Chapter 55: The Passing Years
The two things that had the greatest impact on Amy, the mercenary king when she was a teenager, happened in the 5th year of the magic calendar.
In the last month of the 5th year of the Magic Calendar, Amy's beloved girl, Jīng Lingying, left the Little Mercenary Group, and shortly thereafter, Amy also left the Little Mercenary Group. The fundamental reason for this is very simple, as simple as one word can explain everything: money!
In Amy's life, there has never been a shortage of money, let alone a real realization of the importance of money to ordinary people, and therefore, it is impossible to understand the importance of money to the dark jīng. On this basis, Amy inevitably misunderstands her lover Ying because of Qingxin - maybe Amy never thought so, but Ying, who also has no concept of money from the demon jīng forest, can't tolerate any impurity in her love.
If either of the two people has a better understanding of the world and is more flexible, many things will never happen after that. Therefore, quite a number of historians believe that the magic calendar has changed dramatically in 5 years, and the origin of everything is not the westward expedition of the Fanos soldiers, but the beautiful and pure Ying leaving Amy.
Heroes are like this, in places that no one knows, lonely tasting bitter fruit.
--One of the dustiest books in the Great Library of the Empire: When a hero is no longer a hero
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Eminole Continent is an almost circular continent, with an average diameter of about 3,000 miles, 40 days, you can basically go from the west coast of the empire to the east coast of the mercenary empire, if you ride a horse, you can also get faster speed, and finally everyone's eyes fall in one place.
The three of them couldn't help but smile bitterly at the same time.
After Ying left, Chi Aotian and Da Qingshan also had the idea of chasing them back, and Amy left, and the three of them had no idea of this at all. The group leader who seems to be very talkative is actually a stubborn donkey, and once he determines the direction, the nine cows can't pull it back. In this world, the only person he is afraid of is Chi Hanfeng...... There should also be his grandfather and his father in the begging tower, but unfortunately, none of the three heavyweights are around.
It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married—let him go!
In this kind of breath-holding situation, even those who are really like Daqingshan had to scold in the end: "nǎinǎi's, just go, and regard the brothers as nothing, typical of too nǎinǎi's heavy sè light friends." When I see Uncle Chi, see how I sue you, so that you can't eat and walk around. ”
"Hehe, acting head of Daqingshan, this shows how important your position is in the heart of Your Excellency Amy, how can you maliciously slander it?"
"Don't ...... I don't want to be the head of this Lao Zidai, you can be it. Daqingshan immediately said let Xian.
"Just be it, what's so hard about that. "Horns has coveted the position of the head of the regiment for a long time, and someone wants Xian to enjoy it.
"Okay...... Tomorrow morning, you and the group explain why Captain Amy mysteriously disappeared. "Daqingshan is about to go out.
Horns didn't think of this yet, he was stunned for a moment and immediately grabbed Da Qingshan's belt, and at this time, he didn't care about the eldest husband's words: "Don't be kidding, how can you and I take the head of the regiment privately?" Moreover, my current mercenary level is only B-level, you can't let an A-level super mercenary group leader be B-level, right?" What are you kidding, you are maliciously threatening me like this, maliciously throwing baggage, and maliciously betraying Captain Amy's kindness...... I...... I...... I'll leave a letter and run away from home!" The heir to the throne of the Dwarven Kingdom has completely lost the demeanor of a king, and has begun to mess around like a scoundrel.
Alas...... If the truth is told, it is estimated that not only will the reputation of His Excellency Amy be ruined, but the small mercenary group itself will become the object of ridicule by millions of mercenaries in the mercenary world. In the mercenary profession, what everyone cherishes is the love of life and death between brothers, and what they care about is the commitment to their employers, this ...... The love of children is not at all.
The three teenagers sat in the room and meditated, and when the lamp was in hand, Horns finally couldn't stand it anymore, and threw down a sentence: "It's better for Daqingshan to make up his own mind." He hurriedly walked out of the door and called two little mercenaries to stand guard for Daqingshan.
