Chapter 60: The Convoy Arrives

There were only two light cavalry guarding the gate of the barracks, and they saw a horse galloping from a distance, and they didn't care at first, the barracks had been occupied, and all the people inside were their own people. I'm just curious that someone is going out again, and I don't know what order I received. When he got closer, he realized that something was wrong, it was not his colleague, and he hurriedly picked up the two spears on the ground and stepped forward to block them, but the spear tips were cut off by the enemy who was rushing to the silver level. If it weren't for the silver master's rush to escape, perhaps the two light cavalry guarding the gate would have been even more unlucky.

The silver master on the light cavalry mount swept past the two light cavalry who fell to the ground, and walked out of the barracks gate and flew all the way. Two grizzled hussars got up from the ground with a curse, one lunging to his mount to get a crossbow, and the other taking a spear from the side, but it was too far to throw it......

Lorist urged his horse to arrive, and continued to ride his horse after the spear that had snatched the light cavalry, at this time he was about thirty or forty meters away from the silver master in front of him, and he was not sure that he would be able to hit every shot at such a distance. Seeing that the speed of the rider in front of him was getting faster and faster, and the distance between him and himself, Lorist gritted his teeth, raised the throwing gun in his hand and prepared to try his luck.

The mount galloping under the crotch suddenly stumbled, and then staggered forward for more than a dozen steps before falling straight to the ground, which startled Lorlist, hurriedly left the saddle and stirrups, and fell to the ground with two heels in the air, avoiding being crushed to the ground by the mount. Looking at the fallen mount again, Lorist threw his spear on the ground in hatred. How could he be so unlucky, the mount he grabbed and rode casually was actually the mount of the two cavalrymen who attacked the convoy and escaped, and the horsepower had long been exhausted, no wonder the distance between himself and the horse in front of him would be longer and longer after chasing from the big tent to the gate of the barracks.

It seemed that he was about to be escaped by the silver rank in front of him, and Lorist was very annoyed. The rider in front of him had run a hundred meters away, and his figure had become a small black dot. The sound of hooves behind him sounded, and it was the light cavalry who reacted and got on their horses to chase after them, but it was too late.

At this moment, Lorist faintly heard the sound of a bowstring vibrating, and a green rainbow flashed from the wilderness a hundred meters away from the barracks, as fast as lightning, and took the escaped silver master from his horse and flew five or six meters in the air and fell heavily to the ground. The light cavalry's mount ran some distance without the rider's drive, stopped, and then turned around and ran toward the barracks.

Lorist stopped the movement of several light cavalry around him to go to the wilderness to search, and pointed to the location of the silver master who had landed: "You go and see, bring him back, be careful, don't be deceived by this dog's pretence, one of our brothers has died at his hands." ”

Lorist continued to look at the place where the rainbow flashed in the wilderness, where stood a man dressed in a camouflage of branches and grass, with a large blue bow in his hand. Lorist could feel that he was watching his every move, too.

Lorist beckoned to the man and made an inviting gesture. The man didn't react, just slowly retreated after a while, slowly disappearing in the wilderness.

Lorist also breathed a sigh of relief, that man's bow was so powerful, it could shoot a rider on a galloping horse at a distance of seventy or eighty meters, and he also carried a person five or six meters away, which showed the power of the arrows shot. Moreover, the speed of the arrow was extremely fast, and the trajectory of its flight could only be faintly seen under the concentration of dynamic vision.

If that man attacked the barracks, Lorist was not afraid, but he didn't know how many of the light cavalry behind him would suffer. Maybe that person is the golden knight named Joske that Knight Soria said a few days ago, and only he can have such a powerful magic arrow stunt, but unfortunately that person did not accept Lorlist's invitation to come to the barracks to let Lorist know who he is.

