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What is the combat effectiveness of mercenaries?

Relatively strong.

Ten times better than a farmer who makes a living by farming.

Compared with strictly trained army soldiers, an experienced mercenary can easily defeat them.

But if 100 mercenaries compete with 100 regular soldiers, the mercenaries will lose miserably.

If the number of opponents is one thousand against one thousand, or ten thousand against ten thousand, the mercenaries will collapse at the first touch and disperse in a rush.

Individual soldiers have strong combat capabilities, but poor discipline and cannot withstand high casualty rates... This is a common characteristic of mercenaries.

Therefore, regarding the use of 100,000 mercenaries, Zhou Ming had no intention of letting them participate in field battles.

Instead, the more difficult defensive tasks were handed over to them.

The border terrain between the Yadud Kingdom and the Soliu Kingdom is a trumpet-shaped valley landform.

There is a valley between the two countries, with mountains on both sides that are difficult to climb. The terrain in the valley is relatively flat, with a width of 80 miles at its widest and only 20 miles at its narrowest.

So Zhou Ming deployed two lines of defense.

The defensive front of the first line of defense is sixty miles wide and about twenty miles deep... In this trapezoidal area, the Yadud Kingdom built a total of 120 masonry fortresses. These fortresses are independent of each other, but are closely spaced. Even though we are far away, we can support each other.

On each masonry fortress, about 100 mercenaries were stationed for defense... On the first line of defense, a total of about 12,000 troops were deployed.

The second line of defense is located at the narrowest point of the valley entrance, and is based on a 20-mile-long "city wall" that has been built here for many years.

The city wall is 40 meters high and more than 15 meters thick. It is built of solid rock and has stood for thousands of years.

This city wall is called the "Guardian Wall".

On the "Wall of Protection", Zhou Ming deployed an army of 80,000... 60,000 of which were mercenaries and 20,000 were domestic soldiers.

This 80,000-strong army can not only take the initiative to provide close support to the masonry fortresses on the first line of defense, but can also continue to resist the attack of the Soliu Kingdom after the first line of defense collapses.

With an army of 80,000 and the protection of a 40-meter-high city wall, the Soliu Kingdom may not be able to win even if it takes 200,000 lives.

However, in fact, since the war began, not to mention the second line of defense, even in front of the masonry fortress of the first line of defense, the armies of the Soliu Kingdom have encountered extremely fierce resistance, and their heads were bruised and bloody.

…

"Kill!"

"The first person to board the fortress will receive a bounty of 100 coins!"

"Rush! Hurry for me!"

"Come on!"

Fierce shouts of killing rang out.

On top of the stone wall of this fortress that has been stained with blood.

Holding a giant ax in his hand, Hodet was still killing tirelessly.

"boom!"

The blade of the giant ax was full of gaps and lacked cutting ability. However, with its huge weight, it was able to smash the head of an enemy who was about to climb the stone wall into a watermelon with one strike.

Before the other party could scream, red and yellow sprayed all over Hodt.

"325! 326! 327!"

"Ha! 328!"

The leader of the group next to him, Klein, was holding a long sword and nimbly stabbing into the vital points of enemies who wanted to climb the wall, while reporting out the number of enemies he had killed.

There were actually more than 300 people.

Klein has killed more people in the past five years than he has in the past few days.

"retreat!"

"Woo~" Seeing the increasing number of casualties, the opponent's commander, a noble with the title of earl, gritted his teeth and ordered to stop the attack.

This masonry fortress, numbered 58, survived another wave of attacks.

After the enemy retreated, Hodet, regiment leader Klein and others on the stone wall immediately dropped their weapons and sat on the wall stacks, gasping for air.

"Lao Huo, how many days have we been holding on?" Klein asked.

"It's the tenth day. As long as today passes, we will hold on until the tenth day!"

"How many brothers are left?"

"There are less than 50 people. Excluding a few seriously injured people, there are only more than 30 who can still fight!"

At this point, Hodet said loudly: "Captain, don't hold on anymore! Retreat tonight. Look at the nearby fortresses. Almost everyone has retreated except us! We are just mercenaries, don't throw all your belongings into it." !”

"What is our merit value now?" Klein asked.

"It has already exceeded 10,000. In the past few days, we have killed at least one or two thousand people, cut off more than 600 heads, and captured more than 40 prisoners with sound hands and feet. This adds up to 8,000 merit points, plus The 2,000 merit reward for defending the fortress is enough for 10,000!" Arnold said at the side.

"Well!"

Klein nodded and said, "Take all the heads and prisoners with you tonight and evacuate the fortress!"

"But Captain, there are more than 600 heads. We can't carry so many heads! Even if we can carry them, we can't move fast. Once we are caught up by the patrol cavalry of the Soliu Kingdom..." a team member said worriedly.

"How can they calculate our merits if we don't bring our heads? We must bring our heads!"

Head = Merit Points. Merit Points will be awarded only when you see the head. Otherwise, you are talking nonsense. No matter how many enemies you kill, the person responsible for counting merit points will not admit it.

