Chapter 40: Sniping
In the darkness of the night, several large packages that had been on the back of the weight-bearing beast were placed in the dark corners. Several people lightly tapped a short signal sound outside the package, and then, each package was torn from the inside out, and one by one the figures gently jumped out of the night, and moved to a slightly more spacious place to numb their hands and feet for a day.
Of course, there was no fire in the clearing where they stayed. Although everyone was moving, no one was making a sound. The activity began, and several people quickly took out a bunch of weapons from the original cargo package, and everyone present had a share, and everyone picked up their own suitable weapons and lined up in the open space.
After a while, a team of two hundred people appeared neatly in front of the viscount in the tent, although he had been stuffy in the crowded cargo box all day, but after a short rest, he had almost recovered, and all kinds of problems of each person had been solved in a short time, and now he had recovered some of his spirits.
The Viscount looked at his personal armament with satisfaction, and instructed the leader of them: "Ricky, everyone has been in it all day, you take everyone to rest well, and then take advantage of the night to ambush in the place we have designated." ”
Ricky faithfully led the team to do their job, and the Viscount turned around and headed back into the tent.
He comfortably took a sip of the rum on the table in a precious glass cup, and began to imagine the abominable Imperial Marshal Norton's crying face when he learned that these people in front of him had been wiped out, and a smug and sinister smile appeared on his face.
The two hundred men who were being repaired outside were good hands that the viscount himself had recruited from all over the country at great expense, and they were the real main force in this attack. Those people who pretend to be merchants are ordinary soldiers, and even magicians are fake, but if there are more people, they can also cause a lot of damage to the enemy, not to mention those good hands who are secretly attacking.
It's a pity that there are no real magicians in the operation team this time, and the magicians above the intermediate level are strictly controlled by the imperial army, and they can only be junior magicians in their hands, but in any case, the opponent is the same, as long as it is in the mercenary team in the empire, they must register the magicians in their mercenary group, so that the empire can be recruited at any time. They don't have any high-level mages there, and everyone's starting point is the same.
No, inconsistently, how could those people know that they suddenly had two hundred more people, and all of them were experienced masters. Those people on the other side inquired clearly, except for the twenty elven archers themselves, the other people were all first-level small mercenaries, which were easy to deal with. Although the other mercenary group is more troublesome, it is not so difficult to deal with, and some masters are sacrificed when necessary. The goods on the opposite side have also been checked clearly, they are all good and high-class goods, and they have taken back the income of their own territory for two years, and the harvest is really rich this time.
The Viscount was already in a deep state of his own fantasies, unaware that behind his ranks, the flattering young man whom he thought was as timid as a mouse was laughing at him.
Do you really think that this fool can fight Marshal Norton in this way? If it weren't for the news revealed by Lord Norton himself, how could you know how great these people really are.
But this stupid fool, really thought that killing these people would hit Lord Norton, and he didn't know that he had been used as a pawn by Lord Norton, if he didn't succeed, it would prove Wang Feng's strength, if he succeeded, the army blocking both sides of the mountain road would immediately arrest this stupid guy and send troops privately, which was the crime of killing the head, plus using the official position of the viscount to murder foreign merchants, robbing goods, and killing people and harming reputation, these articles add up, and the viscount's family is not enough to kill.
Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, this stupid viscount will inevitably die, no wonder he can't get along in the army, he has no ability to be arrogant and domineering, and he has countless enemies, this person is really stupid and stupid, and he has to pay for the number of people if he is sold.
He despised this stupid viscount fiercely in his heart, and then Shi Shiran followed the two hundred people who were about to set off, and walked towards the goal. However, the two hundred people in front did not notice it, and they were all rushing to the target area.
It was getting brighter, but it was a little gloomy, as if it was going to rain.
The caravan got up early in the morning, the person in charge prepared breakfast, and the wolf army was also packing their bags and preparing to go.
Wang Feng packed up, looked at the gloomy sky, and said to Ruohan and Linda who came over, "You must be careful today." The two nodded yes.
According to the plan, I sent someone to discuss with the other party first, whether we could borrow each other, and the other party agreed, and generously let this side go first and bring back the news, it was already morning, and the sky was still gray.
The caravan began to move, and as usual, Ott sent some men to the front to stand on guard, after all, there was nothing wrong with being careful.
The team slowly moved along the mountain road that was not very wide, the sky was not good, and it was about to reach the narrowest place, plus the oppression of the unknown caravan on the opposite side, so everyone did not talk much.
There was always some inexplicable feeling as if something was going to happen today. This is an almost instinctive skill that Wang Feng has learned from the battlefield of the corpse mountain and sea of blood, and whenever there is a killing, he can always vaguely feel something.
