Chapter 55 The Glory of the Army (2/2)

……Moreover …… same as before ……Zero retreat recorded!

Certainly, there was another record: It was as if the soul of this army had been injected with the Rhodelia people’s natural full of valiance and fierce temper two hundred years ago. This cavalry army always took the leading role among the Empire armies, furthermore, its successive commanders had characteristics of psychopaths or madman.

Even if the emperor occasionally wanted to restraint this army by dispatching some military officers who were considered as “calm” and “experienced” to govern it, miraculously, once these military officers joined this army, they would quickly be assimilated by this army. No matter how calm and experienced he was, he would turn into a madman.

Once upon a time, the military headquarters sent a new commander to this cavalry army. That young general was of noble birth, and a famous honorable gentleman with elegant manner in the Royal Capital. However, after that aristocrat arrived at the 13th Cavalry Army, in less than three months, the first “achievement” he accomplished made the military headquarter astonished and angry. He ordered to grab the assigned military supplies of a friendly army and led a group of subordinates to burn this friendly force’s camps into ruins. Furthermore, without going through the trial, he directly executed several logistics officers who he identified were corrupt. Later on, because of fighting, and other misconducts, he repeatedly offended the empire law and became the top madman who was a real pain in ass for the military headquarters.

That commander later became a lieutenant general after accumulating sound achievements and the highest rank he served was becoming the governor of one of the empire’s military region. When he recalled the times where he held the post of the commander of the 13th Cavalry Army, he said one sentence:

“As long as you join this army, you would feel its fighting spirit everywhere! Under this circumstance, you have only two choices, either gets the hell out! Or, become one of them! I am very lucky and chosen the latter.”

Since then, all successive commanders of the 13th Cavalry Army took their predecessor’s words as their motto. While the 13th Cavalry Army had never came up with a single obedient and modest general, in Empire’s discipline violation record, it was always ranked at the first place……

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Shaar departed along with the General Adrick’s party and on the way he dropped by at his home. General Adrick left Kevin who had competed military skills with Shaar in order to wait for him and to bring him back to the military camp.

Shaar’s carry-on bag was very simple. He carried a bag of gold coins, put a piece of dragon skin at the bottom of it and several pieces of dragon scales at the top. Of course, his killer weapon, the fire pitchfork was inserted by him on the waist. Before leaving, he ran to the back side of the mountain and lead a horse away, while leaving several words to the goblin: “This Uncle is going to join the army, watch over the house carefully” and floated away.

During the whole journey, Kevin didn’t show any hostility towards Shaar, despite their brutal fight against each other. This fellow took off the face-covering helmet and revealed a bald shiny head that made Shaar amazed each time he looked at it.

Kevin wasn’t bad looking. He had bushy eyebrows, big eyes with a tall and elevated body. His arms were sturdy and strong. However, he chose to shave his hair and that gigantic luminous head made him appear more hideous.

It was the first time for Shaar to join an army and it seemed that he was curious about everything. Kevin however always seriously explained those matters to Shaar. He even particularly made some simple introductions to the deeds of the 13th Cavalry Army with a tone full of undisguised pride.

After hearing that, Shaar could not help but sigh: “Awesome! Forward Unto Death. This is freakin awesome!”

With his temper and age, he naturally admired heroes. Since he was just at the age where his blood easily boiled, after hearing this, he could not help but starting to yearn for battle in his heart.

Thinking for a moment, he looked at Kevin’s bald head and suddenly could not stop his temptation to ask: “Ehm……Kevin, why is your head……”

Kevin glanced at him and said in a muffled voice: “On a battlefield, it is easy to get hurt by arrows. Having your hair shaved off would be more convenient to bandage wounds and apply medicine to it in case there are any wounds on your head or face.”

Shaar nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.

However, a silly idea suddenly popped up in his mind: Your head could be easily injured……Then what about your body? If the thigh was injured …… could it be that the hairs around that area were also shaved?

Thinking about this, Shaar subconsciously took a peek towards Kevin’s special region. And could not help but keep wondering….