Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Knight
I dismounted and drew my grandfather's saber. The long knife of the pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info oozing a trace of murderous aura in broad daylight, and I saw Fabel shiver lightly.
I said, "Come, Svadians." ”
The soldiers drew a circle as a border, and as soon as Fabel walked out of the circle, they immediately shot him.
We both went into the circle at the same time.
Fabel cautiously approached, tentatively stabbing me with a gun, which I dodged. Faber was a very old soldier, he had the stamina for every attack, and he never used all his strength to make any movement, in case he used too much force, so that I could get a chance.
I use knives and he uses guns, one is a one-handed weapon and the other is a long-pole weapon, and I can't take any advantage. I tried to get closer to him, and he tried to drive me away with his spear, and stepped back.
I took the fan-shaped cavalry shield from my back, held it in my left hand and the knife in my right, and approached step by step.
Faber began to tremble. And my palms started to sweat, of course, this was only after the fact, and I was so engrossed in the confrontation with Fabel that I watched his every move.
He didn't know the bottom of his mind, so I kicked my calf back and leaned in.
The tip of Fabel's spear stabbed at once, but it was blocked by my shield. Without hesitation, Faber turned the tip of the gun and slashed at my head.
I had expected this trick, because the old village chief used to be a lancer, and he had a good marksmanship, and he passed it on to me. What Faber uses are all the usual routines in marksmanship.
I lowered my head and rushed forward. The kung fu of the two moves, I have already posted it to Fabel's side. Before Fabel could react, my cavalry shield was already in close contact with the bridge of his nose. Faber fell to the ground, and as he was about to pull out his fighting hoe, I used my knife to pick the fighting hoe off the ground, and also to fly Fabel's last hope.
With a flick of my wrist, the blade was pressed against Fabel's neck.
Faber smiled bitterly: "Today is really evil, I was defeated by a Kugit boy." I'm convinced!Boy Kujitte, kill your Uncle Fabel, if you're a good man, I'll die a happy death!"
The Kugit soldiers shouted, "Kill him", "Chop him", "Castrate him and send him to Salander as a eunuch".
I sheathed my knife and pulled Faber up. Looking at Fabel's puzzled eyes, I said, "I respect you and your comrades. You are a loser, but I give you freedom. In return for your freedom, you must return to Svadia with the tokens of your comrades, and have your kings and lords reward you, understand?"
I turned to the soldiers of Kugit and asked, "Warriors of the steppe, can you set this brave man free?"
The Kugit people have always respected good men, and when they heard this, they all cried out, "Give him freedom."
Fabel changed his fierce image and suddenly became a gentleman, he saluted me, and then said: "Merciful Tatar chief, I, the knight, salute you from Fabel. Your virtues will be preached among your enemies before you meet them again. ”
I smiled and didn't say anything.
Faber picked up his comrades' tokens and limped away. The soldiers of Kugit cheered again, even more so than when I had just hit Fabel. I know that tonight, the soldiers who see this will be drinking and praying for me alone.
I didn't lose a single person in this battle, and I won the first battle. But I didn't think much of it at the time, and all I did was to take my men to clean up the battlefield, renew my equipment, and send the surplus loot to the bazaar in Halma, where I exchanged it for a heavy dinar.
The two officers sent by the Khan, seeing my crazy tactics, hurriedly left my army on the pretext of rewarding me.
Nayan Asugan reported his victory to Saiga Khan and rewarded his son Nayan Tilida with his tenacity and courage against strong enemies. Secondly, he gave me merit, saying that I was intelligent and harassed the enemy. Nayan Aguer played and told the khan the original story of the battle. At the beginning, I thought that it was touching that Nayan Aguer was so impartial to serve the country. After mixing in the officialdom for a long time, I learned that Nayan Aguer was at odds with Nayan Aguer, and secondly, he wanted to win over the young new lord, me.
When the khan heard of the good news, on the one hand, he rewarded him, and on the other hand, he asked the deputy marshal Nayan Boura to lead his army westward to assist the marshal. Unexpectedly, on the strategic deployment, the marshal and the deputy marshal had a disagreement. Nayan Boura thought that it was necessary to take advantage of the new defeat of the enemy, and the morale of our army was high, to advance westward, take Fort Rende, and use it as a springboard to besiege Dehrim. Nayan Asugan believed that in the battle of Al Deig, our army suffered serious losses, and we should make plans after resting. At the military conference in Halma, the marshal's protégés mingled with the generals who supported the battle. Nayan Boyura left with his troops and stationed himself at Fort Ahuen to defend it. Anyway, something went wrong, and the marshal should be responsible.
