Mercenaries and Adventurers

Knight Lanisa freed one hand holding the metal spear, grabbed the rein swinging in front of her, and pulled it hard, pulling and twisting the entire horse's head.

Immediately, the whole horse ran towards the wolf king.

On the Wolf King's side, as soon as the front sole of his foot hit the ground, he was pulled by the impact of the clash of another claw, making it difficult to grasp the ground, and his legs behind him that hadn't touched the ground were also in a mess.

But at the critical moment, it forced one of its hind legs to land on the ground, and used its strength to move its body, avoiding the entire knight and horse charging at the end with an extremely dangerous distance.

Knight Lanisa spat, unwillingly, she slid out the spear in her right hand and stretched it between the wolf king's forelegs, then held the protruding tail of the metal spear with her right hand, and clamped the horse with her legs as a force. Point, the whole body and arms as a lever, with strength to throw away the long-stretched spear.

The staggered time during the battle was extremely short, and this was the only attack the female knight could make at the moment after the horse failed to collide.

Although the wolf king managed to avoid the knight's impact, he had no time to do any more actions. He could only watch helplessly as the human knight handed out his spear and swung it away.

The tip of the spear passed between the wolf king's right front leg and neck in an instant, cutting off a long row of strong wolf fur in an instant, and also brought a cluster of scalding blood splashed from the long and narrow wound between the muscles.

It's really hot blood. After this small cluster of blood landed far away, it first melted the snow that fell on it, and then evaporated the water vapor that was close to it. After that, it even steamed dry the dead grass under the snow, and then set it on fire. into ashes.

The wolf king roared, and the air around him waved and was blown away several meters by an unknown force. His eyes were fixed on the human knight who was turning his horse around, but his long tongue stuck out from his mouth, slipped through the sharp teeth, and licked the wound between his legs and neck.

His eyes were full of killing intent.

Knight Lanisa pulled the reins of the horse, causing the horse to slow down and turn around after running for a certain distance, and then fight again.

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On the other side, after the wolf king explained something to the northern land wolves before fighting Knight Lanisa, the large group of northern land wolves stopped sitting upright and started moving.

According to the differences between the wolf dens, they divided into small teams, bypassing the place where the wolf king and the human knights fought, and some began to divide into two teams, running towards the two sides of the entrance of the rock passage. The other part turned around and ran to the forest behind them.

The young but about the same size as the adult wolves were very excited. They ran very happily, and their tongues were sticking out of their mouths as they ran, while the adult northern land wolves leading the teams were silent and serious.

Some of the northern land wolves that ran towards Kiel and his side did not directly attack the human position, but instead came to both sides of the passage that Kiel and his team could not see. Here, they began to use their paws to plan the snow and cold mud on the ground next to the ditch that Kiel and the others had made, as the wolf king had explained before.

This couldn't be easier for northern land wolves. Usually, after they excrete, they would dig holes and bury their excrement in the soil. At this time, with only two rows of northern land wolves quickly swinging their front paws backwards, the soil on the ground covered the short and thick spikes at the bottom of the trench profusely.

"Damn it, those animals are really smart." Keel listened anxiously to the invisible movement on both sides of the passage, and he could guess what they were doing just by thinking about it.

The companion next to him patted him on the shoulder reassuringly: "Okay, at least didn't it help last night?"

But another hunter has a different opinion: "I still think that I shouldn't have spent time on those places in the first place. How good would it be to directly reinforce the wooden wall under my feet with the excavated soil? I think that's what the outer city wall of Kendall City did. of."

Keel wanted to scratch his hair in embarrassment, but when he raised his hand, he could only reach the hard helmet.

"Okay, then why didn't you say it at the time? It's useless to say anything at this time. By the way, who of you knows what the other group of northern wolves who returned to the forest are doing?" A hunter rescued Kiel. I spoke.

But as soon as the words fell, the northern land wolves returning to the forest in some topics came out here and there.

The hunters, including Keir, had good eyesight, and they could see these northern land wolves holding something in their mouths from a distance. Kiel slapped his head: "I see! They are trying to use the things in their mouths to induce the metal clips we set up!"

Everyone looked at each other, and only then did they realize what the northern wolf was going to do.

"Then what should we do now? We can't just let them break our position like this?"

