Although it is spring, the Albaquete Corridor area of the wildfire field has not rained for many days, the land is dry, and tens of thousands of troops marched past, stirring up dust.
At this moment, it is the starry night, the sky is full of stars, and at the southern end of the Albacette corridor on the ground, an army is advancing rapidly on the road.
During the march of the army of tens of thousands, the torches were bright, and the moonlight and stars in the sky complemented each other.
On a high slope beside the wilderness, more than a dozen horsemen stood and looked at them, watching the army formation flowing like a long river under the high slope under their feet. In the forest of torches, at night, it looked like a fire dragon on the plain. Swim like.
Manninger was on a high slope, his small eyes were full of light. After slowly withdrawing his gaze from looking at the army, he turned his eyes to the south. Seeing the fire dragon on the ground swimming toward the south, he suddenly shook. He shook his head: "What time is it now?"
A brawny man with a stature like a bear next to him immediately replied in a rich voice: "There are still two hours before the sky is over."
Manninger nodded. Although he was over fifty years old, within Odin, who was famous for his bravery, his age had already passed the age of bragging about his bravery, but at this moment he was standing on the high slope. Among the crowd, he was still the tallest looking one, even though the bear-like man beside him, although his physique was similar to him, was actually far from his majesty.
"Send the order, the former army speed up! Before dawn, I want to see my family flag planted in Wildfire Town."
After Manninger gave the order in a low voice, without looking at the subordinates who were leaving, he immediately galloped down the high slope, and the dozen or so horses behind him also swept down with him like a wild cloud.
Manninger rode a horse. Among Odin, most of the cavalry use reindeer as mounts, and the more advanced Berserker Beast Soul Warriors use violent bears as mounts. The use of horses is extremely rare.
But Manninger's war horse is all snow-white, without a single mottled hair, especially the mane from the horse's back to the neck of the horse is long and lush, with a circle of spiral curls, far away. It looks like a curly lion! The physique is also much more majestic than ordinary horses, and the hooves spread out and gallop, and the sound of the hoofs is faintly like a thunder!
The entire Chixue Army marched in a hurry, although it didn't look like Hasting's Black Flag Army was rushing into the sky like a mad cloud. However, these tens of thousands of troops were rushing along at night, and only the dull footsteps and the gasping sounds of the soldiers could be heard in the wilderness.
It is such a subtle silence, but it makes people feel the oppression brought by this army.
Manninger rushed down the high slope, came to the march, and quickly rushed to the middle of the fast-running team. On a high red flag, there were blood-spotted flowers flying!
This is the battle flag of the Red Snow Legion, and the flag of the Odin Basak tribe to which the Red Snow Legion belongs! And Manninger is also the patriarch of the Basak tribe.
The Basak tribe is one of the powerful tribes of the Odin Empire, and it is also the top three most powerful tribes in the Odin Empire.
The Odin Empire has been established for thousands of years, but it has always been different from the Byzantine Empire in the south.
The Byzantine Empire was feudal with the emperor, and ruled the country with a centralized government. Within the Odin Empire, it has always been ridiculed by the Byzantine Empire and even the Landis as a barbaric country.
Because Odin founded the kingdom until now, the tribal alliance system has been implemented. Odin is located in the northern part of the mainland. Most of the country is a bitter cold land covered with ice and snow. From ancient times to the present, the tribal system has been followed.
In Odin's territory, there are countless tribes, large and small, with a small population of only a few hundred, and a large population of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. And the most powerful one has six tribes. These six tribes are also the oldest and most legendary powerful tribes among Odin.
In the legend of Odin, it is natural to respect the god Odin as the supreme god. At the same time, in the legend of Odin, there are various other gods who are in charge of the nature of the world, but these gods are all based on the main god of Odin. respect.
According to legend, these six powerful clans are the most direct descendants of the gods in the world.
Among the six powerful clans, the most powerful one is naturally the Sol clan where the royal family belongs, and the current God-Emperor Odin is also the current patriarch of the Sol clan. Regardless of the size of the territory and the size of the population, the Sol clan is the crown of all clans, and even the combined strength of the other five powerful clans can only be equal to the Sol clan.
