"That's it," Mu said happily, "the fat man you don't like has been driven away, along with his caravan." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"Yes," Asona glanced at him through her helmet, "I just saw you taking bribes." ”

"Accepting bribes is also learned," Mu took out the small money bag, admired it with a smile, and continued, "That fat man thinks we are supporting the Swadia troops on the Rhodok front, so he plans to follow us to Harungus to make a fortune." Now that we find out that we are rebels, we naturally do not want to be involved anymore. No," Mu turned around and pointed to the caravan behind the group, "they're already retreating." ”

Aisona glanced back and cut in disdain, "These unrighteous guys." ”

I don't know if it was because of Aisona's resentment, or because of the hectic, the axle of a truck suddenly broke, and the whole truck immediately turned on its side, and quickly slid into the river along the slope of the riverbank.

On the shore, a merchant screamed, rushed to the river at full speed, regardless of the obstruction of others, and then plunged into the water, swam desperately towards his goods, and then pushed to the shore one after another. However, he seemed to underestimate the coldness of the river in winter, although this was the warmer southern part of Swadia, but only because the river would not freeze, so it didn't take long for him to start convulsing and thrashing desperately in the middle of the river.

The people on the shore shouted anxiously,

"Throw away the cargo, quick, swim here!" someone also brought a stick from the caravan and stretched it out to the middle of the river so that he could catch it. The merchant, however, ignored them, and continued to hold on to his goods until the river slowly reached the top of his head.

After watching all this on the shore, Mu pushed the princess's shoulder and said, "Why don't you send someone to save it?"

Aisona shook her head, "He could have survived, if only he would have given up the goods in his hand and grabbed the stick that came over, but he didn't." If I order the soldiers to go to the rescue, I might be in danger too. As a knight, I'm willing to lend a hand, but as a leader, I can't joke with the lives of my soldiers. The princess glanced in that direction again, and the water had regained its calm, except for a bunch of bubbles rising from the place where the merchant had sunk. "A fool who wants money and doesn't want to die. Asona concluded with disdain.

"It's good that you have this awareness. Mu affirmed Her Royal Highness's thoughts, but Aisona felt that there was some sadness in his voice, and he was completely deprived of his previous pleasure.

"What's wrong, Mu, did I just say something wrong?"

"No," Mu shook his head, "What do you say... There is a feeling of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox. ”

"Rabbit dead fox?" "I remember you always stressing to your men that saving your life is more important than making money." ”

"Haha," Mu smiled bitterly, and instead of answering directly, he pointed to the truck that was still floating on the river, "Have you observed this truck, it is shabby, decayed, and there are no flags." ”

"Hmmm... What's wrong with that?"

This shows that the unlucky guy who sank was an independent merchant, did not join the caravan, and his economic situation was not very good, and maybe the capital to buy the goods was borrowed from someone. ”

"What does that mean?" asked Asona, puzzled.

"He doesn't have the room for me to say that. Mu sighed, "For him, this truckload of goods is the root of life, if the goods are lost or sold at a loss, he and his family will definitely die, so even if they are desperate, they have to rescue the goods." Anyway, drowning is death, and if the goods are gone, it is also death, so it is better to fight hard. It's not that he wants to, it's just that life forces it. ”

"Even so, then he doesn't have the ability," Aisona still disagreed, "How can a smart person like you gamble for such a thing, can you?"

