In fact, after being ambushed and losing the queen, Mr.
Stephen did not completely collapse as Char expected.
After all, although he is a guy with mediocre talents, he is at least from the Central Army of the Empire, and has experienced the invasion of the Odin people in the south, and has experienced the main force of the Seventh Corps being completely annihilated by the Odin Chixue Army, and has followed the remnants all the way to the most dangerous desperate situation.
Therefore, after the team crossed the river and lost the queen, Stephen, who suffered a huge blow, was actually decadent for only one night, and before dawn, he had already regained his strength.
Although his eyes were full of despair.
"Gather all the cavalry, all disperse, and search along the river upstream and downstream" Stephen gritted his teeth, he had already felt the strangeness of this ambush, he had just gone to the burning woods, although the fire had been extinguished, but from the remaining traces, it seemed that there had been no ambush here, from the horseshoe marks outside the woods, the horseshoe marks were also very rare, and the people who ambushed themselves were probably only a few or even one The other party dared to ambush his team of more than a thousand people here in the dark of night, and took advantage of his own crossing of the river, set fire to the woods, and then attacked with bows and arrows, confusing himself.
As for the arrows flying out of the woods, they were all clear, and there were some things left in the woods, and some small crossbow arrows were set up on the branches of some trees, and they were all connected in series with thin iron cables.
Obviously, the number of the other party is indeed not much, when ambushing himself, the dense rain of arrows is just an illusion made by the other party using this kind of mechanism: suppose that more than ten bows and crossbows are good, connected with ropes, and the crossbow arrows are wound, and then as long as the control rope is pulled, more than ten crossbow arrows will be fired together, and from the crossbow arrows that were picked up by the river bank later, the arrows have been dulled, obviously the other party's intention is just to confuse, and does not want to pursue killing.
Judging from these various traces, the other party is definitely not a local rebel force, and even more like those lone thieves who crisscross the mountains and fields.
What made Stephen feel ashamed was that during the ambush, the cavalry under his own command appeared deserters, and dozens of horsemen escaped, but in the end they were chased back by those elite horse thief cavalry.
Looking at the deserters who were tied up and thrown to the ground, Stephen's face burned.
He knows very well the origin of the hundred elite cavalry in the team, these regular troops have always looked down on their miscellaneous second-line garrisons, which makes him even more humiliated, you know, he Lord Stephen, in the past, was the real Central Army of the Empire, the real regular army Annoyed, he immediately wanted to order the execution of the deserters, but the hundred horsemen refused to carry out the order.
Stephen, who had nowhere to vent his anger, could only whip the deserters with his own horsewhip.
The team sent out to search ran outside for a day and a night, and the disappointing news brought by the people who came back one after another finally erased the little hope left in Stephen's heart.
One of the teams was the closest to success, tracking Char's horseshoe mark, which disappeared after entering a mountain forest and passing through a small muddy semi-swampy area.
After that, there is a vast mountain forest, which stretches out for only dozens of miles If you want to search such a huge mountain forest, I am afraid that even if tens of thousands of people are mobilized to close the mountain and search, you will not be able to do it in a few months, not to mention that you only have a thousand people under your command, and they are still in the enemy-occupied area The queen can't be found Stephen finally had to face this fact in his heart, and then he began to rack his brains to find a way out for himself He was very reluctant to return to the northern garrison.
He has not been able to integrate into the group of the Northern Garrison, and it is obvious that General Char does not want to see himself, a Central Army officer with a background from Yanjing.
What's more, he lost the queen, which is equivalent to the failure of the mission, and after he goes back, that General Char Thundering has enough reasons to dispose of himself If nothing else, just the loss of the queen is enough to hang yourself If he were replaced by other Xia Ya Leiming's henchmen and generals, maybe he would still be able to open the net, but he would not receive that kind of treatment, even if he was not stupid, at least he knew that General Xia Ya Leiming had been committed to diluting the imprint of the original Central Army in the Northern Army since its establishment He will never let go of such a high-sounding opportunity to erase himself as a member of the old force of the Central Army.
As for the idea of going to Osgilia, the thought was very tempting to Stephen.
I have come here, and I have left the sphere of influence of the Northern Army.
Further south, there is a great chance that you will be able to return to Yanjing.
But he lost the queen and returned to Yanjing, which is also a capital crime Going back to the north is death, and going to Yanjing is also death, and Stephen grabbed his hair anxiously.
