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"What a bad idea...... It's a good thing that I didn't even see the shadow of the enemy boss, so I was left in prison waiting to see God. ”
Polcha, dressed in old cloth clothes, and a dozen Dabaran refugees were huddled in the same suspended cage, and from time to time there was cold rain washing over the captives through the gaps in the treetops on the top, and Porcha himself was also haggard, obviously being taken care of, but this square iron cage with a length of five meters and a width of more than four meters was obviously not used to hold prisoners of war, even a small man like Porcha could only sit in the corner with his knees crossed, and it was nonsense to cut off an inch-thick iron bar to escape from this place when normal standing was not allowed。
Looking around, there are also several cages hanging from tree trunks nearly four meters high, and the people who are also imprisoned are some residents of Dabalan villages and towns who have not had time to evacuate, the whole camp is divided into several areas, and his location is the open-air workshop that occupies the larger ground, the Druas have made reasonable use of all the resources in the depths of the dense forest, threatening the peasants to cut down the ancient trees in the sea of trees and build a temporary deer barn as a base camp, Isaac's heavily guarded command post is set up in his field of vision, and the craftsmen of the surrounding Order have made one old siege crossbow after another with excellent carpentry skills and sufficient wood, which was then escorted by patrols to the siege positions along the coast for the battle against the defenders of the South Gate.
Whenever a group of laborers became exhausted and exhausted, they were executed and burned by merciless executioners, and another group of unfortunate refugees would take over the work of their predecessors, and so on until all the prisoners in the camp were exhausted. According to Porcha's character, he tried to escape early on, but the few sergeants of the Order guarding the prison were silent like a block of ice, no matter how they screamed and cursed, they did not pay a word to them, although he had lock-picking tools at hand, but even if he managed to open the cage, he could not slip out of this place without being detected, let alone defeat several well-armed heavy sergeants with his bare hands, and before he knew it, he had fallen into a dilemma, waiting for misfortune to come.
As for the reason why he fell into such a situation, it was only because Shaw's plan was too carefully considered, and he decided to give Polcha an identity that did not attract too much attention, but Polcha's luck has always been bad, when the team went to a woodcutter's residence to change him into civilian clothes, a patrol that happened to pass by immediately noticed the uninvited guest, and after a stinky beating, he was taken to the cave and imprisoned, and the original plan made by Shoy was also ruined.
"Captain, when will you come to my rescue............ Damn, why should I be so, it's better to hit a nail and die than to wait for death!"
The adjacent cage was lowered, and the next group of victims was undoubtedly the same cage refugees he was in, and he finally observed the structure of the iron cage where he was imprisoned, and found that the iron fittings at the bottom were not strong, and there were three locks at the bottom of the cage, and only two of them needed to be pried open, and the iron fence could be broken down by brute force, and if the guards were standing below, there was a possibility of creating an accident that would make them unconscious.
After deciding on his plan, he took several deep breaths, trying to stay awake to avoid being affected by nervousness, and quickly cut the ropes that bound his hands with a hidden knife when the prison guards went to escort the refugees, and took out the lock-picking tool from his arms and tossed it.
As a thief, Porcha has rich experience in picking locks, the old-fashioned cage iron lock was quickly opened twice, and the last lock was half opened, at this time the iron cage has creaked, giving people a feeling that it is about to disintegrate, he gestured to the cellmates to immediately grab the top iron grate, and kicked the surrounding iron bars, this move immediately attracted several guards to come to the bottom and give a sharp warning, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Porcha naturally will not miss it, raised his arms and slammed down at his feet.
The smash caused the bottom iron fence to collapse entirely, and Porcha's weight of about one hundred and eighty pounds, four Drua sergeants and a carpenter were instantly knocked to the ground by the iron fence, and he himself rolled to the side and lay dormant, signaling the refugees who were holding the iron bars to let go of their hands and fall one by one, and the successive impacts crushed these people unconscious, and a group of refugees who were originally ordered to work also joined the fleeing team, but alarmed the sentinels in the farther area to come and suppress them.
