Chapter 124: The Vanishing Family
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Chapter 124
After coming out of the square of the military headquarters, Green, the fat man, and Char hugged each other, and then got on their horses and said goodbye.
"You still have to leave some rìzi in dìdū, come to me for a drink at any time. Green sat down on his horse and smiled at Char again: "Boy, you are very good. If you have time, come to me at the Military Academy, and I'll invite you to drink!"
After speaking, the frustrated emperor ** man smiled heroically and rode away.
Looking at Green's back, the fat man seemed to sigh and shook his head: "It's a pity." ”
He turned his head to look at Char, "Do you know who he is?"
Without waiting for Char to answer, the fat man whispered as if talking to himself: "He graduated from the Military Academy at the same time as me, and his grades ranked first, especially in Cāo and Tactics. Even our teacher, the Duke of Minas, said that he was an excellent talent. He participated in two wars with the Odin, the first time he was just a battalion officer, but he led 300 men to attack the enemy's rear for hundreds of miles, and attacked the logistics stronghold of the Odin. In the second war, he was already the flag officer of the flag regiment, and at the end of the war, he led more than a thousand cavalry to use the almost suicidal sāo harassment tactic, and forcibly delayed the march speed of a legion of Odinites for fifteen days! Later, he was transferred to the east to go to the border, and in the face of the invasion of the coalition army of more than a dozen tribes of the nomads, he took less than 2,000 defenders to defend a small city on the side for a month! I don't even know how he did it! The walls of the small city were only three meters high, and there were no fortified ordnance to defend it! There were no catapults, no ballistas, and even bows and arrows and food were scarce...... When reinforcements finally arrived, he was wounded in sixteen wounds and was in a coma for more than twenty days before waking up. ”
Char was shocked when she heard this!
He had experienced war, so from the fat man's simple words, he immediately felt the shock!
He had been in a well-armed garrison, with thousands of men and horses, facing an attack of more than 10,000 Odin, which was barely able to withstand it in just one day, forcing him to barely delay time with the strategy of single-handing Hasting.
Two thousand men, a small city on the border, lacking ordnance...... Hold for a month?!
"The Duke of Minas once said...... If Green can be reused, if he is allowed to lead a legion and give him enough time and trust, Green will definitely be able to bring out an iron army that can compete with the Odin Tornado Legion in Hasting......!
Ruhl shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Back then, he was too extreme, and the Duke of Minas had saved him many times, and finally had to be idle. He had already become the flag officer of the Flag Regiment in the 13th Corps, but in the end he failed to become the general of the 13th Corps. Alas......"
Speaking of this, Ruhr glanced at Char: "Among all the generals of the Eagle Department, Lao Tzu may not be really convinced even if he is facing your General Adric, but this Green is the only guy who convinces Lao Tzu......"
Char read the hint of respect in the fat man's eyes, and then the two got on their horses and slowly left the avenue in front of the military headquarters under the escort of their entourage.
When he was on the road, the fat man seemed to be in a depressed mood, and Char didn't say a word, until half an hour later, Char suddenly raised his head immediately and asked, "Well, fat man, just now in the military headquarters, you saluted that statue...... Who the hell is that statue?"
The fat man was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Char, and couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Boy, I thought you were a rookie, but I didn't expect you to be so ignorant!
“...... No. Char shook her head honestly.
"So......" Ruhl frowned, and then said, "So, do you know the origin of the name Osgilia in the city under your feet?"
Osgilia...... Char's heart suddenly moved: "Well, is it ...... The name comes from the man who made the statue? The name of the person who made the statue was Osgilia? Could he be the founding emperor of the Byzantine Empire?"
