Chapter 11: Night Attack
The number of enemies was too many, at least seventy or eighty people, twice as many as the soldiers escorting the convoy.
The shouts of the sentry posts awakened the soldiers in the camp, who lit torches and bonfires beside them, swordsmen and axemen erected shields on the perimeter, and archers drew their bows and arrows and surrounded the wagons in the middle, forming a defensive formation in the shortest possible time.
The speed of the horse thief's charge was so rapid that in the darkness of the night, like a rolling torrent, he was less than a hundred meters away from the carriage, and several sentries in charge of the guard were cut to the ground before they could dodge.
"Archer prepare!"
The commander gave the order, and all the bows and arrows in the hands of all the archers were aimed forward.
"Shoot!"
More than a dozen long arrows flew out almost simultaneously, and several horse thieves who rushed in front fell to the ground.
Without waiting for the order of the school officer, the archers launched a second volley.
After two volleys, the horse thieves approached more than fifty meters, and the archers quickly threw away their short bows, picked up four-meter-long war spears from the ground, and in pairs, they pushed out diagonally through the gap in the shield array in front of them.
The frontier people are brave and good at fighting, and the soldiers on the frontier are even more accustomed to the scene of bloodshed and death.
In the face of an enemy who was nearly twice as large as their number, the soldiers were not afraid, and calmly made the most correct contingency measures, and at the moment when the horse thief team was about to approach the shield wall, several shield-wielding veterans flashed light on their bodies, and they had obviously released the star element in their bodies.
The wailing of the war horse, the scream of the horse thief, and the roar of the soldier instantly resounded throughout the mountain pass, and the men and horses who rushed in front were blocked by the strong shield spear, and the people behind did not have time to restrain the war horse and collided directly, and a charge of the enemy was completely disrupted in a few breaths.
Losing the speed advantage, the horse thief quickly got into a scuffle with the soldiers, and for a while, shouts of killing rang out.
Mu Yang squatted in the dirt pit, his face sank like water, with the help of the power bonus brought by the Red Flame Armor, the iron bow that ordinary people could not pull at all was pulled into a full moon in his hand again and again, and with the buzzing sound of the bowstring loosening, one sharp arrow after another pierced the night sky and pierced into the target with a rapid short whistling sound.
The horse thieves attacked rapidly, but the soldiers escorting the convoy today were all the elite of Black Rock City, although the number was at a disadvantage, but the team's combat effectiveness was much higher than that of the opponent, especially the close-range battle, which was not at all comparable to the horse thieves who were good at winning with speed.
Seeing that the shield wall formed by the soldiers blocked the enemy's attacks again and again, Mu Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, after such a long time, the numerical advantage of the horse thieves would definitely be consumed little by little, unless they could do their best to organize a second charge.
Mu Yang hid in the dark and kept releasing cold arrows, he wanted to narrow the gap in numbers as much as possible in the shortest possible time, and create a chance for the soldiers to counterattack. But at this moment, there was a sudden explosion on the battlefield, and a sturdy horse thief raised an iron rod in his hand and smashed it on the shield in the hand of an infantry soldier in front of him, and the soldier was smashed out along with the shield.
"Battle Star Realm!"
Seeing the star light blooming on the iron rod, Mu Yang's pupils suddenly contracted, and he quickly took out a long arrow from the quiver and put it on the iron bow.
Among the horse thieves, there were very few cultivators, especially the Li Cultivation warriors, who rarely participated in this kind of raid battle due to the heavy weight of their bodies and weapons in their hands. And once it appears, it must be the core figure of the other party.
In the melee, the figures were staggered, the arrow in Mu Yang's hand couldn't be aimed for a long time, and seeing that several more soldiers were smashed into the air, he could only move his body quickly, waiting for an opportunity to make a move.
Finally, a war horse was stabbed by the spear in the soldier's hand and fell, and the people around him dodged one after another, and the figure of the horse thief with a stick was completely exposed to Mu Yang's sight.
Sou!
Mu Yang's hand that tightened the bowstring was instantly released, and the sharp arrow flew out with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and was deeply pierced into the thigh of the horse thief with a stick.
The stick horse thief stiffened, he lowered his head and pulled out the arrow, glanced at it and threw it on the ground, then turned around, glanced around, his eyes fell on the place where Muyang was hiding, and then strode over.
Mu Yang quickly pulled out an arrow, skillfully put it on the string, and was about to draw his bow to aim, but he heard a beast-like roar suddenly from the hillside in front of him, and a tall black shadow with a height of three meters was slowly standing up, and he slowly lifted a thick stone pillar in his arms above his head with both arms.
