After being looked at by countless knights, Stannis finally asked about their camp, the northwestern corner of the camp......

It seems that he is really unpopular, because he finds that his camp, which was once remote, is now a public toilet......

Even when he got here, there were a few guys who in the newly dug pit and didn't pay any attention to him.

"Boss, do you want to chop them up!" shouted an angry Robert, drawing his sword.

Stannis hurriedly stopped him, he didn't want to make a fuss, "Don't, the main purpose of our coming out this time is to keep a low profile, we must be low-key! Korodov, you take a few people and throw these guys into the manure pit." ”

Soon, the unlucky ones were crying and struggling in the fermented dung, and although the dung pit was only half a man's height, it was not so easy to climb up.

After he finished breathing, Stannis started to worry again, this must not be good here, where should he set up camp?

At this moment, a voice sounded from behind him.

"Stan!"

Stannis turned around to find an old man shouting to himself happily, and a dozen well-dressed guards were guarding him.

The man looked familiar, and after a moment's thought, Stannis remembered that he had seen this face at a dinner party hosted by Anist.

He was Sean Ben Bernard, an old friend of the elder Stennis, and an Imperial envoy.

I didn't expect to meet 'acquaintances' here, and of course Stennis was overjoyed.

"Uncle Sean Bing!" he said in a warm tone of surprise, and he already made an exaggerated gesture to hug the old man.

But in an instant, a dozen sharp pickaxes were aimed at him, and it was the guards who looked like they wouldn't let him get any closer.

"What...... What's going on?" Stannis froze in the face of the menacing men.

Sean Bin smiled apologetically at him, then motioned for the guards to step back.

"I don't scare you, I hope you don't be surprised, these are the guards assigned to me by His Majesty the Emperor, and they have been ordered to prevent all dangerous situations from happening. ”

Isn't that the royal guard?, Stannis looked at the six-foot-tall men, no wonder the gold-painted armor they wore in the camp was to show off their identity.

"I didn't expect to meet so soon that day. It seems that Sean Bing didn't see through Stennis for what he really was, and still treated him like a nephew.

"I didn't expect to meet so soon!, Uncle Sean Bing, what are you doing here, isn't it that the empire has failed to mediate?"

The old man sighed, "I am ashamed of His Majesty the Emperor's entrustment and have not been able to quell this fight, but I still want to do my best here to prevent the further expansion and deterioration of the war." ”

It turned out that he had come to be an observer, "Then you will not let Savoy on the other side misunderstand you by staying in the camp of the Duchy of Tanis, and will make them mistakenly think that the Empire is on our side." ”

Sean Bin laughed, "You don't have to worry about this, the empire is absolutely neutral among the princes below, and my deputy, Prince Philip, the deputy envoy of the empire, is opposite at this time, with the Duke of Savoy." ”

It turned out to be a bet on both sides. Stannis is very disgusted with this kind of behavior at both ends of the rat's head, and has no principles at all!

"Then what is the reason for the outbreak of war?" he asked, for he only knew that it was a lord under Savoy who had changed his ways, but there was no need for such a big formation, and wouldn't it be as easy for medieval lords to defect to each other as it was to eat and drink?

Sean Bin gave him a meaningful look, he didn't expect this rumored ridiculous lord to be so interested in politics.

"The cause of the war was that the Duke of Savoy wanted to marry the daughter of the Marquis of Red River, Red River Fortani, but she had already been betrothed to someone else, but the Duke of Savoy still ordered him to break the marriage contract, wanted to marry him, and threatened to send troops to fight if he could not get it. The Marquis of Red River had no choice but to take his territory and defect to the Duke of Tanis, who was of course happy to gain a large territory, so he sent troops to protect it, but was blocked by the army of Savoy in this mountain pass. ”

After hearing the reason for the war, Stannis couldn't help but open his mouth and said incredulously: "Just for this reason, for a woman?"

Sean Bin shook his head with a wry smile, the little guy in front of him was really too young, "Of course not, although it is for these things on the surface, but there is already an undercurrent surging underneath, and many forces have already taken action to wrestle with each other, and this war is estimated to be the best result." ”

Stannis was confused, and people like him, who were not qualified enough to be members of the keyboard Standing Committee, certainly did not know why war was the best outcome, and politics was indeed the most complicated thing in the world.

"By the way, where do you live now? Do you want to move to me? Sean Bin said politely to him.

But Stannis was not polite at all, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, Uncle Sean Bing, my little nephew still has a lot to ask you about!"

Since all that has been said, Sean Bin has no reason to refuse him, and by the way, more than 20 people under his command finally have tents to settle down.

Night

Far from being as silent as Stannis had imagined, the camp was bustling with women and moonshiners walking through the tents, bringing countless laughter and laughter. If it weren't for watching the drunken soldiers gesturing with swords to each other, he would have thought that these people were here for an autumn tour.

"This ...... This military discipline is too lax. "Even people like him who are lazy can't stand it.

Where is this to be warned, all the depravity of the world can be found here.

Outside the tent, for example, a group of naked women wrestled in the mud, and the soldiers next to them laughed and drank wine and threw coins on them. The peddlers tried their best to sell their wares to passers-by, and Stannis really couldn't understand why the strong men were wrapped in layers of dyed cloth, and what was the use of them buying them! Even the black pigs had to run through the camp and drink in a sink with the drunken soldiers.

Stannis couldn't accept it for a while, it was too different from his impression of the army.

"Don't be so surprised? Don't you know that the army is the most filthy place in the world? some desperate murderers and robbers hide in the army, and the lords are happy to recruit these scum into the army to expand their numbers, so can you expect these people to be moral models? Robert comforted him.

Stannis shook his head, he would never let his army degenerate like this.