Chapter 119: Harding's Worries
Payne doesn't care what contradictions there are between you, even if the enmity of life and death has something to do with him. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info What's more, how can he know these things as a little mercenary, he subconsciously thinks that the other party is trying to suppress himself, after all, in the entire escort team, his limelight is almost overshadowing the commander-in-chief Harding, and some people look at him unpleasantly, and it is inevitable to want to teach a few lessons.
The point is that he doesn't want others to teach him a lesson.
Why am I still using you to educate me?" Payne's face changed, and Huo stood up, when Acrylic stretched out his palm and pressed it on his shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Don't make trouble, he's not targeting you." ”
"But he messed with me. There was obvious anger in Payne's tone.
Gaunt's eyelids twitched, and he snorted contemptuously, it was obvious that he heard Payne's provocation, but he didn't even mean to look back at the other party, and the meaning was obvious, - you don't deserve it at all.
"Payne," Acrylic said in an accentuated tone, shaking his head with a serious expression.
"Okay," Payne shrugged, exhaled a cloudy breath, lit his pipe, and took a sharp puff as his mind calmed down. He thought, it's really good not to look for trouble at this time, the other party may not be able to do anything if he kills himself, but if he kills the other party himself, I'm afraid no one can really save himself.
Let's not talk about whether you can avoid the follow-up pursuit of the mercenary group, as far as the current situation is concerned, as long as you break away from the main army, it is very problematic for him and Roy to return to Advance City alive.
Ten minutes later.
The procession was assembled, and after the coachmen had driven all the wagons out, the procession continued northward.
For the next few days, they hurried at dawn to find a place to settle down before sunset, either in a fortified town or a Union outpost camp.
Perhaps because most of the people had not been to the north, more and more people were infected with wind and cold during this period, but fortunately, the team doctor had expected it and the healing potions were relatively well prepared, so it did not affect the subsequent march.
Lieutenant Colonel Gaunt did not make any more sarcastic remarks, perhaps because someone had spoken to him.
On the ninth night of their departure from the royal capital of Advance City, they settled at the Union outpost in the Grey Mist Valley. They preferred to spend an evening in a fortified fortress rather than a sentry post.
The sentry camp was originally small, not more than half the size of the town of Luojin, and was surrounded by simple wooden stake fences, but the top of the stakes was outwards and sharpened, and if a demon rushed into the sentry post, these fences would serve as a defensive effect.
There are four five-yard high sentry posts at the four corners of the camp, and there are always people standing guard there, day or night.
The camp was flooded with hundreds of people and wagons, and the consequence was that most of them had to surround the fire for the cold night, and even if there was shelter, the effect was not very obvious. So when the day comes, there will always be people who catch the cold.
Considering that the supply wagon was not covered, they needed to surround the wagon in the middle in case the demon attacked at night and caused damage to the supplies.
In the temporary command tent, Harding, the knight chief and other four people used the light of the oil lamp to discuss the next march route. Although the route had been determined in the royal capital, they still needed to make the most secure arrangements when marching.
You must know that the deeper you go into the north, the more frequent the chance of demons appearing, and there may even be a larger demon army.
Their targets are sentry camps as well as larger cities. Or rather, an area where there are people.
"We'll have to change course," the Knight Chief said, pointing to the map, "here, the Twilight Sentry, the Allies received information an hour ago that there was a demonic attack there, so we must avoid it." ”
Harding was not stubborn this time, he nodded, and pointed to another location on the map, "The closest place to stay to us, except for the Twilight Sentry in Twilight Town, is Maple Leaf City twenty miles away, and here, the Blue Earth Sentry Thirty-two miles away. Considering that Maple Leaf City may refuse to open the city gate at night and let us into the city, the safest place is the Blue Earth Sentry Post. ”
Harding paused, "But this will be delayed for an hour, if we are spotted by the demon's scouts, it will only take ten minutes for the demons to catch up with us from the twilight sentry, and this area," Harding pointed to the map with his finger, "The terrain is very unfavorable for us. ”
"We can send a team into the city first to greet the lord," said the knight.
"He has every reason to refuse our request to enter the city, unless we can give him the gold that makes him happy," Acrylic shrugged, "but we don't have any extra gold for him." ”
"Plugging into Maple Leaf City from here, or going straight to the Blue Earth Outpost from here, will save us a lot of time," Bailey pointed to the map.
Harding shook his head, "But this will be more dangerous, this dense forest is an unknown area, once there is a deep ravine, we will delay time, I think, the route of the map will bypass this dense forest, there must be a reason." ”
Everyone nodded, and Bailey said, "But it's more dangerous to march at night, isn't it?, we can send a small team to check the terrain, if not the insurmountable difficulties, I think ......"
"Karma... , Karma ....... ”
"Boom....... ”
"Enemy attack ......!"
"Prepare for battle!"
“......”
Immediately afterwards, there was a dense sound of footsteps outside the command tent, and the four of them immediately rushed out of the tent, "Bailey, go see what's going on." Acrylic, immediately assemble the mercenary group. Knight, I hope the Knights will stay around the supply convoy. ”
Alden nodded, he understood what Harding meant, the latter was afraid that someone would take advantage of the idea of this batch of supplies, and this group of alliance troops would not buy the accounts of the mercenary group at all, and once there was a conflict, it would be difficult to end.
Seeing the knight leave, Harding took a sip, and his face turned pale. He had thought that with those two mysterious figures, he would not have to worry about anything on the march after that, but things were not what he thought.
It's true that these two are from the Demon Hunters, but they have nothing to do with this mission, and their role is to oversee the progress of the orange mission. Of course, these two will not stand idly by if the escort team encounters an irresistible force, but it depends on their mood.
As for the three in the headquarters, they didn't know each other well and wouldn't listen to him. To put it mildly, they are assisting in this escort mission, but to put it mildly, this mission actually has nothing to do with them, they can only be regarded as on the same road, just hitchhiking. And Gaunt, not to mention.
Fortunately, there are still coalition troops stationed at the outpost, but the problem is that once the situation is not good, the alliance army will give up the outpost and choose to retreat, but they can't retreat!
Once they lose this batch of supplies, they will be sentenced to prison if they don't get it right, and if they are locked up for a year or two, it will be considered light, and more seriously, they may also be kicked out of the mercenary group.
This is something that Harding would not accept if either.