Chapter 112 Site Selection and Competition

Lorist takes Pat and Reddy into the mercenary camp.

Restraining himself from his horse, he saw Steward Kedan and the leaders of the two mercenaries, Hawsky and Jim, come up to him.

Lorist came here today to settle down on the address of the military village at the junction of the two mountains, so that construction could start as soon as possible. Yesterday I received a report from the Steward of Codan that the mercenaries had surveyed the address and were waiting for Lorist to make a decision.

After entering the camp, Hawski took a map of the hides and pointed it out to Lorist to show them the address, but these maps were surveyed and mapped by the mercenaries themselves, and they were not very standardized. Lorist looked at it for a long time before discovering that it was a cliff terrain.

"Let's go and see what's going on. Lorist said.

It takes more than three hours to ride a horse from Poplar Beach to the junction of the two mountains. The junction of the two mountains is not like the rocky castle of the Morgen hills, but two ridges, one in front and one behind, with a stream and a large, winding forest valley in the middle, stretching into the depths of the Magic Dragon Mountains.

The address that the mercenaries chose to build was on a cliff next to the stream, and Lorist shook his head and vetoed the site: "Hosky, do you think that I spent so much money to hire you to play the role of a sentry tower here? Seventy or eighty of you are ready to find out about the mountain barbarians here, and you will be done with a wolf smoke and send me a message? I want you to nail this here as the first line of defense against the mountain barbarians." For the small number of mountain barbarians, you must take the initiative and obtain a high bounty for yourself. Although you have built the military village on the cliff, although the defense is strong, you have lost the initiative to attack, and when you come down from the cliff, the mountain barbarians will have already run out. ”

Haosky's face was a little red, but he still forcibly argued: "My lord, we are few people, and it is difficult to resist the large-scale siege of the mountain barbarians if we set up a military fortress in the valley below, you don't want us all to finish here...... On it, we can find the traces of the mountain barbarians in time, although it is inconvenient to attack, but our survival and defense are guaranteed......"

Lorist laughed contemptuously: "No, you will build a military fortress on the cliff to greatly threaten your survival and defense. Just ask a simple question, how are you going to get water on the cliff?"

"My lord, isn't there a creek under this cliff, and it is with this in mind that I chose to be on this cliff near the creek. If we are besieged by the mountain barbarians, we can drop buckets from the cliffs to carry water from the stream......"

"Don't think so stupidly about the enemy, although the mountain barbarians are savages, it doesn't mean that they don't have brains, they just need to block the creek on both sides of the cliff or let the creek be rerouted, where are you going to carry water?"

Hosky was speechless......

If you don't have food, you can kill horses and eat leather or something to make do for a while, but once the water is cut off, you can't last for three days. Lorist pointed out the mercenary's biggest mistake in site selection.

"Go there and have a look. Lorist said, pointing to a few small mounds in the valley.

The largest small mound seemed to have traces of broken walls, and the steward of Codan rode to Lorlist's side and explained in a low voice that in the past hundred years, the ancestors of the Norton family had thought the same as Lorlist, and wanted to set up a military fortress or a guard tower for early warning at the junction of these two mountains, so as to defend and detect the mountain barbarians who invaded the family territory in advance. It's just that all three practices failed. This mound is the result of one of the encampments, and about sixty years ago, only four of the more than twenty family soldiers stationed here survived.

"Then this is the mound, which is just over 80 meters from the creek, and if you dig a well on it, you can get a clean and safe source of water, and the biggest problem will be solved. Lorist made a decision.

"My lord, how can we solve the problem of defense?" Hawski, who had just heard what Steward Codan said to Lorlist, looked very unpleasant.

"Hehe, don't worry, I won't let you defend the humble camp. I am going to build two towers here, and then enclose them with a wall seven or eight meters high, you don't have to worry about manpower and material resources, you are mainly responsible for guarding, and in just a month, you will have a very defensive military fortress. Lorist said.

Husky still wanted to speak, but Jim next to him patted his chest and said, "My lord, as long as you build a military fortress, we promise to be firmly nailed here, and we will not let a small group of mountain barbarians invade your territory." ”

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The location of the military village was decided, and everyone relaxed, and Lorist was ready to rest here for two hours before going back. The mercenaries were worthy of being good at survival in the wild, hunting for hunting, fishing for fishing, and soon got a large number of prey, which were barbecued by the stream.

Jim was red-faced and pulled Hawsky and a few mercenaries over.

