Lord Highlander

   Chapter 172 171. Goodbye

  The news of the victory in the Battle of Handanal County flooded into the city like snowflakes.

The whole city immediately fell into a sea of ​​joy. People sang and danced to the streets and gathered in front of the city's central square with eight fountains and statues of knights. , to celebrate this rare victory.

  The ale consumed at this large group gathering has always been paid for by the town hall according to traditional practices, but it is also limited to ale.

   Bread, red sausage, barbecue and other things, if you want to eat, you still have to spend money to buy them.

The city of Handanar is located in the middle of the Pasiyadi River Basin. The land here is fertile, the water and grass are lush, the water network is very developed, and there are large farms and pastures on the outskirts of the city. Before the relationship between the local indigenous people deteriorates, there can still be hired Very cheap indigenous migrant workers, so Handanal City has accumulated a lot of wealth in the past few decades.

The sound of the accordion and bagpipes came from the square. He Boqiang stood in front of the window of the hotel, but he could not see the bustling scene in the square from here. Gathered over there, even the 'Maple Pudding' Hotel had two carts of ale moved from the wine cellar and transported to the central square of the city.

This is another big victory on the Warsaw plane after the Battle of the Kempato River. After this battle, the Benar Legion once again showed the former style of the Benar Swordsmen to His Majesty Charles of the Green Empire. The main military mission in Nar County can be regarded as a temporary conclusion.

There was a knock on the door, He Boqiang opened the door, and saw the hotel waiter standing in the corridor with a large glass of ale, and said to He Boqiang with a smile: "Knight Suldak, would you like a glass of ale? At this time, Handanar Everyone in the county will have a drink..."

   "Okay, thank you!" He Boqiang took the wine glass from the waiter's hand, then took out a silver coin from his pocket, and stuffed it into the waiter's hand.

  The waiter was a little surprised at He Boqiang's generosity, and it was indeed a bit much to take out a silver coin as a tip.

   "If you can, please write me a fruit plate like dried fruit. I'm not used to drinking on an empty stomach." He Boqiang told the waiter.

   "Okay, Knight Suldak!" The waiter turned and left.

He Boqiang was about to close the door, but he found that the swordsman Bacarel was sitting by the window with his feet hanging in the air, his head resting on the window frame, looking very lazy, squinting his eyes and looking at the people who were celebrating the victory outside the window. People seem to be enjoying the glory of this victory.

   "Baicalel Swordsman..."

  He Boqiang yelled in surprise, and quickly walked in front of Swordsman Bacarel.

   "Has the injury healed?"

  Swordsman Bacarel turned his head and looked at He Boqiang. Seeing how he walked and the fact that there was only a thin layer of linen shirt between his waist and abdomen, he guessed that most of his injuries had healed.

"alright!"

  He Boqiang said bluntly, there is nothing to hide from Swordsman Bacarel.

After hearing this, Swordsman Bacarel sighed again and again: "Little Duck, you were born to be a paladin, but unfortunately you don't want to join our Constructed Knights. I think you should think about it again. The best Constructed Knights in Nasir."

  Bacarie said this to He Boqiang more than once, but He Boqiang has been unmoved, and he is determined not to join the Constructed Knights.

  He Boqiang seriously said to Bacarel Swordsman: "I just want to go back to Hailansa, go home and have a look!"

  Baijialiu Swordsman was a little dumbfounded, and asked, "You don't really think of yourself as Suldak, do you?"

  He Boqiang raised the nameplate on his chest, waved it in front of Swordsman Bacarel, and said, "I am Suldak..."

  Baijialiu swordsman stroked his forehead helplessly, raised his head after a while and said:

   "I am really happy for Suldak. Making a friend like you is probably the most correct thing he has chosen in his life."

  Seeing that Swordsman Bacardi acquiesced to this matter, He Boqiang poured a glass of beer from the hotel waiter on the table for Swordsman Bacarel, handed it to him, and said:

   "I was lucky to meet him."

   Then he also picked up a glass of ale, stood casually at the window, and asked the swordsman Bacarel:

   "Did you come to me this time to persuade me to join the Constructed Knights?"

  Baijialiu swordsman took a sip of ale, then took out a scroll of parchment from his arms, threw it to He Boqiang, and said:

   "Of course not. I almost forgot if you didn't mention it. By the way, I'll give you these."

  He Boqiang took the sheepskin scroll in his hand, and before he opened it, he asked curiously to the swordsman Bacarel:

"What's this?"

