The knights, who were in a state of rage, heard the captain's shout, and although they were puzzled, they stopped their attack, and stood by and watched the cavalry warily.

The captain of the knights stared earnestly at the group of cavalrymen who had come unannounced, and confirmed their identities as Lord Russell and his companions, who had saved their lives in the camp earlier, and who had almost wounded their benefactor.

The knight captain put the sword in his hand back into the scabbard, strode up to Russell's side, bowed slightly, and asked respectfully, "It turned out to be His Excellency Russell, may I ask what important thing you are here for?"

Russell stepped on the stirrup and got off the horse, and looked at the bonfire that had become a mess after being trampled by the ashes, and it was actually he who had ruined their dinner by riding the ashes.

Russell turned to the captain and said apologetically: "I have become the new head of the Dragoon Knights by order of the Imperial Empress, and now I am here to inform you of this matter, and to take over the command of the Knights." ”

The captain was a little surprised by the Empress's decision, but he did not speak out against it, after all, Russell's command ability in the previous rescue mission was obvious to all, and he also recognized Russell's inauguration.

However, the captain still said to Russell: "Although we do not doubt your statement, but in order to make sure that in case, we still ask you to hand over the token given by the Empress to me for confirmation!"

"Yes!"

Russell agreed to the captain's request and took out a letter of appointment with the royal seal of the Empress from his backpack.

The captain solemnly took the letter of appointment with both hands, tore open the outer seal, and unfolded the paper with both hands to read it carefully.

After a while, the captain put away the letter of appointment, looked at Russell again, and said, "Your Excellency Russell, please give me the badge of the head of the Knights, and I will begin the final verification!"

Russell did not show the slightest impatience, because the more rigorous the Order's review process, the more disciplined the team became.

Russell handed over the golden diamond-shaped badge, and the captain took the badge again, took a trinket from his pocket, and placed it in the center of the badge with the intricate ornament.

Immediately, Russell was surprised to find that the badge looked like an ornament that had been activated, and it was actually reopened, and finally turned into a badge in the shape of a dragon.

Russell saw this and realized that this was how the knights confirmed the identity of the appointed commander, even if the letter of appointment could be forged, but without this badge, the knights could distinguish the authenticity.

But Russell also paid careful attention to a detail, he thought it was strange at first, why Russell had not heard of the myth of the dragon in the folk, and how did the imperial family know the shape of the dragon. And also made a dragon-shaped badge?

At this time, the knight captain's answer interrupted Russell's thoughts,

"Your Excellency Russell, no, it's Captain Russell, your subordinates have verified your identity, you are indeed our Captain, please forgive us for our faux pas. ”

Then the captain took out the ornament, and the badge returned to its previous diamond-shaped shape, and the captain held the badge and handed it back to Russell's hand.

The knight captain turned his head and shouted back,

"The new head of the regiment is here, what are you still doing here? Why don't you quickly put away your weapons and greet our commander!"

Only then did the knights realize that they were facing the commander with their swords, and hurriedly put away their weapons, and spontaneously lined up in a regular manner to wait for Russell's review.

But the occasional sound of stomach growling in the ranks made the knights' faces redden.

Russell smiled and said, "Since we ruined your beautiful dinner, then as an apology, let's cook a new dinner, and it just so happens that several of us didn't eat dinner either." ”

When the captain heard this, he quickly refused, Russell smiled, ignored his politeness, and took Carlos and them to clean up the pots and pans and cook dinner again.

Half an hour later, most of the knights had taken their portion of their dinner in a huge iron pot, and by this time they were already so hungry that they had eaten their supper in spite of the knight's reserve.

Russell and his companions sat down on the floor for today's dinner, and Carlos joked to liven up the atmosphere: "Ash may have asked about the aroma of the food, so he hit the iron pot where the knights cooked!"

Russell shrugged helplessly and said: "I'm also helpless, Gray Ash is always not very obedient, I can only use food to lure, it can barely listen to me, I didn't expect to bump into their dinner." Speaking of which, half of the blame for this horse's unruly behavior lies with the horse trainer!"

After speaking. Russell's eyes couldn't help but look at Bauer, who was sitting on the right.

Bauer hurriedly shouted and said: "You can't blame me, there have been wars everywhere during this time, and Master Russell, as the master of Ash, why do you want to shift the responsibility of training Ash to me?"

Charlotte said angrily with a straight face: "I taught you to make these dinners, my voice is going to be hoarse, now that the matter is over, you don't shirk each other's responsibilities, right?"

In this way, in the laughter of everyone, this busy day has finally passed.

After a day of fighting and fatigue, most of the legions fell asleep, and only a few scouts still held on to their posts.

Although they yawned from time to time and were very tired, for the safety of the legion, they could only suppress their sleepiness and carefully inspect the surroundings for possible anomalies.

Suddenly, there was a rustling noise in the surrounding grass, which attracted the attention of the scouts who were on guard.

"Who is it?"

The scout turned his head to look in the direction of the sound, only to see a dark shadow shoot out of the trees in the darkness.

The scouts saw that the shadow was about to crash into their vicinity and hurried off their horses to avoid it.

Then he turned around and shot a lot of arrows into the woods, startling many of the big birds that roamed him.

After these birds flew into the sky, there was no sound in the woods, and there was no sound or movement.

A brave soldier pretended to be bold, tiptoed to the place where the shadow had landed, and looked down to see that the shadow turned out to be an arrow, and there was an object like a bag tied to the handle of the arrow.

Another soldier came to his companion with a torch and rode his horse, and by the light of the fire the soldier could read the words written on the bag, and in fright he could not help but let go of his hand, and the bag then fell gently to the ground.