Chapter 105: The Execution Grounds

  "In conclusion, Lang Ning's crimes are heinous and unforgivable... Lang Ning is hereby sentenced to death, to be carried out immediately!" A middle-aged man with a slender build and an air of authority, dressed in a large red robe, stood up: "Lang Ning, do you have anything else to say?"

  Langning was a young general who rose to fame, joining the army at just thirteen years old, becoming a squad leader at fifteen, and at seventeen, he received recognition from Knight Conard and was promoted to commander of the First Cavalry Battalion. It was also then that Conard first publicly declared Langning as his most suitable successor.

  This experience is not often seen even among legendary figures on the mainland, Lang Ning became famous too early. After Conard's death, those city lords easily rejected the possibility of Lang Ning taking over, their reason was sufficient, Lang Ning was only 21 years old, too young, and not enough to convince the masses!

  These days, Han Jin had heard a lot about Lang Ning's stories in various versions, and Lang Ning was always a tenacious person, so Han Jin thought that Lang Ning's face must be very mature, but the real Lang Ning looked extremely young and handsome. In Mo Xin Ke's words, he was only slightly inferior to Raphael, but his expression was too stiff and not as kind as Raphael.

  Mo Xinkuo is talking nonsense. Lang Ning is now being tied up with five flowers, and on top of that, he's still pronouncing his own death sentence. Who can laugh at this time?

  "Lang Ning, is there anything else you'd like to say?" The majestic and authoritative person repeated.

  Lang Ning let out a cold snort and gently closed his eyes. The two warriors behind him finally breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, to prevent Lang Ning from speaking out of turn, the execution squad had tied several loops of iron wire around his neck, with one end hanging down his back. As long as the two warriors stretched out their hands and pulled, Lang Ning would be unable to breathe, let alone shout slogans or appeal.

  Lang Ning also knew when to give up, knowing that struggling and shouting were useless, so he just closed his eyes and waited for death.

  Just then, a series of horseshoes suddenly came from outside the town, and the nobles on the wooden platform, as well as several officers, were slightly stunned. The people below who were watching the excitement also whispered to each other.

  "Something's wrong!" A soldier with a crooked helmet and slanted armor rushed over on horseback: "It's the First and Second Cavalry Regiments of the Torrent Army!"

  "What's 'Rapid Flow Legion'?" The middle-aged man with an air of majesty was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shouted: "Carry out the death penalty immediately! What are you waiting for?!"

  Several warriors hastily pushed Lang Ning to the center of the wooden frame. One of the warriors stretched out his hand and grabbed the rope, trying it out before putting it around Lang Ning's neck. If it were an ordinary person, there would be no need for such trouble - a single sword strike would end everything. But Lang Ning's father was the former deputy commander of the Jiliu Army, after all, from a military family. Using hanging is to leave Lang Ning with a whole body, which is also a kind of dignity.

  Something strange happened. The samurai had just put the rope around Lang Ning's neck, and the end of the rope was hanging down softly. The cut surface was very flat. This must have been cut off by someone! Before the samurai could shout out, he first heard the voices of two people talking.

  "How's it? I didn't guess wrong, did I?" said a young man with a handsome face.

  "What's this! If you've got the guts, guess how many pieces of bread I can eat tonight!" another tall and sturdy man shouted with a look of discontent on his face.

  "Not a single one." The young man's expression suddenly turned cold. He shouted loudly: "Thomas, you're so bold! Knowing that now Leizhe has taken control of the entire Jiliu Army and is leading the cavalry to rush over, how dare you kill Leizhe's best friend? Don't you fear Leizhe will flatten your tenth town?"

  A group of warriors charged towards Han Jin and Mo Xinkou, wielding their weapons. On the wooden platform opposite the gallows, two magicians began to chant spells. But Han Jin shouted out a phrase that left everyone stunned.

  "Lei Zhe?" Thomas's face changed, and he sneered: "Does he dare?! The commander of the Jiliu Army Cavalry is General Rudolf, not him Lei Zhe! Come on, kill all these bandits for me!"

  The warriors on the gallows platform shouted, but no one really rushed towards Han Jin and Mo Xinkou. Even the magician on the wooden stage was stalling for time. Everything could be fake, but that increasingly close, thunder-like sound of horseshoes couldn't be faked!

  "You fool, do you think Leiz and his father are the same kind of people?" Han Jin made a gesture. Mo Xinko suddenly snatched Lang Ning: "Knight Konrad was an honest man all his life. What did he end up with? Even his coffin was dug up, and you saw all this. Do you really think Leiz won't change?"

  On the other side, Mo Xinkē pulled out two ropes. After removing the rope from Láng Níng's body, just as Láng Níng was about to say something, Mo Xinkē gave a signal with his eyes, indicating that Láng Níng shouldn't speak rashly.

  It was as if to prove Han Jin's words, hundreds of knights rushed in like a whirlwind, with Lei Zhe at the forefront, and hundreds of other knights left the main team and went to other streets.

