"Damn! I thought we'd be in the Marne Federation soon......" After coming out of the command post, Master Rogge kept whispering, "Well, now we don't know how long we'll be stuck here, and we'll be acting as free thugs for the Empire!"

Hammond also sighed, helpless, "No way, we really don't have a better choice but to wait now." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Marven, you are our employer, you say, how long are you going to wait. Rogge poked Marven in the arm, "If you can't wait, or change your mind at the last minute, we will escort you at any time." ”

Marven pondered for a moment and said slowly: "I still plan to wait here, I think, we shouldn't wait long." ”

"Oh, how so?" Hearing him say this, the mercenaries suddenly came to their senses, after all, almost every single one of them was like an arrow, and no one wanted to continue wasting time in this small border town.

Marven pointed to the columns of heavy infantry patrolling the camp, and said in a low voice: "Look at the soldiers here, they are not only well-equipped but also well-trained, this is definitely an elite force. ”

"Well, that's right!" Hammond nodded in agreement, "and almost every one of them knows martial arts, and I bet they can do it against ordinary soldiers!"

After hearing this, the other mercenaries also bowed their heads, they had just come out of the competition ground, and naturally they had a full understanding of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Ninth Division.

"Then the question is, when the war at the front has been going on, will the empire let such an elite army be stationed in the rear for a long time?" Marven asked everyone with a smile on his face.

"I see, you mean, the Empire can't wait to throw this elite into the main battlefield right now!" Rogge snapped.

"Well, it should be so, but no matter how strong an army is, it must be resupplied to maintain its combat effectiveness, do you remember what the commander said to us just now?"

In other words, as long as we help them to completely wipe out the rebels of the Iliad, the Ninth Division will soon leave for the Marne Federation. Hammond snapped his fingers and asked, "Am I right?"

"Nope. Marven shook his head, "It's not a complete extermination, but as long as you can give those rebels a heavy blow head-on, so that they can't cut off the supply line, I estimate that the follow-up clean-up work will only be the responsibility of the city defense army that officially takes over Utan Town." He shrugged his shoulders and said with a playful smile: "After all, it is a very time-consuming and laborious job, don't look at the commander who seems to attach great importance to those rebels, in fact, he probably wants to go to the main battlefield of the Marne Federation more than anyone else." ”

"Let's go, let's go and meet our vanguard officer named Mance for a while, after all, we will rely on him to 'command' in our future combat operations!" Marven deliberately said the word "command" very seriously, Rogge quickly understood, and said with a smile: "This is natural, Your Excellency Marven, as the deputy vanguard officer, you have to be by his side to 'counsel'!"

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, borrowed a few tall horses from the stables, and hurried to the vanguard barracks.

The vanguard of the 9th Division was already far away from the border of the St. John's Empire, and there were countless checkpoints along the way, but fortunately, after Marven showed the customs clearance document issued by Commander James and the command knife symbolizing the identity of the deputy vanguard, the road was relatively smooth.

After coming to the vanguard camp, Marven found that there were already two teams of guards waiting in line at the gate of the camp, and a middle-aged man of about forty or fifty years old with a thin figure standing in the center of the group of guards with his back bent.

If it weren't for the fact that he was dressed in gorgeous Mithril armor and carried a command knife at his waist, Marven would never have made any connection between the sickly-looking little old man in front of him and the vanguard officer of an elite division of the Empire.

Seeing that Marven and the others were approaching on horseback, the vanguard officer came out in line, took out a palm-sized scroll in his hand, opened it, and asked Marven, "Are you Marven?"

Marven immediately dismounted, walked forward quickly, and said respectfully, "It's down." ”

"Your Excellency Commander has just sent a carrier pigeon from Utan Town, saying that he has appointed you as my lieutenant, and I would like to ask you to show me the letter of appointment and other relevant documents. ”

Marven immediately flipped the letter of appointment from the package, untied his command knife, and handed it to the vanguard officer.

"Your Excellency is Chief Mance, we have just arrived in your camp, and there are many things we don't understand, and I hope that Your Excellency can give us more advice. Hammond smiled and walked over.

"Well, the documents are correct. After Mance returned the command knife and the letter of appointment to Marven, he raised his eyes and glanced at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on Zhang Feng, and he said curiously: "The letter says that there are seven of you in total, but I think there are eight of you?

"Oh, Sir, this is my personal retinue...... "Marven waved his hand, "he's not a warrior. ”

"Well......," said Mance, without saying anything more, led the group towards the tent, and then began to introduce their army.

