Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir led a group of ten soldiers to the forest on the west side of the checkpoint against the darkness.

He had already walked through it during the day, so at night Kiel lit a torch and easily followed the marks and marks he left along the way to the small camp of the bandits he had discovered and fought before.

On the way, the soldiers set up an ambush to prevent Kiel from being a bandit. They specially followed Kiel, who was leading the way, closely. If they were attacked, they could kill Kiel with one sword and one shot.

Fortunately, they still found a small bandit camp in a dark field in the night. The tents in the camp were made of all kinds of rags, which had obvious characteristics of bandits.

Because those robbers are greedy for money, they will basically not spend the money they get from the robbery on changing the living conditions in the wild. After all, they are risking their heads and being hanged, so most of the robbers are currently drunk. That way, those bandits don't spend money on anything other than weapons and pleasure.

Half of the soldiers stayed in the camp to inspect what was left in the camp, and the other half were led by Kiel to dig up the two bandits who had been buried during the day.

"Oh! This bandit died so badly, his head was split in two!" The soldiers discussed one of the two dead bodies, and Keel explained: "I didn't do this, he When I was fighting with me, my partner accidentally chopped him on the head when he fell down, and it ended like that. I was also surprised."

"Really, haha, the bandit who hacked him must have been very surprised, right?"

"Of course I was surprised, his mouth was opened wide. I saw his mouth opened so wide, and while he was surprised, a sword pierced through his mouth. I didn't expect to kill him all at once." Keel The nonsense made the soldiers laugh out loud, and they all said that this young man, Keir, was really lucky.

The camp was not big, and the other team of soldiers failed to find any more looted goods, but found some hidden coins and cloth that seemed to be buried by the bandits on the top of the earth bag next to the camp.

Most of the coins are coins that have not been seen before, and the fabrics are expensive foreign fabrics often used by rich people. Some soldiers were well-informed and recognized that the coins that were not imperial coins were coins used by a neighboring country to the south.

The thieves did not spend these coins, probably because they could not spend these coins in the market. Merchants basically do not recognize this kind of unfamiliar currency from neighboring countries, and looking for a place to exchange money is not something these low-status thieves can do.

The soldiers were excited to find these things, far more than anything else, and at least the night was not in vain.

Therefore, they are very motivated even to carry out the dead body.

When the moon was in the sky, the group returned to the north gate of Bingxun Pass. It wasn't until his soldiers returned safely that the soldier captain at the north gate was relieved and promised that the soldiers who went out would be rewarded.

As for Kiel who caused all this, he simply said to the soldier captain that he would come back, and he said goodbye directly and left the north gate of the checkpoint, and hurriedly walked westward along the checkpoint wall.

"This young man is too strange." Shaking his head, the soldier captain casually said to the other soldiers: "A bandit said that this man threatened him and fed him a poisonous mushroom, which made him very strange."

"I think it's because the **** bandit drank too much, or after knowing his end, he was so frightened that he hallucinated, and his mouth was full of nonsense! He even said that the young man specifically tied him up and then released him." He just wanted to fight again. Listen, what is this nonsense?" A veteran next to him laughed loudly at the bandit who had already been imprisoned.

The only fate for those bandits is the death penalty. The soldiers have already found many scattered caravans and traveler's things in the camp. It is certain that this bold gang of bandits not only dared to set up a camp so close to the checkpoint , He also frantically robbed and killed many travelers and small caravans who went out alone.

As long as the officials in charge of the checkpoint reported the matter to the lord Knight Crow, and after getting the lord's approval, they would immediately behead the two bandits at the north and south gates of Bingxun pass.

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Zhao Ji didn't care about the bounty of two unknown men. After all, he wanted to get money from the government affairs office. He heard from the drinkers who drank together that it was not only slow, but also had to be scratched. Don't think that others are taking advantage of them, those clerks and petty officials in the government affairs office are just pointing at these things to make money.

