In fact, after being ambushed and losing the queen, Mr. Stephen did not completely collapse as Char expected.

After all, although he is a guy with mediocre talents, he is at least from the Imperial Central Army, and has experienced the invasion of the Odin people in the south, experienced the main force of the Seventh Corps being completely annihilated by the Odin Chixue Army, followed the remnants all the way to trek, and encountered the most dangerous desperate situation.

Therefore, after the team crossed the river and lost the queen, Stephen, who suffered a huge blow, was stubborn for only one night, and before dawn, he had already regained his strength.

Although his eyes were full of despair.

"Gather all the cavalry, scatter them all, and search along the river upstream and down!" Stephen gritted his teeth, he had already felt the strangeness of this ambush, he had just gone to the burning woods, although the fire had been extinguished, but from the remaining traces, it seemed that there had been no ambush here, from the horseshoe marks outside the woods, the horseshoe marks were also very rare, and the people who ambushed themselves were probably only a few or even one!

The other party dared to ambush his own team of more than 1,000 people here! In the night, while he crossed the river, he set fire to the woods, and then attacked him with a bow and arrow.

As for the arrows flying out of the woods, they were all clear, and there were some things left in the woods, and some small crossbow arrows were set up on the branches of some trees, and they were all connected in series with thin iron cables.

Obviously, the number of the other party is indeed not much, and when ambushing himself, the dense rain of arrows is just an illusion made by the other party using this kind of mechanism: suppose that there are more than ten bows and crossbows, and the crossbow arrows are wound in series with ropes, and then as long as the control rope is pulled, more than ten crossbow arrows will be shot together......

And judging from the crossbow arrows that were picked up on the riverbank later, the arrows were dulled, and it was obvious that the other party's intention was just míuo and did not want to pursue killing.

Judging from all these traces, the other party is definitely not a local rebel force, and even more like those lone thieves who crisscross the mountains and fields.

What made Stephen feel ashamed was that during the ambush, the cavalry under his own command appeared deserters, and dozens of horsemen escaped, but in the end they were chased back by those elite horse thief cavalry.

Looking at the deserters who were tied up and thrown to the ground, Stephen's face burned.

He knew very well the origin of the 100 elite cavalry in the team, and these regular troops had always looked down on these miscellaneous second-line garrisons, which made him even more humiliated!

Annoyed, he immediately wanted to order the execution of the deserters, but the hundred horsemen refused to carry out the order.

Stephen, who had nowhere to vent his anger, could only whip the deserters with his own horsewhip.

The search team ran outside for a day and a night, and the disappointing news brought by the people who came back in 66 finally erased the little hope that Stephen had left.

One of the men was the closest to success, tracking Char's horseshoe mark, which disappeared after entering a mountain forest and passing through a small muddy semi-swampy area.

After that, there is a mountain forest that stretches out for dozens of miles!

If you want to search such a huge mountain forest, I am afraid that even if you mobilize tens of thousands of people to close the mountain and search for it, you will not be able to do it in a few months! Not to mention that you only have a thousand people under your command, and they are still in enemy-occupied areas!

The queen can't be found!

Stephen finally had to face this fact, and then, he began to rack his brains to find a way out for himself!

He was very reluctant to return to the northern garrison.

He has not been able to integrate into the group of the Northern Garrison, and it is obvious that General Char does not want to see himself, the officers of the Central Army with backgrounds from the imperial capital.

What's more, he lost the queen, which is equivalent to the failure of the mission, and after going back, General Char Leiming has enough reasons to deal with himself!

Not to mention anything else, just losing the queen is enough to hang yourself!

If he had been replaced by other Xia Lei Ming's henchmen and generals, maybe he would have opened up but he would not have received that kind of treatment! Even if he was not stupid, at least he knew that General Xia Lei Ming had been committed to diluting the original imprint of the Northern Army since the establishment of the Northern Army!

He would never let go of such a high-sounding opportunity to erase himself as a member of the old forces of the Central Army.

As for going to Osgilia......

This thought was very human in Stephen's heart.

I have come here, and I have left the sphere of influence of the Northern Army. Further south, there is a great chance of returning to the imperial capital.

But...... ，... Losing the queen and returning to the imperial capital is also a capital crime!

Going back to the north is death, and going to the imperial capital is also uh...... Stephen clutched his head anxiously.

In desperation, he came up with a last resort.

Go back to the imperial capital, but you must bring this army back!

Although Stephen's talent is average, he walks out of an aristocratic family, and his vision is naturally unusual. He knows very well that in troubled times, whoever has the power to fight will be the greatest!

