Milly is also an officer after all, and her mentality is still very stable. She nodded and said:
"Every time there is a war, as long as their troops retreat to the Blood Dragon Mountains, all the strong men of the orc tribe will gather in the mountains.
The Crusu Empire has also tried several strong attacks, but the Blood Dragon Mountain Range has a madness effect on the orcs, and we can't stop the crazy orc troops at all.
Fortunately, they no longer have that fearless fighting style after leaving the mountains, otherwise the human race's advantage over them would be gone."
"Blood Dragon Mountain Range..."
Xiao Jiang's heart moved. For him who likes to hunt for treasures and gain benefits, there must be something special about the Blood Dragon Mountain Range, otherwise the strong orcs would not appear all at once. He is going to let the Red Queen fully explore it. If he can get anything good,
good.
Xiao Jiang made up his mind and chatted with Milly. Milly was also an outgoing woman, and she would say anything as long as it was not a matter of confidentiality.
Just like the imperial army and the four subordinate kingdoms, there are a total of twelve legions. Each legion has more than 100,000 people. Each legion commander is a strong man at the level of King Wu. However, the empire can actually control less than ten power kings.
Sixty, and the rest of the powerful Martial Kings are in various civil forces. However, when there is a war, all major forces will support the Crusu Empire in the war against the orcs. This is also the tacit understanding of everyone in the past dynasties.
After chatting for a while, Commander Aliala ran back and said to Xiao Jiang with a face of joy:
"Your Excellency Xiao Jiang, the emperor is also very happy to hear that you have joined the contract army, so let me give you the most generous contract. Your signing bonus is 10,000 high-grade Yuanjing, and at the same time, I will send someone to help you with your life. You only need to appear on the front line.
Then go to battle when the enemy Martial King is strong."
Xiao Jiang nodded and smiled:
"It's okay. Killing those low-level cultivators is indeed too bullying. I hope the orcs can have more powerful Martial Kings."
Xiao Jiang murmured in his heart that he didn't want the Beast King to come with another powerful martial artist. It didn't matter if he destroyed the Beast Empire. He was just a passerby here, just to get some resources so he could leave.
With the emperor's instructions, Chief Aliala personally signed the contract for Xiao Jiang, gave the signing fee to Xiao Jiang, and then asked Milly to accompany Xiao Jiang to the northern fortress.
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Milly was very respectful all the way, and Xiao Jiang also maintained due courtesy. Because he had to rush to the fortress, Xiao Jiang used his flying sword to lead Milly on the way. Milly felt strange about his way of rushing and did not ask any questions.
There are all kinds of strange techniques, including those riding strange beasts and some using strange flying equipment. Flying on swords is not too weird.
Arriving at the fortress half a day later, Milly reported to the commander of the fortress, the commander of the first army, and then led Xiao Jiang to an independent courtyard in the mercenary camp in the small town behind the fortress.
There are at least four to five thousand people in the mercenary camp, many of whom have experienced dozens of wars. Many of them were former comrades in arms and friends in the empire, so almost all the brigades, squadrons, and squads of the mercenary camp are acquaintances.
"Hey, look, there is a female internal affairs officer who brought a young man into Hongwu Villa. Could it be that this is a ninth-level heavenly master?"
"Such a young master of the ninth level, tsk tsk, is accompanied by a female officer. I have never seen such a young master come to contract with the army in so many years."
"Look, the commander has also gone. Why is he still looking at him respectfully? Could it be that this young man is a master trained by two other major powers in the mainland.
Oops, I really envy this young man. Although he is also a contract soldier, with his status and enjoyment, maybe the female officer will still live with him..."
Many people in the square were talking about Xiao Jiang and Milly, and the mercenary commander was just a ninth-level heavenly cultivator, so of course he would be polite to Xiao Jiang.
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Outside the fortress, the orc army would come to call for battle every day, and would even attack two or three times. However, the fortress here was a hundred meters high and a hundred meters thick. In addition to various war weapons, there were countless archers. The orcs left hundreds of corpses every time.
He withdrew.
Milly told Xiao Jiang that this was a test of the defense strength of the fortress by the orc troops. Every time the orcs would play some tricks. For millions of years, they had done night attacks, sneak attacks, detours, digging holes, and all kinds of tricks. They would be able to do it after a few tests at most.
Attack from the direction of the large valley on the left side of the fortress.
The large river valley is two hundred miles wide, and the terrain is flat and goes straight into the fortress. If the orcs can rush over, they will form a pincer attack on the fortress. Therefore, the Crusu Empire established a troop of ten thousand rangers in the river valley to patrol continuously. Once the orcs make a detour, they will be dispatched.
Two legions went to snipe.
The last battle took place in the river valley. Both sides gathered at least one million troops to fight in the river valley. In the end, the orcs died and 100,000 troops retreated.
On the third day after arriving at the fortress, Xiao Jiang stayed in the small courtyard. Without the control of the fortress commander, he did not need to attack, and the same was true for other mercenaries.
"Woooooooo..."
Early on the fourth morning, a rapid horn sound came. As soon as Xiao Jiang opened his eyes, Milly opened the door and shouted:
"Your Excellency Xiao Jiang, urgent military information. More than 600,000 orcs have been discovered in the river valley. Nearly 300,000 orcs have also appeared outside the fortress. This time, they have dispatched almost half of the army. This is the first large-scale attack in the past 50,000 years.
Attack.
The commander of the Barr Army has ordered the Contract Corps to follow the 2nd, 4th and 7th Army to directly snipe the orc army in the valley and set off immediately."
Xiao Jiang turned over and went out. Milly led two horses over. Xiao Jiang got on the horse and looked at Milly and said:
"Milly, remember to follow me when you get to the battlefield. Although I was ordered to fight King Wu, the orcs don't care about that. If you encounter an enemy, don't leave me too far."
Milly's cultivation is only at the third level of the Earth Level, so she has no advantage on the battlefield. She is an internal affairs officer and rarely goes to the battlefield. She is really not that safe in the face of large-scale wars.
The army set off, with Xiao Jiang and the commander of the contract army in front, and those contract soldiers in the rear even thought he was a big deal.
Hundreds of thousands of troops rushed quickly on more than a dozen roads in the river valley. By noon, the army had gathered on a slope in the river valley.
Five miles ahead, the dark orc army is divided into twelve formations. Although they are not as good as the human race in training, they can be distinguished by type. Each tribe's army is arranged in one formation. Although it is not orderly, it is not chaotic.
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Xiao Jiang looked at these orcs from a distance. Not all of the orcs on the battlefield were humanoids evolved from powerful beasts. At first glance, there were elephants, horses, donkeys, dogs, sheep, pigs, rabbits, deer, foxes, cows, etc.
These orcs are biologically evolved orcs. It is easy to distinguish the general types of these orcs, but each type has many sub-categories.
Xiao Jiang saw that there were large dog-men such as Golden Retriever and Ao Quan among the dog tribe, but what he was most curious about was a thin dog-man at the front of the dog tribe's phalanx.