To the south of Fort Byan, the long marching line of the 11th and 15th Banners of the Orcs crowded the entire official road, and the dust everywhere showed that this was a huge team on the way.

The two armies, which had just completed their assembly in the eastern plains of Byan City, received the latest order from the Morinda Overseer at dawn on the 29th: to find and fight the Eighth Combined Army of the Kru Provisional Command, which was advancing in the direction of Byan City.

At the end of the letter of order, the Morinda Overseers demanded that the fighting must be ended by 2 October and that they should quickly retreat to Fort Birne.

Three hours later, it was half past twelve at noon on the 29th.

The scouts who stayed in the eastern part of Byan City received news that Crewe, who was in the eastern jungle of Byanburg, led the 7th Mixed Legion to start a breakout battle at half past seven in the morning, and successfully broke through at around nine o'clock.

Before the chief of staff of the expeditionary force, Dunmu, and the two banner commanders had time to deal with the problem, the scouts in front received another battle report: the Eighth Combined Army of the Provisional Formation of Kru was storming the passage of the Gula Mountains and forcibly establishing a defensive city on its eastern peaks.

Donmu and the two flag commanders had to stop moving forward...

In an open space next to the official road, Khamba, the leader of the Eleventh Banner Regiment, was the first to jump down from the tall body of the desert wolf, and then said while calming the horse's breath that was gradually irritable due to lack of water, "It's not good news for us, what if the Seventh Mixed Legion of Crewe Leads suddenly attacks Fort Byan?"

Dunmu and the commander of the 15th Banner jumped off their mounts one after another, and the surrounding soldiers tacitly blocked the open space.

Buge laughed, "It only takes one wing to defeat this rudimentary army." The commander of the banner was bitter about the failure to defeat this guerrilla force.

"My brother, I never doubted your strength, but you said it three months ago. Kham frowned, handed over the pacified mount to his own soldiers, and said: "The commander of this army is very experienced in commanding skirmishes, and is good at capturing fighters, they will not even kill our soldiers directly in battle, and each of our wounded warriors needs at least two companions to take care of, and at the same time, a large number of priests will be used to treat their injuries...

Therefore, we should now minimize the entanglement with this legion and devote the limited time to the frontal battle, I believe that as long as the Imperial army is defeated again in the frontal battle, the goblins will definitely increase their investment in the fleet, and then our predicament will naturally be lifted. ”

"But..."

"Kham is right, we can't waste time here. "Besides, even if we can defeat this guerrilla army, it will be of no use, and in less than two days these men will be gathered together again." ”

"What I'm trying to say is that the information that the humans have given us isn't the claim that the young commander of Crewe has asked this guerrilla army to go south to assist the Eighth Combined Legion?" said Bu Ge, moving his right arm, "Imperial officers are more important to military orders than we thought... We may be able to set up an ambush in their path. ”

"You can consider..."Kham was stunned for a moment, then looked at Donmu and said: "This guerrilla army has always been a hidden danger, and according to the information provided by the humans, there are more than 20,000 people in the Eighth Combined Legion of the Kru Territory, which will be the most difficult battle since we landed... If we were in the midst of a decisive battle with the Combined Corps, the rear partisan corps suddenly appeared, it would be very bad for us. ”

Donmu nodded silently, then thought for a few seconds before saying, "Buge, if you wish to move your shins, I'd love to see you do a great job." ”

"Haha. Buge laughed a few times, excitedly grabbing the mane above his mount's head.

But just as Buge was about to agree, several orcs dressed as scouts appeared outside the cordon set up by the guards in a cloud of dust...

"The Kru Collar Mixed Seventh Legion is rapidly advancing in the direction of Fort Byan!" shouted the Scout Captain as he delivered a detailed military report.

After hearing this, the three of them glanced at each other, and quickly opened the detailed report handed by their own soldiers.

"It seems that the commander of this partisan regiment is not stupid. Donmu whispered.

Buge shook his head and said, "But he's still stupid... With 2,000 of our elite warriors at Beenburg, this peasant army had neither heavy siege weapons nor a large army of magicians, making it almost impossible to capture a fortified castle. ”

Kham was not very optimistic, he said: "Think about the plan of Lake Garmic, we have been preparing for this for nearly a month, and the degree of secrecy is so tight that even our three flag leaders can only know the specific plan at the last moment, but the human side still knows the whole plan in advance, and then think about the six thousand human inhabitants in Bienburg, how they will feel when they learn that their army is about to regain Bienbao?" ”

"Then kill them. Buge's face was full of anger.

"It is an order of the High Command to keep these inhabitants!" said Khamba, looking at the chief of staff of Donmu, "besides, we have signed an agreement with them to take refuge. ”

"Those agreements are just a piece of waste paper, and as long as we are the ultimate victors, there are countless human nobles who are willing to sign similar agreements with us. Buge said nonchalantly.

"Six thousand civilians," Donmu made a decision, "In order to ensure the victory of this war led by Crewe, even sixty thousand people must be killed!"

Buge smiled cruelly, "It's better to learn from the flood at Lake Jamici, we can use these six thousand civilians..."

"No!" Donmu flatly refused, "we paid for the lives of a hundred priests for that flood, and you should know the finances and time it takes for the clan to train a hundred priests, so it's not worth it." ”

"Then just kill them!"

...

29th, four o'clock in the afternoon.

The 5,000 main forces of the 7th Mixed Regiment, which excelled at long-distance attacks, successfully reached the towering walls of Fort Byan's after a seven-hour rapid march.

In the past seven hours, Fred's more than 5,000 people have not encountered even a small team of orcs, let alone an orc attack, so at this moment, Fred has completely believed Xiwen's words...

There are indeed not many defenders in Byan City!

But when Fred actually arrived at Fort Byan, he understood why the main force of the orcs would leave with confidence and boldness.

The towering walls show the brilliance of human architectural civilization, and also destroy the confidence of Sir Fred's previous hours...

Eventually, at the suggestion of the officers, Sir Fred made his troops deliberately appear exhausted in an attempt to lure the enemy out of the city for a decisive battle, but the orc defender commander was not fooled.

Later, at Xiwen's suggestion, more than a dozen orcs captured in the morning breakout battle were tied up in front of the military formation, and tortured in front of the Orc defenders of Fort Byan.

Soon, the miserable howls of the tortured orc captives resounded over Beenburg...

But the orc defenders didn't do anything other than shout something that Fred didn't understand.

The sky slowly darkened, and the soldiers of the originally ambitious 7th Mixed Legion ended the first day of the 'siege battle' after executing five orc captives, and then retreated to a temporary camp five miles away.

After a brief feast on some wild herbs, Sir Fred and his principal officers sat around a burning bonfire, as did Siwin Zedan.

"We lacked the necessary engineering equipment and skilled craftsmen... Therefore, if the orcs make up their minds not to go out of the city to face the battle, we will not be able to attack the Orc Castle even if there are only a hundred orc defenders. "Calvin was obviously well educated, and he was well aware of military common sense.

"Then surround them, doesn't the intelligence say that the logistical supply of the orcs has long been cut off by our fleet?"

Fred shook his head, gently stirred the bonfire with a tree branch, and said: "The orcs are not only the defenders of Byan City, they still have tens of thousands of troops hundreds of miles away, if we can't end the battle here as soon as possible, or after the real battle begins, if we don't capture Byan Fort within a day, we may be flanked at any time." ”

"There's not much we can do. Calvin whispered, as if talking to himself.

But his words were heard by almost all officers.

Yes, there is not much that their army can do ...

Everyone fell silent, and the crackling of the campfire was especially noticeable at this moment.

"Everyone...," Siwen suddenly interrupted the silence, "I have information here, maybe you will be very interested. ”

Fred's gaze instantly fell on Xiwen's body, he looked at Xiwen's face with a smile, at this moment, Fred very much hoped that he could smash the other party's damn smile with one punch, but he knew that he couldn't, he could only hold back his irritability and said in a deep voice: "We are all listening, Your Excellency Xiwen." ”

The smile on Siwen's face was even worse, "In Beenburg, there are still six thousand humans..."

"I know, traitors to the Empire. An officer responded immediately.

"The empire of shit. ”

"Shit traitor. ”

"What do you want to say. Fred's voice was loud, and he interrupted the officers' complaints.

"At this moment, the orcs are planning to execute these humans, because they think they may join forces with you to open the gates of Bunenburg. The smile on Sivin's face was strange.

Just as the officers were about to laugh at their fellow citizens, Sir Fred's stern gaze swept away, and the officers immediately swallowed back what they had not yet complained...

"There's nothing I can do about it, my army can't even climb the walls of Fort Beene. "Sir Fred had already guessed what Sywin was intending to do, and he had said it on purpose.

Hearing this, Xiwen immediately bowed down and said, "The 'Radiant Force' is willing to serve, we can help you save those people, and let them act as your vanguard to break through the orc gates from within." ”

Everyone was moved by Sivin's suggestion, and after a brief silence, the officers generously praised Siwen in all the beautiful language they knew.

"What do you want?" Fred's serious voice was evident in the words of praise.

"I think Baron Pedi will promise everything we need. ”