After Char led his army into the city, he immediately went to the garrison to meet Green.

When they met, Green looked calm, and when he saw Char, he only smiled faintly: "Oh, you're back." ”

Char took off his helmet, threw it to a guard at random, and after striding into the garrison mansion with Green, he couldn't help but ask on the way: "What the hell is going on, you tell me what happened carefully." ”

Green's expression was calm, his expression was not nervous, and he even looked a little relaxed, just glanced at Char: "I thought you would choose to stay in Mesta." ”

When Char heard this, Hui was stunned, then shook his head and said, "I thought so, but the location of Mestaa City is not good, and once you defend it, you will be in a desperate situation." Alas......"

Walking into the conference hall, Char sat down: "Okay, I'm very anxious, you can say it quickly." ”

Only then did Green nod his head, his eyes heavy: "Okay."

He glanced at the guards beside him: "Let's all go out."

When everyone was gone, Green's face gradually became solemn, and he looked at Char, "Do you know that you took a very dangerous step?" ”

"Well, what do you mean?"

Green shook his head: "In the letter I gave you, I didn't say what you should do, only let people bring words, please decide for yourself, one by one."

"Well, that's good. Char furrowed her brows and looked at Green: "I'm also very curious, why don't you even have a suggestion for such an important matter......

"Because of this, I don't know how. Green smiled wryly.

Char stayed at No.-0 Green's military strategy and talent are all the best choices, and the guy Ruhr admires him very much, not to mention that he is a rare "famous general" among the eagle generals, and his previous record is also brilliant. But when Green himself confessed that he couldn't do anything about it...... Char still didn't believe it.

"Well, you can hear me say the situation first. ”

Green's expression perked up, and he said slowly in a deep voice: "Seven days ago, our scouts encountered the scouts of the Black Flag Army about twenty miles from the city in the northeast. However, the two sides did not make contact, but saw each other's flags, and the two sides withdrew...... This is my order, scouts go out of the city to patrol and reconnoitre, and when they encounter the enemy's situation, they don't need to make contact, they just need to report the situation quickly.

"Well, and then what?"

Green took a deep breath: "At that time, after I received the report, I immediately sent a formation of hundreds of horsemen to patrol the northeast, and as a result, within three days, I encountered the Black Flag Army four times, and the two sides still had no contact. However, there is a phenomenon that puzzles me. ”

"What?"

Green smiled bitterly: "The first time I found the other party, it was twenty miles northeast of the city, the second time I found it, but it was thirty miles away, and the next few times I found it, it was fifty miles away from Denzel City, and the farthest one, our scouts ran directly to the border that was almost close to Moore County, and only then did they see the patrol of the Black Flag Army from a distance." ”

Char was also puzzled.

This phenomenon is indeed puzzling.

In general, when marching to battle, the scouts are the eyes of the main forces, and if the scouts are discovered, then the distance of the main brigade of the enemy army should not be too far.

Moreover, the Black Flag Army actually ran to Moore County, so in normal judgment, it is inevitable that only one hundred and ten patrol cavalry will be dispatched, and there must be a large team following behind.

If Hastings had found out about the existence of such a resistance force in the Byzantine Empire, he had sent a large army to exterminate it.

So...... Why is it farther away than a farmer at a time?

It looked as if the Black Flag Army was retreating step by step, and its scouts were advancing step by step.

The scouts of the Black Flag Army had already searched less than twenty miles away from Denzel City, but why did they gradually retreat later?

"Normally, one-one," Green continued, "I'm not too surprised to start encountering the Black Flag Army, after all, the rest of the Sixth Corps is with us. The Sixth Corps was defeated by the Black Flag Army and retreated to us, and it is not surprising that Hastings acted cautiously and sent some squads to search. It's strange that if it is to pursue the remnants of the Sixth Corps, then it is impossible to send only a few squads, at least five or six thousand elite troops or even more.

And, when they found us, they shrank the scouts farther and farther away......

Then, I made an umbrella decision and sent hundreds of cavalry out of the city, and decided to conduct a power search to make contact with these Black Flag rangers. ”

Char nodded.

He had also done scout work in the Rhodrian cavalry in the past, and knew that the so-called "power search" was actually to send a small group of rangers to search for the enemy's situation, and if he encountered a small group of enemies, he would go up and make contact, and the so-called contact was a small-scale battle, the encounter of one hundred and ten cavalry, and the two sides fought a battle to test the enemy's attitude.

"As a result, after I sent hundreds of horsemen, I found the Black Flag Army in the northeast again, but this time, the Black Flag Army didn't seem to have any intention of retreating, but fought with our people solidly, and both sides were somewhat damaged, but it was generally comparable. It's just that the attitude of the Black Flag Army this time surprised me, the other party fought very hard and tough, and there was no retreat, and in the end, everyone hurt each other and retreated.

After this power search, the Black Flag Army did not retreat but advanced. For the next two days, the Black Banner Army's rangers were constantly haunting, and they were getting closer and closer to the city of Denzel, and at one point, hundreds of horsemen had already run to the woods a stone's throw away from the city.

"I tried to catch a few tongues back, but these Odinites were very fierce, and there were several skirmishes, and we didn't catch a single prisoner, and if they were defeated, they fled away. Green sighed: "I don't have many cavalry in my hands, and if I want to set up a trap to kill them, I can't do it." ”

Char touched his nose, almost all the cavalry under his command were taken to Mesta, and most of the defenders in Denzel City were infantry, so it was no wonder that Green was helpless.

"It's been almost seven days, and only one by one has seen the rangers, but the large force of the Black Flag Army has not appeared. I wondered, and I couldn't guess what Hastings was trying to do. ”

Green frowned: "I originally suspected that Hastings wanted to bluff, but I was afraid that there was only such a small group of rangers, and there was no large army...... But if you think about it, it's unreasonable, and what's the use of doing that?"