Porcha quickly got up from the ground, fantasizing about how to command the refugees to break through a path with him and escape into the depths of the sea of trees, but a black arrow flew from dozens of paces away, hitting the back of the head of the person in front of him, and the blood splashed his face, tearing him back from fantasy to reality, and he had to grab the body of the dead refugee to block a few crossbow arrows, but the dozen or so coolies who escaped with him had all fallen under the enemy's arrows, and had to temporarily hide behind the thick trees to avoid shooting.
This place is the outskirts of the base camp, there are countless dark troops who have rushed in due to the turmoil, dozens of heavily armored sergeants appear at the end of the field of vision, and the headache of the snipers of the Order has suppressed Porcha with fire at this time, the power of the sniper crossbow and longbow is enough to kill the unarmored person in an instant, seeing that the infantry is approaching, so that the weapons opened are pressed under the iron fence along with several guards, there is no chance to brave the rain of arrows to lift the iron fence to obtain a sword or spear, but he found a life-saving straw at this time, a poor weapon......
More of a tool than a weapon, he dragged a ten-pound craftsman's hammer from under a stack of planks, fortunately the big tree where he was hiding was wrapped around the chain that hung the cage, the end was at the height of his raised hand, once the key chain was destroyed, the five or six cages hanging on it would fall together to delay the enemy, Porcha's clever brain was spinning rapidly, it was impossible to find them one by one, and the sledgehammer in his hand just came in handy, without saying a word, he picked up the hammer and smashed it at the chain string on the trunk, the repeated impact made the tree shake frequently, throwing off bursts of fallen leaves and rain, accompanied by a golden light flashing in front of his eyes。
He was a little out of breath when he struck the tenth hammer, but fortunately the chain was also broken at this time, and the back half of the chain that had been severed came out like a loach, and the cages hanging on it fell one after another, smashing and injuring the few sergeants of the Order who came to pursue him, and temporarily blocking the enemy army, Porcha didn't have time to think more, he threw the hammer and ran away, and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest with a puff of smoke......
"Captain Augst, are you alright...... I didn't expect him to want to break the chains, and the shaking trunk almost threw us all off......"
"Thankfully, I was quick to react and only dropped a few gold coins...... I knew I should have given him a wake-up call in advance, but I was so stupid that I was caught, and Miss Ben was impatient, Lemuel, it's our turn to act. ”
Lemuel and Shoy hid at the top of the same tree as a cover for Bourcha, and after the violent shaking just now, Shoey, who had almost fallen, only relied on his knee joint to hook the branch and hung upside down, Porcha's actions should have exposed their tracks, but fortunately, the enemy did not notice the densest position of the branches and leaves of the ancient trees, and the next development, only to see the lighter Drua snipers quickly pass through the bushes near the iron cage, and after some strong and strong sergeants of the Order worked together to remove the obstacles, they continued to assemble the team to chase Porcha, and even did not hesitate to mobilize more than 30% of the guards around the campThe Drua artisans who had been working in the workshop also withdrew to the camp, and except for a few sentinels who were holding their posts, the road from the open-air workshop to the camp of the Spear of the Underworld was almost empty.
After the soldiers who might have detected the movement at the top of the big tree walked away, Shoey quickly shook himself up with his waist strength, and casually threw down the rope tied to the side, and the two climbed down the big tree from the blind spot of the main camp sentry along the rope, and walked about a mile to the forest path east of the current location to leave the sea of trees, but Polcha, who left first, fled to a deeper area in the opposite direction, and after discussing with Shoey, Lemuel and Shoy decided to go directly into the enemy camp to collect some information, and try to destroy some facilities and then go to the depths of the sea of trees to find the whereabouts of Porcha。
The forest path to the east is still full of patrols, and the well-guarded Drua soldiers have not given up their patrol work because of the riots in the camp, and the area to the north is the camp's baggage depot, where some of the military rations plundered by the expeditionary force along the way, and more than 50% of the entire camp is also stationed。
"Lemuel, be quiet, someone's coming. ”
"I see, it's Isaac's horse team, I hope I don't hit him head-on......"