"Then you think highly of me," Mu smiled bitterly, "I refused to sell the only roll of velvet in my hand when I was exiled to Kujit, and if it hadn't been for Tu'an Beiji's inauguration, I might have starved to death on the streets of Tulga." ”

"Hey?" Mu's answer made the princess a little overwhelmed, and she hesitated for a long time before saying one word, "I'm sorry." ”

"It's okay," Mu shook his head, "I just want to say that everyone has their own insistence, even though they may seem silly." ”

Listening to Mu's brainless words, Ai Sona seemed to have understood something, but she was still confused overall. However, Mu didn't let her struggle for too long. He pointed to the map and said to the princess, "Your Highness, it's time for the team to turn." ”

"Oh, good. ”

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Somaria rode wildly in the white pine forest on her horse, and since she was ambushed and scattered, she did not flee from the pursuit as expected, but encountered wave after wave of ambushes, at first the infantry charging in ambush on both sides of the road, and later, even the trained heavy cavalry joined the encirclement, and I don't know how many people were placed around Halos in Suno. In the midst of constant attacks, she and the guards who followed her gradually became separated, and finally reluctantly escaped into the White Pine Forest. She is the future housekeeper of the princess, naturally she is from a noble family, although she has trained in equestrianism, she really didn't expect that she could do so well. Tossing and turning through the dense woods, avoiding every protruding root and branch, and still maintaining the speed of the wind, sure enough, for the sake of Her Royal Highness the Princess, I can do anything!

Just as she was so complacent, a rope suddenly stretched between the trees in front of her.

"What, stumbling ... ”

Before she could utter her exclamation, she was planted on the ground with her horse.

"Oh, it's a Raldian girl. ”

"Rhodok is on top, the brothers have been hiding in this hellish place for so long, and they can finally open the meat. ”

In a moment of losing consciousness, Somaria vaguely saw the brim of a corner of the pot helmet. Engrede's robbery plan still went wrong after all, she didn't think that her manpower would be lost so much, now, she has to guard the city, and she has to carry food, and the remaining dozens of people under her command are simply not enough, although she recruited some of her own tribe's people as coolies in Fort Jerburg, but the rugged mountain roads of Fort Jerburg are simply impossible to travel, which used to be the barrier that the Nords rely on the most, but now, it has become the biggest trouble for Engrede's convoy. They had to brave the snowstorm in the Northlands, risking their lives to travel between the two castles, and the harsh environment led to the fact that when the scouts detected that the Count of Sweden was approaching Fort Repolet with 500 men, her transport was not yet complete. It wasn't that she hadn't considered asking for help from other Yars, but her tribe needed the food so much that she didn't want anyone else to get a piece of the pie, even if she had to grit her teeth and fight hard.

"Big sister, what should I do?" the Nord warriors were also anxious, they finally managed to get enough food, and they didn't want to let go after being tortured by hunger for a long time.

Engrave thought about the Scout's report and slammed her fist on the table, and she decided to take a gamble.

"We only have one chance right now. She glanced at the warriors who followed her, and they seemed to feel a hint of madness in the eyes of the eldest sister, and the warlike blood in their bodies began to stir.

Ignoring his restless subordinates, Engrad continued, "According to the scouts' reports, the number of soldiers of the Ryordian is about five hundred, and the number is about ten times that of us. As soon as these words came out, there was indeed a commotion among the Nords, but it was not fear but excitement, after all, the Nords were so small in population, and in the battle against foreign races, it was simply normal to be outnumbered. The eldest sister paused for a moment and continued, "However, the vast majority of these five hundred people are newly recruited militiamen, so we must take advantage of this and quickly break their morale, as long as they are scattered, we will win." In order to be able to make it easier for them to rout, we cannot rely on the walls, we must be in the field ... ”

"Eldest sister," interrupted one of the warriors, impatiently, "we don't understand these tricks you said, so you can just say what to do!"

"Okay, well, then I'll be brief," Emgrede shook his head in hatred, cleared his throat, and yelled loudly, "Cut me, cut hard, cut to death, understand?"

"Understood!" the warriors cheered, this is the Nord style!

His men went mad, but Ngrave kept his sanity. She gathered the coolies who had not yet set off, distributed weapons and armor, and deployed them into the battle team, anyway, they were used to robbery, of course, there would be no problem of cowardice.

