40 God's mercy R18
Chapter R18 warning in this chapter lothar appears, I think that says it all but
Sacking of the city with no survivors
execution of civilians
lothar shows all his fanatical madness
divine justice: yes
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I am only a tool, the extension of his will.
-Lothar von ruppin
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Lothar von ruppin POV
Having the knowledge that this city no longer had any intention of fighting, and they were already without morale or at least they themselves do not see the conflict ending in a good way it was the perfect moment to launch a general attack against the fortification, we already have a large part of the trench filled, and we can at least put about 15 stairs at the same time.
With already a total conviction of our future victory, I called all my men to form up in perfect formation and began to advance to the walls.
Our crossbowmen were the first to break formation, resuming their main function of preventing the enemy from attempting to resist on the ramparts.
While the Teutonic knights approached the ramparts on foot with ladders that we built seeing that we would have to storm the walls, if my engineers did their calculations right the ladders should be of a perfect size to reach the top of the wall.
From my position I could hear the shouts of desperation of the defenders, since many of them would think that the hostilities were over only to be surprised that we were attacking anyway.
There was a small exchange of projectiles, but finally the defenders gave up defending the walls, leaving the way free for the Teutonic cavalrymen to set up the ladders and start climbing.
But apparently there were some who were brave because when we thought there would be no more resistance, some men appeared to throw stones at the knights who were climbing.
Luckily, these men were the elite of the kingdom, no matter how complex the situation gets they will never retreat the perfect tools of war the paladins of god.
It could be observed how some knights were climbing stairs with only one arm while with the other one they were defending themselves from the stones, when they were almost arriving to the top the defenders tried to prevent them from reaching the top only to be caught by the hands of an enraged knight and be thrown from the top of the walls to the ground and break his neck falling 5 meters.
When the Teutonic knights managed to take position of the walls, I did not have much information of what was happening, only that there was a lot of screaming inside the walls.
But after 10 minutes of waiting the gates of the city began to open, apparently my men had managed to win the battle for the walls.
''ADVANCE'' I said to my men who slowly began to march in perfect formation.
With the walls under our control, we reformed our positions and began to give orders to send out companies to search for the remains of the organized defense of the city.
One of my first sights of the city streets was an alley where the Teutonic knights had managed to corner many defenders and only a small group of 10 knights were slaughtering them all.
The pure white tabards of the Teutonic knights were covered in a crimson color as they finished the useless resistance of their opponents, there was no mercy, no matter how much they begged, death, was the only fate a heathen could expect luckily for them the Teutonic knights are masters of the use of weapons where every blow they gave was a mortal blow they do not spend energy in beautiful and well performed movements they only hit to kill and generate the maximum terror in the heart of their victims.
Our advance was slow, but safe there was no street without checking and enemy without killing, for almost 15 minutes we were slowly going through the streets of the city until we finally met with the final resistance of the enemy.
In front of us were all the forces that remained to our opponents, formed in line, avoiding our arrival to the governor's mansion.
You could see the fear in their eyes, I am not surprised most of them must be mercenaries who are not paid enough to die for their cause, well, no mercenary can be paid enough to die for a cause.
But I came to fight always in safe conditions guaranteeing minimum casualties instead of advancing directly against the last resistance of my enemies, I called for our crossbowmen
where they were slowly eliminated with deadly and accurate bolts, it was not long before they decided to advance to counteract the one-sided massacre that was occurring against their men by our crossbows.
At that moment, they began to advance, and our pikes got into position to receive the clash, while our crossbowmen returned to the formation and continued harassing our enemies.
In the collision was a desperate attempt to break our formation, but tough as Prussian steel our formation held firm and finally, our enemies began to flee in disarray.
Many of my men tried to chase them down.
''RETURN TO FORMATION IDIOTS I HAVE NOT GIVEN THE ORDER TO PURSUE THE ENEMY'' I shouted angrily.
My men stopped their madness and returned to formation, and we continued our advance to the mansion.
I deliberately made our formation compact, and we continued marching in order so that the wounded who were on the ground with some bolts in their bodies would be crushed to death by the boots of my men who ran over them like the trash these heathens are.
''Split into groups of 50, patrol the streets looking for the rest of the survivors, don't start looting yet, just act when I give the order'' I said to my officers who started to split up and do my bidding
''brother captain with me, let's pay a visit to the governor'' I said looking at my escort of teutonic knights.
