Chapter 44: Attacked

Tyre River. ()

The riverbank is a vast and flat land. There were some messy campfires, surrounded by food scraps such as vegetable stalks and bones, and there were human and animal droppings in the grove on one side.

My father's squad followed behind the 3rd Regiment, and they were already very far behind, with only a hundred or so heavy soldiers behind them. Prince Frederick clearly did not take a fancy to this straggler. The prince went all the way north, and he seemed to only care about keeping a safe distance from the first and second legions, and the prince did not have the slightest intention of relying on the third regiment and their subsidiary troops, which were not strong in combat.

A few days after leaving Tyrburg, on the edge of the Lothar Forest, You and a few servants rode up.

The father lifted the visor of the helmet and was a little angry, "Yu, I've been waiting in Tyre for a week, where have you been?" ”

The soldiers of my father's squad stopped. Some had spears across their shoulders, others had unbuttoned their helmets or chainmail shirts that covered their faces, and it was too hot either way.

The banks were so hot that if it weren't for the constant horseback inspectors warning the soldiers not to go near the river, the sweaty soldiers in helmet and armor would have jumped into the water to cool off. The river Tyre looked so alluring, as if covered with a layer of shining gold dust in the golden sunlight, and the constant roar of the river made the soldiers look at it, and the middle of the river was a deep blue, and when it approached the bank, it had become a transparent bright color.

"Keep going," the father looked at his men who had stopped around him, and ordered them to hurry up, "if you are seen by the baggage team, those guys will laugh at you for the rest of your life." ”

This made his father's horse look up at him, then snorted and stopped paying attention to the people around him. It sniffed around at the ground, hoping to find a patch of moss or a small flower, but unfortunately it was not the mount of Prince Frederick's cavalry, which had been gnawed clean by the horses that had passed by a day earlier.

"A lot of things are hard to get," You didn't feel embarrassed at all, but there was a little more excitement in his eyes, he pointed to some pockets that were piled high on the top of the two carts and said, "I have a lot of effort to get these things, and I can't buy them on the market." Ten jars of burning oil were only available to the people of the Alchemists' Guild, and if I hadn't exchanged it for a recipe for herbology, they wouldn't have given it to me. ”

Father frowned, "What are you bringing these things for, write an application and let the baggage soldiers get it soon?" ”

"Uh-huh, no-no," You stretched out a finger and shook it, "those stupid GIs can't do these things." In order to pack some dangerous powders, I found a basement to pack a little bit, otherwise you think I'm going to be where I've been this week. Let those clumsy GIs come? Oh my God, they can ride on a cannon battle and blow themselves up into the sky. ”

After a few days of training, Sam had become the leader of three longbowmen.

Hearing Yu's words, Sam was a little angry, "What cannonball? You Kujitt, you think you're going to know some weird stuff and you're going to be great? Sam beat a Kugit to death with his fist, and he didn't see how good the Kugit were at that time. ”

You looked at Sam coldly, turned his horse's head, and then turned back to his father and said, "I'm late for a reason, but believe me, I'll surprise you in a while."

Before his father could say something, You had already jumped into the river on horseback. Watching a Kujitte-looking man jump into the river to bathe, the soldiers who followed him looked at him in surprise and envy, and when a cavalryman came over and scolded You, You immediately jumped ashore, and then commanded a few servants from White Dove Valley to carry several carts of medicine forward.

Before dark, the squad could already see the tents set up by the men of the 2nd Regiment, who had set up camp on the edge of a gravel beach, and the men of the 1st Regiment at the edge of a wheat field further in front of them. The men of the 3rd Regiment had to camp to the left through a village to the edge of an orchard.

Inside the village were Prince Fiderick's cavalry.

The men of the Third Regiment have always been despised. Including which cavalry attendants looked at this unit with a faint look of contempt. Indeed, the history of this unit is indeed somewhat bleak--- a few years ago, the soldiers of the Third Regiment were stationed at Fort Rendi. The fortress of Rendi was the fortress that surrendered after a few days of resistance, which was a scandal that the entire Eastern Army deliberately avoided externally, but internally, the Eastern Army, from soldiers to generals, was full of contempt for this legion.

The commander of the 3rd Regiment was a man transferred from the Southern Mountain Legion, and this chubby old man was not a battle-hardened general at first glance. He is also lenient and generous to his subordinates, as long as he doesn't do too much, he generally ignores his subordinates. This kind old man may be a good old man elsewhere, but it would be a disaster to ration him to the troops on the battlefield.

