Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 41

2021-03-28

Chapter 41 Forced Luck
"Follow me, I'm in a hurry." Antonio stopped Winters, added another sentence: "Let the coachman not unload the horse first, Winters, you also go to change your dress."

"A dress? But I only have a military school uniform now."

Antonio looked towards My wife: "Didn't you make several sets before?"

"The size of those clothes are not correct, haven't they been changed? I just went to measure the size today." Kesha replied angrily.

Antonio didn't bother: "Then I'll change into a military uniform. We both dress the same."

Winters didn't have to wait too long this time, Antoni Ao is a swift and decisive soldier. He quickly changed into the uniform of a general and walked out of the house.

"We're all wearing this, what else do we need to do with the carriage?" Seeing Winters waiting beside the carriage, Antonio's tone was very helpless. He turned to the driver and said, "The car No need. Barto, you worked hard today."

After he finished speaking, he handed a small bag of reward money to the driver. The driver took the purse and thanked him repeatedly.

Antonio beckoned to his nephew and led Winters to the stables on the back street of the house.

There are three horses in the stable now, Antonio pointed to one of the gray horses with black mane and white spots, and said reluctantly: "It will belong to you in the future. Although the sea blue city is not big, it does not It's not convenient for you to go anywhere with a horse."

Winters was immediately pleasantly surprised, he suppressed his excitement little by little and approached this proud and majestic big animal, the horse was not panicked by the approach of strangers , just chew the hay in peace. Its chest muscles are strong, the limbs are well-proportioned and powerful, and the neck-back-buttocks line is smooth and graceful. The mane and ponytail were well groomed, and the body was brushed clean without a single grass clipping.

Winters stared into the horse's eyes, and the horse blinked its wet eyes, looking at Winters with gentle and friendly eyes, and flapped both ears deftly. Winters tentatively rubbed the side of its neck, feeling not only oily and watery, but also warm, and it felt so good in the hand, and the horse let out a series of light hums from its nose comfortably.

"It's so beautiful."

Antonio, who was in pain, said angrily: "Can't it be beautiful? You people from the infantry department just don't know what to do. But the best Lucian horse."

The more Antonio's heart aches, the better the horse is. It was rare for Winters to see his uncle in such pain, and it seemed that he was bleeding profusely. He chuckled and asked, "A monk? [Monk, referring to a gelding horse]"

Antonio was furious: "Why? Possibly? I have some horses that people want to invite out to match!"

"But if I don't have that, can I ride it?"

"Of course I can, you don't even think about it. Who trained it? Lucia's temperament is also very gentle."

"What's its name?"

"I call it 'good luck', you want to start a new one name?"

Winters scratched lightly in the area between the horse's eyes, and the horse stuck out its tongue lightly. Thinking of the pirate ship Good Luck: "Who doesn't like luck? But let's call it 'strong luck'. The word "good luck" doesn't seem to work when it comes to me."

Looking The nephew didn't like Qiangyun, Antonio hesitated for a long time, but couldn't help but instructed: "Horse is a noble animal, good luck is my baby, you have to take good care of it, don't make it too tired, Don't let it be too idle..."

Winters kept saying yes, he pointed to the other two horses and asked his uncle: "If you feel bad about luck, why don't you let me ride those two? "

There are two other horses in the stable, a white horse and a jujube horse.

"I really regret sending you to the infantry department now." Antonio looked at Winters and said in a heavy tone, "Don't you think those two are good horses?"

Antonio took a small bag from his arms and fed each of the three horses a piece of candy. Afterwards, Antonio took out the jujube horse, and Winters took out the strong luck. The two got on the harness, stepped on the horse and left the mansion.

The sky has darkened, and the sun's afterglow is about to dissipate. The dry heat of the day was gradually replaced by the coolness of the night, and the refreshing sea breeze took away the excess heat from the two riders. At this moment, riding on the streets of Hailan City is relaxing and joyful.

The workers by the road are filling the lamps one by one and lighting the street lamps. In the bay of Cenas, only the wealth of the sea blue city is luxurious enough to provide lighting services for the public. The flickering firelight illuminated the faces of passersby through the yellowed glass, announcing that the nightlife has begun.

On the streets of the city, strong luck can't stretch his legs at all, and Winters is eager to take his horse for a good run outside the city.

But he suddenly thought that he didn't know where his uncle was going to lead him, so he accelerated a little and rode side by side with his uncle: "What's the urgency? Lieutenant Colonel, where are you taking me?"

Antonio looked at Winters and said with a playful smile: "Get you a wife."

"What? Stop kidding!" Winters startled, an unsteady center of gravity Almost fell off the saddle: "I wanted to see Benwei tonight, but you said I was in a hurry and I came along. If it wasn't business, I'd go to Benwei's house."

"Benwei? Which one? Benwei?" Antonio tried to recall the name in his mind: "Benvenuto?"

