Born as highland giants, these warriors were adept at trekking deep in the mountains and dense forests, and with two magicians leading the way, they evaded the scouts sent by the city of Salem and entered the heart of the Duk Plain. The undeveloped area of the Duc Plain is very large, and many places are still overgrown suburbs, and it is difficult for more than 100 people to go around and find it.

I don't know who leaked the news, but this team actually knew the exact route and time of Joshua and the others' advance. The guards escorted Joshua and the others through the wilderness, and in the evening they had just set up camp, set up a big tent and put the gold plates, and prayed before dinner, when a group of plateau giants with swords and guns suddenly appeared in the dense forest.

These men were burly and hideous-looking, and the weapons in their hands were heavy and sharp. One man shouted, "Where are the miners in Duketown, come out and go back with me, and you can still live!"

The leader of the squad from Salem City was in a cold sweat at that time, the well-trained plateau giants have always been terrifying warriors on the battlefield, and those people on the other side are obviously not explorers or ordinary robbers in the wasteland. Judging by their standing posture and the queue they formed, they are definitely soldiers who have been regularly drilled, and the combat effectiveness exerted by such a military formation is far beyond the comparison of the rabble.

The enemy was dressed as hunters and gathered hundreds of people, and this squad leader only had twelve soldiers under his command, so he could not be an opponent at all. What's even more terrifying is that there are still two people with magic staff in the opposing team, and the magicians can exert the greatest power when they cooperate with the military formation, especially the legion priests who have been specially trained to cooperate.

The squad leader thought that he was a member of the Link tribe back then, and he had followed Amon to hunt in the mountains, and he had been a third-level warrior after practicing for so many years, and he was also very timid, but he was not overly panicked, his calm face and voice trembled slightly, and whispered to Joshua: "I gather soldiers to charge, you take the opportunity to leave quickly, flee as many people as you can, go through the field to Salem City, and be sure to report what happened here to Lord Aesop." ”

Joshua said in a deep voice, "It may not be impossible to fight. ”

The squad leader stomped his feet: "Those are plateau giants, born with infinite strength! And they are not a wandering tribe, they are a trained army, if they don't escape, they will only be wiped out!"

Joshua: "There are more of them, and we can't escape in this wasteland." ”

Othony, the head of the Twelve Judges, came over and said, "Captain Dirk, gather your team to protect the big tent and the people in the tent, and the soldiers in front of you will be handed over to us." ”

Captain Dirk's eyes widened in surprise and said, "You guys?"

Othanes nodded, "Yes, let's solve it." ”

...... Goliath is a noble warrior, it is not easy for him to have a noble status as a plateau giant, he has been a plateau giant living in the Assyrian kingdom for three generations, and he became a nobleman because of his grandfather's military exploits. As an adult, Goliath also joined the Assyrian Giants' legions, becoming the personal guard of the legion commander Philistine, and later rising to the captain of the infantry battle formation.

This time the legions of giants were sent to the south of the Assyrian plateau, and while crossing the desolate and precipitous mountains, Goliab was full of doubts about the order of His Majesty the King, and sent the most elite legions of the kingdom to such a ghost place.

It was only when he reached the plain of Duc that he understood what it was all about, that this rich land was so vast that it was waiting to be cultivated and occupied, and that, if all annexed, would be equal to one-third of the arable land of the Assyrian kingdom, and that it would be much more abundant in the future than elsewhere.

But a city of Salem stood in front of them, blocking their way. The Philistine commander led the vanguard to establish a fortification at the foot of the mountain, and with the arrival of a steady stream of follow-up troops, the city of Enriel was built. If the city of Enril is built in the future, there will be no problem accommodating nearly 100,000 people in terms of the territory they can control. However, the Assyrian kingdom sent its most elite army to climb the Qualto to this place, and of course the purpose was not only to establish such a foreign city-state.

The first "treasure" they found when they arrived on the Duk Plain was the mines of the Duk tribesmen, which had the best iron ore and sacred stone mines on the continent, both of which were strategic materials urgently needed by the Assyrian Kingdom. The first conflict with the city of Salem took place during the battle for the mines, when the city-state of Enriel was not firmly established, and the city of Salem also needed time to develop, so the negotiations were successful for the time being.

Now that the city of Enriel is getting bigger and bigger, more and more people are arriving, and if all the supplies have to be transported through the Assyrian plateau, the logistics have reached the limit, and there is no way to station more troops. At this time, it was necessary to advance south, first of all, to conquer the city of Salem, and the occupation of the mines was only the first step in waging war, and it was also a test of the strength of the city of Salem.

In fact, in the southern foothills of the Assyrian Plateau, there are many places where iron ore is produced, but the Duke Town Mine, which has been proven and mined well, is the richest in iron among them, and it can save a huge amount of labor and do not need to be re-explored and excavated. What's more, that place is still the place with the highest concentration of divine stone production on the mainland, so you have to get it first anyway.

