Chapter 455: Battle
There is no order in the wilderness, and if there is, it is also the law of nature.
But there can be rules.
Caravans or caravans that often travel through the wilderness often reach a tacit agreement or agreement with the criminal bandits who are entrenched on one side, and obtain the safety of passage by paying protection fees.
Some bandit groups are willing to make some stable money in order to avoid fishing in the water, or to provoke strong repression.
Of course, this is just an unspoken rule, and no caravan dares to openly advertise that they have a deal with bandits.
Although the scale and strength of the Huoluan Business Group are strong, Huoxiong is still willing to abide by such unspoken rules.
After all, once a conflict breaks out with the Tempest Bandits, the outcome is not discussed, and the losses on the part of the merchant group will be inevitable.
The pension of a knight of the guards is not a small amount.
So if a bloody battle can be avoided, Hoo can still bear some price in terms of money.
There was a hint of ridicule on the smile on Feng Fu's face, as if he had seen through Huoxiong's inner thoughts at the moment.
He raised his right hand and spread his five fingers towards the fire.
Huoxiong was stunned: "Five o'clock?"
Five points is five percent of the goods carried by the merchant group.
If such a condition is the case, then he can agree without hesitation.
But his intuition told the leader of the merchant group that the Wind Blade was probably not so easy to talk to!
Sure enough, the ridicule of the wind rage overflowed: "Fifty percent!"
Fifty percent!
Although the Huoxiong City Mansion was very deep, he was still angry.
According to the unspoken rules of the wilderness, the caravan usually pays between 10% and 30% to buy the road.
It depends on the strength of the bandit horse thief.
The Huoluan merchant group takes a long-term line, and although the profits of the merchants are very high, the cost is also very amazing.
Not to mention, the commission paid by the knights of the guards is not a small amount, and if there are casualties on the road, the cost of treatment and pension is a large amount.
Merchants earn really hard money, and if they are lucky, they can make a lot of money along the way, but the hardships and dangers are difficult for outsiders to imagine.
Now that Feng Fury is about to take away half of the goods with one mouth, what else does the Huoluan merchant group earn?
Working for the Wind Thieves in vain!
"Impossible!"
Huoxiong said categorically: "You will be given two percent at most." ”
"Twenty percent?"
Feng Fury smiled, and suddenly sank his face: "Is this sending the homeless people?"
A break shouted: "Brothers!"
The hundreds of horse thieves behind him responded in unison, "Here!"
Feng Fury shouted, "Can you agree?"
"Can't!"
All the horse thieves raised their weapons in the air, and the battle axe swords forged from black iron flashed in a chilling light in the sunlight.
Their roars rang like thunder and rolled over the open grassland.
It made many people in the business group change their faces.
The Tempest Bandit's strength was far beyond their expectations.
"Did you hear that?"
Feng Fury said proudly to Huoxiong: "My brother doesn't agree, if you don't give fifty percent, then we will take ten percent!"
In the last few words, he said it murderously!
The corners of Huoxiong's eyes twitched a few times, and he roared, "If you want to fight, then fight!"
The anger of the leader of the merchant group has been completely forced out by the other party.
Fifty percent of the money to buy the road is completely beyond Huoxiong's bottom line, for him it is equivalent to knocking his head on the ground, if he bows his head and submits softly, he will not be able to explain it at all after he goes back.
The most important thing is that as a high-level totem warrior and a high-level extraordinary powerhouse, Huoxiong's dignity cannot be trampled on!
If he was so weak that he was afraid of fighting, he would not have the strength and status he has now.
"Good. ”
Feng Fury smiled again, and his white teeth were very eye-catching: "It's better for us to take ten percent ourselves!"
"Shoot!"
Huo majestically pulled out the sword he was wearing, and the blade burned with blazing flames.
This is the sword embodied in the spirit of war!
Whoa!
More than a dozen crossbow arrows whistled through the air, shooting at Wind Fury hundreds of paces away from different directions.
After the horse thief leader entered the range of the heavy crossbow just now, the warriors in the merchant group were ready to shoot.
And in the face of the crossbow arrows that flew in, Feng Fu snorted coldly, and Huo Ran punched out.
Punch the void, the storm is born!
His punch seemed to suck all the air around him, forming an extremely violent air flow in an instant, and slammed into the dozen or so crossbow arrows that attacked.
Although these crossbow arrows are engraved with totem runes and have special powers, they are all blown apart by the fist wind under the strong fist strength of the wind fury.
None of them could shoot in front of him.
After the punch, Wind Fury gave a thumbs up to Huoxiong, and then flipped his fist downward.
This is Chi Guoguo's contempt!
If Huoxiong is that kind of hot-blooded young man, I'm afraid he will immediately rush up and fight for life and death with the wind.
But the leader of the merchant group did not take the routine of agitation, and he changed his direction without thinking.
Quickly returned to the camp.
Whoa!
More bolts were fired at Windrage.
Although Wind Fury's strength is strong, he does not dare to break into the merchant group's defense against the attack of dozens of heavy crossbows.
He followed him back into the Tempest Bandit's array.
Woo~
The sound of the desolate trumpet sounded, with an air of solemnity.
The negotiations broke down completely, and the Tempest Thieves' offensive against the Huoluan Merchant Group officially began.
It's an inevitable battle.
Hundreds of horse thieves, wielding their weapons and skilfully harnessing their mounts, circled around the merchant camp.
Shorten the distance little by little.
This is the most common tactic used by horse thieves against their "prey" buckets.
Regardless of the fact that they formed a torrent, they actually kept a certain distance from each other, so that they had a lot of room to move and dodge, so as not to be hit by the opponent's dense blows.
In such a cyclical movement, they changed their weapons.
Tomahawks and swords turned into riding bows!
Horse archery is the most basic skill of a horse thief, and if a horse thief is not good at riding and shooting, he is not qualified to go out and rob.
And in terms of mounted archery, the Tempest Thief has a great reputation.
The momentum is like a frenzy, coming and going like the wind, which is the biggest characteristic of their attack targets.
But it was the crossbowmen of the merchant group who fired first.
The heavy crossbows equipped by the Fire Luan Merchant Regiment have a longer range than riding bows, and they still use runic crossbow arrows.
When the horse thieves came within range of the heavy crossbows, the fire hero gave the order decisively.
Hundreds of crossbow arrows were fired at the horse thieves in an instant.
The momentum is not small.
However, few successes have been achieved.
The Tempest Thieves were very cunning, and as soon as the merchant warriors here shot their crossbow arrows, they immediately scattered like a swarm of alarmed bees, leaving most of them missing.
Only a few of them hit the horses.
This loss was insignificant to the horse thieves, who regrouped in an instant.
Keep playing the circle tactic.
And some horse thieves who are skilled in archery try to return fire by throwing shots.
At the very beginning, this offensive and defensive battle fell into a stalemate!