Xiao Chen raised the money bag in his hand and shook it in front of everyone, the money bag was deerskin, very strong, and the gold coins full of gold in it weighed at least twenty kilograms, Xiao Chen would definitely not be able to shake it so easily before, but now, after being changed by the magical white light cluster, he did it easily. The gold coins slammed into each other, making a pleasant ding-dong sound, and Xiao Chen could see that almost all of them showed more or less greedy expressions.

He took out a gold coin, which glowed silvery-white in the moonlight, "One gold coin can make you live a good life in Suero for two months, five gold coins can buy a good weapon made by a dwarven craftsman, ten gold coins can buy a good house in a small town, and fifty gold coins can allow you to marry a beautiful woman as a wife, and then live a peaceful life with her." Gold is a good thing, don't you?"

"My lord, gold is a good thing, but I like it, it doesn't like me. One of the mercenaries said in a strange tone, and the others laughed.

"Gold coins are not profitable, then I will give you a chance to take the gold coins home today." Xiao Chen said forcefully, pointing to the bright mountain not far away, "Right there, our scouts have discovered the camp of horse thieves, and they are tired from surrounding my castle for a long time. The horse thieves are on their way, and now is the time when there are the least number of people in the camp, and it is a good opportunity for us to attack the camp! Now, I will pay gold coins to buy the heads of horse thieves, ordinary horse thieves, one gold coin each! The head of the horse thieves, ten gold coins each! Whoever kills the bandit leader Cadiz, I will give him fifty gold coins!"

"Oh~" The mercenaries were all amazed, the purchasing power of a golden axe coin was equivalent to six thousand yuan, and Xiao Chen's price was already very considerable on the battlefield.

"My lord, we're going to kill them to death!"

"My lord, let's go!!Kill all the people in the camp first, and then stab the besiegers in the ass in the back. ”

Xiao Chen saw that the morale of all the mercenaries was high, and he knew that the material stimulation had taken effect.

Just as he was about to announce his departure, the leader of the Swift Leopard Mercenary Regiment, Wade, stepped forward. He bowed slightly and said, "Thank you, my lord, for your generosity, you have offered a price that we can't refuse. But I have a problem, there was a man from our regiment in the scout he just sent out, and he found that there were many more enemies in the camp than we did. I'm afraid we'll lose a lot if we rush forward like this, right? For us bitter mercenaries, gold coins are tempting, but lives are even more precious. ”

"What do you mean, as a warrior, how can you retreat in front of the battle. Kalanda disgruntled.

"Captain Kalanda, how could I hold back? I just hope that Lord Xiao can have a more complete plan. If you want me to say, we can wait a little longer, wait for more horse thieves to get out of the camp, and then raid them. ”

Wade's words were not unreasonable, and the mercenaries, who were already eager to fight, were suddenly splashed with a basin of cold water, and they all died down and began to discuss.

Chen Hansheng, Li Tianrui and others were already worried about the situation in the school, and they were very anxious when they saw the sudden change in the situation around them, but it was difficult to make any excuses.

"What are you doing! Lord Xiao hired us to solve the siege crisis. Where are your principles as a mercenary?" Karanda stepped forward, her face furious.

"Commander Kalanda, if the horse thieves in the camp are equal to us, or even double our number, I will not hesitate to rush over. But now they're probably three or four times as many as us, hiding in improvised walled camps, and they're armed with a strong man like Cadiz! he's a mid-rank warrior! who of us here would dare to say he's better than him?" Wader retorted fearlessly.

"What are you thinking!" said Kalanda, reaching for his collar.

"Wait. Xiao Chen shouted to Kalanda, he didn't argue with Wald, but continued to say to everyone with a confident expression: "Just now, Captain Wald raised an objection, saying that the horse thieves are outnumbered, and there are strong people, and we will suffer great losses if we rush forward. But I can't agree with that. You know, we have a huge advantage that horse thieves can't match, and let's hold on to the winning chips!"

The crowd fell silent and listened to what he had to say.

"That's me, a magician!" Xiao Chen pointed to his nose and said loudly, "Have you forgotten my magic? Have you forgotten the scene in the mercenary camp? How many of you standing in front of me have been knocked down by me with one blow? I can use my magic to scare you, I can scare the horse thieves even worse! Today, I will rush to the front and use my magic to open the way for everyone!"

"My lord, it can't be like this. You don't have any reason to be in danger!" Kalanda said nervously.

"As a magician, compared to ordinary warriors, I am a strong man, and it is not natural for a strong man to open the way for others?"

