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In the year 1143 of the Dawn calendar, the morning of the fifteenth day of the second month of the recovery season.

Tamon and Rhodes, who were advancing on an avenue, were silently moving on the wide dirt road trampled by people, livestock, and carriages, and the whole team seemed a little silent and silent except for the sound of cars and horses.

After setting out from Talad City, the journey of more than 20 consecutive days made the people in the team accustomed to the fact that it was not necessary to talk and distract them from the journey. There are so many dangers in the wilderness that they can only relax when they are in the town or camping in the wilderness.

Suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves in front of the whole team, and several black dots quickly approached.

"Don't be nervous! It's the brother who went to the front to explore the way!"

After seeing the dozen or so cavalrymen in front of the convoy disperse alertly and someone drew their swords and crossbows, one of the best-eyed cavalrymen squinted and shouted to the people around him.

- In this world, as long as it is not in one's own territory or in an absolutely safe place, both the army and the caravan will send cavalry or thieves who are good at field tracking to explore the front of the team during the march.

This arrangement allows you to detect in advance whether the road ahead is safe, or to spot other caravans or potential hazards and monsters in advance, allowing the team to gain valuable warning and preparation time.

The team of Tamon and Rhodes obviously did not give up this good habit, and the team of five directly divided into three to patrol the main road in front and the left and right directions, and now it was obvious that a team had returned to the convoy.

"Wait! Something seems wrong!" However, before the dozen or so cavalrymen of their own men could relax and put down their weapons, the voice of the Tamon knight alerted everyone in the convoy.

"Someone is hurt???"

After a few seconds, seeing a few black dots gradually expanding, the soldier with the best eyes finally realized that something was wrong.

On the returning horses, it was clear that one soldier was tied to the horse by someone else, and looking at the disgraced faces of the other soldiers in the squad, it was clear that something was wrong.

"There's a big goblin tribe in the woods at the edge of the road ahead! At least thirty or more!"

A few minutes later, the news that one of the scouts had been injured spread throughout the team.

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Goblins!

One of the most common monsters on the continent!

It is said that the big goblins are distant relatives of the small goblins, and the general similarity between the two is also confirmed by the words of Cheng Dù.

However, there are two kinds of creatures between the big goblins and the small goblins, and the small goblins are cowardly by nature and can easily be directly defeated by a few enemies, which will not appear on the big goblins at all.

As an adult individual, the body is similar to that of a human civilian, with a strong sense of discipline and is prone to gray iron rank, and even a big goblin with a record of the red bronze rank, if it is not for the fact that there is no civilization inheritance of its own and is constantly strangled by humans, it is estimated that it is difficult to say whether there will be a big goblin town or even a country or something like that.

The big goblin tribe that occupies the edge of this avenue is obviously a small tribe that has just relocated, and seeing that there are only more than thirty members and they are all young and strong individuals and a few are injured, they understand that they may still be hunted down and expelled from that noble territory - unless it is certain that the destruction of monsters will not cause any big losses to their side, otherwise in the face of those monster tribes that are not weak, the noble territory of the monster tribe generally chooses to expel the other party by force, and when there is really no way, they will choose to directly destroy the other party!

“#￥@￥#@”

“*&%￥#”

In the humble camp at the edge of the woods, except for a dozen or so goblins guarding the surroundings, the rest of the goblins rested under the command of a magnificent-looking leader who was almost one meter eight tall and looked unusually strong. Of course, these big goblins were not trained to be armies either, and from time to time noisy voices rang out throughout the makeshift camp.

“#￥@@￥#!!!” Suddenly, however, the two goblins near the edge of the woods in the makeshift camp seemed to have noticed something, and they turned their heads and ran towards the camp at a high speed, shouting the language of the goblins.

“#￥@#￥!!!!”

When the goblin leader heard the shouts of the two subordinates, he immediately jumped up, and then carried the two-handed sword with several gaps in his hand, and roared loudly at the goblins who had already goblins who had already goblins to get up on guard.

Well, it's not surprising, if the goblin language of the two goblins just now is translated into the lingua franca of humanity, it means "a lot of enemies are rushing over". In this case, of course, the leader of the big goblins must take the lead, leading his surviving clansmen to see what the enemy is that is rushing towards him.

