A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 214. Chapter 214

Before dawn, the earth was still shrouded in darkness, and a large military camp was quiet, only the light of the bonfire swayed in the dark night.

A tall guard took the token of the crown prince and walked out of the camp unimpeded, holding a steed in his hand.

A thick cloak covered him, and the hood covered most of his face, with only a few strands of black hair showing.

He left from the side exit of the camp. Not long after he walked out of the camp, a person appeared in front of his road.

The starlight that was about to disappear in the early morning fell on the man’s golden hair. The man was obviously waiting for him here, and when he saw him appear, he walked towards him.

“His Royal Highness.”

When he arrived at the’guard’, Kehos bowed and saluted.

A man in a guard attire raised his hand and took off the hood covering his head.

The faint starlight barely made people recognize the handsome face under the black lacquered hair.

Kaihus raised his head after saluting, and stared at the golden red eyes.

He said, “Are you leaving now?”

Huimos looked at him, his golden-red eyes narrowed slightly.

“Last night, you promised me to stay in Garland’s camp, which surprised me.”

He answered the question without asking.

Even if he is as brave as him, he can’t sneak into the tightly guarded prince’s camp quietly without disturbing anyone.

Because he didn’t want to disturb others, and didn’t want to expose his departure from the city, he went to Kaihuos first.

Although Kaihus was surprised to see him at first, but after he asked to see Garlan, he did not ask much, took him to Garlan’s camp, and made an excuse to stay in Garlan’s camp. Xinyas took it away.

To be honest, Kaijos’s behavior surprised Huimos.

He knew that Kaihuos would take him to see Garlan, but he didn’t expect that Kaihuos did not prevent him from staying overnight in Garlan’s camp.

After all, the guardian knight of Garlan knew exactly what he thought of Garlan, and he had been preventing him from approaching Garlan.

“You are not the kind of person who doesn’t know the importance.”

The blond knight answered calmly.

If you really value and dote on the prince, you will only feel distressed when you see the current prince Garland, and it is impossible to give birth to other thoughts.

And although he wanted to cut off the feelings of Huimos for the prince, he knew in his heart that Huimos valued the prince more than anyone else.

This man would never do anything to harm the prince, so he would safely let Huimos stay in the prince’s camp overnight.

“The prince is too tired. Although I tried my best to share the burden for him, I was only a subordinate after all, and I couldn’t do many things. Even if I could protect him, I couldn’t share the burden for him.”

“He is the prince of Aaron Landis, and that burden is his responsibility. But in my selfish mind, he is still just the little prince I want to protect. I hope he doesn’t work so hard.”

“And that burden, the only person who can share the burden for him in this world is you, Your Royal Highness.”

Kayjos’s words made the corner of Huimos’ lips slightly raised.

He said: “Continue to perform your duties, Garlan’s guardian knight.”

As he said, he turned on his horse cleanly.

On the distant horizon, a gleam of light has appeared, and the sky has begun to shine.

“His Royal Highness, what are you going to do?”

“Go and do what I can.”

Huimos answered.

He rode on the horse and turned his head to look at the Gastad camp that took up a large area of the ground in the distance.

From the beginning, he had no intention of staying here.

He just came to see Garlan.

Only seeing and touching Garlan with his own eyes can calm his heart.

And he is leaving now to do what he should do.

He knew that as tough as Garlan, he didn’t need to guard him by himself.

He will guard him in his own way.

He will give Garlan the things that Garlan wants most into his hands.

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Suddenly, the Gasdad army changed.

The rangers lurking near the Camp Gasdade found that some soldiers in the camp were gradually packing up their outfits and supplies, the camp gradually became denser and the formation began to change.

Obviously, the Gasdards are clearing the camp, and the army is ready to move.

They did not intend to continue confrontation with the Aaron Landis army, but wanted to retreat to Kanal.

The Gasdad’s choice to retreat meant that they had retreated from Aaron Landis, and it also meant that the Crown Prince successfully led an army to drive away the invaders.

However, the crown prince who successfully expelled the invaders was not happy.

In the camp of Aaron Landis, the prince’s camp, several generals are here.

Garlan sat on the main seat, frowning.

“You mean, the Gasdad intend to withdraw to Canal?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

As the commander-in-chief of the army, Kaleni answered.

“There are already signs of pulling out in the Gasdade camp. According to the changes in their formation, they are preparing to withdraw.”

“This is the right decision.”

The female general Vinelle who was in the audience said, “After all, their food and grass are not much left, and it is impossible to continue to consume them. Of course, they have to retreat when there is enough food and grass, otherwise, there will be not enough food and grass to be evacuated by then. , Then it’s really over.”

“Can’t we do something? Attack them while they retreat?”

Opada glanced at Garlan, who was holding his lips in silence, and asked.

“It would be too much to let this group of guys return intact.”

“No chance.”

Kaihus shook his head.

“The prince of Gasdade, Tyr, has a high control over the army, and his dispatch of the army is also very stable. Since he has decided to retreat, he will use the most stable method and will not give us any chance.”

