Conquest

    Chapter 499 [North Up and Down]

    Chapter 499 [North Up and Down]

    In fact, after the ambush and the loss of the Queen, the Stephen did not collapse completely as Shaar expected.

    After all, although he is a mediocre guy, he is at least a member of the Imperial Central Army. He has experienced the invasion of the Odin people in the south. After the seventh Army, the main force of the Red Army was smashed by the Odin Red Snow Army. Desperate.

    Therefore, after the team crossed the river and lost the empress, Stephen, who suffered a huge blow, actually only spent a night, and when it was not bright, it was revived.

    Although his eyes are full of desperate colors.

    “Focus all the cavalry, all out and search along the river downstream!”Stephen gnawed his teeth, he had sensed the weirdness of the ambush, he had just been to the burning forest, although the fire had been extinguished, but from the residual traces, there has not been an ambush of any brigade, from the outside of the Forest Horseshoe imprint, Horseshoe imprint is also very rare, The ambush of their own people is likely to be just a few-maybe even one!

    The other party is actually a single spear horse, dare to ambush his team of more than a thousand people here! In the middle of the night, I crossed the river, set fire in the woods, and then attacked with bow and arrow, confusing myself.

    As for the scrambled arrows that flew out of the woods, they were clearly seen. Something remained in the woods. Some small arrows were placed on the branches of some trees, and all the wires were connected in series.

    Obviously, the number of opponents is really not much. When ambushing themselves, the intensive arrow rain is just the illusion that the other party used this kind of mechanism: suppose that there are more than ten bows, and the ropes are connected in series, and the arrow is wound. Then, as long as the rope is controlled, more than ten ballista arrows will be launched together…

    Moreover, from the arrows that were later picked up by the river bank, the arrows were blunt away. Obviously, the intention of the other party was just confusion, and they did not want to pursue killing.

    From such traces, the other side is certainly not a place of rebel forces – even more like those lone thieves between the mountains and the wild.

    What makes Stephen feel embarrassed is that in the ambush, the cavalry that he left down, there were deserters, dozens of riders fled, but in the end they were chased back by the elite mounted bandit cavalry.

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

    He knows the origins of this hundred elite cavalry in the team. These regular troops have always looked down on the second-line garrison of their own miscellaneous brands – which makes him even more humiliating! You know, he is Stephen Lord, who used to be the imperial central army of the real brand, the real regular army!

    Annoyed as soon as he wanted to order the deserters, but the one hundred mounted bandit cavalry refused to execute the order.

    Stephen, who had nowhere to vent his anger, could only take the whips and carry the squad to the deserters.

    The team sent out to search for a day and night outside, and the people who came back from the land, the news of disappointment, finally wiped out the only remaining hope in Stephen's heart.

    One of the teams was the closest to success. They tracked Shaar's horseshoe imprint. Unfortunately, after entering a forest, the horseshoe imprint disappeared after passing through a small muddy semi-marsh area.

    After that, it was a vast mountain forest, and it was only a few dozen miles to go out!

    To search such a huge piece of forest, I am afraid that even if you mobilize tens of thousands of people to seal the mountain search, you can't do it for a few months! What's more, there are thousands of people under his own hands, and they are still in the enemy-occupied area!

    The queen can't find it back!

    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 defending area.

    I have been unable to dissolve into the northern defending group, and it is clear that General Shaar is not waiting to see the background of the Central Military officers from Imperial Capital. More importantly – he lost the queen, which is equal to the mission failure. After returning, the Shaar Thunder General has enough reason to deal with himself!

    Don't say anything else, just a lost queen is enough to hang himself!

    If you change to another Shaar Thunder's trusted aide general, maybe he will open the net, but he won't receive that treatment! Even if he is not stupid, at least he knows that since the establishment of the Northern Army, the Shaar Thunder General has been working to dilute the imprint of the former Central Army in the Northern Army!

    He will never let go of such a chance to erase one of the old forces of the Central Army.

    As for going to Osgiliath…

    This thought is very attractive in Stephen's heart.

    I have already arrived here and have left the sphere of influence of the Northern Army. Going further south, there is a great chance to return to Imperial Capital.

    ButLosing the Queen, returning to Imperial Capital, is also a crime!

    Back to the north is dead, going to Imperial Capital is also dead…

    Stephen is clutching his hair.

    In desperation, he came up with a last resort.

    Back to Imperial Capital – but you must bring this army back!

    Although Stephen is a general, but from the aristocrat family, his vision is naturally unusual. He is very clear that in the troubled times, whoever has military power, whoever is the biggest!