This phenomenon has existed in Odin for thousands of years. The Sol family has always been the respect of all the clans, just because in the legend of Odin, only the Sol family is the great Odin Lord God The mother family, according to legend, the ancestors of the Sol family flowed with the blood of the Lord God Odin, and according to ancient tribal records, the Sol family was also blessed by the Lord God Odin, as the most direct line of God Odin in the world. The people, in place of the gods, govern this land, while other tribes must follow the leadership of the Sol tribe.
In addition to the other five powerful families of the Thor family, legends are also descendants of other Odin gods.
And because of this tradition, the supreme leader of every generation of Odin: God Emperor. Naturally, it can only be born from the Sol clan, and other clans are absolutely impossible to covet. Therefore, the Thor family is among the Odins, that is, the royal family.
The Basak tribe is the top three in strength among Odins, with a population of nearly one million and thousands of miles of land. The current patriarch Manninger is also an outstanding hero among Odins, and is even deeply loved by contemporary Odins. Appreciated by the God-Emperor, and treated by the God-Emperor Odin as a brother, he must be called a "brother of the alliance".
The government of the Odin Empire has always been much simpler and cruder than the other two human powers. The leader of the tribe has always been the undisputed leader of the tribe. Each tribe must respect the leadership of the royal family and must pay a certain amount to the royal family every year. At the same time, during the war, you must obey the mobilization of the Emperor Odin. Once there is a war, you must gather the warriors of this tribe to fight for the Emperor Odin.
So it can be said that in the Odin Empire, there is no so-called imperial standing army. The military system of the Odin Empire has always been an important basis for all countries to criticize them as "barbarians".
The army of the Odin Empire has the Legion as the largest unit. It seems that the Legion level of Odin should be equal to the Byzantine Corps level.
But in fact, a legion of the Odin Empire is often more complicated.
The first is the distribution of military power, and there is no fixed number. Taking the Byzantine Empire as an example, a corps of the Byzantine Empire usually has a fixed number of people ranging from 20,000 to 30,000, and the numbers will not vary too much.
But this is not the case in Odin.
Odin does not have a fixed army system. Every time there is a foreign war, the Emperor Odin will sign the warriors of several other large tribes to conquer foreign enemies for himself. Once mobilized, several large tribes in Odin, including the Basak tribe. Inside, they will have their own legion number. For example, the Basak tribe's legion number is "Red Snow".
But it is difficult to generalize how much combat power this legion can have. If some clans are strong, they will have more soldiers in their legions, and if some clans are strong, they will form fewer legions.
In this way, a strange phenomenon has appeared. There has been such a precedent in history: in large-scale wars between some empires, often after mobilization, the enemy will have a headache to find that the army of the Odin Empire is too complicated and chaotic .
Some Odin army, known as a legion, is actually only a few thousand people. The available Odin Legion, the combat power can even reach 100,000!
As for the status quo of the Odin Empire, there are more than ten legions in the empire. Among the six major tribes, except for the Sol royal family, the other five tribes have a legion number. But the number of each legion ranged from 30,000 to 60,000. Among them, the Red Snow Legion of the Basak tribe has a combat power of more than 50,000. If it is placed in Byzantium, it can already reach two corps.
The Royal Sol family has three legions, of which the most famous in recent years is the Black Flag Army commanded by Hasting. The imperial regiments are similar in size. The other two legions of the Sol tribe, one is the "God Punishment" commanded by the Emperor Odin personally, the number of which is maintained at about 50,000 all the year round, is recognized as the most legendary and powerful army within the Odin Empire, but This army will only be dispatched when the emperor Odin is personally conscripted. On weekdays, it is only guarding the imperial capital around the city of Odin. The God's Punishment Legion also barely participated.
In recent years, God Emperor Odin has rarely stepped out of the city of Odin, and has not personally fought for many years, so the reputation of this legion has gradually been overshadowed by Hasting's Black Flag Army.
The other legion of the Sol tribe, known as "Thunder Cloud", has always had a staff of more than 100,000, and there has even been a peak era of more than 200,000 in history. The Thunder Cloud Legion is the standing army of the Sol tribe. It will be dispatched in every war, but more often it will play a role in the domestic war against the rebel tribes.
