The two chatted for a while under the city, but the people around them were far apart, and no one could hear what the two bosses were talking about.
Although there are many powerful people among the guards around the two, if they are listening intently, they may not be able to hear them. It is just the secret conversation between the two well-known bigwigs in the world. Who dares to eavesdrop
I saw that after Hughes said something to Xia Ya, there was a thoughtful expression on Xia Ya's face. Hughes continued to say a few more words, and Xia Ya shook his head slightly at first, refuting two sentences, but at the end , but seemed to be moved by Hughes, and a smile gradually appeared on his face, as if he was quite moved by what Hughes said.
At the end, the two looked at each other a few times, and then both smiled slightly.
Hughes immediately raised his hand, and out of the city gate, more than a dozen soldiers ran out and carried out several large boxes. Those boxes were covered with cowhide, and he didn't know what was inside. He just looked at the carrying boxes. The soldiers of the 1980s had a hard time walking, and it was obvious that the contents of the box were extremely heavy.
Xia Ya just sat on the back of the horse and didn't move, just tilted his head, and naturally his guards dismounted and took over the boxes. The cavalry guards under his command are all "strong cavalry". They are powerful warriors fortified with muscle fruits. They are extremely powerful. Those heavy boxes, in the hands of Armenian soldiers, require three or five people to lift a mouthful. Here, a cavalryman dismounted from his horse, grabbed two with one hand, and then moved directly down.
Hughes was also stunned. After being stunned for a while, he couldn't help sighing: "General Xia has such a tiger and wolf warrior, no wonder they can traverse the northern border. I'm afraid that the beast soul warriors of the Odin people are not enough. So be it."
Xia Ya smiled lightly: "What is a beast soul warrior, which of the cavalry guards around me has not killed a few beast soul warriors."
As he spoke, he waved at Hughes: "Lord Hughes, that's all for now, let's see what happens in the future."
Hughes also didn't seem to care about Xi Ya's ambiguous words. He just smiled slightly and raised his hand in a gesture of seeing off guests.
Xia Ya didn't speak anymore, and then he returned to his team with the horse, and turned around with the cavalry.
The cavalry team just turned around, but one cavalry suddenly broke out of the team, pointed to the distant city gate, and shouted sharply: "Gerry!!"
In the voice, full of resentment and poison!
This person is naturally Nigur.
Nigur was originally tall and burly. Even in Xiaya's personal guard, surrounded by strong cavalry warriors who had been strengthened with muscle fruits, all of them were tall and tall, and Nigur's physique was still the same. Not lost.
At this moment, he left the team, the prancing horse was in front, and he shouted loudly. The captain of the guard in the team immediately changed color and shouted angrily: "Nigur! What are you doing!"
However, Xiaya raised his hand, stopped the captain of the guard, and looked at Nigur with a smile.
Nigur had a look of grief and anger, and after shouting twice immediately, he saw the Armenian army under the city gate, and Gerry walked out slowly.
Ge Li's handsome face was a little pale, and he looked a lot thinner. Looking at Ni Gu'er, he said coldly and loudly: "Ni Gu'er! What do you want!"
Nigur couldn't contain his grief and anger, pointed at Gerry and shouted loudly: "You and I have a blood feud that will never be shared!"
Gerry smiled coldly: "If you want to kill me, see if you have the ability."
Nigur shouted in the sky, his eyes were about to split, but he shouted sharply: "Where's Marsha!"
Gerry was stunned for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "You idiot, you are still thinking of Masha! Tell you, Masha is in the city and is already my woman!"
Nigur turned his horse around in place, and suddenly pulled out a wolf-toothed arrow from his quiver, shouting loudly: "I swear to kill you both! I will not avenge this revenge, I am Nigur such an arrow. !"
After he finished speaking, he folded the arrow in his hand into two pieces, threw it on the ground, turned his horse and returned to his team.
Xia Ya just glanced at him, didn't say a word, and went straight away with the people.
Beneath the city gate, Gerry's expression was different. Hearing Ni Guer weeping and swearing, after all, he felt a little guilty in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. He just saw Hughes beside him, he straightened up quickly, and took a deep breath. Take a breath and calm down.
Hughes looked at Gerry, but patted him on the shoulder, and said warmly: "Don't pay attention to that guy, now he's just a lost dog, just a pawn in Xia Yajun. You have done a great job for me, if It's not you, and I have no chance to break the city."
Gerry was calm for a moment, but he couldn't help but say: "Sir... That Xia Yaleiming, I have long recognized him. This person is very cunning and cannot be trusted..."
