In later generations, every winter on the eighth day of the second lunar month, people from the four continents who use swords as their main weapons will take time to participate in the annual sword sacrifice ceremony in a small town called Xilin at the mouth of the Lion River in the Eminole continent as long as they have time.

It is said that on that day every year, more than 50,000 miniature swords carved with the head of the mercenary king Amy are made in the ratio of 1/10 of the ice blade on Xilin Island.

On the eighth day of the second month of the winter of the 3rd year of the magic calendar, the small mercenary group officially set foot on Xilin Island, and from that day on, the sword really had the strength of the ancestor of a hundred soldiers from an auxiliary weapon. And it is precisely because of the integrity and selflessness of Amy, a mercenary king who has been friends with the sword all her life, that the sword has also become synonymous with noble martial virtues.

It was on this island that the swordsman profession evolved into four major classes: the Great Swordsman, the Blocking Two-handed Swordsman, the Vulture Great Swordsman, and the Demon Swordsman.

- "The Legend of the Mercenary King"

Chapter 21: The Demon Sword Vulture

On the eighth day of the second month of the third winter of the magic calendar, there were a total of 25 small mercenary groups that set foot on Xilin Island, which was still unknown at that time, counting: Mercenary King Amy, Holy Dragon Knight Daqingshan, Black-faced Dragon King Chi Aotian, Raging Dwarf King Horns, Necromantic General Balbas and 20 young mercenaries.

They were greeted by a swordsman squad of the former Lion River Defense Army stationed on the island, and 200 swordsmen lined up to greet them under the leadership of the squad leader -- of course, this was not their original intention, so why should they welcome a group of children? If it weren't for the oppression of the defense general, they would have gone back to the camp to sleep a long time ago.

As a veteran of 15 years in the army, Balbas's brow immediately furrowed. According to the information of the soldiers delivered by Viscount Fan, the average age is about 25 years old, of course, if you put 100 40-year-old veterans and 100 15-year-old junior soldiers on average, this figure is extremely accurate. The sea breeze carried the fishy smell of the seawater, but it could not hide the stench emitted by the soldiers who had not bathed for a long time. According to the rules of the emperor's welcome ceremony, "all the soldiers stood majestically at a 45-degree angle with snow-white swords in both hands. "In fact, these soldiers are also impeccable, and all the long swords are also at a 45-degree angle, but they seem to be holding the sword not in their grip, and it is snow-white? Well, if a grain of salt that causes the sword to be white after being regularly impregnated in seawater is also snow-white.

Amy's face was very peaceful, and the corners of his mouth still maintained a smile, just like the most sharp samurai in the world in front of him, he didn't waste too much time, and simply waved his hand at all the soldiers, letting the soldiers disperse, leaving only the leader of the main attached squad and Qu Chang and Guerrilla to stay. In fact, only these people in this army are in the prime of life at the age of 35.

"Is there a hotel on the island? The deputy squad leader took Uncle Balbas to charter all the hotels, and the soldiers will stay in the hotels from tonight to keep them clean. Another team leader took Horns to see the camp, today to find a carpenter to buy the items needed, starting tomorrow, except for 5:00~9:00 in the morning for morning exercises, the rest of the time is used to repair the camp. Of course, in order to ensure that everyone can get up on time tomorrow, I have hired the best trumpeter for everyone. After speaking, Amy motioned to Chi Aotian to summon Xiao Hei down from the sky. And let Xiao Hei demonstrate and shout twice: "Si-ang, Si-ang." A loud voice that had never been heard before on Xilin Island, and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the huge monsters that had appeared on the flat ground, and they were already dumbfounded. Lu'er watched Xiao Hei fly down and spread his wings, and by the way, he also sent a lightning little magic at Xiao Hei, which is the most common game between the two of them, anyway, Xiao Hei is immune to all magic.

"Hehe, this trumpeter, who likes to make out with those who sleep lazily with his mouth. Amy said slowly. The smile on the corner of his mouth became even thicker, obviously satisfied with the effect. Then, together with the captains, he made a simple plan for the morning exercise in the square, and asked all the cadres to go back and inform the soldiers.

Regardless of the Necromantic Dragon's combat status, from a scary point of view, it is much stronger than Midori'er. All the soldiers who witnessed the majesty of the necromantic dragon were already deeply impressed, and they left on time early the next morning.

It is a fixed truth that money is easy to do.