This time he felt like this again, Wang Feng felt that it was not good, and hurriedly told Linda to take a look around, but he was not at ease, so he asked Bai Xue to follow.
Linda turned around and found nothing, but Wang Feng still had some bad feelings, and the further he went, the stronger this feeling became.
Still feeling that something was strong and inappropriate, Wang Feng called Ruohan and Linda to his side, told Ruohan to tell everyone to be on guard, and then asked Linda to prepare all the arrows specially made for her in Tiancheng.
Linda was startled and asked, "Is it so serious? I didn't find anything?"
"I guess there are some things that are difficult to explain, you go and prepare the arrows, and I'll talk to the hot-blooded people. ”
Walking over to Ott's side, Dopp was also there, and told him his suspicions and asked Ott's magician to help check them. Return to the team yourself to arrange.
Linda has prepared the arrows, this kind of arrows are specially made, there are not many of them, and Linda usually puts them in her bag and only uses ordinary arrows to practice.
The last time Wang Feng was discussing martial arts and magic with Old Man Chim, he came up with a demon-breaking sniper arrow on a whim.
At that time, the old man Chim insisted that archers were useless to magicians, even if Wang Feng could shoot that arrow. Although it is very powerful, as long as it can be shot, it will definitely result in a magician. But the range of the bow and arrow is too short after all, far from reaching the level of a magician's long-range spell casting. That is, the mage can hit the archer, but the archer can't reach the mage.
However, Wang Feng disagreed, believing that archers must be a threat to magicians. The problem of range, as the magician speaks, can be achieved by increasing the elasticity of the bow and by adding spin to the arrows.
Of course, the magician disagreed, and Wang Feng had to test it on the spot to be convinced.
There weren't many powerful bows at the scene, but Wang Feng still had a way. The strength is not big because the bullet surname of the bow back is not enough, Wang Feng tried the internal force lightly a few times, and immediately mastered the skill of how to attach the internal force on the back of the bow, and adjusted the increased range of the bow and arrow through the mastery of each strength.
After a few times, the effect is very significant, and the range of ordinary military bows can be more than doubled at most.
The experiment worked, and the old man Chim immediately came to his senses and began to discuss with Wang Feng how to increase the power of the bow and arrow.
Experienced magicians are present, and threats to magicians are discussed. In other words, the more you know about such techniques, the better your chances of survival in the future. Moreover, Chim's identity has inevitably taken into account the interests of the country, and he can increase the chances of his own country's magicians, but he can kill and injure a large number of magicians from hostile countries, such an opportunity must not be missed.
With offense, there is naturally defense. Old man Chim began to use his years of experience to think about how to resist Wang Feng's attack with such a range combined with the power of the arrow stuck in the black gold pillar.
Fortunately, there is no such invincible bow and arrow in the world. After thinking about all the magic he knew, he found that there was no one that could resist such an attack, and he was frowning, but Wang Feng reminded him of Aisha's new practice of wind shield. Chim's whimsical thoughts immediately popped up as if he had seen a light in the night. Yes, if one can't be stopped, then ten, ten can't be stopped, then a hundred, there is always something that can be stopped. However, there is a disadvantage of this method, that is, it must be discovered in advance, otherwise, even a forbidden spell mage will not be able to block such a powerful arrow.
In any case, there was always a way, and it was a good ending, but the old man was in high spirits and did not want to let the martial arts be predominant, so he began to think about how to add the power of magic to such an arrow. Chim himself is a fan of wind magic, and he still has a lot of ideas about increasing the speed of his arrows.
He and Wang Feng tried several methods of blowing arrows farther with magic, but the effect was very unsatisfactory, proving that such a method was not good. The main reason is that the power of magic cannot be concentrated on the arrows, but rather the direction of the arrows is blown off.
But Chim was a master after all, and he quickly thought of a solution, and he carved a magic circle on the arrow to increase the balance rotation and blowing the wind backwards, and put a lot of effort into balancing the flying feathers behind the arrow. And in order to make it possible for people who don't know magic to use it, a magic switch has been specially added, as long as the speed of the arrow shaft flight direction exceeds a certain value, the magic array can be activated, so that as long as the arrow leaves the string, there will be a magic increase. After this transformation, the range of this arrow has been doubled on the basis of the original, and it has become a true ultra-long-range sniper arrow.
Even a master like Chim would have worked hard to make such an arrow. Wang Feng deliberately selected the best arrows he could get, and asked Master Chim to engrave a magic array, and called this kind of arrow "Demon Breaking Sniper Arrow", and gave it to Linda.