"How is it possible, um, uh, well, everyone, now quickly pull back the wolf leather straps tied with the clips, so as not to give them a chance to get close to the metal clips at the entrance of the passage." Keel quickly came up with an emergency plan .

Although they didn't know if it would work, the hunters quickly pulled back the wolf leather straps hanging on the edge of the wooden wall according to Kiel's method. There is no need to move some metal clips that were already close to the wooden wall. The main thing is to move the large number of metal clips at the passageway back a little.

As soon as Keel and the others finished, those northern land wolves with something in their mouths also approached the entrance of the rock passage directly along the sides of the trench buried by the northern land wolves who had dug the pit before.

As soon as a wolf's head protruded from the edge of the rock at the entrance, an old hunter shot an arrow directly, scaring the northern land wolf back quickly.

It was also a little unwilling, and then hid on the outside side of the passage, and threw a fist-sized stone obliquely towards the entrance of the passage. The stone rolled and bounced twice on the ground, and finally stopped near a palm away from the outermost metal clip.

Before the hunter could breathe a sigh of relief, a series of things were thrown by the northern land wolves from the side of the passage entrance.

Branches, stones, berries, dead bones.

Everything they could find from the edge of the forest was flung in this way.

This made Keir and the others look at each other in blank dismay, those scattered things were simply rubbish. It's hard to find it for those northern land wolves. Keel even saw a strangely shaped humanoid skull, which made him wonder if it was a dwarf soldier who died nearby many years ago?

Although the behavior of the northern wolf seems ridiculous, but if Keir and the others hadn't pulled the metal clips back in time, the large number of metal clips in the front row would have been attracted and closed by those 'things'.

Several old hunters pricked up their ears to listen for a while, and then hurriedly said seriously: "Attention! They are coming!"

As soon as the words fell, accompanied by the howling of a large group of northern wolves, many northern wolves rushed out from both sides of the entrance of the rock passage in an instant.

As soon as they came out, they changed their running direction and ran straight to the middle of the passage, heading straight for the wooden wall.

"Arrows! Shoot!" The hunters roared, their hands kept moving, and they gave priority to shooting the fastest running northern land wolf, trying to slow down and create obstacles for the northern land wolf behind.

At the same time, the metal clips all over the ground also played a role. Every fast-running northern land wolf was hit because there was not enough room to dodge. Once a certain leg was caught, the whole wolf would fall to the ground. The ground rolled and was trampled by the Northern Land Wolf behind him.

Keel, who hadn't fought the approaching northern land wolves, noticed something keenly. He carefully looked at the wave of northern land wolves rushing out, and saw the northern land wolves poking their heads at the entrance of the passage behind. After discovering this, all the wolf cubs rushed out, and the truly experienced hunters hadn't launched an attack yet.

"Damn it!" Kiel had no choice but to raise the long gun in his hand after thinking about it, and then slammed the weapon hard into the wooden wall.

A lucky northern wolf cub jumped over the barriers and rushed under the wooden wall. At this time, it raised its upper body to try to hold the wooden wall. Either climb or use it as a climbing step for the companion behind you.

Keel's long spear jab forced him to dodge to the right.

Its luck ended here, as soon as it avoided the spear that was poking at it, it stepped on the metal clip on the ground.

With a click, the fast-closing metal sharp teeth clamped hard into its legs and feet. No matter how it swung its legs or gnawed on the metal structure of the clip, it couldn't get rid of the pain.

On the wooden wall, Keir saw that the northern land wolf was caught by the metal clip, and then while the opponent was trying to lower his head to get rid of the metal clip, he stabbed from top to bottom, directly hitting the northern land wolf cub the back.

The blood flowed like a column, and the injured wolf fell to the ground. After Kiel drew the gun, he couldn't control the twitching hind limbs and tail anyway. It could only lie on the ground and whimpered. .

One of the northern wolf cubs who had just rushed forward was seriously injured here, and the other two cubs on the other side came to the edge of the intersection of the wooden wall and the rock wall, stepping on each other and trying to climb up.

"Keir! This way! This way!" The hunter above couldn't move his hand at all, and he was constantly aiming at the northern land wolves trapped by metal clips on the ground.

