Medieval Empire Soldier Chapter 66

   Chapter 66 Sixty Six · The situation is not right, we will run

   Walking through the lush forests, with mountains, rivers and valleys underfoot, even in mid-April, the cold forest wind in the wild still penetrated the human soldiers' body through the not so thin uniforms and armors, directly piercing their bodies.

Large groups of human armies marched on the forest path. The spear, shield and crossbowmen of Oak Village held spears and swords. They kept the formation in order and continued to advance along the path. Under the orders of the knights of the kingdom, the soldiers wore excess armor. All are transported by the rear truck to minimize the physical burden.

  Lairen's soldiers all yearn for salaries, more trophies and military exploits. The lords with clear rewards and punishments will give them the best treatment, and their families will also get a more decent and prosperous life.

   Recruits, in particular, are both war-hungry and utterly apprehensive, excited by the battle stories of the veterans and angry at the beasts and Norscan barbarians killing their fellow men.

  The army outside Oak Village is not treated with heavy vehicles. The arduous journey is undoubtedly a huge challenge for these conscripts who usually eat poorly. Their whispering complaints have never stopped since the beginning.

   This is the third day that the bandit army has entered the northern forest. They have eliminated a small bandit stronghold and a group of wandering and crazy Chaos believers.

The terrain in the forest is complex, the trees are intertwined, the thick roots and thorns block the vision, the lance that cannot charge is not as effective as a simple spear, the knights cannot fight on horseback, most knights and conscriptions The soldiers marched on foot.

   The rugged mountain road made the heavy plate armor on the knights the biggest burden. Several ranger knights who fell behind the team stooped and panted, and their personal attendants had to help their masters bear more weight.

   The dwarves also wore heavy armor, and they performed with ease. Except for a few more scratches on the armor, they looked the same as when they first set off.

"These robbers who are hiding in the deep mountains and forests have searched the entire stronghold and can't find a few dollars, but they have also scratched my plate armor." A young ranger knight from the southern Ivyland said displeased: "A group of poor ghosts, I really hope they die as undead, tormented for eternity."

   His straight aquiline nose is the most impressive, and on the kite helmet attached to his arms, three-colored feathers sway with the forest wind.

Lallen remembered that his name was Tosh Grant, the second son of a certain baron. At a young age, he had a luxurious plate armor, and no matter how beautiful the armor was, it could not hide his inferior swordsmanship and bullying. In the face of the sudden appearance of the Chaos believer, the young ranger knight almost scared to pee his pants.

   His words resonated with the surrounding ranger knights. They couldn't fight on horseback. Aren't noble knights mixed with mud legs?

   "Yes, yes, it's tiring and uncomfortable, I knew it wouldn't come"

   "My feet hurt when I walk on the mountain road, and I can't even ride a horse."

   "Why don't you let us rest for a few more hours."

   The ranger knights responded to the battle because they saw the trophies and the favor of the captain of the white wolf knight. On the way to the army, there were only a few pitiful trophies that could not meet the imagined standard.

   A few eyes in front of them looked at Tosh Grant, including the commander of the 14th Company of the White Wolf Knights. Krill Anluo said angrily: "Ranger Knights, shut your mouths!"

   Complaining without pain will only make him more disgusted. After the most important white wolf knight spoke, the ranger knights dared not look directly at Kriel.

  Lyren looked back and didn't care too much.

In fact, the Oak Village army under his command is good enough to complete the task of suppressing bandits. The ranger scouts have already investigated the details, down to the specific number and the distribution of defenses. Fela's undisciplined northern ranger knights will only drag down the marching speed. , has the opposite effect.

However, Earl Delavan regarded this operation as a training exercise. He could not participate in many things in person, so he sent Creel to lead the vast majority of the recruits. There are also twenty available white wolf knights to assist.

Creel's personal adjutant, Buck Knight Milton Thane and Kingdom Knight Nicas Francis came from behind the team together, Milton took out the county map: "Lord Creel, Lord Lallen , we have been traveling for more than nine hours, and it is about twenty minutes away from the marked 'Wolf Thieves' fortress, do we need to set up an attack route first?"

   "You don't need a plan, you're done!"

