Chapter two hundred and fifty-eight encounters and differences
"Lord Hadmon, the orcs are looting the surrounding villages."
The Red Flame Knights wandering around soon discovered the movements of the orcs. Some villages were even burned down after being plundered by the orcs. The orcs did not attack to occupy and rule. What they wanted to fight for was
Territory and living space, rather than people's hearts. To use an analogy, the mentality of the orcs is the same as that of the white-skinned Indians on the American continent when they exterminated the Indians. Naturally, they are as violent as possible.
"Lord Hadmon? Shall we attack?"
The village was destroyed, and the deaths and injuries of the villagers certainly made Hardman, who regarded the Hunter family as his master, feel a little distressed. He was as angry as his subordinates about the atrocities of the orcs, but as a person who had experienced a long war, Hardman could not
He will be as impulsive as some young knights who have just debuted.
Although the orcs who went out to rob the city were divided into multiple teams, they were basically in units of a hundred people. There should be several orc warriors or even great warriors mixed in. With the elite combat power and fighting will of these orcs, they could casually attack them if they were prepared.
None of the branches can be wiped out easily,
Moreover, the seemingly scattered teams are actually not too far apart from each other. As long as the Red Flame Knights are entangled by any one of them, the nearest team can support them in a short time and plunge the Red Flame Knights into a quagmire.
Among them, not to mention, there are two earth-level masters among the orcs. If there is an earth-level orc hidden in a certain team, can the Red Flame Knights go up to annihilate the marauding orcs?
Retreating was a problem. This arrangement of the orcs gave Hardman a sense of conspiracy, as if he was deliberately trying to lure him into an attack.
Hardmen, who was riding on his horse, stared at the black smoke rising from the village in the distance for a few seconds, shook his head firmly, and rejected his men's proposal.
In fact, this is a conspiracy of the orcs. If Hardmen dares to save, it is very likely that the Red Flame Knights will be severely damaged by the orcs. If Hardmen does not save, then the orcs will have no time to collect supplies and destroy the village.
But there is actually only one choice before Hadmon, which is to protect Ironwood City. As long as the Red Flame Knights still maintain their strength and roam around the periphery, the orcs will always be hampered when attacking the city and cannot go all out. At least
It is necessary to leave an earth-level master and some elites to prevent the Red Flame Knights from suddenly launching an attack on the attacking orc army, which greatly reduces the defensive pressure on Ironwood City. In comparison, the destruction and survival of several villages is not that important.
Already.
"Continue to observe the movements of the orc army, and report immediately if they show signs of continuing to attack the city."
"yes!"
…
Just when Hadmen coldly decided to abandon the surrounding villages, a slightly strange team broke into the chaotic battlefield at an inappropriate time.
"Lord Mishu, something seems to have happened up front."
"I know, let's go and have a look."
Yaxiu, who had been silent while riding on the horse, finally spoke. There was abnormal black smoke in front of him. Even a person could tell that something was wrong.
This village happened to be stuck on the shortest road for the church's team to go to Ironwood City. The brave and talented Yaxiu had no idea of taking a detour and led the team directly towards the village with black smoke billowing in the distance.
The closer they got, the more they realized that something was wrong. Originally, Mi Xiu thought it was some kind of bandit attack on the village to rob the property. This kind of thing is actually relatively common in the Golden Dragon Kingdom, especially in the Western Region of Northland, which is a little more marginal.
In our territory, there is always room for such bandits to survive.
But the corpse at the entrance of the village made Mishu and others feel that things were not simple.
"Your Holiness, those who attacked the village must not be ordinary bandits."
The first person to see the problem was Hussein, the knight commander of the church. This knight commander of the church had experienced many battles and real battlefields. Many problems could be seen just by looking at the wounds and positions of the corpses.
.
"There was a very determined resistance at the entrance of the village. These farmers and soldiers should have good combat effectiveness. They almost all have armor and their weapons are standard weapons. However, the battle ended in a short time. Judging from the blood stains, the battle ended not long ago.
, such a brutal fight, but not even a single enemy corpse was found. Ordinary bandits do not have this fighting ability."
Mi Xiu nodded, indicating that he understood, and then ordered the people around him:
"Go and see if there is anyone alive in front of you and ask what's going on."
"Yes, Your Majesty the Pope!"
Soon, the church personnel behind them began to search the dilapidated village, but all they could see were burning flames and a large number of bloody corpses. It seemed that the entire village had been slaughtered.
"Lord Pope, there are still people here!"
They were soon brought to Misiu, a half-grown boy and a toddler who finally couldn't help but cry loudly.
"What happened in the village?"
Mi Xiu asked the young man with an indifferent expression.
"thump!"
The young man had some sharp eyesight, and after experiencing the panic of being found out from the mezzanine of the house, he quickly realized who was the talker of this team, and he knelt down in front of Mi Xiu.
"Sir Knight, the orcs, it was the orcs who attacked our village. They forced everyone to hand over their food and then killed everyone..."
"Lord Knight! They haven't gone far yet, I can show you the way!"
The young man kowtowed to Mishu while telling the story. In his opinion, knights are already the most powerful existence. If the other person is a knight, he must be able to avenge the villagers and his parents.
Although he also wanted to take revenge, he knew very well that with his own strength, he didn't know if he would have a chance to take revenge in this life. And the enemy was not far away, leaving in a swagger. If the group of people in front of him were willing to kill the orcs,
, he can repay you by being a cow or a horse, let alone kowtow a few times.
"Lord Pope? This?"
Hussein on the side glanced at Mi Xiu hesitantly. Regardless of his identity and stance, Hussein was actually a decent person. Faced with this situation, Hussein tended to just leave it alone.
"Chase!"
Without much hesitation, Mi Xiu issued the order to pursue, but just when everyone in the church was preparing to follow Mi Xiu in pursuit, an accident happened.
A phantom of flame emerged from the scepter again and stood in the middle of the team. Everyone in the church was used to the angel appearing in this form, but it shocked the kneeling teenagers and young children.
"Lord God Envoy!"
Again, except for Mi Xiu, everyone knelt in front of the divine envoy.
"Don't waste time. I can feel the aura of the blasphemer. It's very close. It's in the city in the northeast. Don't cause trouble. Go and eliminate the blasphemer immediately!"
The flame phantom pointed to Ironwood City further away and directly issued orders to everyone. However, at this moment, there was a conflict between the orders of the pope and the divine envoy. Everyone appeared hesitant. On one side was the powerful religious leader.
Zong, and on one side are the envoys who directly represent the gods, which indeed makes it a bit difficult for them. Even Hussein, who prefers to eliminate the surrounding orcs first, also fell into hesitation.
But Mi Xiu just glanced at each other, then looked at the two children on the ground who looked frightened and helpless, and said again:
"I said, catch up and destroy the orcs first!"
"This, Your Holiness the Pope?"
The people in the church became even more confused. One of the bishops even wanted to persuade Mi Xiu, but when he saw that no one in the church was moving, Mi Xiu flew up from his horse and flew in the direction pointed by the young man.
"The Pope! The Pope!"
Everyone in the church was quite anxious, but the envoy who had been denied the order did not make any movement. He just looked at Yaxiu in the distance with blurry eyes...
