Looking at the blushing young man in front of him, Knight Jose scratched his head a little inadvertently, but touched the hard iron helmet. He gritted his teeth and reached for the protective gear he was clinging to on top of his head, and with a slight sucking sound, sweat began to flow down like rain.

He also loosened the iron armor on his body, and wanted to release the sweat that came out of it, but he didn't expect that this iron armor that had accompanied him for many years was broken into pieces at the juncture. First a few cracks from the knife, then some old marks, however inconsequential they once were, were now part of the force that destroyed the ironclad.

The iron armor shattered into several large pieces and fell to the ground, making some inconsequential noise. The surrounding mercenaries were still clamoring to continue their work, collecting the corpses of brothers who had died in battle, rescuing those who were still breathing, and collecting the spoils of war on the battlefield. For them, the end of the war was only the beginning of a feast.

The young man looked at the scene in front of him with some sluggishness, which reminded him of his own childhood, when the Corvin also had a strong legion, and they had a high morale to defend their homeland, although they may not be as armed as the noble riders of today, but they had always won more than they lost.

A thought arose in the young man's mind, maybe he shouldn't stay, but take these mercenaries directly to his hometown.

Just as he tried to speak, the knight of José climbed down from his horse and said, "I can't tell you to go back like this, young man, I am the knight of the Great Prus, and we were once comrades-in-arms, brothers. It's a long way to get back to your hometown, and you're alone, and you can't go back with what you have, including the horse you're riding...... It can't go that far. ”

The young man was about to argue, but Jose couldn't help but stuff the reins of the horse in his hand into the young man's hand

"Look at it, the most orthodox Great Prussian warhorse, the descendant of the Red Lion Legion's war horse, the Red Lion Legion, remember?"

Seeing that the young man seemed to understand or not, the José knight couldn't help but open his mouth again. "It's been with me for more than ten years, but it's not as old as me, it's still in its prime, you should go to more places to visit, take it with you, it can take you through the Northlands, and find a random Kowenrao tribe before the first snow of autumn comes. When that time comes, you're left to your fate. ”

"No, no, no, I can't accept such a valuable gift from you. Honorable lord, you saved my life, I can't owe you anything more, and besides, for a great knight like you, a good war horse is like a tiger. My teacher told me that I was just a knight of average level. ”

The young man excused himself again, but the José knight was really impatient.

"It's called Snow, and my son asked me for it, but I didn't give it to him, just to wait for this. Covin boy, I don't know if you really understand the laws of our Grand Pruus. In a sense, you're my captive, you know? I can see you as an intruder. ”

Cold sweat immediately broke out on the young man's head, he had already experienced too much of this hostile emotion along the way, and with this lord's skill, it was not difficult to make him lose resistance.

"Get on this horse and remember the favor that the Great Pruss have done to you, so that we owe you nothing more. Or, be a fool like a not-so-clever mule, so that I can keep you as a mercenary, and when I'm in a good mood, I'll send one or two to you to ask for a ransom, pay with one hand and release you with the other. ”

Taking a fancy to this knight who had suddenly become fierce and vicious, the young man's face showed a somewhat solemn expression, and he could fully understand the painstaking efforts of this lord.

The young man climbed down from his horse and bowed solemnly to Knight José.

"You are indeed a knight who has come from the garden, may Sardinia always protect your soul, and I will let the priest pray for you, my lord, I swear. ”

Just as the young man was really about to hit the road, the knight grabbed the young man again.

"Young people can't go on the road without any travel expenses, I don't spend much, but you have taken the money. If you change your mind, you are welcome to come back to me at any time. ”

The young man was full of tears, and then galloped away in the direction of the northeast, and then disappeared into the dark night before the dawn came, and Zheng He walked with Rutz so neatly that if it were not for the fact that he had just lost the white horse that was simply the signature of José's knight, the mercenaries would have doubted the authenticity of the existence of this passing young man of Corvin.

The mercenary who was standing aside and divided a lot of loot asked with some puzzlement, "My lord, we don't have any friendship with the Corvens, right?"

The knight looked at the direction of the young man's departure, as if he foresaw the rising sun, and in the face of the mercenary's question, José just shook his head a little sluggishly, and after a while, he said leisurely: "I heard the monk who accompanied the army talk about an old story, if we want to pick it up now, then we may have a little enmity with the Corvins." ”

After listening to the knight's explanation, the mercenary was even more puzzled, he struggled to close his slightly open mouth, and asked, "Then you still help him like this?

Knight Jose didn't answer the mercenary's question again, just shook his head lightly, and asked casually, "How is the battlefield cleaned up?"

"My lord, the battlefield has been collected. We killed and wounded nine steppe people and took three prisoners. Eleven brethren were lost, three of whom were seriously wounded and two were lightly wounded, and seven steppe horses, four pairs of armor, and ten swords...... In addition, some gold and silver items found on the body have not yet been measured. ”

Seeing that the knight was discussing serious issues, the mercenary did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported the information he had just collected on the battlefield to the José knight one by one.

"More than thirty people, twelve people were beaten, eleven were killed and wounded......" José Knight's face became a little difficult to look at, he had just been on the battlefield, he had vaguely seen the casualties in this battle, but he never expected it to reach such a point. Even in the face of the Wiegand invasion, he had never suffered such a defeat, not to mention that when he served in the Red Lion Legion, the proportion of battle losses at that time was even more staggering, and it was common to say that one to ten was a common thing.

