If the battle for the defense of the city of Gyergara wrote another page in the history books of the continent for this year, then the battle between the kingdom of Vegia and the kingdom of Nord occupies a full chapter. This contest between warriors and hunters has attracted the attention of the countries of the continent.

The cause of the great war stemmed from the loss of Ismara Fort, a border fortress in the eastern part of the Nord Kingdom.

The Nords believed too much in the ability of their infantry to defend the city, and allowed the Virgian legion, which had tripled its strength, to surround the fortress, in an attempt to outflank and eat the legion from the flank when Viggia failed to attack the city and retreat.

What the Nords did not expect was that the Virgians really relied on this force to capture the fortress, and if there was no numbered person to make trouble in it, Hu Bin would not believe it.

The tragedy of the Nords, whose new offensive was ended before it could begin, was divided. The defenders of Virgian, supported from the rear, firmly controlled the only nearby bridge, and some of the lords took all the villages and lords northeast of Nord at a small cost.

Everyone thought that the Nords would shrink their defenses and wait for more lords to join in and fight back again. But the descendants of the pirates let them know what madness is.

The Nord vanguard legion, with only six lords, launched a suicidal charge, splitting into several directions to launch a surprise attack into the interior of Vegia. Three of them were intercepted by the hastily dispatched Lords of Vigia, two were surrounded and defeated while sacking the village, and only one completed the robbery mission and diverted south into Svadia to gradually disengage from the battlefield.

Forced to fight a tough battle with the Nords, the Vigian Legion suffered varying degrees of trauma in the pursuit, and the two legions surrounding the village were almost annihilated by the Nords using the advantage of buildings to counterattack, and finally won with a difficult victory by virtue of their numerical superiority.

Slowly returning to the front line, the lord of Vigia, near Ismara Fort, encountered the Nord army, which had been in ambush for a long time, and all three legions were annihilated on the hills east of the fortress.

The Vigian defenders besieged at Fort Ismara wept without tears, and a large number of living forces were confined to the small fortress and could not move. The Nords said they would besiege them for a month and starve them to death. The surrounding Vigia rescue forces did not dare to approach because of their lack of superiority. The Virgians did not expect that the castle that they had managed to take down would turn into a deep pit in the blink of an eye, and they would almost be buried there alive.

The dilemma of the Vigian legions could only increase the strength of the front, but the Nords were able to assemble the besieging forces with no speed inferior to them.

Half a month later, the castle's grain reserves were about to run out, and the 500 Vigian defenders were in a life-and-death situation, and the Vigian king Yarogerke outside the city could only fight against the superior army of the Nords.

The Nord people are also uncomfortable, and they are forced to helpless when things develop to this point. If, at the risk of great losses, they swallowed the losses of the previous period and gave up their own advantages, what would the lords and citizens of the country think of it, and the Nords, who were formerly pirates, could not accept a cowardly king.

Both sides had reasons to fight, and the peace talks, which lasted for half a month, looked ridiculous in front of the dignity of the kings and nobles of the two countries, as if they were hiding their ears and stealing bells. One of the biggest legendary battles of the year (a total of more than 5,000 men) kicked off the Battle of Ismara.

The Vigians, who had taken the lead, quickly set up their arrow formations and slowly advanced step by step. The Nords, on the other hand, had been fighting them for many years and knew that as long as there were only half of the infantry left before the opposing fire, they would win. The Nord warriors with shields desperately rushed in the direction of the Vigias, and one of the Nord infantrymen at the head seemed to have broken a line, and a dark cloud instantly rose in the direction of Vigia.

The corpses of the Nords on the ground seemed to have been crushed not by arrows, but by the rain of arrows, and the dense arrows covered a long battlefield. The badly wounded Nords were still moaning and screaming, but the comrades who passed by did not hesitate at all, and every second of their running was a race against death.

The knights of Vegia slowly accelerated from both flanks, their purpose only to delay the torrent of infantry on the opposite side. Although the cavalry of the Vigian legion, which was absolutely inferior in numbers, was very embarrassed in front of many Vigian archers. Each battle can only serve the role of pre-war containment and post-war pursuit, but this does not hide their importance. For every second they delayed, the survival rate of the archers was much higher, a lesson learned from the blood gained in the battles with the nations.

The dying cries of the soldiers and the neighing of the horses on the ground bear witness to the selfless sacrifice of the knights, and the Nords were delayed for a full twenty seconds. And in those twenty seconds, the Vigian archers released six or seven rounds of arrow rain.

