Blue Sword

"Currently, the pagan army of the Seljuk Empire has occupied the eastern Thrace region."

Along the way, Hermann enthusiastically introduced everyone: "A large number of mountain fortresses are in the hands of the enemy, hindering the offensive pace of our Crusaders."

"However, if the enemy wants to garrison the mountains of Eastern Thrace, they will inevitably be attacked from the northwest and southwest."

"We are currently behind the front line in the southwest and are working hard to break through the Egnatia Fortress in the northeast. It used to be the hub of the highway built by the ancient Solomon Empire in the Fourth Age, but now the Seljuks have blown up the highway. , arranged for a demigod to be stationed, and made it clear that he was going to fight tooth and nail."

"In terms of overall strength, our Crusaders probably have the advantage, but after all, the troops are divided into two groups. If we cannot cooperate with the northwest in a timely attack, then they will rush into the Seljuk position too deep, and some of them will be ambushed and annihilated. Danger."

"Just like the Battle of Manzikert." Sheila said thoughtfully.

"That's right." Heman glanced at her in surprise.

The Battle of Manzikert was the trigger for the demise of the Eastern Solomon Empire. It not only killed the emperor Constantine VIII who was leading the expedition, but also lost a large number of imperial troops and even the entire Asia Minor.

Therefore, this battle was also specially studied by major mercenary groups. In the middle of the war, the Seljuks took advantage of the mobility of the extraordinary army and continued to make detours to strain the patience of the emperor's army.

In the end, the emperor led his army to advance rashly, but the generals of the cavalry troops failed to follow up in time. As a result, the emperor's army was defeated and destroyed in the pinch of the Seljuq army... If the troops were divided and not coordinated, it would really become a turn of events.

In other words, if the two front lines of the Crusaders fall behind significantly in the southwest, there is a risk of repeating the Battle of Manzikert.

"Then why don't you quickly demolish the fortress in front?" Little Mia asked innocently, "then restore strategic contact with the Crusaders in the northwest and cooperate with them in a pincer attack?"

Herman:? ? ?

No, little girl, isn’t what you said nonsense? If we could have rejected it, we would have rejected it long ago! Do you think a fortress guarded by demigods is so easy to recommend? Unless we get a few demigods to come over, do you know how many troops we will lose if we force it?

Of course, he couldn't say this openly, otherwise the other party would ask "Don't you have any demigods in your Iron Cross mercenary group?", and Herman would be unable to continue.

He definitely couldn't explain to an underage girl "how scarce demigods are in this world", so he could only laugh and said:

"We are still waiting for the military support promised by Olympia City. Didn't you see that they are recruiting extraordinary people from idle mercenaries on a large scale? Soon we will have an additional sharp knife team."

"Can a team as sharp as a knife be stronger than ours?" Peggy interjected from the side.

Herman:………………

So we can't communicate well, right?

"You two, stop interrupting. The operation of the large mercenary group is not something you can comment on." Fortunately, Asik came out in time to save the situation, which made Herman's face look better.

"Hahaha." Heman also gave in at the right time, "Actually, this is the problem with our large mercenary group. We place too much emphasis on input-output ratio and procedural approval, and cannot be as flexible as the elite small mercenary group. Sometimes I I really want to be like you, pulling a small team out to work alone and be free."

He praised the Cangqing Sword Mercenary Group, and the girls quickly responded with a few words of modesty. The atmosphere in the scene was extremely harmonious.

Due to the large number of large mercenary groups participating in this war, Olympia City did not allow them to stay in Thessaloniki, but asked them to station outside the town.

However, soon there were no vacant stations around the town, and the reason was obvious:

The two employers of the Holy See and the city of Olympia are giants with extremely terrifying financial resources. In addition, the target of this recovery is Constantinople, the former imperial capital of the Eastern Solomon Empire. It is said that the golden ruling palace where successive emperors of Solomon lived, every day A piece of wallpaper is made of gold foil (wrong).

Therefore, whether it is a large mercenary group, a small or medium-sized mercenary group, or even an idle continental swordsman group, a thieves group, an idol group, etc., they all continue to gather here in the Thrace Province, trying to get through the next cross. Get a share of the military holy war.

As a result, the momentum of the mercenaries here has become more and more noisy recently, and even the Seljuks in the enemy-occupied area of ​​​​Thrace are paying more and more attention to it and constantly adding troops to the Egnatia Fortress.

"Ahead is the station of our Iron Cross Mercenary Group." Herman was eager to take everyone to their station for a visit. "By the way, on the left is the Plantagenet Mercenary Group from Britannia, and on the right is The Bull Mercenary Group from Iberia. They are all rude mercenaries, and they may not have heard of your name, Blue Sword, so it is recommended that you try to interact with these people as little as possible."

"Who said we don't know the Cangqing Sword?" A certain bald little old man wearing leather armor was sitting at the registration desk in front of the Bull Mercenary Group's station to receive new mercenaries. Hearing this, he immediately ran over.

"Sir Aske! Do you still recognize me, old Pablo?" He recognized Aske's appearance at a glance, and came over to say hello with a flattering smile.

"Recruiting officer of the Bull Mercenary Group?" Ask said.

"It's me, it's me!" Old Pablo responded quickly, looking at his expression as if he was honored that Aske could remember him, "You left too fast last time! Our group leader wanted to come to see you later, Turns out you were already gone.”

"Well, we were performing a confidential mission of the Holy See at that time." Ask said frankly.

"Yes, of course we know." Old Pablo complimented, "The entire Fortress of Gibraltar was razed to the ground! If it weren't for your Cang Qing Sword to achieve such a crucial victory, our Undead War in the Iberian Peninsula would also have been destroyed. It won’t end so early…”

"Wait a minute, the Fortress of Gibraltar was destroyed by the Cang Qing Sword?" Herman said in shock, "I heard it was the Holy See's space-based hydrogen bomb."

"Commander Herman, you have never been to the Iberian Peninsula. You don't know that during the Undead War, the entire sky was covered by a dark canopy. It was always cloudy - a space-based hydrogen bomb could not lock the location of Fortress Gibraltar at all."

Old Pablo didn't say much to him, just explained casually. Because of his mistake last time, Cang Qing Sword had already left when the grand leader came to meet him. This time, no matter what he said, he had to invite everyone to the Bull Mercenary Group's station.

Naturally, Heman was not willing to intercept the Bull Mercenary Group halfway. We also want to invite Cangqing Sword back for exchanges and flatter Her Royal Highness the Princess! How could I just give it to you like this?

So the two started a quarrel, and soon Pablo was defeated. After all, he was just a recruiting officer, an ordinary cadre of the Bull Mercenary Group, while Herman was already a senior member of the Iron Cross Mercenary Group, so he didn't even have the confidence to start a quarrel.

The little old man could only retreat quietly, turned around and slipped into the station to complain to the head of Deslar.