  The crowd around the gallows dispersed in an instant, Lei Zhe raised his head to look at Lang Ning, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he slowly urged his war horse forward. Meanwhile, Lang Ning was also looking at Lei Zhe, his face and eyes proving how excited he was at this moment.

  "Halt! This... this is an execution ground. You can't just approach!" The executioner stood firm, blocking Lei Zhe's horse.

  Lei Zhe looked down at the executioner with a growing smile on his face, then waved his hand. The knight beside Lei Zhe suddenly spurred his horse and charged forward: "Get out of here!" Before the curse had even faded away, the executioner's head was already flying through the air. The prisoner who should have been executed was still alive, but the executioner himself became the first to take his final bow.

  This sword left both parties stunned. Thomas on the wooden stage couldn't believe his eyes, and Lang Ning was equally petrified.

  "Raez! Have you gone mad?!" The officer sitting next to Thomas leapt up, bellowing.

  "No, no, I'm perfectly sober." Lei Zhe smiled: "However, I know that someone has conspired against my brother, so I got a bit excited. This... should be forgivable, right?"

  "Lei Zhe, speak clearly! Who murdered your brother?!" Thomas knew he couldn't back down now, the more afraid he seemed, the bigger the situation would become: "Lang Ning's death sentence was well-deserved! He..."

  "Bullshit! In our 9th town, I don't know how many girls are chasing after our captain! And rape? I'll rape your mother!"

  "Nonsense! I think it's the women from your 10th town who raped our battalion commander! Bring them out and make things clear! Who actually raped whom?!"

  "In those days our squad leader was always with us, how could he run here to rape a woman? Damn it, besides, does our squad leader need to go and rape women?"

  "General, don't listen to them, they are framing our captain, kill them..."

  The knights' cries grew louder and louder until they merged into a single phrase: Kill them... kill them...

  On the wooden stage, the expressions of those nobles and officers changed again and again. Leizhe slowly stretched out his hand, and the knights' roar stopped abruptly. Lang Ning's eyes flashed with a strange color, he was very clear that this meant Leizhe had already possessed strong control over the soldiers.

  "Actually... using the crime of rape to frame my brother, you're really foolish to the extreme." Lei Zhe said with a smile, his tone very gentle, as if he was offering some kind of well-intentioned criticism: "My brother and I grew up together since childhood, I don't know about other things, but one thing, I remember too deeply, my brother has never lacked women, on the contrary, from around ten or so years old, he's always been troubled by those clingy women! Rape... haha, may I ask, who planned this? Don't worry, I'm not being malicious, I'm just really curious."

  The people on the wooden stage looked ugly, but in fact they all knew that getting rid of Lang Ning was General Rudolph's idea, and Lang Ning himself was very clean.

  "Thomas thundered: 'Rajah, you have no right to speak to me! Where is Rudolph? Let him come and see me!'"

  "Do you want to see General Rudolf?" Leiz's face was a bit strange: "Actually, it's the same whether you tell me or not."

  "What are you talking to me about? What identity do you have to talk to me?" Thomas looked at Leiz with a scornful gaze. Since he had already offended Leiz, he might as well offend him thoroughly. With the abilities of Leiz and Langning, they could at most stir up trouble among the soldiers of the First and Second Cavalry Regiments. But Rudolf was the commander of the cavalry, and he would definitely be able to suppress Leiz and Langning. Even if he couldn't, there were other commanders. Konrad had been dead for several years, so what did Leiz amount to?!

  Lei Zhe let out a soft sigh, jumped off his warhorse, and walked straight towards the wooden platform. His smile was still as gentle as ever, but Lang Ning had already sensed that something was amiss, because Lei Zhe was someone who rarely showed emotion on his face, and today he had smiled far too many times.

  The officer beside Thomas hastily stepped forward, blocking Razer's path, his hand still resting on the hilt of his sword.

  The surrounding knights suddenly made a big noise, drew their weapons and rushed towards the wooden platform. The officer was frightened pale and hastily retreated several steps. As for the two magicians, they had already become obedient little sheep.

  "What... what are you going to do?" Thomas backed away.

  "Aren't you hoping to have a talk with General Rudolf? I know where he is, I can take you there."

  "What?! You killed him?!" Thomas was thunderstruck.

  "I had no other choice, he was already in cahoots with Zagunede of Black Raven Castle, you see... shouldn't he have died?" What Reiji said was one of the crimes his father was posthumously accused of.

  Those officers had originally intended to come over and say a few words of comfort, but when they heard that Rudolf had been killed, they all turned into stone statues. If Leizel could even dare to kill Rudolf, what wouldn't he dare do?!

  The power is out…… My poor home has nothing, I threw away the lighter, matches and everything, I searched for half a day but couldn't even find my phone, the door was also locked from the inside, so I had to give up. In the end, I crawled into the bedroom to sleep, when I woke up, the power was back on, but it was already 11 o'clock, I'm crying!