Now the imperial capital is preparing for a counteroffensive against the rebels. But the power of the royal family had been greatly weakened after the previous rebellion and the invasion of the Odins, and even General Adric had to draw those second- and even third-tier local garrisons from the south of the empire, which was simply a group of peasants who had only received a little basic military training and hurriedly took their weapons.

The lack of troops, especially the real warlike forces, is the biggest weakness of the empire at present.

If you can pull this army of thousands of people in your hand to the imperial capital...... ，... Then, when the time comes, he will support his own troops to protect himself, and coupled with the actions of the family in the imperial capital, he may be able to earn a way out!

The army of more than 1,000 people, if it was changed a year or two ago, would not have the qualifications to negotiate terms with the empire at all, but now the troops in the imperial capital are tense, and I haven't heard that before Xia Ya thundered and went south to King Qin, it was just that he brought 3,000 cavalry over and shocked the imperial capital and nobles did not dare to move!

His own army has 1,500 men, and he has 500 cavalry!

The Israeli army thinks that it should not be too difficult to save his life by relying on chips and relying on it.

Stephen looked at the infantry resting by the river.

The ranks were filled with uneasiness.

The soldier is not a fool, losing the queen is equivalent to a complete failure of the mission, and what a big crime it is to lose the queen, where can people with a little bit of brains not understand?

What's more, there was an ambush last night, and now the team is not advancing or retreating, and they are still staying in place to repair and inquire around, aren't they afraid that the local rebel forces will hear the news and send troops over to encircle and suppress?

Almost everyone, from officers to soldiers, had a look of trepidation and trepidation in their eyes.

The only thing that seemed a little different was the elite cavalry from a hundred horse thieves.

For such a big crime as losing the queen, it may be scary to put it on others, but for these rebellious horse thieves, it is a bird!

In the hearts of the horse thieves, even if they have now been subordinated to the official and incorporated into the regular army of the northern part of the empire, the banditry in their bones cannot be erased in such a short period of time.

In the eyes of the horse thieves, in this world, the eldest aunt Char and the eldest lady are the second, and the others are counted as the oldest. What Queen?

If you lose it, you lose it, isn't it just a woman?

This mission is really a bit inexplicable, everyone is marching hard, in order to escort a woman to come here, forget it, last night a night attack, in these elite cavalry hearts are too humiliating!

If it weren't for that Commander Stephen who was too hasty and rushed all the way, would he have been ambushed?

Moreover, the soldiers under his command were too, and the hundreds of people who crossed the river were caught off guard by ambushes, and they couldn't even resist and were robbed of the queen in a daze. It's just a waste to the house.

But that's okay, the task is over, and next, just roll up the cover and go back to your hometown in the north, and stay here for a fart!

Unlike Stephen's fantasies, these horse thieves are used to this kind of ambush robbery.

Last night's incident, in the eyes of these veterans, they knew it at a glance, and someone definitely set the distance of their team, and waited on the bank of the Onyx River, ready to ambush them.

There is no intention of mental calculation, plus your own team is too pustuated, and the commander is also a mediocre person, so there is no need to think about the ending at all.

This Stephen still wants to stay here, and sending people around to search is a waste of time.

These horse thieves who used to specialize in this line of food are all veterans who are proficient in this way. In this line of trading, what you pay attention to is to rush up and scatter in a hurry! After you get it, you will immediately run away thousands of miles, and then lie dormant, and you don't even want to catch a single hair!

If you don't wait for the wind to pass, these guys will definitely not be 1ù heads!

And since they have carefully prepared this ambush, they have naturally arranged the retreat route a long time ago, and once they succeed, they will immediately retreat safely.

In that case, let's hurry up and go back to the errand as soon as possible.

Anyway, these horse thieves are not afraid to go back to collect punishments, and the commander of this trip is Stephen, so naturally he has a top tank. Besides, who are we? We are Aunt Char's henchmen! We are the old subordinates who followed Miss Nene! The first team of people who came to join the Northern Army as soon as it was established! No matter how good Uncle is, he will not turn his elbow outward.

In this way, the horse thieves waited patiently for a day, and it was not until the next night, when all the search parties returned, that they finally thought that Stephen had made a request.

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"What? still going to the imperial capital?!"

Several officers of the horse thief cavalry shouted in unison after they heard Stephen's words after they heard Stephen's words.

At that time, a horse thief leader shouted: "Your brain is broken?!Go to the imperial capital? We are the northern army, since the mission has failed, this matter is over, naturally go back to the north! What kind of bullshit imperial capital!"

