Chapter 026 - What you're afraid of comes true

The city of Polna was huge in size, and in addition to having army granaries, army offices, troop garrisons, and livelihood offices, there were also civilian stores and workshops, and villages and farm fields outside of the city. After all, such a large city could not be inhabited by all armies, there also had to be common people to carry out productive activities in order to feed the army.

The next day after entering the city of Borna, the 30,000 soldiers of the Luperburg Legion changed their clothes en masse, taking off their red uniforms and putting on silver uniforms, even their leather armor was painted silver. The change of uniform meant that the Luperburg Legion was transformed from a local force to a frontier force.

Three days later, a force came from the northeast, the Legion of Lococho, stationed outside the eastern gate of the city of Porna, and began to dress.

Two days later, a force came from the northwest, the Zakani Legion, stationed outside the western gate, and also began to change its uniform.

Three days later, the three main corps departed from Porna and headed south.

Two days later, 90,000 men of the three legions repelled a force of more than 30,000 men of the demon race and recaptured the town of Bersonford. The demon army retreated towards the borderline.

Five days later, the Sacred Race's army launched an attack with the aim of recovering the borderline. The battle went on from morning until dusk, and the Devil Race's 50,000-strong army was driven out of the Sacred Race's borderline.

While holding this section of the border line, the three corps were ordered to extend on both sides to assist friendly forces and gradually recover the lost ground in the central zone of the border line.

The lost land in the central war zone's Canino Frontier Province was recovered, but there was no guarantee that the Holy Race's supply lines would be able to safely enter the territory of the Devil Race, which had many lofty mountains and peaks, and the Devil Race also fought from the borderline, step by step. Therefore, the two sides could only face each other, and the battles between the two races in this section gradually changed from big to small, but the large-scale battles in the eastern and western two frontier provinces were still going on.

Ten consecutive days of fighting, advancing, charging, fighting, defending, charging again, defending, and retreating, Ye Xia's thigh was slashed by the enemy, but fortunately it did not hurt the tendons and bones, and he recovered after resting for a period of time.

Viktor has a cut on his arm, not a serious injury.

Vasily's left arm was smashed once by the enemy's shield, shattering a bit of bone, luckily not a serious injury.

A month later, the three Ye Xia, who had recovered from their injuries, returned to the army. The original ten-man team, with one new recruit killed in battle, was left with only nine men.

Ye Xia's hundred-man squad, which Ye Xia was in, had lost fifteen percent of its personnel during this period of fighting. The loss rate of his thousand-man team and ten-thousand-man column was roughly around fifteen percent.

The Sacred and Demon armies each sent small groups of men daily to engage in localized skirmishes like taking prisoners, attacking sentries and officers, and even stealing patrols.

Ye Xia was also brought along by Vasily and Victor to participate in such operations, sometimes striking in groups of three, and sometimes calling other groups to converge for battles such as ten-man strikes, or even thirty-man strikes.

By and large, over the next month, the Middle Road Theater did not have any instances of one side sending more than fifty men to participate in collective battles, really because the large-scale battles in the eastern and western theaters were still going on, and the Middle Road side, not wanting to be quiet, kept up with actions like intelligence gathering and rotating and practicing their troops.

Ye Xia grew up quickly, and now when he was allowed to see a demon enemy, he would not hesitate to draw his sword and fight, using the most concise sword moves and killing the enemy in the shortest possible time, and then searching the enemy, taking away any information or objects that might be useful, and quickly retreating back to the defense zone with his comrades.

Vasily and Victor were quite pleased with Ye Xia's progress and sometimes joked, "Ye Xia, you're a veteran now too!"

After a few days, Ye Xia heard from Victor that there were already Holy Light Knights in the eastern and western war zones participating in the battle, fighting against the Demon Shadow Knights of the Demon Race.

Ye Xia began to worry a bit in his heart, "If the Holy Light Knights begin to participate in battles, then will Knight Joseph be sent to the border to participate in battles? What if he is sent here and happens to be in our defense zone?"

