667. The Battlefield Divided by Darkness 2
The fire in the camp soon erupted, and the flames of the dried sea buckthorn grass resounded fiercely in the north wind.
Originally, the robbers wanted to light a fire in the camp and cause some chaos.
It's just that what the leader of Lowell didn't expect was that they had just started, and there were fires everywhere in the camp, and the fire spread very quickly, not only forming a scorching wall of fire, but even the sand thieves who came from the left side were encircled in the sea of fire, and the rolling heat wave made the mane on the war horse become scorched, and the air became thinner and thinner, and the sand thieves soon felt that they could barely breathe.
The leader of Lowell wiped the sweat from his face, his back was a little sore from the flames, and every time he breathed into his lungs it was like a fire, and he threw away the torch in his hand and patted the neck of his horse to calm it down.
The horse beneath him looked restless in the burning camp, trying to break free from Lowell's grip and escape from here alone.
"Bastard, we've been tricked, let's go...... Everybody get out of here! ”
The leader of Lowell only felt a tightness in his heart, it was purely his keen sense of smell on the battlefield that smelled a hint of danger, so he subconsciously raised the light shield at his side, and an arrow shot head-on, with a 'bang', pierced the skin of the light shield, and the tip of the arrow peeked through the back of the oak plank.
The tip of the arrow was close to his forearm, and as long as it was half a centimeter downward, the arrow could penetrate his forearm.
He didn't even have time to pull out his feathered arrow, and whipped his horse the horse's thigh, and the horse leaped forward under his crotch, and the leader of Lowell felt his leather boots burning hot under his feet.
He was followed by a group of sand thieves, some of whom even had flames burning on their horses.
The passage in the camp was a bit narrow for the robbers on horseback, and some of the robbers could not squeeze in, so they had to rush forward along the other roads in the camp, and every ten seconds one of the robbers was shot off their horses.
They scrambled to break out of the camp.
Gulit squatted in the gap where the camp was not on fire, and with the bone-crushing stick erected beside him, a wave of heat hit his face, and Gulit had to take a few steps back.
Seeing a group of robbers in the camp rushing in his direction, Gullitham jerked to his feet, his tall body blocking the only exit from the camp.
Startling the leader of Lowell, he let out a strange cry and raised his scimitar in the air, pressing his body tightly against his horse.
The phantom that emerged behind him was a poisonous snake that chose to devour people, and the moment the leader of Lowell rushed up, the snake behind the leader of Lowell also opened its mouth at the same moment, revealing four half-foot-long fangs, and bit down towards Gulitham.
Gulit foamed at the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands vigorously, grabbed the bonecrusher on the side, lowered the center of gravity of his body, stepped on the sand with both feet, picked up the bonecrusher stick, and smashed it towards the leader of Lowell.
The leader of Lowell did not dare to fight hard with the ogre Gulitham, hid his body on the side of the war horse, and at the moment when the phantom of the giant poisonous snake rushed up, the scimitar in his hand was stabbed obliquely into the left rib of the ogre Gulitham, and the bone-crushing stick raised by the ogre smashed on the phantom of the viper, and a powerful wind blew away the hideous poisonous snake with a strong wind, and the bone-crushing stick smashed steadily on the top of the head of the war horse.
There was only a muffled sound, like a rotten watermelon bursting, and the horse of the leader of Lowell was knocked to the ground by an ogre with a stick before he could scream, and the heavy body of the horse fell violently to the sand, and the leader of Lowell ejected it like a cannonball.
Without waiting for the Lowell leader to fall steadily, the ogre backhanded a stick and chased towards the heart of the Lowell leader, the Lowell leader seemed to have a pair of eyes behind him, twisted his body in mid-air and raised his shield, and the moment the knight's light shield blocked the bone-shattering stick, he was smashed to pieces.
The leader of Lowell only felt a salty throat and spat out a mouthful of blood.
He gritted his teeth, forced himself to faint, and jumped away with the force of the collision.
A group of robbers on horseback rushed out from behind and slashed at the ogre.
The ogre didn't have time to pay attention to the leader of Lowell, and faced this group of ordinary robbers with a bone-crushing stick, although these robbers were skilled in equestrianism and particularly fierce in attack, one by one they were afraid to die and slashed at the ogre, but the ogre wielded the bone-crushing stick and shot down the horse one after another.
