Baria is a small town 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 defensive fortress with towering city walls and complete city defense facilities, which stuck a road and a waterway from the north. In past history, when the southern country did not master the Black Wood Pass, it was one of the barriers to resist the invasion of the north.
However, the Iberian Kingdom has been in control of Heimu Pass for a long time, so the military facilities of this fortress are gradually relaxing, and fewer troops stationed here are gradually becoming a small town where people live. The people in the city run some hotels and shops to earn some money from merchants. Gradually, its commercial attributes overshadowed the military attributes and became a trading city.
This place originally belonged to the kingdom’s direct territory, and was under the control of a viscount, but since the fall of Heimuguan in the hands of the Chinese, the viscount and his subordinates fled back to their territory.
The Chinese originally sent a platoon of troops to take over the city. However, after the fall of Heimu Pass, the escort army here increased to five and a half battalions, including not only the Second and Third Battalions under the First Regiment, as well as the Half Artillery Battalion, but also the other three were mainly reorganized by Suero and Heimu Pass soldiers, with a total of more than 20 artillery pieces and more than 1,500 people.
The atmosphere in Baria these days was very tense. The soldiers stationed here knew that the Imperial people might go south at any time and sent a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to the surrounding area every day. However, the Imperial people did not attack in large quantities, but sent small groups of troops to raid and rob.
On the way to Baria, a fierce battle has just come to an end. The team that Wang Jiyuan and Chang Yujie went to Baria to inspect was collided with an imperial team composed of five black guards and a large number of beast warriors. This team led by high-level knights had more than 100 people, and they were obviously coming to the vicinity of Suero to spy on intelligence.
When they discovered that Wang Jiyuan had only a team of fifty or sixty people, they took the initiative to attack. However, they did not expect that there were Master Gabriel in this team, as well as many intermediate warriors and mages, and the others were elite guard soldiers.
The leading high-level warrior recognized Wang Jiyuan as their leader. He immediately led his four middle-level black guards and other beast warriors to launch a charge, hoping to have a beheading operation. But unexpectedly, behind Wang Jiyuan was a great magician and great swordsman who practiced both magic and martial arts. The raid launched by the five masters was strongly counterattacked by Master Gabriel and the Guards. Under the magic attacks of several Guards mages, their condition was greatly weakened. They were killed by Master Gabriel almost at the beginning of the battle, and the beast warriors who followed were attacked by a volley of guns.
Although the beast warriors are temporarily faster and stronger than ordinary humans, they are far from able to resist bullets. The cavalry in Wang Jiyuan’s team is equipped with two cavalry lances. whenWhen more than fifty cavalrymen shot out all the bullets in their hands, nearly half of the soldiers who rushed over were knocked off their horses.
The remaining troops obviously did not expect that they would suffer such a severe blow in such a short time. With the death of the main general and the death of the companion in battle, they were defeated.
Wang Jiyuan inserted his pistol into the holster, and the soldiers around him rushed forward one after another. In front of them were dozens of imperial soldiers riding horses and fleeing in scattered areas, and dozens of corpses were still on the ground. Master Gabriel next to Wang Jiyuan released a slowing magic. The soldiers of the empire seemed to suddenly enter slow motion, and the movements of people and horses slowed down by more than half at the same time.
The cavalry under Chang Yujie caught up from behind and fired with the reloaded cavalry rifle. The imperial people fell down like harvesting wheat.
Wang Jiyuan looked at this scene and said to Gabriel and Chang Yujie: “The Empire actually extended their tentacles to the south of Baria. It seems that they are ready to move. We can bump into such an elite force here once we go out. There must be other troops cruising around.”