Hyde City, the castle guard's house.

Sèvre, current commander of Hyde City. At the age of sixty, he was born into a declining aristocratic family in Newingman, and although he held the title of Viscount of the Empire, he was born into a family that had neither a vast fiefdom nor a herd of livestock, let alone a castle that symbolized nobility. During his childhood, he was no different from the children of the commoners, and his parents lived on only ten gold coins allocated by the Empire each month. For other nobles, the money given by the empire was just a symbol, showing their unique and noble status. But for his family, it was the only source of livelihood. However, although his family is in decline compared to other nobles, compared to the income of ordinary commoners of two or three gold coins a month, their family is also a well-off family.

At the age of sixteen, despite the opposition of his parents, he abandoned the plain and simple life to study at the Royal Military Academy in Wesley, the capital of the empire, with the dream of reviving his family's former glory. This is a military academy that specializes in recruiting the children of nobles, and it is the oldest military academy in the empire, and most of the important figures in the military circles of Newingman are from this academy, so it is also known as the "cradle of imperial generals".

In this "cradle", Sèvres underwent an unusually assiduous three years of military training, and graduated from this military academy with excellent grades, and he was assigned only a job as a secretary of the Imperial Military Logistics Department.

In the Empire, the military logistics department was known as the "Old Man's Club", and most of the people who worked in it were retired mid-level generals with no background. So for Sèvre, who was hell-bent on reviving his family's former glory, it was a grave for wasting his youth. However, his family had neither the money to bribe those in power, nor the illustrious background of Ferdinand. In desperation, he had no choice but to take his simple luggage to report on the Imperial Military Logistics Department, where he received a salary of seven gold coins per month. At the same time, many classmates whose grades were much worse than him were assigned to important positions, and they were promoted one by one within a few years. By the time Sèvres was thirty years old, he was still a secretary who worked with numbers all day, with the only change being that his salary had risen from seven gold coins to twelve.

Time passed in this unchanging life, many of his classmates at that time were high-ranking officials in the military circles, and some died on the battlefield, only he has not led a soldier once, fought a battle, and never went to the battlefield in more than 30 years after graduation.

The long years have sharpened the ambitions of those years. At the age of fifty-three, Sèvres was promoted through the ranks of the logistics department, but was only a quartermaster logistic officer in charge of horse rations and forage, and his daily job was to count and verify the number of imperial pastures and the haystacks stored over and over again.

Before this war with the Kingdom of Fabre, a quartermaster working under Yankel drowned inexplicably. So, a transfer letter was thrown to the Imperial Logistics Department, asking for a quartermaster to be transferred to the front.

For all the "veterans" of the munitions department who are aging, no one wants to go to war until they retire. In the end, this unfortunate errand fell on Sèvre, who was sixty years old and was about to retire in the second half of this year. In his own words, it was a false appointment at the wrong time, and he was a victim of it.

However, quartermasters on the front line do not actually have to go to the battlefield, they only prepare military supplies in the rear and wait for the delivery orders of the forward commander. But Kemp "The Lion" was a formidable opponent, and several of Jankel's generals died on the battlefield, and with no other candidates, Sèvr went from quartermaster to commander of the Imperial garrison in Hyde.

The opportunity that Sèvres had been longing for since he was nineteen years old came when he was retiring. Faced with such a ridiculous thing, Sèvres could not figure out whether he should be happy or sad.

Maybe the world is turned upside down like this, and no one can figure out how God will arrange a person's fate.

Lying on the bed in the castle guard's house, Sèvres had not slept well the previous night, and his mind was always full of strange thoughts that he did not understand.

As the morning sun shone through the window on the edge of the bed, Sèvres realized that he had wasted another night's sleep.

Alas, a new day has begun, and I really don't know when this war will end, and I may be able to return to Wesley, the capital of the Empire, to reunite with my family before I retire.

