Nigur was lying on the box, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, the muscles on his face were twisted into a ball, and he was biting a wooden stick in his mouth. Because he bit too hard, blood was flowing from his teeth.
Originally, his injuries were not very good. He had been whipped a few days ago. The scars on his body had not healed for a long time, and new scars had been added to his back. It was obviously painful and sweaty, as if fished out of water. Sweat and blood mixed together. The flesh is blurred, the skin is open and the flesh is broken.
Seeing that Nigur was almost unconscious from the pain, but he was forcibly supported. Although there was no rope tied to his body, he still held the box firmly with both hands, and straightened his back to be tortured.
It was Xia Ya's personal guard captain who executed the whip, a well-known ruthless character in the strong cavalry camp. At this time, his face was not softened in the slightest. Seeing Nigur's body trembling, he still kept the whip in his hand. Pulled out one by one.
Every time the whip was drawn from his hand, he saw that the wrist flicked, and the whip shook straight in the air, whistling with the sound of wind breaking through the air, and it landed on the person, it was a crisp sound, full of strength, without any interference. Half water!
Xia Ya walked over, looked at the execution scene, and asked, the captain of the guard did not answer in a hurry, he just held the whip with his head sullen, and slapped it one by one. He threw the whip to the guards around him, and said lightly, "Bring him over."
The two soldiers went over and pinched Ni Guer from left to right and came to the captain of the guards. The captain of the guards looked at Ni Guer, who was already weak, and said coldly: "After the ten whips, Ni Gu Er, you are convinced!"
Nigur gritted his teeth, and a short voice burst out from his throat: "Subordinate... convinced!"
"Okay." The captain of the guard took a deep breath and stared at Nigur coldly: "Although you have served as a senior officer in the past, since you have joined our northern army and served in the adult guards, you must obey the instructions of our northern army. Military law! Today in the daytime, if you rashly go out and shout without giving orders, you have violated military regulations, and you should be punished with thirty lashes according to the law! The team thinks that you are injured, and only draws ten whips. From tomorrow, you will lose the jersey uniform. Ten days of hard labor! You can return to the team after the service is completed! It will be counted as your other punishment! This decision, you accept? If you have any objection, you can naturally appeal to the military judge."
Nigur shook his head and said in a low voice, "Subordinates... obey the punishment of the adults."
The captain of the guard nodded: "Get him down and let the military medical officer come to give him medicine."
Nigur could no longer walk. He was held by two people, and his legs were dragged to the ground weakly. Just as he was about to be held down, he heard Xia Ya say lightly from the side: "Wait a minute."
Seeing that it was the commander-in-chief speaking, the soldier quickly stopped.
Xiaya walked to Nigur and looked at Nigur coldly: "Do you know where you are wrong?"
Nigur's painful voice trembled a little, but he gritted his teeth and insisted, and said solemnly: "I... I am in the city of Merika today.
Xia Ya shook his head, looked at Nigur and sneered: "This is just an appearance, not the root! Your fault is that you didn't recognize your identity!"
Ni Gu'er listened with a trace of dissatisfaction on his face, and said in a low voice: "General, Ni Gu'er is very clear about his identity, I am now a sergeant in your guard..."
"Bullshit!" Xia Ya suddenly shouted sharply: "Do you really regard yourself as a soldier in your heart? Humph! Nigur, I know your business very well. You started doing well in the city guards before. I heard that it looks a bit like it, but do you think that is a real soldier? In my opinion, you are just a little wolf cub who has not been weaned, and can only hide under the wings of the elders!"
Ni Gu'er listened, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth: "Sir..."
"Aren't you convinced?" Xia Ya sneered: "You must think in your heart that you did a great job in the city guards, but you were deceived by the villain, and you made a big mistake because of a trick! It wasn't Gerry who harmed you, you are already an excellent officer in the city guard, right?"
Nigur's body was shocked, but Xiaya's words pointed directly to the deepest thoughts in his heart!
These days, although he was extremely remorseful and was tortured by hatred and guilt, but deep in his heart, he actually had this idea: If Gerry didn't harm him, he should be a promising rookie officer in the Imperial Army. …
Moreover, he always thought that he had done a good job in the city guards before.
