The Arctic Ice Sheet.

The raging wind and snow subsided a lot, and the snowflakes that flew in the sky turned into fine particles of frost.

Leon pursed his lips, and the few grains of snow frost that fell on his lips turned into cold droplets, moistening his somewhat chapped lips, and his dark eyes looking into the distance became more and more unfathomable.

Around him, dozens of Guards stood silently with weapons in hand, and the snow fell a thick layer on them, but they did not reach out to brush it off, and they looked like snowmen from a distance.

The terrible screams that came from not far away became faint, and a leopard-descendant scout hurried over and said in a deep voice, "My lord, the confession has come out!"

The scouts of the Thunderbeast Brigade annihilated a squad of Barbarians in the snowfield and captured a Barbarian warrior, who Leon ordered to be tortured to extract a confession from the enemy.

The Thunder Beast Scout is the elite trained by Leon himself, and torture is one of the basic skills, and it is difficult for the iron-beaten man to withstand their persecution.

However, this barbarian had a lot of backbone, and he never spoke under severe torture, and only with the help of the power of the shaman who accompanied the army, and used special spells when he was at his weakest, did he get the information he needed.

This barbarian scout team from Valen is tasked with patrolling the supply convoys in the rear to ensure the safety of the supply line and to guard against possible infiltration by the Beamon army.

This is not to say that the enemy forces in Valen were aware of the arrival of the Third Warband, in fact they did not believe that the Bimon army would dare to launch a counterattack in the snow and ice, so there were only a few similar ranger squads.

What is certain is that Hylandji has become a supply transit point for the barbarian army, as Leon had predicted, but it is unclear how many people are there now.

"Let's go, I'm going to capture Hailanji before I fall!" After listening to the scout's report, Leon immediately gave the order.

The Thunderbeast warriors hurriedly swallowed the dry food in their mouths, grabbed a handful of snow or stuffed it into their mouths or wiped their faces, quickly jumped up from the snow, and relined to move on.

This time they picked up the pace considerably.

After nearly an hour of rapid marching, large undulating snow hills appeared on the snowfield in the distance, and the guide in the army pointed ahead and said loudly to Leon: "My lord, that's Hailanji!"

The direction he was pointing was between two snow hills, where a ruin-like town could be seen, mostly snow-buried houses.

Evidence of the presence of someone there was a few pillars of smoke rising from the town into the sky.

It's finally here! Leon perked up.

"Rose, I'll attack from the front with the main force, and you will outflank them from the flank with the scouts and intercept all the deserters!"

Hailanji is not a fortress city, there are no strong and tall walls, and the environment on the snow field is open and accessible, so the enemy can flee in all directions.

Therefore, it is not difficult for Leon to attack, the difficult thing is to destroy the enemy without letting go of one, which is conducive to the next move.

Rose nodded, and immediately broke away from the main team with the scout team, and turned northwest to carry out the interception mission.

When he got here, Leon didn't plan to hide the team's whereabouts, in fact, he couldn't hide it if he wanted to.

The Thunder Beast Brigade rushed towards Hailanji like a fierce tiger!

Woo!~ A hurried horn suddenly sounded in the Hailan set not far away, and the enemy had apparently discovered the danger coming.

Hundreds of barbarian warriors rushed out of the town, screaming and meeting the Thunderbeast brigade, including hundreds of snow camel warriors.

Leon was still worried that the enemy would defend in the ruins, and he didn't expect them to take the initiative to run out of it to fight the Thunder Beast Brigade in the field, which was exactly what he wanted.

"Prepare for battle!"

Lei Ang Huo Ran pulled out the Lei Yan battle knife and shouted angrily.

A loud battle song rang out, and one after another circle of golden aura bloomed in the team, affecting every Thunderbeast warrior.

The shamans who accompanied the army blessed the warriors with magic in time.

The thunder beast warriors were in high spirits, the power of divine magic helped them dispel the severe cold, making their beast blood boil, the strength and battle intent in their bodies were instantly raised to the peak, and the pace of the charge became more and more calm and powerful.

The enemy's snow camel cavalry was the first to approach the Thunderbeast Brigade and spread out to the left and right, and they found that the Thunderbeast Brigade did not have many cavalry, so they attempted to harass the Thunderbeast Brigade from both flanks.

Once the Thunder Beast Brigade is in chaos, the war cavalry can directly rush in and slash, which is the natural advantage of the cavalry.

The tactics of the barbarian cavalry were undoubtedly correct, but they didn't know the strength of the Thunderbeast Brigade.

"Stop, line up to defend the formation, archers ready!"

With Leon's order, the Thunderbeast Brigade immediately stopped advancing and re-lined up, and the warriors with large shields protected the two wings in front of them, protecting the archers and shamans in the middle.

