In the darkness of the night, a few dim street lamps barely illuminate the rugged concrete path and the dense farmland on both sides of the road.

A small force of about 100 people, surrounded by two light armored personnel carriers, slowly advanced along this narrow road.

Behind them, a log booth was burning, and several corpses in police uniforms were lying next to them.

Sitting in the bumpy and slowly wriggling armored personnel carrier, Stephen, a mercenary of the "United Kingdom" security company, held the automatic rifle in his hand, and casually looked through the observation hole at the volunteer armed personnel of the "Nelson Knights" beside him.

A flock of rookies! A rookie among rookies! And it's also a rookie who has no sense of discipline at all and takes the initiative to expose his target!

Stephen disdainfully labeled these "righteous men" who "fought for pure England" with the above labels, and with his years of experience in the battlefield, even the cheapest South American cannon fodder that the company had ever hired was much better than these rookies.

-- In this era of widespread privatization, there are many, if not many, private, military and security service companies. The small security company is nothing more than a group of retired veterans who work together to run a "risk-taker squad", taking on some small tasks such as escorting supplies; Large security companies can have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and they are equipped with light and heavy weapons. There are even tanks and helicopter gunships, ready to easily upend a small country.

This time, the "United Kingdom" security company, which was the main force of the British military coup, was a very large military service company with more than 20,000 combatants. It has been undertaking overseas operations and domestic security contracts from the British government for many years, and is known as the "East India Company of the 21st century". The relationship between the security company and the British regular army is, in a sense, similar to that of Chinese temporary workers and staff...... In line with the guiding spirit of "there are temporary workers to do, and temporary workers in the black pot to carry them", these security guards have even more combat experience than the British regular army.

-- Some people may think that mercenaries are like legendary pirates, who can spend a lot of money in bars. But in fact. Real mercenaries aren't so arrogant. If the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are civil servants with guns, then mercenaries are company employees with guns, and they also clock in and out every day. Budget-conscious breadwinners, at most, can get an extra hazard pay when some special tasks are given.

For example, the lowest category of people in the mercenary industry. For example, the cannon fodder that British companies used to hire from remote mountainous areas in South America. Always taking on the most dangerous jobs in the most dangerous places, but only getting a pitiful $500 or $1,000 a month, more miserable than a waiter at a McDonald's fast food restaurant, so much so that he doesn't want to talk about his miserable career in front of strangers...... As an upper-middle-class mercenary in the mercenary industry, veteran Stephen is just getting a monthly salary of $5,000 plus a mission allowance.

Moreover, the will to fight and morale of mercenaries are often worse than those of regular armies, after all, they are all people who fight for money. Instead of dedicating one's life to some nobler will or ideal, no one wants to have money to take but not to spend it. So. Truly experienced mercenaries are well-versed in the art of self-preservation, and only a fool would sacrifice his life to complete the mission...... Stephen, of course, is no exception.

As a result, although the strength of the "United Kingdom" security company is as high as 20,000, it is still somewhat stretched to suppress the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations. Therefore, tens of thousands of volunteers of the "Nelson Knights" had to be mobilized to participate in the grand event, or to act as free cannon fodder...... Despite this, veteran Stephen is very, very disdainful of the volunteers of the "Nelson Knights" who served as an auxiliary force this time, these bold and reckless stunned youths, and the free cannon fodder who don't want money.

- Okay! It is true that these mercenaries are a little slower to act, a little more cautious in their operations, and may have missed some fleeting warplanes, so that they could not achieve the most perfect results, but at least they get what they pay for, and they do the work of a thousand pounds for a thousand pounds. However, what kind of moths did these volunteers who didn't want money come up with in the process of suppressing Hogsmeade Village?

At first, they did not listen to orders and opened fire next to the Black Lake, far from the village of Hogsmeade, unnecessarily revealing their whereabouts.

Then, after relying on their absolute superiority in firepower and successfully repelling a small group of guards near the sentry box, they not only defied Sir Roderick's latest instructions and continued to expand the battle with the foreigners, but also recklessly drove a few small pickup trucks into the village of Hogsmeade without saying a word to the follow-up troops...... As a result, due to the black lights and unfamiliar paths, one car drove down the roadbed and plunged into the field, the other car somehow rolled down the hillside, and two cars ran over the triangular nails on the road and unfortunately burst the tire, although the remaining three cars successfully rushed into the entrance of the village, but after a fierce exchange of fire, they were still beaten back in the dust, and two of the cars were damaged in the crossfire, so that the surviving militants could only retreat on foot, or stick to the outside of the village, looking for cover and continuing to engage in firefighting with the defenders.

And it was only at this time that Stephen and the other mercenaries, riding in slow armored personnel carriers, had just arrived at the outermost sentry box in Hogsmeade Village...... Stephen and his companions don't know what to say to these volunteers who only know how to be wayward--don't you have the slightest concept of obedience and the least sense of cooperation?

