23. Rolling stones at the top of the mountain
At night, the mountain breeze blows from the top of the mountain wall, and there is a 'whine' sound.
The warriors guarding the mountain wall took turns to rest, and everyone did not dare to take off their armor, so they could only sit in a row against the mountain wall to rest.
The armor on the heavy infantry of the Grimm Empire is a full-cover heavy armor, almost except for the hands, feet and neck, which is extremely heavy-bearing when worn on the body, and if there is no sufficient physical strength, it can easily become a cage that imprisons the body.
But the advantages of this armor in battle are also extremely obvious, especially when fighting with the local natives of Handanar County, the heavy infantry regiment has almost no casualties, in fact, it also has a great advantage in dealing with the hyena group, but Baron Sidney's battle plan is a little aggressive, and the soldiers consume a lot of physical strength during the march, and before they have time to rest, they are besieged by the hyena group.
Otherwise, the hyenas in the Gandaer Mountains would not pose a threat to the hoplites.
The wall of fire effectively blocked the hyena herd, but it also trapped the soldiers of the 4th Brigade on the edge of the mountain wall, and the heat wave that surged over made everyone's mouths dry.
The soldiers of the first squadron did not have to stand at the gap in the wall of fire, and the hyenas were so afraid of fire that they did not dare to rush in.
Even if one or two red-eyed hyenas occasionally rushed into the gap, they would be killed directly by the soldiers guarding the exit, and the hyena's corpse was thrown into the fire, and the flames quickly ignited the fur on the hyena's body, and the hyena's corpse became charred in the fire, followed by the limbs and tail being ignited in the high temperature, and finally the whole charred body began to burst out of flames, and finally became part of the wall of fire.
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Jie Longnan brought back ten pots of water in one go, and learned from the other squads, propped the iron pot next to the fire wall, and boiled a large pot of thick marching rations, which is usually difficult to swallow, after dividing it this time, He Boqiang felt that he didn't need to swallow, and the sweet rice cereal could flow into his stomach.
He Boqiang was only wearing a thin leather armor, so he did not rush to the front in the battle with the hyena. Although the muscles all over the body were extremely sore, there was no injury on the body.
He Boqiang closed his eyes and sat on the stone wall, he could feel that the second star in the sea of spiritual consciousness was completely lit up, and then together with the first bright star, it emitted a soft shimmer outward, and these glimmers recovered his strength little by little, he wanted to ask Surdak if this was the case in his body.
He thought all this was incredible, and there was a star map in his body, but he still couldn't speak, and this kind of abstract thing couldn't be expressed with simple gestures, so he could only keep it in his heart.
Seeing He Boqiang, he quickly stood up from the side of the stone wall and gave up his position to the black boy Jie Longnan.
The members of the second squad, including Surdak, thought that He Boqiang was able to recover his strength so quickly because he was wearing a light leather armor.
Surdak's left leg was bitten by a hyena, his leg was wrapped in shin armor, the hound's fangs only pierced through the armor, leaving four bloody holes in Surdak's leg, the wound did not cause a second tear, and some antidote was applied when he was bitten.
He Boqiang helped Surdak remove the shin armor on the injured leg at this time, and saw that the four blood holes bitten by the hyena had coagulated into scabs, and it didn't seem to be poisoning, so he cleaned the wound again, and then bandaged the wound simply, helping Surdak put the shin armor back on.
Leaning against the stone wall, the veteran recounted the battle against the Oni Legion at the Kempato River, and although the battle was the biggest victory in Warsaw in recent years, no one knew that nearly seventy or so heavy infantry regiments were completely wiped out by the Oni Legion in that battle.
A fight of this magnitude is just a hors d'oeuvres for him at the moment.
However, probably only He Boqiang noticed that the veteran Ian's hands trembled so badly when he lit the cigarette that he almost shook out the small flame that had just been lit.
A story by veteran Ian eases the tension of the members of the second team a little.
Jeronnan leaned against the stone wall, trying to take off his arm armor and pants armor, and take advantage of the short break to take a nap.
But his actions were immediately stopped by Captain Sam.
Seeing that some of the team members around him even took off their breastplates, the black boy couldn't understand Captain Sam's decision, but he didn't complain, just sat in place, a little sullen.
It wasn't long before Baron Sidney's command was handed down for the warriors to camp and rest beneath the mountain wall.
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From time to time the howling of hyenas could be heard in the night, and the hyenas, who were stopped outside by the wall of fire, did not leave.
This was the first time He Boqiang had spent the night in the wilderness, and he was lying on the rocky ground, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
He Boqiang was a little worried that once the wall of fire was extinguished, those hyenas would pounce on them and tear up all the sleeping soldiers of the Fourth Brigade by the mountain wall. The black boy Jeronnan lying next to him slept very hard, and it was very uncomfortable to sleep in armor, and he shouted in his dreams to take off this armor.
Lying on his back on the rocky floor, he could see the starry sky when he opened his eyes, his body had fully recovered, and his body was not as sore as before, he wanted to walk around the camp, but he was afraid of causing trouble to Surdak and Captain Sam when he was interrogated by the soldiers on duty at night, so he could only twist his body twice casually and force himself to sleep for a while.
There was a soft gurgling sound along the mountain wall, and He Boqiang didn't pay much attention to it at first, but thought that it might be a natural sound caused by the mountain wind blowing over the cliff.
But then a trace of sand and gravel suddenly fell on He Boqiang's face, and he sat up from the ground with some alertness.
First like the crackling sound of a drizzle on a plantain leaf, then like a drummer beating a drum, the rolling sound gradually increased, and the whole mountain wall began to tremble slightly, and the mountain wall was like a galloping horse - and then the image of countless boulders rolling down the hillside appeared in his mind.
He Boqiang stood up from the ground, and he kicked Surzak and Jeronnan hard at all costs, and Surzak woke up from his deep sleep, and before he could react, he pulled him up from the ground.
Immediately afterwards, He Boqiang kicked each member of the second squad hard, and without waiting for Surdak to fully wake up, he ran towards the gap in the wall of fire.
"Hey, what's going on!"
Surdak was involved in a leg injury and limped when he ran to the ground, and he asked He Boqiang with a confused expression.
He Boqiang ran forward with an expressionless face and pointed above his head with his hand.
Surdak also heard the rumbling sound at this time, his face suddenly changed, and he shouted loudly to the bewildered Jeronnan behind him: "Geronnan, call Sam up, the landslide is on!" ”
Surdak's voice made the soldiers of the third squadron on duty at night completely wake up from their shock, and the camp was suddenly in chaos.
At this time, He Boqiang and Surdak had already run to the exit of the wall of fire, looking at the countless pairs of murderous blood-red eyes outside, He Boqiang clenched the Roman sword in his hand, got a square shield on the weapon pile, and rushed out with Surdak desperately.
Members of the second squad rushed out of the camp immediately after.
The gravel and gravel from the top of the mountain poured down like a torrential rain......