I will be crowned king

Although it sounds incredible at first, the whole process according to Leo is quite simple and clear, even a little too simple.

At first, Leo thought the same as Norton and the others who retreated for reinforcements. They believed that continuing to blockade and pursue was purely useless - the enemy knew their position and movements very well, and was already completely familiar with the surrounding terrain, and their mobility was even more advantageous. Before they get the information and set off towards the target point, they will leave the Storm Legion far away until they are exposed next time, and then the cycle repeats...

So on the surface he was still insisting, but in fact he had given up. The commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment simply took advantage of Norton and his group's reinforcements from the west, gathered more than a thousand of his men, and headed east to Salt Rock City to temporarily station themselves - I can't catch up with you, then Am I staying at the head office?

As the most remote, barren and absolutely one of the five eastern colonies, Salt Rock City has reached a certain "state": the reason for its birth is basically the same as that of Slave Port and Kulin Village. The only difference is that it is more On the other hand, poorer.

How miserable can a colony be? It was so miserable that not only could it not be self-sufficient, but it had to rely on external support to survive - don't get me wrong, it was not the mainland or other colonies, but the indigenous people.

Although the local colonists were all penniless and exiled hapless people, at least they were not hapless people with nothing; clothes, food, tools... Even the lords of the three North Sea countries did not expect this group of colonists to survive the first In winter, they won't really be allowed to come here empty-handed. They will have to dig, plant, graze, cut down trees... and continue to squeeze out the remaining value.

So they used this little bit of cloth and iron that could never be produced locally to exchange food and crop seeds with several indigenous tribes who were also extremely poor, until they found another more suitable hard currency: sacrifices.

The indigenous tribes need to make sacrifices to the evil gods they believe in every once in a while, and sacrifices require sacrifices. It is difficult for these small tribes, who are not much better than the colonists, to obtain suitable ones safely and stably, but the colonists do. You can use your relationships with other surrounding colonies to buy captured animal slaves and then sell them back to small local tribes.

Of course, the beast slaves they can buy are basically the defective products left over from other colonies. They are either sick and disabled and cannot work, or they are old and their beards are gray and cannot withstand the torture; but anyway, the sacrifices are There is no need to work, but everything is put to good use in a literal sense.

The poverty of a colony that relies on selling old, weak, sick and disabled beasts as slaves and relying on the relief of the indigenous people can be imagined. In addition, it has been burned, killed and looted once by Borre Levent, not to mention the degree of dilapidation. .

Seeing that it looked like a town that was different from a shantytown, Leo simply chose a highland to station outside the town, and only sent half a battalion of troops to stay in the city. His idea was also very simple: I will live here, you You won’t come to your door again, right?

Since the enemy cannot be captured, then simply block the opening, so that Borre Levent can only wander between Salt Rock City and the slave port; as long as they cannot plunder enough supplies, they can only fight with their own The main force rushed to join up, so they would inevitably run into Norton Crosell and the others who were reinforcing the slave port.

Although he failed to complete the mission, he indirectly surrounded Borre Levent so that he had nowhere to escape. By the way, he also protected the safety of a colony - "Big Smart" Leo was proud of his plan. Extremely.

The idea was good and the plan was good, but he ignored a small question: What did the series of actions of the Storm Legion look like in the eyes of Borre Levent?

Of course, Borre Levent, who had been running around, looting colonies and avoiding the Storm Legion, could not know what happened. He only knew that the siege network that originally covered the mountains and plains suddenly disappeared, and thousands of pursuing soldiers disappeared. Without a trace.

At this time, two possibilities popped up in Borre Levent's mind: this is a trap, or this is not a trap - if not, the other party's eagerness to abandon him and withdraw his troops can only be for one thing, and that is The slave port has probably fallen!

This is definitely good news for the Borre Corps, but it is terrible news for Borre Levent himself: the enemy is coming from the eastern front to the slave port, which means that if he rushes to the slave port and the legion immediately When they merge, they will first hit the main force of the Storm Legion.