In desperation, he came up with a last resort.
Go back to Yanjing, but you must bring this army back Although Stephen's talent is average, he is from an aristocratic family, and his vision is naturally unusual.
He knows very well that in troubled times, whoever has military power will be the greatest Now Yanjing is preparing for battle, preparing to start a counteroffensive against the rebels.
But the power of the royal family had been greatly weakened after the previous rebellion and the invasion of the Odins, and even General Adric had to draw those second- and even third-tier local garrisons from the south of the empire, which were simply a group of peasants who had only received a little basic military training and hurriedly took their weapons.
The lack of troops, especially the real warlike ones, is now the biggest weakness of the Imperial Center.
If you can pull this army of thousands of people in your hand to Yanjing, then when the time comes, you will support the army to protect yourself, coupled with the actions of Yanjing's family, take the door, and maybe you can earn a way out, even if you transfer yourself to the south and return to the family's territory to become an official, it is also a way out The army of more than 1,000 people, if it was changed a year or two ago, would not have the qualifications to negotiate terms with the empire at all, but now the troops in Yanjing are tense, and I haven't heard that Xia Ya Lei Ming went south to King Qin, and he just brought 3,000 cavalry over, so it shocked Yanjing and the nobles did not dare to move His own army consisted of fifteen hundred, including five hundred cavalrymen It shouldn't be too difficult to use the army as a bargaining chip and rely on it to save your own life.
Stephen looked gloomily at the infantry resting by the river.
The ranks were filled with uneasiness.
Being a soldier is not a fool, losing the queen is equivalent to a complete failure of the mission, and what a big sin it is to lose the queen, where will people with a little bit of brains not understand What's more, there was an ambush last night, and now the team is not advancing or retreating, and they are still staying in place to repair and explore around, aren't they afraid that the local rebel forces will hear the news and send troops over to encircle and suppress it?
Almost everyone, from officers to soldiers, had a look of trepidation and trepidation in their eyes.
The only thing that seemed a little different was the elite cavalry from a hundred horse thieves.
For such a big crime as losing the queen, it may be fearful to put it on others, but for these rebellious horse thieves, it is a bird In the hearts of the horse thieves, even if they have now been subordinated to the official and incorporated into the regular army of the northern part of the empire, the banditry in their bones cannot be erased in such a short period of time.
In the eyes of the horse thieves, the eldest in this world, Uncle Char and Miss Nene are the second, and the rest of the people are the oldest.
What queen hair If you lose it, you lose it, isn't it just a woman?
This mission is really a bit inexplicable, everyone marched hard, in order to escort a woman to come here, it was too humiliating in the hearts of these elite cavalrymen to attack at night last night If it weren't for the fact that Commander Stephen was too hasty and rushed all the way, he would have been ambushed Moreover, his soldiers were too, and the hundreds of people who crossed the river were caught off guard by the ambush of others, and they couldn't even resist, and they snatched the queen away in a daze.
It's just a waste to the house.
But that's okay, the task is over, and then, just roll up the cover and go back to your hometown in the north, and stay here for a fart Unlike Stephen's fantasies, these horse thieves are used to this kind of ambush robbery.
Last night's incident, in the eyes of these veterans, they knew it at a glance, and someone definitely set the distance of their team, and waited on the bank of the Onyx River, ready to ambush them.
There is no intention of mental calculation, plus your own team is too pustuated, and the commander is also a mediocre person, so there is no need to think about the ending at all.
This Stephen still wants to stay here, and sending people around to search is a waste of time.
These horse thieves who used to specialize in this line of food are all veterans who are proficient in this way.
In this line of trading, the emphasis is on rushing up, and after you get your hands in a hurry, you will immediately run away thousands of miles, and then lie dormant, and you don't even want to catch one If you don't wait for the rumors to pass, these guys will never show their heads And since they have carefully prepared this ambush, they have naturally arranged the retreat route a long time ago, and once they succeed, they will immediately retreat safely.
In that case, let's hurry up and go back to the errand as soon as possible.
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Anyway, these horse thieves are not afraid to go back to collect punishments, and the commander of this trip is Stephen, so naturally he has a top tank.
Besides, who are we, we are Aunt Char's henchmen, and we are the first team to defect to the Northern Army, an old subordinate of Miss Nene, as soon as it was established, no matter how good my uncle is, he will not turn his elbow outward.
