Chapter 005: The Usurper

Hey, brother, I have the same doubts as Irene, why did we run away, not to the Earl's tent, why? Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well... Buck, tell him. I stopped, put the snoring Erin away, and said to Buck.

"Ahem, that's right. Buck made it clear, and Thomson was dumbfounded, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Hey, hey!" Bob shook his big hand in front of his eyes, and he shook in fright before he came back to his senses and scratched his head: "This is hard, we can only wander the world?"

"This—" I said, spreading my hands, "I don't know." And he lowered his head and stared at the tender grass on the ground.

"Forget it, it's a night," Bob said helplessly.

......

Half an hour later, we arrived at McCann Village. It was late at night, and the street was deserted, except for the old village chief sitting at a wooden table, lighting an oil lamp, and drinking in the dim light.

I dismounted, exhausted from the day's journey, and had to walk slowly towards the village chief. The sound of footsteps alarmed the village chief, who looked up in astonishment to see that it was me, and a friendly and sincere smile immediately appeared on his wrinkled face, though it was ugly. He staggered to his feet: "Welcome, friend, you are the great benefactor of our village!" He stretched out his rough right hand, which he had done all his life of farming, and shook it with my right hand.

"Hello, we're defeated... Well, my friend and I want to spend the night here, okay?" I said.

"Oh... Okay, no problem, you'll be welcomed in our village!Well, there's no more empty house, so you'll be in my house for the night, I'm sorry!" He was a little stunned at first, but the smile appeared on his face after a while, still very sincere.

"Okay, I'm sorry for you. I thanked them and called Bob to check into the village chief's house. midnight

After Bob, Buck, and Thomson fell asleep in kimono, Erin and I were also in bed.

"Why has so much happened lately? Can you tell me?" Irene asked, turning to me.

"Sorry, no, I'm afraid I'll scare you. I turned around, stroked her long hair, and said.

"Will you ever leave me in the future?"

"This..."

"Promise me not to leave me again, okay?" said Erin's eyes welled up with tears.

"Hmm..."

"Hmm..."Erin wiped the tears from her face, climbed onto me, and slowly took off my clothes.

"What are you doing here?" I sat up, anxious. But Erin pushed me down and said, "I don't want you to go away again, so..."

"This—" Erin slowly peeled off her clothes, revealing her snow-white skin.

She squeezed my mouth and kissed me passionately. My limbs were getting weak, and Erin slowly pressed her lower body up......

morning

Getting up from the bed, I found that Erin had gotten up and made breakfast and put it on the table. Bob and others, who had not eaten meat for a long time, munched on the fish and praised it.

"You're up!" said Erin, who dressed me and went with me to breakfast. I chewed the fish and asked them, "Where do you go next?"

"Nonsense, of course, it's through the Zhivadin Snowfield to Rybach!" Buck cried muttering, chewing on the fish.

"Of course, you're the snake over there!"

"Hey, you kid, forget it, no @#¥¥##..."I couldn't hear what Buck was saying.

"But is there a way to get there?" I asked, Zhivadin had been occupied by the Svadia Kingdom, and it was probably a warning area over there.

"Hmm... I have a way, the brother I picked up is still there, and they will get us safely. Buck swallowed the fish, and his speech was finally clear.

"Oh, let's go, then. I wiped my mouth, put on my chain mail, and went to the stable on the east side of the village.

Just as I was unleashing my horse, a dark figure burst out of the haystack, and blades of grass flew in all directions, blindfolding me. The shadow took the opportunity to lock my neck tightly from behind and stabbed me in the neck with a dagger with his right hand. The feeling of suffocation came slowly, but I still pushed the man's right hand vigorously, refusing to show weakness.

My strength dwindled, and the dagger slowly plunged into my neck, a sharp pain with cold and suffocation hitting my brain. Stimulated by the pain, I struggled to push my hand away. I opened my mouth and tried to call for help, but I couldn't make a sound.

