Chapter 81: The Horn of War!
Three days later, a large number of cavalry and mixed cavalry and infantry troops had gathered in a large area of flat land in the southwest of the national capital, and the noisy neighing of war horses and the sound of soldiers living could even be heard through the thick towering walls to the interior of the national capital.
Xu Cheng got up early, and last night the king sent a small official to tell them that today was the official day to start the army, and the swearing-in meeting would start early in the morning, so they should enter the palace early, because at the swearing-in meeting, Li Zhihui would come to power and become the supreme commander of the whole army under the authorization of Godfrey and Ed.
The sky has not yet dawned, and even the fish belly white in the east has not come out, Xu Cheng secretly looked at the trial world time on the task interface, it is still more than two o'clock in the morning, and even the rooster is still shrinking his neck and does not raise his head to crow.
The armor Xu Cheng wore was different from the previous chain mail, because considering their future status, the king sent him a set of high-ranking generals' battle armor.
On each shoulder of this armor is a majestic lion head painted with gold dust, and the position of the heart plate armor is engraved with the mark of a sharp sword and shield, the meaning of this mark Xu Cheng knows from the mouth of the knight who sent it, which means that the owner of the armor is a free knight who can not be ordered by the king.
This was obviously arranged by Ed, and he knew that these people were not under his control, so it was wise to directly pick out the cooperative relationship between the two parties rather than make a misunderstanding.
Everyone's armor is such high-ranking general's armor, and the heart plate armor is also engraved with the emblem of a sword and shield.
In fact, Xu Cheng also had a battle helmet with an iron mask, but this thing was too obstructive to his vision, so he simply held it with his hands.
The carriage had been arranged last night, just waiting to bring the trial team to the palace early this morning.
Li Zhi can be said to be the busiest person these days, he has hardly seen him write down, every day is in the tavern, the palace, the southwest suburbs of the three points and one line back and forth, this morning saw him again, Xu Cheng almost visible to the naked eye found that this kid had lost weight.
"When we arrive at the palace, we will meet directly with Ed and Godfrey, you can be less formalistic but basic etiquette must be there, after today's pledge meeting, the 10,000 light armored cavalry troops gathered outside the city will become the vanguard force, and the first to be responsible for the cleaning of the road along the way and the task of convening the troops, while the remaining 10,000 heavy armored cavalry troops and 80,000 infantry regiments will follow slowly behind, what we have to do is to follow the large army in the rear step by step to advance to the lair of the dark race.... Of course, as far as I'm concerned, the main attack this time is likely to be the werewolf ancestor William Covinas, which is basically the same as my initial prediction, so everything is fine at the beginning......" Li Zhi began to talk as soon as he got into the carriage.
Xu Cheng patted Li Zhi's body, which was trembling slightly because of excitement and fatigue, and said with some unbearable kindness: "I think you need to rest, you haven't stopped in the past few days, your body and brain will not be able to hold it after all..."
But Li Zhi didn't listen to Xu Cheng's kind reminder, his voice was full of weakness and calm, and he said lightly: "I know that you and others are a little worried about my health these days, but I can't rest now, at least I can't relax before the end of the pledge meeting, Ed and Godfrey have not taken advantage of the negotiations with me in the past few days, at this time, I let go that is to waste the time and brain power I have consumed in the past few days, wait... I'll rest as soon as possible. ”
Li Zhi has obviously spent a lot of effort to deal with things in the past few days, otherwise a young and gentle man would not be in such a state.
The carriage soon entered the palace, at this time the palace was already heavily guarded, and it was really two steps and one person, in the most central hall, the bright orange fire illuminated every corner, everyone was obviously already familiar with Li Zhi, and many generals wearing armor and helmets would bow slightly when they saw Li Zhi to show respect.
Li Zhihe, who got out of the carriage, was not alone at all in the carriage, he was in good spirits at this time, and he walked neatly and neatly, which made people feel convinced at first glance!
Ed stood on a huge map, which recorded the true face of this world, the ancient Europe of this world has roughly not changed from modern times in terms of geography, but the area is much smaller than the area of Europe on the earth, Iceland, the whole of Scandinavia, and the British Isles have not entered the map range, and I don't know if it has not been explored or not at all.
Xu Cheng's geography is average, but it can be seen that the approximate location of the actual control territory of the human kingdom is about the same as that of today's Germany, but the area is only about the same as that of Germany, and this area is trampled under Ed's feet, and he is holding an oak stick the thickness of a finger to point to a place on the edge of the kingdom and is frowning.
Li Zhi's arrival made his eyes light up, Ed happily gave Li Zhi a bear hug, and then said hello to Xu Cheng and his party, and then pulled Li Zhi to the map, saying with a headache that he didn't know how to let the army cross a river safely and quickly, if the bridge was built, it would greatly slow down the army's marching speed, and if the vampires and werewolves knew about the abnormality of the human army, it would obviously increase the number of casualties in the army.
Li Zhi and Ed immediately started brainstorming, and Xu Cheng and his party followed a few guards to the back room, coincidentally Godfrey was talking with his generals about the subordination of the battle at this time, seeing the arrival of Xu Cheng and others, Godfrey was obviously very happy, but compared to Ed's bear hug, he looked fairy, Godfrey even if he smiled will make people feel that he has a calm heart.
