In the fifth year of the magic calendar, Lord Amy, one of the leaders of the five A-class mercenary groups, once publicly criticized the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Phanos continent.

It is a pity that Amy's remarks are not correct, at least not entirely.

On the continent of Fanos, there are no less than 20 races living. Among them, the more powerful races are: orcs, bears, centaurs, humans, snakes, dragons, and werewolves.

Of these races, the werewolves are the least powerful in terms of individual combat power. They are the shortest and least armed race on the entire continent.

In order to ensure the reproductive rights of the race, the women of the werewolf tribe carried pillows and sheets everywhere, and "coordinated" with any male xìng werewolf who intended to have sex at any time and place - note that even other races in the Phanos continent refer to the xìng life of werewolves as coexistence.

Therefore, everything that Lord Amy pointed out at the time happened only within the werewolf clan.

Of course, not all of them are to blame for Amy. After all, these materials come from the Imperial Library.

-- "The Regret of History"

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"Little white face, you're going to die!"

"Fuck you, uncle. ”

The orcs who were born and raised in Fanos are extremely simple, and in their eyes, the swearing words are only limited to "fuck your uncle!", "he nǎinǎi" and so on, under the explanation of the human companions, the orcs finally understood what the kid on the city wall just said meant, and the orc warriors who were still thinking about how to treat Amy well after being captured just now rushed to the little white face on the city wall and stretched out the middle finger of their right hand. There were more than a dozen impulsive orc warriors who threw down the shields in their hands and rushed out with a mace one and a half meters long.

"Shè kill!" said two words coldly on the city wall.

The bowstring of the Prairie Jīng Spirit Long Bow trembled slightly, and more than 10 orc warriors who rushed out of the team immediately fell, and the gap they exposed was also hit by the dense shè of green arrow feathers, and more warriors fell in a pool of blood.

A few harsh words from the opponent made the Fanos army lose at least one-sixth of the soldiers, seeing this, Norton's equally boiling blood quickly calmed down, the only purpose of those words just now is probably this, if a few harsh words can kill a considerable number of enemies, I am afraid that I will do the same.

The orcs' shields snapped together, and the carriage moved slowly until it finally turned into a ring of protection.

"Your Excellency Amy, now that I have been in the city, I heard that Your Excellency has both magic and martial arts, and both of them have a level beyond ordinary people. Do you dare to fight me in front of the city?" said Norton, holding up a meter-long mace in one hand.

"Is there such a must, the weather is so good, wouldn't it be more poetic for us to talk about geography casually?"

"Don't you have the shame of being a brave man, don't you want to make a name for your country?" said Norton, continuing to spur Amy.

"This, am I necessary?" The stimulated person showed an inexplicable look on his face, and he was even more ashamed: "I only have a relationship between the emperor and the hired and the employed, and the mission book given to us is very clear, to protect the ice port city, there is no mention of going out to fight." The empire didn't pay me a penny for this. ”

"You...... Aren't you ready to avenge your men?"

"Norton, don't you just want me to go out and attack you? Your Excellency has not read the art of war of mankind, the strong show the enemy the weak, this is the most basic knowledge, do you think I will be fooled by the illusion of your few hundred people? This is too funny, Your Excellency. Amy scoffed at the walls. "It must not be me who is anxious between the two of us, reinforcements from dìdū arrive in four days at the latest, and reinforcements from the southern part of the empire arrive in ten days at the latest. When the time comes, as soon as I hand over the city's defense, I can take the mercenary group back to the empire to receive money. Speaking of which, I really thank Your Excellency for your kindness, and you have repeatedly fulfilled the prestige of the victory of the small mercenary group, by the way, I don't know if Your Excellency minds, as a Fanos soldier, your income must be very meager......"

"Don't insult my loyalty, I won't betray. Amy's words touched the bottom line of Norton's virtues, and she was immediately rejected by the orcs.

