Mercenaries and Adventurers

After a while, after eating, Kiel was practicing his sword skills with a sword to reduce the negative emotions accumulated during the day.

He was not wearing a helmet at this time, only armor. It seemed that he heard a sound on the edge of the forest in the distance, and Kiel's ears moved. He suddenly withdrew his sword and turned his head to the direction of the sound in the distance.

There was indeed a sound coming from the distant darkness.

Kiel jumped onto the back of the blood licking grass beside him with a full charge, stood straight on the saddle, and put his hands upright beside his ears in the shape of scooping water.

"Keil? What's wrong?"

Blood Yaster, who was cleaning the crossbow next to him, also stood up and asked.

"Hush! Be quiet! There are voices over there."

With the help of his palm collecting the sound, Kiel finally heard the true face of the voice ahead.

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"Keep down, do you￥# want to lure that damned knight over?"

"Why don't you just fart, you're the one who keeps yelling! Bring the knight over, and we'll all die this night."

"Shut up! Shut up, just cross the open area of ​​the trade road. Everyone holds on tight to the ropes, so don't fall behind."

Finally, with a dull voice, only the rustling sound of bushes and weeds being trampled was left in the darkness ahead. In addition, there is the occasional small bump sound of metal weapons colliding.

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Kiel was startled when he heard it for the first time, and thought that the bandits were playing sneak attacks at night, but after listening carefully to what these people said and the direction of the sound, he realized that the bandits were going to wear clothes at night. Cross the open area beside the commercial road, go from the forest on the right side of the commercial road to the left side of the commercial road in the burning village.

"In short, it's better not to attack."

Keir jumped off his horse and told Bloodyaster about his discovery, but the other party waved his hand fiercely and suggested, "You have good eyesight at night, why don't you go out on horseback and attack them?"

At this time, most people have poor eyesight at night due to insufficient nutrition in their diet, and only some people who eat well can barely see at night.

Of course, if the three moon gods give face, ordinary people can also go out in the wild at night when the moon shines all over the earth.

Unfortunately today, not only are there clouds in the sky, but there is only one moon that is barely a crescent, and the moonlight is not enough for ordinary people to see things at night in the mountains.

After listening to the suggestion of Blood Fang, Kiel gave up after a little consideration: "No, what if these people come up with another strategy to lure me away? During the day, everyone can gather together to fight against the bandits, but at night If there is another attack, it will be the same as the last time, and at least hundreds of people will be lost."

Hearing that Kiel talked about the bandits' night attack last time, and knowing how many refugees had died, Bloody Gist also calmed down the idea of ​​giving the bandits a good look.

"In this way, although I won't leave the overnight camp, it's okay to ride around outside the camp a few times to drive away the bandits. Ster, tell Priest Batar to make preparations there."

"OK."

After explaining to his companions, Kiel got on his horse and shouted at an armed member of his staff who was helping him wipe his helmet not far away: "Helmet! Throw it here!"

"My lord caught it."

The citizen threw the steel helmet over with both hands. After Kiel caught it with one hand, he buckled it on the head first, and then connected the neck armor and the helmet together. At the same time, the groom who was in charge of taking care of the blood licking grass also put on the bit and reins of the horse and handed them over to Kiel.

"Don't be nervous everyone, if there are enemies coming, the only thing that will greet them is death—"

After shouting this, Kiel steered his horse past the tents and fires that were crowded with people, and came outside the camp. Together with the armed people who patrolled throughout the night, they were alert to possible dangers tonight.

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"Boss! The knight came out on horseback!"

Because the bandits are in the dark distance, and the refugee camp is full of fires for lighting and heating, so standing in the camp can't see anything outside, and most people can barely see a small circle around the camp illuminated by the fire. . But the bandits in the distance can easily see every move in the bright refugee camp.

"What's wrong with me, can you talk! Everyone be careful and move your feet faster. Believe me, that guy won't chase him into the woods. He was played by us during the day. He is unlikely to Just forget about it."

The fat bandit leader nicknamed 'Iron Bucket' walked in the middle of the bandit team on their way. In front of them were the guys with the best night vision, and behind them were the guys with the best ears.

The people in front lead the way, and the people behind listen to the footsteps of the people in front, and will not fall behind in the rush.

As soon as he opened his mouth, the bandits around him breathed a sigh of relief. In the afternoon, there was no news of the scarface group who ambushed the knight, and everyone roughly had a judgment on the strength of the young knight mixed in with the refugee team.

It was about the same strength as the knight lords who led troops to hunt them down before, and they were not something ordinary people like them could fight against.

The bandits looked in the direction of the refugee camp, and indeed saw a figure on a horse not rushing towards them, but patrolling the guards around the refugee camp.

"Whatever you look at, go away! Go away! When I get back to the village, I'm going to skin that guy with the bald head!"

The bandit leader cursed and urged the trusted bandits around him to leave quickly.

Soon, the group of them passed through the open space of the commercial road hundreds of meters wide, and walked quickly from the woods on one side of the road to the woods on the other side.

This side is next to the woods of Xinqingquan Village, and the bandits are much more familiar with it. Many experienced bandits who often come out to loot have carved many unique marks on the trunks of some people's shoulders.

