Chapter Forty-Nine: Cracking the Threat of the Blood Raven
After disbanding this assembly, Lu Jingzhi asked the whole team to rest for two hours, and all the servants went to prepare for battle. Lu Jingzhi smiled towards the dark corner, and said softly, "Sister Rong'er, come out." They're all gone. ”
There was a soft sound in the corner, and after a long while, a weak girl's voice came and said, "How do you know it's me?"
Lu Jingzhi smiled: "It's not who else you are." Did that arrow fall from the sky? I don't think there is a second man in my army who has mastered the mystery of the 'golden arrow'. ”
The shadow in the corner shook and split into two halves, half still cast on the ground as before, and the other half stood up and took the shape of a man, and then the humanoid shadow was rolled up into a ball, revealing the face of a girl, which was none other than Sugar Candy. This is the camouflage technique that Leviatan taught her, and Sugar Candy disguises herself as a shadow in the corner with a black cloak.
Lu Jingzhi smiled bitterly and said, "What about Yinxin, if she doesn't have you, she may not live long in the castle." ”
Tangtang looked at Lu Jingzhi timidly, and saw that he was not angry, so he whispered, "I let her mix with the human slaves who carry the baggage." ”
Lu Jingzhi suddenly said: "Then along the way, you are also mixed with them?"
Tangtang nodded and said, "They are very good, give me and Yinxin something to eat, and hide us from your people to find out." ”
Lu Jingzhi doesn't think so. If they can hide two strange women, they must be able to hide something else. It seems that it is time to put your own military discipline in order. But there's no urgency, we'll have to wait until the problem at hand is solved. The most important thing at the moment is to rely on the scout team to fight against the threat of blood crows in the sky. However, the scout team composed of the servants of Duke Wensha's castle lacks effective anti-aircraft weapons, and as long as the blood crow flies a few tens of meters high, the scout's combat power against them will become zero. Unless these Blood Ravens attack them on the ground, they will not be able to harm them.
Leviathan believed that his bow and arrows would still be able to kill a few Blood Ravens, but once the Blood Ravens flew high and scattered, he could not guarantee that every arrow would hit.
"My lord, the break is over. Leviatan walked in and said.
"Got it. Lu Jingzhi said frankly to Levia, "Take advantage of the darkness and rush forward to a place 10 leagues outside the border village." There was a raised hillock there, and we hid behind it. ”
"My lord, that hill may keep us from being spotted by the other side's scout cavalry, but it can't cover the eyes of the heavens. Leviatan couldn't help but say. If you are spotted by a blood raven so close to the enemy, you will definitely be surrounded by the enemy's cavalry. With the strength of the scout team, they naturally won't care about the enemy army with the same number of ordinary cavalry, but the other party will definitely not come over to expel the scouts with the same military strength, and it must be surrounded and suppressed by the brigade, so that they can't return their horses.
"Go first, don't say more!" Lu Jingzhi didn't want to say anything, just waved his hand and let Leviatan lead the team to set off first. He's already planned something and he's ready for the two-hour break.
The scouts moved quickly, but when they reached a place two arrows away from the hill, Lu Jingzhi asked all the scouts to dismount and walk slowly, and the horses' hooves were wrapped in a cloth bag covered with grass, and quietly walked behind the knoll.
By the time the last of the scout cavalry entered the hiding point, it was already dark. For the Blood Raven, that light wasn't enough. In the faint morning light, the blood crow is like a blind man, only to rise into the air in a daze, and then fly wildly in the sky. Only after the first rays of sunlight have reached the earth can they see where the sun covers them, as their owners intended.
Leviatan looked at Lu Jingzhi carefully, if he didn't have a good way, then he could only suggest that he lead the team to retreat. At the speed of the scout cavalry, it may be possible to run back. But the mounts had been running with their followers all night, and it was hard to say whether they still had enough strength to lead them back to their camp.
Lu Jingzhi looked at the sky, waved his hand, and said, "All obey the order, find a straw hat and grass coat for concealment on the hillock, put it on your body, and put it on your horse." Then the servants found that there were many straw hats and straw coats made of grass on the hillock, and when they put them on, they were like big trees, full of leaves and grass vines. This is the preparation that Lu Jingzhi asked people to make before leaving, he asked people to prepare these camouflages in advance and put them on the top of the hill in advance.
If it were a normal day, none of the undead would touch these things. There is too much water and microorganisms on the grass, especially in the morning, when the grass leaves are full of dew. In order to ensure that their bodies are not attacked by bacteria, the undead will try to avoid things rich in water. And this is wartime, Lu Jingzhi is their captain, and he is also the only member of the scout team who has a knightly class, and his orders are to be carried out unconditionally in principle.
After a little hesitation, Leviatan found straw armor from the hillock and wrapped himself and the undead war horse tightly. "Do as I do, hurry up, and don't forget that I'm the vice-captain and in charge of your punishment. ”
When the other undead saw that the vice-captain was the first to go, they also followed and hung these blades of grass on their bodies. Only Beckrig refuses to do so, believing that the human is mutilating himself and the other undead.
"No! let me pretend to be wood, I'd rather die with dignity!" Beckerrig said. He didn't approve of this human commanding him from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't resist, so he had to stand up and sing a counter at this time.