After listening to Green's introduction, the tension in Char's heart first let go of half of it anyway, since there was no large army of the Black Flag Army, the situation was not at worst, and it was not easy for him to accumulate this bit of money in his hands, and at this time, if he fought with the Black Flag Army, he couldn't afford to lose.

Char sat there, pondered for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "***, this thing is indeed weird, if Hastings wants to come to fight us, these days the reconnoiter has also been reconnoitred, and it is not enough to send a large army directly." Always have such a group of scattered cavalry around, what are you doing with deception and bluffing......

Bluff, well, bluff......"

He suddenly slapped his thigh: "You said a bluff, but it's a bit likely......"

"But why?" said Green, "is he expecting to scare us into abandoning the city with a few hundred scattered cavalry?

Green smiled wryly, "Anyway, these guys always cause me a lot of trouble. I originally planned to let the people who had gathered in the surrounding villages in the city return to their homes these days, and summer is coming soon, so hurry up and farm at this time, and before winter, I can still harvest a plum's grain, but these guys from the Black Flag Army outside the city are so harassing, but it makes it very difficult for me to do it. ”

He sighed: "I don't dare to make a decision to summon you back directly...... Because I can't rule out a possibility: the Black Flag Army is deliberately tossing around here to attract our attention, and when you come back to help, they want to sneak up on Mesta. So, I'll just let you decide for yourself. ”

Char smiled: "Okay, since you can't guess anything, you just don't think about it first." Anyway, I've already returned, and I've brought back a lot of cavalry, so if those Odin cubs come to harass again, I'll just eat them. ”

Char's idea is not bad, before Green lacked cavalry in his hands, there was no way to take these scattered cavalry of the Black Flag Army, but now Char has brought back a large number of horse thief cavalry, and the city has sufficient mobility, Char plans to fight fiercely.

In the afternoon of the same day, a sergeant reported that a small group of cavalry of Odin's Black Banner Army appeared in the woods outside the city, and Char immediately did not stop, and directly led five hundred horse thieves out of the city.

Outside the city, the Odin people in Lin's hands saw Char's cavalry leaving the city from a distance, and immediately divided into two parts, a part of thirty or fifty horsemen quickly left the woods and went northeast, and the remaining fifty horsemen put on a posture of battle.

The two sides fought fiercely, and the fifty Odin riders were not afraid at all, and fought a fierce battle with the horse thieves, and finally all of them were annihilated.

Char cut off the heads of seven or eight Odin people alone, but what made Char depressed was that these Black Flag Army were really strong, and they would rather die than surrender, even if they were injured, they also put on a posture of ending up together, fighting to the last person, all of them were killed on the spot, and finally some people were in a desperate situation, and they simply wiped their necks with a knife.

After a battle, not a single live mouth was caught, which made Char very angry, and even counted the battle damage in the end, although all 50 Odin cavalry were annihilated, but his own people were also killed and wounded more than 30 horsemen.

In the case that the number of the two sides was ten times that of more than the enemy, he also suffered 30 casualties, which shows the fierceness of the Black Flag Army!

Char was frightened, but he went back to the city to rest for the night, and the next day there were hundreds of cavalry of the Black Flag Army outside the city. Char led people out again, but this time, these cavalry of the Black Flag Army were not hard with Char, and when they saw Char leading people out, they turned around.

Char was furious, chased after him until dark, ran for nearly a hundred miles, almost reached the northeastern border of Mor County, and then crossed Moore County into the neighboring county, Char then ordered to stop, and saw the more than 100 Black Flag troops in the distance cross the border.

After returning to the city, Char said to Green, "Lao Tzu understands Hasting's tricks! This guy is deliberately disgusting us! Damn! He has discovered our force, but for some reason, he does not have enough troops to deal with us, so he can only send a small force of cavalry to harass us constantly, tossing us to exhaustion!" We used to carry out a scorched earth policy, and his small group of cavalry came to harass us, so that our farmers could not return to their homes to farm, and the season was delayed, we could not produce food here, and if we missed the time, we would have a shortage of food sooner or later!"

Green thinks Char has three points of truth, but he still has doubts: "If Hastings already knows what we are doing, then there is some truth to this...... It's just that we have Mestaa City in addition to Denzel City, he is harassing here, and we are not afraid, and Mesta City, the surrounding land has allowed farmers to return to their homes, and in terms of food, there should be no problem. ”

"Damn, what the hell does Hastings want to do?" Char laughed angrily, "Could it be that guy is bored and has fun with us?"

"He must have some plan, but we haven't figured it out yet. Green frowned: "Hastings is also doing this too much, he can take us here." Tell Manninger that after all, this is the territory of the Red Snow Army, as long as Manninger sends an army to deal with us. Why did Hastings intervene?"

The two discussed for a while, but they didn't have a clue, they just felt that Hasting's actions were unreasonable, and in the end, Char could only rest sullenly.

Back in the room, Char threw the fire fork on the table, but heard Dora's voice in his head.

"Idiot.

"What-?!" Char raised an eyebrow.

"I said you stupid, big brains than simple. Dora's voice was full of mockery: "You and that guy named Green, the two of you are just thinking from a tactical and strategic point of view...... That Green is a general, and it's okay to only think about strategic factors. What about you? Did the war make you stupid in the head? Could it be that Hastings did this for some other reason?"

"Other reasons?" Char was about to refute, but suddenly his heart moved, and he sat down slowly, and gradually his face calmed down: "What do you mean......"

"Perhaps...... This matter has nothing to do with this war!"

Char: "............"