Chapter 323 Millennium Veterans
Saint-Rion, a small county in the northwest of Jonah, Burgundy.
Compared with the city of Bomledam, which is located at the northern pass to guard the northern roads, although Saint-Rion is the leader of a county, its strategic position and city scale are not as large as that of Bomledam. Even the southern border county Tinets is larger than Saint-Rion.
However, this place is a northern land with fertile land, and Saint-Rion is a wealthy place. As long as it is not in the war years, there is no shortage of food and clothing.
But this year, there was war. The troops of Saint Ryan, which had not been burned for decades and were very empty. If we were to rely on the county soldiers of less than a hundred people to garrison, we might be able to conquer the place. Therefore, during the military defense deployment of the Yona Palace, Yat's Wells Legion was arranged to garrison in Saint Ryan.
It was already the end of July when the Wells Army arrived in Saint Ryan. The army took over Saint Ryan's defense from the county soldiers guarding the city in less than an hour. Obviously, these county soldiers who cherished their lives had already packed up their things and waited for others to take over the defense and then fled back to the hinterland of Yona Province to hide.
The Wells Legion, which was injured in the relief battle in Val City, was also allowed to station in Saint Ryan City, and seized time to restore its strength before Besanson's battle horn was sounded...
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A large bonfire with sparkling flames burning beside the fence two miles outside the east town of St. Ryan, a large number of bonfires burned. On the clearings beside the bonfire, several iron spears and shields were neatly leaning together, and a war horse leisurely gnawed on the edge of the farm in the fence.
Six black-robed soldiers surrounding the fire drooled and stared at the old hen that was roasted black.
"I think it's almost done, let me try it for you first." A greedy soldier said as he reached out to tear the roast chicken on the bonfire.
Another soldier immediately picked up a firewood stick and poked it on it, "You bastard are just greedy. Why do you do the chicken that Master Passat pays for? You have to eat it first."
"You said yes? Commander Passat." The soldier who was holding the firewood stick flatteredly asked the team leader who was sitting aside with a water bag in a daze.
The team leader is named Passat, and he is definitely considered a "old-level" combat soldier of the Wells Legion.
Passat, an excellent combat soldier who always makes mistakes at critical moments.
The guy's name is really not unfamiliar. As early as when Yat was recruited by the court as an apprentice knight, he led his army north and east to fight Schwarbian in Talburg, Passat was already a battle team leader under Odo.
Several years have passed, and Colin, Weizhe, and Bangda, who were the leader of the combat team at that time, even Andrew, the captain of the peasant soldiers who volunteered to stay in Talburg, has become the captain of the battle flag of the Wells Legion. Passat, who was highly valued by Odo at the time, was still a squad leader who was not an officer. Even this squad leader was still a military position that had just been promoted recently.
The Wells Legion is not short of talents, and there are many people who can fight and command, but there are probably no second one like Passat.
When fighting against Schwaben in Talburg, Passat had already been qualified to advance to the squad leader in the post-war expansion, but this guy actually hid a valuable battle capture when he attacked the southern manor of Bilten. This was the first example of a private battle capture that was discovered, and it was not a big deal.
However, the unlucky Passat met Yat when he was about to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, but he was beaten with a military stick. Not only was he unable to be promoted to the team leader, but his position as the leader of the team was also erased and he became an ordinary warrior.
Following the army back to the valley, later in the battle with bandits in Jushi Town, Passat was in Crido's squad. The head of the team leader Crido was chopped off by the bandits, and seriously injured Passat survived strongly. After half a year of refining, he returned to the army to restore his position as the combat team leader due to military merits, which was considered to be back to the starting point.
After recuperation for more than half a year, he missed the battle against the Dean family mercenaries at the border outpost. He did not return to the army as the leader of the battle until the army was hired to conscript south to Provence to fight against the Lombards.
In the Battle of Provence, Passat's old injuries were not healed, and his combat effectiveness was mediocre. He killed two enemy soldiers and received a reward of 100 Finney.