With only a few hundred elite men left, it may not be difficult to break through, but it will definitely cost huge casualties. The most important thing is that as the commander of the army, he cannot guarantee 100% safety.

Unable to rendezvous and unable to break out, Borre Levent could only move in a safer direction. At the same time, he did not dare to stay in one colony for too long. After all, he was not sure whether this was a trap set by the Storm Legion.

A team of hundreds of people is not too much, not too much. It is certainly okay to forcefully cross certain dangerous areas, but it is impossible to be separated from water sources and settlements that can provide supplies for a long time-and the entire eastern part of the New World can provide supplies. The area is very limited.

After some weighing, Borre Levent's plan was to take a detour to avoid the slave port and arrive at a colonial fishing village as remote as possible. From there, he would get a few boats to go to the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea and then take a detour back to Sailing City - if he had already Successfully recapture the slave port and stay there.

As the last colony in the east, Salt Rock City became the only way for him to pass through.

Up to this point, Borre Levent still maintained a high degree of caution. He had already discovered Leo's military camp on the high ground before he arrived. He decisively decided to quietly enter the town to rest under the night, evacuate as soon as possible without making any stop, and immediately headed south. Around the nearest coastline, looking for opportunities to escape.

But he never expected that Leo would not only be stationed outside the city, but also have troops from the Fourth Infantry Regiment inside the city - because he never expected that the enemy would really come to the door, the soldiers did not build any defensive facilities at all and slept directly in the shabby In a rotten shack.

Borre Levent and others who quietly settled in were afraid of being noticed, so they did not build temporary fortifications during the camp and chose to move in directly; so the Storm Legion soldiers who woke up in the middle of the night were surprised to find that there were several strangers around them. face...

When Leo got the news outside the city, the entire Salt Stone City had been accidentally set on fire by soldiers of the Holy War or the Storm Legion. The blazing fire lit up the entire town. Before waiting for what happened outside the city, the people inside the city The two armies first fought each other in fear, and even started killing each other.

Because the incident occurred suddenly and in the middle of the night, no one could see clearly who it was. The two parties tacitly chose to protect themselves first - because the Storm Legion soldiers had been stationed for many days, they were already quite familiar with each other's positions and nearby comrades; The soldiers of the Jihadi Army who were shocked when they were preparing were in dire straits. As long as someone rushed up, they would fight back indiscriminately without distinguishing between friend and foe.

The only exception to this is the Levent Knights in the Crusaders... Although these people have high and low levels, they are basically talented people. In addition, they are familiar with each other because of their blood relationship. After quickly gathering, they realized the situation. After completely losing control, he decisively or wisely chose to break out of the encirclement and tried to escape from Salt Rock City.

Relying on their personal strength that absolutely crushed ordinary soldiers, they could easily escape from Salt Rock City, which was already a sea of ​​fire and filled with shouts of death and screams, until someone among them realized a very critical problem:

Legion Commander Borei Levant...it seems like he's not with us?

Realizing that something was not going well, the Levent knights hurried back in panic, but when they turned around, what they saw was not Salt Rock City engulfed in flames, but three rows of gun muzzles.

Almost at the same time that Salt Rock City turned into a sea of ​​flames, Leo, who was stationed in the highlands, led more than 500 people, and nearly half of the troops hurried towards the town.

But he knew very well that with the current chaotic situation in the city, he would be trapped inside if he rushed in. He simply set up a line outside the city to ambush the enemy troops who escaped from the city; he never expected that the first one to ambush would be The Knight of Levent, who had successfully broken through and then turned back...

A fierce battle broke out between the two sides just outside the gate of Salt Stone City; although the Fourth Infantry Regiment dispatched hundreds of people, with absolutely crushing firepower and troops, they still faced a team composed entirely of talented people. It was obviously insufficient; even though all the members had experience in skirmishing combat, and their shooting skills and night combat were definitely not bad, they still had a very difficult time facing various and unexpected bloodline forces.

But it was difficult for the Levent Knights to break through the defense line of five or six hundred people on their own, and it was still at night; after throwing down six or seven corpses, they had to break through separately; as for the commander of the Borre Levent Army... he could only be very helpless. I left it loyally.

