That night, instead of returning to his room, Duon stayed with Count McNuss, and the father and son talked by candlelight. It stands to reason that Earl McNus is now seriously injured, and although he has recovered from his coma, he also needs to rest well. However, Count McNus did not feel sleepy, but talked very thickly, intermittently, and talked a lot with Duon.

At the beginning, he asked some questions about the magic exam, after all, for the current patriarch of the McNus family, this once uneducated son was able to pass the exam to become an official magician, which was enough to make him feel gratified, and for the Justin magician who taught his son to become a talent, although he had never met, but in his words, Count McNus also expressed enough respect.

As the Countess said, this Justin magician is the benefactor of the entire McNus family.

"Boy, you look like that in your magic robes. But ......"

"But what?"

"But your robe is quite dirty, haven't you washed it for a long time?"

“……”

"Maybe you should make a new one."

"I think so too."

"Then tomorrow, I'll introduce you to someone, that old guy is the most skilled tailor I've ever met......

In addition to this, Count McNus told Doon a lot about the past.

For example, how the ancestors of the McNus family worked hard to become strong, from a small farmer with only one small village in the territory, step by step, to one of the most famous families in the entire Bauhinia Empire, just like in the Great Patriotic War, how many famous civil and military generals emerged in the McNus family, using their bravery and wisdom to save the empire from danger, and also make themselves famous in history. For example, Duon's grandfather, that is, the father of Count McNuss, how he led the powerful Imperial Navy to suppress a great rebellion of the natives of the South Seas that shocked the whole country sixty years ago, such as Count McNuss himself, in the first military academy of the empire, the friendship with the great prince Powell.

Du Ang listened quietly, rarely interjecting.

Although most of Duon had heard these things from Count McNuss, this was the first time that they had come out of the mouth of Count McNuss, as the patriarch of the family, a high-ranking and powerful earl, these things naturally had a unique charm from the mouth of Count McNuss.

And what Count McNus said the most was the family!

The McNus family originated in the southern province of Vera, a small village called the Flowing Canal, where their ancestors lived for generations, and the farthest recorded records were even more than 1,500 years ago, on an ancient stone tablet that was excavated with a tax register, there was a man named Hill? The farmer of Meconus.

This is the earliest record of the McNus family.

I don't know how many generations of thrift have passed, the McNus family has grown from small to large, from an ordinary farmer to a small landlord who owns a part of the land, and slowly evolved from a small landlord to a small nobleman with a village territory, and what really made the McNus family soar and occupy a place in the power map of the empire was the great Great Patriotic War that took place more than 150 years ago.

At that time, the Bauhinia Empire was still very weak, only in the southwest corner of the St. George continent, with no more than 100,000 soldiers, and no more than 100 people, but the land was fertile and mild, and it was a natural high-yield grain production area, and there was a rich gold mine in the territory that occupied more than 60% of the total output of the entire St. George continent. It's like a weak child who has a huge sum of money, which is enough to make the eyes of the powerful neighbors red, and produce bad covetousness.

So, at that time, Bauhinia's two powerful neighbors united and casually found a lame excuse to declare war on the Bauhinia Empire, and their troops invaded the territory of the Bauhinia Empire with great momentum.

Strong troops are pressing, and the Bauhinia Empire is in danger.

Just like the bloody plots often staged in novels and on the stage, in times of crisis, there will always be a hero who will turn the tide in the midst of fire and water.

And this man, named Dirk? McNus.

Originally, he was just a small nobleman who was not famous, although he also had a little personal soldiers and horses, but he could fight at full, and there were no more than two hundred people, on the surface, their strength was too weak, and when those invaders came to his territory, they didn't take this small army seriously at all, thinking that they could easily crush it.

However, the invaders were wrong, and they never imagined that they, who had never suffered defeat since the beginning of the war, would capsize in the gutter at the hands of this small army.

In battle, this obscure Dirk without a little fame? McNus unleashed a powerful force that countless people were looking forward to, not only leading his 200 warriors to resist the invaders' attacks, but even killing an enemy lieutenant marshal known for his bravery on the battlefield.