"Demonic Giant!"
Mu Yang's face changed greatly, and it was only at this time that he understood that this was the real killer of the other party!
The attacking horse thieves heard the roar and shouted and dodged, and the soldiers next to the carriage also changed their faces when they saw this scene, and they could no longer care about protecting the carriage, and retreated to the side.
The Demon Giant, also known as the Snow Demon Giant, is known as the three mobile war planes together with the barbarian berserkers and the demon clan's armored bear people.
In terms of combat power alone, an adult demonized giant is on par with a human cultivator of the Four Realms, but on the battlefield, the destructive power caused by a barbarian wrestler is far greater than that of an ordinary cultivator, and the reason is very simple, it takes a considerable time for the cultivator's body to recover after the star element is depleted, while the demonized body can be replenished in a very short time.
The pillar flew out of the demonic giant's hand and smashed accurately on the first carriage.
The carriage made of hard elm was as fragile as papier-mΓ’chΓ© under the impact of the boulder, and was smashed into a pile of debris in an instant.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Muyang's back.
If he hadn't left the car a long time ago, he would have turned into a puddle of flesh by now.
Seeing the appearance of the demonic giant known as the war machine, Mu Yang's heart suddenly retreated, he put away his bow and arrows, and quickly moved away from the battlefield under the cover of the night, as for the soldiers next to the carriage, he believed that they didn't have to say anything, they also knew what to do.
It's just that what Mu Yang didn't expect was that as soon as he ran not far away, there was a shout from behind him that the horse thief ordered him to retreat, and the demonized giant on the hillside also turned around and left in the distance.
Mu Yang stopped, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and saw in the night that the horse thief who was chasing after him was also limping towards a war horse not far away.
"Damn, you want to run? β
Thinking of the few soldiers who were severely injured by the other party just now, Mu Yang picked up the iron bow in his hand again and shot an arrow.
The arrow hit the back of the thief with the stick, and he stiffened and slowly fell to the ground.
......
The horse thief's sudden retreat made Mu Yang feel strange, and he was secretly happy.
At the same time, it confirmed a conjecture in his heart.
That is, the other side has only one purpose in this night attack -- to get rid of himself! Otherwise, he will not choose to evacuate immediately after the first blow is successful.
Looking at the soldiers who were busy cleaning up the mess, a chill flashed on Muyang's face.
From the moment he got into the first carriage, he had been very careful, and even after abolishing Cai Ming, he changed the other party's clothes before getting out of the car.
Along the way, he believed that no one would notice that there had been a change of person in the carriage carrying the prisoners.
However, the target of the sneak attacker is so precise and decisive, which means that they have already received the news before leaving Black Rock City.
In the past few months, there are not a few people who want to get rid of Muyang, but in such a short period of time, nearly a hundred horse thieves can be dispatched, and it seems that only the Xue family in the north of the city has this strength in the entire Black Rock City.
It's just that, why is there a demonic giant in the assassination team, it is the core combat member of the demon army, could it be that the Xue family has taken refuge in the demon clan? Could it be that the demon army has already arrived near Black Rock City? They have discovered their whereabouts? Thinking of this, Mu Yang broke out in a cold sweat.
At this moment, the school officer Qi Hu stumbled over, and in the battle just now, he was stabbed in the chest, and the wound was still bleeding.
"Mu Gongzi, there is a living one. β
Mu Yang retracted his mind, glanced at Qi Hu's slightly pale face, and then looked at the wound on his chest, and wondered: "Why, this little injury hurts like this? β
Qi Hu shook his head again and again: "It's not the injury, it's the horse thief who didn't die." β
"What's wrong with him?"
"Just check it out. β
Qi Hu's expression made Mu Yang feel even more strange, and under his guidance, the two of them came to the side of the injured horse thief.
The horse thief lay on the ground, an arrow plunged deep into his back, and an arm-thick iron rod and a black metal mask fell into the grass next to him. After just one glance at Mu Yang, he recognized that he was the kid who was shot down by himself.
"Help him up. β
Mu Yang said to the two soldiers holding torches on the side.
The soldier agreed, and picked him up from left to right.
Mu Yang narrowed his eyes, wondering in his heart how to get something out of his mouth, how could a guy from the Battle Star Realm be a small leader, he must know a lot, and maybe he could dig out some unknown secrets from him.
However, when Mu Yang saw the other party's face stained with mud and blood, he only felt that the sky was spinning, and his head buzzed, and he was suddenly stunned on the spot.
"Fat Wang!"