Chapter 84: Secret Attack
Walker led the wolf cavalry all the way north in the night, stopping every thirty miles to rest, and the cavalry would take advantage of this precious time to wash the mouth and nose of the giant wolf under his crotch, while he himself stuffed a few emergency rations in the cold river water.
The whole team did not have any superfluous conversations during the recuperation process, and each wolf cavalry was like a part of a watch, performing their own duties, calm and efficient.
This was already the fourth night they had left the Bright Field.
Along the way, Walker always felt as if there were a pair of eyes behind them watching them secretly, and this sharp but indiscriminate intuition had saved him several times. After asking the team to probe in the rear several times to no avail, he even tried to pull out the eyes behind the back, but in the end it ended empty-handed.
Walker had no choice but to think that he was too nervous.
The closer you get to the mountains along the northern border of the kingdom, the heavier the snow becomes, and everywhere you can see is a white patch, surrounded by the squeaks of falling snowflakes and wolf riders, and nothing else.
Walker rode on the wolf's back and spat out a breath of hot air into his palm, took out the map from his arms and opened it, confirming that they had arrived at the rendezvous point, where they would complete the handover with the wolf cavalry who had been rotated in the previous rotation, and then start a new round of border patrol.
But the expected time had arrived, and the wolf cavalry squad that had changed the guard had not yet appeared.
Walker looked at the heavy snow that was falling more and more, and thought to himself that maybe it was the heavy snow blocking the mountain, and the patrol wolf cavalry squad was delayed because of the detour, this kind of thing had not been encountered before, he himself had experienced it two or three times, so he didn't pay attention to it.
The wolf cavalry walked along the frozen river under the mountain range, lit a fire in a place with a wide view, and devoured the beef jerky they had brought from the bright field, and several wolf cavalry stood guard not far away.
"This beautiful thing of the bright field is really not blown, I used to listen to the brethren who changed the guard, but now I know that it is true, and it is ten times stronger than those things made by our gang house!" One of Walker's deputies took a piece of beef jerky dried with various spices and roasted it on the fire, and soon the golden butter dripped from the cracks of the meat strips, and he hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth with oil and meat, shook off his cheeks and chewed violently, his face was full of intoxication, as if this was the rarest delicacy in the world.
In fact, the northern provinces of the orc kingdom have always ranked last among the five major provinces in terms of financial revenue, and it is true that they have the most extensive land, but the Varonian wasteland has no other resources to develop except grass and rivers.
In the past, the consuls here had been in charge of animal husbandry for a while, after all, the Vallian wasteland was rich in grass and fish, and with the help of the military headquarters and the temple, to be honest, it really did it at first. If we can persist in development, we may not be able to shake off the hat of the northern province that has been the bottom of the country's fiscal revenue for many years.
It's a pity that the two troll tribes later got in the way, destroying the local animal husbandry and the resulting commercial circle, and the financial deficit of the northern provinces naturally tightened the financial expenditure of the Iron King Champion Group every year, either from the soldiers' weapons and equipment, or from the food, so it is no wonder that they are particularly fond of the food of Guangmingye.
A few beef jerky belly, the wolf cavalry also ate feverish, at this time Walker was already a little unable to sit still, half an hour had passed since the agreed assembly time, why did the wolf cavalry team that changed guards not show up for a long time?
Every soldier in the Wolf Cavalry Squadron was personally brought out by him, they were the elite of the Iron King Champion Regiment, and the primary goal was to complete the mission at all times, and there would never be a situation of disobeying military orders or deliberately delaying.
The cold wind blew in his ears, Walker's wolf ears suddenly stood up, he keenly caught the discordant hissing sound in it, he seemed to realize something, his face changed drastically, Huo Ran looked back, a featherless white arrow swept through his field of vision, straight through the thin armor on the neck of a wolf cavalryman, blooming a terrible blood flower.
This sharp arrow, which was deliberately painted white, barely made any sound during flight because it lacked feathers on its tail, and the cluster of arrows without feathers not only had blood grooves and barbs, but also glowed with a light blue glow, which was obviously highly poisonous.