    Now, Imperial Capital is preparing for the counterattack against the rebels. But the power of Royal's mastery has been greatly weakened after the previous rebellion and the Odin invasion, and even General Adrick has had to draw from the southern part of the Empire those second or even third-tier local garrisons It was simply a group of most basic military training that had only received a little bit of reluctance, and hurried to take weapon farmer Hanlaoliu.

    Insufficient strength, especially the lack of real combatable strength, is the biggest weakness of the Imperial Central.

    If you can pull the army of thousands of people in your hand to Imperial Capital…Then, when you are self-protected, and the family of Imperial Capital moves up and down, you may still be able to make a way out! To a bad time, even if you transfer yourself to the south, returning to the family's territory to be an official is also a way out!

    The army of more than a thousand people, if it was changed a year or two ago, did not have the qualification to talk to the Empire! But now…Imperial Capital was nervous. I didn't hear that Shaar Thunder had gone down to the South before, but it was just taking three thousand cavalry in the past, so I couldn't shake the Imperial Capital.

    There are 1,500 people in your own team, and there are five hundred cavalry!

    Taking the army as a bargaining chip and relying on it to save one's life should not be too difficult.

    Stephen looked at the infantry team resting by the river.

    The team is full of uneasiness.

    When the soldiers are not fools, the loss of the Queen is equal to the complete failure of this mission, and what is the big sin of losing the Queen, who will not understand the slightly minded person?

    What's more, I also encountered an ambush last night. Now the team is not going to retreat. I still stay in the same place to inspect and explore. Is it possible to hear the local rebel forces and send troops to the encirclement?

    From the officers to the soldiers, almost everyone’s eyes are full of jealousy and fear.

    The only thing that seems to be a little different is the elite cavalry of the one hundred mounted bandit.

    For the big sin of losing the Queen, it may be fearful to put it on others, but for these sloppy mounted bandit, count a bird!

    In the hearts of the mounted bandit, even if they have now returned to the official, they have been compiled into the regular army of the northern empire, but the suffocation in the bones can not be erased in such a short period of time.

    In the view of the mounted bandit, the world is the oldest, the grandfather Shaar and the big lady Nene are ***, the other people go to his damn it. What queen? Wool

    If you lose it, you will lose it. Isn't it a woman?

    This embarrassing task is somewhat inexplicable. Everyone worked hard and marched hard. In order to escort a woman to run here, it was a night. A night attack last night was really too humiliating in these elite cavalry hearts!

    If it wasn't for the commander of Stephen that was too idiot, all the way to make it, would it be ambushed by others?

    Moreover, the soldiers under his hand were too pustules, and hundreds of people crossing the river were caught unprepared by ambushes. Even the resistance did not resist, and they were taken away by the emperor. It’s just waste coming home.

    But this is also good, the task is over, then, just roll the cover directly back to the home of the North, and stay here a fart!

    Unlike Stephen, who is also fantasizing, these mounted bandits are used to buying and selling such ambushes.

    The last night's thing, in the eyes of these veterans, I knew it at a glance. It is definitely someone who has coded the team's journey. I am waiting for the riverside of the agate river. I am ready to ambush. of.

    If you are unintentional, and your own team is too pustule, the commander is also a mediocre generation, and the ending will not have to be thought of.

    This Stephen still wants to continue to rely here, sending people to go down and search, it is a waste of time.

    These mounted bandit, which used to eat this rice, are all veterans who are proficient in this. Doing this business, pay attention to it, and smash it! After you succeed, you are just a thousand miles away, then you crouch down, you don’t want to get one!

    Until the wind is over, these guys will never show up!

    Moreover, since people have carefully prepared this ambush, it is natural to arrange the retreat as soon as possible. Once they succeed, they will immediately retreat safely. The Stephen flies usually send people out to find a pass, and they can find it.

    In this case, I will hurry up the road and go back to the cross.

    Anyway, these mounted bandit are also fearless to go back and collect the penalty. The commander of this trip is Stephen, who naturally has his top tank. Moreover, who are we? We are the trusted aide of the aunt of Shaar! It’s the old man who is following Miss Nene! When the Northern Army was founded, it was the first team to go to the top! What the aunt is doing, and he will not turn his elbows outward.

    In this way, the mounted bandit waited for temper for a day, until the next night, all the search teams came back, and they finally wanted Stephen to make a request.

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    "What? Going to Imperial Capital? ! ”

    Several officers of the mounted bandit cavalry, after negotiating for Stephen, heard the words of Stephen and screamed in unison.