"No, no. You are mistaken. The small mercenary group is a joint-stock private group, at present, I am the largest shareholder, zhan has 35% of the shares, next to me is Daqingshan, he zhan has 30% of the shares, and 35% of the shares are in the hands of Uncle Chi Hanfeng, Chi Aotian, Horns and others. The only purpose of running this group is to make money, and our mode of making money is very simple, now it is to protect the city, and every time we succeed in defense, we can earn more than 100,000 gold coins. I am ready to give you a 5% stake in a friendly gift, so that you can also be called a partner of a small mercenary group, so that every time we defend a new city, you will lead the troops to attack, of course, not really fight, we will have a big party between us, and then, when the official soldiers of the empire come, we will retreat, and so on...... Haha, every time we can make a lot of money...... How about I'll give you a dividend?" Lord Amy seemed to have forgotten what she had just said.

"You ......" Norton was angry, as a half-orc, he had never heard of such concepts as shares and partners, Amy really didn't understand the economic development of the Fanos continent, when it came to partnership, it must be a capitalist society, and the Fanos continent had entered the communist society, so these concepts had disappeared without any development.

"Lord Amy, you are too smart...... However, perhaps it is true to what you humans said: being clever is being mistaken by being smart. Sorry, Your Excellency, I have done my best for you humanity. After speaking, His Excellency the Commander of the Third Legion of Fanos waved his hand, and a signal flare rose into the sky, sending out a continuous explosion sound in the sky, and the carriage phalanx slowly moved backwards randomly.

Soon, doves flew in the sky, and the news quickly gathered in Amy's hands: a large number of warships appeared off the coast of Broken Ice Harbor, and Balbas ordered his troops to scuttle the fishing boats in the offshore part to prevent the enemy from attacking the coast.

In the direction of the mainland highway, at least 3 thousand-man teams gathered and drove towards the ice port.

A force of no less than 5,000 people appeared 20 miles south of the ice-breaking harbor and marched towards the ice-floeing harbor.

Horns got the news one step earlier than Amy, there was no need to hide the vulture swordsman camp hidden in the snow, nearly a hundred vulture swordsmen were soaring around the city to report the latest news at any time; the swordsman camp of Broken Ice Harbor had gone to support the coast; the berserker battalion took over the defense of the great warrior battalion, and the great swordsman battalion all climbed the city wall; the residents who had been recruited to assist in defending the city had set up cauldrons ready to boil boiling water to defend against enemy attacks; and Horns himself hurried to the city gate with Chi Aotian.

The white sun was already approaching mid-heaven, and the rising dust could already be faintly seen in the south of the city, and the sharp eyes of the jīng spirits of the steppe could even distinguish the long dragon traveling on the mainland road.

There are more than 10,000 soldiers, and the ground is torn to the sky.

It is difficult for those who have not really experienced war to imagine the evil and pressure that the army brings, and in the distance it is not only the soldiers made of steel, but also the huge siege engines pushed and pulled by the soldiers, and the small mounted dragons galloping on both sides of the long snake-like army to carry the message.

Most of the soldiers of the small mercenary group have never experienced war, not to mention the residents of the Broken Ice Harbor who help defend the city on the city wall, all of them are pale-so many enemies, not to mention fighting, even if they stand still one by one, let them cut and kill with knives, they don't know when they can all be killed, and besides, the armor on these enemies is obviously much stronger than that of the soldiers of the small mercenary group. Some of the people with their brains are already thinking about how they can survive if the city is breached.

The main cadres of the small mercenary group are not much better, Amy and others have also not experienced this kind of large-scale city defense battle, in the battle of Xilin Island, after all, across the Lion River, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack; and the ice port, the countries of the Eminole continent have no sense of coastal defense at all, so the city wall of the ice floe port cannot be compared with the inland city, the city height is only 12 meters, and it is okay to defend against some small thieves...... Almost every teenager bit his lip tightly.

"Strange-" Horns took a breath, "how come there are so many irregular soldiers among the enemy?"

