660. Profiteering industry
Night is approaching, and the afterglow of the remnant sun is like a fiery flame on the edge of the desert.
The desert bandits who rushed in front were like crashing into a wall, and the sea giant mercenaries led by Commander Gabri rushed from the front, and the reserve knights of the guard battalion rushed over from the left flank and entered the battlefield a little slowly, and the front of the oasis was already a mess.
Andrew led the veterans of the cavalry battalion to outflank from the right flank, they were generally horsemanlike, so they lined up with shields and spears to fight on foot, and the queue of two hundred people seemed to form a human wall in the dusk, with a strong sense of oppression, so that those robbers subconsciously did not want to break through from that direction.
At this moment, in the depths of the Sweetwater Oasis bandit camp, a bandit leader riding a white camel rushed out with a group of robbers, the white camel under him was a full circle larger than the other dromedary, and the group of robbers gathered around him were also very fierce murderers, they were wearing a variety of leather armor, and they did not choose to break through from the front.
The bandit leader circled around and tried to tear the mouth from the right side, but as soon as they turned their horses' heads, the veterans of the cavalry battalion raised their spears one after another, and when they wanted to charge this way, the veterans threw their spears without hesitation.
Throw a spear, which is several times more powerful than a bow and arrow.
The leader of the robbers looked at the rain of spears falling above his head, and turned around with the robbers around him, he knew that if he was covered by these spear rains, the light shield in his hand could not stop these flying spears, and the robbers' equestrian skills were exquisite, and they immediately turned around and completed it almost instantly.
Rao is like this, some robbers who react slowly are led by flying spears and horses, penetrating from top to bottom, and the scene is even more chaotic for a while.
Surdak led fifty reserve knights from the left flank to cover up, the reserve knights were wearing dark full-covered armor, and the knights' spears in their hands were also the standard weapons in the guard barracks, and the fifty knights were lined up like a wall of steel.
These academy graduates had only gone out to practice a few times before, and it was the first time in their lives that they had participated in this kind of melee, shouting and killing, and the fear in their bodies was almost quickly dispersed by the hot blood in their bodies, accompanied by a shouting of killing, and they rushed up behind Surdak, not even knowing how to raise their shields to block.
However, because they were well equipped and their faces were covered behind their visors, the robbers did not see that they were a flock of yellow-billed chicks at dusk, and when they saw fifty knights of the guard battalion rushing up from the left, they were so frightened at a glance that they did not even have the courage to resist, and desperately followed behind the white camel of the bandit leader, trying to break out of the encirclement.
The other women and slaves in the Sweetwater Oasis trembled with fear, and they all went into the tents in the oasis and did not dare to get out.
Just when the bandit leader hesitated slightly, not knowing which direction he should break through, two mercenaries rushed up, but were stopped by the cronies behind the bandit leader, the bandit leader waved a two-handed scimitar out of an afterimage, almost the battle cut off the long sword in the hands of the two mercenaries, the scimitar in the leader's hand slashed forward again, a deep and bony wound was cut on the chest of one mercenary, and the other mercenary took a big step back sideways and narrowly avoided it.
Just when he retreated, he was kicked down by the bandits on the side, and he was about to be hacked to death by the chaotic blade, and a knight phantom holding a sword and shield burst out behind him, and the phantom became extremely solid in his angry shouts, and in an instant, a pale golden shield blocked in front of his body, blocking the scimitars that had been chopped down.
The mercenary took the opportunity to roll around in the sand, avoiding the bandits' blades, only because he and his other companion rushed too far ahead, they were still surrounded by the bandits.
At this time, the mercenary group that came up from the front had already cut down more than twenty bandits, and Captain Gabri saw that the bandit leader was gathering the remaining bandits, and quickly formed a resistance force, and saw that some mercenaries were in a bitter battle, so he didn't dare to slack off, and rushed towards the bandit leader with the strongest men in the mercenary group.
Before Commander Gabri could ride his horse over, he saw a large man like a god descending from the earth, jumping into the side of the two mercenaries surrounded by bandits, he was wearing simple armor, carrying a bone-shattering stick in one hand, and smashed the two robbers at the waist, and forced more than a dozen robbers to retreat.
The iron fist of the other hand was fiercely chiseled on the head of a war horse that collided head-on, and with a muffled sound of melon cracking, the war horse was smashed and bleeding, and even the man and the horse fell to the ground.
