Chapter Sixty-Eight: Three Bridges Town
"That's Uffy Mondridge's car."
"It's really glorious." One of the shadows looked at him with disdain. "Why, you've decided to get rid of him here?"
Suddenly, the carriage disappeared from the road. It's a partly burned residential area in the city of García, where few decent people want to live, and the carriage certainly doesn't stop here.
The guy in the robe patted the dust on his legs, straightened up and said sincerely: "Reinforcements are coming, and the evidence of Ouffy Mondridge's collaborator dog has also been obtained by the church." General Yourde, please consider this matter. ”
"It's not easy." Yourd knew very well that the army of reserves would be moved, and it would not be possible to reach it in a month or two. Besides, Garcia is gone, and Eufael Mondridge, who has already gone to hell, can spread his hands - no, the dead don't have to speak, but they have to speak. If Orf-Mondridge really got through the enemy who broke the city, and Doniva's wolf-like soldiers didn't roast them and sprinkle them with salt?
"Anyway, you lost the Northern Route Army inexplicably, so please think twice about this."
Think twice, your head is also a war leader, what does he use to threaten Lao Tzu? Yourde sneered, and he wanted to stomp the aggressive offspring in front of him to the ground. When did the new people in the "system" of the church not even understand the order of respect and inferiority?
Of course, this cannot be said. "Political wisdom" has to be put another way.
Yurde took a deep breath, as if the justice between heaven and earth had gathered in his chest before he spoke: "To make me change my attitude, it will take at least a joint letter from more than four wargroup commanders, or orders from Marshal Rucha and higher-ranking officers to be effective. ”
The robed messenger was shocked, and his superiors told him that Yurd was just a soft egg with lard on the soles of his feet—but he didn't tell him that the lard was still in his tongue, not on his backbone.
"Moreover, it is a real treason to conspire against the commanders, especially the prison army, without authorization. I didn't see it this time, and next time I ...... But is there a next time? Yourde added the second half of the sentence unhurriedly.
"Hmph. Then you will know who the traitor is. "As soon as the robe turned, all that was left of Yourde's afterglow was the stump of the collapsed house." We'll see. ”
Yourd had come in the latter's car—but now he had to walk back on his own.
"It's such a big sun, these little bastards really don't know how to come first and come first." Yurd, who had finished grumbling, also straightened his clothes and walked in the shadows by the side of the road. At the moment of tension, the hidden weapon in his hand seemed to be sweating - the other party brought him to this place far away from the center of the city to talk earnestly, not without the consideration of "work with us or die, you can only choose the same".
Do you want to "sell" this information to Rucha and Ofer Mondridge? Yurde's eyelids jumped. Interestingly, he actually wanted to choose a team, he had to sit down and think about the gains and losses before making a decision.
On the carriage far away, the young man just now looked even more agitated. Across from him sat a man who looked about the same age.
"What? The defeated army is not easy to gnaw, right? "I had been sitting here, watching the person who got on the bus take off his robe, and squeezed his fist several times before asking a question.
"He's old stubborn, he should be taken to the sewers where the manure pit is built." The young man who got into the car still looked indignant, "Why do these powerful guys like to hold steady?" ”
"They can't be blamed for that. You and I have to work hard and gather more comrades - otherwise the old fox of Eufay Mondridge will not be able to defeat you and me, and the little strength of others. ”
As Garcia's outer defenses shrank, more and more of the commanders of the remnants of the mages were able to enter the city. They were surprised to find that Ofemundridge, who had "made them miserable" and "made them suffer", was actually in the city. Among them, there are even magicians who were already in agony when they were sent to the front line, and the magicians who escaped from the team asked the friendly troops to accept them in the name of the rout.
When they see each other, they are very red-eyed.
Of course, Offe Mondridge didn't have time to look at them. He moved the Magic Lance to the key line of defense, the town of Three Bridges outside Garcia, which was the only way to reach Garcia, and where four one-horse carriages could cross the stone bridges on the tributaries of the Mineva River without hindrance.
In the carriage were Ofe Mondridge, his right-hand man Paedin, and his pocket and side room Elena.
"Lord Ofe Mondridge, are you still insisting on putting a thousand-man team in the town of Three Bridges......
"Padham," said Offe Mondrich, his eyes closed and his face still very peaceful, "we are going out of the city today to carry out this matter, not to decide whether this thing will be carried out or not. ”
"I heard that the magicians who have returned to the city are plotting against you, so wouldn't more troops be placed in the city to deter these petty people?"
