Chapter 169: Jungle Warriors
"Marshal!" The guards came to report, "Her Majesty's messenger has arrived, saying that he wants to see the marshal!" ”
Higg and Blue Fairy, who returned to Bavaria City, originally wanted to arrange work and go to the Silent Forest, but they didn't expect Catherine to send a messenger all the way, and the Fifth Legion was Catherine's King of Qin's army after all, and Higg had to see it.
After a period of greetings, the messenger asked, "General Higg, Her Majesty is deeply saddened by the death of Marshal Montgossa, and deeply concerned about the situation of the Fifth Legion, so she has sent down to express condolences and condolences to the Fifth Legion on behalf of Your Majesty." At the same time, she brought a letter of appointment from Her Majesty the Queen, appointing Deputy Marshal Zaire as the new Marshal of the Fifth Legion, and Lord Asaymer still as the front-line overseer! ”
Higg laughed and said, "Your Excellency, when did you set out from Her Majesty?" ”
"Five months ago!" The envoy smiled, "Because I had to pass through the occupied area of Arad, when I went to Bobohua City, Bobohua City had already fallen, and then I heard that the Fifth Army had moved to the Luojia River Plain, and it took a lot of hard work for us to get here!" ”
"The messenger is really hard!" Higg laughed, "It's a pity that my Fifth Legion has lost not only Marshal Montgosa, but also Marshal Zaire and the Overseer of Asaymer, doesn't the envoy know?" In order to cover the retreat of the army, Lord Asaymer and Marshal Zaire insisted on defending Bobohua City, and it is said that when Bobohua City fell, the first theater of operations that occupied Bobohua City also boasted that they had killed the deputy marshal and overseer of the Fifth Legion, and the envoy did not receive this news? ”
"Is this true?" The envoy was shocked, "I thought that the First War Zone was making a big show in order to show off its exploits and disintegrate the morale of the Fifth Legion!" If so, how can that be? ”
Higg smiled: "I'm afraid Her Majesty is going to reappoint a new marshal to the Fifth Legion!" ”
The messenger said: "But before I set out, Your Majesty asked me to invite the marshals of the legions to send representatives to the Qinwang Army Conference in four months, and now that there is no marshal in the Fifth Legion, who will attend?" ”
"That's your business, Messenger!" Higg laughed.
The messenger said, "If it is convenient for General Higg, can you first represent the Fifth Legion?" ”
"Your Majesty didn't invite me!" Higg smiled, "Besides, I was originally promoted by Marshal Montgosser, and I didn't even give me a regular military rank, and the envoy asked me to participate in such an important conference, and I also have to meet His Majesty and the marshals, I'm afraid my identity as an unknown person is not suitable!" ”
"It doesn't matter! As long as His Excellency the General wishes, I, as the envoy of His Majesty, can give the invitation to His Excellency the General! The envoy said, "In the past few days, all I have heard is the prestige of His Excellency the General, the lord of the revival city, who dares to say that His Excellency the General is an unknown person?" ”
Higg said with a smile: "Your Excellency, when the Fifth Legion is dying and dying, I am ordered to be in danger, in order not to destroy the Fifth Legion, not to bear the death of the soldiers who served Your Majesty, but also to prevent the strength of Your Majesty's Qinwang Alliance from being damaged, and not to let the Arad conspiracy succeed, I hope that the Envoy will explain it to Your Majesty!" The Fifth Legion has declared its allegiance to Her Majesty from the very beginning of the Arad Rebellion, and the Fifth Legion will always be willing to be the vanguard of His Majesty's army! ”
"General Higg is overthinking!" The envoy smiled and said, "I will definitely convey to Your Majesty the loyalty of Your Excellency the General and the Fifth Legion, and please do not forget the Qinwang Army Conference in early May!" ”
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"Will there be any conspiracy for the marshal to leave his army to attend the Qinwang Army Conference?" Corincha, who was stationed in Ovara, asked when he saw Higg.
"I've come to see you at Ovara Fortress this time to tell you that you must firmly control the current army!" "Catherine's messenger is here to make some people want to move," said Higg. Half of the Fifth Legion is in your hands, and I'm relieved! Originally, I wanted to send some officers from the Military Academy and Rogson in Fuxing City to gradually replace the officers here, but I didn't expect that the time would be too late. ”
Corincha sneered, "Do the other officers have other ideas?" ”
Higg said: "If the pressure from Arad's coalition is high enough, there is no guarantee that they will not have any ideas, especially if there is no war, these people are really troublesome!" ”
"Don't worry, young marshal, go to Prince Benjamin!" Corincha laughed: "I'll attack Arad's coalition army tomorrow and burn the flames of war, just in time to train these recruits and prisoners with war, hehe!" ”
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"Sister Lan Xian'er, you have become beautiful!" Butterfly Caiyun cheered happily when she saw the arrival of Higg and Blue Fairy.
