Chapter 62: A Quietly Changed Fate
For the news brought back by Zachary, Marquis Seris, the commander-in-chief of Reiner in the fortress of Baier, naturally attached great importance to it, and the old marquis, who had been sitting on the frontier for decades, had extremely keen intuition about war. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After getting the news that Zachary brought back, he immediately thought that although the orcs would attack the fortress every day recently, it was obvious that it could not be compared with the previous one, and it looked like the battlefield was extremely miserable, but the statistics of cleaning the battlefield every day showed that those orcs were more to consume the fortress's garrison materials.
So as soon as he got the news, the Marquis of Seris summoned the two legion commanders in the fortress to the command room, and the two legion commanders who had been on the battlefield for a long time naturally knew the importance of this news, when they mobilized their troops to the front of the fortress to resist the orc attack, an orc army suddenly appeared in the rear, which was absolutely devastating for them.
After receiving the news from the Marquis of Serris, Kewell had been staring at the young man standing at the conference table with great interest.
As the lifelong rival and friend of Jonathan, the commander of the Fourth Legion, Kerwell naturally heard of this young man from Jonathan's mouth, and in the mouth of his friend, this young man named Zackery was praised by him as a genius rarely seen in a century.
Kewell still remembered very well that the young man had come to him the other day, and when the whole fortress had become hurried by the orc attack, the young man had stepped into his command post in the morning light and asked him for a mission out of the fortress.
At that time, it was also a waste of power in the fortress where the cavalry was located, and he also wanted to see what kind of skills this young man was praised by Jonathan.
It's just that Kaiwell couldn't have imagined that this young man would bring such a big surprise to himself after only four days out.
Looking at Zackery's performance, what kind of genius Jonathan said he was, Kewell didn't know, but in terms of daring, Kewell could only give this young man a thumbs up.
There are also a lot of cavalry in the fortress of Baier, and the two legions together have a full number of wings, but the performance of these cavalry in the past few months is to harass the orc army next to the battlefield, and they dare not harass for too long, and after suffering a few small losses, they are even completely used as scouts.
An officer like Zachary who dared to rush into enemy territory with five hundred men and bypassed the orc camp, Cavwell said he had never seen it. Such a guts, if he dies there and does not come back, he can only be said to be a reckless man, and it is not enough to send his own people to death, but the problem is that Zachary succeeded, not only brought back important news, but none of his subordinates died, no matter who he was, he could only say one word.
"What do you think about this, Count Cave?" The cry of the Marquis of Seris in his ears made Cavwell withdraw his gaze from the young man, "I don't have much of an opinion. ”
"After all, not to mention that we don't have enough troops to divide our troops, and even if we do, we can't bypass the orc's reconnaissance and go through their defenses to destroy that force in their territory, just like Captain Zachry's cavalry. So we can only wait for them to turn over on this side of the Andes, and if they die inside, although I regret this as a former ally, but as a current enemy, I look forward to it. ”
Seeing the Marquis of Seris nodding in agreement, Kewell reminded slightly: "Of course, General Seris needs to send some cavalry boys behind us, after all, although the Andes Mountains are dangerous, we can't take chances, after all, as long as they come gently from behind while we are fighting, we will be in danger." ”
Marquis Seris nodded in agreement, it is true that the orc army in front of the fortress has attracted all the attention of the fortress, and it is impossible for them to give up the frontal defense because of the orc force behind them who don't know when it will appear, in that case, the orcs don't have to wait for the raid force, they can directly attack head-on.
Therefore, they could only send cavalry to patrol the area behind the fortress near the Andes, and report back if they found any traces of the orc troops.
However, thinking that the orc army mentioned in Zachary's report was an elite army of gold rank plus more than twenty silver rank plus elite soldiers, Marquis of Seris felt that his head hurt.
With such a force, Seris felt that their success rate in crossing the Andes was really very high, and the thought that if it weren't for Zackery's bold action, such a force would quietly go around their backs, Seris felt a sweat in his head.
"Kaiwell, Crocia, you arrange, we must prepare a wing in the rear of our fortress, after all, that force is too elite, the cavalry we sent out is likely not to come back, and the other party will definitely not rest in our rear for too long, they are afraid that they will immediately launch a surprise attack on our fortress after a little rest, so we must prepare a force in the back."
The commander of the Sixth Army, Crossia, nodded at Kaiwell, but both of them showed a wry smile, the troops in their hands had actually lost more than two wings after more than a month of fighting, and if it weren't for this, they would not have sent the Fourth Army that was still resting in the rear to support.
At such a time, it would be difficult for the two legion commanders to squeeze out a wing in the rear, after all, the fourth legion was still a few days away, and they could not confirm how long it would take for the orc force to cross the Andes.
Zachary naturally knew that it would take more than ten days for the orc army to turn over, and at that time, the Fourth Legion had already arrived at the fortress, and the embarrassing situation of the fortress being overstretched no longer existed.
Naturally, he will not be too stingy with Zachary's commendation, because his news can be said to have saved the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers in the fortress, and it can even be said that he has saved the lives of the soldiers on the entire northern border defense line, and also saved the fate of the people in several counties on the border of the kingdom.
It's just that if it is a knight, it is necessary to send the military merit statistics and Zachary's identity information back to the royal capital, and Cyris They can only make a verbal promise first, and the position, Zachary is an officer of the Fourth Legion, even if Syris is the commander-in-chief of all the Reiner troops in the battlefield around the fortress of Bair, he is embarrassed to promote Zackery over Jonathan, so he first rewarded him and his soldiers with a lot of money.
When Zachary returned to his camp and handed out the money they had rewarded all the soldiers with the money they had rewarded, promising them to be promoted in rank, the whole camp couldn't help but boil.
Looking at the smiles on the faces of the soldiers, Zachary was thinking in his heart that he should be able to change the fate of the fall of the northern territory of the Reiner Kingdom, and he could save most of Reiner's strength, but the war will not stop, and the little strength he helped the Reiner Kingdom preserve will be put into the meat grinder of war sooner or later.
Thinking of the orcs' strong desire for a warm land due to the natural disaster at this time, Zachary couldn't help but feel a headache, and the joy of saving the fortress of Lower Bair also dissipated a lot from his heart.