Uncle Winters didn't expect Benwei's full name: "Do you remember this people?"

"Isn't that your classmate Lu You? You like to go to his house to eat dinner during the holidays."

"It's him."

Anthony Ao Lai became interested: "How is he now? I don't seem to have seen this name among the apprentice officers who came back this year."

"Benwei didn't go to military school, and after Lu You graduated, he went to work to support his family. Winters was a little sad: "If I don't have business, I'll leave."

Antonio led the way. Benwei lives in the port area, and Winters will turn around while speaking.

"Wait." Antonio stopped his nephew: "Don't go today, do you want to go empty-handed? I remember his younger brother and younger sister a lot... In this way, tomorrow I will let Mary Mammy Ta came back with some flour and good meat. You bring it to Benwei, how about it? And I called you here today, is it really something."

"What's the matter?"

"Let's take you to the widow."

"I'm really gone!" Winters panting with rage, pulling the reins to the right.

Antonio quickly put away his smile and said seriously: "Okay, let's get down to business. There is a small party tonight at the Nava Lei Family. I called you here because I want you to go. Show your face."

"Navarre? Isn't that a businessman in woolen business? What does it have to do with me?" Of course Winters had heard of Navarre, a well-known businessman in the city family.

Antonio gave Winters a meaningful look: "Money is power, and Madame Navarre is perhaps the most powerful woman in the city—and a widow."

"Why don't you leave the widow in three words?" Winters was anxious. He couldn't be trying to sell his looks, right?
Antonio deliberately raised his face: "What? Do you despise widows? I tell you, widows hold up half the sky in Hailan City. Without these widows, where would the Directorate Government come from to pay you and me your salary?"

Winters' forehead started to sweat: "When did I look down on widows... and what's this all about?"

Seeing Winters' youthful appearance, Antonio He clasped his palms and laughed: "Okay, no kidding. Actually, it's nothing. You have been in Union Province for six years, and you haven't participated in any social activities in the city for six years. Except for the same period of your military academy, you don't know any of your peers, right? Now that you're home, I want you to show your face in the Nava Lei Family's social arena."

Winters was about to speak, but was interrupted by Antonio waving his hand. Tonio continued: "I know what you want to say, but even if you don't like socializing, let everyone know you are there. You will get married sooner or later, but do you know any woman of the right age now? This is the consequence of lack of communication. I'm your age, and I've attended one dance after another, and people are scrambling to invite me to go. In any case, if you want to know more girls, you will have a choice."

This sentence left Winters speechless. He felt that his uncle was wrong, but he didn't know how to refute it.

Antonio saw his nephew's face blushing, and teased: "And to be honest, with Madam Navarre's property, even if you want to take it, it's not that easy."

"Lieutenant Colonel!"

The two were walking while chatting on horseback, unconsciously reaching the city wall.

The rammed earth city wall during the Sovereign War has been broken down after more than 20 years of wind and rain, and the grass seeds scattered by the wind have taken root and sprouted on the earth wall. There is lush and green up and down the wall, like a green tapestry. also to have one sapling grows strong on it, like an arm sticking out of the wall.

There have been no military disasters for 26 years, and the moat has collapsed due to disrepair for a long time. Citizens are not grateful for these fortifications that once defended them, they only feel that these old buildings make it extremely inconvenient to enter and leave the city.

Jade City, the capital of the joint province, has long overwhelmed the city wall and filled it into the trench, and Hailan citizens are also beginning to stir. Since a new impregnable bastion has been built outside the city, why keep these old fortifications?
Across the wooden bridge over the moat, Antonio and Winters leave the city. There are no street lights outside the city, and the rest of the journey will be illuminated by moonlight. The rammed earth pavement reflects more moonlight than the vegetation, extending into the distance like a silver stream.

Through the hedgerows and mottled tree shadows along the way, you can vaguely see the brightly lit houses in the distance, the guests are feasting, and there are strong rhythm music from time to time. .

As the population of Hailan grows, the urban area is becoming more and more crowded. The wealthy businessmen did not want to continue living in the resource-constrained city wall, so they bought land in the suburbs and built splendorous and majestic manors.

If it was in the past, businessmen would not have the courage to move out of the city wall.

The old townsmen worship the city wall, because only the city wall can protect them from external martial power. The citizens of the new era spurn the city wall because they no longer need this passive protection.

Living in the suburbs, the biggest risk is bandits and mobs. The alliance army of the new era can fight bandits more effectively than the civilian armed forces of the old era. Because the citizens' armed forces have strong battle strength when defending the city, but once they leave the city, their morale will drop sharply, and they usually won't go out to fight.

As for the aristocratic armed forces of old times? If only a few greedy peasants robbed the road, it was not dangerous, and the most dangerous were those nobles who had weapons, armor and war horses and received a lifetime of military training.