"Uncle Higg, Sister Blue Fairy!" Thomas, who was stationed on the Lakason Plateau, was also very happy to see Higg and Blue Fairy, who had been separated for more than a year!
"Uncle? Sister? Higg laughed, "This generation is a bit messy!" Call Madame in the future! ”
"Ma'am?" Thomas pondered in bewilderment!
"The master and Sister Lan Xian'er are married!" Blue Fairy shouted, and Thomas suddenly realized.
Higg smiled, quickly changed the subject, and asked, "Butterfly Caiyun, aren't you in the Silent Forest?" Why did you run Thomas here? ”
Die Caiyun smiled awkwardly: "That old man Pantoni drinks every day, so I had to come to play with Brother Thomas!" ”
"Grow stronger!" Higg smiled and said to Thomas, "Is there any war over here?" ”
Thomas smiled: "All year long, they are all some local troops, all of them are some symbolic bandits, after coming here for a circle, I will go back to report the merits, I don't bother to pay attention to them!" ”
Higg said, "Leave the matter here to General Rodman first, and you come with me to the Silent Forest!" ”
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Sigg did not take a mine with Blue Fairy this time, but with Thomas, with a hundred cavalry, a distance of two hundred kilometers, which could be reached in one day. But Higg and Thomas talked as they walked, and were not in a hurry.
When Higg told Thomas the details of the battle on the Lakason Plateau, although Thomas said it lightly, but every encirclement and suppression was thrilling, and he didn't want Thomas to say only the local army, the young commander, who actually used the captured war horses to expand his cavalry by 5,000 people.
Hearing Higg talk about his past year in the Fifth Legion, Thomas was very dissatisfied with his small fight in this place, and insisted on going to the Fifth Legion to lead the 50,000 cavalry there.
Two hundred kilometers away, this cavalry walked for two days, and when they arrived in the Silent Forest, Lan Xian'er and Die Caiyun had already gone to the wine shop in the Wild Boar Forest and returned.
"You two are not kind, don't invite my uncle to drink when you get married!" Benjamin said when he saw Higg and Blue Fairy.
Higg smiled: "Lan Xian'er handed over this winery to my uncle to take care of, and my uncle said that he didn't invite you to drink!" ”
"That's different!" "I'm tired of drinking from the distillery, and I just want to drink it!" ”
Lan Xian'er smiled: "This time it's our negligence, when Thomas and Die Caiyun get married, we'll make up for everyone together!" ”
"Both of them?" All of them looked at Thomas and Butterfly Cloud in confusion.
Die Caiyun hurriedly ran away with a shy face, and Thomas immediately said in embarrassment: "Uncle Higg asked us to gather here this time, there must be something important to say!" ”
"I encountered a little trouble this time, and I want to borrow troops from my uncle!" Higg laughed.
"What's the trouble, how many soldiers?"
Higg told everyone all about the battle in the Fifth Army in the past year, and everyone was eager to go to the front line to meet the battle.
