In the War of the Gods, the mercenaries on the Eminole Continent and the Frozen Continent, as well as the later Fanos Continent, were hired by enemy forces, and even the entire mercenary group was directly adapted into the opponent's regular army.

What makes the mercenary community even more embarrassed is that the first country where the mercenary rebellion appeared was the "Holy Mercenary Empire" composed entirely of mercenaries, not only the low-level mercenary groups such as G, F, and E, but even individual C-level and B-level mercenary groups thrown into the enemy's camp.

The fundamental reason is that mercenaries, especially soldiers who join the mercenary group directly from civilians, are forced by life, and once they join the mercenary group, the tasks they receive are often beyond the mercenary's control. In this case, 90% of the mercenaries will leave their homeland and wander from country to country. For them, the time spent in the wild is far greater than the time spent handing over tasks in the city. For the big city, they hardly have any nostalgia. And the power of the emperor to maintain law and order not only did not give them any sense of security, but most of the time it was hindering them from completing their tasks and seeking poor living expenses. For the empires, they do not have a good feeling, let alone loyalty.

Mercenaries are a profession that uses blood to obtain money, whether it is in a war of life or in a bar, all mercenaries are accustomed to leaning close to their partners and giving their weakest side to their brothers, they firmly believe that as long as their partners do not fall, they will not be attacked from behind by the enemy. Words like "partner" and "brother", any mercenary will burst into tears as long as he silently recites them a few times - what mercenary does not have a brother who once used his warm chest to block his arrows?

Therefore, in a mercenary group with a scale of less than 100 people, as long as a few people are moved by the enemy, then it may not take more than a day for the entire mercenary group to be pulled to the enemy.

There are exceptions, if a mercenary group is mostly made up of veterans, the result is much better, and they will become the most staunch armed force in the Empire. Veterans tend to be quite dependent on the Empire, and they are extremely nostalgic for the military camp, and a considerable part of the past uniforms are still serving in the army, and the army is definitely the biggest helper in their mercenary profession for them.

Referring to the above two completely different results, in order to avoid the mercenary rebellion from continuing to worsen, the major empires have successively adopted different policies, the most famous of which are two clauses:

Concentration order: All mercenary groups below E-level (including E-level) are forcibly dismantled and joined into C-level mercenary groups of various countries; D-level mercenary groups with less than 200 people merge themselves to form large-scale mercenary groups; all the above mercenary groups are under the direct leadership of the military department.

Fusion Order: One-third of the cadres of the mercenary group above D level will be transferred to join the Emperor ** team, and cadres of the same level will be transferred from the Emperor ** team to join the mercenary group.

For mercenary groups and mercenaries who have rebelled, the empires have increased their punishments, and the most well-known decree is a beheading order that also comes from the mercenary world: "All human mercenaries or soldiers from the Aminore continent who join the army of Fanos, you are traitors to the human race." Whatever the reason, once captured by the small mercenary group, kill immediately!" This article was quickly promoted, and this became the most stigmatized point of Amy's mercenary career. According to the analysis of later military scientists, at least 300,000 soldiers died directly from this beheading order.

--Mercenary History

Chapter 53: Lonely and Miserable

Chi Aotian and the others all heard the roar just now, but they didn't want to come over and ask, and finally pushed Horns out.

Amy knew what the dwarf wanted to ask at a glance, shook her head helplessly, and briefly introduced what the dark jīng spirit said about the army just now, and said her own thoughts.

Amy couldn't change the topic, and smiled bitterly to persuade the brothers to put away their useless curiosity - the ugliness of the family is really not easy to publicize, and their own affairs still have to be solved by themselves.

Horns saw that Amy was under a lot of pressure, and comforted her, saying that the city defense side told Amy not to worry too much and put more jīng energy into these difficult things.

Ying had already run back to her room, and everything just now was already inevitable for Ying - judging from her father's past practices, especially the quarrels between her parents, and between her father and her grandparents, the girl could almost imagine her father's tone and demeanor just now. In the entire Jīng spirit village, there is simply not a single person like my father.

