Volume 1 Once Upon a Time in the South: The scuffle under the city of Halledia
Bad luck and bad fate, it couldn't be more appropriate to describe the current situation of the Wolf Moon Mercenary Group.
Originally, Xi Yu led this army of more than 1,300 people out of the forest of the Fevoni Mountain, and only then did he think of going to the city of Halladi to rest and wait for the hatred in his heart, the Quartet Miscellaneous Regiment, to come out of the mountains and forests, so that they could be wiped out.
However, he didn't expect that it was the mercenary group of the Tingxiao people who had already marched south along the coastline to the vicinity of Hallede City.
Speaking of Hallady, it is actually a small castle that can barely be seen from the past. The population here is desolate, and most of the people depend on the cultivation of ganru for their livelihood. The ganru here is usually sold to the northeast of the city of Xituo, and then the merchants there take over and sell it to the city of Newin via the provincial road. Usually the money is made by these rebellious merchants and the magic material dealers in Newin, and the people here can only make a living.
Speaking of Ganru, Alvin and Lan Marriage once talked about it at the "Old River" restaurant. It is a plant that grows by the sea, and its stems and leaves can be ground into powder to make potions, and its roots can be made into spices.
There really isn't much else to say about Halledia.
If it weren't for the fact that Prince Ressa had sent someone to repair this castle that had fallen into disrepair, I am afraid that there would not have been any decent city defense construction here.
I don't know which mad mercenary group Tingxiao has, and he doesn't even let go of places like Halledy. And looking at this posture, it is about 2,000 people.
The city guard of Halladi saw the pattern of the platinum lion's head on the upper left side of the banner of the Wolf Moon Mercenary Regiment on the tower of the castle, and excitedly wanted to open the city gate to welcome the allies, he never dreamed that there would be a mercenary group to come to the aid of this poor city guarded by only a thousand men. He burst into tears with excitement, eager to fly over and shout "Daddy" to each member of the mercenary group.
However, what he didn't expect was that the mercenary group of the Tingxiao people was also not far away. Now the city defense is difficult, and it stands to reason that the "fathers" should be put into the city first, so that they can fight the enemy together with the defenders in the city. However, the two thousand Tingxiao people of this Wuyang Wuyang were killed under the city first. The city guard was so frightened that he dared to open the city gate, so he could only temporarily put away the tears on his face and "kill his relatives with righteousness".
Originally, more than 2,000 Tingxiao people planned to capture this Halladi Castle, but when they saw that there were mercenary groups from the Yafei Empire outside the city to come to support, they immediately turned their guns and planned to eat these "easy to gnaw" fat outside the city first.
Therefore, Xi Yu is bitter in his heart, how can he have such a good heart to solve the siege. However, it is often so coincidental that before he reached the city of Halledia, he ran into the muzzle of the court man's gun.
"The little cows and cows (minions) of the Yafei Empire on the other side, I (persuade) you to put down your martial arts (weapons) and surrender as soon as possible, and I can let you go with great compassion today. I saw that someone in Tingxiao's mercenary group was beating forward, "If you know (late), let you Zhang Zhang (taste) the handwriting (paragraph) of our 'Tianxing' mercenary group." ”
Originally, it was a very bold speech, but this eldest brother named Yu Feng had a short tongue and a bit of a strange accent, and the two groups of people were listening to this person quietly, but when he opened his mouth, the faces of the people on Wolf Yue's side were different, and they were obviously holding back very hard.
"Damn, can you tell me where your broken tongue went?"
At this time, the people of the Wolf Moon Mercenary Group burst out laughing.
The more than 2,000 people of the Celestial Star Mercenary Regiment were flat, obviously they were either paralyzed by the stimulation and laughter every day, or they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the accent of Kaede. Of course, it is also doubtful whether this mercenary group is pronounced as "Celestial Star".
"Mom, don't (face). Feng Feng's face also darkened, the whip in his hand was raised, and the heavy cavalry behind him raised their spears when they saw this, ready to charge at any time.