In this way, the horse thieves waited patiently for a day, and it was not until the next evening, when all the search party returned, that they finally thought that Stephen had made a request.
"Why do you want to go to Yanjing?"
Several officers of the horse thief cavalry shouted in unison after they heard Stephen's words after they heard Stephen's words.
At that time, there was a horse thief leader who shouted: "Your brain is broken, go to Yanjing, we are the Northern Army, since the mission has failed, this matter is over, naturally go back to the north to go to Yanjing."
Stephen's face turned pale, and he said slowly in a deep voice: "Our trip is to escort Her Royal Highness the Empress back to Yanjing, and if we lose Her Highness halfway, the task will not be completed, we must go to Yanjing to overlay our lives, and then we can organize an army to rescue Your Highness, how can we go back to Denzel City."
The horse thieves stopped doing it, and they all made a noise, and some of them pointed directly at Stephen's nose and scolded: "What queen do you want to rescue, then you kid will go by yourself, Lao Tzu doesn't have the time to accompany the territory of his mother's rebels, there are no people, and you can rescue a fart, if you have the ability, let Yanjing send an army of 100,000 to sweep away the rebels and rescue that queen, let's just have a thousand people, but I am not interested in getting involved in this kind of thing."
Stephen's face was gloomy, but he had already pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife, and said coldly: "I am the commander of this trip, what I said is that the military order is not completed yet, and now the task has not been completed, you can't go back, you can't rescue the queen back to Yanjing, no one is allowed to leave, otherwise I will be sentenced to the crime of desertion, and the whole army will be drawn out, continue to go south, go to Yanjing to report the situation here, and then organize the rescue."
"Camp your sister" A horse thief spat at the mouth, and then pointed up the middle of a finger at Stephen disdainfully.
There was a hint of murder in Stephen's eyes.
He also made some preparations, and if he wanted to continue to bring these troops to the south, these were either his own cavalry, or the biggest obstacle.
The other more than 1,000 people were all led by themselves before, and naturally they also had their own henchmen among them.
But these 100 cavalry are not their own subordinates, they are all elites loyal to Char's lineage, if they refuse to go to Yanjing, they really can't command them.
When it came to the occasion, the only ones who had to come to Stephen to negotiate were only a few officers of the horse thief cavalry, and Stephen had many henchmen around him, and seeing that the main general and these cavalry officers were arguing, some people had already nervously surrounded them according to the handle of the knife.
Stephen took a deep breath, and was about to take the lead, after all, he was the supreme commander of this trip, as long as he was the first to attack, accusing these disobedient cavalry officers of wanting to be deserters, and then taking out the identity of the commander to forcibly use military orders to suppress the extremely heavy military orders in the Northern Army, the crime of desertion has always been great.
When the time comes, as long as you come up with such an excuse, and then set up an arson, first take down these cavalry officers, and then take advantage of the situation to hand over their weapons, if you are ruthless, you will simply kill them on the spot, you have a military order, you have the identity of a commander, and you have the authority to kill, if you want to come to those cavalry, you don't dare to make a mistake, obediently and obediently, seeing that Stephen's eyes are a little murderous, these elite horse thieves, which one is not the old oilman who rolled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, looked at the other party's eyes and the people around him, Where the sea does not know the other party's ill intentions But these horse thieves are not afraid, these are all a group of bold guys, among these horse thieves and cavalry, who can be an officer, which one is good At the moment, without waiting for Stephen to speak, several officers looked at each other, didn't even shout, smacked a few times, several sabers had been directly pulled out, several officers rushed forward first, and actually cooperated tacitly, with two horizontal knives on each side to block those surrounding taxis, the two best in the middle, directly a tiger pounced, and the target was to take Stephen directly Stephen's martial arts skills are not as good as his own, and when he saw that the other party was in trouble, he immediately slashed with a horizontal sword.
But these horse thieves are fierce and cunning, this kind of hand-to-hand attack work is extremely skilled, not waiting for Stephen's knife to come to the front, directly short, fell to the ground, one hugged Stephen's leg, the knife in his hand unceremoniously greeted Stephen's leg, the other standing, wielding a saber to hold Stephen's knife, and laughing and shouting: "Do you have something to say, adults have something to say, they are all their own brothers, why bother to use the sword and sword" He shouted with a smile, and several of Stephen's subordinates next to him were a little stunned when they heard this, but the knife in the hand of this horse thief was not slow, and he slashed past one by one Stephen had screamed and collapsed in a pool of blood.