Hughes looked at Gerry and saw that Gerry was a little guilty, and Hughes said lightly: "I naturally know. Is this Xia Lei Ming, I have the heart to cooperate with him, as for whether he is yang or yin, or he regrets it later, it doesn't matter. important."
Said, pointed around, and smiled: "Only today I am with him at this city gate for a while, thousands of eyes are watching this matter, and soon the news will naturally spread and spread to the imperial capital, then Adric and others must know! Hehe... As long as they know that Xiaya and I have met here, as for the result, they will naturally guess... As long as they are suspicious, my goal will be achieved. "
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Xia returned to the brigade and asked people to throw the things Hughes sent into the van without rushing to check them.
The team continued to walk, but someone came to see Xia, but it was the Junker general.
Junker, dressed in a plain robe, without armor, and dressed as a samurai, met Xia Ya and said that Sophie asked Xia Ya to discuss something in the past.
Xia Ya was curious, and rode his horse to the team.
As Caviehir's disciple, Sophie was naturally given preferential treatment in Char's army. One person rode a large carriage, and the carriage was brought by her own family. It was the one that Xi Ya and her had ridden together at the beginning. Of course, the driver could not have let the little duke of Rhodey take over.
When Xia Ya came to the carriage, she saw that the window of the carriage was open, a handsome face stuck her head out of the window, looked at Xia Ya and said with a smile, "General."
"What's the matter with me?" Xia Ya looked into each other's eyes.
"I heard that the general met Hughes just now." Sophie's voice was calm and calm.
"Well." Xia Ya's heart moved: "I would like to ask you to help me analyze this matter, what Hughes meant..."
Sophie glanced at Xia Ya and said lightly, "The general has an idea in his heart, why come to test me, this little girl."
Xia Ya smiled, not embarrassed, and said directly: "Hughes wants to bribe me and ask me to help contain the Besta people... hehe..."
When Sophie heard this, she nodded and said, "General Adric has reorganized the army and will counterattack soon. The Armenian Military Region is the closest to the imperial capital, so it is naturally the first target to attack. The Besta Military Region is just behind the Armenian Military Region. , The Bestas surrendered to the empire. Hughes’s worry was nothing more than when Adric’s army attacked, and the Bestas attacked from behind at the same time. Although the Armenian military region was strong, it would be dangerous if they fought on two fronts. Hughes is worried about the harassment of the Besta people from behind, and it is not surprising that he wants to cooperate with the general. If you help to contain the Besta people, it will be of great benefit to Hughes. "
Xia laughed: "The Besta people surrendered to the empire, am I a traitor? I am also the northern garrison general and duke of the empire, how could I cooperate with a rebel like Hughes. This Hughes is a mistake. Got an idea."
Sophie smiled lightly and glanced at Xiaya: "Oh? Is the general really one with the empire?"
Xia Ya was stunned for a while, but did not speak.
Sophie sighed: "Alas. It's a pity that His Majesty Emperor Garcia is so stupid! If he put down his grudges and treated the general with kindness, it wouldn't be like this. Although the royal family has appointed you as the general of the Northern Garrison, the award of the title will not be the case. But it was an article, and when the news came out, anyone with a little heart would still not understand that the royal family is actually afraid of the general. You and the royal family are definitely not in the same mind. A smart person like Hughes will naturally judge it. It will feel like there is something to do in it.”
Flies don't bite seamless eggs!
If the royal family and Xia Ya are really united, then naturally there is nothing to say... But in the current situation, someone who is a little smarter can naturally analyze the details from the details, and there are many gaps in Xia Ya's "egg"!
To be honest, if there were not people like Adrick, Xia might have really cooperated with Hughes because of his relationship with Adrick.
Anyway, he is not a real Byzantine, and he has no loyalty to the emperor of any country. What's more, the current emperor still never forgets to calculate himself.
Xia smiled and said, "No matter what, Hughes's win was in vain. I naturally accepted the things he sent, and wanted me to help, but there was no door."
Sophie frowned: "It's not really a failure."
She sighed: "The general and Hughes met here, and the news spread to the imperial capital. If someone with intentions spread it out on purpose... I think that the general really colluded with Hughes in private, and he would naturally have to be more concerned when he crusades the Armenian military region in the future. already."
Xia Ya smiled, looking at the girl in front of her, she couldn't help thinking to herself: This girl really has a way.