Holding the spear, Keel took two quick steps, passed the three hunters, and came from the middle of the wooden wall to the edge.

The northern wolf cub stepping on his companion seemed to be about to succeed. Keel held a spear in his left hand, and pulled out a dagger from his right belt with his right hand, and stabbed the northern wolf cub with its fangs and claws. .

The sharp teeth that hadn't yet grown could do nothing to the armor on Kiel's arm, but the dagger directly pierced the wolf cub's brain from the upper jaw along the open mouth.

Without looking at it, Kiel stabbed the wolf's mouth with one hand, and then directly exerted force with one arm, lifted the northern land wolf and threw it back, slamming it to the inside of the wooden wall.

With one foot on the body of the Northern Land Wolf, with strength, Kiel pulled out his arm and dagger, and then inserted the dagger back into the sheath around his waist. The companion provided the trampled northern land wolf.

Afraid that one shot would not kill the northern land wolf below, he made two more hits.

The hunter next to him pushed him: "Okay, there are several over there." Keel turned his head and found that indeed, a very large number of young wolves quickly crossed the rock passage laid by metal clips. They came to the wooden wall one after another, and some even dragged the metal clips on their paws, and ran over surrounded by their companions.

The bows and arrows of the hunters couldn't stop this wave of northern land wolves, which were extremely numerous.

Kiel put the spear on the ground, took out the ax directly from behind, rushed to the other end of the wooden wall, and directly smashed the head of a northern land wolf whose entire upper body was on the top of the wooden wall with the axe.

The momentum was like a broken bamboo, and with a thumping sound of wood hitting, the wolf's head fell.

Kiel's ax actually chopped off the head of the northern wolf. He raised his foot again and kicked the headless wolf off the wooden wall.

Then he stretched out half of his body, and swiped the ax vertically across the edge of the wooden wall, cutting off the forelimbs of several northern land wolves, preventing them from climbing up.

As soon as the siege was cleared here, Keel looked up and found that it seemed that because the young wolves had done more than the adult wolves imagined, the adult northern land wolves also began to run here from the entrance of the passage.

Keel figured it out, if the adult northern land wolves also came to attack here, it would be difficult for them to block it directly. To be honest, Keel didn't expect these northern wolf cubs to be so fearless of death. Adult wolves didn't care about the fear of death.

It can't go on like this.

Keel hacked to death a wolf pup rushing up with an axe, then grabbed the corpse of the wolf pup and threw it directly outside the wooden wall, smashing down several pups on a ladder at another place.

He patted an old hunter next to him again, and raised his hand to point directly at an inconspicuous mechanism on the upper side of the passage entrance.

"It's time! Old man!" Kiel yelled loudly on the battlefield where the howling wolves were scolding.

The old hunter didn't say anything, nodded and took a breath, then forced his arms to stabilize, raised his bow and set his arrows, and aimed at the small mechanism not far away.

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It was a short and thick branch standing upright, and it was wrapped several times with a piece of blood-soaked cloth for the sake of conspicuousness. Moreover, the location of this branch can only be seen from the wooden wall where Kiel and the others are located. From the perspective of the attacking northern wolf, it is impossible to pay attention to it from the outside because it is blocked by the rock wall.

Only when the northern land wolf ran to the wooden wall, then turned its head and looked up, could it see a small red dot on the gray and mottled rocky mountain.

Whoosh, the arrow drew an arc, and the high-angle upward shot accurately hit the short and thick branch tied with cloth strips.

The strength of the arrow directly pierced the branch, and the metal arrow broke and exploded most of the branch, causing the branch that was barely supporting the stone to break directly.

The stone the size of a human head became a support and fell directly down the rock passage.

However, there is also a rope tied to the stone, which runs to the bottom support of another boulder a little higher than it.

As the stone fell, the connected rope was pulled and straightened, and with strength, it took away the support above it and fell into the rock passage.

While blocking the northern land wolves that came up one after another, Keir paid attention to the mechanism he had prepared.

The rumbling sound of rolling stones came, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Looking up, on the high side of the entrance of the rock passage, a stone larger than a horse rolled twice, made a loud collision sound with the inclined rock wall, and then fell straight down from the entrance.

There was a loud bang.

