58. Rush into the salt mines
The cronies of the head of the salt mine camp and the leader of the transport team did not expect that the task of his own transportation was carried out so "smoothly", and it originally required a whole day of work, delivering salt to the camp in the morning and transporting grain back to the salt mine in the afternoon.
On the way there, he took 35 barbarian demon supporters, most of them barbarians in the salt-making room; When he returned, he took with him 40 demon lovers who were also on horses, all of whom had been through a lot of battles in recent months.
In a word, the leader of the team was intimidated by the force of the Rand team, and became the leading party without pressure, and agreed to take Rand to pick out 20 knights and 20 cavalry, replace the pack beast team with food, and specially add 5 pack beasts, because according to Lanya's introduction, the grain in the salt mine will soon be insufficient and needs to be replenished, which is also the reason why the salt mine is in a hurry to send a transport team out.
Rand felt that since the salt mine was in a hurry to send a team to transport the grain, then his own people would personally send the grain back, and they should be very welcome... Right?
In order to prevent accidents, Rand also arranged for Neil and Greyhound to lead 20 cavalry each to stay in the woods and reinforce them at any time.
"Lady Lanya, when do you think the barbarians in the salt mines will find us?" On the way back, Rand took the place of Lannia's guard, chatting with her for a while.
"I don't know, it's up to their brains"
"Oh, are they in good minds?"
"Didn't you just cheat you" On the way here, Lannia introduced herself through Rand and knew that this was a human nobleman who had risen in the grassland, and that this young man had at least 300 cavalry troops under his command, and the 2,000 people and more than 200 demon supporters in the salt mine camp in front of him would also become this person's subordinates, but this person really had a lot of words.
In fact, Rand himself has a lot of words, and he usually likes to chat with Inuya, Neil and Makoto, but now that the salt mine is in front of him, Rand is very excited, and he talks more, he wants to know how much strength the salt mine in front of him can bring him, so he chats with Lanya along the way.
When the head of the salt mine heard that the convoy discharged in the morning had returned, he was very happy and hurried out with his people to greet him.
"Don't panic, team leader, don't move" Rand saw a group of people coming out of the salt mine camp from a distance and preparing to greet him, Rand quickly stabilized the people around him, the salt mine camp is not as good as the previous camp, what Rand is most afraid of is not the dozens of barbarians in front of him but the 200 Terran demon demons behind them.
From the brief chat with Lenya, Rand already knew that there were 5 mid-level knights, one mid-level mage and one mid-level priest in the entire camp, and this group of talents was the biggest uncertainty, so Rand had to ask the team that had always been strong enough to rush directly into the salt mine and gain the recognition of both the human race and the barbarians with irrefutable strength.
I have to say that the team leader is very cooperative, and Rand is behind him, and he can observe the expression of the barbarian team leader who wants to speak and stops, wants to say but does not dare.
The head man greeted him with his cronies, but when he was still more than 300 meters away, he still saw that something was wrong, and the guards behind Lannia had changed!
Lenia's guards are a special battalion of barbarians, who not only defend Lenya, but also keep an eye on her, and for the last two years, these guards have also been responsible for relaying information between the two camps.
Therefore, before returning to the camp, the guard will raise his right hand to show the letter package he brought if he is entrusted with the message, and if there is no letter, he will raise his left hand, but today the guard has been indifferent, indicating that he is not a camp guard at all.
The leader had already seen that something was wrong, but at the moment he was still wondering if his convoy had been robbed in the grove, or if something had gone wrong with the entire Grey Goose camp.
"Hurry up and go to the back, call all the Terran demon supporters and the mage master to come over, go quickly!"
The head man didn't know what the situation was, but the first thing the head man thought of was to pull in all the ones that seemed to be able to fight to cheer him on.
After all, their Grey Goose and the Terran Demon Supporters in the Salt Mine have been familiar with each other for so many years, and if a new team from outside storms in, I am afraid that it will not only be bad for the Gray Goose Barbarians, but also for the Terran Demon Supporters.
The cronies heard the order and immediately returned to the camp.
Rand saw from a distance that someone was going back to the camp and shouted that it was not good, and knew that the person must have gone back to move the rescuers, so he immediately shouted: "Everyone, follow me!" ”
The cavalry of 40 people suddenly accelerated, and 40 people also appeared in the forest in the distance and rushed towards the salt mine, and the leader saw this team, and he instinctively thought that there were 80 people in the gray goose camp.