"That's right, you did go to battle, killed the enemy, saw blood, and got injured... Do you think this is called 'excellent'? It's ridiculous! There are tens of thousands of city guards, which one did not go into battle to kill the enemy, which one No injuries and bleeding? Which one didn't suffer? But you can be promoted from an ordinary sergeant to a battalion-level officer in a short period of time! Do you really think that your performance is good enough? Humph! What you do is simply a What a soldier in the army should do! You do not do less than others, but you do not do better than others! It is nothing more than normal! You can be promoted to battalion officer, but because your uncle is General Spahn! It's ridiculous that you really think you are a talent! Do you think that your failure is just an occasional trick by the enemy?"
Ni Gu'er's heart trembled violently, and an infinitely complex taste emerged in his heart.
After all, he was from a noble family. After suffering in the army, he thought that he had done a very good job - compared with other noble children, he was indeed more than ten times stronger. But if you really think about it, the city guards are tens of thousands. Who is not fighting blood and suffering, and they are really better than others? Or because of my background...
Besides, he was originally a son of an aristocrat, and a habit he cultivated since he was a child has a subconscious in his heart: he should be treated preferentially, he should be treated specially, and he should be more special than others...
"You don't have to give orders today to leave the team and shout. You will say that you are just angry because of hatred, but you ask yourself, don't you know the military regulations? Don't you know that your current identity is a military officer Ordinary sergeant, you are not qualified to go out and shout, you must not give orders and do not act rashly! Don't you know this? You know! But you know it! Not only because you are angry in your heart, but also because you do not subconsciously regard yourself as an ordinary sergeant. You subconsciously still think you 'should' be an excellent officer, not a soldier! You still think you are 'special'! That's why you subconsciously treat military regulations as nothing!"
Xia Ya, word by word, pierced into Nigur's heart coldly, making Nigur's words more and more shocking in his heart, and he asked himself, but he could not find a single word to refute Xia Ya's rebuke.
(I entered the army just to have a chance for revenge.)
(Although I am now a soldier, I should have been a senior officer.)
(With my ability, as long as I show my previous performance in the city guards, I will soon be promoted to an officer.)
(Although it is an officer's qualification to shout in front of the battle, I should be an officer at all.)
Do you really have no such thoughts
In fact, it has always been in my heart!
"In your heart, you just think of entering the army as a springboard to realize your chance for revenge." Xia Ya said coldly, "Do you really regard yourself as a soldier's standard in your heart?"
Nigur: "..."
"I promised to give you a chance to fight the enemy and take revenge, but you must first become a qualified sergeant in our army! If you put the goal of revenge above your status as a soldier, then you should give it as soon as possible. Lao Tzu get out of my army! What I want is a soldier who strictly obeys the military rules and prohibitions, not a son of a noble who thinks he is special! You are such a waste, do you think you are special? Tell you, in Lao Tzu's army , pick out a random person, they are better than you!"
"If you don't have an order, you dare to leave the team and shout without permission! What do you think you are? A general? A nobleman! You are just a sergeant now! If you don't follow the military regulations, you will become a mess! If you just want to take revenge, you can take your sword and go to Mirika City. Whether it is assassination or death, it has nothing to do with Lao Tzu! If you stay in Lao Tzu's army, you must recognize it. Clear your own identity, you are just a soldier now! A big-headed soldier without any status! Do your duty as an ordinary sergeant and guard your identity!"
"Maybe you have some ability, maybe you have a high self-esteem, maybe you think you are very capable! But before you are qualified to go out and shout as an officer, you must be a good soldier! If you can't even be an ordinary soldier, don't even think about it. Be an officer and be a general to take revenge!"
After Xia Ya finished speaking, she tilted her head and said coldly to the soldier on the left holding Nigur: "You, report your military rank and position."
The soldier immediately stood up and said loudly: "Stark Gan! First Class Sergeant of the Second Team of the Strong Cavalry Battalion! Your Excellency!"
"Sgt. 1... is the lowest-ranked sergeant in my strong cavalry battalion. Tell me, why are you still only a sergeant, not an officer? Could it be that you are not brave enough to fight and behave badly?"
The sergeant said proudly: "General, I beheaded seven people when I was fighting in Syltan County. When I blocked the vanguard of the Red Snow Army's cavalry, I personally killed three people, and one of them was Officer Odin!"
"Yes, you killed ten Odins in the war in Syltan County, which is a very good performance, but you tell me, and tell this idiot around you, why are you still an ordinary person? Sergeant?"
