Chapter 13: After the Defeat of the Mercenary Regiment
The predetermined location was a makeshift camp, where fourteen miscellaneous soldiers were stationed to watch over logistics and five elite men who were both guards and guards.
The four of them hid in a hidden place nearby, examining the cause of their defeat.
Actually, there's nothing to review about this. The mercenary group has won many victories, but its tactics, to put it bluntly, are sixteen words: surprise, bullying, long-range cover, and wolves. This time, the other party is on guard, and it is the elite of miscellaneous soldiers, so it is normal to lose.
"It's not that our army doesn't work hard, but the enemy is too strong!" Sal, the general of the defeated army, shirked his responsibility, "Give me another chance, I will definitely strengthen training, so that the Sanzang mercenary regiment can become an iron army that can fight tough battles, and I am willing to make a military order!"
"If a person is not a sage, he can do no wrong. Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great. Sal, remember your defeat today and avoid making the same mistake in the future. Mike, who is also inescapable of taking responsibility for the failure, takes the lead in comforting Sal.
"Captain Mike, I must be ashamed and brave when I am wise!" Sal was moved to tears by the magnanimity of the organization.
"Well, I believe you, Sal. ”
Sermena and Goku were speechless. As an adjutant, Sermena is actively in the main battle, and her responsibility is greater than that of Mike, and she is a little smaller than coach Sarr, and she feels shameless to hold others accountable. Wukong, on the other hand, knows that he is now an absolute minority, and that pursuing responsibility will cause public outrage, so he has to let them criticize themselves.
At the end of the meeting, Sal took the initiative to take on the task of recruiting in order to show that he was willing to repent and reform, and Mike and others praised him for his courage to take responsibility. But the conscription was originally mainly the responsibility of Thrall, so it was not much different from not being responsible in the past.
The four waited there all night, and not even one escaped. Could it be that the mercenary group has been wiped out? This is really bad, and all the subordinates who have been trained are there.
Mike used detection magic, and Thrall Goku searched the sky for a long time, only to find that it was not like that at all.
It turned out that after yesterday's defeat, the main leaders and the captain of the guard fled for their lives, and everyone else ran around like a swarm. But because the enemy did not pursue, the elite of the mercenary group who were good at turning in did not run away. However, Lazer, who was running at the front, believed that the road to the temporary camp was a smooth road, and it was obviously impossible to escape from the pursuit of the cavalry, so it was necessary to dig through the woods and through the hills to the difficult place.
When he finally realized that there was no one chasing him, Lazer began to gather his rout and regroup. Counting the number of people, there are still 48 heroes who have followed, plus himself and Fuerna, which is exactly a quarter of the two hundred heroes before the war.
"Lazer, you know how to get back to the makeshift camp from here, we should go and meet up with Mike's master as soon as possible. "Number 1 is a severe Stockholm patient who is loyal to Mike, who took him from the tribe and enslaved him.
"Well, the brothers are very tired from running all the way, so let's rest and eat some dry food first, and we will gather the captain to discuss the next move. Although Lazer led the way, he had never been to this place, and he was blind all the way to the road twists and turns, and the cavalry was difficult to travel, and now it was quite okay to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest.
According to the establishment of the Sanzang Mercenary Regiment, a squad of twenty people, one captain each for archers, hand-to-hand combat, and goblin cannon fodder, and the previous 180 people plus 20 guards are one guard captain, three captains, and nine squad leaders. Now I look at it, Captain No. 9 Lazer did not charge unharmed, Marksman Captain No. 1 Jurgen also did not charge unharmed, Hand-to-hand Captain No. 8 Luken finally escaped despite several injuries in the charge, and there are three other squad leaders.
"No. 3 and No. 7 are dead. Luken said as he used his healing technique. No. 3 led the goblin cannon fodder charge, but was hit by a horse and died, and No. 7 was at the forefront of the hand-to-hand combat charge, only to be stabbed to death by the female knight who was at the front of the enemy.
"The 12th and the 14th also died. "No. 1's morale isn't very high, and those two were killed by a fireball while leading the goblin crossbowmen forward.
"21, 22, 23 I'm afraid they're gone, and it seems that it's just us. Captain No. 9 Lazer said. Those three are all newly-recruited goblin cannon fodder squad leaders, and even if they didn't die, they should have run away.
One of the three surviving squad leaders is No. 11, who escaped because the team of shooters he led did not attack, one is No. 13, who escaped because the fireball that could hit it would spread to Mike and was countered, and one is the No. 26 semi-troll Hazi, who was able to escape despite being cut down by a sword because of his regenerative ability.
According to Mike's numbering rules, X1 to X5 are goblins, X6 to X0 are other races, and the size is mainly based on first-come, first-served, for some reason whether the number can be replaced after it is vacant is not necessarily, depending on whether your number is a temporary number. At present, 21 and later are provisional numbers, so No. 26 Haz should be replaced by No. 7 if nothing else. Such a numbering scheme obviously cannot fully characterize the strength and function, and may lead to some of the top numbers being occupied by people who have little strength but have lived long enough, No. 2 and No. 6 are like this, and it is difficult to say whether they will be numbered to others in the future.
