Because the southern part of the human kingdom is mostly woodland, the army here is mainly infantry, and only some cavalry is equipped as a rapid response force in the reclaimed area, which causes most of the human armies in the south to pay attention to the development of infantry regiments and relatively ignore the construction of cavalry.

The inability of cavalry to function in the southern regions facing the threat of orcs is a catastrophic situation for human armies, and because of this, many of the southern provinces of the human kingdom have adopted a defensive strategy against orcs for many years, using strong fortresses and military fortresses to guard the border. After years of fighting, these southern provinces did not train many knights for the kingdom, but they did accumulate many infantry regiments that could fight well.

Hu Bin didn't expect that the elite team that joined this time to expel the bandit group would be so resolute, and he went to the barracks early in the morning to prepare for the report, and he didn't even enter the gate of the barracks and set off directly with the team.

The members of the mission team are such experienced veterans, plus Hu Bin himself, there are a total of 21 people, led by an infantry regiment captain named Paso, and Hu Bin serves as a deputy.

Paso is an officer who has been promoted from a grassroots soldier by virtue of military merit, not to mention how strong he is, the fact that he is experienced alone is enough to be the captain of this squad. He didn't have much opinion on Hu Bin, the aristocratic boy who parachuted in, he had seen too many of the same situations, and there were many aristocratic children who were arranged to gild in the legion every year. But Paso felt that Hu Bin was not simple, not that he was strong enough to see through Hu Bin's level at a glance, but that Hu Bin did not have the habits of other noble children.

The children of the nobles who can be safely lowered into the army to gild generally have two brushes, which are even much stronger than the average soldier, and if they are left out of the fact that it is difficult to serve, the officers in the army still like these good guys to help.

In order to reduce the damage caused by the bandit group to the territory, the team quickly entered a state of rapid march after leaving the city, striving to expel the bandit group as soon as possible. Paso had feared that the young nobleman named Reed would not be able to stand such a march. But in fact, Hu Bin is more adaptable than they imagined.

While Paso and the other veterans were testing Hu Bin's condition, Hu Bin was also observing the team, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, it was very ordinary. Yes, no matter how experienced they are, these veterans are still infantry after all, and it is already the standard of the captain to be able to maintain their strength at the beginning of the promotion, and the slightly younger and better soldiers have already been sent to the training ground to try to be trained as knight squires.

But ordinary does not mean that these infantry are weak, on the contrary. It is these seemingly weak Terran infantry that the Terran Race relies on to survive. After the human race suffered a physical loss, they began to work equipment, and smelting technology was the top priority before the establishment of the kingdom, and after the dwarves joined the human alliance camp, this technology reached a period of blowout development, and the armor created reached a new peak in terms of quality and cost savings.

Equipped with a full set of infantry armor, the Terran infantry can even compete with the Orc infantry, the thick and wide shield can effectively resist all kinds of long-range melee damage, and the standard one-handed heavy sword is combined with a special slashing move. So that no race will underestimate the attack power of these infantry. But none of the above is the real reason why humans rely on these infantry, unified training and tacit cooperation, when these infantry form a military formation to support the shield wall, even the wild and crazy charge of the beasts can not defeat these iron gada. How many times did the foreign attack hit the head in front of the stubborn stone of the infantry formation, and the human race was dragged into the rhythm of attrition, and finally was dragged down by the force, compared to the population. The Terrans, who are good at planting and producing, have completely destroyed the other three tribes.

Since Hu Bin's squad is an elite squad, the quality of the equipment may be even better, and after forming a formation, it can easily defeat the same number of bandits. But Hu Bin still saw the dilemma of Dandy City from the small team. Such a military mission that endangers the territory is generally pursued safely, and it is not an exaggeration to double the number of people sent on the mission by normal standards.

The Kingdom's preparations for the expedition to the God-given Lands are almost complete, and the major races are beginning to send spies to try to disrupt the fleet build-up, and Dandy City is under tremendous pressure in this regard, and it is only natural that the army is overstretched. But Hu Bin did not expect the lack of troops to be so serious, and the only explanation was that the scale of the kingdom's expedition was probably higher than the outside world estimated.

Of course, Hu Bin has read the information about the size of the bandit group, but he does not think that a bandit group of this scale has the strength to destroy a military outpost, the only explanation is that the information about the bandit group is not accurate, maybe Count Hines also thinks so, so he stuffed Hu Bin into this team.

El Paso and the other soldiers had thoroughly accepted Hu Bin's arrival, a noble young man who had a lot of experience in the wilderness and didn't need anyone else to take care of him, and even did a better job of reconnaissance than their self-proclaimed experienced veterans. The team's increased combat power was undoubtedly the happiest for Paso, who thought that the trip would be delayed due to an extra oil bottle, but it was completed half a day early.

The soldiers were presented with charred ruins, the bodies of the inhabitants of the farmstead piled up in the middle of the square, and the robbers had ruthlessly plundered all their lives and belongings before burning down the farmstead.

Hu Bin had long been mentally prepared for the situation here, but when he really put it in front of him, it was still so shocking. They were still a step too late, and after the cunning robbers had finished their raid, they disappeared again, leaving Hu Bin and them to pounce.

"How's that, do you see anything?" Hu Bin asked as he approached Paso, who had just retreated from the pile of corpses.