Amy stood in front of the door of her room for a while, before becoming a young mercenary, she had been living with her grandfather and Uncle Chi since she was a child. Although under the influence of Chi Hanfeng, Amy is also very hopeful about plundering money, but these methods are due to two reasons: first, the expanding surface of the small mercenary group and the family burden brought by more ice and snow teenagers; This is Amy's guideline. In fact, Amy herself is quite poor, even when she goes to the grandest palace banquets, she wears a standard mercenary uniform, and almost all the money is used to invest in the construction of the mercenary group, and sometimes buying a dress for Ying also shows that she is shy, but fortunately, Ying is extremely good in this regard, not only does she not need to buy anything, but once in a while, she strives to buy the cheapest - the most common sentence of the jīng Ling girl: "I don't want anything, you don't spend money indiscriminately." "Why is there such a big gap between father and daughter who are bloodlined?

Not only does he have no money, but even if he has money, does he have to satisfy the jīng spirit who claims to be Ying's father? Amy is not sure, if Yingying is bought from this person for 1 million, then Amy will definitely do it, although Amy often laughs at herself as a bad person, this middle-aged jīng spirit needs to be described as despicable.

It would be nice if Uncle Chi Hanfeng was on the side, dealing with such a despicable person really requires a scoundrel like Chi Hanfeng who is ashamed of the world and angry with ghosts. Thinking of this, the corners of Amy's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

Amy gently pushed the door open, and she could see the little girl lying on the bed with her shoulders slowly trembling - the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, is Amy a hero? Alas, in fact, not a hero is also sad to pass the beauty pass. Amy felt her heart fall to the ground like broken petals.

Gently pulled the girl up from the bed, the sheets were already wet, and Amy made the little girl happy distressedly: "Little guy, you must tell me again next time you cry, I will find a bowl to catch golden beans, which can be sold for a lot of money." ”

Ying's heart was sour, listening to Amy's lame jokes in order to reassure Amy, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

"It's okay, doesn't your father just like money? In this way, after this war, the small mercenary group will be evacuated to an inland city, as far as I know, the mercenary unions in various places still have a lot of old tasks about treasure hunting, some of which are hundreds of years old, and the bonuses are also very large. We are all next, and then we go on an adventure every day, well, when the time comes, we must call Lu'er, we can also secretly ride Daqingshan's mount, in addition, in addition, you listen to me, I ponder that most of the treasures are hidden in the dragon's lair, it is estimated that no dragon dares to contradict Lu'er, I believe that the harvest will be very rich - hehe, if it is really not enough, I will arrange for Lu'er to use blackmail **, and turn him upside down. Wait until you give the money to your father, can't you?"

Although the girl was only 16 years old, she also knew that this was Amy making herself happy, and Ruyu Xian gently held Amy's curly hair and nodded slightly.

The news spread quite quickly, and as soon as Ying's mood stabilized, Daqingshan, who got the news, asked Sha Ruo to invite Amy.

Daqingshan likes to be quiet, so he lives next door to Chi Aotian, and on the other side is Sha Ruo's house. Pushing open the door, Chi Aotian was also in the house. These two people are also a pair of weirdos, they don't like to talk, and they are all taught by a master - Chi Hanfeng now only admits that there are two personal disciples, Amy has to learn a two-handed sword because of the original life and death, if it weren't for the baby apprentice of Daqingshan later, the Chimen knight's gun with a one-handed sword and shield was almost lost, so Chi Hanfeng, who has a strong sense of revenge, does not admit that he has taught Amy the handle of a three-legged cat and a four-legged dog.

Da Qingshan and Chi Aotian, the two black-clothed teenagers, like to do the most is to stay in a room and flip through the books and play chess, Amy sometimes jokes that Chi Aotian is making a third party intervention on Daqingshan and Sha Ruo.

Chi Aotian and Da Qingshan both know Amy quite well, and they found at a glance that their friends were depressed in their hearts.

The Holy Dragon Knight is in a very miserable condition now, his back is seriously injured, and he has to lie on his stomach when he sleeps, and his broad palm pats the chair next to the bed: "Sit." What's the matter, Yingying's father is here again?"

