At the door of the Solburg Arsenal, the Legion's baggage officer pointed to a large pile of worn leather armor and heavily damaged swords and hammers, and said to Spencer, who had come to return the armaments: "Spencer, the weapons and armor you took from me are not these rags. ∵,.↗.▲o You're fooling me with these rags now, aren't you? ”

Spencer looked ruffian, took out a few pieces of parchment from his arms and slapped them on a pile of rags, "Lord Baggage, you can take a closer look, all the things listed on these lists of armaments and materials are here, and we are all the same." ”

"You're playing tricks on me here, are you taking these things from your arsenal? All you have taken is the newly seized and sophisticated armament! Let me tell you, the armaments you took away were all tacitly approved by the regiment commander, and the matter of returning the armaments was also ordered by the regiment commander himself. The Legion's tone was unusually tough.

Spencer looked at the angry legion officer blankly, blinked, took a step closer and pulled the sleeve of the baggage officer, and said in a very respectful tone: "Lord Baggage Officer, don't be angry, don't be angry."

The legionary officer snorted, turned his head and closed his eyes to ignore Spencer.

Spencer then turned to the Legion's baggage officer, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Lord Baggage Officer, my family didn't say that he would not return those weapons. ”

Hearing this, the legion officer finally opened a gap in his closed eyes, "Your family is quite white. You said that you are all leaving the legion, why are you embarrassed to take away the extra ration of the legion, you have all taken it away, what are the brothers who come from behind wearing? With what? Lord Art, he is also a man who knows how to fight, can he bear to watch his brothers of the Legion fight naked under the city of Vilno? ”

"Can't! No! Spencer chimed in.

The officer's anger subsided a little, turned to look at Spencer, and said, "Then you can quickly send those weapons and armor to the storehouse!" You're leaving early tomorrow morning. ”

Spencer lowered his head and rubbed his hands together in front of him, his expression extremely embarrassed.

Seeing that Spencer had not made a sound for a long time, the legionary officer urged: "You should go back and collect it?" ”

Spencer raised his head and squeezed out a very twisted smile, "Lord Baggage Officer, this, this is a little troublesome"

The eyelids of the legionary officer jumped several times, "What trouble! Where's the trouble? ”

Spencer tugged at the corner of the officer's coat and motioned to speak.

The legion baggage officer looked at several baggage soldiers and arsenal officials beside him, and slapped Spencer's hand away, "If you have something to say, it's here!" ”

Spencer stepped forward and whispered a few words in the ear of the Legion's baggage officer.

The eyes of the legionary officers widened wider and wider, and their faces became more and more ugly.

"What!! How dare you sell weapons and baggage privately!! ”

"Shhh

The legion officer also found that he was too excited, and quickly shut down, "You guys are too bold!" The Legion has long had a ban, and all weapons and armor belonging to the Legion are not allowed to be sold privately. Aren't you afraid of being dealt with by military law!! ”

Spencer looked helpless, and said with a wry smile: "No way, our soldiers' salaries are too high, and the war dead and wounded have to be settled by my family, and we have to rely on these small businesses to earn money to support the soldiers." How can you do it without trying to get some money? ”

"Besides, there is no way to fill your purse with golden things without a way to make money," Spencer said, turning and quickly placing a purse into the open bosom of the Legionary Baggage Officer. ⊙√，.2●≥

If it was in the past, the baggage officer would have taken it, but today the commander of the regiment gave a strict order, and he dared to take it there, and hurriedly returned to Spencer.

Spencer stopped the baggage officer's movement and said, "Don't worry, we won't embarrass you, we will definitely not embarrass you." ”

The baggage officer was attracted by Spencer's words of "not embarrassed", so he did not excuse him from the bulging money bag in his arms.

"Although we have sold the weapons and baggage from the arsenal to the merchants, my lord has promised to return the money to the legion. In this way, the legion can also use the money to purchase armaments. ”

When the legion baggage officer heard Spencer say this, he still couldn't let it go in his heart, "The legion commander ordered you to hand over your armaments, what's the matter with you returning the money~"

"The armed baggage will definitely not be able to be recovered, or you should let the legion elder punish us." Spencer shrugged.

The chief of the legion sighed, "That's all it takes, how much did you buy that batch of equipment?" ”

Spencer held out five fingers.

