At the Bear Regiment station twenty kilometers west of the Ghost Forest development point of the Dodo Kingdom, the old leader Barritt was sitting on the main seat of the meeting hall, upset by the secret order sent from Silver Moon Manor ten days ago.

The secret order was written in Lilia's own hand and stamped by the family manager, requiring him to take the Bear Regiment to the family's Raven Town at the northern end of the Centaur Hills to rest within two months, and then Randall's fourth legion would attack the Bear Regiment.

The mercenaries were reorganized and have since been classified into the Fourth Mercenary Legion. All the families of the Bear Regiment mercenaries were given tenant household registration to Randall, and each family was assigned 50 acres of rotating farmland, and they were exempted from two years of rent.

The conditions offered by Lady Lilia can be said to be generous, giving Barit the capital to win people's hearts, but her secret order did not mention Barrit's position after returning to the family.

Barritt is a War Bear veteran who watched the Nelson brothers and sisters grow up. During that period, although the life of the War Bear Mercenary Group was difficult, Lilia was also the apple of everyone's eye. If Lilia wants to use her power, wealth and power to bribe Uncle Barritt now,

, will make the old mercenary feel sad.

The reason why Barrit is upset is definitely not because he is greedy for the position of the leader of the Greedy Bears. Ordinary people reach adulthood at the age of 15, and they can live to be 65 years old. He turned 55 this year and has entered the twilight of his life. Although he diligently practices secret techniques

, the family regularly provides valuable life-extending potions, but his energy can never be compared with that in his prime. The little ambition in his youth has long been wasted in the wandering mercenary career. Even if he returns to Randall's territory,

, he does not want to hold a position in the family, but only wants to teach his children who are underage carefully and pave the way for future generations.

The reason why the old leader Barritt is in trouble is that he has now lost control of the Bear Group, or another way of saying it would be more accurate: he has not yet mastered the real Bear Group, not in the past, not now, and even less likely in the future.

The Bear Regiment originated from a whim of His Highness Randall. The infantry phalanx he designed was worthless by Mrs. Nicole, and the result of the war game was a complete failure. At that time, His Highness Randall, who was still considered immature, was very embarrassed.

Gan Xing, in order to accumulate actual combat experience of the large army, he decided to form a very large mercenary group. Then, a group of ignorant country bumpkin bear mercenaries raised their hands and feet to express their approval. This was mainly because of the elites of His Highness Randall.

The powerful force of the guards gave them inexplicable confidence. Later, Barrit became the leader of the Bear Regiment. With a large sum of money and more than 30 Randall elite guards, he happily ran from the Centaur Hills to the Kingdom of Dodo.

The southern border of the country took in wandering mercenaries, scoundrels, and small refugee gangs, and formed a team of several hundred people to form the Bear Group.

Barritt now thinks back on it. In the early days of the Bear Group, it was actually a large-scale homeless gang. It did not receive any mercenary tasks. It did get a lot of employment jobs such as building roads and building houses. They also relied on fighting, mainly fighting.

It was obtained through low-price competition. Therefore, Barritt, the leader of the group, had to pay for hundreds of mouths out of his own pocket.

It wasn't until His Highness Randall ordered Barritt to cooperate with Nelson to ambush Count Ludwig in the Dengshi City of the Dodo Kingdom that the Bear Regiment transformed from a refugee gang into a mercenary force.

With the help of the elite guards and mountain hunters assigned to him by His Highness Randall, the Bear Group not only completed the ambush mission, but also increased its own strength by leaps and bounds. It was in the name of Matron Sophia, which attracted the attention of Lord Dodo.

The Bear Regiment rose to prominence in the mercenary world when they were hired by Lord Dodo at the Ghost Forest Development Point to fight against the grassland and forest gnoll groups.

At that time, Lord Dodo's main army went north to fight against the Centaur army and was unable to take care of the defense of the Ghost Forest development point. The refugee workers in the development point fled one after another. In order to stabilize the situation, Lord Dodo offered very favorable conditions and recruited mercenaries on a large scale.

The regiment and the rangers took over the task of guarding the Ghost Forest pioneer point.

The mercenary group that had been disbanded by the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce was worried about having no jobs. They united to accept the employment of Lord Dodo, and led by the most powerful Captain Barritt. For the first time, they took on the banner of the Bear Group.

The number of troops left by the Dodo people in the pioneering point in the Ghost Forest was pitifully small. The mercenary group and rangers became the main armed force against the gnolls. In order to facilitate unified command, the priest stationed in the pioneering point personally came forward to make the final decision.

The mercenary armed forces are all organized under the name of the largest bear group.

It was the peak period of the Xiong Regiment, with more than 3,000 armed mercenaries and more than 8,000 mercenary family members. The mercenaries fought and their families worked. The Xiong Regiment only had to deduct the eleventh tax from the collection income at the development point, and then paid two taxes.

