Was the Five-Day War a conspiracy of the Dordors?

Barrett didn't continue, intending to give Vile a moment to digest the shocking news. He left his seat, walked to the closet, and returned with a plate of fresh prairie cranberries from inside. It was the fruit he had spent 15 silver soles to get from a nearby meadow for the little ones in the bear group.

The taste of the prairie cranberries is very average, with a hint of sweetness in the sourness. Compared to the happy smiling faces of the children, 15 silver coins for a plate of common fruits on the grassland are worth it.

Barrett had just picked up a cranberry and before he could put it in his mouth, the entire plate was snatched by Deputy Head Vier, he glared at him and pretended to scold: "Hey, don't go too far, a female ranger shouldn't bully a slow old man." ”

"You are the head of the uncle, I am the deputy head, you should take care of me. Vile grabbed a handful of cranberries and stuffed them into his mouth.

"You are all more capable than me, everyone wants to be the Grand Master of the Bear Regiment, why have I been able to sit in the position of the Captain until now?" Barriet said with a smile, referring to the eight Deputy Heads including Vile.

It's a pity that Deputy Head Vile was too busy dealing with the cranberries in his mouth to answer his boss's questions.

Barrett shook his head helplessly, and said to himself: "Because, I am old and not very capable. Anyway, none of you guys will accept anyone, so it's better to let me, an old guy, continue to be in charge, and when you decide the winner, you can kick me off at any time. ”

When Vile heard this, she lowered her head very embarrassedly, and then comforted: "Uncle is experienced, smart and capable, and he still has some strength under his hands...... It's a little bit worse than me. ”

Barrett was amused by the female ranger's bluntness and said, "You guy, what should I say about you...... You're still too young for the other deputy commanders to think so. I was able to sit in the position of head of the Bear Regiment because I was old and weak, and it was not .......false that the Duoduo valued this and supported me in the charge of the Bear Regiment, which had thousands of mercenaries. The other guys are younger than me, powerful, and famous, how can the Duoduo people rest assured that they will be the Grand Master of the Bear Regiment?"

"They are very shrewd, they just want to be the first deputy head of the regiment, and they will never oust me from power. It's just you clamoring all day long to take my place. Even if I choose a successor, I must choose a person who is old and does not have many skills, and if I choose any of you, I will harm you and the bear group. ”

Vile furrowed her slender eyebrows and said incomprehensibly, "I grew up in the Fire Lion Mercenary Regiment, and we both let the most capable person be the leader. ”

Barry nodded and said: "Yes, when the bear group was at its peak, there were more than 10,000 people under the bear head, and your eight deputy commanders can come out, all of them are top mercenaries, either fierce warriors or rangers, the only drawback is that except for you, they are all older, otherwise they would have been recruited as retainers by the lord long ago, and there is no need to work hard in the mercenary group." ”

"To be honest, the size of the bear group is too large, it is not a mercenary group I know, nor is it a mercenary group that the lord likes. At our peak, there were nearly 4,000 armed mercenaries, and although there were many female mercenaries, the rest of the male mercenaries were more than 2,000 men......"

"Uncle Regimental Commander, what about the female mercenaries? None of the deputy captains of the Xiong Regiment are my opponents, and they can't even beat my sister Mary. Vile waved her delicate little fist, looking very unconvinced.

"Yes, yes, yes, I was wrong, it's okay. Barrett spread his hands and explained weakly: "I mean, the lord's escort is all male, and if you don't consider the militia, the average baron's escort will maintain 2 or 300 people. Our bear regiment used to have more than 2,000 male mercenaries, and now there are more than 1,700 strong men...... If the head of the Xiong Regiment is wise and capable, the lord of the pioneer point will probably have to keep his eyes open even when he sleeps. ”

Weier shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, we are working for the lord lord, what are they worried about." ”

Barrett was originally not a clever person, and he didn't know how to persuade a young female ranger with naïve ideas, so he had to put aside the topic and said, "Lord Lord, don't worry, let's not talk about it for now...... Let's talk about the reward given to the bear group by the Ghost Forest Exploration Point, killing a goblin rewards 20 copper soles, a kobold for 30 copper sols, and a jackal for 2 silver coins. In addition, the resources we collected, the bear group accounted for eighty percent, and the work of the mercenary families was settled according to the remuneration of the hired workers. I've been a mercenary for most of my life, and I've never thought that a mercenary group could get such a good pay. ”

"In the past, the Duoduo had the bears and were willing to pay a high price. It's different now......"

