Military personnel are one of the most powerful groups in the world, and most officers are accustomed to using strength or force to solve all problems.

In the face of an unstable area like the Sangan River, the vast majority of generals will, in accordance with the advice of the Delaware, use drastic means such as repression, martial law, and curfews to kill those who dare to jump out and make trouble in the shortest possible time, and impose fear on the hearts of more people: either they will live with resignation, or they will stand up and be slaughtered.

Fortunately, General Raybaton, who was born in the imperial civilian family system, was not such a simple-minded commander with developed limbs. Ray Barton did not go to school for a day, let alone entered a knight's school, but this did not affect his reputation as the "undefeated lion king who led the flock in battle" in the war of the gods.

For two weeks after his arrival, the General's Mansion did not issue a single order to the outside world, relying entirely on the inertia of the Sangan River bureaucracy to maintain the crater. The Earl of Raybarton, who was in his 30s, just watched with a cold eye what was happening in the city.

Two weeks later, the Shogun sent people to evacuate the elderly, children, and women from the first-tier cities to the countryside along the mainland highway, for the simple reason that the Shogun did not want the upcoming battle to cause too much harm to the civilians. After the Great War of the Gods, most of the outstanding officers believed that the main purpose of Raybarton's practice was to obtain a large number of "hostages". The local soldiers will always have relatives, and through this practice, the possibility of defection of the soldiers will be cut off; immediately, the general will transfer some of the troops with serious military instability to the Messis Snow Mountain area at one time; at the same time, the lord will draw absolutely loyal noble knights from the family territory, and disband and reorganize all the mercenary groups below the C level in the Sanggan River defense area on the spot, and establish four new brigades with the family knights and former mercenary cadres as the backbone. With this entry and exit, the number of regular troops in the Sangan River theater surged by 5,000.

In the process of re-establishing order, the only time Raybarton used his army was against the merchants of the Sangan region. The Sangan River was the most commercially developed area in the empire, and the merchants not only had money but also their own armament, and even some mercenary groups were simply synonymous with the merchant escort.

Raybarton went to deal with the merchants for two purposes: first, to raise military funds, and second, to eliminate potentially unstable armed forces in the territory.

According to the reports sent by the city guards in various places, after entering the state of war, the merchants were quite affected, and there were no less words of complaining, of course, most of them were aimed at the Burmese Yang Empire.

More than 100 large and medium-sized merchant groups were forcibly disbanded by the general on the charge of "possible collaboratorship with the enemy", and the merchant convoys were all broken up and supplemented into the city guards, and the large merchants were sent to the northern mountains to work for labor until the end of the war.

In all fairness, this is not because Ray Barton is ruthless, in history, the merchant class is famous for "forgetting what is right", and there are many people who betray the country in order to make huge profits, and there are even wealthy merchants who lead their guards to kill the defenders of the city and surrender the city. Raybarton's approach was widely accepted by the army as well as by the newly born aristocratic families.

After obtaining a large amount of military funds, except for a small part of which was transported to the imperial capital of Scambrai, Ray Barton found an opportunity to start giving money to the soldiers: on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he looked at the lanterns and gave money, on the second day of February, he raised his head and sent money, and in March, he began to give money...... March 8 is Women's Day, and April 1, April Fool's Day, money is ...... If there is really no holiday, the Shogun will hold some small competitions, and everyone who participates will receive a prize......

In just over half a year, the soldiers' newly deflated wallets became bulging again. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ray Barton transferred back the elite troops that had been transferred back one after another in small teams, and then opened the way with money, except for some troops who were really loyal to the Redstone Emperor, a considerable part of the army had subjectively begun to accept this general who looked like a mountain farmer.

Although Ray Barton changed the situation at both ends of the defense zone in about half a year, when he learned that it was the small mercenary group that had just defeated Marshal Dahaino from afar, and it was Amy who led the team, the general was still so frightened that he accidentally knocked over the kettle.

As a veteran Imperial officer, Ray Barton was well aware of several classic battles commanded by Lord Amy over the past two years. Don't look at Chi Aotian crisscrossing thousands of miles on the Huayu Plain, conquering dozens of cities in a row, and once beating the sweat and blood iron cavalry mercenary group to the north, beheading hundreds of thousands. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as any officer can use light knights as the main force of the expedition at the beginning, and understand the way of collecting grain and grass, and be ruthless enough to fight all the way, and take advantage of the opportunity that the main army of Fanos is fighting on multiple fronts, he will definitely be able to stage a thousand-mile sweep in the Flower Language Plain. The excellence of Chi Aotian's performance is only that his combat power is stronger, that's all.