She deployed her soldiers outside the city, with their backs to the walls and facing the enemy forces, in dense formations. This is due to the fact that the enemy is mainly infantry, and if a melee is fought, the outnumbered Nord army will be at an overwhelming disadvantage. So, Engrad decided to make a fist with all the power in his hands, and then slapped them in the face so hard that they couldn't get up again.

Soon, the Swedish troops appeared in the sight of the Nords, and their light cavalry also spotted the Nord troops outside the city, so the Swadian soldiers stopped at a safe distance, formed a phalanx, and slowly pressed towards the Nords waiting under the city. It was clear that they wanted to crush the enemy under the walls and ravage them to death.

Engrad looked at the enemy's neat formation, and felt a little solemn. Although the other party is just a group of levies, it seems that they have also undergone a certain amount of training, just looking at this neat square, they don't know how high it is higher than their own gang of killers. She looked back helplessly, and there was only this level of a group of big men standing together in a disorderly manner. Emgreid sighed, to be honest, it was not easy for him to hold them together and stand in two formations, and if he really wanted to be as uniform as the army of Svadia or Rhodok, it might only be possible for King Ragnar's royal guards to do it.

However, for so many years, the Nords have also come over like this, and they have dealt with the array and something countless times, and it is not false at all!

Standing at the front of the line, Engrad looked at the approaching Swadia phalanx, pulled out the axe on his waist, pointed at the enemy's phalanx, and shouted "Rush!"

"Roar!" the manic Nords had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and with the first order from the eldest sister, everyone roared and rushed towards the enemy array. The distance between the two sides quickly decreased, and seeing that the other party had begun to charge, the Ryordians simply stopped.

This action was all too familiar to Ngrid, she turned around and shouted to the soldiers behind her, "Raise your shield!" The Nords who participated in the battle were also old fritters, and they raised their shields above their heads, and at this moment, a rain of arrows also fell from the enemy's array. The Nords, who responded in time, did not suffer much damage, and the distance between the two sides was further close.

"Fight back!" Ngray roared and threw his axe, and a field of axe-throwing javelins flew out of the Nord ranks, quickly enveloping the Ryrdian's front line. There was no doubt that the throwing weapons at close range were much more powerful than the rain of arrows that were sparse among the Ryrdians, and the axes flying past their heads were more terrifying than the sticks falling from the top of their heads, and before the two sides could make contact, the phalanx of the Ryordians began to riot a little.

You know, Engreid's transport death squad didn't waste any weight, and while transporting a batch of food, they also brought back a batch of weapons. Now the troops of female warriors have long since stopped using awkward hands and half-swords, and all of them have been replaced with Nord's traditional equipment. This also makes this wave of throwing attacks particularly ferocious.

After all, the levies are only drafties, and the two sides have not yet engaged in battle, but they first messed up their positions because of fear. The flying tomahawk shattered the rudimentary shield and slashed deep into the soldier's arm, and the screams of his companions behind him and the warm liquid splashed from nowhere, strongly shook the already not very strong psychological defense of the hillbillies, which made the front line of the Ryordian faintly show some signs of collapse.

Naturally, Ngrave would not let go of this opportunity, at this time, the Nords had already thrown two rounds of tomahawks, and the line of the Ryordian people was already close at hand, and she quickly approached an enemy soldier at the front of the team, threw her shield casually, pulled out the big axe behind her back and pounced on it. When the soldier saw Engrad coming at him, he hurriedly raised his shield and stabbed his spear in a panic. The female warrior turned around to avoid the tip of the spear, and then with a jump, she gathered all her strength to smash the hapless soldier to the ground with a shield. Then she stepped forward and stepped on the corpse, and with a force of both hands, the axe in the skull slashed with the momentum, and after knocking over the two sneaking soldiers, she did not hesitate to swing the axe and continue to kill. The Nords who followed her wedged into the phalanx of the Ryordians along the gap opened by the eldest sister's head, and everywhere they went, the weak peasants were no match for their gang of pirates, and the Nord team quickly attacked the formation with a momentum no less than that of the heavy cavalry.