Follow these signs to find the path to the village, no matter where you are in the woods.

Guessing it was safe, the bandit leader pulled out a torch from his waist, and then took out the kindling to light it up. The torch quickly burned blazingly, illuminating the figures of a dozen or so bandits around.

"Everyone with torches lights up, everyone move faster, hurry up."

'Iron Bucket' still didn't say anything, he actually had some uneasy premonition in his heart, the fire in the lair tonight was too coincidental, it caught fire as soon as it got dark, if it wasn't for the captured slaves rebelling, then Others may be even worse.

And the reality is, when you don't want something, it tends to flap its wings and fly in your face.

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After a while, the bandits holding torches found a path leading to Xinqingquan Village in the woods, and they quickly walked back along the path that they had come down at noon.

When they set off, they were all high-spirited and elated, thinking that today must be another day to make a fortune. But in the same day, there were only a dozen or so of them, nervous and exhausted, going back up the mountain at a fast pace.

The comparison between the two made some bandits with sensitive minds (with rebellious brains) unconsciously look at their leader a few more times - the 'iron bucket'.

To be honest, the bandit leader didn't do a bad job, it's just that he chose the wrong target today and didn't investigate in advance. If he could send people to climb the treetops at the edge of the forest to scout before he led people to plunder at noon, the loss of manpower would not be so great.

These wandering bandits, with such thoughts, went all the way to the gate of Xinqingquan Village.

Then here, a group of people were blocked by the gate of their lair.

Inside the tall wooden walls of the village, apart from the crackling of the flames, there were many cries of people, as well as excited cries mixed with them.

The bandit leader frowned and shouted towards the sentry position on the top of the gate: "People above! Open your eyes and see who I am! Open the gate for me!"

A figure flickered above the gate of the village, but no one came out to talk to him.

'Iron Bucket''s heart sank, and the bad feeling came again. Although there was no sign of a battle on the gate of the village, which reassured him a little, an ominous premonition still came to his mind.

"I'll say it again, open the door to me! Don't you want to live? Or is your ear broken?"

The bandit leader shouted more and more angry.

A trusted bandit next to him said: "Boss, these people may be worried about being punished if they make a mistake, so they shouldn't answer us at all, and they don't open the door. I think they are trying to delay it for a while, and put After the fire in the village is extinguished, they probably have the face to open the door!"

"Well, what you said makes sense. The people above listen, I swear I won't punish you, only the bald guy who is in charge of guarding the village, and the rest are innocent. Open the door!"

The bandit leader shouted again.

But this time, as someone climbed up from the inside of the gate, a figure appeared with the fire in the village behind his back.

It was a muscular figure wearing thick black bear leather pants. After the figure came to the railing above the gate, it first coughed twice, and then lifted the cloth towel covering its face, revealing a face of a middle-aged man who was ravaged by wind and frost.

"Iron bucket, I haven't seen you for a while."

The middle-aged man spoke with a smile, and said in a mocking voice.

At the same time, he beckoned behind him, and then the seven or eight people who had been hiding inside the platform on the top of the gate also came out, each of them holding a fist-sized stone, or a throwing gun, or a hunting bow. .

Not a single familiar face.

The face of the bandit leader Tie Tong changed visibly. He frowned tightly and gritted his teeth. While stretching out his hand to signal the people behind him to back away, he shouted viciously: "It's you! Damn Ken! You actually attacked My territory! Have you forgotten what we discussed with several groups of people in the past two months?"

The middle-aged man who used to be a well-known mercenary spat out of the gate: "It's not the **** Ken, but the murderer Ken, remember clearly."

After a pause, he didn't allow his subordinates to condescendingly attack the retreating Tie Tong and the others. He said, "Discussion? You call that a negotiation? You two cut off this commercial road one by one. It's a piece of meat. No soup for me and my brothers. I disagreed at the time, what did you say? Let me hear it again?"

The iron barrel that had retreated more than 30 meters stood still, staring at Ken who was also looking at him, and said little by little: "It was a little bad at the beginning, but you know, what we do, bandits, Relying on the ability in hand and the number of brothers under him. Back then, I was superior, and you should suffer a little. In fact, I and the gang of hanged ghosts did not eat up your team, which is already left for you. It's a bit of a face."

"Ha!" 'Ken the Killer' laughed angrily: "Oh, I have to thank you two? Let me and my brothers eat wild vegetables and fruits for more than two months?"

"You misunderstood. It's not for you to suffer, but for you to take your people and leave this place voluntarily. Huh, think about it carefully, isn't it good to develop in other places? The three of us are crowded here It’s a small place, to be honest, don’t you think it’s too crowded? Let’s not talk about three, just me and the hanged ghosts are on the same business road, I think two are too many.”

"You should let the person who hanged the ghost listen to this. I guess, they probably have the same idea?"

The killer Ken said a witty thing, and then he put on a straight face and shouted angrily: "Now you have seen it and talked to me, you can get out! Get out of the way, I also feel that the three groups are in a business. The road is a bit crowded. But the difference is that this time, it is you who should take people away, not me!"