Chi Aotian immediately understood, and later sneaked out secretly, and also called two little mercenaries to guard behind the window of Daqingshan, and explained in a cold tone: "Go back to Dìdū immediately, it's not safe all the way, if the deputy head leaves the house, he must report to me and Horns to know." The implication is self-evident.
Early the next morning, Daqingshan had to convene a meeting of all the cadres of the small mercenary group above the captain to explain the sudden and mysterious disappearance of Captain Amy: "This ...... I call all my colleagues to come today...... This one...... Mainly...... It's to announce a truth, oh it's a thing!" didn't say a few words, not only Daqingshan, who spoke, was sweating, but several other people also had beads of sweat on their foreheads: "Perhaps...... You don't know, do you...... The head of the group, Amy's father, was imprisoned in the begging tower, and recently, news suddenly came from the begging tower, and the begging tower seemed to have the possibility of falling...... "Dizzy, Lin Yusheng, who was already a first-level magician, turned black in front of his eyes, this is okay? In order to cover up the disgraceful reason for the head of the regiment to leave, His Excellency the Divine Dragon Knight dared to curse the begging tower of the four realms of contact, god, jīng spirit, and upper jīng spirit to fall? Once this news is spread, it is estimated that the person in charge of the magic union will go crazy. Amy, Amy, it's too ruthless, forcing Daqingshan to look like this.
"The head of the regiment temporarily left the team and went to the Begging Tower, and I was in charge of the affairs of the regiment. After the most difficult nonsense, Daqingshan also became fluent.
"Deputy Commander, when did Amy leave, and in which direction did she go, and I'm willing to take a few brothers with him!"
"Yes, yes. How can the regimental commander go alone? What do you need his subordinates to do?"
"We are willing to go to the tiger's den in Longtan with the head of the group!"
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Most of the young people here are teenagers who came out of the Ice and Snow Continent, especially the cadres who hold positions above the rank of Qu Chang, who have had a generational friendship with His Excellency Amy from far or near, and the enthusiastic teenagers have stood up to ask for battle, Daqingshan, Horns, and Chi Aotian did not expect this situation, and their eyes showed a look of despair.
With a clear cough, Lin Yushang stood up: "Everyone sit down!" The young magician showed his due authority: "The matter of the Begging Tower, it has not yet been finally confirmed, if everyone goes, it will inevitably make this matter boiling, and now that the Eminole Continent has completely fallen into war, this may be the Yīn plot of the Fanos Continent." Shouldn't you, as a subordinate, save some of your thoughts for him?Today, every word we say here is the most confidential thing, and no one is allowed to mention it again when they leave here. ”
The teenagers were still quite tender, and they were bluffed at the time.
After all the soldiers left, Horns praised very sincerely: "Okay, you are really good, you really deserve to be the person who has stayed with the regiment commander for the longest time, look at this nonsense, there are stunned and, and even more powerful is Miss Lin, the last threatening jīng color is superb, if I don't know the truth, I will definitely be deceived by you." ”
Lin Yushang sneered and said to the three boys: "Today, I can still help you round out nonsense, and when you wait until you get to dìdū, I will go home immediately, as for Grandpa Chi and His Majesty Hongshi, I think, they don't want Amy's reputation to be damaged, I guess you have to think about other nonsense." ”
The world is hot and cold, and when I encounter tricky things, I can see that even the girl's heart is so tough.
At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the setting sun was already on the small hill in the distance, and a large convoy suddenly came outside the west gate of the empire, more precisely, a squadron of soldiers or so, not only warriors, knights, but also earth dragon knights, who were very rare in the army sequence. During the war, and recently it is known in the Empire that a small group of Phanos attacked some cities on the west coast of the Empire, and there was chaos outside the city gates, and the leader of the Imperial Janissary Guard, who was in charge of guarding the West Gate, even ordered half of the gates to be closed.
