Path of light

Chapter 425 426. Counterattack Horn

The blood of the mixed-blood elf warriors dyed the walls of the Silver Mine Castle red, and the bodies of some mixed-blood elf warriors were still hanging outside the walls.

The headhunters on the city wall have been killed by the rebel mixed-blood elf warriors. Now the mixed-blood elf warriors rush into the castle and are hunting down the headhunters hiding inside.

Captain Herrick was covered in blood, with five short flying spears stuck in his shoulders, left ribs, lower abdomen, and thighs. The spear shafts were dyed red with blood. He sat on the wall with a pale face and took out a bottle. The cork of the healing potion was poured into the stomach, and a force suddenly grew in the body and filled into the blood.

The trusted guard on the side handed him another glass of diluted tree sap of life, and Captain Herrick took it and drank it in one gulp.

Two mixed-blood elf warriors squatted in front of his legs, handling the short flying spears on his body.

In this attack on the city, Captain Helic took the lead and led a group of mixed-blood elf warriors to rush up to the city wall from the front, fighting with the headhunters at the top of the city. It was not until a large number of mixed-blood elf warriors rushed to the top of the city that they killed the headhunters guarding the city wall. Kill all the headhunters.

At this time, Captain Helik was exhausted. He was sitting by the wall, with the flag of the rebel army next to him.

This flag embroidered with an elf dragon was blown by the wind...

Captain Helic spit out blood-stained spit, and the tree of life sap entered his stomach, and he felt that the strength in his body began to recover rapidly.

He held a short flying spear and with the help of his trusted guards, he pulled it out from his thigh.

Blood quickly poured out of the blood hole, and another close guard immediately bandaged the wound tightly with a hemostatic bandage.

Captain Herrick patted the shoulder of his trusted guard, gritted his teeth and stood up from the wall, walked to the edge of the city wall, raised the long sword in his hand, and shouted to the mixed-blood elf warriors who continued to fight bravely in the castle. With: "We fight for freedom!"

A group of mixed-blood elf warriors who were still fighting bloody battles with the headhunters knocked their opponents away and loudly echoed: "We...will definitely win!"

This sentence seemed to have a magical power, which rekindled the fighting spirit of the mixed-blood elf warriors fighting in the castle. They howled and rushed towards the headhunters, killing all the last headhunters who were still resisting tenaciously.

There were only a group of bloody mixed-blood elf warriors from the rebel army left in the mine.

The rebel soldiers broke open the large, tightly locked iron door behind the castle, and a foul smell came out.

Hundreds of corpses of half-blood elven miners that had begun to rot severely almost filled the silver mine cave...

In addition to the mixed-blood elf miners, gray dwarf corpses can also be seen in the corpse pile.

The headhunters who invaded the castle killed almost all living things in the castle, and now they are all dead in the castle.

The castle of Silver Mine is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it happens to be built on a ridge extending outward in the middle of the Kaldim Mountains. Although the place where the castle is located is not a pass, it is like a nail driven deep into the mountain. In the middle of the Kartim Mountains.

The headhunters came from the north and were destined to pass through the tundra next to the Silver Mine Castle before they could rush to Ghost Crow Ridge in the south.

This time they captured the silver mine, the rebel army sacrificed nearly 400 mixed-blood elven warriors and injured more than 800 mixed-blood elven warriors. However, there were only 500 headhunters guarding the castle.

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The news that the rebels had occupied the silver mines in the middle of the Kaltim Mountains was quickly sent to Roy through the Griffin Cavalry.

At this time, Roy led the mine guards stationed at the foot of the mountain to the north of Ghost Crow Ridge. He had been busy reorganizing the mine guards these days. When he entered Ghost Crow Ridge, he brought a total of two thousand mixed elves. Warrior, after the victory in the Battle of Ghost Crow Ridge, mixed-blood elves gathered from all directions took the initiative to join Roy's mine guard team. The number of these mixed-blood elves was about 1,500.

After the Mine Guard captured Ghost Crow Ridge, the number of troops suddenly surged to 3,500.

It's just that the new mixed-blood elf warriors who have joined the mine guards have not yet been assigned weapons and armor. They only have earth-made spears and hunting bows in their hands, and the war blades they took back from the headhunters.

New armaments are being shipped from the second mine in a hurry.

