In fact, hundreds of years ago, in the Western Wilderness Province, there was actually no such Moon Creek City, until during a major development in the Storm Kingdom, the southwest region of the Western Wilderness was accidentally discovered, and a large number of metal deposits were buried deep underground.

For the convenience of exploitation and the sake of concealment, such a large city sprung up, and then after several twists and turns, it finally fell into disuse and became a dead city that is not too old.

In recent decades, for unknown reasons, the city, along with the complex underground mines, has been largely controlled by the Defia Brotherhood, which has led to the defeat of several raiders.

Whenever the Raiders are larger, the Brotherhood of Defia will take refuge in the mines, and if the Raiders are smaller, the Brotherhood of Defia will come out of the nest to start a big battle.

Moreover, this mine, which has been excavated for hundreds of years, has an extremely complex underground transportation network, and even the members of the Brotherhood of Defia may not be familiar with the specific location of each underground passage.

Coupled with the double-digit secret entrances and exits, this mine, which was hidden under the City of Moon Creek and covered an area of unknown square kilometers, truly became a deadly danger that could not be overcome.

MI7 therefore calls this mine the Mine of Death.

The assembly point of this clearance force was the original and main entrance to the Death Mine, and it was also the Death Gate that engulfed the more than 10,000 people of the previous Clearance Force, and when Matilda Valen arrived here, Yang Long was observing this place with interest.

There were almost twenty minutes left before the assembly time set by the order. For the time being, only Yang Long and more than a dozen escorts were present at the assembly point.

"Major Grofe, what the hell is going on?" Matilda Valen was not stupid, and after realizing that the enemies in the City of Moon Creek did not have the number she imagined, she had already understood that Yang Long was not blindly commanding.

Perhaps the waiting process was a bit boring, or perhaps this time Matilda Valen's gesture was more sincere, Yang Long finally responded to her question after looking around for a while: "Cromwell is not dead. ”

"Huh?" Matilda Valen was stunned.

"Not only did Cromwell not die, but on the contrary, the army he led gained an overwhelming advantage. Yang Long didn't take his eyes off the entrance of the Death Mine. Without pause, he narrated: "Five days ago, maybe earlier." They were already in the mine. ”

Hearing Yang Long's analysis conclusion, Matilda Valen breathed a sigh of relief, but still asked with some doubts: "But if Lord Cromwell is fine, then how can there be members of the Defia Brotherhood in the city?"

"It is precisely because Cromwell has the advantage. These members of the Defia Brotherhood. will pretend to be a suspicious soldier and wait here. ”

Yang Long did not elaborate on this issue. He just asked in a simple and intelligible way, "Miss Matilda Valen, if we had come here, we wouldn't have found any of these Brotherhood of Defia. So shall we evacuate immediately or enter the mine?"

"It's not up to you to have the final say?!" the brigadier general said secretly.

However, with Yang Long's prompt, Matilda Valen also reacted quickly, and her face really showed joy: "If Lord Cromwell doesn't have the advantage, the enemy will definitely let us into the mine, and when the time comes, as long as the entrance is blocked, we can."

Matilda Valen, who entered a state of reverse thinking, soon came to a convincing inference that the Brotherhood of Defia, having been defeated by Cromwell, would resort to this delaying tactic as a last resort.

Obviously, this inference of the brigadier general is the most reasonable explanation, which not only relaxes Matilda Valen, who was already full of gloom, but also makes the soldiers who have gathered one after another cheer.

It didn't take much time to get the good news, and every professional was in high spirits, as if victory was coming.

"Lord Grovee, the army has been assembled, more than 300 enemies have been killed, and there are no casualties on our side, please order!" several officers who led the team to clear the army came forward to report after some counting.

The situation seemed to have affected Yang Long as well, and at this moment he also had a gentle smile on his face, nodded his head to express satisfaction, and then gave instructions: "Enter the mine immediately, join Lord Cromwell as soon as possible, and wipe out the enemy!"

"Yes, Lord Grovey!" the officer commanded and retreated.

