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As soon as it was light, everyone began to pack up and set off.
As the trail of the wolf cavalry got closer, anxiety began to spread among the fleeing team.
Thrall wrapped up the half of the hare from yesterday and stuffed it into his arms, not paying attention to his companion who was constantly whispering beside him but looked around in the camp, looking for the beautiful figure.
Soon, Thrall locked the target.
Unfortunately, there was another man standing next to that figure.
Thrall touched his left cheek, and the mark on it was still aching.
Companion Bam looked at Thrall, who was in a trance and couldn't help but sneered: "Okay, Thrall, don't look. That noble lady is not something a civilian mercenary like you can achieve."
"Who said that mercenaries can't like a noble lady?" Thrall impatiently retorted.
"Haha, don't you really understand the status gap between civilians and nobles? Silly boy!"
"Don't call me a silly boy!" Thrall fiercely looked back at Bam.
"Okay, okay." Bam shrank his head in fright and hurriedly told.
Thrall let him go, his eyes again followed the figure, and said in a deep voice: "Bam, do you know Earl Uman?"
"Of course I know, Lord of Fallen Eagle City."
"Right, then do you know how the title of Earl Uman came from?"
"Isn't it passed to him by his father?"
"Yes. So, do you know how his father's title came from?"
"His grandfather passed it to him." Bam thought that this question was a bit silly.
"No." Thrall slowly shook his head. "It was passed down from his grandmother to his father."
"So?" Bam scratched his bird's nest-like hair, his face filled with confusion.
"Why did the grandmother and not the grandfather pass it on?" Thrall's eyes strangely flashed, "Because the grandfather of Earl Uman was actually a civilian mercenary!"
"How is it possible?" Bam exclaimed.
"But that's the truth.
Earl Uman’s grandfather as a mercenary married the daughter of the former lord of Fallen Eagle City. Later, the son of the lord of Fallen Eagle City died, and his title was passed to Earl Uman’s grandmother, and then passed on to the earl's father - that is, the mercenary's son! "
Bam opened his mouth wide as if listening to a myth.
Thrall's eyes flashed with a strange light, it was something called ambition.
He approached Bam and lowered his voice, as if he was making an oath: "So, the son of a mercenary can also become a nobleman!"
After speaking, Thrall strode in the direction of the figure.
Bam stared blankly at the tall figure of his companion, in a mixed mood.
However, what Thrall did not tell Bam was that the mercenary who married the Earl’s daughter was a Tier 6 warrior and the president of the Northern Mercenary Union. At that time he was called the "first-person under the sanctuary".
"Ms. Vera, good morning! Knight Colin, good morning! Allow me to lead your horse as an apology for offending you yesterday."
Colin looked at the not pleasing mercenary in front of him, feeling bored, and waved his hand as if he was waving a fly: "No need."
"Are you unwilling to accept my apology?" Thrall immediately made an aggrieved look, and then deliberately revealed his left side of the face, with traces of blood oozing from the mark on it.
"Colin, real knights should know how to forgive." Vera seemed to be deceived by the mercenary's miserable appearance, and she even offered to help.
Thrall was happy, but at the same time, he felt painful.
The good news is that Miss Vera will open her mouth to help him out.
What hurts is that she even called Colin by name without adding the suffix "Knight"!
This is an extremely intimate way of addressing.
Too unreserved!
"No, I think it would be too much for the leader of the Firefox Mercenary Group to lead my horse. In fact, I happen to have a more important task to be handed over to captain Thrall."
"You look at me too high..." Thrall was instinctively aware that something was wrong.
"Why, don't you want to do me this favor?" Colin would not give the other party a chance to refuse.
"I... I certainly do. It is my honor." Thrall had to bite the bullet and agreed, but he had already regretted it in his heart.
"Very good!" Colin grinned, showing sharp tiger teeth, "In order to get rid of the chasing soldiers behind us, we need to mislead them so that they can't figure out our true movement.
So, later, please lead fifty people - pick young, strong, and fast - all the way to the north. After about 20 to 30 kilometers, you will reach the bank of the rushing river.
At that time, you must deliberately leave some traces of crossing the river north, but in fact, you don’t actually need to cross the river, and then quietly follow the rushing river all the way to the east, and you will be able to meet us after walking about a dozen kilometers.
Of course, you must remove the traces of the march when you go down the river, and you must not attract the enemy!
Do you understand? "
Thrall heard it in a cold sweat, and felt that Colin was targeting him and found an excuse to get rid of himself: "You, are you asking me to be a bait?"
"No, it's not a bait, it's a suspect!" Colin sternly said, "Moreover, we will cooperate with your actions. As long as you strictly follow what I said, there will be no danger."
"How to cooperate?" Thrall was still uneasy.
Colin frowned.
If this is in the regular army, and Thrall dared to ask such a question, the general can directly cut his head.
Because the general is not obligated to explain his overall strategy to every soldier under his command.
After each soldier has received the military order, he only needs to act in accordance with the requirements of the military order.
Instead of asking questions, hesitating, picking, and choosing.
Even if the general really assign you a mission to die, you can only perform it.
Military orders are like a mountain, even if they really want to crush you, you can't hide!
Unconditional obedience is the number one priority for soldiers.
But obviously, mercenaries like Thrall could not have the qualities of a real soldier.
Colin was very helpless and had to patiently explain:
"Our cavalry will disperse, search for and wipe out the wolf cavalry's sentry behind us, to ensure that the other side will not be able to understand our specific movements in the next two days. Therefore, as long as you hurry up, you will not be caught."
Thrall thought for a while, and then asked, "So, your plan is for me to lead a small group of troops to deliberately make the illusion of crossing the river to confuse the enemy, while the rest of the troops will find a place to hide?"
"Right."
"Then how do you know that the enemy will be fooled? No matter how carefully we clean up the marching traces, as long as they carefully investigate, they will always find clues."
"Because we will hide in a place where the enemy can never imagine."
"Where?"
Colin gradually became impatient: "Thrall, have you been to the area around the river before?"
"No."
"Then you won't understand." Colin lightly gripped his horse's belly and moved slowly forward:
"Follow what I said. When you arrive at the southern bank of the river, make some illusions of crossing the river, and then follow the river all the way to the east. When you come to the place I said and meet with the large forces then, you will understand."
"Knight Colin..." Thrall chased a few steps and again asked.
"Thrall, I believe you will be able to complete this mission, right?" Vera warmly said.
Thrall immediately straightened up, patted his chest, and loudly said:
"Of course! I will not let you down!"
It is a pity that this little mercenary who is lost in Vera's charm will not see that Colin, who has taken a few steps forward and turned his back to him, is showing a sneer.
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