"Our Ninth Division is the elite of the Imperial Iron Shield Legion, and although our vanguard battalion has less than two thousand troops, it is the elite of the elite, not only equipped with both heavy knights and mages, but even the most ordinary crossbowmen are carefully selected marksmen......"

Hearing Mance's introduction, Marven couldn't help but secretly smack his tongue, with a mere 2,000-strong troops, the high configuration of their troops is probably inferior to that of the ordinary demon army.

"By the way, Mance, can you tell us about the specific situation of the Holy War?" Because his deputy vanguard officer was only half a level lower than Mance, Marven did not use honorifics, but called him by his first name.

"Hmm...... That's it......" Mance coughed slightly, then recounted what he knew. The mercenaries listened intently, and the state of the holy war was directly related to whether they could successfully return to the Marne Federation

"The main force of our Illuminati is naturally the army of the St. John Empire, and in addition, nearly one-third of the independent city-states in the Marne Federation have joined the Illuminati army. ”

"Hmm...... The Marne Federation is just a loose alliance of city-states, and the beliefs of the city-states are very mixed, this time one-third of the city-states have joined the Illuminati army, it seems that the victory of the empire and the church will be just around the corner......" Hammond's face became solemn after hearing this, no matter which side wins this religious war, the Marne Federation in the whirlpool of the storm will lose its faith and freedom.

Mance seemed to ignore the change in Hammond's face, and continued: "It can't be said that although the empire is powerful, but in the Rose War three years ago, we were greatly injured by the Night Elves, and the two major legions of "Storm" and "Tide" were all wiped out, and even the Guards Legion led by Prince Felder himself suffered more than half of the casualties, and it is only now that it has barely recovered sixty percent of its previous strength. Now, our Iron Shield Legion has almost become the only elite legion in the Empire, but it is still very difficult for us to confront hundreds of thousands of Mosesian coalition forces head-on. ”

"If the Empire did not have the upper hand in the first place, why did so many people in the Marne Federation come to us?" everyone was puzzled, the people of the Marne Federation have always only valued commercial interests, and although they also have some religious believers, they almost never get involved in religious wars.

"Hehe, I'm afraid you don't know this, not long after the outbreak of the war, the Holy City ---- Medina in the western part of the Marne Federation had a miracle, and the messenger of God the Father came to our Middle-earth!"

"Angels? Could it be that an angel has come to Middle-earth? something that hasn't happened in thousands of years!"

"No wonder, no wonder so many city-states have joined the holy war, after all, no one can disobey the will of God......"

When everyone heard the news, they were shocked, and a miracle had struck enough to turn all the Illuminati in the world into fanatical jihadists.

"The God of Light is with the Empire!With the guidance of the Father, we will be invincible!The largest of the holy cities of Pamilan will be recovered by us sooner or later, and all will listen to the teachings of the Father, and the whole world will prostrate at the feet of the Mujahideen!" Mance said excitedly, taking out the cross on his chest and kissing it frantically.

"Oh, praise the God of Light! God ......the Father is great," Rogge saw this, and also pretended to be a god, and even pretended to recite a prayer from the "Light Bible".

"Then, Your Excellency, when can we also go to the Marne Federation and witness the miracles of the Holy City?" Rogge's face was full of anticipation.

"This ......" was asked, Mance's expression became a little gloomy, and the fanatical energy just now dissipated in an instant, "This, I can't be sure, our work to eradicate the heretics here is not smooth, and our pioneer battalion suffered a lot of losses not long ago. ”

Hearing him say this, everyone "chuckled" in their hearts, if the Ninth Division's purging of the infidels has not been smooth, it means that their plan to return to the Marne Federation will be in vain.

"Your Excellency Mance, this Iliad Kingdom has long been defeated, and with the elite combat strength of the Ninth Division, it won't even be able to deal with some stragglers, right?" Marven asked with a smile, "Where did you go with that fanatical energy just now?"

Mance glanced at him and said lightly: "Young man, don't think that our vanguard battalion is so easy to mix, my previous adjutant, that is, your predecessor, was raided by a large group of pagan rebels while escorting grain and grass, and after he was captured, he even skinned those miscellaneous pieces alive. ”

He walked up to Marven and patted him on the shoulder, "Do a good job, young man, don't be too ambitious, I hope you don't leave this position of vanguard officer to others again......"