The rain of arrows rained down like silver locusts, and the screams resounded throughout the camp.

At this time, the moon had just risen, and most of the mercenaries had not slept yet, and they were quite quick to react when they were attacked.

But suddenly encountering a night attack, the mercenaries are still in disarray.

Because, at night, their combat capabilities are simply not comparable to those of the Noldor elves.

In this thin moonlight, humans could not see anything in the jungle at all, and could only see the Noldor warriors flickering in the woods, like ghosts.

But the Noldor elves are still unfazed, the elves are the darlings of the night, and the moonlight is enough to make them see everything.

Moreover, the elves have long pointed ears that allow them to have much better hearing than humans, and most of them are even able to hear and shoot blindly—which is why Risadiran always finds enemies before Leon, especially at night.

Dumbledore propped himself up from behind the low wall and glanced out with a quick probe.

The camp was located on the low slopes of the mountains, a few dozen miles to the west on the gentle slopes of the Dengier Mountains, and to the east by the Noldor Forest, which also had an upward slope.

The camp itself is a relatively flat open space.

But this means that the Noldor, who comes from the direction of the forest, can shoot arrows from a high position.

Dumbledore's current location was the easternmost part of the camp, near the edge of the forest.

From his position, he could see at least hundreds of Noldor warriors shuttling through the jungle, and there seemed to be more than a dozen Noldor Twilight Knights in command.

Twilight Knight is covered in silver armor and is relatively conspicuous.

There are more than a dozen Twilight Knights that can be seen.

Dumbledore was a little desperate, he didn't expect the elven army to come so quickly and on such a large scale.

He'd been into the depths of the Noldor Forest, and he'd encountered Noldor's troops, and he knew what those Noldor commanders in silver armor meant.

A few years ago, he had followed the First Brigade of the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet on a quest to explore Noldor's territory, which they thought might have established a city in the forest, and wanted to explore it.

After marching nearly a hundred miles into the forest, this team of more than 200 people, armed to the teeth, was raided by a Noldor patrol of about 50 people at night after camping.

With a five-to-one ratio of numbers, the first brigade of the Ebony Handguard Knights of course engaged in the battle without fear.

But the end of that battle was the total annihilation of the Ebony Gauntlet Knights, which had five times the number of people.

Among the Noldor patrols that wiped them out was a commander in silver armor, the Noldor Twilight Knight.

Dumbledore still remembers the scene vividly - the Twilight Knight scattered the Noldor Ranger behind him into the woods, and then he stood there and shot two dozen people in quick succession with terrifying marksmanship.

Dumbledore could have sworn it must have been the fastest archery he had ever seen—the Twilight Knight had shot thirty arrows in three minutes, and almost every arrow had killed him.

Heavy plate mail and black pointed helmet did little protection against the Twilight Knight's arrows.

At the same time, a continuous stream of arrows came from all directions of the forest, and the Noldor rangers kept changing positions in the forest, and the Ebony Handguard Knights were shot helpless for a while.

Within three minutes, the number of people killed by the Noldos' arrows was approaching a hundred.

That's just fifty Noldos......

Then, the Twilight Knight lowered his bow and even threw down his quiver.

When he thought that the terrible archer was no longer in trouble, the Twilight Knight drew his long sword and charged at them.

Dumbledore watched as the slightly curved sword slashed five of his comrades in less than ten seconds—all of them at the forefront.

Their hammers and swords could hardly break through the strange and quaint armor of the Twilight Knight.

Then all the Noldor rangers appeared from all directions, and fifty Noldor actually faced the Ebony Gauntlet Knights, who were still three times their size, in a surround way.

It didn't take long for only half of the first brigade of the Ebony Handguard Knights to be left alive......

They finally retreated.

Able to collapse only after half the battle, the Ebony Gauntlet Knights are already considered the top elite of the human armed forces.

But all they achieved was to kill seven or eight Noldor Rangers.

The terrifying Twilight Knight, his blood-red silver armor, continued to pursue them.

Dumbledore escaped from the forest with a dozen or so men, and became the captain of the First Brigade of the Ebony Handguard Knights - the first team was almost wiped out, and Dumbledore was the only noble knight to escape.

Over the years, Dumbledore had increased the proportion of crossbowmen in his ranks, and had been dealing with Noldor at the edge of the forest, but he never saw the Twilight Knight again.

In other words, even if he encounters it, he will not try to attack.

Without a tenfold numerical advantage, Dumbledore would no longer easily provoke a Nodo patrol of more than forty men, and he already understood how terrible the Noldor Shooters were when they formed a scale.

More often than not, he's dealing with lone Noldor warriors or hunters; Or take out the small Noldor scouts of about 10 people with a force of more than 100 people.

The First Brigade of the Ebony Handguard Knights also gained a lot of benefits under Dumbledore's caution, and because they had been fighting small-scale battles with small losses and high gains, the First Brigade gradually reorganized itself into a scale of more than 400 people over the years.

Now, Dumbledore saw Twilight Knight again, and he understood the outcome of the battle again......