The Gasdad army retreated in an orderly manner, not a defeat.

Even if it is nominally defeated and left, the opponent still has hundreds of thousands of troops, and their own military strength is almost the same. As long as the Gasdad people have enough food and good morale, they will not be able to take it all at once. Swallow.

“Even if we bite the Gasdad and chase them all the way, at most we can only leave behind tens of thousands of them, and we can’t shake their foundation.”

Opada couldn’t deny Kehos’s words, he turned his head and looked at Garlan again.

Not only him, but everyone else in the camp also set their sights on Garlan.

The young prince was sitting on the main seat, eyes down, lips pressed tightly.

“Can we only watch the Gasdad leave?”

He said that the hand placed on the armrest of the seat firmly squeezed the top of the armrest.

During this period of time, the teenager, who has been acting calm and rational even under difficult circumstances, seemed to be unable to control his emotions at this moment.

There was deep unwillingness in his voice.

“I can only do this… watching Tyre return to Canal?”

The camp was quiet, everyone couldn’t say anything, they could only stare at Garlan in silence.

Finally, the commander with the white sideburns broke the silence.

“The dog will jump the wall if we are in a hurry. If we have to keep them all here, the Gastards will find that they have no way out, and they will fight us desperately. At that time, even if they can be eliminated, we will also lost heavily.”

The veteran Kaleni sighed long.

“His Royal Highness, I understand your feelings, but please don’t forget that there are other countries watching. If we and the Gasdad people lose out, we will only make others cheaper.”

The camp was silent for a while.

After a long time, there was finally an answer.

“……I see.”

Gallan said.

He closed his eyes, and his light-colored eyelashes cast shadows on his white cheeks.

“Just do what you say.”

The tone of the boy’s speech was very calm, and his face seemed to calm down, but for some reason, Piansheng was an unusually calm tone, and on the contrary, it gave people a feeling of pain that the heart was tightened.

Perhaps it was because it was the exact opposite of the young boy’s calm face, the hand that was clenching harder and harder.

The green eyes reflected the clenched hand, and the blond knight stepped forward.

“Prince.”

Kaihus leaned over and knelt down in front of Garlan.

He looked up at Garlan, stretched out his left hand, and gently covered Garlan’s right hand, which was gripping the armrest.

“Only this time.”

“That person, there is only one chance to escape this time.”

“When Aaron Landis stabilizes, I will lead my army to Canal.”

He said,

“Believe me, I will definitely bring Tyre’s head back to Aaron Landis.”

Garlan raised his eyes, and stared at his guardian knight.

His eyes softened a little.

“good.”

He replied, his tight lips loosened.

The hand covered by Kayjos also slowly loosened.

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As Kaleni and the others said, Gasdad’s army pulled out of camp and began to retreat to Kanal in the west.

Although it was a retreat, the formation of Gasdad’s army was very neat and stable, leaving Aaron Landis with no chance.

Even if Aaron Landis’s army were all the way behind to pursue them, they couldn’t break through and disrupt their formation.

Especially when the Gastadians were retreating, they continued to leave behind their troops along the way, each time with an army of nearly 10,000 people.

The strong man breaks his wrist, the gecko breaks his tail.

Obviously the prince Tyre had made such a decision calmly.

After severing tens of thousands of troops, he delayed Aaron Landis’s army with the lives of those tens of thousands of soldiers, thereby protecting the vast majority of Gasdad’s army from safely withdrawing to Canal.

In just three days, Aaron Landis’s army defeated the Gasdad army twice in a row, and captured many Gasdads.

According to wartime customs, they handcuffed all these prisoners, imprisoned them, and took them on the road, using them as slaves.

Aaron Landis’s army suffered very little loss, and if this continued, they could at most wipe out about a quarter of Gasdad’s forces before the Gasdads withdrew to Canal.

The results are not small.

It is a pity that even if a quarter of the troops are lost, the main force of the Gasdad can eventually withdraw to Canal successfully.

Although the battle was fairly smooth, what made Karenini, Kajos and others puzzled was that when they defeated the Gasdad army responsible for the severance, they originally thought that the Gasdad would use the mixed national soldier. After the severance of the army, the protection of the army to evacuate. However, it was later discovered that most of the people who stayed behind were Gasdad.

This is really puzzling.

Moreover, the fighting power of the naturally strong Gasdad should be far better than that of the soldiers of other countries. After the severance, the army is dominated by the Gasdad. It stands to reason that the army should be much stronger than the army of those mixed countries.

However, the combat effectiveness of the army after the partial break seems to be very weak, and the combat effectiveness of those Gasdad people feels much worse than before.

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That night, after setting up the camp, Garlan routinely listened to several chief generals to report on the situation of today’s battle, and then he returned to his camp accompanied by Xinyasdi.

As soon as he walked not far from the camp, he saw a familiar figure turning around from a distance.