The sergeant took a deep breath and said loudly: "Because my colleagues performed better than me! General! Serving in the army and fighting the enemy is just the nature of a soldier, I just did my duty! Don't dare to say credit! I also want to be promoted, but I will show better performance to win promotion opportunities!"
Xia Ya nodded, then looked at Nigur coldly: "Did you hear clearly? In our army, you want to make a difference and become an officer, but it's not as easy as in the city guards! You are in the city. Among the guards, if you do a little bit of what you should do, you can be promoted. That's because of your uncle's protection! But here in Lao Tzu, it's not enough to do your duty well! You must perform better than others. You can be an officer or even a general if you are outstanding! But in my opinion, you are far from being a soldier! You can do it yourself! I see that you were brought by that fat man from Ruhr. Waste some saliva and scold you! Next time, just drive out of my military camp and die on your own."
After finishing speaking, Xia Ya stopped talking, turned her head and left.
Nigur was stunned on the spot, his whole body trembled, and many thoughts flashed in his heart. At first, his face was ashen, and finally a trace of absoluteness flashed in his eyes. He walked with the captain of the guard and bowed his head in a salute: "My lord, please finish the remaining twenty whips!"
"Oh?" The captain of the guard frowned, "Why? You have an injury, and the team understands you for this, and changed the twenty whips to ten-day hard labor."
"No, I ask for the twenty whips. Please allow me to stay in the team after receiving the whips! I don't want to do hard labor, I want to play in the team!" After a pause, Nigur gritted his teeth and whispered: "Captain, I want to be a qualified sergeant."
"..." The captain of the guard hesitated for a moment: "Understood." He took the whip again and looked at Nigur: "First-class sergeant Nigur, stand up and take the penalty!"
Xia Ya walked more than ten steps, and suddenly heard the sound of a leather whip coming from behind him. With a move in his heart, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He didn't look back, but strode away.
"You must be too harsh on that poor boy."
After a few steps, Dora sighed in her mind.
Xia Ya snorted and said with a sneer: "I'm very good to him, if it weren't for the loyalty of the dead fat man Luer, and the loyalty of General Spahn who died in battle, this kind of waste would have been a long time ago. He kicked out of my barracks. Without giving orders, he rushed out and shouted. Who does he think he is, and he thinks he is an officer? Does he think he is a noble?"
"Actually, I think this Nigur is quite capable. A nobleman's son, it is not bad to be able to do this. If you cultivate it well, you may not be able to become a general in the future."
After Xia heard Dora's words, he smiled coldly: "Although you are wise, you are a dragon after all. The dragon is powerful, but after all, you don't understand the affairs of our human army. That dead ghost old man once said a word: You don't want to be a general. Soldiers are not good soldiers..."
"That's not bad." Dora laughed: "This Nigur most of the time wants to be a general. Only when you become a general and have power in your hand can you have the opportunity to take revenge."
"... Hmph, what I said is only half of the sentence! The second half of the sentence is: If you don't know how to be a good soldier, you will never become a general!"
Even so, after all, in the light of General Spahn's loyalty, Char Ya still called the captain of the guards at night.
"What happened to that stupid boy?"
The captain of the guard replied, "He was forcibly given twenty whips again, and he fainted from the pain after receiving it, and he was already put back."
"Yeah." Xia Ya nodded: "Let the military medical officer go and treat him with medicine. We don't need to give him any preferential treatment when we go on the road tomorrow. Let him ride into the team by himself. If it doesn't work, let him tie himself up. Marching on horseback, and if he can't stand it, tell him to roll to the handyman's camp and ride in a carriage."
The captain of the guard took orders.
On the second day, the whole army assembled early in the morning, and Xiaya looked at the guards around him, and sure enough, he saw Nigur's figure.
This guy was as pale as paper, his eyes were sunken, but he was still wearing armor. He sat on the back of a horse. Looking carefully, he tied his legs to the sides of the saddle with ropes. on horseback.
Xia Ya looked at it, and felt a little satisfied in her heart, so she couldn't help but look at Nigur one more time.
Ni Gu'er, however, looked solemn, did not look sideways, and followed the team honestly, daring not to overstep.
…
Xia Ya's thousands of cavalrymen, with a huge motorcade, were naturally unable to travel fast.
Under the surveillance of the surrounding Armenian army troops, the army finally left the border of the Armenian military region after nine days.
