Descending On France 1780-Chapter 11 - 008 What, there are even double mission rewards?

Kroetz: "How can this be? I have not yet earned any distinctions..."

General Carnegie glanced at Kroetz: "That's simple, I can issue an order right now to award you an Honorary Legion Medal for your bravery in the previous campaign."

Kroetz paused, then immediately objected: "How can this be? What are you awarding me for? For crawling out from among the corpses? You might as well reward my attendant, Andy!"

"He will certainly receive an award." General Carnegie looked at Anning, "Andy Frost, for his brave action in rescoring Marquis Tolleson, will be awarded the Honorary Officer Medal. I believe both applications should be approved."

Kroetz: "How could it possibly be approved! We were just..."

Anning: "Because we were defeated, Your Excellency the Marquis, therefore it's necessary to promote some heroes to divert public attention."

Kroetz turned to look at Anning, incredulously: "How can this be..."

Anning stepped forward, gently patted Kroetz's shoulder: "You want honor, now you have it. Continuing to fight in the army might not yield better results, and honestly, with the Prussian forces breaking through, continuing to fight them might not lead to a victory..."

After all, it was Frederick II's Prussian army, if Anning remembered correctly, during the Seven Years' War in Europe, Frederick II fought against Russia, France, and Austria as if he had cheats enabled.

Of course, Frederick II's fierceness was largely because on the Russian side there was a German Emperor - Peter III, who was German himself and didn't even speak Russian as a child.

Kroetz looked at Anning: "You think I should return to Paris?"

Anning nodded: "Yes, you should go back."

"And you?" Kroetz asked.

Anning: "Of course, I will escort you back."

Kroetz sighed: "Well, if that's what you think, then I'll go back. Are you sure my medal will be approved?"

"I'm sure." Anning nodded.

General Carnegie, seeing that Anning had convinced Kroetz, took up the conversation again: "I will send a messenger to deliver the award letter back to Paris. The cavalry escorting you will be ready this afternoon.

"In the meantime, Mr. Marquis, you should tidy yourself up. If you return to Paris in such an undignified state, your father would complain about me."

Kroetz looked down at his dirty body and blushed slightly: "Thank you."

The General snapped his fingers and his aide immediately approached Kroetz and Anning, saying: "Please come this way to change your clothes."

**

Later, Anning changed his clothes and took a bath, then donned a brand new attendant's jacket.

It's also worth mentioning that he had on a pair of tight breeches and a pair of white silk stockings.

As for shoes, he was still wearing the boots he had scavenged from the battlefield last night. According to the general's aide, these boots were better than those of many nobles, so they just needed to be wiped clean of any mud.

Once he was neatly dressed, Anning finally felt like he had truly climbed out of yesterday's pit of corpses.

When Anning was neatly dressed and came out of the tent, the general's aide led two horses over, pointing to the saddlebag on one of them and saying: "Mr. Frost, your luggage is all in this saddlebag."

This luggage clearly referred to the items Anning had looted from the bandit leader yesterday.

Aide: "The identity tags you were carrying from several nobles, we have taken them as the belongings of fallen soldiers. Everything else is as you left it."

Anning nodded: "Thank you, that's a great help."

"Additionally, we've issued you a weapon set befitting your identity, all on the saddle. The Marquis Tolleson's military saber and such, please return it to him later."

Anning originally wanted to say that using the young master's saber yesterday felt quite smooth, but for a mere attendant to hold an officer's saber was indeed inappropriate.

At that time, Croci de Tolleson came out from another tent.

He had changed into a new military uniform, looking clean and refreshed, his leggings and white silk stockings were spotless.

Anning stared at Croci's lower body, always having the illusion that he was showing off his white silk stockings.

— Damn it, is this young master actually a woman?

With this question in mind, Anning carefully observed the young master's chin, indeed, he couldn't see even a single stubble.

It must be very smooth to touch.

Croci met Anning's gaze, smiled slightly and said, "Andy, you look much better."

"You as well, Marquis."

"Don't call me Marquis, just call me Croci as before." The young master said with a smile, "My life was saved by you, when we return to Paris, I will have my father reward you."

— That would be appreciated!

Anning thought.

Then he suddenly thought of something: he would receive a system reward for completing the mission on his end, and if Croci also asked his father for a reward, wouldn't that mean a double reward?

One from the duke, one from the system, quite exhilarating.

At this time, a squad of Dragon Cavalry arrived, the leading officer stopped in front of Anning and Croci and asked loudly, "Which one of you is Marquis Tolleson?"

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Croci raised his hand: "That would be me."

The officer saluted him: "Good day, Marquis, I am sent by General Carnegie to escort you back to Paris."

Croci: "Are we departing right now?"

"Of course, now that the Prussians have vanished, it's time to leave. If we don't leave now and the two sides start to encounter each other later, we might face harassment from the Prussian Cavalry on the road." The officer spoke loudly, "Our horses are not as good as the Cavalry's, it would be troublesome."

The Dragon Cavalry basically served as mounted infantry; during combat, they often dismounted to fight as infantry, so their horses were relatively inferior, unlike the horses used by the main forces of scouts and raiders like the Cavalry.

Croci nodded: "Alright, let's depart now."

Carnegie's orderly immediately said, "Your horse is here, we have prepared rations for the next few days, they are placed on the saddle. Of course, there's also water."

"Thank my general for me." Croci said as he took the reins from the orderly and mounted his horse.

Anning also got on his horse, he had been worried about not knowing how to ride, given that in this timeline he was just a leatherworker's son whose military position was a drummer, theoretically not needing to master any riding skills.

However, Anning mounted very smoothly, feeling like an experienced rider.

Maybe this FPS system comes with riding skills.

Croci looked at Anning's mounting action and praised, "Andy, you seem to have better riding skills than me."

Anning replied casually, "As a leatherworker's son, I've ridden cows."

Croci was stunned for a moment.

Just then, the Dragon Cavalry officer came over to clear the way for Anning: "Gentlemen, if you're ready, let's depart now. If we move quickly, we can reach Kabo Village by evening to stay overnight."

Croci nodded: "Alright, let's go."