Chapter 11 Operational Planning
Rogge woke up slowly, and the crude wooden roof slowly became clear in front of him. The slight shaking from beneath him made him realize that he was in a carriage. With a large shake of the entire body, a stinging pain came from the wounds around his body, and he couldn't help but moan loudly.
With a swipe, the curtain of the car window was lifted, and Etter's big head poked in, "Awake?
"Where am I? How long have I passed out? This damn broken car! And this road! Are we catching a car on the ridge?!"
"Don't worry, we'll be back in Farburg in two hours. There's a priest then, and now you can only protect your wounds with the little potion you brought. You're really hard, it's so fragrant, the brothers almost ate it at night, hehe. Ette smiled gloatingly.
"Damn, we just don't have a priest, and we'll have to get one next time. Why is Fez's medicine so bad! If only he had half the skill of making magic weapons!
"In addition to you, we also injured 4 brothers, all of them light, alas. How could you expect to get a patrol cavalry team to be so experienced. Etter shook his head and continued, "We won the lottery this time. Sure enough, it was the Ice and Snow Silver Fox, and it was the elite Snow Fox Brigade, the number of people was not too many, there were more than 300 people, which was only ten times that of us. Damn, their squad leader is so experienced, he's almost a mid-level knight. Fortunately, that guy didn't have a good brain, and he actually had to go head-to-head with Kate, grandma's, and Franco immediately gave him an arrow in the ass. ”
When it was said that in the first battle in the jungle, the captain of the patrol cavalry was captured in the shadows, and he withstood several rounds of torture. Then Lance ripped off his pants, smeared them with honey, and found an anthill, and after a few minutes asked for a confession.
After the Snow Fox Brigade occupied this small Sellersburg, they sealed off the Lord's Mansion, and captured more than a hundred strong men from the vicinity, and kept digging in it day and night. But this task seems to be quite secret, and the position of the patrol captain is not yet enough to be able to communicate with the secret. Lance viciously threw another handful of ants on the already bruised words, and the patrol leader immediately screamed: "I said, I said! It seems that I heard that the lord used to worship a necromancer in the mansion, and it is said that the mage's laboratory is down there!" Water, hurry up and flush me!" Lance asked again and again, and was sure that he could not ask anything more, and with a stroke of the dagger, the knight's anguish ended.
Due to the serious injuries of many people, the only magician Rog became a roast pig, and the most important thing is that these thirty or so people are not enough to cut down. As soon as a few scum aristocrats were combined, they quickly ran away. Anyway, there are still four months before the agreed time, so it's a long time. This time I came out not without gains, at least I understood the fact that the strength is still quite far away from the Snow Fox Brigade. As for the loot, "What a first-class mercenary elite brigade, poor as a grandson." That's all this!" Kate, who was in charge of cleaning the battlefield, scolded without the image of a knight.
The middle-aged pastor who treated Rogge's wounds in the church in Falburg didn't look very strong. It took six or seven regeneration spells in a row to heal Rogge's wounds. The fat man jumped out of bed vigorously, stuffed him with two gold coins, ignored the tide of sycophants behind him, and fled in a hurry. He instinctively hated this kind of place, and if it weren't for the priest's healing effect, he would never want to set foot here.
Night falls. A few of the wicked boys met again in the most prosperous "Rhine Night" in Falburg. This is the real gold nest of Fahrburg. From wine to women, the Rhine Night claims to offer the best in all of Falburg. Naturally, this is not a place where ordinary people can afford to consume, but the merchants and aristocrats who come and go from the north to the south still make the business here prosperous.
The "Rhine Nights" is a three-storey building, but almost as tall as a normal six-storey building. In front of it is a wide square, which is always full of large and small sumptuous carriages at night. In front of the door, there was a magic fountain with a diameter of nearly five meters, and the water sprayed straight into the sky, until it was five or six meters high. On the mist, a purple magical flame burned day and night. At the bottom of the fountain is a large magic array, and the colorful magic light and flame shine on the mist, full of romantic and mysterious atmosphere. Just such a magic array costs an astonishing amount of money every day. Through the 4-metre-high door, the lobby of the Rhine Nights is filled with golden walls, and everything is gilded with a touch of gold with a magical glow. Artworks from all over the world are scattered throughout the hall. The second floor of the Rhine Night is divided into compartments, decorated in the artistic style of the major countries of the continent, and is an important birthplace of intrigue and silver rebellion. On the third floor there is another large hall where slave auctions are often held on weekends, as well as other large events.
There will be some slaves all over the continent of Gloria, to a greater or lesser extent. The sources of these slaves were often prisoners of war, rebels, and other intelligent races such as dwarves, elves, orcs, and even dragonmen. This is often the case between humans and the intelligent races of the continent, just as wars are between human nations. In contrast, there are more wars between human nations. Basically, human nations will accept people from other intelligent races, just as the Church of Light preaches, people are the people most favored by the creator God, but other races are also the people of the creation God. Most of the slaves were used as coolies, but the slaves auctioned on the Rhine Night were not of these inferior goods. Kim and his apprentices were bought by Rogge from here.