In addition, God Emperor Odin also has the right to recruit soldiers from other small clans except the five powerful clans according to the situation of the war, temporarily form legions to fight, and can appoint his cronies such as his own prince. as interim commander. But once the war was over, the legions were disbanded and returned to their respective tribes.
In the last war with Byzantium, the mixed army commanded by Prince Ke Kelan belonged to this type.
However, in order to show respect for the other five powerful families, God-Emperor Odin would never directly send someone to command the legions belonging to the other five powerful families, nor would he deprive the other five powerful families of command over his own army. The legions of the other five powerful clans are also relatively independent.
It can be said that in the Odin Empire, the relationship between the Sol royal family and the other five powerful families has always been subtle and complicated.
Although there is the existence of the ancient iron law of the legendary Odin, all tribes must respect the Thor tribe. But after all, in history, there will also be some declining eras that the Sol clan has experienced. Other strong clans have grown stronger, disrespecting the orders of the Sol clan, and even have records of overhead royal families. But after all, according to the legend of Odin, even if other strong clans became stronger, there were occasional records of oppressing the Sol clan, but even in the most declining and debilitating era of the Sol clan that had ever appeared in history, other clans did not If he dared to do it, he directly attacked and destroyed the Sol family, the royal family blessed by the Lord God Odin.
In the same way, there will also be an era when the Sol clan is extremely powerful, and the other five powerful clans can only take their breath away, but even so, the Sol clan will try to weaken them as much as possible, but they will never really The other tribes were immediately wiped out.
And the contemporary God Emperor Odin is a rare figure of the Saul people who has been seen for hundreds of years. The Sol clan is also powerful, and the other five clans do not dare to rebel at all. But God-Emperor Odin is not a tyrannical lord. He did not blindly use force to oppress other tribes, but showed a method that even the politicians of Byzantium and Landis admired.
For example, this Manninger, his youngest daughter is married to the eldest prince of the God-Emperor Odin, and at the same time, he is commensurate with the God-Emperor Odin as an alliance brother, and the Basak family has always been the most determined Sol Allies and supporters of the royal family.
As for the contemporary God-Emperor Odin himself, his own mother was once the daughter of the patriarch of another powerful family, and married the previous generation of God-Emperor Odin. After he succeeded to the throne, he naturally took more care of his mother's mother family. , and he also has half of the blood of his mother's mother's family, and the natural mother's family also fully supports his rule.
The six powerful families, the Emperor Odin, the most powerful Sol royal family, and the Basak family and another powerful family also support him. How is the rule unstable
For a time, under the rule of the contemporary God-Emperor Odin, the current Odin Empire can almost be called the most harmonious and united era in the history of the six major powers in the Odin Empire. The national strength is strong, while the neighboring country of Byzantium in the south is suffering from the Tema military district system, and the national strength is gradually weakening. It looks like it's coming.
In the mobilization of this expedition, God Emperor Odin personally made a promise to Manninger, the Patriarch of the Basak tribe and his ally.
"The Red Snow Legion will go south along the corridor of the Albact Plain, through the Wildfire Plain and enter Byzantium! I promise you one thing! You drive straight in! All the places captured by the Red Snow Legion will be your Basak territory after the war. I, the Sol tribe and other tribes, do not want a village or a city! The Byzantine people who occupied the land are all your slaves, and other tribes are not allowed to compete! The wealth that has been taken away is all your Basak tribe. All, you don't have to offer me a single gold coin!"
He made such a big promise. At the same time, Manninger is also the ally of the God-Emperor Odin, and the eldest prince married his daughter. Now it seems that the eldest prince is very hopeful to be the next God of Odin. The emperor's successor, at that time, his daughter will be the queen! And if you can give birth to a prince and then be established as the heir... From now on, within at least three generations, your Basak clan will be tied to the Sol clan!
So no matter what he said, God Emperor Odin's promise, he would never break his promise!
Go south! The land is mine! The people occupied are mine! All the wealth is mine!
Thinking of the fertile land of the Byzantine Empire, the rich wealth, and the weak army... How can the Odin warriors not be moved and excited? !