He was stabbed in the thigh, and the man fell to the ground, and another horse thief had already pounced on him and held him down, and a short knife stabbed him directly under the ribs, and while stabbing him, he also smiled and said: "Why can't the adult stand steadily, come on, come on, help the adult to sit down." ” Blood had already spurted out of Stephen's mouth, and he howled, but his mouth was already covered with death, and then a horse thief had cut his neck with a knife, and he jumped up with his head, and there was still the half-smile on his face Holding the bloody head high, the horse thief shouted: "Stephen has fallen under the law for fear of the traitor, and the rest of the people have laid down their weapons, and those who do not disobey the order will be killed."
After all, it's only a second-line garrison, and most of them are still eliminated soldiers, who is willing to really use knives and guns to fight hard Even though Stephen had a few henchmen, these horse thief officers were too fierce, and before Stephen could launch it, he took the lead and shot ruthlessly Even if those henchmen are very loyal to Stephen, but now their boss's head has been cut off, and they are still stubbornly resistant After a slight hesitation, someone directly threw the weapon in his hand and knelt down with his head in his hands.
Someone took the lead, and the rest of the people with weapons lost their weapons helplessly.
A couple of horse thieves went over and kicked them all to the ground.
Immediately, the captain of the horse thief cavalry had jumped on the back of a horse and stood there, took out a parchment envelope sealed with fire paint from his bosom, tore it open, and read it out loud: "By secret order of the General's Office of the Garrison, Sergeant Lakun, the officer of the Third Cavalry Regiment of the Reading Cavalry Regiment of the garrison, is hereby granted the command of Sergeant Lakun to lead his troops to escort the army south, and to give Sergeant Lakun the right to make decisions on the spot, act cheaply, and if necessary, take over the command and control the whole army.
This secret order was obtained before departure, in fact, although this horse thief has not opened the seal, but before leaving, Char had met him and had already told the horse thief officer the content of the military order.
In fact, this officer himself is illiterate, and if he were to read the military orders himself, he would not be able to recognize a single word.
At this critical moment, he took out the military order to "read it", took over the command, and decisively killed Stephen.
The whole army was immediately subdued, and no one expressed disagreement.
After all, these cavalry belong to the First Cavalry Reading Regiment of the garrison, and everyone knows that they are the descendants of General Char in the entire Northern Army of the garrison As for the horse thief officer, when he read it, the military order was reversed, and naturally no one noticed such innocuous details.
After killing Stephen and taking over the command, the horse thieves had no interest in lingering here, and immediately ordered the whole army to set off and cross the river north again.
The team of more than 1,000 people returned the same way.
Retreated to the north of the Onyx River, but the road was less than a day, and suddenly I heard the sound of horses' hooves faintly in the distance of the road Several horse thieves and cavalrymen suddenly looked nervous.
After all, this is still an enemy-occupied area, if the local army of the rebels comes to chase and suppress, I am afraid that even if the cavalry of their own line of troops can not be beaten, they can run, but these infantry, I am afraid that the horse thieves immediately ordered the army to stay away from the formation and prepare for battle, fortunately, the sound of horses' hooves roared in the distance, looking at the dusty flying, waiting for the opponent's team to approach, looking at the banner raised on the opposite side, the horse thieves breathed a sigh of relief, replaced by a look of surprise.
The cavalry that drove like thunder was the flag of the 1st Reading Cavalry Regiment of the Northern Garrison This cavalry team of 2,000 horsemen, coming from the northeast, the queue is majestic and solemn, obviously the most elite cavalry team, the leader is a majestic cavalry general, sitting on horseback, burly, full of hill armor specially signed by senior generals, a prismatic hammer hanging on the saddle, covered with an iron helmet, the mask pulled up, revealing a well-defined square face.
But it was Sharpa Sharba set out from the city of Denzel with a team of 2,000 cavalry and escorts, and had already broken up in the new city, Sharba nominally led the army to the Corsica region to quell the rebellion, but he did not expect to run here to meet him The two armies met, and Sharba was shocked when he heard that the queen was missing He is not from one of those horse thieves, he is from a serious Rhodrian cavalry, and he is considered to be the foundation of the regular army, so he naturally knows very well how important the identity of the queen is.
