Mercenaries and Adventurers

Of course the bandit leader hesitated. Although the people under him were quite fierce, no matter how much they despised the refugee team that was going to be intercepted this time, when they came here to take a look, the other party was not unarmed. When there is an additional small group of armed troops for protection.

He was a little hesitant. At this time, if he rushed out to intercept the opponent in such a reckless manner, would he be unable to deter the opponent because of the small number of people on his side?

And as long as the fierce subordinates cannot be used to deter those refugees who don't know where they came from, it is estimated that a fight will be a high probability event. But this is troublesome. The dozens of people on his side may not be able to fight at noon.

Thinking of this, the bandit leader still said: "In this way, let's rush out first to let the other party see us, slow down the speed of the team, or even stop. And let's wait for the rest of the people who haven't come yet. 'Fake hands'? 'Fake hands'! Where are you?"

A bandit nicknamed False Hand hurried over: "Boss, are you calling me?"

The fingers of this guy's left hand were cut off for some reason. Although the injury was healed, the palm of his left hand was bare. This guy had to wear an animal leather glove. He put five fingers on the place where his fingers were supposed to be sharpened. beast claws. Although it cannot be used on a daily basis, it can barely be used to intimidate others and fight.

He is a long-standing confidant of the fat bandit leader.

"In this way, go back and urge those ￥%￥ again. This time, the target team for robbery is huge, and there are a lot of people and property. If you want to eat and want it, you have to come and grab it yourself. Just tell them that."

Once the bandit leader made arrangements, he watched the 'fake hand' turn around and run back along the village path. Then he slammed the big ax in his hand against the shield and shouted: "Brothers heard it, go out and stop this group of people first, and try to let them all be eaten in our territory. Let's go! "

With a final cry, he strode out first and came to the commercial road below the village.

Dozens of other bandits followed closely behind the bandit leader, pretending to be the arrogance they usually pretended to be when they robbed and fought.

Some bandits took off their thick animal skin clothes, revealing strange blue-green tattoos on their upper body; On top of his soldier armor, which was originally dressed like a ferocious beast, the bandit spread out the colorful furs of several wild beasts as a cloak and draped them over his shoulders.

Most bandits who have been in the business for a long time have mastered one or two unique methods of mental intimidation that they have come up with. It is a bit funny to use this thing alone, but after doing it all, the effect of mental intimidation will be greatly strengthened. It is very easy for the people in China to be frightened by these 'dresses' and lose their will to fight, as well as their determination to resist, and then give up resistance, obediently allowing them to plunder and ravage them.

There are still some differences in style between each bandit gang. At this time, the team led by the fat bandit leader used to often move around in the nearby mountains and forests, avoiding being strangled by soldiers led by knights, so they prepared a lot of beasts in the mountains and forests. skins and beast materials.

And next to Xinqingquan Village, another village behind the mountain, a gang of bandits who occupied it especially liked to hang people on trees, and kept the corpses from rotting for a long time.

Large-scale armed caravans passing through the opponent's territory are often mentally tortured by dead bodies on both sides of the trade road, thus creating opportunities for bandits to attack.

As for the bandits occupying the village behind a mountain to the southeast, those people also have vicious intimidation tactics, so I won't talk about it here.

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After occupying the trade route, the bandit leader led his men to spread out, occupying the trade route and both sides of the trade route. Every time they took a few steps towards the refugee team, they shouted loudly together: "Ha!"

Take a few steps: "Huh!"

Take a few steps: "Ha!"

Take a few more steps: "Huh!"

Every shout is quite loud, not only firmly attracting the attention of the refugee team hundreds of meters away, but also boosting the fighting spirit and momentum of the bandits through the neat shouting.

Even though there were only dozens of people, it seemed that he was one of hundreds of people.

The subsequent situation was as expected by the bandit leader. The refugee team in the distance panicked after discovering the bandits who rushed out suddenly, but the panic disappeared quickly, and it was visible to the naked eye. The ranks of people carrying their hands on their shoulders quickly gathered together after the ranks paused.

And the guard team that I saw from a distance before was not only one team, but four teams, with at least one hundred people.

"￥%, let me see the guy who announced the news next time, I must turn his head off."

The bandit leader scolded, feeling a little troublesome.

It seems that this group of refugees can dare to move out of towns and cities under the current situation, and they still have some confidence.

With an armed force of at least a hundred people, it is hard to say whether the opponent will be afraid of his team of dozens of people.

