Chapter 92: The Guards

The content of the meeting was very concise and not at all dragging its feet. ()

After the new officers and the old officers had met each other, William began to arrange the rest of the work. As the last officer to arrive, my father's most recent task was to get acquainted with his new men, and at the same time, my father had to return to the third regiment once to select the soldiers he wanted, and then provide the list to the old and new troops.

Soon, the meeting was over.

William looked at one of the clerks who was taking notes and coughed softly. The clerk stopped taking notes, put together the papers in his hand, and stuffed them into a large cardboard box.

William explained: "Arcadio Second, you just came today, and you may not be familiar with this kind of recording procedure. But you should have a concept later that meetings with more than three people must have a note-taker present to take notes. If you are attending a multi-person meeting without a note-taker present, then I recommend that you report to me as soon as possible who attended the meeting and what was going on. Don't try to cover up for anyone, because it's likely that others won't plan for you like that--- I'll reward the first person to come to me. Got it? ”

There was silence around the round table, and several officers puffed out their cheeks, as if trying to fend off the dreary atmosphere.

"Since you don't have anything to say, that's all I have to say today." William tapped the round table with his middle finger, ready to leave.

"Wait a minute, Count." Father spoke up.

At the meeting, my father did not say anything, and he stared at Ukhru deadly. Uhru stared back at first, but immediately turned his head to look at the Count at William's disgruntled snort. Father kept looking at this man who made him gnash his teeth, and when the Count had arrangements at the meeting, his father only nodded and said that he knew.

It seems that because he had already had some holiday with William at the beginning, his father didn't care about acting more recklessly. The key is that this triumphant Ukhru, this Ukhru wearing the emperor's ** costume made his father feel inexplicable anger, and this anger soon broke through the patience that his father had worked hard to cultivate for several years.

"What's wrong?" William's tone was cold, not asking questions at all, but asking what troubles he was going to bring.

"How could this Kujit, who has received imperial education but will take revenge, this playboy who abducted imperial women before the war, this steppe man who has the blood of the imperial people on his hands? How could he be in our uniform? Earl, you just said that he would be responsible for the safety of His Majesty, and I wonder who gave such an order."

"That's what Your Majesty meant." The coldness on William's face was not less at all, "If there is any problem, you can ask Your Majesty in person when you are canonized--- you will bear the consequences." Well, Arcadio, I don't know why you are so disgusted with Uhru, but I don't want your emotions to affect your public office. You have three days left, and I hope that before the Emperor meets you, you will be able to take care of everything and then live in your guard command post once and for all. ”

William explained the danger of the situation one last time, and then declared the meeting closed. He was the first to leave, followed by several officers who were officers of --- Guards Regiment one after another. Several of them looked at their father with appreciative expressions, and it was clear that they admired his father's refusal to buy Uhru's account.

When Uhru was left, his father glanced at him, "You actually have the face to stand in this place." ”

When he heard this, Ukhru didn't show an angry expression. Father noticed, he hadn't seen him for several years, and the marks of time on Uhru's face were heavier. Ukhru laughed miserably, and did not answer his father's question directly, but said, "My clan has no home, what do you want?" ”

It was not at all surprising that Ukhru said this. The steppe people's purge campaign to exclude dissidents was much more intense than in Swadia. When he questioned Spencer, his father had already heard about the fate of the Uhru. Now his father is very concerned about Elune's situation, and since Jill is gone, his father has been thinking about how to find Jill and help restore Jill's happiness that was forcibly interrupted. When my father thought about it, he thought that the most direct way was to find Elune.

When Spencer told his father that there were less than 3,000 wandering prairie people, and that most of them were old and weak children, his father was delighted. Among them was Elune

During the year in the Frost Castle, my father went to the tribe inhabited by the steppe people several times to look for people, but each time the Kujit people always kept my father out of the way. Due to his busy schedule, it was difficult for my father to deal with those matters in person, and the messengers sent by my father were also blocked by the Kujits without hesitation--- after all, my father asked for the wife of the future chief of a tribe, and these steppe people, although they were down, would not tolerate such a dishonoring thing.

Later, the Kugit complained to the officials of the Frost Castle, saying that their father was harassing them. At that time, the people of Frost Castle, who were preparing to go south, severely reprimanded their father for destroying the 'unity'. At that time, many Kugit were incorporated into the cavalry army, and although my father was forbidden to go to the Kugit villages to ask for people, he changed his strategy and went to the Kugit of various legions to search for Ukhru.

But for a year, his father did not find him. For a while, his father even suspected that Uhru had left with Elune with the wandering horses--- and as more Kujit were expelled from the steppe, Fidré could no longer accommodate so many steppe people. The emperor did not want the steppe people to stay here too much, and once the number exceeded a certain number, it would be difficult to manage.

Many of the Kugit were forced to continue their migration, as the Kugit were craftsmen and merchants at the same time, and they were quickly allowed to cross the border. The kings of each country ordered their governors to allow the Kujits to cross the border if they were sure that they did not carry more weapons than they could use for self-defence.

The displaced people of the Kujiit people began to migrate on a large scale on the mainland, they played the dongbula, melancholy nostalgic for their homeland, and optimistically looked forward to their own tomorrow--- a new nation was about to be born.

His father had thought that Uhru had gone on a wandering, which made him lose his mind, and for a while he stopped thinking about finding Elune. It is said that Gil went to the Northland, and after relations with Nord returned to normal, his father visited several Nord ambassadors, and asked the ambassador to investigate the inhabitants of Swadia who had flowed into Nord in recent years, and the ambassadors agreed, but even my father knew how difficult it was to find a Gil from the great Northland.

My father had inspected McCann Forest when he was at Frost Castle, and when a group of cavalry inspected the road from McCann Forest, when they encountered a Nord building a watchtower, the cavalry unceremoniously ordered them to stop the construction, and supervised them to demolish the facility and return to Nord.