Amy and Daqingshan's nerves were immediately tensed, in the national war on the Eminole continent, civilians rarely participated in the war, even if someone in a family was called by the nobles to participate in the war, the warring parties would not harm their families. Empires have a long history and are well aware of the place of their people in the country, and conflicts often erupt along national borders, and they are very afraid of reprisals from their enemies.

780 years ago, when the desert people attacked Dongping, an important town in the Huayu Plain, they coerced 200,000 residents to join the army, and as a result, 30,000 defenders of Dongping died 20,000 and the besieging civilians died as high as 150,000. In the end, the other empires of the mainland united to attack the desert from four directions, and at least 300,000 desert soldiers and civilians became victims of retaliation.

Behind the regular army, the civilians had already gathered into a large army, and at a glance, it was estimated that the total number was between one or two squadrons, and among the civilians there were a considerable number of improvised siege vehicles, catapults, and long ladders, most of which were middle-aged men, and a few were old people. The army of civilians was surrounded by soldiers who maintained order, and looking at the soldiers with slime on their mouths and the bright and piercing swords in their hands, it should be clear that these residents were not voluntary.

The faces of everyone on the city walls were pale, including the residents of Icebreaker who helped defend the city. At all times, it is the duty of soldiers, mercenaries, and civilians of the Empire to fight desperately against the enemies of the Empire, but it is not desirable for anyone to stand on the top of the city and throw stones and boiling oil on the inhabitants of the Empire who are being carried underneath the city. As a commercial city, all the food and other supplies come from the smaller towns around it, maybe the gray-haired old people in the city have fed themselves fruits when they were young, and maybe they have their own in-laws or even their own biological parents. All the inhabitants stopped what they were doing and leaned on the walls to look out.

On the city wall, Amy and the others had already felt a sharp drop in morale, and some of the soldiers of the small mercenary group also showed anxious expressions on their faces.

The enemy did not immediately attack the city, the heavy infantry set up a position 1,000 meters outside the city walls, and the centaur archers rushed out of the gaps in the heavy infantry formation, and in front of them were human crossbow archers;

Flanked on either flank by werewolf light infantry, these diminutive creatures, shield-armed in one and daggers and scimitars, coerce, push, and threaten the human inhabitants in front of them towards the ramparts. Looking at the taller and taller walls and the dazzling weapons on them, the undercurrent of uneasiness among the civilian population is changing dramatically. Feeling this countercurrent, the cold weapon in the hand of the werewolf warrior almost pressed against the backs of the human civilians.

Norton's home team gradually retreated into the big team, and at this point, it was almost impossible for Amy and Horns to stop it.

The commander of the Phanos Legion was obviously a middle and high master, and after all the troops had stabilized, a large green flag was raised in the air, and the werewolf warriors suddenly increased their movements and waved the weapons in their hands, and the blood mist suddenly floated between the werewolves and humans, and the miserable cries of the humans resounded in the sky above the Broken Ice Harbor, like waves, and the humans in the back row pushed the front to stumble towards the city wall.

At the same time, two armies of archers followed the civilians towards the wall, with a clear intention. And a moment later, the heavy infantry also pressed on both flanks.

The catapult made a heavy trembling sound, and the stones about 25 centimeters in diameter rained down on the city wall, and the high ladder poked out of the heavy infantry formation to the top of the city wall, and three large rushing carts followed at the end, with only one target: the east gate.

The commanders of the small mercenary group on the city wall all had a thought floating in their hearts at this time: lose the chess. I didn't expect the enemy to turn into a frontal siege battle from a sneak attack by a small force, and I guess the enemy had landed on a nearby beach a few days after he was late. Sadly and lamentablely, in order to fulfill their dream of shutting down and fighting dogs, the little mercenary group did not allow the vulture knights to take to the air to avoid exposing their strength. Now it seems that the enemy not only knew that it was a small mercenary group defending the city, but also probably even knew the establishment and number of small mercenary groups now. Now one can only hope that reinforcements will arrive as soon as possible.