"Let's recover as soon as we can, and then let's go to the makeshift camp to meet up with Mike's master. "Loyal No. 1 proposes again.
"Where is this, in what direction is the makeshift camp, and how do you get there?" asked No. 8 Lucan.
Everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and then they all looked at Lazer. Running for their lives is important, everyone is running around with him, and they don't care about this kind of thing.
Lazer's heart is weak, you see what I am for, I don't know what it is. "Well, Master Mike's master is very powerful, and he will definitely come to us soon, and it is better for us to rest and bandage the wounded on the spot, otherwise it will be bad if the enemy is brought over. ”
"Lazer is right, some of them are more seriously wounded, and it may be difficult to continue the march. Lucan nodded.
No. 1 looked left and right, and found that the three squad leaders also had an expression of approval. "Oh well. On the 9th and 11th, you were not injured, so you took a few people around to see if there was a safer place nearby, on the 13th and 26th, you took people to pick up some firewood to boil water, and on the 8th and I took people to bandage the wounded. ”
The people took the command. No. 1 was the earliest to join the group, and he has always held important positions, and No. 8, No. 9, No. 11 and other captains have all been trained in its enslavement. Therefore, although there is no subordinate relationship with No. 8 and No. 9 at present, he still has the highest status, and he can be said to be the fifth person in addition to the four commanders of the mercenary group.
Although Haz couldn't understand why it was a goblin giving orders, he hadn't been here for long, and he had been beaten down by Luken last time, and this time he was injured again, so he was going to observe first.
When Mike and his miscellaneous soldiers refound their men, they found that they had rested for the night under an unnamed rift in the hilly area that was nearly two kilometers long from east to west, twenty meters wide at the most, and seventy or eighty meters deep, counting the losses, and even bandaging the wounded, and were in a meeting to discuss what the problem was.
"No. 1, No. 8, No. 9, you guys are doing very well, I'm very happy. ”
"It's all what subordinates should do. "No. 1 Eugen was worried that Mike's master would punish the goblins for their first rout, No. 8 Luken was worried that Mike would punish his hand-to-hand combat team for being vulnerable, and No. 9 Lazer was worried that Mike would punish him for not guiding him to retreat and flee first. But now it seems that Mike thinks that their performance is not bad, and they are all reassured.
"Although this battle was lost, the enemy was too strong, and it was understandable. In the future, you should train diligently to improve your strength. ”
"Yes. ”
Mike looked at the number of people they counted, plus the ones he brought. At present, there are 26 goblins, 6 goblins, 7 gnolls, 4 bear goblins, 3 other races, and 23 miscellaneous soldiers. Isn't there still a lot of people, and more importantly, only one of the key trained subordinates died on the 7th. How can they see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain, and these should be regarded as the price of their growth......
After inquiry, it was found that the main reason why the whole army was not wiped out was because the other party did not chase and kill at all. As for why the other party didn't chase and kill, the answer is colorful. There are two kinds of more representative ones: one is that the head of Mike's regiment is mighty and frightens the enemy, and the other is that the red dragon descends from the sky and delays the enemy.
Of course, Mike knew that he didn't have "Kamui Daihatsu", as for "Red Dragon Descending......
"In this way, it should indeed be the credit of my wisdom. I teleported away with you as soon as I used the illusion card, so I didn't see them scared away, so everyone was worried. Sal triumphantly apologized.
"Well done, Brother Sal, I really didn't misunderstand you. Mike thinks what Sal said makes sense.
Goku and Semena find it hard to imagine being intimidated by a mere illusion card given how elite they are, but it's also true that Thrall uses cards to transform into Red Dragon and Lich illusions. Sermena asked Lady Red Dragon, who claimed to have no idea. So in the absence of any other reasonable explanation, everyone has to think that it is Saar's fault.
As for what the squad leaders are discussing......
"Master Mike, 9 has discovered a relic with magical kobolds, and we are discussing whether or not to make them an honorable member of the mercenary group. "Number 1 reports on behalf of everyone.
"Oh, show me. "Mike came interested.
Because of the thin dragon bloodline, kobolds generally have some warlock blood, and the research on the bloodline awakening method is also relatively in-depth. Generally speaking, the human race, which has the strongest research and development capabilities, has been researched for a long time with the strength of the whole country, and the artificial bloodline with extremely obvious advantages in scientific research points belongs to the first grade, and the magical creatures with innate advantages such as dragons and goblins belong to the second grade, and the kobold belong to the third grade.
However, the independent research and development of other races is different, and the kobold, the bloodline awakening research, mainly relies on others, to be precise, on black-hearted mine owners like the Red Dragon Lady.
The black-hearted mine owners are not satisfied with just squeezing the kobold's labor, but also hope to cultivate enough kobold warlocks with "higher economic value" who can take the initiative to strip standard soul fragments with a massive base. A large number of kobold slaves inevitably ran away, so the wild kobolds also learned all kinds of scientific training methods, and became good prey for the magic shop to buy.