Sophie raised her head and looked at Xi Ya: "I'm afraid the general knows this too, right? Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to meet Hughes in the city so easily... The general is not a reckless person! "
Xia Ya took a serious look at the girl in front of him and nodded: "Yes, even if the news of my private meeting with Hughes reaches the imperial capital, the emperor and the prime minister suspect me, but General Adric will never doubt me! General Derek's relationship, it's not these little things that will make you suspicious. The general believes in me as a person and won't think that I have colluded with Hughes."
Sophie frowned: "Then the general still does this... Isn't it... "
As he said that, he glanced at Xia Ya, and the meaning on his face seemed to say: Aren't you looking for trouble yourself
Xia Ya laughed: "Anyway, even if I don't do anything, the emperor and the prime minister don't like me! Hughes and I met, and the news spread back, which made the rabbit emperor's heart block, and I was very happy, haha. Haha... Besides, Hughes also gave some things, and if you don't take it for nothing, you're a fool."
Sophie couldn't help but let out a wry smile.
This General Xia Ya has a childish temperament... He deliberately met Hughes privately, just to make the emperor feel more blocked...
The team walked and stopped in a village in the evening of the same day.
Along the way, Charya's army was surrounded by small cavalry of the Armenian army. Long before Charya's army arrived in the village, the Armenian army drove out all the people in the village and made the village "let". "Come out and let Char's army be stationed.
The two have come up with a little bit of peace and harmony.
The army rested and stationed in this village overnight, replenishing fresh water and training horsepower.
In the evening, Xiaya asked people to bring the boxes sent by Hughes and open them one by one.
The things in the more than ten boxes presented by Hughes are indeed a lot of money!
The four high-quality armors are all made of high-quality Armenian products, and the quality is also high-quality steel, but the style is made to look like the "hill armor" used by the senior generals of the empire.
Armenia is rich in iron ore and is famous for its excellent weapons and armors. These four sets of armors are really first-class good things, and they are well made. At first glance, they are made by skilled craftsmen.
These four sets of high-quality Qiushan armor alone would be worth no less than 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins if they were sold.
In the other boxes, iron blocks were neatly placed.
Xia Ya was a little puzzled at first, but then there was an ordnance officer in the army who saw it and recognized it.
"General, this is the best iron soul from Armenia!"
Iron Soul
Xia Ya was stunned for a moment, but he hadn't heard of this.
The ordnance officer explained: "Armenia is rich in high-quality iron ore, and the armor is the best in the mainland. Their smelting technology is also the most superb. This iron soul is a rare good thing! The swords and weapons used by ordinary soldiers in our army usually , although they are also made of high-quality fine iron, but the Armenians have a unique smelting technique to make good iron into iron soul! But the cost is huge, it is said that ten catties of good iron can only produce two or three catties of iron. Po Lai! This iron soul has got rid of impurities, and it is the purest and most refined. If it is made into a weapon, it is a first-class sharp weapon!"
The ordnance officer said and glanced at Xi Ya: "Sir, I like to collect these weapons the most, and I have a weapon made of iron soul produced in Armenia. You will know it when you try it."
With that said, the ordnance officer pulled out a dagger from his boots and put his hands in front of Char.
Xia Ya took it. The dagger looked dark on the edge. If it weren't for the faint glow of coldness, it looked a bit worse than ordinary dagger weapons.
With a slight movement in his heart, he randomly pulled out a sword from the waist of the guard beside him, a dagger in his left hand, a long sword in his right hand, and both hands were evenly forceful, slashing each other.
I heard a crisp sound of "keng", and when I lifted it up, I saw that the dagger was intact, but there was already a fingernail-sized gap on the blade!
When Xia Ya saw it, her face moved slightly!
You must know that the guards around him are the most elite "strong cavalry" in his northern army! Such first-class elite troops are also equipped with the best weapons in their own army! The long sword in his hand is also made of fine iron and stone. It can be said that it is superior to the weapons used by the Central Army of the Empire.
But this dagger actually cut a gap!
If on the battlefield, if you encounter enemies with such weapons, wouldn't your army suffer greatly
In such a comparison, fighting on the battlefield, if the enemy uses sharp weapons like daggers, I am afraid that the warriors under their own hands will break the swords in a few slashes! That would be a big loss!
When the ordnance officer saw Xia Ya's face, he understood the general's worries, and said slowly: "Sir! Although the weapon made by this iron soul is sharp, but because the cost is too high, only ten pounds of good iron can be shot twice. Three catties of iron soul, and forging weapons, the process of forging has more fire consumption, so it is very difficult to build weapons. Although the Armenian Military Region is known for its elite equipment, weapons made of this kind of iron soul can never be equipped by the entire army. I I heard that in the Armenian army, only officers above the level of team officers are qualified to wear such weapons, but ordinary sergeants do not."
