Spring year, the end of April.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, a huge convoy of hundreds of carriages set off from the royal capital of Diluo City, all the way to the east, towards the kingdom of Suoliu.

This convoy is the marriage convoy of Princess Severnes, who married into the kingdom of Soliu for the sake of peace between the two countries.

Before the convoy departed, in order to play more realistically, Queen Yala cried to death, grabbed her daughter's hand, and fainted several times.

King Jaime also wiped the corners of his eyes, looking sad and helpless.

There are also many young nobles, even more sad and angry, pulling out the sword at their waists, several times trying to stop the convoy and stop this humiliating marriage!

But these nobles, after being controlled by the guards, all took them down.

At this scene, the envoy sent by the Suoliu Kingdom was even more proud, and his nostrils were raised to the sky.

also ridiculed: "The Kingdom of Adud is not a weak country, I didn't expect it to be so good-looking." ”

"I took your princess, I believe that His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Prince of our country will definitely like her very much!"

"Hahaha!"

Amid the rampant laughter of the envoy, the convoy set off.

The people present to see them off dared not speak out.

When the envoy and the convoy were far away, everyone's gloomy expressions as cold finally turned into smiles like the sun melting.

"Let them be happy for a few days, and in two months' time, see if they still laugh?" said one of the counts.

"Phew! the more proud they are, the worse they will fall!" said another earl, spitting.

"Let's hurry up and prepare, that woman will buy us two months at most, and the border legions of the Suoliu Kingdom are all in place, and they may find an excuse to attack us at any time. ”

Zhou Ming opened his mouth and said, the recruitment progress of mercenaries on their side is only about 60% at present, and there are less than 30,000 people who have arrived in the Addud Kingdom, so they have to speed up and recruit people quickly.

Everyone nodded, and they all cheered up.

……

More than two months later.

Spring year, early July.

The first season of spring wheat has been harvested one after another.

The envoy of the kingdom of Soliu came to the kingdom of Addud again.

Make a request:

"Our Prince Jeffrey is very pleased with Her Royal Highness the princess of your country, and His Majesty the King is also very fond of it, but ......"

"The marriage between the two countries is such a major event, but your country only has a gift of 100 cars, which is too shabby, and the nobles and ministers of our country are very dissatisfied, so ......"

King Jaime interrupted him and said with a blank face, "Isn't that 100 carts worth more than 300,000 gold coins?"

"This ......"

The envoy looked embarrassed: "According to the customs of our country, for such a noble figure as a princess, the dowry items should be about 5 million gold coins and 300,000 ...... Far from enough. "The other party is starting to reveal his purpose.

"No, not a single child. King Jaime waved his hand, his face cold.

"I know that you do not, so my Majesty the King wishes that the Kingdom of Addud will give us 13 counties of the Eastern Mirror as a dowry...... to show the sincerity of the marriage between the two countries. ”

At this time, the shameful face of the Suoliu Kingdom was fully exposed.

After the envoy finished speaking, he still looked at everyone with a smug face, wanting to see the reaction on everyone's faces.

Wrath.

Grief.

Or thunderous?

But......

To the envoy's disappointment, no one in the court was out of anger, but unusually calm.

Eerily calm.

"Samurai, drag him down for me and kill him!"

A voice sounded in his ear, and the envoy was frightened.

King Jaime!

This king directly ordered him to be executed?

"Whoa~Whoa~"

Two samurai in armor walked into the court, and the armor on their bodies made a gurgling sound.

"Wait!wait!"

Looking at the warriors who were getting closer and closer, the envoy's legs were weak, and he almost knelt down, and immediately said in a panic: "You can't kill me, you can't kill me!"

"Our country has prepared an army of 500,000 on the border, kill me, and a war will break out between the two countries immediately!"

"An army of 500,000, a full 500,000! What you can't stop, you can't stop!"

"Let me go, let me go!"

The envoy shouted desperately, but the crowd remained unmoved, and the two samurai immediately restrained him and dragged him down.

"Don't kill me, please, I'm wrong!

The last of the envoy's voice rang out, and then it turned into a terrible scream.

The envoy of the Suoliu Kingdom was killed like a chicken.

Not only him, but also the members of the special envoy sent by the entire Suoliu Kingdom, a total of more than 20 people, were all killed, and not one of them died.

In this way, after the high-level officials of the Suoliu Kingdom learned that the envoy to the Kingdom of Adud had unfortunately encountered thieves and were all killed, it was more than 20 days later.

Those more than 20 lives are equivalent to more than 20 days for the Kingdom of Adude.

Plus the more than two months that Isha won by pretending to be a princess.

The two contributed a total of three months.

Plus the three months that both parties originally had.

In other words, in order to deal with this inevitable war between the two countries, the Kingdom of Addud has been fully prepared for half a year!

Six months of ample time, for Zhou Ming, he not only pulled out a 100,000-strong mercenary corps, formed a 100,000-strong kingdom corps, and a 100,000-strong logistics support corps - formed a huge corps of 300,000 people!