Although the combat strength of the Third Regiment is obvious to all, their bragging skills are first-class, and when there is no war, the Third Regiment will repeatedly boast of its skills.

As for the reason why the march was at the end, my father heard someone say, "Do you know why we are walking behind the cavalry regiment, the first regiment, and the second regiment?" It's because we are in danger behind us, I heard that King Kugit is always ready to make a comeback, and he has more than 30,000 elite cavalry under him, who can turn the tide at that time? It's not our third regiment, so we will always walk behind, keep our mission in mind, if the whole army can reach the city of Zhivading safely, then the credit of our third regiment will be ranked first."

My father scoffed at these claims at the beginning. He knew exactly how Wright's men and Dimitri's comrades described the Third Regiment. During the Battle of Garmic, my father had befriended some officers and soldiers who had fled to Fort Reyndi in Rhodok, and they made a very brave impression on my father. But it is a pity that those people did not join the 3rd Regiment when the Eastern Army was reorganized, and they were transferred to other elite units.

Father now knows that the people he met in Garmic turned out to be an outlier in the Reindi Fortress, and the group of people around him was the original appearance of the Reindi defenders--- it seems that the surrender of Kaesong cannot be completely blamed on a general, and the general atmosphere of an army is consistent from top to bottom.

Having said that, the people of the 3rd Regiment still have a 'warm' feeling. Every day when he set up camp and went out, my father would ask his soldiers to go out in shifts. This is incomprehensible to the non-commissioned officer of the 3rd regiment, "Huh? Arcadio two, didn't your guy already go on the night shift yesterday? This time someone else went, why bother so desperately I said, call the young man, we have honey wine and herb-roasted ham here, let's satisfy our hunger together. ”

There are many such invitations, and these non-commissioned officers are actually very easy to get along with, except for bragging, and some timid accidents. But for some reason, my father felt a little depressed when he thought of General Wright, who was shouting at his subordinates, and Dimitri, who was seriously inspecting military affairs. The soldiers around them all looked lazy, they looked left and right, and then passed on scandals about the princes and nobles, and my father even heard that Prince Frederick was the illegitimate son of Sir Harlaus.

The people of the 3rd Regiment did not like the Cavalry Regiment, because the people of the Cavalry Regiment looked down on the 3rd Regiment the most.

One day, a lean non-commissioned officer rode up to his father's side, and introduced himself, "I've heard of you", this man pulled the relationship as soon as he came up, "I was seriously wounded at that time, and after three days and three nights of bloody fighting in Rendi I was escorted by my own men to Uxhall to recuperate, my God, as soon as I came to my senses, I immediately thought about going back to the front, boys," the man asked his men.

The soldiers, who had untied their helmets and carried them behind their backs, dragged their spears to the ground, and loosely untied their chain mail, replied loudly: "That's right, Captain Lagrange, we bear witness to you with God's mother."

"Hmm, hello," the father politely waved his hand and touched his helmet.

"I heard that you and our troops beat up the Salanders in Garmic, and what I admire most about you is that you saved so many civilians, oh my God, this is the style of our third regiment. From that day on, I knew that I would see you again, Arcadio, and that if I died on the battlefield, my men would be under your command. I have a mistress in Deherim, I don't remember it in Uxhall, anyway, I was injured a lot, damn it, it hurt me to recover at least half a year late, and my strength ran to their stomachs, and if I die, you help me to tell them, just say I love them--- remember to tell them separately"

Then, with a gloomy face, the father walked side by side with Lagrange for more than an hour, and at last he figured out how many illegitimate children Lagrange had.

"The most debauched in my heavenly army is the cavalry regiment, Prince Frederick is really sad to be messing around with them, why are you running so fast? There's no need, right, my dear Arcadio."

"Well, sometimes speed is the difference between life and death."

"Haha, speaking of which, the cavalry gang is really fast, you know, there is a donkey village in Uxhall, and the donkeys there are the best in the whole south, one day, a group of people from the cavalry regiment were stationed there, just one night, God, in the spring of the second year, every female donkey gave birth to a little mule that was alive, and my second illegitimate child came to that little village, and my woman wrote to me, saying that my little darling was born with more than a dozen playmates--- and those were all wild seeds left by those cavalry, I don't even know what to say about them anymore."

