Chapter 168: Take the initiative
As night falls, the green forest, which used to be resting, is now brightly lit. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Once again, the council chamber was packed, and Cyllik was nervously giving everyone tasks. I saw that on the map in front of him, a large area of bright red markers almost blocked and surrounded most of the exits of the green forest.
"My lord, a Drow hundred-man brigade was found in the southwest, as well as a large number of kobolds, it is estimated that it is the vanguard of the other party." Negro's face was covered with fine beads of sweat, and he was a little nervous even when he spoke.
"Damn! Vanguard again? This is already the third batch! Slamming the table hard, Siderick's hideous appearance made everyone present shudder, "How many of them are there?!" ”
"Sydric!" Grabbing his old friend's shoulders hard, Taylor's shouting temporarily suppressed his excitement, and then asked Negro, "How far is the nearest enemy from us?" ”
"It's this force, and at their marching speed, it's almost twenty minutes before they're in the range of threat."
"How's the evacuation going?" Taylor frowned, and turned to Tag to ask.
"The first batch of people and goods has already left the green forest, and it will take about an hour for the rest to be evacuated."
Not enough time!
Shaking his head slightly, Taylor's silence made everyone's heart almost beat out of their throats.
After pondering for a long time, Taylor showed a resolute look on his face: "Cedric, send your cavalry and take half of the highly mobile soldiers to the southwest. ”
"What do you want to do?" Cedric was stunned for a moment, and the expression on his face became surprised.
"We can't sit here and wait, send highly mobile troops to intercept the enemy and attract their attention, we need to buy time for evacuation."
"You're sending them to their deaths!" Hearing this, Sydric, who had calmed down, couldn't sit still again.
"It's better than waiting here to die!" Taylor didn't mean to back down, and a roar pushed him back, "This crop can help most of the nearby towns survive the winter, and if it is snatched by the drow elves, I'm afraid more people will die of starvation." ”
"But ......"
"No, the big picture matters." Taylor directly interrupted Cedric's concerns, and the determined look made the latter shake up all at once.
"I ......" gritted his teeth fiercely, and Cedric nodded heavily as a tacit acquiescence, "Pass the order, all the cavalry regiments gather!" Prepare a horse for Lao Tzu, I'm going to hack these girls to death! ”
"You can't go, the harbor and the green forest need you." Before Taylor could speak, Tag suddenly stepped forward, and in the astonished eyes of everyone, his wrinkled old face was full of determination, "I was a good rider when I was young, I wonder if the sheriff can fulfill the wish of an old man like me." ”
The gate of the green forest slowly opened, and under the admiring gaze of the guards, the hundred-man cavalry regiment took the lead, and a group of hurried marches rushed towards the darkness in the distance. Among them, Ryan is impressively listed.
Compared to the time he went to the moor, he had more Laura by his side, the green flower of the army, and less of Negro's scout captain.
"Haha, I thought you were all scared out of those black skins and went home? But now it seems, not bad! Quite in the style of Lao Tzu! Ha ha! "Joseph, as a veteran of Scout, has much better riding skills than these guards in the Green Forest, so naturally there is no reason not to participate in this operation.
"It's worthy of being a veteran oil, what a shameless thing!" Spitting, Anglie scolded loudly without hesitation, which not only made Joseph speechless, but also made everyone smile.
"What are you arguing about? Shut up! Ahead, the heavily armed captain of the guards beside Tag turned his head and scolded, which immediately made the big guy look dissatisfied.
"What are you doing with a stinky face? Who the hell owes you ......"
"Alright, let's settle down, at this rate, we'll soon be able to meet the Drow elves." Seeing that Joseph had a violent temper, Ryan quickly turned his horse's head and blocked in front of him.
"It's the first time I've dealt with drow elves, and I've heard that they're absolutely feminist, and tsk, I'm a little envious of them." Seeing that everyone was having a good time, Laura was immediately infected, put aside her original nervousness, and joked as before.
"Envy, then you don't know them too well." As a nobleman, riding is a compulsory subject, and as a mage, Lanier's knowledge is not inadequate, "For the sake of power and power, they are willing to betray and even kill their relatives and friends." ”
"Ha, I'm just talking about fun, don't take it seriously." After a haha, Laura didn't answer the other party's words, which made Lanier's idea of continuing to talk suddenly shattered.
Ryan smiled, Ariel's customs are indeed open, since some time ago, after Laura took care of Lanier for half a day, the latter expressed his love for her, but Laura politely refused on the grounds of age. After that, at the instigation of Angle, Lanier did not give up and has been stalking these days.
Ryan chatted with Anglie in his spare time and asked about it, but after learning that the other party was a long-time bachelor, he always felt a little pity when he looked at Lanier.
The pace of the march slowed down due to the shrubs, and everyone except the cavalry marched on foot.
Seeing the dark shadow in front of him writhing, Tag stretched out his hand and waved it to stop everyone.
"My lord, a small group of kobolds has been spotted a kilometer ahead." A scout quickly came up to Tag, half-kneeling, and breathless.
"Kobold? What about the drow elves? His brows tightened, and Tag suddenly became puzzled.
"There is a plain ahead, a full two kilometers, and there is no trace of the drow elves, so it is speculated that it may be a group of troops that have responded or broken off."
"Really? That's just right. With his legs between his legs, Taylor tugged on the reins and turned his horse's head to face the crowd, "We're going to use the blood of these kobolds to start the first battle of the night, are you ready?!" ”
"Good!"
"Plains ahead, march quickly!"
Until then, the plains of the Scout Mountains had been a place of revelry for animals, but now they are crowded with humanoids, and the fierce birds and beasts have disappeared without a trace.
Kobolds don't really have dog heads, they don't have fur and dirty scales, more like miniature lizardmen, but they're not cold-blooded. In their own words, they are descendants of dragons.
It's no wonder that Cedric doesn't care about kobolds, the force in front of him is more like a rabble than soldiers, and they don't even have the most basic marching formation. I'm afraid it's just a group of miners who come to make up the numbers, and they don't look like an army at all.
Taylor stood on the side of the high slope, looking down at the dense small firelight below, his face full of mockery, and then nodded to the captain of the guard beside him.
"Cavalry regiment! Rush with me! The latter immediately drew his sword, raised it high above his head, and sped down like a meteor with an indomitable momentum as his legs clamped.
Behind him, the screams of killing tore through the night sky, turning into a dusty dragon, carrying the momentum of engulfing mountains and rivers and crashing into the troops in front.