    At that time, there was a mounted bandit leader who shouted: "Your brain is broken?! Go to Imperial Capital? We are the Northern Army. Since the mission has failed, this matter is over, naturally it is going back to the North! Go to what shit Imperial Capital! ”

    Stephen's face was blue and green, and the voice slowly said: "Our trip is to escort the Queen's Highness to Imperial Capital. Halfway to Lost Your Highness, the mission is not complete! We must go to Imperial Capital to fight, and then we can organize the army to rescue the Highness! ! ! I can go back to Denzel City! ”

    The mounted bandit did not do it, they all clamored, and some directly pointed to Stephen's nose and shouted: "What kind of queen do you want to rescue, then your kid is going!" Fathers have no time to accompany them! Here is the site of his mother's rebel army, people are gone, but also rescue a fart! If you have the ability, let Imperial Capital send 100,000 troops to sweep the rebels to rescue the queen! We have thousands of people, but we are not interested in mixing this kind of thing! ”

    Stephen’s face was gloomy, but he had already pressed his hand on the handle and said coldly, “I am the commander of this line! What I said is the military order! Now that the mission has not been completed, you can't go back! Can't save the Queens Camp to Imperial Capital, no one can leave! Otherwise, it will be based on the crime of desertion! Pass me orders, the whole army is open, continue south, go to Imperial Capital to report the situation here, and then organize the rescue! ”

    "Call your sister!"A mounted bandit squirmed and spit, and pointed to Stephen's disdainful finger – the middle one.

    There was a hint of murderous aura in Stephen's eyes. He also made some preparations. If you want to continue to bring these troops to the south, these are not the cavalry of their own hands, which is the biggest obstacle.

    The other thousand people are all Commander's own, and naturally have their own trusted aide. But this hundred cavalry, but not their own, is loyal to Shaar's elite, if they are not willing to go to Imperial Capital, they can not command them.

    When it comes to the time, it is a last resort, only…

    The only officers who came to negotiate with Stephen were the officers who were mounted bandit cavalry, and Stephen had a lot of trusted aide around him. Seeing that the Lord would argue with these cavalry officers, some people had been nervously surrounded by the handle.

    Stephen took a deep breath and was about to get started. He was the highest commander of the trip after all. As long as he was the first to attack, he accused these disobedient cavalry officers of wanting to be deserters, and then took out the position of commander to force the military to suppress. People – the heavy military command in the Northern Army, the sin of deserters has always been great. At that time, as long as you come up with such an excuse, and then squadrons, first take these cavalry officers, and then pay their weapons, if you are guilty, simply kill them directly…At that time, I have military orders, the identity of the commander, and the murder to come to establish prestige. If I want to come to those cavalry, I will not dare to make it.

    Seeing Stephen's eyes are some murderous aura, these elite mounted bandit, which one is not the old oil that comes out of the blood of the corpse, and looks at the other person's eyes and the people who come around, where does the sea not know the other person's bad intentions?

    However, these mounted bandits are not afraid. These are a group of daring guys who can be officers in these mounted bandit cavalry. Which one is good?

    Now do not wait for Stephen to open his mouth, a few officers to each other's eyes, even shout do not shout, swoop a few times, a few swords have been directly pulled out, a few officers first rushed up, incredibly with a tacit understanding, each side has two horizontal knives to block those around the taxi, the middle of the two best, direct a tiger pounce, The target is straight to Stephen!

    Stephen's martial skill is not at all. If you look at each other's troubles, you will immediately go to the knife. But these mounted bandit a tough and cunning, this close attack of the work of the skilled incomparable, not waiting for Stephen's knife to the front, directly on the body of a short, fell to the ground, a hug Stephen's leg, the knife in the hand to greet Stephen's leg unceremoniously, the other standing , waving a horse knife to hold Stephen's knife, mouth also lit laugh: "Lord has something to say well, are their brothers, why move the sword …"

    He smiled and shouted, and some of Stephen's men were a little bit stunned, but the knife in the hand of this mounted bandit was not slow, and it was a knife and a knife!

    Stephen had screamed and fell into a pool of blood.

    His thighs were smashed in, and the man fell to the ground. Another mounted bandit had already rushed down and held him down. A short knife broke into his ribs directly, and he smiled and said: "Lord Is the station unstable? Come and come and help Lord to sit down. ”

    Stephen had already spurted blood in his mouth, and his mouth screamed, but his mouth was already smothered, and then his neck was cold…

    A mounted bandit has cut his neck with a knife, and jumped up with his head. Where is the smile on the face?

