Chapter 125: Stone Forest
There is no doubt that the war horses of the knights of the expeditionary force are all excellent breeds, but the heavy chain family and those armor made of stainless steel, as well as the heavy weight of the knights on horseback, are all burdens on the war horses, especially the thousand heavy cavalry, although they can burst out with a strong impact in a short period of time, but once they fall into pursuit, the heavy armor will quickly consume the physical strength of the war horse.
Xia Zuo could clearly feel that the charge of the knights behind him was getting slower and slower, and if it weren't for the Saiyan warriors who were holding back their speed and waiting, they would have already known how far they would have been thrown away.
For Saiyan warriors who run long distances with weights every day, this galloping speed, which is comparable to the charge of a war horse, can easily last for half a day.
In the hazy moonlight, the tired horses slowed down more and more, but the same fleeing orcs also got tired, and in the knight colony, the sweaty Viscount Perras looked at those tired bodies and shouted excitedly, "Brothers, speed up! They can't run!"
The knights saw that victory was in sight, and their morale was immediately high, and the fatigue of running for half a day disappeared, and under the stimulation of the rich bounty, they shouted wildly, kicked the war horse fiercely, and the sharp spurs cut a bloody hole on the horse stock, and the painful war horse ran up like crazy.
"Stone Forest!!Stone Forest!" In the midst of the fleeing beasts, a cry of joy suddenly sounded, which made Meglor's hateful figure roar into the sky, shouting loudly, "Enter the Stone Forest!"
The tired orc warriors seemed to have suddenly gained strength, and the scattered fleeing team suddenly turned around, heading towards a dense forest of towering weathered stones of strange shapes in the mountain col on the left.
"Damn!!Damn! Speed up. Don't let them run in!" Meglor, who could see clearly what a blurred black shadow was in the darkness by the hazy moonlight, changed his face and screamed with resentment.
But no matter how fierce the knights were, and even urged the war horses without pity, they could only watch the orcs who "escaped death" swarming and disappearing into the dense forest sea.
The sprinting cavalry stood still with their horses pulling at the reins, and the tired horses were whirring and panting, and white mist erupted from their nostrils.
"Damn! Damn! Damn!" the unwilling Meglor angrily whipped the towering rock in front of him with his horsewhip, gritting his teeth and scolding, this damn place. How could a stone forest suddenly appear.
Even the most ignorant generals. I also know that Feng Lin Mo is into this sentence.
Especially for cavalry, the dense jungle will completely limit the advantage of cavalry, although the forest in front of them is composed of boulders, but the complex terrain completely limits the possibility of cavalry charge. And the rocky terrain is undulating like a wave. The soles of the horse's feet can easily get caught in the gaps. And completely scrapped.
"What shall we do, Lord Count?" Viscount Perras wiped the sweat from his head and cautiously approached Meglor's side.
"What can I do? What else can I do? Do you want me to give up my warhorse? Do you want to walk in like the monkeys?" the red-faced Meglol roared in rage, causing Pellas to shrink her neck in fright.
"Damn!" Looking coldly at the dark and deep stone forest, Meglor gritted his teeth and cursed, victory is in sight but it adds to the incident, the monkey who has suffered a loss will definitely be more vigilant, and it will definitely not be so easy to lead them into being fooled again.
"Boss, they don't seem to dare to come in!" Lying on the towering weathered rock, the bodies of the Saiyan warriors blending with the shadows of the strange stones, Gu Lie whispered in Xia Zuo's ear, if those humans dare not come in, then this arrangement will be in vain.
"Count Meglor" In Gu Lie's stunned gaze, Xia Zuo suddenly stood up from his hiding place, jumped on a towering weathered rock with a few dodges, and shouted loudly, "Why are you still reluctant to go back after you have been sent here, do you still want to stay for dinner, but our crude grain may not be used to a noble lord like you! I don't know how about roasting human meat? Your knights have tough meat, maybe you will fall in love with that taste! haha!!"
The mocking laughter echoed in the forest for a long time, and Meglor's angry face turned blue, how could he be proud of this insult, and it was still under the watchful eyes of thousands of cavalry, this was already an insult, but **naked put his honor under his feet and trampled it.
"Search for me!" The suppressed anger made Meglor's tone tremble slightly, and his eyes glared fiercely at Shi Lin, "Everyone get off the horse, go in and search for me, find that damn monkey, kill it!" ”
"Ah, Lord Earl?" Viscount Perras looked at Meglor in astonishment, a little unbelieving the order he heard with his ears, and cautiously tried to dissuade him, the knight who has lost his war horse will have a low combat effectiveness, and even the heavy cavalry needs to remove his heavy armor to be able to act.
"Damn! I order you to dismount and let me in and get those monkeys out!" Meglor, utterly irritable from rage, roared hysterically.
