The Great War with the Coalition has just ended, but another war has quietly begun.

It was a war between the Hughes of the Twin Sect and the Grim Reaper.

Before the start of the war, Li Yu asked the Truth Bureau to organize the carpenters on the territory of the Order to produce 500 stretchers, and then through repeated distillation, a batch of high-concentration alcohol was obtained.

However, the quantity was not too much, because wine was not easy to buy, especially after Solomon reached Cape Plenty, and the trade routes between the western border and the Golden Valley were basically cut off.

If you brew it yourself, it will take time, and it will indeed be a bit of a waste of food, so in the end, there are less than 300 barrels of alcohol distilled, which is not enough.

But fortunately, the "holy water" of the Shuangxiu Sect has been mass-produced, and this is Li Yu's biggest reliance.

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Arnott is a mercenary who used to be active in the Red Plains area, and his ancestors are said to have some aristocratic blood, but the family has long since declined, and there are only two younger sisters and a younger brother left besides him.

One of the younger sisters was working as a maid for a baron and could subsidize the household a little, while the remaining sister and brother were too young, so the burden of making money fell on Arnott's head.

He had heard that the Wing Clan were preparing to attack the Western Frontier and were recruiting men, which seemed to many people to be a sure thing.

Because this time Solomon and his Winged warriors almost came out of the nest, and brought two dragons with them, and planned to gather another 100,000 allies to attack from land.

Coupled with the fact that the Figuerola family, as the lord of the West, has surrendered ahead of schedule, this battle is sure to be won no matter how you look at it, and the process should be easy.

So Arnault was also a little tempted, and after thinking about it for a night, he finally decided to join the army of the baron his sister served.

And this is a long-standing tradition on the continent of Bratis, due to the prohibitive cost of maintaining a professional army.

The practice adopted by most noble lords was to train a small number of guards and to train the peasants in their domains with some military training.

In the event of war, they can quickly raise an army of small and large militias, and the wealthy families will recruit more mercenaries or mercenaries.

This time, Solomon's order was given more urgently, and there were many people who asked for it, so most of the nobles had to choose to spend money to recruit additional people.

Arnault, who was a mercenary and had the help of his sister, easily got a spot, and he signed a contract with the baron before he set out, and when the war was over, he would be paid two golden lions regardless of whether he won or lost.

And this is only the most basic mercenary fee, in the war they also have the opportunity to get loot, according to the contract, jewelry, jewelry and other high-value loot will go to the baron, but there are also some loot that they can keep for themselves.

For example, the armor and weapons of the enemies they killed, etc., and the old mercenary who accompanied him also told Arnott that he didn't need to take the constraints in the contract too seriously, and that he really wanted to encounter something valuable, as long as no one else found it, just stuff it into his arms.

It was impossible for those nobles to search them one by one.

In the past, many mercenaries have made a lot of money by being hired to participate in the war, and some people don't even have to worry about the rest of their lives, and Arnault is also enthusiastic when he hears it.

However, after arriving in the West, things are not as rosy as Arnault imagined.

Although the army did not encounter much resistance as they expected, there were quite a few scattered attacks.

The noble lords didn't want their own guards to be injured, so they put their mercenaries and militia on the periphery of the ranks.

Especially since these hired people were left at the outskirts of the group, and they were the first to be unlucky in the event of an attack.

And if they want to set up camp, their camp is also on the outermost. Arnault remembers not sleeping at all on the first night, and at the slightest hint of wind and grass, he immediately opened his eyes and grabbed his weapon.

They are always the first to encounter hard bones that are not easy to gnaw, but when it is time to plunder, they can only stay outside the city and be on guard.

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When he arrived at Rock Snow City, Arnault just picked up a piece of cotton armor that was not very valuable, and the old mercenary who came with him was slightly better than him, and when he went out on patrol, he went to a nearby village to carry two chickens, plus some change.

Arnault was about to express his envy, but he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the blood stains on the cuffs of the old mercenary, who looked indifferent.

"The man tried to stab me in the back with a pitchfork while I was catching chickens, and I cut off my head, but his wife is good, let's eat chicken together at night."

Arnault was silent for a while, he had actually encountered a lot of such things along the way, not only their mercenaries, those militias, but even the guards of the major families, many military disciplines were not very good, and it was normal to burn, kill and loot.

This is war, the commoners are always the worst, and of course the nobles on the defeated side are not much better, such as Frederickson of Turquoise Castle, whose family was burned to death by the dragon's flames.

After seeing too much, Arnault gradually became numb, and he didn't expect to make a lot of money from this war now, so he hoped that it would end early and receive the honorarium promised by the baron.

And the final decisive battle was not long in coming.

To be honest, Arnott actually admired the rebels on the other side, especially the female lord named Ilea, who refused to surrender despite such a disparity in strength, and held on until the last moment.

Unfortunately, this is all coming to an end soon.

It all ended very quickly.

Arnault didn't even quite understand what was happening, and shortly after the battle he was stabbed in the thigh by a pikeman, who was quickly smashed in the head by a dwarf.

But Arnott's thigh had already been pierced, and he only felt a sharp pain, and he could barely move his feet, which was very fatal on the battlefield.

Arnault tried to retreat, but he saw the overseers in the distance, and then he saw a line of blood not far away.

The people who had been standing there before were gone in the blink of an eye, and there was an extra corpse on the ground.

Before he could figure out what it was, he was shot in the chest by an arrow, and then he was hit by several more arrows and fell to the ground.

Luckily, he also had an old piece of chain mail under the cotton clip, which saved his life, and when Arnault opened his eyes again, he found that the war was over.

It's just that they became the losing side. Arnault couldn't figure out how they lost even if he wanted to break his head.

How is this possible? There is so much difference in the strength of the two sides, and they still have the help of the Wing Clan on their side, and I heard that the morale of the other side is very low, no matter how you think they should lose.

But Arnault couldn't care about it now, the wound on his thigh was still bleeding, and although the old chain mail saved his life and allowed him to avoid the fatal wound, an arrow still pierced his left rib.