In the evening, Xia Ya and Kevin set off with the same team of scouts and light cavalry.
The 13th Cavalry Regiment is fully composed of 12,000 people, but the real direct combat troops are only 8,000 people, and the remaining 4,000 people are auxiliary arms, including, baggage, logistics, squire battalion, infantry warfare The guards, and there is even a temporary conscripted group of civilian husbands. After all, although the cavalry is the king of land warfare, it is also expensive and delicate.
The horses of the cavalry need to be fed and guarded, and they need veterinarians. At the same time, the army needs blacksmiths and quartermasters to be responsible for repairing weapons, logistics and logistics to transport military supplies, and so on.
The 8,000 soldiers were divided into four separate flag regiments, each with 2,000 men. In addition, there was an independent formation of light cavalry scouts of about 200 people.
In charge of this search and reconnaissance operation is a team in the independent scout formation, eighteen scout cavalry, plus Char and Kevin.
It was Xia Ya's first time to accompany the army. He only stayed at the station for a long time before, and he had not had time to observe the army carefully. At this moment, looking at the scouts and light cavalry around him, he couldn't help but see these people and himself in Wildfire Town. The soldiers in the mercenary regiment made a comparison.
Although these scouts were only light cavalry, each of them showed extremely good equestrian skills - if they did not control the marching speed but ran with all their strength, then within a short time, Xi Ya would only be able to eat ashes in the back. At the same time each of these guys displayed an indescribable sturdiness...like...wolf!
Yes, these guys are like a pack of wolves, silent, fierce, and there is a taste of tenacity in their eyes. Although he was very kind to Xi Ya, Xi Ya clearly felt that these people did not accept him, and that kind of kindness was only superficially keeping a distance.
Although he was the general's personal guard, Kevin strictly followed the orders of the captain of the scout team along the way, and did not receive any special treatment because of his status as the general's personal guard.
The group headed north and rode their horses through the corridor of the Albact Plain to a distance of about a hundred miles. During this period, they searched back and forth on the snake route, which took about two days.
Char Ya became familiar with these people little by little, and as time went on, Char Ya's rich survival experience in the wild showed the excellent qualities of a hunter, especially when looking for all clues. , He can also provide ideas based on some traces, and gradually everyone's eyes are softened a lot.
During the break, Char and the cavalrymen sat together nibbling on dry and cold cakes and drinking icy cold water.
After two days of searching, they searched for an area of 100 miles in depth, and conducted a fan-shaped search from the barracks to the north. Although the cavalry were a little tired, the fortitude on their faces remained undiminished. Bright and full of energy. With his excellent physique, Xiaya's physical strength also made Kevin begin to have a real affection for him.
Xia Ya has never lived in such a group, but his simple and honest temperament on the surface is actually more suitable for these soldiers, and Xia Ya never thinks it is shameful to ask people for advice. Very humbly, I want to ask the cavalry for riding skills, because of his excellent physique... Basically, he uses brute force to force the horses to submit - anyway, after two days, his riding skills have improved quite a bit.
The only one who was a little helpless was Kevin. He saw that Xi Ya tortured the horses with brute force to suppress the horses to submit. Seeing that his prepared horse was downcast by this kid, Kevin could only sigh.
On the third day, they came to a jungle. The jungle is not too big. The cavalry ran around the jungle and found no suspicious traces, so they decided to rest here for a while, and then set off to return after the rest. .
"Do you think this is a little boring?" During the break, the captain of the scout asked Xiaya with a smile. This is a veteran who has served in the 13th Cavalry Regiment for more than seven years. He has taken root here after being transferred from other units to the 13th Cavalry Regiment seven years ago. In an elite unit like the 13th Cavalry Regiment Promotion is non-productive and difficult, and this guy is a civilian born and has no background, which even the impartial General Adric can't help - after all, promotion in the military has its own system.
With this captain's qualifications, he can be transferred to other ordinary troops for promotion, but he has refused the promotion and transfer orders several times, and "lai" is here. Even more ridiculous, it is said that this guy's son also entered the 13th cavalry regiment...
According to Kevin, there are many people in the 13th Cavalry Regiment who have had this experience.
"Why do you ask that?" Xia Ya stared at the captain curiously. After a few days of getting along, he felt that this guy was a very kind and enthusiastic person, at least very enthusiastic towards his comrades. He is a sturdy middle-aged man, his face is full of bronze skin that has been sharpened by the wind and the sun, and the corners of his eyes are densely wrinkled. He is only forty years old, but he looks like a person who is almost fifty.
"We ran for two days and found nothing. You must think this mission is boring." The captain laughed and looked at the resting cavalry around.
Xia Ya thought for a while, took a breath, and said sternly, "I don't think so. The value of a scout does not lie in finding any problems."
"Oh?" Although he just asked casually, he didn't expect this rookie to have such an answer, and the captain was a little interested: "What do you think?"