When Garlan walked over quickly, the girl who was the leader of the mercenary group did not notice his arrival.

She frowned tightly, her eyes were distressed, and she looked indecisive.

When she turned her head, she ran into Gallan head-on. She was taken aback and leaned down and knelt down.

“His Royal Highness, how could you…”

“Are you waiting for me? Kerry.”

“Yes, yes, I’m very sorry to disturb you so late, I have an urgent matter to find you.”

Kerry’s face was full of anxiety, she looked up at Garlan, her eyes pleading.

“His Royal Highness, there are a few people in my team that are about to fail. The military doctor said that they are out of help. I know that my approach is not right. It is very presumptuous, but they are all my companions who grew up with me. I really can’t just watch them. so……”

“Please send a doctor to see them. I am willing to accept any punishment for my rudeness.”

Although military doctors also have a word for medicine, most of them only know how to treat people with superficial injuries or common minor diseases. In terms of medical skills, they are completely inferior to doctors.

However, there are only a few doctors in the army, who have always been only responsible for treating important generals, so Kerry pleaded with Garlan for her companions.

Not working?

Gallan was startled and asked.

“They were seriously injured?”

Kerry’s mercenary group was incorporated into the logistic army because of its weak combat power. The logistic army was mainly responsible for the transportation of supplies, feeding horses and cooking, burying the bodies of soldiers who died in battle, and guarding prisoners of war slaves and other trivial matters. They did not participate in the battle. In general, there are no casualties.

Now Kerry suddenly told him that several of her companions in the logistics army were about to die.

… Could it be that the logistics army was attacked by the Gasdad?

But Kaihuos didn’t say anything just now?

“No, it’s not that we were injured. We were assigned to work in the logistics army and did not participate in the battle.” Kerry explained, “They are sick. All eight of them… The military doctor said that they can’t cure this disease. Only a doctor can do it. There is a way, I really can’t help but come to disturb you.”

“I see.”

Gallan stretched out his hand to lift Kerry from the ground.

“I will let my doctor go with you now.”

After speaking, he turned his head and directly ordered a guard next to him to call the doctor.

Seeing the back of the guard leaving, Keli breathed a sigh of relief.

“Don’t worry too much, Kerry, this doctor of mine is very skilled and will definitely heal them.”

Gallan comforted her, and then asked again.

“However, why does your partner fall sick so much all of a sudden? Is it because you are too tired? Did someone deliberately arrange too much work for you? Does someone deduct your ration?”

Garlan asked, her eyes sharpened.

He was suspecting that Kerry and the others were squeezed out by others because they were mercenaries, forcibly assigning jobs to them, overloading them with work, and even deducting their rations, so that Kerry’s companions fell ill one after another.

“No, there is no such thing. Your Royal Highness and the officers are fairly fair in assigning jobs, and there is no shortage of food.”

Kerry shook her head quickly.

Gallan smiled.

“Really, that’s good, what are you responsible for now?”

The conversation with Gallan calmed Kerry’s mood a bit, so she talked more.

She said: “We have recently been arranged to guard the Gastadian prisoners of war. The Gastadians are not honest, but because many of them are sick, they can’t make trouble. We can still deal with…”

Originally just thinking about talking to divert Klee’s attention, let her not be anxious, when she heard this, Gallan was startled.

In the electric flint, countless images flashed in his mind.

The Gasdad who retreated suddenly.

After the severance of the army, the Gasdad accounted for the majority.

Suddenly their combat effectiveness is much weaker…

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The Gasdad people living in the far north…

Spring is beginning… the temperature is warming up… the countless rotting corpses piled up on the battlefield…

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“Kerry.”

“Yes?”

“You said that many of the Gasdad people are sick?”

“Yes, probably because I was injured during the battle…”

Kelly was interrupted by Gallan before she could finish her words.

“Those of your companions fell ill after taking care of the prisoners of war?”

“Uh……”

Kerry thought about it for a moment and nodded.

“Yes, I have indeed fallen ill one after another since then.”

As soon as she raised her head, she saw that the face of the prince who was still gentle just now suddenly became serious, and she also became nervous.

“His Royal Highness, is there any problem?”

“…Kerry, you come with me.”

After speaking, Gallan turned his head.

“Xinyas, call Karenney and Kaijos to come to me immediately!”

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“What-plague -”

Halfway through talking, the pale-haired veteran Kaleni forced his mouth to shut up and swallowed the next word.

The wrinkles on his forehead clamped firmly, and he lowered his voice as much as possible.

“His Royal Highness, you mean… the plague?”

“Yes.”

Gallan said, her eyes cold.

“We all believe that the Gasdad retreats because the food and grass are about to run out, but I am afraid that Tyre deliberately leaked the information that misled us. The real reason for their retreat should be an outbreak among the Gasdads. The plague, and Tyr… he deliberately let those soldiers who were infected with the plague be killed, and deliberately let the patients be captured by us, the purpose is to make our army infected with the plague!”

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Well, it seems that several friends left a message and guessed the plague.