Amy shook her head with a wry smile: "Hey, I really didn't expect to meet this kind of person." Alas, do you remember when we lived in a small village, what books we saw, how many young heroes came from ordinary backgrounds and finally won countless beauties, at that time we still wondered, why do we want women, especially so many women, how much meat do we need to raise, Uncle Chi still laughed at us. Now, I know that it's really a dream. To be honest, if I could avoid Yingying's father, I would like to give up everything and hide in a ravine where there are no people. ”

"Hehe," Da Qingshan smiled innocently: "You think about it quite well." ”

"Well, I really envy you and Sha Ruo, ordinary, plain, and leisurely, if only I were like this. With her friends by her side, Amy is in a much better mood.

"Okay, you're in a good mood, we won't keep you, let's go enlighten Miss Ying. Daqingshan smiled and chased away the guests.

"Cut--" Amy let out a mocking sound of disdain, "and come to enlighten me, not to see you hurt, be careful that I kill you." ”

Back in his room again, Sha Ruo was still chatting with Yingying in a whisper, and the little girl's jīng god was much better. For Amy and Ying, both of their families are incomplete, and they have never had any experience in dealing with family affairs, and this dilemma in front of them can only be taken one step at a time.

In order to prevent the assassination of the Dark Jīng Spirit, from that day on, Amy had four more guards around her, from the Prairie Jīng Spirit Archer and the Blocking Swordsman Battalion, and they were all outstanding above the rank of Wu Commander.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the sixth day of being trapped in the ice port, and the reinforcements that should have arrived had not arrived, and the swordsmen of the Vulture Swordsman Battalion, the small mercenary group sent to Dìdū to deliver the letter, had all returned. The news brought back was mixed: a mixed brigade of 2,700 people rushed from the interior of the empire to support was ambushed 40 miles south of the ice port, and the vulture swordsman specially brought back a briefing on the battle: when the mixed brigade passed on the mainland road, it was suddenly attacked at the same time, and the enemy was ambushed in the dense forest on both sides of the continental road, and the drainage ditches on both sides of the road that were nearly two zhang wide did not cause any obstacles to the enemy at allThe team collapsed instantly.

In close combat, the extraordinary combat power displayed by these soldiers from other continents was not at all something that ordinary soldiers of the empire could compete with, and the battle ended in less than 1 hour. The captain, deputy captain, and three squadron leaders of the brigade were all killed, and all the soldiers died in a bloody battle except for the knight unit, which had more than 100 people who escaped. According to the fighters who escaped death, in fact, there are not many enemies participating in the raid, and there will definitely be no more than one squadron, but because the emperor has no defense, especially the knight troops, there is no room to expand at all, and the mass destruction shown by the tomahawks and wolf tooth lances is far unexpected, so the results are so disparity.

On the same day, another mixed brigade that had passed through here and assembled at the Broken Ice Harbor arrived and saw that the enemy was cleaning the battlefield, and the commander was extremely cautious, except for sending a knight unit to surprise the remnants of the enemy, and leading the other soldiers to move closer in the direction of the Imperial Dìdū.

The reassuring news for Amy and the others is that the commander of the reinforcements from Dìdū Scambrai is Viscount Fan, the former commander of the Fire Lion Legion, who has been activated again.

Hearing that it was this guy in charge, the boys of the small mercenary group let out a long breath at the same time - among the soldiers they knew, Viscount Fan was as cunning as a fox, and it was no wonder that there was a rumor that there was a fiery red fox leading a group of fiery lions in the Lion River Defense Area. The only thing to worry about is that, judging from Viscount Fan's previous battles, he is definitely calm and lacking in sharpness, and he is afraid that the Fanos soldiers will not be able to eat meat after being ambushed for a long time, and finally make up their minds to attack the city.

Over the next three days, Amy, Chi Aotian, Horns and others personally led the mercenaries, swordsman battalion soldiers, and natives to build the ice-breaking harbor almost watertightly. Not only were the three gates completely welded with steel bars, but all the stones removed from the houses were piled up behind the gates, the beams on the houses were also taken down and piled up on the city walls one by one in case the enemy attacked the city, and the side facing the sea was covered with large pieces of gravel, which not only prevented the enemy from attacking with ships, but even if they came up, the enemy could not exert their strength, and built a stone wall up to 5 meters high on the seawall. All men aged 14~60 years old will take turns to defend the city, and the most knowledgeable residents will be issued with crossbows that have just been made - there is no enemy shè Cheng Yuan is powerful, but he can always take care of things.