This time, Manninger has made all the elite soldiers of the Basak tribe, leaving less than 10,000 soldiers to guard their homeland, and 40,000 troops to form the Chixue Legion.
Before the war, he received a secret order from the Emperor Odin. The Byzantines were in civil strife, and they were too busy to take care of themselves. The border was not prepared, and the army was dragged into the quagmire of civil war. Therefore, Manninger also abandoned all the supplies and baggage, tens of thousands of troops, only carrying rations for less than ten days, and marched wildly south at all costs!
As long as they rushed into the territory of Byzantium, those undefended Byzantine sheep... Hmph, the axe and blade in the hands of the Odin warriors, are you afraid that there will be no food and clothing
Thinking of this, even the cool night wind could not quench the blood boiling in his heart. Manninger was so excited that he couldn't help but jumped on his horse and raised his sword, shouting loudly: "Accelerate! Accelerate! Southbound!!"
Following the leader's cry, the little leaders one by one responded immediately, hurriedly urging the soldiers under them to stride forward.
But just a moment later, someone suddenly reported that there was an emergency message sent by their own forward cavalry in front.
Manninger was slightly startled, and was also a little curious in his heart. The intelligence before the expedition showed that the Byzantine Empire was unstable in the country, and the royal family and the governor of the local military region were already in conflict with each other. This time, the army of the enemy country would not stop the border at all... I haven't walked through the wildfire, where is there any emergency?
Afterwards, there were indeed Odin warriors riding reindeer, and it was the forward cavalry he sent.
Manninger rode on his silver lion-like steed, and looked at the forward cavalry soldier coldly: "How is it? Have you already occupied Wildfire Town?"
But the other party's return made Manninger stunned for a moment!
"Our vanguard cavalry has already rushed out of the Albacette Corridor, less than ten miles away from Wildfire Town! But we suddenly saw flags planted in the woods on the mountain, which is the designation of the Byzantine Army."
"Byzantine Army?"
Manninger frowned, his face gloomy: "Did you see clearly!"
The cavalry replied: "See clearly! Several brothers were sent to try to get close, but before they got close, they were shot back by random arrows."
Manninger looked stern, lowered his head and thought for a while, his eyes flashed, and suddenly raised his head and sneered: "Ha! Playing a ghost! Want to stop my army like this? Do you think I will be fooled by such a stupid plan!"
He immediately smiled at the many leaders of the entourage tribes around him: "This must be a small group of Byzantine frontier rangers! They have discovered the whereabouts of our army! They have no strength to stop us, so they deliberately arranged this crude strategy. Make me suspicious and dare not march? How could I, Manninger, fall for such a low-level trick!"
He laughed loudly, and the many leaders around him also laughed loudly.
Manninger shouted proudly: "The order! The former army striker, first step on that mountain forest, and chop off the heads of the enemy soldiers inside! I predict that the enemy army will be no more than 100 people at most!"
This Manninger is indeed powerful, but after a little thought, the result of the judgment is almost inseparable from the actual situation.
But just when he issued the order, suddenly there was a shout from the Odin warrior who sent the order: "Boss! Another message is sent from the front! Say... The enemy sent an envoy to issue the gauntlet!"
Byzantine military envoy? The next gauntlet? !
Manninger, who was still confident and slow just now, suddenly became suspicious.
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When Xia Ya slowly approached the Odin army, the Chixue Legion in front of him was indeed a strong army! Although the Red Snow Legion had stopped advancing under Manninger's order, the army of tens of thousands of people suddenly stopped, but there was no confusion at all. In the army, those sturdy Odin warriors were all Elite, and standing in line, no one is noisy.
Xia Ya approached slowly and single-handedly, seeing the majestic Odin warriors staring at him with eyes full of suffocation and hostility in front of him, and thousands of eyes shot at him, and some Odins even grinned. The knife and axe glowed with a cold light.
There are a lot of people around, although a path has been carved out for Xia Ya to pass, but the swords are like a series in the forest, surrounded by hideous expressions. On the horse, he held his head high, did not look sideways, and made a cold and calm appearance.
In the army formation, under a crimson banner several meters high, Xiaya saw Manninger, and immediately determined the identity of the opponent.
