It finally snowed in the Valentine Mountains, and the mountains were covered with a vast snowfall, and as far as the eye could see, they were all white, as if the whole world had been washed by this heavy snowfall. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the cave, all the members of the Hydra moved in, except for the ten members who were on duty outside every day, and all the others moved into the cave from the wooden hut outside. With the shelter of the cave, the members of the Hydra team are much more comfortable this winter than before.

In the cave, more than a dozen iron pots were set up, and boiling hot water was boiling in the iron pot, and the hot water was red, and I don't know how many chili peppers were put into the stew.

A plucked pheasant, a skinned hare, cut into pieces of wild boar, neatly placed on both sides of the iron pot, wait until the soup in the iron pot boils, a plate of meat mixed with wild vegetables in the mountains poured into the iron pot, not long after, the cave will waft a thick aroma of meat.

Tofu, 1,000 zhang, winter melon, lettuce, asparagus, duck intestines, fat sheep...... Ronald doesn't care if it's a season or not, just use team points to buy it from the system and place it, so that the members of Hydra can have enough of Sichuan hot pot addiction this winter!

These ingredients are extremely cheap, and the amount of a meal eaten with dozens of mouths is only ten team points. Ronald is not stingy, he has enough hot pot every day, and in this cold winter, the members of the Hydra team eat and sweat every day, and they only feel like they are living in the hot summer.

"Eat and drink well! When this winter is over, everyone has enough spirit to buy and sell a few **** votes, and next year will be another bumper harvest year!" Ronald sat on the main seat, took chopsticks and picked up a large piece of wild boar meat from the boiling iron pot, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, and his mouth was spicy.

With 12,000 team points, the entire Hydra thieves group can be described as a shotgun for a cannon, with two-handed long swords hanging from their waists, sharp daggers pinned to their waists, and wearing a full set of plate armor...... There were a few members of the regiment who were more powerful and burly, and they were even assigned a few heavy tower shields, and they were happy to carry the shields on their backs all day long, showing off in front of the members.

And these pieces of equipment cost Ronald nearly 5,000 team points.

As for where the equipment came from, ordinary members of the regiment did not dare to ask, nor were they interested in asking. And the three people who were qualified to ask, such as Duruna, Cowan and Cullen, no one dared to ask!

Especially Cowen, since Ronald used the rock armor fighting qi to cover the flame fighting qi in his body, Cowen, who was originally a little unruly, suddenly changed his appearance in front of Ronald, respectful and a little afraid.

According to Cullen's private report, Cowan was always muttering to himself when he was alone, and even woke up in a dream for a few days shouting words like 'demon' and 'devil'.

Ronald was a little happy to see this, especially after Cowan's loyalty was displayed as 80 points on the panel, and Ronald laughed out loud. As for the 80 points of loyalty, whether it is more respect or fear, Ronald doesn't care.

"Commander, Commander!" Out of the mouth of the cave, a member of the regiment on duty ran in, panting and shouting: "Commander, we have found that outsiders have entered the mountain range!"

The member on duty came in and shouted, and in the cave, all the members suddenly stopped what they were doing and looked at Ronald one after another.

A hint of coldness flashed in Ronald's eyes, and he put down the chopsticks in his hand: "Do you see clearly, how many people are coming in?"

"There were less than a hundred people looking at the footprints, and there were no horses, but the footprints were very deep, and they should all be wearing armor. The member explained.

Hearing this, a serious look appeared on everyone's faces.

The snow is so heavy that it is impossible for caravans to go back and forth at this time, let alone enter the mountains! And the Valentine Mountains guard a trade route, and there have always been many bandits, and no one will come here to play with nothing to do.

Cowan put down a large piece of meat in his hand, looked at Ronald and said, "Commander, could it be that the nearby lords and nobles sent someone to exterminate the thieves?"

"Is the nobleman's brain broken in the mountains in the middle of winter?" asked Duruna, frowning.