This kind of arrow is not something that everyone can use, at least Wang Feng himself admits that with such a long range, he can't see the target clearly at all, except for the steppe elves who are born with excellent eyesight, even if others use this kind of arrow, they are just shooting blindly. However, if it is farther than shooting, it is estimated that no one can compare with Wang Feng. The internal force of his finger arm allows him to shoot this arrow more powerfully.
After walking for a while, some small raindrops began to fall in the sky. The road slowly became muddy again, and it became more and more difficult to walk.
Hot-blooded people have shrunk a lot in the circle of vigilance because of the weather. Because of the reduced visibility, the hot-blooded people are very experienced in handling, and the people in front stop first and wait until the people behind appear in the field of vision before they start to act. The entire team is kept within two arrows.
But the ambushers were very angry. I was suffocating in the container for a long time, waiting for this surprise attack to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop. If the weather is good, according to their way of advancement, they can quietly kill the scouts in front and then slowly clean up the team behind, but now all the plans have been disrupted by this damn rain, the enemies are all shrinking, and the method of slowly dividing and destroying them is not working.
Although I was very prepared this time, I even thought of hiding in the container, but I didn't think of bringing some rainproof tools for individuals, except for a few lucky ones who happened to be hiding under the rocks, everyone else was in a mess in the rain, which would obviously affect the close-quarters battle. But fortunately, the enemy will have the same problem.
It was very dangerous to march in the rain, but because of the itinerary, we had to go, so everyone walked very carefully. From time to time on the muddy mountain road, the weight-bearing beast would stumble and fall, and the samurai of the wolf army would have to help pull it up.
Fortunately, the goods are well packaged and waterproof measures have been made in advance, otherwise, the continuous heavy rain will turn these expensive luxuries into garbage that even beggars disdain to use.
With careful advances, the team had not yet reached the ambush circle, and the ambush personnel had already been discovered.
Thanks to this rain, there was a problem with the originally cleverly designed ambush circle.
In order to be more hidden, the well-camouflaged ambushers dug some shallow trenches in the ambush site to hide people, and in order to confuse the enemy, they also deliberately covered it with freshly dug local soil, which is not easy to find in good weather.
It's a pity that after such a rain, all the Tibetan places were soaked in water and turned into a regular shallow pit, and the scouts in front of them were stupid and stupid, and they could easily find out that something was wrong after walking this road a few times.
The siren came back, and the people behind quickly gathered together and put on a defensive formation.
The ambush person also found that he had been exposed, and the surname Suo threw away his disguise, after all, there were more than 200 people on his side, and there should be no problem against the 100 people on this side.
The style of the soldiers was immediately apparent, and by the time the hot-blooded men skillfully discharged their familiar defensive circles, the ambushers had quickly sorted out the usual cone assault formations used by the army. As the rain and fog rose, a murderous aura permeated the air.
Clearly, this was a deliberate murder, not a simple robbery. Everyone present realized this, and the two teams faced off strangely.
However, there are always some people who behave strangely, these young people of the wolf army are full of indifference and even expectation, lazily gathered together, relying on the group of weight-bearing beasts that have been gathered, looking at these murderous people.
Dopp, the employer, has been placed in a circle surrounded by weight-bearing beasts, which is the strategy set out by the team at the time of departure. The Wolf Army is responsible for the safety of goods and cargo owners, and the Bloody Army is responsible for clearing roads and dealing with enemies.
Wang Feng and Linda stood high on top of the cargo on the back of the heavy beast, watching the back of the enemy vigilantly. There, there were a few people in ordinary robes, scrambling to take out a few magic wand-like things from the mud puddle, they were magicians.
They were also ordered to hide in the ambush site just now, but they were magicians after all, and they didn't have the physical strength of warriors, and the samurai had already assembled and lined up after being discovered, but they were still crawling out of the mud puddle in confusion.
The rain had turned the comfortable pit into a quagmire, and it was really difficult for people who had no military foundation to climb out of it, so now they were all cursing with hatred there.
The current situation is no longer what the original planner could have imagined, and although the two sides have not said a word so far, their actions have already made their opposing positions clear.
The opportunity for a sneak attack is gone, but they take a strong offensive posture, and it seems that the enemy is very confident in their strength.
This time the enemy is interesting, it can make Wang Feng feel the danger, there must be some special power. Wang Feng decided to strike first.
The two sides confronted each other for a while, and it was estimated that they were waiting for the magicians behind to recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and seeing that those people had been almost sorted out, the other party's leader finally issued an order to attack.
At his command, the magicians behind him began to wave their magic wands and chant incantations. The hot-blooded magician also took action from behind. The samurai on the other side sent half of them to kill them, and the other half, led by the leader, watched the battlefield in front of them. The hot-blooded man did not hesitate to go up.