Are officers above the rank of corps only equipped
When Xia Ya heard this, her brows furrowed tightly.
Byzantine military system, fifty for the team.
In other words, in the Armenian army, one person in every fifty people is equipped with such a weapon.
"You mean that the Armenian army did not install this weapon in any army?"
Xia Ya looked at the ordnance officer, the ordnance officer pondered for a moment, and said, "Sir, before I served in the Central Army, I spent two years in the Ordnance Department of the Imperial Capital Military Department. At that time, the military department was still the world of rebellion. , there are many Armenian officers serving in the military. I have also been to the Armenian army, and I heard that such a weapon is indeed a rare good thing in the Armenian army, and it is not listed in any army. I heard that a weapon made of iron souls costs tens of gold coins in total for the cost and labor! For the Armenian army, dozens of gold coins can recruit many soldiers, so why spend it? Build a weapon."
When Xia Ya heard this, she sneered: "Stupid! Wasteful!!"
The Ordnance Officer listened, and did not know what the "stupid waste" the general said was referring to.
Xia Ya immediately sighed and said lightly: "It's ridiculous that Armenians still claim to be elite equipment, but they don't know how to use them well, so they are only given to officers... Humph! He has tens of thousands of troops in the Armenian army, the whole army is up and down, if it is five Ten people are equipped with one such weapon, and there are hundreds of such sharp weapons! But they are distributed to the officers of the whole army as a decoration. What is not a waste? If I am the commander and have such a weapon in my hand, Naturally, all equipment is concentrated on an elite army! Even if only a few hundred people are equipped, on the battlefield, with these hundreds of people holding such sharp weapons, they will become a force that can control the situation of the battle! It's ridiculous that Hughes, Sure enough, he doesn't understand military strategy, but such a good thing is used as decoration for officers... Stupid! Don't he understand that good weapons are for use! They are not for officers to show off as decoration!"
He then looked at the boxes in front of him. There are seven or eight boxes of these iron souls, and they add up to nothing more than a few hundred kilograms of iron souls... These hundreds of kilograms of iron souls can't fight many weapons. If I want to come to Hughes to give them to myself, I just think that I know how to use them. I have fired a small amount of some fine weapons and given them to the generals of the army.
But I don't know that Xia Ya's temperament is the most practical. If this kind of good thing is not used by soldiers, but given to generals as a decoration, it is a shameful waste.
"Unfortunately, there are hundreds of pounds of iron soul here, and there are not many weapons... Alas, if only I could get more."
The ordnance officer listened to Xia Ya's sigh, his face suddenly changed, and said: "Sir... Maybe there is a way... Speaking of making weapons, it is the subordinate's old job. If you want to make an elite weapon, a weapon, in fact It is not necessary to use this kind of high-quality material for all materials. For example, for the war spear used in the military, the barrel can be made of ordinary materials, and the tip of the spear can be made of high-quality iron. As long as you smelt fine iron on the blade, it is a good knife! Although it is a little bit worse than a real sharp weapon made of all good materials, but in actual combat, it is not much different."
Xia Ya listened with joy on her face: "What do you mean... these hundreds of pounds of iron soul... "
The ordnance officer quickly calculated in his heart: "If you make a saber for cavalry, a saber, you only need to extract a small amount of iron soul on the material of the blade, and it will not be sharp enough to use. It is worse than the real weapons made by all iron souls. In this way, a saber can only be used for refining the blade, and a pound of iron soul can't be used... Here are hundreds of pounds of iron soul, and hundreds of first-class weapons are made. The saber is more than enough!"
After hearing this, Xiaya was very happy, and immediately made a decision: "You move all these boxes! When you return to Denzel City, I will leave this to you! If you can build hundreds of good sabres, I will promote you to the commissioner of the Ordnance Department!"
With this unexpected gain, Xia Ya was very happy.
His top 500 knights are invincible in the world in terms of combat power. If you can have such a weapon and equipment, it will be even more powerful, and the combat power will be stronger by three points!
He was in a good mood. After the ordnance officer stepped down, Xia Ya walked out of the room with her hands behind her back, and spread it out at will. Just after walking a few steps, she suddenly heard a "snap" sound, but it was the sound of a leather whip.
I saw that more than ten steps ahead, the captain of his own guard was holding a leather whip and glaring angrily, executing the military law.
And the person who was whipped was lying on several piles of boxes, topless, with several whip marks left on the back.
When Xia Ya saw it, she immediately recognized it, and it was Nigur who was whipped.
As soon as his heart moved, he walked over.
"what happened?"