"Oh no, did the old priest betray the head goose?" The head man could not imagine the birth of a new force on the Galloping Horse Plain, but took it for granted that something had happened in the camp and led people to kill them back to the salt mines.
Wind was blowing at the foot of the fire, Rand pulled out his saber, feeling that the whole world was flying backwards rapidly, and the barbarians led by him were swept by Rand in less than a minute, and then in a few seconds, Rant's saber accurately cut down the barbarians who were about to return to the camp to report the news.
Although the barbarian leader in the salt mine brought out more than 20 barbarian cavalry, but the battle was very fast, the headman's desire to fight was very weak, and the force was lower, in Lanya's words, this leader led the barbarian who was abandoned by the gray goose tribe, and it was enough to be able to manage the Terran slaves who lacked food and clothing, and did not need any combat effectiveness.
Most of the more than 20 barbarians threw directly without making a gesture, but Rand didn't care, but gathered all 80 cavalry, and then unfurled his secret weapon "Galloping Horse Banner", and rushed into the salt mine valley with all 80 cavalry.
The first person to learn that Rand rushed in was Kenan Doyles, an intermediate knight who supervised the demon supporters in the riverbed stone house, and there was a simple water wheel in the stone house, which could be pumped out by constantly turning the lever on the water wheel, and the brine pumped out would flow into a bucket, which needed to be loaded into the car by the demon lovers and then driven to the cave a hundred meters away.
Whether it is to pump brine or fill buckets, it needs to be done by the Terran demon supporters, all the Terran demon supporters have almost no shirts to wear in the camp, and the barbarians treat them like livestock, for fear that these demon supporters will unite against the barbarians.
"What's going on out there?" Kenan Doyles heard the commotion outside, and then took two reserve knights out, but he saw a group of armored cavalry rushing in, this cavalry was the one Neil had ambushed in the woods.
Kenan watched as the first cavalry of 40 men charged at him, and he felt that a new tribe should have replaced the gray geese as the new masters of the salt mines.
"Damn, we have to do it all over again" Kennan has experienced the rise and fall of the family, and knows that after the new power takes the throne, he will definitely have to slaughter a group of old people to sacrifice the flag, and what he can do at this moment is to try to show cooperation, "Call everyone out, something is wrong!" ”
The human race and barbarian tribe on the western rock wall also heard the movement of the cavalry, and immediately poked their heads out of the various cave entrances to look out.
Rand did not dare to enter with only 80 cavalry, his follow-up knights and cavalry were passing through the mouth of the valley one after another, and everyone in the valley could see the mighty procession, and everyone knew what was happening at the moment.
"Get out of the way ... Get out of the way" Petemane pushed away from the mouth of the cave to see the crowd huddled together, and he saw hundreds of cavalry pouring in the valley one after another, and saw the banner of the galloping horse tribe that was surrounded by a group of cavalry into the valley.
Looking at the flag painted with a black horse, Pete found two words in his head, "Galloping Horse", which was the symbol of the Galloping Horse family.
Pete then sees the actual manager of the salt mine and his titular wife, Lenia Manewolf, on a beast of burden.
Still sitting on the pack beast, Lannia was led by the banner of the galloping horse to a tall horseman, dressed in leather armor, and riding a large red and black horse that was one end higher than the black-scaled horse beside him.
"In the name of His Majesty the Divine Emperor!" Rand, who was riding on a horse, saw that the demon supporters and non-demons in the salt mine had almost gathered, and shouted loudly, "I, Rand Galloping Horse, the Baron (acting) of the Galloping Horse Territory of the Dragon Kingdom, hereby announce that this place has been recovered by my Galloping Horse family, and all the Terrans will be free immediately!" ”
"Galloping horses!" The first to roar out was Neil.
"Hooray! Banzai! Long live the galloping horse! Rand's own cavalrymen cheered almost subconsciously, and then began to sing the song of their ancestors and fathers, and it seemed that the barbarians were happier than the slaves in the salt mines.
"We're free!" Kenan Dowles came back to his senses, "Brothers, we're free!" He roared, speaking to the dozens of demon enthusiasts behind him who had just come out of the library.
"Free!" "Long live the galloping horse!" At this moment, the sound of a new batch of cheers gradually spread from the valley to the cave of the human race.
"Free?" Pete stared blankly at Lenya in the distance and muttered quietly.
"It looks like it's coming," Gandalf stared at Rand, looking at the galloping banner behind him, just as he saw the man who had set out to re-establish his nation on the plains of galloping horses a thousand years ago.