CHAPTER IX
The girl didn't understand. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
I said, "Forget it, you don't understand what I'm talking about." I continued: "In short, we are not businessmen, I have a very important mission this time, it is related to the warmth of the world, the peace of the world, the rise and fall of the universe, and I don't have any money with me, and even if I bring money, it is public money, and I can't bear to lose it." ”
The girl tilted her head to look at me.
I said: "I won't say anything else, I see that although you are here to rob the house, you should also be a person with a sense of justice and responsibility, a strange woman like you who is both talented and brave and resourceful, and a hundred heroes and heroes are not as good as you...... Oh, I forgot you don't understand, it's that with great power comes great responsibility. Now the Calradia continent is about to encounter an unprecedented catastrophe, once the catastrophe comes, it will be a river of human purgatory, as a woman with responsibility, courage and courage, would you like to see such a thing happen, you must know that this is not a disaster for one or two people, it is a disaster for the whole of Calradia, and bloody people will devote themselves to it at all costs to prevent it from happening, and now I am going to Djerkara to deliver the news, so that they can prepare to protect the innocent and weak, and deal with the great changes in the future, now you stop me, in case the time is delayed, the catastrophe is launched in advance, how many people will be homeless, how many people are separated from flesh and blood, and how many people's life's hard work is in vain. You have studied art for many years, practiced a good skill, do not think about helping the world for the people, but also should protect a side of the water and soil, in case because you block my way, resulting in the destruction of thousands of people, can you afford this responsibility, how can you bear it?"
I said so much in one breath, and my throat was a little dry.
The girl was lost in thought, and suddenly came to her senses, looked up, and said, "What you said is that I almost made a great mistake! Go away, I won't stop you. Also, my name is Melva, and if you can use me in the future, even if you come to me, I will definitely die. With that, she instructed her men to make a way.
I was so excited that I stepped forward to hold her hand tightly, but she avoided her, and I said with tears in my eyes: "It is a blessing for the people and for Calradia to have a heroine like you, and it is a blessing for Calradia, and your name will definitely be engraved into a pure gold epic by the bard, just like the holy king Leon, which will be sung through the ages!"
With that, I slapped my horse past Melva, followed by Jamila and the dryer.
Melva waved at me from behind, his eyes genuine. I turned around and waved goodbye.
The horse drove out of ten miles, Jamila was silent, and the dryer gave me a thumbs up: "God convince!"
I said, "Mean nothing." ”
As soon as I arrived in Djerkhala, I rushed to the palace and showed the Count's letter of introduction. I said I had an urgent matter to meet King Graves.
The guards told me that King Griffos had gone on vacation.
I said, when will the king come back?
The guards said that this is uncertain, sometimes for a week or two, sometimes for a year or two.
My head was dizzy, and I asked, "Where did the king go on vacation?"
The guards immediately asked me vigilantly, "What are you asking for, what are your intentions?" I hurriedly fled back.
I said, "King Griffos is not there, and it is said that he has gone on vacation, and I don't know when he will be back." ”
Jamila asked, "What then?"
The dryer said, "Is my mission over, and can I go back?"
I said you don't think about it.
Jamila said, "I'll ask." As he spoke, he took a small bag from under my saddle.
The dryer asked, "What's that?" Why is your face so ugly all of a sudden?"
I said, "That's a little money I have saved, not much, just a few thousand dinars." ”
The dryer's eyes immediately widened.
When Jamila returned, she said, "The king has not gone out at all, but is staying in the palace. ”
I hurriedly asked, "Where's my money?"
Jamila shrugged.
When we met Graves, who was eating grapes with his queen, he saw us coming, and pointed majestically to the chair in front of the great stone table: "Sit down." ”
We sat down. He asked, "I heard you have something to ask me for?"
I immediately handed over a letter from Count Arassis and told him about the Dark Order.
Graves frowned and thought for a long time. Finally, he said, "Dark Order, I remember those people, I was also under the Holy King at that time, and I also participated in the Battle of Chanda, and this wrinkle is left from that time, um. Sending an envoy to Dhyanda is no problem, but let go of the fighting...... You know, we Rhodok has been under a lot of pressure lately, there is Nord in the north, Djerkhala is less than a day's journey to the east, and there are three elite cavalry regiments in Swadia, which is not the most fatal, the most fatal is the Saiga Khan in the southeast, who often has nothing to harass me, rob me of a village today, plunder a caravan tomorrow, and now my Rhodok's main forces are concentrated in the three cities of Aaron, Djerkhara, and Viruga, guarding these guys who are ready to move, how easy it is to let go of the fight. ”
He stood up and paced back and forth a few steps, then suddenly sat down and said: "In this way, I still want you to run, I will write a letter to explain this matter clearly, you send it to Saiga Khan, I hope he can stop the war with my Rhodok, and we will prepare together for the upcoming catastrophe, if he wants, I, Rhodok, will immediately reorganize my men and horses and make every effort to deal with the Dark Order." ”
He then clapped his hands, and a figure walked in from outside the palace. He said, "As for the messenger, I will send it to you now, this is my chief guard of the royal palace, Eliya. ”
As he had said this, the figure stepped out of the shadows and walked over to the fireplace by fireplace.