There were sentinels outside the wall, and while they were pondering how to enter the camp, a group of heavily armed Dread Knights arrived at the camp and passed near the bushes where the two were hiding, and the two guards behind the outer wall immediately opened the door for the high-ranking knights. As there were more than a dozen brave knights in the enemy camp, with a chill in her back, Lemuel whispered her worries to Shoey, but she was not afraid at all, and deposited the village rain knife behind her at Lemuel, like a playful wild cat, rushed forward, slid through the cavalry through the gate that had not yet been fully lowered, and then came two slight moans that could only be heard by those who were closest to her, and she had easily subdued the two guards with a hidden weapon, and reactivated the mechanism and raised the heavy wooden door.
Despite the resistance they met with resistance when they entered the interior without attracting much attention, the overconfident patrolmen did not sound the alarm at the right time, but chose to meet them head-on, but they were easily subdued by Shaw's excellent kung fu, and after knocking out a few sentries, the two found that the Druas were indeed excellent in carpentry, and the improvised wooden fort was built in only half a day, from the machine-controlled exterior gates to several large watchtowers made of hardwood planks to lay out the improvised camp into an easy-to-defend position, plus each tent was covered with tombstone flags, making it difficult to tell where the commander was。
During their exploration, they approached a tent with many braziers, and some wooden pillars hung with oil lamps prepared for the night, but several black-robed swordsmen rushed out of the nearby tents, each holding a sword-edged blade to block the way, Xiao Yi saw that the situation was not good, and immediately took back his sword from Lemuel's hand, and slowly retreated back in a posture of Iai, and Lemuel also drew his broadsword and waved it in the air, while thinking about a plan to get out.
Shaw always seemed to be thinking ahead of the others, she unleashed a draw slash at the nearest swordsman, and just in time to flick the half-unsheathed long knife to the other side, the blade shattered an unlit oil lamp, and the splash of kerosene soaked the blade of the village rain knife more than four feet long, and then she stabbed the nearby brazier to ignite the oil stain on the blade, and rushed forward to slash back the Drua swordsman who stood in her way.
"Lemuel, find a way out, let these fools dance in the fire!"
After forcing the enemy back into the tent, she swung the village rain knife in a great arc, and finally threw the flames from the blade, and the flames that rose to the top of the tent in one fell swoop, and the entire canvas and the wooden support for the tent turned into a sea of fire.
In the lit tent, the Drua swordsmen who had just threatened them had already fled in all directions, but more enemies had already surrounded them, Shoey decided not to do anything, when the tent collapsed and pressed down completely, he split a burning wooden bar above it, and kicked it into another tent more than ten meters away, Lemuel also picked up the half-lit pieces of wood and threw them at the nearby flammable materials, staging an arson performance in the heart of the enemy camp.
Although they were surrounded by dozens of low-ranking samurai of the Order, being in the sea of fire became an advantage for the two of them, and the enemy stopped at a distance of about ten paces from them, as if they wanted to watch the two of them burned alive.
"Lemuel, it's not good to drag it out any longer...... Some of them are busy putting out fires, and there is only one chance to catch up with me when I break through. ”
The temperature around him rose higher and higher, and it had reached the point of being in a trance, and the vision gradually became hazy, only to see Xiao Yi pull out the village rain knife from the scabbard and stab it into the ground, and with a little force, pick up a burning wooden plank, causing it to fly forward in a whirlwind, and the dozen or so camp guards who were facing it had no time to defend, and moved their bodies to hide aside.
She grabbed Lemuel to signal that the time had come, threw the scabbard on her back with her hand, and jumped into the air to perform the bouncing footwork of the Black Seal Knight Odysseus antelope-like footwork, and the tip of her foot touched the scabbard flying in the air and jumped again, directly crossing the distance that ordinary people could reach in a dozen steps, and landed behind the Druas who blocked the retreat.
