A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

On the fifth day after leaving Wangcheng, the journey has already gone nearly half way.Going forward, you will start to approach the border of Aaron Landis, and the next road will basically be close to the border of Aaron Landis.

Although in the memories of the previous lives, Xie Muer only briefly mentioned it, and did not clearly explain the place and time when the Tasdar mission was killed, but through the information brought by Tal, Garlan vaguely judged the next Three or four days is probably the key point.

Because it can be seen from the map that this road will run through the Gobi desert, and there will be no big cities in the middle. This area is sparsely populated.

If you want to do it, this section of the road is the most suitable place.

In the evening, the group of people chose to camp by the lake.

The sky has darkened, and the stars can be seen dimly.In the tent, the lights have already been lit.

In Garlan's camp, the blond knight stood in front of a simple wooden table, touching his chin, looking down at the map spread out on the table.

"You mean, during the period of passing through the Gobi Desert, it is very likely that you will be attacked?"

"Yes."

Garlan who was standing beside said, reached out and clicked on the map.

"It's only about four days away from entering Tasda. In another day, we will enter this part of the Gobi."

The boy frowned, and swiped his fingertips down to the left and right sides.

"On both sides, there are two robber dens, and the one on the right is closer."

There are bandits in poor mountains and bad waters.

The environment in this area is too bad for the people to be self-sufficient. Therefore, in order to survive, most of them choose to become robbers.

In this piece of Gobi, there are many gangs of robbers, large and small. These robbers are like weeds. Once they are swept away, they will reappear after a while, and they cannot be eradicated at all.According to the information Tal found, there were only two or three people who were capable of attacking the mission.

"It's weird."

Keyhors said, "Most of these robbers are looking for money, and they are also robbing caravans. For them, attacking missions of other countries is harmful rather than beneficial. They have no reason to do so."

He pondered.

"Unless... some force gives them enough money to let them do this kind of thing."

In fact, there are more or less similar gangs of robbers in all countries, and these robbers will change into mercenaries as long as they are given enough money.

"So, the force behind it should be Aaron Landis' enemy country?"

"Yes, because the diplomatic relationship between Aaron Landis and Tasda is very stable, and the combination of Aaron Landis' famous cavalry on the mainland and Tasda's strongest heavy infantry is very important to our common enemy. It's like a nightmare, so they will try every means to provoke the relationship between the two countries. For example, our Gashu in the north..."

Regarding Garlan's words, Kaihos did not question anything, let alone think that Garlan was worrying unfoundedly.

As long as Garlan said something, the knight would trust him unconditionally. Most importantly, Kaihos would never ask the source of the news.

Whatever Garlan needed him to do, he would do it straight away, never asking more questions.

It is precisely because of this that Garlan trusts him very much, and rarely hides anything from him.And this time, he was summoned.

"I have already asked Tal to send someone to spy on the suspected gang of robbers. If there is any movement, there will be news."

Garland said so.

Keyhos nodded, his eyes continued to slide on the map.

"If you judge by time and distance..."

Before Keyhos finished speaking, the door curtain was lifted, and a chubby figure rolled in like a ball.

"Your Highness!"

Tal came in at a trot, and the flesh on his face bumped as he ran, making people want to laugh when they saw it.

After just trotting for a short distance, sweat was already dripping from his forehead.

"Just got the news that the Xivali bandits have dispatched a large number of people and are moving in our direction—"

"Sivari Bandits?"

Garlan was a little taken aback, "How could it be them?"

Keyhos glanced quickly at the map and landed on one spot.

"That bandit gang's den is the farthest from us among the suspected robber gangs..."

The blond knight rubbed his chin and muttered to himself.

"Every gang of robbers has a fixed territory, and they will not cross the border easily unless necessary."

He came to a conclusion.

"It seems that there must be a certain force behind them instigating them."

It seems that Oppada's death in previous lives was not an accident. If he hadn't dreamed about it, he might not have escaped death this time.

Garlan took out the piece of parchment that recorded the information of the Xivali Bandit Group from a stack of parchments, and looked at it.

"The horse thieves are the main ones... In this case, the mobility is not bad. Excluding the time error of transmitting information, they can arrive in a day and a half at the latest. The number is nearly a thousand, and they have bows and crossbows..."

It's no wonder that with the strength of Tasda's soldiers, the entire army was wiped out in the end.

There are only more than 100 people in the mission. No matter how strong the Tasda infantry is, they are not so strong that one can fight ten. What's more, the infantry is inherently weak against the cavalry.

Garlan handed the paper directly to Kyhors.

"I don't know much about military affairs, Kehoes, if the Sivali bandits attack us, will it be in danger?"

In his previous lives, including the current one, he had never been on the battlefield at all, at most he had only listened to some classic battle cases explained by Shemuer.