Barrett raised his hand to the east and continued: "There are more than 20,000 hired laborers building fortresses for the Duoduo people at the back frontier point, and those people will be tenants of the Duoduo lords, and more than 2,000 Duo cavalry and 2,000 Duo militia have taken over the sentry barracks of the forward defense line. The work that the bear group can do, now that many people can do it, why should the lord give such a big benefit to the bear group and not give it to his own tenants?"

Vile nodded slowly, and said with a serious expression, "The Duoduo plan to terminate the employment relationship with the bear group and drive us away. ”

The deep appearance of the deputy head of the regiment fell in Barriet's eyes, and he only thought that the optimistic and out-of-the-box young female ranger had finally opened her mind, and her heart suddenly became happy, and she smiled meaningfully: "It didn't turn out that I wanted to drive the bear group away, but now, the Duoduo people can only drive us away." ”

"In the winter of the previous year, the southward migration of Sassanian refugees was over, and all that was left was a small amount of grain transportation. The mercenary corps of Cambis had been able to evacuate the previous spring, but they had not withdrawn until the fall, because the Dordor's cavalry had not yet arrived to take over the garrison. In other words, the Gambis had withdrawn, and the Dordors were ready to settle in the forward outposts. ”

Barrett was silent for a while, then said in a hoarse voice, "The Duoduo deliberately let the bear regiment take over the sentry barracks along the way, and then the Five Days War broke out...... Lord Duoduo's beast cavalry could travel hundreds of kilometers a day, and it didn't take a quarter of an hour to rush from the frontier fortress, but they didn't move, and waited for us to fight with the forest gnolls for four days and four nights before they arrived on the battlefield and annihilated tens of thousands of orcs in one fell swoop. ”

"Lord Dodor is using bears as bait to lure the orcs of the forest outside and destroy them. Barrett said with a calm expression, as if he was recounting something that had nothing to do with him.

Vile pursed her lips forcefully, and asked later, "Uncle Tuan, are you ...... Do you hate them?"

"Hate, there is no such thing...... Barrett smiled bitterly or sarcastically at the corner of his mouth, waved his hand, and sighed: "The mercenaries have to sell their lives if they get paid, and the Duoduo people spend a lot of money to hire the bear group, and it is not for nothing...... In the Five-Day War, the bear regiment suffered a total of more than 1,800 casualties, 384 were killed on the spot, and more than 100 were disabled. The Duoduo people gave a bereavement pension as agreed, and not a single copper cent was given. Let's kill monsters and kill people, and we are worthy of the high remuneration given by the lord, which is very fair. ”

Vile lowered her head, hid the sparkle in her eyes, and whispered, "Everything has a price. ”

Barry nodded in agreement, and said with an indifferent expression: "Mercenaries and employers are not equal comrades-in-arms, we don't resent the Duoduo people, if the Duoduo people use the bear group as bait is not lifted, the lords of the pioneer point should be able to incorporate the bear group and turn the mercenaries into militias and tenants." But now that rumors of the May War have spread, the Duoduo will not believe that the Bear mercenaries have no grudge against them. They will no longer accept the bear group, and even if they accept people, they will slowly absorb young people under the age of 20, and no one over the age of 20 will be wanted, especially the head and deputy head of the bear group and the leaders of the group will not have the slightest chance to get the favor of the pioneer lord. ”

"The priest at the Bear Regiment resident came to talk to me some time ago, and he said that the Duoduo were going to renew the employment agreement, and the Bear Regiment would be treated much worse than before, and he asked me to make plans early. Barrett stopped talking, just looked at Octavier.

Weier shook his slender hand and said, "Don't look at me, the uncle is the head of the regiment, what are the plans of the uncle?"

Barrett clenched his fists, coughed dryly against his mouth, and said in a low voice: "Do you know that the predecessor of the Bear Group was more than thirty small mercenary groups under the Stag Chamber of Commerce, which were specifically responsible for protecting the convoy of the Stag Merchant Group, and the Stag Merchant Group belonged to the merchant group of the Marquis of Gombis, the Marquis of Wimbledon. A few years ago, for unknown reasons, the Bucks Business Group was terminated, and everyone had no choice but to get together to form the Bear Group. ”

"Although Xiong Tuan has nothing to do with the Marquis Wimbledon's family now, the previous connections are still there. Some time ago, the Stag Merchant Group organized the Sarsangian refugees to move south, and my old acquaintances in the Merchant Group introduced me to the Legion Commander of the Centaur Hills, and it was also with this relationship that the Gombis people have always taken care of the Bear Regiment. ”

