The charcoal fire in the wooden house glowed red, Arthur took out a pot of wine, and the fire and wine were lit, and Jose Sr. slowly recounted the past.

"Keynes was the youngest division commander of the Blizzard Legion back then, and although he was the son of the Shirlo family, he did not have the arrogance and arrogance of the son of the big family. The soldiers below all like the commander of the Cairns Division, and there are even rumors among the soldiers that the commander of the Cairns Division will be the best candidate for the next commander of the Blizzard Legion. ”

Arthur laughed, only a soldier who didn't understand politics at all would pass it on. Although Arthur was young, he also knew that Keynes would never be the commander of the Blizzard.

The main force of the Isaac Kingdom is the Five Field Legions and the Praetorian Guard of the Royal City.

The captains of the four legions of Warsong, Frost Thunder, Blazing Fire, and Iron Flow are from the four major dukely families of the kingdom. The Breuzer Legion is His Majesty's uncle, Prince Hobbes, and the Praetorian Legion is His Majesty's younger brother, Prince Rex. Therefore, the Blizzard Legion and the Praetorian Legion are the forces under the control of the King himself, and if the leader of the Blizzard Legion is a person from the family of the four dukes, it will create an imbalance of political power, and Straych will not allow this to happen under any circumstances.

What Arthur didn't expect was that Keynes would rise to the position of division commander at such a young age, and the division commander was simply unattainable for himself.

The military system of the kingdom is that a field regiment has jurisdiction over the front, rear, center, left and right five armies, with a full strength of 100,000 people. Each army had four divisions, each with between four and five thousand men. Arthur's current Hoog Infantry Regiment was only one of the infantry regiments of the 3rd Division of the Former Army of the Blizzard Regiment, and it had crossed four levels from a squadron leader to a division commander.

Jose took a sip of wine and continued to speak slowly, "But then no one thought that the most promising commander of the Keynes Division left the Blizzard Legion, and no one knows where he went later?"

"Why did he leave?" asked Arthur hurriedly, which was what he cared about most.

Jose shook his head and smiled bitterly, "How can we soldiers know about the decision made by the division commander? ”

The clue was suddenly broken at this point, and Arthur looked disappointed.

Unexpectedly, Jose continued: "The sudden departure of the commander of the Cairns Division in the Blizzard Legion back then was a big deal, and our soldiers guessed that it might have something to do with that battle. ”

"What battle?"

"Back then, our Wind and Snow Legion and the Orcs had a big fight in the Canyon of Sighs. Keynes's division was trapped in the canyon by the orcs for some reason, the battle was too bad, and less than 500 people rushed out alive in the end of the division of 5,000 people, and the battle loss rate was ninety, and the entire division was almost wiped out. ”

"Tell me the details. ”

At that time, the commander of our regiment was not yet Huge, and he was stationed in the defense area 300 kilometers away from the Sigh Canyon to prevent the orcs from sneaking up on the rear, and he didn't even catch a single hair in such a big battle. ”

Arthur pondered for a while and asked, "Where is Commander Keynes's division now?"

"It's long gone. Many of the soldiers who rushed out of the Sigh Canyon alive retired directly, and some followed the commander of the Keynesian Division, which was completely rebuilt, and there are probably not many who are still in the Wind and Snow Legion. ”

Arthur fell silent, and the clue was completely broken here.

"How is the Cairns Division Commander now?" asked José tentatively.

"He died more than three years ago?"

Jose was stunned for a moment, then sighed softly, "It's a pity." ”

"But he's found a good owner for the Starfall Sword. ”

"Huh?"

"You are very similar to the division commander back then. ”

"Like him, the bearded?" said Arthur laughed.

"Did he grow a beard later?"

"He didn't have a beard then?"

Neither of them spoke, and no one knew what Keynes had gone through back then, letting him leave the army, and making him deliberately change himself?

Arthur fell into a long silence again, and he didn't even notice when Jose was gone.

However, when José left, he took his leather armor, cloak, and sword.

......

The Keynes incident seems to have passed, and Arthur never mentioned it since.

From the next day, Arthur joined the patrol team, and every day he had to lead a team to walk back and forth on the fifteen-mile defensive line.

Outside of patrol duty, he would follow Jose or the monkeys to hunt in the woods, hunting pheasants, porcupines, etc., to improve the food for the squadron brothers.

Arthur's archery skills from elven archers are more than a little better than that of monkeys, and since Arthur joined the hunting team, the squadron has been eating meat almost every day.

The soldiers are said to have lived the happiest life since they became soldiers.

But within a few days, they were in a hellish ordeal.

The reason is that the monkey spent all day grinding Arthur to learn archery. Inspired by the monkey, Arthur simply began to teach all the soldiers of the entire squadron martial arts, and he taught the "trick to death", Arthur, who had never been a teacher, and the coaching method was naturally copied from Randall's training method.

For the first time, these soldiers experienced the devilish side of their squadron leader.

In addition to training his soldiers, Arthur's own cultivation did not fall behind, and Arthur also found the best sparring opponent for himself, that is, the two human-faced demon bears.

After the two demon bears lost their cubs, they did not leave their original nests, and as a result, Arthur came to the door every once in a while.

When the two demon bears rushed up together, Arthur turned and ran. At first, the two bears were still chasing behind, but after many times, they knew that they couldn't catch up, so they simply didn't bother to chase.

When a demon bear pounced on it alone, Arthur had a man-bear battle with the other party, and Arthur did not kill him now, completely regarded the demon bear as an opponent to hone his martial arts and strength.

Arthur made another unexpected discovery, there was naturally a lake near the Winterfall Lake station. The lake is not large, only two or three square kilometers, and the lake is not deep but cold and biting.

Arthur found that cultivating Danyang Refining God in the icy lake water, combined with the "Ice Spirit Heart", not only completely offset the burning sensation during cultivation, but also cooled and transparent his whole body.

There are no women here anyway, and Arthur now has to strip off naked every day and sit cross-legged on a bluestone in the lake to practice for a period of time, only exposing the part above the neck when cultivating.

The days of the barracks flew by, and when the soldiers celebrated with the meat and wine that had been suddenly distributed on it, Arthur realized that the New Year had arrived unconsciously.

After drinking, back in the room, Arthur lay on the bed, looking at the roof in a daze, "It's another year, the New Year in Wangcheng must be very lively, I don't know how my friends are?"