Chapter 43: A New Mate (3,000 words)

"We're participating, too." Everyone stood up, including some of the people with Tang faces, although they are Tang people, most of them are people who are not good at mixing in their homeland, otherwise who would let the local flower world run into the desert to be a mercenary with no tomorrow today? After being a mercenary for so many years, he has fought a lot of battles, suffered no less injuries, and made no less money, but his status is still not valued as before, and now it is rare to have a shortcut to get promoted and make a fortune, where will they let go of such a good opportunity?

"Very good, it seems that everyone is a smart person, and they all know that this is a rare and good opportunity, so I declare ......" Ben Yin is very satisfied with this, it seems that the identity of the people of the Tang Dynasty is really tempting, and the fair promotion channel is what everyone is praying for, relying on these two points alone, it is worth everyone's hard work for His Royal Highness the Prince.

"Wait a minute, Lord Benin." Before Ben Yin could finish speaking, Harvey interrupted Ben Yin again: "Although the conditions given by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are very tempting and enough for all of us to fight hard, I have to remind you that we only have five hundred men, while the rebels have three thousand, and they are well equipped and have firearms, which are far from what we can compare...... Although everyone did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the promise of the crown prince, I still think it is better not to fight with the rebels, and it is better not to die if you can not die, life is priceless after all. ”

Ben Yin glanced at him dissatisfied, and said with a little displeasure: "Do you still need to remind him of this?" Of course I know this, and I don't plan to fight the rebels...... Besides, who told you that there were only five hundred of us? ”

"More than five hundred?" Everyone is very strange, all the members of the mercenaries on the Luzon side are only eight hundred in total, each of them is the elite of the elite, except for those who ran missions outside and did not come back, the rest are here, where is there more people in him?

"I think you may have overlooked a problem, and that is that there is not only one mercenary in Luzon." Luo Lin, who had been beside him without speaking, finally couldn't stand it anymore, he felt that if he continued to look like this, he would be angry sooner or later, how could they not understand such an obvious truth?

"Are you saying that Your Highness has hired a team of mercenaries from outside in addition to us?" Someone has finally figured out this joint.

"Isn't that knowingly asking?" Creevey said angrily, "Do you all have muscles in your brains?" You can't understand such a simple truth - Your Highness is merciful, it is impossible to issue a mortal mission, not to mention that listening to the wind mercenaries is an important layout for his future, how can he be willing to waste our lives on this mere island of Luzon? ”

"And how many of us are there?" Someone else asked.

"In addition to us, we have hired five mercenary teams, which add up to about two thousand people." Ben Yin said, seeing a trace of worry flashing in Harvey's eyes, he took the initiative to say without waiting for him to ask: "I know what you are worried about, joint operations are taboo among mercenary groups, but this point is not valid for these five mercenary teams...... Although these five mercenary groups are not completely trustworthy, they are still very trustworthy on the whole. ”

Mercenary is a very dangerous profession, this danger not only refers to fighting with the enemy on the battlefield, but more importantly, it also has to compete with peers, and always be on guard against being attacked by the other party. Therefore, it is difficult for mercenary groups to trust each other, let alone unite as one, even if they are two mercenary groups of the same faction.

They often choose to fight separately rather than unite and cooperate, after all, no one knows the other party's true thoughts, peers are enemies, in case the other party stabs you in the back when you are fighting hard, in the case of enemies in front and back, even if you have the power of heaven, there is only one way to die.

So now when I hear that Ben Yin actually believes in the other party so much, some people can't help but ask, "Why do you say that?" Could it be that these five mercenary groups are also the prince's men? ”

To be honest, Tingfeng rarely cooperates with other mercenary groups, after all, their scale is there, and they can often undertake the combat mission of one side of the war alone, and even in the Western Regions, a city is a small place, usually a war with a total of only a few thousand people, and Tingfeng can even complete multi-front battles - in fact, they themselves do this, and when they were hired by Dashi to help them conquer Sassanid Persia, they had all dispatched several times, The rest of the time, it's hard to see the main force of the mercenaries in action.

Ben Yin shook his head and denied: "Of course not, the prince only has our mercenary group, and the five mercenary groups are also bought with money, and there are no additional conditions." The reason why I say they are trustworthy is because these five mercenary groups were all formed by former Tang veterans, and they are relatively trustworthy. ”

"I see."

