Chapter 210: Fearless
"Who is ahead of you who dares to stop General Geraint's troops?"
The pro-soldier immediately stepped forward and asked, although the opposite side was also the Hig army, but the tone of the pro-soldier was not so polite, after all, in the land of Hig, General Geraint belonged to the powerful people who held military power, even if he was a high-ranking military boss, he greeted Geraint with a smile when he saw him, not to mention others, it was no wonder that his pro-soldiers would be angry at the unreasonableness of the roadblockers.
"It turned out to be the defender of Baden City, Geraint, no wonder even a few attendants dared to be so arrogant? It's just that General Gerant didn't stick to his post in Baden City, so what did he want to do when he suddenly ran to Triumph City?"
It seemed that when he heard Geraint's name, a knight in gorgeous armor rode out of the opposite team, and listening to the knight's somewhat mocking tone, he didn't seem to take Geraint very seriously.
"Long time no see, General Clark. ”
When General Geraint heard this, he also drove his horse out of the ranks, and came to the front of the opposing team, calling out the names of the other party. And as soon as he spoke, his subordinates immediately understood why General Higg on the other side did not take Geraint in his eyes, and even had a hostile attitude, because the two men had a grudge against each other.
Retrospectively, Geraint and Clark had a grudge during the one-sided war, when Lua City was surrounded by an elven army led by Berego, and the Higg army sent 30,000 troops to help, Geraint was the commander-in-chief of the 30,000 army at that time, and Clark was the vanguard officer. At that time, Clark was determined to make meritorious contributions and insisted on going his own way, and was ambushed by Berego's army on the way to lead his troops, and almost all the troops were destroyed. Geraint, who was furious when he heard the news, once wrote to the military department to ask for a heavy punishment for Clarke, who made a mistake in command, but because the Holy See couldn't obstruct it, he was instead beaten upside down by Clark, accusing Gerant's delay in the fighter plane and causing failure, but later they were suppressed by the military department, which was good at making mistakes, but the grudge between the two was settled. After the one-sided war, Geraint returned to Baden to defend the town, and because of his meritorious service in retreating from the enemy, he was promoted to the rank of general, and became one of the pillars of the Higg army. And Clark, with the support of Cardinal Raphael, was also promoted to a lieutenant general, serving in the military department, and becoming an important pawn of the Holy See to enter the Higg military.
However, after the elimination of the Bolsma bandits, the Higg Emperor Busman Roland, who had regained some confidence, removed the original head of the military department and replaced it with the Marquis of Blatter, who treated the Holy See strongly, and soon after the minister took office, he ordered Clarke, who had mediocre military talents, to be removed from the military department and be responsible for the training of recruits, although the training camp for the recruits was twenty miles outside Triumph City, but since then Geraint has not seen Clark, who would have thought that he would suddenly appear at this time, and block his way.
"General Clark, I heard that you've been busy training recruits lately, how can you have the leisure to come here?"
The reason why Geraint asked this was because the training camp of the recruits was north of Triumph City, and the location they were in at this time was southeast of Higg, whether it was a general on the defending side or an officer who led the training of the troops, it was a felony to leave the defense area and garrison without permission.
"Haha!"
Seeing Geraint ask why he appeared, Clarke first looked up and laughed twice, not only did not answer Geraint's question, but asked:
"General Geraint's station is in Baden, how did he get here?"
"I was ordered by the military headquarters to escort two important guests to Triumph City. Where are you?"
Geraint asked with a sneer. He was emboldened because he was escorting the daughter of the Minister of War, and what was Clarke's doing?
"Coincidentally. I was also ordered to meet two important people. ”
"This is strange, why didn't the military department send someone to choose the Guards but the recruit battalion?"
Geraint doesn't believe Clark's nonsense.
"It seems that you don't know that the Guards have been conducting actual combat exercises recently. ”
Geraint frowned when he heard this, it was right for the Guards Legion to conduct actual combat drills under the arrangement of the military headquarters, but it was impossible for the Guards Corps stationed in Triumph City to be completely free, and Clark was lying.
"Who are you going to greet?"
Geraint asked tentatively.
"I've come to greet Viscount Benn and his wife, whom General Geraint has seen all the way north?"
Clark asked, taking a few steps forward.
"It's a coincidence that the two guests I'm escorting are none other than the Viscounts. ”
Geraint pretended to be surprised, but his heart was tight, it seemed that he had guessed correctly, this meeting was not a coincidence, but the other party came specifically for himself. Looking at Clark's look of no one in his eyes, I'm afraid that this matter is not so simple today. His gaze moved away from Clark's body and glanced behind him, Clark had brought about two hundred personal soldiers with him, although there was no advantage in numbers compared to his own, but it was difficult to ensure that there was no means to hide.
"In that case, General Geraint can hand over the two of them to me to escort back to Triumph City, Baden City is a military stronghold, and you can't leave it for too long. ”
"It's not impossible to hand over people to you, but you have to show orders from the military department. ”
"I don't have an order from the military department, but can you see if this order will work?"
As he spoke, Clark pulled out a parchment roll from his bosom and tossed it to Geraint. Geraint grabbed it, unfolded the sheepskin and saw the seal on it at a glance, and his pupils shrank violently.
"This is the Pope's order, when will Higg's army listen to the orders of the Holy See?"
Geraint unfolded the parchment scroll, circled around him, showed the Pope's seal to everyone around him, and then asked angrily.
"We are all the people of God of Light, and the Pope's orders are equivalent to God's will, and even His Majesty Busman Roland must obey them. What? Is General Geraint ready to disobey?"
In the face of Gerant's questioning, Clark replied with a sneer on his face and unhurriedly.
"Okay, you rebellious Clark, who actually disobeyed the orders of the military department and left the garrison without permission, and worked with the people of the Holy See to frame the nobles of the empire, I will take down you as a shameless traitor on behalf of the military department today. ”
Geraint was furious, he let out a loud shout, and rose from his horse, the man spreading out in the air like a giant eagle of hunting and swooping down on Clark.
Geraint, who was in the air, raised his fist slightly, the surface of the fist flashed with golden light, Clark was only a high-ranking swordsman, he was sure to contain him before he fled back to the camp. However, to Geraint's surprise, Clark didn't run in the face of his own pounce, and he didn't even mean to dodge, he just looked up at himself, not only was he not afraid, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which was a victor's smile.
Just when Geraint couldn't figure out the deep meaning behind Clark's smile, at the edge of his vision, a black shadow suddenly flew out of Clark's personal group, the speed of the black shadow was extremely fast, and the distance between him and Clark had already crossed in an instant, and the color of the black shadow in the air changed rapidly, and a ball of golden light burst out to hide the black shadow, and the momentum of the sudden explosion surged towards Geraint.