The straight-line distance from Nongwu Town to Shitan Town to Banshee Castle is about fifty kilometers. The roads branch along the way and connect countless villages. There are often fields on both sides of the road, and further away are cottages surrounded by simple wooden walls.
Just yesterday, a robbery occurred on this dirt road, which was only a few meters wide. One hundred horse-drawn carriages formed a long snake-like convoy and were attacked in broad daylight.
Lord Exxon of Longlegs...
Oh, Lord Exxon, who should be the Butch family, is standing at the intersection at the moment, staring at the mess of the road with a sullen face on horseback, his mind as crazy as grass.
The rookie knight Tias, as a squire, followed the lord in confusion. He only knew that the situation was serious, but he didn't know how serious it was.
One hundred carriages stretched for several miles, and there were five or six hundred guards alone. But such a team was beaten down and fled without a trace.
This seriously damages the dignity of the Butcher family, and is like slapping Friedman Butcher in the face with a shit-stained shoe sole, which will make the other person's face fade.
The consequences of the food shortage were too serious to tolerate any sloppiness. Baron Bishop stopped at Dense Fog Town and ordered Lord Exon to come quickly with more than a hundred knights to investigate the situation.
As soon as he reached the road where the incident occurred, the Duke was angered by the situation at the scene.
It was not the number of people who died that made Exxon angry, but the fact that the destroyed carriages and scattered grain and grass were almost wiped out.
"Go to the surrounding villages to arrest people. If you see untouchables who have looted family property, execute them immediately on the spot. The escaped convoy guards must also be hiding nearby. Go catch some for questioning."
Exon showed a ferocious look on his face and issued the order through gritted teeth. In order to arrive as quickly as possible, he did not bring any infantry, and behind him were all family knights.
Upon hearing the order, hundreds of knights dispersed and followed the country road to carry out the Lord's order.
Tias, who was promoted to 'personal attendant', did not move. He had the experience of 'sharing the joys and sorrows' with the lord, and he rode forward with Exxon for two or three miles, and was sure that the entire grain transport convoy was finished.
In broad daylight, the convoy guards lacked vigilance. The attackers were very precise and attacked from both ends of the road. They also sent people in the middle to cut off the convoy, making it difficult for the head and tail of the convoy to see each other.
Can't even escape.
Exxon looked at the villages on both sides of the road and cursed bitterly: "There must be accomplices of the attackers here. Without their assistance, the convoy would not have been destroyed so easily."
Tias looked left and right, and he could also imagine that the attackers should be ambushing in a nearby village. The convoy passed by, and they suddenly rushed out, drove away the guards, overturned the carriage, killed the draft horses, and split the axle of the carriage.
break.
The axle is a key component of the carriage. Without it, the carriage is useless.
The attackers came and went like the wind, from one end of the road to the other, with a particularly strong purpose. They evacuated immediately after completing their mission, and residents of nearby villages immediately came out to take advantage.
The scrapped carriages were dismantled, the dead horses were cut up for meat, and the food and grass on the carriages were not wasted, but were all moved away manually.
The huge convoy was looted in less than half a day, leaving only a few wheat grains, flour, dried meat crumbs and the like on the ground, and the rest were the corpses of the dead escorts lying around.
The good fighting on the front line was suddenly interrupted, and thousands of troops could not move. Exxon cursed in his heart - who is so courageous? Isn't he afraid of revenge from the Butch family?
The prince's mind was filled with the anger of being openly humiliated by the enemy. For a moment, he really didn't expect that there were people who were not afraid of any revenge at all - they had already started fighting, and they were still afraid of revenge.
Naturally, it’s how cruel it is!
More than a hundred knights were divided into ten groups and dispersed to the surrounding villages to capture people. Soon, screams and cries could be heard from both sides of the road.
Men's, women's, young, old, and so on.
Exxon stood on the side of the road, waiting for his men to catch the untouchables. Tias's face turned green and white, and he could already imagine what would happen next.
The first ones to be arrested were the convoy guards who had escaped during the attack. They had experienced yesterday's bloody attack and fighting, and had a chance to escape, but they could not escape far at all and could only hide in a nearby village.
Several fleeing guards were tied behind horses by ropes, and the knights dragged them all the way to Exxon. They were already covered in blood when they stumbled, and when they saw the lord, they knelt down and cried.
Exxon glanced fiercely for a few seconds, then pointed at one of them and shouted: "Kill him."
The escorted knight raised his hand and slashed the neck of one of the guards. The man fell to the ground immediately, covering his neck with his hands, and struggled to cry for help.
The remaining few people were even more pissed and their faces were pale.
Exxon then asked, "What exactly happened yesterday? Only those who can explain it clearly can survive."
The captured guards cried out one after another, saying that they knew it. When they were almost hoarse from shouting incoherently, Exxon asked one of them to speak more clearly.
"Master, it's not that we didn't fight hard, it's just that the attacking group was too fierce. More than twenty orcs rushed out desperately. They were strong, fast, and their axes were extremely sharp. We couldn't stop them at all.
Those barbarians were not afraid of death when they started to kill, and the brothers who came forward had their heads chopped off with an ax by the orcs. Our swords and shields were not as good as theirs, and we were all killed before we even realized what was going on."
The guard who spoke was kowtowing like a fool, and his forehead was covered with blood. But his companion immediately retorted: "Sir, it's not an orc, it's not an orc, it's a bunch of adventurers, and the leader is a man with a tower shield.
There were more than a dozen people behind the tower shield, and they were shooting at us with light crossbows. The crossbow bolts shot were accurate and hard, and our shields were also unable to block them. The guards in the front row had no time to hide, and they were all dead in the blink of an eye."
Before the second guard who spoke had time to take a breath, someone else loudly retorted: "Nonsense, nonsense, you are all nonsense. There are no orcs and adventurers at all, they are actually some powerful wizards.
A necromancer in black robes appeared like a burst of smoke and rushed towards us with many tall skeleton soldiers. Our people resisted the skeleton soldiers, but were scattered by a giant bear.
There is a small witch behind the giant bear. She is holding handfuls of gems in her hands. This witch is really bad. She seems to be quite weak, but when we rush over, the overwhelming arcane spells will hit her.
Come here."
Several guards were crying and arguing for their lives, which made Exxon's head spin.
These are orcs, adventurers of different races, wizards and druids, and some even said they saw dwarfs. What kind of hodgepodge team is this?
Just thinking about it gives me a headache.
Wait..., there is only one place in the entire Northland that has such a hodgepodge of teams. Exxon has even encountered them and tasted their awesomeness.
"Attacking your team of adventurers with light crossbows?" Exxon seemed to have grasped some important information.
One of the guards nodded quickly, "Sir, master, I said so. The attackers I met used light crossbows. The crossbow arrows they shot were so powerful. Even our shields couldn't stop them."
Crossbow?
"Where were you attacked? Where are the bodies of your companions?" Ackerson asked, while his heart was beating wildly and he was covered in sweat.
The guard who was questioned glanced around a few times and pointed out the approximate location where he was attacked yesterday.
Exon rode his horse and rushed over, and sure enough he found several corpses hit by crossbow bolts. He used the dagger he carried to cut open the wounds on the corpses, and quickly dug out a long and short special crossbow bolt.
This all-metal crossbow arrow is so sharp and thin that even the light crossbow used to launch it must be specially made. There is only one company in the entire North that has it - Cold Wind City.
Exxon had been shot by such a crossbow bolt before and knew how cruel this little thing was. He held the bloody crossbow bolt and shouted in shock: "It's Victor Hugo, only he can do this."
come out."
(2+2=?The public account posted a short anti-intellectual video.)