On this day, Skar and the others were reviewing documents at the headquarters, and Oster was also present. Magic Communications suddenly called, saying that the southernmost guard post was under attack. This was the last message from the outpost, and contact was lost.

Due to the long distance, when Skar urgently led the rebel cavalry to arrive, he saw corpses all over the field, a tragic situation. Dozens of volunteer soldiers and more than 100 civilians from nearby market towns were killed, not even children.

Judging by the craters and rut marks at the scene, the troops were driven from Sentinel Ridge to the south. There was the headquarters of the Kingdom in the Western Regions, and at least dozens of steam tanks and a large number of artillery pieces had been mobilized, which was more than the total strength of the Kingdom garrison in Montenegro.

It is extremely abnormal that those directly subordinate corps, which were originally immovable, actually raised their butcher knives against civilians without hesitation. Previously, the garrison of the kingdom and the rebel army maintained a tacit understanding, as long as the rebel army's anti-tax, anti-rent, and grain grabbing campaigns did not affect the recruitment and transportation routes of the regular corps, nor did they attack the barracks, they would be safe with each other, and they would not care if the local guards were thrown into the sky. After all, it was the local people themselves who caused the trouble, and the army directly under the kingdom was not obliged to help them wipe their butts.

Therefore, Skar concentrated his forces on dealing with the local guards, and could not be said to be negligent in guarding against the direct corps, because the garrison of the crossroads fortress did not exceed two battalions in total, so only the Nanchuan stronghold and some outposts were set up near and south of the garrison for surveillance;

Unexpectedly, the kingdom suddenly dispatched at least one fully equipped corps without warning, and came all the way from the headquarters of Sentinel Ridge, passing through the outpost blocking the road and the civilian market town of the pro-rebel army, and did not hesitate to attack directly.

Faced with an enemy dozens of times their size, the rebel soldiers at the outpost heroically resisted and issued a final alert to Nanchuan and the headquarters, and then all of them were killed. After covering the outpost with merciless fire, the tanks of the regiment of the direct subordinate regiment slaughtered the unarmed civilians in the vicinity, and brutally slaughtered everyone who escaped from the fire.

The atrocities ended in just a few hours, and the officers and soldiers piled the bodies of the victims together and painted them in large letters on the charred ruins: "Fate of the rebels." ”

It can be seen that they have been given precise orders to counter the rebellion, and they are not at a low level, and they are even authorized to slaughter the so-called banditry civilians at will.

The rut marks that followed show that the Corps then continued its march all the way north, which was in the direction of the crossroads; It seemed that they were going to join up with the garrison of the fortress and carry out a larger scheme. With such a vigorous operation, it will definitely not be satisfying to eat a small outpost and go home.

Skar was anxious, and if his judgment was correct, the next target of the corps would definitely be the Nanchuan stronghold, which was very close to the crossroads. It was the center of the Rebels' activities throughout the southern part of Montenegro, and it was also the place where Oster was in charge of contact. The garrison is filled with new recruits, mostly made up of ex-entertainers and adventurers.

With the speed at which the corps' demonic troops were marching, it was likely that they had already been flanked from both the Sentinel Ridge Rush Force and the Crossroads Barracks. Since he could not contact the Nanchuan stronghold, Skar hurriedly issued a rally order and dispatched the nearest troops to the rescue with heavy weapons, while asking Oster to lead a light cavalry to investigate the situation first.

By this time, Oster was already in a state of confusion, and the tragic situation at the guard post and the nearby market town was vividly remembered. The charred corpses, the women and children who were brutally murdered were telling him with the bloody truth that this was a world that was so real and cruel.

Everywhere, revolution is not a dinner party, it is not a playhouse, it is a violent struggle of one class to destroy another. Enemies will die, so will comrades, and civilians will be affected at any time. And the more desperate you get, the more cruel and crazy the ruling class's counterattack becomes.