"Snort", "Snort", "Snort" Several sharp whistling sounded, as if a few magic sounds pierced the battlefield, and as the sound sounded, several screams came from behind the enemy.
Before the people on the battlefield could tell where the sound was coming from, they were disturbed by a sudden rain of arrows.
A group of people rushing towards the hot-blooded people were confronted by a group of arrows, and the arrows came too fast to be noticed at all, and the first few in front bore the brunt and became the first victims.
The people in front of the hot blood queue only saw a few faint shadows of arrows, and the people on the opposite side fell, not only that, but these arrows actually passed through the bodies of the people in the first row and disappeared into the bodies of the people behind.
This was the arrow shot by those elite elven archers, and under Wang Feng's order, twenty archers shot their first arrow in actual combat since they learned Wang Feng's archery.
It may be that the distance is too close, and these elves can't wait to see what power their archery skills have and how much they have learned, so the first arrow is all for all.
Each arrow pierced the bodies of almost three enemies and the armor on them, and the strongest one even killed five people. The people on both sides who saw this situation were dumbfounded, is this still a bow and arrow? This kind of lethality almost catches up with the giant crossbows in the army.
The momentary surprise brought both sides to a halt, and only then did the discerning discerning realize that the magicians who had just been behind the ambush of the enemy, those who were far away from the range, had all been killed.
Everyone has the same fatal cause, there is a bloody hole in the throat, and blood is constantly gushing out. Depending on the situation, it is also the result of being attacked by a bow and arrow. It was Linda's arrow, which had gone through the magician's throat and was driven deep into the dirt, with no trace of the arrow visible. It's those magic sniper arrows. At such a range, Linda showed remarkable precision.
In just the moment before contact, all the magical attack power of the ambush personnel had been wiped out, and there were dozens of charging samurai, and there were only about twenty archers involved in the attack.
When the confrontation between the two sides was still a little unbearable, the second wave of archers' attacks had already been launched, and this attack took dozens of lives, and there were few enemies left in the first team who rushed out.
Without the slightest mercy, the elves once again drew their bows and arrows and shot at the few surviving men on the opposite side.
Although the location of the shooter was finally known this time, and the timing of the shooter's launch, a few poor targets still could not escape the fate of death, and twenty arrows shot several people into several blood bags with blood spraying all over their bodies.
The leader of the leader never dreamed that this was the result, a hundred and ten close subordinates, in the blink of an eye, turned into corpses, and the magicians and samurai on the other side had not yet moved, my God, are these people still archers?
Most of the hot-blooded people were tingling in their scalps, and these people, no, were these elves the usual archers, from the time they shot the first arrow to the time they destroyed this group of enemies, the magicians on their side hadn't even finished the incantation.
Ott and Dopp were also secretly speculating about what kind of group the wolf army was? dozens of samurai were all first-class, dozens of archers were also first-class, and there was also a berserker, judging from the strength they had already revealed, the berserkers and these archers could sweep away a high-level mercenary group. Moreover, those dozens of samurai have not yet shown their skills, and according to natural inference, they should not be mediocre either.
What's even more surprising is that everyone is so young, but their cultivation is so good. There are many people in the hot blood who are secretly glad over there, fortunately they haven't said any explicit words about the wolf army before, otherwise, these people were going to start a fire at that time, and it is difficult to say how many hot blood people can be left.
Dopp had already scolded the person who arranged this spy mission in his heart, this wolf army is so low-level but has such power, what fool is stupid to think that he can easily master them. I also want to bring them to the family to deal with them, looking at this situation, when there is a dispute, I don't know who will deal with whom.
While scolding wildly in his heart, he opened his eyes wide, for fear of missing something, and it is estimated that today's report will be written for a long time.
Separated by a hundred and ten corpses, both sides stopped, and the palms of the leader of the team on the opposite side were cold, is the person who is going to face today really a mercenary with only ordinary strength? Is there something wrong with the intelligence system?
But I don't know what to do with today's task, and my master knows that if things don't get done, I guess my road will come to an end. But the situation in front of him made him have to realize that if he still had to complete the task, his path would have to be cut off here.
However, after all, just now they were caught off guard by the enemy, and the archers are long-range attacks after all, as long as they can get close to them, there is no problem in destroying them. And if he escaped, the thought of his master's means made the leader shudder in his heart.
After a short psychological struggle, the leader gave the battle order to those behind.
Wang Feng was now wondering, the enemy had already discovered and destroyed half of the living force, why that feeling of danger was still entwined in his heart like a vine, and it didn't disperse at all, could the enemy have any other strength?
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