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The two armies that retreated to El were camped on both sides of the southern city, and although the Knights of the Sun branch were far outnumbered by the Duchy of Gay, they were the ones who were reluctant to join forces, and they disdained to be with the Gay army. 10,000 knights and 20,000 soldiers are different after all, the soldiers of the Guy Army are like the Knights of the Guardian Order of the Hill Empire, picking someone to put in the end, and the faith value is estimated to be lower than that of Aluca.

In the "Age of Peace", if there is friction between the Duchy of Guy and the Hill Empire, it is always the Knights of the Sun who fight, and the army of the Duchy of Guy is reluctant to move, they would rather march south to see if they can get some advantage from the weaker principality. Since the first Rhine kings did not leave a written record when they divided the fiefdoms of the twelve families, the various principalities were always dissatisfied with the established territorial scope. A certain grand duke suddenly remembered that his grandfather had fished in a river to the north, which could be one of the reasons for the fight for territory.

And the wars between these principalities often only take place in the countryside, skirmishes between thousands and hundreds of people. The army of the Duchy of Guy has not been tempered by real blood and fire, and has not witnessed the tragic situation of corpses on the battlefield.

In the first battle with the Knights Cathar of the Hill Empire, the Duchy of Guy had an army of 50,000, the Knights of the Sun still had 30,000 knights, and the Knights of the Cathar had only 50,000. The original plan was for the heavy spearmen of the Guy Army to be at the front, the archers to be behind, and the Knights of the Sun to outflank them. Who knew that after the spearmen in the front row of the Guy Army were crushed by the Knights of the Cathar, the second row did not go up, but broke down after seeing the tragic situation of their comrades being assassinated by the cavalry and stabbed with rivers of blood, and fled in all directions.

The formation was in chaos, and the Knights of the Scorching Sun had no choice but to dispatch in advance and take on the task of covering the retreat of the large army. But not only the soldiers of the Guy army were on the run, but also the commanders, and as a result, they could not even retreat in an orderly manner. The first battle resulted in numerous casualties and basically decided the fate of the Duchy of Gay. If it weren't for the desperate efforts of the Knights of the Burning Sun, they might even be wiped out.

Although the defeat was due to the fact that the Knights of the Cathar had gained extraordinary strength...... According to the common sense ingrained in the minds of the Gay army, it was almost impossible for the first wave of cavalry to break through the heavy spearmen defenses. As long as they set up a tall tower shield that can be called a strategic weapon, and hide behind the shield and poke out sharp spears, they can make countless cavalry fall from their horses and die. Cavalry often had to storm several waves, with a rain of arrows and hundreds of lives to open the gap.

But the weakness and demoralization of the Guy army was too much......

After the war, Brandon, the head of the division, scolded Lucas like a son, but Lucas himself did not do it. He studied military strategy and the art of war when he was in the Rhine Kingdom, but he had no talent for it. As a warrior, he is indeed qualified, but he can't be a grand duke.

After successive defeats and retreat to Eyre, the Guy's army was demoralized. If it weren't for Earl Brandon's strong supervision and severe punishment of deserters, I am afraid that there would not be a few people left in the barracks by now.

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The barracks were filled with the stench of people who wanted to cover their noses and flee, like a slaughterhouse that hadn't been cleaned in years. There were wounded soldiers with pus wounds everywhere, and their ears were full of painful ** and cursing sounds. The Guy army has requisitioned all the medicine hoarded in the city of Eyre, which is still a drop in the bucket, and a large number of wounded soldiers have not been treated, and they have to wait for the arrival of the pursuers all day long.

Jack had just turned twenty years old, and he had seven siblings, and his small field was already full. As a descendant of peasants, he had no money to learn a trade that he could use to make ends meet, and he was not even wanted by the carpenters and tailors in the village. There is no land, no craft, and there is only one way in front of him - to join the army.

