After the night's march, even Paran himself had a slight tiredness on his face. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But rushing works. Originally, it was expected that the enemy would not be able to detect the abnormality until at least noon on the 24th, and even if he was lucky, this time would most likely be delayed until the afternoon.

However, they had reached their destination at this moment before the sun had risen on the twenty-fourth.

It was a place marked on military maps as Hill 37.

This desert is not an endless and unobstructed flat land. On the contrary, there are many undulating hillocks of all kinds.

These small mounds and sand dunes are not very large, and it is not too laborious to climb up and down, but they are enough for people to easily see far away.

Militarily, such terrain features were used quite well by the sand pirates. Relying on their familiarity with the desert, they detect their prey in advance, and then concentrate on rushing out of the back of a certain dune, often to catch the attacked prey by surprise and thus achieve victory.

As for the so-called No. 37 Valley, it is an area of continuous mounds. Beneath these mounds and sand dunes is a valley with slightly lower terrain.

Please report that the sand bandits in the Wasteland Pass are stationed in this valley.

Just looking at the information and looking at the map, Paland didn't see anything. But when he visited the scene in person, he found that these sand pirates did have their own unique side in taking advantage of the geographical conditions of this special desert area.

They cleverly used the terrain to not only create a relatively comfortable camping place, but also quite secretive. The geographical conditions hide their traces very well, and if they are not known in advance and deliberately reconnoitred, it is not easy to find the enemy's traces even if they are close.

Just thinking like this, Palan suddenly felt a wind blowing, and the wind carried Firmino's whisper: "The outposts on the periphery have been cleared, and the teams in all four directions are in place and ready to attack at any time." ”

Wind communication is a good thing for battlefield communication, and with a mage, Palan, of course, it is impossible to abandon this convenient spell.

"How much time do we have?" Paran asked.

Two minutes later, another wind blew with news. Firmino said, "Fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes at most, and those sand thieves will find that their outlying sentinels are gone." ”

There was not much time, and Palan said to the mage beside him: "Give orders to the leading officers in the other four directions, and in five minutes, launch an attack on time!" ”

It is the time before dawn at its darkest hour. However, under a clear and cloudless night sky, the moonlight and starlight can provide some visual assistance.

At least, you won't lose sight of your fingers.

Look below the sand dunes, where the sand pirates camp. They were so cautious that they could not even see the glimmer of the candle flame at this time.

But Paran knew that his prey was down here, and the news that Major Firmino had personally entered the field to investigate should be reliable enough.

Five minutes passed. Putting away the pocket watch in his hand, Paran drew the long sword at his waist. The sharp sword reflected a white light in the moonlight, shining on the sand in a flash. He, on the other hand, took a deep breath, then used all his strength to yell, "Attack!" All offense! ”

The originally silent desert was awakened by the sound of shouting and killing in an instant! The dust from the footsteps on the ground is clearly visible, even at night.

After Paran commanded the army to attack, the sand pirates reacted quickly - albeit with a slightly bad reaction.

They were clearly unprepared for a sudden attack. Panicked voices were heard, flashes of fire, and some sand thieves came out with torches to see what was happening, but they were greeted by a series of fire-filled crossbows in the night.

In such a dark night, the crossbowmen certainly had no way to maintain the accuracy of their shots. It's just that Palan has never had the luxury of this. All the assembled crossbowmen had to do was to cover the camp with rockets before their comrades stormed the enemy camp.

It is not a matter of shooting or killing many people, but of being able to expand the area covered as much as possible and expand the offensive as much as possible, so as to exert stronger psychological pressure on the enemy. At the same time, the flame-carrying crossbow bolts that were fired at the sand pirates' tents caused by the flames could further cause confusion among the enemy.

After shooting the rocket, the crossbowmen continued to shake the joystick on the crossbow desperately, wound it, and then continued to shoot in order to shoot as many bolts as possible before the friendly army entered the enemy camp.

An overwhelming array of arrows rained down, showing the fast and powerful speed of the crossbowman's fire.

In fact, although the crossbowmen were quite dense in their covering shots, the actual damage they actually caused was not too much.

In complete darkness, in such a field of view, it is possible to carry out a covering strike, and it is impossible to pursue the hit rate. In fact, whether it was the first round of rockets or the subsequent crossbow shots, except for some really unlucky guys who were shot and injured, most of the other arrows were thrown into the air.

But that was enough to cause panic among the sand pirates.

Under the dense rain of arrows, a considerable number of sand thieves, after just running out of the camp with their weapons, retreated again. Even the officers of the Sand Pirates.

And this directly caused these sand thieves to miss the last chance.

If they could have taken the lead in organizing the defense before the legion led by Paran himself rushed in, it would not have been that they had no chance of resisting the onslaught. And as long as you resist for a while, find a mount, ride a camel, and with excellent mobility, it is very likely that some people can escape.

However, they are not even organized at the moment with a decent line of defense.

Paran took the lead, leading two brigades of pure swordsmen, and rushed in from the front of the sand pirate camp.

There was no obstacle to this process, and the sand pirates, who had been attacked by surprise and suppressed by the rain of arrows fired by the crossbowmen, had no way to stop the advance of Palan's troops.

The two-handed swordsmen gathered in standard squads and rushed from tent to tent after tent. A few torches were thrown at the tent, the tent was lit, and then it was kept outside. The sand thieves who couldn't stand the flames scorched, as soon as they came out of the tent, three or five big swords would immediately slash their heads and faces.