Under the high morale, nearly 5,000 people quickly completed the formation, entered in batches from the entrance of the Death Mine, and under the leadership of Yang Long, marched along the tunnel of the mine in disrepair at a uniform speed towards the depths of the mine.

Even Matilda Valen, who was very dissatisfied with Yang Long, was carried away by the upcoming victory at this moment, and did not notice the sneer on the corner of Yang Long's mouth under the dim light emitted by the torch.

"Cromwell's has the upper hand, but that was before entering the mine!"

That is, when Yang Long and the others entered the mine, there was an area deep in the mine of death.

Boom -

In the strong explosion, a section of the mine road tens of meters long was destroyed by the destructive force of the explosion, and the gravel and soil falling above instantly buried the more than two hundred professionals who were fighting together, as well as the four or five hundred members of the Brotherhood of Defia who followed up.

"I didn't expect that after killing that goblin, the explosives that came by chance actually came in handy!" Cromwell, whose armor was covered with mud, looked at the blocked passage and muttered to himself with some heaviness.

The chase had been going on for three days, and after more than a week of fierce fighting, there were less than 3,000 men left, and everyone including him was very tired.

"Gerard Bell, that guy shouldn't have let him spy on Grofe!"

Cromwell remembered the battle not long ago, and touched his left rib with great regret, the wound healed by the Holy Light was still faintly painful: "If he was there, he would be able to kill Van Cleef on the spot!"

It turned out that four days earlier, Cromwell's more than 8,000 men had the good fortune to meet the main force of the Defia Brotherhood and started a big battle with Edwin Van Cleef.

For some unknown reason, during this battle, Cromwell could clearly feel that the leader of the Brotherhood of Defia was a little absent-minded, as if he was in a hurry to get somewhere.

Therefore, after several MI7 top-tier professionals led a group of soldiers to stop the Defia Brotherhood army, Cromwell fought Edwin Van Cleeff alone in a brief engagement, and at the cost of a sword in the ribs, the bandit leader was injured to a certain extent.

Then came the three-day chase, in which Cromwell hung tightly behind Van Cleeff, less than a kilometer apart, and killed many enemies in the chase.

But after all, this is the enemy's base camp, and after such a period of fighting, half of the soldiers have lost their lives, or have been left behind as broken personnel, and now they are dead without accident.

As a Guardian Paladin, Cromwell has a very strong ability to fight for a long time, and as long as the Holy Light energy in his body remains, and he does not suffer fatal injuries, he can continue to fight.

However, other professionals did not have such super physical strength, and Cromwell had no choice but to slow down the speed of pursuit, and stop from time to time to rest before being caught up and entangled by the pursuers in the rear.

In this battle not long ago, Cromwell could no longer remember the first time he encountered enemy pursuers, and every time he tried to abandon the pursuit of these elite Brotherhood of Defia, the professionals in the army would lose a lot.

The passages in the dead mine shafts were widespread, and there was a risk that enemy pursuers could occur everywhere, resulting in the soldiers who had been less than 4,000 men after a fierce battle to be reduced by more than half in a few days.

The soldiers who are still alive at this moment are not those third-rate troops who have been scraped together, but a reserve army with strong combat effectiveness and good strength under the covert control of MI7.

In a different environment, Cromwell would definitely choose to retreat strategically, abandon this eradication mission, and keep these brave warriors loyal to the Stormwind Kingdom.

As the head of this purge operation, Cromwell has such a right.

However, in some information that he stumbled upon two days ago, Cromwell had discovered the Brotherhood of Defia, a secret plan that might threaten the security of Stormwind, and now he would rather sacrifice all his troops than make a real record.

"It turns out that the rumor is true, the Brotherhood of Defia is really building gunboats!"

Cromwell chewed and swallowed a piece of paper in his hand, and silently made up his mind in his heart: "With these heroic soldiers, even if I can't kill Van Cleef, I will try to sabotage his plan, and at least delay the completion of the construction of the battleship!"

After thinking secretly for a while, Cromwell didn't care about resting, stood up and strode forward, and the more than 2,000 soldiers behind him followed him without saying a word, and soon disappeared into the deep darkness of the mine

(To be continued......)