Amy always laughs at herself that she will not become a good general - the so-called famous generals are built on the basis of a general who will become famous and have ten thousand bones. He was afraid of killing people in battle, especially his own. Therefore, I can only put a lot of effort into defending the city, and the construction site is divided into two shifts and works non-stop night and night.

It's been the ninth day of being trapped, and late at night, Amy shakes off the dust and returns to the small courtyard where she lives, the lights are still on, and the little girl reading a book is reflected in the window. jīng Lingsheng xìng likes to be clean, so no matter how tired Amy is, she will go to take a bath before entering the house. In the past few days, Ying's mood has calmed down a lot, and Amy's mood has also improved a lot.

As soon as she entered the bathroom, Amy was lighting the palm oil lamp, and suddenly felt a biting cold - I don't know which little mercenary had taken a bath just now, and the ground was full of water, but there was no trace of water on the left wall. Amy threw the oil lamp in her hand suddenly, and the ice blade behind her sheathed out, and in the darkness, Amy put the big sword behind her back and pressed it tightly against a wall - just now, someone must have stuck to the wall like this, so that the water did not splash the wall.

The little mercenaries outside immediately understood what was happening, and two pitch-black long swords tore through the wooden door, and were hit by the energetic sawdust on the wall, and the four guards broke into the bathroom at the same time. Amy kicked over a wooden basin full of water, and the water that was spilled out of the way was suddenly intercepted in a clearing, and after a curse, a phantom with water droplets jumped out of the window. The Prairie Jīng Spirit had just filled the longbow, and Amy hurriedly stopped the arrow feathers that were about to be released.

Ying also heard a noise outside in the house, and immediately realized what was happening, and rushed out barefoot, her face turning pale in fright. After seeing Amy, he plunged into Amy's arms and cried.

Amy instructed the four guards not to tell anyone else about it, and then accompanied Ying to answer that in the house, the little girl couldn't speak for a long time, and when she carried the girl to the bed, she found that Jīngling's left foot had been broken the moment she rushed out of the door just now, and blood continued to flow out.

When taking the medicine, Ying looked at Amy motionlessly, and after Amy finished taking the medicine, she slowly discussed with Amy: "Amy, I know you are very busy, but I'm really afraid, do you think you can spend more time with me every day?"

"Good. No problem. Amy knew that she had scared Ying just now, and at that moment just now, no matter who had a problem with the two people, it would be difficult for Ying to face for the rest of her life, so she hurriedly agreed.

"You see, it's 12 hours a day, you sleep for 4 hours a day, you need 1 hour to eat, it's 7 hours left, you're busy, you set aside 3 more hours for work, and you spend 4 hours a day with me, okay?" The girl looked at Amy with tears on her face.

The young man hesitated slightly, for Amy at this time, time is the most precious, from getting up in the morning to night, at least 6 hours a day on the city wall, eating with the soldiers - outside is the army of tens of thousands of tigers and wolves (in the real sense of the tiger and wolf division), maybe when there will be a sudden attack on the city, when they sleep at night, all the little mercenaries sleep with their clothes and swords.

Ying saw that Amy was embarrassed, and added: "I only need three days, I think I won't be so nervous, okay, Amy." ”

"Okay, I'll try to ......" Amy gently hugged her lover.

The next day, Amy invited Horns in early in the morning and took a day off, and Horns seemed to have heard about the events of the previous night, and did not express any surprise at all. Except for going around the city at noon, Amy was basically with Ying the rest of the time.

Early in the morning of the third day, a small mercenary suddenly came to report, there seemed to be movement in the enemy camp, and from the second half of the night last night, there were many more lights in the camp than before, and Horns and Chi Aotian both came to exchange opinions with Amy, and finally unified their views - the enemy's troops who went to ambush everywhere are estimated to have returned.

Amy and Horns hurriedly set about arranging for more civilians to participate in the daytime defense, and a large number of Jīng Rui soldiers were withdrawn from the city walls - according to Amy and Horns' conjecture, the opposing soldiers had far better than human vision, especially at night, so it was very likely that a real war would break out at night.

