"Bad luck, the owl is calling for death."

I brushed aside the bushes where the leaves had fallen and only the branches remained, and said to myself:

"Wait...... But no, today is going to die, fighting. ”

"Crackle!"

Whoever accidentally stepped on a dead branch on the ground, the nervous sensitive Owen immediately reflexively drew his long sword, and as a result, one after another, the warriors all took up their weapons, looking like they were facing a great enemy.

"Bastard, who's it!"

The knight roared angrily, signaling left and right not to make a fuss:

"Put it away, put it away!"

"No need to toss, we're here."

A succinct answer from code name four came from overhead, and I looked up and saw the cold girl climbing the trunk of a spruce tree.

"It's strange that there is a bonfire in the camp, but there are no patrolling sentinels, one, two, three...... The number of tents is right, where did the people go? ”

"Will the whole army attack and go to Schneider's side?"

Owen and I looked at each other and exchanged opinions, and if the speculation was true, the pansy had undoubtedly created a miracle of having fewer enemies and more enemies.

"You're standing so high, we can't climb the tree, come down!" Before I could finish speaking, the four clothes of the code name flew away, and Shi Shiran fell to the ground.

She picked up a stick, smoothed the frozen ground with her foot, and leaned over to sketch.

"We are here, the enemy's camp is scattered along the hillside, here and here on the periphery, there are fixed posts here, here and here, three people per post, there are no mobile posts, which greatly reduces the possibility of being discovered, if you don't want to startle the snakes, send people to go around to the left side of the camp under the cover of the woods, and touch it from here, well, the tent on the side......"

"I'll lead the people."

Owen volunteered to raise his hand:

"Give me ten, no, five! Pick the most astute soldiers, and after I have confirmed that those tents are not in danger, I will set fire to them, attract the attention of the enemy and use this as a signal, and we will flank the front and back, and take the lair of Count Lechfeld! ”

I held my chin and objected uneasily:

"What if the battalion is the main force of the enemy? Or did you expose it early? This plan is for me to consider. ”

"Your Excellency!"

Owen grabbed my arm sharply, his eyes reminding him to erupt into flames.

"Without further ado! Schneider's side is carrying a thousand heavy burdens for us, and if we slow down, we will be wiped out! Didn't you say that the fighter plane is fleeting and must be decided immediately? ”

Codename Four nodded quietly in agreement, several pairs of eyes gathered on me, sweat instantly soaked the quilt, as if in the hot table, the game to the last round, I pinched the only two cards hesitating, tangled do not know which to play first, and the opponent was confident with his head held high, pressed all the chips.

"Bet your life, friend."

His hideous smile was full of snow-white fangs, waiting for the finale to feast.

"Go ahead! Hurry. ”

Pointing to the sunlight shining through the gaps in the foliage, Owen turned back to the group and ordered five warriors, and the group hurried away, turning left and right and vanishing.

"Come here."

I beckoned a few sergeants to get together and carefully assigned the task.

"When it catches fire, your squad is responsible for taking down the fixed post, the enemy may be equipped with crossbows and bows and arrows, be more careful when acting, minimize casualties, the four of you will take the side, and deal with the escaped fish, understand?"

The veteran soldier with rich experience on the battlefield carried out the order without hesitation, and answered cleanly: "Obey!" Mission completion guaranteed! ”

As the minutes passed, the sounds in the woods gradually became noisy, all kinds of insects and birds chirped endlessly, and the kingdom of the Ice Queen was restored to life.

"It's on fire!"

The sergeant, who was engrossed in observation, shouted: "There is smoke, Lord Duke, look! Lord Owen has it! ”

I wrapped the last two bandages tightly, and fastened the long sword in the palm of my hand, in case I couldn't hold the weapon because of the loss of strength when the battle was going on, and the sun shone obliquely on my face, warm ironing, as if I was lying in my mother's arms wantonly, I jumped up, and the sword pointed straight ahead:

"Warriors of Nijmegen, kill!"

"God bless Nijmegen!"

The soldiers cheered with high morale, and all of them were united in the belief that they would win, and the charge of more than 30 people could even burst out with unstoppable strength, and the morale of the legend, regardless of the number of people, regardless of the quality of equipment, often directly determined the direction of the war, when everyone rushed to the goal without fear of death, the number of enemies was not so important.

When you are tired, there is nothing you can do about it, even if you are a big man, it is like a virus that spreads rapidly and replicates itself, with infinite superimposed effects, sleepiness strikes, eyelids are heavy with lead, sensory functions degenerate to an undeveloped state, and brain waves turn into a never-ending straight line.

