Section 8 An ambush is a charge

After the fire fold was started, Xu Yun had to twist the bamboo tube cover to try the fire effect. But Tima covered his hands and organized his movements.

"This item is a one-time alchemy item, if you twist the lid now and trigger the mechanism inside, it won't be used after that."

"Don't worry, little Timmy, this fire fold is the standard for patrol knights, and we will each have one on each of us when we are on patrol, and it will be of great help to us when we encounter bad weather that is not good for fire. However, this little thing is a bit expensive as a consumable, even if the knights purchase it in bulk, it will be close to five hundred Mora each. So we usually use lighters to make fires. Even though the short and fat knights lowered their voices, their voices still shook Xu Yun's ears.

"I heard that there is a new alchemy item called a lighter on Fontaine's side, which can be reused, and after returning to the city this time, we can go to the trade market to see if the caravan from Fontaine has brought." The tall and thin knight whispered beside him.

"Five hundred Mora can only be used once, and it is very expensive." Another knight added.

"If, I mean if, if I fail to make a fire and smoke, what am I going to do?" Although he felt that this sentence should not be asked at this time, Xu Yun, who was accustomed to having a backup plan to remedy it, felt that it was better to ask.

Everyone was slightly stunned, and there was a moment of silence in the room. Apparently none of the knights had considered a backup plan.

"In fact, in addition to the smoke alarm, there is another way that allows you to get to the militia garrison in the plains below in the shortest possible time. However, this approach is somewhat dangerous compared to the proposal proposed by Mr. Tima. Seeing the embarrassment, the tall and thin knight groaned for a moment and then spoke.

"This is the alarm plan I came up with before, so let's use it as a backup. Everyone knows that the reason why the Dawn Plain is fertile is because it is irrigated by the Longchuan River, which is formed by the confluence of the melting snow water on the Longji Snow Mountain. The snow water flowing from the melting of the snow-capped mountains is pure and cold, and because it is contaminated with the energy overflowing from the sealed veins on the Dragon's Back Snow Mountain, it is not only suitable for quenching weapons and irrigating the land, but the plants that grow are exceptionally strong and healthy, coupled with the abundant sunshine on the Dawn Plains, the grapes produced in the vineyards of Dawn Winery have the most perfect sweetness and taste in the whole Teyvat. ”

"Cross this side of the ridge, turn the trail below, peel aside the shrubs and weeds and head in the opposite direction of the road, and about a few hundred meters you will see a river from the snow-capped mountains, which is one of the important headwaters and tributaries of the Chenglong River. But when you see it, you'll also see a waterfall formed by its downhill cliffs.

The source of the river is actually a hot spring on the Longji Snow Mountain, so it does not freeze even in the cold winter. But the river flows through here and it has long since lost the temperature when the hot springs gushed out of the leylines, and even the temperature in this section of the basin is lower than freezing.

Jump into the river and hold your breath as the water drops you down the waterfall to the bottom of the cliff. Rest assured, below this waterfall is a small pool of perennial flowing water, the water is not deep but enough to link the impact of your fall, and in the summer we will go for a swim or something when we patrol the way. ”

"Oh~ You're talking about the little pool, the water there is so cool that you can see every stone at the bottom of the pool." The short knight had apparently sounded the place his companion had mentioned.

The tall and thin knight nodded.

"If I'm not mistaken, there's a blacksmith shop of the Legon family nearby, specializing in the creation of swords for the Legon family." The short knight continued.

"Yes, my plan depends on this, just fall into the waterhole below, and climb to the shore as soon as possible, there is a path on the shore where the blacksmith shops take water to quench their weapons and crush it, because the waterwheel is very heavy when it is full, so there will be many rut marks on the path. Very recognizable. Along the path, it wasn't long before you would find the blacksmith's shop, which, though hidden in the woods by the Legunfender family, was large enough to be easily found by following the path. ”

"The Legunfender family will definitely send sentinels to the blacksmith's shop." The bearded tall knight said.

"So find the sentinels and call them to complete the mission." The tall and thin knight nodded again.

"It's dangerous, but it's probably better than starting a fire and making a smoke."

"After all, it is safer and more feasible to fire and smoke to warn." The tall and thin young knight looked at Xu Yun and said as his eyes roamed around the thin coat on his body.

Even if the child who grew up in the mountains was wild, looking at the thin little body in front of him, he was worried about whether the child named Timmy would be able to hold up to climb the riverbank. After all, even in the summer, when swimming in that pool, I didn't dare to stay in the cold water for long, and when I went ashore, I would shiver because of the cold air of the pool.

Not to mention that it's winter. So no matter how you think about it, Tima's plan is the most secure and feasible.