But when he thought that there were dozens of people rushing over from his side, and there were more than a hundred of them, the bandit leader breathed a sigh of relief.

Amidst the uniform shouts of his subordinates, he shouted from left to right: "Everyone, walk slowly, and step on your feet harder! Show your momentum."

He walked slowly, but he didn't want to run into the other side's guards so early. Although he didn't think his side would lose, it was not good to have a numerical disadvantage. He had to try to avoid head-on encounters. Robbery, he has always relied on the plan of robbing fewer people with more people. If the number of people is less than the opponent, it is necessary to overwhelm the opponent in momentum and force the opponent to surrender or flee.

This is also his ability to escape the strangling of the lord's soldiers all the way in the past few years, and now he can achieve such a status and manpower experience.

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On the bandit's side, the 'false hand' heard the threatening shouts of his companions on the trade road behind him, and the 'false hand' accelerated the speed of his feet.

After he walked back for a distance along the village path that he had trotted down the mountain before, those guys who had joined the gang for less than a year were lazily walking along the path as if they were taking a walk.

What made the 'false hand' angry was that this group of people had clearly heard the shouts of the leader of the business road not far away, and at this moment they were still talking and laughing and pointing in the direction of the sound. Some people were whispering something with mocking expressions on their faces.

Vaguely, the 'prosthetic hand' only heard words like "stupid, music."

This made him blushed, strode forward and shouted: "What are you talking about! The leader has already started to block and intimidate the refugee team, why are you so slow!"

The young bandits he yelled looked at him mockingly, but didn't reply. The other rookies and bandits who came by in twos and threes also looked at him mockingly.

I don't know which hand is cheap, and when the 'fake hand' is focused on everyone, it sneaks around behind the 'fake hand', kicks it out, and kicks it to the ground.

"Who? Who kicked me!"

As soon as he yelled, someone around grabbed a handful of dirt from the road in the village and sprinkled it on the head and face of the 'prosthetic hand', blinding his eyes.

Afterwards, the people around rushed forward and kicked them together.

This really **** off the 'false hand'. Don't look at this guy with a handicap and being kicked around by people at this time, but this guy is a bad breed who has been a bandit for a long time after all, and the lives of innocent people in his hands are not One or two.

It was because Nianzai was all his own people under the leader's hand that he was successfully attacked and besieged. He understood that if he didn't fight back at this time, or escaped, and just being beaten like this, he would be surrounded and beaten to death by these young people of.

Even if the leader avenged him afterwards, it would be very difficult to exchange his life for the lives of the dozen or so people who were besieging him right now.

Most likely it will be nothing.

Thinking of this, the 'prosthetic hand' roared fiercely, and then swung the left prosthetic hand again and again, swish, swish, swish, after half a circle, several people's legs, feet and trousers were scratched, and ordinary linen trousers had no protection , the legs and feet wrapped inside were also scratched and scratched.

As soon as these people were injured, they squatted down wailing, and the "prosthetic hand" jumped out of the pain at this time, and turned out of the crowd's surroundings from the fallen position, before standing up in time, they rolled all the way towards the steep grass on both sides of the path Roll down.

Just as he flipped out, some of the people who had kicked him drew out their weapons one after another. If it wasn't for the quick action of the 'prosthetic hand', it would have been chopped down to the ground at this time, and there is a high probability that it would be chopped into a pile of rotten meat.

"￥￥#! Let the boss look after you when you get back!"

After rolling out of the fake hand side, he quickly got up from the ground, and then yelled at the young bandits not far away. His scolding made dozens of bandits chase after him.

The 'prosthetic hand' turned around and ran towards the commercial road at the end of the village path. While running, he raised his left hand behind him. The beast's claws on the prosthetic hand were scarlet. blood.

Enraged by this scene, the young bandits chased even faster.

Not only were they swearing, but they also took out their weapons one by one, held them in their hands or raised them above their heads, and chased down the path one after another.

Seeing that the 'prosthetic hand' ran faster, he muttered: "Does this count as completing the task assigned by the boss? Never mind! Let's run first and then talk."

-

Keir was riding on horseback, his eyes scanning everything in the distance.

It looked very intimidating, but in fact, most of the experienced bandits who were standing still were caught by him.

In the direction of the mountain on the side of the business road, the people sent back by the bandits had a conflict with some other bandits who were still on the way. After being beaten, they led people to quickly approach the business road down the mountain. These were also seen by Keir.