"You have just arrived, I was about to ask you to come and talk to the generals of the Bright Army," Godfrey beckoned, turning his head to the group of generals in front of him, "This is the brave man I told you about sent by the gods, each of them has great strength, and some of you will be divided into their command in the next battle, I hope you can trust them as if you were convinced by my orders." ”
"This brave man's name is Xu Cheng," Godfrey pointed at Xu Cheng, and then he introduced Gao Feng, Li Zhi, and Ah Qin one by one.
Anna didn't come with the carriage today, although she wouldn't be taken seriously when she came together, but this time it was obviously because someone broke her heart that she was like this, and the trial team members saw Anna looking at Xu Cheng with resentful eyes more than once, but the latter didn't seem to feel at all, as if she didn't feel anything.
To get back to the point, when the sky in the east was completely bright, and the oath meeting had come to begin, Xu Cheng and his party were all riding on the best horses, walking in the middle of the team, the king and Godfrey did not choose to take the carriage, they all rode their own horses, Ed's horse was the same as his people, the golden fur was not variegated at all, with the reins made of white cowhide and the black horse with gold patterns, this sturdy and tall horse was really the most eye-catching mount in the crowd.
In contrast, Godfrey's mount is more ordinary, his horse is snow-white, only four hooves have a circle of black hair, with Godfrey's outstanding temperament, this person and a horse really have a feeling of being born!
After leaving the city gate, everyone's speed was raised, and when they arrived, there was already a large group of people and horses gathered in front of a high platform built by the mountain, this platform Xu Cheng should be five or six meters high, although it was strong enough, but it was obviously a little rough because of the lack of time.
Because everyone knew the urgency of time, Xu Cheng didn't see all the scenes in his mind at all, except for Ed and Godfrey who each made a pre-war mobilization, only they were left on the field.
Xu Cheng looked at the large number of people under the high platform, and knew that if he put a bomb in the crowd closest to the high platform now, it was estimated that the human army would lose a large number of high-ranking generals. Of course, he also thought about it, although he did have a few grenades in his ring, but he still didn't dare to throw these grenades down.
After Xu Cheng briefly introduced himself, he said a sentence of long live mankind and then finished saying everything he had to say, this is not that he deliberately said less, it is really because Li Zhi deliberately explained before he came on the field to say less, otherwise with Xu Cheng's temper, he may take this opportunity to say more, and if he sees a newcomer in the future, he can brag about his indifferent pretending in front of tens of thousands of people.
The oath-taking meeting ended so briefly quickly, not at all like on TV, the people who spoke from childhood stories to a handful of years, and then all kinds of tear-jerking scenes, drinking and throwing bowls and kneeling down to thank you, the rich content is the same as a gala.
After the meeting, they entered a large camp together, and Li Zhi divided the army into a penny, first of all, but Ed's 10,000 heavy armored cavalry and 10,000 light armored cavalry did not belong to the divided troops, so basically the division of troops was only infantry.
After coming out of it, Xu Cheng had already become a general who controlled 10,000 infantry troops in a trance, Ah Qin and him were organized into a group, controlling the 10,000 right-wing army, and Gao Feng and Xiahou Min's troops were the left-wing army, which was also 10,000 infantry.
Xu Cheng and Ah Qin, who had just left the camp, were surrounded by more than a dozen people wearing generals' armor and reached the right wing army, Xu Cheng found that these people were all the king's troops, and there was no shadow of the group of bright army generals he had seen before.
"Lord Xu Cheng, may I ask when we will start, at present, 10,000 vanguard light cavalry have already set off." A middle-aged general with a calm face asked Xu Cheng anxiously.
In this regard, Xu Cheng could only say what Li Zhi had just said, because when he came out, Li Zhi only said that there would be a trumpeter who would blow the trumpet when he was pulled, and he just had to listen to it.
At this moment, a horn sound that made people's eardrums tremble came, this horn sound was like the horn horn made of animal horns in the movie, and the dull and desolate feeling instantly washed over the whole body, Xu Cheng felt a layer of goosebumps all over his body when he listened to it from so far away.
Xu Cheng thought in his heart, this war has officially started after all, he looked at the soldiers around him who couldn't see the end, and sighed, because he knew that maybe so many people came back alive in the end, but most of them didn't survive, thinking of this, his heart suddenly had a lot of heavy heaviness, as for the reason for this heaviness... He didn't know, maybe it was because his life was about to die... Perhaps the vast majority of these people are at home and worrying day and night.
He suddenly remembered a Tang poem in his heart, which was written by Chen Tao in "Longxi Xing", called the poor riverside without fixed bones, like a person in a spring boudoir dream, as for why he thought of this poem, Xu Cheng still didn't know, it may be that the little old man in the Northeast who used to teach Chinese in high school read it very tastefully and made him remember it deeply, or it was touching the scene, so that he who never knew the elegance wanted to learn the poetry of the ancients......
Xu Cheng touched the back of his head and slowly walked towards his troops, he wanted to take a good look at what his soldiers looked like, after all, wouldn't the ancient generals inspect their troops before the battle...