Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard Chapter 3: Tasks
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Not long ago, the garrison of Thor's Fortress released a mission called "Intelligence Collection" in the Mercenary Guild, which became a topic of discussion among mercenaries. The task of "intelligence collection" is an open task. It does not specify what kind of information is needed, nor does it give details about what kind of information is paid for. It just roughly collects everything north of Thor Fortress. As long as the intelligence is provided first and finally verified, gold coins can be paid according to the importance of the intelligence.
In the beginning, those mercenaries did not pay attention to it at all, because it is difficult to define specific remuneration for this kind of open-ended task. He could also send out any important information with just one copper coin, without violating any regulations.
Many times, a turning point in an event is often due to an accident. The open-ended task of "intelligence collection" went from being unattended to fully dispatched, and it also originated from a hapless mercenary. This hapless mercenary was drinking and gambling with other people in the bar. His luck was indeed bad. He soon lost all his money and owed a foreign debt. In desperation, this guy had no choice but to go. The Mercenary Guild hopes to be able to complete one or two tasks and get some rewards to repay the bills.
That was the second day after the "intelligence collection" mission was released. This unfortunate mercenary has only one person, and it is basically impossible to complete other tasks that require a lot of manpower issued by the Thor Fortress garrison, such as transporting supplies and so on. So with the idea of trying his luck, he took on this open-ended task with almost no restrictions. After eating the cheapest potato stew breakfast he had on credit, the mercenary mustered up the courage to enter the North Taren Prairie through the hanging basket on the wall of the Thor Fortress.
The gate on the Thor Fortress wall is generally not activated until the critical moment. If someone wants to enter the North Taren prairie, most of them use pulleys to set up a hanging basket on the wall and twist the rope with a twister. , Put the people sitting in the hanging basket down the city wall.
Although this mercenary has bad luck, his professional ethics is quite good. He spent most of the day carefully recording the terrain within about three kilometers north of Thor Fortress, and then returned in the evening. After the Thor Fortress, these things were handed over to the Mercenary Guild, and then transferred from the Mercenary Guild to the garrison in the Thor Fortress.
One day later, the mercenary was rewarded: five hundred shiny gold coins. This guy, who doesn’t know if it’s unlucky or lucky, took the large sum of money to pay off his gambling debts, and even ostentatiously invited his companions to drink with him. After getting so drunk, he told about his wealth. go through.
This incident was spread ten times, ten times a hundred times, and it spread in the Thor Fortress No. 2 camp that night, of course, it was inevitable that some people contributed to it. When the sun rose the next day, more than a hundred mercenaries poured into the mercenary guild, took up this open mission together, and then used the hanging baskets on the wall in batches to enter the North Talun Prairie. .
Actually, the first mercenary to receive a reward, the topographic map he drew was not worth a copper coin. Even if General Keenster closed his eyes, he could easily draw about thirty kilometers north of Thor Fortress. It’s the result of the continuous efforts of the garrison scouts in the Thor Fortress in the past ten years. It’s a pity that humans didn’t pay much attention to the dynamics of the orcs before, and they hardly focused on this aspect. Now the orcs have strengthened the blockade, so Keenster The general has never been able to get detailed information about 40 kilometers north of Thor’s Fortress. That’s where the real focus of this "intelligence collection" task lies. The reward that the mercenary gets is nothing more than General Keynst’s use to stimulate others. The bait of the mercenary.
In front of the generous rewards, the mercenaries going north sent back all kinds of information. General Keynst didn't care whether the information was useful or not. He didn't even look at it and threw it all in the fireplace. But every mercenary who provided information was paid a certain amount. The quartermaster pays directly according to the thickness of the intelligence, the thicker one pays more, about hundreds of gold coins, and as little as a dozen gold coins.
Stimulated by money, the mercenary stepped farther and farther, and finally reached 30 kilometers north of Thor Fortress, where was the first blockade line arranged by the orcs. On a sunny afternoon, a dozen or so mercenaries called the "Strength" mercenary group inevitably encountered the wolf cavalry squadron patrolling by the orcs.
The **** battle began.
In this kind of head-on confrontation, the walking mercenaries could not be the opponents of the well-trained orc wolf cavalry, not to mention the more than ten mercenaries facing ten times more enemies than their own. The battle soon turned into a one-sided slaughter. This group of mercenaries killed seven or eight enemies, and finally the entire army was wiped out.
The war quickly spread, and more mercenaries have also followed the power of the mercenary group. Human mercenaries have suffered great losses, and the intelligence sent back in those few days has also been reduced by 80%.
But mercenaries also have their own countermeasures. Since they can’t fight head-on, let’s give full play to the characteristics of their own small team and break them into pieces, avoid the wolf cavalry patrolling by the orcs, and go deep beyond Thor Fortress. An area thirty kilometers north.