In his experience, a Twilight Knight would probably lead a mixed army of fifty Noldor men.

Now that more than a dozen Twilight Knights have been seen, the total number of Noldor warriors outside will not be less than six hundred.

The total number of human mercenaries in the camp was about 3,000 - the same five-to-one ratio of numbers.

The same proportion of numbers as back then, the same after camping, the same night when the moon first rose, was also raided by the Noldor at night.

But these mercenaries are mixed, and they can't be compared to the original Ebony Gauntlet Knights.

In fact, Dumbledore was not very happy to go deep into the Noldor Forest, but it was impossible for the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet to ignore the king's request, so he originally planned to let the mercenary group take the lead - especially the famous Griffin Sword mercenary group.

But he really didn't expect that Noldor's army would appear at the edge of the forest so soon, and the Griffon's Sword mercenary group never came.

In the past, when I caught a lone elf at the edge of the forest, I didn't see the Noldor's army come so quickly......

In the camp tent, the mercenaries were hurriedly wearing their equipment one by one, and they could not fight back for the time being.

Most of the Ebony Gauntlet Knights in charge of the vigil are fully equipped, but no one dares to take the lead.

Under the low wall on this side of the forest, there was soon a row of people, most of them members of the Ebony Gauntlet Knights.

They were all in a similar position to Dumbledore - leaning sideways against the inside of the low wall, using their crossbows to reach out of the low wall and return fire.

Only a wooden wall more than half a foot thick could stop Noldor's arrows, so they didn't show their heads much, and when they returned fire, they were almost blind.

But this was the right way, and while this blind shot didn't have much success, it would at least buy the mercenaries in the camp time and prevent the Noldor from breaking straight into the camp.

The Ebony Handlet Knights were indeed much more experienced in dealing with the Noldor, and although they were caught off guard by a lot of damage during the first wave of arrows, they quickly reacted most correctly.

Behind them, the mercenaries who had come out of the tent had no sense of it.

In just a few moments, hundreds of people had already fallen to the ground with arrows, most of them mercenaries who had just emerged from their tents, and were shot down by the Noldors as soon as they stood up......

Wails and moans followed.

The Noldor army had already approached closer at this time, and some of the Noldor warriors had fired arrows so that not many people in the camp dared to show their heads, and the other few hundred Noldor rangers were thirty meters outside the camp, forming a loose array.

It was a long column, with two Noldos working together, one defending with a shield and one shooting with a bow.

It seems that this is to be continuously suppressed from a distance.

But this way of fighting in array is rarely seen in the Noldos.

Because this will give them a better shooting position, but it will also make them lose their biggest advantage - concealment in the woods.

The mercenary groups finally began to fight back, one after another crossbow arrows were fired at the Noldor array, and the poorly equipped mercenaries gradually approached the low wall to the west of the camp.

"Follow me......"

Dumbledore glanced through the crack in the wall again, then beckoned the nearby Ebony Handguard Knights to follow him.

The mercenaries did not understand the intentions of the Ebony Gauntlet Knights, and thought they were going to attack the Noldors from the side, so they stepped forward to take the place of the firing positions against the low wall.

But Dumbledore had actually retreated, and he hadn't told the mercenaries that he was retreating.

He knew that these mercenaries would not retreat, and those mercenary leaders would not be so easy to obey orders - the price offered by Ulrik was enough to make these mercenary leaders gamble everything.

Moreover, the mercenaries don't know enough about Noldor - the mercenary leader who was killed by an arrow just now is a typical example.

The men of the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet began to crawl along the low wall, gradually moving to the north of the camp. Then continue back along the low wall to the north.

A few minutes later, Dumbledore quietly left the camp with the Knights of the Ebony Handguard, retreating into the wilderness to the west of the camp.

The trees in the vicinity have been cut down, with only low stumps and gently undulating slopes.

Dumbledore left behind all the mercenaries in the camp and quickly retreated with the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets, continuing to retreat west towards the Dengil Mountains.

He only brought out more than three hundred people, which was the vast majority of the members of the First Brigade of the Ebony Handguard Knights who were currently able to act.

It's the right choice.

Half an hour later, Dumbledore led the three hundred men to the gentle slope of the Dengier Mountains, on the top of a hill, where the camp on the opposite side could be seen in the distance, and screams could be faintly heard.

At this time, from the south of the camp came a troop of cavalry, small in size, about three hundred men.

However, the only cavalry that can move quickly in the mountains is the Noldor......

The elven horses bred by the Noldor elves are probably the only mountain horse breed on this continent that can climb mountains and mountains.

Dumbledore was glad he had made.

It may be dishonorable to flee without a fight, but the Noldor are clearly not going to let any humans into the forest - this is rare, and very much unlike the Noldor style.

With the strong fighting power of the elves in the forest, they should have let the mercenaries into the forest.

But they attacked the camp directly, and blocked the direction to the forest with their arrays.

For Dumbledore, this only meant one thing - the elves were confident that they would annihilate them and were using it to prevent them from escaping.

