On the road west from the village of Bra, Art was happily returning to the garrison camp of Boulder Town, where supplies had been hoarded, with the tax collection team returning with the goods.

Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves galloping on the road to the west, and after a while, it was finally clear that the man on horseback was none other than Red, the sentry cavalryman.

Art hurriedly stepped forward, Redler held the reins and didn't have time to breathe, and said hurriedly: "My lord, it's not good, the Boulder Town camp has been attacked by a group of bandits, and at present, Lord Otto and Chief Ron are organizing soldiers to defend, there are nearly a hundred robbers, and they are almost unable to hold on." ”

Red's face was pale, there were blood stains on his wrists and thighs, and the war horse under him had also been cut by a sharp blade with several shallow wounds, and it was obvious that he had ventured to break through and report the news.

"TMD, miscalculated!" Art said that his heart was not good.

"Kazak, Tuba, you two unload the food and supplies on the spot and hide them, and let all the soldiers get on the carriage and quickly return to the aid of Boulder Town."

"All the cavalry will immediately follow me to the aid of Boulder Town."

Art gave the order and kicked the horse in the belly and rushed out.

Angus stopped Red, who was about to continue to follow, and asked him to bandage his wounds on the spot and stay behind to guard the supplies, and then led Felix's three cavalrymen behind him to chase after him......

Such a sudden situation was indeed something that Yate did not expect.

It turned out that since the task of suppressing bandits in the southern border of Tignaz was basically completed, Yat had been collecting food and salaries and collecting public security taxes in the central part of the county for more than ten days, firstly, to allow the army to rest and accumulate strength to deal with the next battle against bandits; Second, they seized the opportunity to "loot" a batch of money and grain from various localities to finance the military.

In order to make things easier, all the collected food and supplies were hoarded in the simple camp where the Frontier Patrol Team of Boulder Town was stationed, and after the collection was completed, the caravan returning from trade would be transported back to the Valley Knights. There were occasional bandits around Boulder Town, and for the sake of safety, Art also ordered Otto to lead a total of 38 soldiers from the 1st Squadron, most of the cavalry of the Sentinel Cavalry, the newly formed Gongnu Squad, most of the baggage of the Baggage Brigade, and the soldiers stationed in the Patrol Team to stay behind to take care of these supplies.

According to common sense, no bandit has the courage to openly provoke the official army at such a cusp, not to mention that this army is still a strong army specially responsible for eliminating bandits.

However, the world is impermanent, and Art, who is not surprised by the enemy's intrigues and tricks, has encountered such a bold and resourceful team of bandits......

The patrol team of Boulder Town made a simple camp, and the battle became more and more fierce.

After two attacks, the ten-foot-high stone wooden fence wall built around the boulder pile had been opened in three gaps, and a dozen bandits had scattered through the three gaps to fight the defenders.

Otto had Bass, Ron, and Lusignan each scatter a few soldiers to block the breach, while he himself carried the rest of his soldiers and Obote's patrol men with a short-handled hammer and flail to defend the main entrance of the enemy's most heavily attacked camp.

The terrain of the main gate of the camp is the most open, five or six bandits are carrying huge logs to hit the walled gate, there are several rough wooden ladders on both sides of the wall, and several bandits with sharp blades ignore the halberd short spear stretched out under the wall, jump off the wall and roll down into the wall.

Otto swooped over, and before the bandit on the ground could stand up, a hammer struck the bandit's head. He lifted the chain hammer that was still dripping with red and white plasma, turned his head and shouted at the gongnu team on the arrow tower in the middle of the camp: "The gongnu hand on the tower is desperately shooting for me, and the reinforcements will be almost there to withstand this wave of attacks." With that, he led the charge to another place where he jumped down the wall of the two bandits......

In the gap at the back of the camp, Ron had already been wounded twice, and although he was wearing a thick set of iron-inlaid double leather armor, the spiked hammer in the bandit's hand still broke through his armor, and he was also stabbed by a short spear in the inner thigh. A new soldier behind Ron was also slightly injured, and the soldier who had experienced a desperate situation for the first time was obviously a little flustered, seeing that Ron was besieged and injured, he forgot to step forward to cover for a while, and the gap in the back was about to be torn!

At the left gap, which was more than 20 steps away from the gap in the back, the gap had been basically blocked under the strong Lusignan's stubborn defense. He caught a glimpse of Ron's loss of ground in the gap behind him, and the bandits were pouring in, and he yelled at Doric the squad leader beside him, "Drive the enemy out of the gap, and stay here." With that, Lusignnan threw out his broadsword and nailed a bandit to death, then drew the page hammer at his waist, squeezed out the team guarding the gap, and ran towards Ron, who was unable to cope with the gradual influx of bandits in the gap......

"You guys will continue to lead people to the main entrance to climb the wall!"

More than 200 steps outside the main gate of the camp in Boulder Town, the bandit leader "Satan's Arrow" Gary who raided Boulder Town this time was commanding and supervising the battle in the back.

Gary, the leader of the bandits, would not have imagined that the garrison defense they were besieging today was the same patrol they had been chasing for an entire afternoon in the birch groves south of Lane Manor a year earlier.

In the more than a year since that chase, Gary's bandit team has been active in the county, relying on raiding manor villages, extorting rich squires, and annexing sporadic bandit gangs, the team has grown stronger and stronger, and the number of bandits under his command has reached more than 60 at one point, and almost all of them are armed with iron weapons, and a small number of bandit leaders are even equipped with leather armor.

Half a year ago, they had become the strongest bandit team in the entire county of Tignats.

