Chapter 581 Chapter 543 Mercenary Corps (Part 1)

For the "good news" from the empire, the command department at the front line could not refuse.Moreover, whether it is the clergy of the church or the magician team of the magic union, they can bring good morale and uplifting spirit to the soldiers. In particular, the appeasement of the clergy has relieved the general soldiers from the fear of becoming the enemy's food after they die in battle. Immediately after the first batch of priests arrived, they were dispatched to the grassroots of the first line of defense. After listening to the prayers of those soldiers, the priests publicized that the imperial army was under the blessing of the gods and the evil If the enemy fights, even if he dies on the battlefield, as long as he fights bravely, his soul can return to the embrace of God after death.This statement greatly eased the panic of the soldiers.

As for the magician team... Ordinary grassroots soldiers absolutely welcome the arrival of the magicians. Everyone believes that with the joining of these superpowers, the war should become easier. However, senior generals such as Rostock don't think so.Different from ordinary soldiers, these high-level generals welcome the joining of magicians with reservations. These generals have all dealt with magicians before, and they know what these magicians are like!These guys are eccentric, unruly, disobedient, and they participate purely out of their own interest. If they are happy, they may work harder for you. If they are not happy, it would be good if they don't make trouble for you.

The most annoying thing is that these guys are still a privileged class, and military orders can't even order and direct them.Therefore, although they are powerful, how effective is a force that does not obey orders at all and does not know how to cooperate at all? What's more, the first batch of students of the Academy of Magic has graduated, and that is the team of magicians trained by the real empire, obedient and obedient to command!In contrast, the senior generals on the front line think that those militarized trained magicians are more worth looking forward to. As for... the mobilization of the Cavaliers' Association... in the eyes of Rostock and other generals, it is simply a joke!

Knights Association?What can they do?A half-dead "one of the three former mainland organizations" with only half breath left? ?What else is there in the Cavaliers' Guild other than a plaque left? And that calling order and employment order are nothing short of a joke! For the generals of the Storm Legion, such as Rostock, who was born in the regular army and was the most elite main battle regiment in the north of the empire, they looked down on the so-called "mercenaries" from the bottom of their hearts, especially those recruited after the call of the Knights Association. Most of the soldiers are from the original smuggling mercenary group.

As for the Storm Legion, it can be said that they have dealt with these smuggling mercenary groups for a lifetime!One side is the official army guarding the northern border, and the other side is the poaching and smuggling armed gang. There have been small frictions between the two sides for many years. There is no big hatred, but there are many small hatreds! However, the slander in my heart is the slander. After all, the contribution of the three major organizations of the empire to the war is good news for the high-level of the empire. Cooperate. Therefore, although Rostock and others were dissatisfied, they could only follow suit: the clergy who could make soldiers feel at ease received the greatest welcome, and were immediately taken to the front line and sent to the grassroots of the frontline army to quickly soothe the hearts of the soldiers.

And those noble mages also received the treatment of VIPs, but they were raised in the main fortress, and they were enshrined very well. The Storm Legion adhered to four words for these mages: keep a respectful distance. As for the mercenaries recruited by the Knights Association... Hmph, they kicked far to the rear of the second-line air force base, and they called it the reserve team.Who said that among the three major organizations, the Knights Association has the lowest status? As the head of the Stormtroopers, he had to give face to the Church and the Magic Union, but he didn't have to give face to the Knights Association.

... After the first battle, the 20,000 vanguards of the orc army retreated carefully for a certain distance, and then began to work. The human army behind Kaspersky's line of defense has no intention of going out of the city to fight, and the orc army has begun to build their camp. A large amount of wood was transported up, and ten days later, one after another, the orc army arrived at the front line. According to the visual inspection on the city wall, and the news sent by the Air Force's airship, they are now assembled in the north of the defense line. Within three kilometers, there are already more than 50,000 orc troops.These orcs also seem to have made plans for a long-term battle. They cut down the forest, and with the hard work of the strong orcs, they built camps one by one.

In just a few days, on the city wall, with a telescope, you can clearly see that the wooden wall in the distance is getting longer and longer, and simple wooden watchtowers have been erected one by one. Every day, standing on the city wall The soldiers on board could clearly hear the bustling work in the enemy's camp opposite.The sound of chant, shouting, felling, piling. According to the observation news, the orc army of the brigade came out of the frozen forest continuously and gathered here, like streams, and finally converged into a terrifying ocean—the sea of ​​beasts! Ten days later, what appeared in front of the soldiers of the Kaspersky defense line was the outline of a large camp in the north that was already quite large.

The front is a wooden wall more than two meters high, and it is also equipped with sharp wooden thorns. On the watchtower, there are orc soldiers with iron bows on their backs.The barracks were also built one by one, densely packed... According to the observation information sent by the air force, the area of ​​this barracks has been extending northward, reaching a long area of ​​dozens of miles!It can accommodate hundreds of thousands of enemies-this is just a conservative estimate. The orcs made various tools out of wood, and teams of carts loaded with heavy supplies were transported up from the rear. There were food, wood, and various forage plants on them... more were all kinds of monsters. Jerky made from corpses!

