"That's . What? ”

A group of cavalry, who are usually high on the top, involuntarily froze in place one after another after taking the entrance of the crater into view.

The leader of the cavalry squad tugged at the saddle of the clerk behind him and asked in a wooden tone.

Of course, he had seen a lot of the wreckage of the carriage, and he had seen a lot of it after it was burned, and even burned a lot of it himself.

But the point of the matter is not the wreckage of those wagons!

It's the way the wreckage was piled up, and the strips of cloth that were blown onto the wreckage by the hot wind, so they weren't burned.

It was a very simple strip of black cloth, which looked like it had been burned to shreds and then blown away.

On the black strip of cloth, several pale human skull patterns were faintly visible.

"That Usika cavalry squad. Battle flag?! ”

The clerk almost squeezed the words out of his throat.

The first reaction that appeared in the hearts of these people - something was wrong!!

The Nausicaa cavalry squad is famous even among the various Nilfgaard regiments with a long history and fine traditions.

And the current situation

"Shit!" The cavalry leader let out an uncontrollable curse, immediately clamped the horse's belly, and quickly came to the exit of the crater.

"Did the people of the Usyka cavalry squad in their brains? How dare they go into such terrain! ”

The team leader's face was frightened and anxious, as if his own mother was trapped in a sea of fire.

"Clerk! Where's the clerk?! Get the hell out of here! ”

"Yes, my lord! I'm here. ”

The clerk's helmet, which had not been fastened because of his relaxed mood, was almost crooked in the sudden acceleration just now.

At this time, he was pale, and while holding on to his helmet, he rode his horse to arrive.

"Check the duty sheet for me! Look at which of the Usika cavalry squads are on a mission nearby, and see how many of them are in this trapped Usyka cavalry squad! ”

When the clerk received the order, he didn't even bother to wipe the cold sweat that was scared out of his helmet, and immediately took out a duty sheet from the bag on the saddle and began to compare it.

And with the sound of him turning the pages, the cavalrymen of the three ten-man teams did not dare to gasp. The team leader watched the pages of the book turn page by page, and kept muttering.

"At most, it's only fifty, right? This kind of elite cavalry, except for the general battle and the work for the great nobles, who is willing to scatter them? ”

Finally, the clerk finished flipping through the watch sheet in his hand, blinking his eyes incessantly, and raised himself to face the chief.

"Search, find it, sir."

The clerk didn't know what he saw, and even his speech became stumbling.

But the Commander doesn't notice this, and humans subconsciously try to avoid answers that are unfavorable to them.

"Who's on a mission? Thirty people? Or fifty people? ”

The clerk's answer was still stumbling: "There is a 500-strong Nausicaa cavalry squad transferred"

"Don't say it's obviously useless." The cavalry leader waved his hand impatiently, and the cavalry around him who were waiting for news had the same expression.

"Five hundred? Five hundred men is enough for me to crush a thousand of them in a confrontation with the cavalry of the northern savages! It is impossible for a cavalry squad of that Usika of this size"

"But, no, my lord."

The atmosphere suddenly became dead.

"That's what you're talking about. What do you mean? ”

The clerk was about to cry under the helmet: "There is only this one of the Usyka cavalry squad in the vicinity that has been transferred out!" No more! ”

"The dispatcher is Duke Adar Epp Darcy. He was accompanied by a thousand black infantry archers and two thousand regular infantry. ”

The cavalry leader stared at the huge black pillar of smoke in front of him in a daze, and rolled his throat with difficulty.

"It's all the equivalent of a mixed division."

The flames in the col were still scorching, and the heat even spread out of the col, turning a large circle of land around the crater from the dry and hard of winter to sober and soft in advance.

Then, no more dialogue came up with the entire squad.

The team then hurried back to the barracks, intending to report their findings.

But when the cavalry squad returned, they found that the barracks, which had been noisy but orderly, had now become a real mess.

"Assemble! Urgent gathering! ”

The non-commissioned officers were like sheepdogs, driving away their soldiers with shouting, roaring, and exploding whips.

The clerks carried baskets of documents and orders from camp to camp, and did not dare to stop even a moment.

The livestock vehicles responsible for transporting equipment and supplies have even crowded the empty barracks in the past few days.

The soldiers who were in a hurry to assemble could only squeeze past the crowd and the animal carts with difficulty, as if even the smell of livestock feces was filled with tension and panic.

The sound of carrying, colliding, and rubbing of armor and equipment is even more noisy and annoying.

It didn't feel like a battle that had just been won.

On the contrary, the cavalry squad leader reminded him of the suffocating pre-war preparations before the battle began.

The clerk's records and all paper documents in the ranks were taken away as soon as they entered the barracks.

So this cavalry squad did not directly know what kind of waves they would cause when they brought back the news.

They simply followed the order and returned to their tents to rest for a while.

But in the noisy and chaotic barracks, the spread of news is not easy to suppress, and even those who may listen to it do not want to hear it at all, but the news will still drill into people's ears.

"Do you know about the makeshift military station we set up on the border with Sintra?" Outside the tent, several officers gathered in groups walked by.

They talked as they went, sniffling from time to time and complaining about the damn weather and the barbaric land of the north.

"There were five hundred more war horses over there overnight, and as for whose spare horses these horses are, I can't figure it out, who else can I hide from this kind of thing? What is there to keep secret? ”

The cavalrymen who were sitting in the tent and were just about to take off their armor did not dare to breathe, and even the action of taking off their armor seemed to press the pause button.

It wasn't until the shadows of the officers disappeared from the tent cloth that they all breathed a sigh of relief, slumped on their respective marching beds, and looked at each other in silence.

They are also cavalrymen, and they know very well that in this area and at this time period, they can use the serious war horses as spare horses, and play the configuration of one person and two horses.

Instead of a war horse ready for battle, a pack horse carrying heavy equipment, there is only one army.

"And the quantity is right, right?"

The clerk suddenly whispered.

Immediately afterward, the team leader glared at him with eyes that wanted to kill.

"I didn't hear anything, and I didn't understand anything! Rest! ”

The most experienced leader turned his head and lay down on the bed, but his lie down seemed to give the young men an opportunity to express their curiosity.

So they whispered something to the outside world.

"Who can do that?"

"That's the strength of an entire mixed division! A whole! ”

"We haven't heard anything from our sentry posts, never from start to finish."

"Ghosts? Wives? Don't those northerners often say this? ”

"That's superstition! There is only one great sun wheel in this world! ”

"But who knows, those things can really deal with armies"

As he spoke, the leader, who had seemed to not care at all, was lying on his side with his back to them, and trembled uncontrollably.

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