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'Alright, alright!' Marais said impatiently, "Don't listen to Halson, a man who doesn't know anything, let's study the plan as much as we can, we didn't eat all night, we starved to death, after making a plan, we will eat breakfast, and when we are full, we will fight, this is the soldier." ’

'Rest assured, the general is already preparing breakfast, we have half an hour to eat, and the soldiers are already eating in batches. 'Dhoni? One of Feng's subordinate generals said politely.

Halsen suddenly felt that a cold air began to spread from the top of his head, and extended to the soles of his feet, his hands and feet were cold in an instant, and he was about to say his thoughts, but he heard a loud noise from the direction of Xiangcheng, which was less than five miles away from Yingkou, and it seemed that many people were shouting some kind of battle slogan.

'Brothers, you were mercenaries defending Xiangcheng before, and although you are now a garrison, your mission is still to defend Xiangcheng!' Wei Mang didn't have a big voice like Dark, but because he stood relatively tall, his voice could be heard by people far away.

'We got up before dawn, and had breakfast at dawn, and now is the time to be in the best condition, and less than five miles to the north of us, there is the Combined Legion that has been tossed all night, without a good night's sleep or a full meal, and according to the information we have just received, there are more than 10,000 of them who were defeated by the garrison of the Divine Seal Fortress last night!' Wei Mang's method of boosting morale was far more gentle than Dark's.

'I know you've been members of different mercenary groups before, and some of you have had conflicts and even fights before. But today. Right now. We are not mercenaries, but an army, and between you, we are comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms who can be entrusted with life and death!' When he mentioned his comrades-in-arms, Wei Mang's eyes were a little red, and standing beside him, Night Wolf and Li Qi of the Night Wolf Mercenary Group. With a similar expression, after a slight pause, Wei Mang said, "We are going to take advantage of the United Legion soldiers on the opposite side to have breakfast, and kill them in one go, remembering our purpose, we only want to pursue the enemy as much as possible, and pursue the enemy's generals as much as possible, brothers, and bring out your strength, every enemy general." will bring you an income of 100 gold coins for each enemy soldier killed. It will also give you and your mercenary group an income of one gold coin, now, you are not only fighting for Xiangcheng, but also fighting for your happy life tomorrow, I ask you, do you have confidence? ’

Countless voices replied, 'Yes!'

So what are we going to do now? Wei Mang suddenly asked with a loud shout.

"Kill ......", "Defend the ...... of Xiangcheng", "For the ...... of Gold Coins"

Wei Mang smiled slightly, although he didn't get a unified answer, but Wei Mang felt that such an answer was enough, and waved his hand lightly, and the leaders of the four major mercenary groups began to give orders to the people below, and a group of mercenaries drove out of Xiangcheng and lined up in a formation on the plain outside Xiangcheng, all the blades and arrows pointed to the United Legion camp not far away.

The other generals, who didn't notice Halson's condition at all, were not surprised by the sound coming from Xiangcheng, because all night long, all kinds of loud sounds continued to come from Xiangcheng, at first, all the soldiers in the camp were still on guard, but after too many times, no one cared about that sound at all, and the soldiers who had their turn to eat breakfast were still eating breakfast leisurely, and the soldiers who had not yet taken their turn and were in charge of vigilance did not have much mood to inspect the situation in Xiangcheng, On the contrary, he kept urging his comrades to speed up their meals, because they were also hungry.

So when the leaders of the four mercenary groups led their mercenaries to attack the camp, they saw that all the enemies were in disarray, some were eating, and some didn't even know where to put their swords.

A well-trained regular army is comparable to an experienced mercenary, but a well-trained regular army (fifteen to twenty people) has at least fifty mercenaries in combat effectiveness, and a well-trained regular army in a brigade (about two thousand) can withstand at least more than eight thousand mercenaries.

However, obviously, in this battle, such a formula for calculating combat effectiveness was completely useless, because of hunger and exhaustion, the regular army of the Skylark Kingdom, Karinkel and Shukka Kingdom, which had received standard training, was vulnerable to the swords of the four major mercenary groups in Xiangcheng, and was completely defeated very easily, and Marais, who was still talking about it just now, encountered a lesson that was more than ten times more painful than last night, and even his own soldiers did not have time to gather, Marais abandoned the camp and fled.

And the only ones who can barely organize a counteroffensive are the armies of the Skylark Kingdom and the Karinkel Empire, but unfortunately this kind of resistance has no real effect in such a situation, Neil? Ringer first led his own soldiers and the originally small Karinkel Imperial army to retreat, and the only one who still wanted to hold on? Feng also withdrew from the battlefield under the strong drag of his own soldiers.