What is feared comes to pass. After a few days, when a rice store owner in the town of Bersenford was delivering rice to the military camp, he found Ye Xia and handed him a letter. The letter was from Uncle Bogdan, and it read: "... There is a drunkard who, every time he gets drunk, curses the name of a love rival, says that this love rival caused his wife to divorce him, and calls for the death of this love rival. He even now goes on his way to get goods for business and often drunkenly curses the same thing at night ..."

Ye Xia read the letter, sighed, and burned it, muttering in his mind, "It means that Joseph is on his way out to come south. He often gets drunk and calls for my death. In the past month or two of fighting, I spent more time thinking about how to stay alive in battle, and I almost forgot that Joseph was my enemy. My merit value hadn't accumulated to two hundred percent yet, and applying to bathe in holy light to become a knight was definitely impossible right now. However, in order to prevent Joseph from killing me again, I definitely need to increase my strength ... Alas, headache!"

Ye Xia began to pay attention to all sorts of gossip, and the official information was not to be missed. Especially with the presence of Victor as the "informer", it was easier for Ye Xia to find out all sorts of official and private news.

Ye Xia also commissioned the owner of the rice store to help him find one thing, and the faster he could find it, the higher the reward he would give.

After a few days, it was Ye Xia's turn to take a day off from this 100-man team. According to the usual words, Ye Xia would have made an appointment with Vasily and Victor to leave the barracks together and go to the town of Bersonford for a day's stroll. However, on the first night, Ye Xia told the two of them that he was not available the next day and had to go on an errand.

Early this morning, Ye Xia woke up early and went to a rice store in the town of Bersonfu. The owner of the rice store was an information vendor who cooperated with Uncle Bogdan's intelligence line, and Uncle Bogdan's letter was sent by this owner earlier.

Ye Xia rented a horse from the owner of the rice store and quickly galloped towards Polna City.

Along the way, Ye Xia still thought that the horse ran slowly. The horses in the barracks could not be borrowed, so Ye Xia could only come out to borrow the residents' horses.

At one o'clock at noon, Ye Xia came to a tavern in Porna City, found the tavern owner, and took out the token given by that rice store owner in Bersenford Town.

Intelligence traffickers for the safety of life, many times not necessarily look at the money to do things, more often is to look at the favor to do things, as long as the introduction of the person trustworthy, things can be done on credit, the other side will eventually settle accounts; but if you do not know the person out of ten times the price to the intelligence traffickers do not dare to take, in case the other side is the official scouts it? What if they are betrayed?

Right now, Ye Xia was relying on the token of the rice store owner of Bersenford Town to ask the tavern owner for help. This tavern owner had worked with that rice store owner, and with Uncle Bogdan's line, not to mention, what Ye Xia wanted to see today was what the tavern owner had poked around, so he didn't hesitate before agreeing to help Ye Xia.

At two o'clock, Ye Xia and the tavern owner came to the door of a nobleman's house, knocked on the door and told the person who opened the door that he was looking for the owner of the house, and after asking the owner about the owner, he got the owner's permission to bring the two of them to the parlor.

Louise, the hostess, came out on crutches to receive them.

The tavern owner greeted Louise first, "Greetings! Dear Ms. Louise, I'm Dakarai, the owner of the Star Tavern, we've met before."

Louise flashed a polite smile and returned the greeting, "Hello, Mr. Dakarai, I remember you. This is ..."

Dressed in civilian clothes borrowed from the rice store owner, Ye Xia said humbly and courteously, "Greetings, esteemed Ms. Louise, my name is Ye Xia, I'm a friend of Mr. Dakarai, and I'm honored to make your acquaintance today."

Louise smiled politely again and said, "Hello, Mr. Ye Xia, it's an honor to meet you. Please have a seat, both of you."

Louise then instructed the servants to serve tea to the two guests.

Louise took a soft sip of her black tea and said softly, "I wonder if there is anything I can do to help you gentlemen with your visit today?"