Volume 4, Chapter 20: Operation in the Woods

"The Druas have conquered a quarter of Calradia's territory in the last three years, what is the point of an expedition to Dabaran if these guys are intent on conquering the continent?

The raindrops in the sky were drenched on everyone's heraldic armor, and in a blink of an eye, the burqa was soaked, and the cold rain seeped in through the chain mail, and the body that had finally warmed up after changing clothes became clammy and cold again, and a few complaints suddenly sounded on the dinghy.

Due to the proximity to the south bank, their shouts even drowned out the noisy rain, such complaints were very likely to expose our identities, Porcha rebuked everyone mercilessly, but he did not understand what it was like to be drenched in chain mail on a cold day, and the others had nothing to say, the sailors who held the boat quickened their speed, and the patrolmen on the south bank saw that they were people from friendly warships, and without doubt they got out of the way, signaling us to dock at the makeshift ferry.

The rowing sailor quickly rowed the dinghy over, tied the boat to the pillar of the ferry, and then in order to play as realistically as possible, our group of us 'punched' Porcha, and it took a lot of effort to 'drive' him to the shore, not forgetting to kick or push him a few times on the way, and Porcha also tried his best to cooperate with us, and kept struggling to break the rope to escape.

It was because of our hard work, hundreds of sergeants of the Order passing by, and not caring for the true face under the helmets of the prisoner transport team, that we walked through a dozen phalanxes on muddy ground before finally reaching the outskirts of the woods, according to our previous observations. Isaac's base camp is somewhere nearby, but then comes the most difficult time if we get lost in the jungle. It will lead to the destruction of the plan.

"Who is this scruffy rat? I remember Sir Bravo gave orders to your chief, that even if you were a soldier, you had to ask me before you wanted to enter the rear. ”

A handsome Dreadknight leader drew his sword to block his way, his body full of hostility, and just as I thought the disguise had been worn and was about to hand over the sword in his hand to Polcha to swear to, he gestured to calm down. He shook his way and broke free from the hands of his two teammates and walked up to the knight.

"What are you, I'm not going to tell myself to Isaac, the dogleg of the dog breed. If you have the ability, you will cut me?"

His intention was obviously to provoke the knight so that we could get past him, and the other man did just do it, and his fists in black iron gauntlets slammed into Porcha's abdomen one after another. Even the few pieces of steel on the piece of armor he was wearing were deformed by brute force.

"If it weren't for the armor you're wearing in the way. I'm afraid you'll have to crawl to see Sir Bravo. ”

"Cut...... If you have the ability, you can use a little more strength! With these two strokes, if Lao Tzu is not tied, he can beat you with his bare hands. ”

With that, taking advantage of the moment when the rain wet the knight's eyes, Porcha took a sharp step forward and crashed into the unsuspecting opponent, but the opponent kicked him in the side knee at a faster pace, forcing Porcha to his knees. Another kick knocked him into the mud, and he didn't show any weakness. Constantly struggling out of the muddy water and continuing to provoke the opponent. Although Porcha has always given me the impression of a steppe warrior with a tough temperament, I still feel a little chill in my heart when I see him suffering, and if I don't do something, I am afraid that he will be beaten to death by the other party.

"Enough!

When Porcha resisted the Dreadknight's fists and kicks again, and was about to fight back by ramming, I raised his long knife and slammed it on the back with the hilt, and at the same time roared in the Barrion tone of Beatrice, and Polcha, who pretended to be defeated, bowed his head and glared at us, and I immediately sent my men to grab him, pretending to be in control.

"It's boring, drag this guy away. ”

The knight wiped the muddy water from his body and walked away with a cold snort, and we managed to evade the enemy, and under the leadership of two Gronian knights who knew the terrain, we entered the forest and began to search for the Druas in the turquoise world......

Stretching for more than ten miles and occupying the southern bank of the canal, the Dabarans call it a 'hotbed of nature', and unlike Gelnroze in the interior of Calradia, it is not a sea of ancient trees lurking, but it is also fraught with potential dangers.

The first part of the journey was fairly smooth, and there were still many sergeants of the Order standing guard on the outskirts of the jungle occupied by tall trees, and we deduced the direction of the enemy camp according to the distribution of the enemy, and gradually moved into the depths.