The captain of the white wolf knight waved his hand and said confidently: "You arrange for crossbowmen and archers to suppress the long-range firepower of the robbers, I will rush up to the door with the wolf cubs, and finally all the sergeants will rush up together and strive to win before dusk. Bandit Citadel."

  The White Wolf Knight's combat effectiveness is very strong. Fighting on the plains, it's no problem for one person to fight four or five imperial soldiers, not to mention the robbers with poor equipment.

"The number of robbers and robbers in the fortress of the 'Wolf Thieves Group' exceeds 130 people, and there is only one way to reach the bottom of the fortress, facing mountains on both sides. The **** in front of the village gate is very high, which is very unfavorable for the size and movement speed of the White Wolf Knight, and the direct charge of the levies with low protection is tantamount to death, and a rolling stone can take away several cheap lives." Laren shook his head and retorted: "Once the gate of the fort is breached, it is very likely that robbers who are familiar with the forest environment will withdraw from behind and implement guerrilla tactics against us. At that time, the army will fall into passive defense."

  Combining the terrain, the advantage of the defenders is much higher than that of the attackers. Even if Draven's army is more than four times that of the robbers, and there are more than fifty knights, the casualties of attacking the fortress frontally will exceed the limit.

   "Then Laren, what is your plan?"

"Abolish the 'eyes' they planted in the forest first, and an unexpected blitz will bring us victory." The kingdom knight showed an intriguing smile, his eyes looked into the deep forest, an efficient hunt as early as ten minutes ago just started.

  “Whoo~”

   "Poof"

  The sharp arrow pierced the canopy of a pine tree, and the muffled sound of being submerged into flesh and blood sounded, and the next second, a corpse fell from the canopy covered by the branches and leaves.

A vigorous and flexible dark green figure danced back and forth on the treetops. The wood elf ranger watched the corpse fall coldly. Several scouts, who were also lurking behind the trees in cloaks, quickly dragged the twisted human figures under the trees away. , hiding in the bushes, the robbers who were guarding outside the fortress of the Wolf Thieves Group had died tragically under the rangers' superb archery.

   In just over ten minutes, they have processed eight corpses.

   Katarina glanced at the human scouts under the tree, and no one knew what she was thinking through a dark mask.

  In the extremely quiet and dark forest, a scout accidentally tore off a piece of vine, and the whole felled dead branches hit the ground heavily, alarming the birds in the forest.

   "Who's there? Hama! Is that you?"

   There was a shrill cry from the treetops not far away, and the sentry robber saw several groups of dark shadows rushing towards him quickly.

   "Kill him! Quick!"

With an order   , the quick-responding scouts pulled out the light crossbows hidden behind their backs, and several crossbow arrows focused on the robbers.

  The latter has been crawling and rolling in the forest for many years. As soon as he realizes that something is wrong, he immediately jumps down from the treetops, dodging the deadly crossbow bolt.

   "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

   The robber ran towards the fortress without turning his head, sending back as much information as possible.

   "Quick! Shoot!"

  The Ranger scouts reloaded the crossbow bolts again, regardless of whether the incident was exposed or not, and another round of shooting went straight to his back.

   He waved his arms while running and shouted: "Enemy"

   Before he could call out the second word, a heavy arrow pierced through the back of his head, and he fell to the ground.

   Katarina let go of the bowstring, and glanced coldly at the human scout, in the Elvish language she could hear:

"madness."

Bamogo, the bandit leader of the Wolf Bandit, is a burly man in his forties. He was an elite Tyrell mercenary who served in the Dogs of War Chapter. Six years ago, he was on a mission to protect Nordland merchants , the entire caravan was slaughtered by ogre predators, and the mercenary fled in fear, losing the cargo he was escorting.

He was wanted by the big hired merchants and mercenary groups. He was desperate. He gathered some 'companions' who also liked to lick the blood and those serf tenants who couldn't survive. Weapons to the enemy, now swing at the weak.

Ba Mogo can lead his subordinates to retreat into the deep forest with rugged roads every time before the noble army is assembled. He has fought countless battles against bandits, big and small, but he can avoid it just right every time. It never perished, but instead gathered more and more.

  This is also thanks to a certain big man hidden deep in Midden Land, and his followers

"Watch me carefully! Those vampires who are hiding in the castle like to come before the summer!" The bandit leader has a piece of animal skin hem and a one-handed tomahawk around his waist, and holds a wine bag in his hand. Take a bite.