Amy had shown more than just good luck before, the battle of Xilin Island, the battle of Broken Ice Harbor, the battle of Kelesit, the battle of Hamburg City, any battle, it was a hasty response. The enemies faced are all famous generals, and the opponents are all prepared and even enter the ambush position earlier, every war can be called a vicious battle, a bloody battle, but the result of each war is a weak victory over the strong.

Fighting a battle with less to win more can also be said to be luck, and winning four games in a row is definitely not a matter of luck. Such generals have gone beyond the categories of brave generals, wise generals, tiger generals, and fierce generals. According to Ray Barton's understanding, in nearly 1,000 years, no second general has been able to show such amazing and even terrifying combat power.

What made Ray Barton feel even more uncomfortable was that, according to the latest information from Scambray, Amy's forces now had more than the elite troops assembled in the Sangan River Theater, especially several dragons...... Alas...... This latest information is inevitably too late, and regarding the strength of these several dragon knights, the Sanggan River War Zone is probably the most vocal now. The bloody numbers are out there. Every time he thought of this, Ray Barton had a wry smile on his face.

Thinking of such an excellent officer eyeing his own defense area, Ray Barton felt restless at any time. With such a large defense area, which city would Amy be the first to attack? Ray Barton stood in front of the one-fifty-thousandth military map in the past few days, and looked at it for an afternoon.

The cities north of the Sangan River are basically arranged in a straight line along the Sangan River, and three intersecting continental highways connect these cities into a chain. In order to prevent the enemy from using the Continental Highway for high-speed movement, Raybarton has spent the past few months building forts every 10,000 meters on both sides of the Continental Highway, each with hundreds of soldiers. It is also equipped with catapults, crossbows and other war equipment. According to the most conservative estimates, in a conventional attack by the army, any one fortress could hold out for more than a day. On this day, the defenders of at least two cities will be able to support the fortress.

With the current strength of the small mercenary group, it is definitely impossible to attack one city after another, so it is estimated that after taking down three cities and the surrounding fortresses, the small mercenary group will lose the strength to continue fighting. Raybarton's biggest fear now is that the small mercenary group will use a number of dragon knights to suddenly attack a city, quickly destroy the city's defenses after defeating the defenders, and then retreat. Or, Amy besieges a city with the forces she has and then waits for an opportunity to ambush reinforcements - much like Amy's mercenary style.

As a last resort, Ray Barton drove out all the scouts he could send out and several phantom beast knights in the army, and kept an eye on the little mercenary group's every move day and night. In order to prevent the dragon knights from raiding, a large amount of wolf smoke is prepared in each city, and once it encounters an air attack, it immediately ignites the poisonous wolf smoke, which is the only effective way for the dragon to avoid the city. There are also large crossbowmen and small crossbow carts originally configured in the Sanggan River Theater, although the crossbow does not necessarily cause fatal damage to the dragon, but once it happens to fall on the dragon knight, there is no suspense. Each city was issued with a certain number of bolts.

When Amy was still more than 200 miles away from the Sangan River war zone, the scouts of the Sangan River could not believe their eyes - what were these white-clad mercenaries going to do? Are they going to spend their holidays on the north bank of the Sangan River?

What made the scouts even more incredible was that these young mercenaries had set up a jam on the mainland highway. All business travelers passing through them must pay national highway tolls, road maintenance fees, vehicle and vessel usage fees, toll station depreciation fees, fuel taxes, dog license processing fees, and so on. The fees charged are staggering, a donkey needs to pay a fee to buy a war horse, and a carriage can buy an elephant after paying taxes. Every day, there are merchant groups and mercenaries who make trouble in the card because of excessive taxes, but even this does not make the small mercenary group stop the rampant expropriation.

According to the aftermath of the merchant group that finally spent a lot of money to pass the card, the people who collected taxes in the card were more ruthless than the chengguan (the staff responsible for managing street sanitation and order in cities large and small in the empire), and they took whatever they saw was good, and in the conversation between the little mercenaries, the following information was revealed: "To be a monk for a day is to hit the clock for a day." Now that the mercenaries have become the main defense force in the northern part of the empire, there are only two obligations that must be fulfilled - to fight wars and to earn money. Fighting and winning a war does not seem very easy now, so it is better to fulfill the second obligation well, and to avoid being accused of idleness after the war. ”

"Commander Amy said that if you want to win the war, you must have sufficient logistical supplies, and if you want to have adequate logistical supplies, you must have money...... If you want to have money, you don't have a card to collect taxes, where can you get money? If you don't have money, how can you win a war? If you can't win a war, then what kind of war will you fight? The regiment commander said: This is called dialectical materialism, tsk...... Tut...... How profound this word is. ”

"Since we can't completely annihilate the Sanggan River theater from the front, the regimental commander has made such a wise decision with great foresight - we must do everything we can, drain the water first, starve all the bastards in the Sanggan River theater, and then go to defeat them. You caravans are carrying so many good things, and they are obviously suspected of being enemies, so it is better to leave it to the empire to contribute and issue you a medal in the future. ”

A few scouts wanted to find out what the mercenaries were up to, so they disguised themselves as merchants and entered the card. Outcome...... I don't know what's going on, I just entered the card and didn't say a few words, I was immediately recognized, and then I was put on death row, but fortunately, a few scout masters took the opportunity to escape, and after that, no scout dared to get too close to this money-hungry mercenary force.