The reason why Nayan Asugan refused to fight was because the Khan gave him the fort of Lundia that he had previously conquered. In Calradia, if the king gives you any reward, you will not receive any reward in the near future.
On the Swadia side, Prince Dick escaped death, and the Svadians said that it was God's will, and King Haraus gave his grandson the title of "Prince of Sevawu", which means "the prince who will not die in great calamity." ”
The Count of Sweden was criticized by the king. In order to show that his rewards and punishments were clear, King Haraus deprived the Count of Teswedish of his fiefdom in Tilburg and gave it to the valiant Count Crespo. Because the Knights did not attack in time, resulting in the death of his grandson Crown Prince Dick, King Haraus was angry and dismissed the head of the Paraven Knights, Count Relo, who was able to fight well, from his post of Count Relo, and poor Count Relo accompanied King Haraus to watch the battle on the mountain, where could he command the Knights? Many lords of the Kingdom of Swadia were indignant at this order, and they expressed their concern and comfort to Count Relo.
As a young man, I was so entangled in the affairs of the khanates of these kingdoms that I didn't know how deep the water was, and I didn't know what intentions were hidden behind every word. I was so exhausted by these things that I always went to Halma's tavern after every military meeting to seek relaxation and relief with a good drink.
Many lords of the Khanate came to drink and indulge in the illusion of ethereal immortality caused by alcohol. After drinking heavily, they went in droves to have fun in the city of Halma, so that the people of Halma dared not speak in anger.
We are all wolves, all searching for our prey in the city of Halma. They were perverts, with eyes fixed on pretty girls and young women. Unlike them, I'm aiming for the talented and depressed men in the tavern. They got infamy and a few bastards who came to fight for territory and property, and I got to be a helper in the cause.
The heroes borrowed wine to express their nostalgia, and they were depressed in their chests. Whenever I saw men in the tavern looking up to the sky and sighing, I would go up and talk to them. So, on the same day, I became acquainted with Bestur, a steppe marksman who had come to Halma to avoid trouble, and James, a doctor who had traveled to the Kugit Khanate in search of opportunities. I drank and laughed in the Halma Restaurant, with Resarit, Uligi and Chanastura, six ambitious men. Seeing this, the other drinkers left one after another. When I saw the displeasure on the face of the tavernkeeper, I threw him a bag of dinars, and told him to serve him well, and not to spoil our wine.
The glittering dinar in that area changed the fate of many people. With this bag of dinars, the tavern owner hired a few girls to let the lords go to the rest every night. The lords were impressed by his attentive service, and the dinar turned his head into the tavernkeeper's pocket. A dozen years later, he became Halma's richest businessman, running 3 wineries and 5 breweries.
When Bestur and James saw the bag of dinars, they decided that I was a noble son with a strong family background, and that I would definitely have a future if I worked with me. So they served me for decades, even after discovering that I was not a nobleman. The decisions of the two of them not only allowed them to make their fortunes, but more importantly, they directly influenced the course of Calradia's history. Received an order from the marshal to go to the area of Fort Lundia to station a defense. I am glad that my fiefdom of Uluda, near Fort Lundia, is one of the areas I have been ordered to garrison.
On the eve of the departure, the streets of Halma resounded with the singing of pilgrims:
You see the moon with burrs, that's the sand Tengger wants to give you.
Sure enough, the southerly winds at the end of May brought with them the sand of Salander. My team marched out, with their backs to the wind and sand, and headed north to Urutana. In those days, the soldiers, my party, approached the poor village of Uludarna. It's hardly a village, and I prefer to call it a "shack cluster". The most ornate houses in the village are the wooden and stone huts of the village chief and the thatched huts of the so-called rich families in the village. The rest were sheds, and I think the sheepfolds of the pastor Dastulo were much stronger than these, and the poorest people in the village even lived in caves. The naked children were lifeless, just sitting on the ground and basking in the sun, a few of them were more agile, and a few of the older villagers were picking up something on the ground and putting it in their mouths, and some of the villagers were holding the bark of grass roots and munching. The men were ploughing the fields, and I saw them shaking their heads at the sick crops, and the women were in the woods, looking for edible wild fruits and fungi.
I have heard that Nayan Tirida was originally appointed lord of Uludana, but he refused to be appointed. I had thought he was a humble and noble man, but now I understand the reasons for his refusal to appoint
My heart twitched, the same as I felt decades later with a heart attack.
When my brothers saw the village like this, they stopped talking and laughing. There is often sand hidden in the scales of the armor, in the hair, and in the folds of the clothes. Although leeward, everyone's face was blown an earthy yellow.
By the time we had walked through the forests of Ahuon, my mood had improved with the weakening wind and sand, and soon my mood had deteriorated again because of the terrible conditions of my fiefdom.