However, it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand military affairs, just let someone who understands do it.That's why he summoned Keyjos.

Keyhos glanced at the strength of the bandit group, and raised the corner of his mouth.

"If the Tasda mission went on the road alone, it would be a disaster. Waiting to be robbed by the robbers and losing their pants."

"But the robbers weren't looking for money, were they?"

Tull interjected.

"It's true. If there are forces behind it, in order to provoke the relationship between the two countries, and not to expose themselves, they will not be left alive."

Garland said.

This was the case in the previous life. Not one of the Tasda missions was left, and the death was miserable, which made the Tasda country furious.

"If you have the courage to do such a thing, you should be the most vicious people."

Keyhos smiled.

"My Prince, the cavalry of Aaron Landis is famous all over the world, and the guards of King Kamos are even more elite."

He said, an understatement.

"Don't look at only five hundred cavalry, but to deal with horse thieves, let alone a thousand, double it is no problem."

The scorching sun knight who had walked out of the battlefield countless times pressed the paper in his hand on the map casually.

"It's very simple to defeat them."

He said, with strong self-confidence, and the natural pride of being the commander of Aaron Landis's cavalry.

"It's more likely that there is no need to start a war at all. As long as those guys have self-knowledge, they may not even have the courage to attack us when they see the king's guards here. At that time, how did they come here? Run back in despair."

"Huh? Is that so?"

When Kayhos said this, Tal who was next to him became happy.

He had never been to a battlefield before, and he was frightened when he heard that a war would be fought soon, but when he heard that he couldn't fight, he was immediately happy.

"That way we don't have to fight, do we?"

However, Garlan did not show a happy expression, but a thoughtful expression.

After a long time, he shook his head.

"No," he said. "They must attack us."

"Otherwise, if the force behind it fails this time, it will definitely plan the next time."

This time he was lucky and had the memory of previous lives, but next time he would not have the ability to predict the future, which would be even more dangerous.

Garland said: "We can't just wait passively for the poisonous snake squatting in the shadows to jump out and bite people. We have to find a way to find the poisonous snake."

When Garlan said this, Kayhos also pondered.

After a while, he opened his mouth slowly.

"In that case..."

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At noon on the second day, when the Tasda Mission and hundreds of guards of Aaron Landis were preparing for lunch, a loud eagle's cry suddenly sounded in the sky.

Some people looked up curiously, and saw a pitch-black eagle hovering in the endless sky with its huge black wings, making a loud and clear cry.

Then, the black eagle swooped down towards the camp on the ground. Under the tense eyes of everyone, it suddenly retracted its wings and landed on Heymos who had raised his right arm.

Heymos took off a thin copper tube tied to its left foot, opened it directly, and took out the thin rolled paper inside to look at it.

Seeing this, he frowned, and his face became a little colder.

He stretched out his hand to send the black eagle into the sky, then turned around and walked quickly towards the guards behind.

Opada, who was standing next to him, looked suspiciously at the back of Heymos who was leaving quickly. He had just disliked Heymos to disturb him again, but he did not expect Heymos to leave on his own initiative.

"Did something happen?"

He asked Garlan a little curiously.

Garlan shook his head.

"do not know."

Then, Garlan yelled at the Black Eagle who was following Heymos and hovering in the sky.

"Anu!"

As soon as the black eagle following Heymos heard the sound, he turned around and flew towards Garlan.

Garlan raised his hand, and the black eagle folded its wings and landed on his forearm. It stared at him with its sharp eyes. It chirped a few times and flapped its wings lightly. It could be seen that it was very happy now. .

The boy teased it a few times with a smile, and it also lightly pecked Garlan's finger.

When Anu was still a baby bird, Heymos sent him from the Northland to the King City as a gift and gave it to Garlan.

He raised it for a period of time, and later felt that it was too wasteful for this kind of raptor to stay with him in the peaceful Wangcheng all day long, eating and drinking. He raised it to be a fat duck, and the wildness was about to degenerate, so he sent someone back to it. Heymos.

Of course, it can't be said to be retreating, but just telling Heymos to let him raise him to be more ferocious.

Anu was named after him.

He just tried calling out.

Now it seems that after such a long time, Anu still remembers him and is as close to him as before.

Opada next to him looked at such a vigorous eagle, couldn't help it for a while, and stretched out his hand to touch it.But as soon as he stretched out his hand, Anu uttered a sharp cry, and the feathers all over his body exploded. Those sharp eyes stared fiercely at Oppada, as if he was about to peck it down.

Garlan quickly stretched out his hand to comfort it, and only then did it relax its puffy feathers.

Anu reacted so strongly, of course Opada couldn't touch it anymore.

He said, "Garlan, you are really good at taming these ferocious things..."

Whether it is a ferocious lion or an eagle, they are always docile in front of this young man.