Cowan shook his head and explained: "There have been such precedents before, after all, the nobles must have sent elites, although the snow covers the mountains, but the quality of these elites must be higher than that of bandits." So if we really went into the mountains at this time to exterminate the thieves, we were actually the ones who suffered more. ”

"Not to mention anything else, in terms of equipment alone, the elite of the nobles must be much stronger than the thieves, and the nobles are rich, as long as they distribute high-quality oil to the elite team sent out to moisturize the skin, they are not afraid of the cold and frostbite, but the thieves group does not have this kind of financial resources and capital, so in the cold winter, once a team enters the mountains to suppress bandits, many members of the thieves group can't even hold weapons. ”

On one side is the elite team privately raised by the nobles, and on the other side are the bandits who have frostbite on their hands and feet and can't even hold their weapons...... Thinking about this kind of confrontation in contrast, it is estimated that once the thief group with a small background encounters it, it will definitely be completely wiped out.

After all, in the case of heavy snow blocking the mountain, the members of the thieves group have nowhere to escape, and if they are unlucky, they will be frozen to death on the mountain!

"So, we're being targeted?" Ronald said with a sneer as a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

Cowan lowered his head, not daring to make eye contact with Ronald: "I estimate that they may be targeting the Thunder Mouse Thieves, after all, the news is slow to transmit, and some nobles don't pay much attention to our thieves, maybe their intelligence is lagging behind." ”

"Thunder Rat, Hydra...... Is there a difference?" Ronald got up, reached out and sorted out the Mithril Enchantment Armor on his body, looked at the member who reported the message, and asked, "Are you sure they don't exceed a hundred?"

"I promise, Commander, although I don't know the exact number, judging from the footprints, it is certainly no more than a hundred. The member of the group who reported the news puffed up his chest and swore an oath.

Ronald nodded and said, "Okay, since someone is eyeing us, let's see who eats whom! They want to use the advantage of equipment to eliminate the thieves this winter? Then let's see who has better equipment......"

The Hydra group burst out laughing.

Even Cowan's face showed a sly smile, and Ronald gave a few thousand team points to change the equipment of the dozens of members of the Hydra, and now the armor they wore was no worse than the elite legions of the principality.

Although the nobles' privately raised team is well equipped, it is not necessarily better than Hydra!

"Duruna, how is your wind crossbow team practicing lately?" Ronald asked as he looked at Duruna on the side.

"Commander, no problem, twenty team members, each of them can easily manipulate the repeater issued by the commander!" Duruna looked at Ronald with a look of adoration in his eyes.

Twenty repeaters!

You know, the level of craftsmanship in this world is only a distinction between light crossbow and heavy crossbow, light crossbow is a single shot of crossbow arrows, and heavy crossbow is a bed crossbow placed on the city wall for defense, there are no three or five men with amazing arm strength to fiddle, this heavy crossbow fixed on the city wall is not to pull up the bowstring.

The repeater that Ronald bought from the system, although much heavier than the light crossbow, was equipped with a crossbow box that could fire ten bolts in a row. With the three-edged armor-piercing arrows that Ronald bought for them, they can even penetrate a well-made iron shield within twenty steps, and a well-made oak shield can be easily pierced fifty steps away!

These twenty repeating crossbows and two hundred armor-piercing arrows were shot out, and only one hundred and ten people, even if they were wearing plate armor, were just a group of live targets.

"Okay, everyone assembles at the mouth of the cave, and all the weapons and armor are ready. Ronald commanded with a wave of his arm.

"Yes, Captain!"

In the cave, all the members of the group bared their teeth and said with fierce eyes.

It's the same dozens of people, but now they are not the former Thunderrat Thieves, but the Hydra Thieves!

Let those noble private soldiers come and learn the sharp fangs of the hydra!

The members of Hydra are divided into three combat squads, each with twenty people, and the rest are some old and weak, responsible for some logistics such as cooking, laundry, etc. Because of their age, Ronald did not integrate them into the combat squad.

Ronald gave the order, and a crossbow team and two stormtroopers, a total of sixty people, all gathered at the mouth of the cave as fast as they could.

Replaced with new equipment, eating and drinking well every day, recuperating and recuperating, coupled with Cowan's strict training, the current Hydra Thieves are not how elite they are, but at least they have gotten rid of the cowardice and incompetence of the Thunder Mouse Thieves in the past.

