Chapter 138: Advantages and Disadvantages (4000 words)
Syllable!
The spear that never left his body was thrown into the corner, and the clothes and armor on his body broke away little by little and smashed to the ground.
Dry towels thrown into the water, in the end slightly fluttering.
Bloodstained hands reached into the basin, bright red in the transparent water.
The wet towel was scooped up, and Sophia vigorously wiped the salt stains and dried blood that had been left behind by the evaporation of sweat on her body.
The precious water turned red and flowed on the skin, falling on the floor, and flowing out.
Dressed in a fresh robe, he leaned back on the chaise longue, staring at the sunlight shining in from the window, ready to dry his hair.
There was a knock on the door, Sophia closed her eyes, stretched out her legs, stepped on the round wooden pole of the spear, picked it up, the spear flew, reached out and held it in her hand, swung back, swept the deadbolt of the door, and said lazily: "Come in." ”
The door was pushed open, and the servant entered, bowing his head and not daring to look inside, and said cautiously, "My lord, the chief of Agreus asked you to come over." ”
"yes, got it."
Sophia snorted, not the slightest hint of wanting to get up.
The servant stepped back and cautiously closed the door.
The skin is hot and the moisture in the hair has evaporated.
When dusk came, Sophia opened her eyes faintly, opened the closet next to her, took out her clothes and put them on, picked up the armor on the ground, put it on, and dragged the spear out the door.
Outside, there was a gloomy cloud.
The vulture bandits were robbing and killing everywhere, so that the caravan did not dare to go out, and also made it impossible to bring in the resources needed by the city of Akamu.
In the whole city, resources are scarce, and people are already starving to death.
Following the twisted road to the residence of the Akeam Merchant Regiment (formerly the Angrev Mansion), a large crowd of people gathered outside the door.
Some of them are some caravan people, and they want to pray that the Ake Amu merchant group can form a caravan of hundreds of people with them, because in this way, they don't have to be afraid of those vultures.
There are still some of them who are purely here to make trouble, but so far they haven't had a chance, and they are waiting.
There is another group of people, some spies.
In the end, the largest group of people is a group of people who eat melons with nothing to do.
Several big men walked out, shouting loudly and pushing people away.
Someone wanted to get angry, but when they saw Sophia in the middle of several big men, they immediately turned off the fire.
Sophia looked at the crowd around her indifferently, some of them shouted loudly, some asked anxiously, and shouted noisily, filling Sophia's eardrums, making Sophia frown involuntarily.
Sophia, with a cold face, walked through the crowd and walked in.
Aglius was in the middle of the hall, surrounded by ice cubes, bringing a cool breeze, which was extremely luxurious.
However, Sophia knew that some items had flowed out of the adult's laboratory to make ice from water, so the ice was still expensive, but the cost was not as high as it used to be.
Below the head of Agreus sat representatives of some of the larger caravans, or simply the leaders, who had tried by all means to seek the help of the Akeamu merchants, and Agreus was dealing with them.
"Sophia is here, come in!"
Sophia walked in, and her eyes were focused on Sophia.
Ake Amu had no secrets, and everyone present knew that Sophia and his party had gone out and came back covered in blood.
"How's the plan?"
Agreus already knew how the plan was going to go, but he asked anyway, just to give the troublesome group of people a message that they could solve the matter quickly.
"The plan went well." Sophia said, "But outside the stone forest, we killed a little vulture. ”
"No wonder." Agreus shook his head with a smile and said, "No wonder the old vultures outside have gone crazy." ”
"This ...... This ...... This, in case the vulture strikes, what should I do? ”
"Call in? Well. With a cold snort, a strong man who was missing a leg said, "Give them ten guts, and they won't dare to come in." ”
After speaking, he looked at Sophia again: "Girl, you did a beautiful job, and you deserve to be the daughter of Anglev." ”
Sophia pursed her lips and smiled, her face flushed: "Uncle Stone, this is what I should do." ”
His name is Stone, and he once fought alongside Angreev, and during a battle with the vulture bandits, he suffered an infection in his leg wound and later had his leg amputated.