Jim said excitedly: "My lord, I told them that you killed the commander of the Addams regiment in one face, but they didn't believe it, and said that you took advantage of the long-term exhaustion of the Adams regiment. Why are you not even silver, why can you kill so many Flying Feather mercenaries, they still want to compete with you......"

Lorist threw down the pheasant bone in his hand, stood up and said with a smile: "If you don't believe it, you don't believe it, what does it matter." ”

"But adults ......"

Husky stopped Jim and bowed to Lorlist: "My lord, please don't blame Jim, the main thing is that they praised you to the sky after they came back last time, and it's hard for everyone to believe such a fact. The white-haired Adams regiment leader is very famous in the kingdom's mercenary circles, and he is very strong. Especially his two adopted sons, who are even more famous shield guards. Jim: They said that the twin brothers died by the sword of the adult, which is unbelievable. If you don't think we're lowly mercenaries, can you show us a taste of your swordsmanship......

"You ......" Pat was furious, and stood up to lash out at the mercenaries.

"Pat!" Lorist waved his hand: "It's okay, I just have time, so let's try it." Captain Hawski, mercenaries are not lowly, please remember that. In the city of Morente, I also worked as a mercenary for five or six years...... In this case, you can choose ten mercenaries with the best swordsmanship and skills to compete with me, and it doesn't matter if you are at the silver level. ”

Hawsky and the mercenaries thought that Lorist was going to compete one by one, although it was a wheel battle, but thinking of Jim's touting, they felt that Lorist did have great strength, so they began to select the men to fight.

It was all his own companions who knew the roots, and soon nine mercenaries were selected to stand with Husky, and the rest of the mercenaries gathered around and began to bet on how many Lorist could handle. Jim is the banker, and he and the mercenaries who have returned from Rock Castle are united in their bet on Lorist to win.

"Reddy, give me your sword. Lorist said.

Because of Reddy's strength, Lorist specially made a heavy sword for him. This is just a competition, several of the selected mercenaries are all Black Iron Rank, and they can't import Dou Qi into their weapons yet. Lorist didn't want to use his sword to cut off the mercenaries' weapons so as not to embarrass them. With Reddy's heavy sword, it can be smashed apart without damaging their weapons.

After trying the heavy sword in his hand a few times, Lorist was very satisfied and said, "You guys can go up together." ”

"What?" the mercenaries were stunned, wasn't it a wheel battle, a competition one by one?

"Since the adults say so, we will do it. Everyone be energetic, come up with their own unique skills, don't let the adults look down on us, and don't let the adults down......" Hawsky was angry in his heart, he looked down on people too much, one against ten, and refused to use his own sword, which was obviously not in his eyes as mercenaries.

Hosky had an eye on it, as the leader of the mercenary squad, he had this command and organization ability. He sent a few mercenaries to go up and test it first, and when he saw Lorlist's strength clearly, then he could deal with it.

It's just that Hänsky didn't expect these four mercenaries to get into hands with Lorist and lay down one by one, so fast that they blinked twice, and they didn't see what Lorist did at all.

Lorist then rushed at the remaining six mercenaries in turn, and the two mercenaries at the front swung their swords and slashed at the figures that rushed at them. Hawsky finally saw it clearly, Lorlist's horizontal sword blocked two swords, but the figure cut in from the middle of the two mercenaries, and the mercenary in front was hit in the back of the head by Lorlist's backhand sword, and fell to the ground staggeringly.

The mercenary in the back suddenly found that Lorist was too close to him, it was almost face to face, and he was shocked and retreated to distance himself. Less than a foot apart, the handle of the sword that Lorist had withdrawn had already swept over his chin, and the mercenary was planted into the ground.

Hosky was taken aback, it was too fast, and in the blink of an eye, six mercenaries had fallen to the ground, and now only four of them were left. Hawski hurriedly summoned another silver-tier mercenary and two black-iron mercenaries to form a defensive battle formation to face Lorist's attack together.

The four mercenaries take a diamond-shaped position, as long as the front point is attacked, they can retreat, press on both sides, and the last point can cross with the front point to take turns to resist the attack. This was originally a defensive battle formation for the mercenaries to deal with the attack of a powerful single demonic beast, but this will be used against Lorist.

Lorist is certainly not a monster and will not attack with just one person. He wandered around the battle array, erratic, and his sword was directed towards the two black iron mercenaries on either side of the battle array. As a result, the front Haupski and the silver-tier mercenary at the back were very embarrassed, and they could only use their swords to help their comrades resist, so the battle formation fell apart, and it became three mercenaries fighting with Lorlist, and the last mercenary was blocked behind and couldn't do anything.

