Chapter Seventy-Eight: Their Respective Attitudes
"Lulu's previous escape route was too obvious, as long as the other party was not stupid, most of them would be able to guess the general location of our original camp." Clematis then echoed Barrett's sentiments, "That means our campsite is not just to be relocated, but to go as far as possible." Otherwise, if you are in the same area, it may be difficult to survive under the other party's dragnet investigation. ”
"If you can't do it, cross the river!" "Barrett has wrecked the bridge, but the Snow Boots are enough to get us across the thin ice," said Rielly, pulling the cat a little uncomfortably. Anyway, after this encounter, the soldiers of that fortress will definitely disperse the surveillance net. It's impossible for us to get up close and see what they're going on. In this way, it is better to simply stay away and ensure your own safety! ”
"But even if you want to ensure your own safety, you can't completely give up the mission! The final reward of this mission depends on what kind of performance we can have! With that, Clematis turned his gaze to Barrett, as if to put the decision back in the hands of the captain.
Barrett, who touched his chin, finally chose to be conservative: "Go across the river!" But before we do, it seems like we should ambush them in the same place where we just camped. Such a good opportunity to earn military merit cannot be missed. By the way, noodles you pluck out the werewolf's heart. This is not only our trophy, but also a testament to military exploits. ”
Generally speaking, when two armies clash, ears and military cards are often the most common proof of military merit. However, there are no weapons on these werewolves in front of them, and the ears, it is difficult for these guys to effectively distinguish from the large wolves after they transform. Therefore, the past military exploits proved that it was difficult to work at this time.
However, there are always pros and cons between things, and although the werewolf is a great threat to the village, the organs on its body are also a valuable alchemy raw material. Since this time Boreham had warned him to beware of bestials, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to use these as proof of military prowess - Barrett still has to get this face.
The players who managed to rescue the cat boy immediately returned to their previous location after packing up their loot. When they found that the horses were still resting in the same place with blankets, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Fort has a low chance of releasing a Falcon in this weather and sending out Rangers. But players still can't guarantee that this is not possible. In fact, you have already made mental preparations for the loss of these war horses beforehand.
After confirming that there was nothing to watch around, the players began to calmly set up an ambush against the werewolf reinforcements. Noodle once tried to prepare a trap, but was stopped by Barrett. In this icy and snowy environment, it is better to dig a pit by manpower than to let the mage wait for the opportunity to use the pit making technique! As for gadgets such as triplines, they are difficult to fix. In this way, it took too much time and manpower, and by then it might be only half ready, and the enemy army would already be close at hand.
Two flowers bloom on each side, just as the players are waiting for the Lucian follow-up troops. The big wolf dogs who had been beaten to the point of losing their souls had also jumped out of the woods quite embarrassed at this moment. And when the guards at the head of the city discovered the defeated werewolf, they immediately caused a small commotion in the fortress.
Fort of Tallinn was a fortified fortress on the border between the kingdoms of Cruze and Lucia. For a long time, it was a place of exile that was not loved by his father and mother - although the Kingdom of Lucia was the defeated side in the previous battle for supremacy, they still took an offensive attitude towards the Kingdom of Cruze, and at the same time had a considerable sense of psychological superiority. This made the defensive forces in this direction extremely low in the Lucian army system.
The reinforcement of soldiers at the end of the queue and the equipment supply at the end are also inevitably promoted channels that are almost at the bottom. This situation made the officers of Tallinnburg either just want to get by and get by, or they just tried to get by here. However, the transfer of posts requires the cost of resources. And the reason why those guys were transferred to this corner in the first place was because they were often just broken families among the nobility. Therefore, if they want to change their fate, they can only attack the remaining supplies and munitions - according to the customary three-percent drift, it is far from satisfying their appetite.
As the so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, those officers are all of this kind of virtue, and the gray cattle on the ground are even more mixed. In addition, this place is sparsely populated, and most of the caravans coming and going have a strong background in Lucia, and they dare not start extorting if they want to--of course the usual tip will also be given by the other party, but the money is not enough for the officers to stuff their teeth, and naturally there is nothing to do with the subordinates. So there is no market for gossip in this place, and most people from top to bottom can only pass the time by daydreaming.
However, after the two powerful factions in the Cruze Kingdom began to make a clear move. The approach of the war also brought some changes to Tallinnburg, and the constant influx of supplies made the soldiers of Lucia who were used to being lazy and used to be busy as dead dogs one by one - it was impossible to move so many goods to a suitable storage point in a short period of time by relying on escort teams alone. At such a time, the soldiers in the fortress can only turn into porters.
In normal times, these 'grey animals' still like this kind of work. Because in the process of transporting, they were still able to take the sheep more or less hand--although the big heads that drifted away could not be their turn, but those petty officers did not dare to take it too seriously within a few meat sausages. After all, they still need these 'grey animals' to work! Whipping alone is quite inefficient, and there is no guarantee that the rare rebels will sneak in your blow.
But this time the amount of cargo is just too much. Even if there is an opportunity to eat, those 'gray animals' who usually neglect to boil up their physical strength are tired into dead dogs one by one. So there is some dissatisfaction and rebellion accumulated in my heart.