There are several common ways to siege the city, although Amy and others have not seen it with their own eyes, but they are written in great detail in various textbooks, and there are only a few ways to counterattack the city. In fact, in the final battle of urban attack and defense, there are three points: combat strength, supply, and reinforcements. Under the arch of the city wall, the more than 4,000 armed forces under the command of the small mercenary group should be able to withstand about 10 rì of 20,000 troops.

Amy paid attention to the reflection on the city wall, the reaction of the little mercenary group members was quite normal, the magic swordsmen silently recited the magic defense shield to resist the dense stone rain, the big swordsmen held up huge cowhide shields against the various battlements, the faces of the soldiers of the swordsman battalion of the Broken Ice Harbor were almost completely white, not so much in defense as in coping, they were more looking at the civilians under the city, no need to think too much, a considerable number of them were from the small villages and towns around the Broken Ice Harbor, and the residents who helped were better behaved, cursing the enemy while bending down and holding firewood and grass from under the city wall。

"Count Linca, please, come to me at once. Arrange for Daqingshan to be responsible for guarding the front city wall, and Amy instructed to quickly come to the city along the horse ladder.

Soon, not only Count Linca, the knight team, but also the head of the swordsman battalion, Guigui, also hurried in.

"Your Excellency Amy, most of the swordsmen in the swordsman camp are from the surrounding villages and towns, and it is extremely detrimental to the morale of the army to go on like this, so I suggest that the swordsman camp be quickly removed from the city wall. "As a senior mid-level officer of the empire, the noble ghost is quite aware of the importance of morale for the lonely city, and there is also a layer of subconscious that it is difficult to say clearly, once there is an emergency in arranging these soldiers to defend the city, maybe they will sacrifice the city.

Amy nodded silently: "You're right, I'm trying to figure out a way, they still need to hold on for half an hour." ”

After saying that, Amy turned to Count Linca: "Your Excellency, we must save morale, therefore, I have a plan that needs your family's support. First of all, I will arrange for the knight battalion of the small mercenary group to fight out from the small city gate south of the Broken Ice Harbor and cut in from the enemy's right side, of course, this is just a decoy, and the two armies will return to the south gate of the Broken Ice Harbor as soon as they come into contact. At this time, I need your help, your family and the small mercenary battalion of the Berserk Knight Battalion will fight out from the north gate of the Broken Ice Harbor, cut through the crack between the civilians and the enemy, and behind you is the small mercenary group of the Great Swordsman Battalion, they will return from the north gate with the civilians, and the noble family and the Berserk Knight camp will be broken, and at this time, the Vulture Swordsman Battalion and the other battalions of the small mercenaries will disrupt the enemy formation to the greatest extent and prevent them from seeing our true intentions. I don't know the opinion of His Excellency the Earl. ”

Although Count Rinca is a few years older than Amy, and his title is two ranks higher than Amy, in terms of position alone, Amy is Count Linca's military superior.

Such politeness is also something Amy can't do, Count Linca, who is also a young man, and the heads of the small mercenary group have disagreements on many incidents, and if they are pressed, they will inevitably bring backlash.

"No!" Count Linca's veto shocked everyone around: "The Knights Battalion of Broken Ice Harbor is a direct force of the city lord, and we will not carry out any orders without the city lord's order. ”

Amy's brows furrowed tightly, there was only a distance of 1,000 meters outside the city, and if she delayed for a few minutes, the flesh and blood of the screaming civilians would fall on the city wall, and asphalt, boiling water, and boiling oil would roll down, even if the enemy repelled the first attack on the city, the impact on morale would be extremely huge.

Behind Amy, Chi Aotian, who was dressed in black and to the ground, quietly turned out, and his cold tone immediately sent Nuan Chūn back to the cold winter: "According to the law of the Emperor's ** Ministry, during wartime, all military and paramilitary forces are dispatched by the highest military commander of the station. There is only one end for those who disobey orders. ”

"Is there such a thing? I don't know!" Linka's blue-green eyes narrowed suddenly, and his white hand subconsciously clenched the long sword.

