Chapter 3: The First Try
Leaving the quiet town of Chanda and coming to the wide suburbs, Xia Yan and Shibei, who were supposed to set off with the large army, sighed helplessly as they looked at the endless plain in the distance because they were left behind......
When they were helpless, there was a sound of horses' hooves nearby, and a rider in black horse and leather armor from the same cavalry team that Zenda had seen came up to them......
"You're Chanda's bounty hunters, aren't you? The big army has been on off for a long time, so it's hard for you to make a gain, so just follow my bandit troops! I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Rogge!" Rog jumped off his horse and stretched out his right hand to the two. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Shibei took his calloused palm and replied, "I'm Ji Shibei, and this is Maitreya Natsuhiko." Mr. Rogge, if it doesn't bother you too much, we'll join you!"
"Nothing, please follow me!"
They then followed Rog to his camp, where they found that it was well arranged, with only a dozen mercenaries, all heavily armed, and well-trained warriors ready to fight.
Rogge took them to the stables that Zero Hour had set up and gave them a pack horse for each of them.
"In order not to fall behind, you have to follow on horseback, no problem?" Rogge asked the two of them, patting the horse's head.
Maitreya quickly jumped on his horse and said, "Don't underestimate us too much...... Anyway, thank you, Mr. Rogge. โ
In this way, the two joined Rogge's bandit team by mistake, and followed the bandit team to search for outlaws in the vicinity of Chanda, until the scout came in the evening to report that there was a group of bandits entrenched in the depths of Zell Mountain, so they decided to take a night's rest and take off this tumor in one go......
At dawn the next day, Rogge led his bandit brigade to the bandit camp in the depths of the East Mountain, and defeated a bandit army after entering the territory of the bandits, and then Rogge ordered the cavalry to stand by, and let his deputy lead several elite cavalry to dismount and explore the road, and ordered Xia Yan and the two to follow, and he led the cavalry to walk behind to support at any time.
When the vanguard reached the entrance to a dense forest, they were spotted by a bandit standing guard in a nearby tree......
"We seem to have been spotted and we need to stop him from signaling!!" the lieutenant reminded his men to attack with the javelins they had, but due to the bandits' advantageous position, all the javelins were nailed to the branches, and the bandits took out a rope and threw it.
"I'll leave it to you now!!, don't let him run!!" Xia Yan gestured to the Ten Guards, motioning for him to strike.
Ten Guards jumped into the air about four meters in the air with all their might, and took out three shiny flying needles from inside their trench coats.
In the next second, the needle hit the bandit in the neck like a salvo of crossbow arrows, causing him to fall from the tree, and the bandit did not die, but fell into the hands of the mercenaries, who were tortured and confessed to the location of their den of bandits.
"He's done it all, and we're moving on, so there's no ambush around here. Ten Guards reported to their squad leader, but everyone except Maitreya was stunned by the height of the jump just now, and Ten Guards smiled helplessly and explained: "This is called light work, which can reduce the impact of gravity on people, and exaggerated bounce force is just one of them......"
The group was still dumbfounded, except for Maitreya, and reluctantly blinked a few times in understanding. After quelling the matter, the adjutant reorganized the formation and continued through the woods, and after a quarter of an hour came to a hill with a wide view.
The cool breeze of late winter blew past them, and when they approached the edge of the cliff, they found that they could see the entire valley from a bird's eye view, and there were several shed-roofed buildings in their field of vision, and there were many bandits stationed nearby, and the current situation seemed that the cavalry could not participate in the battle at all, and the infantry had to be very cautious to go down from the hard-to-get path extending from the cliff wall, so Natsuhiko asked the squad leader to send a few soldiers back to inform Rogge, let him station the horse team in place, and then lead the infantry here, and the two of them and the rest of the soldiers would sneak into the enemy's camp firstใ
The adjutant agreed with Maitreya's point of view and sent a few soldiers with fast feet to report the news, and when the soldiers were far away, the adjutant led the other soldiers to march from the path on the other side to the bandit camp at the bottom of the cliff, while Shibei and Natsuhiko stayed at the cliff in the name of a surprise attack.
"Not many people care about us now, let's go down and deal with those bandits. Xia Yan whispered, and he walked to the edge of the cliff and slid down.
"Is there any suspense about this, although I am against killing......" Ten Guards had no choice but to jump in.