Keel felt the wooden wall shake violently under his feet, and the thing almost fell apart. Everyone on the wooden wall, except Kiel, was knocked down by the loud impact and the vibration of the wooden wall.

As for the northern land wolf, they are the same. The wolf ladder with one wolf pressing down on the other wolf was directly knocked down, and because they were on all fours, they could only lie on the ground to ensure stability because they did not have the buffering effect of the wooden wall. Moreover, the loud noise made them very uncomfortable with their keen hearing. The northern land wolves who were slightly behind covered their ears with their front paws.

However, the northern wolf who was closer to the entrance of the passage was hit with blood holes all over his body by the boulders falling and flying debris. Crouching on the ground, howling incessantly.

As for the adult northern land wolves who were hiding on both sides of the entrance and tried to rush in to join the battle, except for a small part that was crushed into pieces by boulders, the others either fell down from the shock or ran away howling from a distance. .

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After waiting for a while, Keel saw that no other northern land wolves rushed in after the boulder fell at the entrance of the passage, and immediately shouted: "Good opportunity! The stone hinders the entrance from the outside, so take this opportunity to kill all those under your feet." Northern Land Wolf!"

The hunters came to their senses and stood up to respond to Kiel.

And Kiel boldly slid down from the wooden wall and landed on a Northern Wolf cub lying on the ground and covering his ears. The huge impact directly trampled the young wolf, the fracture of the spine was extremely clear, and part of the visceral blood and body fluids were squeezed out from the head and tail of the northern wolf.

With the Northern Land Wolf as a buffer, Keel stood up directly, chopped off half of a Northern Land Wolf with a swing of the axe, and then chopped down with both hands, rolling several Northern Land Wolf cubs into a ball under the wooden wall Wolf smashed.

One ax after another, he didn't turn around until all the heads were dead.

The northern land wolves began to retreat. They paid a lot of lives to flock to the human position, but at this moment, the boulder rolled down and shocked and blocked the subsequent northern wolf attack, causing the young wolves in front to finally know the fear.

They ran back and forth at a faster speed than when they attacked, quickly passed many companions whose legs and feet were caught by metal clips during the impact, squeezed them away without looking at them, passed them, and then jumped over the falling boulders The wreckage escaped the sight of the hunters.

"Shoot those who can't run first!" The old hunter on the wooden wall commanded, first targeting the northern land wolves whose legs and claws were trapped by metal clips.

Whoosh whoosh.

Although their arms were sore, it was time to beat the dog in the water, and everyone was shooting hard. At first, they were worried that the arrow would be taken away by the injured northern wolf and would never be found again, but at this time, the northern wolf Aren't they all dishes on their own plates, so there is no need to worry about returning the arrows~www.readwn.com~ So everyone used their best.

The same is true for Keir, he killed a northern wolf cub with his axe, and then he just drew out his long sword to hunt and kill them. He didn't need a shield. Northern wolf cub.

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Until the last wolf pup was cut in two by the long sword thrown by Kiel at the wreckage of falling rocks, this wave of northern wolf offensive finally came to an end.

Although his body was covered in blood and stained wolf fur, Keir ignored the cleaning and immediately called the hunters to pull the wolf leather straps connected by the metal clips to take back all the metal clips and save them for the second line of defense.

He himself retracted his weapon, and then dragged the dead Northern Land Wolf corpses back while the Northern Land Wolf was regrouping. It's still the same reason, don't give the northern land wolves even a chance to devour their companion's corpse.

Animals were reluctant to approach the rocky mountain. Although Keel and the others didn’t know if it was related to the battle decades ago, it was obviously good news. In addition, it was winter, and the animals were either migrating or hiding. Those who dare to hang around during the winter are either herd predators like the northern land wolf, or they are tyrannical animals with a whole body of ability and are not afraid of being predated.

Not giving enough food to the large group of northern land wolves is forcing them to either disperse or step up their offensive, making the situation even more dangerous. Not only the northern land wolves, but also the humans themselves here.

However, unlike the Northern Wolves playing away games, Keir and the others have more advantages at home.

Thinking about it, Keel dragged the wolf carcass behind the wooden wall. In this battle, he not only had to defeat the large pack of northern wolves, but also the wolf king. He felt that through the battle just now, he could definitely want and win them all.