The snowflakes flying in the night sky are like blades flying in the sky, and when they fall on people's faces, they will hurt like a knife.

Cumberland stood in the wind and snow, his hands spread out to face the wind and snow, raised his head to look up at the night sky where he couldn't see anything, the snowflakes sprinkled kept falling from the night sky, the desert had little rain and snow all year round, I didn't expect such a heavy snow before the sneak attack on the army that came out of the barren land.

Cumberland's mood was a little depressed at the moment, seeing those people ruining his home, he was like a wind wolf in the desert, just wanting to roar angrily against the north wind, in this endless snowy night, his heart was already filled with hatred, but he was not blinded by hatred, when he left the Huwan Oasis with almost all his belongings, he had sent fast horses to the other oases where the robbers were stationed around him to ask for help.

Although the bandits on this side of the desert are not a unit, they are like a plate of scattered sand scattered all over the desert, but when facing a common enemy, they can still gather together and form a fist to attack the same place.

Cumberland has been crisscrossing the desert for decades, although he has not developed his bandit group into one of the largest forces in the desert, but he has a good reputation in this area, and has some contacts with the surrounding bandit groups, at this time he sent people to lobby them, only to say that the city of Hylanza, which is stationed on the other side of the barren land, finally realized their existence and sent troops to clear this place, and those bandits will not sit still.

The snow hung from his beard and landed on his fur cloak, making him look like a snowman.

A team of horses appeared in the sand dunes in the distance, and he snapped open his eyes to see the knights who were still advancing steadily in the wind and snow, and at the sight of the scimitars hanging from their waists, Cumberland knew that his chances of winning the night battle tonight had increased by one point.

More than one team of horses appeared in his field of vision, and his heart, which had been somewhat dormant, immediately became surging again.

If there was only a five-to-five chance of winning before, then when he saw these bandit groups that appeared in the snowy night, he felt that the odds of winning suddenly rose to ten.

One of his men came up from behind and excitedly reported to Cumberland: "The leader of Cumberland, the leader of the nearby oasis has already arrived, and it is said that they have also heard of this army from the barren land these days. ”

"Invite them to my tent, and I'll be there shortly."

Cumberland knew that he had to meet the next meeting with the fullest spirit, he squatted down, picked up some snow on the sand with both hands, rubbed his hands and face with the snow, and made his body less hard, he needed to give himself the confidence to win, he needed to use the victory in his heart to infect the others around him.

He was almost fifty years old.

In the desert, he who can live to his age, I don't know how many wars he has experienced in this life.

Living a life of licking blood with a knife, he will not be moved by anything casually, nor will he be decadent because of any small setbacks.

He is like the most tenacious sea buckthorn grass in the desert, and the water in his body is evaporated in time, even if the rhizome is rooted in the shallow gravel, as long as there is a little moisture, it will immediately become green.

His cloudy eyes were bloodshot, but there was a shrewd gaze hidden in him.

With one hand on the scimitar at his waist, his courage rose at once, and he strode to the tent behind the hill, and wherever he passed, all the robbers who saw him stood up, and as he passed by each of them, he would strike them hard with his fist on their shoulders to lift their spirits.

Cumberland grimaced, and commanded the young robber: "Rest well, we will set off later, I don't want to see you yawning on the battlefield, maybe in the blink of an eye, the enemy's sword will cut your neck and break your chest, all you have to do is to prevent them from having any chance to bite his throat with the fiercest face, like a wind wolf in the wilderness." ”

"Yes, Chief!"

The young robber stood up straight, and when he heard the Cumberland chief say that he was about to blow the horn of a counterattack, he was immediately as excited as if he had been beaten with blood.

Cumberland nodded in satisfaction, believing that on the battlefield, having the belief that he would win was more important than anything else.

Two huge braziers were lit in front of his tent, and a dozen war horses gathered outside the tent, and some robbers stood outside the tent, surrounding the two braziers in the wind and snow.