After the business of "Hammer of War" became more and more prosperous, Rogge and others became frequent customers here. Several aristocratic scum belong to the kind of people who have few aspirations, of course, this is compared with other big nobles who have real power or pure blood. This time it is developed, and it is naturally inevitable that there is a bit of an upstart temperament, especially Rogge. Even Franco was not exempt from vulgarity, and occasionally pretended to be casual in front of outsiders, "Alas, yesterday was too late on the night of the Rhine, and now I am not in the spirits." Then he was full of joy to capture the envy in the other party's eyes.
At this time, several scum were listlessly gathered in a corner of the lobby, and the second floor was only for rich or expensive guests, and Rogge and the others were not very qualified.
"Those bone mage things, I really don't understand how anyone can be so interested, it's worth sending three hundred people to take the risk. Grandma's, damn foxes are poor, and their kung fu is really not covered!" Etter sighed.
"More than 300 people, what should we do? Depending on the level of the more than 30 people under him, we have to pull at least 600 people. Judging from the current equipment, we can only equip a maximum of 100 people with our money. Kate was also depressed.
"Alas......" Franco sighed, "if this thing cannot be done, the money is small." At that time, the Duke of Bavaria will not be able to tie up. ”
"Don't be discouraged. We killed one of their magicians! And the level is not low! Such people, the mercenary brigade is estimated to be one or two. Now they must be afraid of us, anyway, 6 cavalry and a mage are gone, maybe they are panicking in place. Hahaha. Rogge looked around, and no one laughed. I had to turn haha into hehe.
"You can't just leave it at that!" Kate suddenly became excited. "My father was born and died for so many years, and his military strategy and martial arts are bad. It's not because he's just a baron that he has been put aside in the position of deputy commander of the city defense army for more than ten years. Damn, a fifteenth-level high-level light knight! Chambers's fat pig, isn't it just because he is an earl and the nephew of the vice minister of military affairs that he sits in the position of commander? Damn, if he can have the level of an eighth-level knight, Lao Tzu will lick his son's ass! This opportunity in front of him cannot be missed, if you want to be the best, you have to win him!"
"You're good, at least you'll be able to inherit a baron. Didn't I stay under your father for ten years without moving? Alas. A few of our brothers, it's quite beautiful to say, it's a nobleman, but in fact, what is my mother's life? When I was in the royal capital, I might have been robbed if I was looking for a girl. If it weren't for Rogge's brains and the 'Hammer of War', we wouldn't have been able to stare at this place?
Franco interrupted the two knights, "Come on, brothers, don't be dissatisfied, why didn't you think you had a low status when you robbed those civilian girls? Kate, you can steal the fun, it's good that you father and son are not regarded as dark knights." In any case, this opportunity for us did not come easily. Don't care why Opirok has a crush on us, but if this matter is done, we will definitely be able to get the Grand Duke of Bavaria!
Rogge took a sip of wine and had some inspiration: "First of all, you have to recruit troops and horses, you can recruit as many as you can, this time you don't need to prepare such good equipment for them, just be stronger than those poor ghosts! The key is that the weapons are better, and the horses don't need to prepare so much." We're going to be able to get 300 people. Kate, Ett, you two have been practicing these grandsons for the past two months. Look at that mercenary brigade is poor, at most there is one more magician in the end, this time we pull Feiss up, with his equipment, why don't you kill that magician? ”
Lance touched the buttocks of the passing hostess, staring at her in a daze as she walked into the back hall before reluctantly retracting his gaze. He said, "We don't play with them head-on! We will run when there are many of them, and if we see a lone person, we will wrap up." Sooner or later there will be times when they can't stand it and come out of the turtle's shell. Let's get some people from the Thieves' Guild, and we'll set up traps, and then lure them over so they can have a good taste. By the way, get more crossbows, the bow is a little worse, and it's inconvenient to carry, but the short bow is okay, just with the armor of those mercenaries, they will cry. On top of the crossbow arrows, poison must be fed. ”
Several people were in high spirits, and they talked about conspiracies and tricks, and the scum who smelled the same kind never belittled themselves. Several people calculated, ambushed and poisoned, trapped Ma Suo, threatened and seduced, pretended to be dead and surrendered, and all kinds of insidious tricks, I don't know how many they came up with.
The sky was white, and everyone looked at each other, and everyone laughed hehehehe, and for a while, everyone in the lobby looked sideways.
The "Dragons and Beauty" mercenary group has recently become a topic of conversation in Farburg. Recruiting more than 200 mercenaries at a time caused a small sensation. Although the name is a bit vulgar, there are quite a few veteran oils and ruffians who have joined for no other reason, mainly because they are like-minded with a few aristocratic scum on beauty. In the internal training ground of the Thieves' Guild, Lens is working hard with twenty thieves day and night. At the time when Wang Du was chased and killed by mercenaries, he got rid of his lazy habit, after all, it was more important to save his life. This time he finally realizes that he is a thief by nature, and there is nothing more suitable for his dark mind than hiding in the shadows and taking out enemies with hidden weapons and traps. More importantly, there is no better profession to do voyeurism than a thief.