The dryer gave him a blank look, then lowered his head to study the gin.
Jamila looked shocked.
I had a long mouth, unable to speak.
Mother, it's so beautiful!!Otherwise, how can you say that Rhodok is a beauty!!
If Jamila's beauty is as delicate as a golden laurel branch, then Illya's beauty is like a projection of moonlight on the great lake of Djerkhara, ethereal, holy, and far away.
My mouth was watering.
Illya glanced at the two of us in front of her, didn't say a word, and her face was expressionless.
Griffos said, "Illya, I'll give you a mission, from now on, follow this old man in front of you, protect him, and help him." He will take you to Zenda, and you will represent us in Rhodok to the Calradia Joint Enlargement Conference. ”
Illya nodded and said, "Yes!"
Griffois said, "You go and prepare, and then you will set off with Master G." ”
Illya said, "Yes!" and turned and stepped back.
I haven't woken up from the shock yet.
Graves smiled proudly: "This is my chief palace guard, and my niece, as an emissary, she is enough to represent our Rhodok's sincerity." ”
I nodded hurriedly.
As soon as I came out of the palace, I saw Illya, fully armed, and waiting at the door with a heavy army horse more than a man high. She was dressed in a characteristic bright silver full-body armor, but it was not bloated or heavy, a cold covered helmet hung from her shoulders, and the above eyes showed two Hessesen holes. On her back, she carried a heraldic shield more than sixty centimeters wide and eighty centimeters long, on which was inlaid with the coat of arms of the Graves family in Mithril. Underneath the heraldic shield is a two-handed sword of war at least one hundred and thirty centimeters long. I noticed that she still had a delicate saber hanging from her waist, with a hilt made of unknown skin.
On horseback, there was also a leather bag containing ten sharp short javelins.
Rhodok, known for his spears, big shields, and strong crossbow throwing spears, when fighting, Rhodok warriors erected their shields and set up four-meter spears, which could even shake the impact of Swadia's elite knights. Rhodok's infantry, on the other hand, often carried ten muskets with them, and when the battle was at a stalemate, a salvo of heavy muskets would ruthlessly tear through the heavy armor of the knights.
And the siege crossbows of Rhodok snipers are even more famous all over the world, and at a distance of 200 meters, the crossbow bolts can shoot through even the thickest war horse vests.
The disadvantage of Rhodok is the cavalry, the ancestors of Rhodok, who were slaves, farmers, and gladiators, did not have the opportunity to learn good horsemanship, and the land of Rhodok, which grew grapes, could not supply the green grass needed by the horses. So to this day, Rhodok has not been able to assemble a cavalry regiment in the whole country.
But the chief of the palace guard in front of him was holding a war horse that was a divine horse wherever it was placed, waiting quietly.
When I saw her, I felt like I was dreaming.
I said, "Are you ready?"
Illya said, "Yes!"
I said, "Follow me, be prepared to suffer and bleed, for we are licking blood from the edge of the knife, unlike your previous idle days in the palace." ”
Illya's eyes flashed, and she didn't say anything.
I nodded, patted her on the shoulder, and as soon as my hand was raised, I saw that Illya's hands in front of me were lightly and mysteriously wrong, and my hands hung limply.
"Well, I can see that you still have some skills, and it seems that we don't need to devote our energy to take care of you this time. He is worthy of being the chief guard of King Griffos's palace. I said.
Illya was silent.
I held back the pain and said, "Okay, now that you've proven your strength, then hurry up and grab my arm." ”
Two days later, we entered the Rana grassland, where endless pastures led to the horizon, and in the distance were heavy mountains.
From here, it was the land of the Kugit Khanate.
Our little team, consisting of me, Jamila, Dryer, and Illya, marched all day through the boundless grasslands. As night approached, pitch your tent on the mountain meadows near Das Befa, a small plateau that extends from the Kulen Mountains, higher than the Rana steppe in front of you, overlooking more than a dozen miles, and a spring not far away, making it a good place to camp.
Illya actually had a tent with her, which made her look different than us mercenaries with sleeping bags. In fact, she didn't talk much along the way, and she only got the briefest answers to any questions she asked, some of which were as short as "yes" and "no".
I decided not to mess with the mysterious goddess of icebergs, and after dinner, I spread out the map around the campfire and researched tomorrow's route.
I said, "We are now in the col about thirty miles north of Das Befa, and we are unfamiliar with the place, and the only way to find Saiga Khan as quickly as possible is to find Fort Uruzdak in the Uruzdak Pass and find out the news." Although it was the closest to cross the Kulen Mountains and reach the mountain pass, it was too dangerous and too difficult for us to prepare even the tools for the mountain path, so we had to go around the Kulen Mountains, from Das Befa to Kedeck, and then north to Uruzdak Fort. By the way, have you listened to me?"
