Back at the hut, everyone sat together.

McCann said, "You already know that your mother was originally the daughter of King Cross of the Forest Country, the elven princess of the Forest Country. A thousand years ago, the forest nation was forced to withdraw from its original forest territory due to the oppression of the druids. , The current territory of the Forest Empire is actually a refuge for the Elven Empire divided by the Alasia Empire, and the King Cross under the fence hopes that he can recover the territory of the Forest Empire and restore the glory of the thousand-year-old empire, so he is eager to form a marriage alliance with the barbarian country to fight against the druids together. Your mother, as the princess of the Forest Country, naturally became the protagonist of the marriage. Despite his daughter's strong opposition, Cross forcibly married his daughter to the royal family of the barbarian country.

"Your father was the new commander of the Fifth Legion of the Alasia Empire, the youngest marshal of the Empire. Your mother has known the marshal for a long time, sent cronies to ask the marshal for assistance, and provided the route and time to send her relatives. Although there were sporadic conflicts on the border between the Alasia Empire and the Barbarian and Mizusawa countries at that time, there was not much war. As a result, although the borders are all in a state of war, they all maintain a very tacit balance. The marshal was afraid that after the marriage between the forest country and the barbarian country, he would form a north-south attack on his Fifth Legion and break the current balance, so he took the risk and kidnapped your mother Jenny.

"After the revelation of the Marshal's abduction of Lady Jeanne, the Barbarian and Forest Powers put pressure on Her Majesty at the same time to ask, Her Majesty has just succeeded to the throne not long ago, how can you tolerate the accusations of two foreign envoys against you, so you angrily reprimanded the envoys of the two countries and approved of your father's approach. In this way, the Aracian Empire was at the same time at the same time at the same time with the barbarian country and the forest country, the forest country was originally living in the territory of Aracia, and it was difficult to do too many actions, but it secretly supported the barbarian country to launch a full-scale war against the Fifth Legion.

"Who knows, under the leadership of your father, the Fifth Legion won one victory after another, and annihilated the main force of the Third Legion of the Barbarian State in the Ural Grand Canyon, destroying more than 300,000 enemies and capturing more than 500,000 people, so that the Third Legion of the Barbarian State was almost erased. Since then, the Fifth Legion led by the Marshal has become the most powerful legion in the Alasia Empire, far surpassing the Queen's descendants, the First and Second Legions.

"The Marshal took advantage of the victory and pursued the battle, and advanced the battle line to the territory of the Barbarian State for nearly a thousand kilometers, reaching the banks of the Karnaca River in the south of the Barbarian State, less than six hundred kilometers away from the capital of the Barbarian State. It occupies nearly one-fifth of the territory of the barbarian country, and the territory in the south of these barbarian countries is the most prosperous area of the barbarian country, and nearly three hundred cities are all under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Legion. The barbarians traded land for time and finally laid out a defensive line on the banks of the Karnaca River, where the Marshal's Fifth Army and the Barbarian army formed a five-year standoff on both sides of the river.

"Lord Marshal and your mother, Jenny, formed a fighting friendship during the war, fell in love and married, and gave birth to you two years later. The story of the marshal and the marshal's wife has also become a topic of conversation among the officers and men of the Fifth Army. ”

The enchanted cabin was very quiet except for McCann's narration. Although McCann said it in a very general and simple way, in Higg's mind, he had already returned to the scene when his father and mother fought together. Thinking that the father with the strength of an army of less than a million people, against the entire barbarian country, and broke through the barbarian country's defenses, constantly attacking the city, advancing layer by layer, and finally immediately on the bank of the Karnaca River, how high-spirited, how mighty and heroic? And how fascinating and amazing the fighting couple formed by parents on the battlefield.

"At that time, Arad was not the marshal of the Third Legion, because he was the cousin of Her Majesty the Queen, and he was very capable, so he was in charge of the military logistics of the Empire. At first, your father's victories were inseparable from Arad's full cooperation. Later, Arad coveted the position of commander of the Fifth Army and began to make small moves against the military supplies of the Fifth Army. and constantly orchestrate your father's evil deeds around the Queen, including putting the interests of the empire at risk and destroying the marriages of other countries; Fill their pockets with looted goods from occupied territories; The merits were high and so on, but Her Majesty was unmoved

"The marshal did occupy part of the looted materials in the occupied territory, and that happened only after Aradek withheld the materials of the Fifth Legion, and the marshal had no choice but to fight to support the war. At that time, in fact, there were many subordinate generals who were full of their own pockets, and they were all severely punished by your marshal.

