Chapter Ninety-Five: Gunsmoke
The kingdom of Ok, after all, the name is still named by human beings, after the lingua franca popularized the continent, for convenience, human beings have given each force on the continent a corresponding name, it is not difficult to see, the named official must not have personally been to this place of constant disputes, but after hearing a lot of stories about this place, he relied on his own understanding, and placed the kingdom as a suffix here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info If you ask Ling Chen to define Oak again, he doesn't even think that this is a complete force, the kingdom? is too exalted to him, on the surface, he is headed by the herdsmen, but what is really wrong, does the patriarch of the herdsmen really have the right to decide? No, no, no, now whether Ling Chen has the right to speak is a little skeptical. However, this time Ling Chen was not dissatisfied because of the mistakes of the difficult officials, on the contrary, as he got to know more and more about the Oak Kingdom, Ling Chen's mood became better and better. The reason is very simple, he is a person who hates to have expectations or hopes for anything, because once you have expectations, you are at risk of facing disappointment, and how much you expect from something, and once your wishes are disappointed, then you will face the same disappointment. But on the other hand, if you don't expect anything, you will find that life is simply full of surprises.
Undoubtedly, the situation in the Oak Kingdom was a surprise to Ling Chen. Since it is not a complete group, it means that Ling Chen still has the possibility of changing and making him more unified, so how can he give up this opportunity with such a good opportunity in front of him?
The thoughts of this foreign king were naturally impossible to guess, but he did not have the heart to speculate on the thoughts of this king, and he did not even know that this king was approaching their kingdom with evil intentions at the moment. After all, this is not their job, as a leopard people, although the prestige and status of the leopard people in the cat people have continued to decline in recent years, but the cat people are not all fools who advocate strength, and there are also guys who understand the importance of reconnaissance in war. And now Spotted is carrying out such an important task as investigating the shepherd forces.
The so-called herdsmen, as the name suggests, are grass herders, and those rabbits and rat people who have no combat ability are not mentioned, and their most powerful bear people and minotaurs are still much inferior to werewolves and tigers. During the Hundred Years' War, the tribe was also ravaged by cats and dogs, but the merger between cats and dogs was too fierce at that time, so the herdsmen seized the opportunity. However, as the vitality of the two clans recovers day by day, in fact, in the eyes of these two clans, the herdsmen are no longer worthy of standing in the ruling class of the Oak Kingdom, and even if they are nominally, they are no longer qualified. So although an agreement has been reached with the dog clan this time, the cat clan still hasn't made a move, that is, it is on guard against the temporary change of the dog clan, so before the dog clan and the herdsman officially open, the cat clan will not attack, at least not with all its might. Therefore, the information on the herdsmen's side becomes important.
The information of the three major tribes of the Oak Kingdom is actually not close, each tribe itself has different cultural customs, beliefs, and the cat clan will hold a tribal gathering every six months, and will exchange information, and in this way, there will be less communication between the big clans, and the clans will rarely go to other tribes to get together, after all, these orcs don't even look the same, and they will feel uncomfortable when they go to other races, so although this is the same force externally, the internal connection is not even as close as the human businessmen.
Spotted looked at the map in his hand, and walked forward cautiously with his reconnaissance team, according to the map show, there was a centaur village not far from them, and their task was to confirm how effective this centaur village was, and then report back to the large army in the rear and send troops to capture this village. Centaurs, in fact, are the most hated race of leopard people, between the two races, too similar, are runners, but the difference is that one lives in the cat tribe, the other lives in the herdsmen, but the treatment is very different: the leopard tribe is tested by the same clan because of its poor combat effectiveness, while the centaur is respected among the herdsmen because of their flexible mobility. At the thought of this, Spotted wiped his teeth and led his men to continue running, and as the night drew on, Spotted reached their end.