"The Duoduo want to drive us away, and it seems that the Ghost Forest Pioneer will not be able to stay any longer. So I sent someone to Raven Town in the Centaur Hills and found the original commander...... He is the knight lord of the Randall family, who works for Count Randall, and has 3,000 mercenary soldiers under his command, and is a real big man. He promised to accept all of us in the bear group, even those who were seriously injured and disabled. The mercenaries of the bear group were incorporated into the mercenary corps of the Randall family, and the mercenary families were given tenant status, and each family was allocated 50 acres of land for two years of rent...... Oh, by the way, the deputy commander and captain of the bear regiment are all preferentially placed......"

"What about me, and what about my sister Mary?" Vile pointed to her nose and glared at the old leader.

Barrett was dumb for a moment, the ranger mercenaries are young and strong men and women have to practice martial arts, but the lord family is not like this, wars always let women go away, if a family reaches the point of letting women participate in the war, then she is basically finished. Of course, there are also female knight generals in the lord family, but they must be high-ranking commanders, at least with the strength of formal knights. For example, Octavir was given the title of Valkyrie by the Bear Mercenaries, but she and her sister Mary were junior knights after all.

According to the rules of the lord's family, female probationary knights had to serve the upper nobles, learn internal affairs, and then marry other nobles, form a family, and spread the branches. Although Barrett was convinced that Vel's commanding skills would be valued by the family, he really couldn't promise her anything by clapping his chest right now.

Barrett thought and thought, and said vaguely, "Vile...... You're not young, it's time to get married. When you get to the Centaur Hill, I will pay for the priest to remove the scars on your face, and with your appearance and talent, you will always be favored by a knight nobleman. If you marry a knight, the future will be easy, even if you are the commander of a mercenary legion, there should be no problem. ”

The average female ranger has a low blood, and of course she is willing to marry a knight nobleman. Octavil is not your average ranger, she is the eldest princess of the Kingdom of Gombis, His Royal Highness Roland August with the rank of legend. Although she can't use her power above the silver rank now, her spiritual attributes have long reached the standard of a legendary knight.

Barrett slurred to tempt her with a knightly marriage, and Roland's stomach was about to burst with laughter, and he thought to himself, "The master of this grand master has played with the most beautiful man in the world, and he is still the master of your family." ”

Mingling with mercenary rangers all day long, Roland has learned the bad habits of mercenary vulgarity.

However, she had long suspected that the Bear Regiment had something to do with Centaur Hill, and Barrit's ability to secure the position of Grand Master of the Bear Regiment was not unrelated to the support of Randall's mercenary corps. During the Five-Day War, Barrett also placed his Crow Guard under Roland's command. Those elite are clearly the secret law dead soldiers cultivated by the big family, no matter how well they hide it, how can they hide it from the eyes of the princess of the kiteburg?

The leader of the forest gnoll has at least the strength of the silver rank, and the crow guards hold their heads and feet, dragging it desperately, and do not show superhuman martial arts. The others really couldn't see the details of the Crow Guards, and only thought that they were naturally brave and fierce in battle. Roland had seen the scene of Randall's arcane guardians besieging the legendary centaur, and he was so fearless and fearless that he almost suppressed the centaur Great Khan.

The difference between the two battles was that the legendary centaur broke free from Randall's arcane guardians with its own strength, and it was so frightened that it fled, while the gnoll leader was killed by Roland on the spot.

Roland was convinced at the time that the old head of Barrett was the Randall family's war bear mercenary. Barrett was now trying to invite her to join the Centaur Hills, and Roland snorted and thought: Victor's hand was too long.

However, Old Captain Barritt has a low status in the Randall family, but his concern for Deputy Head Vile is genuine. It's a pity that Roland can go anywhere, but he can't go to the Centaur Hill.

She broke free from the shackles of being a princess and reforged her faith in freedom, and Sylvia knew it. If she runs to the centaur hills again, isn't that called throwing herself into the net?

Vile smiled, decided not to tease the dutiful uncle head anymore, and said: "Baron Curtis, who pioneered the fortress, courted me, and promised me the title of personal maid, the lady of the Curtiss family, and was willing to accept the 100 people I appointed. He said that he would soon be promoted to Viscount Lord, and if I was willing to marry him, I would be the Lady of the Viscount family in the future. ”

"I refused. ”

Barrett was shocked and shocked, and suddenly became suspicious, "You ......"

