When Baron Sidney led the fourth group of soldiers into the cave in the middle of the cliff wall, he found that the natives hiding in the cave between the mountain walls had long been emptied, and only the empty cave remained.

He Boqiang was not surprised, the natives dug such a big pit for the 57th Heavy Infantry Regiment, it was strange that this group of natives did not leave.

The soldiers lowered the rope from the top of the hill and slid down the rope to the halfway point of the cliff wall, and entered the cave through the ventilated stone path of the mountain wall, which was divided into a living area and a combat area, and the rooms in the living area were covered with soft hay and looked like there were traces of animal skins, and there were even some graffiti and strange symbols on the stone walls, which, according to Surdak, were used by the natives to record the season, and they needed to store enough food before entering the winter.

The combat area is a row of lookouts, from which arrows can be shot into the col, if it is the longbowmen of the 57th Regiment, then the range of the bow and arrow is enough to cover the hinterland of the col, probably considering that the wooden arrows are not lethal to the soldiers of the infantry regiment, these natives were forced to evacuate without shooting a single wooden arrow from here.

Originally, this was supposed to be a natural cave, but the natives expanded it N times on the basis of the natural cave to get to its current scale.

The cave has a special canteen, toilets and a long cloister. There is a two-metre-square pool near the cafeteria, and a culvert flows into the pool with sweet mountain spring water, and when the spring water fills the pool, the excess water flows down the overflow channel into the trench.

I didn't expect that the natives would have such a hiding place in this big mountain pass, and even Baron Sidney, who had a noble status, was amazed by the cave.

In fact, the cave could be used as a medium-sized defensive stronghold.

The Fourth Brigade lost a total of 268 soldiers this time, and Baron Sidney was in a very bad mood at the moment.

But he can't blame anyone, this time he fell into the trap of the natives, it was completely caused by his own haste to advance, and what made Baron Sidney even more unacceptable was that this time the encirclement and suppression of the natives in the big mountain col did not even catch a single native, Baron Sidney's eyes were full of red bloodshots, his lips were dry and cracked, and he looked from a distance like a poisonous snake that chose people to devour, so that everyone did not dare to approach.

"I hope the charm of the Baron's sister is strong enough." Surdak stood beside He Boqiang and said in a low voice.

"Will we be implicated this time?" Black Boy Jeron Nan asked with trepidation.

Surdak wiped his hand on his mouth, lowered his voice and said, "Probably to be held accountable, I guess he will probably be labeled as 'poor detection'." ”

Jeronnan stared at Captain Sam with big round eyes, and said to Captain Sam with some urgency: "We have to find a way to do something, I don't want to go back to the camp and be tied to the torture rack and whipped, it is really embarrassing." ”

Captain Sam kept a straight face, and didn't want to say anything more: "I'll talk about it when I get back to camp." ”

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Thankfully, the sixty soldiers of the 1st Squadron, who remained at the entrance to the cave below the cliff, did not lose anything in this battle.

Last night, when the red-eyed hyenas rushed over, the soldiers of the 1st Squadron also tried to kill the hounds.

But then seeing the huge number of hyenas, after sixty soldiers were exhausted, the leader of the first squadron, Knight Jonah, decisively decided that all the soldiers of the first squadron would hide in the cave, and the soldiers blocked the narrow entrance with stones and successfully avoided the attack of the hyena pack.

The soldiers of the 1st Squadron did not know that the natives in the cave above the cliff had withdrawn overnight, and they did not think about testing the natives overhead through a 100-meter-long vertical passage like a chimney.

The cave built by the natives in the middle of the cliff has seven exits, four of which are located in the open and the other three passages are extremely hidden, and only by entering the cave and carefully studying the internal structure of the cave will you find all the exits.

Two days after He Boqiang walked out of the col again with the Fourth Brigade, Baron Sidney finally did not forget the soldiers who had been buried by the rockflow, and spent a day and a half cleaning the mud and gravel on the mountain wall, digging up more than fifty corpses in it, and then returning to the camp with the bodies of these companions.

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Mondstadt. When Count Goss heard that Baron Sidney's Fourth Brigade had fallen into the trap of the natives and had lost more than 200 soldiers in the mountains north of the forest farm, he smashed a magic lamp on Baron Sidney's face, and the voice of Baron Sidney could even reach the outside of the camp. Count Goss scolded him angrily, but he was not punished substantially.

This incident made many smart people in the camp understand a truth: nepotism is really important.

After the fourth brigade lost nearly half of the soldiers, it needed to inject new blood to replenish the establishment, and the members of several squads were basically wiped out, and the newly recruited rookie soldiers certainly had no way to support a squad, they needed veterans to teach some survival experience on the battlefield, so these veterans had to be drawn from some fully formed squads.

Captain Sam of the 2nd Squadron of the 6th Squadron received the transfer notice a week after returning to the camp, and he was transferred to the 11th Squadron below the 5th Squadron as the captain, and also served as the deputy squadron leader of the 5th Squadron, which was a small step forward.

Captain Sam goes to the 5th Squadron to be the leader of the 11th Squad, while also bringing the black boy Jronnan and the veteran Ian over there.

Surdak was successfully promoted to the captain of the second squad, but this made Surdak sigh a little: before he was discharged, he could still get a promotion, although there was no increase in military salary, but there would be a very bright stroke on his retirement resume.

On the day that Captain Sam left the second squad, the second squad also welcomed two recruits, both of whom came to the city of Hilanza in the Tarapakant region, Surdak inquired with great interest about the situation in his hometown, and when he heard the two recruits say that there was a great drought last year, the crops in the field were reduced by nearly half, and he was inevitably a little worried about the situation in his home.

It's a pity that these two recruits are not from the same village as Surdak, and even the two villages are far apart, so they don't know about the situation in the village of Wall.

This time, the second team was not held accountable, which surprised both Surdak and He Boqiang.

Seeing that his commander did not let himself take the blame, the soldiers of the fourth brigade suddenly felt that in fact, this top boss was not bad, except for the arrogance and prejudice unique to the nobles, in fact, there were no big shortcomings.

The 286 soldiers who died in the Great Mountain Pass have just been buried, and their relics seem to have begun to be forgotten before they have been returned to their hometowns.

After all, the living need to continue to struggle to live, and they need to continue to fight for the Grimm Empire after waking up on a new day.

What about the dead? Maybe they will fly to the kingdom of God, or they may be reincarnated as the undead.

Due to Surdak's connections, He Boqiang did not join the 57th Heavy Infantry Regiment when it replenished the new army, and he still belonged to the free status of supernumerary personnel.

Surdak is already planning to apply for a second teleportation pass.

After retiring, he will return to his hometown with He Boqiang.