Chapter 157 Interrogation
Chapter 157 The Interrogation
Duke Dodge’s three men walked above the corridor in silence, their faces grave.
“Lord Duke!”
The one who spoke was Lester.
“I request to personally patrol the outside of the fortress, so I can also check and verify what the scout said. As far as his description goes, ordinary soldiers can’t deal with that kind of situation.”
Duke Dodge pondered for a while and said, “It’s better to listen to the reports from the other scouts.”
During the next day, the Duke gathered the reports from several consecutive batches of scouts who had gone out to scout, however, he didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, and among them, there were also people who had fought with the rebel scouts but hadn’t encountered the kind of situation that happened last night.
It seemed …… that what the injured scouts had encountered was merely an isolated case? Or was he lying?
After much consideration, he agreed to Viscount Lester’s request and allowed him to lead the elite scouts under his command out to participate in patrols.
Before this, they had made a “tacit agreement” with the rebels not to enter each other’s guard range, but last night’s situation, the rebel side clearly broke the “tacit agreement”, which may mean that they have to make some changes to the status quo.
……
Not far south of the Thorn Fortress is a small town, but the original appearance is no longer visible.
The periphery of the town was built up a high and thick stone wall, covered with all kinds of fortifications, the periphery of the stone wall dug a deep ditch, the bottom of the ditch was densely inserted with wooden thorns, if someone fell into the ditch inadvertently, then it is absolutely impossible to live.
From time to time, we can see heavily armed patrol soldiers walking back and forth on top of the stone wall, they are vigilantly looking at the north, not daring to have the slightest slackness.
This place had been transformed into a small fortress by the rebels.
Originally, the place where they were stationed was a bit further north and closer to the Thorn Fortress, and this part of the rebels had no intention of attacking the Thorn Fortress because the task that Archduke Giles had given them was merely to keep an eye on the kingdom’s army in the Thorn Fortress and not to let them come out and run around.
However, one night, a small group of troops suddenly came out from the fortress, and after successfully taking out the sentries in the corner of the camp, they quietly touched in, and then they started to set fires everywhere, which caused a lot of chaos.
Luckily, the opposing force was small in number and was quickly forced back by the spontaneous counterattacks of the soldiers, but the fires and resulting panic caused the entire camp to toss and turn for the rest of the night.
When the news of this disgraceful incident reached the ears of the “Greedy Wolf”, the Grand Duke was furious and immediately appointed a new general to take over the troops.
The general who took over the rebel army – called the “Southern Army” in their own name – was named Samar, one of Giles’s strongest generals.
When Samar received his appointment, many of his peers felt sorry for him, as the Confederates were in the process of cleaning up after the lords who had disobeyed Archduke Jarls, and Samar took on the job of “caretaker,” which meant that he would have fewer chances to make a name for himself in battle.
But Samar is secretly happy, he has long seen, Giles Archduke sooner or later to swing north, even if the Archduke does not go north, the royal army will also have to go south, so he stared at the thorns of the fortress in all probability is the vanguard of the first line, then to deal with the enemy is not the south of the small shrimp, naturally, the opportunity to make war will also continue to appear.
After Samar arrived, in view of the original garrison is too close to the fortress, and just after a sneak attack on the morale is low, he ordered the whole army to move south to the current town, and enlisted a large number of local labor, the town into a semi-permanent simple fortress.
Anyway, the mission at this stage wasn’t offensive, so it was time to put more effort into defense.
At this moment, in a dungeon in this fortress, an inhumane interrogation was underway ……
“Say it or not?”
Accompanied by an intimidating roar, the loud sound of a leather whip resounded in the dungeon again and again.
A captive was tied up and hung in mid-air, the whip dipped in salt water viciously beating on his body.
If the badly wounded scout from the Fortress of Thorns had been here, he would have been able to recognize that the beaten man was one of his own companions, several of whom had been captured by the rebels that night.
Apparently, the Confederates wanted to extract some information from these few “tongues”, and could not stop torturing them, and the fabricated false information did not seem to be able to fool them …….
Captured with the willpower to survive the torture of the enemy, this plot generally only exists in the novels and plays, the reality can not be said to be no, but it is very rare.
Even if they are ready to sacrifice, holding the consciousness of giving up their lives, but also can not survive a variety of interrogation methods, so that people can not live, can not die method is too much.
Whether or not a person has been trained in anti-torture confession, as long as it is flesh and blood, will be afraid of pain and pain.
In addition to the physical aspect, there were also various infamous means of mental torture, and this was the one that destroyed the most willpower, and no matter what kind of highly trained spies and warriors they were, they could not carry it off. So, once you are a captive, you will more or less confess.
In order to cope with the forced confessions after being captured, the captives would make the enemy believe by providing false information or half-truths, and the real part of the information often did not affect the overall situation or was already outdated, and at this time, whether it was leaked or not did not matter.
The captured scout opened his eyes morosely and said in a hoarse voice, “The things I know have all been confessed, and I really don t know …… anything else!”
The loud sound of the whip sounded once again, and the other party obviously did not believe his words.
As a scout with a high probability of being captured, he naturally had a lot of information in his head to cope with the current situation, so after the interrogation began, he pretended to “prefer death to submission” and received a few lashes, and then one after another told the information he had prepared one by one.
Then he could only pray for the mercy of the interrogator, generally speaking, after the interrogator felt that the value of the captive had almost been drained, he would either give the other party a good time or escort him to the rear to do hard labor, the probability of encountering that kind of perverts who specialized in torturing people was still very low.
Of course, a qualified interrogator will not believe that all the information given by the captive is true, but from the large amount of information that is both true and false, carefully picking out the useful parts, that is another set of technical work.
In this case, the interrogator in front of him just didn’t believe that he had finished his sentence.
The tall and visually intimidating interrogator cupped the captive’s chin and slightly raised his head to meet his eyes.
“I’m going to tell you one more time! Tell me what you haven’t told me yet!”
“My lord …… I …… really …… don’t …… really …… know anything else! Ah……”
The captive screamed in his heart: this is the fifth confirmation, and it’s almost over, isn’t it?
Situations like the fortress is empty of troops, he does not dare to say it, once the rebels know about it, they may immediately organize an attack, not to mention the army brethren who usually eat in a pot, his own wife and children live in the Duke of Dodge’s territory.
This era, bandits over like a comb, soldiers over like a grate, especially with the Dodge family and the Giles family’s old grudge, the Dodge territory’s common people’s downfall can be imagined, and the army under Giles is even more notoriously bad, although the world’s crows are as black as the crows, there are always one or two crows that are blacker than the other crows.
The inquisitor turned his questioning gaze to the other side of the room, where a man sat, wrapping himself under a cloak so that he could not see his face in the hood.
“Hmph!”
The cloaked man laughed twice sorrowfully.
“He’s lying!”
“There must be something he hasn’t accounted for!”
The words that made the captive cold through his whole body came out from the mouth of the cloaked man, how could that guy judge that he was lying, he thought that the information that he had explained before was seamless, and as a bottom scout himself, it was only natural that he knew limited information.
Seemingly sensing the captive’s doubts, the cloaked man stood up and slowly walked to the captive’s side.
“You must be wondering, time and time again, why I’m so sure you’re lying, right?”
The cloaked man slowly raised his head, and the captive got a good look at his face; the likeness was nothing out of the ordinary, but the key was the eyes ……
His pupils were glowing, they were literally glowing!
Not mapping the light of the torches next to him, but the pupils themselves were the source of light!
“Because ……”
As he spoke, the cloaked man’s pupils seemed to get brighter and brighter.
“I can see the color of your mind ah ……”
(End of chapter)