Chapter 169: Night Attack
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The horses' hooves stromped, and a group of seven people rode horses and galloped over the land.
Merlin was unusually decisive, and after the reinforcements arrived, he left Dalaran without any delay.
Now that the Winter Veil is approaching, it is the busiest time for the caravanserais, and every year they have to settle their accounts at this time, and many precious goods have to be transported to the Osir family residence back in Dalaran, which gives Merlin an opportunity to take advantage of.
There are too many guards and professionals in the Osir family formed by the Osir family, and the daily consumption is an astronomical amount, although the Osir family can't let them eat nutritious meals every day, but they also have to eat a hearty nutritious meal from time to time to maintain their qi and blood, so that their combat power can be kept at the peak, so that they will not regress without progress, and the mages in the family consume more gold coins.
If all the business of the Lordaeron Kingdom is blocked, and the goods and money transported back are looted, the consumption of the Osir family will not be able to maintain it at all, this is only the calculation of the professionals, and the servants of the Osir family and the expenses of maintaining the luxurious life in front of them are not counted at all.
From thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, some things have been enjoyed, it is difficult to give up, I don't know how many families fall in the middle of the road, their business is in deficit but the cost of life is still not reduced, and finally it is constantly selling the ancestral property of their family, and finally until they are penniless, even if this generation of old Osir is not a stupid person, two consecutive sticks knock down, will directly confuse him, no money, the gathered momentum will naturally collapse.
They are not aristocrats, they purely rely on the huge business supported by money, and they will naturally scatter and empty without money.
Dalaran is located in the northwest of the Hillsbrad Hills, this place is a large plain, known as the Hillsbrad Plains, at a glance a flat river, to not a very good place to start, after the South Point Guard Tower, you will enter the Silver Pine Forest, where the perennial sun is dim, the trees that cover the sky rise from the ground, it is a large forest, originally with the continuous development of the Kingdom of Gilneth and the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the trees of the Silver Pine Forest will be cut down sooner or later, and it has become the granary of human beings like Andohal there.
However, recently the Kingdom of Gilneth has changed its national policy, and most of the Wall of Greymane has been built, and seeing that it will be completed in more than a year, Gilneth has given up the strategy of outward development, and even abandoned a large area of land in the Silver Pine Forest, although the Lordaeron Kingdom has been taken over in a blink of an eye, but the lifespan of the Lordaeron Kingdom is only a few years, and there is no time to develop the Silver Pine Forest.
Merlin and his party did not stop, and quickly crossed the South Point watchtower until they entered the Silver Pine Forest, and then stopped galloping for many days, and after the group simply built a camp, they all gathered in the camp, and a layer of bearskin blanket was spread on the ground, Merlin sat cross-legged on the blanket, and in his hand he held a map made of cowhide, Merlin pointed to the map and spoke to Adonis; "This is the Burning Wood Village, this is the Wall of Greymane, this is the road to the royal capital,"
A finger kept moving over the map, and Merlin's words continued without pause; "Burning Wood Village was originally a border important place of the Kingdom of Gilness, although the scale is not large, but there are many caravans entrenched here all year round, and a large number of guards and mercenaries come with it, forming a market that is even larger than the market in the Chapel of the Wish of Light, for which the Kingdom of Gilneth has specially arranged a large number of troops here,"
The squad of ten people, the squadron of 100 people, is a fixed number, but the brigade is not the same, two squadrons of 200 people can be called a brigade, 500 people are also a brigade, but after the number of people reaches 1,000 people, it is to be called a regiment, and the brigade is basically the same, the size of the regiment is different, thousands of people and thousands of people are OK, it depends on the establishment of which kingdom, a brigade in the Kingdom of Gilneth is 500 people.
Five hundred people guarded Fanmu Village, so that everything around was extremely stable, even the bandits were swept away, if Merlin naturally did not dare to make a move in the south point guard tower, which is close to Fanmu Village in the west, it would be easy for the army in Burning Wood Village to send out to encircle and suppress.
Maintaining the law and order of the Burning Wood Village, ensuring the scale of the market and collecting taxes is what the official Gilness Kingdom has to do, but now it is natural not to think about it, the establishment of the Wall of Greymane made Gilneth and the outside world begin to gradually cut off contact, at the beginning of the construction of the Wall of Greymane There were caravans that could enter and exit, and now the caravans have been banned, the market in the Burning Wood Village has dissipated, and the people who rely on this market to survive have scattered to make their own livelihoods, Even most of the people in the Burning Wood Village have now been moved into the Greymane Wall, and there are still some left, just waiting for the Greymane Wall to be successfully built, they will all be relocated, and the Burnt Wood Village will be completely abandoned.
