CHAPTER XVI
"No, it's been too long."
Aegon who squinted his eyes suddenly opened his eyes and looked into the distance, but there was still no shadow of the team of people in Mopan Village, and a sense of unease began to rise in his heart.
It stands to reason that the Great War has just ended, the Will family has fallen, and the Hunter family has just taken over the Boulder Fort, so they shouldn't be able to manage the entire territory so soon.
But there is no other armed force nearby except Hunter's house to deal with his men, thinking about the losses he has suffered in Hunter's collar, that evil energy is still the shadow in Aegon's heart.
"Don't wait, let's leave south first, leave a few people, and if they come back, let them come and meet."
Aegon has absolute prestige in this gang of snow thieves. With a command, the whole gang of snow thieves began to act.
On the other side, Richard was monitoring the whereabouts of Aegon's group of snow thieves through the griffins in the air, and Richard, who had already spotted their tracks, was on the way to the scene.
"Heh, my sense of smell is quite keen, but it's a pity that I'm too greedy."
Richard, who found out that Aegon was trying to escape, laughed disdainfully, if Aegon was decisive enough to directly abandon the looted materials and leave lightly, maybe Richard would have a headache, but when Aegon decided to take the loot and escape, the outcome was completely doomed.
"Speed up!" With Richard's order, the speed of the entire team increased by a few points.
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"Boss Aegon, why don't you take a break, the brothers are a little tired."
A snow thief came up to Aegon panting and said to Aegon.
"Smack"
"Ahh
The horse's Aegon whip the snow thief in the face caused him to cover his face and scream.
"Are you the boss or am I the boss? Do you come to be the boss and I will listen to you? ”
"No. No, no. ”
The snow thief was a little incoherent, although Aegon was a snow thief leader, his personality was not usually brutal, and he was also benevolent to his subordinates, so he dared to come up and make suggestions, but he didn't expect to be whipped severely.
"Then speed it up." Then Aegon turned around and urged.
The uneasiness in his heart grew stronger, and Aegon had already spotted the griffons in the sky, but the griffons were flying too high, and he thought they were some giant eagles. At first, he didn't care, but these giant eagles followed him all the way, although he didn't expect these giant eagles to have anything to do with Hunter Ling, but he instinctively felt uneasy.
It's a pity, the snow thieves are snow thieves after all, they don't see the real danger, and they don't want to leave behind the food and goods they have looted, of course, even if Aegon orders to discard the supplies, the snow thieves below are afraid that they are not willing.
Richard was getting closer.
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"Boss, there's someone following us behind." A well-eyed snow thief had spotted Richard chasing from afar.
"How can it be so fast." Aegon looked in the direction his men pointed out, and spotted Richard's men as well.
"Stop, stop running, get ready for battle."
The snow thieves also stopped and formed battle formations.
Aegon knew that he had a lot of people and a few truckloads of supplies, and he would definitely not be able to outrun the other party, so instead of being beaten passively after being overtaken, it was better to stop and rectify and take the initiative to respond.
In Aegon's opinion, there are even more than 30 people on the other side, and there are more than 100 people on his side, all of whom can be regarded as experienced bandits in combat, not much worse than the professional armies of many lords, and they can fight in one battle.
The specific experience of the battle of Xiaolinghe has not yet spread, there are few knights in the Northland, the leader of the team Richard looks so young, and Aegon is completely different from the possibility that Richard is a knight, so he naturally has a little wrong self-confidence.
"Stop, who are you?"
As Richard and his men got closer and closer, Aegon also saw the outfit of the group, everyone was wearing armor, and they all looked extremely tough, and they were hard stubbles to mess with. Aegon still tried to avoid a battle through conversation, and he had met many of the nobles' guards, and as long as he left the other party's territory, the other party was generally reluctant to fight him.
"Shoot the arrow" was Richard's only response after approaching.
Igger fired a sharp arrow aimed at his eyebrows, but most of the snow thieves behind him were not as skilled as him, and seven or eight of them fell to the ground and let out a wail.
"Damn, give it to me."
The clay figurines also have three points of fire, not to mention the ferocious snow thieves, Aegon wields his sword and leads his men to attack Richard.
"Ah......h
The shooters were in another round of arrows, and Aegon found that the opponent's bow and arrow were not only far, but also outrageously accurate, and lost more than a dozen men before they could reach it.
Finally, after losing more than thirty men, the snow thieves finally made a close encounter with Richard's team.
The snow thieves who thought they could use the numerical advantage to quickly drown the other party were fiercely educated by the spearmen in formation, and the impermeable spears stabbed the snow thieves who lacked armor into blood gourds, and the side with the largest number of people was pressed back again and again.
With the blessing of Richard's primary offensive skills, the spearmen have completely surpassed ordinary soldiers by a level, and their strength is basically between elite warriors and quasi-knights, which is not something that this group of snow thieves can stop.
What frightened the snow thieves even more was the cry in the air, where was the giant eagle, obviously a few winged beasts, every time they fell, they had to harvest the life of a snow thief, and even some griffins were playful, grabbing the snow thieves into the air with their claws, and throwing them into the crowd.
Within ten minutes of contact, the battle became a one-sided pursuit, with the archers shooting the fleeing snow thieves and the spearmen scattering under Richard's orders.
As for Aegon, in less than two moves after confronting Richard, he was killed on the spot by Richard, who was full of vindictiveness.
Not to mention that it was to complete the mission, and even without this mission, Richard would never tolerate the presence of bandits on his own territory.
When the last scream came to an abrupt end, the griffons flew back to Richard's side, and as the griffons pursued them, none of the snow thieves escaped.
All that remained were a few horses pulling goods and a few carts of looted goods.
"Let's go, take the goods and go back."
Richard had no idea of returning the goods to the villagers, and how to determine which family the goods belonged to was a big problem.
Besides, Richard understands people's hearts very well, and at this time, it belongs to the villagers to take back his own things, even if he is grateful, it will not be too strong, if he waits until the villagers have no food and then lends them some for free, it is a down-to-earth grace of life.
The heavy cargo clattered, and in the setting sun, Richard's figure on horseback was pulled as if it was about to cover the sky.
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