"This damn weather, it's only been so hot in June, who can bear it any longer..." Carmen complained weakly, sweating profusely, the spear made of fine iron was used by him as a crutch, and the helmet He had already been thrown behind his back, and at this moment he wished he could strip off the fine iron armor he was wearing.
"Have the scouts in front found water yet? I'm dying of thirst! Carmen, give me a drink from your water bag..." Beru stuck the spear in his hand under the tree, and spread himself out in the shade. He was even worse than Carmen, panting like a sea fish that landed on the shore.
"No, who told you to keep drinking like crazy, don't forget that half of the water in my water bag has been poured into your water bag, and you drank it up. If there is no water source in front, I will This small half bag of water is not enough for me to drink by myself." Carmen refused.
"Carmen, don't forget that we grew up together when we were young. I helped you with everything, and I carried it for you when you fought with others. Isn't the friendship of so many years worth a little water?" said angrily.
"Okay, okay, every time I say this, are you annoying? I don't think about which time you helped me win a fight. In the end, it wasn't me who was beaten together with you. I always wanted to fight without you If you say it, maybe I will be beaten less, others will easily hit you hard when they see you as a big man, and I will suffer along with you... I will give you two more drinks and open your mouth." Carmen carefully carried the water Sac poured two sips of water into Beru's mouth.
With the nourishment of these two sips of water, Beru was obviously much more energetic. He lay down for a while and sat up. He leaned against the tree with Carmen and watched the soldiers of the Free Alliance Armed Corps who were equipped with the same equipment as him in the rugged terrain. Sticking out his tongue, he trekked hard on the mountain road.
"I always thought that we would put on our armor and brandish our spears to bravely rush to the enemy's battle formation. This is our mission as a soldier of the Freedom Alliance. There is nothing else to do except marching in circles, the enemy is blasted away by the artillery armed by the Norton family. We wipe their asses every day like those garbage collectors..." Beru said.
"Silly boy, if you want to die yourself, don't hurt others. Don't think that you will survive and become a hero if you charge into the battle. You must know that a fool like you dies the fastest on the battlefield. Also, what are you two boys doing?" Running so fast, I thought something happened?" The person who said this was a middle-aged man with a beard.
"Uncle Gude..." Carmen and Beru stood up quickly. This is Gude, the captain of their centurion, who is nearly fifty years old and an experienced old mercenary with two silver stars. After the Commercial Union abolished the mercenary union, he also quit. This time the Liberty Alliance reorganized its armed forces. He was invited by his friends to join the legion and became a centurion.
"Get out of the way, let me take a rest." Uncle Gude wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I am old and useless, and a mountain road like this ten years ago was like flat ground to me. It didn’t take much effort for a day and a night, but now I feel like I can’t walk after only walking in the morning.”
Carmen and Beru moved out, leaving the middle position under the tree for Captain Good.
"Come on, Uncle Gude, sit here, it's cool here, with the mountain wind blowing from time to time, it's very comfortable." Carmen flattered: "Uncle Gude, did you come here specifically to find the two of us?"
"Of course, if you don't look for the two of you, who will you look for? You must know that your parents asked us to take good care of you two monkeys when we set off. Who told me that you and I are neighbors? We have been watching since we were young. You two bare-bottomed boys have grown up slowly, and now you have grown into two young men with good looks."
Uncle Gude took out his own water bag and gulped a few sips of water. Beru watched beside him and swallowed, but he didn't dare to ask Uncle Gude for it, and just watched helplessly. After drinking the water, Uncle Gude threw the water bag to Beiru. Beru was overjoyed, raised the water bag and filled it up.
"Let's talk, what's the matter with you two, you suddenly speeded up while walking, left our team behind, and pulled away for nearly an hour. What are you trying to do? If you don't have a good reason, you will return to the team. Ten lashes per person..." Uncle Gude asked seriously.
"Uncle Gude, Beru forgot to fill the water bag when we set off in the morning. The weather was hot and he drank the water left over from yesterday, and drank more than half of my water bag, and he was still thirsty. So we want to hurry to the front I went to the water source to fill some water. But who knows that after walking for so long, we haven’t seen the water source sign marked by the scouts, we just want to add some water.” Carmen explained quickly.