Stephen's face was pale, and he said slowly in a deep voice: "We are walking to escort Her Royal Highness back to the imperial capital, and if we lose Her Royal Highness halfway, the mission will not be completed! We must go to the imperial capital to overthrow our lives before we can organize an army to rescue Your Highness!! how can we go back to Denzel City!"

The horse thieves stopped doing it, and they all made a noise, and some of them pointed directly at Stephen's nose and scolded: "What queen you want to rescue, then you kid will go and leave by yourself! Lao Tzu has no time to accompany him! This is the territory of his mother's rebels, and if the people are gone, they will rescue a fart! If you have the ability, let the 100,000 troops of the imperial capital come to sweep away the rebels and rescue that queen! We are just a thousand people, but we are not interested in getting involved in this kind of thing!"

Stephen's face was gloomy, but he had already pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife, and said coldly: "I am the commander of this trip! What I said is a military order! Now that the mission has not been completed, we cannot go back! We cannot rescue the queen back to the imperial capital, and no one is allowed to leave! Otherwise, we will be charged with desertion! Spread my order, the whole army will continue to go south, go to the imperial capital to report the situation here, and then organize a rescue!"

"Camp your sister!" a horse thief vomited violently. Spit, and pointed out the one between Stephen's fingers with disdain.

There was a hint of murder in Stephen's eyes. He also made some preparations, and if he wanted to continue to bring these troops to the south, these were either his own cavalry, or the biggest obstacle.

The other more than 1,000 people were all under their own leadership, and naturally they also had their own henchmen. But these hundred cavalry are not their own subordinates, they are all elites loyal to Char's lineage, if they refuse to go to the imperial capital, they really can't command them.

When the time comes, I have no choice but to ......

The only people who came to negotiate with Stephen were a few horse thief cavalry officers, and Stephen had many henchmen around him, seeing that the main general was arguing with these cavalry officers, and some of them had already nervously surrounded him according to the handle of the sword.

Stephen took a deep breath, he was about to take the lead, after all, he was the supreme commander of this trip, as long as he was the first to take the lead, accusing these disobedient cavalry officers of wanting to be Shen soldiers, and then taking out the identity of the commander to forcibly use military orders to suppress the northern army's extremely heavy military orders, the crime of desertion has always been great. When the time comes, as long as you come up with such an excuse and then set up an arson, first take down these cavalry officers and then take advantage of the situation to surrender their weapons, if you are ruthless, you will simply kill them on the spot............ When the time comes, he has a military order, the identity of a commander, and the authority to kill, and if he wants to come, those cavalrymen will not dare to make a mistake, and they will be obedient and obedient...... ......

Seeing that Stephen's eyes were a little murderous, these elite horse thieves, which one of them was not an old oilman rolling out of the sea of corpses and blood, looking at the other party's eyes and the people leaning over around him, where did the sea not know the other party's ill intentions?

But these horse thieves are not afraid, these are all a group of bold guys, among these horse thieves and cavalry, who can become an officer, which one is good?

At the moment, without waiting for Stephen to speak, several officers looked at each other, and they didn't even shout, and after a few clicks, several sabers were pulled out directly, and several officers rushed forward first, and they actually cooperated tacitly, with two horizontal knives on each side to block those soldiers who were around, and the two with the best skills in between, directly a tiger pounced, and the goal was to take Stephen directly!

Stephen's martial arts skills are not as good as his own, and when he saw that the other party was difficult, he immediately slashed with a horizontal sword. But these horse thieves are fierce and cunning one by one, this kind of hand-to-hand attack work is extremely skilled, not waiting for Stephen's knife to come in front of him, he directly shortened, fell to the ground, hugged Stephen's tuǐ, the knife in his hand unceremoniously greeted Stephen's tuǐ, and the other one stood, wielding a saber to hold Stephen's knife, and laughed and shouted: "Do you have something to say, adults have something to say, they are all their own brothers, why bother to use swords and swords......"

He shouted with a smile, and several of Stephen's subordinates next to him were a little stunned when they heard it, but the knife in the hand of this horse thief was not slow, and it slashed past one by one!

Stephen had already screamed and collapsed in a pool of blood.

His big tuǐ was stabbed into it, and the man fell to the ground, and another horse thief had already pounced on him and held him down, and a short knife stabbed him directly under the ribs, and while stabbing him, he also smiled: "Why can't the adult stand steadily? Come on, come on, help the adult to sit down." ”

Stephen's mouth was already spurting blood, and he howled, but his mouth was already covered with death, and then his neck was cold......

A horse thief had already cut his neck with a knife, and he jumped up with his head in his hands, where was the half-smile on his face?