The miners of Duke Town, who are familiar with the distribution of ore veins, are good at smelting refined iron, and can take divine stones, are also a wealth, they have mastered the skills that have been passed down from generation to generation, on the other hand, thousands of years of blood precipitation have made this tribe more adept at learning this skill, even if the miners' skills of Duke Town are taught to others, the heat is always a little worse, and only a few people can use it as skillfully as the miners of Duke Town.

The Philistines were guided by the gods to know that the surviving miners of Duk were about to reach Salem City, and that they were the masters of the mines and that they must not fall into Aesop's hands. It would be better to capture the best of the best miners in the city of Enriel, and if they can't do so, they will be killed, so Goliath will be sent to take charge of the operation.

Goliath was in charge of directing the craftsmen to open the mines in the city of Enriel, and the life in the mines was of course much more difficult than in the city, and the daily work was boring and monotonous. He was a samurai who aspired to make a mark on the battlefield, and his giant warriors, though powerful, could not be used as coolies in the main mines. After receiving the order of the Philistine city lord, he was very happy to command the soldiers into the jungle, and the war he had been waiting for finally came!

The secret march through the jungle, though treacherous, felt much more exciting than in the mines, with spirits secretly directing them along the way to what route to take and when to get there. They were able to stop the miners of Duk Town, who had just set up camp in ragged clothes and were praying to an ornate tent surrounded by only a dozen armored cavalrymen with horses tied to a nearby tree.

Goliath felt that he was favored by the gods, and as if he had seen the outcome of the battle, he killed all the soldiers, women and children, and brought the strongest miners back to the city of Enriel. In the future, after the victory of the war, he will also be able to gain a territory in this new rich territory by virtue of his merits, and become a great nobleman with a famous title.

Goliath and his men stopped in front of the col, thinking that it was beautiful, waiting for the other party to surrender voluntarily. I saw that the dozen or so soldiers got on their horses, but they did not dare to charge, but surrounded the tent in the camp, and there were still people praying in the tent, were they praying to the gods?

Goliath was surprised to see the ragged miners stand up and walk out of the camp in a formation with machetes, sledgehammers, clubs, and other disorganized weapons. At the front were twelve men, holding iron rods in the shape of branches, which were stainless iron billets that had not been fully forged, followed by more than thirty sturdy men.

Goliath couldn't help but laugh, these people were wearing tattered clothes and holding tattered weapons, did they go out to fight dogs or food? Could they all be crazy and want to fight against their own giant warriors? Goliath had two priests in his ranks, and he himself was immensely powerful, far more powerful than the average mid-rank samurai, and thought that he had killed them all.

Of course, they can't all be killed, and most of them have to be brought back as prisoners of war, and Goliath is ready to come and shake these unknown miners and let them know that they are going to surrender obediently. He walked to the open ground with a sneer with a huge long knife in his hand, pointed to the other side and said: "You sinners, lay down your weapons and go back with me, I promise that I will try to be as merciful as possible to the useful miners, if you try to resist, there is only one way to die!"

As he spoke, he swung the heavy long knife in his hand twice, and the terrifying giant blade with a faint light let out a scream that pierced the air, and in the giant's hand it was as easy as wielding a feather.

Othane, who was opposite Goliath, said expressionlessly: "You are already a dead end!"

The miners of Duk Town have endured so much suffering that they encounter enemies as they approach their hometown, and their anger is finally unquenchable when they face off in a head-to-head duel for the first time. There are more than sixty clansmen in total, and more than forty of them are young and strong miners, and their combat strength is no less than that of the plateau giants, especially the twelve judges who cultivate the strength of one and two sides and have mid-level achievements, they are not afraid of this battle at all, they have not shown their strength yet!

Goliath didn't know that he was facing twelve mid-level magicians who had mastered mid-level physical arts at the same time, and in a regular battle formation, no magician would go in front of a samurai. He was ready to stride forward, wielding a giant blade to cut a few people in two, and then using his knife to sweep all the remaining people away, and it was estimated that the miners behind him would collapse without a fight.

However, at the moment when Goliath swung his sword and Othanes drank coldly, no one expected that a child suddenly rushed out of the miners' ranks, and shouted, "My god will show his might!"

The boy was David-Solomon, whom Otreppen had kept in the Great Tent, and the people of Duc had a dozen non-combatants, such as Joshua's and Moses' maidservants, and the youngest David. While Othorne led the miners steadily towards the enemy, David suddenly broke out of the crowd and rushed over.

Othorne hurriedly shouted, "David is coming back soon!" but David had already made a move.

Of course, Goliath saw David, and of course the soldiers dozens of paces behind him also saw it, and let out a burst of laughter, but no one took David seriously. David was just a child, with a one-foot-long hunting knife stuck in his waist, and he didn't even wear leather armor, and his "weapon" was a rubber band that could be ejected from the end of the stone, which could also kill enemies in combat, but in David's hands it was like a child's toy.

Goliath casually turned the knife peak, wanting to use the thick back of the knife to bounce the stone back with the dexterity of martial arts, and directly break David's tendons and fractures, leaving an unforgettable lesson for this child who does not know the height of the sky. However, as soon as he flipped his wrist and swung his knife, he heard the priest behind him shouting, "Captain, be careful!"

