Path of light

Chapter 426 427. Two letters

Captain Helik leaned against the wall in a somewhat exhausted state. Short flying spears were thrown out from under the city and landed on the top of the city one after another.

The sharp war spears pierced the city wall, immediately throwing up a handful of stone chips. Some war spears would cross the stacks of the city wall, and some would fly into the interior of the castle and smash some red tiles, but few short flying spears could hurt the rebels. Army soldier.

These rebel mixed-blood elf warriors have been holding on to the castle in the silver mine for nineteen days. During this period, the griffon cavalry of the Griffin Regiment sent food and military supplies twice, allowing the rebel warriors in the castle to have sufficient supplies. …

This is also the main reason why Captain Helic has been able to persist.

Every time the headhunters charge towards the castle, they will throw a wave of short flying spears under the city wall to suppress the mixed-blood elf warriors on the wall...

Without the secret support of the mine owners, the headhunters carried fewer short flying spears, so they would only throw out the short flying spears when launching an siege.

Several mixed-blood elf warriors wearing heavy armor stood at the top of the city holding tower shields. Those short flying spears hit the shields in front of them, making a muffled sound of "dong dong dong".

Captain Herrick felt that the number of short flying spears was decreasing sharply. He let his breathing become more steady, and then suddenly stood up from the wall, holding a long sword in his hand and hiding behind a shield, towards the bottom of the city wall. peep.

Sure enough, a group of headhunters were slowly climbing up from under the city wall, and the headhunters at the front were almost rushing to the top of the city.

Captain Herrick quickly swung his sword and stabbed the headhunter who had just emerged from behind the wall. The headhunter was obviously on guard and hurriedly raised his shield to block Captain Herrick's sword. His body was a little unstable and he almost fell from the top of the city.

The companions at the back dragged the headhunter's body with their hands, and the headhunter suddenly rushed to the city wall. Captain Herrick had no time to put away his sword, twisted his body and gave the headhunter an elbow strike, which happened to hit him firmly. On the headhunter's chest.

The headhunter flew out from the city wall, and with a scream, he fell to the bottom of the city...

More headhunters from behind had climbed up from under the city wall, and the mixed-blood elf warriors stood up one after another and pierced the headhunters' bodies with their spears.

This scene is repeated almost every day in the silver mines of the Kaltim Mountains.

The elven warriors of the rebel army, led by Captain Helic, always beat back the headhunters without any danger...

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This kind of siege battle has been going on for more than half a month. This group of headhunters attacked the city almost every day. Unfortunately, they encountered a group of rebels with extremely strong fighting will, and this rebel army also had a steady supply of supplies.

This prevented the headhunters from breaking through the castle in the silver mine.

Although wave after wave of headhunters retreated from Ghost Crow Ridge in the south, when passing the Silver Mine Castle, these headhunters also tried to attack the city, but without exception, all the headhunters failed to escape from the Helic Regiment. The castle was captured by the captain.

Seeing the headhunters attacking the silver mine every day, Captain Herrick knew very well that Roy's mine guards must have put too much fighting pressure on them.

Headhunters are constantly withdrawing from Ghost Crow Ridge, so this group of headhunters attacks the Silver Mine Castle so frequently.

And since headhunters are constantly coming from the north of the Caldeum Mountains, the headhunters hope to stabilize their defeat somewhere in the Caldeum Mountains...

The two headhunter leaders had their sights set on the Silver Mine Castle and had always wanted to capture it.

But they met Captain Herrick, and the two sides were in a stalemate for nearly nineteen days. The headhunter leader failed to capture the silver mine, and the rebel soldiers were unable to break out of the castle to intercept the headhunters who continued to retreat to the north. them.

As a result, a large number of headhunters who retreated from Ghost Crow Ridge passed the Silver Mine Castle and continued to flee north.

Although the battle situation here was not as planned by Captain Herrick, the rebels and the mine guards formed an encirclement, completely blocking the headhunters in the southern section of the tundra...

But because the rebels were like a nail stuck in the middle of the Caldeum Mountains, the headhunters had no choice but to retreat northward in a hurry if they wanted to survive, in addition to occupying the silver mine castle.

