Chapter 20 Established Facts [2]

War is always so full of haze. Just when people unconsciously, they are shrouded in their hearts and the sky above their heads, so it becomes obscure. Fortunately, there is always a way to be idle in the busy. That kind of pleasure may be more valuable home letters held in the hands of soldiers.

The Minsk people want to thank the Normans, because those black magicians who have been branded with evil have invented a paper that is both refreshing and easy to write, and most importantly, it is cheap enough.

I don't know whether the people of the empire are strong or the Normans are arrogant, but in any case, the soldiers in Minsk are doing all this calmly. Even if 35 kilometers away, there is a brigade of enemy cavalry roaring past, and I don't know if they have broken through the friendly defense.

Soldier Gordo is a southern Minsk native. He is worried about his mother. Yes, it is not easy to have a family like him. He can't die, otherwise his mother will be taken care of. That's a tragic thing, because the defenders of Minsk do not have too many pensions. All this is very simple. Because His Royal Highness Prince Alex himself has no money, even if he heard that there have been a lot of entries in the past half month.

But compared with the whole Minsk Dominion, it is too small.

The Hedong Corridor in the north is said to have been lost. Gordo, who was originally stationed there, was well aware of the strength of the Normans, but he did not think that the Normans could defeat the empire, which was absolutely impossible.

Hundreds of thousands of people are intertwined here, and the Normans should not be so easy to take the whole Minsk.

After thinking about it, Gordo still didn't pay attention to this kind of thing. He was just a captain. Today is like the anniversary of the saints. Each captain can be sent a clean piece of paper. Gordo can write a few words, so he was asked to help others write home letters and write all day before it was his turn.

Biting the bare goose pen, Gordo's soul seemed to have returned to his hometown. After thinking about it, he slowly wrote on the letter paper:

Dear mother, we are about to evacuate Minsk. The Normans are as fierce and cruel as the legend. I don't know if I will live until next spring, but anyway, mom, I love you as much as you love me. The Normans advanced very fast. At this time today, they have taken a large area in the north. The defenders have been slaughtered more than half. I was slightly injured, but there was no problem. The soldiers are in a bad mood, but no one thinks that the Normans will go to war with the empire, and I think so.

Mom, there is a Norman guy who is very fierce. He is the ghost-faced demon god Gangliluo. I heard that his army has reached the south. I hope you take care. If you can, mobilize some people to hide on the mountain. They are cavalry and will not threaten you. I think the reinforcements of the empire will come soon, because the emperor Your Highness has discharged dozens of waves of troops. We have more than 500,000 troops, so we won't worry about this problem.

I think I will live until next spring. When you receive this letter, I should have left Minsk and arrived at the rock fortress in the east, where I will stand still and wait for help, because our large amount of supplies can't be taken away, and His Royal Highness is not going to burn them, which is still good. At least let most of the poor people in Minsk have a mouthful of food. I think if he is the emperor, he will be a good emperor.

I heard that I was going to be promoted. Several officers from the east valued me very much, because I fought bravely and killed a Norman captain. That guy was very tough but thin. When I saw him, he was tearing off his armor and fighting with our people. The Normans are so barbaric. Really, they are really barbaric and fierce like normal humans. The first time I saw the taenos, they were so strong. Just as a heavy infantryman covered the captain, I shot him to death with an arrow, just like I did in the mountains and forests. I felt that I had nothing. I can't.

Later, I learned that the number of people that the captain had killed was more than 90. Such a warrior, if he was also a hero of a hundred people in the empire, but in the Norman army, he was just a captain. They are terrible, but I won't be afraid, Mom, as you told me, I am a leopard in the mountains, and I will live bravely, very bravely.

The defeated army from the north has been reorganized. Their morale is very low and very restless. Some of them even think that the Normans will go to the hinterland of the empire, but I know it is impossible. Their people are stationed in the west of my army. The situation looks very tragic. They should have 80,000 people, but now there are less than 20,000 people, and many people have broken limbs and arms. Some guys lost too much blood because of the late treatment. The priests are also powerless, not to mention that there are few magicians here in Minsk.

