"Mercenaries? Slave catchers? Liu Ergou almost didn't drink a mouthful of porridge into his nose, "In the middle of the night, what are these people doing here?" Bring the map! ”

One of the warriors immediately got up, and a moment later returned with a roll of hides.

Spreading out the hides, it is a detailed map of the area around Kitahara Castle within a radius of 500 kilometers.

Since the last rescue battle on the hill, Liu Ergou ordered the headquarters to draw a batch of maps as soon as possible.

The group of gargoyles led by Winston was also arranged from then on, rotating every three days.

Bufax pointed to a spot on the map, marking the group's location.

It is clear that the information available from a single location is very limited.

"Send an order to Winston, keep his distance from this group and keep watching!"

"Boss, I've already laid this out." Bufax said immediately.

"Well done!" Liu Ergou nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "From today onwards, the range of activities of the hunting and gathering teams advancing the base will shrink to within ten kilometers outside the base!" In addition, the patrol posts of the Yellow Iron Cliff have been doubled! ”

"You can arrange to send some more men to the side of the Yellow Iron Cliff, and if necessary, you can arm the goblins as well." Liu Ergou said to Bufax.

"Also, keep the troops on alert and ready to go!"

"Yes!" Buffex beat his chest and flew straight down the city wall with his wings spread.

"Ahem...... cough ......" Liu Ergou was confused by the wind and sand brought up by Buffex, and suddenly coughed incessantly.

.....

Twelve hours later, Winston's second summons confirmed Liu Ergou's fears that the force was heading in the Yellow Iron Cliff.

Leaving a part of the garrison, Liu Ergou immediately led the team to set off.

Although, according to the information sent back by Winston, this force was less than a hundred men.

But for the sake of insurance, Liu Ergou still decided to take most of the people with him.

On the one hand, the fact that such a small number of people dared to break into this northern plain is very telling in itself.

On the other hand, Liu Ergou also has the intention to take this opportunity to test the actual combat capability of the troops.

Therefore, Liu Ergou set out on this expedition, not only the infantry regiment and the eagle strike regiment, but also the airborne troops and the heavy crossbow troops that had just been formed and were still very few in number.

At the end of the procession, they were accompanied by several wagons carrying the latest models of replica dragon hunting ballistas.

Within half a day, this reinforcement arrived at the camp of the Yellow Iron Cliff.

In another half a day, the camp was armed from the inside out into a barrel-like fortress thanks to the efforts of the soldiers and goblins!

However, the appearance of the camp has not changed, and under Liu Ergou's order, it was even disguised.

From a distance, it looks like a dilapidated little village that has just been built.

Ready, the soldiers began to rest and recharge for the coming big battle.

......

After about half a day's effort, Schwell's team arrived outside the camp and set up camp less than five kilometers from the camp.

Since the life detection spell consumes a lot of mana, and Emon and Sinther, the only two in the team who can cast this spell, will have to take on the main force of spell output in the next battle.

So along the way, Shi Wei didn't let them cast the spell again.

Anyway, after a short walk in the direction of exploration, the outpost reported that he saw cooking smoke above his destination.

Judging from the scale of the cooking smoke, the number of people is about 500.

Shi Wei did not doubt him, and led the team to rush straight to him.

He didn't know that because of the portable military rations, the troops under Liu Ergou did not need so many bonfires to bury pots and cook.

The bonfire that Schwell saw was actually enough for more than 3,000 people!

And when they were still more than thirty kilometers away from the camp in Shiweil, the sentries outside the camp found their traces early through binoculars!

After getting the news, Liu Ergou immediately ordered everyone to hide in the camp and make an illusion that no one was defending.

Only Abel was left with a small group of soldiers, disguised as slaves, pretending to work in the open field outside the camp.

This hand is also to prevent the other party from coming with good intentions, but he was beaten by himself inexplicably.

Schwell, of course, could not have had any good intentions! He brought people all the way to this northern plain, just to teach Burning Steel a lesson!

Although the "Shadow Song" mercenary group is not those third-rate people who are inhumane and only know how to kill innocents indiscriminately, they are not ambiguous about those who dare to tease them!

So Schweller immediately ordered Ou Ruo to take a few people to arrest those "slaves" first and ask what happened.

As soon as he heard Shi Weier's order, Ou Ruo rushed out of the camp with two big axes and went straight to Abel and them!

In less than two minutes, the mad bull had run nearly four kilometers and was about to slash the axe into Abel's face!

Seeing Oro who had come to him like a fierce god, Abel was suddenly frightened, and fled back to the camp with his men along the hole dug in advance.

When Oruo got there, he found only a few tattered robes, and some rudimentary tools made of sticks and stones.

Seeing these things that Ou Ruo brought back, Shi Wei suddenly sneered. It was even more certain that the broken village in front of him was the hiding place of Burning Steel and his group of slaves!

At Swelter's order, the warriors in the team immediately formed a charge formation, while Emmen and Sinser began to give the warriors defensive magic.

"Charge !!!!!!!" As soon as the order came out, Ou Ruo took the lead and rushed out, and the soldiers of the mercenary group also followed, each holding their weapons and running at high speed!

The two mages flew on either side of the group, already brewing a fire blast technique in their hands to blast through wooden walls.

That's it!

"Tom!" "Tom!"

A few strange muffled noises rang out from the wall, and then several strange metal columns flew into the air, heading straight for the team!

In an instant, Schwell's hair stood on end! The sixth sense, formed after years of traveling between life and death, almost screamed to warn him, making him, a frost elf, experience the feeling of cold sweat all over his body for the first time in a long time!

"Defense! Defense! Shi Wei didn't have time to think about it, and immediately gave the order hoarsely!

Then the fighting spirit of the whole body suddenly burst out, and a thick ice wall instantly condensed in front of the team!

The head of his own regiment obviously noticed something!

Emmen and Xinsher also made a decision, ignoring the burning pain caused by the reverse current of magical power, and immediately dispersed the Flame Explosion Technique in their hands, and then two earthy yellow light shields covered the entire team!

The warriors who charged below immediately began to stop their tracks, hugging their bodies together and hiding as much as possible under the enchanted shields behind them.

Only Ou Ruo and a few warriors couldn't stop and crashed headlong into the ice wall.

And in the next second, one after another of magical flames, accompanied by a loud bang that resounded all around, overwhelmed the small team.