If you don't allow these people to scrape a piece of the bounty, the subsequent bounty will only be sent out slower and more slowly, and more will be scraped.

Therefore, Zhao Ji listened to the advice of others, and he only dealt with the client in such matters as the client. For those clients, Keir was able to solve the problem for them, which was a direct matter related to their interests, and the money was naturally given without delay.

After all, if anyone hadn't encountered a difficult situation that they couldn't overcome, who would be willing to find an outsider to solve the problem.

Zhao Ji lit a torch and walked all the way into the mountains and forests, first heading west and then south. Along the way, he judged the direction by the moons in the sky.

There are very few wild animals in the mountains and forests here, not only did he not see any large animals, even no birds that were active at night. Zhao Ji estimated that it was because of the season, and it might be that the bandits hiding in the mountains hunted and ate all the active animals in order to eat meat.

With this kind of judgment, Zhao Ji left more boldly and confidently. He was full of energy and didn't feel like resting at all. He was probably affected by the fact that he personally killed a human being during the day.

Let him be very energetic and not tired at all.

He walked for a long time in the sparse mountain forest, and it is estimated that he has reached the south of Bingxun Pass, which is already outside Kendall County. This vast mountain forest belongs to the edge of a mountain range on the west side of the checkpoint. The further you go into the mountain, the more ferocious and weird animal monsters will become.

Zhao Ji felt that the bandits were also human beings, and a large number of soldiers could not gain a foothold in the deep mountains. It is estimated that these bandits who were not very strong could not hide too deep into the mountains.

They probably hide in this mountain forest in more scattered distribution.

There are neither unsheltered plains and sparse hills, nor dangerous mountainous areas that do not belong to humans. For the bandits hiding here, it is impossible for them to be too far away from Bingxun Pass, nor too close, this place is just right.

The mountains are densely covered with undulating terrain. It is not easy for a large number of militia soldiers to enter here, but for a small number of bandits, it may be a good place.

The cold early morning is the coldest time in winter. If you want to hide in this environment far away from human society, you have to burn a fire to keep warm.

Zhao Ji extinguished the torch, stared at the night and climbed onto a tall tree that was at least 20 meters high. Taking advantage of the lack of interference from the leaves in the winter forest, Zhao Jizhi's vision swept all directions, covering dozens of square kilometers of ground nearby. I have seen all the highlights that can be found on the Internet.

The bandits hiding in the forest probably didn't get the news that Kendall wanted to pay them off, so they didn't have any sense of hiding at this time. In the cold and dark night, every fire lit them up. Emanating smoke.

The upward smoke diffusely reflected the light from the fire, allowing Zhao Ji to distinguish their positions from the surrounding dark forest from a long distance away.

Around Zhao Ji, apart from a place where the fires were slightly dense not far away, there were also a few scattered fires scattered in the distance.

Zhao Ji judged that the place with more fires should be the hiding place of the so-called "tooth ghost" bandit gang that he had asked from the bandits earlier. As for some fires in other places, it is estimated that some small-scale bandit camps, or outposts scattered around by tooth ghosts.

Most of the bandits don't wear the same clothes as Zhao Ji, and they don't have a fire to keep warm in the cold night, so they are sure to die. Zhao Ji not only had thick clothes on his body, but also a warm wolf fur cloak to wrap him up. Inside the cloak was a scarf made of wolf tail hair, which was very warm.

After careful consideration, Zhao Ji decided to be on the safe side, first go to the nearest small fire point to see, if it is the outer outpost of the Yaguijing gang, try to attack and tie up a prisoner for interrogation. If not, then he won't make any extra fuss, and let the bandits go for the time being.

In that case, he could only go to a place where the fire was densely packed and secretly attack a resting bandit, and try to kidnap him and torture him in the distance.

It is estimated that there are at least dozens of bandit gangs of this size, and he himself is definitely not an opponent, so Zhao Ji does not intend to meet this gang of tooth ghosts and bandits. He has to focus his energy and time on what he really needs to deal with. On that bandit gang.