Lu Jingzhi nodded and said, "I allow you this request." After a pause, he said, "You can choose an undead horse with the best foot strength in the scout team, feed it with ice fruits, and then quickly flee in the direction of the camp." Then he looked around at the other servants and said, "Anyone who doesn't want to come with us can also flee back with him." ”
A few of them were obviously moved, but after seeing Leviatan's eyes as sharp as knives, they were silent again. So only Bekrigg insisted on withdrawing. He didn't deliberately choose the undead war horse, but chose his own, fed it a few ice fruits, and rode back.
By this time, it was already dawn, and the blood crow had a full view of the image behind the hillock. In addition to an enemy scout fleeing on horseback, they also saw some moving grass and trees. But their master did not tell them to pay attention to the grass and trees, so they faithfully carried out their mission and told their master about the fleeing scout.
It's just a scout cavalry, and although it seems from the Blood Raven's report that it's a subordinate, and it's not a big deal for the Ados army, if he is allowed to escape back to the Winsha army, it may expose the military deployment here. Who knows where he went to investigate before he returned? But if the cavalry were to be mobilized to pursue at this time, it was not certain whether he would be able to catch up. It's better to let the blood crows attack, even if you lose one or two, it's nothing.
The Blood Raven's controller sent the Blood Raven to attack the fleeing Beklig, and hundreds of noisy killers rushed down from the air, using their steel hook-like beaks to pick up rotten flesh on the target, while the target twisted its tall body on the undead horse, dodging the attack, and occasionally swinging a sword to chop the undodging Blood Raven into a ball of feathered blood sludge.
The Blood Raven's controller caused the Blood Raven to change its target, targeting the undead horse's left front leg. Each invading blood crow swept by, taking away a large piece of flesh and blood from the undead horse, although the undead horse did not feel pain, but after hundreds of attacks, the strong horse's leg turned into a white bone, and was hit by the blood crow that swooped down, and the whole one was broken from the galloping horse. The scouts, who had lost their leg strength, were once again targeted by the Blood Ravens. Moreover, he had no hope of escaping.
In order to allow the Blood Raven to attack more flexibly, the controller moved closer to the scout not far away. Due to the need to move out of the army line, the control of the Blood Raven released more Blood Ravens to scout the surrounding situation so as not to put themselves in danger.
This time the Blood Raven is more flexible, its attacks are more accurate, and its dodges are more flexible. At first, Beckrig's thick roar could be heard, but for a moment, Beckrig seemed to be wrapped in a large mass of feathers, and when the feathers dispersed, only a staggering skeleton was left in the clearing, and after only a few steps, it was scattered to the ground.
The scouts hidden among the blades of grass had seen the face of the Blood Raven's manipulator, and he was only a stone's throw away from the hillock. Lu Jingzhi waved his left hand back, then clenched his fist and swung it forward vertically twice. This was the order for the whole army to assault, and all the scouts got up and rode around the hill in two ways, charging towards the Blood Raven Controller.
Even though the owner didn't let himself pay attention to the grass and trees, these fast-moving targets caught the attention of the Blood Raven, who screamed to alert their owner. But when the owner of the blood crow reacted and turned his undead warhorse, two emerald green cavalry torrents had already rushed towards him. The controller tried to run away, but an arrow flew from behind and hit him in the shoulder. The Blood Raven's controller ignored the arrow, and simply urged his horse to flee, trying to escape back behind the line before the pursuers could close in.
Leviathan looked regretfully at the fleeing Blood Raven Manipulator and shook his head. The target had already run farther, beyond his accurate range, and was difficult to hit. At this time, a girl's voice came from behind him: "Teacher, shoot another arrow with all your might, hurry, hurry." ”
When Leviatan heard this, his spirits were lifted, and he drew his bow to aim, and just as Leviatan released his bowstring, suddenly a small arrow rushed out first. Although it flew slowly, it was just in front of Leviatan's arrow, and the two arrows touched, and the small arrow fell to the ground with a snap, while Leviatan's arrow was slightly higher, and flew straight towards the mount of the Blood Raven's controller.
Leviatan's arrow caught up with the horse's hoof on the horse's right hind leg from behind, piercing it and nailing it firmly to the grass. No matter how much the Blood Raven Manipulator urged, his mount could not pull its hind hooves out of the grass, and he watched as the green torrent formed a grass-green low wall in front of him.
The Blood Ravens flew down from the sky to protect their masters, only to be torn to pieces by the relentless web of swords of the Green Knights. A sharp blade cut through the net of the blood ravens and severed the heads of their masters. As the manipulator's head hit the ground, the flying blood crows also fell to their deaths, and in the blink of an eye, there was no longer a single flying feather in the sky.
The green cavalrymen did not stop any longer, went around the hill and quickly left. The Ados barracks, which had fallen into chaos, was left behind.
One after another, the knights of Ados rushed out in pursuit, but they did not form a formation in twos and threes, and they fought separately. Seeing this, Lu Jingzhi only brought more than a dozen cronies' subordinates, formed a battle formation, turned around and rushed to kill, and killed several times his own enemy knights in total. It wasn't until noon that no enemy troops came out of the camp, and Lu Jingzhi led the team to retreat calmly.
In this battle, the scout team led by Lu Jing killed Gomez, a high-ranking knight of the Ados Army who could operate the blood crow, as well as dozens of knights and servants under his command. Known as the Battle of the Knolls by the undead.
If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.