Just as I was about to suffocate to death, I vaguely heard the laughter of Buck and the others, followed by a loud yell, and I was separated from the man, and the pressure on my neck disappeared in an instant. I breathed in the air, as if I had been given a new lease of life.

I don't know how long it took, but the things in front of me gradually became clear, and in front of me was a young man with blond hair, who was shouting incessantly, but I couldn't hear what he was shouting.

After a while, the young man in front of him changed to Bob: "Hey, what's going on, brother, hey!"

"It's okay. I shook my head and stepped onto the horse.

"Whew... Scared us to death, we didn't expect Harlaus's killers to have been sent here. Thomson put away his sword and kicked the killer's body into the air, landing on the side of the haystack, and he already had an additional wound the size of a bowl, apparently stabbed by Thomson with his two-handed sword.

"Alright, bury him, we should go—" Thomson's rough behavior made me frown.

"What?"

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"Whew... Scared us to death, we didn't expect Harlaus's killers to have been sent here. Thomson put away his sword and kicked the killer's body into the air, landing on the side of the haystack, and he already had an additional wound the size of a bowl, apparently stabbed by Thomson with his two-handed sword. Erin lay unconscious.

...... It's the damn snow again... Dead cold. Bob and Thomson grumbled as soon as they entered the snowfield, and the horses under their crotches were spitting white air.

"Our horses are not suited to the snow, we need to find a few Vecchian horses, much hardy, and the brethren we will take with them. Also, take off your chain mail and put on this one. "Buck shivered with cold when he saw us, and took out a few wolfskin coats from the package, which were obviously much more realistic than being frozen in chain mail.

We took off our chain mail, put on leather coats, and carefully buried the chain mail under a tree not far away, so as not to be discovered. "Oh, and this. Buck threw us a few more pieces of thick cloth.

"What is this?"

"Footwraps. Come, take off your shoes, tie your feet like this, well, put these thick leather boots back on. Buck pointed.

"It's much warmer. Thomson finished dressing and said with satisfaction.

"Hehe, dressing warmly and eating well is the only rule of life in the snowfield. We got on our horses again and walked slowly.

Upon confirmation from the reconnaissance team, Barker's map was found to be correct, and the Earl immediately made me the captain of the cavalry brigade, commanding a cavalry detachment of 500 men. On the day of the seal, the marshal learned from the map of Bak that there were fewer enemy troops near Zhivadin, and that the subbald man was approaching from Kudan, but the time was still in a hurry. And we have already reached the Zhivading snow field first.

"Be on guard! Wikibians love to ambush!" roared the Earl.

I stared warily at the bushes next to me, as if every grass and tree was hiding a Wikian archer armed with a longbow.

"You're worrying too much. The Count patted me on the shoulder.

"Well, I'm always on the lookout for possible ambushes nearby. ”

"Haha, don't worry, there are enemy troops hiding in the coniferous forest 100 meters away, and there are no enemy troops in these small bushes. ”

"This—" I scratched my head, and the Count laughed, "You still have to learn!"

......

To the Earl's surprise, we made our way unhindered and arrived safely on the outskirts of Zhivadin. Not far away is the majestic gates of Zhivadin.

"Strange... It is impossible not to have an enemy army!, according to the custom of the Vickyans—" The Count kept saying this on the road.

"Anyway, we're already there......" I persuaded.

"No, if that's the case... We will be met with stubborn resistance from the Vecchians at the head of Zhivadin. Well, you have to be careful—" The Count stared at the map, refusing to let go of a single detail. The siege began, but after that, I saw the terrifying power of the Vecchian Longbow.

As the siege ladder slowly advanced, the archers at the head of the city unsurprisingly began to shoot. Unlike the Nords' bows and arrows, they shoot vertically into the sky, creating a dense and lethal rain of arrows in the sky.

"Sneer..."

