Fide had a two-handed sword in his hand, and he sat in the castle of Dry Sand City with Andrei's two-handed sword squadron, waiting for the leader of the Demon-Eye mercenary group to walk in. In this moment of waiting, he closed his eyes and remembered the events of the past few days.

On that day, he and Andre went to inspect the mercenaries who had been personally selected by Reeves.

"You're all standing! our regimental commander is going to check you one by one!" Reeves made all the mercenaries who had been recruited back with two-handed weapons lined up in more than a dozen rows, and each row had more than twenty men.

Andrei asked each of the mercenaries a few words and patted them on the shoulder. And Fei De also carefully observed the group of mercenaries.

Most of them are not young, and many of them have been on the battlefield. Some had served as soldiers in the regular army, some had been mercenaries from other mercenary groups, and a few had been knights. Some of them wore sandwich armor, some wore chain mail, and they wore nothing, except for a few iron amulets. Most of them are accustomed to two-handed swords, and many of them use two-handed axes, so many of them are quite strong and have amazing arm strength.

Reeves told Andre and Fid that the total number of these people was 249, the oldest was 55 years old, and the youngest was only 17 years old, but they were all good at using two-handed weapons in the mercenary market, and each mercenary could get a basic reward of ten gold coins per month, and each completed task would be divided according to performance. This price is already a pretty good offer in the Republic of Marveil, after all, many mercenary groups only have a salary if they have a mission, and they won't get a share of the bread when they have nothing to do.

This reminded Phyde of the time when the Water Dog Mercenary Corps had chosen to protect the bandits who had killed the people for twenty gold coins each - each mercenary had a price, and even I might have it, but it was certainly not gold. Feder thought to himself.

"These two brothers are the squad leaders of our two-handed squadron," André stood behind two large orange-haired men, both of them with rugged appearances and strong figures, each wearing an iron armor chest guard on his chest, and his arms and neck were exposed. And the lower body is a chain skirt, light and cool, "Their names are Marcus and Matthews, and they used to be the leaders of a mercenary group. Andrei pointed to the two strong men with orange beards.

His brother Marcus is blind in one eye, he wears a pirate-like black eye guard, and carries a huge warhammer behind his back. The hammer has an ornate pattern, with a protruding taper on one side and a flat-bottomed one on the other, but in Field's experience, this one is just a valuable warhammer, not an enchanted weapon.

The younger brother, Matthews, carried a golden axe, which was decorated with gold except for the body of the axe, which did not seem to be commensurate with the vulgar man.

"And you, Fidel," Andre smiled ambiguously again, "you are also the squad leader under me, and in the future, apart from me, the three of you will be the leaders of this squadron." ”

"But what about the shield of your Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment?"

"But that's all you Moon Shield mercenary group has?"

The two brothers asked a question at the same time.

Andrei opened his hands and replied one by one, "If you two don't have to carry the shield, the other mercenaries will have to carry it on their backs to protect the rear." ”

Feder touched the back of his armor, thinking to himself that it was inconvenient for him to carry it too.

"As for the numbers," said Andrei, touching his chin, "we have squadrons of infantry, archers, swords, shields, and spearmen, which together are estimated to be three thousand. "This number was expected by Andre himself, he did not count the little people in the cavalry squadron, when Russell was the commander, Julian, Alain and Bisluvis already had a lot of strength, and in other places they were the combat effectiveness of a mercenary group.

In the Republic, mercenary groups with less than 500 people belong to small mercenary groups, mercenary groups with more than 500 people and less than 1,000 people are medium-sized mercenary groups, more than 1,000 people and less than 3,000 people are large mercenary groups, and there are not many mercenary groups with more than 3,000 people in the entire continent, and they belong to giant mercenary groups.

It's just that the mercenaries of the mercenary group are very mobile, and sometimes several squadrons of mercenaries will be lost in a single battle, so the mercenary meal is not so easy to eat.

"I don't know how much you have to be right next to us, but if my brother is in danger, you must save him. Marcus told Fidel before he was about to leave that his brother could easily fall into a state of madness and didn't know if he was injured.

Back inside the castle in Dry Sand City, Fed looked at Matthews beside him, who was in a state of extreme agitation. The flushed face and the big gulps of breath made Fei De feel a little uneasy inside, the first time they fought together, they didn't know Matthews's strength, but it looked like he would be a reckless person.

Fed didn't want to "take care" of someone on the battlefield, but Marcus's warning before leaving, as if his brother was missing a finger and had to pay for an arm. He looked at the mercenaries who were ambushed on the second and third floors of the castle, each of them was very nervous, perhaps because they were working for the Moon Shield mercenary group for the first time, or maybe they had just heard that the opponent was the MONOCULUS mercenary group of the mercenary guild. Anyway, I don't care, the strongest opponent will let the strongest me play. Feder thought to himself.