After leaving the Armenian military region and heading north, there are two other small military regions, but these two small military regions, although they are also in the ranks of rebels, were originally small forces and weak. Watching Xia Ya and thousands of cavalry crossing the border, Where do you dare to provoke right and wrong? It was nothing more than sending gifts to send Xi Ya to cross the border. Even when he was crossing the border, he also gave a batch of food and grass, hoping that Xi Ya's army could leave as soon as possible.
After passing through these two places, you have entered the force of the Besta people.
Esria County has been merged with the Besta Military Region to form a new "Great Besta County", and the official document has been issued by the imperial capital and brought to the Besta Army.
After entering the sphere of influence of the ally of the Besta, Char instead ordered the entire army to speed up the march.
Finally, six days after entering the Besta people's territory, they arrived at the important military town of the Besta people, Haske City. When Xia Ya's army arrived outside the city, the Besta people had already sent messengers, saying that the governor's wife held a banquet in the city to wash the dust for General Xia Ya, and prepared a batch of food and grass supplies to supplement the consumption of Xia Ya's army along the way. .
Xiaya accepted the food and forage brought, but politely declined the invitation to the banquet from the governor's wife. He asked the messenger of the Besta to bring the words back: "The Governor's wife must have more important things to do now, so she doesn't have to waste time greeting me as a guest."
The governor's wife had kept Lear as a hostage in the imperial capital. When she returned home, she naturally wanted to immediately clean up the internal Lear's forces. How could she really have the intention to entertain herself.
Besides, Xia Ya was quite annoyed at the fact that she was unintentionally used by this woman.
The brigade quickly passed through Haske City, and they went all the way north. Besta sent 500 light cavalry along the road to escort them out of the northern border. After watching Xia Ya's army leave their territory, only then did they leave. He breathed a sigh of relief and went back to Haske City to answer.
When Xia Ya finally arrived in Syltan County, it would be the twenty-seventh day since his army left the imperial capital.
He had already sent the first team of light cavalry to rush back to deliver the letter. When his army entered, the mad dog Green had already brought thousands of cavalry soldiers to wait at the border to meet Char.
After the two sides met, Xia Ya finally felt relieved.
He handed over the carriage and supplies in the team to his subordinates and slowly transported them all the way. Xiaya immediately divided his troops, brought some cavalry, and together with Green, light cavalry and headed to the new city, the capital of Syltan County, where he spent a day here. After repairing, we must continue on the road, continue to go north without stopping, and lead the troops back to Denzel City, County Moore.
On the night they stayed in Xincheng, Char and Green had a detailed talk, telling about all the gains and things they encountered when they went to King Qin of the Imperial Capital this time.
After Green listened to Xia Ya's remarks, he thought that going to the imperial capital this time was basically a success. Although the material gain is not much... Although the spoils captured from the rebels are considered a windfall, the greater battle gain is a political gain!
At least, the name of the northern garrison has been fixed, even if it is the identity of the small group with Xi Ya as the core, it has completed the transformation from "black household" to the status of legal feudal lords.
In terms of identity, the northern garrison area was officially established. Char Ya himself served as the general of the garrison area. From the appointment, he was in charge of military affairs, which made the small group under Char Ya's finally legalized. No longer have to worry about political identity.
However, on this night in the new city, Green formally proposed something.
"Relocating the headquarters? From Denzel City to New City?"
Facing the suggestion made by Green, Xi Ya fell into contemplation...
Now Char's headquarters and base camp are set up in Denzel City. But such a situation had to be done in the first place.
At the beginning, Char's official position was the military commander of More County, and his office was in Denzel City. And then the Odins invaded southward, and Xi Ya held on to Denzel City, but most of the southern part of More County was occupied by the Odins.
The original capital of Moore County was Mesta City. After Char took back Mesta City, he had made up his mind to move the base camp to Mesta City.
Mesta City is much larger than Denzel City, with a larger population and more convenient transportation. As the capital city of a county, it is naturally more suitable as a base camp than the small border army town of Denzel City.
However, because the Odins from the south were entrenched in Syltan County at that time, the city of Mesta was too close to the sphere of influence of the Odins. Once a war broke out, the city of Mesta would become a front line at any time, which was not suitable from a military point of view. Be the base camp.
But now things are different.
Shirtan County has been occupied by Char, and even the Corsica Military Region has fallen into Char's hands. After controlling three counties in his hands, Denzel City, a small town on the border, is no longer suitable as his base camp.
At present, the most suitable place is the new city - the capital of Syltan County!