Only fifteen pursuers eventually returned to the makeshift camp in one piece, less than half of what they had left before. The surprising result is that it is impossible to make the people who are enjoying lunch in the makeshift camp look good.

"Eat quickly, don't get too full, and start packing up right away. Byron whispered orders to his subordinates, and gathered with the temporary leaders of the hunting party. There were many of them who were angry and worried, but only two or three of them were as calm as Byron.

A stocky leader of adventurers looked a little exhausted at this moment: "I said just now that everyone must send capable men to participate in the pursuit of the team! At present, the casualties of these warriors are all due to your cowardice and weakness!"

The first three adventurers who were shot through the throat were this guy's men, and many of the chasing team that lost most of them were his men.

"I remember the first thing you said after your suggestion of sending more men in pursuit was rejected, but 'there are enough fighters to teach those despicable sneak attackers a profound lesson.' The other person directly refuted the accusation.

"If it weren't for your obstruction, how could we, who have an absolute advantage in numbers, be defeated by the enemy through ambush because of the lack of combat strength in pursuit!?"

Was it really because of the lack of combat power in the pursuit that led to such a consequence? Byron thought in his heart that the other party's statement was very inappropriate, and that the enemy must have anticipated the possibility of sending warriors in pursuit before the attack, and the traps that caused the warriors to suffer losses were very strong proof, and they were obviously prepared there in advance. However, the exact number of pursuers should be an incalculable number, and a hunting party of more than 400 people, thirty or 100 pursuers did not have much effect on the preparation of lunch in the makeshift camp. The cunning raiders may have expected that the hunting party would not be able to send most of the force to pursue it because of the defensive constraints of the makeshift camp, but the exact number of pursuers would inevitably fluctuate depending on the thoughts of a dozen or so people here at the time.

Now it seems that the attack on the camp by only a few archers is a tactical provocation, and their actual combat strength is at least capable of crushing a pursuing party of about thirty men by relying on the forest environment and traps.

Byron did not think that he could accurately judge the strength of the counterattack prepared by the other side before launching a provocative attack, at least in his opinion, a dozen to dozens or hundreds, depending on the mood of these "decision-makers" who were now passing the buck to each other.

If it were their own, the most conservative course of action would naturally be to launch a provocative attack on the hunters' lunch camp when they were sure that they could deal with a hundred or more pursuers. At this time, no matter how many troops the other party is pursuing, as long as the leaders have not become irrational or desperate, they will be able to deal with the next blocking battle against the pursuers as the ambush side.

The team of hunters is improvised by dozens of forces, large and small, and it is unlikely that they will do anything crazy because of anger or something, after all, the team's decisions are destined to be constrained in many ways from the beginning.

If the previous attacks and provocations were the result of a private action on the impromptu decision of a few elven rangers, it is not entirely impossible to do so. However, from the initial capture of the lone person, to the destruction of fishing nets and poisoning a few days ago, it is not difficult to see that the opponent of the entire human team should be a relatively thoughtful and good at planning some unexpected special operations, but not leaving any obvious flaws for his opponent because of a strong desire to attack or a whim.

Attacks on fishermen and poisoning are all cautious or tentative, and the enemy does not recklessly expand the use of such tactics because their own teams are unable to respond effectively. When the initiative of war is in the hands of the other side, such an enemy is undoubtedly the most troublesome. He will carefully use very efficient offensive methods without leaving any chance for the opponent to counterattack, so that you can only passively bear the intrigue from the opponent, and when you think that you have figured out the opponent's mind and is ready to make a desperate counterattack, the other side may only leave you with another more profound "unexpected"!

If all these actions were carried out by the same mastermind, then the decoy of the enemy just now was undoubtedly another well-planned "attack" made by the other side with complete certainty. Judging from the results alone, more than thirty fighters lost most of them, but they did not even feel the shadow of the enemy. Such a result may not be a record worth showing off for some people, but if you measure the gains and losses from the fact that the opponent has zero damage, you will find that every move of the opponent is a small victory without loss!

In the face of such an enemy, if you cannot firmly grasp some kind of decisive advantage, the consequences are undoubtedly frightening. The overall superiority in strength is the biggest certainty in Byron's mind, judging from the size of the city's population and the news of the spies about the occupation of the barracks in the city, the irreversible superiority in troops is still in his own hands. It's just that he only has a hundred demon leaders under his command, and even if there are some dwarves and elves who are willing to serve them, under the cruel threat of war, Byron, like most humans, doesn't think that those long-eared and dwarf people will fight to the death for a group of demons who have nothing to do with them and a huge human team.