Roy also didn't expect that the victory in the Battle of Ghost Crow Ridge would have a chain reaction.

The news that Captain Herrick had occupied the silver mine reached Ghost Crow Ridge, and Roy specifically asked Kaka to fly him high into the sky to take a look at the terrain at the southern end of the Kardim Mountains.

The area between the Caldeum Mountains and the western mountains of the Pagisto Plateau is a narrow tundra, and the headhunters are currently stuck in this tundra in the southern part of the Caldeum Mountains.

The headhunters who were originally guarding the southern part of the Kaltim Mountains had noticed that the situation was not quite right and began to slowly retreat towards the central part of the Kaltim Mountains.

Although they hid in the jungle of the Kaltim Mountains and secretly retreated north, their move was discovered by the Griffin Group immediately.

The headhunters obviously realized that something was wrong with the situation. They wanted to retreat to the north of the plateau...

Roy didn't want these headhunters to retreat easily.

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A pack team walked slowly along the tundra at the foot of the mountain to the north of Ghost Crow Ridge towards the mine guard camp. Leisander rode an argali at the front. After running around for several months, Leisander lost a lot of weight. In a big circle, his pack team brought a new batch of military supplies and food to the mine guards.

In addition to the relatively durable elf biscuits, the food brought this time also included some fresh apples.

However, Lysander did not expect that Roy's mine guard team would suddenly expand to 3,500 people, which obviously made the supplies he brought over somewhat stretched.

"Oh, I didn't expect you to expand so many people at once. If I had known, I would have brought more elf cookies." Lysander said with some self-blame, but his eyes were full of relief.

Those half-blood elves hiding in the southern part of the Pagisto Plateau are willing to stand up and jointly resist the headhunters in the Kaldeum Mountains.

This in itself means that this group of mixed-blood elves who usually live a secluded life will no longer escape, and they resist the idea of ​​​​the headhunters on the plateau.

"Lesander, your pack team needs to be expanded a bit. You can temporarily rent the carriage and horse shop in Padstow City. It is best to rent the entire carriage and horse shop to us to transport logistics supplies. As long as they are willing to pay, we can Promise, the Griffin Regiment will no longer transport supplies for the next period of time. There are still five thousand mixed elves in the middle of the Kaltim Mountains who need us to provide necessary logistical supplies." Roy came over and said to Lysander .

Lysander nodded and replied: "The arrangements have been made. The second pack team should have already set off from the valley camp below the plateau and rushed here."

As he said that, Lysander asked two mixed-blood elves to open a wooden box. Inside was a series of jet-black and shiny black iron war spears that were only as thick as a thumb. This kind of war spear was a bit too thin for the elven warriors, only six feet. long. The spear was made entirely of black iron and was extremely heavy. The tip of the spear was even plated with a layer of mithril, making it look extremely sharp. Moreover, the tip of the spear imitated the wolf-fang arrow and had six barbs.

Lysander took out a short flying spear from the wooden box and said to Roy: "This is a spear made by Miss Channing according to Captain Tiprado's description, and is specially equipped for the use of the Griffin Regiment cavalry."

"Go and invite Captain Tiprado!" Roy said to a mixed elf warrior behind him.

Soon Captain Tiprado hurried over. He saw Roy holding a black spear in his hand, and his eyes lit up.

"It was built so quickly, much faster than I thought..." Captain Tiprado said happily.

Roy handed the black iron spear in his hand to Captain Tiprado. When Captain Tiprado held it in his hand, he said with some surprise: "...it's so heavy!"

"Made of pure black iron, of course it will be heavier!" Mu Lin said, holding a black iron spear: "And the spear shaft is a bit thin, so it is not easy to hold!"

"I'll try!"

As Captain Tiprado spoke, he whistled, and a light brown gryphon spread its wings and sprang out, glided nearly a hundred meters at low altitude, and landed firmly next to Captain Tiprado.

Captain Tiprado grabbed a spear and mounted the griffin. Then the huge griffin spread its wings, jumped up, flapped its wings violently a few times, and rushed into the sky...

A strong wind suddenly blew around Roy and others...

After Captain Tiprado wandered around in the sky, the griffin suddenly folded its wings at an altitude of nearly a thousand meters, and its body was like a meteorite, falling straight from the sky.

Roy thought this griffon was going to activate the 'Iron Will'...