For a time, Gulit was also very skilled, and almost every step he took, a robber would fall from his horse. fell, and the sound of wailing was endless.
The leader of Lowell, who fell to the ground, saw the mad ogre, where did he still have the courage to fight again, grabbed the reins of a war horse from the side, turned over and rode on the war horse, and fled in the direction from which he came.
In the night sky, a black shadow galloped with a scream, and the leader of Lowell turned around on his horse as if he had a feeling, and a sharp arrow suddenly burst out of the darkness, pierced through the throat of the leader of Lowell, and flew out through a hole in his brainstem.
The leader of Lowell fell on his back, the sand and snow on the ground had been trampled by a group of war horses, he put his hands on his throat, which was constantly foaming at the blood, his mouth kept making painful 'whining' sounds, and his body only had a few rapid convulsions, and he lay straight on the sand.
The warhorse saw that the knight on horseback had fallen again, and after a few paces, he slowly stopped again.
The ogre Gulitham was guarding the exit of the camp, where he had been slaughtered with blood.
The robbers trapped in the camp saw that the ogre was so ferocious, where did they dare to rush out, the fire inside the camp was burning, the heat inside was suffocating, and these robbers rushed towards the weak point of a wall of fire formed by igniting the tent.
With some flames on their bodies, the horses jumped out of the burning camp......
These robbers thought that jumping out of the wall of fire would be an escape, but they didn't expect that outside the wall of fire stood a row of knights wearing the standard armor of the guard battalion, and the young faces were particularly nervous looking at the fire camp.
The crossbow arrows that came out of the row did not need to be accurate at all, and the robbers were shot and fell off their horses.
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Gabry, the leader of the mercenary group, stepped on the chest of the Scarface leader, pulled out the spear stuck in the center of his eyebrows with one hand, and a stream of bloody arrows burst out.
Commander Gabri only felt the body under his feet twitch violently, and his hands scratched a few times indiscriminately, and then straightened up.
Behind him, a group of mercenaries were cutting melons and vegetables on the battlefield, cutting off the heads of those robbers who had died in battle, throwing them together and putting them in linen bags.
The battle broke out very suddenly, this group of bandits, who were almost three hundred people, rushed over like a group of headless flies, seeing that there were only thirty people on the mercenary group's side, they rushed towards this side, and the eight high-level fighters on the mercenary group's side almost all had a few single magic pattern structures at the bottom of the box, and the weapons in their hands were also very precious magic weapons.
These mercenaries have been on the battlefield for so many years, and almost every one of them has some good goods in their hands, and their strength is much greater than that of the robbers in front of them.
But even so, it is still very risky for the mercenaries to fight against ten.
The only thing that can be let go is that the mercenaries know that they have a knight with holy light magic, even if they are injured in battle, it doesn't matter, and these mercenaries have been blessed by Surdak with the blessing of the 'Divine Blessed Body', and suddenly increased their strength out of thin air, which is undoubtedly a new world for these high-level warriors who have been stumbling for several years.
They have not advanced in power over the years, even if they want to maintain their current peak strength, they must continue to exercise every day.
And now that they inexplicably have stronger strength, they have some new insights in the battle.
Thirty mercenaries have already run in the usual battles to run in a tacit understanding, although they are fighting separately, but everyone is almost connected, when the battle is also together, when one person is in crisis, there will always be someone by the side to lend a hand.
This warband is almost like a meat grinder, unceremoniously strangling this group of desert bandits on the battlefield.
There was a black fog all around, so that the robbers suddenly lost their sense of direction at this moment, they were defeated and retreated under the attack of the mercenaries, and they couldn't break out of the range of the black fog no matter what, and the last three hundred people were actually killed by a mercenary group.
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Surdak and Andrew led two hundred cavalry battalion veterans to eliminate the Huwan Oasis sand thieves who rushed up from the front as fast as they could.
Andrew, like a god of death, slashed the Cumberland leader in half.
At the same time, the scimitar in the hand of the Cumberland leader also slashed at Andrew's shoulder.
The strength of the two was almost equal, but the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern on Andrew's body came out at the last moment with a thick earth shield, which resisted the killing slash of the Cumberland leader, so that Nanai Andrew finally won the victory.
