Chapter Seventy-Four: He's My Man
Standing in front of the gate of the palace, Arnani sighed and said, "If only you could take me to eat those human delicacies now." Lu Jingzhi nodded and said, "When the battle is over, I will definitely take you there." ”
"Then it depends on whether you can come back alive!" the crown prince said coldly in the back.
Arnani looked back at the crown prince and smiled slightly, and said casually: "He is the person I want, and no one can hurt him until I declare that I will give up on him." ”
The crown prince's eyes tightened suddenly, and he said angrily: "Queen Mother, please don't interfere in military affairs. This is also the limit that your father gave you. ”
Arnani raised her hands and stretched, and said lazily: "I didn't bother to take care of your military affairs, I didn't have to gray my hair." As she spoke, she brushed the hair hanging down beside her face with her hand, and said, "How to fight and how to use soldiers is your business, and you don't want me to pay attention to this." But ......" she pointed at Lu Jingzhi and said, "I have to decide this person, and you are responsible for protecting him." This is the responsibility given to you by the Queen Mother. ”
The crown prince was immediately angry, what is this called, do you still have to help this cheap queen mother take care of the little white face?......!" But......" he stammered, "Mother...... I asked him to fight, not to be protected by the Royal Guard. ”
"I don't care!" Arnani said brutally, "he's my man, and you're going to keep him safe." "Greed is just the appearance of the dragons, and arrogance is the essence of the dragons. "You don't want your father to be angry!" she knew where the crown prince's cover door was, which was also the reason why she could repeatedly control the crown prince.
"Perhaps, if he is willing to ......," the crown prince suddenly lost his arrogance when he heard his father's name, and desperately thought about which position was safest on the battlefield, "he can be my guard, follow me, and no one will be able to hurt him." ”
"No!" Arnani said fiercely, "you're going to bully him." ”
"Then, why don't you let him guard the baggage? In the rear of the battle line, at most, he supervises the transportation of war materials to the front line, which can be regarded as a safe place. "The crown prince has thought of a way again, if this dragon woman says that it can't be done, he will collapse. He didn't know why, every time he met this beautiful queen mother, he couldn't do anything about her. If this kind of appearance spreads, how can I hold my head up in front of the three armies.
Lu Jingzhi looked at the crown prince's embarrassed appearance, couldn't help but laugh, and said, "Al...... Your Majesty, please allow me to say a few words. ”
Arnani smiled and turned back and said, "Okay, you say." ”
Lu Jingzhi smiled at Al Nani and said to the crown prince: "Your Highness, please allow me to be with Duke Wensha. The so-called 'fighting tiger brothers, going into battle father and son soldiers', the Duke and I are father and son, so naturally we have to stand on the same front. He turned to Arnani and said, "Your Majesty, if I can come back alive, I will definitely take you to eat delicious cheesecake." ”
Arnani smiled, "Well, if you insist, then go for it." As a man, you have to show heroism on the battlefield. "This is not only the case for the undead, but also for dragons and humans? A man wants to win the favor of a woman, and most of them want to show his courage and strength. If his care for Lu Jingzhi is too obvious, maybe it will hurt his self-esteem. Thinking of this, Arnani no longer forced the crown prince to protect his beloved little man, but let him go and let him fight. If he wasn't in danger at all, how could he appear to be afraid of him?
She leaned down, tugged at his dozing coat, and whispered, "Come back alive." ”
Lu Jingzhi's heart moved, he had heard a lot of this tone, most of it was the advice of his mother or father when he went to school: "Come back early after school." The feeling of kindness made his nose a little sour. With a slight sniff, he replied in a low voice, "Got it." ”
Then, as I usually do when I go out to school, I walked away without looking back. He didn't have to look back to know that she was watching him at the gate of the palace.
War is brutal, and on the battlefield, even if you have the heart to take care of it, most of the time you can't fully control the battle situation. The crown prince originally put Lu Jingzhi and Duke Wensha in the configuration of the strategic reserve according to Al Nani's wishes, but when the battle situation was deadlocked, it was still inevitable to put their forces into the battlefield.
It was a battle in the Exedors Glades on the border. To the west is the Ivon Mountains, which stretch for hundreds of miles, and to the east is the Garas Valley, which stretches to the Nord Marshes and Scarborough Shoal, and beyond to the deserted Gobi Desert. So the battle was fought in the Ecdot Glades. For twenty years, both sides had built permanent fortifications near the Ecdot glades, and if one side crossed the woodland to attack, it was confronted with a strong group of enemy fortresses and a steady stream of reinforcements. But as long as you take the Exedor woodland, it is equivalent to mastering the bridgehead to attack the opponent, and basically only have the share of fighting people yourself, without thinking that your rear will be attacked.
At that time, the crown prince commanded the army to press the first-line fortresses on the principality's side, divided and surrounded each fortress, and attacked with all his might, hoping to take the fortress group before the enemy's reinforcements arrived, so as to avoid being attacked by the enemy. But the enemy fought hard inside the fortress, and the besieging forces had little success.
