Mercenaries and Adventurers

After a while, several young bandits walked out of the bushes in despair.

They looked at each other in silence, and without communicating, several of them decided to follow the order given by the bandit leader before they came out, and go to the front to help the experienced bandits with some auxiliary work.

A young man was walking, rubbing his hands on his clothes and trousers. His hands, which didn't look very dirty, seemed to be stained with something heavy in the eyes of the young bandit.

In the bushes, the fat bandit leader picked up the bloody body and threw it behind the bushes. Then he took out a dry cloth, picked up the steel dagger stained with the blood of innocent people on the ground, and wiped it casually.

Looking up at the henchman who had been standing there motionless, the bandit leader asked: "What are you still doing here? Go out and call a group of people. Well, you did a good job, keep doing it."

The dog leg trembled all over, came to his senses, and then nodded heavily to the bandit leader, smiled ingratiatingly, and then immediately turned around and walked out of the bushes.

Goujiuzi touched his 'smiling face' and found that his whole face was stiff. Then he sighed heavily and muttered words such as God's blessing.

In this way, batches of small groups of young bandits were deceived into the bushes by him using simple methods. They received a thorough "bandit professionalism education" from the bandit leader, and successfully transformed from ordinary people to formal gangsters. Entering the road of banditry with no turning back.

Of the eight innocent people, one middle-aged businessman was finally left. Just when the businessman was crying and thinking that he could escape today, the bandit leader grabbed the man's head and looked carefully at this seemingly The eyes of a man who survived.

"Although it's a pity, you won't survive. After all, you saw something you shouldn't have seen."

After saying that, without waiting for the merchant's reaction, he immediately broke the man's neck.

With a bang, the person died.

Like other innocent people who died tragically, the bandit leader threw the corpses deep into the bushes and gave these human corpses to the wild beasts wandering in the woods.

After doing these evil things, the bandit leader clapped his hands indifferently, rubbed his shoulders, twisted his neck, picked up his big ax, and walked out of the bushes naturally.

It seemed like he had done something trivial in his opinion.

"This kind of thing should have been done a long time ago. Hey, I am still too kind, and I can't give up the money and people I get."

Talking to himself, the bandit leader once again joined in commanding the bandit men.

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Scattered arrows were shot from the woods not far from the trade road, which made Kil a little annoyed. He didn't expect that these bandits were like chewing gum stuck to the soles of shoes. He was annoying and there was nothing he could do about them.

He drove his horse towards the woods, and the arrows, which posed no threat to him, stopped, and vaguely through the sparse edges of the woods, the figures of the bandits with bows and arrows retreating quickly could be seen.

But when Keir rode a little further away, the scouting bandits hiding somewhere in the woods would blow whistles imitating birds and call back the bow-wielding bandits who were quickly evacuating.

So soon, sparse bows and arrows will be shot from the woods towards Kiel and the refugee team on the trade road.

These weak bows and arrows with crudely made arrows pose no threat to Kil, who is wearing heavy metal armor. Not to mention that he was constantly moving on horseback, even the arrows that were shot by him by good luck made a ding sound, smashed the arrows, and then bounced away.

Kil didn't even need to take out the elf metal shield for extra defense.

But these seemingly sparse arrows caused great trouble to the refugee team.

Some bandits with good physical strength and good hunting bows did not target Kiel, but used projectiles to attack the slowly moving group of refugees on the trade road.

Often when an arrow is shot, as long as the wind direction does not change, it will most likely go straight into the ranks of refugees, injuring an unlucky person, or hitting the supplies carried by the person.

Often when someone is shot, it will cause a commotion within a small team. It is not easy for a bow and arrow to hit the vital part of the human body when shot from this distance, but as long as it hurts a person, the person will often lose the ability to move.

After all, not many people can bear the wounds of arrows and move with supplies on their backs. Most of the time the injured person can only be carried or held by other people with empty hands, and the supplies can only be handed over to other people to hold.

Obviously, under the current circumstances, it was not suitable for Priest Batal to care for and treat the injured. Not to mention that he still had to direct the team to move forward and calm the nervousness of the people, even if he left the work to others, this was not the time to treat the injured.

No matter how powerful he is, he can't handle the increasing number of injured at any time.