And the reinforcements that came in next inspired this series of contradictions to the top. You must know that since the garrison in the Cruze direction is extremely low in the army, it is not surprising that it is looked down upon by the people of the other corps. Just as the subordinate troops look down on the side troops, and the central army looks down on the local armed forces. As long as it is an army, it has more or less such problems.
Not only did these latecomers occupy the best rooms in the fortress at once, but they also threw all kinds of dirty work at the original garrison. In fact, from the day they moved in, the clashes between the two sides never ceased—and according to Lucian tradition, they inevitably turned into fist-to-hand fights.
However, even if they are only non-descendant local troops, their training intensity is much higher than that of these cattle herders on the frontier. So several successive conflicts, the final result was that the group of outsiders won. And with the addition of the beast troops, the situation becomes even more complicated.
The group of bestials has become somewhat sensitive because of their long-term ostracism. And after joining Lucia's army sequence, these groups, who have a considerable advantage over ordinary people in physical body, have achieved a series of victories. From the top of Lucia's hierarchy, this army, which has been rejected by the masses, is a very good knife - because all they can rely on is the official, and even if they are careful, it is difficult to do anything.
Therefore, the treatment given to these beasts by the Lucia royal family is still worthy of the victory they bring. At the same time, they are not stingy in terms of material rewards and honors - but the beast officers are still only able to command the beast ranks, and the door to the nobility is almost never opened to them.
But even so, a series of victories, rewards, and their own great strength have made this beast army the proud and fierce commander of Lucia's army system. Although the ordinary regiments they worked with didn't like them, they had to admit that being with these guys was a good option for victory - as for Lucia's powerful shock cavalry regiment, that kind of ace unit would not usually mix with the motleys.
Because of this, the attitude of those beast troops towards the first comers and the natives is naturally the same as the attitude of the first mover to the local guards. However, with their own strong individual strength, those shape-shifting creatures were able to 'convince' all their opponents in just a few days - whether they were convinced or not, at least they didn't dare to disagree with their mouths.
And the guy who had always behaved superior in the fortress was actually beaten up in the operation of tracking the little bugs this time. As soon as the news spread, it naturally made the other two forces bloom from the bottom of their hearts. Then, as soon as they entered the fortress through the lowered drawbridge, rumors had already spread in the corridor behind the city wall.
"Did you see those guys? When I cleaned us up two days ago, I didn't know how majestic it was! But now when you go out, it's not like you're a dead dog. A bearded soldier with a bruise on his face muttered quietly.
Immediately afterwards, his companion around him inevitably chimed in: "That's it, that's it!" Beasts are only beasts after all, and they can only use their fists to show their might when they are one-on-one. If you really are on the battlefield with a sword, you can't compare to us pure Lucians. ”
With such footsteps, the two soldiers immediately closed their mouths. Because they don't know if it's the 'beast' they just called. Although they seem to look down on the beast troops, they are in fact clear that they are no match for the beasts.
However, after seeing the comer, they breathed a sigh of relief, but they also had to straighten their waists. At this time came the commander of the local unit that had entered the fortress before, Baron Schumacher, although this baron was not ranked in the aristocratic system of Lucia, but in a place like Tallinnburg, he could be regarded as a big man.
It was because of his existence that the members of that group of local troops would not be suppressed too badly by the beasts. However, it is only not too miserable, because the beasts themselves cannot join the aristocratic system, and at the same time, they are a card in the hands of the Lucia royal family to deal with the nobility, so the name of the baron alone is naturally not a big advantage.
Such an experience can be said to have made Baron Schumacher feel aggrieved, and he never wanted to find an opportunity to look good at those impudent 'beasts'. It's just that the power in his hands is not enough to do this, so he has been holding on. Now that I suddenly saw that those beasts had suffered a loss, I was naturally quite happy in my heart.
As the highest-ranking man in Tallinnburg walked by, the two soldiers, who had just gossiped, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief—the baron, though arrogant, would not trouble a little man like himself. Because to do that is to lose the other party's value. And when it comes to the 'beasts', both the garrison and the reinforcements are in the same camp - because both sides are human, and this almost racial identity seems to have been imprinted in the blood from the beginning.
Soon there was a burst of roaring and invective in the officer's conference room of the fortress, and then the thick teak table was slammed. Apparently there was a rather heated argument going on. The contradictions that had accumulated in the original were completely stimulated because of the failure of this sortie.
The officers on both sides were there for nearly half an hour after arguing with each other. The drawbridge at Tallinnburg was lowered again. A team of 100 men sent by Baron Schumacher's company then walked out of the woods, led by the squire officer holding high his banner and guided by a werewolf who had just returned from defeat.
In the previous combat meeting, the strong man who led the beast man army was naturally ready to attack again to wash away the shame. But the remaining two didn't want him to do it - since they had finally seen those arrogant fellows deflated, they naturally didn't want these 'beasts' to return to their former arrogance. So on the issue of pursuing Barrett and his party, there was a very fierce quarrel between the two sides.
Then the two human commanders finally relied on their numerical superiority and Baron Schumacher's status to seize the opportunity to act. Of course, the local commanders understood the virtues of their men. Therefore, the work of the sortie can only be solved by the reinforcements. (To be continued.) )