When the news reached the level of middle and senior generals of the rebel army, he immediately gained a relatively unanimous understanding: Commander Amy was a personal disciple of General Chi Hanfeng, and he was the master of plucking hair and stealing grass on the head of His Majesty Hongshi back then.

Earl Raybaton couldn't understand what Amy was going to do, but in terms of the Earl's prudence, the more he couldn't understand it, the more worried he was that there might be a trap in it, and the more worried he was that he would fall for the enemy's strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain, but he just held on to one belief: You have a thousand clever plans, and I just can't defend them. Lord Earl must see what Amy is going to do before he dares to take the move, so that although he will fall into passivity, he will not suffer too much loss.

Earl's thoughts...... You can't go wrong with it. It's a pity that this ...... Amy...... What will people who are used to playing cards that do not follow the rules of the cards do?

In autumn, on a cool night, the Sanggan River basin can already feel the cold and dry winter roaring from afar. After waking up in the morning, frost hangs in the shade of the river from time to time.

Outside the city of Hanyang, the soldiers on duty stood trembling on the cold ground, stomping their numb feet hard. Soldiers are most afraid of rotation, and now it's better, in a few days, the heavy snow will crack down, and the hand holding the steel gun may be frozen.

The sun has climbed to the height of a pole, and there are more and more pedestrians and business travelers on the mainland highways.

It was close to ten minutes after noon, and dust and smoke rose in the distance of the mainland highway, and the soldiers on duty on duty cheered up one by one, squinting their eyes and looking carefully. In the flying dust, it soon appeared, and it turned out to be ...... behind pedestrians and business travelers

"There is a police--report to the squadron leader--" Qu Chang, who led the team, pushed through the crowd waiting in line for inspection, and quickly closed the city gate with more than 40 soldiers. These soldiers were originally reorganized by the swordsman battalion and some elite troops in the Sanggan River Theater, and their vigilance was quite high, and soon the city wall was full of soldiers who were fully equipped.

The merchants flashed to the side in a panic, the water and fire were ruthless, and in the event of a war, thousands of soldiers in the city would shoot arrows calculated in 100,000 feathers, and there was no possibility of staying near the city without being implicated in the war, and even nine times out of ten they would take their lives. The merchant ducked away from a safe distance, and then squinted at the knights who were arrogantly galloping from the far side of the Continental Highway.

This...... It seems, how does the costume look like ...... What about the traditional costumes of the friendly Phanos Legion in the Sangan River Theater? The merchants breathed a sigh of relief, and some of the bold mercenaries led their mounts to move closer to the soldiers from both sides, wanting to take a closer look.

At the front of the team there is a tall knightly officer, with a garlic nose, lion hair and beard, and very developed limbs, at a glance, this officer must be an orc officer of the Fanos legion. Behind the officer's mount fluttered a flag fluttering in the wind.

How could such a squad of only a few hundred men have a flag? In the memories of the soldiers defending the city, only an army of more than 1,000 men would have an exclusive flag.

Unspeakable Master: In the last stage, there has been no update of mercenaries. Many readers have a lot of complaints, and there are even some bad words, which I see in my eyes and remember in my heart. If one day someone sees their name in an unspeakable book and is × and then ×, please be prepared to say it.

Here is a brief description of the recent situation: 1, the only reason for not updating is that it is too busy, since October last year, the company took over a new online game, as the main person in charge, I had to invest again, the last three months, every night before 11 o'clock basically work in the company, often at night, three or four o'clock in the company when the company. It can be said that I don't have any energy at all, I don't sleep enough every day, and I sleep in the car.

Now that it's finally over, take the time to update as much as you can.

2. The reader's mail-order mercenary physical book has been returned a lot now, and I have reissued a lot of it. The following readers are requested to contact me as soon as possible so that I can send the book to you. My email: [email protected], be sure to include your phone number.

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4. The mercenary's physical book sales are very good, and the editor of the publishing house tells me every week, and the editor's original words are: "It is selling very well all over the country." Every day, readers call the publisher and ask when the next one will come out?" Although I don't get royalties, I'm happy to see that the book is selling well.

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