Alonso was quick for a while, hiding behind the old carriage, and he only felt extremely scared in his heart. www.biquge.info He immediately ordered the guards of the brigade to begin to guard the vicinity of his carriage day and night, from morning to night, without stopping, to prevent anyone from the Second Sword Regiment from approaching.

From then on, the marquis's eating, drinking, and sleeping were all carried out in the carriage. The guards put his food, water, and urine in separate containers. Mel came several times in the dark of night with the intention of assassinating the man, but he couldn't do anything.

The failure of the night attack on the city of Mandolia, the infighting in the army, and the death of Kevin directly caused the morale of the Second Swordsman Regiment to suffer, and it had to be repaired on the spot and stood by, and no military action was launched. Leonard, the head of the regiment, also became very depressed and silent, sometimes for a whole day, without saying a word. As the reinforcements of the Lars Empire gathered, they got closer and closer to the city of Mandolia.

The Second Swordsman Regiment had less and less food and grass in stock. The current situation can be said to be getting worse and worse, and it is already very bad. Of the more than 2,000 guards under Alonso's command, a considerable number of them were so frustrated that they deserted and deserted. The appearance of deserters further lowered morale. Many of the mercenaries of the Second Swordsman Regiment were already showing signs of psychological collapse, and they couldn't wait to go to war.

A captain of the Second Swordsman Regiment, as a representative of the mercenaries, walked into the tent where Leonard and Bran were resting, and loudly proposed: "Commander, deputy commander, fight! The brothers don't want to go on like this." I don't know what the situation in the Duchy of Bagram is? If I had known this, it would have been better to fight with the Lars Imperial Army outside the city of Bagram in the first place. Hearing this, the Great Swordsman continued to sit in his chair silently and ponder.

Bran, who was standing beside Leonard, replied, "The defenders of Mandoria are well-armed, powerful, and well prepared. Isn't our army going to die in vain when we are attacking the city now? All we can do now is wait. Either wait until reinforcements come to our aid, or wait until the enemy comes out of the city and fights us. ”

The mercenary's representative spoke out against Bran: "We can't take the enemy's capital. But such a large country as the Lars Empire. Can't we attack other places? Directly attack the economic base of the Lars Empire, and by the way, replenish supplies. ”

Bran retorted loudly: "The regiment commander has already said it. We're not bandits!"

The mercenary's representative continued to expound his point in a loud voice: "But this is war! Either you die or I live! The reason why we did not attack the rest of the Lars Empire was only because we wanted to rush outside the city of Mandolia as soon as possible, force the main force of the Lars Empire to retreat, and lift the enemy's siege of Bagram. Now we have been outside of Mandolia for so many days. Should we continue to wait stupidly? Rather than this, we should return to Bagram now. ”

Bran couldn't come up with a reasonable reason to refute the mercenary representative, so he had to ask Leonard: "Then, leave everything to the commander." ”

Under the concerned gaze of Bran and the mercenary representative, Leonard simmered for a long time, and finally pointed to the mercenary representative's nose and spoke: "Wait a few days, if the reinforcements don't arrive yet." Just do what you say. When the mercenary's representative heard this, he was very happy to convey the meaning of the regiment commander.

Seeing this, Bran asked puzzledly: "Ray, but..." Hearing this, Leonard hurriedly waved his hand at the longbowman, indicating that he had made up his mind and did not need to say more.

Suddenly, a loud shout came from outside the tent: "Reinforcements are coming——" Leonard and Bran heard this, and hurriedly ran out of the tent and began to observe the surrounding situation.

A soldier shouting outside the tent immediately led Leonard and Bran to the barracks' fence, under a tall observation tower. Standing on the sentry tower, the sentry holding binoculars saw the regiment commander and deputy regiment commander coming, and immediately announced loudly: "It's reinforcements!

Seeing this, Leonard did not dare to take it lightly at all, and in order to prevent the enemy from pretending to be a friendly soldier and suddenly attacking, he loudly ordered the vigilance: "The whole army urgently assembles and prepares for battle!" As a result, after receiving the order, all the soldiers of the Second Swordsman Regiment stood behind the barracks fence with their crossbows and bows. The Great Swordsman climbed the watchtower in front of him, took the binoculars from the sentry's hand, and began to look out for the support troops coming from afar.

After watching for a moment, Leonard couldn't help but wonder in his heart. "What's going on!?" I saw that the size of this army was very small, only more than 500 people. Moreover, all the officers and soldiers are orcs with a strong physique and the appearance of beasts. The strangest thing is that the flag they are holding is actually printed with the pattern of green leaves surrounding the staff. The flag is the flag of the Republic of Vosfitta.

And the orcs who walked at the forefront of this army left the team and returned to the howl of Jiluo after the mercenary conference.

