Chapter 71: The Invisible Battlefield (2)
"I'm back~"
The voice of Irelia's mother, Mrs. Foster, came from the kitchen, and she didn't have to wait long before a middle-aged woman dressed in an old gray linen dress came out with two wooden plates. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Let's eat."
Outside the window, the sky was getting darker, but the fire in the fireplace was still burning, and the light of the fire banished the darkness inside.
Irelia sat at the living room dining table, and Mrs. Foster placed the wooden plate in front of Irelia. Inside were two potatoes with a somewhat charred surface, and a small piece of cured meat was placed on the side of the potato.
Irelia's eyes lit up, you must know that when her father and brother were at home before, the cured meat could only be left for her father and brother to eat, and there was absolutely no share of her own. Only at this moment did Irelia think it was not bad.
However, at the thought of her father and brother, Irelia couldn't help but feel lonely, so she asked, "Mom, when will Dad and brother come back?" ”
Mrs. Foster took the fork in her hand and then comforted, "Come soon, I'll be back soon." ”
"You always say it's going to be fast, it's been almost two months!"
"Don't worry, it won't be long this time."
"Oh... Irelia lowered her head, a little gloomy. Then he remembered something, raised his head and asked, "When I came back today, I saw people on the street whispering, what happened to them?" ”
Mrs. Foster was silent for a while, and then said solemnly to Irelia, "Ellie, don't inquire about this matter, and don't bother with it!" You know? ”
Looking at her mother's somewhat serious expression, Irelia nodded.
Just then, there was a knock at the door. Mrs. Foster looked over, then stood up and went to open the door. He asked, "Who is it?"
The door opened, and a gust of wind blew in from outside, blowing the fire in a throbbing motion, and a figure walked in from the outside.
"Brother!" Irelia could tell at a glance that it was his older brother Sauron.
This thin black young man who had just entered the door, dressed in rudimentary cloth and covered in ashes, was none other than Irelia's brother Sauron.
"Mother! Ellie! ”
Sauron shouted with the same joy as he walked into the house.
"Oh~ my dear Sauron! Are you doing well outside? Mrs. Foster stepped forward and hugged her son, and Irelia hurried to Sauron's side, looking at him with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay." Sauron hurriedly comforted his mother.
Soon, Madame Foster helped Sauron take off his tattered coat and prepared dinner for Sauron herself.
Seeing that Sauron couldn't wait to start eating, Mrs. Foster said with some distress, "It's really hard to be out there for so long. Why did you come back all of a sudden? What about your father? ”
Sauron was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly said with some hesitation: "Father... My father and I were separated. ”
"Huh?" Mrs. Foster was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, aren't you going together?" ”
Sauron looked at Mrs. Foster's anxious expression, and then began to talk about him.
As early as two months ago, it was just the beginning of spring. The lord of Tuscany, Franbold, issued a conscription order, saying that it was to deal with the invasion of the Duchy of Isis in the east. Most of the men in Tuscany were recruited to fight. Among them were Sauron and his father, Foster.
Originally, in their conception, a war like this usually would not last more than a month. Because the first is that the time has dragged on for a long time, and the logistics of both sides cannot keep up. Second, these peasants and soldiers still need to farm, and if they delay farming, it is very likely that there will be a food crisis next year.
But who would have thought that this would be more than a month, nearly two months.
In fact, this is also to blame for Allen, if it were not for the rebellion within Essis. The war between Essis and Rollin had already begun, and there was no need for Renard and the others to wait so many more days. And the conscripted soldiers did not dare to disband, who knows when Allen will have a return rifle? As a result, the war dragged on for a month and a half, and it was not finished until recently.
Both Sauron and his father, Fawkes, were conscripted militiamen and were equally involved in the encounter between Renard and Allen outside Fort Como.
In this battle, Renard suffered a crushing defeat, and his regular army suffered severe losses. As for the militiamen who were improvised like Sauron, most of them took advantage of the chaos to escape, just like Sauron. However, in this era, except for the main road, other places are barren mountains and mountains, and there is no GPS navigation. One of the ten who was able to successfully run back to his hometown like Sauron. Most of them either returned to Fort Como in Reynard or died in the claws of the beasts.
This time Sauron was only three or four young men like him.
"Anyway, it's good that you can come back!" Mrs. Fawkes said with a look of rejuvenation.
"That... Father... Irelia looked at Sauron and said hesitantly. Sauron sighed, touched Irelia's little head, and replied, "Father will be back, definitely!" ”
The three of them were silent for a while. War is so merciless, and a person's life is so insignificant that sometimes it is not even as good as a string of numbers in the merit book.
"Ellie, have you eaten yet? Once you've eaten, let's go to bed first. Mrs. Fawkes said to Irelia, her tone a little heavy.
Irelia glanced at her mother, as if she understood what she meant, nodded, finished the food on her plate in two or three clicks, and walked into her room.
"Mother? This is? Sauron looked at his mother suspiciously, a little curious as to why she had suddenly broken away from Irelia.
Mrs. Foster waited until Irelia walked into the room and closed the door before she solemnly said to Sauron, "A group of people have come from outside the village today, supposedly from Essis!" ”
"Huh? How can it be? What are they here for? Sauron asked in surprise, he didn't expect the Essis to be able to penetrate deep into Rollin.
"When they came to the village, they started putting up all kinds of paper, which I couldn't read. So he showed it to the old village chief. ”
"What did it say?"
"According to the old village chief, that Duke of Essis, Allen Ouranos, is about to come and lead the oppressed and suffering people to overthrow the rule of the aristocracy and give everyone a basic right to live. Protect personal assets from infringement. Ask all the people to rise up against the rule of the noble lord, and take the initiative to cooperate with the actions of the army of Essis. ”
"This... This.... "Rao is Sauron's young and strong ability to accept new things, but in the face of such a strange propaganda offensive as Allen, he is also shocked.
"Sauron, did you say that the Essis is about to fight?" Mrs. Foster asked worriedly.
Sauron remembered the army of Essis who had fought valiantly in red on the battlefield. The body involuntarily hit a spirit. In other words, he really couldn't do it before, and the Essis were able to fight into Rollin so quickly, but after seeing the Essis defeat the prestigious Prince of Rainard in Rollin, and for the first time, they defeated George VI's army.
The horrors of the Esis army had already begun to spread among those of them who had come into contact with the Essisians. It is believed that in the near future, through soldiers like Sauron, the power of the Essis army will spread to every inch of the kingdom of Lorraine. (To be continued.) )