Some of them even couldn't wait for the sand thieves inside to run out, and the team leaders who led the team were more short-tempered, so they would directly command their subordinates and cut down the tent with a big sword. It didn't matter where he cut it, even the tent and everything in it were cut down together.

If you encounter some relatively large tents, there may be multiple sand thieves inside, or it may be some sand pirate leader members, then the pure swordsmen will also directly cut through the tent and rush in to fight the enemy. And the sand pirate cavalry inside, who had no mounts, most likely didn't even wear all the equipment, how could they be the opponents of the menacing pure swordsmen?

Under such circumstances, few sand thieves were able to break out of the tent alive.

Paran led the crowd forward, and in fact, the only soldiers he could command now were a few dozen people who were with him. The darkness of the night not only brought trouble to the enemy, but also made Paran's command system almost paralyzed in the melee. It is impossible for him to command the army under such conditions.

But it doesn't need to.

At the very beginning of the battle, the tide of battle had already tilted in his favor to a considerable extent. The sand pirates who were attacked by the raid were completely unprepared.

Moreover, the pure swordsman troops are also quite old-fashioned elites, they have fought many battles with Dane's southern and northern wars, from officers to ordinary soldiers, in terms of war experience, it can be said that they are quite rich. They are fully capable of fighting in small formations without unified command, relying on the leadership of officers at all levels.

What's more, they are not completely out of command now. At least, before the war, Paran had given clear instructions to each of the troops. The task of this frontal assaulting force under his command was to rush into the enemy camp and expand the confusion and lethality as much as possible.

The first and second stages of this mission have been completed, and all that remains is to see how many enemies they can kill in the dark.

And Paran himself is now trying his best to keep his troops cohesive in the process of advancing, not to kill and kill in the dark and run too far. At the same time, he is also leading his condensed team and continuing to kill forward.

In the darkness of the night, he himself did not know where he was. But he knew that it was right to kill all the way. Keep moving forward, you can always kill the camp of these sand pirates, and at that time, the task of this part of the army led by him will be perfectly accomplished.

More than twenty minutes after the battle began, Paran encountered the first wave of friendly forces.

Before the battle began, he divided his army into four parts and attacked from all four directions. He himself led the army to attack from the east, and the one in front of him was naturally the army that attacked from the other direction.

"What part are you from?" It was impossible for Paran to know every soldier, and the team in front of him was only twenty or thirty people, and there were no high-ranking officers, so he could only ask.

He didn't recognize every soldier or officer, but the soldiers and officers basically recognized him as a general. One of the lieutenants at the head replied, "We are Colonel Geb's subordinates, and we have been separated from the brigade in the previous battle. ”

Gebu was the team that came from the west, and he and Paran were coming in from exactly two opposite directions.

The people who found Gebu in this position basically meant that the camp of the sand pirates had been killed by troops from both directions.

Paran stroked the silver mask on his face and asked the soldiers in front of him, "Do you know where your large army is?" ”

"I don't know exactly where it is...... the lieutenant said, "but I know the general direction." ”

Palan pondered for a moment, and planned to take the team to meet up with Gebu first.

So, after about ten minutes, Paran led the hundred men and found Gebu. And the timing of his arrival was also very coincidental, Colonel Geb was gnawing a hard bone.

It seemed to be the leader of a sand pirate group, and in the chaotic situation, he even gathered up the appearance of a hundred people, and fought with a mixed army of sword dancers and pure swordsmen led by Gebu himself. And the direction from which Paran came is exactly behind this group of sand thieves!

So what else is there to say? With a roar, Paran directly took the lead and led the troops around him to kill.

He has already been promoted to the level of a high-ranking knight, and when he slashes down with a sword, there are few people who are his enemies. Occasionally, a few sand thieves with a little ability can also make two moves in his hands, and they are usually surrounded by the guards who follow him, and they are slashed to death with knives in their hands.

In the case of losing their mounts, the combat effectiveness of the sand pirate cavalry itself is average, and it is already a very hard thing to fight with the mixed army led by Gebu, not to mention the surprise attack of the troops led by Paran himself behind them.

They had already collapsed after five minutes. The leader was beheaded by Paran himself, and the other sand thieves also died and fled.

After winning the battle, Paran looked at him and Gebu's soldiers as they showed signs of running after the rout, and hurriedly shouted, "Don't pursue!" Don't chase! ”

"What's wrong?" Gebu took a rag that he found out of nowhere, wiped the scimitar in his hand, and asked Paran, "Why didn't the general let the soldiers pursue him?" ”

"I need this force to come together." "I'm a little worried. ”

"Worried?" Gebu frowned, "Although there is no way to see the overall situation, there should be no suspense in this battle, right?" What else are you worried about? ”

"I'm worried about Lieutenant Colonel Northman's side." Paran said.

Norsman was an elven sword dancer and the commander of a unit attacking from the other direction. He led a brigade of sword dancers and a brigade of pure swordsmen, plus two squadrons of wolf cavalry, and had a very important task - to find the corral in the sand pirate camp as soon as the assault began, that is, the place where the sand pirates concentrated their camel mounts, and occupy it.

According to the plan, after Lieutenant Colonel Northman completed this mission, he should release five red flares into the sky to provide a position for other troops to support.

However, it has been almost an hour since the battle began, and however, there is still no shadow of the red flare in the sky.