The speed of the Thunder Beast Brigade was extremely fast, and when the enemy cavalry approached to a distance of three or four hundred paces, the archers in the team had already drawn their longbows, and arrows flashed with cold light and pointed at the enemy.

"Shoot!"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Hundreds of feathered arrows flew violently under the powerful pull of the bowstring, tearing through the air and letting out a shuddering roar, falling towards the barbarian cavalry!

The barbarian cavalry originally planned to use their bows and arrows to attack the Thunder Beast Brigade after approaching a similar distance, and there was no chance of winning with a mere hundred horsemen rushing against the thousand-man brigade, but this kind of cavalry guerrilla tactics was their forte.

But now the play is completely ruined, because the special longbow used by the Thunderbeast archers is completely more powerful than the standard bow of the Beamon army.

In terms of investment in long-range strike power, Leon has always spared no effort and spared no blood, and the longbows of the Thunderbeast archers are all made by the excellent craftsmen of the human race, and the best materials are used to improve them, even the feather arrows as consumables are much more expensive than ordinary arrows.

It can be said that a volley of thunder beast archers shot out one shining gold coin after another!

The power of money is enormous! At a distance that the enemy did not expect, the strength of the thunder beast archers was undoubtedly revealed, and the arrows rained down so fast and sharp that the barbarian cavalry caught off guard did not even have time to raise their round shields to block.

Poof!

The sound of triangular armor-piercing arrows piercing through leather armor rang out one after another, and the sharp metal arrows cut through the barbarians' tough muscles as easily as hot knives cut through butter, cutting off blood vessels and breaking bones, deep into their internal organs!

Dozens of barbarian cavalry and beast riders under their crotches turned into hedgehogs in an instant, and they fell to the snow with screams, their red blood staining the white snow.

It was only the first wave of arrows that intercepted, and the barbarians lost more than a third of their cavalry, which made the cavalry behind all shocked.

But the Thunderbeast Archers were not deterred by their shock and helplessness, and they all replaced them with a second feather arrow, and another wave of arrows shot over.

At this time, the barbarians, who realized that they had kicked the iron plate, were like ants blowing up their nests, and they turned around and tried to escape from the death zone.

However, their actions hastened their own deaths, as the arrows fired from behind pierced their backs mercilessly!

In the blink of an eye, the barbarian cavalry had lost seventy or eighty percent of their strength, and only twenty or thirty horsemen managed to escape.

With a bloody display, the Thunderbeast Archer gave these barbarians a lesson called Long-Range Fire Coverage Strike!

Woo!woo!~ The horn sounded again in the Hailan Collection, and hundreds of barbarian warriors who were facing the Thunder Beast Brigade from the front immediately turned around and retreated.

The leader of the enemy apparently realized that such a frontal attack and charge would be tantamount to death, and immediately gave up the idea of fighting the Thunderbeast Brigade on the snowfield.

"Charge!"

Leon pointed forward with his sword, clamped his legs hard, and the snow camel under his crotch hissed, and rushed forward with four hooves.

Iwazuki and several other samurai led the warriors to follow closely behind, and the usual rigorous training played its greatest role at this time, and even the new warriors were able to quickly complete the change of formation, from defense to offense.

In the face of the charge of the Thunderbeast Brigade, the barbarian side hurriedly retreated, and they retreated until the edge of the ruins before stopping to reorganize the array, and did not retreat into the Hailan Collection.

Such a scene fell in Leon's eyes, which made him slightly stunned in his heart.

In Leon's opinion, the barbarians did not have the capital to fight in the field with the Thunder Beast Brigade, and their only choice was to retreat into the ruins and hold on, relying on the individual advantages of the barbarian warriors and the advantage of the terrain to engage in street battles.

Leon was even mentally prepared for a street fight, but the enemy's movements were unexpected.

These barbarian warriors stood in line outside the ruins, didn't they want to be live targets for thunderbeast archers?

Because of the doubt, Leon pulled the reins hard, and the snow camel's charging speed immediately slowed down.

He raised his left arm and motioned for the warriors behind him to move forward slowly.

Although this may affect the momentum and fighting spirit of the Thunder Beast warriors, Leon never despises any opponent on the battlefield, as the so-called abnormal things must have demons, who knows what kind of hole cards the enemy has, any caution is necessary.

As it turned out, Leon's caution was not wrong.

Rumble!

When the Thunder Beast Brigade approached to the point where it was only four or five hundred steps away from Hailanji, a mutation protruded.

The earth shook violently, and a silver-white behemoth rose slowly from the ruins of the Barbarian Formation, at the back of the barbarian queue.

First the head, then the huge body, the thick limbs... When Leon saw the other party's true face, he couldn't help but gasp!

He finally knows what the enemy's hole cards are - the Frost Giant, the war puppet unique to the Barbarians!

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(To be continued)