"Why can't we go?! We're a free mercenary group!" Captain Marcus didn't know this guy in black and white plate armor at all, although the other party looked quite old-fashioned, but he trespassed into his camp tent and interrupted himself, which had already made Marcus, who had just retired from the position of interim head of the regiment, very dissatisfied.

Everyone else also stood up, and Ayana also walked into the tent, she was only in charge of monitoring the movements of the people outside, and she did not stop the two people who forced their way into the tent.

"Can't go," Stanley said, still not reporting to his home, he just looked at Fidel, "Lord Regent wants Your Excellency to command those tens of thousands of mercenaries with me and Ludwig." ”

"Why me?"

"Fuller had been beheaded this morning on charges of treason, and dozens of his mercenary regiments are now under my command, but they don't seem to be willing to obey me," Stanley said, taking a roll of papers from his bosom and handing it to Field.

Fed took it, and it said that the regent wanted to keep Fed, and wanted him to be Stanley's staff officer and command the tens of thousands of mercenary groups. The regent's words were sincere, it was written that Fidel was a mercenary, and those unruly mercenary groups would more or less obey their orders, and those mercenaries sympathized with Fidel and Ludwig, who were placed under house arrest with Fuller, but were quite disgusted with the regent Shumo, who executed Fuller.

Seeing Fed's hesitation, Stanley continued: "Those mercenary groups have begun to waver, they need some people with a good reputation in the mercenary world to lead them, and Your Excellency is the most suitable person in our Theoguna Empire right now. The regent Xiumo also asked me to convey to you that if you participate in the command and win the defense battle in the future, then the dozens of mercenary groups that originally belonged to Fuller will all be under the banner of Feide, and this is a part of the reward that Feide can receive. Stanley's words were sincere, but the sudden arrival of the appointment papers struck Fielder as a little strange. He said he needed to consult with his subordinates before he could give an answer.

Stanley, the chief of the general staff, also felt that he had said enough, and from his last expression, it could be seen that the other party's sincere invitation was actually disguised, and Stanley did not have high hopes for this deputy regiment commander who commanded hundreds of mercenaries. Instead, the young man beside him kept looking at Fidel with a smile as if something interesting was on him.

"Do you remember me?" The man was about twenty years old, with three-dimensional features, wheat-colored skin, and the most distinctive feature was that he wore small iron rings on both ears, which was quite strange.

Feder kept searching his mind for the people he had met, and he couldn't remember where he had seen the person in front of him, but the only thing he knew for sure was that this person was indeed very impressive, as if he was an old acquaintance, but there was no way to tell who the other party was.

In the end, Fidel just shook his head slightly.

"It doesn't matter, you'll remember it later, I'll leave first, and the matter that was given to me is over," the man with ringed ears said with a smile, "Whether or not Fei De chooses to be your staff officer in the end is up to him, after all, he has been very independent since he was a child." With that, the man with the ear piercing left the camp of the potato mercenary group first. Stanley also expressed his willingness to wait for Fidel's reply, telling Fidel that Ludwig had agreed to be his right staff officer, and that he was now waiting for the mercenary to agree to be his left staff officer. He hoped that Fidel would answer him within an hour, and he would be waiting for news in the camp of the thirty Dreadnought Knights outside.

"Don't think about it, join us! As long as you are willing to be my staff officer, you mercenaries will definitely not lack the money they want most. Then he strode out of the tent. And the people in the camp exploded in an instant, and the discussion was fierce.

"There's a problem with this! Suddenly give Fidel the command of a bunch of mercenaries for no reason, everyone says, what is the reason for this?!" Marcus was the first to stand up and object, "Think about the fact that the pope of the Papal State asked us to be the chief mercenary group and the deputy head of the field to be the chief regiment, isn't it just to use us to contain the head of the mercenary group on the side of the archbishop? This kind of thing always treats us as pawns, and there will definitely be no good results in the end." After Marcus left the City of Light, he no longer hid his antipathy for the church personnel, feeling that his mercenary group had been used and had gained nothing.

Squad Leader Franklin also said: "What Squadron Leader Marcus said makes sense, when we were the chief mercenary group, we didn't get any benefits, and the final remuneration was very small, so it was not worth our life for them!"

However, Lukka said, "Then who do you think we should die for?" His words immediately made Franklin speechless, "In my opinion, since the regent Xiumo promised to hand over tens of thousands of mercenaries to our banner, and we are mercenaries just for money? An empire must not lack this, maybe we can really help the Theoguna Empire tide over the difficulties, then our strength will be greatly improved in a short period of time!" His words made several people nod their heads in agreement.

