Chapter 32 Integrating the Team
Joyce called out three times but there were only a few people to respond, and the scene was extremely awkward.
"You're the ones who are behind the scenes?" Joyce stared at Arthur with a cold face.
Arthur sneered, "Why don't the soldiers below follow you, don't you know what you know?"
Joyce's face suddenly turned red. Although he was the battalion commander before he was captured, he had lost his prestige among the soldiers because he had been serving the orcs in the canyon in the past two years.
Joyce, whose scar was exposed by Arthur, was immediately angry, "Captain Arthur, I order you now to take people to return to the border immediately."
Arthur looked at Joyce with a smile, "What qualifications do you have to order me?"
"Did you forget the military rules? Although they do not belong to the same army, I am also your commander in terms of military ranks, and you must obey my orders."
Arthur smiled, "Military rank? You may have forgotten that since you were captured, the troops have reported the death list. What military rank do you have if you are a dead person?"
Joyce was retorted by Arthur with a word, and there was no way to refute it. He knew the rules in the army better than Arthur. Once captured by the other party on the battlefield, he would not have the chance to go back alive. Therefore, the army has always been accustomed to reporting missing persons on the battlefield on the death list. The advantage of this is that the families of the dead soldiers can get pensions as soon as possible, and the army can also get replenished soldiers as soon as possible.
Arthur returned and took a sword from the warrior behind him and threw it at Joyce's feet.
"Since you were the battalion commander before, you must be a Level 6 Warrior Warrior. I am just a Level 4 Warrior Warrior. If we fight one, I won't take advantage of you, right? Now I'll give you a chance to pick up the sword. As long as you want to defeat me, my squadron and I will admit that you are qualified to order me."
Joyce hesitated and never bent down to pick up the sword because he had no confidence to defeat Arthur. The center of the battle in the canyon last night was Arthur and the Lion Ferrono. Arthur was able to withstand the Level 6 Lion Man with the strength of the Level 4 Warrior but was undefeated. He was not the opponent of the Lion Man in his heyday. Moreover, he was locked in the canyon in the past two years, and his body and will were wiped out, and his strength might not be even half of the previous ones.
"Pick it up!" The warrior behind Arthur roared.
Joyce was still hesitating, his hands trembling slightly.
"Pick it up!"
"Pick it up!"
All the soldiers who escaped from the canyon roared, "It's better to die in battle than to be scared to death!" The army has always respected the strong and despised the cowards. If Joyce didn't even have the courage to take the sword, he would not be ordered to the following soldiers in the future, and he would probably be drowned by saliva and rolling his eyes.
Joyce finally bent down and picked up the sword on the ground. With a swing of the hilt, four or five feet of fighting spirit overflowed from the sword's edge. At that moment, he seemed to have regained his courage.
The next moment, the courage and face he had just picked up were shattered by Arthur's violent fighting spirit.
With just one sword, the fiery red fighting spirit of "Explosion Flame Slash" several feet long directly knocked the sword in his hand to the ground, and the explosion of fighting spirit exploded him away again.
The whole scene was quiet!
Maybe someone guessed the result, but no one guessed that the result would be so straightforward and direct.
Arthur coughed lightly, "Is there anyone else to order me? You can stand up with your sword now."
Arthur's eyes swept across the audience, and no one dared to stand up. When his eyes swept to Silas, Silas did not dare to look directly at his gaze and lowered his head directly.
"Since no one is going to order me, now I order everyone to gather!"
With Arthur shouting loudly, no matter whether it was voluntary or forced, no soldier dared to stay in place anymore, and quickly gathered in front of Arthur, and soon formed a square formation in front of Arthur.
The soldiers of the Seventh Squadron stood horizontally behind Arthur in two rows, one by one, raised their chests and raised their heads, with a steady momentum.
Arthur said to the soldiers in front of him: "I saved you because of the morality of being a human soldier, but I did not have the responsibility to send you home. If anyone of you is willing to go back by yourself, I will never stop you. Not only will you give you the weapons and armor, but you will also prepare three days of food and 10 gold coins for you to travel."
As Arthur finished speaking, a buzzing discussion came from the sound of Arthur. The soldiers exchanged glances and muttered in a low voice.
"If anyone wants to leave, you can stand up now. I will never make things difficult for him."
The soldiers were making small moves below, but no one was the first to stand up.
Arthur's face gradually became colder, "I have given you a chance to choose. Those who choose to stay must obey orders, otherwise they will be dealt with by military law."
"Wait a minute, I'll leave!" One of the ***smugglers came out, and he served one of the orcs with Joyce and the others.
"I'll leave too." Another soldier stood up immediately.
As soon as someone took the lead, soldiers came out one after another in the square formation, and immediately gathered fifty or sixty people.
After waiting for a while, seeing that no one has left, Arthur turned to Jose and said, "Give them our food in three days, and give them another map to mark them clearly our current location and the human border."
Seeing that Arthur really kept his promise and twenty or thirty people walked out of the military formation, Arthur still did not stop him.
Jose soon distributed Arthur's promised food and gold coins to the soldiers who were leaving.
The first man who stood up took the soldiers who were leaving to salute Arthur and the people who stayed, turned around and walked down the mountain.
"Wait a minute." Arthur suddenly spoke.
"Do you want to go back on your word?" The man immediately turned green with fear.
Arthur smiled contemptuously, pointed to Joyce, who was still lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, "Take him away."
The team going down the mountain gradually moved away.
Arthur's eyes swept over the remaining soldiers again, and he unexpectedly found that Silas had not left.
"Why didn't you leave?"
Silas's face turned red, "I think it's better to stay with you."
Arthur smiled, "You may lack courage, but at least you are a smart person."
Arthur spoke to the soldiers who stayed again, and this time his tone became much more relaxed. "Some people chose to leave. I understand that they were not cowardly but wanted to go home too much. But they did not make a smart choice. This is the orc wasteland. In this completely unfamiliar environment, they would fall into the orcs again if they could not walk out for three days."
There was an uproar below, and some people have begun to be glad that they did not step out of the square end.
Arthur continued: "Those who leave may think that your choice is stupid. After all, every day you stay in the Orc Wasteland is more dangerous. But look at the warriors behind me, they have been fighting in the Orc Wasteland for nearly a month, and only sacrificed two brothers!"
He Xu Arthur pointed out again that the equipment of the soldiers of the 7th Squadron completely shocked these soldiers last night. The majestic silver-horned buck mounts were at least three-level weapons, and even many ordinary soldiers had enchanted weapons in their hands, and even the personal bodyguard equipment around the legion commander was not so perverted.
"Stay here, I can't guarantee that each of you will live, but I will try my best to bring most of you back alive! It's not that you escape back in a mess, but that each of you will be majestic and majestic in the third-level equipment!"
Arthur's words ignited the hope and courage of all the soldiers!
Chapter completed!