    Holding the bloody head high, this mounted bandit screamed: "Stephen is guilty of rebellion! Already have a buck! The rest of the people put down the weapon, the followers do not study! ! Resistance, kill! ”

    After all, it is only the second-line garrison force. Most of them are also eliminated from the oil. Who is willing to use the sword to fight hard?

    Even though Stephen has a few trusted aide, these mounted bandit officers are too fierce. Before Stephen started, they took the lead and shot hot. When they came up, they started to die. One face gave Stephen a kill!

    Even those few trusted aide are very loyal to Stephen on weekdays, but now their boss's head is cut, and still resisting fart?

    Suddenly hesitating, someone directly throws the weapon in his hand and rubs his head with his head. Someone took the lead, and the rest of the people holding the weapon had no choice but to lose the weapon.

    A few mounted bandit in the past, one foot and one smashed them all on the ground.

    Then the captain of the mounted bandit cavalry had jumped to the back of a horse and took a piece of sheepskin envelope sealed with fire paint to tear it apart. He read out loudly: "Dedicated to the general army of the army!" I am awarded to the defending area *** Cavalry Army, the third cavalry team officer, the Lacun Sergeant, who is under the escort of the army, and the sergeant Lacan, who has the power to make decisions, to act cheaply, to take over the command to control the whole army if necessary, the offender Military ***! The General Department of the Military Department of the Weifang District issued, x month x day! ”

    This secret order was obtained before the departure. In fact, although the mounted bandit was not unsealed, Shaar had met him before the departure. The contents of the military order were told to the mounted bandit officer.

    In fact, this officer himself is not literate. If he is allowed to read the military order himself, he is afraid that one word will not be recognized.

    At this critical moment, he took out the military order to "read out", took over the command, and decisively killed Stephen. The whole army was suddenly served, and no one expressed dissent.

    After all, these cavalry are the first cavalry *** regiment in the defending area. Everyone knows that it is the shackles of the general Shaar in the entire northern army of the defending area!

    As for the officer of the mounted bandit, the military order was reversed, and no one naturally noticed this innocuous detail.

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    After killing Stephen and successfully taking over the command, these mounted bandits were no longer interested in staying here, and immediately ordered the whole army to leave and re-enter Hebei.

    The team of more than a thousand people returned the same way. Returned to the north of the Agate River, but the road was less than a day, suddenly I heard the distance of the road, faintly heard the sound of the horseshoe!

    Several mounted bandit cavalry suddenly looked nervous.

    After all, it is still an enemy area! If the local army of the rebels came over to hunt down, I am afraid that this line of troops, cavalry can not even run, but these infantry, I am afraid…

    The mounted bandit immediately ordered the army to stay away from the array. Fortunately, the far hooves roared, watching the dust fly, waiting for the other team's team to be close, looking at the opposite flag, the mounted bandit were relieved. Instead, it is a pleasant look.

    The open cavalry, like the thunder, is playing the flag of the first *** Cavalry Army in the northern defending area!

    This Cavalry team 2000 rides, from the northeast direction, the queue is majestic and solemn, apparently the most elite cavalry team, the leader of a majestic cavalry general, sitting on horseback, the body is burly, the whole body of the senior generals of the hillock Armor, the saddle hanging a hammer, The cover of the Iron helmet, the mask pulled up, revealing a clear silhouette of the four-sided face.

    It is Sabar!

    Sabar, with two thousand cavalry and guards from Dezel City, had already broken up in the new town. Sabar was nominally carrying the army to the Corsica area, but did not expect to actually come here to meet! !

    The two armies, Sabar, heard the Queen lost, it was a surprise!

    He is not the one who was born in the bandit. He is a serious Rhodelia cavalry. It is the foundation of the regular army. It is natural to know how important the identity of the Queen is.

    However, he did not have the power to interrupt this matter, because Shaar gave him the order to let him go to the Corsican area to rebel. In fact, he secretly took cavalry south and asked him to take the army along the agate. Walk along the coast of Hebei, ready to respond to the North Guards.

    In this line, there is no danger in danger. Sabar has two thousand elite northern cavalry. Although it is already a rebel territory, there are two thousand armored horses in hand, unless the head of the rebels is broken. To provoke such a tiger wolf army.

    Two thousand elite cavalry, in the wild field, within a thousand miles, almost no opponents!

    The only difficulty is that if you want to go south to meet this escort, you must cross the site of the Besta.

    Sabar got Shaar's secret order and had to play the flag to go to the Corsica area to rebel. In fact, the team made a turnback in the middle of the road, and then sneaked into the area of ​​the Besita people, then the brigade rushed south and passed through. The land of the Besta.