Cumberland ordered his men to add two more braziers, so that the robbers outside the tent could be fired.

When I lifted the curtain of the tent, I found that the tent was already crowded with people, and I didn't know them.

When the robbers who were familiar with him saw Cumberland walking in, they hurriedly took the initiative to greet him, and the tent became very lively for a while.

"Driven out of the oasis like a wild dog, and in the end the leaders need to come to their aid, and Cumberland is here to thank the leaders for their help!" Cumberland stood at the door of the tent and said gratefully to the robbers inside.

A bald man named Lowell hurriedly walked out of the center of the tent and said kindly: "Chief Cumberland, what you said is a bit serious, in fact, helping you is also helping ourselves, we all know that if we don't come tonight, they will touch us one night sooner or later, they are not here to rob us this time, they appeared in the southern edge of the desert this time, just to destroy everything here and destroy the home we rely on for survival." ”

The other bandit leaders in the tent chimed in: "Yes, Chief Lowell is right, and we think so too. ”

A bandit leader with a scar on his face said resentfully: "Those poor ghosts in the barren land probably can't stand our patronage and want to fight to the death, this time we will fulfill them!" ”

Lowell touched his shiny bald head and said, "Maybe it's because we've been cutting leeks too often lately, which has aroused our resistance." ”

"So what do we do now?" A bandit leader named Keplov asked.

Everyone was talking about it, and the leader of the scar-faced bandits was very angry, and said angrily: "Or let them wander in the desert, and take advantage of the emptiness of their barren land, and we will rush to the barren land and wash those villages in blood?" ”

The leader of Keplov casually shouted: "Let's have a little chance, leave those people, next year our food will be available, and we will not be able to do anything to kill chickens and take eggs." ”

All of a sudden, the roof of the tent was almost lifted by the leaders, and none of them obeyed anyone.

"Chief Cumberland, what are we going to do?" The leader of Lowell stepped forward, and his tall body stood in front of the leader of Cumberland.

Cumberland was probably the oldest, most knowledgeable, and most battle-hardened bandit leader among these chiefs, and almost all bandits of his age deserved to die, and they deserved to retreat.

Everyone's eyes fell on Cumberland.

Cumberland almost didn't hesitate, and said directly: "There are so many of us, of course, to give those nobles who dare to put their hands into the desert a blow to the head, stretch out their hands and feet, so that they will not dare to step into the desert from now on." ”

His proposal was almost in the interests of most of the bandit leaders, and as soon as he said it, it was immediately responded to by most of the leaders.

This time, a total of six bandit bandits had arrived from all over the country to reinforce them, and they were able to repel the army that had infiltrated the desert, which was also what they had been thinking about recently.

"Cumberland chief, can you determine where they are now?" The leader of Keplov asked.

Cumberland nodded affirmatively and said, "Well, they were still stationed in the Huwan Oasis before nightfall, and now that it is snowing so heavily, it is absolutely impossible for them to march in the snowy night." ”

Then he went to the innermost part of the tent, unfolded a map rolled into a scroll, pointed to the location of the Huwan Oasis on the map, and said to the six leaders who had come together:

"We were able to muster together a thousand people this time, they only had two hundred cavalry, including more than fifty elites, there were no knights, and the number of people we participated in this battle was four times more than theirs, as long as we used the tactics of the sea of people, crushed them with a strong force advantage, surrounded them from four directions, and could crush them in an instant."

When the Cumberland leader said this, the other bandit leaders immediately responded.

The combat method is simple and straightforward, and it is completely a wolf pack tactic that evolved from the wind wolf in the desert.

A robber brought a teapot full of milk tea from outside the tent, and the leaders sat down.

"When did the Badlands have this power?" The leader of Keplov asked, although his bandit group also went to the barren land to rob, but it was far away from the barren land, and the news was relatively closed.