"Silly man, why didn't you ask me when there was no water?" Uncle Gude unceremoniously gave Bellu and Carmen a headache: "I have walked this mountain road before, and there is no water source until night. At our current marching speed, we don’t know if we can make it to the campsite at night. However, when I set off in the morning, I had already made preparations. I filled two large wooden buckets of water and tied them to the donkeys in the rear team, which was enough for our centurion to drink. Already. Tell me that you two boys don’t need to be so frightening, so I thought you were eager to do meritorious deeds and go to the front to take risks... "
"Then what should we do now, do we want to go back?" Beru finally put down the water bag.
"Just rest here," said Uncle Goode. "They'll come here anyway, and we can even take a nap here..."
The sound of rumbling guns from a distance was like thunder, and all three fell silent. It took a long time for Carmen to say: "Uncle Gude, are those cannons really that powerful? The castle fortress we camped two days ago was almost blown into ruins..."
Belu next to him said in a buzzing voice: "What I can't figure out is that since the Norton family's artillery is so powerful, they can attack their targets with the Norton family's armed forces alone. Why do we have to come with the Freedom Alliance Armed Corps?" Ah, anyway, we can't exert our strength, so it's interesting to just march around every day like this? Why don't we stay in Morente City and train every day... "
Uncle Gude laughed: "Silly boys, this is to let you experience what the battlefield is, and get familiar with actual combat, which is more effective than training. Don't look at us now marching all day, it is because the Norton family armed The Guards Corps has taken over all the tasks of attacking the tip. After they have swept away the defense facilities and castle fortresses deployed by the enemy in the hilly area in front, they will leave some slightly weaker enemies for us to practice, so as to train you rookies. Purpose."
"But I think it's because they look down on us, as if it's a charity." Beru complained: "Actually, what's better about them than us, isn't it just an extra cannon? If it's right, I promise to blow it up." Four or five of them."
Uncle Gude gave Beilu a chestnut again: "What nonsense, silly boy, don't look at you and Carmen who are now 23 years old and have the black iron three-star rank. Maybe you can still take advantage of each other. But if you want to play one-on-two or one-on-three, I guarantee that you will die quickly. The army is not a mercenary duel, nor is it a place for individuals to show off their bravery. The elite of the Norton family's armed forces lies in their discipline and battle formation. There is a tacit understanding between them and death. Even if there is no artillery, our Freedom Alliance Armed Corps is not their opponent. Don’t forget that so many commercial alliance armed forces have been defeated by their hands... "
"But Uncle Gude, didn't Captain Haske of the First Corps say that we shouldn't follow the Norton family to attack the Commercial Alliance this time? He said that our Freedom Alliance was born out of the Commercial Alliance, and what we opposed was the feudalism of the territorial aristocracy. system. We should refuse to stand with the Norton family, because the Norton family is a representative of barbaric and backward lordship without freedom, equality and independence. We should form an alliance with the business alliance and arm the Norton family from the Fali Hill Plain Drive out with Morente City, so that the Liberty Alliance can truly have freedom." Carmen said to Uncle Goode.
Uncle Good was furious: "Didn't I tell you not to listen to that idiot Haskell? That guy's brain is sick. The Norton family implements the lord system. Isn't the lord system implemented by the business alliance also a lord and aristocrat?" Is it a feudal system? Have you two forgotten the bitter days three years ago? You two caught mice in the sewer every day to eat!
Use your brains to think about why the Business Alliance recruited soldiers many times in Morente City at that time. Your parents were determined not to let you join the business alliance armed forces. Instead, your parents allowed you to join the army after the establishment of the Freedom Alliance last year. Even I This old man in his late fifties is willing to find a job as a centurion in the Liberty Alliance Armed Corps. It's very simple, because we joined the army to protect our Freedom Alliance, which is our own alliance in Morente City, not the business alliance held by the big chamber of commerce that treats us as slaves and cannon fodder!
I am an old mercenary. I have been in Morente City for more than 30 years, and I have already seen through it. Don't look at us Morente people proudly claiming that we are free Morente people, but to those big chambers of commerce, we are just another form of slaves, but we don't have a mark on our head who is Only our lord. Think about the life under the three-year ration system. Is that what free people have? We are given a prescribed amount of whatever we eat, and we have to work hard for twelve hours a day for this food. above. That's really free, we can choose not to do it, and the whole family will starve to death.