"3!" Chi Aotian suddenly said a number in his thin pursed lips, and his black eyes drooped coldly as he looked at his nose.

"I must go back and ask the city lord for advice!" "It's not so much a respect for the city lord, but a provocation to the authority of his immediate superiors, most of the knights are the sons of local nobles, and in their understanding, ordinary civilians are just subordinates of the family, and it is not worth it for these residents at all.

"2!" The boy in black didn't seem to expect an answer at all.

"The duty of the City Lord's Knight Squad is to guard the City Lord and the city, not to assist in the defense—" Linca's voice was interrupted by the sound of a sword unsheathed.

"You ......" The young noble head of the family was oppressed by the momentum of the younger boy, the cold crisis deeply pierced his nerves, and the knight's saber was also pulled out of its sheath, and several knights behind him also quickly drew their swords.

"1!" the last number spat out from the slightly dry lips of the young man in black.

Holding a long sword and guarding several subordinates, Count Linka was a little more confident: "I am an imperial nobleman, if Your Excellency dares to stab me, you will definitely be ...... by the Imperial Ministry of Affairs and the Military Department."

Chi Aotian's slender eyes narrowed slightly, and the black sè long sword slashed an electric light in the air and stabbed at Linka's chest.

Although he was threatened personally, a noble lord like the Earl couldn't believe that someone really dared to assassinate him in front of the public, and in the panic, the long sword vibrated vigorously to block the sharp tip of the black lightning, and the two knights on both sides immediately stood up side by side and protected their boss behind them with their shoulders.

The speed of the black lightning suddenly accelerated, and the tip of the sword vibrated rapidly from the two knights' long swords, and a white mark suddenly appeared on the neck of the knight on the left side of the right side, and after a pause for a moment, blood gushed out from the white mark. The plate armor that was sprayed with blood was embossed with the baron title emblem that was at least more than a hundred years old, and the knight covered his wounds in horror and couldn't believe that this sword was real, and wanted to say something to Chi Aotian. The black sword severed both the major artery and the throat, and the dying had lost the right to speak, and large clumps of blood foamed out of his mouth. After a few breaths, the knight's tall body fell to the ground.

The knight on the right seemed to be lucky, and at this time he also broke out into a heart-rending scream, four fingers and a long sword fell to the ground at the same time, and the severed fingers writhed on the ground and quickly turned white.

The murderer obviously didn't want this to be just a jǐng accusation, strode forward, his body sank suddenly, the black sword passed through the armpit of the knight on the right side and stabbed out from under the right rib of Count Linca's right rib into the vest, and then the long sword suddenly picked up and pulled back, Count Linca's body was lifted in the air, and the guards behind him were already frightened by the scene just now and dodged in panic, His Excellency Count fell on the wall, and when his body slipped off the wall, he had lost the meaning of rescue.

The black sè long sword was flipped into its sheath, and the cold voice of the black-clothed young man sounded again: "According to the wartime regulations, those who do not obey orders will be killed!"

The black sè's eyes coldly swept over the guards of the city lord's knight squad who were still alive, not paying attention to the liquid dripping under the knight's armor with severed fingers just now, and the boy seemed to have happened to everything, flashing behind Amy again.

Not only the knights of the Broken Ice Harbor, but also the many mercenaries of the small mercenary group and even the chief officers did not expect that the black-clothed young man's methods were so fierce that Amy and Daqingshan had no chance to stop, and the two knights had already fallen sideways.

Amy took a deep breath, at this time, it was superfluous to say anything about this matter, and Chi Aotian was indeed in accordance with the wartime regulations of the Emperor's ** Ministry.

The relevant troops moved rapidly, and the jīng spirit archers on the city wall had already begun to shoot green arrow feathers at the werewolves.

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