Although Xi Yu secretly sighed that he was unlucky, he also cheered up, obviously knowing in his heart that it was inevitable to fight with these Tingxiao people. It's just that there are still some cubs in the Valley of Fervorni on his side who haven't dealt with it, and he is very worried that these young blind streams who have no bottom line like himself will rush out of the valley and take advantage of the fire to rob.
But the current situation did not allow him to think so much.
I saw Xi Yu draw out a long knife and point it at the Tingxiao people in front of him. Seeing this, the Wolf Moon mercenaries immediately changed from Fang Cai's hippie smile to a murderous appearance.
In winter, there is a cold sea breeze in the turbid and yellowish waters of Yaofan, which makes people's brains hurt. The sound of the waves crashing on the beach, ignoring the two murderous people in the distance. Spirited seagulls hovered in the sky, and long chirps echoed over Hallady Castle.
"Brothers, slaughter these Flesh Nuo (cowardly) Yafi people!" the long whip in his hand was waved down, and the heavily armored spears behind him were exhausted.
"Brothers, let these Tingxiao pigs come and go!" Xin Yu let out a long shout, and the long knife pointed out, and the wolf moon heavy armor rode out with a roar.
The wasteland north of Hallede City was indeed spacious enough for the heavy horsemen of the Wolf Moon and Celestial Stars to comfortably spread out their formations to charge.
The rush of these two or three thousand people can also provoke a roar in the formation, and the horses gallop and gallop like a front.
In terms of the number of cavalry, the Tianxing side has the advantage. Tianxing had about 1,002 charging cavalry, while Wolf Moon only had about 800 people. However, in terms of combat ability, it should be stronger than that of Wolf Moon.
Because after the crossbowmen in the back rows of both sides shot a rain of arrows, the Wolf Moon suffered very little damage. On Tianxing's side, more than 200 cavalrymen had fallen to the ground with arrows, and they also tripped and stumbled behind them.
The knights on both sides saw that they were within fifty paces of each other, and the blades in their hands were already hungry and thirsty, just waiting to take the head of Xiang Shang on the opposite side.
"Boom!" In the first round of contact, a number of galloping horses collided together, followed by the neighing of horses one after another, followed by the clanging of swords and guns.
Usually in such skirmishes, the knights can break through the enemy's formation with the first charge, and then reorganize the formation to launch a second charge.
However, the heavy armored shield soldiers in the back row of the Tianxing Mercenary Regiment were all defensive martial arts that were as immobile as a mountain, and the cavalry of Wolf Moon fell into a positional battle before they could penetrate the formation.
On the other hand, the back row on Wolf Yue's side was much more miserable, and the remaining five hundred or so people had to face the rush of about 1,000 people from Tianxing, and the formation was instantly rushed to pieces.
Fortunately, there was Xi Yu sitting in the rear, and after a burst of arrogant sword shadows, more than a dozen Star Knights had already been cut to the ground.
At this time, the Quartet mercenary group was also marching towards the exit of the Fevorni Mountain Forest, and the sound outside the mountain was heard, and several young nobles led by it were obviously suspicious.
"What's the situation, such a big movement?" Lai Wu glanced at the few people around him.
"It sounds like someone is fighting, but if you listen carefully, is there still a sound of shouting and killing? According to this movement, I feel that there are quite a few people. Chen Zhu wondered.
"I mean, who did the Wolf Moon gang fight with first?" said Keba, scoffing.
"Qiao Zhima is quick, let him go out of the valley to explore first. Alvin glanced at Lywu.
Lai Wu nodded and summoned Qiao Zhi over.
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When the two gangs of Wolf Moon and Tianxing were fighting, Feng Feng knew that he had found a difficult bone this time, and it was not fat.
Xi Yu's hand rose and fell, and the head of a Tingxiao mercenary rolled down. He hasn't used the three swords yet, and there are no opponents in this battlefield who are worthy of him to use these three swords.
When he slashed at the neck of a Celestial Star mercenary beside him, a long black vine whip struck from a few steps away, wrapping the knife edge.
