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Chapter 95

The Odin faded without warning.

Almost in a short day, the large camp besieged outside the garrison had become empty. The neighing of the horses, the arrogant roar that lasted all night, the huge bonfires that could be lit at night, were all gone.

Standing on the lookout, watching the Odin army march away one by one, walking at the end of the Odin army, those rude Odin men, even arrogantly jumped off their horses and reindeer, stood in the wilderness, took off their pants to pee in the direction of the station, roaring and shouting arrogantly.

These scenes made the Byzantine soldiers behind the walled walls feel a deep humiliation in their hearts.

But no matter how humiliating they were, they were forced to face the reality: they lost this war.

In order to deal with this invasion of the Odins, the Byzantine Empire put out five regular corps, which is already one-third of the regular force of the Byzantine Empire.

However, the 2nd and 9th Corps were completely crushed by a beautiful roundabout raid by Hasting, and their fate awaited them was to return home and rebuild. The 13th Corps, the most meritorious Iron Army, lost more than half of the main combat strength of the two banner regiments. Sosia was killed in battle, and the flag officer was seriously wounded, and in any case, judging from the proportion of attrition of troops, the Byzantines lost in a mess.

The most embarrassing thing is that the 13th Corps did not even have a chance to show their strong combat effectiveness. They were first lured north by Ko Curran's forces, and then forced to return when the lair was raided. The strong combat power is consumed on the back and forth, and the physical strength of the soldiers is not consumed in the battle with the enemy, but is consumed in the rapid march back and forth...... But no matter what, no matter how big the losses are, the most important purpose of this war for the Byzantine Empire has been achieved: to keep the enemy out of the country.

After all, the Odin did not really set foot on the territory of the Byzantine Empire, and the war began and ended in the wildfire field.

However, the initiative was in the hands of the Odin, and they did not expand their gains further, not because they couldn't, but because it seemed to ...... I don't think so at all.

Having eaten up the strength of the two and a half armies of the Byzantines, it was enough for the Odin to go home with glory and singing triumphal songs.

One of the episodes is that, contrary to Char's previous guess, Hastings didn't take Wildfire Town at all!

From the beginning to the end, this Odin commander did not send even a small team of people to Wildfire Town! It seems that from the beginning, he did not intend to force the 13th Corps to a dead end! In other words, he had no intention of fighting the 13th Corps to the death from the beginning.

Knowing the news, Char was silent for a while, and then scolded with a smile, but he was not discouraged at all.

He's Hasting, the most powerful Odin, what am I? a small soldier, and it's not surprising that I can't guess what he means.

※※※ The Odin retreated for three days, and during these three days, a large number of scouts were scattered, and after careful searching, it was determined that the Odin people had really returned. This news made General Adric's face sink, but it made the fat man Ruhl breathe a long sigh.

While Adric was tormented by the humiliation of defeat, the fat man had happily ordered his troops to pack up and prepare to go home.

For Char, the first war in his life ended. Although the two warring sides are not his motherland, this war has wiped a heavy stroke on the life trajectory of the turtle. He made his first friend in this war, and then he lost his first friend.

Because of his bravery and outstanding performance, Adric had promoted Char to the rank of cavalry commander, the highest rank of a junior officer in the Byzantine Empire. According to the establishment of the Byzantine cavalry troops, ten people were a team, five teams were one horse, ten cavalry were one battalion, five battalions were one flag, and five flags were one corps.

As a cavalry commander, Char is already a low-level officer who can lead fifty cavalry - in fact, for most civilian-born emperors, this step is already the limit of the highest status possible in life.

No one questioned this appointment, after all, Char's performance on the battlefield was obvious to all, whether it was the admirable courage he showed when he was stationed at the garrison, or the bravery of wounding Hastings on the battlefield, which was admired by everyone in the 13th Corps - especially the fearless courage shown by the 13th Corps when he finally led 200 miscellaneous cavalry out of the city to rush into the enemy group to meet the troops behind the palace, which was even more heartbreaking.

Adric greatly appreciated Char, and the cavalry commander who promoted Char was not to send him to the combat units below, but to ...... Pro-Barracks!

With the special status of the pro-guard battalion, each pro-guard cavalry can have a special subordinate under his command, so in the calculation, the fifty personal guard cavalry led by Char must also be added to the fifty subordinates, and most of the subordinates also have a certain cavalry combat ability, so the actual number of people under his command has reached 100! The combat effectiveness has doubled out of thin air!

Belch...... Of course. If every servant is like Tadoro, I am afraid that not only will the combat power not be doubled, but I am afraid that it will have to be halved because of a bunch of rice buckets and straw bales on their backs...... As the commander of a corps, Adric's guards had a battalion of guards, and the highest rank of the guards battalion was the chief of the guard - but what puzzled Char was that it seemed that the position of Adric's chief of guard had been vacant since he came to the 13th Corps.

Once upon a time, it was the bald man Kevin who played the role of the chief of the guard, exercising the duties of the chief of the guard. However, Kevin, a bald man, is just a rider himself.

Char quietly asked the other people in the guard camp, but found that the others avoided talking about the topic, and occasionally Char asked too much, so he showed a wry smile and told him in a low voice: This is a taboo in the guard camp, and General Adric ordered that no one should talk about this topic.

A name that had been heard several times came to Char's ears again:

Via ...... It is said that this name is the former chief of the guard battalion. But what this person is doing there now, Char doesn't know.

Once Sharba drank too much and said casually: It is said that Via is a very powerful guy, he is the only strongman in the entire 13th Corps who dares to slap the table with General Adric and stare at him.