"This is the result of your serious training? Those steppe people shoot two arrows at random, and you can fall a large piece!"

Before the first light of the morning fell on the city gate of Valuno, two thin figures appeared in the eyes of the night guard, looking at the two teenagers under the city, and the night watchman touched the gray hair that had just fallen off on the top of his head, and couldn't help but hesitate a little.

It's never a good thing to open the city gate at night, and the last time he was troubled, he put a Wiegand man in, maybe pretending not to see it was the best choice to wait for the light to come?

But the people under the city gate, the two teenagers are by no means good, they seem to have experienced great tribulations, and the moment they see the city wall, they no longer have the slightest patience.

"Open the gates, open the gates, and let us in!"

"We need to inform the mayor directly!"

The night watchman's face suddenly sank, according to their shouting, he had to open it if he opened it, and if he didn't open it, he had to open it, after all, according to the latest arrangement of Valuno City, there were many residential areas that had been arranged under the city, even if he pretended not to hear it, someone would know sooner or later, thinking of this, he took a torch from the city wall, walked to the city wall at the city gate, and spat at the young man condescendingly.

"Don't shout, stinks, what's the noise in the middle of the night, what's going on when it's light. ”

He thought that this would calm the person who knocked at the door, but he did not expect that his reply would cause even greater anger.

"Phew, the hell is going to wait until morning, bastard! I've been walking all night with this idiot, and you're going to make me wait until tomorrow morning?"

"We've really brought urgent information, open the door and let me in, I'm going to go crazy if I stay with this idiot any longer. ”

The two children who seem to be very good, but their tones are caused by ordinary spirit, and while insulting this gate, they also carry out a spiritual attack on each other.

Before the middle-aged men of the night vigil could reply to them, they were already extremely disunited and scolded, and a careless effort left a lot of saliva on Pets.

"You bastard from Abbasquia, with the title left to you by a cattle thief, is here to threaten me. I've never seen a more talented lord than you! You don't want to form your own noble rights in your land, you are not even as good as a village chief!"

"Shut up, you northern savage from the frontiers of the Empire, a knight who can't find his own horse, an archer who takes the initiative to fight in close combat! ”

The people in the surrounding houses walked out of the house sleepily, fortunately this is the northland, most of the people will carry a few clothes when they sleep, if it is a village in the south, maybe a few naked men are running wild......

"What the hell is going on, what are you arguing about here in the middle of the night?"

The night watchman named Marnd cursed in his heart, wiped his bald head that was secreting oil, and replied from the city gate: "It's nothing, it's two reckless young men......"

"We've got an emergency! The steppe people are coming! They're bringing dozens of horses! Let us in!"

"If you delay time and miss a big event, I see how you can pay for it. ”

The night watchman looked fiercely at the bottom of the city, and the two teenagers who were still scolding the country just now did not know when they began to point the finger in his face again, if it were not for the high city head blocking the flying spit, Marnd suspected that the spit was coming at his face.

Since the end of the last war, Mayor Hams has been trying to train a guard composed of local citizens, not asking how strong they can be, just to be able to defend the city, to have a regularly trained army, to play a certain role on the battlefield.

In the face of such a professional soldier, Ma Ender didn't say anything at all, alarmed the guard, and he didn't have to take care of the matter, while he was a little annoyed, he also reported the situation of the two teenagers to several soldiers from the guard, of course, while introducing, he couldn't help but spit out his resentment a little.

"From where I think these two kids are troublemakers, you know, at their age......"

"Is that you?"

While he was still trying to speak ill of them, a young soldier suddenly shouted under the city gate.

Marnd immediately closed his mouth in amusement, and before anyone noticed him again, he managed to run back to his sentry position, and lit another candle to himself as if nothing had happened.

After confirming Vedia's identity, the soldiers opened the gates with great ease, and along the reserved path, Vedia and Conan, along with his only steppe horse, squeezed into the Zheng of Valuno

"Oh, Vidia, I know, like you, always grow very fast, but do you know? You've changed so much in the past year, if I hadn't just remembered what you looked like on the battlefield, I don't think I would have recognized you now, a child in his early tens, who has become a heroic knight in the blink of an eye. ”

The soldier laughed as he skilfully removed the bow and arrow from his back.

Wei Dia felt a little uninteresting, but in the end, he still didn't refuse the enthusiasm of a guard, but the guard took a mouthful of "", which always made him feel a little uncomfortable, and he deliberately said in a dumb voice.

"Yes, I have indeed gone from a child to a knight now, remember, this is the sword that Master Marcus gave me, and I hereby make it known. ”

The young soldier looked at the saber in Vidia's hand upside down with some envy, and finally hung it on his waist reluctantly. Conan, who was standing aside and leading the horse, hurriedly said: "Guard, we came here this time because of an emergency, let's put it aside first, now our territory may have encountered an army of steppe people with unknown conditions, it is better to report this matter to the mayor and the knight Jose as soon as possible." ”

After listening to Conan's words, the guard turned his gaze to him, and after checking one or two in the firelight, the guard opened his mouth in some surprise and asked in disbelief, "Lord Davis, are you too?"

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