Skar pressed Oster on the shoulder and said, "You go and find out what's going on, and return at once, no matter what." You are important, and we must not lose you. ”

At this time, Oster no longer cares about being a waste firewood and straw bale, and he will die at the touch of a level 0 character; Immediately stepped on the war horse and led the scout team to rush to Nanchuan.

Modias, hunters, entertainers, and adventurers, the newly promoted officers, those who had worked together to advise and contribute to the stronghold, those who trusted and admired themselves;

If something had happened to them, Oster would undoubtedly be directly responsible.

I ran for more than forty miles in one breath, and when I arrived, I was one step too late, and the battle was over. In the distance, smoke and dust billowed from the legion, and the corps army was retreating north, leaving behind the corpses of some unknown camps and destroyed siege weapons.

And the camp of Nanchuan stronghold has been completely razed to the ground. Everywhere there were rubble, traces of explosions and burning, lifeless. Oster cried out for a long time, but no one could be found, and no one answered, his fists clenched, and a line of tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.

However, at this time, a whistle was heard nearby, which was also a unique contact code for the rebels. Oster hurried for the scout to respond, and before long, there was a rustling in the grass, and Modias's wolfdog, Spee, emerged from it. Later, under the leadership of Spee, the cavalry found the Nanchuan gang who had retreated to the mountains and forests.

Oster was pleasantly surprised and hugged Modias and the others. According to the report of the dwarven captain, the personnel of the stronghold had detected the movement of the Kingdom Corps in advance and evacuated, and did not suffer serious losses. Before the withdrawal, due to the urgency of the situation, the communication circle, which was not easy to move, was also destroyed on the spot to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy, which was also the reason for the loss of communication with the headquarters.

Since he became lieutenant, Modias has been following Oster's orders, training and preparing for defense, while closely monitoring the movements of the kingdom's army. Using the Beast Sentinels, he detected from the outset two enemy forces coming from both north and south, preparing to flank the stronghold. And because of the hunter's beast eye, they also clearly know the status of each other's troops and equipment.

Due to the disparity in strength, Modias did not choose to fight hard, urgently evacuated the masses, and led the army to take the initiative to give up the camp and set up ambushes on both sides of the pass. After entering the empty camp at the front of the corps, destroy the road with pre-laid explosives, cut the invading enemy into two sections, and then concentrate fire on the rear army.

There is not the slightest problem with Modias's tactics, and it can even be said that they are far beyond the scope of Oster's guidance. But the problem is that in the face of a well-trained and well-equipped regular army, it is difficult for the rebel army of entertainers and adventurers to compete head-on; Although it had the advantage of geography and surprise attack, it was unable to eat the besieged enemy for a while, but suffered a lot of losses under the stubborn resistance of the opponent.

Although Modias has trained these rabble diligently in recent weeks, the results will not be visible in a short period of time. After the initial panic, the corps quickly and professionally shrank into a group, using tanks as cover, using the advantages of weapons and magic reserves to carry out orderly counterattacks.

And the long-range ADC unit envisioned by Oster is not very useful. Due to the lack of training, the range and accuracy of magic spellcasters cannot be compared to those of officers and soldiers with magic cannons and tanks. The hunter's beasts are frightened by artillery fire and magic, and are completely unusable in the heat of battle. And once injured or killed, it is impossible to be like in the game, where the owner from forty yards away raises his hand and instantly heals or even revives.

As it turns out, the best position of beast control magic in actual combat should be reconnaissance and scouting, rather than some hypothetical ADC force. Oster regretted that the game and reality were not at all the same concept, and even if it referred to certain features of the world, the game was an extremely simplified and modified version. In fact, he should have thought that if the Beastmaster Hunt was really so useful, the people of this world would have developed the Beast Army a long time ago.

It's like reading a few history books and thinking that you are smarter than your predecessors, and thinking that you will definitely crush sentient beings when you go back, which is the most naïve idea on paper.