The reinforcements who arrived quickly took over the next rescue matters.

The arrival of 1,000 men was not much, but it was already half of the garrison of the nearest Toras fortress, and the relative abundance of men and the well-organized distribution soon greatly increased the progress of the rescue.

Most importantly, they brought abundant supplies, so that the overstretched material situation no longer became a "killer" for the rescued.

It is said that the signal for help sent by James can be seen at least in the three nearby forts, and reinforcements will come one after another.

Lin An and the others did not continue to stay in the canyon, and were quickly transferred to the fortress with the wounded, only some of the people who still did not find their buried relatives and friends, stayed with the trust reinforcements.

Lin An and the others, who were quickly transferred to the trust fortress, had already received the news of the arrival of the second batch of reinforcements when they arrived at the fortress a day later.

……

Three days later.

The sound of snoring sounded behind the curtain, and John, who was hanging with one hand, walked out from behind the curtain and saw Lin An walking in from the door, and he was found on the spot that he was not lying on the bed according to the doctor's instructions to recuperate, getting out of bed and walking around without authorization, and his hard face couldn't help but show a slight embarrassment.

Lin An glanced at the slightly messy bedding and newly untied bandages on the single bed that belonged to John, and then stared at Johnmu silently until his face was dark and wheat-colored.

"How are they?" Lin An broke the silence.

"Very well, the recovery speed is much better than everyone else, they can eat and sleep," John said, "thanks to those healing potions you gave them earlier." ”

Lin An had heard this sentence from John many times, and she didn't expect this man who was silent on the outside to have such a verbose side in private—just as she was also unaccustomed to John's side, even though she knew that compassion and love for the weak was one of the eight virtues of a knight.

John consciously lay back on the bed. Lin An took out his tools and began his daily routine inspection.

John quietly watched Lin An's focused movements, and suddenly spoke: "Actually, before I found them, I had some resentment against you. ”

Lin An paused, then continued.

"I've always had a certain rejection of you. This affection is so deep that I don't usually notice it, and until then I had always thought that I had been loyal to you in accordance with Lord Williams's wishes, and that I had done my duty, and had never violated my own integrity.

But after this time. I realized that I was far from doing it,"

John smiled wryly and said, "If I had already done it." Then at the first moment you save yourself, you should be by your side, your safety is the first priority, and you will never be resentful of the brothers who you saved me but did not save me. ”

Lin An has already realized. John was afraid that he had detected something from his act of giving the guards the potion earlier, otherwise with John's character, he would never be resentful that he only saved him and did not save the guards, unless he felt that he had noticed something earlier, but he looked at it coldly. Watching the guards and others fall into danger, disregarding the lives of all.

It's just that John didn't explain this clearly, and just put the blame on him. Maybe he thought Lin An had something unspeakable.

Lin An put down the work in his hand, curious about what John wanted to say, and stood up straight and looked at him, "Go on." ”

"It wasn't until they were rescued that I had a chance to meditate." - What "they" refer to. The snoring guys behind the curtain next door, of course.

John had sat up from the moment he spoke. At this time, he was sitting upright, and his hands on both sides were slightly clenched into fists.

"Then I realized that you actually have no obligation to save them, and for my sake, helping them to escape is already benevolent, and I really have no position to ask you for anything."

"My resentment is unfounded, and what I have done in the Ice Valley is ...... compared to yours That's when I understood how you were feeling,"

John said a long sentence in one breath, then stood up and bowed deeply, "I'm sorry. ”

If you don't know what to say, changing to another person may confuse people, but Lin An has already guessed that John's may have noticed the clue, and then listening to his later words, of course he understands that he is using the trip to the ice valley and her concealment this time as an analogy, empathizes, and apologizes to her after deep introspection-

I'll go!

Lin An now knows what it means to "pay off the debt in June", he just wronged James once, and John's side wronged himself!

John pointed the back of his head at Lin An, and couldn't see the slightly twitching expression on Lin An's face, only to hear her voice say helplessly:

"I did foresee the risks of this return trip in some way, but I gave Hank the potion, not because I knew the avalanche was coming, but because I noticed that a group of people were following our group and were worried that something was wrong.

As for this avalanche, I, like you, had no expectation before it struck. ”

John raised his head in amazement, met Lin An's gaze, and suddenly realized that he had wronged Lin An before, and he was clumsy for a while, and he didn't know what to say-

As a follower, he actually wronged his follower!

John's heart was filled with a strong sense of shame, and he wished that he had a sword in his hand and let him wipe his neck!

