In the southeastern part of the Rising Sun Empire, the breath of spring is already blowing in our faces. The grass broke through the soil and showed its head, and the green shoots swayed gently in the wind.

In the Liberty Collar, the whole afternoon was gray.

The sky is covered with dark clouds, and the wind is mixed with the smell of rain, indicating that the first spring rain is coming.

"Click!"

Tick, tick

The first spring rain did not make people wait long, accompanied by a thunderclap. Raindrops like grains of rice fell from the sky and dripped on the flowers and plants that had just poked their heads out, stirring up rain flowers.

The dark clouds became denser in the rainfall, and the black pressure shrouded the sky above the Liberty Collar, and there was an illusion that the dark clouds were pressing down on the city and wanted to break.

In the Freedom Territory, the warriors who spontaneously organized to defend their homeland, armed with all kinds of miscellaneous weapons, wandered in the walled city built by wooden fences.

Some of the soldiers on patrol were already gray-haired, and some were thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys. But no matter how old they were, their faces were full of determination. Because there is a heart that represents freedom, and it accompanies them all the time.

Afraid?

FearWe are born with a sense of fear, but fear does not mean that there is no resistance.

It is precisely because of the fear that rises from the bottom of our hearts that we will cherish the present more and cherish each other's existence.

Fear unites us in the realm of freedom, and freedom is our most powerful weapon against fear. This is the Liberty Collar, which is to resist the king's violence. The frontier of politics.

Three months ago, the raging fires had consumed everything, but three months later, the Free Territory was more prosperous than ever. Like an inexhaustible wildfire, with the arrival of the spring breeze, the grass will take root again and bring new hope

"Boom!" A muffled thunder echoed through the Liberty Collar, as if it were the roar of the god of thunder.

"Bell Bell Bell"

As soon as the thunder in my ears subsided, in the drizzle, a hurried bell rang out.

"Listen, it's the bell. What's going on, why is the bell ringing for the emergency assembly! ”

"It's the army of the Rising Sun Empire that is coming, there are so many people, there are so many of them, just as many as ants moving!"

"The bastards who defend our homes and burn our homes are here again this time, and we're going to give them a taste of it!"

Like a drop of water falling into a pan of oil, the calm free collar fell into a tumult as the bell rang.

Countless adult men and women have come out of their homes, even though all they have is a hoe or an axe for chopping wood. But these people still rushed into the rain without hesitation, and built a great wall of flesh and blood under the drizzle.

"Defend our homeland, we have nothing left, and what reason can we retreat!" The rain was falling on her, and Hermione's mage robes swayed in the wind and rain.

She stood at the front of the crowd and shouted, her wand clenched in her hand, cheering everyone up.

"Long live the free collar! Long live freedom! Young and old, cheered in the rain in unison with Hermione's words.

Hermione, the one at the front of the crowd, was the Needle in their hearts.

Especially those who had seen Hermione use magic in the first place fell into a frenzy inspired by Hermione, and they were no longer afraid like a mad bull.

"Knock knock!"

The dull drums thundered, and there was no cheering, no conversation. Just as Hermione was inspiring, the army of the Rising Sun Empire slowly advanced in the wind and rain, and the huge army lineup gradually appeared outside the free territory.

quiet

The cheering people who were inspired by Hermione fell silent at the moment when the army appeared.

It was like someone slamming their necks in the midst of screaming, and looking at the dense huge army in front of them, everyone felt cold hands and feet. Even the freedom fighters who had been chanting long live were stunned with their mouths wide open, and they couldn't make any sound from their mouths.

As soon as 50,000 soldiers with full armor appeared, the impact was unimaginable.

The regular army of the Rising Sun Empire is black armor with silver swords and guns, and it looks like the coercion of Mount Tai from a distance.

The misty drizzle fell on the armor, and no one in the 50,000 army spoke, but indifferently looked at the freedom fighters in the improvised walled city, and the breath of slaughter came to their faces.

"These people are farmers at all!" Yan Junping, a veteran who walked in front of the army, stroked his white beard with his hand and looked at the people in the free collar with a frown.

Yan Junping let out a simple black battle armor, and his pale gray hair was draped over the battle armor. Under the contradictory color of white and black, the old general's turquoise-like temperament is set off vividly.

