When Challis and Art arrived at the official room of the Salborg Lord's Hall, Viscount Geoffrey's face was still pale.

It was a long time since he entered the room, and Jeffrey had not said a word.

Art and Charis both looked puzzled, and they didn't sit or sit in the room.

"Legion Commander, are there any urgent situations in which you are in such a hurry to call us over?" Challis finally couldn't stand the eerie silence.

Jeffrey sat behind his desk and glanced up at the two of them, "You don't want to continue fighting south?" ”

Challis and Art looked at each other, confused.

"Legionnaire, I don't understand what you mean." Art said.

Jeffrey took a closer look at Charis and then at Art, and saw that the two really didn't look like they were lying.

"Just now, an urgent battle report came from the Besançon court, and earlier this month, the Duchy of Swabia suddenly broke the truce with Burgundy and captured several castles and fortresses in the east. The court summoned the two of you to return to the Count of Burgundy and join the army that had regained the lost territory in the east. Besançon's court will recruit another 300 men from the south into the legion. As he spoke, he pushed the fire paint seal on the table to the two of them.

Charis took two steps forward and picked up the letter from the table, returned it to Art's side, and read it together.

"Legion Chief, the war is raging in the East, why is the palace calling us back urgently? The palace could have transferred the 300 men recruited from the south to fight in the east. Yate questioned this obviously unreasonable arrangement.

"You'll see it if you keep watching." Viscount Jeffrey didn't answer positively.

When Art saw the inscription, his heart chuckled - Balwin, the deputy minister of the court and the military deputy minister of the Count of Burgundy.

Art didn't say anything more, for he vaguely guessed that there must be some unrevealed secrets behind this sudden appointment.

Viscount Geoffrey stroked his forehead with his right hand, closed his eyes and pondered, and said after a while: "The court of Besançon has ordered you to get up and return immediately after receiving the order. ”

"To tell you the truth, the Eastern Legion is about to go south to Vilno, and it is not very acceptable for me to take two of my most elite infantry away at such a time. But a military order is a military order, and I can only carry it out without complaint. ”

"You will go to the deputy commander of the corps in a while to hand over and return all the weapons, armor, and food and supplies that the corps has additionally allocated to the first company and the Chinese army guards to the arsenal."

As soon as Yate heard that the additional weapons, armor and materials were to be returned to the legion, he immediately became anxious, "Legion Chief, these weapons and armor were personally promised by you to be transferred to the Chinese Army Guard, and the soldiers took them off as soon as they put them on, this is not good~ Besides, just some seriously damaged cotton armor and notched swords and broken poles and spears, you also have to take back this thing?" ”

Jeffrey glared and replied, "You think I'm blind!" The list of armaments you took from me was indeed worthless and shabby, but it wasn't the items you took from the arsenal that were on the list. ”

"I've been turning a blind eye to your little movements, and that's because you've become the elite I rely on the most. Now that you're going to transfer out of my legion, do I have to give you all this extra weaponry? ”

"Everything has been taken away by you, what shall I use to distribute weapons to the new army? Do you expect me to take Vilno with a group of peasants dressed in shabby linen? Besides, when you return to the country, you will have better weapons and armor, and you may not be able to look down on my shabby things. ”

Art did pull Viscount Jeffrey's tiger skin during this time and asked for a lot of weapons and armor from the legion, and now that everyone is leaving, Viscount Jeffrey will certainly not let the two of them leave.

Seeing Viscount Jeffrey's resolute attitude, Art reached out and gently touched Charis, who had been in a daze.

Challis came back to his senses and replied, "Alright, Legionnaire, I will hand over additional equipment and supplies to the Legion as soon as possible. ”

Art looked at Challus in disbelief, and scolded Challus several times in his heart......

As soon as he stepped out of the hall of the lords, Art was about to pull Challus to inquire about some secret information, after all, Challus was a knight and personal guard of Count Balwin's side, and he must have known the deep meaning behind this matter.

Indeed, judging from Charris's reaction to receiving the letter, he did know the meaning behind the matter better than Art.

Challus stopped, looked left and right, and asked Art with a serious face, "Sir Art, do you think you are a force that the Earl's men can rely on?"

Artwood thought for a moment, looked up and replied firmly, "Atwood Wells is willing to be a sharp blade in the hands of Earl Balwin."

Charis nodded in satisfaction, "It seems that Lord Count has not mistaken you. ”

Challis took a few steps to the stable, and Art followed.

"Sir Art, you have been in the south, and you don't know much about the state of the court. Since the Marquis's death, the court of Besançon has been increasingly divided into three camps on the question of the monarch of the country. ”

"The old-fashioned magnates, led by the prime minister of the palace, no longer say much about the affairs of the court, and many of them only care about the interests in their own hands."

"The camp headed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Count of Bernard, firmly supports the young son Robert to inherit the power of the country, because the son Robert is the nephew of the Count of Bernard, and the young son is in power, and the Marquis must control the country behind him, and the Count of Bernard will definitely be in power."