Soldiers who have not had enough to eat for a long time and have poor accommodation can suddenly eat delicious meals, sleep in comfortable beds, and add a lot of strength to their bodies. Early the next morning, all the soldiers got up on time, and under the leadership of their respective five commanders, they began training as they had never done before. Then came a fragrant breakfast, after full physical exercise, it was extremely eating, and after the soldiers had eaten breakfast, they began to completely flatten the old camp and start construction again.

According to the selection of Imperial soldiers, the best soldiers go to the spear battalion, the next best soldiers go to the bow battalion, and the worst soldiers go to the swordsman battalion. And the swordsman battalion has never had a chance to enter the battlefield, the key is that the strength is too poor.

While training with the soldiers and carefully observing the performance of the soldiers, Amy is quite satisfied with this unit.

When the empire selects soldiers, it still has a relatively strict check, so the average quality is better. Most of the soldiers who entered the swordsman battalion were eliminated due to their relatively small physique, which could not match the original tall spearmen, let alone use longbows, but this was quite satisfying to meet Amy's special needs.

Two weeks later, seeing the performance of these well-fed, well-dressed and well-trained soldiers could no longer recall what they had seen when they first arrived on the island. As the military director of Xilin Island, Amy made the first personnel instigation: all soldiers over the age of 35 left the military en masse, except for some who were transferred to the Huotou Army, and all others joined the side business organizations such as agriculture, fishery, animal husbandry, and commerce established by the small mercenary group, and the small mercenary group paid salaries uniformly. Those who are willing to leave Xilin and return to their former residence can pay a return fee.

The team of 200 people suddenly became 132 people, almost half less, and then, Amy publicly posted the recruitment on the island, unlike the imperial recruitment, Amy's recruitment is carried out in accordance with the mercenary regiment paid recruitment model, according to the soldier's ability, each soldier can have a stable income of 8~12 gold coins per month, which is a huge difference from the subsidy of the imperial soldier who only has a fixed 2 gold coins a month, an ordinary fisherman on Xilin Island has a monthly fishing income of about 6 gold coins, and the mercenary group also includes food and accommodation, and more than 800 people in Xilin Town, which has more than 2,000 people, have signed up at once. After strict selection, 120 young adults between the ages of 18~30 joined the swordsman battalion of the small mercenary group.

Soon, the new soldier discovers that Amy doesn't want to train everyone to be a type of swordsman. The first batch of weapons provided by the blacksmith of Xilin Town for the small mercenary group are in place, all of them are swords, a total of 5 types. These swords are obviously different from the traditional knight's stabbing sword, the traditional knight's stabbing sword is mainly used to stab the opponent directly after the knight charges, so the sword is required to be narrow and slender, not only easy to stab, but also easy to pull out with the power of the horse charge, the texture is best cast steel sword, so rich in bullets, will not be broken by armor and other armor in the sprint.

Among the swords, the largest number is the two-handed bladeless heavy sword: a total of 300 pieces, weighing 50 catties, without blades. It is obvious that this is a training sword, which can ensure that all soldiers can ensure sufficient training intensity when training.

And all the soldiers, as Amy ordered, received their long swords, which they had never used before. Almost more than 50% of the new swordsmen have received more than 1.6 meters long two-handed giant swords, the average height of this group of fighters is more than 1.8 meters, perennial fishing work, exercise their broad shoulders and round waist, the hands that are used to pulling the net suddenly hold the two-handed big sword or feel very uncomfortable, but soon they found that the original such a big sword is very simple to use, Amy in addition to simple swordsmanship and quick movements, there are few requirements for them. The swordsmen who hold the big sword have only a few simple actions every day except for chopping wood: oblique chop, straight chop, diagonal knock, and spinning diagonal chop......

There are also 50% of the relatively thin new swordsmen who have received relatively slender two-handed stabbing swords, this kind of sword has never been seen before, made of pure steel, 1.4 meters long, the sword body is slender, but behind the tip of the sword, it is obviously much thicker than other parts, even if you hold the sword with both hands, you can still feel the weight from the tip of the sword. Amy's demands on them were extremely complicated, and even the routine of chopping wood every day had to be carried out in a rough boat, and the subsequent sword fighting had to be carried out in a small boat. They were also required to use straight stabs as much as possible, learn to use the weight at the tip of the sword when chopping, and try to use the front section as the chopping surface.

Most swordsmen get a 1.5-meter standard black sè two-handed greatsword, which requires them to be between the first two.