The remaining portion was sold to the lords of Dodo, and the rest was sold to the pioneering point, and all belonged to the Bear Regiment. The Dodo people also sold half-used military supplies to the Bear Regiment, and even helped them form a 200-man cavalry unit.

The Ghost Forest pioneering point has become an independent kingdom of the bear regiment. Even if the old leader Barret is not the king, he is also the consul of the pioneering point.

However, the Bear Group seems to be large in scale. After all, it is a combination of refugee mercenaries and rangers. No matter how powerful the mercenary leaders are, they are all cunning. They work together in the battle.

Lian Heng gradually formed several powerful forces that were able to compete with the old captain for the right to speak in the Bear Group. Barritt had to assign eight deputy captains to them, which was actually a compromise strategy.

After all, he is old and his talents are limited. Even the several mercenary groups of the chamber of commerce that were with him were taken away.

To this day, the mercenaries of the Bear Regiment controlled by Barritt only account for one-tenth of the total number. Lilia asked him to bring the Bear Regiment back to Randall's territory. The eight deputy captains each have their own thoughts. I'm afraid there is no one.

So easy to pass up.

When Barritt was secretly worried, the door of the conference hall was pushed open from the outside, and a young female mercenary with a brown and red ponytail broke in, shouting with high spirits: "Hey, Uncle Commander, you let me

Come here, have you thought about it and are you ready to ask me to take over the position of the leader of the Bear Group? Let me tell you, I will not agree so easily. You have to sincerely plead with me three times... uh, twice before I will reluctantly

I agreed."

Her voice is slightly hoarse but full of youthful vitality, revealing an endearing enthusiasm.

Barritt temporarily forgot about his sorrow and couldn't help but laughed and said: "Deputy Captain Weier, you are not the only one who is eyeing my position. As long as everyone obeys you, I will just take the position of the leader of the Bear Group."

"Uncle Commander, you are ready to give up your position to me! Don't worry, leave the Bear Group to me, I will bring it to the top and become the largest mercenary group in the history of the human country!" The ponytailed female mercenary's eyes widened.

Guang patted his plump chest and repeatedly promised.

Barritt didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was not surprised by the other party's behavior. The eight deputy leaders of the Bear Regiment all wanted to oust the old leader. Only Octavier publicly expressed that he wanted the position of grand leader but did not

It disgusted him.

He deliberately joked with Weir and reminded with a smile: "I have been a mercenary for most of my life, and I have never heard of a mercenary group bigger than the Bear Group."

"I will develop the Bear Group and make it a legendary mercenary group." The female mercenary said very seriously.

She is about 20 years old, wearing bright and clean half-body armor and half-heel women's long combat boots. This tight-fitting outfit is clean and powerful, highlighting her tall and slender figure and straight and slender legs.

She leaves a good impression of being smart and capable; she has beautiful facial features, from her plump and smooth forehead to the straight bridge of her nose, which outlines the lines of wisdom. Her skin is a healthy wheat color, her gray-green eyes are smart and pure, and she always has a little smile at the corner of her mouth.

She has a sly smile and a shallow arc-shaped scar on her left cheek, extending from the corner of her eye to her chin. This does not detract from her beautiful appearance, but adds a hint of resolute and wild charm.

Barritt looked at her sparkling eyes and couldn't help but imagine the glorious scene when the Bear Group became a legendary mercenary group in her hands. The old mercenary had to admit that Deputy Captain Octavier had a convincing charisma.

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He shook his head to get this unrealistic fantasy out of his mind, raised his hand and pointed to the chair in front of his desk, and said, "Let's sit down and talk."

The youngest deputy commander of the Xiong Regiment sat on the chair and asked with a smile: "Uncle Commander, how are we going to hand over the situation?"

Barritt waved his hand and said tiredly: "No more joking, let's talk about business... Since the end of the Five-Day War, the situation of the Bear Regiment has been getting worse and worse. You should have heard about the rumor in the regiment, what are your thoughts?

?"

"Rumors...what rumors?" the young female mercenary blinked and asked innocently.

Octavere, a 23-year-old female ranger, a junior trainee knight, and the leader of the Fire Lion Mercenary Group. She has joined the Bear Group for the shortest time and has the weakest influence, but she can learn from many mercenary captains.

Standing out among the rangers and becoming the deputy leader of the Bear Regiment shows her ability.

Barritt doesn't expect to be able to take the entire bear group back to Centaur Hills now, but if anyone can help him take away more than half of the men, it must be Octavier.

The story begins with last year's Five-Day War.

In January of last year's Wind Season, the southward migration of Sasanian refugees officially came to an end. More than 5,000 mercenary soldiers from the Centaur Hills no longer needed to protect the refugee migration corridor. They were ordered by the Duke of York to evacuate from the Ghost Forest development point.