Several of the light cavalry had already carried the body of the fleeing silver master on the horse that was running back. Lorist couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it, why did he bring the corpse back when he was about to become a target? These light cavalry were obviously too cautious when they heard Lorlist's words, and when they arrived at the place, they first shot two rounds of crossbows at the silver master on the ground, and pierced the silver master into a hedgehog, and then approached and brought the corpse back.

The cause of the Silver Master's death was obvious, a long green arrow entered his right rib and burst out of his left chest. Lorist pulled out the long arrow, tore off a large piece of clothing from the corpse, wiped the blood off the long arrow, and found that the end of the long arrow was engraved with a crooked and oblique Qiao character. Sure enough, the man with the cyan longbow was the gold-level archer Joske.

Looking at the crossbow arrows stuck in the corpse, Lorist was angry: "Don't you have eyes? Go, cut off this head for me and stick it next to the road in front of the barracks gate, strip me naked and throw it outside, and then burn it with the corpses in the barracks. ”

Returning to the tent in the middle camp, Yuri came to report that he had led people to clear the barracks, found three hidden enemies, captured two alive and killed one, and the light cavalry only lightly wounded two. It's the big tent here, where one is dead and one is seriously injured. Combined with the damage caused during the previous capture of the barracks, the total casualties of the light cavalry in this operation were three dead, seven seriously wounded, and more than ten lightly wounded.

However, Yuri hesitated for a moment and said that in the process of clearing the barracks, they found many ruined and dying women in many tents, more than thirty in total. In the tent that the silver master escaped just now, he found two naked women with broken necks and died.

Lorist was gloomy, pointed to the big tent behind him and said, "There are two more in it." Go to the men who are locked up in the middle of the barracks and inquire about the women and their origins, and then gather together the thirty or so women, and send two of them in the big tent as well, and find some people from the people who are locked up to take care of them. Wait for Shi Fatzi's convoy to arrive, let the pharmacists go to treat them, save as much as they can save as much as possible, and give them a good time if they can't be saved. ”

"Also, cut off the heads of those cavalrymen and stick them outside the barracks, strip them naked and burn them outside, and count how many we have killed in total. There are four others in this big tent that are treated in the same way. You bring the captives who are still alive, and I will interrogate them myself. Lorist said to Yuri.

Lorlist's method of interrogating the captives was very simple, first escorting the captives and stripping them naked, and then telling Reddy to find a hammer and break his toes one by one. As the first hard-mouthed captive became a demonstration specimen, the remaining five captives were so frightened that they answered all their questions, and soon confessed everything they knew.

As Lorist had predicted, it was the Earl of Corbilly's men who attacked his convoy, and his most elite lancers. This time, Earl Cockbilly sent two squadrons of lancers and a garrison brigade, almost a third of his army, to sweep away the rebels in this large area, and to capture at least 2,000 young and strong laborers to serve as slaves and slaves. Leading this force were his eleven illegitimate sons, three of the golden rank and eight of the silver ranks. But now three have died at the hands of Lorlist.

The captives were talking about the brown-haired man and the middle-aged man in chain mail that Lorist had killed in the big tent, and the silver master who had finally escaped on horseback, and the captives had attributed his death to Lorlist.

As for this barracks, the captives confessed that it was indeed the bridgehead set up by Count Cobilly in this area, and the permanent camp. In peacetime, it is garrisoned by a squadron of garrisons. The food and grass supplies of the large army that went out to sweep this time were concentrated here. Because the area to be swept was the western mountains, and the mountains had to be crossed, a squadron of lancers was left to garrison here, and the garrison squadron that was originally stationed was also brought to sweep.

The troop establishment of the various kingdoms on the continent of Gelinthia is dominated by corps, which are divided into several branches of the corps, such as heavy armor corps, heavy cavalry regiments, spear corps, etc. And a corps is divided into brigades, squadrons and squads. Generally speaking, the size of a squad is around eighty to one hundred and twenty people. Four to five squadrons form a squadron, four to five squadrons form a battalion, and four to five squadrons form a corps. Like the White Lion Legion, where Bodfinger used to be, it was one of the three main legions of the former Krisson Empire, with about 80,000 men and horses at full strength.