Although I don't know much about the herdsmen, but for the centaurs to be investigated in this mission, Spotted has done some homework in advance, this race rises at sunrise and returns at sunset, if there is nothing special, it will generally not break this rule. It's been a long time since the spotted detective was in this line, this time the cat clan launched an attack, and did not officially declare war on the herdsmen, this reconnaissance is not allowed to let the centaurs find out, the centaurs' village is located on a prairie, the surrounding area is extremely wide, but there is nothing to shelter, far away let his subordinates stop, crawling on the small hill looking at the distant village, this village is not big, it should be only three or four hundred people, of which the people who can fight, it is estimated that there are only about a hundred people. I took out the paper and drew the shape of the village, and the moon slowly rose, and under the moonlight, the spots could be seen more clearly. It's really a peaceful village, but Spotted frowned, and the experienced man suddenly felt that there was something wrong, even if it was night, the village seemed to be too quiet, even if the work and rest of the people were good, how could it be that every family didn't even light the lights, which was too unusual.
"Captain, it seems a little too quiet, this village. It seems that his adjutant is also aware of the same problem, this adjutant is named Shirao, but he has carried out many missions with him, and Spotted nodded: "I think so too." After a moment's thought, "Let's get closer." β
"But what if we get too close and are discovered?"
Spotted took off his military uniform and looked at Bai Wei: "You also changed this outfit, and the two of us pretended to be civilians to go and have a look!"
"Yes!" Hakuo nodded as he exchanged his clothes for them. The two of them vigilantly approached the village of the centaurs, and the closer they got closer, the more they confirmed that their judgment was not wrong, this village was too quiet.
"Could it be that our intelligence is wrong? We don't know much about the herders, maybe this village has long been abandoned?"
"No!" Spotted pointed to the grass around the village, "Look at the meadows, there are still marks on them! For at least a week, there will be people moving here. β
"Have we been exposed? They're running for their lives?"
"It shouldn't be that we are exposed. "When we arrived here, there was no one here, and at our speed, it was impossible for anyone to notify the villagers here after discovering us, and then let these villagers leave, if there were, then there must be a mole, and the whole attack plan was probably exposed." But as we marched, I don't think the herdsmen had discovered our purpose. β
"I agree with your idea. Bai Mao said, "So what's going on?"
"I'm not sure yet! let's go in and see!" said that, the two walked into the village, the two were very cautious, trying not to make any noise, quietly approached a wooden house, acquaintance glanced around, spotted looked around vigilantly, white hair ran to the door to pick the lock open.
"It's strange that this door isn't locked at all!"
"......" Hua Ban frowned slightly: "No matter, let's go in and have a look." β
It is a two-storey wooden house, and it can be seen that the owner of this house has lived here for a long time, and there are traces of human existence in many places, and judging from the degree of age, it should have been inhabited recently. Only now the house was empty, and the two did not immediately draw conclusions, looked at each other and left here, and entered the next room.
"Sure enough!" Spotted frowned as he looked at the deserted street, almost every room around it had been searched, all of them were empty, and there were traces of people living not so long ago.
"Captain, are we really exposed?" Shirao was a little anxious, if it was really what he said, then I am afraid that the entire layout of this invasion battle would have to be replanned.
"No!!! I always felt that these people didn't seem to have evacuated in a hurry, and judging from the traces they left behind, there was a feeling of slow housewarming. β
"Shall we continue exploring?"
"No need!" Spotted said, "Let's go back first, report this matter to the superiors, and let the superiors make judgments!"
The army slowly symbolized the east, Ling Chen sat in the carriage and looked at the book of war, the era he lived in was a peaceful era, even if he had learned the art of war, he had also served as the commander of the Order Legion, but Ling Chen was very clear about his lack of actual combat experience, and at the same time, the well-trained and well-equipped army behind him was also the same as himself, and it was only theoretical, and Resnot had few wars since the end of the Hundred Years' War, so that Ling Chen could not clearly judge what their combat effectiveness was, and whether they could stop the fury of the orcs in the Oak Kingdom if they fell to the groundγ If you can't stop it, even if it's temporary, it's good to read more military books. There were not many people with Ling Chen this time, Fei Ying and Lin Hou both stayed in Resnot, as for the rest, and the only trustworthy person was his wife Lu Feier, who was sleeping soundly in the carriage at the moment, and the long-distance travel was still a little tiring, and Ling Ling gently touched Lu Feier's cheek. He wondered what would become of this tranquil face after the baptism of war, or would it become hideous and distorted, or would it be more sacred and bright?