Chapter 340: Set up camp
The endless mountains are stacked on top of each other, and just looking up at them is intimidating. Even if you are far away, you can hear a faint roar coming from the mountains, as if warning these sudden uninvited guests.
When the mountains were faintly visible, the herald gave the commander-in-chief's order, and the army was stationed in camp. This is also the reason why the army cannot be stationed at the foot of the mountain, and if the dark elves rush straight down from the high mountain, they will be invincible, but there must be enough open space as a buffer. If you can block the first round of offensive, the dark elves who rush down the mountain have their backs against the mountain, but it is easy to go down the mountain and difficult to go up, and they are caught in the urn, even if they don't attack, even if they are surrounded, they will be surrounded.
A large number of pots and stoves were propped up, and the quartermasters scolded the fire-headed soldiers, busy making fires and cooking. The soldiers were busy and hurriedly set up the camp. As for these prisoners in the convict camp, it was naturally impossible to be idle, and the supervised soldiers whipped them and hurried to build the fortifications.
Because of the proximity to the mountains, in addition to digging trenches, it is also essential to build a fortress made of large stones. In addition, the commander of the cathar army was not enough, and ordered that a stone wall should be built outside the wooden wall surrounding the barracks, so that the camp must be fortified.
From this point, it can be seen that the Holy Cult is experienced in dealing with the dark elves, and this cathar army puts itself in the position of the weak, seeking no merit but no fault, and everything is about holding the stronghold.
This made the prisoners in the camp miserable, and every day they had to walk for miles to the foot of the mountain to mine stones, and then carry them back to the barracks piece by piece. Fortunately, the weather in the north is cold, and these felons are all strong villains, otherwise they would not have been able to kill people and set fires, otherwise they would have to exhaust a few people.
"Oops, hey, hey", shouted all the way, and the group walked into the barracks with stones on their backs, and if they walked slowly, they would have to be whipped by the supervised soldiers.
Al unloaded a stone from his back and piled it up in front of the camp, which had been piled up like a hill. He straightened his back, and always felt that his backbone was "crunching", as if a machine that had been working for a long time was old and rusty due to lack of oil.
As for the back, if I pressed it slightly, it hurt as if it had been roasted by fire. Al grinned in pain, and he didn't need to look at it to know that his back must have been pressed out of the red marks now, and it was estimated that it was all red and swollen, and maybe even the skin had been scratched a few pieces.
He walked over to a nearby wooden barrel and scooped a large scoop of water from it into his stomach. The clear water, which was frozen by the cold, made him tremble twice, as if he wanted to freeze his body from the inside out. Al exhaled a cool breath and finally felt like he had come to life.
Ollie walked behind him and couldn't help but say, "Young Master, why don't you let us carry it for you, you don't dare to say anything about those scum." How could he, who was born in the military of the Western Frontier, watch the heir of the Iron Thorn Family fall to this point.
Al smiled and patted him, "You've got to carry rocks every day, it's hard enough. Besides, if you really carry it for me, what will the other prisoners think? Even if they don't chew the root of their tongues, they will definitely treat me as an outlier, which will not be conducive to our future escape. ”
As he spoke, he beckoned Ollie to sit down on a few rocks to rest, "How have you been observing these days? Some of you are spies, and you are always more professional than me." ”
Ollie replied, "My brothers have seen it these days, and there are several roads into the mountain, and they are all in our minds. As for the stone walls built, it is rare for ordinary people, but it is not difficult for us. The hardest thing is the sentries standing guard, this cathar cordon is a fucking pervert. He couldn't help but curse as he spoke.
However, he said with some admiration: "I have secretly spied at night, and those sentries change posts every two hours, and they will never doze off at night." And I inquired, and it was said that they were in the middle of the night, and there was a secret post outside the barracks. So if we want to escape quietly, it will never be possible. Unless we kill all the sentinels. Oribi made a gesture to wipe his neck. There was a fierce look on his face.
Al shook his head in contemplation, and said: "It's better not to kill someone, if we escape, there is still room to turn back afterwards, if we really kill someone, it will be an undying hatred." Even if we can escape into the mountains, it will be difficult to return to the West under the pursuit of the Holy Sect. ”
Ollie had a look of embarrassment on his face, "Young Master, if you don't kill someone, it's really difficult." Even if we escape, if we are discovered by the Dark Sentinels, this place is so far from the Titan Mountains, we still can't outrun those horses. If the cavalry pursues them. We have no choice but to use the elements to release them, and when the time comes, the brothers will not be able to restrain their hands, and they will still kill people, which is contrary to the original intention of the young master.
"There's always going to be a chance. Al comforted the big man beside him, and then he frowned and said, "It's just that I still don't understand a little, what is this Guardian Army here for?"
"If you want to resist the attack of the dark elves, what can you do with this lone army? But you've been stationed here for a few days, and half of the people in the north haven't seen it, Ollie, you've been through a hundred battles, do you see the intention?"
Ollie touched his head, and said in the same confusion: "If you don't hide it from you, young master, I can't figure it out or see through it." It has always been taboo for soldiers to go deep alone, like the guardian army we are in, although it is strong, but if those dark elves are allowed to make dumplings, they will have to be wiped out. This army marches in a measured manner, the army looks neat, and the person who leads the troops does not look like he does not know the soldiers. ”
"There must be a reason, the Duke of Falcon is known as the first general of the empire, and he must have a deep meaning in arranging it like this. But I have a hunch that this seemingly absurd arrangement is the key to our escape!", Al affirmed "Ollie, you tell everyone to be patient, and the opportunity will always arise." ”
It's just that what Al didn't expect was that it was not the Duke of Reinhardt who commanded this big battle. In fact, there has been a lot of noise in the military affairs office in the north for a long time.
"Ridiculous, ridiculous, rubbish. A white-haired soldier cursed a few swear words and threw a piece of paper on the ground, "This kind of bullshit order, even the firemen in my army, can't make it, and now it's going to be used to deal with the dark elves." ”
"If my staff had made such a plan, I would have kicked him in the ass and kicked him to the pig farm to raise the pigs. ”