There are also several teams of orcs who have quickly dispersed, searched all the villages and towns that have been abandoned by humans within hundreds of miles, and collected all the materials that can be collected: stones, tools, and even a grain of wheat Spike, a sack! The orcs were in no rush to attack... which surprised the humans a bit.In their view, these monsters should be the kind of creatures with simple minds and well-developed limbs, but this kind of patience... Is it ignorance or deliberate patience? But human beings don't know it is... After a full 10,000 years of waiting, the sinners are not short of patience!It can come down in ten thousand years, so what's the point of waiting a few more days?

"These monsters are looking for death." In a military meeting, most human generals made such an evaluation. Moreover, this kind of concept has occupied the mainstream, and the decisive majority of the generals think so. "These monsters are simply crazy. They actually fought a protracted war and a war of attrition with us... Don't they know the consequences of this? We have the entire empire behind us as our strategic backup. But what about them? To a land of one thousand square kilometers, and this is the northern border of the empire, the climate is cold, and it is impossible to grow much food. After that, there is a frozen forest. Even if they can obtain part of the food by hunting monsters, but by hunting monsters like this , It is impossible to maintain the consumption of an army of such a large scale! Now we don't know where their rear is, as if they appeared out of thin air. But the only thing that is certain is that their rear is very, very far away from here! This makes it impossible for them to provide supplies to this army. If these guys really have advanced intelligence, they should attack us as soon as possible, trying to break through our defenses and run to the mainland Otherwise, they will be consumed here, and sooner or later they will all starve to death." The officer who spoke received most of the approval, and finally people couldn't help laughing: "I bet, they won't survive this winter, they will starve to death here." "Unless they can eat snow and northwest wind, hahahaha..." Seeing the attitude of the generals, Rostock frowned deeply: "Everyone!" The old general raised his voice, and everyone fell silent immediately. "I think we can't be blindly optimistic." Rostock said slowly: "We are facing a race that we don't know at all! We don't know much about them. But the problem is, from now on, they are intelligent and understand Craftsmanship, know tactics...they are now confronting us here, I don't think they are stupid, but...I'm afraid there are other reasons, we can't take it easy. And...Duke Tulip once said to me that he doubted , these alien races, there may be some air races with the ability to fly." "Duke Tulip?" The generals were silent for a while, but most of them still looked disapproving.Duke Tulip's fame is enough to shake those ignorant civilians, but to the most elite commanding generals of the empire - he is just a child who is not yet twenty years old. "I've decided." Rostock stood up suddenly: "Twenty days! After twenty days, if they haven't launched an attack, we will attack first! We can't expect to wait until the cold winter and let the climate kill them. The fate of the empire , It should be in our own hands! Twenty days later, if these guys are still here and want to make a home here, we will drive them away with our own hands." It has to be said that Rostock's decision was a bit hasty.However, the oldest front-line commander in the empire, there is always a faint uneasiness in his heart, as if there is always a layer of fog covering these strange enemies, making it impossible for him to see clearly. ... The mercenaries who signed up from all over the mainland filled a temporary barracks twenty kilometers south of the Kaspersky line of defense. The Knights Association offered a bounty of one gold coin for the head of a monster.Let those mercenaries who have nothing to do in business depression find a way to survive.Moreover, judging from the current news, although the reward is not high, it seems that the fighting power of those monsters is lower than that of ordinary monsters. We can even kill monsters, so it shouldn't be difficult to kill dozens of monsters and make a fortune, right? Of course, there are also a small number of knights who sign up, the kind of warriors who still hold the belief of knights and serve the country and the people.But such people are a minority after all. One kilometer away from this temporary barracks is the Imperial Frontline Air Force Base. Rostock threw these conscripted mercenaries to the second-line General Andre almost like throwing garbage. This approach made Andre a little dissatisfied, but facing his former boss, he couldn't refuse. The mercenaries from the mainland came to the temporary barracks to report that they did not need weapons and armor from the empire. As mercenaries and knights, they all had their own equipment. After arriving at the temporary barracks, they registered at the registration office After that, many people shouted anxiously: "Where are we going to kill those monsters?! Where can we find those monsters? When will we go to the battlefield?" In less than ten days, more than 3,000 people had been filled in the temporary barracks.General Andre didn't bother to take care of these mobs, he just sent 300 soldiers to maintain order, sent a few clerks to register, organized these registered people into an infantry battalion-level organization, and left them there for the time being. up. After a long time, the mercenaries who had been in the temporary barracks for a few days became restless. Many people started to shout and went to the registration office to inquire every day. North, trying to go north.But without exception, they were blocked by Kaspersky's imperial champions. On this day, there was a rush of horseshoes outside the barracks. Outside the gate of the camp, more than a dozen horses galloped towards the gate. When they came to the gate, the first knight on horseback stopped and made a difficult emergency stop. The person on the horse looked at the "hot and bustling" military camp in front of him, and his two thick eyebrows were immediately knit together, and he muttered in a low voice: "Damn, this is also called a military camp? It's just a market!"