Chapter 145: Northern Stronghold

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. This city was once a fortress, with high walls and complete The city's defense facilities stuck to a large road and a waterway from the north. In the past history, when the southern countries did not master Heimuguan, it was one of the barriers against the invasion of the north.
It ’s just that the kingdom of Iberia has been in control of the Blackwood Pass for a long time, so the armament of this fortress is gradually slackened, and the army stationed here is getting less and less, and it has gradually become a small town where people around them live. In order to earn money from merchants, its commercial attributes slowly overwhelm military attributes and become a trading city.
This place originally belonged to the kingdom's direct territory, and was controlled by a Viscount, but since the Blackwood Pass fell to the hands of the Chinese, the Viscount and his men fled back to their territory.
The Chinese originally sent a platoon of troops to take over the city. But after the fall of Kuroki Pass, the guards here increased to five and a half battalions, including not only the second and third battalions of the regiment, and half of the artillery battalions, but also the other three, mainly by Suero and The Heimuguan soldiers regrouped the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the New Regiment, with a total of more than 20 guns and more than 1,500 people.
These days Barea ’s atmosphere is very tense. The soldiers stationed here know that the Empire can go south at any time, and send a large number of reconnaissance rides to the surroundings every day. However, the Empire did not attack heavily, but sent small units to attack and plunder.

On the way to Barea, a fierce battle has just come to an end. The team that Wang Jiyuan and Chang Yujie went to inspect in Barea collided with an imperial squad composed of five black guards and a large number of beast warriors. This team, led by high-level knights, had more than one hundred people. Spying intelligence near Suero.
When they found a team of Wang Jiyuan with no more than 50 or 60 people, they took the initiative to attack. However, they did not expect that there was Master Gabriel in this team, as well as many intermediate fighters and mages, and the others were elite guard soldiers.
The leading high-level warriors recognized Wang Jiyuan as their leader, and he immediately led the four black guard mid-level warriors and other beast warriors to charge, hoping to be able to carry out a beheading operation. But he did not expect that hidden behind Wang Jiyuan was a great magician and a great swordsman who had two magic weapons. The raids launched by their five masters were strongly counterattacked by Master Gabriel and the Guards. Under the magical attack of several Guards Masters, their status was greatly weakened, and Gabriel was almost at the beginning of the battle. The master beheaded, and the ensuing beast warrior was hit by a volley.
Although the Beast Warrior is temporarily faster and stronger than the average human, it is far from being able to resist bullets. The cavalry in Wang Jiyuan's team is equipped with two lances. When more than fifty cavalrymen ran out of bullets in their hands, nearly half of the soldiers from the rushed troops were shot down.
The remaining troops apparently did not expect that they would suffer such a severe blow in such a short period of time. With the death of the master and the death of their companions, they were defeated.
Wang Jiyuan inserted the pistol into the holster, and the soldiers around him rushed forward over him. In front of them are dozens of imperial soldiers fleeing on horses, and there are dozens of corpses on the ground. Master Gabriel beside Wang Jiyuan released a slowing magic. The soldiers of the empire suddenly entered a slow motion, and the movements of people and horses were slowed by more than half at the same time.
Chang Yujie's cavalrymen caught up from behind and fired with reloaded lances. The imperial men fell like wheat.
auzw.com Wang Jiyuan looked at this scene and said to Gabriel and Chang Yujie: "The Empire actually stretched their tentacles to the south of Baria, and it seems that they are ready to move. Able to hit such elite troops here, there must be other troops cruising nearby. "
"Commander, although we still do n’t have enough troops to get back to the Blackwood Pass, we ca n’t allow them to make waves in our territory. We ca n’t just passively defend, we should take the initiative to go out and cut off all the hands they reached. "Chang Yujie said.
Master Gabriel said: "The average cavalry team can't deal with such an army. If I'm not here today, you will face a very difficult battle. If the guards are scattered, then the black guard masters will be lost. Will it be big? "
Wang Jiyuan said: "Even for the Empire, teams like today are not easily able to come together?"
"This is true," Gabriel agreed. "According to the intelligence brought back by Kuroki Pass, the enemy suffered particularly heavy losses in the last war. The majesty can't be as generous as before."
Wang Jiyuan said: "If the team sent by the enemy is a finger, then the team we sent should be a fist. He has ten fingers, and we only have two fists, but as long as we meet them, we can put Their fingers are just discounted. "
"Are you talking about concentrating superior forces?" Chang Yujie said.
Wang Jiyuan pointed to the cavalry who were fighting in front of them. They were in groups, constantly chasing and intersecting behind the enemy. "We are preparing two to three teams, each of which has a cavalry company as its core to ensure that all the teams it sends There are more than two high-level masters, more than ten middle-level, and equipped with magic masters who are good at spiritual magic and can deal with beasts. Then, with Baria as the center, search and fight against the imperial squad within a range of ten kilometers.
In this way, each of our teams can basically win an enemy like today. In fact, according to our information, most of the opponent's looting teams have no such strength. And many of them are not pure cavalry, they are more mobile.
We can't attack the city yet, but we can fight steadily and slowly, weakening each other's vitality little by little.
It took about a quarter of an hour for the guards ’cavalry to have basically solved the remaining soldiers of the team.
The company commander of the cavalry company came to report: "Report leader, there are twenty beast species captives finally surrendered. What do you think is more appropriate?"
Chang Yujie just made a motion to wipe his neck, but was stopped by Wang Jiyuan. He ordered: "Leave those who surrendered, we will take it away."