"My Earl has been at odds with Count Nabel for many years, so the camp led by my Earl secretly opposes the matter of the son Robert inheriting the power of the country, not to mention that after the son succeeds to the throne, political enemies will squeeze out my Earl everywhere, just the question of the son's life experience is the most dangerous seed~"

Art asked in surprise: "Is it true that the rumor outside that the prince is not the marquis's concubine?" ”

Challus nodded heavily.

"Is it rumored that the young Earl of Longxia in the southeast mountains is not~" Yat's voice was very small.

"In the autumn of last year, the Count of Flanders had secretly invited his vassals to gather in Midsummer, south of the Duchy of Burgundy, and the Earl of Balwyn had also gone. It was not long before the Count of Flanders came to Besançon to visit the bedridden Marquis, and the two had a secret conversation in their room all night, and no one knew what they had said that night, but since then the Marquise has closed the palace and the Marquis has never summoned any stranger again. Until I was ordered south to Provence, even the Count of Balwyn was never able to see the Marquis again. Nowadays, the military and political affairs of the entire kingdom are jointly handled by several important court ministers. ”

"The first company I led this time is the henchmen selected by the Earl from the palace guard, the palace guard has not been at war for many years, and the Janissary did not participate in the war with the Duchy of Swabia in the east, so the count asked me to take this group of guards to fight in the south, but also to let the soldiers have a good experience, and they may become the backbone officers of a new army when they return to the north."

What Challus says is simple, but the amount of information contained is enormous.

Before Art could ask a few questions, the two Burgundian heralds who had come to Solburg to give orders found the two of them.

"Lord Charis, I've finally found you." Apparently the two heralds knew Challis.

Challis was also surprised, as these two men were the guards in Earl Balwin's mansion.

"How about the two of you?"

Two heralds came from the distant Besançon, dusty and tired.

"It's been hard all the way, follow me to the military camp in the east of the city for a while." Challis said to the two heralds.

One of the heralds looked around and said to Charris and Art, "My lords, I have a message from the Earl here, and I must deliver it to them myself. ”

"This is not the place to talk, you come with me."

Challis led the men back to the garrison barracks of the 1st Company of the Legion and closed the door.

"You can say it." Challis said.

One of the heralds whispered: "At the beginning of January, Count Benal's faction suddenly began to secretly gather troops from the western provinces of Thorne and Kodor, and Count Balwyn had a premonition that the enemy had begun to plan a great purge!" In order to deal with the crisis that may erupt at any time, the Earl has issued a secret order for you and Sir Art to rush back to the eastern border of the Earl of Burgundy to assemble in Jonne Province, and the Earl will recruit soldiers from Jonah Province to form an army, and the three viscounts and eleven barons under the command of the Earl have received the secret order, and the Yonah Province has quietly gathered 1,200 soldiers. ”

Challis asked, "What about Count Longxia?"

"We don't know the situation on Count Longxia's side, but when we left, Count Longxia had just secretly transported more than a dozen truckloads of gold and silver to Jonah City, and this money was the military expenses of the newly built army in Jonah Province." The herald is always the Earl Balwin's inner guard, but he doesn't know much.

Art listened with excitement, he thought that the struggle of the court was not his turn to care, but he did not want to be tied to this chariot long ago.

"In addition, I have good news for the two lords, before we go south, the Earl has already begun to move around the court, fighting for the promotion of the two lords to the title of baron."

Yate is happy again, it turns out that someone has already started to operate for himself in the matter of Jin Jue's promotion. But after a moment of joy, Art regained his composure.

There is no free bread in the world, and Earl Balwyn is seeking a knighthood for himself at such a critical juncture, presumably he needs Yate to repay him with his life~

Challis didn't have the same inner turmoil as Art, obviously he had already known about Earl Balwin's arrangement, and this time he led his troops south to fight just to give Knight Challus a chance to accumulate military merits.

"Does the Earl have any other orders?" Challis asked.

The herald thought for a moment and replied, "The Earl also instructed you to not only bring your own Praetorian Guard soldiers back to the eastern borders, but also try to poach some experienced soldiers from the Eastern Legion, who are needed as the backbone and support force for the new army."

"Well, I remember the Earl's orders."

"Come, take the two heralds down and have a good rest, prepare some beer, fruits and vegetables for them, and find two comfortable wooden beds." Challis shouted outside the house, and a personal attendant pushed the door open and led the two heralds down.

Only Challis and Art were left in the room.

"Art, what do you think of it?" Challis asked.

"Sir Challus, you already know these things, don't you?" Art sat down in his chair and looked Challus in the eye.

"What do you mean? Something about being promoted to the barony? Of course, why would I have traveled thousands of miles to Provence to suffer? As for you~ Lord Earl really appreciates your abilities, and besides, you have the help of Bishop Orlof behind you, so if you are lucky this time, you can also be promoted to the knighthood. Charris replied.

Artiste nodded, "I'm really surprised by the promotion to the knighthood, but I'm afraid the fire that is about to ignite in the Besançon court hasn't been planned for a day or two, right?" ”

"Sir Art, you are a wise man, and I think you have heard some gossip a few times, do you think that Lord Earl will tolerate his enemies manipulating the power of the Earl?"

Art shook her head.

"So, since you canonized the knight of the palace guard, the entire Count of Burgundy has been in deep water~"

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Chapter 208: Still Water Flows Deeply