It's been almost a week since Locke and Grace's ridiculous night. A lot has happened during this time.

First, a group of mercenaries hired by the Baron in Peters' Territory had arrived at the combined military camp and officially settled in the Locke camp. This group of professional mercenaries came in a variety of nationalities, some were native to Forstan, some were from the Southern Likia Alliance, some were from the Karaman Kingdom, and even some were from the Omore Empire.

The leader is a middle-aged bearded man with a thick brown beard, showing the rich experience of this group of mercenary leaders. This is also a low-level knight squire-level powerhouse. Locke's instincts were sharp, and he felt that he should not be a match for this bearded man.

But Locke, who was the deputy captain of the Faustan cavalry squadron, was much higher in status than this bearded man. This group of mercenaries is called mercenaries at best, but at worst, it is the human life that the baron paid for. When the barons give way, they must go, although they may die.

But then again, this group of mercenaries with their heads pinned to their trouser belts are also not afraid of heaven and earth, and death for them may only be a small wound on the body, although this wound is in the heart.

One more thing is that the recruits recruited by the baron in the realm have already taken place a few days ago. A squadron of 72 young recruits, most of whom were between 15 and 17 years old, were younger than Locke.

It is worth noting that one of the lads was Hans's own brother. Hans has a total of 3 brothers, Hans is the second oldest, with a newly married brother above and a younger brother who is three years younger than Hans below. This time, the baron was recruited by his younger brother.

In fact, in a family like Hans, if there is already a male member in the army, the baron will not force them to send another member to join the army, but Kaidozi really has no extra young adults now, just looking at the age of this group of recruits, you can know that these soldiers are also difficult to make up the territory.

Of course, in addition to the baron's order and the generous pension given to Hans's younger brother, the news that Hans, who had returned to Kaidozi, was the acting squadron leader a month ago.

There is an older brother who holds the position of squadron leader, and of course it is better to mix than to roll in the fields and become a farmer. This was the idea of Hans's younger brother. Although a month ago, there were rumors that nearly half of the Kaidozi camp had been killed and wounded, and how many families were shattered because of this.

It can also be seen from this perspective that Hans's younger brother also had some ambitions and dared to join the army with such a high rate of damage in the army.

"Big Brother Locke!" Hans's younger brother always smiled when he saw Locke in the barracks, and his name was Hank.

"Sister Leah and Aunt Tia were so relieved to hear that you were okay!" Hank said with a smile.

Locke also had just learned about this, and during his time in the Bering Mountains, the news of his 'death in battle' was not transmitted back to Kaidozi, but was intercepted by Hans and Kane, who even sent their salaries back to Locke's family to show that Locke was still alive.

A month ago, nearly half of the Kaidozi battalion was killed and wounded, which may not be a big deal in the huge Eagle Legion, but it caused an uproar in the Kaidozi army. The whole Kaidoqi received a piece of vegetarianism, and every family had a deceased relative or a relative died.

Locke lamented that he was fortunate to have the help of two brothers, Hans and Kane, otherwise he could not believe how his parents and sister would have been devastated if they had learned of their death in battle. Unlike the men of the Hans family, Locke is the only seedling in the family.

"Yes, you have to do a good job too!" Locke patted Hank on the shoulder, the young man was three years younger than Locke, but not much different, just too thin, like a hemp stick. Unexpectedly, he was the younger brother of Hans, who was as strong as an ox.

"Yes!" Hank grinned.

Unlike Hans, who is a stuffy bottle, Hank has a self-cooked personality, which is very similar to Kane. Coupled with the difference in the physique of the two, the veterans in the battalion joked that Hank was more like Kane's own brother.

Kane also takes good care of this brother's own brother, because of Hank's physique, Kane plans to train him to be a scout like himself, Kane, who grew up alone, this time he took out all the methods of pressing the bottom of the box and taught Hank. It's been nearly a week, and Kane is already downbeat about not being promoted to private class.

Among the three of them, Kane is the one who jumps the most, but it is Kane who is the most open-minded and cares about the future. Kane, who was born as an orphan and a beggar, is easily satisfied with the future.

"Just live comfortably alone!" were Kane's exact words.

That morning, Locke completed his routine training, first taking a circle around the cavalry camp. After all, he is the deputy captain of the cavalry squadron, and Locke needs to be familiar with his own people.