The Dodo people asked the Bear Regiment to take over the outpost camp abandoned by the Gombis mercenary army until the Dodo army officially settled in.

At that time, the Bear Regiment only had more than 3,400 armed mercenaries. In order to take over the abandoned sentry camps, Barritt urgently armed more than 600 young men and women. However, the strength of the troops was still insufficient. The Bear Regiment had to withdraw all the guard mercenaries from the front line of the Ghost Forest.

Come. More than 4,000 Bear Regiment mercenaries are scattered among large and small sentry camps. Their defensive strength is weak and they have lost the ability to mobilize reinforcements.

However, the Dodo people promised to send troops to station, but there has been no movement. The gnoll tribe in the ghost forest has long shown signs of unification under the oppression of human pioneers. The human security forces on the periphery of the forest withdrew, and they finally

Together, in the middle of the night on February 11th during the Season of Wind, more than 6,000 gnolls gathered three times the number of goblins and kobold servants, rushed out from the ghost forest, and attacked the forward sentry camp where the Bear Regiment mercenaries were stationed.

The main station of the Bear Regiment bore the brunt of the attack. Tens of thousands of orc monsters kept hitting the station's defense line like a raging wave. The Bear Regiment mercenaries were condescending and used strong bows and crossbows to repel their attacks again and again, but the cunning gnolls

The leader glimpsed the weak point of the garrison's defense line, and used the bugbears and kobolds with immense strength to break down a section of the ironwood fence.

The orcs rushed into the Bear Regiment, and there were thousands of mercenary families, old, weak, women, and children inside. In front of the man-eating monsters, humans had no way out. The Bear Regiment mercenaries showed unimaginable courage and strength.

Those who used weapons fought hard even with wooden sticks and pitchforks. The camp was stained with blood, and the bodies of orcs and mercenaries could be seen everywhere. The mercenaries drove the orcs out several times, and were attacked several times. It was cruel.

The tug-of-war lasted from night to dawn, finally repelling the goblins, kobolds and gnolls, and filling the gap in the fence with obstacles.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties and were exhausted. When the gnoll leader saw that the attack failed, he led half of the orcs to move north.

The mercenaries stationed at the Bear Regiment soon realized that the Jackals were preparing to attack the other small strongholds. Those sentry barracks were empty, with hundreds of people at most and dozens of people at least. They could not stop the Jackals' attack at all. However, inside the station,

The mercenaries were no longer able to fight, and more than half of the monsters outside the fence were staring at them. Everyone could only release messenger crows to inform the bear regiment mercenaries in each stronghold that orcs were attacking, and urge the development point Duduo in the rear.

The commander sent cavalry to support.

The mercenaries can't outrun the gnolls on the grassland with their legs, and they can't hold the stronghold. How many mercenaries can survive and reunite with their families depends on the speed and direction of the Dodo cavalry reinforcements. The only thing everyone can do is

Prayers to the Most High Lord of Radiance.

Except for Octavia...

She tied the flag of the Bear Regiment to a spear, carried a sword at her waist, picked up a shield from those killed in battle, ignored the dissuasion of her companions, crossed the obstacle at the breach in the fence, and rushed to the open space beyond the range of the bow and arrow.

Facing the black orcs alone.

No one dared to chase Octavier back, and no one understood what she was going to do. The only explanation was that the young and beautiful female mercenary was stimulated and deliberately sought death. Such things are not uncommon among young mercenaries.

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Everyone watched numbly as she used her shield to resist the slingshots of the goblins, and stabbed the gnolls and bugbears approaching her with a spear wrapped in bear balls. She was like a light deer, dancing between the fangs and claws of the gnolls.

; She is like a vigorous female leopard, ferociously killing every monster that shows its flaws; like a cunning alpha wolf, she rushes back to her station unscathed before being surrounded by monsters.

The mercenaries of the Bear Regiment used crossbows to pick up Octavian who regained consciousness. Some congratulated, some were indifferent, some ridiculed, and some praised, but she responded to all the voices with her raised chin and tight lips. After taking a short rest,

Once again, holding the mercenary flag embroidered with a bear's head, he rushed out of the station's defense circle.

Then the third, fourth, fifth time...

Barrit will never forget that lonely and slender figure, proudly holding up the broken flag stained red with blood in the morning light. She was a ray of light on the battlefield, dispelling the fear and weakness deep in the hearts of the mercenaries.

Octavier's sixth sortie, the soldiers of the Fire Lion Mercenary Group accompanied her; the seventh time, the deputy leader of the Bear Group "Spur" Bickerdorn led his men to follow her; the eighth sortie,

The ranger blind swordsman Quikel and the deputy leader of the Bear Regiment "Blood Eagle" Harlin joined her; for the ninth sortie, the old leader Barritt handed over his most elite Black Crow bodyguard to Octavia.

Well, she took over the command of the Bear Regiment amidst cheers.
To be continued...