Chapter 50: Let the Tiger Return to the Mountain?
Vega is caught in a dilemma.
He wanted to kill all the Kingdom soldiers here, as these heads were enough to send him to the rank 4 apprenticeship.
But he couldn't kill the soldiers of the kingdom who had already surrendered.
Because once this matter was leaked, he didn't dare to guarantee that the military headquarters of the empire would protect him as a nobody at the international summit, after all, he was just an unknown second lieutenant company commander.
A second lieutenant company commander is not worthy of the empire to make a big fuss about him.
If you want to increase your strength, but you are subject to international conventions, it is difficult to have both fish and bear's paws after all. If it was an ordinary officer, it would probably be okay if he encountered this situation, after all, his life was important, and his strength had a chance to improve, but Vega was a greedy person.
Fish and bear's paws, he wants both.
Vega looked at Adjutant Charles and said, "Sergeant, can I trust you?"
Char was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became excited.
After such a long time together, in the eyes of Adjutant Char, Vega is a chief worthy of his life, and now such an excellent chief asks if he can be trusted, is this to train him to be a confidant?
"Xia Guan is willing to dedicate his life to you. ”
The adjutant made a fist with his right hand and slapped it on the heart, and he stood upright and swore loudly.
"I believe in you. ”
Vega nodded and said, "You only need to tie their hands with ropes to escort these prisoners of war back to the outpost, and finally remember to keep a distance of 300 meters from them." ”
"Yes, Company Commander. ”
The adjutant agreed without hesitation, and at the same time asked questions: "Is it too risky to keep 300 meters, the lower official is afraid that the people of the Kingdom Army will take the opportunity to escape." ”
"Escape?"
A bright smile tugged at the corner of Vega's mouth, "Then let them escape." ”
With that, Vega walked towards the Kingdom Army in front of him.
Char looked at Vega's petite back not so much as thinness, and couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect the company commander to laugh is quite innocent and cute, if it's just an ordinary child, it must be quite pleasing, but it's a pity that the empire actually let such a young child be trained to be an officer for war......"
He took Vega's bright smile to heart.
He felt that he would never see such an innocent and brilliant child's smile in the future, and the future company commander would definitely be an iron-blooded officer with a blade of blood. He shook the video crystal on his chest, and let his subordinates treasure this still good memory.
"I accept your surrender. ”
Vega looked at the 400 full kingdom army and said: "According to the Imperial Convention, I will keep your lives, but I will confiscate your weapons and deprive you of your freedom, if your motherland does not pay the ransom within the specified time, we will have the right to execute you, do you have any opinions?"
"We accept them all. ”
All the kingdom troops breathed a sigh of relief, in general, in this case, the kingdom must pay a ransom due to the righteousness of the country, although it is inevitable that they will be treated differently when they return to the country, but a life is finally saved.
"Good. ”
Vega said loudly: "Adjutant, the aftermath will be left to you, in order to prevent other invading troops, I will complete the rest of the daily patrol tasks alone, remember my order just now." ”
"Yes, Company Commander. ”
The adjutant hurriedly responded: "Do you need to assign some people to continue your daily patrol duties with you?"
"No, you don't. ”
Vega directly denied: "The work of escorting the captives is already understaffed, and I am a professional, even if I encounter danger, there will be no danger to my life, so leave the rest of the work to me alone." ”
"Xia Guan understood. ”
The adjutant watched Vega's figure disappear from sight, and then began to arrange for the soldiers to collect weapons, take prisoners, and restrict freedom, and when all preparations were completed, he began to give orders.
"All of them. ”
The adjutant said, as the temporary commander, "Now start taking the prisoners back to the guard tower, let the prisoners of the Kingdom Army go ahead, and keep a distance of 300 meters to prevent the prisoners from rioting, and the crossbowmen will be on guard at all times." ”
"Yes. ”
Everyone obeyed the order and began to escort the captives back to the watchtower.
They kept a distance of 300 meters at all times.
The journey from the sentry tower is more than 15 minutes, and due to the need to escort prisoners, I am afraid that the time will be correspondingly extended by about 10 minutes, which adds up to about half an hour's journey.
The watchtower is built on a high place, and there are many hills and mountains, and the way back needs to be along the foot of the mountain.
When they reached 1/3 of the way, the Kingdom Army began to whisper.
"Barus, is what you said really going to work?"
"The Imperial Army is 300 meters away from us, we are only tied with our hands and not our feet, and the other party's professional has also left, at this time, we are scattered in a hurry, and the Imperial Army will definitely not be able to catch up. ”
A thin senior soldier said to a soldier with the rank of sergeant: "Sir, now you are the highest-ranking officer, please don't hesitate any longer, there is not much time left for us, do you really want to become a prisoner?"
Do you want to be a captive?
Hearing these last words, the originally timid Wang Jun sergeant gritted his teeth.
He suddenly pushed aside the crowd and shouted: "It is better to be broken than to be broken, we are not prisoners, we have not been defeated! Warriors, please regain your glory, I order you as a sergeant officer, now the whole army retreats, let the arrogant Imperial Army miscellaneous people regret it." ”
Crash.
As if they had found their backbone, the Kingdom Army began to follow the sergeant and run forward.
Due to the distance between the two armies of 300 meters, the Kingdom Army, which was facing the threat of death, burst out with a speed that the Imperial Army could not match, and only a few of them died under the arrows of the crossbowmen, while most of them had disappeared from the sight of the Imperial Army.
"Private, how far is it. ”
The sergeant glanced nervously behind him, and when he found that the Imperial Army couldn't catch up with them for a while, he hurriedly asked the senior soldier Barus next to him.
Private Barus replied breathlessly, "Sir, I'm familiar with this area, we will cross the foot of the mountain, and then make a detour to the east, and we will only need to walk another seven hours to return to the kingdom's watchtower. ”
"Hahaha. ”
The joy of regaining his life made the sergeant laugh heartily: "Okay, well, now that the Imperial Army is probably repenting of their intestines, they are arrogant and keeping a distance of 300 meters from us, are they underestimating the speed of our escape?"
"Sir, you're wrong. ”
Barrus grinned and said, "We didn't escape, we weren't captured, we just had to make a strategic choice to retreat based on the current situation. ”
"Private, that's a good point. ”
The sergeant nodded in satisfaction and continued with his troops.
Meanwhile.
Vega, who was standing on the top of the mountain, lowered the telescope in his hand.