Along the way, the distribution of enemy sentries was noticeably dispersed, and we began to move in unrelated directions, the dense foliage formed a natural barrier at a height of seven or eight meters, slightly blocking the strong rain, and the ground covered by a large number of fallen leaves still accumulated a lot of water, but compared to the coastal areas directly hit by the storm, the jungle that could shelter from the wind and rain was still much stronger.

"Lemuel, there's almost no one here, help me untie the rope, I lost the blade when I was beaten. ”

"Hey...... How do I feel like someone is following us, and there is more than one...... In case of goofs, it will be miserable. ”

I whispered to Porcha, the sound of the rain washing over the branches and leaves overhead was particularly harsh, and the more in this environment, the higher the level of vigilance of the person, and he had to continue to maintain a bound posture, and motioned to the knight, who was familiar with the terrain, to lead the team to continue to the depths.

Everyone had gone some distance tremblingly, and the two sailors in the group had slid down a gradually low slope because of the slippery terrain, and we had to follow to help them in order to keep the group intact.

After sliding to the bottom at breakneck speed, we were in a waterlogged pool, surrounded by slippery and unclimbable muddy steep slopes, with only a few vines hanging from above barely enough for a solo climb.

"It's not bad, it doesn't look like anyone will notice this pond, let me untie it and climb up one by one. ”

We loosened the bindings for Porcha, who bent down to wash the mud and blood from his face, and did not forget to whistle in celebration of freedom because of the old habit, but it was this habit that led us into danger......

Just as a knight grabbed a thick vine and climbed upward. A poisonous spider flew out of nowhere and landed on the knight's body, and he quickly let go of his hands and slid down from the vine. Slap the dangerous poisonous insect to death.

He had just escaped from the crisis when another snake with fangs was thrown down from above, and Porcha snatched his weapon from my hand, and the moment he drew his sword out of its sheath, the snake was close to being a few feet away.

Just as the group was suspicious of these two accidents, several figures dressed in Dark Order gear slid down the slope and knocked down the rest of the group in the blink of an eye with the force of the slide, and I was knocked out of the pool by the figures falling overhead before I could even realize the danger.

"Poof...... Poof......"

My mouth was filled with the smell of rain soaked in rotten leaves. Along with the others, they were dragged out of the waterhole by the Drua soldiers, and only Polcha stood in front of us as if nothing was happening, not at all attacked.

"You nerds. What kind of plane are you doing? Do you know that we followed you for a long time, and we almost disposed of you as enemies......

My steel helmet was removed, and the attackers, disguised as Drua soldiers, turned out to be Shaw and her other half, and she took off her gear. Counted us out mercilessly. After I said it was an escape plan. Instead of apologizing to us, she laughed at us with the others.

After the unbearable time of chattering, Shoey finally got serious again, discussed something with Porcha, and led us out of the waterhole with the climbing tools he had.

"Actually, there is still a little merit in your plan, of course, after Miss Ben has perfected it...... It's better to plan and go to Isaac's camp in the name of escorting prisoners. I know the way, because I've been there before. ”

While Shawy said this. Porcha scratched her head, it seemed that this was the matter that Xiao had just discussed with him, and we did not dare to disobey her orders, and when she dressed herself like a prisoner, we regrouped and moved towards the position of the camp she had given us, in the form of a "prisoner convoy" mixed with two armies......

"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 a qiē resource 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 use sufficient wood to make one old siege ballista after another with excellent carpentry skills, 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 would be executed and burned on the spot by ruthless executioners, and another group of unlucky 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 changed his plan at the last moment, only Mo Cha managed to blend into the enemy camp, and in order not to attract too much attention, he re-disguised himself as a Drua soldier and appeared at the right time to continue the original plan, but Tea's luck has always been bad, when he found the woodcutter's residence in a logging hut in the forest and disguised himself as a civilian, a patrol that happened to pass by immediately noticed the uninvited guest, and after a stinky beating, he was taken to the barrage and imprisoned, and the original plan to rendezvous with Xiao Yi was also ruined。 (To be continued......)