Dressed in a wide and heavy all-steel armor, full of sharp teeth, covered with long brown hair, and carrying a huge Ugin battle axe on his shoulder, he led the warriors of his tribe all the way over the mountains and mountains, day and night, to the front of the camp of the Second Swordsman Regiment, and shouted loudly: "Ray, Bran, why can't you even recognize me?" ”

When Bran saw the howl, he commanded his subordinates in a loud voice: "Go and open the camp gate." It was indeed reinforcements. The soldiers of the Second Swordsman Regiment couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when they saw that the number of reinforcements was very scarce, but their hearts once again ignited the light of hope. The mercenaries immediately led the exhausted orc allies into the barracks and settled down. Then Leonard, Bran, and Howl walked into the leader's tent together. The three of them sat down alone and began to discuss the current situation.

Inside the tent, as soon as Howl sat down on his chair, he spoke first: "We have come this time only to represent our own tribe and fully support your righteous deeds against the Lars Empire. ”

Bran, who was seated next to him, was puzzled when he heard this, and asked, "Only on behalf of your own tribe?

Howl then explained, and asked, "The coalition forces are not ready yet. The commander-in-chief of the Jiluo army was also slow to send troops. I can't watch you fight here alone, while I and my people stay in the barracks all day with nothing to do. So I brought my people with me to meet you.

And in order to clear up the relationship between us and the Jiluo army. So we changed to the flag of the coalition forces. Anyway, sooner or later, the coalition forces will have to be dispatched. This battle has to be fought sooner or later. In the end, how can the Elven King send a lone army like you into the hinterland of the Lars Empire alone, without sending any troops to reinforce it?"

When Leonard heard this, he couldn't help but sneer, revealing an attitude of extreme contempt for Cleos, and responded: "Hmph. It's not because the officers and soldiers of the Second Swordsman Regiment are all mercenaries from Bagram, and everyone hates the Lars Empire to the core, and it just happens that the old monster has taken advantage of this and has become a chess piece in his hands. ”

Hearing this, he found that the current atmosphere was a little wrong, and he laughed embarrassedly: "Heh." Although I don't think Cleos is a good guy either. But he didn't think he was an old monster, was he?" he thought that his arrival would make Leonard very happy, or at least boost the confidence of the Great Swordsman, but he didn't expect to be treated coldly by the other party.

Leonard replied to the howling question with a series of rhetorical questions in fierce rhetoric: "The old monster has lived for thousands of years, isn't it old? In addition, this man has been in power for so many years, he has always been a monopoly of power, arbitrary, and arbitrary, and unscrupulous to exclude dissidents; he often presents himself as the representative of the brightest, greatest, and ultimate order in the whole continent, and wantonly sanctions, crusades, and dismemberes other countries; and he often uses it to build the so-called great motherland, and to realize the so-called great ideals, he must have the courage to sacrifice and Selfless dedication and other nonsense, high-sounding play with his subjects.

To use all the people, to make them willingly obey themselves, to surrender to themselves, to be controlled by themselves, to be played with by themselves, to worship themselves, to die for themselves; such bastard fellows are not old monsters who are demagoguery, what else can they be? Finally, knowing that we are pawns abandoned after being used by the old monster. Why did you come to this hellish place and die with us?"

Howling was stunned by Leonard's question, and there was almost nothing to say, and after a long silence, he argued: "This... It's because we don't want to see you die in vain, that's why we're here to support you!"

When Leonard heard this, he got up from his seat, stepped out of the tent without looking back, and at the same time said, "Go back to Jiluo." What I hate most in my life is you guys who have a full sense of justice, who only take things for granted and meddle all day long, and think that everything is so simple. ”

Seeing Leonard leave, Bran hurriedly explained to the confused howl sitting in his seat: "I'm sorry. Let you hear such irresponsible remarks from the head of the Second Swordsman Regiment. But just a week ago, Kevin tragically died. ”

When he heard this, he shouted, "What!? This is not going to work! I will go to him!" With that, the orc warrior grabbed Bran's wrist and ran out of the tent together to find Leonard.

Sure enough, Leonard had arrived at Kevin's grave. Seeing this, Howl walked behind the Great Swordsman and persuaded, "Ray, I understand your feelings. But..."

Leonard first asked loudly and loudly: "What do you know!? Kevin is not a mercenary of Bagram at all! Without me, he would not have come to the Lars Empire at all, let alone block arrows for himself and die for me!"

Then Leonard sneered again and mocked himself: "Oh, as the commander of the regiment, I can't do anything, I can only watch him die in front of me." ”

Leonard threw a punch and slammed it into the trunk of a large tree beside him, bowed his head, and continued with a dejected expression: "What is even more ridiculous is that the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time. We are destined to be nothing more than useless outcasts in the hands of old monsters, and nothing can be changed. ”

At some point, Mel was already standing behind Leonard, and took over the conversation and replied, "Not like that. Commander, it's not like that. I'm sure Kevin doesn't think so. It's not like we can't change anything. Isn't it big brother, has you already brought a batch of reinforcements?"

Leonard continued to sneer and respond to Mel: "What can these more than 500 people he bring change!? ”

Hearing this, he interjected and loudly encouraged Leonard: "That's not the case! The warriors of our tribe are all brave warriors who regard death as if they were at home, and they block ten with one. I was in touch with Crotty before I came. She will also personally lead her troops to rescue us. Ray, as long as we believe in ourselves, there is nothing that cannot be changed. ”

Leonard finally sneered, then turned around, and with a razor-sharp gaze that swept around the eyes of every companion nearby, he asked, "Cut—that's not the case." As long as you are not afraid of death, what else do I Leonard have to fear!? There is always little hope. Reality is always cruel. Whether or not you can do what you say is another matter entirely. At Kevin's grave, are you all willing to risk your lives for what you say today?"