Therefore, at this time, he could only try to get the people to cross the trade road that was too close to the woods on the roadside as soon as possible. After reaching the more open terrain ahead, he could escape from the position where the team was attacked by the bandits in the woods with arrows. That would be the best time. Start treating the injured.

This is how things are done, but in order to appease the people's emotions, explanations still have to be explained.

"Be careful of arrows! Pay attention to the protection of your head and neck! For those who are hit by arrows, stop the bleeding first! Let others hold the things in your hands, and you have to follow the team with the help of others! Now is not the time to deal with arrow wounds. It’s time! Don’t slow down, everyone! Walk faster, and when we reach the open space ahead, we can take a breath! Be careful of arrows!”

Priest Batar shouted loudly on his horse in the grassland, trying his best to shout the content of his words to the people in the team.

When everyone is nervous, try to give them a goal that is visible to their eyes. With this goal, everyone can try to ignore the dangers around them and work hard towards the goal.

But such a defensive strategy of being passively beaten really made Kiel depressed. These bandits were too entangled. He should have clearly seen the gap in strength between him and the bandits before, so why were they still entangled like this now? .

"Do you think I'm too soft-hearted?"

Kil gritted his teeth. If the matter of the ghosts that haunted him after mass murders hadn't been resolved, he would have gone up to them with a gun and sword.

Whoever dared to harass them would kill the bandits.

He would kill the bandits who dared to kill or injure the people in his team.

Presumably the bandits didn't grow out of the ground like weeds, right? They are all human beings, and no one will come to trouble him at the risk of death or unilateral losses.

"From this point of view, the losses have not reached the tolerance level of the bandits. Or, is it the size of my team that makes the bandits feel that the plundering harvest they have earned through hard work is worth it?"

Keir didn't want to kill anyone with his own hands, but seeing how entangled the bandits were, it seemed impossible not to give them a good look.

Thinking of this, Kil, who was running on horseback, thought of a way. He didn't need to kill anyone himself, and he could leave the killing to his subordinates! He only needs to defeat the bandits and leave the matter of killing and wounding the bandits to others.

Thinking of this, Kiel rode up to the team and shouted to the armed people guarding the refugee team: "Come here, twenty warriors who think they can fight and dare to fight. Come with me into the woods next to the bandits who are shooting arrows." Cleared! Anyone who thinks he can fight should follow him!"

Kiel's voice was loud and could be heard clearly by the hundreds of people rushing on the road.

The next moment, at least half of the more than 100 armed people rushed towards Kiel.

It's not that the remaining people are not brave enough, it's just that some of them are carrying injured people on their backs, and some of them have other tasks and cannot follow them to fight at will.

"There are so many! Look at each other. How many times have twenty people come? You, you, you, you, you..."

Among the dozens of armed civilians gathered by Kiel's company, he selected twenty armed civilians who he could name, or whose protective equipment looked decent. As for the remaining armed people who he had no impression of, or whose equipment was not very good, at least not as good as that of bandits, Kiel did not ask them to follow them.

"Those who haven't been called should go back to their original positions! Those who are called by me, move quickly, come closer, and follow me straight towards the bow-wielding bandits in the forest!"

Kiel shouted loudly, turned his horse around, and waited for the people who were following him to gather. Then he let the horse take a small step and charged straight towards the woods closest to the team.

At this time, the bandits there had just released a sporadic round of arrows, and the arrows gradually became sparse. It seemed that the bandits were preparing to withdraw their bows and move to a place farther ahead to continue harassing Kiel's refugee team.

"Charge! Attack! Whether you recognize it or not, three or five people form a battle formation!"

Keir shouted, causing the Blood Licker to speed up a little, and guided the armed people behind him to start jogging, shortening the time of movement on the unobstructed commercial road.

"Ho! Come on!"

There was no need for Kiel to say more words of encouragement to fight. The armed people following Kiel could no longer stand the anger caused by the bandits' continuous shooting of arrows at them. Kil sped up slightly, and the young men all started running, roaring to increase their momentum, and rushed towards the woods closest to the team.

The next moment, a wave of arrows were shot towards Kiel from the woods, but Kiel swung around on his horse and blocked a large number of arrows that were shot with insufficient force.