At that time, my father followed the cavalry out of McCann Forest, and continued on his way to scout the Siswadia frontier. When he was at the border, my father approached a Nord barracks, and the cavalry roared past the outside of the barracks, and to my father's surprise, there was a double-headed eagle flag erected in this barracks--- which was the symbol of the Zeda army destroyed by the Vicchians.

My father estimated that this was a brainless imitation of some Nord general, so he didn't pay much attention to it. After completing the border reconnaissance, my father withdrew from the south to his stronghold at the southern foot of McCann Forest.

The white dove and the double-headed eagle passed by.

Elune, I can't find it; Jill, too, looks hopeless.

His father felt a great responsibility for Jill's affairs, and he hoped countless times that he could do better when he returned to that banquet. Knowing that it was useless to think so, my father focused his main energy on training the army.

It was the best period of the Eastern Army, and the officers and men were considerate of each other, united in their hearts, and hated the same enemy. At that time, there were no suspicions, no whistleblowers, and no large number of lords with different intentions. The world seems simple: train your soldiers, drive away your enemies, and go home.

Everything had changed since he had traveled south to Dehrim, and my father was at a loss in the face of a complicated situation. My father held back the fire in his belly. After going to his own territory to recuperate for a period of time, his father's anger subsided a little, but this time he was summoned back to Dehrim, and his father's uneasiness and dissatisfaction rose again, and at this time, Ukhrutian shamelessly wore the clothes of the emperor ** official and sat on the commander's seat

The father clenched his fists and threw all his frustration into force on Uhru's face.

At this time, when he heard Ukhru say, "There is no home", my father also felt a sense of sadness.

"Your home is gone? What about Jill's? What about Elune's? So many people? If it weren't for you Kugit people who started the war, everyone would be alive and well now, everyone."

"Svadia boy," Ukhru narrowed, "the war is now, and it's impossible to tell where the source is. Even if you throw all the Kugits into the sea now, the world will never go back to what it used to be. And I tell you with the dignity of a man that Elune is alive and well. Saying this, Ukhru smiled maliciously, "Jill? The guy who tried to take Elune? What qualifications does he have? He is just a servant, he has no present and no future. What can Elune do with him? But if Elune followed him, what was Elune doing now? The hostess at the tavern? A washerwoman in a dyehouse? A cheesemaker who milks cows every day with a clay pot? ”

After saying that, Ukhru stood up: "You are still the same kid from the past. It's not that I'm conceited, even if I'm down, I'm more worthy of relying on than Jill, you don't have to contradict me, you know what things are. ”

Father and Ukhru fell silent at the same time.

"Elune" ''She''?"

"Our daughter looks like her and is beautiful. Our son looks like me and is healthy. ”

Feeling victorious, Uhru wiped the blood oozing from his nose again, grabbed a pair of his belts, and walked out of the conference room. At the door of the conference room, Ukhru turned back to his father and said:

"As to why I am standing here, it is indeed your Majesty's intention, as Count William said. If you think about it, the steppe people who don't have any foreign aid, the steppe people who are good at fighting, the steppe people who are alone in the domestic forces, the steppe people who have no chance to get involved in the conspiracy--- who are more suitable than this kind of person to be a guard in a critical moment? ”

The father followed and walked out, glaring at Ukhru face to face: "I will investigate what is going on, and if I let me know that you have any dissenting intentions, I will not hesitate to arrest you and throw you in prison." ”

Uheru nodded, "I'll be more careful than you, there's the whole clan behind me--- I heard you're looking for Elune?" No need to look for it, you can't find her, trust me, you can't find her. Also, speaking of prison, you have to get Spencer out as soon as possible, I know he's locked up by you. ”

Uhru walked sideways out of the room, the footsteps fading away. The father shook his head, and the last one walked out.

The emperor still cast his gaze from the mural.

When my father arrived in the break room, Colin and a few soldiers walked out, and the guard returned my father's weapon. A servant led his father out of the palace from the side, where several grooms had already brightened and fed the horses and waited for him.

"My lord," Colin asked at a moment's notice, "where are we going now?" ”

"Go to your station, south of the palace, right?"

"Yes, it's only half an hour from here to the watchtower."

"Can I go on horseback?"

"We'll be fine if we walk along the palace walls. Originally, there was no such thing as dismounting, but last time it was said that Lorenz had a plot to storm the palace during the rebellion, so there was an order since then. However, the implementation is not very strict, only when William makes a special inspection, it will be stricter. ”

"Yes." The father exhaled, then turned to Yu and said, "Help me get these letters out, this one for Dimitri, and the remaining two for Lagrange and Wright." ”

"Wright?" Yu's expression carried a final exhortation.

"Wright." The father said categorically, and then the father assigned a soldier to follow You to deliver the letter.

A group of people divided into two groups and began to travel to different places. Yu and the soldier took a path under an arched bridge towards the 3rd Regiment's garrison, while his father followed Colin to the Guards Regiment's garrison.

"By the way, your squadron is one hundred and twenty people, right? If I bring more than 60 soldiers, I am afraid it will be a little difficult to run in. ”

"It's all up to you, sir." Colin said cautiously, "All we can do is teach them our patrol skills and specific arrangements." ”

"Yes. You vaguely said last time that many of your soldiers had been dismissed, and now you can tell me how many of you have left, right? ”

"Thirty-seven, my lord."

"How much?"

"My lord, our squadron was originally composed of one hundred and four people, and Lord Lorentz and his three servants and more than a dozen soldiers are now in prison. Most of the other brothers were also broken up and merged into other units, supposedly to prevent us from having any contact with each other. You''re afraid you'll have to start all over again. ”