Standing in front of the cave, looking at the sixty members of the Hydra group, one by one like a mature wolf pack, showing a fierce light, just waiting for him to let go of the cage with his own hands and go out to bite it, Ronald also felt a sense of pride in his heart.

In any case, this is also the team he has built up so far.

"Let's go!" Ronald looked at them, and with an order, the three squads, led by Cowan, rushed towards the place where the footprints were found.

The terrain of the Valentine Mountains is complex, there are no major roads, there are mostly some sheep intestine trails, and the heavy snow covers the mountains, for outsiders who are not familiar with the paths, the scenery inside this mountain range seems to be exactly the same.

But for the members of the Hydra Thieves, this is like their home, and there is no one more familiar with the roads around the neighborhood than they are.

It didn't take long for Ronald and his team to discover the traces of the alien team, led by a few members of the regiment on duty.

The heavy snow simply can't hide their footprints!

"Go around to the front and surround them!" Ronald said coldly, looking at the deep footprints on the ground, grinning.

"Yes, Captain!"

After receiving the order, Cowan, Duruna, and Cullen each took their subordinates to go around in three ways.

It didn't take long for the three squads to flank the foreign team that had entered the mountain, and surrounded them in the center.

This team was also lighting a fire to eat at this time, because of the heavy snow, it was not easy to make a fire, and many people could only eat their own dry food to satisfy their hunger. However, this team is really an elite, and even so, no one is dissatisfied, one by one they took off their helmets, and found a corner to lean on in their armor, except for the small sound of armor and weapons colliding, there was not the slightest noise.

"Captain, look at the coats of arms on their armor and shields—helmets and axes! that's the coat of arms of the Prescott family!" said Duruna, crouching beside him, looking at the team and whispering.

"Prescott family?" Ronald also saw the coat of arms on their equipment, the coat of arms is the external logo of a family, a family is only allowed to use one coat of arms, and once the family uses the corresponding coat of arms, no other family can imitate and infringe.

The fact that this team was able to put the family coat of arms on their armor and shields in a grand manner presumably did not take the bandits of the Valentine Mountains into account at all, and perhaps there was a certain meaning of demonstration.

"The Prescott family is a lord and nobleman in the east of the Valentine Mountains, the family has been inherited for more than four hundred years, and has been loyal to the Lomons royal family for generations, and most of the family members have joined the Duchy's army, and their ranks are not low, and they have great power, and they are the mainstay of the army hawks. Duluth explained.

Duluth looked at the foreign team with a bit of a headache, and continued: "There is a tradition of the Prescott family, that is, before each generation of heirs join the army, they must make certain merits, so that they will not be underestimated after entering the army. ”

"Speaking of which, next March, it seems that it will be the Principality's annual conscription month again!"

Although Dulus did not explain it, the meaning was already obvious.

This team is to protect a certain heir of the Prescott family and come to the Valentine Mountains to earn fame and merit!

Just imagine, once this noble heir joined the army next year, it was written on the file that he had led his family's private soldiers to exterminate a certain group of thieves in the Valentine Mountains, and cut off the heads of the bandits......

As a newcomer to the military, this is a good profile.

Truth be told, Ronald understands this way of thinking of the aristocracy.

The ancestors of the family have the ability to lay a huge family property for future generations!

Territory, people, private soldiers, wealth, can be said to have everything, so when the descendants are ready to work hard for development, the family naturally has to make some efforts to pave a smooth road for the children and grandchildren.

It is worth enviing, but there is no need to be jealous, because every gold coin and every private soldier of the family is also accumulated little by little by virtue of the family's own strength.

If Ronald is a hereditary nobleman with his own fiefdom, then Ronald will definitely use all his strength to pave the way for Ronald's children and grandchildren when they need it.

It's a pity that the Prescott family has found the wrong person!

They shouldn't use Ronald's Hydra Thieves as a stepping stone to the future of their descendants!

"Money! Duruna, take a closer look at these people below, they are all money!" Ronald stretched out his hand and rubbed the corners of his eyebrows, and smiled coldly: "You said that if we kill all this team and kidnap the heirs of the Prescott family, how many gold coins can be extorted?"

"How about 100,000 gold coins, being able to send such an elite team to pave the way for him, I think it should be worth this price......"