In fact, it's no wonder that Yan Junping frowned a little, it's really that the people in the free collar look too cheap.

Most of the people in the Liberty Territory are civilians, and their homes have been destroyed by fire, so they have not had a good time in the past few months, and they have not even had a change of clothes. In this way, not to mention in front of the fully armored Rising Sun Legion, even compared to ordinary people, these people are similar to the fleeing homeless.

Tens of thousands of people from the free realm were organized together, and there were very few people with swords in their hands. Some people even have a dung fork at all, and a kitchen knife is added to the better ones.

"General, these outcasts in the Liberty Territory are not to be feared. But there is a wizard among them, and I am afraid that it will cause great damage to the army, and we have to guard against it! "The one who spoke next to Yan Junping was Yuan Tiangang, the supervisor of Qintian.

Yuan Tiangang came out with the army this time to serve as a military advisor, and used his own divination skills to provide various assistance to the army.

Where there is a river, there is a bridge. When the wind starts, it rains a little more.

These additional factors of marching and fighting were all under Yuan Tiangang's control. Yuan Tiangang is like a small radar, and after various calculations, it is even more accurate than the news detected by the scouts, which makes Yan Junping, a veteran, stunned.

"Mario!" Yan Junping's gaze swept over Hermione in the crowd, and he ordered in a low voice: "The wizards of the Freedom Territory are handed over to you to deal with, and you must be captured alive!" ”

"Yes, General!" Mario sat on the station horse and arched his hands, looking at Hermione in the crowd and smiling slightly.

Mario went with the army this time to deal with Saruman's white-robed wizard. In Mario's eyes, he didn't even look at the white-robed wizard Saruman, how could a fourteen or fifteen-year-old little wizard let him take it to heart. What's more, this Hermione is just the daughter of the gray-robed wizard Gandalf, not to mention that he can be captured, and Mario doesn't believe that he will not be able to take a little girl.

"Archers throw, infantry flank in both directions, break through the enemy walled city, and win the opportunity for the cavalry to charge!" One order after another was quickly issued by Yan Junping, and the entire army was instantly split into two.

The infantry in front divided into two lines, covering the advance of the archers. The cavalry in the rear tightened the horse ropes one by one, always paying attention to the changes in the battle situation, and preparing to surprise the enemy position.

"Defend your homeland!"

A roar erupted from the Liberty Leader, and the Liberty Leader militiamen, who were still stunned, immediately rushed forward with hoes and dung forks.

The militiamen in the Free Territory built a line of defense through a simple fence, and they also knew that fighting hard with the regular army of the Rising Sun Empire was to hit the stone with pebbles, so they all hid inside the fence, and beat outward with the long dung forks and bamboo poles in their hands, trying to delay the time for the sword and shield soldiers to break through the fence.

The gap between the regular army and the militia was manifested with the outbreak of fighting.

Despite their enthusiasm, the militiamen of the Liberty Territory had little effect when their weapons slammed into the shields of the sword and shield soldiers. The untrained militiamen had no sense of fighting at all, and many of them only relied on brute force to beat the shields of the sword and shield soldiers again and again. Even the few who knew the point of the attack would have difficulty accurately getting past the shield and hitting the parts of the shield that were not protected by the armor.

"Projectile!"

"Buzz"

The humming of the bowstrings was incessant, and long arrows whistled like rain.

The militia of the Liberty Territory fell to the ground one after another under the rain of arrows, and the whole scene looked like a massacre, and the whole land was stained red with blood.

"Oh no, the fence is going to collapse!"

"Hurry up and go up, if the fence collapses, we'll be finished!"

Under the constant impact and slashing of the sword and shield soldiers, the improvised fences erected by the free collar fell one after another.

The militiamen of the Liberty Territory waved their weapons to meet the swords and shields attacking the fence. And after these sword and shield soldiers cut down the fence, they also gathered in groups of three or five, and did not engage the militia who rushed up at all, but steadily retreated with one blow.

"How did these people retreat!"

"Is it a victory! We didn't win! ”

Chasing the retreat of the sword and shield soldiers, the militia in the free territory was a little dazed,

They didn't know why the swords and shields were backing instead of cutting down the fence and continuing to advance.

But the question didn't last long, and soon they knew the answer, a bloody and brutal one.