"Damn, these guys can't be a group with a few people, so I can catch them all at once." Zhao Ji complained, climbed down the big tree, put the backpack under the tree on his back, and headed towards the nearest scattered fire. He walked quietly in the dark.

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Zhao Guitar's direction in the dark is still very strong. I don't know if he is used to staying in a completely dark place like the elven ruins. The more he is in the dark place, the more he feels comfortable and safe.

After all, he only needs to think that he is hiding in the dark, while the bandit is staying by the fire and needs lighting to maintain. This makes him feel very good, I am in the dark, the enemy is in the light. This sort of thing reassures him.

In the dark, Zhao Ji took off his backpack and put it on a big rock, and quietly approached the fire with light clothes.

He tried his best not to make a sound of movement, and stepped out carefully. After confirming that there were no easy-to-break branches under his feet, he gently put down his steps and stepped on the soft soil and dead leaves.

After slowly approaching the fire, Zhao Ji hid behind a big tree closest to the fire, quietly stretched out half of his head, and covered his eyes that might reflect light with his palms, leaving only a gap.

He quietly observed the situation of the fire.

On a cold night, the fire burned very vigorously, and there was a pile of firewood not far from the fire, all of which were fuel for the fire.

Five shallow pits were dug near the fire, and a well-covered bandit slept in each shallow pit.

Zhao Ji couldn't see why the bandits slept in the shallow pit like this. He thought it might be a simple way to prevent the wind at night from blowing the flames generated by the fire, and to prevent the flammable bedding from being ignited. measure.

Apart from the five people who were sleeping and resting, there was a big tree with two broken knots on the edge of the clearing in the forest. The place where the big tree breaks is quite high, estimated to be more than three meters high. At the break of the big tree, there is a bandit wrapped up tightly and dazed.

Presumably the bandit was on guard. It's hard to blame the bandit for being confused when he was on guard. After all, it is estimated that their bandit gang is the largest and has the largest number of people around, and no one dares to provoke them.

And in the forest outside this mountain range, the bandits also killed all kinds of large and ferocious animals, so that no animals would attack them.

Not to mention that on such a cold winter night, all animals are either hibernating, or have migrated to warmer southern regions in late autumn.

After nothing happened for a long time, the gang of tooth ghosts and bandits relaxed their vigilance.

At least this outlying base is so ~www.readwn.com~ After careful observation, Zhao Ji judged that this is the outlying base of the tooth ghost. Because there is no scattered looted goods in the bandit camp before.

This place is clean, and one can tell at a glance that this place is just a small stronghold for scouting and sentry, or for picking up and delivering messages.

Zhao Ji thought in his mind that there were six bandits in such a small sentinel base, so the entire gang of bandits probably had at least fifty people.

'It's really difficult. If Pocket Hole was comparable in size to this tooth ghost bandit gang, his idea of ​​eliminating the entire bandit gang would be basically impossible to accomplish. ’ Zhao Ji calculated carefully.

But he didn't want to give up the huge bounty that he could get after the possible annihilation of the bandit gang.

That bounty is difficult for an individual or family, but for a chamber of commerce, it is not impossible to get such a bounty.

Zhao Ji still wanted to get this generous bounty in his heart, so he didn't want to give up this opportunity. He decided that what to do depends on the actual situation after finding the bandits in Luodaidong.

If nothing can be done, he will only rescue Mr. Kendo's nephew, and will not have a lot of fights with the bandit gang.

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So, the question now is how to subdue these resting bandits.

Zhao Ji licked his chapped lips, looked at the bandits who were sitting dazedly on the high tree stump and looked at the five bandits who were sleeping soundly by the fire.

He decided to try to tie up the sentry first. If it goes well, he will tie up the other party, and then stay away from here and torture him.

If he didn't succeed, then he would kill the bandit who was on guard, and then find a way to keep one of the resting bandits for torture.