The surrounding crowd roared, and many even showed excitement. The mercenaries still remembered Xiao Chen's strength vividly, and they respected and feared him at the same time. But they never imagined that one day, noble magicians would fight with them, and even stand in front of them in spite of the danger in order to reduce their losses. This kind of thing has never been heard in legendary stories, and even touched some people's hearts.

"But even if you are strong, you are only one step ahead, and you still need the support of each and every one of you. Now, is there anyone who has any objections?Are you willing to fight with me?" Xiao Chen turned to Wade, "Captain Wade, you, what do you say?"

"Your Excellency......" Wade's words got stuck in his throat, his dry lips trembling slightly, and there was a hint of shame in his eyes. When he questioned it, it was just for bargaining, and he didn't expect it to be the end result. He knelt down on one knee and replied loudly: "The Swift Leopard Regiment is willing to follow you and fight for you!"

"The Bruns will break through that camp and fight for you!"

"The Iron Axe will never lose to the Stormbear, fight for you!" the mercenary regiments echoed Walder's oath.

"The Blue Flame Regiment will definitely protect your safety and fight for you!" said Kalanda, a rare smile on her face.

The mercenaries shouted one after another, they were not to be outdone, they were high-spirited!

Xiao Chen could sense the majestic morale of these mercenaries around him, these people were no longer just moved by the gold coins, there were something more profound that touched their hearts. Xiao Chen took out the spark sword on his waist and pointed at the mountain, and announced loudly, "Follow me!"

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The horse thieves' camp was very poorly guarded, first, they did not expect that someone would attack their camp under a large siege, and second, most of the leaders were in front of the battle, and many horse thieves were unled.

When the mercenary team led by Xiao Chen rushed to the gate of the camp, Cadiz was only able to arrive, and the horse thieves he collected along the way were only about 100 people. The other thieves either didn't listen to him or simply fled. When he saw nearly two hundred mercenary warriors charging towards his camp, he hurriedly scolded left and right: "Formation, formation, you idiots, follow me to the door to stop them!"

There are no towers in this village, and the so-called walls and gates are nothing more than some planks and sundries. The mercenary and the horse thief could see each other rushing towards the door through the thick gap between the wooden bars.

Xiao Chen took the lead and rushed to the front, with Kalanda and Gameiro at his side. He activated the protective necklace that Morey had given him, and a hemispherical shield enveloped him and the horses beneath him. The horse thieves at the gate of the camp, under the command of Cadiz, had formed a crude phalanx behind the gate, surrounded by stragglers who threw arrows at them through the fence. But most of the arrows were either deflected by Kalanda and Gameiro, or deflected by Xiao Chen's shield.

When he was about fifty meters away from the camp gate, Xiao Chen stopped, he drew a magic pattern in his mind that represented the heart of fear, and then poured his vast spiritual power into it. The successive encounters in the past few days have made him faintly break through, whether it is the speed of outlining the magic pattern or the stability of filling the spiritual power, which has greatly improved the power of his spell casting.

The completed magic pattern turned into a terrifying spiritual energy, and under Xiao Chen's guidance, he left his spiritual world and rushed into reality. With the point of his long sword, this invisible energy streaked across the sky, passed through the gate, and fell into the horse thief phalanx behind the gate of the stockade, and exploded in an instant.

Xiao Chen had always thought that "Heart of Fear", as the first combat magic he had learned, was a very common low-level magic. However, as one of the nine inheritance magic created by the holy mage Antonio Gregorio, how can the heart of fear be simple? The most powerful thing about this magic is that there is no limit, the more vast the caster's spiritual power, the greater the scope of the magic, with Xiao Chen's current ability, this magic is enough to be called tactical magic against the military type.

This blow was like a scoop of cold water poured into the oil pot, and the horse thief phalanx of more than 100 people suddenly exploded. In an instant, some of the horse thieves collapsed to the ground, some screamed, some hugged their heads and cried, and more began to run in all directions. Even some of the stronger-willed people who were not crushed by the illusion had a moment of trance.

At this time, Xiao Chen's mercenaries seized the opportunity and began to charge.

Kalanda rushed to the front, she gathered momentum, and then the fighting spirit exploded, and the big sword that was slashed high with the outgoing fighting spirit slashed at the gate of the camp in one fell swoop, and the two-finger-thick hardwood strip was split by this sword, and half of the gate was gone.

He was followed by Gameiro, who roared, and his already tiger-backed figure became stronger again, and black hair grew on his face, like a demon bear, he rushed and slammed his shoulder on the door, the broken door panel was completely knocked away, and several horse thieves behind the door were hit by the flying wooden blocks, and fell to the ground with blood in their mouths. The warrior with the blood of the demon bear laughed and stepped into the gate, and a large number of mercenaries rushed in behind him.