Ruhl smiled bitterly: "Of course he is not the emperor. But although he was not the emperor, the dìdū of the empire still had to be named after him! Even His Majesty the Founding Emperor had to give him the glory of this name dìdū...... And it was a decision that everyone wholeheartedly approved of at the time! You can imagine how great this statue man was. ”
After sighing, Ruhl's face was full of reverence and remembrance: "Osgillia is the founding father of our Byzantine Empire, the first marshal of the empire! The supreme commander of the imperial ** team! It can be said that he single-handedly conquered the territory of the entire Byzantine Empire! Originally, Byzantium was just a small country in the southern coastal region, and it was only in the more than 30 years of war that Marshal Osgillia had built such a big empire! He was a truly invincible commander and a great soldier! He is also a military god that our Byzantine Empire's soldiers dare not forget for generations! After the establishment of the empire, Duke Osgillia became the first marshal of the empire and was named a duke, and he and his family descendants guarded the empire for nearly 400 years! In those 400 years, the Osgillian family almost became the home of the military gods of the empire! Their family, almost every generation of dukes, was the commander of the imperial army and the most outstanding general of the empire today! In those 400 years, the Osgillian family was the emperor ** The team has a high prestige. But this family has always been loyal to the empire, even if there are occasionally one or two mediocre emperors in history, and they have been suspicious of the family, but this family has never betrayed the empire, and has loyally guarded the empire for four hundred years!"
Char frowned: "Four hundred years...... So what do you mean......"
"The House of Oskilia no longer exists. The god of Ruhl was a little emotional and sad: "This great family, but from the beginning it seems to have been cursed by some kind, the family has not prospered, and each generation of dukes is the only male in a single lineage, as if God has bestowed the greatest glory and the most outstanding military talent on this family, but deprived them of the prosperity of reproduction." In the four hundred years since the founding of the country, because of the existence of the Osgillian family, the empire has encountered no matter how great the crisis, and this family of military gods has stepped forward to defend the empire. But finally, in the 400th year of the founding of the country, the last Duke of Osgillia died of illness at the age of thirty-nine, but he did not leave a son, only the only daughter. Originally, the emperor ordered that the duke's daughter should give birth to a male offspring, so that he could inherit the title of Duke of Ostilia, but unfortunately, the duke's daughter had no heirs for life...... This glorious family has been cut off from blood......"
Speaking of this, Ruhl suddenly smiled, and he said slowly: "There is a legend that says that the Osgilian family is actually a messenger descended from the gods, and the mission is to protect the Byzantine Empire, and after four hundred years, this family completed their mission and was summoned by the gods to leave this world, so there are no descendants of the Osgilian family left in the world......
When Char heard this, he couldn't help but sigh for a while.
The fat man suddenly changed his voice, and said with a gentle smile: "I'm strange, you haven't heard of such a famous legend? Even in Wildfire Town, it is impossible that no one knows this story...... Even on the entire continent, the name of the Duke of Osgilia has been sung for thousands of years......"
After a pause, he suddenly patted his head: "Ah! Yes, I know!" The fat man smiled: "The Duke of Osgilia had a resounding nickname back then, and legend has it that the favorite flower of the first Duke of Osgilia, that is, the founding marshal, was tulips...... Therefore, after the founding of the country and the title of duke, the family emblem was set as a tulip flower blooming in flames, and after that, the successive dukes of Osgillia were called 'Tulip Dukes' by the entire continent, and their family was also called the 'Tulip Family'. ”
Char's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but be a little excited, and he lost his voice: "Ah! Duke Tulip, Tulip Family! I haven't heard the name Duke of Osgiria, but the name Tulip, when I was in Wildfire Town, I often heard those storytellers mention it! Legend has it that Duke Tulip is invincible, and they all say that he is the protector of the Empire!"
Char said, with an expression of "it turned out to be him" on his face, although he was far away from the military headquarters, he couldn't help but turn around on the horse and look in the direction of the military headquarters, with a bit of reverence in his eyes.
※※※ Originally, the fat man planned to send Char back to his residence to wait, but Char said that there was still something to go out, and the fat man was a little worried: "You'd better stay in your residence now, maybe when His Majesty's summons will come......"
Char was very serious and shook his head: "I...... There is really something to do. I...... I'm going to Kevin's house!" Char said with a hint of sadness on her face.
As he spoke, he whispered something to the fat man. The fat man showed a hint of understanding on his face, stared at Char, and said in a deep voice: "Well, this matter really can't be delayed! Okay, you go and come back quickly! Well, you have a special status now, I will let the guards follow you." ”