There is no cheat code for reincarnation? Then I will create one myself!
Chapter 74: The Battle of Shita Mountain (9)
This situation can be said to be unexpected but reasonable.
Shuichi had played games and watched anime in his previous life, and knew that in "Goblin Slayer" there was a plot where goblins used human women as shields.
But the goblins there are all specialized demons, and they have been fighting with humans for many years, so it is normal for them to know some weaknesses of human nature.
But the goblins in this world should... no... maybe the goblins have been multiplying outside for a long time.
It’s just that these guys are so good at hiding, so many people don’t know about it.
Damn it, damn it...what should I do now...
Should I order the killing of all the people, or should I prioritize saving them? No matter how I think about it, it's a dilemma.
The dilemma for Xiuyi is that, as the heir to the Viscount of Hocas, the woman in front of him is his subject.
If he gave the order to kill now, he would be blamed by his subjects even if he won.
Such hatred will be detrimental to his future rule.
In addition, Xiuyi's nature is biased towards goodness.
Seeing so many people suffering, it would be fine if he couldn't save them, but he actually ordered them to be beheaded... It's really too cruel...
He couldn't get over it either.
When the superior is in a dilemma, he needs subordinates who specialize in doing dirty work to step in and take over.
However...the soldiers began to riot.
"That seems to be my cousin who married to the next village... She went back to her parents' home for a few days three months ago, and then mysteriously disappeared when she returned to her husband's home... We searched for a long time but couldn't find her, and we thought she ran away with a strange man..."
"Sister!? Is that you, sister!??"
"Daughter!? I think I saw my daughter..."
When the goblin team advanced to more than fifty meters away from the hedgehog formation, the goblins stopped advancing and drove some women to the front of the two armies.
Because of this, the soldiers were able to see the women's appearance clearly.
As expected, some of the women were recognized on the spot and were indeed relatives of some missing soldiers.
The Goblin King's plan worked, and the soldiers were in great disarray.
If the goblins did not understand human language very well, they would probably try to persuade the soldiers to surrender or even defect.
Even though Xiuyi knew that killing both the woman and the goblin was the best option at this moment...but...for both public and private reasons, he could not give such an order.
Xiuyi instinctively turned his gaze towards Brother Slayer.
It is true that Goblin Slayer is an expert in dealing with goblins...but in the current situation, what can even an expert do?
Goblins just have lower IQs than humans, but not all of them are idiots.
The wise among them know clearly what to do and when.
If we must find some areas where goblins are better than humans, it is probably that the stupid goblins know that their brains are not working well, so they are willing to listen to the opinions of the more intelligent goblins.
As for human beings... those who are self-aware are always only a minority.
Faced with this situation, Goblin Slayer had no choice.
Just when Goslayer was about to tell Shuichi not to hesitate and order an indiscriminate attack, Baudelaire drew his sword and chopped down a spearman who was impulsively disrupting the formation.
The spearman was about thirty years old. When he saw the goblin using his daughter, who had been missing for four months, as a shield, he was so excited that he rushed forward to save her regardless of everything.
However, as the leader of the Hedgehog Formation, his willful behavior would not only undermine the stability of the formation, but also cause other soldiers to lose their minds...
If the hedgehog formation collapses on its own, then let alone saving people, once the goblins launch a charge, even Xiuyi’s life will be in danger in the chaos.
So Baudelaire drew his sword and cut off the signs of chaos.
"All soldiers, listen up! Hold your formation!"
"Sir Knight! My sister is across the street... I want to save her..."
"My sister..."
"My daughter..."
Killing the chicken to scare the monkey was not without effect. At least the soldiers who were gradually losing their reason were not as impulsive as before.
But they still cannot ignore their loved ones who are so close to them.
What's worse, some people looked at Baudelaire with eyes full of hatred.
They found Baudelaire inhuman and hateful.
Although everyone knows that there is no logic on the battlefield, as a commander, you should at least make a rescue attempt, right?
We are forced to watch our loved ones die without even a single attempt... We are soldiers, and it is our duty to obey orders.
It is true that we joined the lord's army to make money, but isn't the original purpose of making money to support our families?
You want us to remain indifferent while watching our families suffer right before our eyes... We... junior soldiers are also flesh and blood people...
The soldiers' repeated pleas were like blunt knives cutting Baudelaire's body.
As a knight who had received orthodox warfare education, how could Baudelaire not understand these?
But the Goblin King’s IQ is already so high. If he lets the soldiers act recklessly... won’t they fall into his trap?
As the commander of the army, he cannot act on impulse.
In the distance, the Goblin King was sitting on a huge sedan chair carried by eight big goblins. He wore an ugly golden crown on his head and a red robe on his body. He tilted his head with smugness to look at the joke of humans.
Seeing that the human soldiers and the commander were on the verge of a fight and that it looked like a fight might break out at any time, the Goblin King not only did not order a charge, but instead ordered the goblins escorting the women to retreat a distance.
Even the woman who was pushed forward to serve as a shield was pulled back.
Now that it has been confirmed that these women can be used to threaten humans, then... there are many areas where we can operate.
What's more, humans are currently in internal strife, and attacking at this time may actually allow them to unite again.
It would be better to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.
Anyway, in theory, this trick is very unsolvable for humans, unless humans have no emotions.
The Goblin King leaned leisurely to the left, his face resting on his left hand, with the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a row of sharp yellow teeth.
A blonde woman in her thirties, wearing ragged red cloth that could not cover her important parts at all, led a blonde girl who was also prickly and sloppy, no more than sixteen years old, but pregnant, away from the main group.
The two of them moved towards the human camp step by step as if they had no souls.
The two goblins in charge pulled the ropes in their hands hard to make the hemp ropes straight.
The woman and the girl felt the tug on their necks, their heads tilted back, their bodies lost balance, and they fell to the ground in a mess.
Just when the two goblins were about to forcibly drag the two mentally ill women back to the team, the beautiful older woman started yelling at the human camp like crazy.
Her right hand tightly grasped the girl's wrist, and her left hand desperately clawed at the ground. She crawled desperately, using the last bit of her soul's strength to wrestle with the goblin.
After a while, her fingers were worn out, leaving bloody streaks on the dirt and gravel.
She opened her mouth, but no normal sound came out for a long time.
She seemed to have forgotten how to speak, and her initial voice was hoarse and unpleasant.
But after more than ten seconds, she finally remembered the human language.
"Bo...d...Lair...Bo...Lair...Bo...Lair!!!"
Baudelaire, who was dealing with the soldiers' anger, was stunned when he heard the woman's cry from the end of the world.
The soldiers were also stunned.
This voice was familiar to Baudelaire, and he heard it countless times every night.
The beautiful scenes of the past emerged in my mind...
Yes, it was his wife, she was still alive...
The noise made by the woman was so loud that not only Baudelaire, but everyone subconsciously looked over.
Then they heard the woman shouting "Baudelaire" over and over again.
No matter how the goblin behind her kicked and hit her, she refused to give up and moved towards the human camp, crawling... like a maggot...
Perhaps the name "Baudelaire" was too profound, and the pregnant girl whose wrist was tightly grasped by the woman also moved.
The blonde girl, who had to lie on her side on the ground because her belly was too big, suddenly looked up and miraculously saw a familiar suit of armor that should have only appeared in dreams.
She suddenly burst into tears and the expression on her face changed from numbness to surprise.
She supported herself with both hands and lay on the ground, like a dog begging for food: "Dad... Dad... save me... Dad..."
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