That would mean that the Noldor's army would appear on the other sides, and perhaps only the Dengier Mountains to the west would have no enemies.

After seeing that group of Noldor cavalry, Dumbledore confirmed this.

If nothing else, there is probably such a cavalry on the north side of the camp......

With an army of about 1,200 men, the Noldos surrounded an army of 3,000 mercenaries from three sides!

The elves don't want to let the humans here leave alive!

So Dumbledore didn't stop and led his troops west again, all the way to the Dengil Mountains.

Unlike the mountains of the Noldor Forest, which are full of tall trees, the Dengier Mountains are a typical stone mountain – the soil is thin and the vegetation is thin due to the large number of stones underneath.

Most of them are shrubs and relatively low.

There are also large trees, but they are sparse because the rock formations inside the mountain are fragile, and when it rains, landslides are easy and it is difficult for large trees to take root.

There used to be rumors that there were gold mines on the top of the mountain, but after many landslides, no one dared to go to the top again, but farmers digging for gold were often seen at the foot of the mountain.

Probably because of this, the Noldos did not take root in the Dengier Mountains.

So this direction is indeed safe, if the Noldors don't continue to pursue.

After a difficult night's march, Dumbledore and his troops stopped at the top of a hill on Mount Dengil.

It was already at least fifty or sixty miles away from that camp.

It was already dawn, but Dumbledore was in a dilemma.

A team of about three hundred Noldor cavalry appeared in his field of vision.

Noldor's cavalry actually chased after him?

Probably following their footprints, in the soft mountains, the footprints left by the Ebony Gauntlet Knights are clear.

It's not surprising to think of the feud between the Ebony Handguard Knights and Noldor.

But Dumbledore's first team didn't get a break, and they ran all night in the mountains, and now they were tired.

Besides, in this kind of mountainous terrain, you can't run the Noldor elves......

He could only order to defend in place.

Fortunately, their location is high, and there are not many big trees around, at least they have a geographical advantage.

The Noldor cavalry was probably also tired, and they spotted the Ebony Handguard Knights, but instead of attacking immediately, they dismounted at the bottom of the hills, presumably to rest and fight again.

……

"My lord, this is a letter from His Royal Highness Yin Si Landier to you......

Dusty Risa Dilan returned to White Hart Castle again, and he brought back a strange letter to the lord.

"You're seeing your people so soon?"

The lord was a little surprised, he didn't expect that letting Risa Dilan try it would actually have an effect.

"I only saw one of the elders of my clan, who knew that I was working for you and gave me this letter, and he said that His Highness Yin Si Landil is also looking for you, my lord."

Risadiran seemed a little excited, and he probably saw hope that he would return to the clan.

His people did not embarrass him, and made him a messenger, which was obviously a very good sign.

The letter was written on a kind of art-like paper, snow-white, cut into a standard square.

There are turbulent cyan patterns on it, the patterns are incomparably complex, and they constitute a mysterious pattern.

This is probably Yin Silandil's coat of arms, but it is not printed, but it looks like it is embedded in paper.

This technique is wonderful, and this piece of paper is probably worth a lot of money, and it is good enough to be used as an ornament.

But there are not many words on the paper, a large piece of paper, only used to write a little word, it seems quite wasteful - it is estimated that Yin Silandil is a little obsessive-compulsive, the text is written in the middle of the paper, and every line is extremely neat.

Yin Silandil's letter to Leon was few words, mentioning only two things.

One is that he wants to know why humans are attacking the Noldor Forest on a large scale, and for what.

The second is that he wants to know if Leon is willing to live peacefully with Noldor.

Signed by Yin Silandil Aino.

"You call him Your Highness, is this Yin Si Landil the prince of your clan?"

Leon was a little curious, and the names of these Noldor lords seemed a little confused......

Of course, he also wants to live in peace with Noldor.

"His Royal Highness Yin Si Landil is the crown prince of the Aino family, but his father has been retired for three hundred years, and if human terms are used, he is already one of the three elven kings. But he never wore the crown of the king, so we always called him His Highness. He was a respected leader, and even though he exiled me, I still respect him."

Risa Dilan didn't mean anything dissatisfied with Yin Silandiel.

"In that case...... Risardran, tell you that you are the one who asks you to hand over the letter to Yin Silandil. I hope you can meet Yin Silandil and apologize to him, and maybe you can return to the clan because of this."

Leon said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty...... I will go to my people with your reply, and he is waiting for me a hundred miles to the south. My lord, if I am exonerated from my crimes, I will still serve you, and I remember my promise."

There was a rare smile on Risadilan's face.

The lord nodded, found a neat piece of parchment, cut it into a square in the same way as Yin Silandil, and wrote a reply letter in the middle of the paper.

Write a few lines neatly and neatly.

But this time, he used the signature "Leon Leonardo Pendragon".

"It's a pity that this letter came a little late, and I feel that those mercenary groups may be more than lucky...... Risa Dilan, you have to meet Yin Si Landil as quickly as possible."

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