In the evening, a few crows made a soft "ahhh" sound on the trees on both sides of the road, and then a burst of dust rose from afar. Then the earth seemed to be shaking. The dense and silent sound of horse hooves broke the silence of the evening. Several crows shook their wings and flew away from the branches in a hurry.

Roddy had already replaced the dazzling silver armor on her body, and her light leather armor wrapped most of the upper body. This leather armor was given to Lanter before going to war. It is said to be something inherited by the Tulip family. Nicole's father wore this leather armor to fight on the battlefield. Roddy was very suspicious of how much protective a pair of light leather armor could play, but in order to rush forward, the dazzling and heavy metal armor was of course impossible to wear on her body. After changing into the leather armor, it became much lighter.

The clothes inside Roddy had been soaked with sweat. He felt the scorching pain on the inside of his thighs. He was rushing around for two consecutive days, which really made him unable to bear it.

During this day and a half, Roddy brought ten thousand elite cavalrymen of the "Thunder Whip" to travel continuously. When he was tired, he would rest immediately. When he was thirsty and hungry, he would eat dry food and drink water immediately. When he was tired, he would change horses and continue to move forward. At this moment, each cavalry had changed his horse twice. The horses rode on each soldier and the spare horses carried behind him were exhausted, and some horses had even spit out white foam at the corners of their mouths. It seemed that although the war horses of the Central Cavalry Legion were the best war horses selected by the entire empire, they could not stand it after nearly two days of sleepless Mercedes.

The soldiers were already full of fatigue, but the wolf-toothed army led by Zieg is indeed worthy of the title of "Thunder Whip". Although each soldier is exhausted, his facial expression is still firm and tough. No one is left behind or complains. The vast cavalry team only hears the sound of horse hooves and no one is making noise.

"Sir! The scout cavalry is back!" The messenger next to him suddenly slapped Roddy and said loudly.

Roddy glanced at Zigg beside him, Zigg nodded and said, "Send the order and slow down the whole army!"

In a blink of an eye, the messenger conveyed Ziger's orders, and the officers conveyed the orders one by one. Under the neat command, the cavalry slowed down from the front team, but the entire team still did not show any distraction. Obviously, Ziger led his troops very strictly on weekdays.

The scout cavalry reported that there was a small village in front of it, which seemed to be in any abnormality. It was already close to the front line. I heard that there were often small groups of Yousan cavalry from the Great Moon Kingdom around, but there seemed to be no trace in the village in front.

Roddy sighed and said in a deep voice: "Order to rest in the village ahead for a while, and you can't go like this anymore. Even if people don't rest, the horses will have to rest."

Zieg nodded. He was born in a cavalry and naturally understood how important the horse's foot strength was for a cavalry.

When night fell, the Wolf Tooth Army finally approached the village. Roddy ordered the entire army to stop two miles away from the village, rest by the river for an hour, and then brought Sieger two hundred men into the village.

This place is still the territory of the empire, but because of its remoteness and far away from the town, several villagers at the village head were obviously a little scared and surprised by suddenly seeing such an army.

The soldiers under his commander came to the village chief. The village chief was obviously a muscular and honest farmer. After seeing Roddy and Zigg, he couldn't say anything. Roddy asked the two of them to separate fifty of them to the entrance of the village north of the village to attend the police force, and he and Zigg followed the village chief back home. The village chief did not say a word, but just led the way.

As soon as Roddy walked into this simple courtyard, he immediately felt something was wrong. He frowned and looked around. The village chief had an indifferent expression on his face. Next to him was a young daughter, a pretty girl of only fifteen or sixteen years old.

When he saw the pile of firewood in the yard that had not been chopped yet, Roddy knew it.

"You two are here?"

"Yes, sir." The village chief lowered his head, his voice still very steady.

Roddy walked to the corner of the wall without saying a word, and suddenly raised his feet and kicked a wooden cabinet beside the wall, revealing a big hole behind it. The sudden change made the village chief scare and immediately pale, and the girl also screamed in horror. Several soldiers beside him drew out the scimitar and rushed forward, dragging a young man out of the hole.

The young man was dressed in a simple civilian costume, pale and desperate.

"What's going on! You are actually spies!" Zigg's face also darkened.

With a plop, the village chief knelt down and hissed: "Sir! He is not a spy, he is my son, not a spy from the Great Yue Kingdom!"

Roddy waved his hand and asked the soldiers to let go of the young man. The young man didn't look like a warrior when he saw that he was walking, and Roddy was not afraid that he would resist.

"Say, what's going on!"

Seeing that all the soldiers around him drew out the scimitar, the young man immediately shouted: "Sir, it has nothing to do with my family! Take me back, I... escaped from the front line..."

Roddy breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "So it's a deserter." Zigg's face looked a little better, but he just said in a deep voice: "Are you from the Northwest Legion?"

"Yes!" The young man nodded and looked at his father: "I turned out to be the defender of Fort Trier not far from here. After Fort Trier was occupied by the Great Moon Kingdom, we were dispersed and I ran away..."

Before Roddy could speak, Ziggy snorted coldly and said lightly: "So do you know the imperial army?"

"I know." The young man's face was pale: "A private escapee will be killed."