Immediately, the ogre Gulitham let out a furious roar from the crowd.
The ogre's howl frightened the horses around them into weakness, and they refused to rush towards the ogre no matter what.
Behind the bandit leader on a white camel was the phantom of a wind wolf, and he was the first to slay at Gullitm, and under his leadership, the rest of the robbers had the courage to fight back.
Just as he rushed forward a few steps, a sense of crisis welled up from the bottom of his heart, making all the hairs on his body explode and stand on end.
The robber leader's chest seemed to be suffocated, and he was so frightened that he leaned back and pressed flat on the back of the white camel, and three sharp arrows quietly shuttled between the chaotic crowd, flying against his cheeks without a trace.
The robber leader's heart instantly cooled for a moment, knowing that he was being stared at from a distance by a sharpshooter, and he even wished that he had turned into a groundhog and ducked into the sand.
At this time, Wei Lu, who was standing fifty meters away, was also stunned, and the phantom of the sharp arrow slowly disappeared from behind him, but he didn't expect that the arrow that would kill was narrowly dodged by the bandit leader.
He saw a veteran of the cavalry battalion being slashed to the ground by the bandit with a scimitar, raising his hand to draw the bow and firing the arrow, the arrow barely saw any flight track in the dark dusk, and the 'poof' pierced the back of the robber's skull, the tip of the arrow penetrated from the center of the forehead and eyebrows, the robber's body froze at the moment when he raised the scimitar, and his body was led by the inertia of the arrow to rush forward two steps, and the round eyes revealed a kind of despair before death, and he fell to the ground.
Andrew on the battlefield is like a madman, he is wearing Surdak's 'Shield of the Earth' magic pattern structure, a pair of eyes full of killing and blood appear behind him, he doesn't pay attention to the weapons waved by the robbers around him, and Andrew in the axe shadow has several scars on his body, but each scar represents a robber's fresh life forcibly deprived by his butcher.
The 'Shield of the Earth' Devil's Pattern Construct is a heavy armor, and each piece of armor is mixed with some hard magic black iron, and it is difficult for the bandits' scimitars to cause substantial damage to Andrew's armor, rushing all the way, and even the 'Earth Shield' on the Devil's Pattern Construct is not activated.
Veterans of the cavalry battalion only had to follow Andrew to mend their swords.
An 'aura of strength' appeared under Surdak's body, and the reserve knights who followed him all felt an inexplicable power surging in their bodies.
The bandit leader sat up straight, and did not dare to chase the two mercenaries again, seeing Surdak rushing up from the left, followed by a group of guard battalion knights wearing standard armor, he did not dare to collide with Surdak, and saw the warriors surrounding him from all directions, beckoning a group of his subordinates to retreat towards the sweet water oasis behind him.
Where was Commander Gabri willing to let them get into the poplar forest covered with rime, the members of the mercenary group rode on horseback, showing their 'momentum' one after another, and instantly gained an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield, and a large group of robbers were cut down to the ground.
The ogre Gullitam and Captain Gabri caught up with the bandit leader almost at the same time, and the spear in Captain Gabri's hand stabbed the back of the robber leader, and the bandit leader was riding on the white camel and could not dodge, and with a roll of his body to the side, he jumped off the hunchback.
Gabri's regiment also pounced on his horse and instantly fought with the bandit leader.
The men who followed the bandit leader were about to rush to help, but they were entangled by the mercenaries who were chasing from behind.
The strength of the mercenaries is obviously much stronger than these bandits, but the robbers are numerous, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the defeat in the melee for a while.
Gulitham reached out and grabbed the reins of the white camel and dragged it to the ground. Legs on the body of the white camel, both hands around the four hooves of the white camel, skillfully felt out a hemp rope to tie the white camel strongly, and then also got rid of a small flag next to it......
"Gulitham, what are you doing?" Not far away, Andrew shouted angrily at the ogre.
Andrew on the battlefield was a barrel of explosives, and the ogre didn't dare to provoke him, so he quickly got up from the ground with a bone, waved the bone-crushing stick in his hand, and smashed the head of a robber who just wanted to slip past him, and then smiled: "I'm marking my loot!" ”
Andrew cut down the robbers in front of him, rushed to Gulitham, and said loudly: "Hurry up and work, don't let this group of robbers and horses run away!" ”
The leader of the robbers strangled with Captain Gabri with two knives in his hand, and a green wolf phantom condensed from time to time and bit towards Captain Gabbri.