Halfway through the bus, Amy suddenly remembered what she had promised Ying, smiled wryly and said it to Horns again, and returned to the house to accompany Ying. Of course, during this period, a group of small mercenaries came almost every half hour to ask for specific arrangements. Amy didn't know how to feel guilty about that aspect.

On the fourth day, the situation outside was already quite severe, and according to the observation of the captain of the swordsman battalion in the Broken Ice Harbor, the number of fires in the opposing camp had at least doubled, that is, the number of soldiers here had at least doubled in the past two nights. The Vulture Knight, who had gone to contact Viscount Fan, also brought back a letter from the commander of the reinforcements.

Lord Baron Amy: (Viscount Fan is very fond of talking about the titles of people who are lower than his own, and if he is not the other way, he only calls the other person by their official title.) ）

After three rì departures, in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy, especially at night, we traveled only 20 miles per rì and came into contact with the enemy before 5 rì.

In the last few days, there have been several skirmishes with casualties. I'm also glad that the enemy is entangled with us here, which means that there aren't too many enemies in your place, so I guess it's been going to be difficult for them to concentrate on attacking the city lately.

However, since the beginning of the year, the enemy's usual provocative behavior has suddenly decreased, and last night, the enemy camp was planned to sneak attack, but who knew that the camp was empty.

We are worried that the enemy has assembled and will make a surprise attack on the Icebreaker Harbor, so we ask the lords of the small mercenary group to strengthen the defenses, and the reinforcements will arrive within three days.

Yunyun.

Amy and the others looked at the letter helplessly, this Viscount Fan is really not ordinary cautious, but his judgment is also correct, although the Broken Ice Port is not a big city, with the strength of 4,000 regular soldiers and tens of thousands of people, the city can still be defended for a few days. Fortunately, he was cautious, if he rashly advanced, in case he was ambushed by the Fanos Legion and finally led to the annihilation of Jīng Rui's troops, it is estimated that it would be at least half a month before Dìdū wanted to pull out another army of the same quality.

Seeing Amy's worried look, especially as the sun gradually set, Amy became more and more worried about whether the enemy would sneak attack, Ying finally couldn't help it: "Amy, you accompanied me for 4 hours yesterday and the day before yesterday, today, you accompanied me for 2 hours, and the remaining two hours, I will give it back to you, you are busy with your business-remember:" Ying's bright eyes stared at Amy: "You promised me, you accompanied me for a total of 10 hours, and I gave you 2 hours." ”

Amy kissed the cute girl lightly and hurriedly rushed out.

That night was an unforgettable night for the residents of Broken Ice Harbor at the time.

At 2 o'clock in the evening, Amy and several main cadres leaned against the city wall with their weapons, and the city wall was replaced by the troops directly under the small mercenary group, and even the two major knight teams were lined up in the changing of the guard. All the houses beneath the walls were filled with requisitioned civilians, and outside the doors were shelves full of weapons.

The attack of the Phanos began at a quarter past two in the morning, almost without warning, and the first rain of arrows fell, and then hundreds of ladders came up from under the city walls, and large stones fell from the night to all places where there were lanterns. In the first 10 minutes, the casualties of the small mercenary group had already surpassed all the losses of the first rì, and most of the dead had fallen on the walls without even seeing the ugly faces of the enemy. At least 20% of the battlements on the front have been smashed, and the original appearance is not visible at all.

The sharp jǐng newspaper reverberated throughout the city.

Behind the city walls, the large stone-throwing carts that the small mercenary group had just made recently began to wield their might, and the equipment was the most sharp unit of the small mercenary group, the Demon Swordsman Battalion. The swordsmen continued to bless the stones with relatively stable magic, and then used the catapults to send out shè, and as the stones flew quickly in the air, they turned into whistling fireballs, crystal ice balls, or simply larger clods of earth, and smashed into the enemy's position with a roar.

It wasn't until the flaming boulders kept falling that the little mercenary group had a rough idea of how many enemies they were facing: on the front, there were at least 40 catapults and more than 20 crashing vehicles. Behind the siege equipment, there are 3~5 brigades lined up neatly waiting for orders, and the black pressure of the soldiers under their feet has completely blocked the moat.

