Humans have special abilities that cannot be explained by science.

Mike couldn't help but stop, and subconsciously reached for the shovel that was stuck in the basket behind him.

The setting sun still hangs in the sky, and the golden light shines through the gaps between the branches and leaves, dappled and scattered on the ground, reflecting a complex and chaotic pattern.

He finally realized that something was wrong———— it was too quiet, it wasn't the woods he was familiar with. During this season, there are many animals in the forest, and even at night there are birds and insects, but now there is a dead silence all around, as if all the sounds have been swallowed up by strange magic.

At the bend in the road ahead, a tall giant appeared.

He wore armor that Mike had never seen before, and the style was very special: a heavy layer of steel protection covered the entire upper body, the waist and abdomen were fine chain mail, the leg armor did not hinder movement, and the knee protection was designed so that there was no obstacle between flexion and extension, and special attention was paid to the connection with the calf armor.

The light in the woods was dim, and it was impossible to see the appearance of the giant standing more than ten meters away, but he could see a small round shield tied to his left forearm and a musket in his hand.

Mike's dead father was a soldier. As a child, Mike had seen his father train in the barracks: officers had soldiers line up and shoot muskets diagonally from the bottom up, targeting a giant bound with wood and straw. Because of their height, the soldiers could only and had to shoot from their backs, so it is not difficult to understand that the giants are particularly heavily protected from their legs, feet and abdomen.

This is a giant of the north!

Mike felt a cold sweat break out all over his body, and he found that the other man was staring at him, the rough face occupied by dark shadows unleashed a sinister grin, and the other man raised his musket to aim at him, and the protective hunter locked onto a rabbit with nowhere to run.

His hair was short, he looked young, and his actual age was estimated to be around twenty years old if the white man's point of view was to go.

Why are giants here?

The town of Odwin was too far from the main city, and news of the defeat of the main forces of the Saxon kingdom had not yet arrived. It was not official fault, there were no telephones or telegrams, and the only way to convey information was by human and animal power, unless the king gave an urgent order such as a levy, and under normal circumstances, the people of Oldwin would know about some kind of "news" at least four months or even half a year after the incident.

I'm no match for him!

As soon as such a thought crossed his mind, Mike subconsciously wanted to turn around and flee towards the depths of the woods on the side. He knew that it was the most advantageous terrain for him, and that the tall giants were far less agile than he was in the woods. As long as you are fast enough, there is hope for survival.

Just as he was about to turn around, a series of unfamiliar words came out of the mouth of the giant on the other side, which Mike didn't understand.

"Tasward."

There's a lot of movement behind you? I felt a cold wind coming from that direction on my neck. Farmer Mike hasn't even finished turning yet? I only had time to glance at the side of my shoulder from the corner of my eye, only to see a bright cold light passing by? His perspective flipped in an instant? The whole world changed in his eyes, and it was bright red.

Is that another giant? He swung his knife from behind Mike and easily slashed the farmer's neck? Huge patches of blood gushing out from the wound on the broken neck? Squirted Mike's severed head from the body. The human head rolled in the air until it landed on the ground, and Mike's remaining consciousness did not realize that he was dead.

"You damn thing, he's mine! It's mine! ”

Opposite side? A giant with a rifle roared and rushed over? He punched the giant who was about to bend down to pick up the head of the Mike man from the ground, and gritted his teeth, "He is my prey, and it was I who found this white dwarf." ”

"It's just a human head, what are you anxious about." This punch is actually not too heavy, and the giant who was beaten was not angry? In fact, he did have a little weak-hearted, after all, he snatched his companion's prey from behind? It's just that he still refused to admit defeat, so he laughed dryly: "Ah Xiao? There were still a lot of white people in the stockade in front. The captain has said before that that is what we really aim for. ”

Ah Xiao glared at him angrily? Violently heaving your chest in silence? Ten seconds? I reluctantly accepted the reality, and with unspeakable resentment and rage, I turned around and left without saying a word.

The credit is calculated by the head, and the first to kill is counted first, and it is strictly forbidden to compete with each other.

This is the primary discipline of the newly formed First Legion, and it is also the repeated advice of the captain and commander to the soldiers.