  As He Boqiang asked, he opened the parchment scroll, which was impressingly stamped with the military headquarters of the Benar Legion, and on the parchment was written: The title of Knight of Suldak was officially awarded.

  The swordsman of Bacardi replied:

"Your reserve knight certificate, take this and go to the knight academy in Hailansa City to study for half a year. As long as you can pass the assessment of the academy, you can become a real canonized knight. However, this assessment is only once a year. Pass this year's examination. However, we will have to wait until next year.”

He Boqiang knew that reserve knights needed to go to the knight academy for further study, but he didn't expect that the academy still needs to be assessed, and if he fails the assessment, he will "fail" and "make up exams". .

  Swordsman Bacarel seemed to remember something suddenly, took out a scroll of parchment from his arms, threw it to He Boqiang, and said without waiting for He Boqiang to ask:

   "Uh, and this, your application for retirement is also approved, this is your portal pass in the Warsaw plane, which means...you can return to Bena Province at any time."

  He Boqiang did not expect that the swordsman Bacarel had prepared all these for himself.

   Feeling hot in his heart, he said to Swordsman Bacarel with emotion:

   "These... thank you, Swordsman Bacarel."

   It seems that there are no words to express He Boqiang's mood at the moment, and he carefully put away the two precious scrolls.

  Swordsman Bacarel was about to speak when there was a knock on the door.

  He Boqiang walked over to open the door, and the hotel waiter was standing at the door with a big nut plate.

  He Boqiang thanked the waiter and took the nut plate.

This is a kind of nut that is abundant in Handanal County, called 'Lizard Claw Fruit', it looks like a lizard's claw, and the outer hard shell is pried open with a knife, and there are three nuts full of oil and special fragrance lying inside. White nuts, this kind of nuts are considered to be the favorite marching rations of the local indigenous people.

  However, this kind of lizard claw fruit tree is very rare in Gandaer Mountain. This kind of nut tree mainly grows near the Pasiedi River, and this area has been completely occupied by the Green Empire.

  Baijialiu swordsman peeled a lizard claw fruit, holding a beer cup in one hand, and said to He Boqiang:

"You don't need to thank me, it's the same even if you go through the normal process, but your applications for pensions, you really should treat me to a drink, the most worrying thing in the legion now is to apply for pensions, although this big battle has hit you hard The Evil Ghost Legion, but our legion also suffered heavy casualties. In fact, the results of the battle are far from as good as advertised. The Duke currently needs to raise a large sum of money to serve as a pension, so right now, it’s too late.”

   Then he let out another breath and said: "Fortunately, this battle is finally considered a victory, and at least some spoils can be recovered. Sometimes the cost of war can really drag down a country!"

  He Boqiang stood up straight, gave a military salute to the swordsman Bacarel, and said, "On behalf of all the members of the second team, thank you for your help! Swordsman Bacarel."

   Mentioning the members of the second team, the swordsman Bacarel also showed regret on his face:

   "Hey, speaking of it, the scene of us fighting side by side in the valley is still vivid. They are all heroic fighters. People living here should remember them."

  Swordsman Bacarel patted his forehead and said:

   "By the way, those young officers in the war room will be sent to the trial seat of the adjudication office today. They need to pay a little price for those wrong decisions."

"To be honest, the empire's laws and regulations protect the nobles really comprehensively. They should only receive some minor punishments. It's just that their reputation in the Bena Legion is completely ruined. I think this group of young people may leave. The Bena Legion, the Duke of Newman is feeling sorry for this matter, these young people were all recruited by him when he went to the imperial capital and spent a lot of money, and he did not expect to end the curtain in this way."

"Marquis Solomon Bowen is mainly responsible for this incident. Speaking of which, the two Constructed Knights under his command were completely disbanded in the battle of Moyun Ridge, and now almost only half of the Constructed Knights can be recovered. , it can be considered that most of the net worth was lost in the Warsaw plane, and the other earls also lost their own legions. According to the punishment for failure in previous battles, it is almost the loss of these troops. The Benar Legion does not make supplements, so Said, as long as you have money in your hands and an excellent source of soldiers, things here are nothing at all."

  For this kind of penalty, He Boqiang has also made a lot of psychological preparations in the past two days.

  After all, those young officers have the aura of aristocratic status, and this is probably the last thing He Boqiang can do for those comrades who died on the Moyunling battlefield.

  He Boqiang can only say a few words silently in his heart: You young nobles in the war room, it is best not to let me meet in the future...

  But this kind of threat is in my heart, it seems that I can only comfort myself.