At the same time, the mine guards led by Roy had chased hundreds of kilometers northward along the west side of the Kaltim Mountains, clinging to the gentle edge of the tundra. The headhunters did not put up any resistance at all.

A group of headhunters continued to retreat north.

The mine guards arrived at Green Sun Lake in the middle of the tundra without fighting a decent battle.

This place is only over fifty kilometers away from the silver mine where Captain Helic is located.

And here is a large wetland surrounding a freshwater lake in the middle. The entire Green Sun Lake is like a magnificent emerald embedded in this tundra.

Roy's mine guards occupy Green Sun Lake, which means that they will be in close contact with the rebels in the silver mines. The two sides can cooperate with each other to eat away the headhunters in the central part of the Caldeum Mountains bit by bit...

Although they were unable to engage in large-scale battles with the headhunters, the scout teams of the mine guards still engaged in small-scale battles with the headhunters very frequently.

At this time, the mixed-blood elf warriors already had a mature fighting method, allowing these mixed-blood elf warriors to grow rapidly.

Looking down at Green Sun Lake from a high altitude, the lake looks like a green pea, with clear water and vast blue waves...

Roy led the mine guards to camp on the grassy slope by the lake. The marching tents of 3,500 mixed-blood elf warriors stretched across a large area by the lake.

There are also some small pools around Green Day Lake, which are separated by large patches of moss...

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Roy was originally going to go directly to the silver mines, join up with Captain Herrick's rebel army, and then go north together to hunt down the headhunters.

But just the day before the two parties met, Roy received a letter from the Padstow City Silver Pegasus military headquarters. Roy opened the letter and found out that it was actually the Padstow City Silver Pegasus. An autographed letter from the Silver Moon Elf Commander-in-Chief of the Military Department:

'Roy Mine Owner, the Silver Pegasus Military Department has currently received very bad news. Some mixed elven rebels who originally settled in Barrier Town suddenly left Barrier Town two months ago. , the whereabouts of this mixed elf rebel army have been unknown, but recently some people heard that this rebel army appeared on the Pagisto Plateau, which made the already turbulent Pagisto Plateau situation even more chaotic. The military department now requires you to report the situation of the rebel army to Padstow City as much as possible while fighting against the headhunters on the plateau...'

This letter is a bit long, and it probably means asking Roy to monitor the actions of Captain Herrick, and try not to provide any assistance to this rebel team. It is best to make them unable to survive on the Pajisto Plateau. Leave Pagisto Plateau early and travel to other areas of the Partington plane.

This letter made Roy really confused...

It is clear that the current advantageous situation on the Pagisto Plateau was opened up by Captain Helic, but the Silver Pegasus military headquarters is more wary of the mixed elf rebels than those headhunters.

Roy's face turned ugly after reading the letter.

Although he did not intend to reveal the whereabouts of Captain Herrick, the plan to meet up with Captain Herrick could only be put on hold for the time being.

It was precisely because of this letter that Roy could not blatantly join forces with Captain Helic's mixed-blood elf rebels and could only camp by the Green Sun Lake.

Roy and Woods were sitting on a big rock by the lake. The waves of the lake were beating against the rocks on the shore.

"Are they just blatantly suppressing the mixed elves?" Woods angrily shouted.

Roy sighed helplessly and said:

"They probably think that I am a half-elf. Even though I lived in a mixed-blood elf settlement before, I am now working for the Silver Pegasus Legion. So if I have to choose between a silver moon elf and a half-blood elf, I will definitely choose On the side of the Silver Moon Elf, at least my mother is a Silver Moon Elf... That’s why she sent me such a letter.”

Woods widened his eyes, stared at Roy very seriously, and asked him:

"Roy, what are you going to do about this?"

Roy put a towel over his face. Although the wind by the lake was a bit cold, the sun was warm on his body. The place was filled with a strong scent of water element, so it was very enjoyable to bask in the sun here. Son.