Hey, this is clearly a bunch of football hooligans with guns! Hell if you can fight well!

Worse still, these seasoned veterans. It also had to be the front-line commander by a regional head of the "Knights of Nelson", a politician who was good at oratories and stirring up public sentiment, and even more wayward football hooligans...... What a typical layman leading an insider!

Therefore. In the face of the frustration of the first round of tentative attacks, or "spontaneous attacks", the front-line commander, instead of learning his lesson, lost his temper and refused to listen to Sir Roderick's order to "act cautiously", desperate to continue the fight to the end.

In addition, the defense of the village of Hogsmeade liliang. It was far more than initially anticipated - the original information was that there were only thirty Scottish guards armed with pistols, electric batons and pepper spray, and 2,000 unarmed foreign visitors. With three hundred and fifty armed men and four light armored vehicles put in by Sir Roderick. It doesn't take much effort to deter, put them under house arrest, or eliminate them.

But the fact is that the volunteers of the "Nelson Knights" who stormed the village of Hogsmeade were subjected to at least hundreds of automatic firearms near the entrance of the village. The windshield of the small pickup was shattered. There were even gas tanks that were blown out. Moreover, even with the use of RPG rocket launcher bombardment, it failed to open the situation...... Obviously, these foreigners did not know how to get through the customs and brought a large amount of firearms and ammunition into the country without permission......

Alas, if this were the case, then this clash was provoked by the militants of the "Nelson Knights" against the order and expanded by the front-line commanders. It's really going to be "the wrong battle with the wrong enemy at the wrong time, in the wrong place"!

The worst thing is. It is likely that the target of this battle is not ordinary people, but wizards, supernatural beings, and druids who defy common sense, and the veteran mercenaries did not believe in this matter, until Sir Roderick himself performed them a broomstick flight, and waved his wand to turn matches into needles, that Stephen had to believe that there was such an unscientific thing as wizards in this world.

Fortunately, although these wizards have great powers, it seems that they can only be hit when they are very close to them. Keeping his guard on the fence, Stephen thought he could send them to heaven with a bullet before they had a chance to get closer. As for the druid who transforms into an animal, he doesn't have to be afraid, he has even fought jaguars in Central America, is he still afraid of a few stupid bears?

In short, in Stephen's opinion, no matter what the strength of the enemy is, it must always be judged after personal contact with the firefight. The gibberish of the "armed football hooligans" who had been beaten back was not enough to scare them into fleeing.

Even if the enemy's fire is fierce, at most it is just some guns, and with two armored vehicles, at least it should not be a problem to retreat with all your body.

It's a pity that a lot of things don't go the way people think on this unpredictable pit daddy shijie.

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“…… Oh! NO-R-P-G-! ”

With the driver's frightened shouts, a string of popular killers dragged orange-red flames and smashed into the armored car!

“…… Thundered!! ”

The next moment, a deafening explosion suddenly sounded, and the No. 1 armored personnel carrier driving in front was hit by three rockets almost instantly, turning into a mass of burning metal wreckage. Stephen's No. 2 car was also blocked from the road and had to make an emergency stop.

At the same time, a terrifying wave of hot air, mixed with flames and metal fragments, wreaked through the narrow road, blasting all the soldiers who rubbed against it to pieces and clanging Stephen's second car. Others rushed down the road with a cry and wail, rolled and struggled in the dark fields, and even rushed into the haystacks in a panic, igniting a large and dazzling fire.

“…… Where did this RPG come from? weishenme our infrared night vision devices were not detected? ”

In the midst of the howl of the wolf, Stephen struggled forward and reached the driver's ear, shouting loudly.

On the way here, although he seemed careless, he never forgot to look at the nearby terrain through the observation hole. And the terrain of this section of the road is very simple, with endless flat fields on either side of the road, and the crops in the fields have not grown to two feet high, so there is no place to hide people - so where are these RPGs launched from?

And then. He got an unexpected answer.

“…… Enemies, in ...... In heaven! "In the dim interior lights, the driver's face was pale. Teeth chattered in reply.

In heaven? Could it be a helicopter gunship? But why didn't you hear the slightest sound beforehand? Or a blacked-out hydrogen balloon?

Stephen frowned in confusion and leaned forward, looking at the windows and electronic screens, and was stunned.

- In the bright moonlight, nine vampires dressed in black and red coats, with bazookas on their shoulders and bat-like wings. A second round of RPG rockets was fired at the convoy on the surface road...... Although they were all blown upside down by the recoil of the rocket's launch at the moment the orange-red flames erupted, they quickly stabilized their figures. Dropping the fired bazooka, he pulled out an automatic rifle or pistol from his back, pulled the trigger and spat out a tongue of fire, emitting a series of crisp "da-da-da-da". Continue to deal an even more painful blow to this team.