By now, he is one of the best stonemasons in Akeamu City, with more than a dozen apprentices, and his prestige among stonemasons is extremely high.
The relationship between him and Anglev is extremely complicated, the two are comrades-in-arms and friends, but at the same time he also dislikes Angleus's personality, and later they become strangers.
However, he was extremely kind to Anglev's children, and one of Anglev's daughters was married to his son.
He is also extremely complicated about the death of Angelev.
Before thinking about avenging Angrev, he asked his son to collect Angrev's bones, cremate him, and let his ashes flutter with the yellow sand.
(The people of Akeam, like the people of other cities, practiced cremation, believing that the body was sinful and that cremating the body would burn along with the sin, purifying the soul and giving it rest.)
Of course, the main reason is that they are afraid that if there are too many bones, they will become a base camp for skeletons. )
This time, he came here to solve the problem of stonemasonry.
During this time, all the people in the city were affected, including the stonemasons.
Stone looked at Sophia's face flushed, and laughed, feeling that Sophia was still as cute as when she was a child.
patted the stool next to him and shouted to Sophia, "Girl, come and sit here." ”
Sophia sat down beside the stone, and on top of it, Agthius spoke, "If everything goes well, the next few days will be solved." ”
"Chief of Aglius, can you tell us what the plan is?"
"Sorry, the plan is kept secret, you'll know then." After speaking, Aglius took a sip of water, the cool water calmed his irritable mood a little, and then turned to the stone and said: "Uncle Stone, in the past few days, our merchant group will carry out a huge operation, and the good boys of the merchant group will temporarily leave Akamu, and the safety of Akamu will be up to you at that time." ”
The stone didn't like Aglius at all, but he wouldn't stumble at this time, so he said with a cold face: "Hmph! Akamu is not yours, and as the master of Akam, we will naturally defend Akam. ”
Agreus breathed a sigh of relief, and with the help of the stonemason, he didn't have to worry about the emptiness behind Akeamu.
300 stonemasons, which means 300 heavy infantry, relying on the defense of the walls of Akam, 300 vulture robbers really dare to attack, which is tantamount to looking for death.
The advantage of the vulture bandits is their agility, they ride horses, and although it is not known where their horses came from or how they raised so many horses, there is no doubt that they have the absolute upper hand on short runs.
The Akam merchants, on the other hand, used camels, and although camels ate more than horses, they were not as picky eaters as horses, so the cost was more durable than horses, which was extremely important.
Therefore, camels are not as difficult to raise as horses.
Akamu uses camels and has an advantage over long distances.
However, this is a desert, on a vast sea of sand, as long as the vulture bandits escape a certain distance, it is very difficult to find it again.
However, the vulture bandit group knew the location of Akamu, so it was easy to find the door, so this directly led to the phenomenon of the vulture bandit group being elusive.
The gap between the two sides is a gap between the bright and the dark.
And now, the tide is turning.
Through the skeletons, Agreus already knew the lair of the vulture bandits, and the vulture bandits' greatest advantage was gone.
Although camels are easy to raise, there are not many of them in Ake Amu due to the large amount of food.
After Agreus promised to deal with the vulture bandits, the caravan gathered and pieced together, and a total of 200 Bactrian camels formed a camel cavalry regiment and rushed out of the stone forest and attacked the bandits.
More than a dozen robbers were frightened, galloped wildly, and were chased to death by more than 200 camel cavalry.
In the end, after paying the lives of five robbers, the rest of the robbers escaped.
"Father, here they are." A little vulture ran up to the old vulture and panted.
Just now, I almost scared him to death.
"Humph! It's really impulsive! ”
The old vulture sneered, raised his palms and clenched them into fists, and looked around with gloomy eyes, but anyone who made eye contact with him couldn't help but lower their heads.
"Safari!" In the midst of an old shout, the robbers around him cheered.
The vulture bandit group is not simple, and the reason why the vulture bandit group is called the vulture bandit group is because every time they appear, they are accompanied by a large number of vultures.
Those vultures hover in the sky, waiting for a fabulous lunch.
People see vultures, but they don't know where the vulture bandits will come from.