The baggage officer thought that he had sold 50,000 pfennigs, and he was overjoyed, "You guys are so powerful, you actually sold 50,000 pfennigs!" ”

Spencer shook his head again and again, waved his hand and added: "Five thousand~ is five thousand fennig~"

The baggage officer almost fainted when he heard this, pointed at Spencer's nose and scolded, "What??? You sold five thousand fennigs? Those weapons are worth at least 20,000 fennigs, and they can't be bought casually. Who are you fooling? ”

"Lord Baggage Officer, I didn't lie to you, there are a lot of people selling captured armor and weapons in Thorburg now, and we are in a hurry to use the money, so the price is extremely low."

"It's five thousand pfennigs, all to be returned to the Legion."

Spencer took advantage of the fact that the baggage officer was angry, hurriedly put a large money bag on the ground, turned around and ran away with a few baggage soldiers leading the carriage and pulling his legs......

"Legionnaire Chief, that guy from Art is obviously trying to swallow the extra weapons issued by the Legion, five thousand pfennigs and a bunch of rags in exchange for so many fine weapons, but he has become a shrewd businessman, but he takes us all for fools. And the mercenaries assigned to him by the dozen or so legions don't know what kind of demon they have, and they would rather pay a high penalty for renunciating the contract than follow them back north~"

"That guy from Challus is not a good thing, and when he asked him to return his armament, he picked out a dozen pieces of badly damaged iron scale armor and piercing armor for us. What's even more excessive is that he has been poaching people in the legion for the past two days, and all the low-level junior officers with strong combat power have been poached by him. ”

"Legion Chief, if I take someone to their barracks to collect all the weapons and armor, and then detain those soldiers who belong to the Legion, I forgive them and they will not dare to resist."

In the hall of the lords of Solburg, the lieutenant of the legion is reporting on the misdeeds of Challus and Yate.

Viscount Geoffrey lifted the money bag on the table and flipped it, and said: "You are also the one who escaped from the whirlpool of the palace, and now we dare not offend the people on both sides, these two guys dare to be so arrogant because of this." Now that they're about to leave the Legion, do you want to punish them with military law? Do you dare to guarantee that they will not be the one who wins in the future? ”

The adjutant of the regiment was dumbfounded by the question.

"Forget it, so be it." Jeffrey slumped back into his chair and brushed his hands on his face.

"By the way, did you send the secret letter you sent to Count Bernard?"

"Someone has been sent out quietly, and the Earl of Bernard will be grateful to you for receiving this news." The adjutant of the legion replied.

"Sandwiched between two formations, it's not easy to survive~" Jeffrey looked up to the sky and sighed.

In the main room of a warehouse in the southwestern part of the city of Solburg, Art, wearing a long-sleeved chain mail jacket and a well-dressed plate armor, was convening a meeting of officers above the squadron leader level.

At this time, all the officers in the house took off the armor they wore on weekdays, and replaced them with the fine half-body plate armor of the Lombards with long-sleeved chain mail, which looked extremely strong and the popularity of the people was high.

Art looked around at everyone and said, "Looking at the armor on your bodies, I don't know that I think you are all the leaders of the palace guard."

There was a burst of laughter in the room.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think everyone knows the news that we are going back north. Yesterday we received an order from the court of Besançon, which ordered us to leave for the north as soon as we received the order, so we must return with our army early tomorrow morning. ”

"Everyone has been training in Solburg for more than a month, and the soldiers of Lima Mo originally planned to return triumphantly after making great achievements in Vilno City, but now that we have been ordered to return north, there must be a major battle that needs us, so don't be frustrated, there are still a lot of opportunities to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions."

There was another burst of laughter.

"I have called you here today to arrange for the return to the north. Odo, first of all, talk about the resettlement of the wounded in the army and the preparation of food and supplies on the way back to the north. Art said to Otto, who was sitting next to him.

Otto saluted and said, "My lord, everyone, let me talk about the supplies first, during this time, all the food and materials of our army were supplied by the legions, so we only have a small amount of food. The order from the palace came so suddenly that we didn't have time to make adequate preparations, and the legion no longer allocated our rations, and even the grain depot did not dare to buy us food privately, so I had to let the baggage team buy five days' worth of military rations from the black market in Thorburg at a high price, and the shortfall could only be purchased on the way back north. The situation is similar on Sir Challus's side, who is more numerous than us and consumes more food. ”