Then the Virgian infantry was subjected to a frenzied Nord onslaught, and the Nord infantry warriors who were lucky enough to cross the River Styx first took out their throwing axes at their waists and threw them, and then raised their shields and rammed them into the enemy with a loud roar. The Vigian infantry, who were scrambled by throwing axes, usually fell to the ground with a single blow in the face, and while two-handed tomahawks were very useful offensively, the lack of shields was a major weakness.

There are no tactics to speak of in hand-to-hand combat, only attrition and consumption remain. In the end, King Vegia was seriously wounded in the chaos and fell to the ground, and the marshal judged that his own losses were too heavy and slowly retreated. The Nords had no way to organize the other party to withdraw, so they could only kill all the Vigia soldiers behind the palace to vent their anger.

In the rear, the attack and defense changed hands, and the defenders of Vigia, who had fought on their backs, poured out of the castle and engaged a small number of Nord warriors and archers on guard outside the city, and finally annihilated the enemy army at a great cost. But in the face of the main Nord force that returned to the defense, the Virgians had to give up the Ismara Fort, which was running out of ammunition and food.

Eventually, King Ragnar of the Nords regained his lost territory and inflicted heavy losses on Virgian, but the villages in the northeast suffered heavy losses, and nearly a third of his military strength was consumed in the frontal battle.

In fact, the king of Yarogerke of Vegia was very satisfied with this result, Vigia did not suffer heavy losses as expected, most of their archers remained, but they lost all the cavalry and a large number of infantry, with the background of Vegia, there will be new soldiers to make up for this loss in less than half a month. Although Ismara Fort was lost, nearly a quarter of Nord's villages could not be rebuilt within half a month, and the other side would definitely have a headache in terms of replenishing troops.

The casualties on both sides were deliberately kept to a certain range, and the many anticlimactic battles disappointed other countries, but then the chaos began. The two lords faced off in a large area centered on the Fort of Ismara, with lords being defeated in legion duels every day. The lords of the two countries, who have pursued the spirit of aristocracy, have only accepted one-on-one confrontations, and have not yet allowed hatred to break through the bottom line of discipline. Although sometimes it is not fair to fight on both sides in terms of troops, no one can join their own lord's battle.

The chaos lasted for half a month, and the total number of casualties on both sides even exceeded that of the previous battles. Finally, an armistice was signed at the suggestion of King Vegia.

Kugit was now in a match with Salander to rob the village of Rhodok, and Swadia seemed to be regrouping and eyeing Tulga. Although the war in which there was no winner in the end was a serious blow to the strength of Vigia and Nord, fortunately other countries could not afford to take advantage of this opportunity.

After receiving the spies' detailed report on the war, Hu Bin put down the thick letter, twisted up a few pieces of paper and began to ponder.

A piece of paper describes the situation when the Vigians captured the Ismara Fort. It is said that a lord used a legendary treasure to weaken the defenders on the Nord side, which allowed the relatively weak infantry on the Virgian side to break through the walls. This is undoubtedly the means of numberers.

The other is a battlefield analysis of the offensive and defensive battle of Ismara Fort, when King Virginia was seriously injured, someone nearby killed King Yarogerk, and the corpse of a nearby Nord royal guard showed that he was killed by one hit. The strength of the Nord Royal Guard, who is at the same level as the heroic knight under Hu Bin, can be imagined, and he was actually killed in seconds, and Hu Bin analyzed that it may be caused by the strong skills of the numberer.

The last piece of information is that two new fiefdom lords have appeared in Vegia, but the exact circumstances have not yet been discovered.

Hu Bin pondered this information, he had already used the influence of his neutral camp to plant spies in the caravans traveling to and from various countries when he had not obtained Mercenary City. What previously seemed like a waste of resources has now paid off.

Because the Nord Kingdom was too far away from Salander, the information often passed into Hu Bin's hands was outdated, so Hu Bin gave up planting spies there. But other countries, especially the Kugit Khanate, were planted by Hu Bin with a large number of spies. Every day, Hu Bin is exposed to rumors about the movement of large armies in various countries and among the nobles, and he tries to find out the numbered ones hidden in the various camps.

The Kingdom of Vegia was alerted by the well-timed sortie before the onset of winter, and this time there happened to be spies in Vigia near Ismara Fort, so that Hu Bin got some information about the numbered people of the Vigia camp. The two fiefdom lords seem to have ascended to the throne after this great war.

Hu Bin knew that these numberers would often hide in the shadows and affect the battle situation, but they would eventually show their feet. Hu Bin, who is very powerful, has to prepare in advance, and he is eager to win over Howard for this reason, after all, no matter how strong a person is, he is weak, and the territory is both his own advantage and his own drag.

"It's interesting when you have more opponents." Hu Bin has always been very confident in his strength.