With my escort, we entered the mansion trying to find where the cowardly governor is hiding, the mansion was bigger than it looked we were searching the corridors and room for quite a while until we finally met resistance
it was the guards/slaves of the elite of this city, as they put up stiff resistance, it was quite fun to crack a skull with a mace again because in my quest I personally killed 3 heathens by smashing their skulls with a single brutal blow to the head causing all the contents of their heads to scatter in the corridors
Finally, we arrived where it looked like it was where the governor held all kinds of social events because of the uneven size of the doors compared to the common room.
Quickly, we opened the door, as it did not have any kind of lock to prevent us from entering.
Entering I saw how the vast majority of the city's elite were here hiding like mice, apparently they didn't have time to escape by ship or maybe some escaped and only the bravest or most idiotic stayed behind
they still had many guards/slaves with them who tried to defend them, but they were largely outnumbered by the martial skill of my Teutonic knights, being liquidated within seconds of entering into personal combat
the whimpering and desperate cries of these rich merchants was a delight to my ears, for they do not know that by stupid idea of resisting they condemned everyone, no one will leave this city alive, all will die for the glory of the almighty
They are huddled together trembling not knowing what to do, no one wanted to take the first step of the conversations
Meanwhile, I was looking for a specific person in the envoy who told me that he would be a slave very soon and after a quick search I found him with a face full of fear.
Slowly, I approached him, making each of my steps to be heard by the pagans thanks to the sepulchral silence in this room.
''apparently you won't see the day when they put the slave collar on me'' I said with a sarcastic tone.
''Please...please...please...please...just...just...just following orders...I have a family...sir'' said the envoy with teary eyes.
Well, it seems that your city's pride only lasts as long as someone is willing to die for it hahaha how pathetic'' I said while I was almost 10 centimeters away from him.
I quickly began to choke him with one hand.
This man was not a warrior, he was just a poorly raised boy who thought he could humiliate me, and now he would only suffer the consequences
the man started to fight for his life as all people would do when they are hanged trying to hit my arm to break my grip until he started kicking to get me to let go, but he was nowhere near strong enough to do it
I enjoy seeing how the fear of death gave people strength where they could do things they would never do, but a death by hanging would be too good for this heathen I'm going to enjoy every second when I kill him
I released him from my grip and the man began to cough desperately.
''Captain Order the looting to begin we have won'' I said looking at my knights who quickly came out of the hall to give the orders.
I stood there watching these heathens for minutes still I wanted to give the order to execute him there was still that one element missing that would make everything more dramatic
until at last the perfect symphony for the occasion started to play
the cries of despair of the population could begin to be heard as my men entered house by house killing all the citizens.
''ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha''' I began to laugh.
Finally, one man gathered the courage to speak to me.
''What's going to happen to us'' said a fat bald man.
''hahaha what do you think is going to happen to you'', I said while holding back my laughter
''we have gold, we can pay our ransom'' said the horrified man.
Many others played along with the ransom.
''Well, I think a ransom would be acceptable'' I said seriously.
The faces of the men and women calmed down as they heard my words
''hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha'' I started laughing again
''you seriously thought I'm going to spare you, you're all going to die here you scum, you heathens no one will get out alive hahahahahahahahahaha'' I said flashing my smile
while I delighted in the sounds of desperation of the heathens I quickly led them to the courtyard, all the men and women
we waited for a while and some soldiers brought shovels and I started to give them to my prisoners.
''What are we going to do with this'' said one of the men in fear.
''Isn't it obvious, dig your own grave'' I said, smiling.
They shouted, they begged, they cried, but nothing helped, I have no mercy on the heathen.
While my men threatened the prisoners to continue digging their graves I paid close attention to the envoy, as with him, it was not my religious duty it was a personal one
I watched him every moment as he dug out earth to make his grave bigger, for a few moments he begged me to at least spare his wife, but I just kept pointing out to him to keep on digging.
So, for 30 minutes until the hole was big enough for one person.
We started to kill our prisoners and throw them into their graves, but with the envoy, it was different.
I killed his wife in front of him, breaking her neck with my own hands, and forced him to bury her.
In the end, he was so destroyed that I decided to give him the mercy of God, since he showed no feelings and it was no fun.
Finishing my duty, I returned to the hall to observe through the balcony how the streets of this city accumulated the blood and the bodies of the pagans.
Well done lothar, one step closer to earning my king's forgiveness.
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