Adventurers operate separately from the army.

The fighting style of the two is not the same type at all, the training method of the army focuses on offensive and defensive strength, and the fighting style of the adventurer focuses on dexterous dodge. Even the furious Barbarians are better at dodging than the army-trained warriors, who are accustomed to large-scale team combat. Adventurer squads generally do not exceed 10 people, and the most common combat style is a team of five, which includes frontal resistance, rangers, sneak attacks, and spell healing. The army's combat style consisted of a platoon of hoplite warriors with steel shields in their hands, and a small number of defensive warriors equipped with super-strong tower shields.

A savvy adventurer can tell if he or she is from the army or has been trained in the army by looking at the way others fight.

Sauron's mission was to reconnoiter the enemy.

The adventurers were assigned to three teams, one was the reconnaissance team, which consisted of thirteen wanderers and five rangers, all of whom were of second-order strength or above. One is a combat team, consisting of warriors, rangers, barbarians, priests, etc., who are tasked with clearing out small groups of enemies after the army has crushed the enemy, while also serving as flank support to cover the army. Finally, there are the few wizards, warlocks, and druids who act with the army as key protection objects.

Wizards rarely join the army, they earn more than the army by doing anything, and live more comfortably than the army.

Trying to afford the military pay for hiring wizards can definitely bring down a thriving city.

So, the most common is this kind of employment relationship, paying a large sum of money to get them out when necessary. Everyone was paid before they set off, and Sauron's side got 30 Jindler, which was 10 more than the other warrior classes. According to the rules of this world, anyone who acts as a sentry, scout, or infiltration mission can get 50% of the reward in advance. Because they will encounter more dangers, and at the same time, they will be able to get an extra loot when they are over.

Scouts are not simply scouting, they are the vanguard of the war, and those who dare to act as scouts are veterans.

Sauron's reward was 60 Kindler.

The spoils of the purge should be counted after the end of the battle, and the things of the individual battles in front of them belong to themselves. The so-called '10,000 taels of gold as soon as the cannon goes off', dispatching the army is not just a paper order, after the army is opened, all the salaries are doubled, all kinds of people need a lot of money to eat and chew, and a large amount of pension is needed in the event of combat casualties. Although it will not cost dozens or hundreds of Kindler at once, as adventurers do, the cost is quite staggering.

On the day of the army's departure, White Horse City looked very excited, and many merchants offered to donate some material goods, and at the same time, they also asked the escort to follow.

The 2,000-strong army was more powerful than the tens of thousands in Sauron's original memory, and the 1,000-strong City Guard, all armed with iron-inlaid armor, shields, short swords, helmets, and crossbows. The 500-strong heavy infantry was equipped with chain mail to half-body armor, and was uniformly equipped with steel shields, iron helmets, refined weapons, and heavy crossbows with two consecutive rounds. The last five hundred were the elite of the elite, including hoplites with full plate armor, all wrapped in armor, with only a pair of eyes exposed, and their arms were equipped with fish-scale gauntlets.

These hoplites were heavily armed with two-handed swords, sword and shield combinations, and some carried crossbows.

Then there were the burgher-warriors of the aristocracy, that is, the honorary citizens and knights, who were armed with armored horses, knights' armor, knights' spears, steel shields, and hardcover crossbows. Each knight was accompanied by one or two knightly squires, who were equipped like heavy infantry, and fought with the knights in peacetime, and followed the knights to mend the enemy when the group charged.

Let's be honest.

The regular army of this world, even the equipment of light infantry, is configured according to the standard of medieval heavy infantry in the previous life. And the chances of being equipped with crossbow arrows in the army are extremely high, and they have all been specially trained to shoot crossbows. A squad of a regular army, whose equipment and firepower can make people stunned, against modern firearms units, as long as there are no heavy firepower weapons, it is a safe chance to win.

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As a scout, Sauron naturally needs to be one step ahead.

The speed of the army's advance was not fast, and there was a relative lack of fine war horses in the south, and the hoplites marched with a weight of more than 20 kilograms. The stamina of the advanced warriors is very strong, and although the battle outbreak is not long-lasting, the march is easy to carry the burden. People who have not practiced martial arts do not know the physical exertion in the state of explosion, and often think that they can march dozens of kilometers with weights, and it is easy to fight for half an hour or an hour during battle.

This is a very speechless statement.

There is a saying among martial artists called 'Fa Jin', if you don't exert your strength, it's no problem to fight for an hour or two, and your physical fitness will drop rapidly within three moves.

If the eruption is excessive, the muscles will directly enter a state of excessive fatigue, and even severe damage will occur.

There is no way to recover this kind of physical energy quickly.

When Sauron launched the [Sword Momentum-Heavy Split], he was in a state of extreme strength, and the strength of his whole body completely exploded in an instant, and the physical energy consumed in an instant exceeded an hour or two of movement. This is not the legendary true qi, but a technique that mobilizes the muscles of the whole body, and even the power of the internal organs. (PS: Since the book was opened, the physical fitness problem has been complained about for more than half a month, those students who have doubts should lunge and twist their waist before sprinting boxing, please remember to take a deep breath before punching.) Although it can't meet the standard of strength, if you punch with all your strength, it is almost equivalent to a physical explosion. Please test the speed of your physical exertion, the number of punches, and the feeling of your internal organs. If your arms are sore and your internal organs are uncomfortable when you punch out, then don't stick to a problem in the future, and supplement your knowledge more. Not only Baidu to take a look, but also to do it yourself. -- Futu. ）

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Marching camp.

The first day was no different from what Sauron remembered, and on the second day all the scouts were scattered in a net, the army continued to advance along the road, and the adventurers who accepted the mission split into small groups and entered the forest.