Soon afterwards, the army abolished the position of combat team leader, and the six-person military formation became the basic combat unit, and the squad leader became the lowest-level officer. Due to insufficient military achievements, Passat, who had just resumed the combat team leader, became an ordinary combat soldier again.
When returning from Provence to participate in the regaining war of Walloonburg, the eastern province of Jona, this guy exerted his combat power and killed three enemy soldiers. After the war, Yat, who had been crowned the baron, was preparing to formally form the Wells Legion. At this time, Passat had accumulated enough qualifications to promote the squad leader.
But in the first period of the Officer Academy, he was insulted by teachers as a "brainless stupid pig" because he could not learn the words he had taught for more than ten days.
Passat, who didn't like those school teachers, beat the teacher...
Yat attaches great importance to the teachers of the Officers' Academy, and he personally ordered Passat to be expelled from the Officers' Academy.
Of course, the matter of being promoted to an officer after graduation from the Officer Academy must have nothing to do with him.
Not long after, the army was reorganized, and captain Jason of the gongnu took a fancy to this veteran who was brave and capable of shooting archery in melee, and managed to transfer him into gongnu team and treat him as the melee pillar of gongnu team.
Passat became a veteran of the gongnu team again.
The Wells Legion recruited new soldiers and recruits increased dramatically. Considering that the veterans, as the backbone of the recruits, Odo repeatedly asked Yat to transfer Passat back to the infantry as the squad leader. At this time, the squad leader was no longer an officer, but just a combat soldier with a slightly higher military salary. However, it would be a good thing to be promoted to a first-level military position.
As a result, before he had time to get the promotion, Passat, who had received the news, was happy and ran to the new village of the valley with military pay and two new soldiers and fell drunk and collapsed on the "girl"'s bed, and did not return all night.
That day was the crisis when the Wells Legion was almost poisoned and destroyed. The old, two new and three guys who did not return to the camp on time according to military laws were the bastard led by Passat.
Afterwards, Yat was preparing to use Passat's head to commemorate the military law, but this guy has a great foundation. Odo and a number of officers pleaded for him. In the end, Yat barely left his dog head for everyone's sake.
Once this incident happened, not only did the promotion be ruined, but Passat was demoted to a squadron baggage soldier. If it weren't for its strong combat power, they would probably have been sent to the baggage team to do chores.
In the battle between the north and the Western Frontier Army of Tignets County in the first half of the year, Passat made great contributions again. He led two baggage soldiers to chase more than a dozen Western Army with a short sword in his hand and ran for a mile and killed two enemies.
After the war, the command camp of the Central Army of Xugong promoted him to a warrior in accordance with military law and was under the command of the flag captain Andrew.
A few days ago, during the battle between Val City and the elite Western Army, in the crisis of the flag captain Andrew, the squadron leader, was seriously injured, and the squadron leader died in the crisis, Passat led five or six soldiers around him to withstand the enemy's offensive and persisted until the "amvenge" arrived.
In this battle, Passat only killed one enemy and stabbed one enemy. However, due to the heavy losses of the entire flag team, the proportion of officers killed a large number of officers. After Yat's approval, Odo promoted Passat to a squad leader of the Wells Legion.
This warrior team is full of six people, but except for the team leader Passat and another guy called Immortal Bird, the other four are all new recruits, and there are even two of them who are temporarily selected from the logistics team to be promoted to the warrior...
After several years, the battle team leader that day finally grew into a team leader, although the team leader at this time was not as good as the battle team leader at that time.
Passat was still silent in his memory. He did not hear what the soldier said just now, "Immortal, what did you say just now?"
"I said that this roast chicken should be eaten first by Commander Passat. After all, you are the team leader, and the money you paid for the chicken~" The veteran's tone was particularly decent. He was a veteran of the Wells Legion and knew this Passat very well. He was absolutely unfair to say that his combat power was also very kind. The veteran thought that if he could become friends with Passat, his chances of survival in the next battle would be at least much greater than the new birds around him.
"The captain is not an officer. You "supervisor" made me feel irritated. Besides, I don't want to be a chief. The more you are, the easier it is to die. Your Chief Andrew is still lying on the bed of the medical team~" Passat remembered the officers who were pushed to the front of the right wing that day, and few of them survived.
