Chapter 29 029 Marquis Charles 1

On the seventh day after Colin woke up, the Black Knights finally set off again.

However, the speed of the advance of the army was very slow.

It was so slow that it did not look like an elite cavalry unit at all.

This speed of the march was very suitable for Colin, after all, his injury had not completely healed.

Raymond had also gotten a flat trailer from who knows where and spread some grass on it as a buffer. Colin was quite comfortable lying on it.

The spring sun was warm and warm, making people drowsy.

Even though Colin, as a vampire, did not like the sun, he slowly dozed off as he basked in the sunlight.

He was clearly in the most elite army in the Northern Territory, but Colin had the languid air of a leisure vacation.

Vera was not nearby.

After all, she was the adopted daughter of the Duke of the Northern Territory. Even if she had a good impression of Colin, she would not guard him closely.

Otherwise, wouldn’t she become a boot-licker?

Even if she wanted to dote on him, it should be Colin who took the initiative.

After all, Vera’s status was much higher than Colin’s.

Though looking at Colin’s appearance, it was clear that he did not have the intention to strike while the iron was hot.

When it came to picking up girls, one had to be at a distance.

This was a painful lesson that Colin had learned from his failed boot-licking career in his previous life.

The army slowly moved northward.

As they gradually approached the Mirror Lake camp, they encountered more and more defeated soldiers.

Marquis Garcia did not reject them. He gathered them all and arranged them as auxiliary soldiers behind the army.

From these defeated soldiers, Colin slowly learned more details about Marquis Charles’ defeat.

This war actually started last year.

At the beginning of May last year, under the leadership of the Troll Prince, Gambik Walkin, 300,000 troll troops gathered at the border and prepared to march south.

On the northern border, Marquis Charles led 200,000 soldiers to fight against the trolls.

Of the 200,000 soldiers, 100,000 were from the direct line of the Saint Hilde family, the Golden Lion Legion. The other 100,000 soldiers were from the private armies of the lords of the northern border.

For example, Colin’s father, Baron Angele, personally led 3,000 soldiers to the front line after receiving the order from the Duke of Saint Hilde.

Although they were outnumbered, the humans were not at a disadvantage.

After all, the Northern Territory had never lost a war against the trolls in the past few decades.

The commander of the trolls, Prince Gambik, had been beaten up by Marquis Garcia.

Under such circumstances, the Northern Territory was not confident.

Though most people did not realize, or rather, did not want to admit, that Marquis Garcia and the Black Knights under him were guaranteed the Northern Territory’s victory on the front line.

Now that the guarantee of victory had disappeared, could Marquis Charles alone shoulder the burden of guarding the border?

Obviously, things did not develop as the northerners had expected.

From the beginning of the confrontation, Marquis Charles seemed to be a little powerless.

In the small-scale test battle between the two sides, Marquis Charles was overwhelmed and incapable of dealing with it.

At this time, the troll commander, Prince Gambik, had already found out the truth about the son of the duke and understood that Marquis Charles’ strategic ability on the battlefield was completely incomparable to Marquis Garcia’s.

Therefore, the troll side gradually increased their offensive and broke through the defensive line set up by the Northern Territory in one fell swoop last winter, charging in.

Marquis Charles retreated in defeat, all the way to the vicinity of Mirror Lake.

There, he issued an emergency call-up order, placing the soldiers he had recruited in the Mirror Lake camp as bait, while he led the main army to ambush nearby.

Later, when the trolls attacked the Mirror Lake camp, Marquis Charles led the army to charge from behind.

Unfortunately, he still failed. In addition to the two fatal errors in Colin’s previous analysis, there was another important reason for Marquis Charles’ crushing defeat, his plan had been seen through by the trolls!

It was not known whether it was Prince Gambik who had predicted everything, whether he had discovered traces of Marquis Charles’ army, or whether someone had leaked military secrets.

In short, when the trolls attacked the Mirror Lake camp, they did not attack the entire army. Instead, they arranged their main forces at the rear, waiting for Marquis Charles to fall into the trap.

Therefore, Marquis Charles suffered another crushing defeat.

The 200,000-strong army was almost wiped out in this series of crushing defeats.

Even Marquis Charles himself was being chased by the trolls, and his whereabouts were unknown.

Oh, no.

Knowledge of Marquis Charles’ whereabouts was soon to change.

On the 13th day after the Black Knights left Riverrun, they encountered a large-scale defeated army. There were about five thousand people in this defeated army, and the leader of the defeated army was Marquis Charles.

Behind them, there was a troll army of more than eight thousand soldiers.

However, when this army saw the flag of the Black Knights from afar, they decisively turned around and gave up the chase.

They did not have the courage to try and attack.

Marquis Charles was finally saved.

However, his tragic fate had only just begun.

After knowing that Marquis Charles was among the defeated army, Colin left the trailer and prepared to go and watch the show.

Colin definitely did not have a good impression of this Marquis Charles.

First of all, the death of his father was most likely caused by this guy’s incompetence.

This also led to the death of his predecessor and the assassination of Knight Carter later.

Moreover, after he escaped from Graycastle town, he was lured to the Mirror Lake camp by Marquis Charles’ emergency recruitment order as bait, followed by a series of pursuit and near-death experiences.

Therefore, when Colin saw Marquis Charles’ miserable appearance, he gloated.

“Uncle..”

At this time, Marquis Charles was kneeling in front of Marquis Garcia with a gloomy expression.

Although both of them were marquises, the contrast between them was like the difference between heaven and earth.

Moreover, this series of tragic defeats also caused Marquis Charles to completely fall off the pedestal.

Moreover, it also highlighted the importance of Marquis Garcia.

“You fought a good battle!” Marquis Garcia did not let Charles get up but scolded him with a frosty expression.

“Uncle, I, I was careless..”

“Pa!”

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Marquis Garcia directly whipped Charles, who was trying to find an excuse, to the ground.

The whole place was silent.

Some of the timid ones even lowered their heads and did not dare to look anymore.

Although Marquis Garcia was the elder of Marquis Charles, he was, after all, the first successor of the duke, the future Lord of the Northern Territory!

He was publicly whipped in front of everyone.

“Bastard! A loss is a loss. Other than being incompetent, what other reason do you have?”

When Charles heard this, his whole body trembled. He immediately rolled and crawled at the feet of Marquis Garcia and shouted loudly,

“Uncle, I was wrong! I was wrong. “I have let down the Saint Hilde family, the soldiers who died, and the people of the Northern Territory. Sob..”

The marquis, the future Lord of the North, in front of so many people..

He cried.