Don't listen to that idiot Haskell, you should think about it, without the Norton family armed, you two are still catching rats in the sewers. Why should we drive away the Norton family armed forces, did he rob us of food or drinks? No, they not only did nothing to us residents of Morente City, but also gave us free food, brought countless commodities and goods, and loaned a huge sum of money to the Freedom Alliance, and finally made Morente City It's bustling again, and it has regained the elegance of the mainland's first commercial city 20 years ago.
People must know how to be grateful, but also learn to tolerate. Even though the Norton family practiced the lordship system, they have reinvented us Morant City people. Without their liberation, we are still slaves to the business alliance until now. Why should we hate them? Is it because they have a different system from ours? The Norton family did not regard our Morant City as their territory, did not search us, but protected us from the threat of the business alliance to us, and we did not support them and drove them away. Is that human
It is an idiot like Haske who will say that he wants to form an alliance with the business alliance. I am sure that if we do what he said, then we are guaranteed to be the most unlucky batch. The Business Alliance regards our Freedom Alliance as rebellious. If they return to Morente City, those of us waiting to work for the Freedom Alliance must be ransacked and imprisoned. The best result is to be dispatched to mines and plantations until We are exhausted to death. And our family members are also affected by us.
No, how did an idiot like Haske get into our army? Is he harboring some evil intentions? Carmen, Bellou, tell me, you two, when did Haskee say these things in front of you, and what else did he say? Was there anyone else besides the two of you that he said at the time? "
Seeing Uncle Gude's anxious look, both Carmen and Beru panicked.
"It's not that serious, Uncle Gude." Carmen murmured, "It was the night before yesterday, when Beru and I were on duty at the gate of the camp, and there was a patrol led by Kate. Everyone complained about the difficulty of the march, and then Captain Haske passed by on a night patrol and told us these things. There were also many things that mocked the Norton family. They were all jokes about how the lord was fooled by the people. We just took it for entertainment and didn't take it seriously... "
"Uncle Gude, you're making too much fuss, right? Captain Haskell has such evil intentions. He's just outspoken. He never speaks through his brain. Didn't you comment on him a long time ago?" Beru also opened his mouth: "His parents died on the last battlefield against the invasion of the Christen Empire. He was raised by his grandparents since he was a child, so he has always hated the northern empire. When he grew up, he became the silver professor of St. After bankruptcy, he had to do odd jobs in the city to support his wife and children.
Later, the Commercial Alliance recruited soldiers in the city, and he signed up. He fought bloody battles with the Kingdom of Antinac on the Faliqiu Plain for two years, and survived. Then the Norton family armed forces occupied Morente City. He was ordered to participate in the counterattack, but ran to the city and surrendered to the Norton family and became a prisoner. In the end, he was forced into the city defense force by the Norton family armed forces. Now he has been reorganized and transferred to the legion just like you As a centurion, everyone knows his experience and his hatred of northerners, and the Norton family is no exception. Besides, Captain Haskell is just talking, and he really doesn't have the guts to oppose the Norton family. "
Uncle Gude sighed: "Forget it, I won't say more, anyway, you don't want to mix with Haske in the future, if he continues like this, he will soon be unlucky. You should stay away from him so as not to be implicated by him The Norton family's armed forces and Grand Duke Norton are not something he can laugh at. To be honest, many famous high-level figures in the Norton family are from our Morente city, which is why the Norton family is so friendly to us Morente city people. s reason."
"No way, Uncle Gude, do you know the Norton family well? Tell us about it." Carmen asked curiously.
"No, I don't know the Norton family. It's just that I know Grand Duke Norton, the newly promoted sword master. When I met him back then, he was just like you, a low-level mercenary with three stars. At that time, Grand Duke Norton He was less than 20 years old, and he was studying at Chenxi College. Because of the civil war between the three kings of the Krissen Empire in the north, he cut off communication with his family and could only work as a black iron mercenary to earn tuition fees. No, you are here now This kind of backpack with double shoulder straps was designed by Duke Norton at that time, and I was his first customer at that time... "
A large group of people walking from a distance was waving to the three of them, and Uncle Gude stood up: "Let's go, our team is here, and it's time to return to the team after resting for so long, and we have to go to the campsite at night. Otherwise, you will have to sleep in the wild. When I have time, I will tell you the legendary story of Duke Norton. Back then, he was known as Black Iron Locke and Silver Invincible... "
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