All the soldiers wore brown leather and nail armor sewn with iron armor, and forty men carried crossbows on their backs, small arm shields tied to their left hands, crossbow quivers tied to their right waists, and large swords hung diagonally behind their backs. Although these people were vigilantes, they were very disciplined, and they did not look like the worst rabble Ivo expected, and they gave him a small surprise.

After asking, I learned that the security team of Liema Town often dealt with wolves and bandits who harassed the town, and they were all experienced veterans.

Dressed in iron-gray round steel armor and a parrot-beaked knight's helmet, Madi's loyal knight was dressed in a raised breastplate with a fierce horse with raised hooves carved into it, and he rode a Northland alpine horse with a spear hanging from the hook of his war horse armor. This type of horse is usually gray-colored, tall and robust, known for its endurance, and is produced in the high stone plains of the kingdom of Lasses, and is the most common breed of horse in Fliga, and it is also a war horse with a low cost of training, which is relatively common.

Fliga has four human kingdoms, Lasseth, Barria, Renault, and Quiss, the first two of which have famous war horses. Of course, the orc tribes, Amazon warriors, alpine people, and dwarves all domesticated stronger mounts, such as wolves, clouded leopards, wurm wings, and bighorn sheep, but their popularity is not as high as that of the Northland Alpine Horse and Baria Horse.

Having spent the day camping at the meeting point, night fell, the three moons were bright and moving, and the clear light sprinkled on the branches and leaves of the bladed woods, as if gilded with silver, it was a midsummer night, and in the morning it had rained lightly, and a little fireflies flew among the trees, leaving a misty glowing reflection on the stagnant water.

The vigilantes were fiddling with the campfire, Ander rubbed his hands in front of the campfire to relieve the tension of the upcoming battle, David sat in front of the tent, his cane closed his eyes to recuperate, he would be the main force against Calierban, Barlow took a handkerchief and carefully wiped his sword, not missing any corner.

Ivo was consciously arguing with Demacia about the feasibility of turning mouth cannons into combat skills, when suddenly his ears moved, and Hades came out of the woods, threw the map to Ivo, and without saying anything, he found a tent to sleep in.

Opening the map, open the map with densely drawn signs, Ivo smiled with satisfaction.

......

"We are divided into two squads, a team of twenty people, Sir David and Hades who know the terrain all the way, me, Barlow, Deken all the way, our task is to harass the nest of blood scorpions, by the way to uproot the outer sentry posts, use long-range attacks, run after fighting, do not fall in love with the battle, and gradually eat away at the enemy......"

Ivo explained the guerrilla tactics, took out a dozen more magic scrolls, threw them to Ender, and said: "Ender leads the rest of the people to start digging tunnels from here, leading to the inside of the blood scorpion's nest, it doesn't take much fast, but be sure to be secret, these are 'fossils to mud' scrolls, save a little use, it's all money." ”

Ander was most afraid of fighting, and was very satisfied with this arrangement, and smiled very brightly.

"The woods are a natural cover for our guerrilla warfare, and when the bandits are overwhelmed, the first reaction must be to send a large number of men to search the blade woods, and I want to let them walk into the trap step by step......," Ivo slammed the table.

Dekkon didn't trust Ivo, and in his opinion, letting a little imp lead the team was a fool's errand, and he snorted, "How can you be sure that your strategy will work......"

Ivo shrugged, "Take it one step at a time." ”

......

Around the Blood Scorpion's Nest there are eight watchtowers made of wood, eight meters high, with a parapet at the top, on which three leather-armored thieves lean against the guardrail to watch the wind, and under the watchtower there is a simple wooden house where ten thieves live.

The location of the blood scorpion's nest is secret, there is no sign of people for a long time, and the thieves are not vigilant and perfunctory.

A team of twenty people led by Ivo, under the cover of woods and grass, approached within fifty meters of the arrow tower, and the team lurked in the grass.

Ivo pointed to the watchtower, "The vigilant thieves have signal arrows, and they can be dealt with with from a ranged attack." ”

Twenty bows and crossbows were wound and a shadow of arrows was shot into the bodies of the three thieves on the watchtower, and three figures fell from the tower.

"Up. ”

With the shield hammer in hand, Ivo led the men to rush to the ten thieves outside the wooden house who did not react.

The thieves were all low-ranking members, and there was no suspense in the battle, the sentry was uprooted by Ivo's team, and the soldiers slashed the base of the watchtower with their swords, causing the sawdust to fly, and the watchtower soon collapsed.

Devour the enemy, swim when you don't have the advantage, and don't eat hard when you have the advantage.

After being uprooted from the five sentry posts, the thieves finally reacted and sent a large number of members from the lair to guard the last three sentry posts, guarding the base camp in a zigzag pattern, and sending a large number of thieves to search for enemies in the jungle.

......

While searching for Blissy's whereabouts, Kalilban received a summons from the base camp and angrily yelled, "What is the force attacking the Blood Scorpion's Lair? Is it the Inquisition, or the King's two elite guards?" and he denied his suspicions.

In fact, after attacking the royal capital, he has been on guard against the pursuit of the kingdom.

