Section 10
In her spare time, Rena always likes to sit alone and pray. Her prayers had no purpose, just to calm her heart.
This habit was developed after the ambush of the cavalry brigade of Viscount Donna a few years ago, when a thousand lives were burned to ashes by fire under Rena's nose.
It was she who started the fire with her own hands!
Since then, Rena has had to sit and pray every night, or the image will flash in her mind.
The gods have maintained their mystique since time immemorial.
So, no matter how devout Rena was, the goddess never responded.
As time went on, Rena also became more and more confused, she had no idea if what she was doing was right, and she didn't even know what she was after.
Was it just for the sacred vow of the time?
The appearance of his father and the bits and pieces of Faun's father and son have become more and more blurred under the erosion of time.
This poor girl, even if she has obtained the status and wealth that countless people dream of, she is lonely, so lonely that she drifts aimlessly to a small boat in the sea.
Gray's words yesterday had a big impact on her, because, since her father died, after a period of confusion and wandering, she had used Gray as a big tree to shelter from the wind and rain, and now, this big tree is about to fall again?
It's like what happened a few years ago.
It came so suddenly.
She wasn't ready to face it all at all.
She was only twenty years old, and she had not experienced too little, and her nervousness had suffocated her, and only the mercy of the goddess could relieve her tension, so she had been meditating and praying after lunch today.
Is it just like watching from the sidelines, just like it was a few years ago?
No!
Rena shouted in her heart, a flash of madness on her face.
"Knock! knock!"
Suddenly, a dense drum beat rang in her ears, which shook Rena, who had been sitting quietly, this kind of drum sound was all too familiar to her, and it sounded almost every moment during the bloody battle outside Byan City the other day.
Reina reflexively stood up, the knight's armor on her body 'rattling' with her movements, she took a deep breath and grabbed the steel sword next to her, and walked quickly out of her private tent.
Just around this time, her attendant Lila arrived from the side.
Without waiting for Rena to ask, the sound of the iron hooves of the war horse running came from a distance, and Rena and Lila both followed the reputation, only to see that the dusty herald was holding Gray's command sword high in his hand, and shouted at the top of his voice from a long distance: "Baron Rena, Lord Viscount, let you rush to the front-line camp as quickly as possible." ”
After confirming that Rena had heard the order, the herald turned her horse and galloped in the other direction. Obviously, Rena wasn't the only one he wanted to inform.
On the way, Rena's intelligence officer had already told her the battle report from the front, and although it was a small victory, she was not happy, because it was not an established tactic at all.
She couldn't help but quicken her pace.
By the time Rena arrived at Gray's observation post, Gray was furious, as she expected.
"Who is in command of the front-line camp?"
Gray's gaze was fixed on the seemingly victorious battlefield below, and there was not a trace of expression on his face.
According to the original plan, the trap here was set against the main force of the orcs, which was also one of Gray's established main battlefields.
Just in the morning, he had given an order at a routine military meeting - if it was a small orc vanguard army, let them pass first.
Of course, Gray, as the commander-in-chief, did not explain to his subordinates why he did this.
"A small vanguard unit, let him go a little deeper? What does it matter? My two corps have been waiting in the rear for a long time, as long as they dare to come in, there is no possibility of getting out! Now, the archer troops and traps are used, and they even let people run away at least half of them!"
Gray laughed angrily, and he grabbed the hilt of his sword with both hands, and slammed it vigorously on the wooden attic of the watchtower, making a "knock! knock!" sound, louder than the other.
This sound matched with the sound of the orc war drums in the distance, and every time it sounded, it was like knocking on the hearts of everyone present, and at this time, no one dared to step forward to speak.
Rena knew that Gray knew very well who the commander was, and she understood why Gray asked, she glanced at Taqia, who was already in a cold sweat on her forehead next to her, and said, "Knight Gus El is Baron Tachia's uncle and Baron Lanter's cousin. ”
"This idiot. Baron Tacia muttered quietly.
A few years ago, because Gray felt guilty about Sterrant's death, he canonized many members of the Rand family as knights after the war, and Gus El was one of them.
Gray glanced at Rena, then swept his gaze to Tacia, "Take that dear uncle of yours where he belongs, I never want to see him again, remember, forever!"
"My lord, the war has begun, and the soldiers will have ideas for replacing the Knight of Gus El at this time. Rena stopped Takia, who was about to leave, and persuaded her.
"Huh?" Gray's gaze swept coldly towards Takia, who was stagnant, and Rena who ignored him.
Tachia was secretly glad that he thought Rena's persuasion would work, after all, she was telling the truth.
However, he didn't know that Gray was now looking for an opportunity to weaken the power of their Rand family in Harrens, and now that the knight named Gus El had stepped up to let Gray clean up, how could Gray let it go?
Gray's gaze made Tazia's scalp tingle, and he stopped and subconsciously took a step. When the sound of clear footsteps reached Rena's ears, the baron realized how stupid she had just been, and she secretly looked at Gray's side, and couldn't help but say in her heart: Is it now ready to do something?
While she was thinking nonsense, Gray's voice came again: "Since the battle has begun, then it can't be stopped, according to the intelligence analysis detected by the scouts, the main force of the orcs will not be more than fifty miles away from here at most, let our cavalry prepare, I need them to go around from the east bank to the enemy's flank." ”
"I'll do it myself!" Reina didn't hesitate to take on the task.
Gray glanced at her lightly and said: "Let others go, this task is very simple, the heavy cavalry and light cavalry attack orcs can't resist at all, you have a more important mission." ”
Rena was stunned when she heard this, and she thought of the task that Gray had given her yesterday.
Moreover, Gray was right, the orcs did not carry heavy armor equipment in this raid, and they only had passive resistance in the face of the cavalry charge.
"Can Knight Hanks go?" Rena suggested.
Gray shook his head, "The hoplites need the leadership of the Hanks knights, and the frontal battlefield needs the hoplites to be in front. ”
He was never stingy with his appreciation of Hanske.
"That ......" Rena suddenly couldn't find a candidate, although the task was simple, but it was a great test of the commander's on-the-spot adaptability, because the timing of the cavalry attack must be grasped, and the best time was of course when the main force of the orcs was entangled by their own infantry, at that time, the flanks of the orcs would be completely exposed.
So, it requires not only resilience, but also patience and faith.
Suddenly, Rena thought of someone, she looked at Gray, and said uncertainly: "I have recruited a regular knight, he has been baptized by the previous king himself, I have seen him lead a few peasant soldiers to fight the orcs, although some of his own strength, but his command ability is beyond doubt. ”
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PS: Why didn't anyone reply to the post of the supporting character's name solicitation?
It feels so embarrassing!