Chapter 297: Reinforcements Arrive
"When will your Master arrive?"
The Baron of the Trough had asked the question for the third time.
He was not surprised to see Lauder roll his eyes at him, but he still had to ask such a question. Otherwise, he and many of his subordinates may not be able to bear it.
In fact, he did a relatively good job of taking precautions - his town was originally walled, and he gathered his people and livestock into the town as much as possible, strengthened the wall, and sent people to patrol and keep guard.
He hurriedly recruited the militia, distributed weapons and food, and hastily trained for a day.
But in the face of so many monsters, I was still terrified.
As far as the eye could see, the monster was almost a piece of film.
The shepherds and hunters had counted them like gold paper.
- More than one hundred and twenty.
When they heard this amount, both the baron and the knight trembled.
The largest pack of wolves they had ever seen in their lives was only thirty wolves, and that was enough to expel them with an army.
Legend has it that fifty years ago, a huge pack of nearly 100 wolves crossed the border and killed two knights and a baron...... Now, a horde of monsters that are even more powerful than legends has appeared.
At least the wolves don't usually fight people to the death, and they will leave when they get enough food, but these monsters are clearly determined to kill them all.
After only three hours of defense, there was already a knight who had already suffered the misfortune - he was directing the battle on the wall and shooting the monsters below with a hard bow, when suddenly one of the monster leaders used another monster as a springboard, jumped up and bit his leg, and the whole person was dragged down, drowning in the tide of monsters.
Just because of this monster leader, he has lost more than ten people so far.
Those are all young and middle-aged laborers, the most precious human resources, but now they have become mere consumables.
This kind of refueling tactic is a completely hopeless hardship and attrition, and it is only delaying the speed of complete defeat.
However, it had to be filled in like this.
Because if you give up guarding the wall, there will only be a few large mansions left to defend, and it is true that the house is very large, like a small castle, but it can only accommodate two hundred people.
So the rest of the people will be bitten to death by the monster, dragged away and eaten.
Not to mention whether the mansion will be breached...... What if we survive this mess in the end?
What can the remaining more than 200 people do? I am afraid that it will take the baron half his life to barely recover the vitality of the territory, and the next generation will still be a mess that has only been slightly mended.
And if you know that only 200 people can survive, the rest of the people are afraid that they will riot and kill each other for the place to live.
In fact, although Lauder is a martial arts idiot, he still understands a little bit of the most basic human feelings - at least he can see that the people here are depressed, so he has to patiently say again: "Within half an hour, he will definitely be here!"
I've seen the process of military training, those soldiers are all good, everyone can run five kilometers in one go, what are you afraid of?"
As he spoke, he almost spat in disdain, but he held back.
"Hmph, I waited for two hours just now, but now I can't wait even half an hour? Forget it, I'll go kill for a while and give you courage!"
So saying, he dropped the rest of his equipment, picked up a rapier second only to the stabbing sword, and took the heavy sword on his back, and climbed up the wall, slashed down a monster that tried to pick it up, and then jumped out.
The sword qi danced, and the bodies of the three monsters were thrown into the air, splattering blood.
Just as someone on the wall was about to applaud, they saw the monster leader approaching rapidly, and immediately changed the cheer to a warning sound.
"Be careful!"
"I know!"
With another wave of his hand, he slashed over a monster, and he directly threw out the thin sword in his hand, inserted it into the body of a monster next to him, and then untied the heavy sword behind his back.
"Grandpa will meet you big brute for a while!"
With a loud scolding, he jumped to his feet, as if to take advantage of the momentum of his fall to slash with all his might.
A sly glint flashed in the eyes of the monster leader, and he was about to change his posture, and Lauder noticed this, and cursed a long list of swear words in his heart.
Although it was expected, the worst-case scenario came true, and it was depressing enough.
He let out a loud shout, and threw the heavy sword in mid-air—all the while he took advantage of the momentum to retreat, rolling his body right past the top of the fence and landing into the town.
The heavy sword was fourteen pounds, powerful and heavy, and flew towards the monster leader in a whirlwind, and the flight trajectory was not straight, so it was more difficult to dodge.
The monster leader dodged to the side, but was still grazed by the blade.
However, the scales had just been cut, and there was no blood spurting, but only a small bead of blood. Apparently just flesh wounds.
Lauder himself had already poured a lot of fighting energy into his sword, and although it would only take a few breaths to dissipate after leaving his hand, he should have cut people like cutting tofu during this period......
It seems that this monster is really rough and thick-skinned, and if it is a head-to-head one, Lauder is not completely sure that he can win it.
Not to mention that there are so many miscellaneous guards around it, and if it is not careful, even a swordsman may die tragically on the spot.
However, at least Lauder's attack this time also frightened the monster leader, it was now injured for the first time, and it was suddenly startled, and temporarily withdrew from the front-line battlefield, relieving some of the defensive pressure a little.
But Lauder said that he would not go out on a second trip - the other party's intelligence was at least not inferior to that of the wild wolf, and after being injured by him just now, he must have thought about how to eliminate him as a scourge, and kept an eye on him at any time, as long as he came up, he would be attacked, and he would not let him escape so easily next time.
Although it can't be said that there is no chance of winning at all, but the risk is extremely high, he just came to deliver a letter, and then Luo Ming will naturally come with a large army, why should he fight that monster by himself?
Although Lauder retreated in embarrassment, he at least took the initiative to go out and kill it, which boosted morale a little.
(No matter how bad it is, these guys should be able to hold out for another half hour...... )
At that moment, his ears suddenly moved.
"This ...... You can't go wrong, it's footsteps!"
If it were one or two footsteps, he would never be able to hear them in today's noisy environment.
But if it is the footsteps of dozens of people stepping on the same beat, and the sound is superimposed on each other, then even if it is hundreds of meters away, it can be vaguely heard.
This is exactly what Lomin and his army are arriving!21010