A month ago, Gary, the leader of the bandits, ushered in a great opportunity for the development of a crisis. Since Art led the army to suppress bandits in the south of the county in early May, many southern bandits began to move to the north, and Gary, who was the most powerful, naturally became the best target for the bandits, and after absorbing many scattered bandits, he once again annexed several smaller bandit teams, and now Gary's bandit army has reached an astonishing 120 people. Of course, there are less than forty of these bandits who can really exert their combat power, and most of the rest are young minions (homeless farmers) who are used as cannon fodder and their families of old and weak women and children with them.

Ten days ago, Gary, who felt that he was strong in his army, finally decided to do a big job - to grab the hoarded food supplies and continue to recruit troops, and then occupy a stable territory to establish his own "free kingdom".

After a detailed investigation and analysis, Gary chose the camp where the Boulder Patrol Team was hoarding supplies at Art, firstly, because the food and materials looted from all over the county were constantly hoarded here, and the quantity was getting larger and larger; Second, most of the black-robed soldiers were taken by Yate to show off their might in various parts of the county, and the number of defenders here was not large; The third and most important thing is that once the army responsible for suppressing the bandits is dealt a heavy blow, not to mention the biggest obstacle to the development of this bandit force, it can also form a huge reputation among many bandit gangs......

However, Gary is not a reckless person, and for the sake of insurance, Gary surveyed the battlefield and made a conspiracy plan, while sending someone to contact two other stronger bandit teams.

A day ago, after careful planning and careful preparation, the thief Gary basically figured out the bingbushu and the route arrangement of this bandit army.

This morning, Gary led more than 170 bandits out of the Northwest Jungle Valley and advanced towards Wasteland Boulder Town......

A bandit leader who responded to Gary's call to come to fight together covered his arm and carried a single knife with a curly blade, returned from the camp battlefield to the rear formation, and scolded: "Gary, your people are a group of soft eggs, and a wooden gate has not been captured for half an afternoon. My men have been driven out of the gap again, and if there is no decisive victory in the front, I will have to retreat with my brothers. Are you easy to mess with as those black-robed soldiers who collect food? Once they rush back for reinforcements, we won't be able to withdraw if we want to. ”

Gary got up, raised his cold eyes and glanced at the leader in front of him, and replied coldly, "Reinforcements? Most of the men who followed that guy to collect food were infantry, and even if they ran all the way, it would be late in the evening to get here, and by then we had already captured this place. Besides, they won't be able to come at all......"

"A broken military village can't still gnaw down? You guys come with me! Although his tone was calm, Gary still took off the horn bow on his back and decided to personally go into battle to supervise the battle, so that his bandits could occupy this simple military fortress as soon as possible.

Twelve miles northeast of Boulder Town, on the top of the hillside on the right side of a canyon valley through which the road at the edge of the dense forest passes, several rows of figures were poking their heads out of the green grass to look at the road to the east, and the black bean-like silhouettes of five horsemen galloping on the east road were enlarging little by little.

"Father, it's a few cavalrymen coming, should we intercept the ambush?" A half-grown man in a brand new linen suit saw the person coming from the east, turned his head and whispered to the second leader of the bandits who was directing the ambush.

The second leader of the bandits, who was unkempt and dirty, looked up at the east, thought for a while and replied: "Let the people below remove the barricades and let them pass, the big leader is for us to ambush and intercept most of the men and horses of the black-robed dogs, if it is exposed in advance, I am afraid that our ambush will be useless." ”

"Let the brothers hide it and let these small fish go, the big fish are still behind." The second leader gave orders to the bandits around him.

The second leader remembered something again, and said to the half-grown son beside him: "When we are ambushed for a while, you stay at the rear, if we win, you will go up again, if we are defeated, you will quickly run back and report to the big chief." Remember not to take any chances, if something happens to you, your mother will have to kill me. ”

The half-sized boy looked unconvinced.

On the other side of the valley, the anxious Art led the cavalry behind him to rush to the Boulder Town garrison, and when they arrived early, the defenders who held on to Boulder Town could have more hope of victory.

Then the wise man will make a mistake.

When he rode through the valley, Art, who was worried about the safety of Boulder Town, did not think about whether there would be an ambush in this place, so he just kept kicking his horse and galloping, and soon rushed through the valley.

Maybe it was because he was involved in more intrigues, or maybe he wasn't as anxious as Art, when he rode out of the valley, Angus subconsciously glanced at the valley mouth, which was very easy to hide ambushes. At this subconscious glance, Angus really found a grassy path that had been trampled on by people leading straight to the top of the small slope on the side of the valley mouth, and a few sections of wood appeared abruptly in the grass beside the road.

"My lord, it's not good, there may be an ambush on the slopes of Taniguchi Mountain!" Angus caught up with Art in front of him and reported hurriedly.

Hearing this, Art pulled the reins violently, and the war horse under him neighed, and the two hind legs bent and rubbed the ground and stopped suddenly, he turned his horse's head and turned to look at the top of the valley slope behind him, and a breath of cold air pumped into his chest and lungs.

"TMD, we've met a ruthless character!" Art had already seen the bandits at the top of the valley mouth, and the bandits sensed that the conspiracy was exposed, so they simply stopped hiding.

"What should I do, do you rush back to warn the team behind?" Angus also lost some of his bearings.

"No, we can't rush back, the enemy must be prepared, and we will suffer if we enter the valley again."

"What then? The soldiers behind must pass through here. "166 net

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Chapter 132: Sudden Crisis