    As for the fact that the Besta people discovered the rushing entry of the Northern Army afterwards, it was natural for the top leaders of the defending area and the Besta to fight the saliva.

    On both sides, Sabar listened to the officers who were wearing the bandit. They heard that they killed Stephen and took command and persuasion. Sabar just raised his eyebrows and sneered: "South? Hey, the bastard wants to go to Imperial Capital, and he goes there, but he doesn't want to take the idea and pull the team south to go to Imperial Capital. That is to renegade our northern army and kill it! ”

    After a pause, I told these mounted bandit officers: "I will accept you from General Shaar. General's order is, let me bring you 1,500 people, a lot back to Denzel City!"

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    Just as Sabar's cavalry and the Guards merged, in the evening, on the south bank of the Agate River, riding from the east on the sprint, Shaar on the horseback, his face was gloomy and gloomy, and Daphne behind him just gently held the waist of Shaar. Back, a hair fluttering in the wind.

    Speeding horses, mighty knights, stunning beauty.

    Such a picture should be beautiful in the sunset, but the two people who are at the moment are all indifferent and hazy.

    The horse came to the river, the place where the ambush was the night before. Shaar looked around and there were traces of the army stationed here, but the horses were gone.

    He rode around and ran around, determined that there was no trace of Manan, and he determined one thing: I wanted to come to the Guards Army and have already crossed the river and went back to Hebei.

    "We are late."Shaar said faintly: "The Guards can't find you. Now, according to the secret order I left before, the whole army has returned."

    Daphne sat on the horse and sighed with a sigh: "These are all you have already arranged."

    Shaar raised an eyebrow: "Nature is, even if it is to save you, I can't give up this thousand or five hundred people." I have arranged for it. Once you are rescued by me, the people who stay in the team will take over the troops with my military order and lead the troops back north. ”

    After a pause, Shaar hesitated and whispered: "I haven't thought about it before, and I will send you back after saving you!"

    Daphne listened to this cold voice, Daphne listened, and felt a pain in his heart, could not help but whisper: "Shaar, I…"

    " Needless to say."Shaar said faintly: "If you have a family responsibility, you don't have to mention it. I promised you, no matter what your requirements, I will be satisfied. ”

    Daphne trembled in his heart. He felt that he could hardly breathe when he felt heartache. He gently pressed his chest in one hand before he barely said: "But now, what should I do…No guard, I…How come back to Imperial Capital? ”

    Shaar was silent, but suddenly turned his head, a pair of eyes bright and scary, he stared at Daphne tightly, took a deep breath: "Daphne, I will ask you again…You, you really made up your mind, must you go back to Imperial Capital? I…Even if I let you stay, are you not willing? ”

    Daphne only felt staring at Shaar's bright eyes, and a blood rushed up in her heart. I couldn't help but blurt out: "Will! I am willing! I am willing to stay with you forever! ! ”

……But this was only on the lips, but she was swallowed back immediately.

    Daphne looked at Shaar's eyes, but for a long time no words.

    Seeing that Daphne just looked at himself like this, but did not speak, Shaar's bright eyes finally faded down. He turned back and his chest was up and down, and his breath was short and his heart was excited.

    After taking a few deep breaths, it barely suppressed the grievances in my heart. Shaar gripped the reins hard. After a while, he slowly released his palm.

    "In this case……I will personally send you back to Imperial Capital! ! ”

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    (About the bridges of Shaar and Daphne, let me talk about it here, I know that many readers are very fragile and can't see the slightest entanglement and repetition. But let me have a small excuse here: even if you write the harem, it is also a bit technical. Some iterations and processes are essential. Again, this is a network, naturally it is impossible to have a plot that makes everyone unhappy. In my own process of thinking about characters, I think that if you want to abandon everything and follow Shaar immediately, it is not a character like Daphne. The character of a pitiful creature can do this, but changing Daphne is a different situation. I have been portrayed as a marriage tool since I was a child, carrying a family responsibility, even if my husband is a rabbit or even a self-sufficient person, I am willing to humiliate a woman who has been burdened for several years. Reversed. Dedicated to Shaar, a woman who is already a character like Daphne, the biggest change she can make in the short term is the biggest and most outrage she can make. It is necessary to abandon everything at once and not conform to the character of the character.

    Of course, I did not deliberately sprinkle dog blood in order to create a tragic situation. This section of the bridge is naturally also for the whole story.

    Daphne must eventually belong to hillbilly, which is beyond doubt. )

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