Luckily. None of the nine RPG rockets in the second round hit Stephen's car No. 2, only blowing up more and bigger potholes on this section of the road, and blowing up a few unlucky people who didn't have time to dodge into charred corpses. As for the indiscriminate strafing that followed, it was difficult to aim in the dark, and these vampires were not sharpshooters, so they also didn't cause much trouble to the attackers who were all issued body armor.

And taking advantage of this short gap, the mercenaries and the militants of the "Knights of Nelson" who were originally beaten one-sidedly. Finally fought back.

“…… Fire! Fire! Shoot in the air! The commander in the passenger seat yelled as he slapped the weapon operator next to him. Ask him to manipulate the electrically controlled machine gun tower on the roof of the armored car and shoot at the vampires in the air.

At the same time, the driver also opened the back door of the armored personnel carrier, and asked Stephen and seven or eight other brave men who had crawled out of the Shura field all over the world to climb out of the armored personnel carrier one by one, fully armed, and stumble in the rain of bullets, looking for suitable cover, and then raising their guns to return the color to the attackers. Outside the car, the militants of the "Nelson Knights" who were lucky enough to escape the explosion also learned to raise their automatic rifles and fire fiercely into the night sky...... In just an instant, the smoke of gunpowder gave the battlefield a blurred color.

The fierce exchange of fire lasted less than a minute, and ended temporarily with the vampires flapping their wings and retreating - although the mercenaries did not have the legendary holy water bottles and silver bullets for vampire hunters, these vampires were also not as ferocious as the legend, and seeing that the counter-fire on the ground was still fierce, they broke away from the fire and flew into the air, then turned and flew towards the village of Hogsmeade not far away.

However, before Stephen and the others could catch their breath, they heard an earth-shattering explosion in the distance, and then saw a huge fireball slowly rising from the back of the village building, dyeing the deep night sky red...... Stephen couldn't help but gasp when he saw this—according to this scene, the troops attacking Hogsmeade from another road were probably also devastating.

Looking back at his side, there were more than 100 troops before the battle, but only about half were left at this time, and there were more than 10 people covered in color, and it seemed that they couldn't fight anymore...... So, he climbed into the armored personnel carrier again, tried to persuade the commander to stop advancing, and turned around and retreated.

However, before he could think of how to speak, he heard a hysterical exclamation from outside—driven by the druid's spells, dozens of manic fat boars were acting as "pork bombs", wrapped in eye-catching explosive packets, and snorting to rush towards him!

What's worse is that in the distant crop fields, there are also many shadowy enemies, using automatic rifles that sound like AK47s, firing continuously on the road, interfering with the remnants of mercenaries and the militants of the "Nelson Knights" to block the "boar bombs".

So, after just a few breaths, at least three wild boars broke through the sparse net of fire and slammed into the front end of the armored vehicle.

Then, with screams, explosions, and earth-shaking shocks, Stephen lost consciousness for a moment.

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It didn't take long for Stephen to wake up from his coma, feeling his ears ringing and his head dizzy.

I'm alive!!!

In his mind, which was a little confused by the explosion and the shock wave, only this thought was left for a while.

Barely breathing in a breath of turbid air filled with blood and gunsmoke, he first examined his limbs and body to see that there did not appear to be any obvious serious injuries, then took out a battlefield stimulant from his pocket and felt it to stab his thigh. The next moment, as the potion entered the blood circulation, a comfortable warm current made Stephen almost moan out, and it also made his brain return to clarity slightly.

Looking around, the armored personnel carrier he was riding in had completely flipped on its side, and the interior of the body was twisted and damaged. The driver's head was tilted at an abnormal angle, as if his neck had been broken. But I didn't see the commander or the weapon operator, maybe they escaped?

Hearing what seemed to be sporadic gunshots not far away, Stephen hesitated slightly, then carefully drew his pistol, then slammed open the undeformed rear hatch, and rushed out with a roll.

Then, to Stephen's dismay, he found himself surrounded by a row of black muzzles.

And what surprised him even more was that a certain oriental black-haired beautiful girl wearing a gothic black lace dress and an exceptionally petite body walked over leisurely. The girl had short ear-length hair, a striking yellow ribbon, and a strand of dull hair on the top of her head standing proudly, but she did not feel the slightest weakness, but exuded an indescribable oppressive force all over her body, which made people can't help but give birth to some kind of inexplicable horror......

“…… Kuku Ku Ku Ku Ku I didn't think there was a little mouse that slipped through the net here! ”

With a blackened and distorted bloodthirsty smile, Birdie Yu Zhenbai approached Stephen's side, and the blood-red light that shot out of her golden right eye made the veteran mercenary almost incontinent with horror, and even a little finger could not move at all:

“…… Kuku! Humble existence! Under the eyes of this evil king, who is full of the will of the great universe, all your careful thoughts cannot be hidden! Kuku! Fear it! Tremble! Tell me everything you know, and then kneel down with me and beg for forgiveness! (To be continued......)