Chapter 14: The Siege of the Valley

Rigwo watched the enemy retreat with a determined gaze, but gave no order to pursue him. With a bitter face, the lieutenant Chang Dor, muttered a few words in his mouth, and began to command his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and consolidate the defensive line.

Pursuing or even breaking through seems wonderful, but it is not feasible. The leader of the "white-haired hyena" mercenary group on the other side, Bantrof, nicknamed "Bloody Hand Butcher", seems to be a rough and murderous person, but Rigwo knows that he is not a reckless man.

Presumably, in the winding canyon passage, the hyenas of Bantrov have already laid a net, waiting for the "back" mercenary group to abandon the wall and risk death to break through. Once you lose your location and enter the battlefield carefully arranged by the hyenas, it will be like a porcupine without thorns to be slaughtered.

Rigwo turned his head and saluted respectfully to a noble woman beside him: "Lord Cynthia, please go in and rest quickly, we are guarding here." ”

Cynthia was around twenty-five years old and wore the caster's robes. She is beautiful and tall, and she is humble and polite to people, which makes the mercenary group feel good. Only now she looked tired, nodded to Captain Rigwal, and turned to walk into the house.

She urgently needs deep meditation to restore her magic power, and in a desperate situation like this, Cynthia is the main combat force of the back mercenary group. Once Bantrov found out that she was dumb, it was not impossible to storm her.

Looking at Cynthia's somewhat faltering steps, Rigwo gritted his teeth secretly. A group of mercenaries have been reduced to relying on their employers for protection, which can be said to be very humiliating.

Most of the mercenary groups in this world have no discipline, but Rigwo happens to belong to the kind of self-proclaimed and somewhat disciplined. This 40-year-old man dragged this team of more than 20 people with a handful of and urine, one never robbed the employer, the second never blackmailed the employer, and the third never engaged in the employer's wife or the employer himself, he has always considered himself a rare conscience in the mercenary world.

He deliberately ignored the origin of the word "back" of the back mercenary group.

Rigwalt's small team of mercenaries has made a name for itself in the large areas of Eaton and Trich. Over the years, many enemy and friendly forces have found that on the battlefield, they can only see the back of this mercenary group.

Over time, the original name of this mercenary group, which is extremely good at escaping, has been forgotten by everyone, and it is called the back mercenary group. Rigvo himself is known as the "Bristleback", and once he shows his back, no one can defeat him.

However, this time the legend of the back seemed to be coming to an end, and they were besieged in this small valley, facing it in any direction. In this case, the steelback beast is out of line, and he can't make a hole to drill down.

Two weeks ago, the back received an escort commission. The client is the Duke of Erian of the Kingdom of Eton, and the commission is to escort the Duke's only daughter, Cynthia, to the royal capital of the Trich Kingdom, Cariheri, and the remuneration is quite rich.

Eaton and Trich have been at loggerheads on the border for many years, and Cynthia is on a top-secret mission, so it would be unwise to rush into the army to escort her daughter to Kalihri. After much consideration, the Duke entrusted the escort task to the mercenary group whose reputation was not bad, and the escape technique was first-class. Regardless of success or failure, the safety of her daughter's life is the most important.

Information on the escort had apparently been leaked, and Rigwo was leading Cynthia through a remote canyon when he was ambushed by white-haired hyenas.

This is a notorious mercenary group, they have been mixed all the way from the north to the south, and the bloody butcher Bantrof started by robbing gold diggers on the gold rush in the north, and gradually developed into a medium-sized mercenary group of about 500 people.

Under the leadership of Bantrof, the hyenas did all kinds of evil, accepted employment from both sides during war, and turned into bandits and robbers in peacetime, causing headaches for all countries. But whenever there is a big war, the white-haired hyena is a force to be reckoned with, and the lords and even the kings have to curry favor. Instead of disappearing in the encirclement and suppression, Bantrov continued to grow in the mercenary group, and his life became more and more nourishing.

He is not a miracle or an exception, there is not a mercenary group that started on the Gold Rush Road in the North that is not so notorious and blood-indebted.

The back mercenary group that was ambushed wanted to run away at that time. But the white-haired hyenas are dozens of times more numerous, and they can calmly lay down a pocket array, so that the back has no way to escape. They blocked the canyon in front and back, and the slopes were full of archers, who kept shooting bows and arrows at the people in the backs below, and threw down boulders.

Seeing that the army was about to be wiped out, at the most critical moment, Cynthia in the carriage stepped forward, and she cast a powerful spell to open a safe passage with fire.

The Duke's daughter turned out to be a powerful and noble mage, not only did Rigvo not know, but Bantrof also did not have this information, it seems that Cynthia's identity is not simple.

Rigwo led the remaining dozen men and escorted Cynthia out of the canyon, but they lost all their horses and supplies. After panicking for a while, the white-haired hyenas took advantage of the horses and soon caught up with them outside the canyon and surrounded them. The people fought and retreated, and finally retreated to a farmhouse surrounded by mountains on three sides.