It is really Manninger's figure is too dazzling.
Even among the tall and majestic Odins in general, Manninger's physique can be considered an extremely sturdy and sturdy type. His silver hair is quite wild, and his eyes are small but full of light. Flashing, with broad shoulders, at first glance, he is a warrior, and he is even more sturdy and mighty, and the other people standing beside him seem to be shorter.
If he's not Manninger, who is
Xia Ya deliberately showed a sneer on his face, and slowly drove his horse to a stop ten paces away. Immediately, a group of Odin warriors in leather armor surrounded Xia Ya, who was in the middle with an axe. Flickering, as long as Xi Ya made any rash moves, hundreds of axes around him would be chopped down together.
Xia Ya rolled his eyes and looked at Manninger, who was riding a horse and standing under the banner, and suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahahahahaha!!"
His laughter was deliberately full of breath, and the laughter drifted far away with the wind in the night, and it was even louder and richer, without fear.
Manninger looked at Xiaya and narrowed his eyes: "Byzantine military envoy, what are you laughing at!"
Xia Ya raised his chest and said proudly, "I'm just a single horse. In this ten thousand army, killing me is like crushing an ant! But your army is so nervous and afraid, with a knife and axe, like In the face of a great enemy, hum, it really doesn’t look like the strong enemy Chixuejun that my Rodriguez cavalry preached!”
Manninger raised his brows, raised his hand and waved, and the surrounding axe-wielding fighters backed away. Manninger also took a few steps up the horse and stopped only five or six steps away from Xiaya. Looking at Xia Ya, after a while, he frowned and said, "What did you say? Rodriguez cavalry?"
"Exactly!" Xia proudly held her head high.
Manninger sneered twice: "I heard that you came to the gauntlet? Where is the gauntlet? Let me see it."
Xia Ya showed disdain and said with a sneer: "Our Byzantine Iron Cavalry, we fight when we talk about war, where are we going to write those slang words! What I said is the war book! Your army suddenly marched south, aiming to invade the territory of our empire! Our army is stationed in the frontier, and we have tracked your whereabouts! Hmph, since that's the case, no need to talk nonsense! Back then our two armies had a battle! Although our army had the upper hand, we heard from our general afterwards that Chixue's army is worthy of Odin's strong army, if it wasn't for the irreversible situation of the war at that time, our army might not have won! Since you guys are here again, then everyone should be happy, put on a stance, and fight hard! Let's see if you are red. The Snow Army is powerful, but my Rodriguez cavalry is still powerful!"
Speaking of the end, Xia Ya took a deep breath, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Odin warrior, dare to fight against the light!!!"
Dare to fight brightly! ! !
This sentence was sent all the way with the wind, and I was afraid that the surrounding Odin warriors would hear it really! Seeing that Xia Ya was riding his horse in the midst of the army, he was majestic and had no fear. In addition, Xia Ya's own physique was majestic and tall, plus this pride, even if it was a hostile position, in the eyes of the Odins who respected heroes, There are also many people who have a little respect.
Immediately, without waiting for Manninger to speak, some other leaders of the Basak tribe shouted loudly: "Why don't you dare!"
"Fight is war!"
"We Basak warriors, are you afraid of you Rodrigues!"
"Then let's fight! Let's see who is the real hero!!"
For a while, there was a lot of shouting, but Xia Ya's face was cold, without a trace of fluctuation, and his eyes were fixed on Manninger.
Manninger's face was also sinking, he raised his hand high and made a gesture, and all the shouting around him disappeared.
Manninger's eyes were like blades, staring at Xia Ya, his eyes changed, and he suddenly smiled: "What a big tone! It's just a bold statement! Hmph, this kind of crude trick, just trying to deceive me!"
He continued to sneer: "Rodria? Haha! It's a joke! If it's really the Roderian cavalry coming, of course my Chixue Army will not be afraid of a battle!! We must be completely convinced after the first battle of the Roderian cavalry! I will see you later. My flag of the Chixue Army fled in the wind!!" He said here, but suddenly changed the subject, stared at Xia Ya, and sneered word by word: "But... the Roderian cavalry you said... hum, I'm afraid it's not at all. Not here!"