Commander Gabri was not to be outdone by showing the gold-armored warriors behind him, and every time he stabbed out of his spear, it was full of white energy, and the bandit leader couldn't stop those strengths at all, and after only a few fights, his hands were stabbed with blood.
Seeing that none of the other mercenaries had come forward to help, Surdak joined up with Andrew and Gullitham and began to deal with the robbers around him who were still resisting.
The robbers were blocked by a dense poplar forest behind the Sweetwater Oasis, surrounded on three sides, and there was almost no way out.
Viru was always at the back of the line, he would not take the initiative to shoot the bandits, only the soldiers of the cavalry battalion and the guard battalion would draw their bows and shoot arrows in times of crisis, and help them deal with their opponents before they fell.
Gulit probably felt that since he had robbed the white camel, he should have killed its former owner, so he rushed forward without hesitation.
It just so happened that at this moment, the bandit leader raised his double knives, fighting the danger of being pierced in the chest, and locked the spear in the hand of the head of Gabry with his double knives, and when the two were wrestling, the ogre rushed up unreasonably, rounded the stick, and with a strong evil wind, slapped heavily on the back of the robber leader.
I saw that the buckles of the robber leader's breastplate were all stretched in an instant, and twenty-four ribs exploded from his chest like the open tentacles of an octopus, and came out of his chest.
The robber opened his mouth in his hand and spewed out some pieces of minced flesh with blood, and his body folded backwards to the extreme, flying more than ten meters away from the front.
Seeing the tragic death of their leader, the robbers who had lost their last bit of courage to resist were all gone, and fled in all directions.
Captain Gabri looked at the ogre with an angry expression, but Gullit seemed to be unaware of it, and ran over, picked up the sharp scimitar that the bandit leader had dropped on the ground, and ran to the corpse over there, removing the scabbard as well.
The mercenaries who followed behind Captain Gabri couldn't stand it and wanted to reason with Gulitham, but they were stopped by Captain Gabri with his hands.
A group of mercenaries began to quickly pick up the pieces.
The battle ended almost in just half an hour.
As night fell when the battle subsided, Surdak led a team of three hundred men to occupy the Sweetwater Oasis, and the veterans of the cavalry battalion quickly cleaned up the battlefield and counted the spoils.
Surdak ordered a few large poplar trees to be cut down, and a huge bonfire was lit in front of the Sweetwater Oasis woods, and all the robbers who were killed were stripped of their clothes, almost all of them were thrown into the fire with stripes, no matter how torn the leather armor or blood-stained clothes, the veterans in the cavalry camp would not dislike it, but they also knew the rules better, even a piece of rag, it was neatly piled up and placed on the side of the fire.
The gold and silver coins were all collected into a money bag, and the leather armor and weapons were piled up in a pile, as well as some personal belongings carried on their bodies.
The corpses twitched and made a slight noise under the raging fire, and finally turned to ashes in the fire.
There were special men to sort out the horses and camels of these robbers, and many horses were cut in battle, and the lightly injured ones were encircled with those who were not injured, and the seriously injured ones were killed on the spot and bled and cut into pieces of horse meat.
Gulit squatted to the side, watching the butcher kill the horse with relish, but he couldn't help but stretch out his hand.
According to the previous agreement with Surdak, the mercenaries of the mercenary group cut off the heads of the robbers they killed on the spot and piled them together, and the other trophies were also carried away by the veterans of the cavalry battalion.
Surdak also said what he said, and counted on the spot, thirty mercenaries killed a total of eighty-six robbers in this battle, counted out four hundred and thirty gold coins from the money bag and handed them to Gabre on the spot. Captain Gerry.
Then Surdak began to gather together the wounded in this battle, whether it was mercenaries, or veterans, or the group of reserve knights who were so excited in the battle that they had no effect, that they gathered in front of a tent whenever they were wounded.
This tent was originally owned by the robbers of the Sweetwater Oasis, Surdak walked into the tent, drove out a group of women who were hiding in the tent and shivered with fear, and used this tent as a temporary treatment room, and began to treat the injured with holy light magic, still giving priority to the seriously injured, and treating the wounded overnight.
With a group of veterans of the cavalry battalion, Andrew turned over the entire Sweetwater Oasis, and this time more than 100 horses and more than 60 camels were harvested alone......