In the midst of his anxiety, a soldier suddenly reported that two advance cavalry detachments of enemy reinforcements had approached the Ecdot Glade, bypassing the area of the battlering fortress group, and attacking the woodland along the foot of the Ivan Mountains, intending to occupy the woodland and block the retreat of the Imperial side. The crown prince was startled and hurriedly asked the wise man beside him who was guarding in the rear. The wise man said the names of several lords in succession, and the crown prince shook his head to indicate that it was inappropriate, until he said that the Duke of Wensha led his troops to guard there, and the crown prince breathed a sigh of relief and said, "With that kid here, at least he can guard the back road for us, and maybe he can win." ”
The kid that the crown prince said naturally did not refer to Duke Wensha, but Duke Wensha's righteous son and army commander, Lu Jingzhi. Although he was a little dissatisfied with Lu Jingzhi, he also inquired about him in private and heard a lot of rumors about him. For example, when he was still an infantryman, he single-handedly single-handedly challenged a veteran knight and many infantry in the Ados army, and set off a private war between the Duke of Windsor and the former prime minister of Ados. It is also said that soon after he became a knight, he led some men to drive straight into the camp of the Ados army and killed the high-ranking knight Gomez, and even more outrageous, saying that he had just been promoted to a high-ranking knight, and he alone defeated the pursuing force of the three high-ranking knights of Ados, and even almost burned one of the high-ranking knights, Baronte. Although these stories are wonderful, the credibility is not very high, but under the fame, there will be no vain, at this time the offensive is tight, and he can't spare manpower to defend the woodland back and forth, so he can only rely on that kid.
The news of the enemy's attack reached not only the crown prince, but also the lords of the woodland. Most of the people who can be assigned to guard the woodland are small lords who have little strength, and there are only dozens of cavalry and only hundreds. Together, they seem to be quite powerful, but in their own state, they are no match for each other's well-trained large forces.
The barracks of the Ecdot glades were in chaos, with most of the lords giving haphazard orders to meet the enemy, knights sitting in their saddles and swords in their swords, staring blankly at the front line obscured by the trees, and the infantry frantically looking for their own ranks, their spears on the ground, ready to meet the onslaught of the cavalry.
Only the camp of the Duke of Windsor did not move in the slightest.
"Does it really matter?" Duke Wensha looked at Lu Jingzhi as if nothing had happened, feeling quite uneasy, "My child, the scout said that the enemy army has come from the foot of the mountain. ”
Lu Jingzhi smiled slightly and said: "Father, please rest assured, according to my calculations, without four hours, the cavalry of the principality will not be able to pass." ”
When Duke Wensha heard Lu Jingzhi say this, his heart was a little relieved, but he still asked a little uneasily, "Is there really no need to prepare in advance?"
Lu Jingzhi didn't say anything, but Gaso was together: "My lord, please rest assured." In combat, I have never seen a better genius than His Excellency the Magician. The magician was right, from the foot of the mountain to the woodland, it did not seem very far, but the ground became uneven with the undulation of the mountain, which was not conducive to the advance of the cavalry. They did this in order to avoid the front of our army, but at the cost of taking more time to get there. If calculated at the speed of the average cavalry rushing at full strength, as the magician said, it will take four hours to arrive. ”
When the Duke of Windsor heard this, he finally relented. At this time, the chaos outside was even more serious, some lords had already arrived at the pre-divided defense area, and some wanted to deploy nearby defenses, and quarreled with friendly troops. Looking at it, the infantry's defense line is even more chaotic, some spear formations are forward, some are left, and some are even backward, the most puzzling thing is that there are two lords' spear formations even facing each other, I really don't know who is coming.
Lu Jingzhi couldn't help laughing when he saw it, and said to Duke Wensha: "Father, look at this formation, is it necessary for us to mess up with their imbecile army?"
When Duke Wensha saw this, he also looked at old Gaso and smiled, and said, "It's not that they are imbecile, but that my son is too smart. ”
Lu Jing ordered his subordinate armies not to pay attention to others, and to seize the time to rest, because there would be a big battle to fight in a while. Human slaves were not so lucky, and the moment they learned that an enemy army was about to attack, they went outside to carry out civil engineering work according to the preset plan.
Lu Jingzhi estimated the time, and when the enemy army was still about an hour away, he ordered the whole army to be on alert, not to prevent the enemy from a surprise attack, but to prevent the rout of the army from rushing into battle. Once the friendly forces are defeated, it will definitely be defeated. In order to prevent them from running around, Lu Jingzhi broke the defense line he had arranged, leaving a wide enough escape passage on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also set up a clearly marked temporary resettlement area to contain the defeated soldiers.
Less than ten minutes after the anti-cavalry trenches and pikes were arranged, a cloud of smoke and dust rose into the sky in the distance, and the enemy cavalry arrived.
Will the enemy take over the Exedor's glades, and will Lu Jing's ability to turn the tide?
If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.