The Cumberland leader sighed and said depressedly: "I also just learned about their existence, I heard that there was a sheriff in the barren land, and then I also knew that there were two warriors who had a good hand to roam the barren land from time to time, but they rarely appeared in the desert ......"

The bandit leader gathered in his tent and waited until midnight, when two more bands arrived.

The chief of Cumberland saw that the wind and snow had ceased outside, and then he said to the other robber leaders:

"It's almost time, let's go!"

……

Surdak didn't expect the decisive battle with the bandits on the edge of the desert to break out so early, and he also planned to train his troops when the bandits were fighting at the edge of the desert.

Now, it's too late.

The bandits must have realized their strength and did not dare to fight alone, so they contacted the bandit groups of other oases, and the bad news for Surdak was that the battle would be tougher, but there was also a bright side, and if the battle was won, it would mean that they could level the southern edge of the desert.

Fortunately, after so many days of marching and fighting, the memories of the battle in the veterans of the cavalry battalion have been completely awakened.

Surdak took out two hundred sets of full-covered armor at night and asked Andrew to distribute these armors to the veterans, the only drawback of this heavy armor is that it is slightly inconvenient to move, and it is quite physically demanding, but Surdak is not worried about this, except that he can activate the 'power aura', almost all the veterans of the cavalry battalion currently have the blessing of the god of the 'blessed body'.

Those wind wolves made Surdak pay nearly 300 more gold coins, but at the same time brought Surdak more than 200 primary sacrifices, Surdak could not save all the wind wolf heads intact, so he blessed the veterans and mercenaries with the blessing of God.

The veterans saw that Surdak took advantage of the night to take out these full-coverage heavy armor that only the knights of the guard battalion were qualified to wear, and knew that there would probably be a hard battle tonight, so everyone silently put the armor on their bodies, and then picked up the matching tower shield, the entire surface of this tower shield is forged from stainless steel, and the surface is densely covered with neat four-sided nail thorns, and one tower shield is more than seventy pounds.

In normal times, even if these veterans could wear the full reloading armor, they would not be able to hold this heavy shield, but with the blessing of the blessed state of the 'Divine Blessed Body', they held the heavy shield on their chests. At the same time, it is not difficult to step forward and stab the spear in the hand.

Wearing the 'Shield of the Earth' magic pattern, Andrew walked back and forth in front of these veterans of the cavalry battalion, constantly telling and encouraging the veterans, repeatedly telling them that when they wore this kind of iron jar, they must form a formation and rely on the formation to fight against the bandits.

This armor can withstand most ordinary arrows, unless you are unlucky enough to encounter a visible void through the visor and pass through the eyes to form a fatal blow.

Ogre Gulitam still has some opinions about Andrew wearing Surdak's magic pattern structure, and he thinks that Andrew should give up this armor to Surdak...... In fact, Andrew thought the same way, but Surdak said that he would not accept anything, and there was nothing he could do.

Surdak couldn't explain it, and at this time, he couldn't say that his body couldn't bear the carrying capacity of the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structure, so he could only force Andrew to wear it on his body.

For these young guard battalion reserve knights, Surdak arranged them at the back of the camp, facing these young faces, they have just graduated from the knight academy, they have never experienced a cruel war, although they have learned some martial arts, but they have a fatal weakness, that is, they can't maintain their mentality, the will to fight is very weak, it's okay to win the battle, everyone will beat the water dogs, but the war against the wind is easy to collapse from them.

Therefore, when Surdak made the initial combat deployment, he also left them behind.

Viru came out of the snowstorm, his leather armor covered with ice flowers, and he got into the tent and said to Surdak, "They have gathered a lot of people this time. ”

Surdak was assigning tasks to the reserve knights of the guard battalion, and without thinking about it, he said, "Wouldn't that be better, save us from running around!" ”

Hearing Surdak say this, Viru didn't say anything more and walked out of the tent directly.