"What people!" several knights sped out of the garrison in the cave of the city gate.
"We are a small mercenary group!" Daqingshan replied in a deep voice.
For the upper echelons of the empire, they did not expect the small mercenary group to return in such a short period of time - according to the proportion of casualties of the small mercenary group received before, the small mercenary group would need to repair for at least half a month before it could set off. Under this judgment, there are still 3 days left in the deadline for the awarding of orders and titles of small mercenary groups issued by the Red Stone Emperor to the Ministry of Imperial Affairs and the Ministry of Officials.
The news first reached the Imperial ** Department, His Excellency Duke Chi did not participate in the military department during the deliberation period, and the rotation was a relatively boring thing, but this kind of boring thing was not all imperial ** officials had the right to accept each other, and those who were in the position of deputy governor or above in the functional provinces of the Imperial ** Ministry or the military or above in the Gyeonggi Defense Region would be placed in the rotation table. During the 12 hours of their shifts, the two officers on duty could not relax in the slightest, and handled intelligence from hundreds of brigades in the seven major defense regions of the empire at any time.
On duty this afternoon is the second son of Duke Chi, Marquis Chi Hanfeng, His Excellency the Marquis is quite a good person, and has always had the reputation of having the courage to promote his subordinates, and every time he takes his duties, he will inevitably bring several of his subordinates to participate in it, and through this extremely rare opportunity, let the captains understand the process of handling affairs by the highest authority of the imperial ** team.
The messenger was far away from the hall when he heard the fierce quarrel of the officers coming from inside.
"One against eight, do you want anything?" Marquis Chi Hanfeng's voice was the loudest.
"A pair of qs. Shoot you. "I don't know which captain is so bold that he dares to continue to call out after His Excellency the General speaks, and even threatens life and death.
"I ...... I'm with a pair of kk, do you want anything?" another captain's voice.
"Two two, I'm going to eat you. "Listen to this voice is the governor of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Emperor's **.
Theoretically, the governor of the Ministry of Intelligence was half a rank higher than the Gyeonggi general, and the senior officer crushed people to death, and everyone stopped talking.
"Ha--ha--" The intelligence governor laughed arrogantly: "Five, six, seven, ten jqk, I'll throw them all off!" Chi Hanfeng, don't run, you still have 11 cards in your hand, multiply by four, give me forty-four purple gold coins. Lao Tzu finally won you once. "There was a murmur of clothes being torn and fighting each other in the room.
"Newspaper - all the members of the small mercenary group of the A-class mercenary group have returned to Dìdū, outside the west gate of the empire, the Praetorian Guard asks if they can be released. The messenger soldier shouted.
"Let go, let go--" The low voice of Marquis Chi Hanfeng came from the room again, the courtyard was very quiet, and even the low wheezing voice of Lord Marquis could be heard: "What are you doing, is it the emperor's ** affairs or your personal self-interest is important, didn't you hear that it was my godson and apprentice who came back outside? There are two dragons, are you afraid? Let it go! If you don't let go, I'll let them go to your house and set fire to it at night!"
The Marquis finally pushed the door open, and patted the soldier on the shoulder excitedly: "Good news, what a great news you have sent." After saying that, he didn't even put on his hat and ran out of the gate. Finally the Marquis shouted outside the door: "I will meet them, and ask the chief to inform His Majesty of the matter at once." ”
In the same way, the two captains of the Gyeonggi Theater who lost money also sneaked out of the rotation room when the governor of the intelligence province scolded someone for being a scoundrel and was willing to gamble and not admit defeat, and it seemed that they were also going to welcome the small mercenary group who came back from the expedition.
Throwing off the personal guards of more than 100 people, His Excellency General Gyeonggi rushed out of the city gate on a horse, and shouted loudly: "Amy, Daqingshan, Chi Aotian, and Little Humpty Dumpty, look how excited I am, I even forgot to wear my hat in order to rush out to greet you!"