So after a few days of silence, General Keynst was once again filled with all kinds of intelligence, and these contents and General Keynst’s previous intelligence were mutually corroborated, and they immediately filled up a lot of previous intelligence collection work. The gap that appears in.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Soon, the orcs realized the practices of human mercenaries. They adopted stricter measures and increased the density of inspections. They also deliberately set up a lot of traps to ambush soldiers and sniper. Kill the mercenaries who secretly infiltrated human beings. .Mobile viewing
Infiltration and reverse osmosis, between humans and orcs, Beast Blood Fort and Thor Fortress, thrilling battles are staged every day. In this performance, human mercenaries may have won, and they cleverly deceived the orcs. The scouts infiltrated the opponent’s territory, but in the next game, it is likely that more wolf cavalry from the orcs encircled these successfully infiltrated mercenary groups within a certain range, and then slowly compressed their space for activity, and finally annihilated them. .
The place where mercenaries suffer the most is in the vast prairie, it is difficult to conceal their whereabouts. Humans and orcs are two completely different races, no matter in appearance or language, they have nothing in common. The war two hundred years ago caused the two sides to be in absolute opposition, and it was impossible to get close to their opponents. And it’s only spring, the grassland is vibrant but the water plants are growing, and it’s impossible to have dense grass for the mercenaries to hide their figures. Once they are spotted by the enemy, they will be followed by ten times their own wolf cavalry. .
The walking mercenaries are on the vast grassland, they can't compete with the wolf cavalry with good mobility and impact. Once they fall into the circle of orcs, it means they have stepped into the arms of death. No matter how good a mercenary, no matter how tacit cooperation, it can only prolong the life of a few days and linger.
After three mercenary groups with more than 500 people announced their abandonment of the mission, the task of "gathering intelligence" once again left the sight of the mercenaries and was shelved by the mercenary guild. General Keenster smiled bitterly and looked at the loss record in front of him. In just 17 days, human mercenaries lost nearly 300 people, but their footprints have never been within 10 kilometers of the Beast Blood Fort. There is no way to provide yourself with the dynamics of the main orc army.
General Keenster couldn't help being thankful that he was able to defend himself in the Thor Fortress. If his army were on the prairie with no defense facilities, he would have been defeated long ago. Without the enemy's intelligence and no way to curb the mobility of the opponent's wolf cavalry, his army is completely passively beaten.
Thor fortress is not without cavalry, but General Keynst dare not use it easily.
The Thor Fortress has a total of 200,000 elite troops. Among them, there are only 10,000 cavalry. They are all heavy-duty knights fighting head-on. It is impossible to fight against the opponent's scout troops. If General Keenster really In doing so, the happiest person is the commander of the orc army. Even if five orc wolf cavalry are replaced by a human reloaded knight, the orcs readily agree, but humans cannot withstand such a big loss, because once the Thor Fortress loses it With 10,000 heavy cavalry, the orcs no longer need to worry about human raids and counterattacks. Whether they attack or retreat, they don't have any worries.
Excluding the 10,000 knights, the Thor Fortress has 40,000 bow and arrow shooters, and 150,000 infantry. If General Keenster's armies fight the orcs on the vast prairie, they will inevitably fall into a situation where they cannot be attacked and cannot be defended. , Can only be passively beaten.
Since ancient times, on the prairie, the cavalry can rely on their mobility to fight against the enemy. If the infantry wants to gain the upper hand, they must rely on several times or even ten times their military strength, cannibalize the opponent’s possible supply points, and force the enemy and the enemy. Own main force decisive battle. But if the orcs would rather give up the land and avoid fighting, the final result of the human army is to eat the last food and retreat in a desperate manner. At that time, the orcs have the best chance to fight back.
Therefore, General Keenster has always admired Fernando I's courage, and under the premise that the mainland is waiting to be thriving, he even used the power of the country to build the Thor Fortress to avoid dealing with the orcs on the prairie. Using this solid fortress to block the orcs from going south, forcing the orcs to give up their advantages and fight the humans under the walls of the Thor Fortress.
Now, General Keynst can only hope that the reinforcements from the imperial capital will arrive sooner. He has sent out five letters asking for help. In the most recent letter, General Keenster elaborated on the strengths and weaknesses of the Thor Fortress garrison, hoping to get the support of the Royal Knights of the Imperial Capital.
Unfortunately, there was no news of these letters when they arrived in the imperial capital. This made General Keenster anxious, but there was nothing to do. After all, he didn’t even know where the opponent’s main army was stationed. After sending out the emergency messenger, three It’s been a month, and I haven’t seen any orc army arrive at Thor fortress. If the imperial capital’s reinforcements arrive, General Keenster still doesn’t know how to explain everything in front of them.
Perhaps the only thing we can do now is to wait patiently, right? Whether it's the reinforcements of the imperial capital or the army of the orcs, what should come will always come.