"You look a little bit strong, I'll come to baboon (will) you. A sinister smile flashed across Feng Feng's face, and with a flick of his wrist, the long whip abandoned the long knife and whipped straight towards Xi Yu's face.
"I told you, go get your tongue in and talk to me first. Xi Yu's square face showed a trace of disdain, and the long knife in his hand was horizontal, which was able to block this whip.
Immediately after that, the two mercenary group leaders were entangled together, although Xi Yu's strength was going to win, but if he didn't take out the three knives to kill the housekeeper, he would never be able to hurt Feng Feng.
At the same time, the battle between the two mercenary groups is also in full swing. The Wolf Moon cavalry who were trapped in the siege showed superb horse skills, and any one of them was carried out alone, and they all had quite good martial arts cultivation. After all, these people are also notorious bandits and bandits, and they naturally have advantages when they fight alone.
Almost every mercenary of the Wolf Moon can pick two or three mercenaries of the Celestial Stars, and within a few moves, the mercenaries of these Celestial Stars will be defeated.
Fortunately, these Celestial Star mercenaries have rich combat experience, and they immediately changed their strategy and turned into team combat. Five to six Celestial Star mercenaries formed a formation, and several people cooperated with the group to fight one or two Wolf Moon mercenaries.
These wolf moon mercenaries are used to fighting alone, and there is actually no difference between one and two. So in the face of the coordinated attack from five or six opponents, the wolf moon side also began to lose troops.
And those Celestial Star cavalrymen who were scattered by Xi Yu's indiscriminate knife, although there were still eight or nine hundred people, they had been caught in the hand-to-hand combat of "thin eyes", and they couldn't assemble again at all. The "Thin Slit Eye" led less than half of the number of people on the opposite side, or made spears or crossbows, just to prevent these Celestial Star cavalry from running away, and dragged the opponent into hand-to-hand combat with himself.
The riders of Tianxing, who did not dismount easily, faced with the spears and crossbows all over their bodies, had no way out of their predicament, and began to be slowly eaten.
"Look at this, some of them are fighting. Chen Zhu lay on his stomach in a haystack somewhere in the valley and looked at the battle situation under the mountain and said.
It turned out that after learning that the Wolf Moon group and the Tingxiao people were fighting, the four young men left their large troops and took the lead to the exit of the valley in the east to see the battle situation. And Xia Ye and Langyun led everyone to catch up behind.
"I can see that Tingxiao, a mercenary group, has good coordination among the infantry. The horse-riding skills of these cavalrymen are really a bit unsightly. Keba said with a smile.
"I wonder why there aren't any magicians on either side?" said Elwyn strangely.
"Over there, most of the members are robbers and bandits, have you ever seen a magician dare to be a bandit and hooligan?" Lai Wu asked with a smile, "Isn't that because I didn't die fast enough?" ”
Magicians are not good at fighting alone, and their mobility is poor in actual combat, and most of their bodies are not diligent, which is the consensus of everyone, so they really have to do some tricks, just afraid that they will run without their lives. Except, of course, for a magician like Alven who comes to crack the sky at every turn.
"What about Tingxiao's mercenary group? Alvin looked confused.
"yes, that's kind of weird. Lai Wu also began to think about this question.
"Don't worry about this for now, what about our people, why haven't we arrived yet?" Chen Zhu began to look towards the narrow mountain path between the mountains and forests.
"Don't worry, be patient, it's going to be in time. Lai Wu smiled and comforted.
"Yes, when they are almost done with the two gangs, we will go down to harvest. What are you anxious about now? Alvin said.
"I'm afraid that the city guard will come out with someone to kill him now and take advantage of all the advantages. Chen Zhu sighed.
"Probably not, you see that the current stalemate situation is a good time for him to lead the army to kill and exterminate the Tingxiao people, but he didn't move at all, and he looked like a greedy person who was afraid of death. With this kind of goods, you are still worried that he will rob us of our benefits? Lai Wu waved his hand and said, "The most important thing at the moment is to find an opportunity to destroy these two groups, especially the Wolf Moon group." ”