A dozen people gathered together and were still arguing, and although most of them were as silent as Byron, the two sides of the dissent still held their own points. The adventurers who had eaten lunch all looked in the direction of the leaders with a look of uneasiness hidden in them. The casualties of more than 20 people are far from an unacceptable blow to the adventurers who are accustomed to life and death, but in such a situation, the leaders are still holding their own opinions, which is a thing that everyone cannot but worry about, even if everyone thinks that the enemy in the jungle is not capable of defeating this hunting party of more than 400 people, but no one can be sure that it will not be themselves who will fall victim to the enemy's hidden arrows.

The sparse light pierced through the dense canopy, leaving dazzling golden patches on the woodland covered with dead leaves. Walking through the gloomy woods, the hunting procession was no longer as high as it had been before lunch, and the people gathered in silence, as if this was the only way to avoid making them a target for the enemy.

Although the pursuers had not been attacked by the enemy since their defeat, it was assumed that the cold-blooded killers who were good at hiding were likely hiding among the canopies not far from them. More than 400 people cautiously explored the location of the ambush of the pursuit team, and finding out the details of the ambush and cleaning up the bodies of their comrades was the final unanimous decision of all the leaders. In order to avoid more unnecessary attrition, the team moved slowly, and after half an hourglass, they finally found a total of nineteen corpses that had once belonged to their companions.

Except for a few who were shot by sharp arrows, the others died from the enemy's refill after being incapacitated. Judging from the wounds, it was a long weapon of some kind that stabbed them, which should have been longer than the enemy's deadly spear, for several warriors who were supposed to have fought to the death had no blood on their swords, and two of them even threw their own weapons before they died, which seemed to have been equally ineffective.

"Perhaps it was a spear of about their height that killed them. Someone groaned and judged.

A cautious search led to the discovery of a dozen untouched traps, which made the guy who had been pursuing them look ugly, perhaps not cleverly created because of the haste in which they were prepared, but the scale was not ambiguous at all. With a trap of this magnitude to maneuver around, even if the pursuing team was twice as large at the time, they would not necessarily be able to take advantage of the enemy.

After hastily burying the bodies of their companions, the team temporarily decided to move in a different direction. Although the harvest of the previous half day was good, it still seemed a bit of a drop in the bucket when it was ten times the total number of troops of the hunting party. Although this hunt was more of an experiment, they initially hoped to be able to get two to five days of food in one day.

Move in a different direction, mainly to avoid possible traps that the enemy has already prepared. The forest is the opponent's home turf, and there is no reason to move at the enemy's pace in such a situation. Despite the sporadic casualties suffered by the hunting party again during the transfer, the people learned their lesson and did not talk about the counterattack again.

If the opponent dares to provoke, he must have a counterattack, which has been confirmed by human life, as long as he finds a random direction to go deep into the forest according to his own intentions, he can make the hunting party avoid the enemy's carefully set ambush as much as possible.

The forests on the west bank of the Emerald River are dozens of miles deep, and it is impossible for the enemy to let their traps and ambushes spread over such a vast forest! As long as they are far away from the advantageous battlefield they have prepared for themselves, those sneaky enemies will inevitably have no way to take their own team of four hundred men when they cannot occupy the advantageous position.

The hunt was once again going as smoothly as it had been in the morning, and all sorts of prey appeared in the direction of the team, and almost all the hunters couldn't help but sigh that the Whispering Forest belonged to the territory of the elven kingdom. In other places where the Earth Goddess and the Druids are far less influential than in this ancient forest, there is absolutely no prey in the forests that are in the sphere of human influence and at the same time so abundant and wary of humans.

Just as the people put aside the shadows of the past and immersed themselves in the hunt again, the scattered team was attacked by arrows and feathers again.

"Those long, concealed ears are afraid of our strength, but they can't stand our hunting in the forest. "Quite a few people have shown their disdain for the sneak attackers who are supposed to be elven rangers, some of them are hiding their heads and tails, and the main target of the entire human team is naturally the rumored wealth that exists in Andrarui. But when the time came to victory, no one would mind taking some of the elven women who were very popular among the aristocracy from the city that was bound to fall into chaos.

Byron, however, was puzzled when the team was attacked again - the enemy's provocation at a time when he did not have time to set up an ambush and hinder the pursuit, but which could not deal a substantial blow to the hunting party, seemed to be a dangerous act like playing with fire. As long as the hunters catch up with those lurkers at the first time, without enough traps to hinder the pursuit and from friendly parties, it will be difficult for them to escape the end of being surrounded and suppressed.

Could it be that the elves had become so reckless just because the balance of nature that they valued had been disrupted!? Byron felt that this was completely inconsistent with his previous suspicions about the enemy, and if it was simply to hinder the hunt, and not care about expanding the results and preserving themselves, why didn't they start harassing tactics in the morning!?