Eddie and Shelley dismount in front of the castle and lead James into the castle.

"Gordon City Councillor is inside, please come in. ”

James was also very vigilant, he let thirty mercenaries from the MONOCULUS mercenary group follow him, Colin also asked fifty kingdom infantry to follow him into the castle, while the remaining more than a thousand mercenaries and the rest of the infantry waited in a long line along the street outside.

But as soon as they entered the castle, something happened in an instant.

Andre had already arranged for his two-handed squadron to ambush in the castle of Dry Sand City, and he asked Fide and Matthews to lead more than 100 people to guard the second and third floors, while he and 80 people waited in the hall on the first floor, while Marcus led the rest of the mercenaries to hide in the underground floor, and when they heard the order, they rushed out and attacked the opponent's regimental commander. As for Julian, several of his squadron leaders laid an ambush in other parts of Dry Sands City, using the horn as the standard, to surround the enemy outside.

André was very satisfied with his "double iron cage" tactics, and he even arranged crossbowmen outside the walls of Dry Sand City, and also launched a shot at the soldiers of the Kosai Kingdom outside the city, so that they could not rescue the leaders who entered the city - but he did not expect that there were as many as 100,000 Winter Kingdom soldiers outside the city, and the real leader, Prince Jack, did not enter, and he did not expect that the enchanted helmet of the MONOCULUS mercenary group did not come in.

James and Colin walked side by side into the lobby of the castle, while the eighty mercenaries with greatswords in both hands stood on either side. André was sitting in the chair that was supposed to be the mayor of Gordon, and he crossed one leg and placed the "silence" across his lap.

"Welcome, it seems that the prince and marquis of the leading army have not come in!" An ambiguous smile appeared on the corner of Andrei's mouth, he was still the same as before, and he was not wearing any armor, only a civilian style cloth coat.

"Oh, you don't seem to be the Gordon Mayor. ”

"No, no, I'm Gordon, you see you're wearing such a heavy helmet, can you see clearly? ”

"Hehe, looking at this formation, Gordon doesn't plan to give up this city. James stopped more than twenty meters away from Andre, and the thirty MONOCULUS mercenaries behind him all drew their weapons and faced the approaching two-handed swordsman.

And Colin was surrounded and protected by the fifty kingdom soldiers, "Who are you, why do you calculate our Kosai kingdom!" Colin hid in the middle, observing the situation around him with his glasses eyes. The fifty soldiers formed a circle, intending to walk in the direction of the gate that had just fallen from the castle.

At this time, the mercenary of the Moon Shield Mercenary Group at the top of the castle blew a horn, which meant that the leader of the other party had been controlled in the castle.

"Don't leave here, there are more people out there than here, and we're no ordinary soldiers!" Andre picked up his sword and stood up. And Fid and Marcus also surrounded them from the upper and lower levels, they didn't expect that these people trapped in the castle in front of them didn't run for their lives elsewhere. In particular, the thirty mercenaries of the MONOCULUS Mercenary Regiment behind James were all very calm, and they were not affected at all by the approaching two-handed swordsmen.

"Then I won't leave, anyway, in the face of our MONOCULUS mercenary group, no matter how many people are just miscellaneous soldiers," James waved his hand to signal Colin to protect himself, he pulled out a straight-edged knife from his waist and raised it high, "If there are three times our strength outside the castle, then no one will open the door of the castle and help you collect the corpses." He swung his straight-edged knife downward, and all the mercenaries of the MONOCULUS mercenary group drew their weapons, and the glass beads of their heavy helmets all glowed white, like a third eye on their foreheads, shining on every approaching two-handed swordsman.

Colin didn't know the enchanting power of these "magic eyes", but he still let the fifty soldiers close to protect him and retreated to the castle door.

Andre directly drew his sword forward, and a sudden advance approached James's side, the "silence" in his hand slashed downward, and James had already dodged the attack that had not yet appeared sideways before the opponent's chopping action was completed, and pulled it to the left with the straight-edged knife in his hand, drawing a deep scar on Andre's right hand.

"Ahh He used his left hand to hold the "silence" to protect himself and retreat, and Fidel, who was standing in the distance, could see clearly that the other party's regiment leader had a counterattack reaction the moment Andre made a move, not because his fighting skills were above Andre, his eyes didn't look at it at all, but the enchanted helmet.

"Oh, are you the strongest of these people?" James didn't pursue, stood there with his eyes closed, and said coldly, "But I was still seen through by my 'magic eye', it seems that the good things in your hands are going to be mine!"