Offe Mondridge grinned slightly: "There is no essential difference between having a thousand and having five thousand. As long as the prison hat on my head is still firmly worn, the soldiers who are born with the magicians will sit back and watch them commit crimes and revenge privately? ”
Naturally, there is no need for the superior to reprimand the subordinates for their loyalty, all the more so because they are genuinely worried about his personal safety.
"Bo Dan, if you can lead the troops to defend the town of Three Bridges, and even repel the troops of the Otherworld, Garcia, no, no one in the entire Bimoon Church will dare to touch me and you, I believe you have this ability."
"Okay." Paedin decided not to struggle any further, "The army of 5,000 men is already stretched, please think twice." ”
Offe Mondrich replied with a smile: "Your statement is reasonable, then I will add two thousand people, and I should be able to defend the town of Three Bridges, right?" ”
Bai Dan was stunned for a moment and didn't dare to answer.
"Sanqiao Town must be defended, and it is a matter of course that 5,000 people will throw it in, once this place is lost, Garcia City will be like a girl with no trace to the enemy, and people can go up as they want, and they can go up whenever they want. See what that means? ”
"Yes, my subordinates know that they are short-sighted......"
Uffy Mondrich continued to close his eyes, thinking about the city's affairs—he was too busy.
"A qualified general must first think from a strategic point of view. Regardless of the gains and losses of a soldier, then you can only be a captain of ten. Carefully consider the importance of a legion or a point, then you can have the qualification to command the legion. The admonition of the old man who had held an important position in his family was now vividly and vividly before his eyes.
The "Elta Army", which had been seen by the magic from afar a few days ago, never appeared again, and after a little commotion in the city, it was restored to its original state - the gates of the West City, which had been closed for a long time, were reopened.
The carriage stood out so much that the guards didn't even think of stopping it for questioning. The four guards, who had just stood close to the city wall, watched the big man roar coming, and they had to immediately stand upright and pretend to be diligent - if the big man ordered a word that was unfavorable to them, these little soldiers would eat a cart of deflated.
"Move away and reject the horse, move fast!" The commander of the guards guarding the door hurriedly pretended to be decent, and no one saw it at all, regardless of whether it was not seen at all...... He thought that if Ofer Mondrich or his lieutenant could come down and pat him on the shoulder and say a few nice words, maybe he would be promoted to centurion and go to the pinnacle of his life, hehehe......
The guards were even more dissatisfied with the chief's seriousness in this fashion. However, they did not even dare to write their dissatisfaction on their faces, so they had to trot with a stiff face to move the horses that stood in the way.
"meow, the curtains haven't even been opened!" Without saying hello, the carriage controlled by the magic puppet galloped straight out of the city, leaving behind the dust that was raised all the way - faintly, the soldier who was still nervous and frightened just now saw that Eufe Mondridge's four-wheeled carriage did not open the curtains at all, and could not see outside at all.
"It's a toss." One of the guards didn't eat much at noon, and was so tired that he sat on the base of the wall and gasped. "But it's better than being pointed at by a big man on the nose."
"Alright, let's go and move the horse back again."
Sanqiao Town is not far from the city, and it is only about a dozen kilometers. After all, the imperial capital is the imperial capital, with all kinds of farms, walled mansions, and small towns all over the official roads, so that the distance of more than ten kilometers will not be field to field, tree to tree.
It's just that the mansion doesn't welcome visitors with its walled doors open at all, as it used to be. The serfs on the farm could not escape, and the long-term workers they had recruited disappeared. In the past, the small bazaars where farmers traded outside the city have long since been empty, and it really looks like a depression.
The curtains on the carriage do not allow the riders to see the outside - this specially magically treated fabric allows most of the light to penetrate from one side, and can also see the outside more clearly. Offet Mondrich had already heard that some people were plotting against him in the corners of the imperial capital, how could he cover his eyes at this time.
"Are there garrisons stationed on these roads?" He asked casually.
Elena hurriedly shook out a gilded cowhide notebook from the cloth bag on her chest, flipped through a few pages and replied: "There are four hundred-man teams, stationed in batches throughout the route. ”
"What about the composition of the troops?"
"There is a hundred-man squad that seems to be a mixed group, with both magicians and ordinary soldiers stationed in uninhabited mansions near the city walls, and the other three are pure warriors."
"Not bad." Offe Mondridge straightened the hair on his forehead, "Finally another omission." ”
Although he had already decided that in the event of defeat, the remnants of the army would take a boat from the river in the town of Three Bridges back to Garcia. But at this time, he was walking on the relatively smooth official road of Elta, and suddenly he was a little worried about whether the troops who were not on good terms with him would use knives from behind.