Fortunately, although he was not physically strong, he was okay, and he successfully joined the Guy army, which was indispensable for the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Jack thought that after joining the army, the most that he would do was to attack the small villages in the south with a spear and shield, or to engage in military exercises to satisfy the strange pleasures of the Grand Duke, and to make a disaster in the village, and to change jobs back and forth between bandits and soldiers, but he didn't expect the Hill Empire to suddenly declare war......

In just half a month, he tasted the smell of blood, like rust, learned that a riding spear in a high-speed impact can lift a person's head away, sharper than a sword, and witnessed that the robe that was still talking and laughing together yesterday has become a corpse in the wilderness that no one has to collect today.

War is something that makes people grow up quickly, and Jack, with his cowardice and fast running, was lucky enough to survive a few battles. On one occasion, an enemy catapult threw a burning boulder at him, smashing half of the robe next to him, and the flesh was not enough to describe the terrible situation, and the intestines and internal organs flowed to the ground.

Jack remembers the unfortunate man eating the dry, hard bread from the army, and telling him that he had a beautiful fiancée in his hometown, more beautiful than the pansies that bloomed in the spring, but later became the lover of the lord's illegitimate son. If you can survive this war, you will go back to your hometown and kill the illegitimate child and snatch your fiancée back......

Now Jack understands that in this era of human life, there is no way to plan for the future. No matter what good expectations you have, when you die, there is nothing.

He believed that the burning stone had killed someone else, not himself, because his belief in the sun god was more devout. The Knights of the Sun, Archduke Lucas Gay, the famous Earl of Brandon, were useless, only the gods could save him.

"You know what......" said Jack, sitting on a wooden stool, mysteriously and confidently, "this war is not as simple as we seem, it is the god of light and the god of the sun testing their own believers......"

He was listened to by four comrades from the same squad, all in their twenties, with stubble on their immature faces and wriggling Adam's apples as if searching for hope in their throats. They looked at Jack with reverence in their eyes, like looking at an oracle.

Before joining the war, Jack stuttered even when talking to women, but now he was able to become the core of a small group. After several conversations in the tent, he became more and more comfortable with preaching his theology.

"I'll tell you, I'm the one who fought in the first battle, and you can't imagine how terrible it was. Speaking of this, Jack couldn't help but smile proudly, in fact, he was running away the whole time, "It was in that battle that I saw the warriors sent by the God of Light to the human world......

"Brother Jack, what are the warriors of the gods like?" asked a brown-haired boy who didn't suspect Jack in the slightest.

"He was dressed in a burly and terrifying silver armor, with a sharp spear shining with a dazzling light between his elbows, and he rode a two-meter-tall white horse in the Northern Regions wearing heavy armor, and the earth would shake as soon as he ran, like a storm!" Jack had a wistful look in his eyes, even though it was an enemy, "He was able to break through the phalanx of spearmen with only one person, and no one could stop him, even the knightly commander of the Knights of the Scorching Sun was pierced by him with a single shot!"

"Oh my God......"

"It's horrible......"

"How can we defeat the warriors of the gods!"

For these boys, the knights of the Knights of the Scorching Sun are already more noble figures than their own fathers, and the knight commander is simply a round of scorching sun to them, and they will be blinded at a glance. A warrior of the gods that even a knight commander can kill with one shot......

The five soldiers, including Jack, silently decided that once the war began, they would find a safe place to hide, or smear some blood on their faces and pretend to be dead.

"So...... It's impossible for us to defeat the Hill Empire, they have the protection of the God of Light. Jack's expression when he said this was as if he was the one who was going to win, confident and proud. I think it's because he thinks he sees the situation better than others.

"Has the sun god abandoned us?" asked one boy.

"That's not the case!" exclaimed Jack, "it's proof that we're still alive! it's just the sun god testing our faith now, and as long as we keep our piety, the sun god will send the warriors of the gods to help us!"

At this moment, a man opened the tent, probed in and said, "This cavalryman you are talking about...... I seem to know. ”