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How about the combat effectiveness of mercenaries?

Relatively strong.

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

Compared with a rigorously trained army soldier, an experienced mercenary can easily turn it over.

But if 100 mercenaries and 100 regular soldiers PK, mercenaries will be defeated.

If the number of opponents is one thousand to one thousand, ten thousand to ten thousand, the mercenaries will be crushed and dispersed.

Individual soldiers have strong combat capabilities, but they are poorly disciplined and cannot bear high casualties ... This is a common feature of mercenaries.

Therefore, in the use of 100,000 mercenaries, Zhou Ming did not let them participate in the field.

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

The border terrain between the Kingdom of Abdul and the Kingdom of Suo Liu is a trumpet-shaped valley.

There is a valley between the two countries. On both sides is a mountain that is difficult to overturn. The terrain in the valley is relatively flat, and the widest point is 80 miles, and the narrowest point is only 20 miles.

So Zhou Ming arranged two lines of defense.

The defensive front of the first line of defense is sixty miles wide and about twenty miles deep ... It is in this trapezoidal zone that the Kingdom of Abdul built a total of 120 masonry fortresses, which are independent of each other, but separated Not far away, you can support each other.

On each of the masonry fortresses, there are about 100 mercenaries stationed to defend ... On the first line of defense, a total of 12,000 troops are deployed.

The second line of defense is located at the narrowest part of the mouth of the valley, and a "city wall" with a length of more than 20 miles was built here. The city wall is 40 meters high and more than 15 meters thick. It is built with solid rock ... It has been standing for thousands of years.

This city wall is called the "wall of protection".

On the "Guardian Wall", Zhou Ming arranged 80,000 troops ... 60,000 of them were mercenaries and 20,000 were national soldiers.

This 80,000 army can not only take the initiative to attack, support the masonry fortress on the first line of defense at close range, but also continue to resist the attack of the kingdom of cable flow after the first line of defense collapses.

The 80,000 army, coupled with the protection of the 40-meter-high city wall, even if the Kingdom of Suoliu filled 200,000 lives, it might not be possible to win.

However, in fact, after the beginning of the war, not to mention the second line of defense, but in front of the masonry fortresses of the first line of defense, the forces of the Kingdom of Suoliu all encountered extremely fierce resistance, and their heads broke blood.

...

"Kill!"

"The first person to board the fortress, 100 bounty coins!"

"Punch! Punch me!"

"Rush!"

A fierce shouting sounded.

This fortress wall covered with blood stains.

Hodette, with a giant axe in his hand, was still tirelessly killing.

"boom!"

The blade surface of the giant axe is full of gaps, and the cutting ability is insufficient, but relying on the huge weight, an axe will shoot an enemy army head who is ascending the stone wall into a watermelon.

The other party didn't come and screamed, and the red and yellow sprayed Hodette.

"325! 326! 327!"

"Ha! 328!"

The head of the side Klein, holding a long sword, while killing the enemy who wants to climb the wall, while reporting his own number of killing the enemy.

It has reached more than three hundred people.

Klein has n’t killed anyone in the past five years.

"retreat!"

"Woo ~" Seeing the increasing casualties, the other party's commander, an aristocrat noble, gritted his teeth and ordered to stop the attack.

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

After the enemy retreated, Hodt on the stone wall, Klein, the head of the group, and others immediately dropped the weapon in his hand and leaned against the wall stack, panting desperately.

"Old Huo, how many days have we persisted?" Klein asked.

"Tenth day, as long as today passes, we will stick to ten days!"

"How much is left, brothers?"

"Less than 50 people, except for a few seriously wounded, only 30 can fight!"

Speaking of here, Hoodt said loudly: "Head, don't stay anymore! Retreat tonight, you look at the nearby fortress, almost all of us except our retreat! We are just mercenaries, don't take your family into it." ! "

"What are our merits now?" Klein asked.

"It's already over 10,000. We have killed at least one or two thousand people these days. We have cut off more than 600 in our heads, and we have more than 40 captives with sound hands and feet. The 2000 meritorious rewards are enough for 10,000! "Said Arnold.

"Well!"

Klein nodded and said, "Take all your heads and captives tonight and withdraw from the fortress!"

"But the commander, more than six hundred heads, we can't take such a head! Even with it, we can't go fast, once caught by the patrol cavalry of the Kingdom of Soliu ..." said one member worriedly.

"How can they calculate the merits of us without taking their heads, they must take their heads!"

Head = merit value, the merit value will only be released when you see your head, otherwise you will be empty-mouthed, kill no more enemies, and the person responsible for counting merit will not admit it.