Marcus said: "That's what I said, but I don't think I can believe the words of those in power, think about it, these mercenary groups of about the same size as ours also have a general leader, but didn't that guy say it just now? The general head Fuller has been executed, and I don't want to end up like him." ”

Reeves, the chief military superintendent, said: "You can't think like this, after all, this document only requires us to cooperate with Stanley, the chief of the general staff, as his staff and deputy, and jointly lead these mercenaries, and the main responsibility will not fall on us," Reeves had already taken the document and read it carefully twice, "If the price and conditions are right, we can still consider it." ”

"But why should we be the deputy head of the regiment? He has just been released, this matter is really wrong, there are many doubts, I think it is better not to agree. Noor said

Noor got to the point where Fid considered it. Fei De also met with Fuller this morning, although he was dissatisfied at that time, but how did he change from the leader of the mercenary group loyal to the Theoguna Empire to a traitor? Moreover, according to Fuller and Stanley's description, the Wave Mercenary Group is only one of the relatively large mercenary groups, and there are at least dozens of small and medium-sized mercenary groups under his banner with a number of between 300 and 900 people, and these mercenary groups are all gathered by Fuller, intending to serve the Theoguna Empire together and make money by the way. Originally, I thought that this group of tens of thousands of mercenaries had all fallen under the command of the regent Xiu Mo, but I didn't expect that now there was an uncontrollable and uncontrollable situation. But even so, it is not my turn to be the head of these people. There must be something wrong with picking yourself to lead them

Fei De didn't think about it for a while, and the other departments had already divided into two factions arguing, some of them thought that this was a good opportunity to make the potato mercenary group more powerful, and some thought that this was another ill-intentioned trap, but this faction's opinion did not seem to hold very tenable, after all, a mercenary group of only more than 300 people was not worth a regent.

If the regent Xiumo and Stanley want to find a mercenary guy to lead the mercenaries, wouldn't it be more suitable for the widow mercenary group's Myra? Or maybe Myra is just using the excuse to negotiate with the regent, but in fact, like Marven of the knight mercenary group under the king, he has his own little calculations. If you want to find someone of higher status than you to lead those mercenaries, such as Count de Barlo, or other nobles who have been placed under house arrest, those people should be more able to gain the regent's trust. But no one was there, but he chose the deputy head of his own small mercenary group - and the Winter Native Ludwig. After thinking about it, he thought that this matter must have something to do with the guy with earrings in his ears just now, but he couldn't remember who this familiar person was.

"If it is reasonable to be invited to be in command because of Feyder's prestige and the strength of the Potato Mercenary Regiment, it can be considered," Patrick was the calmest of all the captains, and he was also the last to see the autograph of the regent Xiumo, "but this is not the case in our situation, and this is the contradiction. ”

The others also gradually calmed down, and after hearing the words of the champion fighter, they all nodded in agreement. Only then did Fidel notice that without Cash, Greif, Avi, and Van, there was always something missing when discussing with the captains, as if these four people were not the most objective and analytical people, but they could think about problems and make suggestions from more angles.

At this time, Ayana suddenly walked in from outside the tent, she was obviously listening to everyone's discussion in the tent just now, and she didn't know when she slipped out.

"I just got a piece of information," Ayana stood in the corner, and if she hadn't spoken, only Fidel would have noticed her, "from the guy who brought the documents in just now." ”

Everyone else immediately looked at the fifteen-year-old girl, "From the conversation between the senior official and the man with the ears pierced, we can know that Fei De was actually pushed to this position by others." ”

"What do you mean? Squad leader Luca hurriedly asked.

"That's it. ”

"That is, someone else recommended Fielder to be the commander of this group of mercenary groups, the deputy of the chief of the general staff?" Reeves said after thinking for a moment.

"That's right, that's what it means. Ayana never repeated what she had heard, but the core of the information she had gathered had already been told.

"Could it be the Lord Regent Shumo?" Marcus asked, "Is it because of the outstanding performance of Deputy Head of Mission Fei in the defense council that he wants to win over our Deputy Head of Mission and recommend him?"

Fidel shook his head, "Probably not, I don't have any outstanding performance. The first person that came to his mind was Ludwig, the one who behaved strangely but thought clearly, who knew his own details, or who knew that he was a military power figure in the Kingdom of Sahlins. Thinking of this, a very hazy vision suddenly appeared in Feide's head, and there was a man looking at him with a smile and a groan—yes! it was the man with wheat-skinned skin and pierced ears.

Fei De immediately stood up and ran out, trying to find the other man. But the man who had come in with Stanley, the chief of the General Staff, had long since left, leaving only thirty knights of the Dreadnought Knights and Stanley.

Stanley saw Feder running out of the camp outside the camp, and he shouted, "Deputy Head of Fed, have you already made a decision?"

"What about the man?"

"Who are you talking about?"