The bandits in the camp were recuperating and were completely unaware of the attack of the two uninvited guests. Xia Yan slipped to the bottom of the cliff and rolled in front of a bandit, the other party was frightened by Xia Yan's sudden appearance, but Xia Yan cut off his neck before he could speak, and the body fell right under the cliff in an inconspicuous place, and the ten guards also fell to the ground next to Xia Yan at this time. The two of them walked forward quickly without doing anything, and the ten guards shot down several bandits on the nearby mountain with a precise flying needle attack, and came to the outside of the huts seen on the top of the mountain, Xia Yan kicked open one of the doors, and the thieves who were resting in the house were instantly killed by him without warning, and the terrifying fast sword slashed so that the white clothes on his body were completely unstained with any blood, and he left the house with corpses everywhere.
On the other side, Shibei used his superb flying needle kung fu to knock down several people in a short period of time, so that there was not the slightest resistance left in the camp, but attacking the bandit camp was not an easy task, and on the other side of the valley a heavily armed bandit army appeared, seemingly defeating a team of bounty hunters and returning in a big victory.
"Hell...... It seems that you can't do it brutely!Let's take shelter for a while!" Xia Yan and the Ten Guards hid in a nearby cave and quietly observed the situation outside, the bandits had already discovered that the territory had been looted, and many people had different opinions, some thought that it was the enemy's revenge, or the regular army's purge, so that this large army began to mess up.
"Damn! you shit, you shit, shut up! The blood of the brothers is not yet cold, go and take a look around, the killer must not have gone far!" One of the very fierce bandit leaders saw this, and immediately drank the crowd, and after stabilizing the hearts of the army, the bandits began to search for suspicious people in the vicinity. Grass huts, stables, and even the bushes on the cliffs had been searched, and now they had turned their attention to a nearby cave.
After a while, several bandits began to walk towards the hiding place of the two, and the Ten Guards whispered to Xia Yan when they saw this: "...... It's time to leave, we'll knock them down and rush out!"
"That's what you said, capture the thief and capture the king...... I'll kill their heads, and you'll hand over those miscellaneous soldiers!"
"Let's go!!"
After a discussion, the two rushed out of the cave where they were hiding, Xia Yan killed the bandits who came to check on the moment he drew his sword, and the Ten Guards had already jumped off the cliff on one side with the help of light skills, preparing to attack the bandits from a high position, shifting the focus of a large number of enemies to himself.
Sure enough, the leader of the bandits immediately ordered his archers to fire arrows at the Ten Guards on the cliff. After dodging a few arrows with his agility, the Ten Guards leaped high again, took out several flying needles, and aimed them at the bandit soldiers below......
"Needle Trick Poison Moth!!"
Dozens of flying needles fell from the sky, causing the bandits to endure a "rain of arrows", and almost all the soldiers were stabbed, and some of them had already fallen due to their injuries.
Taking advantage of the chaotic timing of the enemy formation, Xia Yan approached the bandit leader like a ghost, slashed the enemy who stood in the way without any worries, and came to the position of about ten steps in front of the bandit horse.
The frightened bandit personally pulled up his longbow and aimed at Xia Yan, and the feather arrow shot flew towards Maitreya's left chest at high speed, but it split in two and landed at Xia Yan's feet in a flash, and the sharp blade that came out of the sheath again pointed at the bandit's head through Xia Yan's hand.
"This ...... What does it feel like...... You...... Are you a demon!!" The bandit felt Maitreya's amazing murderous aura, and when his brain was congested, he pulled out the single knife on his waist and rushed towards Maitreya, who took advantage of the difference of ten steps to use his own killing move.
"Maitreya Liu--- Qizhi Tai Knife --- Infinite Crescent ......" The blade of the Mizuki Tai Knife was brushed by his fingers, and the blade that was touched bloomed with a dazzling cold light, and even the cold air on the blade could be seen. After a few seconds, the two of them flashed, and Maitreya's blade slid through the bandit's body like flowing water, or rather, it was already a corpse...... Maitreya stopped behind the bandit and put away his knife, at this time the bandit and his horse behind him had been split into two pieces diagonally, and the astonishing sword slash instantly resulted in two lives, but Maitreya was still not moved, leaving only a sentence.
"You must have felt it, the cold light of the crescent moon."