It's a long-abandoned farmhouse, with rudimentary stone walls that are mostly intact but almost airy, and there is even some green grass growing in the cracks in the stone at the base of the wall. There was a small hole in the window, which had some wood debris on it, and it seemed that there should have been a wooden window, but it was in disrepair and was carried away by strong winds or insects. Overhead was the collapsed roof, and two beams hung on the wall, with a few thatch and branches hanging on them, barely enough to block the sun. Outside the house was a low stone wall, which was supposed to be built by the owner to keep out the beasts, but most of it had also collapsed.

It was supposed to be a well-to-do peasant family, but after years of fighting, it was impossible for a village far away from the city guard to survive in the wilderness infested with mercenaries and robbers.

The people of the mercenary group in the back piled up the collapsed low wall again, barely having a little defensive ability. Relying on low walls and large houses, they repelled several tentative attacks by white-haired hyenas. But in fact, Bantrof was worried about Cynthia's magical abilities, and the idiots of the Thieves' Guild didn't even provide such important information, was it because he never paid for it?

But it doesn't hurt, no matter how powerful a magician is, he always has to eat and drink. Bantrov decided to trap the back mercenary group here, just wait for a few days, and then rush up, can Rigwo and Cynthia, who are hungry and unable to walk, turn the tables around? This wave is stable.

This minimizes losses. It's not that Bantrof values the lives of his men. In this dog-beeping world, those who can't survive will either go north to pan for gold, or there will be more mercenaries on the spot, and a lot of them can be recruited anywhere.

What he wants is "zero casualties", don't think that only the Mi army is so hypocritical, as long as the conditions allow, any commander wants to come like this. This is important, multiverse-applicable.

Rigvo didn't know about Bantrof's "good intentions", but what could he do. The breakout is to die on the spot, and you can still +1S here, and this choice is not difficult......

"Ahh

Rigvo was watching the hyenas in the woods and bushes outside, when Cynthia, who had already entered the house behind her, let out a brief scream. He secretly said that it was not good in his heart, so he quickly turned around and prepared for rescue. If the Assassins were allowed to touch Cynthia's side now, it would be all over.

There was no tragedy of Cynthia's blood spattered. When Rigvo arrived, he found Cynthia and Lance, the leader of the bow squad guarding her, confronting two men who had appeared inexplicably in the house.

The two men were dressed in gray robes with hoods, and a man and a woman were very young. The women in it have a beauty beyond Rigwald's understanding, and Cynthia, who is a woman, is a little ashamed of herself. The clothes of the two were just ordinary travelers' robes, but their clean and tidy temperament and the comfort in their eyes seemed incompatible with this chaotic world, and they were not related to the assassin who licked blood from the knife edge.

"It looks like a noble son of the Seesaw family."

The mercenary group, who had the skill of knowing people, thought like this in their hearts, and according to the beauty of the woman, they instantly made up the stories that the eldest lady of the noble family and the loyal young butler had to tell.

That's why at such a critical juncture, there were suddenly two more suspicious elements inside the position, and the people behind them did not immediately attack.

In fact, there are not so many plots, this is not Hao Yun and Xiaobai, who have just arrived in Glias on a business trip.

Rigwo: "%......&*&&%¥%*!" @”

Hao Yun looked at the burly man in front of him with a confused face and said, "Senior Xiaobai, is it a little too late to ask what to do if you don't understand the language now?" The director didn't tell me that I wanted to specialize in alien language at the eighth level. Oh, it's not an alien language yet, it's an alien language. Haven't you even known CET-4? ”

Xiaobai looked proud: "This fairy English level 6 score is 580 points, let's understand it." ”

"Damn, Xueba!" Hao Yun's face hurt, this is all crossed, and there are still people who speak better English than me, "I also ask the seniors of Xueba to interpret at the same time." ”

"You're stupid!" Xiaobai brushed her sideburns, she had long straight black hair and cut bangs, but she kept her long sideburns, like a Japanese doll. (Straight to say, Saten's tear's hair, face is not)

"I've been playing games for the past few days, but I don't know how to give myself a constant omniscient language?"

As he spoke, Xiaobai patted Hao Yun's head.

Oh, I get it.

I knew it was so simple, I wouldn't even be able to pass level three.

"Who are you?" Rigvo patiently repeated that the situation could not have been worse, and it was better to ask a few more times than to fight.

"That's what we're supposed to ask." Hao Yun raised his hand to stop the burly man in front of him from asking, and took out his briefcase and rummaged through it, "What are you doing in our house?" ”

As he spoke, he showed the three people in front of him the title deed he had found. Cynthia glanced at it and verified the authenticity, she could not have recognized the title deed issued by the royal family, although this deed was suspiciously new.

Years of war, an empty treasury, and suspicious people often buy oddly located land from the royal family, which is not news among the upper echelons of the kingdom. It seems that this is indeed the private residence of these two strange young men.

"Don't look at it." Cynthia's worried face prevented Rigwo from being rude enough to check the contract. Of course, the two people who suddenly appeared were very suspicious, but how could others be suspicious in their own homes, and could outsiders take care of them?

Hao Yun glanced at Xiao Bai ostentatiously and got Xiao Bai's approving expression. Look at my urgency, I said that the unit said that there was no support, and the body was still very honest, in addition to the title deeds of this beacon setting point, there were hundreds of copies of various title deeds, and the total of various lands was probably the size of a kingdom.

You see, the developers are so hateful, the land outside is vast, and the living beings are miserable, but they are busy hoarding land.