The vultures hovering in the sky are not just symbols, in fact, they are the eyeliner of the vulture bandits.
Each of the 12 sons of the old vulture led more than a dozen robbers to scatter around the camel cavalry regiment of Akaamu, and from time to time haunted the camel cavalry regiment, placing an arrow or two, and constantly harassing them in turn.
And the old vulture, who himself led a large army of more than 70 robbers, peeped from afar, looking for fighters.
Under the scorching sun, the camel cavalry regiment moved forward silently, those harassing robbers, could not cause them much trouble, the robber regiment has the vultures of the sky as eyeliner, and they also have skeletons in the sand to help reconnoitre, so they can always find the traces of the robber group one step in advance, and then prepare.
Gradually, the old vulture noticed that something was wrong, and according to the previous tactics, the heat and strenuous exercise caused a lot of sweating, and it should have dragged the other party to exhaustion a long time ago.
But now, although the other party is tired, it is not serious.
In the constant harassment, although the other party was injured, it was the bandit side that was more seriously injured.
What's more, they seem to have noticed that the large forces of the Vulture Bandits are constantly approaching the main force.
Strong winds passed, and sand and dust were raised.
The originally calm sea of sand boiled, the sky and the earth were hazy, even the dazzling sunlight did not let the dazzling eyes, and the visibility of the surroundings dropped rapidly.
A group of more than a dozen robbers, led by a small vulture, quietly approached the camel cavalry regiment, and in the camel cavalry regiment, Aglius squinted his eyes and slowly lowered the token, and the skeleton had already passed the message to him through the token.
"Ready!"
Agreus drew his scimitar and, under the gaze of everyone, gave the order: "Right front against the wind, charge!" ”
With a hissing sound, Sophia took the lead in rushing out.
A series of neighs rang out, and one by one the camel cavalry rushed out after Sophia.
The four hooves are flying, the white robe is flying, the sharp eyes under the turban, the chain mail under the robe, and the spear scimitar in the hand exude a scorching light.
At this time, this bandit team of more than a dozen people still had no idea, and was quietly approaching this side.
In order not to be noticed, they also dismount now to minimize the risk of exposure.
Then, they found that there was a shadow ahead.
Then, the undulating shadows rapidly dilate in the pupils.
The ground is trembling!
"Not good, get on the horse, run!"
The little vulture pulled out his scimitar and roared heartbreakingly, his pupils unconcealed panic.
The shadows in front of him were like waves, and it was clear that they were tall camel cavalry rushing towards this side.
"Drive!"
The robbers rode their horses and drove them to turn around and flee quickly.
At a certain distance, horses are faster than camels, but only if they are in a pure race.
Shout!
A sharp arrow broke through the air, because of the strong wind, and it was a headwind, this arrow was not a big threat, staggered, passed by one robber, and then hit the back of another robber, was blocked by the leather armor, slightly broken flesh, and barely hung on it.
The robber scolded in pain, drew a javelin, and turned around to give the group of guys a good look, when suddenly his pupils shrank.
Even in the gray sand, it couldn't stop the light emitted by those weapons.
They blinked in mid-air like stars in the sky, crossed a beautiful parabola, and fell in this direction.
Puff puff ......
A blood flower bloomed, and the robber convulsed a few times like an electric shock, and then he and the horse were nailed together with four javelins, and one man and one fell to the ground, rolling in the sand and falling to the dunes with the same unlucky ones.
In just a split second, 1/3 was lost.
The little vulture turned pale with fright, frantically whipped the horse under his crotch, and muttered to himself: "How is it possible, how is it possible......"
Behind him there was the sound of death again, and in a series of screams and the sound of sharp weapons entering flesh, four more robbers died tragically.
The little vulture struggled to pull away an arrow and a javelin, and then, in the air, the whole person was thrown away.
Burst!
The little vulture rolled twice on the ground and then stood up in embarrassment, spitting out a mouth full of sand and contorting its face.
"Ahh
He let out an inexplicable howl and swung his scimitar with all his might.
In front of him, Sophia stood out, and a little cold star suddenly bloomed.