Okay, dear mother, I think I will worry you to death after saying these words, but don't worry. Really, your son is so brave. I will kill more Normans and continue to be promoted. Tomorrow I will be the squadron leader, because he died in the war. Well, you have a junior officer. Son, there should be a lot of people who respect you at home. I think that damn village elder will come to please you. I can control 150 people now. Just tomorrow, all this will happen.

Love your son, goodbye to Gordo.

After writing this letter, Gordo blew a breath calmly, dried the ink, then hung it for a while and put it on the table. After a while, he put it in the envelope, then walked out of the quiet tent, handed it to the busy scouts, and said, "There are many Gorges, Jinjina Village, South County. Thank you."

When he was about to turn around and leave, he seemed to think of something. Gordo squeezed out a smiling face for embarrassment, and then took out a silver coin full of sweat and stuffed it into the hands of the scout: "Thank you very much."

The scout immediately smiled with a smile, then patted Gordo's shoulder and said very familiarly, "Hahahaha, don't worry, I'm the best messenger here. Among the scouts, I run the fastest!"

This is awkward to hear. A soldier runs faster than others, and is it also worthy of pride? But no matter what, whether he is a coward or a hero, it has nothing to do with Gordo. All he knows is that this silver coin will let the boy safely deliver the envelope to his mother.

After thinking about it, he is just a 25-year-old young man. Yes, he hasn't even touched a woman so far. He was going to go back to get married this year, but he didn't expect that the war would start soon. And with such fierceness, the Normans seemed to lift the whole Minsk Dominion, which made people feel very uncomfortable, and most people were panicked, as if the Normans wanted to eat them clean.

"We will go to the Rock Fortress tomorrow. The eldest prince's decision is really fast.

While Gordo was appreciating, he also frowned and thought to himself: It's a pity that the Normans are still moving too fast. Otherwise, if it is arranged one day, they will not be so crazy. The fierce attack will make many defenders lose their spirit.

Gordo has always known that he has a natural sense of indifference. He rarely has feelings of sadness and indignation when he dies his comrades-in-arms around him. He just sees fresh faces disappear one by one, and then replaces into another batch of fresh faces. That's it, over and over again, things that make people difficult to be confident, no Is that so?

But maybe he doesn't know that it is this kind of indifference that makes him, a countryman in the southern county, a rare northern officer, which is the reality.

"I think I should really go to see the map or something recently. Those Normans are advancing so fast. Aren't they afraid that the imperial army will suddenly intersect and mess their hinterland?"

Gordo's idea is absolutely achievable, but in fact, it is precisely because the Normans' attack is so fierce that people don't have time to think about what will happen to their internal hinterland, just like no one will care about whether the empty bushes behind a tiger. People only know that the first thing to do in the face of a tiger is to run away.

However, it is obvious that the Minsk people are at least a leopard. They resisted a little and caused a lot of trouble for the Normans, but it is a pity that the fact is that this kind of thing does not seem to be so perfect. They failed, many people died, lost the Hedong Corridor, and tens of thousands of square kilometers of land. Although it has not been recognized by the empire for many years, well, things seem to be so simple.

"If the army is more fierce, just like the Normans, maybe the empire can destroy the Slavic Empire in just one year. It's a pity."

Gordo is sorry for something, but he can't say why he wants to talk like this, but now he will become a squadron leader, a squadron captain who controls the fate of 150 people.

He is a real officer.

Compared with the fate of most people, he is really very lucky. At least now it seems that it is only for a while. Even if the Normans's current attack is so sharp and fierce, it does not affect Gordo's personal understanding of the situation. Even if the Normans caused the established fact, in Gordo's eyes, it was just a strategic consideration.

But who knows, maybe he will become a generation of famous generals.