Hearing this, the first one replied: "When we came here, we have already put life and death on the line. "Although the orcs of Jiluo do not know magic, they believe in the religion of the god of fire and war, almost everyone regards death as home, and their physique is unusually strong, and they are the only fierce race on the continent of Farusion that has fought a draw with the army of the Republic of Vosfitta.

Bran said that there was nothing to say, but at the same time he said a lot of things: "Ray, I don't have anything to say either. As a mercenary and nobleman of Bagram, it is the highest honor to be able to lay down my life for the country I love!

Mel hesitated for a moment, and then replied loudly, "I... Captain, if Kevin can do it, I can do it too. Anyway, sooner or later, people are going to die. can follow the head of the regiment and die for the incomparably great ideal. I deserve to die without regrets. ”

When Leonard heard this, he stepped forward, looked into Mel's eyes, and reminded the other party in a serious voice: "Mel! We are not ready to die! We are not here to achieve some great bullshit ideals! We just have to fight in order to survive as much as possible in the current extremely bad situation." ”

When Mel heard this, he replied with three words at the end: "I will fight hard." I will never give up hope. We're going to win. ”

Leonard stretched out his hands and placed them on Mel's shoulders, continuing to look into the other's eyes, and said in a soothing tone, "Good." After Kevin. Mel, you've grown up and become a formidable warrior. Finally, I ask you to agree to the request of the regimental commander, no matter when and where, you must not be strong again, and you must leave the Lars Empire alive. ”

Mel's eyes glistened with tears, and he replied with infinite anticipation: "Commander, I promise you that you will never be reckless and will definitely leave the Lars Empire alive." "He, like Kevin, is not yet eighteen years old, how could he be willing to die?

Finally, Leonard turned around, glanced at Kevin's grave again, and silently muttered in his heart: "Kevin, seeing this situation, I think you must be able to look at it." Your brother Mel, leave it to the regimental commander to continue to protect it. Even if it requires giving my own life to do so, I, Leonard, will not hesitate to do so, and I will never regret it. At this point, the Great Swordsman and his party made up their minds to fight to the death.

After returning to the barracks, Leonard and the others did not reveal the truth about the current situation to the other mercenaries. Instead, the Great Swordsman told the regiment: "Tens of thousands of reinforcements have already set off from the borders of the Lars Empire, and will come to our aid in the near future."

When the Lars Empire learned of this, it had already begun to get ready to move. All the officers and men of the Second Swordsman Regiment must be ready at all times to fight to the death against the Lars Imperial Army. When the mercenaries heard this, they were all overjoyed and their morale was boosted, and they were mentally prepared to fight the enemy to the death.

Not far from the south gate of Mandoria, in a temporary Frankish residence. A herald knelt down on one knee in front of the emperor and reported: "Your Majesty, the enemy army outside the city has been reinforced by a force of about five hundred men. ”

Frank sat in his chair and replied with a very calm expression: "It is difficult for such a small reinforcement to have a substantial impact on the current war situation. Have all the troops outside the city been assembled?"

The herald replied, "It's all assembled." The generals only waited for His Majesty's order to annihilate the enemy. ”

Frank solemnly instructed the heralds: "Go and tell them that you can't rush into battle." The enemy forces are only in a more anxious situation than we are at the moment. Those mercenaries from the Principality of Bagram, who have a national hatred and a family feud and are well-trained, are eager to fight our army to the death after waiting for so many days. Those reserve soldiers and civilians outside the city of our army have just been assembled, and if they rashly engage the enemy now, they will definitely suffer a great loss. ”

The herald replied, "Yes." With that, he withdrew from the Frankish residence, rode out of the city alone, and conveyed the order to the commander of the reserve militia outside the city of Slow Doria. With the continuous build-up of reinforcements from the Lars Empire. The Second Swordsman Regiment had abandoned the blockade of Mandolia due to its lack of troops, and Bazhai had stayed away from the capital, leaving only a few outposts outside the city to keep an eye on.

After receiving the order, the commander of the reserve militia of the Lars Empire was obviously unwilling to continue this kind of consumption: "Your Majesty is too cautious, isn't it? We have now gathered more than 7,000 people, plus 3,000 in the city. The morale of the enemy army is sluggish, and it is the perfect time to annihilate them in one fell swoop. What are you afraid of?"

An adjutant beside the commander said a different opinion: "But since Your Majesty will give such an order, there must be a reason for Your Majesty." We can't just disobey orders. ”

When the leader of a local militia organization in the suburbs of Mandoria heard this, he stood up and suggested: "I heard that the enemy army carried a lot of grain and grass with the army on the way to invade our country. That's why they've been able to bypass our towns and stay outside of Mandolia for so long. Let me lead people to burn all the enemy's food and grass. The other side will definitely be in turmoil and defeated before the battle..."...