When he was done, Locke went straight to Hans and Uncle Joshak, and they had always gone to the baron's tent for lunch.

When I went to look for Hans, it was just in time for Kane to train Hank, and Hans and the others were looking at the two people in the barracks who were training. Kane is teaching Hank the essentials of crawling, the most basic and most important skill as a scout.

Just seeing Hank on the field, eating bites of loess with a bitter face, several people couldn't help but burst into laughter. There isn't much fun in the barracks now, and watching others eat deflated is also a good thing to pass the time.

When Joshak and Carl saw Locke coming, they smiled and said, "It's coming!"

Now Locke's position, because of the particularity of the cavalry squadron, is one level greater than that of ordinary squadron leaders, and the strength of Locke's low-level squires is there, and other squadron leaders have to be respectful when they see Locke, but Joshak and Carl don't. They were Locke's elders, and Locke would never take anything to them.

Nodding, Locke replied kindly, "Yes, uncle." "To Uncle Joshak and Uncle Karl, Locke has a heartfelt respect.

When the time was about right, Locke and the others said hello to Kane and Hank, who were still training on the field, and walked towards the baron's tent together. Hank, who was being trained by Kane, raised his head at this time, looked at Locke, Hans and others in the distance with envy in his eyes and said, "When can I be like my brother, so magnificent!"

"If you have the ability, you can reach that height. Kane on the side replied angrily, he, the 'apprentice', has good physical fitness and a flexible mind, but he is lazy and always wants to be lazy, and he needs Kane to keep an eye on him.

"Then train, if you don't finish three trips, you are not allowed to eat lunch!" Kane said to Hank fiercely, although he didn't care whether he was promoted to squadron leader or not, but there were still regrets, Hank inadvertently revealed Kane's scars, so I'm sorry, Kane can't let you practice two more times?

"Ah?!" Hank, who was lying on the ground practicing prostration, let out a scream directly, and the scream made the other soldiers in the distance tremble when they heard it.

Regardless of the fact that they were still on the training ground, the struggling Hank, Locke and Hans, Uncle Joshak and others had already arrived at the baron's camp.

The four of them sat together very tacitly, the first seat was of course Baron Kaidozi, the position on the right hand side belonged to Knight Will, and the position on the left hand side belonged to Young Master Sauron, although this position had been vacant recently. Further down are Squadron Leader Monte and Locke, followed by the rest of the squadron leaders.

Locke sat next to the seat next to Will Knight, and since his position was that of Will Knight's deputy, it was normal to sit here. Next to Locke were Uncle Joshak, Uncle Karl, and Hans.

After a while, several people came in the tent one after another, first Captain Monte walked into the tent with a smile, then his deputy captain, and then the captain of the third squadron of Hans's squadron, this guy sat down next to Hans, it seemed that Hans was the captain of the squadron, but he was Hans's deputy.

The last to come in at the end of the time were the bearded man of the mercenary squadron and a pale-skinned young man. The two of them are the leaders of the mercenary squadron, probably because they are mercenaries from a mix of dragons and snakes, this group of guys is more scattered, and they are the latest to come.

But also because of being a mercenary, credit is very important. Although I came late, I was never late, and I was stuck in time, and no one could say anything about people.

As soon as the bearded and young man entered the tent, Baron Kaidozi and Knight Will walked in together. Baron Kaidozi must have been discussing things with Knight Will, and walked to the door of the tent, still talking about something.

There is still more than a week before the arrival of the New Year, and Locke will be in the army for five years.

Recently the barons have announced very few orders, most of them are training soldiers. In the combined military camp, there are more than 70,000 soldiers, plus the new recruits who have been replenished from the Kingdom of Faustan one after another, and the actual number is almost 80,000. In this large military camp full of blood and blood, the sound of soldiers' training is heard every day.

Locke had taken the time to go to the side of the Combined Army camp and sneak a peek at the city of Otis that was surrounded by them. The simple and majestic city towers, the tall and dangerous city walls, and the countless city defense equipment erected on the city walls gave Locke a great shock.

This was the first time Locke saw a large city with a resident population of more than 100,000, and the first impression left on Locke as a royal capital was majestic. Soon, they are going to attack such a city, Locke looked at the pruned city walls, looked at the sabre-rattling Otis City, Locke had a faint excitement in his heart,

Snow covered the combined military camp of Otis City and Faustin, and the world was covered in snow. But Locke knew that it was the calm before the storm.