Chapter 108 Military Camp Life

The charcoal fire in the wooden house was emitting a red light. Arthur took out a jug of wine. Under the light of the fire and the wine, old Jose slowly told the story of that year.

"Keynes was the youngest division commander of the Snow Wind Legion. Although the general was the son of the Shirt family, he did not have the arrogance and airs of a young master from a big family. The soldiers below all liked the division commander Keynes, and even among the soldiers, It is rumored that Commander Keynes will be the best candidate for the next commander of the Snow Legion."

Arthur smiled, as only a soldier who knew nothing about politics would do. Although Arthur is young, he also knows that there is no way Keynes can serve as the commander of the Snow Legion.

The main forces of the Kingdom of Isaac are the five field legions and the Royal Guards Corps.

 The commanders of the four major legions, Than Song, Frost Thunder, Blazing Fire and Iron Current, respectively come from the four major duke families in the kingdom. The commander of the Snow Legion is His Majesty Stacey's uncle, Prince Hobbes, and the commander of the Guards is His Majesty's younger brother, Prince Rex. Therefore, the Snow Legion and the Guards Corps are forces under the king's personal control. If the commander of the Snow Legion is someone from the four major duke families, it will cause an imbalance of political power. Stacey will not do it anyway. This situation is allowed to occur.

What Arthur didn't expect was that Keynes would be promoted to the position of division commander at such a young age. For him, the division commander was simply out of reach.

 The kingdom's military system consists of a field corps that governs five armies: front, rear, center, left and right, with a full strength of 100,000 men. Each army has four divisions, each with four to five thousand men. The Huge Infantry Regiment to which Arthur now belongs is only one of the infantry regiments of the Third Division of the Snow Legion's former army. It has spanned four levels, from a squadron leader to a division commander.

José took a sip of wine and continued to speak slowly, "But then no one thought that the most promising commander of the Cairns Division would leave the Snowstorm Legion. No one knows where he went afterward?"

"Why did he leave?" Arthur asked hurriedly. This was what he was most concerned about.

José shook his head and smiled bitterly, "How can be small soldiers know the decision made by the division commander? Besides, I am not a soldier of the division commander, Keynes."

 The clue suddenly stopped here, and Arthur looked disappointed.

Unexpectedly, Jose continued: "The sudden departure of Captain Keynes's division was a big event in the Snow Legion. We soldiers are making wild guesses that it may have something to do with that battle."

 "What battle?"

"Back then, our Snow Legion and the orcs had a big fight in the Canyon of Sighs. Keynes's division was trapped in the canyon by the orcs for some unknown reason. The battle was so miserable that the 5,000-man division survived in the end. Less than 500 people rushed out, and the battle loss rate was 90%. The entire division was almost wiped out. "

 "Tell me the details."

"How do I know the details? At that time, the leader of our regiment was not Huge. He was stationed in a defense zone three hundred kilometers away from the Canyon of Sighs to prevent the orcs from attacking the rear. In such a big battle, we didn't even get a hair."

Arthur thought for a while and asked: "Where is Commander Keynes's division now located?"

"Long gone. Many of the soldiers who rushed out of the Canyon of Sighs alive back then were retired immediately, and some of them followed the Cairns division commander. That division was completely rebuilt, and they are still here in Dengue. I'm afraid there aren't many left in the legion."

Arthur fell into silence, and the clues were completely cut off at this point.

"How is Commander Keynes doing now?" Jose asked tentatively.

 "He died more than three years ago?"

José was stunned for a moment, and then sighed softly, "What a pity."

"But he found a good owner for the Star fall Sword."

 "Um?"

 "You look very much like the division commander back then."

 "Like him? The bearded one?" Arthur smiled.

 "He grew a beard later?"

 "He didn't have a beard then?"

The two of them stopped talking. No one knew what Keynes had gone through that year, which made him leave the army and made him deliberately change himself?

Arthur fell into a long silence again, and he didn't even notice when Jose left.

But when José left, he took away the leather armor, cloak and sword.

The Keynes incident seemed to have passed away, and Arthur never mentioned it again.

 At the beginning of the second day, Arthur joined the patrol team and led a small team to walk back and forth on the fifteen-mile defense line every day.

 Outside of patrol duties, he would go hunting in the woods with Jose or Monkey, hunting pheasants, porcupines, etc. to improve the food for the squadron brothers.

Arthur learned that the archery skills of the even archers are more than a star and a half better than those of monkeys. Ever since Arthur joined the hunting team, the squadron has been eating meat almost every day.

　　The soldiers claimed to have lived the happiest life since joining the army.

 Just a few days into this period, they fell into hellish suffering.

 The reason is that the monkey spent all day grinding Arthur to learn archery. Inspired by the monkey, Arthur simply began to teach martial arts to all the soldiers in the entire squadron. What he taught was naturally the "Death Technique". Arthur, who had never been a teacher, naturally copied Randall's training methods.

These soldiers experienced the devilish side of their squadron leader for the first time.

In addition to training his soldiers, Arthur's own practice has not fallen behind, and Arthur has also found himself the best sparring opponent, the two demon bears with human faces.

The two demon bears did not leave their original dens after losing their cubs. As a result, Arthur came to visit them sometimes.

 When the two demon bears rushed up together, Arthur turned around and ran away. At first the two bears were still chasing after them, but after many times, when they knew they couldn't catch up, they simply gave up chasing.

When a demon bear pounced on it alone, Arthur started a human-bear battle with the opponent. Arthur now did not kill him, and completely regarded the demon bear as an opponent to hone his martial arts and strength.

Arthur also made another unexpected discovery. There was a lake near the Winter Lake station. The lake is not big, only about two or three square kilometers. The lake is not deep, but it is freezing cold.

Arthur discovered that practicing Dan yang Spirit Refining in the cold lake water, coupled with the "Ice Spirit Heart" not only completely offset the burning sensation during practice, but also made the whole body cool and transparent.

There are no women here anyway. Now Arthur has to strip naked every day and sit cross-legged on a blue stone in the lake to practice for a period of time. During the practice, only the part above the neck is exposed.

 The days in the military camp flew by. When the soldiers celebrated with the meat and wine that were suddenly distributed, Arthur realized that the New Year had arrived unknowingly.

After drinking, Arthur returned to the room. He lay on the bed and stared at the roof in a daze. "It's another year. The New Year in the Royal City must be very lively. I wonder how my friends are doing?"