As clan knights, they could not resist the orders of their clan members, even if the order would send them to hell, and rows of knights turned over and dismounted, removing most of the unneeded protection from their bodies to reduce the weight of their bodies, while the heavy cavalry took off their heavy plate armor with the help of their companions and replaced them with relatively light chain mail.
Dropping the spear, pulling out the sword and picking up the shield, the figures were longing, and the knights who dismounted were distributed in a fan shape, one by one with solemn faces, cautiously approaching the depths of the stone forest.
On the dense weathered stones, the warriors of the Saiyan tribe clinged to the rock wall, carefully moving sideways on the straight rocks as the knights in the stone forest approached, covering their bodies with towering rocks.
"Let the brothers not do it first, let them go to the depths of the stone forest before they do it!" "On the weathered stone, Xia Zuo looked at the knight legion that gradually entered the stone forest and sneered.
The dead silence in the stone forest was terrifying, the craggy rocks that stood tall in the darkness were like writhing hell demons, the gentle footprints on the ground and the scratches on the mountain walls, and the ground was scattered with small fragments of lost weapons and armor.
Following the clues left by the fleeing Campas beasts, the knights went deep into the stone forest without noticing, and chased carefully for nearly two hours, but they did not even see the shadow of an orc.
"Expand the search area!" Meglor gritted his teeth and said coldly, "With this as the center, the squadrons will spread out, search every rock and crevice for me, and once we find the traces of those monkeys, immediately blow the horn to warn, and we will rush over immediately." ”
"Yes!" the knights agreed in a deep voice, scattered into squadrons, and disappeared into the dense and strange stone forest.
This weathered stone forest was carefully selected by Xia Zuo, stretching for more than ten miles, thousands of people blending into it without making any waves, one by one knight squadrons scattered in the stone forest, along the dense labyrinthine road, the farther and farther the team searched, and the distance between each other became larger and larger.
In every squadron, there is a person who is clutching the horn on his waist, and once he finds the trace of the orc, he will blow it as soon as possible, summoning his companions around him to surround and kill.
"It's so cold!!Damn!These stinky monkeys can really hide!" Although the cold winter is about to pass, the cold wind at night is still biting,
A knight rubbed his palms together and cursed as he went, looking at the weathered stones above his head, and the shadows under the stone forest rising from the ground, as a noble cavalryman, now not only had to let them leave their horses and walk on two legs like those mud-legged infantrymen, but also to look for those stinky monkeys on such a damn night!
"Shut up, Rocca, your damned mouth is making the slightest noise, and I'll make you never talk nonsense!" the squadron leader, a noble knight, rebuked in a low voice, though equally unhappy in his heart, but in such a place, any extra noise would bring disaster to them.
"Forget it, Captain, there has been no trace for so long, those monkeys are afraid that they have already run out!" Rocca continued to babble unconcernedly, and the years of getting along made him know that his captain was just talking.
As he was laughing, Rocca's casually swept gaze was slightly stunned, and his brown eyes met a sneering face, first for a brief moment of doubt, and then for an instant to turn into deep fear.
Natsuzo gave him a kind smile, but to Rocca, it was a mockery of death.
"Orcs blow the horn!" Roca cried out anxiously in panic, but it was too late.
A fierce and tyrannical aura came from above his head, and the ghostly figure of Xia Zuo suddenly appeared in front of him, his knees as hard as iron slammed straight into Rocca's face, his sunken face, blood and saliva mixed with the crystal water stains of his eyeballs, splashed out, and Roca's screams came to an abrupt end, rising to the end.
"Damn it! Blow the horn! Blow the horn!" the honorable squadron leader, a mid-level warrior, waved the sword in his hand in a hurry, and shouted in panic.
The warrior in charge of blowing the trumpet picked up his hand, only to feel a cold wrist, and his palm flew out with the horn, and Tara, who had cut off his palm, smiled, and the blade of the sword swept past the neck of the warrior who had just wailed.
In the hazy moonlight, a series of sensitive figures flew down from the weathered rocks that stood around like ghosts, like tigers entering the flock, without the slightest extra sound, the hunters who had been waiting in the dark for a long time, using all their skills, steel spears flying, swords were horizontal, and the excited Saiyan warriors were far from killing to the fullest, and a squadron of fifty knights had all been buried here forever.
Xia Zuo waved his hand, and the Saiyan warriors had no time to celebrate, and once again plunged into the darkness and sneaked through the shadows, reaching for their next target.
At the same time, in the huge and dense weathered stone forest, countless similar scenes are repeated over and over again, and the Kampas warriors in the dark, calmly powerful and bloodthirsty, silently stealth, excitedly hunting the more scattered and ignorant prey in the stone forest. (To be continued......)