With the increase of age, or because of disability and other reasons, many soldiers are no longer enough to undertake the task of garrisoning, and they have retired after receiving a large sum of money, and have settled in the local area, and by the way, their families have immigrated.

It's just that some veterans obviously don't accept old age, or they have joined the army since they were children, and they have been fighting in the barracks and on the battlefield all these years, and they will do nothing but fight and kill. In order not to implicate his family, he gathered some like-minded people, picked up his sword again and turned into a mercenary or bounty hunter (this is how many mercenaries came in later generations, including the scorpion in "I Am a Special Soldier", who was also a Vietnamese soldier in the past, and many security companies in later generations, such as the famous Blackwater Security Guard, are composed of retired soldiers).

Since the other party was formed by retired veterans, it is still more credible, because although they are all lawless mercenaries, these veterans are not without concern, and their families are under the rule of Datang. Therefore, they may be enemies of anyone, but they will definitely not be enemies of Datang, let alone Li Zhen, and they will not dare to rebel in the process of rescuing Li Zhen - in other words, because of their status as retired soldiers, they have initially won the trust of the mercenaries, at least they can guarantee that they will not betray, and this is the most preliminary premise for promoting cooperation between the two sides.

"And it's not just mercenaries, our equipment will also be provided by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Creevey announced another piece of good news: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is willing to give us a part of the thermal weapon, which can be regarded as adding a little combat power to everyone - of course, there are definitely no guns, only grenades and some explosives." ”

"Hahaha......" Everyone laughed, they didn't care if they had guns or not, and they didn't expect to have guns, after all, they were just mercenaries from the wild road, although the scale was huge, but Li Zhen did not provide them with firearms, so no one in them had received firearms training, that is to say, even if they were given firearms, they would not be able to play with them, it was better to give them grenades and explosives - compared with firearms, they at least knew how to use these two things.

"The equipment is in the fifth area, and our partner is also waiting for us there, now I order, listen to the wind mercenaries ~ set off." Finally, Benin shouted.

"Oh!"

Although the five hundred people are not huge, each of them is elite, and the scale of the gathering is still very attractive, especially when they are targeting Area Five, which has attracted the attention of some people.

Ben Yin had just walked by with someone, and in a tavern next to him, two people were sitting opposite each other and drinking, one of them was dressed in black, and the middle-aged man in white who was about thirty years old looked at the dust raised by the mercenaries, and couldn't help laughing: "It seems that this time I made the right bet, Li Zhen can't die." ”

"Not necessarily." Another young man dressed in black, who was even younger, almost twenty-five or sixteen, said unconvinced: "Couldn't this group of people be the ones who support Zhongli City?" ”

"Definitely not." The middle-aged man in white said with a smile: "Think about it, Zhongli City's rebellion was only temporary, and even their own forces were not fully mobilized, but they just hurriedly brought out two thousand people from their headquarters to rebel, how could they arrange a group of mercenaries in advance?" What's more, you don't want to think about it, now that Zhongli City has the upper hand, why would he need to hire another mercenary?

On the contrary, it is Li Zhen, who has always liked to take precautions when doing things, since he dares to take risks alone, this shows that he has been prepared for a long time...... It's not that we haven't fought against Li Zhen, think about it yourself, when did Li Zhen suffer defeat when he was full of confidence?

Don't carry it, hurry up and give money. ”

The young man in black was not as calm as the middle-aged man in white, and said eagerly: "So we tossed in vain this time?" Not only did you not kill Li Zhen? Instead, let him pull out the moths of Luzon officialdom? Is this a loss for his wife and a soldier? ”

"Huh! How can it be a toss in vain? It's definitely not in vain. The middle-aged man in white smiled even more happily: "Actually, this time we didn't plan to kill Li Zhen at once, we just wanted to find out Li Zhen's details through this rebellion, and now it seems that he has exposed part of his family background...... I really didn't expect that the famous mercenary who listened to the wind would actually be a dog raised by our prince...... That's a lot of money. ”

The ......" The young man in black did not answer him, for he was now immersed in depression - this time the plan was almost entirely made by him, and not only did it fail, but it also turned into a temptation in the eyes of his own people, and it was too much to keep him in the dark.

(End of chapter)