Passat threw the water bag to the flattering veteran, reached out and pulled a chicken leg from the black-painted roast chicken, put it to his mouth and took a big bite.
They burned the bonfire too much because they were afraid of thick smoke. The outer layer of the roasted chicken was charred but not cooked inside at all. Passat chewed it in one bite and the chicken was embedded in the gap between the teeth. It took a long time to pull it off. The meat was already in his mouth and it was definitely unwilling to vomit it out. Passat chewed it desperately.
"Eat~Eat~" Passat's mouth wrapped in chicken was vague.
When the soldiers heard "eat", they immediately rushed up to snatch the chicken, and a roasted chicken was quickly split.
"I can't eat it, it's not cooked." Passat finally swallowed the uncooked chicken and finished a complete sentence, but the chicken on the wooden rack had been stuffed into their mouths by soldiers...
"A bunch of hungry dogs!" Passat pursed.
"I said, "The Death Bird, you can't buy two more when you go to the farm to buy chickens? Didn't I give you a small silver coin? Why did you buy a chicken? Did you hide the remaining money by yourself, a bastard?" Passat asked the veteran again.
The veteran was chewing chicken in his mouth, and there was time to answer Passat's question. He chewed and swallowed, "One ~ a small silver coin is enough to buy ~ a chicken ~"
"What? A chicken is asking for twelve Finneys? Is this what the farmer told you?" Passat didn't know that the meat price in the war zone had soared several times.
"It's just that we were willing to buy it for us after we drew our swords, otherwise the farmer wouldn't sell it at all." The soldier who was thug just now swallowed a bite of the meat and freed his mouth and answered.
Passat looked as if he was so sorry for Chen Gang. He pointed to the chicken bone in his hand and shouted: "What? You guys drew your sword and spent a whole silver coin to buy this chicken?"
"What can I do? The farmer said he would not buy it at a low price, and we dared not really kill him~"
"I said you—"
Passat was about to scold the recruits, but there was a sound of horse hooves galloping from the east road.
"No! It must be the military law team to check the sentry. Quickly, put out the bonfire and hide all the chicken bones and chickens. After that, the patrol fire will cause fire and will definitely be imprisoned. No, this is the battlefield, I am afraid it will not be beheaded? Oh my God~" A newly promoted soldier who had just learned about the strict military law, his eyes widened...
Although the veteran named Immortal Bird was a little panicked, he was not afraid. He slapped the new soldier, "What beheading, let's scare you to death. This is not a war zone, and yesterday it was announced that the combat status was temporarily lifted, and the legion was temporarily repaired. The patrol fire during the renovation period was fined at most half a year to get thirty military sticks. It's okay, I've been beaten by the military and legal team. If you can't beat thirty military sticks to death, you are like thick skin and thick flesh."
Passat didn't care much about being dealt with by the military law. He slowly got up and patted the soil on his butt, sighed and prepared to welcome the severe punishment of the military law team. "This team leader has done his best again, and he has to go back to be a thousand-year-old veteran~"
The horse was getting closer, but the person on the horse was not wearing a white helmet.
"No, that's not a military law team!" Passat noticed the abnormality...
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The horse was running closer and closer. Passat saw the soldier's coat of arms on the horse's back, let go of the full bowstring, and signaled everyone to put down their weapons.
"Isn't that the captain of the baggage team? Didn't they transport the last batch of food back to Saint Ryan? Why did they run back alone?" The veteran Immortal Bird recognized the person on the horse's back.
The horses were getting closer and closer, and the person on the horse's back had not stopped and released his left hand and jumped down, "Is it the Passat brothers?"
"Hurry, go back and inform the adults. Someone is robbing our food. Commander Spencer is taking the baggage guards to fight with the other party." The baggage team leader held his breath and issued a warning.
"Where did the bastard dare to steal the military rations of the Wells Legion? I don't want to live anymore!" Passat was furious when he heard this.
"A army from the east seems to be going to the war zone to fight."
“How many people are there?”
"A little over forty, and there is a knight."
"Battleman! Enough to live!"
Chapter completed!