"In terms of the war supplies, according to the order of the Lord to "travel lightly", we have carried out an emergency re-equipping of the army, and all the soldiers have been replaced with better weapons and armor, and the worn armor and weapons that have been eliminated have been returned to the legion along with five thousand puffines, and now the whole army is strong and well-armed. After the army was redressed, all the remaining sophisticated weapons and armor were sorted out and loaded into trucks and returned north with the army. Other booty, such as cloth and woollen goods, which had not yet been transported by the caravan, were not convenient for the army to carry with me, so I bought them from the merchants of the city at a reasonable price. ”

"As for the seriously wounded soldiers in the army who are inconvenient to return north with the army, there is some trouble, our caravan will not come to Thorburg again until at least twenty days later, and these seriously wounded soldiers are not suitable for a long march with the army, except to stay and recuperate, there is really no better way for a while. Three more seriously wounded soldiers died this month, two of whom have been buried in the cemetery outside the city, and another soldier who died in battle had relatives in the valley, so we will cremate him and the bones will be taken back to the valley with the bones of the other two brothers to be handed over to their families. ”

"Time is in a hurry, the above is my arrangement for the general affairs of the army, please show me." Otto said and looked at Art on the throne quietly.

Art pondered for a moment and asked, "How many more serious injuries do we have?" Is there a cure possible? ”

Odolloga pondered and replied: "There are eleven of our seriously wounded soldiers in the baggage brigade treatment center, and after the treatment of Father Robert and our baggage soldiers, there are four or five people who are expected to be cured, and the rest have been pulled back from the gates of hell, although there is no hope of recovery, but there is definitely no problem in surviving."

"In this way, the baggage team will leave two medics to take care of our seriously wounded soldiers for the time being, and when our caravan arrives at Fort Thor, let the caravan manage to transport these seriously wounded back to the valley."

"Good!" Otto responded.

Art suddenly remembered Father Robert and asked, "By the way, did Father Robert agree to join us?" This is a rare good priest, and I can count on him to continue to preach the gospel of God to us. ”

Otto shook his head, "Father Robert was very hesitant, he said that he was the priest who was personally selected by the archbishop to go south to accompany the army, and he left easily without permission and could not explain to the church. ”

Art commanded: "You tell him that as long as he is willing to go with me, the church in Besançon will naturally have me to deal with it, so that he doesn't have to worry." Also, you tell him – come with me, and I will give him the opportunity to fulfill the faith in his heart. If he still refuses to go, let our caravan find a way to take him back to the valley, and I'll decide on this priest anyway. ”

Art now treasures this priest named Robert, who not only has a rare ability to save the wounded, calculates, and learns, but also has the spirit of skeptical tradition in search of truth.

"Yes, my lord, I'll persuade you again."

"Forget it, I'll go and persuade him personally."

Art and Otto explained the affairs of the legion, and then turned to Angus and asked, "Sergeant Major, tell me about military affairs."

Angus looked at the people in the room and said, "After a new round of recruitment, training and reorganization in February, we have successively promoted ten new soldiers, which can be regarded as making up for the battle losses of each team. On this return to the north, the army maintained the size of the Central Guards, with five infantry squadrons plus the Sentinel Cavalry, the Gongnu Squad, and the Baggage Brigade, excluding the wounded who remained temporarily, a total of 105 people returned to the north. ”

"According to the news from the patrol post of the Waiwei Regiment of Thorburg, the Lombards have all been driven to the south, and the road back to the north is basically unblocked, and there are only one or two complicated areas along the way where bandits are infested, but we are so numerous that ordinary bandits would not dare to attack us."

"The above is a matter of military importance. In addition, there is one more thing to report to you. ”

"You say."

"Sir Reyek is largely healed, and he wants to join our army." Angus said.

The wandering knight, Rayek Hared, slept in the Atlantic hospital for three days, and with the full attention of Robert and the Medic, he was able to save his life.

Reyes joined the Provençal army and was appointed captain of the infantry flag, but he lost almost all of his soldiers and brothers during the years-long war, and now he has only two soldiers and squires, temporarily living in the battalion of Yate.

After learning that Art was about to lead his army back north, Rejek refused the invitation of the Eastern Army and resolutely decided to follow his savior back to the north, leaving this sad land forever.

Art originally wanted to recruit this wandering knight with rich combat experience, but he kept thinking that the other party was also a knight lord, and it was difficult to say what he was soliciting, but now that he took the initiative to propose it, of course Art would not refuse.

"Tell Sir Reyeke that he is welcome and that I will walk side by side with him."

"Yes!" Angus answered.

"Everyone, rest early tonight, and in the early hours of tomorrow morning, the army will return north!" 11166 net

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Chapter 209: Leading the troops back north