The sun hasn't come out yet, but the sky is already turning a fishy white.
Under the dim light of the early morning, the one-eyed man and the hundreds of gangsters lined up behind him were stunned.
Although there is still a certain distance from the town, they can already clearly see that the road leading to the town, which they were very familiar with, has set up checkpoints with obstacles, and there are some flags and number plates around it.
, with their eyes trained in the mountains, they can still see words such as "General Headquarters of the Bandit Suppression Special Operations Force" clearly written on it.
A group of neatly dressed soldiers patrolled back and forth next to the checkpoint, but they didn't seem to be very serious. From time to time, a few would stop and whisper to each other. I don't know what they were talking about. They didn't look like those bandits at all.
I imagined what the army should look like after a disastrous defeat, but it seemed to be a very relaxed daily patrol.
As the morning sun gradually emerged from the ground, some residents in the distant town seemed to have woken up in the morning, and one or two lines of smoke rose, clearly visible.
No!
The one-eyed man swallowed his saliva and looked back at the other bandits. Each and every one of them changed their expressions a little. He quickly lowered his voice and shouted to them: "Dismount! Dismount! Watch your horses carefully! Keep your voices down!"
By God, this is no joke!
It turns out that they thought that the main force of the empire's special bandit suppression force had been defeated by them on the mountain. Now there are no regular large-scale troops around the mountain, so they dared to drive hundreds of people so arrogantly.
We are about to come to massacre the village.
But the current situation looked clearly not what they imagined.
Judging from this, the ones they defeated that day were probably only the vanguard of the imperial coalition forces, not the main force at all. Looking at the lack of movement in the headquarters, it must be that the main force of these coalition forces did not suffer much damage.
, maybe their commander is furious and wants to find their nest and kill them all!
In those days, these gangsters basically didn't have time to confront the soldiers of the special operations force. They used the terrain they were familiar with to arrange some traps and other things to defeat the unknown number of soldiers first.
The fighting spirit of the soldiers who had not fought for years, and then the frightened defeated soldiers of the special operations forces of the two empires ran all over the mountains. Although they were hunted for a while, they had to really recall the original situation.
, but they really couldn’t tell how many troops they were facing at that time.
This group of bandits turned out to be residents of the mountains who had not received any real military training, and they were originally very afraid of this joint action force of 80,000 people. Now they originally thought that the enemy had been defeated.
When I arrived, I suddenly realized that I had not encountered the enemy's main force at all, and the enemy's base camp seemed to be right in front of me. The feeling that the empire's army was vulnerable was gone, and one or two people couldn't help but think again.
I started to get a little scared.
Eighty thousand people!
Even if 10,000 to 20,000 men were killed by me in a sudden attack on the mountain, there would still be an army of 60,000 to 70,000 men left!
Now the commanders of the special operations forces may be suffocating and thinking about how to settle the score with themselves, but if only a few hundred of them came to the gate of their base camp so blatantly and happily, wouldn't this mean that they were on the edge of a knife?
!
The bandits had a layer of cold sweat on their foreheads!
Fortunately, these soldiers were a little less vigilant. After all, they had never been in the mountains. If it had been for those hunters, the sound of horse hooves just now and the smoke and dust raised along the way would have been discovered long ago!
All the bandits are now carefully operating their horses to prevent them from making any noise.
The big one-eyed man stayed for a while, then turned around and gestured to them: "Retreat to a safe place first and let the Frierson brothers do some reconnaissance!"
Due to the common people's fear of the regular army, no one now doubts that this "bandit-suppression special operations force headquarters" is an empty shell, but they don't dare to just turn around and run back, after all, their boss is still there.
As for Fa Biao, even if the front is really a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, you can't just retreat without farting.
In their eyes, although the boss usually takes good care of them, once he gets angry, it is also very scary, let alone now.
Yeah, yeah, when I think of a arrogant boss, the one-eyed man breaks out in a cold sweat.
Sometimes he would rather face the tens of thousands of imperial soldiers in front of him than go back and offend an angry boss.
So think of another way!
Reconnaissance first!
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"Hey", Link, who was climbing on the roof and looking far away, bumped into Kermilla who was squatting next to him: "Those guys seem to have really started to retreat, no, it's actually better than expected.
It went well!"
"Yes! Yes!" Kermilla: "But, Link, do you feel that something is wrong..."
"What's wrong?!" Link glared at him: "I've thought of the next thing. They all ran here, and they definitely won't just run back to the mountain again, so I guess what happens next
We are about to send someone to investigate our situation, so what we have to do now is to wait for their spies to come over and kill them! Ha, in the game of officers and soldiers catching robbers, Link Knight has been the best since he was a child.
!”
"No", Kermilla scratched her head: "I mean..."
"Are you saying that you're afraid that you won't be able to scare them away for long like this?" Link didn't let Kermilla finish what he said, and directly said, "Actually, it's impossible to scare them away just like that. I guess I'll wait until midnight.
