destined to find it difficult to do anything.
Being able to delay the leader for half a month is already his limit.
I just hope that the Windleader can hide deeper and not let Urgot find him too quickly. Otherwise, if they fight with the Windleader's main force in Baru, Mr. Swain will have to bear the pressure in the Twin Cities. And as the leader of the coup, if Swain is involved in the war with the Windleader at this time, then...
Lester was thinking this.
And just at this moment...
"Report!" His trusted adjutant rushed over and reported to him: "General Lester, it's not good."
"The 100-man team we sent out today was ambushed by the Wind Leader guerrillas while sweeping the countryside. Almost all of them were wiped out after the battle, with only one person left alive!"
"This..." Urgot and Lester were both slightly stunned.
Urgot glanced at Lester suspiciously. "Were we attacked?"
Lester also looked at his adjutant in confusion: "The whole army was wiped out?"
You kill innocent people to take credit for it, and even make it look like your entire army is annihilated?
etc……
"General, this time it's real... cough cough cough..." Noticing Urgot's presence, the adjutant braked the car in time.
He hurriedly changed his words and said, "This is true."
"A team of 100 people, plus a 10-man scout team, a total of 110 people, were killed by the leader, leaving only one alive."
"Their bodies and equipment are still in that village. Our people are going over to clean them up!"
"This..." Lester murmured for a moment.
Urgot on the side was still watching with suspicion.
"Are you sure it's the leader?" Lester looked at his trusted adjutant and asked worriedly.
"I can confirm that." The adjutant nodded.
He was sure that the guy named Kayn was not reporting to the Leader at all.
But it doesn't matter.
After the emergency education by the adjutant, Kayn already knew that it was not the Shadow Cult that killed all his companions today, but the joint forces of the Shadow Cult and the Windleader Guerrillas.
"The Wind Leader Guerrillas have actually joined forces with the Shadow Sect?"
"This..." Lester clenched his fists in joy: "These bastards actually killed so many of our brothers——"
"Go, even if I have to search every mountain on the Yipu River, I will find them and tear them into pieces!"
