Chapter 163: Biting
As soon as I returned to the camp, I saw the whole team hurriedly packing their luggage, as if something important was about to happen. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The soldiers also saw Dane and the other three squads of sword dancers. They weren't surprised by Dane's return, but they were surprised by the thirty or so sword dancers who had suddenly appeared - they had been fighting side by side for some time, and the relationship between elves and humans was somewhat familiar. Most of the sword dancers and human soldiers will also be very familiar, but these new guys are completely unfamiliar.
Not to mention the mages and priests.
Dane ignored the guys' eyes, and from a distance, he saw Delin, dressed in leather armor and cloak, coming towards him, looking very anxious.
Stretching out his hand and pointing in one direction in the camp, Dane said, "This is the rest camp for the Sword Dancer team, go to Squadron Leader Pandorf, he will arrange for you, and he will also be your direct boss in the future." ”
The three squad leaders answered with a 'yes' and left with their men. The other mages and priests also have corresponding people to arrange, so there is no need for Dane to worry about anything.
Dane looked at Delin, who walked up to him, and asked, "What for?" In such a hurry? ”
Delin's face was not very good-looking, and he said, "There is bad news. Twenty minutes ago, we received a report from a falcon knight that the Pure Sword Mercenary Regiment was under siege by a large orc army about ten kilometers away, and the situation was terrible, and he asked us for help. ”
Dane's face also became grim: "How can this be? When did a contingent of orcs emerge around here that could bite a pure sword? At least three or five hundred people, right? ”
Delin shook his head and said, "What we can know now is that the orc team fighting against the pure sword is about four hundred people, and there are wolf cavalry among them. We have just received information about where these orcs came from, and whether they are coming from behind enemy lines in our orc hinterland, we still don't know anything, the situation is very unclear, and we need to wait for further information. However, I've already told the troops to pack up, boss, do we want to support the past? ”
"Support is definitely a must." Dane said, "Get ready to go." Pehins, you let Pearl lead the rangers and sentinels in front, and we need to get the information ahead as soon as possible. At the same time, Delin has found a way to get in touch with the Falcon Knights, and we can eat an orc army of 400 people, but I don't want someone to stab me in the back while supporting Pure Sword. ”
"Okay, no problem." Delin replied.
A moment later, the assembled army began to rush towards the place where the Sword Falcon Knight had arrived, and the pure sword mercenary group was engaged in the battle with the orc army.
The troops in Dane's current hands, after several battles, have not only decreased in number, but have become more numerous. There are still more than one hundred and twenty people in the dreaded mercenaries, and the losses from several battles with the dreads are not large. The rangers and sentinels led by Pehin had basically no losses, and the number remained at seventy or eighty. After all, the sword dancers had to fight on the front line, and there were less than ten dead and wounded, but this time, Dane brought back three squads of sword dancers from Orinedu, and the total number of sword dancers had increased instead of decreasing, and it had exceeded the scale of a hundred.
The most losses still came from those newly recruited mercenaries in Sand Bay Harbor.
It's just that Dane doesn't care much about the loss of these mercenaries. Anyway, in his heart, these guys are just candidates who are defined as cannon fodder, and they have died ten or twenty, and they are not distressed at all, and they just have a little pension to death.
Now, the core force in his hand, the total number of people is almost three hundred, and there are about two hundred and twenty or thirty cannon fodder mercenaries, such strength, coupled with pure sword, it should not be a big problem to kill four hundred orcs.
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By the time we arrived at the battlefield, it was already approaching dusk.
A long time ago, before the pure sword and those orcs came into sight, Dane received the news from the mouths of the falcon knights in the sky and the rangers on the ground. Pure Sword was undoubtedly caught in a bitter battle, although they were outnumbered by the orc army that bit them, but like Dane's expedition, Pure Sword also recruited idle mercenaries of about two hundred people.
To be honest, the combat effectiveness of these idle mercenaries is really unsightly. Their individual strength is good, generally no worse than the soldiers of the regular army, but the scattered discipline and organization make it difficult for them to be condensed into a combat-ready army. Moreover, these forces that do not belong to themselves are good to fight a good battle, but once the situation is not good and they fall into a disadvantage, it will be difficult for them to guarantee their will to fight.
According to the information sent back from the front, the Pure Sword Mercenary Group obviously knew that it was estimated that there would be no benefit from fighting to the death with more than 400 orcs, and they had also received the news that Dane was on the way to support, and they were fighting and running.
Alexandrina's command of the war was not bad, and in such a bad situation, she was able to maintain the formation of the army so that the retreat would not turn into a direct rout.
But the situation also looks bad, especially with the temporarily recruited mercenaries, who seem to be showing signs of collapse.
At such a time, the army led by Dane finally arrived!
Alexandrina saw Dane coming from afar, and her face hidden under the black veil couldn't help but be overjoyed.
She shouted, "Our support is coming!" Regroup your team! Get ready to turn around and take on those damn orcs! ”
Her orders were well carried out in her core troops, the Pure Swordsmen. Two hundred warriors dressed in white robes and holding swords in both hands quickly completed the action of stopping, turning, and regrouping under the orders of the first-level captains.
However, the other mercenaries are not so easy to clean up.
Looking at the mercenaries who were scattered and disorganized, who did not listen to orders, and who had the intention of continuing to retreat, Alexandrina was full of helplessness and anger in her heart. She said hatefully, "If these mercenaries hadn't retreated first in battle, how could we not even be able to defeat four hundred orcs!" ”
Caroline, the other deputy head of the Pure Sword Mercenary Regiment, a female swordsman, said, "Delina, now is not the time to think about this. The orcs are no more than a kilometer away from us, and now we must be prepared to withstand the first assault and wait for reinforcements from Dane's forces. As for the idle mercenaries, let Irons sort out the team! ”
The blonde shield knight on his war horse also understood the danger of the current facts. He said: "Okay, I'm going to reorganize those damn mercenary teams, you hold on, as soon as the team is finished, I will be the first to support you!" ”