Cole, the half-elf archer, bent his bow and aimed his arrow at the horse thief's banner on the high platform for spellcasting in the distance. He recited a spell, and the force of the wind wrapped around his arrow like a thin thread, a magic arrow with far more range and accuracy than its peers. As he shot an arrow, Cadiz's blood-colored scimitar banner fell. The banner had always been a symbol of Cadiz, representing his authority, and the fall of the banner had made the enemies inside and outside the camp even more panicked.

"Rush!" a war cry resounded in all directions and swept through the camp.

In front of such a tiger and wolf army, the horse thieves who were scattered by Xiao Chen could not organize a powerful counterattack at all, and Xiao Chen followed behind the mercenaries, as long as he saw the horse thieves gathered, he would release a fear magic on them.

Before the battle really begins, it becomes a one-sided chase, and that's the power of magic. The morale of the mercenaries is getting higher and higher, and the horse thieves who came from other places are broken by the imposing warriors, and the horse thieves who are guarding the key points are crushed one by one by several vindictive masters.

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Cadiz withdrew from the phalanx the moment Xiao Chen released his magic, and even then he felt a trace of palpitations in the aftermath of the magic. He looked at the battle situation at the door, and his heart sank a little, he knew that the warriors and bloodline warriors with fighting spirit were far stronger than ordinary warriors in terms of strength, speed, endurance and defense. These horse thieves who can only do superficial martial arts are like sheep in front of tigers in front of these masters. And he is the only one who can fight with the master here.

Cadiz is only one line stronger than Karanda, and he knows very well that if he continues to fight like this, he will only end up with the destruction of the army. Thinking of this, he said to Awan, who had rushed over: "You take a few people, go to the west of the camp first to gather the retreating team, and I will join you in a while." ”

Awan answered, Cadiz looked at the scuffling crowd, suddenly jumped up, and jumped towards the place where those ordinary mercenaries were concentrated, blood surged on his sword, the long sword fell, and the blood mist turned into countless blood rays scattered in all directions, but wherever this blood was hit, whether it was clothes, armor or flesh, it was like being poured sulfuric acid, quickly corroded and melted.

This blow was like a bomb exploding in the crowd, and the mercenaries who were hit by the blood were killed on the spot, and those who were injured fell to the ground, covering their wounds and shouting loudly, losing their combat effectiveness. More mercenaries were blinded by this blow, and their offensive was blocked, and the formation of the charge was broken down with a single blow, and then they had to fight the horse thieves on their own battlefield.

Cadiz succeeded in one blow, and did not love to fight, and ran as fast as he could in the direction of the school before several masters came back from the siege.

Cadiz ran as he fought, and not far from the camp he met Orville and Awan, who had gathered some of his men, and now numbered about twenty men.

As soon as Orville saw Cadiz, he said eagerly: "Boss, Adan and his sister have turned against the water, they two guys are now attacking us with the magician's men, and several horse thieves have been wiped out by them!"

"What? Why did they do that? Tell me clearly!" Cadiz felt dizzy, why did the good situation suddenly collapse on all sides and take a sharp turn?

"I don't know, after I assassinated the magician, I ambushed for a while, and when I saw that no new magician appeared, I made a detour to retreat to the camp, and when I passed the city wall where Adan was responsible for attacking, I found that no one was attacking the city at all, but there was a sound of killing on the position of the Wild Tiger and Horse Thieves not far away, and I had never seen the magician's team go out of the city all the way, so I thought it was strange. I touched it and looked at it, only to realize that it was Adan and the Tiger, and they were in flames. They, together with the castle guards, slain the Tigers.

"Boss, what should I do? The dozen or so brothers I brought with me also encountered Adam's scout team, and I killed two before I ran them away. We, how are we going to fight?" Awan said.

Cadiz looked at the school, which was still some distance away, and immediately said, "Let's retreat." A few of us will leave now, now the mercenaries have blocked the east side, and Adan has blocked the south side, and we have to go back, so we can only follow the northeast path through the forest. ”

"What about the other brothers?" Awan asked.

"Let them run for their lives, the goal of us taking them is too obvious, and it will only lead to everyone's bad luck. Without hesitation, Cadiz took the only twenty or so men and ran into the woods.

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The camp had been almost cleared, littered with dead and wounded mercenaries and horse thieves, and the entire hill was enveloped in a heavy smell of blood. All the dead horse thieves were cut off by the mercenaries and put in front of Xiao Chen like a pile of garbage, and Cai Long behind him was making a record of killing enemies with the smell that went straight to his head.

Li Tianrui covered his nose and walked over and said, "Xiao Chen, don't you think this battle is too simple?