  Swordsman Bacarel took a sip of ale, leaned comfortably on the window sill, and said to He Boqiang:

"Oh, that's right! I almost forgot to tell you that Earl Mond Goss has come to his senses, but this defeat has hit him hard. He has almost lost his memory now, and he can't remember many things. I followed the chamber of commerce back to Bena province, but the knight recommendation letter he wrote to you before is still valid. Speaking of which, you are still his canonized knight in name. I think after you return to Hailansa City, Don't forget to visit him."

   "Okay!" He Boqiang said.

At the beginning, because Baron Sidney had made outstanding achievements on the battlefield, and in order for Baron Sidney to win over his cronies, Earl Mond Goss gave one of the twelve canonized knights to Baron Sidney, But now Baron Sidney has died in battle.

And Suldak is not familiar with Earl Mond Goss. If Mond Goss is conscious, he may include Suldak among his own knights, but now Count Mond Goss He was severely hit in the Battle of Moyunling, and he didn't know if he could recover.

  He Boqiang is now considered a relatively free canonized knight, and he doesn't have to often go on missions for Earl Mond Goss.

  Suldak's canonized knight title belongs to Earl Mond Goss after all.

  Once Earl Mond Goss takes it back, He Boqiang will become a commoner.

  So Swordsman Bacarie still hopes that He Boqiang can establish some contact with Earl Mond Goss, at least not let him deprive him of this knight halo.

  He Boqiang certainly has his own worries. If Earl Mond Goss regains his memory and finds out that he is a counterfeit when he visits him, he doesn't know what will happen.

  Drinking ale, the two were silent for a while, and Swordsman Bacarel said again:

"In the Battle of Moyunling, there were more than 700 young nobles like Baron Sidney who died on the battlefield. Almost all the young nobles who died in the Battle of Moyunling were young nobles from the faction of Hailansa City. So next, you can imagine that many nobles in Hailansa City will have no successors. If you are lucky enough to marry a certain noble lady, it is not impossible for you to be promoted from a canonized knight to a third-class baron. You have to know, Aristocrats and knights are completely different concepts, only after becoming a nobleman will you find out that your life will be completely new..."

The number of civilian soldiers lost in the Battle of Moyunling is probably not a small number, and the Marquis of Solomon Bowen probably came from the surrounding areas of Hailansa City. In that case, not only young nobles died in battle, but also a large number of civilians Soldiers were also killed in this battle, and it is not known how many families will be shattered by it.

According to what Swordsman Bacarel said, if some nobles in Hailansa City can't find a suitable heir, then this glory and the land they own will be taken back by the empire, and there are always some people who want to take the opportunity to step over this step.

   Seeing that He Boqiang didn't talk to him, the Swordsman Bacale turned to another topic:

   "The group of students from Bena Advanced Swordsman Academy are leaving Handanal County today."

   "Are you ready to leave so soon?" He Boqiang said.

Speaking of this, he thought of Hathaway and Beatrice, these two were probably the only people he was familiar with among these college students, and he didn't know what happened to Beatrice's injury, when' After the effect of Divine Blessing Body disappears, it will probably hurt for a few days.

  As for the other members of the Swordsman Academy, He Boqiang thought that there might be some small misunderstanding between him and them. For example, Norton and his friends, it is better not to meet each other.

  He stood by the window and looked out of the window, and sure enough, he saw several large magic caravans gathered at the gate of Jonathan's mansion.

This time, nineteen students of the Swordsman Academy died in Handanal County. At least their ashes must be taken back. Obviously, all these arrangements have been made properly, so the academy feels that it is possible to find the place in the wilderness and hills so quickly. The wreckage of the magic caravan also had a lot to do with the overall victory in the Handanal County Battle.

  The distance between the 'Maple Pudding' Hotel and Jonathan's mansion is a bit far. Although it is a long, unimpeded street, the situation over there is not very clear.

  I could only vaguely see the group of college students boarding the black magic caravan in batches, and it didn't take long for the magic caravan to slowly drive out of Jonathan's mansion.

When passing by the hotel, He Boqiang was standing by the window. At this time, he looked at the students of the Swordsman Academy through the car window. They were sitting in the car with dejected expressions. Few of them had smiles on their faces. Sitting there quietly, let the black magic caravan slowly drive away from Handanar City.

   Hathaway's beautiful face was reflected in the car window, and Beatrice was almost lying on her body, looking out the window non-stop.

   It wasn't until the magic caravan passed by the hotel that Beatrice sat back in her seat a little sadly.

  ‘See you again, definitely! ’ She looked at the clouds in the distance and thought in her heart.

  (end of this chapter)