Hodet hurriedly said: "Captain, let's hide the head in one place first, retreat first, and then take out the head when we turn around. It's the same... We still have a dozen injured brothers, they are more important than the head! "

Klein still shook his head: "Either put your head on or continue to defend, otherwise I'm not at ease!"

He added: "And the offensive launched by the noble has weakened significantly in the past two days. I guess he will not launch a fierce attack again. You all know the virtues of those nobles. No matter how loyal they are to the king, they will not let their The knights and peasants were all dead.”

"Captain!"

Hodet shouted: "We have been guarding for ten days. We have completed the task long ago. The commission we have received is enough for everyone to live for several years. Stop guarding! We are all idiots. We are not nobles. life!"

"I know I know!"

Klein also yelled and said with red eyes: "My father is an alcoholic, my mother is a prostitute, I was born lowly, and I am still a one-eyed cripple. There is no way I can become a noble!"

"But how will you know if you don't try? How will you get it if you don't persevere? I'm fed up with the wandering life! I want to have a piece of land and a family!"

"I want you old bones to die on a warm bed!"

"Now, I see this hope, a hope that offers the best conditions and is most likely to be caught!"

"I'm going to catch it, I'm going to catch it!"

Klein clenched his fist and said. In his bloodshot right eye, in addition to madness, there was also a heart-stopping power.

Everyone was silent.

Including several young people who had recently joined the regiment, they all bit their lower lips and tightened their grip on the weapons in their hands.

From that day on, no one mentioned the retreat.

He could only stand on the stone wall and fight more fiercely.

Each of them is like a wild beast, killing the enemy with fear.

"Mercenaries? Are they really mercenaries?" The earl among the enemy's army changed his face wildly, feeling unbelievable.

…

One month later.

The legions of the Soliu Kingdom broke through the first line of defense.

In front of the second line of defense, they encountered even fiercer resistance.

After paying nearly 100,000 casualties, there was still no breakthrough.

In addition, at the first line of defense, no less than 30,000 casualties were suffered, and the Soliu Kingdom's army, which numbered more than 500,000, actually lost nearly one-third.

Judging from the resistance intensity of the Yadud Kingdom that has not diminished, it is obvious that they have made adequate preparations and did not allow the Soliu Kingdom to take any advantage.

If the war continues, it will undoubtedly be a loss that outweighs the gains for the Soliu Kingdom.

The senior officials of the Soliu Kingdom plan to send a special envoy to discuss peace talks between the two countries.

Put an end to this war that has wasted the national strength of both countries.

However.

After the time enters September.

September 5th to be exact.

For the Soliu Kingdom, the war situation suddenly took a turn for the worse!

An elite Yadud Kingdom legion consisting of 100,000 people, mostly cavalry, suddenly appeared behind the Soliu Kingdom legion, formed a dense formation, and launched a charge that could be called the "Death Harvest".

In the depth of the valley that is nearly a hundred miles long, the Suoliu Kingdom army of nearly 400,000 people was completely defeated by this wave of chrysanthemum-piercing impact!

The commander of the Soliu Kingdom even exclaimed: "Impossible, how is this possible? How could their cavalry appear behind us?"

Of course Zhou Ming would not tell him: with the day and night transportation of sixty Hercules transport planes, not to mention the fully armed cavalry, even one hundred thousand war horses could be airlifted to anywhere in the Soliu Kingdom in one month!

At this point in the war, there is no longer any suspense about the outcome.

In the long and flat valley, under the "guarding city wall", under the attack of 80,000 defenders and 100,000 cavalry.

The Western Legion of the Soliu Kingdom, which numbered over half a million, was completely annihilated.

Beheaded 200,000 people.

330,000 prisoners were taken.

Its own casualties were less than 50,000.

In the next three months of the war, which turned from defense to counterattack, the army of the Kingdom of Yadud penetrated 800 miles deeper into the Kingdom of Soliu, captured more than 40 cities, and captured 22 counties... and many more In a field battle, more than 100,000 Soliu Kingdom troops were annihilated.

There was great chaos within the Soliu Kingdom.

King Weber sent six groups of envoys to plead for peace and even promised to cede territory and pay compensation.

Because several kingdoms surrounding the Soliu Kingdom also launched an attack on the Soliu Kingdom at the same time...Through diplomatic mediation, these small countries had long agreed to act together with the Yadud Kingdom.

The Suoliu Kingdom, which had always been overbearing and domineering, experienced the apocalyptic despair of being surrounded by fire and wolves running around.

Six months after the war broke out, the two countries finally reached a reconciliation and ended the war.

The Soliu Kingdom suffered a disastrous defeat. In order to get the Yadud Kingdom to retreat, it not only paid 1 million gold coins in compensation, but also ceded 18 counties in the west, which accounted for about one-sixth of its territory.

The Kingdom of Yadud won a complete victory. With slight losses, the kingdom expanded its territory by a quarter and gained a population of nearly 5 million.

After the war, Zhou Ming began to feel a huge headache regarding the distribution and competition for the spoils.