Chapter 40: Fighting
"Leader Will, although we are on high ground and easy to guard, the equipment on the opposite side is better than ours, and there are more people than us, so I'm afraid it won't last long. A knight said in Will's ear.
Will was a little glad that he had hired a lot of mercenaries at this time, otherwise he would have been captured by now, hearing the words of the knight next to him, Vir also had to frown, "Didn't you send someone to the territory to find reinforcements, as long as it lasts for two days, the reinforcements from the territory will arrive." ”
Will didn't believe his words anymore, two days, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to last even a day.
The bonfire was shining on Will's face, all of them were downcast, and the knight heard Will's words, "Yes, I don't believe it, so many people are guarding, and it will definitely survive for two days." "It's like cheering yourself up. ”
Because he found out early, when Vir found out that there were robbers, he ordered to go up the mountain, occupied a high ground, surrounded a simple camp with a cart pulling cattle feed, and put the cattle on three sides, leaving only one side down the mountain to prevent the enemy from sneaking up from behind the sides, and all the mercenaries defended one side, so as to block the impact of the robbers and not collapse all at once.
During the day, the robbers rushed in a wave, although eleven robbers were left, and five mercenaries died on their side, so if they continued like this, they couldn't hold on for long at all.
Just as Vir was thinking about how to delay the arrival of reinforcements, a quarrel broke out in the enemy's camp.
"Captain Gary, there are eleven dead people who hit me today, why don't we leave, this is a hard stubble. A middle-aged man with a scar on his face said to the first knight.
"No, since we have already fought and lost people, how can we calculate it like this, if we go back empty-handed, how can we calculate the loss?" the knight named Gary refused directly.
There are 300 cows, 1,500 gold coins, such a large sum of money, but it is much more than the previous robbery, if you keep some privately, not too much, a hundred gold coins are enough, a fool would give up such a large fortune!
"Come on, twenty people are feinting tonight, I'm going to make them unable to rest!" Gary shouted outside.
"Yes!" replied the outsider, and went down to command.
As for the knight who fled today, it did not attract Gary's attention, and he did not know that the besieged convoy was not a merchant, but a convoy of a territory.
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"Leader Vel, there's another person coming up from below,"
Last night, most of the mercenaries didn't rest well, but it was only one night, and it didn't affect the battle too much, but everyone's faces were a little sluggish.
"Everyone be careful, look at the number of people, this time it may not be a feint like last night, prepare to meet the enemy. Will shouted as he looked at the rushing man.
With Will, there were twenty-five guards on the hill at this time, and everyone was staring at the crowd rushing towards the mountain, and the spears in their hands were ready to pierce out at any time.
"Kill!" Vir shouted at the sight of the approaching enemy.
Hearing the shouting, everyone stabbed the spear in their hands without hesitation, and the sound of the spear entering the body came, and blood splashed on their faces.
A mercenary pulled out the spear that pierced in, but before he could pull it out, a spear stabbed from the front and was directly pierced, "Beck! Damn!" The mercenary leader next to him hurriedly swung the spear in his hand and killed the man.
"Draw your sword, rush out, the spear is useless!"
One by one, the mercenaries rushed out, "Damn, who let them out!" Will said angrily, "Come out with me, and destroy this wave of robbers first." Will had to say to the remaining knights.
Will rushed out with a knife in his hand, swinging it at one of the bandits.
As time passed, the enemies were slowly being killed, and the bandits grossly overestimated their ability to fight head-on.
"Run, we can't win!" shouted one of the bandits in fear, and with a start, the rest of the bandits lost their fighting spirit and ran down the hill.
Will got the head of a robber, looked at the bandits running down the mountain, and shouted, "Don't chase them!"
Will sat in the makeshift tent and looked at the mercenary leader's gloomy face, "Nelson, tell me how many people died this time?"
"Dead, eight dead, but eighteen dead. Nelson said hesitantly.
"Are you happy? Who made you rush out!" said Will's face became even more gloomy.
Nelson, who was standing inside, clenched his hands tightly, his breathing becoming shorter.
Seeing this, Wei secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly said: "This time I will forget it first, not for example, I also understand your feelings, but you can't sacrifice others because of one person, well... Alright, let's go out and inspect first!" said Vir and walked out first.
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"Thirty people, not even a small place, what a waste," Gary yelled angrily.
Relieved his anger for a while, "The bandits are really unreliable, rest first, and I'll take action myself after lunch." "Wave your hand and let the messenger go down.
After lunch, "Assemble the knights!" shouted Gary, and the eighteen knights quickly assembled, "the rest of the men will follow, and when we break through each other's camps, you will rush in and kill me." ”
"Oh no, their brigade rushed up, we, we shouldn't be able to stop it. "Damn," Will cursed.
"Charge them all, and reward you with five silver coins for each kill. ”
Oh!! rush!!!" the bandits rushed forward with their broadswords excitedly.
"Block it, block it for me, if you can't stop it, everyone has to die. Mercenary leader Nelson shouted.
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"How long will it take?" asked the black bear as he turned to Yaheng.
"Well, I'll take a look," Yaheng looked around and said, "It's coming soon, and after this forest, you'll be at Tannaya Canyon." ”
"Let's go when we're done eating, the brothers are still waiting for us to save us!" called the black bear to the knights who were eating.
