On the Seven Towers

Baria is a small city ten kilometers north of Suero. It is a gateway to the northeast of Suero and a resting place for some business travelers from the north. The city was once a defensive fortress with towering walls and complete The city defense facilities blocked a major road and a waterway from the north. In past history, when the southern country did not control Heimuguan, it was one of the barriers against northern invasion.

It's just that the Kingdom of Iberia has controlled Blackwood Pass for a long time, so the armament of this fortress has become increasingly lax, and fewer and fewer troops are stationed here. It has gradually turned into a small town where people around it gather, and the people in the city run some hotels and businesses. , to earn some money from visiting merchants, and slowly its commercial attributes overshadowed its military attributes, and it became a trading city.

This place originally belonged to the direct territory of the kingdom and was in charge of a viscount. However, after Heimuguan fell into the hands of the Chinese, the viscount and his men fled back to their own territory.

The Chinese originally sent a platoon of troops to take over the city. But after the fall of Heimuguan, the escort here increased to five and a half battalions, which not only included the second and third battalions of the first regiment, and half of the artillery battalion, but also included the other three, mainly composed of Suero and The soldiers of Heimuguan reorganized the first, second and third battalions of the new regiment, with a total of more than 20 cannons and more than 1,500 people.

The atmosphere in Baria is very tense these days. The soldiers stationed here know that the Imperials may move south at any time, and they send a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to the surrounding areas every day. However, the Imperials do not launch a large-scale attack, but instead send small groups of troops to harass and plunder.

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On the road to Baria, a fierce battle had just come to an end. The team that Wang Jiyuan and Chang Yujie went to Baria to inspect ran into an imperial detachment composed of five black guards and a large number of beast warriors. This team led by high-ranking knights had more than a hundred people and was obviously coming. Spying information near Suero.

When they discovered Wang Jiyuan's team of only fifty or sixty people, they took the initiative to launch an attack. However, they did not expect that this team would include Master Gabriel, many mid-level warriors and mages, and the others were all elite guardsmen.

The leading high-level warrior recognized Wang Jiyuan as their leader, and he immediately led his four Black Guard mid-level warriors and other beast warriors to launch a charge, hoping to carry out a beheading operation. But he didn't expect that hidden behind Wang Jiyuan was a great magician and great swordsman with both magic and martial arts skills. The raid launched by their five masters was met with a strong counterattack by Master Gabriel and the guards. Under the magical attacks of several guards mages, their condition was greatly weakened. Almost at the beginning of the battle, they were defeated by Gabriel. The master killed them, and the beast warriors who followed were hit by a volley of lances.

Although the beast warriors are temporarily faster and stronger than ordinary humans, they are far from being able to withstand bullets. The cavalry in Wang Jiyuan's team are equipped with two lances. When more than fifty cavalrymen ran out of bullets in their hands, nearly half of the soldiers who rushed over had been knocked off their horses.

The remaining troops obviously did not expect that they would suffer such a severe blow in such a short period of time. With their leader killed and their companions killed in battle, they were defeated.

Wang Jiyuan put his pistol into his holster, and the soldiers around him rushed forward past him. In front of them were dozens of Imperial soldiers fleeing on horseback, and there were dozens of corpses on the ground. Master Gabriel next to Wang Jiyuan released a deceleration magic. The soldiers of the empire seemed to suddenly enter slow motion, and the movements of people and horses slowed down by more than half at the same time.

Chang Yujie's cavalrymen caught up from behind and fired with their reloaded lances. The Imperials fell like wheat.

Wang Jiyuan watched this scene and said to Gabriel and San Yujie: "The Imperials actually extended their tentacles to the south of Baria. It seems that they are ready to make a move. We can run into such elite troops here as soon as we go out. There must be other troops roaming nearby."

"Commander, although we don't have enough troops to take back Heimuguan now, we can't let them make trouble in our territory. We can't just passively defend, we should take the initiative to go out and cut off their extended hands one by one. ." Chang Yujie said.

Master Gabriel said: "The ordinary cavalry team cannot deal with such an army. If I were not here today, you will face a very difficult battle. If you spread out the guards and encounter the Black Guard masters again, the losses will be Will it be big?”

Wang Jiyuan said: "Even for the people of the Empire, it is not easy to gather a team like today, right?"

"This is true." Gabriel agreed, "According to the information brought back from Heimuguan, the enemy suffered particularly heavy losses in mid- to high-level forces in the last war. Your Majesty cannot be as lavish as before."

Wang Jiyuan said: "If the enemy's team is a finger, then the team we send should be a fist. He has ten fingers and we only have two fists, but as long as we meet them every time, we can It’s good to have their fingers discounted.”

"You mean to concentrate superior forces, right?" Chang Yujie said.

Wang Jiyuan pointed to the cavalry fighting in front. They worked in groups and kept chasing and interspersing behind the enemy. "We prepare two or three teams, each with a cavalry company as the core. We ensure that there are more than two high-level masters and more than ten mid-level masters in the team we send out, and equipped with mages who are good at mental magic and can deal with beasts. Then, with Baria as the center, search and attack the imperial team within a radius of ten kilometers.

In this way, each of our teams can basically defeat the enemy like today. In fact, according to our intelligence, most of the enemy's looting teams do not have such strength. Moreover, many of them are not pure cavalry, and our mobility is stronger than theirs.

We can't attack the city yet, but we can take steady steps and wear down the enemy's manpower bit by bit.

It took about a quarter of an hour, and the cavalry of the guards had basically dealt with the remaining soldiers of this team.

The captain of the cavalry company came to report: "Report to the commander, there are finally twenty beast captives surrendered, what do you think is the most appropriate way to deal with it? "

Chang Yujie just made a gesture to wipe his neck, but was stopped by Wang Jiyuan, who ordered: "Leave those who surrendered, we will take them away."