The Marquis, who opened his arms and made a gesture of hugging everyone, immediately noticed that Amy was not among them, and the smile on his face disappeared in an instant - this is a time of war, anything can happen.
"Where's Amy?" asked the Marquis directly.
"Uncle Chi--" Daqingshan knew that the marquis wanted to be crooked: "Amy is fine, it's inconvenient here, I'll tell you later." ”
Chi Hanfeng immediately understood that there was something unknown in it, and while leading the small mercenary group to the dìdū post house, he changed the topic without a trace. As soon as he arrived at the post house and settled down, the palace attendants arrived quickly: "Your Majesty has an edict, and the small mercenary group Baron Amy, Baron Daqingshan, Viscount Chi Aotian, Viscount Horns, and the Knights of Balbas have entered the palace. ”
When the chief officers of the small mercenary group and Marquis Chi Hanfeng arrived at the palace, the imperial marshal Chi Datong had already arrived.
The general situation of the battle of the small mercenary group was already very clear to the leaders of the Red Stone Emperor and the Emperor's ** Department, and the absence of the regiment leader Amy was so dazzling that Daqingshan was forced to mumble about all the embarrassing things that had happened before.
For Redstone, Chi Datong, and Chi Hanfeng, what happened to Amy is like a story in a book - from their point of view, they can't imagine that there are still people who don't think well of a good boy like Amy.
Chi Hanfeng jumped up from the chair: "Ying's father is really a super fool, like Amy, who can cheat money in the mall and people on the battlefield, but it is difficult to find a boy who will not cheat women in the love field, even if you ask for money, you have to think about how to put a long line to catch a big fish." ”
Even the Redstone Emperor, who has the largest empire, can't help this kind of thing.
The Redstone Emperor instructed the Emperor's Ministry to issue an order to the national outposts: an order to report to Dìdū as soon as A-Class Mercenary Amy Haber was discovered.
Three days later, the Imperial Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Military Affairs summoned all the active mercenaries of the small mercenary group in Dìdū, and announced that the Ministry of Officials would report to the Ministry of Affairs, and the Ministry of Military Affairs would verify that The full text of the second imperial nobles canonization decree issued by the Redstone Emperor personally in the 5th year of the magic calendar is as follows: The following imperial nobles are hereby canonized: 730 meritorious soldiers of the small mercenary group who participated in the Battle of Broken Ice Harbor are lifelong knights of the empire (the list is later supplemented), 19 mercenary group cadres such as Gelsu are the lifelong blue feather knights of the empire (the list is supplemented later), Mo Ye, the chief officer of the mercenary group, is canonized as the hereditary blue feather knight of the empire, the chief officer of the mercenary group Long is canonized as the hereditary baron of the empire and receives 100 acres of fiefdom, the chief officer of the mercenary group, the blue feather knight of the Balbas is awarded 40 acres of federal fiefdom in the northern part of the empire, Horns, the heir to the throne of the dwarf empire, is canonized as the hereditary honorary earl of the empire, and the chief officer of the mercenary group, Baron Amy, Baron Daqingshan was each awarded 50 acres of federal fiefdom in the northern part of the empire; Viscount Chi Aotian led the captain of the empire; 893 mercenaries of the small mercenary group were posthumously named barons for life in the empire, and the imperial ** department compensated their families in accordance with the regulations on compensation for the death of nobles in wars, and 231 seriously injured mercenaries were canonized as lifelong blue feather knights of the empire.
With the first noble canonization order of the year as the bottom, the emperor ** people are no longer surprised by this canonization, and the third canonization order was also issued on the same day: the nobles of the empire are hereby canonized: His Excellency Guigui, the captain of the swordsman battalion of the Broken Ice Harbor, is the lifelong Blue Feather Knight of the empire, and the 1189 soldiers of the swordsman battalion of the Broken Ice Harbor who died in the war are posthumously sealed as the lifelong barons of the empire, and the imperial ** department compensates their families in accordance with the regulations on compensation for the death of the nobles in the war.
