Chapter Fifty-Six: Snow Bandits Under the Hump

"The owner of the village, something is not good, the former villagers came to the news that a group of unknown gangs are setting fire to the wheat fields under the peak outside the village, and also killed several villagers who are farming in the fields, these wheat fields are still two months to mature, it is an important guarantee for the survival of our village, please order the village guards to take down this gang of villains!" Banderey suddenly rushed into the main village, showing great anxiety, and spoke very quickly at Witt.

"Banderni, don't panic yet, you tell me more carefully. You say that there is an unknown gang, but you can know its identity and what are its weapons and equipment? How many people are there? Witt was also shocked by Banderney's sudden news, but he still tried to calm down as much as possible and asked calmly.

"The owner of the village, the villagers who had just fled back did not see what the other party was wearing in a panic, only knew that they were robbers, numbering more than twenty people, and shot the other villagers with bows and arrows. There are often bows and arrows in this vicinity, except for the soldiers of Fesdena, which are the snow bandits in the north and the pirates in the south, but the villagers say that they look like robbers, and I estimate that they are snow bandits from the snow in the north. But somehow? The snow is twenty or thirty kilometers away from Shuangfeng Village, and the snow robbers have always been with bandits, so why did they suddenly attack Shuangfeng Village today, which is incredible. Banderey speculated.

Witt was reminded by Banderney that it dawned on him. A few days ago, I let a snowfield robber escape, and it is estimated that the situation in Shuangfeng Village has also attracted their attention, and this time it is estimated that revenge is coming. But now that he is here, Witt is also preparing to uproot this fang, and he will not be relentless.

"Leave a few guards standing guard in the cottage, gather the rest of the cottage guards, and go down the mountain with me to exterminate this gang of villains!" Witt instructed Banderey and the three Rum brothers to go out and mobilize the men. The guards of Shuangfeng Village have sweated a lot after a long period of training, and the archers have also achieved a little success in their bow and arrow skills. Moreover, he has also accumulated a certain amount of actual combat experience in the actual combat with the caravan guards, so in the face of the snow bandits who also use bows and arrows, Witt still has a certain amount of confidence.

Soon, Bandeni and others gathered all the guards of the cottage on the training ground of the front village, and there were a total of about 40 guards, of which one-third of the guards were archers, and a small number of the cottage guards were equipped with armor and spears and wooden shields that were plundered from the caravan guards, so their defensive capabilities were still quite strong, but many of the cottage guards were still wearing coarse cloth clothes and holding spears made of branches, and the damage and defense were still quite limited.

Looking at this group of cottage guards with uneven weapons and equipment, although Witt was also a little helpless, he was helpless due to the constraints of the conditions, so he could only let the urgently assembled guards line up and march in the direction where the snow bandits appeared.

The wild land around Shuangfeng Village has been cultivated by more than 300 villagers for several months, and there are actually more than 100 acres of land. From the top of the peak, the bottom of the peak was full of green straw that was about to ripen, and Witt would not allow the snowfield robbers to burn the fruits of the villagers' hard work for months.

"Star, take your men and take them from behind the bandits, and if they escape, you will kill me without mercy. This time, I'm going to wipe them all out and keep them coming back! Witt marched quickly, and on the way, Star received the order and immediately took the order.

Witt and his party marched for about half an hour before they ran into the gang of robbers in the wheat field. Witt immediately became furious and shouted: "Everyone is in line, with shields in front, and the rest of the personnel follow, and the archers shoot to cover." ”

When the group of snow robbers saw Witt and his party approaching, they immediately rushed towards them, and the snow robbers with bows and arrows also released a few arrows scattered. The rapidly spinning arrow arced through the air, making a piercing air crack, and then most of it landed on the wooden shield in the hands of the cottage guards. However, there were still loopholes in the shield wall where arrows were shot and wounded by the guards behind the shield wall. The guard immediately fell to the ground.