In the official records of the Dragons, they are referred to as "privateer troops".

However, the soldiers preferred another name———— the headhunter unit.

……

Night falls.

Angry, Ah Xiao slammed open the tavern door with his shoulder like a lion, reached out and grabbed the shoulder of the nearest drinker, dragged it out of the broken door frame, and slashed the opponent's entire upper body from the shoulder.

This room is too narrow, and with Ah Xiao's height, he has to bend down to get in. Immediately after receiving the first prey, he grabbed the head of the opponent and retracted his hand, the bloody saber was inserted back into the scabbard, and the long-handled battle axe was drawn from his back, like a powerful humanoid bulldozer, and slashed at the wall of the adobe tavern.

To the giants, the buildings of the white Southerners were so small that they felt like they had entered a fairy tale world.

Ah Xiao's idea is very simple: if you want to achieve military success, you must cut off more heads, and if you want to kill white people more effectively, you must tear down the wall. He is an excellent marksman, however the rifle is not suitable for all combat. The scene of farmer Mike being robbed and killed by his companions in the woods outside the city is vivid, and Ah Xiao suddenly understands that in the case of close-range combat, the previous battle axes and long knives are more effective.

The vanguard of five hundred headhunters stormed the town of Odwin, followed by a main force of up to three thousand. Ah Xiao is the first batch of people, and it is also the kind of person who is most likely to obtain military exploits.

The whole town was crying and wailing, and terrible screams could be heard everywhere. Ah Xiao's ferocious slash quickly had an effect, the walls of the tavern facing the street were completely shattered, the pillars used for support were broken, and the entire building collapsed with a terrible cracking sound of "squeak". Several headhunters, including Ah Xiao, hurriedly dodged away, and they stood in a safe position more than ten meters away to enjoy all this, watching the second floor of the tavern fall with a bang, stirring up dust in the sky.

Before the dust completely cleared, Ah Xiao covered his mouth and nose with a damp towel, tied it tightly behind his head, and rushed into the ruins to find his prey. When he had killed the first white man before, he had seen a lot of people in the tavern, and the collapsed ruins were full of flesh and blood, and he smirked and rushed in, grabbed a woman from between the sawdust and the dirt, and slashed off the head of the deformed man with his sword.

Ah Xiao didn't know that this scantily clad woman was called Lisa, and she was a good friend of Mike, a farmer who was killed outside the city. These things were meaningless to him, except for the calculation of military exploits, and the only value of the white man's head was the skull, which could be used to make bone bowls, a symbol of status and wealth.

As a result of cleaning up the rubble, Ah Xiao and his comrades obtained eleven heads, and dug out twenty-two white people from under the soil and gravel who were slightly injured but were not in serious physical condition.

A bucket of cold water woke up all the white captives, and they cowered and gathered together, watching as these fierce and savage northern giants skewered their heads together with wire like gigantic bloody grapes, threw them on a wheelbarrow, and then poked the captives' buttocks with the thick backs of their long-handled knives, and drove to the south of the town with incomprehensible shouts.

There was no standing army in the town of Odwin, only a security patrol of fifty men. Although all the team members were armed with arquebuses, the battle came without warning, and neither the capital city of London nor the fortress of Shenwei to the north came with any news of the defeat of the kingdom's coalition forces. They were unguarded, and all the townsfolk who took up arms to resist, or who acted in what was perceived as resistance, were killed and beheaded.

The church-centered building and the surrounding open space were used as temporary prisoner of war camps. It is the highest and most luxurious place in the town of Oldwin, and the most important thing is the great view, and the temporary wooden fence and fence have kept all the survivors in it, and there are thousands of people in total.

Torches were lit around, and the number continued to increase as combat squads completed their searches and new captives were sent in.

With a saber in his hand, Peng Hui led a few guards and walked around the perimeter of the dense group of prisoners of war.

He had a satisfied smile on his face all the time.

Not just anyone is qualified to be the leader of a thousand, and not all thousand-man capitals can be the commander of an army. Peng Hui, who has passed middle age, is a veteran, and he is also an officer who has followed Tianhao from the time of Panshizhai to the present. Of course, at that time, his status was low, only the head of ten, and later with the battles against the pig clan and the deer clan again and again, he accumulated merit and sat in his current position.