Compared with human soldiers, the Fanos soldiers are much stronger in individual combat quality, these soldiers hang their boots around their necks, and begin to crawl slowly and ambush under the city from nightfall, the small mercenary group in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking attacks, every once in a while scatter a burst of bows and arrows, quite a number of Fanos soldiers are nailed to the ground by arrows, but, until the blood is exhausted, there is no soldier to make a single movement.

"Cut down the thunderstone!" a young great swordsman shouted from the front of the city, conveying the order that Horns had just issued.

Thunder stone is the most commonly used means of urban defense warfare, every other battlement, hang half a meter outside the battlement with Xuanmu, tie the battlement with steel wire in front, each cloth bag is tied with 5~10 irregular stones of about 10 kilograms, once cut off, the bag mouth will be opened, and the stone inside rolls down loudly like thunder solid name thunderstone. The city wall is more than 10 meters high, and once such a large stone block is hit, it will at least lose its mobility. The stone rain fell suddenly, and you could obviously feel that the ladder was smashed by the stones, and the sound of the stones falling to the ground, screaming, and ** landing under the city wall was endless.

At night, human eyesight is far less good than that of orcs, the original lanterns on the city wall have all been destroyed, and some of the battlements have been climbed up by orcs, the only advantage for the defenders of the city is that the city walls are all warriors of small mercenary groups, especially the big swordsmen, who have abandoned the iron armor and shield defense in close combat, and the big swordsmen who have abandoned the iron armor and shield defense in close combat use all their agility to pursue a faster and more deadly blow, even compared with the half-orcs who are born warriors, they also have a relative advantage, plus the advantage in numbers, except for two places, the enemy has reached more than 20 people, most of them are sealed by the sudden gap。

The swordsman battalion and civilians of Broken Ice Harbor rushed up from under the city walls with torches held high, and the rain of arrows of centaur archers outside the city was once again powerful, and in the darkness, the blazing torches became the best targets, and the screams immediately rang out.

In fact, in the second siege of Icebreaker, the centaur archers played a great role, and from 3 a.m. until the sun rose at 6 a.m., all the soldiers of Icebreak Harbor had to fight the enemy in the dark. The grassland jīng spirit archers rushed to the city wall, this one-sided advantage was slightly solved, the grassland jīng spirit and centaur two races are equally familiar with the bow and arrow, both races use a 1.5-meter-long longbow, shè cheng is basically the same, the grassland jīng spirit behind the city wall battlements not only has a high advantage but also has a natural defense, the centaur camp immediately chaos, a piece of centaurs fell to the ground with residual snow. The remaining centaurs quickly retreated to safety - no one would be foolish enough to fight in any siege unless the archers had an absolute advantage over the defenders. However, as soon as a torch or light appears, under the protection of a giant shield, the centaur archers will make a chorus, for the simple purpose of maintaining an advantage in eyesight.

The Phanos catapults are now more frequent, and in this respect, the Phanos Legion has a greater advantage over the defenders of Broken Ice, as the orcs have a strong physique that allows them to craft and use catapults that are two sizes larger than the small mercenary group, and the effective catapult distance is 20 paces away. If it weren't for the fact that stones had to be thrown over the walls, all the catapults of the small mercenary group would have been destroyed.

As in any ordinary battle, the attacker's only goal is to use flesh and blood to consume the defender's limited forces, and the defender's expectation is only to use the advantage of the city wall to concentrate more forces to destroy the enemy in the process of climbing without any offensive and defensive ability, until most of the offensive and defensive forces are consumed and finally lose their combat power.

As with any inconclusive urban offensive and defensive battle, when the sun rose, the offensive and defensive battle ended for a full 3 hours, not because the commanders of both sides did not want to fight, but because they really couldn't fight and there were no extra troops to invest again.