Although Sèvres did not revive the family's former glory as he wished, he was better than his father in one point. At the age of 60, he has two sons and a daughter, both of whom are now married, and he has added three grandchildren and a granddaughter to himself. At the beginning of this year, his granddaughter was also born. At the thought of this, Sèvres couldn't help but smile with relief.

Sèvres sat up from the bed and began his daily routine. Go for a jog three laps in the clearing, sit down for a glass of "cocoa" and start your day. This is also the morning habit of many "veterans" who work in the back office.

Although Sèvres is not the "veteran" of the logistics department, but the commander of the garrison in Hyde City, he still deals with those military logistics and supply matters every day. Because in the current battlefield strategic structure, Hyde City is the logistics supply center of Count Ferdinand's 30,000 cavalry, which is why Yankel will send a quartermaster to command the city.

After completing his "morning exercise", Sèvres strolled to the council chamber of the castle guard. There, there are more than a dozen "pillars" of the logistics department who are preparing to report to themselves for the day. As for the content of the report, it is nothing more than how much grain and grass has been sent out of the warehouse, how much has been put into storage, and how much is in transit.

Although they are all small things that seem like sesame mung beans to outsiders, Sèvres still deals with these things at a glance, and he doesn't want to make any mistakes before retirement and affect his life after retirement.

Just as Sèvres was finishing all the work at hand, a soldier ran in from outside with a panicked face. When Sèvres saw the soldier's panicked pace, he felt that something was about to happen, as if he had received a report from the logistics department more than forty years ago.

"Report to the general, the cavalry of the Kingdom of Fabre has appeared outside the city!"

Sèvres's mind went blank the moment he heard the news that enemy cavalry had appeared outside the city. It wasn't because of the fear of war, but because of an indescribable change of mood. The battlefield battle that he had longed for for forty years appeared, appeared in front of him, and he was a commander as he had been in countless dreams.

The hot blood in the old general's chest quickly spread all over his body after a short period of stup, and it seemed that at this moment, he had become a nineteen-year-old young man who had just stepped out of school.

Calming the excitement in his heart a little, Sèvres asked, "How many cavalry are there?"

"About a thousand!"

It seems that the remnants of Fabre have been defeated from the front, and perhaps this is the only real war in his life.

Sèvres stood up and paced toward the walls of Hyde City, escorted by his guards.

When Sèvres stood on the tower of the city wall, he clearly felt the respectful gaze of the soldiers on the wall, although his rank was only a major general, in the eyes of these young soldiers, he was still an unattainable superior. The excitement that this thought of Physèver in the depths of his heart rose again, and it seemed to have regained the impulse that had been hidden in his body for many years and belonged to a young man.

The Fabre cavalry outside the city was scattered, each of them looked unusually embarrassed, although everyone was still relatively energetic, but in the eyes of Sèvres, without strict discipline, the stragglers of Fabre were exhausted and had no combat effectiveness at all.

There was a palpable look of disappointment on Sèvre's face, he had hoped that the only battle he had commanded in his life would have a decent opponent, but Dana was clearly disappointed. In military schools, Sèvres heard the most common phrase from instructors: "Discipline is the life of a soldier, and orders are the mind of a soldier." It seems that his opponent does not seem to understand the meaning of this sentence.

Disillusioned, Sèvres was about to abandon the idea of taking the initiative to attack the enemy, but when he met Tork Orlando, the crown prince of Fabre standing under the banner, his passion was ignited again.

Before he retired, he captured or beheaded Fabre's crown prince alive, and let those old guys in the military world see that he was definitely a general, and what a wrong decision it was to give him up back then.

"In addition to the 2,000 infantry defending the city, the remaining 8,000 infantry assembled inside the east gate and prepared to attack. ”

Sèvre's orders were heard throughout Hyde City by the shouts of the soldiers, and with the loud sound of the order, the flame of passion in Sèvr's heart was also rising step by step. He was going to pour out all the grief and anger of these flames of passion on these Fabre cavalry.