"Drip ......"

Last night's whole night of tossing and turning iron men were rusty half, both to the enemy and to me, fortunately, our thin nerves tightened the last consciousness, slightly stronger than the enemy who was trapped and staggered at the moment, and the few enemy soldiers stationed at the fixed post obviously could not withstand the torture of the sleeping god, perhaps because there were not many people left in the camp, so that Owen and they set fire to several tents, and no one in the enemy camp noticed.

Dozens of us rushed to approach quickly, seeing that the distance between us and the sentry post was gradually shrinking, and suddenly, a sentry stretched his waist, stumbled to his feet, unbuttoned his trouser belt without raising his head and eyes and took out the guy who was choking enough, and vented at us wantonly, urinating more than two feet away, and the warm liquid made a small round pit on the ground, he shivered and trembled, and put his hand into the crotch of his pants to scratch the itch, and moaned comfortably.

Everything came to an abrupt halt, and when the sentry realized the danger too late, a spear slammed through his chest, and he opened his mouth wide but could not make any movement.

"Huh!"

The Nijmegen soldier who had caught up perfectly mended his sword, and his frightened head spun and flew up, landing between the two companions at the same post.

"Well, don't push, let me sleep, anyway, the old man is not here......"

The sentry holding the crossbow muttered his displeasure, his brow furrowed rather ugly, and the muscular head of his companion was still beating like a faucet, and the picture was extremely eerie.

"While peeing away. Squirted into my mouth......"

He wiped the corners of his mouth impatiently, and the chill of Sensen's blade made the drowsiness disappear for an instant.

"Who are you! Yes! ”

The sentry tried desperately to cover the wound on his neck, but the viscous blood still flowed through his fingers.

"Shande, Shande......"

The sharp pain made the voice so small that it only swirled in his throat, and he struggled to push his companions around him to warn, but no one answered, and a terrifying large blood hole appeared in the left eye of the sentinel named Shande, and the smashed ** eyeballs were mixed in a pile of indistinguishable colors, and they were already lifeless.

I rubbed a knife against the corpse's clothes, and the blood clinged to the fibers to form a three-dimensional postmodern illustration.

"Keep rushing!"

The sergeant calmly commanded the soldiers under his command, and they had too little experience on the battlefield, and often could not kill a person with several slashes, and stabbed some parts that were not fatal.

The fire that started from the rear of the camp spread rapidly, swallowing up four or five hastily built tents in the blink of an eye, and finally the enemy realized that the three or three organized a counterattack, but like a small wave in the sea, they could not make many waves, and the two sides fell down or died or fell, and the soldiers of Nijmegen fought more and more bravely, and successfully took the enemy camp.

"My lord, it's much easier than you think."

Owen rubbed his hands excitedly, as if he was still unsatisfied with the battle just now.

"There were few men in the camp, and there was little resistance."

"Don't rejoice too soon, there are more difficulties ahead."

I have struck a blow at the pride of the knights, complacency is easy to inflict on the enemy, and we have no capital to underestimate the enemy.

"Did you stay alive?"

"Bring it on!"

Owen clapped his hands, and the warrior escorted an enemy soldier with a bruised nose and swollen face to the front.

"I'm keeping an eye on it!" He smirked.

"Merciful lord, spare me, I am an innocent obedient people, for God's sake!"

The captives' words of forgiveness are much the same, nothing more than the master, spare their lives, God or something, for them who grew up eating bran with the animals, they are almost clumsy with each other.

I stared at this submissive prisoner of war with a smile behind my back, his gray face was full of long-term malnutrition, it was an obligation to fight for the lord, and he didn't necessarily eat as well as usual.

"I ask you answer, and God will bless him who speaks the truth." I pointed to each other's chests, and the meaning was self-explanatory.

"I know, I understand, I say what my tongue doesn't say!"

If it weren't for being tied, I have no doubt he'd licked my boots until they leaked.

"Where has Earl Richfield gone?"

This is the issue that I am most concerned about, and it is also the basis for judging the next step.

"What about your soldiers?"

"I walked in the middle of the night, and before dawn, and in the morning the Earl led the knights and the heavily armored axe-throwers out towards the ......."

He bit his lip nervously, fearing that he would die by saying the wrong thing.

"In that direction, there are many people, many people, it should be ...... There should be several thousand! ”

Looking at the captive's sworn and sworn assurance, I suddenly lost interest, I guess that's all this guy knows.