The stone bounced out of the rubber band flew in the air, and the speed would get slower and slower until it hit the ground, and David was more than twenty steps away from Goliath, and this stone was about to be hit by Goliath's blade, but it suddenly accelerated strangely. Goliath only felt a flower in front of him, and the flying stone passed through the blade as if it were passing through the air.

Of course, the stone can't pass through the blade, this is the acceleration of spatial transfer, a typical mid-level auxiliary divine technique, the two priests sensed the mana fluctuation, and it was too late to remind them. The cobblestone suddenly turned into a flash of lightning with white light, and Goliath suddenly lowered his head and tried to dodge, but he was too tall, and the white light hit his forehead!

With a muffled bang, the stone exploded and shattered in an instant, and Goliath's forehead sank into a large piece, the knife in his hand fell to the ground, and his huge body fell backwards with a bang. His head was so hard that it hadn't been pierced by the stone that had been impacted with energy, but it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.

David's skill was extremely agile, and as he ejected the stone, he flew forward, jumped on Goliath's body in one step, drew his hunting knife and cut off the huge head with a cold light. The giant soldiers exclaimed, and had already hurled their spears at him, and the two magicians raised their staffs, and a flame fell in mid-air and rolled towards the child.

The Twelve Judges were dumbfounded, and immediately raised their iron rods and rushed over, and a cloud of ice mist was swept up with the wind, scattering the sea of fire in front of David, and as if they had agreed, the twelve threw a stone the size of a pebble at the same time. The target of the attack was very clear, it was the two priests in the opponent's battle array.

Those two priests were also unlucky enough, they didn't know what kind of opponent they were facing at all, and they had never seen a magician in the battle formation of the Tianshu Continent holding a weapon and launching a hand-to-hand charge. The twelve judges simultaneously cast their magic spells and threw stones, these stones with a trembling humming sound were so powerful that the two priests hurriedly turned their staffs without thinking about launching an attack, and a wall of earth instantly surged in front of them, and the warriors on both sides also rushed forward and waved their weapons to block the flying stones.

These warriors disguised themselves as hunters and entered the jungle, without carrying heavy shields, and a stone hit the weapon of the giant warrior, and with a strong impact and tremor turned into powder, it actually shook the burly giant into the air, and the first stone smashed the earthen wall, and before the priest could finish the spell, the second stone smashed the earthen wall into smoke, and then the stone behind it smashed through the smoke and dust and hit the priest who cast the spell. A long hiss of pain was heard, accompanied by a blood mist bursting open, and the two priests were killed on the spot.

Stone smashing is a game that the miners of Duke Town have played since childhood, the life of the miners is monotonous and there is no entertainment to enjoy, the children set up a stone pile on the ground, and use the stone to smash it from a distance, which is faster than who smashes it accurately, and the stone pile of the other party can be smashed down first is the winner, and the stones they throw can be hit extremely accurately and far. And in the hands of the twelve judges, who have mastered the power of one body and two sides, this game of throwing stones since childhood has also become a powerful combat skill.

By this time David was already holding Goliath by the hair, stood on the corpse of the giant, raised his head high, and shouted, "God gives us victory!"

The Twelve Judges, wielding various weapons with the miners, had already rushed into the battle formation of the giant warriors, and the other party was terrified and suddenly collapsed, and many soldiers turned around and ran. The opponents they encountered were so terrifying that a child wiped out the powerful leader Goliath, and before the battle could begin, two of the priests in the team were killed. The miners, who were originally vulnerable in their eyes, now seem to have become the most terrifying monsters in the world, and the formation is chaotic and morale is lost, and the battle cannot be fought.

The Twelve Judges rushed to the front, like a tiger entering a flock, with a dazzling light on the iron staff, accompanied by an explosion of energy impact, and the giant warriors in front of him fell to the ground one after another. By the time the miners in the back rushed up with sledgehammers and machetes, there was no need to do anything more, and more than a hundred giant warriors fell more than thirty, and the rest fled into the dense forest like frightened birds.

Othonie shouted: "Divided into four teams, every three judges will take eight miners to search, and they can't be let go back to report the news...... Captain Dirk, you protect the camp...... David, where's David?"

In just a few moments, David had already chased the fleeing giant warriors into the dense forest, Goliath's head on the chest of the corpse. Othanes commanded, "Whoever sees David and tells him to come back quickly, it will be getting dark, and it is dangerous to go into the jungle alone to chase those giants!"

Today's encounter was a great victory, David made the first contribution, even the twelve judges did not know that the young David had such great ability, Moses did not hold a power awakening ceremony for him, who taught it? Chasing and killing the fleeing giants in the wilderness, the judges launched a detective search for movement on all sides, and in this overgrown place, they could not run far in the dark night.

The miners pursued the mountains all night and found nearly seventy giant warriors, of whom more than twenty were killed in the resistance, and the remaining thirty or so were taken prisoner. When they pressed the captives back into the camp, David had not returned. Everyone was a little worried, there were still more than twenty escaped giant warriors who were not caught, would this child be in danger?

(To be continued)