174. Crazy brown bear
Early in the morning of March 6, Neil came to the vicinity of the iron mine with a much larger team.
Looking over a small hill to the north of the iron mine, a few kilometers away, the iron ore mine factory is surrounded by a 6-meter-high earthen wall, and a large area of dark brown stone can be seen on the mountain beyond the earthen wall. That is the best quality and easiest open-pit limonite to mine on the Galloping Horse Plain.
Not far from the iron mine, all kinds of earthen and wooden buildings have been piled up into a walled city, and many buildings have been built from the inside of the earthen wall to the mountain, which looks scattered and orderly from a distance, and chaotic from a close distance.
But Neil is sure that there must be a lot more demon supporters living in this iron mine than in the salt mine, and even more than in Night Qi City.
"Let's go, let's call the door!" Neil sat on his horse and said to the long hooves of the bull beside him, and then they each rode their mounts down the hill and approached the iron mines.
This is Neil's strategy, don't expose your strength first, use the best mount to approach the iron ore, probe the truth, and run away at any time.
"Brown Bear Tribe! We're the Longhorn tribe, and we're here to transport iron ore! More than 100 meters away from the mine gate, Neil and the others stopped and began to call the door.
Neil believed that if there was someone on the other side of his voice, he would be able to hear it, but the brown bear tribe did not respond, and there was not even a person on the earthen wall.
After calling the door three more times, the two decided to probe forward one more time, so they clutched the reins and urged their partner to move forward little by little.
With a "pass", the gate of the camp was rudely pushed open, and a humanoid monster with a height of nearly 4 meters, no clothes on the upper body, and a pair of wide leather pants on the lower body appeared at the door.
"This," Neil exclaimed, even for a demon supporter, a height of 4 meters is definitely an exaggeration, if it is in the Human Empire, it is definitely a high-level existence or above.
"It's..." The long cow's hooves looked at it intently, but he felt that the monster in front of him was very familiar, "Is it the leader of the brown bear?" ”
"Huh?" Neil was even more surprised when he heard it, not to mention the current high-level figure of this leader, just looking at the state is also very weird.
Now that winter had just ended on the plains, everyone had to wear leather jackets, but the chieftain had bare purple arms, and his leather trousers were stained, his eyes were glazed, and the saliva on his mouth was almost frozen, and he did not look like a normal state.
"Hey, it's delicious!" The brown bear leader's dull eyes came to the spirit as soon as they met the two of them, I saw that this monster flew to the body of the long bull's hoof, and the head of the big horned beast that he held with both hands pinched, and the four hooves of the big horn left the ground with a flick of his hand, and even the leader of the long bull's hooves sitting on it was directly thrown out.
Neil looked at the brown bear leader in front of him in shock, and it only took a few tens of seconds to lift a pack beast carrying a man, and then opened its mouth like a big horned neck.
"No!" As soon as the long cow's hoof, which had been thrown more than ten meters away, looked up, he was shocked to see that his partner was torn by the monster's hands, and his legs couldn't even support himself.
Neil doesn't know now that this monster eats the pack beast first, entirely because the pack beast has more meat, as long as he stays for a moment longer, the black-scaled horse under him will not be able to escape his doom, and he quickly kicked the frightened whirlwind twice, scooped up the long cow's hooves and fled north.
The leader of the brown bear here opened the pack beast in three or two clicks, swallowing the bones and internal organs directly, and the plain in front of him and the gate behind him were empty.
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Most of the tribe's demon supporters and the cavalry brought by Neil had witnessed the cruel scene of the morning, many of the younger ones began to vomit before they reached the camp, and even many veterans of the war could not stand it.
Neil knew that the iron ore would not be able to enter now, and that he would not have enough people to eat the monster raw, but he had no idea for a while, and he didn't know what to do.
In the big tent, the knights of the galloping horses bowed their heads and were silent, this was the most complete defeat since they entered the galloping horse tribe, a high-level opponent, their own group of junior knights were not able to fight at all.
The long cow's hooves simply fell on the blanket as soon as they returned, and they couldn't even eat lunch.
"My big horn, you're gone" The old man kept wailing, "I still want to take down the iron ore with a bottle of potion" The daughter Xiaohua knelt beside him and accompanied him silently.
"I said long cow hooves, you have to cheer up, if something happens to you, what will Xiaohua do?" Neil continued to comfort him, understanding his feelings, in a way, if it weren't for the big horn, maybe he and the whirlwind would have become a monster's lunch.
"My lord, there's a messenger from the iron mine," a sudden report came from outside.
"What?" The people in the tent were stunned.
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When Rand received Neil's letter in Night-Kirk, it was the evening of March 10th, and Rand was meeting in his tent.
"Huh? There's a problem with Neil's side," Rand casually picked out some of the content and read it out in front of his subordinates. "The leader of the brown bear tribe seems to have gone crazy, it seems that iron ore really can't be bought"
"My lord? Is Neil alright? "Makoto on the side cares about her son very much.
"It's nothing, just a little frightened, but a mage in the iron mine has found him," Rand read the letter to the end, "It seems that this iron mine is much richer than the salt mine"
The so-called mage is to find the messenger in Neil's camp after the decisive battle, and he has only one purpose in finding Neil, to persuade them to leave quickly, and the leader of the brown bear has completely gone crazy and out of control.
Fighting the Bruins was Neil's biggest losing mission since following Rand, but Neil wasn't going to give up on that.
"Hey, this kid, even if you eat a medium-sized tribe, why are you still planning to be stationed there?" Neil's letter was written by Knight Kearney with a detailed description of their plan.
On the one hand, they believe that without the supply of iron ore, several medium-sized tribes around the iron ore will have survival problems, and now is a good opportunity to annex these tribes, and on the other hand, they are worried that once they evacuate, the mysterious Faneuil Fawkes will cause trouble in the surrounding area.
"This stinky boy," Rand smiled at Makoto, "don't be a girl who has a crush on someone else, you don't want to come back, do you?" ”
These words stunned Makoto, worried that his son would decide on his own and be taboo.
"Nedland Wilson, you take a team of 50 people, follow the messenger back, let Neil do it, and once you take down the new tribe, just move the people back." Rand read Neil's letter and agreed with the idea of stationing him there, but this kid was obviously inexperienced, and he almost put himself in, so he could only find a middle-level knight to bring more people to work with.
According to Rant, although he can't take the iron ore yet, he can eat all the medium-sized tribes around him, and he can also get a lot of ore. Since the supplier does not provide the source of goods, we should first think of a way from the channel provider.
(End of chapter)