But obviously he made a mistake in his judgment. The griffin folded its wings just to increase its speed in order to fall. When the gryphon was only a few hundred meters away from the ground, Captain Tiprado, who was riding on the back of the gryphon, unexpectedly dropped the black iron in his hand. The spear is thrown towards the ground.

He made this throw with all his strength, and the black iron spear even disappeared in the air. Just three seconds later, there was an explosion from a boulder only fifty meters away from Roy. This one meter in diameter The boulder exploded directly, and a black iron spear penetrated deeply into the rocky ground.

Even a heavily armored warrior wearing heavy armor and holding a tower shield could not withstand that powerful impact.

Originally, the gryphon cavalry only shot feather arrows in the air, and the feather arrows falling from the sky did not have the power of the black iron spears.

When Captain Tiprado landed on the ground again on his gryphon, Roy approached Captain Tiprado and asked: "Captain Tiprado, how many black iron spears can you throw in one battle?"

"Three spears won't put too much burden on me. Five spears should be the upper limit. Moreover, these black iron spears are too heavy, so we can't bring too many..." Captain Tiprado said.

"Can all the soldiers of the Griffin Regiment learn this throwing method?"

"It's not that difficult..." Captain Tiprado replied.

"Well, I'll let Qian Ning continue to build this kind of war spear and equip it for the Griffin Regiment..." Roy said happily.

In the next few days, all members of the Griffin Group were practicing throwing black iron spears...

The headhunters hiding in the southern part of the Kardim Mountains also realized that their retreat was almost cut off. These headhunters began to panic. They no longer concealed their retreat to the north, but fled north in large numbers. .

Headhunters wearing fur clothes can be seen everywhere in the mountains.

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Roy did not wait any longer. He led the mine guards from Ghost Crow Ridge and chased north along the Kaltim Mountains...

The mine guards did not pursue them in a hurry, they just cleaned up some lone headhunter teams along the way.

Captain Tiprado thought this was a rare training opportunity. Because these headhunters were on the run, they were unlikely to take away the black iron spears stuck on the ground, so he led more than a hundred gryphon cavalry in the sky. Follow all the way.

Upon discovering the figure of the headhunter, the gryphon cavalry will swoop down and throw down the black iron spear in their hands when they are only a few hundred meters away from the headhunter.

In fact, the black iron spears were thrown from such a long distance, and below them were the headhunters fleeing all the way north. Although they had no fighting spirit, they were extremely vigilant, so it was difficult for the black iron spears to hit this group of headhunters. Then, The gryphon cavalry would have to fly down to pick up the black iron spear, which would be even more dangerous.

However, Captain Tiprado always insisted on letting the Griffin Cavalry do this, and Roy also supported it...

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Every time darkness falls, a team of assassins will appear from the Caldeum Mountains. They are like a group of night sabers hunting in the darkness, constantly harvesting the lives of the fleeing headhunters.

They are everywhere, and they can get in front of these headhunting teams every time.

Even if they encounter some more difficult headhunter leaders, these assassin team members will retreat safely through the shadows in the forest...

In order to deal with the assassin team, the headhunters who retreated to the north had to gather together and light torches even at night. When resting, everyone would almost gather together, or simply in a cave, where all the headhunters lived. In a cave, leaving a few headhunters on watch at the entrance can effectively resist the assassination team.

But in this case, the headhunters must retreat as a group.

A large number of headhunters gathered together and became the target of the griffin cavalry.

The headhunters gathered together, and the power of the black iron spears thrown from the sky was revealed. Once this kind of black iron spear stabs a headhunter, it usually penetrates from the top of the head, then emerges from the tailbone, and then stabs hard. Entering the rocky ground, he pinned the Headhunter in place, killing him instantly.

Although this black iron spear did not pierce many headhunters' bodies along the way, it created a huge shadow in the headhunters' hearts...

Headhunters themselves are accustomed to throwing spears, and they are also well aware of the power of spears. At this time, they have become prey in the eyes of spear hunters. The fear that grows in their hearts spreads throughout their bodies, making them unable to help but flee north. No matter how much physical strength he had, he ran away like crazy.

And Roy led the mine guards to follow far behind, like a group of shepherds driving their sheep all the way north...

On the Pagisto Plateau, Roy's mine guards finally took the initiative and sounded the clarion call for counterattack.