The rain of arrows gained great power when it went vertically downward, and when it poked down, it was either dead or injured. I stared at the horrific scene, and had to bow my head and raise my pitiful fan-shaped shield, which was so badly damaged by the clanging sound that I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder socket. From time to time, screams rang out, many of us fell, blood stained a large field of snow, and the rest fled in fear after the first shouting and charge, and I spat at them.

After blocking the first rain of arrows, he gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain while throwing away the shield that could no longer be used, and found a large infantry fan shield next to a dead infantry in the fastest time, and then found a second piece on his back and stacked it together, this guy has a strong sense of security.

As soon as I raised my shield, the rain of arrows came again, "!" I cursed, and the shield in my hand was nailed with more than twenty arrows. Seeing that the sinister Wikibians either had barbs or poisoned the arrows, I was glad that the shooter of the arrow on my shoulder was quite conscientious.

Finally I made it to the bottom of the city, and I put my shield on my back, and took a small arrow that was scattered at the head of the city, but still had the power to hit the longbow, but it was enough. But I was only halfway up the climb, and I don't know what the hell threw a rock down, right in the head. After a bout of vertigo after the severe pain, I fell off the ladder and passed out. When I woke up from the tent in the siege camp, it was noon two days later. When I opened my eyes, I groaned, and my vision slowly cleared up, and a big blond man stood by the bed. When he saw me wake up, he exclaimed excitedly, "Wake up, great, the medic said you're in a coma for a week, I think he's, how could our strong Hahn Kalade be knocked down so easily, right, my warrior?"

"Bob, did you take Zhivadin?" I rubbed my eyes, feeling a wave of vertigo.

"It's almost there, Harengus is clearing the town square of the remnants of the enemy, and I heard that the snow leopard in the center of the square has been smashed to pieces by them. Bob handed me a wet towel and said.

"Really? This time, the old bald beard is crooked, right? Haha, I'm going to take a look. "I wiped my face with a towel and was about to get out of bed, but as soon as I stood up, I felt dizzy and almost fell.

"No, you need to rest now, the doctor said you have a concussion and it will take a few days to recover, stay here and I'll take care of the rest. ”

"Okay, then please. I knew I was too reluctant, and sat down again.

The Zhivading Plain is under the control of our army, and groups of patrols roam the vast snowfield in order to stop the counterattack of the Arlao Bald, although sooner or later it will come.

One day at noon,

I'm chasing down an escaped lord with my men, who is so attentive that his footprints have been wiped clean. Luckily, Thomson had hunted and found some broken branches, and we pursued them slowly. What about the horses I want?" Buck wondered when he saw that the men were only armed with weapons.

"That's... In the middle we were spotted by a Swadia patrol, and the horses were either captured or killed. Now we can only walk. One of his subordinates said.

"Bastard Svadia ... Forget it, let's go slowly, it's not too late to buy a horse when we get to Ribache..."Buck scolded and said helplessly.

"What about our horses?" asked Erin.

"This," Buck scratched his head, "... Take it with you, and when you don't have food, you can kill a horse to eat. ”

"Well..."

After 3 days of icy walking, we came to a small stream that was not very wide, and the weather was cold, and the surface of the stream was frozen by a thin layer of ice. Buck motioned for us to stop, and I watched strangely as he walked around the creek, as if looking for something.

"Dinner is over!" Buck said in surprise, turning around after a moment.

"What?" "I've been eating hard bread for three days and I'm even more strange, isn't dinner hard bread?"

"Uh... You've hunted, haven't you?" said Buck.

"Hit. Thomson and I blurted out.

"So... The branches here are broken, and they are about 5 feet tall, so this must be an animal. "And the deer hair on this bush indicates that a deer has recently come to this creek to drink, and it will come again in a short time." ”

"Venison feast?" I like—" Bob immediately drooled.

"Thomson, come with me, I'm going to set a trap. Buck took the axe from his men, called Thomson and dodged into another wood.