, these guys will attack sneakily even if they don’t dare to attack by force, but don’t be afraid, haven’t we already made a second plan?! Don’t worry, Link Knight is omnipotent!”
"No! It's not this!" When Link finished speaking, Kermilla finally found a gap and shouted: "The taste, it's the taste! Don't you think the taste is wrong?"
"Poor child, are you scared out of your wits by those ruthless bandits?" Link looked at Kermilla with pity, opened his arms, and breathed deeply into the morning air: "You must believe in Link's knight's omnipotence.
No, the morning in the town will be peaceful and beautiful as always, without any dangerous smell, oh, the fragrance of flowers, yeah, the fragrance of grass, ah... uh..."
Link twitched his nose, stopped his affectionate recitation, and looked back at Kermilla: "This is... this is..."
"It's messed up!" Kermilla sat down on the roof: "The omnipotent Knight Link, our breakfast seems to have been ruined!"
Link screamed, jumped up, and jumped off the roof with a speed that was faster than that of the Elephant Beast, shouting: "Why didn't you warn me earlier?!"
"You didn't let me say it." Kermilla looked aggrieved: "I told you a long time ago that the taste was wrong!"
"Forget it! Forget it!" Link looked at the dark pot in front of him and shrugged his shoulders: "Let's do it again. Anyway, to make those bandits feel the peace of the town, we have to make more smoke.
Well, this is actually part of Link Knight’s plan to lure the enemy!"
"Really?!" Kermilla looked at Link suspiciously: "You are so powerful!"
"Of course! Of course!" Link sneered a little guiltily, turned around and ran out, starting to cause trouble in the kitchen of an unknown house.
Near the town checkpoint, the soldiers who were patrolling back and forth listened to the two knights in the town laughing and joking. They also laughed with each other, and they felt more natural and relaxed when walking around!
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"Why haven't Brother Frierson come back yet?!" The big one-eyed man was hiding in the jungle, muttering to himself a little anxiously.
The group of bandits were all hiding under the dense trees, looking after their horses, but no one answered him.
In fact, everyone wants to get the answer, but no one wants to see such an answer.
As horse thieves, whether they are robbing passing merchants or trying to save their lives under the siege of soldiers, reconnaissance work is the most important. The two Friesen brothers are even better at this, especially after the boss
After teaching them some techniques that can increase their speed, they have never failed in any mission, but now that they haven't come back after such a long time, I'm afraid...
The one-eyed man looked up at the sky a little irritably.
The sun is almost setting now.
I had arrived here early in the morning with the intention of entering the town to massacre and plunder the village. No one had brought any dry food or anything like that. Now that I have been squatting like this all day, everyone is obviously feeling a little overwhelmed.
If we continue to be so patient, I am afraid that our group will become the first group of horse thieves in the history of the mainland to starve to death on the way to robbery.
This place is only so far away from the town. With the past record of the Frierson brothers, they should have figured out the situation and ran back!
If he disappeared silently like now, there is only one possibility!
That is, the Friesen brothers were discovered, and they were either killed or captured!
It would be okay if he was killed, but if he was caught by some special operations force, wouldn't it mean that the coalition forces of the two empires have now grasped the whereabouts of his group of people.
"Mom." When thinking about this possibility, the one-eyed man felt a little cold in his chest on such a hot day.
According to him, the best route to take now is to run back to the nest in the mountain. This way, at least if those coalition forces launch a large-scale attack, they can still resist it according to the method last time. He looked at the other ruthless bandits.
From the look in their eyes, you can tell that most people think so too.
Originally, they just wanted to be a group of horse thieves, and they didn't want to choose. They could just bully the passing merchant travelers. Letting them confront the imperial army head-on was something only a madman would do.
However, reason told the one-eyed man that the danger of doing so might be more serious than directly attacking the enemy's base camp.
The other bandits went back as well, but he was the leader of this village massacre. If he went back without even knowing the real situation in the town, the boss might be in an extremely unstable state.
I'll really skin him!
Mom, even if there is no real progress, you still have to make some noise!
The one-eyed man gritted his teeth, waved his hand and called over some of the little bosses who had been following him, and asked in a low voice: "There used to be a small road that could enter the town, do you still remember?"
"Remember", several people nodded, and one of them frowned and said: "But the road is very narrow, and there are trees on both sides. It was cleared by hunters in the past in order to set traps for the beasts that often passed by there.
Come out, we are all riding horses this time, I'm afraid it won't be easy to walk, if we go three or two side by side, I'm afraid..."
"Then lead the horses first, two in a row, and quietly go to the open space at the edge of the town to form a formation." The one-eyed man gritted his teeth: "There are checkpoints on the road, so we can't just rush in like that!"
"The situation doesn't seem quite right," one of the little bosses said in a low voice, "Why don't we..."
"It's not as good as shit," the one-eyed man interrupted him rudely: "It's been like this. If you don't even catch a hair, do you dare to go back?! Or tell the boss if you don't go back?!"
The little leader shuddered and did not dare to say any more.