After a while, the knights finished eating the dry food in their hands, Yaheng and the black bear looked at each other and nodded, and then Yaheng shouted: "Brothers, work hard, go!"
The people mounted their horses and galloped through the woods, but because of the woods, the knights could not keep up with their speed, and it took them more than half an hour to get out of the forest.
The knights who reached the canyon looked up and could see the smoke rising in the distance, "Yaheng, look! Let's go over quickly, I'm afraid it's already open." The black bear hurriedly pointed over there and said.
At the sound of the order, the knights ran towards that side,
At the foot of the mountain, the chaotic footprints, the unextinguished cooking smoke, the badly wailing bandits on the ground, and the faint sound of fighting on the mountain all confirmed that this was where Vir and the others were.
"Leave ten brothers here to guard against the robbers who have escaped, and the rest will follow me up the mountain. Yaheng commanded.
"Chief, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold it out, or shall we surrender?" said a mercenary who hacked a bandit to death and came to Will, who was fighting bravely to kill the enemy.
"Look at the situation, hey, let's save my life first. When Vir was about to shout surrender, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared under the mountain, and when he looked carefully at the official captain Yaheng, he was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Reinforcements are coming, our reinforcements have arrived, brothers hold on, we are saved!"
When the mercenaries heard their employer say that reinforcements had arrived, they looked down the hill and sure enough, a cavalry rushed up, and their strength suddenly increased, and their hands that had been about to let go clenched again.
Gary heard the enemy's voice, and when he saw it, he was immediately flustered, and he forgot to swing the knife in a distraction, and the mercenary who was resisting to the death seized the opportunity to slash it with a wave of his hand, maybe he didn't deserve to die, Gary, who felt the knife wind, hurriedly flashed to the side, and with a snort, one of Gary's arms flew into the sky.
The deputy who swept the formation next to him hurriedly ran over, kicked the mercenary away, held Gary and said, "My lord, let's withdraw quickly, otherwise we won't be able to leave in a while!" The deputy pulled Gary onto the horse, and with a wave of the whip, the horse neighed and ran away from the battlefield.
Seeing that the boss had run away, the younger brothers gave up resistance one by one, put down their weapons and knelt on the ground begging not to be killed.
Yaheng saw someone escaping, and ordered: "Clean up the battlefield," and hurriedly chased after him.
At the bottom of the mountain, the black bear sat on the horse boredly, hey, why was he left below, and slapped his right hand, because it was this hand that lost to Yaheng.
"Looks like someone has come down?" shouted one of the horsemen pointing up the hill. "Someone really came down!" "Haha, that's my head, you guys are waiting here, I'll come when I go." The black bear laughed and ran away.
"Damn, what a loss this time, hiss!" Gary cursed as he sat on his horse and covered his wounds.
"Uh, where are you going?" Suddenly, a figure rushed out of front of him, and it was the black bear.
Seeing this, the deputy exclaimed, "Not good!" and hurriedly raised the knife in his hand to block the blow swung by the black bear.
Bang!
The former sound is the sound of two weapons connecting, and the latter is the sound of the off-hand weapon landing.
Bang!"Oops!"It turned out that the horse was frightened and threw the two of them to the ground.
Just as they were about to struggle to get up, several knives were put on their necks, and the two of them didn't dare to move for an instant.
"Huh~" It turned out that Yaheng followed down, "Bad luck, why was it cleaned up so quickly." Yaheng said dissatisfied.
"Haha, Yaheng, I didn't say it, so many people can still let people run away, if I were to do it, I would definitely not let one go, if I hadn't been here this time, I'm afraid those two thieves would have run away a long time ago." The black bear walked up to Yaheng and smiled.
Yaheng had a black line on his face, ignored the black bear who was smiling happily, got on the horse and said, "Since everyone has been caught, let's go up the mountain and take a look." Then he beat his horse and left.
The black bear, who didn't laugh at Yaheng, rode on his horse in disappointment and shouted, "Go up the mountain!"
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"Will, you've done a good job this time, and you've been able to make it to us. Yaheng looked at the bandaged Will and said with a smile.
"Haha, that's thanks to these mercenary brothers, if it weren't for them, I wouldn't know which beast I fell into. Will smiled and pointed at Nelson.
"Thank you for your help, I will definitely tell the Baron when I go back, I believe that the Baron will reward everyone. Yaheng stood up and said to the mercenaries.
"Thank you, captain of the Knights, since I, Nelson, have been hired by my employer, I should have a beginning and an end, how could I escape halfway?" Nelson said boldly.
"Yes, the boss is right, since we are hired, there must be a beginning and an end. The mercenaries on the side said one after another.
"We brought some food here, everyone eat well, rest here for a day, tomorrow morning we will set off together, well, I will go out to have a look first, you first take care of your injuries." Yaheng continued, giving Will a look. And he went out.
Will followed suit, "What's wrong?" Vir asked.
"It's okay, thanks to you this time, by the way, how about the cattle you bought?" Yaheng asked.
"The cattle should be fine, after all, the thieves didn't break through us, and they must not have hurt the cows. Will pondered.
Yaheng patted Will's shoulder and said, "You have done a great job this time, and the lord may be exempted from your slave status when you go back, well, you go back to recuperate first, and I'll go to the herd to have a look." ”
"Good. Will turned and entered the tent.