That night, the first three thousand troops of 18,000 Phanos soldiers composed of three legions had no need to rebuild, and the five thousand teams invested in the later period had a minimum of more than 30% of the casualties, 4 thousand people long, and 49 hundred people long under the ice port city, and a complete team of 1,000 people who were responsible for the distribution of shè catapults had a death rate of 20% and 100% were wounded, and only 20% of their catapults were still worth being repaired and reused. A complete centaur thousand-man team has a 30% casualty rate, but the casualties are quite small - it is enough to see the skill of the Prairie Jīng Spirit Archer.

The small mercenary group was even more miserable, except for Daqingshan, who was injured and could not participate in the battle, the other five responsible persons were put into the front line as an ordinary combat force, and at the last moment before the sun rose, Daqingshan, who had to sit in charge of the command of the whole army due to injury, ordered the last complete unit in his hands, the small mercenary group, the Vulture Swordsman Battalion, to enter the city wall defense battle as an ordinary soldier in a slightly trembling voice.

The number of casualties in the Great Swordsman Battalion was as high as 50%, the Grassland Jīng Spirit Bow and Arrow Battalion was killed by 30%, the Demon Swordsman Battalion was killed by 30%, the soldiers of the Berserker Battalion and the Berserker Battalion were killed by 35%, at least 20 berserkers finally entered the stage of madness, the soldiers of the Knight Battalion were killed by 40%, the total number of swordsmen of the 2000 Swordsmen Battalion of the Broken Ice Harbor after the First World War did not exceed 800 soldiers, and the casualty rate was as high as 60%, and the casualty rate of several small mercenary groups participating in the defense reached 55%. That night, more than 50% of the families in the Ice-Breaking Port lost their loved ones, not even one. According to incomplete statistics, among the 15,000 soldiers and civilians who participated in the defensive battle, the death rate was as high as 45%, and no one was not wounded. Amy was hit by an arrow in her left shoulder, Horns was injured in the back, Ji Aotian was injured in her left elbow, and Ying woke up from her dream and hurried to help defend with a leg injury......

When the next morning, when the small mercenary group summed up the casualty figures, everyone present was stunned, if the only thing that made the cadres of the small mercenary group feel a little fortunate was that the number of old members of the small mercenary group was relatively small, after all, they had experienced several large-scale melee battles and knew how to dodge deadly attacks at the most critical moment.

Later generations are very surprised that the Fanos soldiers still have 4 complete thousand-man teams and did not enter the war in the end, most people believe that at the end of the siege, the small mercenary group has reached the point of exhaustion, and several city walls have been breached, and it is impossible for the Phanos commander not to know at that time. As far as the facts themselves are concerned, at the end of the war, for the first time, the three commanders of the Phanos reached an agreement - to abandon the attack. Under the circumstances, if the last combat power was invested, the city might eventually be captured, but the small mercenary group struggling with the trapped beasts would inevitably bring more trauma to the Phanos legion. The core of the leapfrog strategy of the Western Expeditionary Corps this time is to seize a harbor as the base camp of the follow-up troops, rather than to eliminate the small mercenary group, in this situation, even if the enemy in front of them is completely annihilated and the city is occupied, the imperial reinforcements are 50 miles away, and there is no suspense whether the heavily damaged Fanos Legion can defend the city, so it is better to leave a living force to make plans.

On the night of the second day after the siege, under the cover of the howling southeast wind, the Phanos retreated quietly, and like any great army, although they suffered heavy losses and 40% of their companions were wounded, the camp of the Phanos was cleaned and everything was taken except for the necessary banners.

So much so that it wasn't until the third day, when the little mercenary group sent the Vulture Swordsmen to reconnoitre, that they found that there was no enemy left in front of them. Amy, Horns, Daqingshan, and Chi Aotian were extremely surprised, and sent all the vulture swordsman battalions to reconnoiter around, but in the vast snowfields of the northern mountains, the Phanos legion never seemed to appear. Amy immediately sent someone to inform His Excellency Viscount Fan, who was still lingering, and then received an accurate reply that reinforcements (there was no point in supporting at this time) would arrive the next day.

On the night when the soldiers and civilians of the Broken Ice Port celebrated the success of defending the city, an earth-shattering thing happened for the small mercenary group: late at night, Amy, the leader of the mercenary group who had been tired for more than 10 days, woke up from his deep sleep and habitually stroked Ying--the only place that used to have a warm body was the cold quilt.

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