With a backup plan in place, the knights quickly made the final preparations before the battle. Ruth took her two sons in advance, carried her luggage and retreated into the depths of the cedar forest to hide.

A team of four patrol knights and Tima, the knight of the Vision, led Timmy out of the woods and down the path up the ridge.

At the ridge, Xu Yun hid himself with large rocks exposed from the bushes and weeds, and looked at the hilichurls in the mouth of the pathfinder.

On the other side of the ridge, hilichurls advancing in a loose one-line line came into Xu Yun's line of sight.

They wear the same as in the game, wearing a large bone mask that covers the entire face. The shape of the mask is completely different from the cute round appearance in the game, they are made of animal skulls, so the appearance is also varied, felines, canines, leopards, tigers, bears, wolves or fox skulls, only the totem text drawn by red paint on the surface of the miserable white bone mask makes Xu Yun find a familiar feeling.

It's the same as the symbol drawn on each hilichurl mask in the game.

There are always holes in the mask made of skulls, and what kind of face is under the mask cannot be seen for the time being because of the angle.

The gray hair like withered grass was scattered behind the head, the skin of the bare upper body was dark and shiny, and although the figure did not look burly, the muscles were grave and the blocks were distinct, making people wonder that it could burst out with great and deadly power. Skirts made of animal fur and dried weeds were worn around the waist.

They carry rudimentary sticks made of twigs or leg bones, and carry bulging animal skins. Every once in a while, there will be an exceptionally tall and muscular figure in the middle of the team, the exaggerated inverted triangle body shape, and the visual impact brought by the high and bulging shoulders and arms make Xu Yun think that he is afraid that it is not as thick as his body.

'Hilichurl warriors. The name flashed silently through my heart.

The hilichurls were so long that they could only see the section on the other side of the ridge that did not enter the bushes, while the rear of the group extended to the other side of the undulating slope, through which they could faintly see the figures watting through the snow and bushes.

Xu Yun didn't see the shaman flag, and the shaman flag he might be holding had already entered the woods below the mountain with the team's forward.

"Are you ready?" Tima's voice sounded, and the knights looked at each other silently, clenched the sword and shield in their hands, and nodded in unison after confirming each other's eyes.

"Timmy?" Tima turned to Xu Yun, who was hiding behind the stone, and Xu Yun nodded.

"Look at the opportunities, don't be afraid, we'll lure them away." Tima admonished again.

Xu Yun couldn't do anything else except nod.

"All of them, on." Tima confirmed Xu Yun's response, and then turned her head and gave the order.

The short and fat knight was the first to jump out of the reverse slope of the ridge where he was hiding, and opened his throat and roared: "Hey~ha!! You ugly things, mom called you home for dinner! ”

With this roar, he picked up his shield and sword and rushed down the hillside.

"Charge, for the glory of the knight!"

"Kill them all!"

"Die, monster!"

The other three knights rushed out together with a loud roar, looking at the momentum, as if they were the main force of the entire knight order.

"Damn?! Big brother, aren't you going to set up an ambush? What's the difference between this and a frontal charge? Xu Yun's eyes widened, and he shouted out all the words in his heart in surprise.

"This is an ambush, and if they charge unprepared, the hilichurl ranks will immediately become chaotic." Tima hesitated and broke a leg and couldn't charge together, so she fell behind. After explaining to the boy, he limped through the snow on the hillside and slid down the hilichurl team below.

"You pay attention to the timing~~~~~" The man had already rushed halfway down the mountain, but the voice drifted from afar.

Whoa~Roar!

The charge of the knights threw the hilichurl ranks into confusion, and the loose line was pierced by the short knights who rushed to the front, and the two ordinary hilichurls each had a handful of red blood on their bodies, and they were knocked down the slope.

The knights who followed quickly knocked down the hilichurls they could reach, and then the knights turned around and killed them halfway down the hill in the direction of the team.

The tall and sturdy hilichurl warriors held double-edged battle axes like door panels, roared and jumped high, and fell into the woods below like a meteorite.

The hilichurls in the rear, who were closer to the encounter point, chased after the knight squad in front, while the hilichurls in the front were completely disorganized by the sudden attack, unable to organize an effective defense, and could only be driven and pursued.

The long and narrow group of hilichurls of Liela was quickly broken in two in front of Xu Yun's eyes, leaving a blank area of dozens of meters in the middle. There were hilichurls in the rear who rushed to support, and the hilichurls who were a little closer to Xu Yun were ordinary monsters without weapons, they were busy collecting the packages that their companions had thrown on the ground, rolling out the packages, and the black briquette-like things that did not fall out of the snow one by one, and stuffed them back into their backpacks.

