Bradford came up with a sinister plan.
Pretend to agree to Norris’s condition of giving up resistance, then go back on his word and kill him.
Lambert was somewhat tempted by this plan, but ultimately refused to do it.
Indeed, as Bradford said, doing so will save a lot of energy, at least there will be no need to fight. In the case of a hard attack, thousands of people, even ordinary workers, would be armed and basically only equipped with light weapons. But after all, they were holding on to the fortified factory. If you want to conquer it, you need to put in some effort. Even need to bear a lot of casualties.
But Lambert still plans to do it.
The main reason is that he does not want Gu Hang to be known as a treacherous person.
In private, any means is acceptable, but on the surface, as a ruler, credibility is very important, and it even represents credibility in a sense and whether the policy is easily believed by the people.
In this case, you have to pretend to be aboveboard.
Being clever here may indeed save a lot of effort in solving Norris's problem, but the price of taking shortcuts at this moment may be doubled from other places.
After making this decision, he also used it to mock Bradford, saying that he could only be a businessman in his life and would never understand the structure of politicians who do great things.
Bradford was speechless.
Lambert’s actions also received additional support.
He mobilized two infantry battalions that followed the governor into the city, and also pulled out a dozen heavy cannons from the captured military weapons, and made a gesture of storming.
Norris sent an envoy to discuss the terms of surrender, but was once again sternly rejected by Lambert.
Lambert asked all those who resisted in the factory to surrender unconditionally, lay down their weapons, and await the trial of the Governor.
It was an ultimatum, and Lambert would only give them an hour.
The news was brought back to the factory by the messenger, and the people inside were silent.
After an hour, no one came out to surrender, and Lambert ordered the war to begin.
Drawed in by him to help Purbov, he ordered his 2nd Battalion to start playing with the newly acquired big toys.
Those were five 155mm howitzers; the 6th Battalion next door, which was brought in to work together, also had five captured artillery pieces as battalion firepower.
Ten heavy cannons opened fire in unison, and shells were fired into the factory one after another.
With one volley, black smoke billowed out of the factory.
The governor's soldiers did not rush inside.
When the enemy is completely surrounded, it would be a fool not to make good use of the heavy artillery, but to use the lives of soldiers to fill it. Anyway, there are a lot of artillery shells in stock. The ten artillery pieces will fire a dozen or twenty rounds first. After hundreds of rounds of heavy artillery are finished, let's talk about the infantry going in to clear them up.
During this process, Lambert also received additional assistance.
Sister Gerrit came here with six nuns.
This was not the first time Lambert had met the Sisters of the Lily of Mercy.
To be honest, he prefers these battle nuns who always have gentle smiles on their faces compared to the phoenixes who have dark faces all day long and look like they should not let strangers in.
Although there is a war, these nuns are still ruthless.
However, since we have seen each other before, this was the first time for us to communicate, and Lambert seemed a little cautious.
"Nice to meet you, Your Excellency, Mother Superior, thank you very much for coming to help us."
Gerrit said, "You're welcome, we are all working for the empire." And fight. Mr. Lambert, I have heard about what happened to your family, and I am sorry that this happened to you."
"Thank you, though. , he should be tracking down the traces of cults in the city. How come he has time to participate in the battle here in the factory?"
Gerrit responded, "There is evil hidden in this factory. Moreover, the activities of the cultists may be related to it. It’s related to the disaster that happened to your Hodgson family.”
Lambert immediately took it seriously.
"Can you tell me?"
"It's okay."
Then, the head nun told Lambert, the descendant of the victim, in more detail. recounts her discoveries during this time.
She went to investigate the death scene of old Hodgson and found the remnants of heresy in the Hodgson family mansion.
Thus, she believed that heretics were involved in the assassination of old Hodgson.
The other sisters went to investigate other clues, and she came here with six people.
At first, the mastermind who planned to assassinate Hodgson was Mondoc, but that man was already dead; the remaining two participants were both here, and she came here to understand the situation.
After learning about this, Lambert immediately dragged Bradford out.
When this guy disclosed the details about the death of Old Hodgson before, he never mentioned anything about a cult.
And Bradford was also confused after hearing the head nun's inquiry.
He doesn’t know
He didn’t lie, he has reached this point, and he is working hard to survive and seek a possible commutation of his sentence. Regarding the cult, if he knew about it, how could he help the cult members hide it? He was eager to sell out all those guys with bad brains.
But he really didn’t know about it. The assassination incident was the mastermind of Mondoc. Bradford only participated in the aftermath and carve-up operations. He had no control over how the assassination was carried out.
In his opinion, it is not difficult for Mondoc, a guy who has mastered the military power of the Alliance, to do this.
This is indeed the case. The Hodgson family left their home one night.His mansion disappeared.
After confirming that Bradford was indeed not lying, and that there was indeed no aura related to a cult found on his body, the head nun let him go.
Then she set her sights on the factory area in front of her that was still being bombarded by artillery fire.
There, there was the last plotter involved in the Hodgson assassination, that is, Old Norris.
In the factory, she could feel the fluctuations of the evil energy of the storm.
That is heretical sorcery energy. Extraordinary power that does not believe in the God-Emperor, but comes from praying to others, is considered heretical in the eyes of the state religion.
Even some radicals believe that spontaneously generated psykers are heretics, and that there should be no legal psykers in this world.
These extremists are usually accused of being heretics by the Imperial Spiritual Society. War of words between the two sides are commonplace, and even physical destruction of each other is common.
Saint Mercy Lily is not that kind of extremist, otherwise the first person they would be hostile to would be the Governor himself.
It’s just that members of the state religion, no matter what faction, will deeply hate the extraordinary energy that comes from other extraordinary creatures, through the connection of faith, and through heretical rituals.
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