There was no shield wall to cover the snow bandits, and after a rain of arrows passed over the cottage guards, the two dozen or so snow bandits who were not superior in numbers were wiped out by a third in an instant. Seeing the heavy casualties of their companions, those minions paused for a short while, but the leader suddenly shouted viciously: "Whoever dares to take a step back will be executed on the spot!" After saying this, all the minions did not dare to retreat because of the majesty of the leader, so they had to bite the bullet.

After the battle between the two sides, the archers did not dare to shoot at the men in hand-to-hand combat, for fear of accidentally injuring their own people. The battlefield turned into a fight between the melee sides and the archers.

The leader of the snowy bandits led the minions, armed with one-handed swords or two-handed axes, trying to break through the shield walls of the cottage guards. Before the snow robbers approached the shield wall, countless spears stabbed out of the shield wall and stabbed at the robbers who rushed directly opposite. While spears made of twigs did little damage to the bandits, spears with iron tips captured from caravan guards could easily pierce the thick skin armor of the snowfield bandits.

The sharp spear flesh was like the tip of the tongue in the shield wall, and after a while, a robber fell in front of the shield wall, and the bright red blood stained the merciless spear tip, and even sprinkled the surrounding wheat fields. The Snow Robbers quickly lost half of their personnel.

At this time, Star led more than a dozen guards to go around behind the snow bandits and launch a surprise attack. Seeing this, Witt immediately cooperated and shouted: "Surrounded by a shield wall!" ”

As soon as Witt's words fell, Banderey and the others organized the guards to quickly change their formation, and the two sides of the originally parallel queue began to bend in the direction of the snow bandits, forming an encirclement of them. Star immediately ordered his guards to step forward with their shields and cooperate with their companions in front of them to surround the snowfield bandits from behind.

By the time the snow robbers realized that the situation was not good, it was already too late. The guards of the cottage have already surrounded the shield wall in a circular array, and surrounded the snow bandits in the middle of the round shield wall, and the spear tongues in the shield wall are still constantly swallowing, ruthlessly taking the lives of the snow bandits. The snowy bandits could only huddle together in the face of the shrinking shield wall that was shrinking and pressing step by step. The crowd suffocated the Snow Bandits, but the Snow Bandits were still making the most efficient use of the small circular space compared to the relentless tight shield wall. At this moment, the snow robbers have no intention of fighting, and their hearts are full of despair, and even the bandit leader has given up his inner attachment and is struggling on the edge of life and death.

"I surrender! I give up! Please don't kill me! I'm willing to do anything, as long as I stay alive. "When death comes, even the most ferocious robbers will beg for mercy with fear on their faces. Witt could see the dead gray on the faces of the snowfield bandits, but he didn't sympathize with them in the slightest. I think how many innocent men, women, and children were also begging like this at the beginning, but they were not still ruthless killers, and the modus operandi was all strange, distorting the world view of the survivors.

When some began to plead, the other snowfield bandits, including the leader, began to compromise and beg for mercy from Witt. In the face of the begging for mercy of the only eight or nine living people, Witt was not a hard-hearted and ruthless character after all, so he immediately softened his heart and shouted: "Stop! ”

At the sound of the order, the circular shield wall immediately stopped. Witt walked out of the robber's place and shouted, "Death is avoidable, but life is not escaped, take off your weapons and armor and surrender, and deal with you later." ”

As soon as those snowfield robbers heard that Witt was going to give a way out, they immediately threw the weapons in their hands on the ground excitedly, and their armor quickly fell off the ground, not only their bodies relaxed, but their whole hearts were also relaxed. But they don't know that they will pay a heavy price for what they have done.

Witt ordered the surviving Snow Bandits to be taken back to the newly built prison in the Cottage, and the wounded soldiers were quickly brought back to the Cottage to be healed by Edward, the battlefield was cleaned, and the bodies of the dead guards and Snow Bandits were buried to prevent the spread of the plague.

In this battle, only three or two guards were shot by arrows and died, and the other guards were not seriously injured, although a small part of the wheat field was burned, but a large number of armor weapons were provided to the cottage guards, which made the cottage's anti-risk ability to a higher level, so the loss of the cottage was not large, and the actual combat application ability of the guards against the formation type was also affirmed by Witt.

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