Sauron's figure marched through the dense woods, and behind him was a half-elven ranger who believed in the goddess of the forest.

The other party is a veteran of survival in the wild.,Have good stealth and reconnaissance skills.,Although you can't be stealthy because of your profession.,But your feet are light and your movements are agile.,Not lost to wanderers at all.。 His age is indescribable, because the half-elves have a lifespan of one or two hundred years, but they look younger, wearing a hard leather armor, equipped with a longbow on their backs, and using a weapon that is a boning knife inside a scimitar.

"It's a gnoll!"

The half-elf ranger named Yas crouched down and judged the footprints on the ground, then picked up the grass to look at other traces, and said in a deep voice, "There should be some goblins and kobolds. We can solve this small problem ourselves, and there is no need to signal the team. ”

Since it is to clean up monsters, it is natural to plow the entire area.

Scouts in the army are also scattered, wanderers are not common in the army, and the scouts in the army are mostly some ranger warriors.

Sauron nodded slightly, glanced at the other and said, "Can you track their location?" ”

Trace traces.

This is the Ranger specialty, as they have a great ability to track enemies in the wilderness, and can find their way by the smell of guò footprints.

"Small." Yas laughed and said, "Keep up." They are not far away. ”

The half-elf ranger pulled out the boning knife, and then the cat moved forward, and after tracking for hundreds of meters, he would stay in place for a while, check the traces on the ground, some footprints had become very faint, but he still successfully judged the direction. Their innate ability to perceive them is intuitive, and sometimes they can rely on intuition and experience to track them when there is no trace.

Soon.

They spotted the first group of enemies.

It was a small group of gnolls, numbering about a dozen, domesticating three coyotes, and capturing more than a dozen goblin kobolds as slaves and stockpiling food.

The Half-Elf Ranger gestured to either side, and Sauron nodded lightly and faded into the shadows, approaching from the side.

The other party is a veteran of adventure, and such a battle is just a run-in.

Sauron's figure drew closer and closer in the shadows, and without a sound, he slowly drew his scimitar and reached for the gnolls' gathering place from the side. The gnolls of this small group seem to be a bit special, they should have survived the fight, and there are no gnolls in them, all of them are adult kinds.

The half-elven ranger waited until Sauron was getting closer before he came to a large tree, and he jumped lightly on the pole and jumped up, reaching the branch of the tree in a second or two. There was a slight rustle of leaves, and Yas pulled out his longbow and pulled a wolf-tooth arrow from his back. The ranger's quiver is specially customized, and there are not many arrows in it, generally only 6-12, but all of them are fixed and will not fall out when they are active, and the position of the arrows is also fixed, which can ensure that you will not be unable to touch the arrows when you reach out in an instant.

- "Backstab!" ”

Sauron's figure appeared in the shadows, jumping three or five meters in an instant, and the scimitar stabbed directly into the back of a gnoll's heart.

Kill with one sword!

The scimitar pierced the heart and came out of the front.

Suck.

An arrow flew out, and the alarmed gnolls in the gathering area pounced, and as soon as the gnoll at the front raised the bone crusher hammer, an arrow pierced through its chest, almost sinking into its body.

Longbow Shooting!

Sauron twisted and slashed, forcing one of the glonols back at him, making a cut in his arm.

Suck.

A second arrow was fired, and a gnoll man's thigh was shot out of a bloody hole.

The Half-Elf Ranger inserts the longbow back into his back, his equipment is specially crafted, and he is extremely quick to change weapons. I saw him jump down from a tree four or five meters high, knelt down on one knee to remove the force of the fall, and then pulled out the boning knife at his waist, took a deep breath, and his chest was also bulging high.

The Ranger is also a melee professional.

Yas inhaled a large amount of oxygen in an instant, his pupils dilated slightly, and he changed from kneeling on one knee to a half-squat sprint posture, and then the whole person rushed out like a sharp arrow, and the speed that burst out in an instant even exceeded the 100-meter sprint champion of the previous Olympic Games.

- Charge!

The forward momentum of the half-elf ranger's burst was mixed with the force of inertia, and he slammed over the simple wooden fence, clenched the boning knife and slashed horizontally, directly disconnecting a jackal from his waist, and the two corpses fell to the ground with a pop. He paused for a moment to catch his breath, then rushed into the warband, slashing through a gnolla's sneak attack.

"This garbage is not worth wasting my arrows! One can cost five kindlers! ”

The Half-Elf Ranger smiled, slashing the gnoll in the chest and slamming it into the Adam's apple of the enemy while explaining to Sauron why he didn't keep shooting. He uses the finest wolf's tooth arrows, which are uniquely custom-made and don't drift too much from the wind and air. The figures of the two men staggered forward within the gnolls, killing six gnolls and three coyotes in just a minute or two. The other enemies finally felt frightened and began to flee, Sauron pulled out a crossbow and fired, and the half-elf ranger grabbed a sharp stick, took a deep breath, and threw it at the fleeing gnolls as a javelin.

A terrible scream rang out.

The fleeing gnolls were pinned straight to the ground, and by the time he walked over and pulled out his stick, Sauron had already shot the other monsters with his crossbow.

The half-elf ranger picked up the wooden stick and spun around, and when his head hit the head of the jackal who was still out of breath, the wooden stick directly broke off a section, and a piece of white flower brains splashed and sprinkled, and a piece of the jackal's skull was torn off. He turned around and smiled at Sauron, then threw away the stick and said, "Let's clean it up." These are just appetizers, and the real ones are still on the ogres, who have been robbing quite a few caravans lately. ”

A battle that is not difficult.

The relationship between the two people is undoubtedly much closer, at least they understand each other's strength.

This is a third-order ranger!

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