Chapter 123: Cannon Fodder
After nearly a week of sailing, the Long Sail and the Golden Leaf had arrived at Shawan Harbor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
When he got off the boat, Dane clearly felt that the sword dancers who had followed him across the harbor of Shawan were obviously very nervous. It seems that they all remember what they encountered in the last time they went to Shawan Harbor.
However, Dane himself was not worried at all, not at all afraid of what Malone would do in the port. Especially when he had just disembarked and completed the formalities for the ship to stay, and Emre arrived in front of him with a ticket of security soldiers, this worry disappeared directly.
Obviously, after the last incident, Morno's control over the port of Shawan has been improved to a certain extent. Ma Long will definitely not be able to bargain for anything cheap when he starts in Shawan Port.
After a few moments of greeting with Emre, Dane got his assurance.
"No one can do anything to you in Shawan Harbor, General Morno has sent a whole brigade of elite soldiers under my command, even if Ma Long attacks the city, I am sure that I can hold it for two or three days!"
With such assurances, what else is Dane to worry about?
After saying goodbye to Emre, Dane quickly got in touch with Delin, who had been in the harbor of Shawan for more than a week.
More than 200 people, following behind Delin, soon found a temporary camp on the outskirts of the city.
In the camp, there are already more than 200 mercenaries with different equipment.
Delin said to Dane a little embarrassed: "Boss, you asked me to recruit mercenaries in advance near Shawan Port and Rotten Wolf Town, and in a little more than a week, I only recruited more than two hundred and seventy people......
Dane nodded and said, "It's good to be able to recruit so many. I remember that the task I gave you before was only for you to recruit 200 people, and you exceeded your goal. ”
"Yes, the mission goal was indeed exceeded." Delin still had some embarrassment on his face, "It's just the quality of these people...... How to say it, all the mercenaries, in terms of personal combat power, have basically reached the average level of this industry. But...... Their equipment is not uniform at all, some are not bad, but most of them are very poorly equipped. Moreover, in terms of organization and discipline, not to mention compared with the army, even compared with ordinary mercenary groups, it is much worse......"
Dane didn't have much to say about such an outcome. He said, "It doesn't matter, I didn't plan to be able to recruit a strong army. Isn't it normal for a temporary gathering of mercenaries to be unable to form an excellent team in a short period of time? ”
"Alas......" Delin sighed and asked with some confusion, "These people, to be honest, if it were our previous group of dreaded ghosts, I'm afraid it would only take half - no, half of it wouldn't be needed, as long as you give me a third of the manpower, I will be completely sure that I will defeat them." Not to mention, now, we are stronger. I don't understand, boss, why did you ask me to recruit so many mercenaries of average quality, who were only gathered by money, who had no loyalty to speak of, and who had no discipline to speak of? ”
Dane grinned, smiled and patted Delin's shoulder, and said, "Indeed, now our own army, anywhere in Schindlaire, can definitely be regarded as the elite of the elite." However, it is precisely because of this that our human lives are very precious, and there is no place to replenish the casualties when we are fighting abroad. In the case of one death and one death, I am reluctant to spare the lives of my subordinates. How can we ensure the safety of our own people without gathering some cannon fodder? ”
Delin's eyes widened and asked, "But...... Boss, it cost about 3,000 gold coins to recruit these people, and if the casualties are too serious, we will have to pay a lot of money. ”
Dane waved his big hand and said, "It's okay! Where is the gold coins that matter to the lives of our warriors?! ”
"Okay." Delin nodded, and his head turned.
As Dane said, he didn't regard these temporarily recruited mercenaries as his important combat force at all. His core strength still lies in the team of nearly two hundred and fifty people brought down from the island of Komya.
This can be seen from the situation in this temporary camp, he has no idea of integrating the team at all. He just asked Delin to continue to lead those mercenaries, and restrain their movements, and train them a little bit of chance, and then he didn't care about it anymore. He also had the newly recruited mercenaries stationed on one side of the camp and his own on the other, with no idea of integrating the combat power of the two teams.
But in any case, now, the paper power in Dane's hands has undergone a huge expansion after this moment. The team of 500 people staying on the outskirts of Shawan Port is a big deal for the entire Shawan Port.
During the time he was stationed, rumors spread in Shawan Harbor. Some say that Dane's derror intends to return to Schindlaire; Some say he came back this time to avenge Mallon's murder of him last time. Even, Ma Long himself couldn't figure out the situation, in his eyes, there was a large group of Morno's soldiers in Shawan Harbor, and now with the five hundred people of Dane, it had formed a force that could directly threaten him. He didn't dare to be careless, and sent several waves of scouts to reconnoiter near Shawan Harbor, and the focus of the investigation was around Dane's temporary camp.
Dane turned a deaf ear to the rumors of Shawan Harbor. Ma Long's scouts, he just sent a team of rangers and expelled them, and didn't do much more.
However, despite Dane's lack of aggressiveness, Malone is not at all reassured. The expelled and captured scout team did not dispel his suspicions, he still kept a close eye on what was happening in Shawan Harbor, and persistently tried to send scouts, as if he wanted to find out what was going on in Dane anyway.
However, this is of no avail. How could Marlon's scouts be the opponent of the elite rangers who survived all the way from the court of Nancy? If it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to make a big deal out of it, in just three days, Ma Long's scout team would probably have suffered heavy losses.
Just after Malone had been frightened for three days, on the afternoon of the fourth day, he suddenly received news from the scouts returning from the front: Dane's team had disappeared a day earlier!