In the Thirteenth Corps, dare to slap the table with General Adric and stare at each other? This statement made Char very suspicious. According to Char's knowledge, the 13th Corps is almost unconditionally obedient to any order given by General Adric, and Adric's prestige in this army is incomparably high -- let's put it this way, even if there is a big fire pit in front of him, pointing at Adric and saying "jump"! Then the tens of thousands of soldiers of the 13th Corps will jump forward without hesitation, even if they use their own flesh and blood, they will definitely fill this hole!

Even Sosia in the 13th Corps, who is the successor of General Adric by default, is respectful to Adric, a small captain of the guard, who dares to scold the general?!

※※※ After a few days of repairs at the station, during which General Adric met with Char several times, Char's contribution this time was very great, and the general had made it clear that Char's credit would definitely be in the military newspaper, and as for the reward, it would only be issued after the final decision from above.

However, there is one thing: to single out Hastings on the battlefield and wound him - this credit does not fall to Char's head, after all, nominally, it was "Lord Bonfrett, a first-class knight of the Empire", who singled out Hastings at that time.

Char had no interest in this merit and readily accepted the seemingly unfair decision.

In the words behind the turtle: Accepting this credit is tantamount to being targeted by Hasting! Where is the credit? It is clearly a big black cauldron, and whoever carries it will die!

However, Adrick readily agreed to several other requests from Char, including transferring Sharba and Cato to Char's cavalry team, Sharpa was originally the position of deputy cavalry commander, and this brave big man came over to be Char's deputy. As for Cato...... His arrival made the fifty cavalrymen who were originally transferred to Char's command happy, everyone knew that with the arrival of smugglers in the army, it would naturally be very convenient for Char's riders to get something contraband and the like in the future.

Char's other request was to transfer a man named Soit to his own name as the second servant. Although Char was just a small cavalry commander, and having two guards was always a bit too ostentatious and inconsistent with military conventions, Adric still approved it without hesitation.

Because, this guy named Soyt is the servant of the bald man Kevin. After Kevin's death, Soyt was supposed to return home from the army or work as a craftsman or groom in the auxiliary barracks. But Char deliberately asked this person to be under his hands.

Soyt was born as a horseman, and he also knew some simple blacksmith work, he was a wooden and martial man, he could ride a horse, and his strength was not small, and he even learned a little cavalry combat skills taught in the army, but unfortunately he was born with a little slow reaction, no matter what he said or did, he was always half a beat slower than others, so he stayed in the position of a servant and could not go further.

The so-called slower reaction means: if everyone listens to a joke together, and the joke is finished, everyone laughs, and Soyt is calm and silent, and after a long time, everyone else starts talking about other topics, and this guy will suddenly look up to the sky and laugh. The same ...... If you punch him, he will also look at you indifferently, and then after half an hour, he will suddenly scream in pain.

And Char asked him for an important reason: Soyt, a fellow villager of Kevin.

Soyt's arrival made Dotaro a little excited, and the noble magician was delighted to think that he could finally get rid of his humble life as a servant. This newcomer looks silly, with his own clever brain, and still doesn't play this guy around?

But soon, the magician discovers that he is tragic...... Soyt worked honestly and diligently, and he could clean his horses in the same way, whether it was nailing horseshoes or mending armor and weapons, he could do it competently, and he did it quickly and well.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing the goods.

Originally, Todora worked under Char, although he was a little slower, a little rougher, a little lazy, and a little more food, but Char felt that it was so-so, but after Soit came, such a comparison made it seem that the magician was extraordinarily wasted...... As a result, poor Tataro had to be scolded by the turtle every day because of his low work efficiency.

On the third day, Soyt approached Dotaro and made a suggestion to him:

"Give me a third of your wages, and I can do things deliberately slower in the future. ”

He had the heart to denounce it, but after thinking about it carefully, he compared this guy's loyal and honest expression, and then looked at his own deceitful and obscene appearance...... Think about it with your heels and you can guess which one others will believe!

Unwilling to contribute one-third of his salary, the magician looked up to the sky and mourned.

", who's a fool!!"

※※※After trimming up a few rì, the newly appointed cavalry commander Chara Leiming was called to General Adric's tent and accepted a task to send a detailed military report to the military headquarters of the theater.

At the same time, because of his active performance in the battle, Char will live to receive an imperial "Eagle Head Medal", and after returning to the theater military headquarters, he himself can also be personally awarded by the commander of the theater, and he can also receive a generous bounty.

That's a good errand. There is no danger, and you can gain fame and fortune.

But in addition to this task, there is an additional small task.

Char will go south with his cavalry of fifty personal guards, and they will escort a noble lord back to China along the way, and as long as he is sent back to the theater military headquarters, the mission will be completed.

And this escorted baby guy is ...... It was this time on the battlefield that he single-handedly challenged the Odin Valkyrie Hasting, and single-handedly damaged the new hero of the empire, the noble Imperial First Class Sir Bonfret, Lord Bonfret...... Hearing this order, Char was completely stunned.

He stared at General Adric carefully, and from the other party's serious expression, he was sure that the general was not joking.

But...... Let me escort that little white face of Bonfrett's ass seller?

Is there a mistake? The entire 13th Corps, who doesn't know that I and that little white-faced beam have grown up!

After hesitating for a long time, Char made a bitter face and said with a wry smile: "That...... General, I dare to ask, ...... you Well, you ......"

"There's a fart!" Adric scolded with a laugh.

"Hmm...... Are you sure you're really not hinting at me...... Take the opportunity to kill that old boy?"