"The use of military supplies sent by the military will be recorded in detail in the next period of time, and will not be sent to the rebels. Of course, as for other supplies, Leisander's pack team will Whether it is given to the rebels or not is beyond my control..."

Roy said quietly, obviously wanting to change his open support for the rebels into covert support...

"It seems like this is the only way to go!"

Although Woods was a little aggrieved, he still accepted Roy's compromise.

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'Roy, Castletown City's material preparations have gone very smoothly. The news that you won a battle on the Pagisto Plateau has spread throughout Castletown City. You don't even know that Castleton City has recently Looking at how lively these days are, many mixed elves ran to the streets to celebrate this victory, and I collected life sap and magic potions on the black market. As long as you know that I am going to send these supplies to Paddington's plane, In the Gisto Plateau, businessmen will come to you. ’

'For the first time, I had a happy feeling of 'doing something right'. These supplies will be the first batch of supplies to arrive on the Pagisto Plateau. When you receive this batch of supplies, the second batch of supplies will be the same as the second batch of supplies. The third batch of supplies should be on the way. One last thing I want to tell you, "The Song of the Mountain Eagle" is very popular in Castletown City. I don't know how many Silver Moon elves raised the dream to go to the Partington plane because of hearing this song. The idea of ​​​​seeing the Gisto Plateau! ’

Claire's letter was delivered to Roy personally by Lysander.

Along with this letter, a large amount of life tree sap and magic potions were sent. According to Roy's request, these magic potions are mainly healing potions.

In the tent, Roy used a dagger to pry open the square wooden box in front of him, opened the lid, and pushed aside the soft hay shreds inside. As expected, there were rows of glass bottles inside, and these glass bottles contained emerald green. solution.

This time, Lysander brought back a total of three boxes of life sap and seven boxes of healing potions, but in comparison, the healing potions seemed very ordinary.

Roy called Kaka and little Eugene directly and handed them a box of life sap and two boxes of healing potions.

"You two go there in person and make sure to hand these three boxes of potions into the hands of Captain Herrick...Forget it, I'd better go with you!"

The two griffons only flew for more than half an hour from the Green Sun Lake to the Silver Mine.

Roy sat behind Kaka and clearly felt that Kaka's griffon had become much stronger these days...

Captain Herrick personally ran to the city to greet Roy. The first thing he said when they met was to ask Roy: "Didn't we agree to get together and attack the headhunters? Why are you mine guards still here?" Stop by Green Sun Lake?”

Roy took a map directly out of his arms, laid it on the rocky ground of the city wall, pointed at the arrows on the map and said:

"The situation may change, so give me three days, and my mine guards will pursue them all the way from here. Helik, you take your people and chase north along the edge of Mount Kaltim... …”

"I will let the griffin group and the assassin team harass these plateau headhunters and make them exhausted every night!"

Hearing what Roy said, Captain Herrick took a serious look at the land line and then said to Roy: "The mine guards must be careful of the headhunters' counterattack when walking in the middle of the tundra."

"Yes, we are fully prepared this time!"

Roy then took out three wooden boxes from his magic pocket and continued to say to Captain Herrick:

"These are life sap and healing potions. If any mixed elf warriors are injured, these potions can help them recover quickly, and some will be added later."

Captain Herrick looked at the three wooden boxes and nodded vigorously.

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The next morning, the mine guards set out from the Green Sun Lake and continued northward to pursue the group of headhunters who fled in a hurry.

Since the mine guards stayed at Green Sun Lake for a few days, most of the headhunters almost all left the middle section of the Kaltim Mountains. Roy walked north for three consecutive days without encountering any headhunters.

On the contrary, the Griffin Group and the Assassin Squad have continued to gain...

During the period of chasing the headhunters, Captain Herrick once again took over two mines.

Unfortunately, the headhunters stationed in the mines had already evacuated. Before leaving, the headhunters smashed all the boxes, cabinets, doors, windows, sculptures, vessels and other items that could be damaged in the two mines.

The corpses of a large number of mixed-blood elf miners and gray dwarf miners were filled in the mines.

The two mines that Captain Helic took back were almost in ruins, and no surviving elves could be found...