Octavir looked at the old mercenary opposite with a faint smile, sighed and said: "Uncle Commander, I don't want to lie to you, everything I said to you before is true, my ideal is to create a legendary mercenary group...... But you've forgotten one thing. ”

She pointed to her chest and said seriously: "I am the Ranger Octavier, I have the blood of a knight nobleman, I am a female knight....... you can't deny it, a trainee knight is also a knight." ”

Barriet seemed to have been punched hard in the chest, but looking at Vile's pure eyes, he couldn't be angry, and even felt relieved.

"I sent people to spread rumors of the conspiracy of the Five-Day War, the purpose of which was to cut off the retreat of the bear regiment as you said, so that the rest of the deputy commanders would understand that they were all old and had limited potential, and even if they defected to the Lord of Duoduo, they should not be reused...... For so many days, each of them figured it out, and if they didn't, I helped them figure it out. ”

Barrett only felt bitter, he was silent for a long time, and finally said calmly: "I have found a way out for everyone, they may not be willing to follow you......"

"It's too late. Vile glanced at the old man with pity, shook his head slightly, took out a scroll and a seal from his waist pocket, pushed it in front of Barrett, and said: "See, this is a letter of introduction signed by the pen of the god father stationed at the pioneer point, he introduced the bear group to the eastern pioneer territory of the Sassan Empire, and the grand master of the bear group is ....... Octavier." ”

"As for this seal....... just like the seal of the head of the regiment in your hand, it is the seal of the grand master of the bear regiment registered in the church. Blind, Spurs, and several of them signed in front of the priest stationed in front of me to acknowledge that I was the Grand Master, and they all got their respective deputy head seals. Mercenaries, dare not tease church priests. ”

Barrett said a little angrily: "Octavir, the situation of the Eastern Frontier of the Sassan Empire is more complicated than that of the Wraith Forest, have you brought the bear group over and considered everyone's life and death? For the sake of your ideals or ambitions, you sacrificed your partners who fought side by side like this? Serving the lord family is the way out for mercenaries! I ...... I've figured out a way out for everyone. ”

Octavier said with a smile: "Uncle Commander, those who are afraid of battle should be hired workers, mercenaries serve the lord, don't they have to fight? ”

Barrett was speechless when he retorted, his arrogance suddenly subsided, and he said sullenly: "There is no way out for the super-large mercenary group...... The Five-Day War will be repeated in the Xiong Tuan, but it will be replaced by the pioneer of the Sasang Empire. Vile, the bear group will kill a lot of people......"

Vile looked at the old mercenary steadily, his gaze soft and firm, "Uncle Barrett, the times are different, in a world where development is the mainstream, the scale of the mercenary group will become larger, new treatment, new enemies, and new tactics...... New legends. I, we, are ready to write the legend of the Bear Regiment. ”

She stood up, bowed solemnly to Barrett, and said, "I give you three days to call on the members of the Bear Regiment to join you in serving the Centaur Hills, this is my respect for you...... Your Excellency Chief Barrett. ”

Barrett eventually left, leading more than 500 people to Raven Town in the Centaur Hills. Octavir and the seven deputy commanders of the Bear Regiment watched the old mercenaries go away, as if watching the end of an era. Their eyes are full of the flame of hope for the future, as if they can witness the legend of the bear group.

Princess Elizabeth, now named Mary, leaned over to Roland's side and asked in a low voice, "Sister Vile, why do we have to go to the Sassan Empire to open up the territory?" I heard that the Southern Kingdom is preparing to cross the river to the Southern Continent, and there is also our stage there. ”

Roland is reluctant to go to the Centaur Hills, and Princess Elizabeth Testier is also afraid to go to the Sassan Empire and be exposed to the Radiant Paladins.

Her careful thoughts, Roland knew well, so he raised his hand and knocked on Sister Mary's head, and snorted: "There is red land in the Sasang Empire, and the grain there is very cheap and cheap. You idiot, there are more than 8,000 people in our tugs and mouths, and of course the food over there is cheap. ”

Mary hugged her head and muttered, "If the food is cheap, it's cheap, why hit people's heads......"

She remembered that Mickle Mels, the first radiant angel who had secretly sheltered her, had guided her to follow Captain Vile's sister, and her heart settled down again.

Going to the Sassang Empire to open up the territory may be a revelation from the Supreme Lord to himself and Sister Vier......