"No!!" The girl next to her suddenly screamed, trying to rush up, but was stopped by two soldiers. She cried, "Don't kill him! Why do you kill him! One of my brothers has been killed in battle. Do you want to kill my only brother left?!"

After all, Roddy was the first time leading the army and was young. He couldn't help but feel soft when he heard this and sighed: "This is the imperial military order. If everyone is a deserter and does not punish him, then who else will fight for the empire!"

The girl looked stubborn and had a face full of tears without fear at all, and shouted loudly: "Desergeant! My brother doesn't want to join the army at all! You forced him to tie him up! One of my brothers was tied up by you three months ago and died. You came to kidnap him again last month! We don't want to join the army at all! You don't want to join the army at all! You want to leave our food! Do you want us to give you all your life?!"

"Wait!" Roddy waved to the two soldiers who were about to drag the young man out. He turned his face, looked at the girl with a gloomy face, and said in a deep voice: "You said, your brother was forcibly tied up to serve in the army?!"

Ignoring his father's face, his eyes were full of horror, the girl stared at Roddy and gritted her teeth and said, "Yes! You tied it up! My eldest brother was beaten hard by your people because he didn't want to join the army, and then took him away! My second brother didn't want it either, but your people beat my father and forced him to leave with you! Now that the battle has been over, why don't I let my brother go home!"

"This is something!" Roddy's face turned pale and looked at Zigg. Zigg frowned. He had been in the army for most of his life, so this kind of thing was naturally heard of. In many places, the defenders were not strong enough during wartime, and they often temporarily recruited strong men to join the army. However, they usually used recruitment methods to pay military pay according to the heads. But now, according to the girl, most of the guards' officers embezzled the military pay for recruiting strong men and forced people into the army by violence. This kind of thing is most common among the miscellaneous defenders in those places.

When Roddy saw Zigg's expression, he knew that this matter was probably true. Zigg was the one who was most familiar with the military and he didn't even speak. It seemed that what this girl said was probably true.

"Let him go." Roddy sighed, not knowing what it felt. He wanted to rescue the Northwest and defend his homeland and country, but seeing that even the civilians of his own country looked at the soldiers of the empire with such hatred, he didn't know how to describe his mood at this moment.

Zieg wanted to say something, but when he thought of what he had just heard, he shut his mouth. As soon as the young man regained his freedom, he immediately rushed over to save his father and the girl.

"Village Chief, go and get some food for us. Then help me find some food in the village. My soldiers are hungry!" Roddy had no intention of pursuing the family. He winked at a personal soldier, and the soldier immediately took out a few gold coins from his body.

The village chief looked at the money in the soldier in surprise, but shook his head and said in horror: "Sir, it's not me... I really have nothing to eat..."

"Why!"

"A few days ago, the army of the Great Moon Kingdom came here and searched all the food... now we only have a little food, and there is really no extra food."

"What!!" Roddy slapped the table, stood up and shouted: "The army of the Great Moon Kingdom is nearby! Why didn't you say earlier! How many people are they! Where are they!"

The village chief was full of horror, pale face, and hesitated and couldn't speak. The young man returned and said, "The last time they came, there were not many people, there were only a few dozen cavalrymen, but it seemed that they had scattered the army in nearby villages to search for food."

"Hmph!" Zigg's face was unkind: "Why didn't you just say it!" He was extremely angry. He knew that they were struggling so hard to get to the fortress of Watt without knowing it. Before the Great Moon Kingdom discovered them, they would meet with the Northwest Legion. If the Great Moon Kingdom knew that they sent troops to intercept it, then Roddy and Zigg had only a few ten thousand tired men under him, which would be very dangerous.

"There are other things you didn't say!" Roddy signaled Zieg to sit down and looked at the young man fiercely.

The village chief opened his mouth and said nothing. The young man's face was pale and his eyes were dodging. Roddy felt something was wrong. Before he could speak, Zigg had already said fiercely: "I can't pursue you as a deserter. After all, there is a reason for the matter. Since lord let you go, it's fine. But if you conceal the military information and don't report it, it's the same crime as the spy!"

The girl gritted her teeth and stood up and shouted: "They came two days ago, snatched all our food, grabbed more than a dozen people away, they left a message, and asked us to inform them. If an imperial army passed by, lit straws and smoke from the chimney would float out... If we didn't do that, they would kill the people they captured!"

Zigg's face changed slightly, and he ran out of the door a few steps. Sure enough, he saw that black smoke had already emerged from the chimneys in several farmhouses around him...

"Where are they? The army of the Great Moon Kingdom!" Roddy shouted at the young man. He might be able to sympathize with him forcibly being pulled into the army without pursuing him as a deserter, but they actually did this, which made Roddy angry!

The girl was startled by Roddy's sudden fury, shrank back, and cried, "Every time they came in from the north of the village, I...I didn't burn straw... After they left, my father also asked other people not to help Dayueguo, but they didn't listen to my father...I didn't really burn straw...I didn't really..."

Suddenly, a rapid military call came from outside the door, a warning voice from the men from the north of the village!

"Leave a few people to watch them! If you act rashly, kill them!" Zieg rushed back to the room and shouted loudly, then Roddy followed him and ran outside...

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Chapter completed!