Chapter 017: Beginning as a Leader

Horn felt that these days were simply living in a dream, a dream like no other. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the first day he left the North City, his mother kissed him in the largest restaurant in the castle. He was worried that after that, his mother would hug him and cry, but this did not happen, which allowed him to retain the dignity of a knight in front of his peers.

The long sound of the trumpet and the people in the middle of the road saw them off, and he rode beside his father, and the girls threw flower petals at them along the roadside, and the bards sang praises, as if they had triumphed at this moment. When he crossed the south gate of the North City and looked back behind him, through the countless spear flags and the soldiers as dense as ants, the passionate knightly feelings in his body burst out at this moment.

The idea of a 100,000-strong army used to only appear in Uncle Sercy's military class, or in Grandpa Andrew's War Leader. But when he really put on silver armor, straddled a long sword at his waist, held the reins in his hand, and rode to the forefront of an army of 100,000 men, he understood why his father prayed for peace and longed for freedom, but he was extremely obsessed with war.

In the next few days, the army marched along the Beicheng Avenue, and every time they came across a village, villagers would come to pay their respects. Bringing bread and hard-boiled eggs, barrels of butter and spicy roasted meat, they followed the procession and shouted their father's name.

After walking past Lake Mochizuki, they walked out of Assyria along the edge of the Shadow Forest and into the territory of Nipur. On the night of camping closest to Scourge City, Uncle Mike tells him that his father was the lord of Nippur. Horn had known this for a long time, but he had always wondered why Nipur had become an underwater ghost town in the Unun Valley. Uncle Mike doesn't know either, and he suggests that Horn ask Selcie if he is a native of Nipur and a proud general of the previous lord of Nippur. Unfortunately, his father ordered Uncle Selcy to sit in the North City, and did not go south with the army, as did Uncle Lawrence, which was the only place Horn regretted.

But this regret did not affect his extremely happy mood. Since he was free from his mother's control, he no longer had to read those boring history books every day, let alone go to the seminary to pray, and he didn't have to ask little John to help him steal alcohol. Especially the last one, now that he has his own tent, his father also sent him a personal soldier, as long as the army camps at night, he can hide in the tent, drink as much as he wants, as long as he is not drunk, as long as his father summons him, he can still go to the big tent to listen to the strategic deployment.

In addition to this, he killed someone for the first time in his life, using the saber that Uncle Lawrence gave him on Naming Day.

I think about it now..... Due to the flood that flooded the city of Scourge 17 years ago, there are still natives in Nipur who are nostalgic for their homeland and refuse to leave. My father had said that all the Nipurians were descendants of the First Continent's royal army, and that they were sent by the Marshall family to visit unknown territories in Sumer. However, after the city of Nipur became an underwater ghost town, and my father and its citizens left the city to establish a northern city in the far north of Assyria, the territory of Nipur was infested with banditry, and became the most notorious human purgatory on the continent of Sumer.

Because winter was approaching, my father went to some villages along the way to offer condolences, brought food and bedding to the villagers, and urged them to leave Nipur and go to the northern city, but the stubborn villagers refused, and when my father left, they were robbed by bandits that night. His father, furious at this, immediately decided to postpone the southern expedition and stay in Nipur to clean up the bandits, and the Assyrian queen Mira and the lord of your Kane immediately agreed, because their border villages were also suffering.

As a result, Horn received his first assignment since the Southern Expedition. Uncle Mike called him along with two dozen other knights, most of whom were the sons of nobles in the North City, including Uncle Selcy's two sons, Ulf Selsey and Zira Selsi, the two fellows were as strong as yaks like Uncle Selcy, Ulf was good at using a long axe, and Zira was not inferior to Horn in archery. There are also two sons of the Marquis, the pockmarked Conn, whose father is Lenny, a close friend of Uncle Selsi, who controls the finances and livelihoods of Nippur respectively, and the other is the 'cow' Braque, who is said to have fed until he was four years old. The rest of the people, Horn, only felt familiar, maybe they had trained together, but they couldn't name them.

"You're their captain, Horn. The others don't object, right?" everyone seemed to be convinced of the young city lord, because most of them had met at the tournament and ended in defeat. "The task is simple," seeing that no one objected, Uncle Mike walked to the back of the long table, pointed to the map on the table, and continued, "There is a village to the west, and in the morning I sent someone to bring food for the winter, and the bandits must have set their sights on those things by now." He looked up at the young knights, "Bring me back the heads of those brutes, and not one of them will fall, do you understand?!"

Horn's heart pounded as he rolled over on his horse, and he wondered if it was scared or excited. Maybe both.

"Boss!" Zira always liked to call him. "Are you afraid?"

"Afraid," Horn tucked his helmet under his armpit and held the reins with only one hand, "but because he was afraid, he still moved forward, this is a true knight." ”

They rode out through the neatly arranged tents and through the west gate of the garrison. Sack-faced Conn sat in the saddle and looked down at the map Uncle Mike had given them. "Young City Lord, there is a shortcut on the map, Master Mike has marked it for us, is it a shortcut from the main road or a shortcut?"

"The soldiers are fast, let's take a shortcut. Horn told him.

"The shortcut is a bit dangerous, and you have to climb a mountain. Conn added, "If someone falls off a cliff, or if a big river stands in the way, we're going to have to turn back." ”

"I hate cliffs. One of the young knights said.

"I can't swim. Said another, younger knight.

"Then get back to your mother's suck!" Ulf yelled impatiently, "We are the Confederate Army!

"Hey, Ulf, don't do that. Horn turned back and said, "Rest assured, since Mistress Mike can give us this task, he must have consulted with his subordinates. There is no doubt that your father has contributed to the North City, and I am sure that he will never joke with the lives of the sons of nobles. Of course, this experience will definitely be dangerous, but it is not as dead as you imagined, we have been anointed with holy oil, and we are already real knights of the northern city, follow me, and bring back the heads of those beasts, unless you are cowards!" With that, he grabbed the horse's belly and ran forward, forcing them to either follow at once or be left behind.

Naturally, the young knights followed, for no one would admit that they were cowards.