Ling Xiao is the commander of the newly formed First Army Corps. With Tianhao's permission, he hired a group of officers at a very high price. Plundering plans cannot be accomplished by relying solely on recruits, especially in the early stages of the war, and without the leadership of experienced officers, a large number of recruits will only cause chaos in a blind and disorderly battle.

The military officer held a thick notebook in his hand and wrote on it carefully. The names of the soldiers are listed on it, and there is a space behind each one, which is a special space for recording the exploits of the war.

Looking at the captives sent by Ah Xiao and the others, the smile on Penghui's face became thicker and thicker.

"Good job, young man." He never hesitated to praise the young soldiers: "If you continue like this, you will soon become a ten-man leader." ”

Ah Xiao's young face showed excitement, he nodded vigorously, and shouted loudly according to the rules of the army: "Long live His Royal Highness the Regent." ”

"Long live Your Highness." Peng Hui responded with a smile and at the same time issued a new order: "We don't have much time, we can't let these white captives be idle. This place is barely enough, so we will divide them now, and let them get up and work at dawn tomorrow. Time waits for no one, and progress must be accelerated from the beginning. ”

"Going south" is not an empty word, and at the same time, it also needs sufficient material supply and a stable and safe logistics base. Odwin Town may be small, but it can be used as a small base. The Intelligence Department has long gathered information about the area, especially the river, as well as the various resources available in the vicinity.

The setting up of the makeshift prisoner of war camp continued until late at night. The main focus is on the re-planning of the interior of the church, the setting of paving and sanitary areas. Under the supervision of the dragon soldiers, the captives brought bedding from the empty houses in the town and divided the camps according to their genders...... Commander Peng Hui ordered the kitchen to boil some broth, add bread, and arrange a supper for the prisoners of war.

It is said to be broth, but in fact, there are only some bones removed from pigs and sheep in the soup pot. Without washing, the boiling hot soup has a lot of foam on the surface, and the seasoning is only a little salt, and the taste is average, and it can even be said to be terrible.

It was much later that the prisoners of war in Oldwin suddenly discovered that this supper, which seemed extremely unpalatable at the time, was actually a rare happiness.

It's dawn.

People who have not yet recovered from their fears are awakened from their dreams. A shrill whistle echoed in his ears, mixed with the roar of a giant. They walked in through the enlarged church door, both men and women lifted the covers, and uttered deafening commands.

"Qi Lai, shake to Wo Qi Lai!"

"The wolf returns, Qi Chuangle."

"Li Ke Qi Lai dares to be angry, who bites the head of the nine stupid music towers!"

Groups of men and women left their beds and, in panic and fear, went out into the open space, forming an untidy line, counting one by one at the request of the giants.

"Wang, Tu, Sirui, Buddha ......"

The captains had been trained in English for a while in Rock City, and simple conversations and numbers were no stranger to them. Out of worship for the regent, young people like Ah Xiao also became interested in the white language, and studied with the military training class for a while, and they could understand it to some extent.

The logistics unit arrived in the town of Odwin in the early hours of the morning, and they sent more weapons and ammunition, as well as steel and concrete that was urgently needed for the project. Millions of slaves frantically built roads throughout the North, and the road from Kamui Fortress to the south continued to progress. In order to ensure the safety of the front base, Ling Xiao asked Tianhao to allocate more engineering materials...... Of course, all this is not free, and will be settled with more loot and slaves after each battle.

The excavation of the foundation is mainly carried out by dragon sappers, who are strong enough to ensure the quality and progress of the project. They were mainly responsible for towers and foundations, and white POWs were sent in groups to the nearby forest to cut down trees and demolish some of the town's buildings to build walls. In the coming months, this was their main job.

The mayor is a middle-aged man with a slightly chubby build. Peng Hui spoke to him in English that he was not very proficient in, not so much to communicate, but to convey his intentions directly to the other party in a commanding tone.

"You are the captives of the Dragon Regent. You can choose not to cooperate, and that will be a dead end. ”