In the mountains and dense forests of the night, there was a cry of owls, and the hoplite regiment of the 4th Brigade marched in the dense forest all day.

Although there were two short breaks, it was so late that the warriors in metal armor inevitably ran out of strength, and the team began to fall behind.

Although the sky was full of stars overhead, the woodland was pitch black, and the team could only grope their way slowly.

If you want to climb the mountain ridge on the west side of the big mountain pass, you need to take a very long detour.

From time to time, the nocturnal beasts in the forest are frightened and emerge from the bushes, and occasionally surprise a group of grey magpies that have returned to their nests.

Baron Sidney, who had been riding his horse for the day for the day, was naturally more energetic than the other warriors when he walked the mountain roads at night, especially when Baron Sidney was also embarrassed by the thorny bushes on the hillside.

His meticulously combed, light-colored blonde hair was greasy and messy, and he had an oval-shaped leaf on his head.

One of the squadron leaders who followed closely behind Baron Sidney said tactfully, "Lord Baron, or let the team rest first." ”

Baron Sidney looked at the dark mountains and woodlands, shook his head slowly, and said, "Let the soldiers hold on, this is not a place to rest, we need to climb to the top of the mountain with all our might." ”

The squadron leader had a bitter face, and when he saw Sidney walking forward without looking back, he could only give an order to the soldiers behind: "Let everyone follow!" ”

In the woodland of the Black Mountain Ridge, there are many tree and vine traps buried between those bushes and dense forests, and the soldiers will be tied to their ankles and hung on the trees by the slightest carelessness, although this kind of trap is not enough to kill people, but even if the soldiers are rescued from the trees, most of them are covered in scaly wounds, causing a certain degree of attrition.

In the dark night, this dense forest is like a terrifying monster with an abyssal mouth open, devouring the combat power of the Fourth Brigade little by little.

……

He Boqiang nudged Surdak gently, and his eyes fell on a hanging vine on the left.

Surdak immediately understood, hurriedly bypassed the vine, and turned back to Garcia the Red Sock behind him and whispered, "Indigenous hunters have set a lot of traps in the woodland, we have to be careful. ”

Garcia the Red Sock passed the news to his companion behind him, and followed in Surdak's footsteps, bypassing the taut vine.

Surdak walked behind He Boqiang and complained to He Boqiang in a low voice: "Actually, we can find a sheltered cliff to rest, after walking for a whole day, everyone's physical strength has dropped very much, and it is simply unrealistic to fight overnight." ”

He Boqiang cautiously groped his way forward, carefully dealing with the traps in the bushes in front of him.

In fact, He Boqiang has no experience in this, and can perceive the traps in the woods, purely by being cautious, maintaining this skeptical attitude towards everything that appears in front of him, those deliberately disguised traps, there will always be a trace of disharmony with the surrounding environment, He Boqiang relies on this to identify the traps in the dense forest.

He Boqiang walked at the front of the team, and he walked very slowly, so the second team slowly fell behind the team.

The steeper the slope of the mountain becomes, making it more difficult to navigate the road.

……

"Woo~~"

A terrible whimper was heard in the forest.

One of the hoplites who fell behind whispered to his companion:

"What's that sound?"

The companion beside him, dragging his heavy legs, replied weakly:

"It's like the sound of hyenas, and over there in my house, these guys like to stay in the cemetery, they eat everything."

The hoplite touched the weapon on his waist, and his heart, which had just calmed down, jokingly said:

"Including the bodies buried in the grave?"

The companion next to him stopped, with a kind of frightened sluggishness on his face, and his voice was a little cold:

"And the gravediggers of the cemetery."

The hoplite followed his companion's gaze, and in the dark forest, a pair of blood-red eyes were staring greedily at them.

The two soldiers were busy trying to catch up with the troops walking in front, but another pair of blood-red eyes lit up in the darkness, and then a pair of blood-red eyes opened from the darkness, and there were dozens of pairs for a while.

The two warriors wanted to warn the front, but they didn't expect those eyes to just attract their attention, two huge shadows appeared from behind them, a pair of hairy claws rested on the shoulders of the two warriors, the two hoplites thought that there were companions behind them patting them, and hurriedly turned back to look back, but they didn't expect to wait for a bloody mouth, which bit their throats like lightning and threw them both to the ground.

Before he could struggle, his body straightened, dragged into the darkness by the two huge shadows.

'Crunch crunch'

A sour biting sound came from behind.

He Boqiang felt a chill in his back.

At this time, the other heavily armored warriors who were behind the group also sensed that something was wrong, and they looked behind them with their voices out.

I saw a pair of blood-red eyes following closely behind, and the pair of red eyes that followed closely had already shown the outline of its body, which was clearly a hyena covered with spotted manes, they had big mouths with bloody mouths, each hyena was the size of a calf, and Bai Sensen's fangs were outside, reflecting the seeping light in the dark night.

"There are hyenas ......"

Someone shouted in the darkness, and the whole team stopped, and everyone looked back.

Sure enough, a lot of hyenas came out of the bushes in the woods, and a pair of blood-red eyes appeared one after another in the dark, and I don't know how many hyenas followed behind for a while.

Walking at the back of the line was the sixth squadron, and at this time, the leader of the sixth squadron of the fourth brigade immediately stood up and shouted to the soldiers in the last row:

"Keep quiet, don't shout, the shield warriors in the team are coming to the back, the longbowmen are ready, listen to my orders!"

The soldiers of the Fourth Brigade of the 57th Heavy Infantry Regiment were all well-trained veterans, and when someone gave orders, the soldiers immediately picked up their shields and quickly formed a shield wall, and the members of the second squad were also mixed in, He Boqiang raised the small round shield on his arm, and Surdak took the first step to block him behind him, holding a square shield with one hand.

After all, everyone is a well-trained warrior, and the speed of formation is very fast.

The longbowmen in the middle of the line immediately put on the longbow string in a daze, and then lined up on the battlefield and placed the steel arrows on the bowstring and aimed them at the dense forest behind.

The squadron leader immediately gave the order: "Ready, release the arrows!" ”

A rain of arrows shot out of the ranks and disappeared into the woodland in an instant, and suddenly there was a wail of hyenas.

Just as the squadron leader was about to order the longbowmen to shoot a second round of arrows, the hyenas also came out of the dense forest behind.

"Whew~"

They desperately pounced on the shield wall of warriors in the rear, and immediately someone in the ranks shouted:

"Oh no, they're coming up."

"Block them, spearmen form a formation behind ......"