Hoodt hurriedly said: "Head of the team, we can hide our heads in a place, retreat first, and then take our heads back. This is the same ... we still have a dozen injured brothers who are more important than their heads! "

Klein still shook his head: "Either take your head or continue to defend, otherwise I won't worry!"

He added: "Moreover, the offensive launched by the nobleman in the past two days has obviously weakened. I do n’t think he will launch any more offensive attacks. You should know the virtue of those noblemen. All the knights and farmers died. "

"Head!"

Hoodt shouted: "We have been observing for ten days, and we have completed the task long ago. The commission we have received is enough for everyone to live for a few years. Don't keep it! We are all mud legs, we are not a noble. Life!"

"I know I know!"

Klein also shouted with red eyes: "My father is a drunkard, my mother is a ji girl, I was born to be a bitch, a one-eyed crippled, impossible to become a noble!"

"But how do you know if you don't try it? How do you get it if you don't insist? I'm fed up with that kind of life that is full of displacement! I want to have a piece of land, I want to have a home!"

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

"Now, I see this hope, a hope with the best conditions and most likely to be seized!"

"I want to grab it, I must grab it!"

Klein clenched his fists and said, in the blood-stained right eye, in addition to madness, there was a tingling power.

Everyone was silent.

Including a few young men who joined the regiment recently, they bit their lower lip and clenched the weapon in their hands.

From this day, no one mentioned the retreat.

Only standing on the stone wall for more fierce fighting.

Everyone is like a beast, and the enemy is terrified.

"Mercenaries? Are they really mercenaries?" The count in the enemy's face changed wildly, feeling unbelievable.

...

A month later.

The legion of the cable kingdom basically broke through the first line of defense.

Before the second line of defense, there was a more fierce resistance.

After paying nearly 100,000 casualties, no breakthrough has yet been made.

Coupled with the loss of not less than 30,000 casualties during the first line of defense, the Saury Kingdom Legion, which had more than half a million people, actually damaged nearly a third.

From the point of view of the resistance strength of the Abdullah Kingdom that has not weakened, they obviously made sufficient preparations and failed to take advantage of the Kingdom of Liuliu.

For the war to continue, it is undoubtedly a loss for the Kingdom of Soliu.

So the senior leaders of the Kingdom of Soliu intend to send special envoys to discuss peace talks between the two countries.

End this war that consumes the national power of both sides.

however.

After entering September.

It's exactly September 5th.

For the Kingdom of Suoliu, the situation suddenly turned sharply!

An elite Abdullah Kingdom Army with 100,000 people, mostly cavalry, suddenly appeared behind the Saury Kingdom Army, forming a dense formation and launching a charge called "Reaper Harvest".

In the depths of the valley that is nearly a hundred miles long, the army of Suoliu Kingdom of nearly 400,000 people lost their helmets and disarmed in the impact of this straight chrysanthemum!

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

Of course Zhou Ming will not tell him: Under the day and night transportation of 60 Hercules transport planes, one month, not to mention the fully equipped cavalry, it is one hundred thousand war horses, and it can also be airlifted to any place in the Kingdom of Soliu!

The war is here, and there is no suspense in victory or defeat.

In a long flat valley, under the "Guardian Wall", under the attack of 80,000 defenders and 100,000 cavalry.

The Western Frontier Corps of the Kingdom of Suoliu, with a population of more than half a million, was completely wiped out.

Beheaded 200,000.

330,000 captives.

Less than 50,000 casualties.

In the next three months of war from defensive to counterattack, the army of the Kingdom of Abdullah went deep into the kingdom of Soliu, 800 kilometers, captured more than forty cities, and won 22 counts ... In the field, more than 100,000 Saury Kingdom troops were annihilated.

There is a turmoil in the Kingdom of Suoliu ~ www.readwn.com ~ King Weber sent six batches of special envoys to implore peace and even promise to pay the land.

Because several kingdoms around the Kingdom of Soliu also attacked the Kingdom of Soliu at the same time ... Through diplomatic mediation, these small countries have promised to act together with the Kingdom of Yaduk.

The Kingdom of Suoliu, who has always been overbearing, realized the endless despair of fire on all sides and wolves running up and down.

Six months after the outbreak of the war, the two countries finally reached a settlement, ending the war.

The Kingdom of Suoliu suffered a fiasco. In order to let the Kingdom of Abdullah retreat, he paid 1 million gold coins, and ceded the 18 Earl Counts, which occupied about one-sixth of its territory.

The Kingdom of Abdullah won the victory. With a slight loss, the kingdom ’s territory was expanded by a quarter, not to mention, and it received a population of nearly 5 million.

After the war, Zhou Ming really felt a terrible headache about the distribution and competition of loot.