Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Situation
In the previous missions, Sean has always been in a very calm state, but I didn't expect to become so irritable this time, which really gave them a sense of novelty.
"Okay, calm down, it's all for the task, otherwise I wouldn't be too lazy to do it."
Sean waved his hand, "Come on, come on, I'll explain the information and guesses I asked you for, and let's discuss some countermeasures together." ”
As the soldiers took Wally and the bare-handed guards under control and made their way into the interior of Millin, Sean gradually explained a few things to the other five.
From the information he had received before coming here, it was easy for him to know that there had indeed been an army stationed here, and that he had some connection with Lord Alban Valentine.
But when Sean actually arrived, he found that not only did the so-called army not see it, but even the lord of the place, Alban Valentine, disappeared without a trace.
Only his son Wally appeared in front of Sean and the others, and it was ridiculous that this stupid guy should still want to talk to them on an equal footing despite the huge disparity in force.
Through the observation of the mage's eye, he had noticed several more people running out of the back of the town, not knowing where they wanted to go.
From this moment on, there were some vague speculations in his mind.
After subduing Wally and interrogating him, he finally learns the details and pieces together the truth of the matter.
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It all started at the beginning of the war.
The town of Milin was a hereditary fiefdom of the Valentine family a long time ago, and at that time the town was not as populous as it is now, but a small town not much larger than the village, and it was very inconspicuous in the territory of the Wagner Kingdom.
After a long period of operation of Viscount Valentine, the population of Milin Town has become more and more numerous, and the Valentine family has become stronger and stronger.
The current lord, Alban Valentin, is the current patriarch of the Valentine family and the helmsman of the town of Mirrin.
Before the news of the war spread, he had a surprising premonition of the inevitable arrival of this war, but in the face of this inevitable man-made disaster, he had no way at all.
The Valentine family's legacy for generations is integrated into the entire town of Mirin, and if Alban abandons the family business and escapes from Victory Pass, the consequences are not something he can bear.
No kingdom will forgive a nobleman who escapes, and even if the future Wagner kingdom wins the war, no inch of this land will belong to Valentine, but will fall back into the hands of the royal family, or be divided among the heroes of the war.
For the sake of his own future and that of the Valentine family, he could only grit his teeth and stick to the town of Millin, but fortunately, because of the imminent war, the nearby kingdom army lost its salary supply due to the cutting off of the transportation line, and finally all joined his command and temporarily became the personal soldiers of the Valentine family.
There are more than 6,000 soldiers in total, although they are not elite, but they are also a very important bargaining chip at this time.
Having controlled a small town, he stored a lot of food, and it should be no problem to hold out until the end of the war.
The only thing he feared now was the attack of the army of the Kingdom of Karis or the Kingdom of Connery, and the only thing he could do for this was to hide in the nearby mountains with people like a turtle with a shrunken head, hoping to escape.
Alban deliberately left his son Wally in the town of Mirin, and when he left a few days ago, he also instructed Wally not to resist if the army arrived, and not to reveal their location.
As long as Wally makes himself act like an ordinary nobleman and does not do anything out of the ordinary, then the other side will not use too cruel means even in war.
In order to make things seem more plausible on the surface, Alban also left many family guards behind, and arranged various things to start and finish, even if he left the territory, the town of Mirin could continue to operate normally.
It's a pity that what he doesn't know is that the Silver Eagle Legion is not so easy to fool.
All kinds of information was delivered to Sean before he set out on the expedition, and the most important thing was that his son was too unreliable, and everything was explained after some operations, and the guards who stayed behind did not play any role in disguise, and they all became hostages of the other party in an instant.
In addition, Sean also plucked a lot of useful information from Wally's mouth, such as where the food that so many people in the mountains eat every day is hidden, and the rank and number of transcendents in the army.
And the few people who left before secretly ran to report the news.
According to Wally's account, he himself sent only two people, but in fact Sean had seen four of them before.
The extra person should be the secret child secretly planted by Alban, and it can be seen from this detail that this guy is a person who is good at playing intrigue and trickery, so you should be careful when dealing with him.
However, there is one place to be thankful, that is, there are no apprentice-level professionals in Alban's team, not even apprentice-level, which gives Sean and the others a slight advantage in terms of combat power, but it is only in a flat area.
In the face of the other party's shrinking strategy, Sean had no good way but to take one step at a time.
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The residents of Millin Town seem to be very unwelcoming of Sean and the others.
These brutal invaders captured the lord's son when they first appeared, and although they did not support this domineering young man, it still made their first impression of Sean and the others very bad.
However, Sean did not care about the opinions of these civilians, his purpose was to invade rather than occupy, and from the moment he entered the town, Sean led nearly a thousand people straight to the center of the town.
According to the results of his discussions with Bilair and others, their primary target was the strategic materials in the city, including food, precious materials, goods, and so on.
In order to facilitate the guarding, the places where these things are stored are not far away, and the other party took away a lot of young and middle-aged combat power when they left Milin Town, but only a group of people were left in this place to guard their safety.
Alban was not stupid, he knew that the town of Millin could be visited by troops at any time, so he had brought most of the important and easily portable supplies into the mountains.
Although the things put here are of good value, they are of little use in the war, and even if they are looted, they will only lose a little money.
The guards who were left behind didn't even have the slightest intention of resisting when they saw the battle of Sean and the others, and surrendered on the spot like their lords and became prisoners of Sean and the others.