In addition to the identity of the leader of the thieves, Kalilban also has another hidden identity, he is a native of Baria, the blood scorpion thieves are the nails planted in Lasses by the Kingdom of Baria, whose duty is to cause chaos and plunder wealth, and the alchemy cannon is also a weapon sponsored by Baria, with the purpose of destroying the peace of Lasses.

"Commander, we don't know the identity of the other party, the enemy lurks in the shadows, from time to time attacks our last three sentry posts with bows and crossbows, and after shooting a round, they immediately flee and disappear into the woods, they are so few in number that we can't catch up. ”

"Waste, I'll go back immediately. Kalilban cursed, "Send all the men out and find these rats!"

......

At dusk.

Ivo picked up the hammer that had just killed a thief and wiped the blood from his cheeks, and the jungle was full of thieves' search teams, mostly fifteen people, scattered to search the woods, with more than thirty scout teams scattered throughout the jungle.

Ivo and Davy converged and lurked in the woods, the thieves' response was not beyond his expectations, and after a few brief encounters, he carefully observed the manpower and strength of the thieves search party, and decided to attack and eat away at some of the thieves' manpower, forcing the thieves to do what he wanted.

The team of forty people began to attack these scattered reconnaissance teams, and after killing the third team, the thieves reacted and adjusted their formation, and the teams advanced in a fan shape, with only five hundred meters between the teams, and could quickly support in the event of an attack.

This situation basically put an end to the sneak attack, and Deken had a "I knew it would be like this" expression, but Ivo only smiled slightly, and said in surprise, "Let's go directly to their base camp." ”

Although the fan array of the thief reconnaissance team can defend against sneak attacks, it also sacrifices the scope and flexibility of the reconnaissance, seeing that the reconnaissance team is getting farther and farther away from the blood scorpion's nest, and the base camp is relatively empty, Ivo also adjusted his tactics to avoid the real and attack the weak, and the other party will definitely not think that he dares to go to the base camp to make trouble.

Ivoha laughed, "Put a fire on their lair to end this wonderful day." ”

......

The Blood Scorpion's Nest is built deep in the Blade Woods, backed by a small valley, with only one road to enter, and the entrance is a huge walled gate made of hard lumpy rock and cast ironwood, which must be opened by using cogwheel slings on both sides of the door.

Even if there were only a hundred thieves left in the cottage, Ivo and the others would not be able to break in, and of course he didn't want to attack them.

The group swaggered to the gate, and were spotted by the watchtowers on both sides of the gate, and the thieves were angry with their arrows, and Ivo asked half of the soldiers to raise their swords to block in front, and the feathered arrows jingled and bounced to the ground.

The other half of the soldiers wrapped their crossbow arrows around linen and soaked them in the oil drums Ivo had prepared, which Ivo had kept in the spatial ring, just to be useful now. The arrows were lit with torches, and the soldiers kept shooting a large rain of rockets, which fell on the continuous wooden houses behind the gate, and the fire swelled, instantly lighting up the night sky.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

"Kill them first!"

There was chaos and noise in the blood scorpion's nest, Ivo was very thief, shot five waves of rockets, saw the huge gate trembling slightly as if it was being opened, knowing that the thieves left behind were going to kill it, without saying a word, immediately slipped away.

After running all the way for a few miles, looking back, the blood scorpion's nest was blazing, and the night sky turned red.

Ivo laughed, "They're busy tonight." ”

......

It was only at midnight that the fire in the Blood Scorpion's Lair was extinguished, and the thieves who were out on the spree were urgently recalled, and Calilban flew into a rage, vowing to bring the group of enemies out and hack them to death.

The first day passed, and Ivo and the others lost six soldiers, in exchange for more than ten times the victory.

After last night's surprise attack, the number of thieves left behind in the Blood Scorpion Nest increased, patrolling near the base camp, and the number of thieves who went out to investigate decreased, but the formation was still the same, and there was no chance of sneak attack. Ivo led his team to shoot from a distance and then ran away, only occasionally injuring a few people, but the thieves were overwhelmed by Ivo's incessant harassment.

However, the thieves also found that Ivo's team was not large, and came up with a way to deal with it, leaving behind the thieves to rest during the day and go out at night instead of the thieves to investigate, two shifts, 24 hours a day, uninterrupted reconnaissance, wanting to make Ivo and others have nowhere to hide.

But Ivo had the foresight to take refuge in the tunnels that Ender had dug out in advance, the entrances to the tunnels were very secretive, and they were disguised with magic scrolls, so that they didn't worry about being discovered, and Ivo heard the footsteps of the thieves passing on the ground above his head several times in his sleep.

Such days lasted for three days, the thieves who reconnoitred at night found nothing, and during the day they were constantly attacked by Ivo and others in the woods, even if the losses were not large each time, but after three days, Calilban was stunned to find that the number of injured thieves had exceeded a hundred, all of them were wounded by arrows, and most of them were full of exhaustion.

"A bunch of little rats hiding in Tibet!" Kalirban slammed the table, thought for a while with a calm face, and ordered: "There is no need to investigate, form a team of more than fifty people to ambush in the woods, not too far apart from each other, support each other if necessary, send people to set traps at night, and then the rabbits that can run will always hit the hunter's arrows." ”