Xu Yun thought that now was the time he needed, so he decisively jumped out of the rock where he was hiding, flattened his body, and slid down the ridge like a slide, sliding down the slightly hard snow shell on the surface of the snow.

This is because of the small body and light body, coupled with the thin clothes on the body, it was really successfully achieved.

As he walked through the rupture zone of the hilichurl team, Xu Yun saw a thin hilichurl secretly pick up pieces of briquettes that had been broken into several petals by his companions in the snow, and lifted his mask and stuffed them into his mouth.

The mask made of the animal's skull, with holes in the eye sockets and nostrils, was closed with an unknown white horn, leaving only a round hole the thickness of a little finger at two points in the center of the eye socket.

Even if Xu Yun deliberately paid attention to the appearance of the hilichurls, he could not see the slightest face from the front. Only as it lifted the corner of its mask and slipped into the fragment of the 'briquette' that it caught a glimpse of a jaw that was indistinguishable from that of a human type.

Xu Yun slid by, and he could feel that the hilichurl was also looking at him through the two small holes in the mask. Its body was short and thin compared to other ordinary hilichurls, as if it were a teenager compared to an adult.

Farther away, he noticed that the hilichurls were also male and female, and some hilichurls with their cubs were gathering in the back half of the line away from the battlefield. Several hilichurls with pedals, crossbows, and visibly better masks slowly stepped out of the rear ranks.

"Oh no, it's the shooter hilichurls. Looking at the coloring of the mask, it is clear that it is still an elemental shooter. Hurry away. ”

Even without skis, skiing with your body is much faster than running through knee-deep snow. Xu Yun quickly rushed into the woods halfway up the hillside, and found the path through the forest, but he rushed a little fast, and did not grasp the braking distance, even if he spread his legs and stepped on the snow before rushing into the woods, he could not stop in time, and finally had to hug the thick trunk of a birch tree that was facing him.

The sound of broken eggs flowed through the bottom of my heart, and the pain instantly made my entire lower body numb.

Taking a breath of cold air, he didn't care about the pain, he sandwiched his legs and trekked quickly through the snow in an awkward position, he couldn't run, and with every foot, the snow could reach his knees, thanks to the fact that the snow in the woods was relatively not so thick.

The knights and hilichurls fought in the woods, and the roars, shouts and roars of rage from both sides of the warband, accompanied by snowflakes that flew as they wielded their weapons, flew around. Xu Yun followed the path, almost grazing the gap in the outer part of the battle group.

When the sound of the battle was left behind him farther and farther away, Xu Yun's heart that was pounding and constantly beating the drum slowed down slightly.

After the numbness in the lower body, the pain gradually returned, but it was far less intense than expected, at least within the tolerable range.

The straight trunks of the birch and deciduous shirts flashed from front to back one after another, and Xu Yun's eyes widened and he didn't dare to be distracted, looking for the characteristics of the forest path. The snow was so thick that the path was already covered in the woods, and the only way to tell the original path was to rely on the sparseness of the bushes that had not yet been buried by the snow.

This kind of deep mountain jungle is not a manicured back garden of your own home, and if you don't follow the path stepped by your predecessors, you will fall into a col, a fissure in the ground or a hole dug by wild animals, and then you can't get out safely, but the difficulty and time it takes are definitely far beyond imagination.

Xu Yun's most precious thing now is time, listening to the sound of the fighting in the distant forest, he unconsciously has a heavy sense of responsibility on his shoulders. The feeling of being trusted and entrusted made Xu Yun not want to live up to it.

Fortunately, the forest path was shorter than expected, because Tima had reminded him before, so when he saw the edge of the woods, Xu Yun began to slow down, and walked out of the woods along the path.

The beautiful manor house in the middle of the plain, surrounded by stone walls, is a three-story wooden main building with a bright red tile-covered spire that makes it look like a ruby set in a silvery white earth, and the flowing Longchuan River is a royal blue ribbon that adorns this gem.

The reason for the wide view is that, as Tima once mentioned, the path turns at the very high cliff. After turning around, the path stretches along the edge of the cliff into the distance, and Xu Yun can even faintly see the huge fan blades of the windmill mill in Qingquan Town, the blades peeking out from the top of the trees at the far end.

"Make a fire, I'm going to make a fire quickly." Xu Yun reflexively walked back to the woods at the bend of the path, but the ground of the woods was covered with snow, and even the canopy of the trees was covered with a thick layer, and the branches were so heavy that they drooped under the weight of the snow, and some even fell to the ground.

"It's been snowing for the past few days, but I haven't had time to melt the snow, and the dead leaves buried in the ground should still be dry."

Xu Yun put the fire fold into his arms and dug under a deciduous tree, although the snow was thick, it was very soft to dig. He effortlessly dug into the ground where the dead leaves were stacked.