"Now that the number of people in the village is scarce, the troops stationed in it have been evacuated, the kingdom of Gilneys is indifferent to everything outside the walls of Greymane, and this place is beginning to gradually become chaotic, I heard that there are already traces of wild beasts here, if the kingdom does not carry out encirclement and suppression, it has been more than a year for this beast to multiply into the climate, and it will start to attack the passing caravans,"
"We're going to do it right here?" Adonis looked at the map, his eyes thoughtful, his mouth open, and he said.
"Yes,"
"Gilneth doesn't care, this place is surrounded by forests, and it is the best place to ambush, throw out a few dead beasts afterwards, and make the scene as a scene after the beast attack,"
"Unless we give up this fortune," Adonis shook his head, indicating that unless he gave up everything the caravan transported, he would not covet a penny, or the forged clues would be realistic, but they could not be concealed, after all, how could a beast attack clean up the loot afterwards.
"Just say the past, the kingdom will do it, plus we will take action, the Osir family is not a fool and idiot, they can easily guess that we did it," Merlin didn't care at all, if he wanted to track it down, the Osir family could find out that it was them, but he still had to cover it up, and the past that could be said to the outside world was somewhat particular about eating and not being so ugly.
"The Osir family who got the news in this way will definitely choose revenge," the cold light flashed in Merlin's eyes, he didn't have much hatred for the Osir family, but who let them get in Merlin's way, Lance and his conflict are destined to be unmitigated, with the resources of the Osir family to use, let Lance leave him alone He can bring a lot of trouble to Merlin, and then Merlin will do his best to further his strength, in the catastrophe of the future kingdom collapse, he must have elite first-level combat power, Merlin can have the power of self-preservation, and if he wants to prove that old Merlin, his strength must be stronger, and he has to make a plan.
This consumes a lot of Merlin's mind, where does he have the attention to fight Lance, he knocked out the Osir family with a stick, and lost the resources of the Osir family for him to mobilize, Lance is like a wolf without claws and teeth, and he is not a threat at all.
"Lure the revenge people to come and kill this group of people, the Osir family has little strength left, they no longer dare to leave Dalaran, they have lost their financial resources, and the Osir family can only be finished,"
"This plundering caravan will divide all the property equally according to personal contributions," Merlin looked at Dole and Maca beside him, both of them are elite first-class combat power, and they came to old Merlin for wealth and status, and they want to make each other do their best, how can they be willing to do their best without paying wealth.
Sure enough, after hearing Merlin's words, several people showed greed in their eyes, the Osir family has a lot of wealth, they are not many, and everyone can distribute a lot in this way, Merlin doesn't care about the greedy gaze, no matter how he divides it, he is the one who gets the most benefits.
Coming to this road where the royal capital must reach Dalaran, the six Merlin people went directly into hiding, they were few in number, and they easily hid with the help of the woods, and they could not find any traces, and the thief Dole had already left to inquire about the news.
With Dore's ability, he was able to find out the details of the caravan of the Osir family clearly, and if Dorr left, he would come back very quickly, and it took about two days before and after, and he would find out the details of the caravan of the Osir family returning to Dalaran.
Looking at Dole standing in front of him, telling the information about the caravan in detail, Merlin began to summarize the strength of the caravan, the caravan guards have more than 100 people, including 13 professionals, these thirteen people are not only the escort team of the Osir family, four of them are temporarily recruited in the royal capital, and the remaining 90 or so are all reserve professionals, and the strength of the caravan is not weak at all.
Preparatory professionals cannot fight alone, but when they are well-trained with weapons, five people can contain one professional, ten people can kill one professional, and if they complement each other, five people can kill one professional.
Looking at Merlin in this way, the seven of them are naturally not opponents, but the above is the army, only the core part of the guards of this caravan is the people of the Osir family, and the others are all hired, all of them are rabble, and they can fight a smooth battle, and the strength is completely enough to fight, but it is inevitable that there will be damage in doing so, after all, the enemy has a large number of people, and it is best to attack at night, and a mature plan was formulated in an instant.