Seeing that the queen was indifferent, Arad forged the queen's order and ordered the marshal to return to the capital to report on the war. At that time, you had only been born, and the marshal did not want his wife and you to suffer in the occupied territory, and intended to let you return to your home country to recuperate. So when I got the forged Queen's order, the Marshal, with his wife and you, who were less than a year old, led the 30,000 Guards back from the Ural Grand Canyon. ”

McCann paused and said, "The rest of the story was relayed to me when Seya was seriously injured and not unconscious. ”

"On the way home, the army suffered its first interception in the Amman hills, more than a hundred kilometers north of the Ural Grand Canyon. Joseph, the deputy commander of the First Legion of the Barbarian State, personally led 50,000 wolf horsemen and 50,000 goblins to ambush in the narrow strip of the hilly area, and when the marshal's army passed, he launched a surprise attack. The marshal personally led the army to meet the battle, killing more than 30,000 enemy troops at the cost of more than 3,000 casualties. According to my later investigation, it was Arad who betrayed the Marshal's whereabouts.

"Back in the Ural Grand Canyon, the marshal's army suffered a second interception, but this time it was not the army of the barbarian country that intercepted the marshal, but the army of the Mizusawa country. It was a full moon night, and 100,000 werewolves and an unknown number of lizardmen surrounded the marshal's army in the Ural Grand Canyon. The Marshal sent a request for reinforcements from the Kuba Fortress, but the Kuba Fortress refused to send troops on the grounds that the defense of the fortress had been extraordinary at night, and refused to allow the marshal's troops to take refuge in the fortress for fear of infiltrating the spies.

"I was puzzled at the time, because the Kuba Fortress was then under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Legion, and it was under the jurisdiction of the Marshal, and he dared to put the safety of the Supreme Commander at risk. Later, the investigation revealed that it was Arad who threatened to increase the gold and bribed Hovlin, the commander of the Kuba fortress.

"The marshal was furious, and led his army to meet the army of Mizusawa Country, and fought fiercely for a day and night, killing the combined army of hundreds of thousands of werewolves and lizardmen in Mizusawa Country, and losing more than half of his own guards. The army was eventually able to enter the fortress of Kuba, and the marshal himself killed Hovlin. At that time, due to more than half of the casualties of the Guards, the marshal had to repair the Kuba fortress! ”

Speaking of this, McCann began to feel heavy, and Higg took the opportunity to ask, "If that's the case, then the one who betrayed my father's whereabouts to Mizusawa must also be Arad?" But why did Mizusawa wade into this troubled water. ”

"I also had such a question as you at the time, but later I analyzed that it should be the Marshal who broke this three-legged situation, and Mizusawa was afraid that the Marshal's family would be dominant, so he had to take countermeasures, which coincided with the idea of Arad framing the Marshal!"

McCann's face was solemn, and he continued: "On the third night of entering the fortress for repair, the 50,000 garrisons of the Kuba Fortress mutinied because their commander was killed by the marshal, and there was a mutiny in the mutiny, and there was actually a squadron of magicians composed of hundreds of people in the mutiny. The Marshal once again led the remnants of the Guards to quell the rebellion, and did not want to be encircled and suppressed by the Magician Squadron, and was seriously injured, but the Magician Squadron was also slaughtered by the Marshal's Guards, but in the end, the enemy was outnumbered, and the Marshal had to lead the army to break through and withdraw from the fortress. Caught in the siege of the Mizusawa country and the rebels of the fortress. ”

"Impossible!" Higg shouted: "How can you be defeated in a group of rabble after suffering two ambushes of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a row. Army mutiny? Did all 50,000 people mutinied, and were all Houfflin's cronies? Are 50,000 soldiers attacking their own commander-in-chief at the same time? ”

"That's what Seya said about this, and I think there's something hidden." McCann said, "Because the marshal finally gave up the breakout and ordered his guards to surrender to the fortress, he and the marshal's wife both committed suicide in the Ural Grand Canyon. Before the marshal committed suicide, he only said one sentence, 'Your Majesty wants the life of the minister, just take it, why hurt so many soldiers?' 'Madame entrusted you to Saiya, who was seriously injured at the time, and told Saiya that she was not allowed to mention revenge against you, so that you could grow up in peace.