The female warrior was killing, and suddenly a heavily armed knight stood in front of him, the knight's giant helmet blocked his face, but the color of the battle robe on his body was quite bright, half red and half blue, and the ornamentation was also quite gorgeous, it seemed that he should be the commander of this army. However, he did not seem to have the modesty of a knight at all, and held a two-handed sword in his hand and proudly picked it in the direction of Emgrede.

Very well, since you are looking for your own death, then don't blame me for being unkind. Ngrad hacked to death a Swadia soldier who was about to sneak up on her with an axe, wiping away the blood that had splattered on her face with her hand. Moreover, taking out the commander would undoubtedly reduce the morale of the troops to an extreme, which would be more beneficial to her plans. So, she grabbed her axe, roared, and slew at the knight.

The knight grasped the blade of his sword unhurriedly, the sword raised slightly, the counterweight on the hilt higher than his shoulder, and the blade pointed diagonally at his opponent. The warrior's eyes shrank, and the gesture brought back some not-so-good memories for him, but she didn't have time to think about it that much, and with a loud roar, she picked up her axe and slashed at the knight's head. The knight threw the blow with both hands in his sword, then kicked Emgreid in the abdomen. However, how could this kind of conventional counterattack threaten the battle-hardened Engrede, who had already expected to pull back, and at the same time withdraw the axe in time, and then immediately pulled out another axe, and the knight had to abandon the pursuit, avoiding the female warrior's return. In fact, the attack range of the two-handed sword is not shorter than that of Engrave's big axe, but the starting style of Burren's swordsmanship makes the sword's attack range shorter in disguise, which is also one of the weaknesses of Burren's swordsmanship. Normally, when this happens, the Burren swordsman will take the initiative to change his tactics to extend his attack range, but this knight did not do this, still holding the sword and dodging Engrad's attacks with ease.

The female warrior who had been slashing continuously for so long was already a little out of breath, and she had to admit that this guy was also a master of using a sword. However, Engrad felt that he had roughly figured out the opponent's intentions, although the heavy axe was powerful, but the attack was single, and the speed was not fast, so it was not difficult to dodge, he should have wanted to consume his physical strength and expose his flawed shield, while the knight turned his wrist slightly, and the slash of the hilt of the sword instantly turned into the stabbing of the sword blade, and it was fiercely chiseled on the shield of the female warrior. Engrave was shocked, and the next step must be to press down and swing, she has suffered a lot of losses in this move, but now... Her left hand holding the shield twisted slightly at an angle the moment the big sword stabbed into the shield, and the tip of the sword suddenly lost its focus and immediately slid down the shield, while the knight who was overly strong suddenly lost his balance, and his whole body suddenly leaned forward.

The female warrior took advantage of the moment he swayed and slammed his shoulder into the knight's chest, forcing him to stagger back two steps to regain his balance, but at this point, Engrad approached the knight with an arrow, and the glittering hand axe slashed straight at the helmet. The knight, who had been hit the head, staggered back in embarrassment, but the axe failed to cut through the thick helmet, only slightly deforming it. The female warrior naturally would not let go of this opportunity and continued to attack closely, but the knight was not covered, even if she was smashed and dizzy, she still decisively untied the shield behind her back, blocked her attack, and then found the opportunity to distance herself again.

Emgrad took the opportunity to look around the battlefield, because she couldn't break through in time, the Nords ended up fighting with the Ryordians, but the fierce Nords were invincible, except for the Nord warriors around her, who were also entangled by knights, the fight seemed to be going well, and her previous fears didn't seem to happen. Letting the knight dismount and fight, she looked at it and locked her eyes on the knight again, this commander is very courageous. For some reason, Engrave was still a little uneasy in her heart, and her intuition told her that this matter did not seem to be so simple.