"Probably because they were raised from childhood."

"No, many raptors can't be raised even if they are young. Like this kind of eagle, even if it is a young bird, many times it is not willing to be raised even if it is starved to death, so few people can successfully domesticate..."

As Opada was talking, she suddenly remembered a person.

"However, my eldest brother has also successfully tamed an eagle before, and he is one of the very few who have succeeded."

"Your brother?"

"Well, my elder brother is very powerful. I can't beat him in a fight, and his brain is much better than mine..."

Opada spoke halfway, then suddenly stopped.

Because he suddenly saw Heymos coming out of the Guards' camp and heading towards the direction of the Tasdar mission. His pace was very fast, as if there was something urgent.

"Heymos, what's the matter? Gallan, I'll go and see."

After he finished speaking, he hurriedly chased Heymos.

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"Prince Heymos, do you mean to leave with the Guards?"

Tasta's head of mission looked at Heymos who was in a hurry to find him, and asked.

"Yes." Heymos said, "I just received an urgent summons from King Kamos. There is something wrong with the Northern Legion and the Geshu battlefield. I must take the guards to rush to reinforce it. So, I am very sorry. , I can't go to your country, please forgive me."

"Where, this kind of accident can't be helped. Prince Heymos, you don't need to worry too much. Once the matter is resolved, we Tasda welcome you at any time. Then, when do you plan to leave?"

"The military situation is urgent, I'm leaving now." Heymos said, turning his head to look at Oppada aside, "Garlan will continue to go to Tasta with you as an envoy on behalf of Aaron Landis, please protect Good for his safety."

The golden-red eyes stared straight at the brown-haired Tasdar without blinking.

"Please remember the oath you made, as long as you are still alive, no one can hurt Garlan's hair."

"Even if you don't say it, I will keep the oath I made to the God of War, Assur!"

Opada said decisively.

Soon, something went wrong on the northern battlefield, and the news that Prince Heymos rushed to the northern land with the guards urgently spread throughout the mission.

The guards didn't even have time to make lunch, so they gathered directly, took dry food and water, and were ready to go.

The whole team of five hundred cavalry stood solemnly under the hot sun, and Heymos, who led them, rode his reddish-brown horse and stood at the forefront of the cavalry.

Garlan, who came to send him off, looked at the majestic army that was about to send out, and asked the guardian knight beside him.

"Kayhors, won't you follow?"

"No, it's enough to have the 'Black Knight' over there in the Northland."

The one-eyed knight smiled casually and replied, "I am your guardian knight, and what I should do is to stay by your side."

he thought.

Leaving other things aside, at least Prince Heymos would never agree to let him leave His Highness Garlan.

Feeling a sharp gaze towards him, Garlan, who was talking to Kaihos, turned his head.

The golden-red eyes of the black-armored young man riding a horse in front of the crowd stared at him, even though they were so far away, Garlan could still feel the deep eyes looking at him.

He and Heymos stared at each other for a moment.

Suddenly, Heymos moved his arm forward, and the black eagle resting on his arm spread its wings and flew towards Garlan.

It passed a long black shadow between Heymos and Garlan, and landed on Garlan's shoulder.

Garlan touched Anu's feathers, and when he raised his head again, Heymos had already turned his horse's head and galloped out.

Amidst the dust, the hundreds of knights galloped away from the camp amidst the shaking of the ground.

The young man stared at the looming figure in the billowing dust, and did not move for a while, his eyes were half covered by the fluffy blond hair, making it difficult for people to see clearly the emotion in his eyes at the moment.

Not only was he silent, but the black eagle on his shoulder was also very quiet.

"Garlan, you don't have to worry too much."

Opada came over and comforted him.

"Although I don't like that guy Heymos very much... But he is indeed very powerful. The Geshu people are afraid of him. As long as he passes by, there shouldn't be any problems in the Northland."

Perhaps it was the consolation he racked his brains that worked, Garlan turned to look at him, hummed, and smiled at him.

Seeing that Garlan was no longer so silent, Oppada was slightly relieved.

However, just when Garlan turned his head, he glanced out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly saw a mark on the side of the boy's neck.

That clear trace made Tasdar's mind explode.

Hickey?

Is that a hickey?

There is a hickey on Garlan's neck? !

He remembered that Garlan had put ointment patches on his neck a few days ago, saying that he had been bitten by a bug.

I probably forgot to post it all of a sudden today, so he saw it.

How could it be a bug bite!You can tell it's a hickey just by looking at it!

who did it? !

There was nothing before that night!Why is it that after only one night, suddenly——

Opada, full of anger, froze suddenly.

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……That evening……

……The guy who suddenly appeared that night… a guy who was very close to Garlan…

Is it...

Could it be that between Garlan and his guardian knight——