The Earl of Corbilly made his lancers the backbone of his family's armed forces, and greatly expanded them. Now there were five squadrons of lancers, each with four squads, each of which was a full strength of one hundred and twenty men. The fact that this sweep can send two squadrons of lancers is also a big cost.

The captives confessed that the large force that had gone to the western mountains to sweep the mountains would probably return in two days, for they had only taken fifteen days of supplies with them, and thirteen days had passed. This morning, the brown-haired man who stayed in the barracks also sent a small group of lancers to the west to meet him. Only three squads of lancers remained in the barracks. And in the afternoon, two more squads of lancers stayed bored in the barracks and went out hunting. Hunting is the movement of the region to capture the exiled people of these territories. Like the 400 or so people who were locked in the middle of the barracks, they were the fruits of the spearmen who went out hunting some time ago.

It's just that they didn't expect that the result of robbing the cavalry to go out hunting was to provoke the evil star of Lorist, and the spear squad that attacked the convoy and the lancer squad stationed in the barracks were all wiped out, and even the barracks were occupied.

Lorist asked in detail, and finally he asked the captive why the small group of lancers attacking the convoy attacked indiscriminately, and even the details of the convoy were not known.

Only then did the captives understand why Lorist had led men into the barracks and went on a killing spree, and they all scolded the spearmen for causing them trouble. Instead, a captive in his thirties looked at the family knight's badge on the armor on Yuri's chest standing nearby, looking thoughtful.

Noticing the captive's anomaly, Lorist called him over and asked, "Have you seen this badge?"

The captive shook his head and said, "I have not seen the coat of arms, except that once I went to report something to the Count, and I saw two chests in the Count's room, and the pattern engraved on the chests was very similar to this one. And ......"

The captives stopped talking.

Lorist asked, "And what? Just say, I promise to spare you from death, as for the ......?"

Lorist gestured to pull the captives down and give them a good time.

The captive, who knelt in front of him, shuddered with fear as he listened to the pleading voices of several of his colleagues. He said that he joined the cavalry relatively late, when he was still a mercenary, and that it was only under the persuasion of Count Corbilly that he met a friend who had become a lancer on his way back to the territory.

The captives said that he had been drinking with his friends and a few lancers and had heard them tell him about the history of Count Corbilly's fortune. When the eldest prince was not revealed, the earl colluded with the eldest prince. Legend has it that Count Corbilly was not concentrating on teaching his illegitimate children in his manor, but in fact, the Earl had already brought those adult bastards disguised as horse bandits to rob the passing merchants in Puerto Olg Province, providing the eldest prince with the salary to rebel. He himself made a fortune from it. At that time, the eldest prince also wrote a letter to the old emperor on his sickbed to strengthen the garrison of Portoorg Province in order to prevent it from being attacked by the Redbeard bandits, who were referring to Count Cobilly. He wears a fake red beard every time he takes someone to rob to prevent anyone from discovering his true face. Today, the two teams of lancers who went out hunting were led by old cavalrymen who had followed Count Cobilly to rob caravans in Puerto Org Province, and they must have seen the convoy remember the old days, and regarded the convoy as an ordinary caravan, so they launched an attack regardless of it.

Lorist asked the captive again about the size and style of the two chests he had seen in Count Cobilly's room, and then asked the captive about the size and style of the two chests with a pen and paper, and the captive nodded and said that it looked like this.

Lorist ordered the captive to be taken down and locked up, and then walked up and down the tent, getting angrier and angrier, until at last he drew his sword and tore the original bed in the tent to pieces.

Yuri and Reddy were taken aback by Lorlist's actions, and waited for Lorist to calm down before coming up and asking what had happened to make him so angry?

