So what are most of the soldiers of the empire doing in peacetime? they are all working and farming, busy making money. This kind of income is much better than military salary, and the officers also support it, because if there are fewer people, you can eat empty salary!

To be honest, the local army of the empire is not even as good as the lord's private army of the Tello Kingdom, and even the training time is not as good as the civilian self-defense forces of the Tello Kingdom. That is, the five knights hold up the façade. As for the other troops, their combat effectiveness is no longer bearable to see.

So did the emperor, the important ministers, and the military department know about such a situation? It should be said that most of them are aware of it. However, there is "but" again, and because of the long-term peace, and the formation of intertwined interest groups in the army, no one wants to care, even the emperor is blind.

For example, the expeditionary force had swallowed a huge sum of 100 million gold coins from top to bottom, and Emperor Salen, his ministers and the military department had long been aware of this situation. After all, the empire still has intelligence agencies, and they are not blind or deaf. However, because part of the tribute was given to everyone, including Saren the Great, and the rest was divided between more than 200 officials and officials from all over the expeditionary force. In this way, the law can only be held accountable, otherwise, the entire expeditionary force will have "great resentment among the people."

So slowly, the shortcomings in the army automatically formed an unspoken rule. And no one wants to care, and no one dares to care. Of course, in the face of the demon invasion, the empire must always take action. So Marshal Phoenix paid close attention to the training of new officers, wanting to send a large number of fresh blood to the army that had not yet been "polluted". And the chief general Anton was in charge of the military department, and wanted to gradually carry out reforms to eliminate the shortcomings in the army.

However, such reforms will not be immediate. So when the bandits raised their banners to rebel, the tentacles of reform had not yet extended to Thomrshire. Therefore, although each regiment is full of troops, the vast majority of soldiers have long since degenerated into civilians wearing military uniforms. And these "civilians" made the Marquis Zhenma's overall plan completely bankrupt.

First of all, the four regiments in the encirclement. At first, they hid in the barracks like ostriches, seemingly burying their heads in the sand and turning a blind eye to the gangsters who were carrying out engineering work outside the camp. However, when given the command to communicate magically. Knowing that the Marquis of Zhenma was preparing to join forces with the outside world, they began to stir again.

And Higgins, on his part, played a trick. Due to the good mass base, they also learned that an imperial army was coming to help, so Higgins planned it. Deliberately causing chaos outside the encirclement, it seems that reinforcements have arrived.

If at this time, those four regiments were still timid and stayed in the battalion honestly, it would be nothing. But...... Suddenly, they rose to prominence. even poured out of the nest, wanting to flank the bandits. It's ridiculous that from one extreme to the other, capitulationism turned into adventurism.

But in any case, after all, it was the army, and those four regiments still showed organization and discipline at the beginning. The vanguard, under the cover of archers and magicians, filled cloth bags with earth and began to fill in the trenches. Soon, the first trench filled dozens of passable roads. Then the whole army adopted the second ......

And the bandits on this side. There was a distance of nearly 100 paces between each of their trenches, so there was room to maneuver. And this is Higgins's trick to lure the enemy, and of course put the main force on this side. So when the four regiments were ready to cross the third trench, the bandits went on a full-scale attack.

This sortie caused the complete collapse of those four regiments. And, like the Knights of Starfire, the kind of collapse that barely resisted. Some soldiers wanted to rush out, some wanted to resist on the spot, and some wanted to retreat to the camp. It's a complete mess of porridge, like a headless fly, all flying around. And organization and discipline are also in the redundancy.

Moreover, the four regiments were still between the three trenches, and they really wanted to cry without tears. Although the trenches had filled in the passages, this allowed the troops to walk in an orderly manner. Now this chaos is under the crowding and pushing. More people fall into the ditch than they pass.

In just a short time, those four regiments were completely annihilated. Among them, the number of captives amounted to a staggering more than 13,000. And the black bandits seized countless grains, grass, ordnance, etc., and they were almost unharmed again.

Higgins was also very crisp with these captives. He had the captives kill the officers and surrender their names. All of them were incorporated into the bandits. Subsequently, the black bandits, who had no worries at all, began to kill the main force of the Marquis of Zhenma with great momentum.

And the Marquis of Zhenma didn't know that those four regiments had been wiped out. Because this has greatly violated common sense, even 20,000 pigs cannot be killed in such a short time. So when more than 50,000 gangsters appeared, the main force was completely in a state of panic.

Fight or flee? That's the question. But before the Marquis of Zhenma could make a choice, the black bandits, whose morale had been fully raised, launched a full-scale attack.

And this battle is the only battle that can be called "fierce" so far. As with the four regiments, a considerable number of local regiments had their soldiers throwing their weapons away, fleeing, or surrendering. Only the Marquis of Zhenma, led a brigade of the Hurricane Knights and his own personal retinue, launched a counterattack.

Although it was very tragic and strong, and it was the first soldier, the defeat was like a mountain, and the main force was defeated again. In the battle, the Marquis of Zhenma was killed, and the casualties of the knight brigade reached more than seventy percent. And after the bandits collected the prisoners again, the strength of the army jumped to 70,000 at once, and ...... Countless grains, grasses, and ordnance were seized again. (Embarrassment!)

After the First World War, when Higgins and the others looked up into the distance, they were pleasantly surprised to find that there were no enemy troops in this large area from the border area between the two countries to Tomle County, and the bandits could run amok.

And the fleeing defeated soldiers finally did a reliable thing, they brought out the magic communication in the army, and reported the emergency military situation to the military headquarters. When the military department heard this, it was immediately shocked. They even thought there were auditory hallucinations, was this telling a mythological story?

So the military headquarters urgently mobilized troops from all sides, and strictly ordered René to defend the city of Skar at all costs.

However, the roof leak happened to rain overnight. At this time, the battle report of the Duchy of Hiss also came. The bandits' 400,000 men had turned south to join Higgins' main force. And the northern border of the Duchy of His, which was suddenly attacked by hundreds of thousands of mountain barbarians, had broken through the northern defense line and threatened the capital of the Duchy of Hes, the city of Montana.

As a result, René could only wait anxiously for Dipp to return. (To be continued.) )