Lin An did not comfort him, for someone like John, who had a strict heart to abide by the rules and discipline himself, tolerance would only make him more ashamed and difficult to forgive himself, although this misunderstanding was actually inevitable between people.

What's more, take this opportunity to let John thoroughly reflect on himself and eliminate the mustard in his heart, then this little misunderstanding is undoubtedly worth it - Lin An does not have such a strong concept of master and servant class, so he will not feel that John has wronged himself once and is unforgivable or something.

"As a pair of newly appointed masters and servants, we don't know each other well and lack tacit understanding, which is normal," Lin An patted him on the shoulder, "The important thing is to reflect on the lessons of this time and understand what we lack." ”

Lin An said meaningfully, "I'm very optimistic about you. I have high expectations for you, so I have enough patience. ”

John Huo Ran felt that he may still have underestimated this new follower far before, at least from the course of this incident, she already has a broad mind that does not match her age and the beautiful quality of employing people, but it is herself, who has been abiding by her duties for a long time, but it is far from being a wholehearted expression, which disappoints her.

A slight heat surged in John's heart, and he suddenly remembered what Lin An had just revealed that someone was following, and he just wanted to say something. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door and a break-in.

"Master Lin, you are really here, I can't find you anywhere!"

Master Raviaya pushed the door open without waiting for an answer. The hurried movement caused the back of his robe to almost get caught in the door.

"What happened to make you so impatient? Ravia. Lin Anqi said.

"The order of the rear command has arrived, asking those of us who are not injured and those who are less seriously injured to set off as soon as possible!"

Lin An frowned, "But the bumps on the road and the lack of supplies are not conducive to the recovery of injuries." ”

John's eyebrows, which he heard together, also gathered into the word "Chuan". Of course, he wasn't thinking about his own injuries, but about his subordinates, who were almost in the midst of minor injuries in their current recovery.

"The High Command is also in a difficult situation. However, the news of the return of our group of honorees has already been widely publicized in the country, and everyone is looking forward to our return, and even the date of our visit to Gaunt City has been calculated. It can't be delayed any longer! Ravia explained.

Lin An and John immediately understood what he meant.

Their group of honorees returned home to receive the medals, which is like a military parade, if it is done well. The whole country celebrates, the people flock to it, and there is light on the upper level of Merlin, which is conducive to strengthening the centripetal force of the whole country, and at the same time showing off the military exploits to the other two countries. to take Merlin's already heyday supremacy to the next level;

But if it is the other way around, if there is an accident, it will not come as scheduled. Even if the inside story of this death is revealed, then I am afraid that not only will the two countries that are eyeing each other be ready to move, but Merlin's internal confidence and cohesion in this war will also be reduced.

At this point, both Lin An and John understood that there was no choice.

"So Lord James has already decided?" Lin An asked.

"Our journey has been delayed for five days, and we must leave as soon as possible," Raviaa Radio had just received the latest news from James, "and he meant that we could finally leave tomorrow, and several of the chief officers of the fort agreed." ”

"But if that's the case, there will be less than two hundred people on the return trip."

Although Lin An and the others dug up more than 300 people, and after the reinforcements took over, there were rescued people who were sent back one after another, but most of them were not suitable for leaving immediately, otherwise when they got out of the ice field, they estimated that they would have to go for most of their lives.

However, among the more than 100 people on the road, the proportion of the recipients is not small, after all, they are all people who have survived on the battlefield and won a lot of merits, how can there be one or two hole cards.

"There's no way around that, we can only set off first," Ravia hesitated, "The problem of insufficient numbers should be solved by the Command!" ”

"Not should, but definitely." John said in a muffled voice.

Seeing Lin An looking at him, John explained, "We are not the only group of honorees. ”

Lin An immediately understood what he meant.

"Indeed, it is said that there are many people in the second group who are not inferior to ours in merit, and they can be filled," Lavia muttered, "but it is a pity that Orente and them missed this opportunity. ”

As the first batch of honorees, in just more than ten days of getting along, they have a bit of comradeship with each other, and compared to the second batch of strangers, Ravia naturally has a bit of emotional bias.

"The positions of the second batch are vacant, so naturally they can fill them in, and the command will not ignore the merits of the meritorious." Lin An comforted.

Ravia just barely smiled.

In fact, they all know that the same honor, even if the rank of the medal is the same, the first batch and the second batch are different after all.

Who doesn't want to be among the first to leave the earliest and deepest impression on His Majesty, and make the future of himself and his family brighter?