The Earl of Winnington was silent after hearing about the adventures of the aristocratic scum. Only the next day, fifty of his guards heavy lancers quit military service and joined the mercenary regiment. Kate selected another hundred men from the mercenary group, equipped with war horses, wire chain mail, and axe guns, and turned them into semi-light axe lancers. For the next two months, Kate trained with the knights at the training ground.
The remaining 200 members of the mercenary group were led by Etter. Having changed several classes, Etter recently decided to become a magical swordsman. It was only fitting that he would train the infantry.
As for Franco, he said lightly: "My life is art." "I'm busy designing the flag and logo of the mercenary group. Everyone was extremely depressed, until one day they happened to bump into him holding a thin stabbing sword, and he was practicing swordsmanship in front of a humanoid target. The dense sword pits are all in the eyes, wrists, thighs, and even the lower yin and other places that ordinary Kai armor can't protect. Everyone only saw that their scalps were numb, especially Kate, who was a knight, and her face was extremely ugly. Franco's family heirloom swordsmanship is already known for its footwork and figure, which can be regarded as a first-class swordsmanship, and with such insidious and vicious tactics, the power is greatly increased. Everyone thought of the high-grade stabbing sword with the effect of electric paralysis that Faith had created for him before, and they were even more chilled. As for quenching poison, that's fine, everybody has to do it anyway.
Rog spends his days meditating or hiding in the lab studying magic, occasionally practicing axes in full armor with Etter's team.
In the laboratory, Rogge muttered a spell, the smoke cleared, and Fengyue stood in front of him. At this moment, Feng Yue is carrying a long knife in his right hand, and there is a tattered shield in his left hand, which looks much more majestic than before, at least compared to the necromancer's skeleton soldiers, it is not too bad. Rogge couldn't figure out where Fengyue's sword shield came from. He tried to give Fengyue some new equipment, and Fengyue changed his clothes very obediently. But after Fengyue was sent back to the Atlas, the equipment was thrown in place. The next time you summon, it's still a long knife with a broken shield.
Rog found Fez, who at best knew only a little about necromancy and was puzzled. There is a strict division of magic on the continent according to rank, and the distinction between the various departments is not very obvious. Most mages who are proficient in certain aspects of magic can cast spells from other disciplines, but only a few spells that are extremely opposed to themselves cannot be cast. For example, necromancy, most mid-level magicians can summon some skeletons if they want to. It's just that the quantity is not much, and the quality is average. Due to the limited combat effectiveness of skeletons, a well-trained soldier can also deal with three or two skeletons, so the utility surname is not large, unless it can be summoned in large quantities. Necromancers are different, they sacrifice themselves to the Grim Reaper, transform into undead creatures, and the magic of the necromancer is greatly enhanced. Because they are corrupted by the aura of death, they tend to become paranoid and evil. Only a few people who have turned into necromancers with the mana of a great mage can keep their minds clear. The various curses of necromancy and dark magic are very effective in warfare, so the rulers of various countries often acquiesce to the existence of such mages, and only necromancers who have transformed into the undead are not tolerated by the world. This is also due to the great achievements of Rodriguez, since him, the Church of Light began to hunt down the necromancers on the continent with all its might, and for more than twenty years, this race has been almost exterminated.
But the biggest difference between "Fengyue" and ordinary skeletons is that they are smart. Rog himself didn't know why he knew this, and the damn necromancer didn't leave any more magical knowledge for himself, especially not the slightest bit of knowledge about his treasury. Every time Rogge stared at Fengyue, he always felt that Fengyue was also observing him. One person and one skeleton often stared at the small eyes for a long time.
When Rogge was a little free, he was guided by Feith to transform his equipment little by little. Now the wealthy Rogge can wear four good magic amplification rings on his ten fingers, and in recent months, he has become more and more proficient in using mental power to control magic, although as a fifth-level mage, he could only cast one third-level magic. But now it can easily unleash three third-level magic. Rogge didn't say that what he was studying all night was not the fireball technique, which was currently on the list of the most popular magicians among magicians, but the acceleration technique. After many experiments, he found a few syllables that could be shortened, and the time to chant mantras was shortened by a third.
The hot weather slowly passed, and the strength of several scum gangsters was increasing little by little. The "Dragons and Beauty" mercenary group has also begun to take shape, and Winnington has secretly observed the training of the mercenary group a few times, and then only nodded to Kate. The agreed deadline is getting closer and closer, and everyone's hearts are beginning to stir. In the last month, as Lens has become more skilled, he and his thieves have often gone to the vicinity of Fort Sellers to reconnoitre, bringing back a lot of useful information, although the theft of Fort Fal has also increased slightly. It's just that I don't know how big the necromancer's ruins are, and I can't finish digging them for more than half a year.
At the moment of the great enemy, a few scum rarely went out to make trouble, but practiced hard separately. Of course, their insidious tricks and poison-quenching weapons would never be taken out in normal times. There are occasional fights and brawls, and they are also single-handedly full of chivalry. Although a few people on the side wanted to go up to help, under the watchful eyes of everyone, this aristocratic status and demeanor had to be maintained.
Even if he is already an out-and-out bitch, this archway still has to be erected.
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