"Take it."

I waved my hand in disappointment, and the Nijmegen soldier who escorted him up grabbed his neck like a chick and dragged it away, and guessed the fate of the captive who cried and cried on the ground and howled like a pig: "You promise me!" You promised me! Lord......"

"In this way, your guess is accurate."

Owen sweated profusely on his forehead, and a series of fights made him physically exhausted:

"Earl Richfield has set up suspicious soldiers to attract our attention, and then led the main force to quietly cross the river, preparing to sneak attack from upstream, that's right!"

"But he didn't expect me to bury Schneider's nail first, and the pansy was even more tenacious than the nail, firmly nailing the enemy's main force in place, and couldn't move a single inch for half a night."

I looked upstream, the same taiga forest was as vast as the sea, and somewhere in it was the Shura field where you lived and died.

"The old earl must not have imagined that we would dare to cross the river and copy his back road, the scene of dozens of people doing thousands of people, tsk, I tremble with excitement when I think about it, give orders, my lord!"

Owen urged impatiently, in the eyes of the knight who has been addicted to killing, that picture is quite exciting, and in the eyes of me, the decision-maker who decides the life and death of countless people, that picture is extremely bloody and cruel, after all, we are not Lu Bu who is one against one hundred.

"Time has dragged on for so long, and the old earl is as careful as the old earl, I am afraid that he has already made arrangements, and recklessly killing the past is tantamount to throwing himself into a trap......"

The knight interrupted me, his eyes burning with urgency.

"Schneider has half a sleeve, no matter how late it is, he won't be able to save him!"

Owen's roar alarmed several soldiers who were hurrying by, and they shrunk their mouths in silence, carefully holding the reins for fear of touching their heads.

"Wait!"

I hurriedly called out to a few people in gray and transparent clothes, and their faces immediately showed "it's over" expressions: "What is this?" ”

"Huh?"

The soldiers looked at each other, and the duke's question overwhelmed them,

。

"It's ...... It's a horse, a four-legged ...... Horse. One soldier stumbled to explain, and the other imitated the neighing of a horse.

Full of black lines...... Bastard, when I'm an idiot!

"Where did you get your horses from?" I said angrily, rolling my eyes.

"Horses? A few old horses in the camp with heavy baggage, you see, are too old to be used. The naïve soldier said as he opened his horse's mouth to show me his teeth.

"Is that all?"

"There are more over there, and the sergeant told us to take two horses to carry the wounded first."

I nodded thoughtfully, thinking about it.

"I have requisitioned all the horses and tied them up!"

Several soldiers stared at each other in confusion: "Didn't you hear? All the horses, gather together, I have my own tricks, go! Can you afford to delay your business? ”

"Yes, yes, sir."

The soldiers were busy, and Owen stepped forward in confusion and asked, "These horses are too old, and the pulling things are acceptable, and if you ride them, you can't bear the strength of your feet at all, and adults will definitely collapse if you ride on them." ”

He analyzed it with a straight head: "Besides, most of our soldiers have not received professional training, and if they can't control it, it's difficult to control the shaking body on the back of a bumpy horse and cut people." ”

I couldn't help but laugh: "Where do you know that this horse is going to be ridden?" ”

"Don't ride? So what's the use of horses? ”

"You'll find out later."

I shut up and ignored him, the fire in the camp was still burning, and no one cared about it, letting it rage and turning one tent after another to ashes, the sergeants responsibly gathered the soldiers under their command, seized the time to search the battlefield, and tried to make up for the disadvantage of the equipment by seizing them, more than 20 old horses carrying supplies were gathered in front of me, they bid farewell to the once stormy years of gunpowder, and now they are docile and cute, and they are obedient and obedient without much force, and they can be pulled around by their masters.

"It's time to go, my lord, the horses are all here." Owen will always be the one who can't hold his breath, but I understand his eagerness to save his friends.

"The scouts didn't come back, Deved's cornflower didn't believe it, the position of the enemy's main force was not clear, all three were empty, and the time was not right."

I spoke calmly, not letting anything superfluous get involved, and a voice in my heart kept reminding myself that this is war, and we must be calm and must not be emotional!

Owen's eyelids drooped lonely, I took in this little detail, I wanted to comfort but had nothing to say, what could I say? Schneider did a great job and bought us precious time, and his sacrifice was worth it, and these words were stuck in the throat and eyes, and it was difficult to say them no matter what.

(End of chapter)