The sand pirates, led by the leader of Keplov, came up from the rear of the camp, and they rushed down from the dunes with torches, and even saw the tents in the camp, and did not guard this side at all, but just before they were about to rush into the camp, endless darkness fell on them, making them seem to be wrapped in the night mist, and they wanted to rush into the camp in the direction they remembered.
But in the black fog, he rushed left and right, and he couldn't break through the black fog for a while.
When they finally waited for the black fog in front of them to dissipate, they saw a group of heavily armored infantry wearing full-cover armor appear in front of them, these soldiers held tower shields and spears in their hands, and lined up in a long human wall to block them.
Surdak stood in the center of the formation, a 'halo of strength' lit up under his feet, and Andrew stood at the front of the formation covered in blood, leading two hundred heavy infantry to approach the last group of sand thieves step by step.
The sand pirates led by the leader of Keplov arrived at the battlefield one step later, and at this moment the camp should have been a scene of scuffle, but except for the occasional screams and fights in the distance, the surroundings were very quiet, and the leader of Keplov immediately realized that he might be isolated.
He raised the scimitar in his hand, trying to beckon his group of men to retreat.
Only then did they find out that a mercenary group of thirty people was actually blocking their retreat......
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When there is a touch of fish belly white on the edge of the sky, the battle is considered to come to an end.
Nearly a thousand sand thieves were completely separated by Selena's 'Darkness Descending', and they could only fight on their own in the dark night, but Surdak led the team to break through them one by one, and only more than 200 robbers broke out of the dark fog and burrowed into the snowy desert without looking back.
There were nearly 800 sand thieves killed by Surdak's army, nearly half of the horses were killed and wounded and could not be treated, the corpses of the horses were piled up on the sand, and a team of veterans held skinning knives in their hands, constantly skinning horses, and pieces of horse flesh were bloodily placed on the hides.
Nearly 400 horses were captured this time, and the camels were not captured in this battle because the sand thieves attacked the camp and did not carry camel caravans.
Almost all the sand thieves who stayed behind were beheaded, and nearly 1,500 gold coins were recorded on the mercenary group's side alone.
All the sand thieves killed were burned on the spot, and thick smoke rose into the sky, and columns of smoke could be seen from more than ten kilometers away.
This time, with the help of Selena's 'Darkness Descending', they had the advantage in the battle, but after all, there were many sand thieves on the opposite side, and after a battle, almost everyone was wounded.
After the battle, Surdak was again in a busy state of treatment.
However, this time he automatically filtered out those members with minor injuries, because with the blessing of the gods with the 'Divine Blessed Body', minor injuries will heal quickly.
In this battle, almost half of the veterans were covered in bruises, but fortunately, the defense of the full-covered heavy armor was strong, and these wounds were at most deep to the bone, and few bones were cut off directly by the sand thieves, and Surdak was relatively easy to treat, and he even found five women who were good at needlework from the camp tent, and there was no means such as sterilization, and he directly used needlework to stitch up the larger wounds.
Then they were united to his side to apply the 'Holy Light Technique', and Surdak found that the wounds healed by the 'Holy Light Technique' were rarely inflamed.
When he dragged his tired body out of the tent, he found that it had taken a whole day, and the sand around the camp was almost red with blood.
Although the robbers' bodies had been disposed of, the camp still smelled of burnt corpses and blood.
The women captured in the Sweetwater Oasis were by the fire arranging the bloody leather armor that had been pulled from the sand thieves, trembling with fear, but working their knees on the sand.
But there were a few large iron pots next to the fire full of horse meat, a thick layer of oil flowers rolling in the milky white boiling water, and the ogre had a layer of blood scabs on his body, and he didn't know if it was his blood or the blood of the sand thief, and he couldn't see any wounds on his body, so he directly fished out a piece of horse meat in the big iron pot with his hands, put it directly on the hard horse skin, and cut it into pieces with a small knife and threw it into his mouth.
Gulit beckoned Surdak to eat some horse meat with him.
Surdak waved his hand, and at this time, he preferred to chew some wheat cakes, and his stomach might feel a little better.
Surdak arrived at the camp of the cavalry battalion, where Andrew was guarding the mouth of a tent in which two dozen sand thieves were chained together.
"How's the interrogation going?" Surdak asked Andrew.
Andrew wiped his bloodstained hands and reported to Surdak, "Chief, the location of the six desert oases has been determined......