When dozens of goblins armed with wooden clubs, tattered swords, and rudimentary wooden shields followed their boss to the edge of the grove camp, they saw more than a dozen human cavalry slowly approaching.

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On the other side, in the camp of the slowly approaching human cavalry, Rhodes and Tamon were commenting on their enemies.

"A gray iron pinnacle goblin leader, about twenty gray iron rank goblin warriors, the rest are ordinary goblins who don't even have a rank" Looking at the woods a few hundred meters away in front of him, the big goblins who had already formed a barely formation were lined up, and Tamon's tone was very indifferent and assessed the strength of the opposite side.

For a bronze knight, even if he only has a one-handed long sword in his hand, it is enough to kill all the goblins on the opposite side, not to mention that Tamon is now wearing official enchanted knight armor and enchanted swords, shields, spears, knightly horses and other equipment, and there are ten well-trained formal cavalrymen around him to assist.

"Tammon Knight, kill them in one go! It's time for today's fun," Rhodes, who was dressed in steel armor about half as half as the cavalry around him, also asked in a casual voice after listening to the words of the Tamon knight.

Although Rod's tone was very strong, the people around him, including Tamon, took it for granted. After all, Rhodes had been out of the watch a few times before and along the way, and the strength of those big goblins on the other side was at most the fun in Rhodes' mouth for the team with the Bronze Knight in charge.

"Say hello with the crossbow first, and if those goblins know each other and leave, forget it, and then kill them if not!" However, after thinking about it, Tamon did not choose Rod's simple and quick way, and planned to expel this group of big goblins from the edge of this path instead of choosing to go up and fight directly.

After all, this is not the Barony of Ernst, and the knights of Tamon are not obligated to exterminate these big goblins at the risk of casualties in the ranks, and just force the other party back to let the convoy go down the road. As for eliminating each other? Isn't this kind of thing supposed to be the responsibility of the fiefdom nobles here?

The other soldiers (not including Rod) did not know the psychological intentions of the Tamon Knight, but out of awe and trust in the Tamon Knight, no soldier opened his mouth to doubt it, but drew the crossbow behind him and wound it one after another.

- These ordinary crossbows and arrows do not have much purchase restrictions, and they can deal a considerable amount of damage to unarmored monsters and enemies of the gray iron rank.

"Crossbow ready! Shoot !!"

At a distance of about two hundred meters from the group of goblins (Note 1), at the command of one of the leaders of the Gray Iron Peak Squad, the crossbows in the hands of him and nine other cavalrymen simultaneously fired at the goblins at a large angle!

"Whoosh-whoosh-"

"Puff-puff-p-"

With the sound of breaking through the air and piercing into the ground grass, ten crossbow arrows, almost arm-long, pierced in a graceful arc less than ten meters in front of the big goblins lined up in formation. Even the supposedly murderous and brainless gnolls could detect the intimidating intentions of the red fruit fruits, not to mention the goblins whose intelligence was passable (it is said that the smartest goblins can reach the wisdom of a human fifteen).

“#￥@￥!!!!”

Seeing this kind of intimidation from the humans on the other side, the leader of the big goblins, who was holding a fairly complete thick wooden shield and a broken two-handed sword, was silent for a moment, and then roared with extreme excitement. As it moved, the other goblins also brandished their weapons and roared and intimidated the human cavalry who had not approached for the time being.

This reaction of these big goblins can be understood by anyone at a glance, and it will definitely not be "our army is going to retreat", but a posture that is ready to directly resist to the end.

"Ready to follow me on the charge!!"

Seeing this situation of the big goblin on the opposite side, Tamon didn't bother to say anything, and directly gave the order to prepare to attack, then put down the visor of his knight's helmet, and began to control the mount to speed forward.

Seeing the actions of the Tamon Knight, Rhodes was the first to control the war horse to follow, and took out a few wooden throwing spears on the weapon hook behind his war horse and put them in the place where he was most handy. The ten cavalrymen did not hesitate to follow, and took out their swords and shields, ready to charge after Tamon and Rod.

"Boom-boom-boom-"

With the sound of horses' hooves as the horses began to slowly accelerate, Tamon, Rhodes and the others began to prepare to charge those big goblins.

(Note 1: The Magic World's ordinary single crossbow can reach a maximum range of 250 meters because of its better material, and the effective killing range is about 120 meters.) )

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