Holding the bloody head high, the horse thief shouted: "Stephen is afraid of the crime and betrayed the enemy!

After all, it's only a second-line garrison, and most of them are eliminated soldiers, who is willing to really use knives and guns to fight hard?

Even though Stephen had a few henchmen, these horse thief officers were too fierce and didn't wait for Stephen to move, so they took the lead and shot ruthlessly.

Even if those henchmen are very loyal to Stephen on weekdays, but now their boss's head has been cut off, and they are still stubbornly resistant?

After a slight hesitation, someone directly threw the weapon in his hand and knelt down with his head in his hands. Someone took the lead, and the rest of the people with weapons lost their weapons helplessly.

A couple of horse thieves went over and kicked them all to the ground.

Immediately, the captain of the horse thief cavalry had jumped on the back of a horse and stood, took out a sheepskin envelope sealed with fire paint from his bosom, tore it open, and read it out loud: "By the secret order of the General's Mansion of the Garrison! Sergeant Lakun, the commander of the Third Cavalry Regiment of the Independent Cavalry Regiment of the garrison, is hereby granted the right to escort his troops to the south, and Sergeant Lakun is given the right to make decisions on the spot, act cheaply, and if necessary, take over the command and control the military law of the whole army!

This secret order was obtained before he walked out, in fact, although this horse thief had not opened the seal, but before he walked out, Char had met him and told the horse thief officer the content of the military order.

In fact, this officer himself is illiterate, and if he were to read the military orders himself, he would not be able to recognize a single word.

At this critical moment, he took out the military order to "read" and take over the command, plus decisively killed Stephen. The whole army was immediately subdued, and no one expressed disagreement.

After all, these cavalry belong to the First Cavalry Independent Regiment of the garrison, and everyone knows that they are the descendants of General Charya, the entire northern army of the garrison!

As for the horse thief officer, when he read it, the military order was reversed, and naturally no one noticed such innocuous details.

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After killing Stephen and successfully taking over the command, the horse thieves were no longer interested in staying here, so they immediately ordered the whole army to go out and cross the river north again.

The team of more than 1,000 people returned the same way. Retreated to the north of the Onyx River, but the road was less than a day, and suddenly I heard the sound of horses' hooves faintly in the distance of the road!

Several horse thieves and cavalry suddenly became nervous.

After all, this is still an enemy-occupied area! If the local army of the rebels comes to chase after them, I am afraid that even if the cavalry of my own group of troops cannot beat them, they can run, but these infantry are only afraid of ......

The horse thieves immediately ordered the army to stay away from the formation and prepare for battle, but fortunately, the sound of horses' hooves roared in the distance, and they waited until the opposing team approached, and looked at the flags raised on the opposite side, the horse thieves breathed a sigh of relief, and were replaced by surprised eyes.

The cavalry that drove like thunder was fighting the flag of the 1st Independent Cavalry Regiment of the Northern Garrison!

This cavalry team of 2,000 horsemen, coming from the northeast, the queue was majestic and solemn, obviously the most elite cavalry team, the leader of a majestic cavalry general, sitting on horseback, with a burly body, the whole body of the hill armor specially signed by the senior generals, a prismatic hammer hung on the saddle, covered with iron Lou, the mask pulled up, 1ù out of a well-defined square face.

But it's Sharpa!

Sharba with two thousand cavalry and escort team out of the city of Denzel, originally in the new city had already broken up, Sharba nominally led the army to the Corsica region to quell the rebellion, but he didn't expect to run here to respond!!

When the two armies met, Sharpa was shocked when he heard that the queen was lost! He was not from the horse thief background, he was born as a serious Rhodrian cavalryman, and he was regarded as the foundation of the regular army, so he naturally knew very well how important the identity of the queen was.

However, he also did not have the power to deal with this matter, because the order Char gave him was to pretend to lead the army to the Corsica region to quell the rebellion, but in fact, he secretly led the cavalry to the south, requiring him to take the army along the north bank of the Agate River, ready to meet the escort army returning to the north at any time.

In this line, there is no danger at all, the two thousand elite cavalry of the Northern Army led by Sharba, although this is already the territory of the rebels, but there are two thousand iron cavalry in hand, unless the head of the rebels is broken, they will run to provoke such a tiger and wolf army.

Two thousand elite cavalry "If you fight in the field, you can hardly find an opponent within a radius of thousands of miles!"

The only difficulty was that if they wanted to come south to meet the convoy, they would have to pass through the territory of the Bestas.

