Chapter 76 The prelude to the resurgence of the offensive

Author: Horror Yifan

Chapter 76 The prelude to the resurgence of the offensive

Coent is a very ordinary village in Yadian. The villagers built settlements together, reclaimed fields outside the settlements, and lived by farming.

Such villages can be seen everywhere in the Kingdom of Aden, and these residents live a life of sunrise and resting day by day.

If nothing unexpected happens, their descendants will continue this life, and this life will be passed down from generation to generation.

But with the outbreak of the Second Northern War, things changed.

Originally, the locals thought that this war was like countless wars they and their ancestors had experienced. As long as the front line was not brought to them, it would not have any major impact on their lives.

Even if the front line is brought over, they have plenty of time to leave, hide in the mountains or forests, and avoid being affected by war - this is also the experience summarized by people living on this land.

But things developed beyond people's expectations, and the experience of our ancestors did not work at this moment.

The Yadian army collapsed rapidly, and the Niphgads came in an overwhelming situation that no one expected.

When the Nifgaard cavalry appeared in the village with great might, and when the golden sun was floating under the black sky, most people had not even reacted.

Next, naturally, Niphgaard was best at robbery, killing and seizing slaves.

The slave plunderers swept the land, and they locked the young men and women in slave chariots and killed the elderly and children.

Finally, ignite the fire in the villages and farmlands, and let the flames destroy all this.

When Niphgad's army left, only one ruin, a charred ruin.

Since then, the village called Coent has disappeared, with only the ruins called Coent.

Corpse monsters once swept over here, ate everything they could find, and then they left again, and the ruins were completely ignored since then.

And in the next tug-of-war between Niphgad and Aden, the ruins were cared about by everyone, because it was on the tug-of-war between the Aden and Niphgads.

Generally speaking, villages in this situation will be very miserable. As the two armies continue to tug at the war, the village will sooner or later turn into ruins.

But now it is in ruins, so it doesn't matter.

Therefore, it became a place symbol for the soldiers of the two armies to confront each other.

The troops fighting here use this as the center to determine their location.

Around this ruin, the two sides were constantly fighting various battles, and various small-scale battles could be said to be endless, with several or even dozens of people fighting one after another.

In such constant battles, the monsters that originally lived here were gradually destroyed.

But even so, as the dead continue to appear here, corpse-eating monsters continue to appear.

God knows where these monsters came from, as if they could never be killed, and kept crawling out from the ground.

Some scholars believe that there is a complex world underground that is far beyond people's imagination, and these monsters live in it, but no one has ever confirmed this view. After all, most of the people who dare to go deep into the underground are dead.

It is also because of its characteristic of being on the front line that it has become a place where the two sides confront their secret spies, spies and traitors meet.

They always choose to meet here or nearby to exchange information and information in their hands.

This originally ordinary village has become more and more "lively" since then.

The various confrontations surrounding it are also very "exciting". It can be said that various war stories are being staged every moment, and the fate of countless people is also changed or ended here.

And now, a mercenary has entered the ruins, with about 300 people. They seem very careless and don’t care whether anyone has been discovered.

It is completely different from the various characters who carefully met on this ruin before, just like they were eager to be discovered.

These mercenaries were dressed in different styles, and many of them wore armor pieced together from various types of armor, which is typical mercenary outfits.

However, from their armor and clothing styles, there is no doubt that this is a mercenary team from the Southern Empire.

"Damn it, commander, this ghost place is really dangerous. We were attacked by those corpse-eating monsters several times along the way. I also saw groups of monsters watching us in the depths of the forest."

A young mercenary complained, and he sat on the stump, his sword not put away, but rested on the ground.

There was blood on the sword, which showed that it was a battle.

"This is the north, Albreshid. You have been in the north for so long, why are you still not used to these things? And there are monsters in the south, and we have been through the forest a lot. Why do you look rare and weird all day long?"

Cunningham Hill Pafalz, the leader of the mercenary corps who commanded his subordinates to station and defend in the ruins, turned around and looked at the deputy, and then replied.

Among the mercenaries, the leader did not look like a mercenary, but a knight. He was indeed a knight. He was wearing a black armor and had many crow feathers on his cloak, so he was called "Black Crow".

His tone was a joke that only with a kind friend, which shows that the two of them were very close.

"Ah, I just can't get used to it. It's so uncomfortable for the monsters in the north to run around. At least the monsters on our side will not run in groups on the road in a mess. When I think that we will most likely have to stay in the north for the rest of our lives, I feel a little uncomfortable when facing such a situation."

The deputy continued, and after hearing this, the regiment commander and many mercenaries who heard these words also lowered their heads in irrepressible ways, revealing some sadness.

"I don't want to, but we have the only option now. Do you all want to be hanged by Duke Adal?"