Lorist moved to the right while fighting, the speed was getting faster and faster, and the silver-rank mercenary who was the axis obviously couldn't resist Lorist's fast sword, and involuntarily took a step back, and as soon as he retreated, the three of them were broken together, revealing a gap. Without hesitation, Lorist stepped in the middle of the three.

Honsky only felt that it was not good, he wanted to draw a sword but was blocked by his companions, and hurriedly moved to the side, just moved away from the figure, but saw the three partners in front of him and around him pounce on the ground one after another, and it was Lorist standing in front of him......

Hänsky looked left and right, the sword in his hand fell to the ground, and said bitterly: "We lost ......"

In this competition, Lorist didn't use much internal force, purely relying on body skills and fast swords to win, otherwise he could have forcibly broken through from the front with internal force, but that was too much for the mercenaries to hang their faces, and Lorist didn't want to do anything that hurt people's self-esteem, after all, it was just a friendly competition, not a battlefield of life and death.

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The mercenaries discussed the wonderful competition just now, but Hawski stayed: "My lord, I have a question......

"Tell me about it. Lorist patted the large rock beside him and motioned for the mercenary captain to sit down.

Hawsky was not polite, and sat down: "My lord, in fact, the Norton family is very strong, and the Kenmax family's choice to be hostile to the Norton family can be said to be an iron plate, I am glad that we mercenaries jumped out of that vortex early, and we no longer have to be hostile to adults." What I don't understand is why the Norton family hired us when they are so powerful, and I've always wondered if the adults deliberately sent us to death......

"That's why you chose to set up a military fortress on such a high cliff to protect yourself?Tell me, where do you think our Norton family is very strong? Actually, I hired you because there was no one at hand. Lorist said.

"No one, my lord, there are two or three hundred of your young men who have awakened their fighting spirit in the more than two thousand laborers who are preparing to build the city on Huyang Beach, not to mention the garrison of two hundred people, and a few of them are silver-ranked......" Hawski almost shouted, he didn't believe Lorlist's words.

Lorist smiled bitterly: "Captain Husky, no wonder you don't believe it, but don't you notice that the relationship between those garrisons and our Norton family is a little strange? I can explain the reason to you, but please promise not to spread the word, this is not a glorious thing for the Norton family." ”

When Lorist and Hawsky explained the relationship between Kitano Town and the Norton family, Hawski listened to the sky: "My lord, I don't even know what to say." I've never heard anything so absurd, except that your ancestors were too merciful. It is a blessing to meet such a lord, and only such a lord can get used to such a strange garrison. ”

"I can understand what my ancestors did, and you also know the situation in the Northland, what is lacking is people. Regardless of whether the ancestors of those garrisons were outcasts, thieves, liars, robbers or criminals, as long as they were in the Northland at that time, they were treasures, and my ancestors also wanted them to live and work in peace and contentment in the territory and contribute to the family, so they gave such generous conditions. It's just that I didn't expect to be taken advantage of by them, and it has been dragged for generations until now......" Lorist sighed.

"Then with the strength of the adults, we should be able to wipe out the garrisons of Kitano Town, and that Chosk knight will be able to suppress the silver of the garrison, and we can ......also help," Hawski said.

"If you concentrate the power of the family, plus you mercenaries, you can indeed destroy the garrison of Kitano Town. It's just that the cost of casualties is not worth it. Don't look at me like that, even if I am good, can I still kill hundreds of people in one go? Not to mention that these people from Kitano Town are deeply involved with our family. Many people in Maple Grove Villa are related to some families in Kitano Town. I'm worried that coming hard will make the family disheartened. Although this is the case with the garrison in Kitano Town, it still nominally belongs to our Norton family, and it is not easy for me to kill them without an open rebellion, so I can only force them to submit step by step. If they openly rebel, I can't ask for it, then there will be an excuse to eradicate this cancer. ”

"Everything you're doing now is planned, I see. A few days ago, a few of those laborers who had awakened their vindictive spirit came to me to become mercenaries, and I refused their request for fear of triggering conflict. Hauskey said.

"It's okay, they can accept them if they can stand the mercenaries. After a while, our family will also select a group of soldiers from among them to serve as the newly formed family guards. The construction of a military fortress here is also a test for them......" Lorist said.

"Yes, thank you, sir, rest assured, we will be the first line of defense for the Norton family against the mountain barbarians like nails. Hosky solemnly promised.

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