Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Chase on the Snowfield

After Kulau, the melting of the snow field also stopped.

Further north, there is the real Vekia snowfield, which is a real impermafrost. There is no farming here, and the people who live here make a living by hunting and fishing under the ice, so the fish here is good for smoking and the fur is of good quality.

But it's not completely unmelting, at least once when a thousand young people have melted here.

If they wanted to go north, the merchants had to cross this snowfield, through this cold and dangerous snowfield.

Fortunately, summer has begun now, and there is no biting cold wind even on the snowfield. But the dangers remain, hunting is a way to make a living, and for some people robbery is not much more difficult than hunting.

"Beware of their bows and arrows, infantry raising shields, and cavalry coming with me!"

Snowfield bandits, dressed in thick fur and armed with bows and arrows, emerge from behind the snow dunes in the distance.

The arrows kept falling, and a pack horse pulling the cart was shot in the eye and fell directly to the ground, dead after a few kicks of its hooves.

The militiamen who did not react were also shot by the arrow, although they were not seriously injured, but they panicked all of a sudden.

These snowfield bandits shoot arrows very frequently, trotting forward as they shoot arrows, and at a glance there are at least twenty people in the past.

Alleyne directly took out the moonblade axe and rushed forward on the horse, while Fatis also swung his steel longsword and commanded the soldiers to fight.

Shields were raised, crossbow bolts were fired, and the snowy bandits began to suffer casualties.

Their protection was weak, and the crossbow bolts went straight into their muscles, leaving them with most of their combat effectiveness.

And Aren's charge really scared them, they didn't expect this person in front of them to rush towards their team alone.

Their arrows at Aren were dodged by Aren, and the short spears they raised were severed by the Moonblade Axes.

Under their horrified gaze, the axe slashed through them, a streak of blood splattered, and the head of a robber departed from his body and fell to the ground like a stone, losing all his life.

One of the arms of the other robber was then cut off, and he himself let out a terrible scream.

Behind Ellene, Fatis also arrived with 10 caravan escorts, and the horses splashed the snow on the snow, leaving a series of footprints.

The riders shouted and rushed towards the robbers. Even if someone was shot by an arrow, or if a horse was pierced in the chest by a robber's spear, they did not stop.

Fatis's spear passed through a man's chest, and the force of the impact lifted his body from the ground, hanging from the lance as if it were floating in the air.

And under the impact of the horses, the ribs of these poorly armored robbers were broken in rows, and they fell like broken threads, and large mouthfuls of blood poured out of their mouths.

At this time, Byron also discovered another army of robbers, more numerous and better equipped, lying in ambush under snowdrifts and behind trees.

Believing that the other side was intending to attract their attention with a team, Byron attacked Byron from the rear with more troops after Byron's main force left.

However, he did not expect that Byron's caravan escorts, led by Alleyne and Fatis, would show such terrifying combat effectiveness, and a single charge would crush the morale of more than twenty snowfield bandits.

Now Fatis was chasing the robbers with his caravan guards like snowy wolves chasing sheep, and the farther they ran, the more corpses there were on the ground.

And after cutting the third robber he was targeting in two, Ellen also noticed the problem on Byron's side, and rushed back on his horse.

The other side seems to already know that Byron is not easy to mess with, and the snowfield bandits are known for their toughness and ferocity, but they are not stupid and will not hit a stone with an egg.

Although a rain of arrows killed several of Byron's militiamen, when Byron's soldiers reacted and lined up in shields, the hunting bows in their hands had no effect.

Whatever Byron had in their car, the bandit leader was not interested.

If they rush up and fight each other in close quarters, looking at the opponent's lineup will not have an advantage. And once those cavalry turn around and storm their flanks, it is difficult to say who will win or lose.

"Leave them alone, get out of here!"

The leader of the robbers shouted, and he was not afraid to expose himself, so he started to run away.

The rest of the snowfield bandits were shooting arrows while retreating, in case Byron's troops took the opportunity to attack, and even more so to stop the terrible guy Ellene.

However, Bandak was not idle, he unhurriedly wound the crossbow, and then aimed and fired. With every shot, a robber falls.

They were either clutching their bleeding necks or shot through their eye sockets.

Although Alleyne's horse was hit by an arrow in the back, it continued to run, and the two robbers died under his horse with several swings of the Long Moon Blade Axe.

Alleyne's performance shocked Byron. The robbers looked particularly vulnerable to him.

If he gets off the horse one-on-one, I'm afraid that Fatis will not be his opponent.

The caravan guards also stopped their pursuit and routed the enemy, and instead charged the hidden but now fleeing force.

Under the bow and arrows, horses without armor were easily injured, so Fatis took the lead in the charge with a riding spear, and the chain mail robe on the horse under his crotch blocked the fire of multiple bows and arrows.

The robbers with bows and arrows panicked, and took out their swords and spears to prepare for melee resistance.

However, the length of the spears was much longer than their weapons, and with Fatis's skilful horsemanship and spear skills, the robbers who dared to stand in his way would be stabbed through the body or broken by the force of the impact.

Once the bow attack stops, the caravan guards acting as light cavalry can actually attack the enemy troops.

Despite the damage, Byron's cavalry was able to defeat twice as many of the snow bandits on the snowfield, leaving the local bandits devastated.

The snowy robbers were fierce indeed, and as they fled, the robbers in charge of the palace stabbed Byron with their short spears, wounding Byron's horses and hacking to death one of the caravan guards.

After the quality of the troops improved, the cavalry increased, and there were heroic teammates, the battle became a lot easier.

At the end of the battle, Byron killed more than 30 snow bandits, captured five wounded captives, and captured many bows and arrows and weapons.

But Byron they lost four horses, two caravan guards, and two Swadia militiamen. There were also a few wounded militiamen, and the situation varied, but with medicine and Jamila there, their lives could be saved.

Byron finally had a little bit of a sense of being a leader, and he also had the confidence to develop.

But at the same time, Byron also felt a little uneasy, the performances of Ellene, Fatis, and Bandak were too eye-catching, and they represented the elite combat power level of a country.

This made Byron understand the gap between him and those aristocratic private armies, as well as the country's combat power, and also gave him more goals and ideas for future development.