Great victory!

This was the first and only inspiring victory for the Bauhinia Empire since the start of the war.

Because this battle was fought in the Flowing Canal of Vera Province, in the history books of the later generations of the Bauhinia Empire, this battle is called: The Great Victory of the Flowing Canal.

"The victory of the flowing canal was a turning point in the Great Patriotic War!" - History of the Bauhinia Empire, Volume 4

This is the evaluation of this battle in the history books.

And at that time, in recognition of this great victory, the emperor of the empire at that time personally ordered that all the soldiers who participated in the battle be commended, and each of them received an iron cross. McNus was even promoted to a commander on the left side of the Fifth Army of the Empire! And received the title of a baron!

Such a speed of promotion, such a glory, if placed in peacetime, without forty or fifty years of painstaking management, it is absolutely impossible, but the situation in wartime is special, and those who have meritorious service are rewarded, Dirk? McNus made this leap in just one battle!

However, everyone knows that promotion too quickly will make many people red-eyed.

Dirk? McNus, too.

Although he was only promoted to the rank of commander and received the title of a baron, which was not a high position, he still aroused the envy and resentment of many people.

There were also countless voices of rolling eyes and ridicule.

"A lucky kid is just ......"

At the time of mentioning Dirk? When McNus was named, many people had this very disdainful face.

However, it didn't take long for Dirk to slap these jealous people in the face with practical actions.

For the Bauhinia Empire, the victory of the Flowing Canal was a great and morale-boosting victory, but it was not a big deal for those powerful invaders.

Because there are many of them, the balance of victory is still tilted on their side.

Half a month later, the invaders' coalition army integrated men and horses and continued to attack the hinterland of the Bauhinia Empire, and their main vanguard, with about 70,000 troops, aimed to pass through the Wilson Forest and directly attack the Bauhinia Empire at that time.

And it was Dirk who was fighting them head-on at that time? The Fifth Army, where McNus was, on the left.

As a commander, he has five thousand troops!

Seventy thousand against five thousand, even a fool knows who is strong and who is weak.

When they heard that the enemy's 70,000 men were aggressively slaughtering at the place where they were stationed, almost everyone was stunned. How can you fight such a comparison of forces? Isn't that the egg hitting the stone?

But, Dirk? There was not a trace of fear on McNuss face.

He gathered all the officers of the Left Route Army together, held a morale-boosting mobilization meeting, and then formulated an extremely ingenious and even somewhat vicious strategy.

Fire Attack!

Aren't they going through Wilson Woods? Well, Wilson Forest will be the burial place of those invaders.

According to the plan that had been drawn up, a small force of one hundred men set out in the darkness of the night to take a group of troops to the woods of Wilson. McNus made a special yellowish powder and sprinkled it in the woods, and then Dirk himself went out to lure the enemy into the predetermined position.

Fire!

Soaring fire!

The yellowish powder that had been sprinkled in the woods beforehand was made of something I don't know what it was made of, but it had a very strong combustible name, and when it saw it, it was just a small torch, and it caused a catastrophic fire that was hotter than the flames of hell.

The 70,000 invading troops, who were burned in the fire, trampled on each other, and the dead were innumerable, but those who were lucky enough to escape from the fire found that waiting for them outside Wilson's Forest were archers and arrows flying in the sky.

Fire, sharp arrows, nets of heaven and earth, intertwined, ruthlessly harvesting human lives, the main force of the invaders is a full army of 70,000, and in the end, there are less than 3,000 people who can go back alive!

It's another hearty, big win!

Its classic degree of defeating the strong with the weak is enough to be written into every military textbook.

After this battle, the main force of the invading army suffered heavy losses and had to switch from strategic offensive to strategic defense, while the Bauhinia Empire pursued the victory, not only recovering a large area of land lost before, but even penetrating deep into the invaders' homeland!

The tide of the battle was completely reversed.

As the actual commander and initiator of this shocking battle, Dirk Memenus's popularity suddenly reached a level unmatched, and those who had questioned him before and made fun of him all kept their mouths shut. (To be continued.) )