"You have to count the hard work we have had all the way before, I almost gave up my life. If it weren't for the hurry and hurry before, appearing at the emptiest moment of the horse thieves' camp, the ending might have been completely different. Xiao Chen replied.

"Yes, but now I trust your previous judgment, the horse thieves are indeed scattered. ”

Xiao Chen sighed and said, "Even loose sand is a life-and-death struggle, what about our casualties?"

"We lost 26 mercenaries dead and 59 wounded, most of them by Cadiz alone. Others temporarily lost their combat effectiveness. Li Tianrui looked at Xiao Chen with some embarrassment, "They were all injured by your magic by mistake." ”

"Ha, my control is indeed a little worse......" Xiao Chen scratched his head.

"But the leader of the horse thieves, Cadiz, took advantage of the chaos and fled, this guy is so fierce, but unfortunately he couldn't be kept. I'm worried he'll go around messing with us in the future. ”

"A person's strength is always limited, even if he is stronger than any of us, but most of his forces have been scattered by us, what are we afraid of?" Xiao Chen looked at his watch and said, "But we don't have time to delay, in five minutes, gather people who can still fight, and prepare to raid the back of the besieging enemy." ”

"The sooner we strike, the smaller the damage to the school. It's time to teach those bastards a lesson!"

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Zhang Sicheng bent his bow to aim at an enemy who had climbed the wall and was about to run out, and as soon as he let go, the last arrow in the quiver was shot out by him. The arrow went through the back of his neck, and the thief stiffened, and then fell helplessly.

"Luck!" Zhang Sicheng put his bow on the ground, picked up an ownerless spear, and looked around. There was no longer a single enemy in sight, and several surrounding guards were also looking for traces of the enemy like Zhang Sicheng, and one of them asked in a strange tone, "Why are there no enemies?"

"It's hard...... We...... Win?"

Zhang Sicheng did not dare to answer this sentence, he did not know whether this was just a temporary retreat of the enemy or a real victory, he carefully held his spear and walked out of the fortifications and walked towards the wall of the school.

The walls have never been so hideous, and the walls, which are more decorative than practical on earth, have become a barrier between life and death, with corpses lying inside and out, and some hanging in strange postures.

Zhang Sicheng closed the eyes of a corpse that threw himself between the iron fences with his hand, and looked out of the fence with nausea, only to see that on the plain in front of the campus, there was chaos at this time, and a team of horses came from nowhere, galloping on the flat ground. But they weren't here to attack the school, but to hunt down the retreating horse thieves. The horse thieves, who had just been menacing, were fleeing in all directions in a group, and some of the farthest had already disappeared into the distant mountains and forests.

"Reinforcements?

He looked farther away. The camp seemed to be quiet, the blood-colored scimitar flag on the flagpole was gone, and now a white cloth fluttered there.

"It's ...... Surrender?"

At this time, he saw a team of more than ten people, rushing towards the school, and the first few riders, waving flashlights in their hands, identified themselves. Soon, the team rushed up the slope in front of the school gate, and the men shouted, "We are our own people!

The riders ran to the wall, and when they found that there were no more besieging enemies around, they began to shout: "The horse thieves have been repulsed, we have won!"

Zhang Sicheng couldn't help but ask loudly, "Is this true?"

A rider shone the flashlight in Zhang Sicheng's direction, then pulled the horse to a stop and said, "Teacher Zhang, I'm Xiao Chen." We defeated the horse thieves and captured their camp. We won, we really won!"

"Xiao Chen, won?" Zhang Sicheng repeated these two words, and then his heart began to beat wildly, faster than the first time he met the enemy. After seeing Xiao Chen, the unbelievable pictures he saw were connected together. It turned out that the enemy really retreated, the original camp really surrendered, and the original bloody battle really ended. The man, in his thirties, stood in a daze, the spear in his hand fell to the ground unconsciously, and then tears began to pour out of his eyes, flow through his scars, and wet his tattered combat uniform. He wept, wept for all who died, laughed again, laughed for all who lived.

"Ah!!" he threw up his fists to vent his emotions, and then jumped up like a child, shouting hoarsely, "The enemy is fleeing!

Xiao Chen rode on the horse, quietly looking at the man in front of him as if he was crazy, but his heart was surprisingly calm. At this time, there is no need for him to say anything, the victory belongs to him, and even more to these people in front of him.

The other people around couldn't believe it at first, but when they all crowded to the wall and saw the fleeing enemy, they couldn't help but roar with Zhang Sicheng, and the roar of victory spread like water waves in the school, and more and more voices melted into the cheers: "The enemy fled! The enemy fled! We won! We ~win~!"