In addition to being smeared with poison, the arrows of the Feather Arrow are also engraved with complex enchantment patterns unique to the Human Empire, which can greatly increase the penetration of weapons.
The arrows engraved with this enchantment are very expensive, they are called annihilation arrows, and the wolf cavalry's already thin armor is simply like tissue paper in front of the annihilation arrows!
This is simply a massacre that has been planned for a long time!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Spread out the formation!" Walker roared with red eyes.
The wolf cavalry began to organize a counterattack the moment they encountered the attack, but the penetration effect of the annihilation arrow was too domineering, and even if they were lucky enough not to die under the penetrating effect of the annihilation arrow, the poison smeared on the arrow cluster would make them die.
One by one, the wolf cavalry scouts fell, unable to break through the net of annihilated arrows, while the one-sided slaughter continued.
Walker's eyes were split, he finally understood why the wolf cavalry squad that should have been replaced disappeared for a long time, it was not that they did not act according to military orders, but that the two mercenary groups of the Human Empire had already crossed the border mountain range, and even violated the rules of engagement and benevolence and morality, and slaughtered all his brothers!
The sound of sharp arrows piercing through armor and flesh sounded in Walker's ears, his eyes were red, and he desperately tried to cover the brethren rushing out, but the number of annihilated arrows pierced his shoulders and throat like a tide, and his unsheathed saber fell into the snow, and the mighty body fell to his knees, and his blood-stained vision gradually blurred.
As he was dying, he saw many human mercenaries armed with bows and crossbows coming out of the snow stacks in the distance, among them a shirtless strong man walked up to him with a sly smile, his sword fell, his vision flipped backwards a few times, and he landed, and saw his headless body.
The steppe wolf cavalry scout squadron of the Iron King Champion Regiment of the Northern Province was completely annihilated.
A few kilometers away from the scene of the slaughter of the wolf cavalry scout squadron, three folded cat girls wearing plush and snow-colored cats were following the footprints left by the wolf riders.
"The squadron leader of that group of wolf cavalry scouts is really very alert, and he has been suspicious of us several times along the way, if it weren't for the anti-reconnaissance skills we learned from Lady Anna that came in handy, we would definitely be discovered by him. Lucoco held the snow in her arms, covering her tracks as she walked forward, and this was how they had escaped the wolf cavalry several times before.
"Isn't it, it seems that there are still some powerful guys in the Iron King Championship Team. Mia asked excitedly while discerning the direction in the night against the wind and snow: "By the way, Sister Lu Keke, only you and Lord Chang Hao have met recently, and after hearing other sisters say that after Lord Chang Hao improved a thing called the realm, the whole person has become more and more handsome, is it true? Tell us about it!"
"I don't think it's so mysterious, I think Master Chang Hao has always been very handsome. Lu Coco blushed, I don't know if it was because of shyness or because of the wind and snow.
"Don't talk!Smell carefully!," Leah's face changed suddenly.
Lucoco and Mia were in a state of distress, and they carefully discerned the smell in the wind and snow, and sure enough, they smelled a trace of blood that was blown by the wind and snow.
In such a heavy snowstorm, the smell of blood can still be smelled from such a distance, what kind of tragic bloody scene must it be?
She braved the darkness of the night to climb to a high place and spotted a little fire several kilometers away.
Previously, the wolf cavalry squadron led by Walker would also make fires at every rest point at night, but this time the fire was too big and too strong, and there were shadows everywhere around the fire, far exceeding the size of the squadron. Lucoco exhausted her eyes, she couldn't see any shadow of the wolf cavalry, instead it was a heavily armed human!
The smell of blood wafted from the direction of the fire, and Lu Coco was cold.
Even the most stupid person can guess what is going on there.
Lu Keke trembled and took out a rune paper from his arms, and according to the boss's instructions, he lit the corner of the rune paper and threw it into the air, watching it turn to ashes in the cold wind.
At the same time, in the Guangming Ye Hall hundreds of miles away, Chang Hao opened his eyes.
The pupils were filled with palpitating gold.