The response to the regiment commander was silent, and the answer was already obvious, and the regiment commander continued to direct his subordinates to work.

The leader of the mercenary regiment was the second son of a Knight family of Nephgad Empire. Cunningham became a knight attendant at a young age and left his hometown.

As the second son, he naturally could not inherit the small fiefdom in his family that was gradually defeated, so his father arranged for him to learn the skills of war from the knights he knew in the family.

After he became an adult, he naturally became a knight. After the family gave him a set of armor, he asked him to find his own way. So Cunningham picked up the job he had done for his father - licking blood on the tip of a knife.

His father was born into a mercenary, and he naturally became a mercenary or bounty hunter, working in the imperial provinces that were mixed with fish and dragons.

The Imperial Province is always full of opportunities, where all the bandits and local gangs are rampant, with family vendettas and street melee everywhere.

His ability is quite good. He has completed a series of tasks well, but he has never been smashed.

Of course, this is also related to his style of taking on tasks. Anyway, he is too risky and will never accept it. No matter how attractive the reward is, this makes him never fail.

During his work, he also built his own team, and Albrecht Hornzollen, who was similar to his background, joined his team and became his deputy.

As the team grew larger and larger, he became the leader of a mercenary group.

After becoming the leader of a mercenary regiment, the next step is naturally to participate in a higher-level struggle.

Then he joined the war between the North and South, joined the Eastern Army, and became a unit under the Eastern Army.

Originally, this mercenary group should have made a big profit in the empire's victory, but as the offensive of the Eastern Army was blocked, things changed.

During the counterattack of the northerners, Cunningham first left the slaves he was escorted to escape in order to preserve the mercenary group, so that his men could escape smoothly, but he also lost the case.

This is actually normal. When the counterattack of the northerners came, more troops were doing this, but unfortunately, they were seen by Adal Aip Darcy.

Duke Adal, who was angry, directly ordered their regiment to go to the front line to be cannon fodder, so in the following series of border frictions, the mercenary group with 500 people turned into 300 people.

In addition, the Eastern Army deliberately did not provide these mercenaries with sufficient supplies and medical supplies, which clearly meant to waste them to death.

However, Adal actually had no such intention. He just wanted the mercenaries who ran off the front line without any injuries and paid some price, but there was something called layer by layer.

If this continues, the mercenary group will be ruined, and the mercenaries in it will have to be buried with them.

After all, the mercenaries are fighting for their own interests. Now they are all naked to kill them, and they have to fight for their own lives.

So they wanted to do something that had not happened for a long time in the history of the empire's war, that is, surrendering to the enemy.

In the past few decades, Niphgad's war has been so smooth that the empire can always quickly defeat the enemy country and then bring the war into the stage of public security war, so the fact that the establishment of troops surrendered to the enemy - even the mercenary group - was extinct.

Cunningham knew that what they were going to do was very risky. The Empire would never let them go if they discovered it. It was hard to say whether the northerners would come to accept them and these mercenaries.

However, the mercenary commander had the confidence to let the northerners come to pick him up because he had intelligence and important information about the next trend of the Nifgaard Eastern Army.

After all, Cunningham had a noble status as a Nilfgaard, which allowed him to get close to many people. From these people's words, he learned a lot and obtained some unpublished military information.

For this information, the northerners will definitely come to pick him up.

As for how to make the northerners believe that he has such information in his hands, before the current action, Cunningham exchanged information for a full month and created his credibility among the northerners.

It's very risky, but Cunningham has the only option.

If you don’t do this, are you waiting for the superiors to consume their troops?

In the end, his series of adventures paid off, and the northerners agreed to come and pick up his troops.

Next, Cunningham led his troops to the ruins.

Cunningham had to be glad that his family had basically died. During the First Northern War, his father and brother turned into ashes on Sodeng Mountain, and his mother died of excessive sadness, so he betrayed with confidence.

He should have inherited his family's territory, but due to the operation of some bureaucrats in Jinta City, he lost the land that should have belonged to him, and inexplicably became a "dead person".

As for his subordinates, the mercenaries were all people who had no worries. For them, wherever they went, weren’t they just turning against each other? Isn’t it enough to just go with the regiment commander?

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While waiting in this ruin, the mercenaries built fortifications in the camp, trimmed many horse-resistance and fortifications, and prepared for defense and attack.

The mercenaries are now a little anxious because the northerners who have agreed to come will not come for a long time and cannot see them.

Cunningham is undoubtedly the one who is most anxious. He has been calculating time. According to time, there should be a problem in the military camp now.

"Damn it, why haven't those northerners come yet? Cunningham, is there really no problem with the agreement?"

Albreshid whispered in Cunningham's ear, knowing that this could lead to uneasiness, so he kept observing the surroundings while talking.

"Stay waiting."

Cunningham shook his head and said that, and now he can only wait.
To be continued...