Shalpa got Char's secret order "so he had to go to Corsica to quell the rebellion, in fact, the team turned back halfway, and then rode all the way, quietly infiltrated the Besta area, and then the brigade hurried south, passing through the territory of the Besta people.

As for the fact that the Besta people showed up and the Northern Army rashly entered the country, naturally there were high-level officials of the garrison and the Besta people to fight this lawsuit of words.

The two sides met, and Sharpa listened to those horse thief officers tell what happened, "I heard that they killed Stephen and seized the command persuasion, Sharpa only raised his eyebrows and sneered: "Go south? Hmph, that bastard wants to go to the imperial capital, and he will go by himself, but he has to make up his mind and pull the team south to defect to the imperial capital, that is, he betrayed our northern army, and it is good to kill!"

After a pause, he told the horse thief officers: "I am here to receive you under the leadership of General Char, and the general's order is that I will bring you fifteen hundred men, one by one, back to Denzel City!"

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At the same time as the cavalry and the escort of Sharpa, in the evening, "on the south bank of the Onyx River, a horse galloped from the east, Char on horseback" with a cold face, and Daphany behind him just gently hugged Char's back, and her hair fluttered in the wind.

Galloping horses, mighty knights, and beautiful women.

Such a picture should be beautiful under the sunset, but at this moment, the two people on the horse are both indifferent and hazy.

The horses came to the river, "that is, the place of the ambush the night before, Char looked around" There are still traces of the army stationed here, but the men and horses are gone.

He rode around again, and made sure that there was no trace of people going south, and he was sure of one thing: the whole army had crossed the river and headed north.

"We're late. Char said lightly: "The guards can't find you, and now the whole army has returned according to the secret order I left before." ”

Delfini sat on the back of the horse and sighed faintly: "You have arranged these things a long time ago." ”

Char raised his eyebrows: "Naturally, yes, even if it is to save you, it is impossible for me to give up this thousand five hundred centaurs at will." I have already arranged that once you are rescued by me, the people who remain in the team will use my military order to take over the troops and lead the army back north. ”

After a pause, Char hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "I didn't think that I would send you back after saving you!"

When Dafani heard this, her heart ached, and she couldn't help but whisper: "Char, I ......"

"Needless to say. Char said lightly: "There is no need to mention the responsibilities of the family." I promised you that whatever you asked, I would meet it. ”

Daphne's heart trembled, only to feel that her heart hurt almost unable to breathe, and she gently pressed Xiong's mouth with one hand, and then reluctantly said: "But now, what should I do............ Without the guards, I ...... ，...... , how do you go back to the imperial capital?"

Char was silent for a moment, but suddenly turned his head, his eyes were bright and scary, he stared at Daphany tightly, and took a deep breath: "Daphne, let me ask you again............ You, have you really made up your mind that you must go back to the imperial capital......? Even if I let you stay, won't you?"

Dafani only felt stared at by Char's bright eyes, and her heart surged with enthusiasm, and she almost couldn't help but blurt out: "Yes, I do, I am willing, I am willing to stay by your side forever!!"

...... But these words, only on her lips, were immediately swallowed back by her.

Daiffinne looked Char in the eyes, but didn't say a word for a long time.

Seeing that Daphany was just looking at himself like this, but not speaking, Charya's bright eyes finally gradually dimmed, and he turned his head away, his chest heaving, and he seemed to be short of breath and his heart was moving.

After taking a few deep breaths, he barely suppressed the resentment in his heart, and Char clenched the reins hard, and after a while, he slowly released his palm.

"In that case...... I'll personally send you back to the imperial capital!!"

Regarding the plot between Char and Daiffine, I know that many readers are very fragile in their hearts and can't see the slightest entanglement and repetition. But let me make a small excuse here: even if you write a harem, you have to be a little technical. Some iteration and process is essential. Anyway, this is a network, and naturally there is no plot that makes everyone unhappy. In my own process of conceiving the characters, I think that if I could immediately abandon everything and follow Char, it would not be a character like Defane. A character like the poor worm can do this kind of thing, but with Daphany, it's a different situation. A woman who has been portrayed as a tool for political marriage since she was a child, who bears family responsibilities, even if her husband is a rabbit and even has the intention of killing herself, is willing to endure humiliation for several years, it is impossible to make a big reversal of her mind all at once. Dedication to Char is already the biggest change that a woman like Daphne can make in a short period of time, and it is also the biggest and most outrageous thing she can do. To abandon everything immediately, it does not conform to the character xìng character shaping.

Of course, I didn't deliberately spill dog blood to create pathos, and this episode naturally served the plot of the whole story.

There is no doubt that Daphany must belong to the turtle in the end. ）