The dead leaves on the surface of the ground come into contact with the falling snow, and the part facing the sky has frozen with the snow. Cutting open this layer of dead leaves, which is half ice and half snow, reveals the dry leaves underneath.

The shape of the leaves of the larch is somewhat close to that of pine needles, which is not easy to ignite, Xu Yun tried several times to light the fire with a smoldering fire fold, but the harvest was only a failed work that was extinguished into a uniform green smoke just after it was ignited.

"Look for some broad-leaved, wide, thin kinds. By the way, birch leaves should be fine, and birch bark is also a good material for making fire, and the torn birch bark can even be used as paper to record words. Xu Yun slapped his forehead, he was really sick and rushed to the doctor, just like digging up dead leaves, but he didn't expect that the leaves of the deciduous shirt were not easy to burn, and the two birch trees next to him, he could light a fire by tearing a few pieces of bark, but he was abandoned and not used.

Xu Yun, who finally figured out the crux of the problem, quickly rushed to the bottom of the birch tree a few meters away, reached out and tore the outer skin of the birch tree, and threw away the outermost layer stained with snow, as long as the inner layer was dry and thin.

After collecting the birch bark, tearing them into slender strips, forming a ball, and smoldering with the smoldering flame of the fire fold, the process of ignition reminded Xu Yun of the picture when his colleagues smoked cigarettes and ignited the fire.

Using his body to block the cold wind from the cliff, his palm kept fanning and gently sending the smoldering fibers into the slightly cold fresh air, and the small fiber clumps were more and more smoldering in front of Xu Yun's eyes, and the last dazzling flames sparkled, quickly swallowing the entire fiber clump into the fire.

He threw the fibre into the pit where the leaves of the bitter fir tree had been dug up, and added a few pages of thin birch bark to the fire, and the flame grew stronger and stronger, and soon ignited the foliage in the pit as well.

Soon the birch bark Xu Yun found was exhausted, and he dug up more dry fir leaves to fill the fire, and the flames became more and more vigorous, and even the cedar leaves stained with ice and snow would not be extinguished.

"Set fire to the mountain, Klee will be finished."

"But this fire shouldn't be able to ignite all the mountains and forests... Probably. Seeing that the vigorous flames rising under the cedar tree began to spread to the surrounding area, and the tongue of fire even began to lick the dry trunk of the cedar tree, Xu Yun began to feel a little less confident in his heart.

Although there is a thick pile of snow around it, it is hard to say whether the fire will ignite the forest if it does reach a certain level.

Collapse~!

A string sounded.

Xu Yun was instantly alert, and he was lying behind the snowdrift he had piled up when he was digging for leaves just now.

A poorly made crossbow bolt plunged into the snowdrift diagonally, and the rough iron arrow pierced through the snowdrift and stopped a short distance in front of Xu Yun's forehead. Frightened, he stared at the sharpened arrow, swallowed his saliva, and his back suddenly became cold.

"Kazding~Hook, Siavi~!"

"Pickup pickup!"

The hilichurls shouted from the depths of the forest, and Xu Yun leaned in from behind the snowdrift and saw countless black shadows in the forest approaching this side.

The fighting in the woods at the far end continued, and it was clear that with only five knights, they could not hold back the hilichurls who outnumbered them. And his side is making fire and smoke, and it is reasonable for the hilichurls on the periphery of the battle circle to come over.

I looked at the path leading to Qingquan Town, the path along the cliff was far from the woods, there was almost no cover, and if I escaped along the path, I could only become a live target for the hilichurl shooter.

It is true that hilichurls' ranged weapons are much more rudimentary than humans', but if the hilichurls in the game aim at you, the character will almost certainly be shot if they don't dodge. Xu Yun didn't dare to hand over his life to the hit rate in reality.

Seeing the swaying figures in the woods getting closer and closer, and showing a situation of encirclement, I don't know where the hilichurl shooter hiding behind to shoot cold arrows is hiding. Was there only one shooter, or was there several? Is it a normal shooter or an elemental shooter?

Everything is unknown.

The chord sound started again, and Xu Yun retracted his head suddenly, but before he retracted his head, the snowdrift in front of him had already exploded into a snowflake. They were far enough away from themselves for the bolts to shoot themselves before the sound came.

The panicked and frightened mood when he was first shot by the crossbow bolt before suddenly disappeared at this time, and looking at the second crossbow bolt that stopped in front of him, he was as calm as if he was just a spectator.

Then he turned decisively, burrowed into the bushes in front of him, blocked the other party's view with the help of trees at different intervals, and headed in the opposite direction of the path.

"The plan for the future is to find a way out from the tributary of the upstream source of the Longchuan River that the thin man said."