Chapter 157 Interrogation

Duke Dodge and his two companions walked silently in the corridor, their faces solemn.

"My Lord Duke!"

The speaker was Lester.

"I request to patrol outside the fortress in person, so as to check and verify the situation described by the scout. According to his description, ordinary soldiers cannot deal with such a situation."

Duke Dodge thought for a while and said, "Let's listen to the reports of other scouts first."

In the following day, the Duke collected reports from several consecutive groups of scouts who went out for reconnaissance, but he did not find anything unusual. Some of them had fought with the rebel scouts, but they had not encountered the situation last night.

It seems...what the injured scout encountered was just an isolated case? Or was he lying?

After thinking it over and over again, he agreed to Viscount Lester's request and allowed him to lead his elite scouts to participate in the patrol.

Before this, they and the rebels had reached a "tacit understanding" that neither of them would enter the other's alert range. In the situation last night, the rebels obviously broke the "tacit understanding", which may mean that they have to make some changes to the status quo.

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There is a small town not far to the south of the Thorn Fortress, but now it can no longer be seen in its original appearance.

A high and thick stone wall was built around the town, covered with various fortifications. A deep ditch was dug around the stone wall, and the bottom of the ditch was filled with dense wooden thorns. If someone accidentally fell into the ditch, he would definitely not survive.

From time to time, fully armed patrols could be seen walking back and forth on the stone wall. They looked vigilantly at the north and did not dare to relax at all.

This place has been transformed into a small fortress by the rebels.

Originally, their station was further north and closer to the Thorn Fortress. This part of the rebels had no intention of attacking the Thorn Fortress, because the task given to them by Grand Duke Giles was only to keep an eye on the Kingdom Army of the Thorn Fortress and not let them run around.

However, one night, a small group of troops suddenly rushed out of the fortress. After successfully killing the sentries and sentries in a corner of the camp, they sneaked in. Then they started setting fires everywhere, causing great chaos.

Fortunately, the enemy was not numerous and was soon forced back by the spontaneous counterattack of the soldiers, but the fire and the resulting panic caused the entire camp to toss and turn for the whole night.

When such a shameful thing happened and it reached the ears of "Gan Lang", the Grand Duke was furious and immediately appointed a new general to take over the army.

The general who took over this rebel army - called "Southern Army" by their own name - was named Samar, a fierce general under Giles.

When Samar received the appointment, many colleagues felt sorry for him, because at that time the Southern Army was cleaning up those lords who did not obey Grand Duke Giles. Samar took such a "guard" job, and he had fewer opportunities to make military merits.

But Samar was secretly happy. He had long seen that Grand Duke Giles would sooner or later march north. Even if the Grand Duke did not go north, the royal army would go south. Then he, who was eyeing the Thorn Fortress, would most likely be the vanguard. At that time, the enemies to be dealt with were not the small shrimps in the south. Naturally, opportunities to make military achievements would continue to appear.

After Samar took office, considering that the original garrison was too close to the fortress and the morale was low after being attacked, he ordered the entire army to move south to the current town and recruited a large number of local laborers to turn the town into a semi-permanent simple fortress.

Anyway, the current mission is not offensive, so we have to work harder on defense.

At this moment, in a dungeon in this fortress, an inhumane interrogation is taking place...

"Speak or not?"

Accompanied by the threatening roar, the loud sound of whips rang out in the dungeon again and again.

A prisoner was tied and hung in the air, and a whip dipped in salt water was whipping him hard.

If the seriously injured scout in the Thorn Fortress was here, he would definitely recognize that the beaten man was one of his companions. Several people were captured by the rebels that night.

Obviously, the Southern Army wanted to get some information from these "tongues" and tortured them continuously. Moreover, the fabricated false information seemed to be unable to fool them...

After being captured, relying on willpower to survive the enemy's torture, this kind of plot generally only exists in novels and dramas. It cannot be said that it does not exist in reality, but it rarely appears.

Even if you are ready to sacrifice and have the awareness of giving up your life, you can't stand all kinds of interrogation methods. There are too many ways to make people want to live or die.

Regardless of whether a person has received anti-torture training, as long as he is flesh and blood, he will be afraid of pain.

In addition to the physical aspect, there are also various notorious mental torture methods, which are the most destructive to willpower. No matter what kind of strictly trained spies and soldiers are, they can't stand it.

Therefore, once they are captured, they will confess more or less.

In order to deal with the forced confession after being captured, the prisoners will provide false or half-true intelligence to make the enemy believe it. The real part of the intelligence often does not affect the overall situation or is outdated. At this time, it doesn't matter whether it is leaked or not.

The captured scout opened his eyes with his dying breath and said hoarsely: "I have confessed everything I know, and I really don't know anything else...ah!"

The loud sound of the whip sounded again, and the other party obviously did not believe what he said.

As a scout with a high possibility of being captured, he was naturally always prepared with a lot of information in his head to deal with the current situation. Therefore, after the interrogation began, he pretended to "rather die than surrender" and received a few whips. He told the prepared information one by one.

Then one can only pray for the mercy of the interrogator. Generally speaking, after the interrogator feels that the value of the prisoner has been squeezed out, he will either give the prisoner a good time, or send him to the rear to do hard labor. When encountering someone who likes torture, The probability of human abnormality is still very low.

Of course, a qualified interrogator will definitely not believe that the information given by the prisoner is true. However, if you peel off the cocoons from a large amount of information that is both true and false, and carefully pick out the useful parts, that is another set of techniques. .

In this situation, the interrogator in front of him just didn't believe that he had finished speaking.

The interrogator, who was tall and very visually intimidating, grabbed the prisoner's chin and slightly raised the prisoner's head so that he was eye-to-eye with him.

"I'll tell you again! Tell me what you haven't explained yet!"

There is no mistake. One post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, one read!

"Sir...I...really...really...don't know anything else..."

The prisoner groaned in his heart: This is already the fifth confirmation, is it almost over?

He didn't dare to say anything about the situation like the fortress being empty. Once the rebels knew about it, they might immediately organize an attack. Not to mention the brothers in the army who usually eat in the same pot, his own wife, children and children also live in the same pot. In Duke Dodge's domain.

In this era, bandits are like combs and soldiers are like grates. Especially with the feud between the Dodge family and the Giles family, the fate of the common people led by Dodge can be imagined, and the army under Giles is even more notoriously bad. , although all crows in the world are generally black, there are always one or two crows that are darker than others.

The interrogator cast his questioning eyes to the other side, where a man sat. He was wrapped in a cloak, and his face could not be seen in the hood.

"Hmph!"

The man in the cloak laughed sinisterly.

"He's lying!"

"He must have something he hasn't confessed yet!"

The words that sent chills through the prisoner's body came out of the cloaked man's mouth. How could that guy tell that he was lying? He thought to himself that the information he had given before was perfect, and as a low-level scout, he knew It is natural that the information is limited.

As if aware of the prisoner's doubts, the cloaked man stood up and slowly walked to the prisoner's side.

"You must be wondering, over and over again, how I'm so sure you're lying?"

The cloaked man slowly raised his head, and the prisoner could see his face clearly. There was nothing surprising about his appearance, but the key was his eyes...

His pupils are shining, they are really shining!

It’s not reflecting the light from the torch next to it, but the pupil itself is the light source!

"because……"

As he spoke, the cloaked man's pupils seemed to become brighter and brighter.

"I can see the color of your soul..."