Looking to the left side of the mountain, you can see behind the hill and the woods on the mountain, there is smoke from the burning firewood, there must be a village on the mountain. But it is estimated that it has been occupied by bandits and has been occupied for a long time. This was also seen by Keir. He estimated the number of people represented by the smoke, and finally the number calculated based on experience made him feel relieved.

Everything above happened in the center and left of the line of sight, while the steep hillside and wild grass on the right were not without people.

There was a small piece of woods near the commercial road. Kiel saw the slight reflection of the sunlight reflected by the swords, and guessed that there might be a few people here who were not in the same group as the bandits blocking the road at this time.

And at a higher place, on the top of the hill on the right, it was hidden. Keel reckoned that there were still people hiding there by virtue of their superb concealment skills.

Although he couldn't find the other party when he looked over, the sense of peeping in that direction was similar to the feeling brought by the hunters of the Church of the Hunting God.

This made Keel a little dizzy.

The troubles of the bandits in front of him were not real troubles to him, it was the elite hunters hiding in the dark that made him feel uncomfortable.

The goal of the former was him and his refugee team as a whole. Although the goal was big, the power that Kiel could use was not small. But the target of the latter was not the refugee team, only Kiel himself and the big bird wood carving on his chest.

The hunters of the church might not be easy to attack because Kiel stayed in the team all day, or these people also had some concerns, for fear that an attack on Kiel would cause the hundreds of refugee teams to suffer. So just peeping from afar and following him.

These people must have traveled faster than Kiel's side. Along the way, Kiel could feel that the other party was always peeping at him from a distance in a place with a good line of sight in advance.

However, if Kiel took the initiative to come out of the team and go to provoke the hunters of these hunting gods, these guys seemed willing to fight him.

"God Big Bird, it's been a few days, can you finish what you promised?"

While waving his hand, Keir commanded the armed squad to line up in an echelon formation to deal with the bandits in front of them, and at the same time let the alien Mao Maos disperse in the direction of the refugee team, that is, to investigate behind the team, and beware of bandit teams coming from behind to outflank and attack.

In his mouth, he muttered questions in a voice that only he and the gods could hear, and the big bird **** who had entered the dream secret realm from Kiel to avoid the demon flames and returned without saying a word, finally answered at this moment.

"Gah, it's coming, it's coming. Humans, you have to be considerate of me. Although I finally released my **** statue to attract new believers a few days ago, you also know that the two of us have been being hunted by the little hounds of the hunting gods." Staring! Quack... These guys, with their sharp noses, have been constantly sniffing for my idol and newly developed believers."

"Oh, so things are not going well? Then you think it will be soon?"

While muttering in a low voice, Kiel jumped off his horse, and asked a team of grooms and people carrying blood licking new horse armor to come over and put the horses on the battle armor urgently.

Kiel also helped, speeding up the speed of putting on the armor on the horse.

Fortunately, thanks to the armor training of the horsemen who took care of the horses a few days ago, although the situation is urgent at this moment, the speed of armor is actually faster than usual training.

"Gah, this is the promise of the gods. I will complete it, but I need to give me a little more time. If there is no interference from those little hounds, the things I promised you should have been completed at this moment! The things that have troubled you these days Those things will be destroyed one by one by my shadow bird in the dream! Quack quack quack!"

In the end, Keir helped lift the heavy metal horse armor, and assisted the grooms standing on the empty wooden box to hang the metal armor on the blood licking grass with belts and locks.

Seemingly anticipating the battle, Bloodlicker excitedly licked Kiel with his tongue, and Kiel, who didn't put down his helmet visor, was drool all over his face.

Keir was not annoyed either, he wiped his face and patted the blood-licking grass on the forehead to relieve the horse's nervousness.

Shrugging his shoulders, Kiel regretted being involved in the matter of the big bird god, and if he had known in advance that it would be so troublesome to guard these refugees, he would not have shown kindness at the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint and brought these people along.

If there were only him, Blood Yaster, and Priest Batar, each riding a horse and driving a cart, the speed of travel would naturally be very different. By this time, they would have arrived at Changmai Village and started their business.

But things are so unpredictable.

"Master Kiel Knight, your horse has already put on its armor! Huh-huh-"

The grooms were out of breath, and the people helping them were also panting. I don't know if they were tired, or were they afraid because they saw the bandits not far away?

"Very well, you go back. It's daytime now, and those bandits won't do anything to you. Don't worry, I'm here, and they won't be able to do anything."