There was also more than two months of regular army training.

And the supplies in all aspects are enough for this legion to last 6 months!

Even all kinds of new weapons have been developed five or six models, and 80,000 or 90,000 people have been reloaded.

For example, the long-range Divine Arm Crossbow, the sharp Horse Chopping Knife, the lightweight cuirass, the oil-based incendiary grenades, and the powerful breech rifle based on a red powder used in the Dwarven Powder Gun.

In particular, breech-loading rifles, with an effective lethal range of more than 600 meters and six to eight rounds per minute, can be called an artifact.

It is only due to the shortage of raw materials for the preparation of red gunpowder that such breech rifles, only more than 800 of which were produced, equipped with elite troops, played a killer role on the battlefield.

In short, whether it is soldiers, weapons, food and grass, training or other aspects, the Aduid Kingdom has made all preparations.

On the side of the Suoliu Kingdom, the main battle faction that had been impatient for a long time directly declared war on the Aduld Kingdom on the grounds of "ineffective protection, resulting in the killing of the special envoy of the Suoliu Kingdom", and immediately launched a military operation.

However, under the excellent camouflage and perfect secrecy, the high-level leaders of the Suoliu Kingdom and the commanders of the Western Legion have not realized until now what kind of force the army they will face will be?

……

Kingdom of Addudes.

Eastern Border.

In a border fortress.

There is a mercenary regiment of about 100 people stationed.

This mercenary group, called the "Flame Mercenary Group", has been established for more than 30 years, participated in more than 50 conflicts and wars, and the team members have also changed six or seven times, and the 21 founders at the time of the founding of the group, for various reasons, now there are only 3 left.

Hodette Agni, in his fifties, with a conspicuous scar on his forehead, was one of only three old men left in the group.

After the morning exercise this morning, before breakfast, when he went to the tower to call the regiment leader for breakfast, he found that the regiment commander was holding a charcoal pen in his hand and writing and drawing on the wall.

The regimental commander's name is Klein, in his forties, one of the three old men, the son of the previous regimental commander, one-eyed, and superb swordsmanship.

What he cares about most every day is how to lead the mercenary group to a stable and bright future.

"Klein, stop drawing, let's go to breakfast. ”

The regimental commander didn't seem to hear it.

Instead, he kept saying:

"Once the war begins, hold this fortress for three days and you'll get the remaining 50% of the commission and get out of the front line. ”

"If you hold the fortress for more than five days, you can get 150% of the commission and get 1,000 merit points. ”

"If you stick to it for more than ten days, you will get 200% of the commission and 2,000 merit points. ”

"Also, killing an enemy will give you 10 merit points. ”

"Capturing an able-bodied enemy earns you 50 merit points. ”

"And merit points can be exchanged for many things, such as gold coins, 1 merit value can be exchanged for 1 gold coin. ”

"You can also get a better weapon. ”

"Even, as long as the merit value reaches 10,000 points, you can exchange it for a baronial title with a territory. ”

"10,000 points, Holdert, I don't think it's hard to get. ”

"If we hold this fortress for more than ten days, kill 800 enemies, or capture 160 prisoners, and make up 10,000 meritorious points......"

The more the regiment leader Klein spoke, the more excited he became: "Hodter, I can become a nobleman with a territory!"

"At that time, we can put an end to this prodigal life of licking blood from the knife edge!"

"Don't you think that's great, Holdett?"

Klein asked, grabbing Hodter.

"Okay, okay, let's go to breakfast, I won't have anything to eat when it's late! Those big stomachs won't leave some for you just because you're the head of the group." ”

Holdert said helplessly, I don't know what's going on, since the "Military Merit Award Rules" was issued, a shrewd and sober regiment commander Klein, like a demon, was like a demon, calculating how to get 10,000 merit points all day long.

Holdert said in his heart: Maybe it's because the wandering life has been too long, and when faced with an opportunity to become a nobleman and live a stable life, the head of the regiment behaves like a child who longs for his favorite toy.

Of course, Holdett also longs for stability in his heart, and his heart has been moved, but he has experienced too many scenes, and there have been opportunities of one kind or another, placed in front of him, once seized, he can soar, but in the end, he ...... The harvest is still mostly disappointed.

He also stayed with the mercenary group.

"Bell Bell ~"

The alarm gong sounded suddenly!

"The enemy is coming!"

"A large number of enemies are coming!"

"All in place, ready for war!"

Arnold, one of the three old men who had been keeping watch in the watchtower, loudly reported the enemy's situation.

"It's coming!"

"They're finally here!"

Klein got up from the ground, took the heavy sword hanging on the wall, and walked quickly towards the stone wall with great excitement and excitement.

……

On the horizon not far away, countless phalanxes of the Suoliu Kingdom's army lined up rushed towards the hundreds of fortresses on the eastern border of the Adud Kingdom.