The dark blue province is long and narrow, wrapping the province of Dante on one side, and then radiating three provinces around it.

For the empire, the Deep Blue Province is considered the second barrier in the northwest, and if one more barrier is broken, the hinterland of the imperial capital will be exposed to the Minotaur army.

Therefore, the fall of the Deep Blue Province has put everyone in danger in the area around the Deep Blue Province.

The closer you get to the dark blue province, the stronger this feeling becomes, and many people are fleeing with their belongings.

Those who are well-informed will choose to run in the direction of Chris, because the Minotaurs in Chriss Province are finished, and at the same time, the joint expeditionary force of the Bourbons and the Habsburgs is also here, so it will probably be safer.

There are also people who choose to flee in the direction of the imperial capital, because in the eyes of the vast majority of people, there are very many troops in the imperial capital, and the royal city guards are very strong.

The rest of the people just follow others, and there is nothing wrong with following the crowd in many cases.

According to the report of the outpost, there were many people fleeing ahead, and those who fled were all very cautious, and immediately chose to avoid the large contingent of the joint expeditionary force after seeing it from above.

It is clear that they are now afraid not only of the minotaurs, but also of the defeated soldiers.

After becoming a deserter, the psychological bottom line will drop a lot, and it is normal to grab things and food, as long as you have experienced the war, you know this, so the civilians, one by one, are all guarding against the rout.

On the way along the way, Lei Ming also saw the sparse winter wheat grains that fell on the ground, which should have just been harvested and had not yet had time to be hulled.

Crossing a twenty-meter-high mountain, a group of more than a dozen defeated soldiers gathered together, with embarrassed faces and against the wind, set fire to a row of withered yellow grass roots, and then threw the collected wheat grains into it, after the wheat grains were burned by the fire. Pop like popcorn, and it's cooked, and it should taste pretty good.

However, it is only a little bit of stomach filling. They don't have to think about it if they want to eat the wheat they have picked up, and now they dig up the roots and immediately throw them into the fire to roast them, and then devour them.

It's hard to have a full stomach, and if it goes on like this. They will soon degenerate, choose to steal the food of the common people, and even do many more evil deeds.

They were spotted by the patrols of the Joint Expeditionary Force, who quickly reported back.

"Carry the flag. ”

Thunder spoke, and as soon as his voice fell, the heralds ran away, and then, many of the flags that had been put on the baggage carts because of the hurried march were now all raised at once, even if they were trotting. It would have been difficult to carry a flag, but the thunderous order was carried out to the letter.

The Duke of Habsburg nodded to Thunder and ordered the march to slow down appropriately.

In the Battle of Deep Blue Province, only a small half of the soldiers were killed directly, and more soldiers fled, no matter what angle they considered, the rout they encountered must be retracted.

There were seven or eight kinds of flags of the expeditionary force, large and small, and the patrolmen carried a small flag. Stick in the back, form the size of the squad, and go in search of the rout.

A flag is very important, there is no such flag. Even if you have food, the routs won't necessarily ignore you, and even if they do, they're likely to choose to eat white food with the team, and then find an opportunity to slip away.

But under the banner of the Bourbons or the Habsburgs. The effect is different, those defeated soldiers first did not dare to play any tricks, and then, because they were deserters, they bowed their heads again.

When the time comes, the following scenario will occur, and a patrol will immediately catch up with the rout.

"Where are you?"

"We are the private soldiers of Count So-and-so......"

"Come with us!"

"Why, we want to go back to the territory!"

"We belong to the Bourbon family, and now the Dukes of Bourbon and the Dukes of Habsburg temporarily take over the military at the front, and all the soldiers of the Reich on the front are under command. ”

The patrol raised the family flag, and then the rout was immediately coaxed, who let them lose the battle? Who let them escape? Who made the Dukes of Bourbon and the Dukes of Habsburg too famous?

This is an expedient measure, Lei Ming didn't bother to declare to His Majesty Xin Lian to take over the front line, anyway, the front line has collapsed, he said to take over, that is to take over, who wants to disagree?

The Holy Hammer was lying in the carriage like a dead dog, hanging in the void for I don't know how many years, he dreamed of trying the taste of lying down, so he rolled in the wide carriage, but he didn't want to get up.

At the same time, the Holy Hammer is also a keen sense, outstanding reasoning ability, just listen to the movement, he knows that he is going to fight, but the war has nothing to do with him, the most important thing for him is to recover from his injuries quickly.

As he was rolling, he suddenly saw half of the leftover pastries in the carriage, and somehow he felt so hungry that he picked up the pastries without any discipline and put them into his mouth.

At this time, his vigilance also dropped a lot, because he judged that the soldiers outside were all listening to Thunder, and if Thunder wanted to deal with him, he would not use ordinary people.

Just as he was feasting, the curtain was opened.

The Holy Hammer saw a well-dressed goblin, looking at him in amazement, while he was sucking the cream on his fingers......

In this scene, the muscles on the Holy Hammer's face stiffened, it was really embarrassing!

"Who are you?"

Tutula also asked seriously, he knew that there were many dwarves in Thundering's territory, and he had done many deals with the Hammer Leader, but Tutula was sure that he didn't know the guy in front of him.

At this time, Lei Ming also came back, he glanced at the Holy Hammer with an embarrassed face, and asked very fakely, "Why don't you leave yet?"

This is the cunning of Lei Ming, his original intention is to keep the holy hammer, but he can't say it clearly, let alone expose the importance he attaches to the holy hammer, otherwise wouldn't the holy hammer become his uncle?

As a result, Thunder retreated as if he wanted to drive the Holy Hammer away.

He had already calculated that the Holy Hammer was injured now, and most of them would leave a shy face to recuperate, even if the Holy Hammer was leaving, he should have asked him for news, and then Lei Ming could pretend to be very surprised and tell the Holy Hammer: "So you are a dwarf, but unfortunately the dwarf race has declined now......

Then, following this stubble, a description, and finally told the Holy Hammer that there was still a dwarven tribe in his territory, and it was likely to be the last dwarven tribe, so as to smoothly get involved, anyway, in the end, the Holy Hammer couldn't run. (To be continued.) )