"The people who broke through with Saiya were no less than three thousand cronies of the marshal who were unwilling to surrender, and there were more than 100 elven archers who married the marshal's wife, how many people broke out at that time, and Saiya didn't know, in the end, Saiya handed you over to the magician named Andrew next to his wife, and asked him to lead the remaining elven archers to take you to break through, and Saiya himself led the remaining remnants of the army to drag the main force of the Mizusawa army.

"When I got the news to look for Saiya, Saiya was seriously injured and I had to take her back to Tilis to recuperate, but I still couldn't save her!"

"What about Andrew, where is Andrew now?" Higg asked.

"I also want to know where Andrew is, but I don't have any news of him, not even the Thieves' Guild, except that he sent me a letter a few years ago telling me that you were coming to me."

"Arad, it turns out that he really caused the whole thing, I was hunted down and killed back then, and I can't get rid of him!" Higg said through gritted teeth.

"Arad later did not become the commander of the Fifth Legion, but went to the Third Legion." McCann continued, "After the death of Lord Marshal, the Fifth Army fell apart, and many generals were forced to leave their posts or readjust, and all of them were suppressed. Soon, the barbarians reclaimed their lost territories. The following year, an armistice was signed between the Alasia Empire, the Barbarian Nation, and the Aqua State in the Ural Grand Canyon, and there have been no major wars ever since.

"The hateful thing is that about the death of the marshal, all three parties have maintained a tacit understanding, that is, defeat. Unexpectedly, the marshal had never been defeated in his life, but after his death, he was insulted by his disgrace, and many generals of the Fifth Army were helpless although they were indignant.

"Aradd, who unsuccessfully sought the commander of the Fifth Legion, not only constantly suppressed the generals of the Fifth Legion, but also instigated many generals in the south to rebel and blame the Fifth Legion. Four or five years ago, Arad's Third Legion, together with the rebels of the south, attacked the queen and finally seized the throne, plunging the Alasia Empire into a more chaotic full-scale civil war. ”

Higg asked, "And what kind of deal do you mean by political deal?" ”

McCann said: "This transaction is what I have guessed from the many clues of the investigation, and there is no real evidence, but it is obvious, first, after the death of the marshal, even if the Fifth Legion declines rapidly, it will not lose all the territory from the Ural Grand Canyon to the banks of the Karnaca River in three months, and the other legions of the Alasia Empire will be completely unsupported; Second, the Alasia Empire was at the height of its military strength at the time, and there was absolutely no reason to sign any armistice; Third, in the past twenty years, the Alasia Empire has been in a full-scale civil war, and it has been declining more and more, as long as either side provokes side troubles, the Alasia Empire will have internal and external troubles. ”

"Your inference should be that Arad facilitated this deal," Higg thought for a moment and said, "It's not difficult to understand that Arad used the return of territory as a bargaining chip, and the barbarian nation was not allowed to participate in the civil war in Aracia, but what benefit did the Mizusawa country get?" It stands to reason that the barbarian nation's war with Alasia is dog-eat-dog for them, and they should sit back and wait for the fisherman's profit."

"Hmph, how could Arad and the Barbarian Nation not think of Mizusawa Country's thoughts? The Mizusawa Kingdom had lost the Soul Devouring Flower for many years at that time, and the national strength was the weakest among the Three Kingdoms, and Arad and the Barbarians had the intention to pull them into the water, did they dare to agree? For Mizusawa country, an armistice is the best interest! ”

"In this way, Arad should have other bargaining chips in his hands, otherwise, what bullshit armistice agreement is just a piece of waste paper in front of national interests, and it is impossible for ambitious barbarian countries to see the increasingly weakened Alasia Empire indifferent!"

McCann finally showed a hint of a smile: "Okay, young marshal, you can have such insight, we, the veterans of the Fifth Legion, will have a shameful day!" Marshal, Madame, there is a successor to the Fifth Legion! ”