I looked up and saw that the dryer was wiping his iron spine gun again, and Jamila opened a book of poetry with a look of intoxication, and Illya, whose face was expressionless, stared at the fire without saying a word.
I suddenly felt like I was the boss.
Suddenly, Illya stood up, her straight body stretched like a javelin in the night wind.
I also suddenly realized that something was wrong, and a panicked premonition came to my heart.
The dryer stopped wiping the gun, and Jamila closed the book of poems.
There was a faint sound of thunder on the horizon in the distance.
No, it's not thunder, it's the sound of thousands of horses galloping on the grassland.
Smoke and dust rose from the horizon in the distance.
As if she had been whipped, Illya sprang to her feet, kicked up the sand, extinguished the campfire, and whistled at her horse, which lay down in the grass half a man's height.
We hurriedly concocted the same method, and my horse refused to lie down, and I kicked it to the ground with a cross of my heart.
As soon as we took cover, the smoke and dust reached the Lana grassland, a few miles in front of us. At this time, from the opposite side of the smoke, a puff of dust also rose.
None of us dared to say anything, and watched with bated breath.
The smoke and dust slowly stopped, slowly thinning out, and I saw that there were two groups of people in front of me, and the difference in numbers was huge. There are tens of thousands of people in a team, the clothes are messy, some with bows and arrows, some with spears, a little like a bandit in the mountains, the horses under the crotch are also mixed, and there is a black background and a white bird pattern flag erected behind it.
The other pair consisted of only two or three thousand men, all of them in blue leather robes and soft armor in the style of Kugit, with Kugit helmets on their heads, a spear in each of their hands, ten short javelins on their backs, a bow and a pot of arrows hanging from their waists, and fierce white horses under their crotches. At the front of the team is a huge black horse. The two sides stopped, and the team slowly formed a line and stretched out towards the two wings.
I know what the origin of these two groups of people is, the team of tens of thousands of people is the regular army of the Kugit Khanate, and the team of two or three thousand people is the largest resistance organization in Kugit, the black horse Kugit.
A few decades ago, the Kugit was just a huge steppe tribe, and I heard that they had been in the East for a long time, but they were chased by the mysterious Orientals for tens of thousands of miles, and finally drifted to Karadia, so they occupied a large area of pasture, settled down, and established the Kugit Khanate.
Later, the Kugit saw the prosperity of the towns of the other kingdoms of Calradia, and remembered that they still lived in tents on the savannah, and the Caladians built strong and warm castles. Some of the people were quite unhappy, so they planned to build a city on the grassland as well.
Another part of the Kugit people said that there is nothing to live in tents, return to the basics and return to nature, and in the future urbanization will develop, sooner or later they will also take the natural and fresh route, maybe they will come to the Kugit grassland to travel, experience the original natural wind farmhouse.
But the Fortifiers did not listen to them, believing that it was fanciful, and they preferred to see tangible benefits in front of them. A polemic broke out between the two factions, and the initial academic discussion developed into throwing shoes and socks, and finally using knives and guns, and even started a civil war. In the end, the city builders were victorious, and the naturalists were driven out of the Kugit political arena, and the naturalists who were unwilling to be defeated became the Black Flag Kujit, bent on maintaining traditional culture and protecting the green mountains and rivers of Kugit.
Kugit then fell into an endless stream of internal strife.
The two groups of people in front of them are the confrontation between the Kugit government army and the Black Flag Kugit.
When the arrays of the two sides extended to the extreme on both wings, the horn sounded, and the Black Flag Kugit actually took the lead in the charge.
Because of the lack of numbers, they only formed a line of 500 men wide and six columns deep.
The opponent was three times as numerous as theirs, a thousand men wide and ten columns deep!
The next moment when the black flag Kugit blew the horn of the charge, the horn of the Kugit government army also sounded, and the riders in disheveled clothes screamed and rushed towards the lone opponent in front of them.
In the face of such a charge, such a difference in numbers, the outcome of the battle should be decided in an instant.
Mutation protrusion!
The Black Flag Kugit who rushed forward suddenly blew out a hurried horn, and the horses' hooves struck, and all the Black Flag Kugit riders turned their heads to the right at the same time, and the horizontal column of five hundred people wide instantly became a vertical column of five hundred columns in depth, neatly like a person.
Then, a black cloud rose from the left side of the Black Flag Kugit column and loomed over the oncoming Kugit riders.
At this moment of deformation, all the Black Flag Kugit turned their left side towards the enemy, drawing their bows and firing arrows without any effort.
The Kugit riders who rushed to the forefront fell down in an instant, and the riders behind did not have time to react, and trampled over the bodies of their partners. (To be continued.) )