"That's it!" The one-eyed man waved his hand resolutely: "We will set off after the sky gets dark. No matter what, we have already come down the mountain. We have to collect some interest before we can have the honor to go back to see the boss!"
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"Are they coming soon?" Link, who looked a little pale, asked softly while sitting on the roof, watching the night getting darker.
"Well, it should be soon!" He was answered by Kemilla, who also looked a little pale.
No matter what, the experience of killing someone for the first time is never that pleasant.
The Friesen brothers who entered the town today were very fast, so fast that they could reach where they wanted to go without being noticed by most people, and they could probably leave before danger arrived.
Unfortunately, what they encountered this time was Kermilla, who had been practicing the simple gesture of drawing out and sheathing the sword for three years under the torture of that old pervert, Mentor Calvin. There were also people who were even more perverted than Kermilla.
Times Link Knight.
So when they saw two white lights flashing in front of them, before they even had time to scream, their heads were separated from their necks.
And the great Knight Link and Kermilla finally tasted the taste of actually dyeing the knight's sword red with the blood of their enemies for the first time.
This feeling was uncomfortable, but they quickly adapted to it!
After all, they have not forgotten that this is still a battlefield where humans are struggling on the edge of life and death.
"Let's go!" Link looked at the woods in the distance that were gradually undulating in the night, stood up, and patted Kermilla on the shoulder: "We should set off too!"
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"Follow up! Everyone, follow up!" The one-eyed dragon man was in the middle of the team, giving instructions in a low voice.
The iron hooves of all the war horses were carefully wrapped with cloth strips to try not to make too much noise when moving.
These horse thieves are most familiar with this method of stealth combat.
The two bandits walking at the front carefully probed their feet. They also knew that this was where hunters hunted wild beasts, and they were afraid of triggering any traps.
But it seems that the journey has been quite smooth.
The big one-eyed man saw that the end of the path was right in front of him, and he felt a little relieved.
No one touched the trap, so it seemed like they were lucky this time.
The one-eyed dragon watched as all the people and horses gathered in the open space. At a glance, the town was already in front of him.
The town was dark, as if everyone was asleep, and not many soldiers could be seen. It seemed that they really didn't realize that they were so close!
This vote can make you have a nice job!
Maybe a few senior officers can be killed!
The one-eyed man stuck out his tongue again, licked his lips, and shouted: "Brothers, get on your horses!"
He turned to the bandits and said: "We will rush over and kill everyone we see, but we will not stop all the way. We will go to the outside of the town and then go back to the mountains and meet at Moka Ridge. Do you understand?"
The one-eyed man did not forget that there seemed to be tens of thousands of regular troops stationed here. He did not dare to think about fighting head-on. He only wanted to make a surprise attack and harass him to find out what was going on here. Then he could explain to their boss when he got back.
!
The fierce bandits looked at the seemingly undefended town under the moonlight. The energy they had been holding back all day came out. They forgot about their fear. They nodded and got on their horses!
"Kill! Kill!"
The shouts sounded particularly harsh in this quiet night.
A tragic atmosphere instantly filled the entire town.
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"oops!"
"ah!"
Before the shouts of killing could even be finished, the thieves in the front row turned into screams like slaughtering pigs.
On the ground where they rushed out, a row of animal traps suddenly flipped out, crushing the horse's legs. As they rolled and fell from the horse, they suddenly discovered that the ground was full of sharp and sharp nails.
Some of the bandits behind could not stop their horses at all, and they trampled on the fallen horses and people in front, and stumbled to the ground. For a while, there were wailing sounds everywhere.
"Kill! Kill!"
This time, the cry of killing came from the small town. Many torches were suddenly lit all over the town. Under the firelight, there seemed to be many soldiers, standing all over the town, about to attack the group.
The bandits are coming.
"Damn it, it's an ambush, it's a trap!" The one-eyed dragon man shouted at the top of his lungs: "Brothers, retreat! Escape quickly!"
The group of bandits didn't need him to give orders. They had already turned their horses and ran back as if they were desperate. However, the mountain road they came from was crowded, and a bunch of people were pressing against each other. They fell off their horses one after another. For a while, people yelled at the horses.
Hiss, the situation is extremely confusing.
The one-eyed man also turned around and ran back desperately. His riding skills were still better than those of the bandits, but they forced him to squeeze out a way and run back.
"Hahahahahaha", seeing that all the bandits' troops had completely fled, leaving only dozens of wounded people rolling around and wailing on the ground, the soldiers who were holding torches and screaming loudly felt relieved.
, laughing loudly.
"There's nothing wrong with these guys!"
"That's right, under the leadership of Knight Link, I think all of us can go suppress the bandits!"
"Ah, tonight we are all treating one as ten, uh, no, at least as twenty or thirty. Wow, we are all heroes!"
"This is just the beginning." Under the firelight, among the soldiers who were shouting and jumping with joy, Link, who has always been shouting and noisy, seemed unusually quiet: "The real hard battle is still to come!"
He raised his head and looked at the moon in the sky: "This is only the first day!"