Xia recalled for a moment, as if he had read some notes on the use of combat scouts in the old guy's books, and after thinking about it, he smiled: "I don't understand it very well, but... It's important to find the problem, but if you don't find the problem. , at least it can provide the commander with valuable clues, at least indicating that this area is 'clean'. This is also valuable information in itself. Therefore, you can't arbitrarily think that if there is no problem found, there will be no credit. "
The captain narrowed his eyes, and Kevin, who had been busy with his own affairs, couldn't help but looked at Xi Ya curiously: "Have you learned these things before?"
Xia Ya shook his head and hesitated for a while: "I've seen it in some books..."
With a happy smile on the captain's face, he slapped Xia Ya and looked at Kevin: "Hey! Bald boy, this rookie is new here, right? Can you tell the general and ask him to come under my hands? ? The new recruits now want to charge forward as heavy cavalry, and few guys are willing to be patient scouts."
Kevin grinned: "You talk to the general yourself about this."
He lowered his head and went back to his own business. Xiaya sat beside him and looked at Kevin - this guy was holding a piece of sheepskin in his hands, some dense words were written on the sheepskin with charcoal, and Kevin was using a knife to gently cut these words on the sheepskin. scrape.
"what are you doing?"
"Write a letter." Kevin didn't look up: "We soldiers don't have that much money to buy paper, and the paper is too easy to damage. So we use parchment for home correspondence, write on it with charcoal, and read it after we get it. Scrape off the words and use them again and again.”
The bald man raised his head and looked at Xiaya: "Have you never used this kind of thing?"
Xia Ya was suddenly stunned, a strange feeling surged in her heart, and she opened her mouth: "I... I didn't write a letter, and no one can communicate."
When he said this, an indescribable loneliness suddenly appeared in his heart.
Writing a letter... means someone with relatives can write it, as for me...
Well, after the old guy died, I was alone.
I don't know why, when he thought of this thought, the pitiful face of the poor man suddenly appeared in his heart...
Xia Ya was stunned for a moment, then goosebumps all over her body, she quickly patted her arm hard, and snorted.
Damn, could it be that Lao Tzu and Oaks have been around for a long time, and have caught the goblin's man-man problem? !
He quickly shook his head vigorously, throwing this terrible thought away.
He heard Kevin's voice beside his ears, this guy's eyes glowed at the moment, and there was a trace of funny tenderness on his originally grim face: "This is a letter from my wife, hehe! I have a wife, she Her name is Yulia, tell you, she is a pure-bred Rodrian woman! Haha! Surprised? Now in the empire, pure-bred Rodrians are very, very rare. Hmph, I will marry Go home! I serve in the Rodriguez Cavalry Regiment, and my wife is a Rodriguez woman, so I'm the only one in the entire regiment!!"
Talking about his wife, this stunned young man has become more talkative...
Seeing this stunned and proud expression, Xia Ya sighed...
It must be nice to have a wife! Uh, it's really irritating, my Uncle Xia is still...
"Well, your wife must be very beautiful." As a virgin, Xia Ya sincerely expressed her envy.
"Of course! She is the goddess in my heart." Leng Touqing grinned, looking at Xi Ya's eyes more and more pleasing to the eye: "Her grilled steak is very good, if you have the opportunity, please come to my house and taste her craftsmanship! You He's a good guy, and we can be good friends in the future."
Uh... Poor Leng Touqing, he probably still doesn't know what the standard of "beautiful" is for Xia Ya. If he knew, I was afraid that the two of them had just become friends, and they would immediately turn their faces to a duel.
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An episode is that many years later, after Xia Ya became famous, his glorious deeds spread all over the continent, and the earliest comical aesthetics also became the words of everyone's good-natured ridicule.
And the sentence "King Xia said your wife (daughter) is very beautiful" - such a sentence will be regarded as a curse and widely circulated...
This famous quote later spread all over the mainland, and it was juxtaposed with another world-famous joke "XXX, your mother called you to go home for dinner." The two famous words complement each other on the mainland...
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When the scouts were resting, on the three big trees with the best viewing angle, three soldiers who had been selected to be alert were already lying in hiding. On the far right was a young cavalry soldier with thick leather armor and thick leather armor. The hardened leather had worn away the skin on the inner thighs over a few days, making the cavalry squat on a tree branch in a ridiculous posture. His eyes are still bright though - he's the best archer in the squad, and the best archers usually have the best eyesight.
He glanced vigilantly in the distance and swept a few important directions. The soldier was relieved. His eyes were still looking at the distance. At the same time, he carefully hid his body behind the branches and leaves, unscrewed the water bag from his waist and unscrewed the lid...
When he picked up the water bag and drank water, his eyes finally left the front - just the moment he raised his head to drink water...
puff! ! A sharp arrow seemed to be shot silently from the void in the dark night, without even the slightest sound of breaking the air, it plunged into his throat like a poisonous snake!
The arrow shot through the water bag in the soldier's hand and plunged into his throat! At this moment, the soldier's eyes widened unwillingly, raised his hand, and planted it from the tree!
The scout cavalry on the ground was suddenly awakened! At this moment, in the darkness, more than a dozen blurry black shadows have already rushed over in the woods!
"Enemy attack!!!!"