Ken on the top shouted angrily like this, but the 'iron bucket' at the bottom could only grit his teeth and curse loudly.

He didn't have the courage and ability to let him lead the dozen or so people around him to launch an attack. If it was the time when there were the most people at noon, he still planned to have people cut down trees to make wooden ladders to attack, but today at least half of the people were killed or injured in the process of looting the refugee team, and there was simply not enough manpower and morale.

"You bastard, plotting against me and taking away my village, aren't you afraid that I will follow your example and take down your previous village? Ken! Answer me!"

Iron Bucket asked loudly.

Beside him, the dozen or so bandits also shouted together, adding power to the leader's words. Although these guys have other plans in their hearts, after all, some people have worked so hard with the 'iron bucket' to have a few slaves at their disposal, as well as personal belongings hidden in the village. These things are bandits It is really impossible for them to give up in exchange for their lives.

Therefore, in the minds of the bandits, there were plans to change their families. After all, these people didn't care which boss they were with. Who can win, the strong man who can always win is their bandit leader.

Of course, the timing is not right at this time, and it is not the time to take refuge in 'Ken the Killer'.

If you dare to rely on the other party now, the guy 'Iron Bucket' will go crazy.

Faced with the iron bucket's questioning, the murderer Ken laughed at the gate of the village for a while, and then replied: "If you want, then go, it happens to be a place for you and me? But I'm sorry, there are many people around my village. There's nothing to eat anymore. You know, it's not a farming village, it's just a forest farm for a bunch of loggers. If you like to eat wood, then you can eat as much as you want. Haha..."

Being humiliated like this, the veins in the hand of 'Iron Bucket' holding the big ax jumped up, and the teeth rattled even more.

Maybe because he didn’t think it was enough to hit people, Ken, the murderer, gave a low order to his subordinates, and then shouted to the iron bucket: “I’ll let you understand how I took this place before you get mad. After all, you occupy This village is really nice."

As if he knew what was going to happen next, Tie Tong looked around hesitantly at his subordinates, and saw that none of these experienced bandits dared to look at him, and the Tie Tong was also broken, not directly in the worst place. Before the situation happened, he led people to retreat, but raised his head and hung his neck, glaring at the gate of the village not far away.

Soon, a 30-year-old bandit nicknamed bald, but actually bald, climbed up to the gate of the village.

As soon as this person showed his face, the subordinates around the iron bucket exclaimed and cursed, and all the ugly words such as traitors, ￥￥, &*%￥ pressed on the bald head one after another.

Tie Tong, on the other hand, was already mentally prepared, and knew that cursing at this time was useless, so he only thought about the words in his heart, and did not speak first.

The killer Ken patted the bald head proudly on the shoulder, and encouraged him a few words loudly. He greatly appreciated the bald head's behavior of changing the door when he saw the wind, and publicly stated that he would let the bald head pick himself in Xinqingquan Village. anything you want.

"In addition, I will continue to welcome other friends and brothers who have the same idea, and do the same. You know, I am not a stingy person. Unlike some people, the best things from looting are always kept for myself. And I will generously share it with my trusted brothers, because I understand that my group of reliable brothers is my best reward. Are you right?"

The last sentence, Ken who cut the man was asking the other bandits on the gate, and these people also shouted in unison: "That's too true, boss!"

"If I die, I will follow the boss and continue to work as a bandit if I am a ghost."

"Haha, this can be avoided, haha."

The slasher Ken looked excited, and the bald man next to him was also very happy. On the one hand, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com he doesn’t like iron buckets, on the other hand, he has already obtained the benefits after betraying his original companion—— Leader Ken let him choose things in the village, and his position and subordinates were promoted.

Looking at the happy group of people at the gate of the village, Tie Tong said: "Haha, don't be too happy, Ken, before long, you will be like me, maybe not as good as me. I'm not as happy as I am today. I admit it, then in the end, I wish you and the hanged ghosts to fight as soon as possible. After all, a trade road is too crowded for two people to eat. I believe that when you play happily with the hanged ghosts, this bald man , he will definitely do something that surprises you."

"Let's go, retreat."

The iron bucket retreated facing the direction of the village, and waited until it was far away from the firing range of the bow bandits, before turning around and leading the people away.

Soon, in the direction of the iron barrel leaving, several torches were thrown towards the farmland outside the village, and the flames quickly burned in the field.

On the gate, the bald head who saw this scene hurriedly turned to Ken, the new bandit leader who suggested: "Boss, you have to send someone to put out the fire quickly. It's okay to burn down one or two houses in the village, but outside the village The farmland must not be burned!"

But Ken, the man-killer, waved his hand and signaled his bald head to be safe: "Don't worry, I saw it when I was lying in ambush in the farmland outside the village in the evening. The field is very humid, and the wind in the mountains brings a lot of wealth." Moisture-containing mist can’t be burned. Don’t worry, it’s just a trick of the iron bucket to lure us to open the door. Don’t pay attention to him.”

Sure enough, as Ken said, only part of the crops were lit by the torch, and the burning flame was quickly extinguished.

And the iron bucket that led people to ambush in the woods near the farmland outside the village, and finally led people away cursing.