Chapter 394: Crusade against the kobolds
Don't look at the tavern there are a lot of mercenaries, but there are not many people who can participate. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info because some weak ones have been excluded, and if you go, you will be sent to death, after all, it is not as high as the normal guard training. Therefore, most of the participating mercenaries have some skills of their own, at least to ensure their own lives.
There are also some people who don't have the money but plan to check it out, because one of the kobolds' hobbies is gold. Although they don't have the ability to purify, generally a kobold will have a small amount of gold sand in his hands. Although the purity is very low, if sold to a blacksmith, one tael is worth dozens of copper coins.
Yan Hanshui and a few people looked at it and walked over, and Shan Daonian said directly to those mercenaries: "We don't need money to go, we just happened to train the duke's daughter recently, so go over there to find a few lonely kobolds, and we will teach them on the spot." ”
The mercenaries all nodded understandingly, these people actually don't have much chance until this kind of actual combat. Most of the time, training recruits is just a matter of finding some beasts in the jungle. Especially in this night town, the security under the Duke's management is quite good, and robbers are relatively rare.
The Duke nodded, and then he transferred more than three hundred men. That's almost the bulk of Nighttown's strength, and less than a hundred people are left in the town to do daily guard work, and the rest of the soldiers have been transferred out by the Duke. Plus more than a hundred mercenaries, basically everyone of these mercenaries has good armor, and everyone is stronger than the average soldier.
On average, a mercenary is less than 20 silver coins, but an ordinary family has a very good day of four or five silver coins a month, and if a mercenary spends 20 silver coins a month, it can basically be a big fish and meat every day. Of course, there are few awesome mercenaries in Night Town, and there will be no situation where you can't afford to hire people. More than 400 people set out the next morning.
Before that, Yan Hanshui asked the Duke. Has a mage named Khadgar been passing by recently, because the quest prompt says that Khadgar had just left Dalaran when they entered this world? Nighttown is the last stop on the way to Karazan, and Khadgar will definitely replenish some food here as he passes by.
However, it seems that no mages have come here recently, basically there are not many mages in the mainland, although they haven't seen Bai Tan make a move, but those people also think that Bai Tan can play a good role. Even a low-level mage will perform well in large-scale battles. The Duke told the people left behind that if he heard a mage named Khadgar, he must ask him to wait for us to come back before leaving Nighttown.
Then the men set off, after all, it would take about three days to get to the apple orchard.
The journey was safe, but when they came to the apple orchard, they were also startled by the kobold in front of them, because the number was too large. Originally, they thought there were only more than 300, but when they arrived here, they found that there were actually more than 500 kobolds. Near the apple orchard, tents were piled up.
The apple orchard is really not small, and the smoke and cold water are estimated to be about a few miles. But now the apple orchard is a bit pitiful, the apples are eaten a lot, and there are a lot of fresh apples scattered on the ground. Moreover...... A small half of the apple trees were cut down to build kobolds' tents.
The duke's face was distressed, even if he took this place back now, it was estimated that he would lose about half of the apple harvest. "Go back and build a guard post around here, lest the kobolds suddenly attack this place again." The Duke looked around and made up his mind.
"Mercenary...... In a moment I will lead the soldiers to advance from the front, and you will be responsible for killing the fish that slipped through the net. The Duke said to the mercenaries.
Although kobolds are numerous, their individual strength is not as good as that of humans. The mercenaries said that we were here to help the Duke kill the kobolds, not to hide behind the army. After a final study, the front side was given to the Night Town soldiers, and the sides were given to the mercenaries for defense.
A group of soldiers with shields and one-handed swords stood in the front, followed by many soldiers with axes, spears, and two-handed swords. The weapons were somewhat miscellaneous, and some of the soldiers were even equipped with muskets. But overall it was a decent phalanx, and in the distance some archers began to attack the kobolds.
Although kobolds have a lower IQ, it doesn't mean that they will watch them gather and attack themselves. Soon the chaotic group of kobolds assembled, and then took out a spear made of wood, and some stones, and threw the axe at the guards of Nightlight at a long distance.
"You are not allowed to steal our candles and sands!" Suddenly, more than a hundred kobolds rushed up brandishing their weapons after throwing their spears over.
Throwing weapons doesn't do much damage, but there are a few unlucky ones that aren't. The training of the guards was still in place, the injured were dragged out directly by the people behind, and the rest erected a shield array with their shields and crashed into the oncoming kobolds.
With a "bang", the kobold's thin body hit the top of the shield. The strong human used his shield to hit the kobold in the front row, and the fragile creatures were directly knocked to the pulp.
The kobold is a creature that bullies the weak and fears the hard, and after a dozen deaths in front of him, he begins to be a little afraid and dare not move forward. A few kobold leaders drove them with sticks in the back, and only then did they start inflicting few casualties on the soldiers.
But in the cave not far away, more kobold soldiers rushed out.
"Ah, for our sands!" At the mention of this, all the kobolds went into a frenzy. But even more fanatical are the mercenaries, and since the kobolds say there is golden sand, there may be a small amount of gold in the caves over there.
Although the area of this apple orchard is the territory of the duke, these mercenaries can also pick up loot after the kobold is killed. The mercenaries are just a mess of food, and a few of them are not bad for money like Yan Hanshui.
So after hearing about Jinsha, they all rushed up to fight with the kobolds. Shan Daonian pouted in the back: "How much is the golden sand worth?" I said Althea, have you ever killed a creature in human form? ”
The little girl shook her head, but there was no expression of fear on her face, and there was even a lot of excitement. Shan Daonian nodded: "Yes, there is a warrior's heart." Let them fight slowly, it is not possible to distinguish the winner in a short time. Let's go over there and see what's in the cave. ”
After saying that, he didn't tell Yan Hanshui about the mountain road year, and his few people walked into the distance. Yan Hanshui glanced at it, and left the army with Tumi. It's not good if there's a little slip up, neither your teammates nor that Althea will be lost.
There are many big trees in the forest, and few people can see them when they slip by. About ten minutes later, several people came to the vicinity of a hidden cave**. There can be more than 200 kobolds in front of them, all of whom came out of here, so it is normal for that mountain Daonian to think that there are some good things here.