"The one who came with you. ”

"Oh, you said he, he's gone. Stanley shut up, as if he didn't know the man very well.

Fed walked to his tent in chagrin, knowing that even if he asked Stanley for the man's name, the Chief of Staff would not say. He felt that he only needed to ask the man a question to determine who he was, but in the last moment of his memory, Fidel still couldn't remember who the other person was. But he knew that he was pushed into this position, and it had a lot to do with this person.

After returning, Fei De said slowly, "If Ayana heard something that was not misunderstood, then there must be someone who proposed to let me be Stanley's deputy." ”

The other captains came up with the same answer, so as to explain why they chose Fidel.

"You say, could it be that Commander Andre personally wrote a letter to the regent Xiu Mo and asked our deputy head to take this high position?" Andrei was once a well-known regimental leader, but he has long since disappeared, so what does it have to do with the head of state of the emerging regime?

But this reminded Phyll, on the contrary, that it may have been a good thing that Russell had done. After all, Russell is the one who wants his mercenary group to become stronger, and then let himself avenge him, maybe it is Russell who sends someone to send a letter to the Holy Maiden Goliath or the regent Xiumo, asking them to hand over the position of Stanley's deputy to him. However, Fylde quickly overturned his conclusion, because Ayana clearly heard Stanley talking to the familiar guy, and the person with the ear piercing was the key.

"Forget it," Marcus waited until Fed came back to the camp, his expression seemed to change a little, "I think we should go, we have nothing to lose anyway, if we can help the Theoguna Empire win the defense war, maybe our mercenary group will become one of the strongest mercenary groups in the continent within a day!"

Reeves also nodded, "Relying on the gold coins I brought from the Marvil Republic, even if our mercenary group raises 10,000 people, it can still last for a long time. But with the number of mercenaries we have now, it won't cost that much money at all, unless Deputy Head Fei wants to take the elite route, then I didn't say it. Reeves had privately asked about Field's ambitions beforehand. The bald chief warden made it clear that the gold he brought was something he gave back to Captain Andrei, but he would also examine the potential of the Potato Mercenary Regiment, and if the Potato Mercenary Regiment aspired to become a powerful mercenary group like the Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment, he would stay here to assist Fidel until Andre returned from his injuries. At that time, Fei De said that he just wanted to build the potato mercenary group into a mercenary group that could compete with the nine mercenary groups, and it was rare that this time he could greatly increase the number of mercenary group members at one time, and Reeves certainly did not want to let go of this opportunity.

The captains, who had been advocating leaving the area and finding a living elsewhere, gradually changed their attitudes. They all thought that it was better to wait until there was danger than to come here and get nothing—mercenaries were all occupied by greed in their bones, unlike those like Feyde, Patrick, and Ayana.

In the end, Feder decided to become Stanley's deputy first to find out the situation. If it endangers the self-interest of the potato mercenary group, it is not too late to withdraw, after all, the rewards in front of you are very considerable, and if you are lucky, you can really increase the strength of the potato mercenary group. Feld was hell-bent on knowing who had pushed him into that position, and what was the purpose of doing so?

When Stanley heard Fed's agreement, he immediately smiled brightly, but there was subtle hypocrisy in it. He also told Fid other details, such as Fuller's treason. He said that Fuller had already shown signs of rebellion, and that his Wave Mercenary Regiment and the seven or eight mercenary regiments belonging to him were planning to launch a surprise attack when the East Oguna Invasion Army attacked Doret City. It's just that there is no airtight wall, and this trick is still seen through by the wise Lord Regent. All these traitors have been arrested and beheaded. Now the remaining more than 20,000 mercenaries are all satisfied and do not dare to disagree. They were now fully loyal to Emperor Manfrett, just like the regular army in the defense plan.

What the other party said made Fei De feel a chill. The more than 100,000 soldiers recruited by the great nobles have lost their leaders, and the remaining dozens of small mercenary groups have lost some of their companions and commanders, will they really serve the new regime in the west with all their heart and heart? The regent's practice was no different from forced conscription, and in the end it would only make the already unpopular Theoguna Empire fail faster. Unless the invading forces of the East Oguna Empire make some major strategic mistakes, the odds of the West Oguna Empire winning this battle will be very low.

Stanley also revealed that Ludwig, who had been sent by the Kingdom of Cose, had assured the regent that the battle would be won, and that he would only need to be given command of a certain number of soldiers.

Thinking of this, Fei De began to regret a little that he agreed to join the formation of the West Oguna Empire, and he also regretted a little that he didn't simply leave here in the first place. But now that I have made my choice, maybe this is a more difficult path, but isn't this a different path? Only by taking a different path can I have a chance to prove that my father's point of view is wrong, and I must prove it to him.