With a wave, Kiel let them back into the tightly packed crowd.

Although there are many people on their side, there are still few people who can fight and dare to fight. When everyone encounters something, they get together and don't make trouble, which is enough for Kiel.

"I hope these bandits will take the initiative to retreat after seeing me."

Kiel said something casually, then turned around and waved to Blood Gaster and Priest Batar standing on the roof of his carriage, signaling that he was about to go out.

"Keep the formation of the team and be vigilant. Of course, everyone should not be too nervous, be vigilant, and don't be tense in the body. It will only waste energy in vain. I will come back as soon as I go."

Kiel greeted the four teams of armed people who were arranged in a trapezoidal formation from left to right, and then clamped the horses hard, causing the blood licking grass to run forward on the commercial road.

Fully armed horses and knights look extraordinary, capable of smashing any enemy that stands in front of the knight.

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"Boss?"

A bandit screamed strangely to remind him.

"I saw it, I'm not blind!"

The fat bandit leader replied angrily to the ignorant question of his subordinates. Of course, he saw the man on horseback in the refugee team in the distance. Not only was he wearing iron-gray metal armor, but he also had a black-red cloak behind him. While waiting on his side, the knight also put a full set of horse armor on the horse with the help of his subordinates.

The speed is fast.

"Damn it, I must burn that newsman to death! Burn to death!"

The bandit leader gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice. He never thought that there was a knight leading the refugee team of hundreds of people. Didn't the 'thugs' under these lords follow the lords from all over the country to the provincial capital to participate in the border war with neighboring countries?

Why isn't there one left?

When they came out of the forest to grow up, they spent a lot of time and money on inquiring, and only after confirming that almost all the knight lords and noble lords had left, did they dare to come out from the remote forest and **** Caravans and isolated villages on trade routes.

I didn't expect to meet the knight who had repeatedly hunted them down today.

"Hmph! Isn't it just a knight! It's not like everyone didn't see it. Except for this knight, everyone else can only shrink together. They are not our opponents at all! Go up, go together, take down this knight, and the rest It's easy wealth and slavery!"

The bandit leader shouted loudly, saying things that he didn't believe, and the old bandits under him didn't believe it.

But these words were heard by the rookies and bandits who followed afterward. This group of young people who thought they could fight with a large number of people didn't care about any enemies at all. Hearing the morale-boosting shout of the bandit leader at this moment, many people actually believed it.

After believing it, he naturally yelled a mess of slogans, most of which were declarations of robbery, rough language and slang, and cursed at the knight who was slowly approaching on horseback.

The bandit leader protected the 'false hand' of his cronies sent to call for help, straightened his arms grandly, and pointed the one-handed ax in his hand at the knight who was slowly approaching not far away: "Who can lead the team to take down that knight?" , Let him be the deputy leader of our gang! Did you hear me, who can help me take down this person, he is the deputy leader of the gang! Even after taking down the nearby village in the future, he will become the gang leader who manages a piece of land!"

He shouted so loudly that even Kiel who was leaning over could hear him~www.readwn.com~ Kiel shook his head and laughed. After laughing, he put down the steel visor, and then adjusted the position of the cloak behind him that was swinging with the wind.

Fighting is important, but so is personal good looks.

A good image can get twice the result with half the effort to help Keir lead his team, this point, Keir has gradually understood.

As for the bandits, many young people who had joined the bandit gang not long ago all lit up their eyes. The deputy leader has now surpassed the rank of leader and became the number two person in the gang. That's right, the size of the team is gradually expanding, and it's time to add a deputy leader to the gang.

And this person, why can't it be me?

Seeing that the atmosphere was in place, the bandit leader winked at a few cronies beside him. Immediately, these cronies understood, walked away a little and mixed into the team, and then covered their faces with their throats and shouted: "No! It’s just one person! Look, I’ve dealt with him!”

Then move forward.

If only one person in the team yells and does this, then most of the others will stay in place and watch this person go up to challenge the performance.

But when a few people said that together, and made such a gesture, the young man who was immediately agitated unconsciously shouted: "Let me do it! Let me do it! I'll deal with him!"

"This person is mine! Come on, brothers!"

"Kill!!"

In an instant, dozens of young bandits rushed out in twos and threes, following their familiar companions.

These people rushed out, and the fat bandit leader didn't lead anyone to retreat—it was too obvious. He waved his hands coldly, and led his men to step on the ground with big strides, shouting loudly, step by step. The increased momentum moved forward and slowly attacked.