There is also a special two-handed sword with about 50 or so swords, which are not used at all.

After settling everyone, Amy asked Chi Hanfeng and Horns to preside over the training, and asked Balbas to return to the Northern Federation of the Empire with 10 young mercenaries, and bring all the young mercenaries over the age of 14 to Xilin Island to participate in the full training before February of the 4th year of the magic calendar, while the young mercenaries under the age of 14 continued to exercise their physique in the ice and snow by taking advantage of the good environment given by God.

After arranging everything, Amy and Daqingshan set out on a journey to find the vulture.

The vultures are a huge bird of prey that lives in groups along the coastline, and the wings of the vulture are generally spread out about 2.5 meters, and the larger ones are called the thunder vultures, and the wings spread out are about 3 meters. The vulture is about 1.5 meters tall, and its feathers are clinging to its body, and because it often bathes in seawater, it always has a thin layer of grease on its feathers, so it can fly normally on rainy days. Only the feathers on the head of the vultures are white, and the brown eyes can see things up to 10 kilometers away. The vultures hunt fish and small beasts with their beaks and claws, and are extremely threatening to both parts of the human and other races. The average vulture is still relatively small in size, so it can only carry people weighing 130~150 pounds, so the vulture knights rarely wear iron armor, at most leather armor.

Training a vulture is also an extremely hard job, and it is irreplaceable, and warriors who wish to become vulture knights must personally contact and train the vultures, otherwise it will be difficult for the vultures to obey the knight's orders.

Compared with capturing wild vultures, training wild vultures is an easy thing, capturing live wild vultures is an extremely hard and dangerous thing, generally the hunters who provide the army with wild vultures for reconnaissance all year round are in the wild vulture nest on the cliff at night, take advantage of the characteristics of the wild vulture that cannot see things at night, cover it with a net, tie it firmly and then carry it down - this kind of aerial work has an extremely high mortality rate.

Of course, if it is a small number of wild vultures, there is another way, the hunter wears an extremely heavy and wide coat - the coat is drenched with water beforehand, and the size of the coat must completely cover the hunter, and the chicken intestines are tied with thin wire on the coat - the chicken intestines are also strung with thin wire, and then the man takes the coat to the hillside. When the vulture sees its favorite chicken intestines, it will carefully observe whether there are any traps nearby--of course, it can't see the hunter under the coat, and after making sure that there is no danger, it will fall from the sky and grab the food heavily, and rise up again - Of course, this is just an imagination, the weight of the soaked coat is as much as 120 pounds, although this weight can also be brought up by the vulture, but, without any preparation, this weight is enough to overturn the vulture to the ground, and the vulture that has fallen to the ground has no way to break free of the wire that has been wrapped around its claws, then the hunter can come out and buckle the vultures with a net, and then capture it.

Of course, the vultures are extremely aggressive animals, and any kind of capture will pay a great price, at least 50% of the vultures struggle to resist being killed by mistake in the process of being captured.

Amy and Daqingshan soon found a large number of wild vultures on the seaside cliff more than 50 miles away from Xilin Island, and on the cliff 40 meters above the ground, there were no less than 50 wild vulture nests, and below the nest were a large number of leftover fish and small animal remains, emitting a stench. The wild vulture fluttered in the howling sea breeze, like a jīng spirit in the sky.

In the small shack, Da Qingshan squinted his eyes and observed every move of the wild vulture for 3 days, and finally bit his ear with Amy, Amy heard Da Qingshan say very clearly: "You go back and bring people, give me 3 days, I will catch all the adult wild vultures here." Although surprised, there was something else that Daqingshan could not believe - while the other children were still coquettish in their parents' arms, Daqingshan had already begun to hunt the most dangerous beasts. Amy patted Da Qingshan's shoulder and left reassuringly.

Three days later, when Amy and 57 small mercenary soldiers came to the bottom of the vulture cliff again, there was no longer a flying vulture in the sky, but everyone could clearly see that Lu'er was lying in a vulture's nest, poking out her head and greeting everyone happily.

Outside the shack in Daqingshan, all the wild vultures were tied up sturdily, and they stood on the wall outside the shack like wooden stakes, and it seemed that there were at least 80 of them. Unlike the vultures captured by the army, each of them had no blood on them, and it appeared that they had been captured without any fighting.

I can't say the master: exam questions - to give a reasonable reason, how did Daqingshan catch the wild vulture?(There are no prizes, just look at the knowledge of young people now.) ）

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