Chapter 152: Retaking the Fortress
The Potato Mercenaries had been relieved of the siege, and most of the mercenary archers who had stayed behind and chose to break through the Imperial Light Cavalry had survived, while those who stood still and simply raised their weapons to return fire at the Light Cavalry were largely dead. The Marcus brothers were wounded, but apparently their enemies were far more seriously wounded, judging by the blood on their golden axes and warhammers.
The throwing javelins were so sharp that many of the dead mercenary archers had several of them stuck in them, and some of them died horribly, and even the other mercenaries who came later were terrified when they saw them.
Fyld picked up the two twigs, and Saresa's helmet was tucked away by Ayana—she said it was her trophy. Feder moved north with the remnants of his troops, and sure enough, the "Torch Army" was a suspicious soldier that Patrick had deliberately created! The remaining 200 or so Potato Mercenary Mercenaries were all holding two torches, and some of them looked out of breath, and the Champion Gladiator explained that it was because he had half of them running back and forth, so that from a distance they looked more reinforcements with torches.
"I was able to break through under the siege of hundreds of imperial light cavalry, and also defeated the wasteland python, it seems that this plan to help you get a reputation as a hero has succeeded. Patrick said.
"Your suspicious tactics are very beautiful, and if it weren't for the support you sent, maybe we wouldn't have been able to get out so easily. ”
"Actually, I realized the meaning of you asking me to answer here, and those torches were all arranged by you," Patrick crossed his hands on his chest, then nodded and said, "Don't be modest, even without us, you can take down the commander-in-chief of the enemy army, now as long as you return to Doret City, you will be the new hero of the Western Guna Imperial Defense Army!"
After the potato mercenary group was put in order, they slowly advanced in the direction of the fortress. Fidel wasn't worried that Saresa would suddenly come back and launch a counterattack against them. He could see in the eyes of the other party the honor and arrogance of a female marquis and a female general, and since the Wasteland Python had promised to evacuate from the fortress and return Lord Möngke to herself, she would not go back on her word. It's hard to say if it was someone else, but Fed's heart firmly believed that the other party would not deceive him, perhaps because of her long maroon hair that was exactly the same as her mother's.
In the direction of the fortress, some scouts of Meng Ge's own soldiers appeared one after another, and they only relieved themselves when they saw the potato mercenary group, and ran back to the fortress with the news.
When they entered the fortress, the soldiers of Möngke were shouting loudly, and they stood in every part of the fortress, and the cheers were like a tide, waking up the whole night. Some of the mercenaries cheered along, but Hei, Charlie, and Jasmine looked ugly. They each stood in front of the boxes of treasures, holding weapons in their hands, like misers of the landlord class, guarding their private property.
"The Potato Mercenary Regiment is too strong! It actually defeated the light cavalry of the East Oguna Empire in the field!"
"Our Lord Möngke has also been released!
"Fide is indeed a mercenary of the young hero! It seems that our St. Oguna Empire is saved!"
As Fei De walked towards the center of the fort, everyone around him raised their hands in cheers, and some even reached out and touched Fei De. Of course, they knew what they were already in—if the light cavalry did not retreat, and surrounded the fortress, the three thousand men they had sent to attack the fort in the middle of the night, intent on retaking it, would have been pinned down to death.
It turned out that these mercenaries and a small number of soldiers trapped in the fortress were not willing to wait for the rabbit at the beginning, they relied on their large number of people, and tried to break through after being surrounded. As a result, the light cavalry trained by the Wasteland Python extinguished all the visible sources of fire, and then the throwing javelins in their hands kept throwing around, which immediately caused the mercenaries who could not see clearly in the distance to be in a panic and fled back one after another. There were also brave fellows who rushed into the darkness, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive. Feder estimated that there were more than 100 light cavalry pursuing him, and that there might be 300 men surrounding the fort, and if the enemies who withdrew from the fort were also counted, then the number of enemy troops would be further increased. With the advantage of mobility and vision, they simply besieged the fortress with a force of nearly 3,000 men, and could not escape.
The people in the fortress did not know how many enemy troops there were, they only knew that there were only a few dozen of Möngke's own soldiers who fled back from the south, and most of the people who followed Lord Möngke in pursuit were ambushed and killed.
Fed was led into the hall of the fortress by some of Mönggo's own soldiers, and Lord Möngke was lying on a wooden bed of animal skins, and the other party looked dying.
"Master Fielder, it's a good thing you saved Master Mönggo, otherwise our soldiers would have been beheaded!" the soldier knelt down and said to Field.
Maybe it's because of the influence of Montrey and the regent Xiumo, but Meng Ge, who is already seriously injured in front of him and falls into a coma, is obviously enough to make the two people in power angry. Although the mission this time is to make himself a hero, Möngke is clearly another option, and now that the other party has been captured and wounded by his rash advance, perhaps the regent and the chief of the general staff will blame him.
However, there was no time for Fei De to think about the rest of the matter, and the leaders of the Ah Hei Mercenary Group, the Mulihua Mercenary Group and the Superior Mercenary Group had already walked in, and they stood behind Fei De and did not speak.
"You people, don't listen to our deputy commander," Nur said first. But before he could finish speaking, Fei De waved his hand and told him not to blame the three of them anymore.
The regiment commander Charlie first said: "This time I did have the problem of improper wisdom, but in general, I still held the fortress with my subordinates"
"Isn't it my crossbowmen who are guarding it?!" Jasmine said, "My crossbowmen have pushed the enemy's light cavalry out of view of the fortress!
Ah Hei also interjected: "Hehe, that's it, that broken door is really deadly! I don't know who broke it!"
Charlie's face flushed, and he roared, "Isn't the west door also broken?!"
"That's not what I did, it's those Meng Ge soldiers!" the dark-skinned Leader Ahei shrugged his shoulders and put the relationship aside.
The three regiment commanders blamed and argued with each other, originally these mercenary groups were all under the orders of the Fuller leader of the Wave Mercenary Group, and now they followed Fei De and Meng Ge to fight here, and they have long become mutually incompatible, everyone wants to get a little more benefit for their mercenary group, as for the responsibility, it has always been something that mercenaries can't avoid.
Fei De stopped arguing, "There is nothing wrong with this incident, you have helped us buy us a lot of time by holding the fortress, and now those enemies have been repelled and the fortress has been recaptured, this time the mission has been completed very well." ”
Jasmine asked in a low voice, "Then Lord Field, those treasures" The other two regiment leaders also immediately stared at Field, waiting for the other party's response.
"That's your spoils. ”