The sky was dark and the town behind him was still in chaos. Leo did not dare to order a pursuit. He could only hope that the garrison troops in the highlands could ensure that the military camp would not be breached by the opponent.

It later turned out that he had completely overthought. The Levent knights who broke out had no idea of ​​attacking the military camp. They were completely focused on escaping. On the way to escape, two were killed by skirmishers on sentry duty, and the rest were completely missing. trace.

The most important thing the Fourth Infantry Regiment should do at this time is to quickly send troops into the town, quickly eliminate the remaining remnants of the Borre Corps, and capture the regiment commander Borre Levent.

But the problem is still the same as before: Leo doesn't know how many people there are in the Borre Legion. In the middle of the night, he can't guarantee whether the elite who turned back and was ambushed by him are just the forwards or all of them. Whether Borre Levent is in the city. ; No one can guarantee what will happen if Yanshi City is in such chaos and he leads people to kill it again.

Leo, who has always been reckless, could only act cautiously this time and ordered the army to station outside the city to put out the fire while reconnoitring the situation. He would wait until the situation became clear before deciding on the next action.

Because of this little bit of caution, Leo missed the feat of capturing Borre Levent alive; it was a pity for him, but it was more than a pity for Borre Levent.

When the sky was about to break and the flames extinguished, Leo ordered the army to start advancing into the city. Then he got good news and bad news from the unlucky infantry company commander who was stationed in the town.

The bad news is that although the infantry company survived the initial accident, it also suffered heavy casualties; there were no statistics on casualties, but there were only less than sixty soldiers left that he could assemble immediately; according to the Clovis military system, this infantry company had already It can be regarded as temporarily losing combat effectiveness; even in the short combat career of the Storm Legion, casualties of this level were rare.

The good news is that the enemy's Jihadi Army is in a similar situation to them, or even worse - except for the Levent Knights who initially broke through, the infantry company commander who fought all night never saw any enemy troops that successfully broke through, and tried his best to block all the enemy troops. The soldiers of the Jihad Army slightly made up for the regret of falling short in the battle of Straw Town.

Up to this point, Leo still didn't realize how much advantage he had taken. He thought that Borre Levent had escaped with the Levent knights. Unfortunately, he didn't expect that only a few dozen people succeeded in breaking through. It would have been better if I had ordered the pursuit at that time.

It was not until the battlefield was cleaned, and the corpses of both the enemy and ours were cleared and buried, that the Fourth Infantry Regiment finally discovered their biggest gain from the battle.

When he just saw the body that was riddled with holes and its face was almost invisible, Leo couldn't believe it. It wasn't until a captured Jihadist soldier identified it that he finally confirmed that this was Borei Levin. Special's corpse.

The reason for the disbelief is also very simple, because the infantry company responsible for blocking the attack had no impression of this corpse at all, and did not remember seeing Borre Levent's face at all; as for why they hadn't seen it? The reason is even simpler...

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"What, one of our own?!"

The wide-eyed Carl Bain shouted out loud: "Borey Levent...was shot to death by his own soldiers?!"

"I'm not particularly sure what happened specifically. After all, the situation that night was particularly chaotic..." Leo nodded blankly, his lips twitching as if he didn't know whether he should cry or laugh:

"Anyway, the prisoner's original words were that he and several others saw a figure rushing in, thought it was another Storm Legion soldier, and fired without hesitation."

"When he fired the first shot, he heard a familiar scream, and realized that it was probably his legion leader, so he decisively shouted to stop, but the remaining companions continued as if they didn't hear them. He fired intermittently, and even took out grenades, shotguns, and torches..."

"Of course, it's hard to say whether his remarks are true, because several other Jihadi soldiers captured by us also made similar confessions, but they were the ones who discovered the situation and tried to stop it."

"Even if we use further torture, examine Beaure Levent's body, dig out all the lead bullets from his body, and then interrogate him in turn, I don't think we can really clarify this matter; but one thing is basically there. for sure……"

"Borey Levent...he is probably dead."