In response to these three canonization orders, there have also been discordant voices among the famous families of the empire, and some people say that the Redstone Emperor does not know how to cherish the glory of the imperial nobles and add canonization indiscriminately.
Due to the fact that the small mercenary group was hit twice in a row within half a year, the Imperial ** Department specially allocated the military camp outside the exercise ground for the small mercenary group to be repaired, and during the repair period, all the chief officers of the mercenary regiment enjoyed the first-level treatment of the captain of the imperial brigade, and the ordinary mercenaries enjoyed the first-level treatment of the soldiers of the Imperial Knights, and the Imperial ** Department directly gave them food. Originally, the Emperor's ** Ministry was also ready to help the small mercenary group recruit mercenaries again to expand the scale of the mercenary group, but His Excellency Aoyama, the acting leader of the mercenary group, politely declined. Daqingshan's reason for refusing was extremely simple: "In the past six months, due to the blind expansion of the small mercenary group, thousands of military families in the Northern Federation have lost their children, and as a member of the Frozen Continent, they really have no face to go back." ”
After receiving the news that the small mercenary group had been hit hard again and Amy had left the mercenary group, Mo Ye came to Dìdū alone, originally Mo Ye invited another chief official, Long, but Long, who had never had a good impression of the nobles, not only did not come, but even ignored the canonization order brought by the officials of the Imperial Officials. On January 15 rì in the summer of the 5th year of the magic calendar, a total of nine people in charge, including Daqingshan, Horns, Chi Aotian, Sha Ruo, Lin Yusheng, Balbas, Mo Ye, Gelsu, and Chi Hanfeng, discussed the future development of the small mercenary group. Da Qingshan, Sha Ruo, and Lin Yushang were surprised by the lives that kept disappearing around them, and they didn't want the little mercenary group to play such an important role again. Horns was slightly inclined to Daqingshan's opinion, Chi Aotian firmly supported the two elders Balbas and Mo Ye, and Chi Hanfeng and Gelsu did not say a word. In the end, only one thing was finalized, the small mercenary group no longer accepted any external orders except for regular training, and everything would be said when the regiment leader Amy returned.
In January of the summer of the 5th year of the magic calendar, the Phanos legion attacked the Alcatraz legion on the north bank of the Lion River under the leadership of two golden dragon knights. The Phanos Legion won an overwhelming victory, defeating a 10,000-strong brigade of the Alcatraz Legion with a force of 5,000 men.
In the summer and January of the 5th year of the magic calendar, Marquis Chi Hantong gathered 30,000 regular troops to conquer two cities near Lionheart City, and to the surprise of Emperor **, the army of Alcatraz Island seemed to have gotten the news and quietly retreated the night before the war. This also became the first time since the start of the war that the emperor ** people regained lost territory in a real sense.
In the summer and February of the 5th year of the magic calendar, due to the rebellion of a B-class mercenary group, the south gate of the mercenary empire's capital was opened in the middle of the night, and Xiao Fenghua, the eastern king of the mercenary empire, was killed in battle, and the only son Xiao Mingyu escaped under the escort of the last hundred or so people of his father's guard; At this point, 60% of the territory of the Mercenary Empire has fallen. In the same month, Amy's empire entered the first-level combat readiness state.
In the autumn and January of the 5th year of the magic calendar, the leader of the little mercenary group, His Excellency Amy, agreed that the last rìzi had passed, and Amy, who had been full of words, went back on her word this time, and a full three months passed, not only did the person not return to dìdū, but it was as if he had disappeared into the air.
In February of the 5th year of the Magic Calendar, the little mercenary group had been repairing in Dìdū for 5 months, and the young mercenary who was sent to the treehouse bar at the junction of the Holy See and the Desert Empire suddenly brought back a letter written by Amy himself, and said that he had seen His Excellency Amy himself.
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