"Boss, boss, how many times have several nobles around you sent troops, isn't our wolf thief group still doing well?" told us!"

"I asked you to watch carefully, so I will watch it carefully!" Ba Mogo kicked his deputy's ass. As a wanted criminal, he lives in the old forest in the deep mountains all the year round. , Grumpy: "Have the brothers who changed the whistle all gone? It's been a few hours, and there's no news at all!"

   "Boss, they've only been there for a few minutes, and I'm afraid they haven't arrived yet."

   "Idiot! Then why are you still standing here? Send another team to rush!"

   "Yes!" The deputy beckoned from the watchtower, and several robbers immediately gathered at the gate of the fortress and trotted into the forest.

The fortress of the   Wolf Bandit Group is very solid. The gate tower is five meters high. It is built with thick slabs and logs. Over the past few years, the blood of many imperial soldiers has stained the stone slabs in front of the gate.

The equipment of the robbers is uneven. The leader of the robbers and more than a dozen robbers who are also mercenaries or veterans are equipped with half-body plate armor, and even equipped with dwarf Seiko two-handed swords. The two-handed swords can be noble guards or elite army giants. Swordsmen can only wield a weapon of war, and there are several pretty good standard crossbows and longbows in the fortress.

   "Knights! Charge with me!"

  The direction of the forest in front of the fortress of the Wolf Bandit Corps, accompanied by a loud shout, and the sound of countless pairs of iron boots running. The patrolling bandits who had just entered the forest were beaten to death by dozens of canned plate armor.

   "There is an enemy! An enemy is coming!"

On the sentry tower of the fortress, the vigilant robbers sounded the alarm, and the robbers who were drinking and having fun quickly picked up their weapons.

   "It's coming?! Are all the sentries dead?!" Bamogo shouted in surprise. He couldn't understand why none of the more than ten sentries hidden in the forest found any trace of the enemy.

After all, this former mercenary has rich experience and can fight and survive against human armies and beastmen war gangs in the chaotic and dangerous wild. Rolling wood! Move them all to the city wall for Lao Tzu! For the rest, guard the gate for me! As long as you see something alive, shoot them to death!"

   "Yes!" The robbers acted immediately.

There are a lot of weapons in their fortress. Some robbers even took out a few muskets from the warehouse, and piles of arrows, feathers and crossbows were loaded into the wooden barrels on the city wall. Throw it down from the high gate, even the white wolf knight should avoid it.

   When the white wolf knights wearing kite helmets rushed to the open space in front of the fortress, the closed gate, the bows and crossbows that were waiting for them, and the muzzles of several muskets on the gatehouse glowed with cold light.

"Old. Boss! It's the White Wolf Knights!" Some robbers could clearly see the White Wolf Sacred Emblem on Krill's chest, and the surrounding robbers were so frightened that their legs went weak: "We were targeted by the White Wolf Knights, Boss How to do?"

   The leader of the robber narrowed his eyes and shouted sternly: "What are you panicking about! Isn't it just a dozen white wolf knights? All the bows and crossbows are aimed at me! They can get close to the gate twenty meters, and my name will be written upside down from now on!"

The arrogant aura of the old mercenary shocked the robbers on the city wall. The latter cheered up and summoned courage, but the robbers did not know that this was the first time that Bamogo had become an enemy of the White Wolf Knight. The soldiers fought with the white wolf knights a lot during their journey.

   So Bamogo is very aware of the strength of these powerful knights who have undergone the sedation test.

  The constitution of people and people cannot be generalized!

   The bandit leader took a few deep breaths and slowly calmed down his nervousness. The white wolf warhammer held high by Kriel a hundred meters away seemed to be beating his psychological defense all the time.

   Several old mercenary robbers who are familiar with Bamogo have complicated eyes. Even if they wear half-body plate armor, they dare not face the White Wolf Knight.

   Looking at the robbers who had aroused their fighting spirit, the robber leader whispered to the most trusted deputy around him: "We have to prepare to run. If the situation is not right, we will withdraw from the secret passage! Let the brothers stay and stand up!"

".okay."

   Ask for tickets and collections!

   Sprinkle the monthly pass.

   (end of this chapter)

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