"It's bad, most of the wounds are knife wounds, but someone's head has been smashed, maybe the guys have domesticated ogres, but it's not the worst." Paso unfolded a stained handkerchief and showed it to Hu Bin, "The wolf's droppings, it seems that the greenskin doesn't want us to have a good time at this time." ”

"Trouble! It's too slow to ask for support now, and it looks like there's a tough battle to be fought. Hu Bin also felt a little tricky, such a situation of attacking the strong with the weak was not what he wanted to see, but on the other hand, if he succeeded in destroying the conspiracy of the hostile camp this time, he believed that he would earn a lot more military merit than he had expected.

As early as the moment Hu Bin took out the noble ring. The first ring of the guide side quest to join either faction has already shown a completed state, and after Hu Bin is promoted to baron, the prestige of the human camp will be directly raised to the limit of respect, if you want to continue to improve the prestige of the faction, you can only find opportunities from the promotion of the knighthood. As for how the title is promoted, Hu Bin doesn't need to think about it to know that it is mostly closely related to strength and military merits.

While the other Chosen ones were still struggling to earn the prestige of the faction, the fact that he accidentally became a baron made the prestige of the faction completely lose its original meaning to Hu Bin. The second part of the side quest requires Hu Bin to be eligible to participate in this expedition, and Hu Bin, who has already established a good relationship with the expedition commander Count Hines, can easily complete this task. Such a big leap forward made Hu Bin feel a little unsteady. Instead of euphoria, trepidation followed.

"It's terrible!" Hu Bin found that since he completed the mercenary mission in the space, he couldn't grasp the future direction at all, and he was like getting on a train that was constantly speeding up, surpassing others on the smooth road, but he didn't know when it would derail.

In terms of strength, equipment upgrade, Hu Bin's every step of improvement is behind the shadow of the gods hovering, and then if it weren't for the space to intervene in it. Hu Bin may have betrayed himself in the way of the goddess of nature, but even so, Hu Bin has not escaped the semi-mandatory task of "God's Trial".

Encounter the Earth Bear, enter the human camp smoothly, and establish a good relationship with key people. Directly obtain a knighthood and enter the army, and the first mission may make a lot of contributions. Everything went well, and the smooth ones weren't real at all.

Hu Bin couldn't guess what the two goddesses Elune and Apater wanted to use themselves to achieve, and such asymmetry of information made Hu Bin completely unable to grasp his future fate. Take, for example, the task at hand. The orcs, together with the bandit forces of the neutral land, took advantage of the lack of troops on the human frontier to find trouble on human territory. Whether there is a god of the evil and chaotic camp behind this seemingly simple thing is fueling the troubles, Hu Bin is really not sure, so he can only take one step at a time.

"Do you want to pursue, Captain?"

"No, we've just arrived here, let's get some night's rest." Paso's tone was a little solemn, he thought that completing the task was a sure thing, but now there were so many unexpected discoveries.

"Damn, the intelligence guys are all poop in their heads." One soldier said with some anger that the previous intelligence had greatly misestimated the enemy's strength, and they were now in a great position of passivity.

"It doesn't have to be the intelligence's fault, maybe the orcs only got in touch with this gang of bandits a while ago, but no matter what, we need to stop them from wreaking havoc here." El Paso looked at the tragic situation in front of him and said firmly.

The team spent the night in another nearby farm, where the peasants were quite uneasy about the tragedy that had happened in the neighboring farm, and they welcomed Hu Bin and his party for the night, and entertained the soldiers with a sumptuous dinner.

Early the next morning, El Paso received new information that the bandit group they were tracking had appeared near another farmstead, as if intending to stage another massacre. Naturally, Paso quickly gathered his team and set off immediately, feeling the farm in the information in the shortest possible time, but unfortunately the bandit group seemed to realize something, and just left here with a false shot. A member of the Thieves' Guild, who was hiding nearby, found Paso and showed them the direction for the bandits to evacuate, but when El and the team followed the trail, they found that the trail had been disposed of halfway through.

In desperation, Paso led his team back to a nearby farmstead to wait for further information, but in the afternoon of that day, a nearby farmstead was attacked again by bandits. Fortunately, Paso reacted quickly this time, and led the team to feel the scene before the robbers completed the raid, but it still made the vigilant robbers give up their plans to continue, and directly got rid of Hu Bin's pursuit in the woods with complex terrain.

Again and again, the bandits escaped from the gang, much to Paso's annoyance, and the robbers seemed to have mastered their whereabouts and managed to avoid them each time. However, they were not without gains, and from the survivors of the attack, Paso and Hu Bin finally learned the specific information of the bandit group.

"Monster, a man-eating monster with two heads, with a big stick in his hand, smashed the door of my house open at once. The filthy and evil orcs also mixed with them, and Old Hawk wanted to keep the warehouse, but the wolf under the orc seat was about to drop half of his shoulder at once, it was terrible! The frightened peasants told Hu Bin about the situation at the time, and confirmed the results that Paso had speculated that there were indeed orcs behind the bandit group, and it was still the elite wolf cavalry among the orcs.

"The wolf has a keen sense of smell, and that's probably why those guys can avoid us?" Paso's brows have not relaxed these days, and the huge pressure is on his shoulders, if he doesn't solve this bandit group as soon as possible, even if he has a reason like orcs, he will not escape the punishment of being demoted.

"Perhaps, I have a way to catch them." Hu Bin's eyes suddenly lit up, and a plan came to mind. (To be continued......) u