"Is this "cavalry" "" "

"I don't even bother to be with them, I'm going to find a campsite, come to me tonight, my people shot three pheasants yesterday, it tastes good"

With that, Lagrange rode his horse away, despite the fact that his father had nothing to say, with a friendly wave of his hand.

You listened to it for a long time, and at this time came over a little helplessly, "This Lagrange is really a stinky and shameless one." ”

Sam, who was walking on the side with a longbow on his back, looked back and smiled: "It seems that the Kujiit people still have some consensus. ”

In my father's tone, he said, "My pleasure, sir."

The peasants around him laughed, but my father couldn't.

At this moment, the side of the woods on the left stabbed and cracked with the sound of air tearing.

Father looked to the left, and for a moment he thought it was a bird flying out of the bushes, but soon one of the Lagrange soldiers fell to the ground with an arrow in the thigh. The surrounding soldiers all looked at the fallen soldier in surprise, and they didn't react at once.

But his father is different, and the sharpness he developed in the first battle of Garmic made him almost bounce, "Some people sneak attack and some people sneak attack the queue"

At last a few soldiers gathered together in a haphazard manner, facing the woods and barely leaning against the surrounding trees and carriages in an olive-shaped formation, these men put their shields at the front, and then watched in horror at the swaying figures in the woods.

These soldiers, who had thought that their helmets were too heavy and their armor too heavy, had never loved them so much as they did now.

The irregular gatherings and nightly training during this period bore fruit: my father's soldiers quickly formed a queue, while the surrounding Lagrange soldiers were running in a chaotic manner, constantly being hit by flying arrows.

"Bow down," the father tugged at the reins of the horse and jumped around the soldiers, the horse's hooves tomping the dirt into the air.

The father ordered one of his attendants to see how many people were in the woods, and the boy rode his horse diagonally into the forest from the right, and in the woods he could see his clothes and the black horse under his crotch passing quickly. Soon after, the boy ran back unscathed, "Not much, more than thirty people, I saw more than thirty people, and it is estimated that there will only be more people."

Father drew his knife and motioned for several soldiers on pack horses to follow, some of Lagrange's subordinates were hesitant to follow, Father urged, "Your commander said, I will command you when he is gone, come with me."

Then his father asked Yu and Sam to lead the infantry to follow, and the soldiers who were constantly surrounded by Lagrange also settled up and formed their own formations and followed their father's squad into the woods.

Soon, my father spotted the sneak attackers, who did not look like soldiers at all: they were ragged, holding longbows, with long axes for chopping wood and half-empty quivers tied around their waists.

An old man led a boy and shivered at his father. The father rushed forward with his sword and horse. The boy dropped his bow first and ran away, the old man reluctantly let go of an arrow, which plunged into the woods five or six feet above his father's head, and the old man lost his courage when he put the second arrow on the bowstring, and he fled.

Amid the shouts of several cavalrymen, more and more sneak attackers were driven out of the bushes, and my father saw with his own eyes that several panicked sneak attackers crashed into the middle of the soldiers who had just entered the woods, and then their necks were cut.

An hour later, outside the woods, my father watched a military doctor handle a few wounded soldiers, listening to a scout's report: "The woods are safe. ”

The losses of this sneak attack were that several soldiers were injured to varying degrees, the sneak attackers were killed eleven people, more than 20 were captured alive, and several bad-tempered, irascible and scolding guys were hung from trees. The rest sat together dejectedly.

After his father had taken command of his squad and Lagrange's soldiers to deal with all this, Lagrange appeared, and with the wrath and pity of the knight, he rode the horsemen and kicked in, "Arcadio is in pain, I have lost the opportunity to fight alongside you"

The scout, who had been reprimanded by his father for a long time for 'poor inspection', looked at Lagrange helplessly, and said with an expression on his face, "Okay, they all know the roots, so don't be ashamed."

Sam had been struck on the shoulder with a stick, and now his left arm was completely powerless, and he came up to his father and said, "There's something wrong with the head"

"What's wrong?"

"Most of them are Swadians, and like me, they are farmers"

"Nonsense," cried Lagrange, "how could the Svadians, who have come to rescue our fellow Svadians, who have come to lead us with songs and dances, when they see us?" ”

"Sir", Sam was stupid and couldn't understand, "that's why I said, 'Something is wrong'."