Heart of Empire Chapter 27: Bad news
After Dane threw two squadrons of almost one hundred and twenty Horror mercenaries into the war courtyard, bad news came one after another.
First of all, from the outpost where Golobo was stationed, there was the latest information about the group of faceless men entrenched in that freshwater lake: their number has increased! Faceless people who wandered around constantly joined this settlement. Moreover, the investigation team also discovered that a large number of hairless black-skinned hyenas were found in the faceless settlement. These violent canine monsters, as if they were raised by the Faceless, obey their orders.
In order to obtain this further information, a mercenary under Golobo who was good at scouting died unfortunately. And the news of his sacrifice in return is also quite important.
In addition to the news that the number of these roofers has increased and many hyenas have been found, they also brought back another news that although they cannot be 100% sure, it has attracted Dane's attention to a considerable extent. Intelligence: Among the faceless people, there seems to be a 'leader'.
Dane wasn't just worried about the leader who didn't know how powerful he was, or even existed. What he is worried about is that if there is a leader of these faceless people, then the significance it represents is quite significant: this is a group of monsters with the minimum intelligence, and there is a corresponding organizational structure in their group.
A group of monsters with organizational structure, wisdom, and possibly even a unified command is far more difficult to deal with than the same number of wild beasts. Even, he would rather deal with half the number of faceless men than to have a leader among this group of monsters.
But to be honest, this kind of thing does not depend on his will. All he could do was to leave Orienado in a hurry and return to Ghost Knife Port, always on guard against an attack from the east that he didn't know when.
As their numbers grew, the Faceless Ones became increasingly restless. They seem to have sensed something, the constant loss of manpower has finally caused the restlessness of these faceless people. It is very obvious that they began to continuously send teams to the west of their freshwater lake, which is the direction of Ghost Knife Port.
Obviously, this is no longer the wandering faceless team that Dane and the others killed before. This is definitely a targeted investigation team sent by the faceless settlement.
In the short period of time that followed, the attacks on Golobo's outpost and Ghost Knife Port by the Faceless Men became more and more frequent. Although, for the time being, they haven't come out in full force, but there have been six consecutive attacks in two weeks, with an average of one attack every two days, which also made Dane very anxious.
In the past two weeks, the Horror Mercenary Corps had lost almost an entire team. Although they had also beheaded a larger number of Faceless Men, the damage still caused Dane's His complexion is not very good-looking. He was almost 100% sure now that those Faceless Ones must have found their tracks. After covering up the traces for more than half a month, it is finally impossible to cover up today.
He felt ruthless in his heart, and when the warriors in Aurianadu completed the training of sword dancers, he immediately and decisively launched an attack towards the freshwater lake, and he must wipe out all these faceless men who are stuck in their throats clean.
How can others sleep soundly in the couch?
But the movements of those faceless men were faster than Dane imagined. Three days before the deadline that Lancelot gave him to complete the training, a bad news came: the faceless people from the freshwater lake have come out in full force! Two hundred and twenty or thirty Faceless Men, plus almost half the number of hyenas, aimed at Ghost Knife Port!
The one who received the news was still Golobo who was stationed at the outpost. He had brought his two teams and was about to abandon the outpost. Except for two people left to observe the enemy's actions from a distance and fire signal flares at any time, all the others retreated.
It wasn't that Golobo didn't have the courage to fight. On the contrary, this half-orc berserker was the most aggressive of Dane's subordinates. However, he was not so reckless as to lead a dozen or twenty people to attack the army of more than 200 people. That is not fighting, it is courting death.
Abandoning the outpost is a last resort.
After Dane got the news, he also became nervous immediately. He immediately gathered everyone in Ghost Knife Port, put down all construction activities, and prepared for the battle with all his strength. Undoubtedly, the attack of these faceless men was the most dangerous challenge Dane faced after setting foot on the desert island of Comilla.
Fortunately, he was ready for this.
The fence of the Ghost Knife Port camp has already been built, so it is not very strong, but the two-meter-high stone and wood wall can play a big role when the opponent has no siege equipment . Moreover, the most important thing is that Osengari, the ancient war tree, also came to Ghost Knife Port half a month ago at Dane's request.
The ancient tree of war moves very slowly. It takes at most four or five hours for even an ordinary person to walk from Aurui Nai to Ghost Saber Port. Soldiers with relatively good physical fitness, fully armed and advancing at a constant speed, will arrive in about two hours. But Osengari spent three days and three nights on the road before arriving at Ghost Knife Port.
Of course, although the speed of the ancient war tree is slow, Dane never thought of using Osengari in encounters. For the enemy's active attack, sticking to the ghost knife port with defensive facilities, Osengari's speed disadvantage is almost wiped out, but his characteristics of infinite strength and fear of injury can be brought to the extreme.
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There is no room for him not to be nervous, he doesn't want the first large-scale important battle in Comilla to end with heavy casualties.
Dane never doubted that he would fail. Even without reinforcements, only relying on the strength at hand and being close to the defense facilities of Ghost Knife Port itself, Dane is sure to win this battle. And the reason why he was so nervous like now was that he had only one thing in mind: he didn't want to have too many casualties, and he couldn't bear it either.
Up to now, nearly 20 mercenaries have died under the hands of those faceless men. This has already made him extremely heartbroken.
There are only more than two hundred people under his command. It is absolutely impossible for him to endure too high a cost of casualties, not even 20%. Relying on the hundreds of mercenaries in his hands, coupled with the defensive measures of Ghost Knife Port, and the war story Osengari, Dane is sure to win this battle, but it will definitely be a miserable victory. The number of opponents is not less than their own. Although they are the attackers, don't forget that these faceless men have the help of hyenas with a similar number as them! Although those hyenas are not as big a threat as the Faceless Man itself, they must not be underestimated.
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