Bankrupt Knights often become the backbone of gangster gangs, and looting caravans, extortion and even city looting has always been an important source of income for unscrupulous nobles.

So the citizens of the old times worshipped the city wall enthusiastically, and they donated a lot of property for their city without hesitation. Because they share weal and woe with the city, for them, the city is the only safe island in this dangerous world.

But it's different now, as Antonio said, the standing army is mainly used to deal with internal enemies, and they do it very well. Any large-scale gangs in the alliance will be quickly annihilated by the alliance army, and the few guards who are left can solve the problem.

The Nawa Lei Family also followed this trend and moved out of the city, but Winters didn't know the address and just followed his uncle.

"What did you do for your first day at the military police?" Antonio asked casually.

Winters just wanted to talk about today's events, but he remembered Lieutenant Colonel Field's admonition to "keep your mouth shut and obey orders". After chewing on a sentence for a long time, she finally said, "I'm busy anyway. Yes."

"What the hell are you doing?" Antonio asked persistently.

"Don't ask, I can't tell."

Antonio laughed lightly and tapped Winters on the shoulder with his horsewhip: "Felder taught you well. It's an advantage. Usually you need to watch more, listen more, do more, but talk less. Talk less, and others won't know what cards you have."

Winters blushed and nodded.

"But even if you don't tell me, I know what cards you have." Antonio's smiling eyes were like a pair of crescents: "When the throne voted on whether to detain this shit pot to Field, I was For your sake, there was only one negative vote."

"What?" Winters tightened the reins involuntarily in surprise, and stopped with a snort of luck: "Decided to put this You were there when the stall was handed over to the gendarmerie?"

"Of course I was there." Antonio beckoned: "Don't stand stupidly and talk as you walk."

Winters squeezed his horse's belly lightly, and slapped his horse forward to catch up with his uncle: "Does the throne know that even with me, there are only two officers in the military police department?"

"Of course I do." An Tonio nodded.

"Then hand over the case to the military police? There are only two officers, and the remaining 80 guards have to stand guard. How can we investigate it with only the two of us?"

"It's quite simple. If Field wants to close the case, he will write a report today, and the case will be over tomorrow." Major General Antonio gave an answer easily.

Can you close the case anytime you want? Winters's mind was like electricity, and he read the deep meaning of the sentence in a flash. He asked his uncle word by word: "Do you mean that the throne has prepared prisoners for this case?"

"Yes, student that can be taught." Antonio praised Winters with a smile, and Winters could hear from his tone that he did not regard this case as a major event: "Isn't it an assassination? How many times does Hailan appear in a year? If the assassin can't be caught on the spot, how can anyone be found? It will definitely become an unsolved case. The person who asks the case from the customs doesn't care what the truth is, as long as the final This black pot can be given to whoever he wants."

"You mean that the army asked for this case from customs?" Winters couldn't believe his ears.

"Otherwise? The Army doesn't want it, can Customs force it?"

Winters now realizes that he was completely wrong. He originally thought that Customs and the Army had reached an agreement. secret agreement. The customs found that the deceased might be a soldier, and did not want to go into the muddy waters of the army, so it communicated with the army secretly and handed over the case to the army for its own investigation.

But according to Antonio, the Army did not know the identity of the deceased at all, and it was only because someone wanted to take advantage of the topic and took the initiative to bring the case over.

One dares to ask, and the other dares to give. Both parties think that it is enough to make eye contact with each other, but in fact they are thinking of two different things.

And at the moment, neither side has as much intelligence as Winters now has. In Winters' view, both the Customs and the Army underestimated the seriousness of the assassination.

"Who does the throne want to take the blame for?" Winters asked another question.

Antonio lightly gave Winters an unexpected answer: "Pirates."

"How could an assassin be a pirate? How can a pirate be as powerful as those assassins who have played against assassins."

"Can the pirates prove that they are not assassins?" Antonio asked with a faint smile.

"To the pirates..." Lightning flashed in Winters' mind, and he struggled, trying to connect the fragmented information and get the point out of the fog.

Antonio saw him thinking hard, but he didn't make a sound, and the two walked quietly for a section of the road.

Winters suddenly sighed and asked softly, "Are we going to fight?"

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[The stallion is short-tempered and has a natural desire to attack, but it is easy to be attracted by the mare in stage X. It is not uncommon in history to use a mare to earn a stallion; while a mare is docile, quiet, Can also be used as a warhorse. But sending a mare to battle means one less foal the following year. So the final solution was to use a gelded stallion as a warhorse, which the Teutonic Knight called a monk's horse [Mnchpferde]. And there is another advantage of using gelding, that is, even if it is captured by the enemy, the enemy cannot use the gelding to improve the bloodline of their own horses.

Horses also have a lot of emotions, no less than cats and dogs. Talk hard to it, and it will also have a small temper.而且马能读懂人的表情，会看眼色]