The defeat was like a mountain, but the most retaining the vitality was the more than 10,000 Shuca Kingdom soldiers who withdrew from the Shuca Plain last night, because the escape experience of last night had given them enough experience, this time seeing the enemy swarming and their own people were completely unprepared, many soldiers fled directly without saying a word, and fled much faster than Marais.

Including Wei Mang, everyone didn't expect the enemy to be so vulnerable, but in the face of victory, no one would be polite, and those mercenaries who fought after interests were even more so, fighting to the end, and even the mercenaries duel with each other for more loot, and Wei Mang regretted the qualifications he had just promised, after all, a soldier is a gold coin, Wei Mang himself must have no money, and Rick, who was leading the army to Cherokamp, did not know that Wei Mang's miscalculation made him lose a lot of money.

So far, the combined forces of the four northern countries and the Kalinkel Empire, including the super-large mercenary group of the Wasteland Country, a total of nearly 200,000 troops, have disappeared in this way, and there are less than 30,000 people who can escape from the Xiangcheng battlefield, including more than 10,000 soldiers from the Shuka Kingdom, nearly 10,000 soldiers from the Skylark Kingdom, thousands of soldiers from the Kalinkel Empire, and the rest are all stragglers.

However, in this small battle, the Shukka Kingdom lost a staff member who was called an absolute brain trust by later historians of the Shukka Kingdom, and later historians even analyzed and came to such a conclusion: If the chief of staff of the United Legion Li ? If Halson had not died in this battle, the history of the entire continent would have been rewritten.

Plum? Halson, a well-known civilian official and think tank of the Shuuka Kingdom, successively served as the staff and chief of staff of the Third Army of the Shuka Kingdom, as well as the secretary of the military department and the assistant to the prime minister of the Shuka Kingdom, during his tenure, he participated in 14 battles of various sizes, put forward dozens of proposals for the commander, and directly affected the situation of more than 10 wars.

Because of this, Harson's staff was highly valued by General Omarivi, the famous general of the Shukka Kingdom, and was appointed to serve as the chief of staff of the Shenfeng Fortress Raiders Army in the five-year plan of the Northern Four Kingdoms. More than 10,000 soldiers who fled back to the kingdom of Shuka were also strictly censored, and more than 50 of them were executed by military law, and more than 100 were sentenced.

According to the analysis and research of later historians, if Harson's staff had not been killed in this battle, it would be very likely that a few years later, General Omarivi and the Blue Moon Empire, known as the 'Blue Moon Star', would have been killed. In the match, Hua Ming will not end in a fiasco, and then lose the momentum of the revival of the Huca Kingdom, which is very likely to become a fact.

However, history will never have assumptions, just as Rick, who led people to Cherokamp, would never have thought that the battle for the defense of Xiangcheng that he was proud of was just a cover for the four northern countries to attract the attention of the Blue Moon Empire, if there was no Rick's plan to enter the Cherokamp this time, then the entire Blue Moon Empire would only lose in the process of this battle against the four northern countries and the Karinkel Empire.

Rick was an optimist by all accounts, happy all day long, and nothing seemed to worry about him, whether it was on the battlefield of swords and swords, or on the steep and rugged mountain roads, Rick always seemed to have a smile on his face.

Duck and Crook have noticed Rick's smile for a long time, but for various reasons, Duck has not dared to ask more, on the way from the camp on the Plains of Huca to Cherokamp, Duck looked at the smile on Rick's face, and the strangeness in his heart never stopped, and finally on the third day, Duck couldn't suppress his curiosity, and asked Rick's guard Lu, who he had the best relationship with and the most appetite for him, "Old Lu, why do you say the Earl has been laughing all the time?" ’

'Isn't that easy?' If a character like Childe is so happy, it is usually only because of two things, one is because he has found a new woman, and the other is because he has made a lot of money!' Lu Guangtou said with certainty: "We can see that when we find a new woman, it is obviously not this one, then the other one must be that Childe has just made a lot of money." ’

Is it that simple? It wasn't Duck who asked, but Crook, who was also questioning, and he thought that Rick's smile was also unusual, but apparently, Crook was not as innocent as Duck and Lu Baldhead, and he seemed to be more level when he asked, and he asked: "I think if I am happy to be like this just for money, the Earl must have broken his head when he was a child." (To be continued......)