However, he also did not have the right to deal with this matter, because the order Char gave him was to pretend to lead the army to the Corsica region to quell the rebellion, but in fact, he secretly led the cavalry to the south, asking him to take the army along the north bank of the Agate River, ready to meet the escort army returning to the north at any time.
In this line, there is no danger in danger, the two thousand elite cavalry of the Northern Army led by Sharpa, although this is already the territory of the rebels, but there are two thousand iron horsemen in hand, unless the leader of the rebels has a bad brain, he will come to provoke such a tiger and wolf army.
Two thousand elite cavalry, if you fight in the field, you can hardly find an opponent within a radius of thousands of miles The only difficulty was that if they wanted to come south to meet the convoy, they would have to pass through the territory of the Bestas.
Sharba got Char's secret order, so he had to go to Corsica to quell the rebellion, in fact, the team turned back halfway, and then rode all the way, quietly infiltrated the Besta area, and then the brigade rushed south, through the territory of the Besta people.
As for the fact that the Besta people found out about the rash entry of the Northern Army, naturally the high-level officials of the garrison and the Besta people went to fight this lawsuit of saliva.
The two sides met, Sharpa listened to those horse thief officers tell what happened, and heard that they killed Stephen to seize the command, Sharpa only raised his eyebrows and sneered: "Go south, that bastard wants to go to Yanjing, just go by himself, but if you want to make up your mind, you have to pull the team south to join Yanjing, that is to betray our northern army, kill it."
After a pause, he told the horse thief officers: "I have come to meet you under the leadership of General Char, and the general's order is that I will bring you fifteen hundred men, many of you, back to Denzel City."
At the same time as Shalpa's cavalry and escort converged, in the evening, the south bank of the Onyx River galloped from the east, Char on horseback, his face was cold and gloomy, and Dafani behind him just gently hugged Char's back, and his hair fluttered in the wind.
Galloping horses, mighty knights, stunning beauties.
Such a picture should be beautiful under the sunset, but at this moment, the two people on the horse are both indifferent and gloomy.
When the horse came to the river, that is, the place where the ambush was carried out at night, Char looked around, there were still traces of the army stationed here, but the men and horses were gone.
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He rode around again, and made sure that there was no trace of people going south, and he was sure of one thing: the whole army had crossed the river and headed north.
"We're late."
Char said lightly: "The guards can't find you, and now the whole army has returned according to the secret order I left before." ” Delfini sat on the back of the horse and sighed faintly: "You have arranged these things a long time ago." ” Char raised his eyebrows: "Naturally, yes, even if it is to save you, it is impossible for me to give up this thousand five hundred centaurs at will."
I have already arranged that once you are rescued by me, the people who remain in the team will use my military order to take over the troops and lead the army back north. ” After a pause, Char hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "I didn't think that I would send you back again after saving you."
When Dafani heard this, her heart ached, and she couldn't help but whisper: "Char, I" "Needless to say."
Char said lightly: "There is no need to mention the responsibilities of the family."
I promised you that whatever you asked, I would meet it. ” Daphne's heart trembled, only to feel that her heart hurt almost unable to breathe, and she gently pressed her chest with one hand, before she reluctantly spoke: "But now, what should I do Without an escort, how can I go back to Yanjing?"
Char was silent for a while, but suddenly turned his head, his eyes were bright and scary, he stared at Daphany tightly, and took a deep breath: "Daphne, let me ask you again, do you really make up your mind, do you definitely want to go back to Yanjing, even if I let you stay, you won't be?"
Dafani only felt stared at by Char's bright eyes, and a wave of blood surged up in her heart, and she almost couldn't help but blurt out: "I am willing, I am willing to stay by your side forever" But these words, only on her lips, were immediately swallowed back by her.
Daiffinne looked Char in the eyes, but didn't say a word for a long time.
Seeing that Daiffini was just looking at himself like this, but not speaking, Char's bright eyes finally gradually dimmed, and he turned his head away, his chest heaving, and he seemed to be short of breath and excited.
After taking several deep breaths, he barely suppressed the resentment in his heart, Char clenched the reins hard, and after a while, he slowly released his palm.
"In that case, I'll personally send you back to Yanjing." ` To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: