In the southern part of the Banson area, there is a logistical supply line that leads directly to Crane City and Twak Territory.

In more than ten days of continuous warfare, the orcs have successively occupied large areas in the west and north of Benson Town, and this southern supply line is the only life supply line left in Benson Town.

But this important supply line was attacked by a small group of wolf cavalry of orcs without warning.

After the Earl of Anse inquired about the situation, he immediately transferred a second detachment to Sir Capith, and the captain of this brigade was the former sheriff of Hades Town, Peruth.

After rescuing Tabor, he quit his job in the guard office and rushed to Anku Fortress, because he hoped that he would find his life's purpose in Anku Fortress, just like the ancestors of the Radiant Power.

When Perus arrived at the fortress of Anku, it was just in time for the old Duke of Baogue's recruitment order, so he and Taber joined the garrison of the fortress without thinking about it.

Later, because of his excellent performance, he was favored by Count Anse and transferred to the regular garrison of Anku Fortress and became a squadron leader of the garrison squadron.

During the defensive battle of the fortress of Anku, he was ordered to garrison the fortress on the right flank of the fortress,

So, I don't know if it was his luck or misfortune, he and his soldiers were forced to withdraw from the fortress with barely a drop of orc blood on their spears.

During the retreat, Perus witnessed the scene of the orc army raging in the fortress of Anku, and met the robes who were killed in battle for covering their retreat,

At that time, he just watched like that,

That feeling of powerlessness and despair was something he will never forget!

Later, Perus followed Count Anse to the town of Benson to take charge of the defense of the town of Benson, during which time he witnessed the bloody sight of tens of thousands of peasants armed with improvised weapons when they stopped the orc army.

That's a real river of blood,

Of the nearly 25,000 young and strong peasant soldiers, less than 10,000 survived several resistance battles.

A land infested with the blood of more than 10,000 people!

That kind of scene, before this war, Perus had only heard about it in stories.

At that time, he was equally powerless and equally desperate.

Perus was not a great man, or thirteen years ago, he would not have watched the massacre happen in front of his eyes and chose to escape.

But he wanted to be like that, he wanted to be great, and that was an inherent thought or belief that he had formed from the brainwashing Paladin's course since childhood.

But this belief is vulnerable in the face of reality.

A small thing, a choice, this seemingly solid belief will face collapse.

Perus remembered that his knightly instructor had told him a long time ago: only faith that has been eroded by time is true knightly faith!

At this moment, Perus has no doubt about this sentence,

However, at that time, Perus refuted the knight instructor, because, at that time, he felt that his faith could not be shaken by any test,

But as it turned out, he was just a young, hot-blooded young man at the time.

...

The mayor of Kaipaithon reorganized a grain transportation team of 300 people.

Among them, most of them were old people, and there were even more than a dozen women and children in their teens, and the leader of the group was a female knight, a very young female knight.

Perus saw in the eyes of the knightess a sentiment called hatred, no, it should be said that it was in the eyes of everyone in Benson Town, but most people had become numb to this emotion in this general environment,

Only this female knight, the hatred in her eyes almost burst out.

"Hey!" Perus sighed in his heart, and his mood became more and more irritable as he looked at these old people, women, and children who should have been protected in the rear.

He wouldn't blame Sir Kilpatrick, because he knew that it was not easy for Benson Town to form such a team.

"My name is Judith, the lord knight of the northern part of the Klan Realm. The knightess introduced herself, and her voice was as nice as that of the noble ladies that Pettis had heard at some of the drinking parties in Hattistown.

"Perus, as you can see, the commander of this unit. When Peruth heard the knight introduce herself, she knew where her hatred came from, after all, the entire northern part of the Crane was now overrun by orcs.

"I've been ordered by Sir Kilpatrick to lead this convoy to the supply depot outside the village of Kert to carry supplies... Sir Kilpatrick Towntout told me that you and your men would assist me along the way. Judith stared at Perus, "I know what we're going to face this time, so I beg you, if conditions allow, make sure that these people in the food convoy are safe..."

Saying this, Judith bit her lip, made a knightly salute and whispered, "Of course, if the conditions do not allow it, please put your mission first, they will be guarded by me!"

"I... Exert oneself. That's all Pelus can say.

Judith was not surprised by Peruth's reply, her gaze stayed on Peruth's face for two seconds and then took out half of the map, "So, now confirm the route first." ”

Perus nodded, pulling out the other half of the map.

Five minutes later, when everything was done accurately, the team of more than a thousand people set out under the name of Perus, and the target, two hundred miles away, was the village of Ket.

A day later, on June 16,

It's just dawning,

After a caravan of grain that had traveled day and night, they followed the designated march route to a stream outside a valley.

The head of the grain caravan, Knight Judith, approached Perus and asked to stop and camp to rest, a tradition for the caravan who liked to travel in the afternoon and evening and rest in the morning.

Perus did not object, because the party really needed to rest, and besides, they were already close to their destination, and they only needed to cross the valley in front of them, and at the current pace of marching, it would take them at most eight hours to reach the village of Ket,

So, while he sent scouts and patrols, he generally ordered the troops to light fires and cook on the spot.

As the herald hurried all the way to convey the order, the whole team began to slowly become lively,

Ten minutes later, countless bonfires were lit, and for a moment, smoke surrounded the stream,

Perus, on the other hand, nibbled his rations and led the patrol along the perimeter of the troop rest area, and at last he stopped on a high ground and quietly gazed at the camp that was now peaceful and full of laughter, and then moved his gaze to a ravine at the end of the stream.

"Do you regret coming here with me?" Perus whispered to the man beside him, who was the young tax collector he had saved, Tabor.

"I have no regrets and no regrets, I have lost all my relatives, perhaps, this kind of place is the place where I should stay the most now, because, if you die here, there will always be one or two people who remember your deeds, just as I remember them. Tabor had a calm face.

Hearing this, Perus retracted his gaze from afar, looked at Tabor and said, "This may be the fate of you and me, two months ago, I didn't know I would be here, would..."

"Beep... Beep..."

Suddenly, a shrill magic whistle sounded like a ghost crying wolf in the direction of the valley in the distance.

"The sound is coming from the mountain stream and valley to the north!" Tabor no longer felt surprised or nervous about this sudden situation, and he calmly looked at the mountain stream in the distance.

By the creek, the soldiers and members of the food team who were enjoying breakfast were startled by the sound of magic whistles, and the soldiers began to search for their weapons and equipment, while the members of the food team gathered together to watch carefully.

"Raise my banner!" called out to the flag bearer beside him, and then he swept his horse along the stream, shouting, "All team!

Soon, the panicked team slowly became calm because of his presence,

The officers also reacted at this time, and various military orders came and went one after another for a while.

Perus ran all the way to Judith, and without waiting for the other to ask, he said, "I don't know what the situation is, but I think it is better to retreat into the jungle on the flank." ”

"Good!" said Judith with only one word, and then turned to leave.

Perus looked at Judith's departing back and shouted to the herald beside him, "Let our men retreat to the flank jungle too!"

The herald took the command flag and pulled his horse away.

A few minutes later,

As Perus commanded his troops to retreat to the flank jungle, a wounded scout was brought to him by a group of soldiers.

"Someone ambushed us in the valley, but my brother spotted him, but he died, everyone else died, only I survived..."The scout's tone was weak, and his words were incoherent.

"Orcs?" asked Tabor, preemptively ahead of Peruth.

"Yes, there are orcs, but there are also humans, mostly humans, humans like us. The scout looked excited, perhaps not understanding why humans and orcs were attacking them.

"It's those traitors, the Anku Fortress was lost because of them, and the old duke died because of them!" a soldier roared,

In an instant, all the soldiers in the vicinity had red eyes, and they wanted to rush up and fight them immediately.

"Have you detected the number of enemy troops?" asked Perus, approaching.

"The exact number is unknown, but there will be no less than two thousand, they are spread all over the valley, and when we find them, we will gather our forces and advance here, arriving in half an hour at the latest. ”

Hearing this, Perus lowered his head and pondered for a few seconds under the gaze of the soldiers around him, and then turned to Tabor on the side, "I want you to return to Benson Town as quickly as possible and tell Count Anse the information here... This is very important!"

"Understood!" Tabord turned and walked away.

"Let the troops speed up and retreat into the jungle, and build fortifications on the spot where they arrive in advance. Perus looked at the slow-moving contingent and re-emphasized: "Within ten minutes, all squadrons must be withdrawn into the flank jungle." ”

Orders are conveyed a lot,

Soon, the whole army accelerated the pace of retreat,

Ten minutes later, there was no one left by the noisy stream of the original.

Half an hour later,

A huge battle flag slowly rises on the horizon at the end of the stream,

Soon, a formation of infantry troops in standard leather armor appeared in Peru's eyes, and on their flanks, small groups of orc wolf cavalry ran back and forth.

"It's the people of the Empire, these damned traitors. Judith trembled, her teeth crunching.

"The pattern on the battle banner is so familiar!" Perus muttered to himself, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "It's the badge of the Sabertooth Mercenary Regiment, and these people are the members of the Sabertooth Mercenary Regiment." ”

It suddenly occurred to Peru that this was the mark of the group of mercenaries who attacked the guards at the ancestral graveyard of the Suker Plains.

Why are these people here?

How did this mercenary group collude with the orcs?

Does the Radiant Force's last-minute involvement in the case of Tyre have anything to do with this mercenary group?

For a while, countless questions flashed through Perus's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and a layer of cold sweat unconsciously appeared on his forehead.

"Whatever mercenary group he is, all I know is that they are a bunch of traitors, sinners of the entire empire. Knight Judith said coldly, the saber at his waist was already unsheathed.

"But my concern is that they know our route in advance. Perus's face was extremely serious, "You know, even you and I only knew the route of this grain convoy's operation at the last moment of departure, but these people were able to arrange here in advance, you say, where is their intelligence source?"

"Where could it be?" said Judith's face froze,

"Where will it be?" asked Peruz again.

"High Command!" finally the two whispered at the same time.