Just like Lemuel, the Druas couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, and Shoey wouldn't give them a chance to react, grabbing the scabbard that fell at his feet with his right hand and pushing it forward with all his might, and the unlucky guy who was hit in the back door flew out as if he had been hit by a war horse, knocking down a dozen or so people in succession before stopping, and at this time, there were only a few enemies standing in front of Lemuel.
Lemuel froze his nerves, locked onto a panicked enemy, and dashed forward with his broadsword in both hands, coupled with the threat created by Shoy in the rear line, these Druas were momentarily overwhelmed, he easily stabbed the guards, and squeezed through the enemy one after another to break through the encirclement, and fled with Shoy to the military depot on the west side, where the enemy was still chasing after him, and the fire used to delay time had been controlled by the enemy.
"Captain Augst, it's not a way to run like this...... You should be able to beat them easily, huh?"
"Do you think Miss Ben is a heartless eye like Sige, even if she wins, it won't do any good, it's better to run away!"
"Wait, there's another pursuer, it's Isaac's Dread Knight!"
A figure wearing a sheep's skull armor appeared in the sea of fire, and a dreadknight in a black cuirass rushed out of the burning tent, picked up the long sword in his hand and slashed it in the air, the blade enough to shatter the rock, and slashed right on the road between Lemuel and Shoy, and the head of the knife was already deep in the ground.
Lemuel and Shoey stopped at the same time, ready to draw their weapons to fight back, but the attacker didn't give them a chance, supported their bodies with the long handle of their weapons, threw off the red cloak behind them to obscure their vision, and then knocked both of them to the ground with extremely fast consecutive kicks, and when they got up again, the blade of Changyue was already pressed in front of Lemuel's throat.
Shoey was also unlucky, as the attacker restrained Lemuel with his left hand and swung his sword at her with his right hand, but fortunately she was agile, deflected the opponent's attack with a powerful kick, and drew a long knife to slash at him, temporarily freeing Lemuel from the siege.
"It's a good idea to create a fire in the sea of trees to burn our army's baggage, but you're still too young, Shoey Augerst!"
The knight's voice was familiar, and after a few rounds of fighting with Chauey, Lemuel finally saw his face under his helmet, the man who had clashed with Porcha outside the trees.
The other party seems to know Xiao Yi's identity, and his strength is also unexpectedly strong, Xiao Yi's sword skills that mix the two ancient swordsmanship schools of Maitreya and Kamikaze still can't suppress it, but it fights very hard under the brute force blow that it integrates into the physical arts, although Lemuel wants to come forward to help, but the pursuers in the rear also arrived, and he is so unwilling to arrest people.
"As powerful as the technology is rumored, he is worthy of being the leader of the Wings of Freedom...... But still, it's naïve!"
The knight completely saw through Xiao Yi's movements, raised his long Yue high to block Xiao Yi's thunderous knife, and then stabbed Chang Yue into the ground and then turned around to throw the cloak out, when Xiao Yi was blocked by the obstructive red cloak, he kicked two roundhouse kicks in the air in a row with his skillful body, and Xiao Yi who was kicked took seven or eight steps back before stopping with difficulty, covering his chest and looking very painful.
"Are you aware of the disparity in our strength?"
He landed smoothly back to the ground, leveled his pleated cloak and threw it behind him, looking more than enough, and motioned for the nearby guards to capture Shaw.
"Wait a minute...... You're a Druya, how do you know me, and you know how I fight......"
"My name is Assidia, Isaac's lieutenant and the leader of the Dreadknights, and Isaac learned your information from Isaac, is that enough?"
"Okay...... Brother Assidia, I haven't lost to you yet! Get out of the way of these little minions, and as you said, I'm going to show you the gap between us!"
Xiao Yi still didn't give up, and stood up again after adjusting his state, and the horizontal village rain knife made Assidia also feel a trace of interest in fighting, so he drank back his soldiers, waved the long Yue in his hand, and put on a confrontational posture. 21010