As far as the eye can see, the snow is white, and even the few dry branches of the trees are covered in snow-white coats, blending in with the surrounding environment. From time to time, a snow fox sprang out of the snow, jumping up and down in the snow, just to patrol the prey, and disappeared into the snow in the blink of an eye, without a trace.

Twenty or thirty snowfield robbers sat around the bonfire, and in the middle of it was a strong man with a hideous face, like a beast about to bite a man's throat, so that everyone dared not breathe.

"You didn't bring back any of the dinars, women, and precious metal utensils, and you lost a few brothers. I'm not going to talk nonsense with you, let's talk about it, how do you want to die? The snowfield bandit sat on a stone next to the campfire, gnawed the leg bones of the beast in his mouth, and said with a blank face.

"Boss spare your life! A few of our brothers had plundered a lot of materials, pretended to be a small cart, and were about to push back to serve the leader, who knew that an unknown team came out in the hump forest area, not only robbed us of the hard-earned materials, but also killed several of our brothers, I escaped from death, only survived, the leader did not care about the villain, spared the life of the little one! "This snowfield bandit who knelt on the ground and cried for mercy was the same thug who slipped from under Safin's sword a few days ago.

"Hump Forest? In addition to the Shuangfeng Village, which has long been wiped out by officers and soldiers, the others are basically some turtles with dung forks, kitchen knives and the like, you said that your brothers and six robbers were raided by four or five turtles, and they escaped death? Are you fooling me? The shallow wrinkles on the bandit leader's face suddenly deepened, and he slammed the uneaten bones in his hands into the kneeling minions, and raised his tone to the old man, roaring angrily.

The minions who fell to their knees were immediately frightened and almost collapsed to the ground, but hurriedly got up again, knelt on the ground, and shouted, "The leader spares his life!" Boss spare your life! It wasn't the bandits who besieged us, they were all armed, their bodies were armed with metal armor, they looked more like those soldiers of Fest, our brothers were really no match, I hope the leader will see it. ”

After a pause, the minion hurriedly added: "Chief, you give me a few more days, and I will immediately go to check the details of the other party, and I will definitely not smear the leader's face!" ”

The bandit leader frowned, but did not answer directly, thinking to himself in his heart. Hump forest? Fesdna? Heavily armed soldiers? These made the leader a little uneasy, and he had been rampant in the snow and hump border area for many years, and he was always the same again. The news that Twin Peaks had been exterminated by the officers and soldiers of Fesdena had already shocked him. Because in this area, Shuangfeng Village is his long-term partnership, and every time he attacks the village of Fesdena, the snow bandits led by him and the bandits of Shuangfeng Village carry out together.

The last time he attacked Fesd more than a month ago, he also sent a letter to Shuangfeng Village as usual, thinking that the owner of the village would come to help as usual, but who knew that the snow robbers didn't see the people from Shuangfeng Village, so they took matters into their own hands, burned countless houses, and killed a number of villagers, including Witt's parents, and Emiya didn't know where to go.

Soon after the attack on Fesdena, the bandit leader learned that the Twin Peaks had been exterminated by the officers and soldiers, and the leader was shocked at that time, mistaking the nobles of Fesdena for the bandits of the Twin Peaks Village, who took advantage of the lack of troops in the village to attack the village due to the lack of troops in Warisi Enpoye, and then sent troops to exterminate the Twin Peaks. Now that his subordinates have been killed by unknown people who are suspected of being soldiers in the Hump Forest, it has made the leader of the Snow Plains bandits even more convinced that Shuangfeng Village may be occupied by officers and soldiers, and may have seen the correspondence between Shuangfeng Village and himself, and is preparing to send troops to destroy him, as evidenced by the attack on his subordinates.

The more the leader thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and the sweat on his forehead slowly dripped down the cold ground. The quiet and eerie atmosphere in the cave made the other snow robbers dare not breathe, they all thought that this brother who was kneeling on the ground might not be able to save his life this time, but he was even more afraid that the leader would implicate his anger on himself, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look around, just begging for things to be hastily resolved.

Time passed little by little, and just when everyone was panicking, the leader suddenly said in a cold voice: "I'll give you a week to find out the affairs of Shuangfeng Village for me, if there is no news after a week, you don't want to come back, if you dare to come back, the wolves on the snow should also add food." ”

When the snowfield bandits kneeling on the ground heard that the leader agreed to give him a chance, he was immediately overjoyed, and slammed his head on the ground a few times, shouting excitedly: "Thank you for the leader's grace not to kill!" Thank you for the leader's grace not to kill! The subordinates will live up to the high expectations of the leader, find out the situation of Shuangfeng Village and then come to report! ”

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Let's say that after Witt returned to Shuangfeng Village, he paid more attention to the training of cottage archers. Rum and the others had been training bows and arrows intermittently for two months, and their archery skills were so "average" that Witt believed that the cottage guards who had started later than them could guess how bad their skills were.

The bandits in the northern snow field have begun to invade the territory of Shuangfeng Village, and the sharp arrow in the other party's hand is not a cotton candy, in case the other party really wants to attack Shuangfeng Village, it will be too late to regret it. Instead of bleeding in wartime, it is better to train more and sweat in peacetime. Therefore, Witt urged Bandney to step up the training of soldiers in foot combat skills, and often taught the bow and arrow skills of the cottage guards himself. Witt also asked Danny Sr. to come out and help train the soldiers. Danny Sr. is also a veteran and a specialized infantry soldier, and his training effectiveness is no worse than that of Banderney. And with the assistance of Danny Sr., Bandni can better arrange the construction of the cottage and the defense works, which is conducive to speeding up the progress of the project.

Although the total number of archers in the entire cottage is only twelve or thirteen, the total number of guards in the cottage is only thirty or forty, and its proportion is not low. There are also a lot of copycats, but the weapons and equipment are so bad that it gives Witt a headache but there is nothing to do, so he can only train as much as possible, practice makes perfect, and when he has the opportunity, he will change the guards with slightly better equipment, and he can only do useless work in a hurry.

It is said that after Star sent the merchant's son back to Riwacheze, the back and forth lasted for half a month. Shuangfeng Village is forty or fifty kilometers west of the village of Vizan and the big city of Riwache, which is not close or far. But the group did not return empty-handed, but with a donkey cart.

"What is this?" Witt asked suspiciously, looking at the donkey cart full of goods in front of him.

Star immediately laughed proudly: "The owner of the village, that rich merchant boy is righteous enough, this whole car was given to us by him, in addition to some food, there are wheat grain, bacon, sausage, smoked chicken, smoked pork, etc., as well as some farming tools and construction equipment, all kinds of complete. The four big faces were full of expression, as if the donkey cart was his own.

After a pause, Star continued: "By the way, the owner of the village, that kid also said that you can find him at any time if you need anything in the future, this is the creed he wrote to me, saying that it is his address, you can take a look." ”

Star handed the creed to Witt, who looked at it, didn't say much, put it in the tight pocket on his chest, and then ordered the guards to carry the goods on the donkey cart back to the stockade, and the farm tools were distributed to the good people in need.

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