Lorist was silent for a while, and then said: "Those two boxes were customized by my third uncle in Morent City, originally he wanted to use them as a dowry to marry a woman he liked, and he promised to take her back to the family territory when he went back, who knows, who knows that this is goodbye! I can't forget the look in my third uncle's eyes when he took me to pick up the box, he really loves that woman, and he is full of love and longing when he looks at the box." So I remember the style of these two boxes. Count Cobilly, good, you wait......"

Lorist's voice was full of resentment, making Yuri and Reddy, who were standing nearby, shudder.

Although Lorist and the third uncle only see each other once a year after becoming the new owner of this body, the third uncle's concern and love for him really makes him feel warm. Unexpectedly, after seven years, what I heard was the bad news of the third uncle. Now that we know who the culprit is, there is still reason to ignore it? Lorist has already left the convoy and the return to the territory behind, and will settle the account with this Count Corbilly before anything else.

At this moment, a light cavalry came to report that the convoy led by Knight Schreid was about to arrive, and the banner of the convoy could be seen in the distance from the barracks.

Yuri and Reddy breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly got out of the tent with Lorist, got on their horses, and hurried to the gate of the barracks.

Fat Man came over and brought Lorist bad news, as Yuri's hussar scouts had followed Lorist to capture the barracks, the spearmen squadron in the front battalion was attacked by a small squad of lancers. Fortunately, the old cadet who led the team knew that he could not compete with these lancers, so he used the carriage to form a chariot camp and waited for reinforcements, until Telman's knights arrived, and were attacked by the crossbowmen under the command of Malek, and the squad of lancers suffered heavy losses and only about thirty horsemen escaped. The spearmen squadron of the front battalion lost twenty-two people killed and more than a hundred wounded.

The arrival of the convoy filled the entire barracks with noise, and people shouted and neighed constantly. Lorist left all the trivial matters to Fat Man to arrange, and then instructed Reddy and Pat to boil some hot water for themselves, and to take a good bath in the big tent, the blood stains on his body had already coagulated, which made Lorist feel very uncomfortable.

After dinner, the big tent was brightly lit and full of people.

“...... Forty-seven of the dependents of the army were killed, more than one hundred and thirty were wounded, and the twenty-one spearmen in charge of the guard of the convoy were all killed, and Zivos ...... "Shi Fatman's voice was very low, Zivos was the old cadet who met the lancer horse team and was pulled off his horse and trampled into flesh.

"Together with the second attack, forty-three spearmen were killed and fifty-eight were seriously wounded, seven of whom were disabled and eighty-six lightly wounded. Yuri reported that the light cavalry had three killed, seven seriously wounded, thirteen lightly wounded, and no injuries. Telman's Knights suffered six minor casualties and were undamaged. This is the total number of casualties. ”

Lorist also introduced the prisoner's confession to everyone, and also said that Count Corbilly was most likely the culprit who destroyed the Norton family caravan.

"Now it is clear to everyone that our original idea of passing through this area harmlessly is not working, and judging by the conduct and style of the Earl of Corbilly and the lancers of his family's army, this is an army with only beasts and no humanity, they are unreasonable, they have no mercy, and they have nothing in their minds but to kill them. What happened to Zivos illustrates all this. For the sake of Zivos, for the innocent families who were killed, and for the family soldiers who died heroically, I want to avenge them, either our chariots have crossed the banner of the Billbilly family, or we have been blocked here by the army of the Earl of Billy. Lorist said categorically.

There was silence in the tent at first, and then there were whispers, some people agreed with Lorlist's decision, while others hesitated, after all, judging from the confessions of the captives, the army of Count Corbilly's family far exceeded the armed strength of the convoy, and this battle could be won?

While everyone was talking, a light cavalryman came from outside the tent, and he reported to Lorist that a knight named Josk had asked to see him outside the barracks gate, and he said that he had accepted the invitation of the new owner of the barracks to come to visit.

Lorist slapped his thigh and said, "Please, wait, I'll meet him outside the gate......"