Benjamin said angrily: "Higg, you asked me to bring people here, but there is no fight to fight, and you said that the people of the Forest Country have been comfortable for a long time and will not fight, but you didn't give me a chance!" ”
Higg laughed, "I asked you to train me as a marksman, how is it now?" ”
"Now the Silent Forest has 10,000 spearmen, 15,000 marksmen, 5,000 baggage logistics, 4,000 elven marksmen, and 6,000 battle dwarves!" Benjamin said proudly, "With Thomas's 15,000 cavalry and Rodman's 10,000 spearmen, there are 65,000 troops in the Silent Forest and Lakarson Plateau!" These are all elites, you don't need to use them, but they really have to be smoothed out! ”
Higg said, "I need two thousand elven archers, three thousand sharpshooters, and five hundred battle dwarves to support General Simak!" ”
Benjamin was puzzled and said, "I have so many soldiers and horses here, you want to be like this?" ”
"If there are fewer people, it will be difficult to pass the checkpoints, and if there are more people, it will attract the attention of the regular army!" Higg said, "Uncle, I want you to personally lead the army to the mountains of Pamela, and to establish a base behind Curdes, one with General Simak in the south and one in the north. The mountains of Pamela are full of jungles, these marksmen are all trained in the Silent Forest, plus elven archers and dwarves, with the strength of your jungle combat, it is no less than General Simak's army of more than 30,000! ”
"I'm leading the army myself?" Benjamin wondered, "How do I get to the mountains of Palmera?" Do you want me to cross the Nogar Heath and the Lasse Mountains? ”
"I've thought about it!" Higg said, "Uncle, don't forget that you still have a double identity, that is, the envoy sent by the Forest State to Arad, although the Qincha is dead, we can find someone to replace it, anyway, the seal letter and materials are in our hands!" ”
Benjamin asked suspiciously, "But Arad already knows that the Chin Cha has been killed, how can there be a Chin Cha?" ”
"Arad knows, and so does the local armies of the cities." "But the regular army shouldn't know!" Arad's coalition would never have paid attention to such a thing! You can try to bypass the local army, and you really can't kill them. At the same time, Thomas's cavalry will cooperate with your actions, let him disturb the place, so that the attention of the local army will not be focused on you, as long as you cross the crossing of the Rodja River, which is full of Arad's coalition forces, you can use the status of the messenger and the messenger in the name of righteousness! ”
"More than 5,000 people, isn't it a little more?" Benjamin asked.
"Hahaha, not much!" Higg laughed, "Five hundred dwarven warriors and two thousand elven archers are a gift from the Forest Nation to His Majesty Arad!" Why, doesn't my uncle have the guts? ”
"What nonsense, I did it!" Benjamin said, "I want to show the world the real jungle warriors!" ”
Higg smiled: "Okay, when you cross the Luojia River crossing, I will ask General Kolincha to arrange a guide for you!" ”
Pantoni sneered, "There are five hundred dwarves in the ranks, what more guidance do you need?" Higg, I must be among the 500 battle dwarves this time! ”
"What are you going to do?" Higg said, "You're gone, who's going to be in charge of the Silent Forest Base Camp?" ”
"Whoever you like to rule, let whoever you want, I'm almost suffocated here!"
"Are you sure you want to go!" Higg asked.
Pantony roared, "His Royal Highness the Prince can go, why can't I?" ”
Lan Xian'er smiled, "General Pantony, do you know what is most lacking in the Pamela Mountains? ”
"What?"
"You have no supplies, no supplies!" Lan Xian'er smiled, "All the supplies must be taken from the enemy in order to survive, but unfortunately, there is generally no such drink as alcohol in military supplies!" ”
"No wine?" Pan Dongni was suddenly stunned, and hurriedly blushed and said, "I think the task of commanding the Silent Forest Base Camp and the mission of the Distillery are also very important, how can you leave me as the commander general?" ”
The crowd laughed.
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For several days, the formation arrangements for the formation of the 5,500 troops were being formulated and prepared, and the envoys and attendants of the false envoys were trained to be in good shape, and when it came to Simak's jungle tactics in the mountains of Pamela, Higg also insisted on holding a crash course in training, but was vetoed by Benjamin and Pantony's disdainful gaze!
Benjamin scoffed, "Elven archers and dwarven warriors are true jungle warriors, can I teach me how to fight?" ”
When it comes to the Wolf Smoke System, when Higg is about to introduce it to the West, Benjamin and Pantony despise it even more.
Pantony shook his head and said, "I can find a way out for you in the neon abyss, and you are still worried that the dwarven warriors will get lost in the forest, it's a joke!" ”
Benjamin, who had hoped to ride the sleigh, was rejected by Higg. More than 5,000 people plus supplies are needed, 1,000 taels of sleigh carts, and more than 5,000 cattle, which cannot cross the Luojia River crossing, and if this strategic technology is allowed to be obtained by the enemy, it will be a big trouble.
Therefore, after ten days, except for the officials who rode in carriages, the rest of the people rode horses, and most of the people marched on foot, a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, and it took about a month to reach the established battlefield.
Watching Benjamin lead the team drift away, Higg smiled, and the forest country was finally dragged into the catastrophe of the civil war in Erathia.
"Why don't you let me go to the Luojia Plain too, where is the real battlefield!" Thomas said.
"There will be a chance, and in the near future!" Higg said, "The plain of the Luojia River is a pocket, and it is difficult to get out if you go in, and I need an army to echo me outside." I can't put all my hole cards in, General Thomas, General Pantony, you are my hole cards! ”