The bandits probably didn't anticipate enough, so they fired the wave of arrows hastily.

But Kil knew that if he got closer to the woods, the enemy's arrows would be more powerful and accurate, and they would not be aimed at Kil himself, because the bandits knew they could not hurt him.

"Be careful to avoid the arrows!"

Kil did not hear the wailing behind him after the first wave of arrows was fired. He knew that no one was injured, so he reminded the armed people again.

He himself accelerated his horse and rushed towards the bandits first, forcing the bandits to point their arrows at him.

Human beings subconsciously always target the enemy with the greatest sense of threat.

The woods were not far away, so after Kilda's horse accelerated straight into the woods, it only took a few seconds to get close to the woods. At this time, the bandits were still wondering whether to evacuate to the depths of the woods? It's better to have a fight with the knight and the people led by the knight here.

Kil didn't know what the bandits were thinking, but when he saw the bow-wielding bandits who were supposed to shoot the second and third waves of arrows, he immediately pulled back the bowstring in his hand amidst the whistles ringing in the woods. and the bow arm of the hunting bow, rushing towards the forest as if fleeing.

"Don't even think about running away!"

Kil roared and jumped directly on the blood-licking grass that slowed down after approaching the woods. Using the speed of the horse and his own jumping power, he rushed directly into the woods from several meters in the air like flying.

While others were in the air, they saw among the high branches of a leafy tree not far away, riding a low bandit with branches and leaves attached to his body.

If this guy hadn't been whistling a commanding whistle, it would have been almost impossible for Kil to find such a bandit crouching and riding high in the trees in the woods.

Deal with this first!

Kil was dressed in iron armor and broke many branches of different thicknesses with the crackling sound. However, he also took advantage of this to slow down in the air and directly took the opportunity to hug the trunk of a big tree in the air.

The big tree shook, but Kil's legs clamped tightly on the thick trunk of the big tree like a horse.

As soon as his body stabilized, Kil directly drew his sword and cut off a branch of suitable thickness next to him. He put the sword back into its sheath. He then brushed the branch with the steel gauntlet on his hand and quickly removed all the miscellaneous branches and leaves. , and then threw it towards the thin bandit who was preparing to escape not far away.

Phew—pop!

The branches swirled and hit the bandit who was about to climb down the treetop with full force.

This guy's vision went dark, his body lost strength, and he fell from the height of the tree.

However, the leafy trees and the branches of different thicknesses slowed down the bandit's falling speed, and even caught the bandit's body in mid-air, leaving him in the tree.

But as soon as the starry-eyed bandit came to his senses, the big tree where he was standing shook violently, as if the trunk of the tree was being hit and rubbed against the back by a forest bear. Before he could figure out what was going on, his ankle was grabbed by someone and pulled down violently.

"Whaaaahhhhh-"

Shouting in panic, the short bandit just saw what was attacking him and received a heavy punch in the abdomen.

Being lifted up in the air, the bandit shrank into a shrimp shape due to the pain in his abdomen.

Kil glanced at this guy and found that one of the bandit's hands was a prosthetic hand, with several wild beast claws embedded in the fingers, and it was still bloody.

With a snort, Kil kicked off the tree trunk with his legs, jumped down from the tree, and landed heavily. He threw the bandit holding his legs to the armed people who were following him: "He belongs to you, kill him." He’s following me!”

Kil threw the person away, no longer looked behind him, lifted his legs and feet from the ground that were stuck in the calf position due to the heavy landing, and chased him in the direction where the bow bandits retreated.

The short bandit with a prosthetic hand was thrown to the ground by the knight. Before he could recover, swords with roaring sounds fell on him.

"This is for Ruby! You shot her in the face!"

"There is also a friend from our village! This sword is for his arm that was shot through!"

After several roars of revenge, the bandit's head was chopped open by someone unknown, and his brains splattered out. It can be seen how angry the armed people who followed Kiir were at this time.

As soon as the man was hacked to death, someone ran past the bandit's body and said quickly: "Don't be stunned, follow Knight Kiel quickly! We have to help him fight! Otherwise, all the enemies will be killed by the knight!"

An armed citizen took out a breath and said seriously: "My lord, it should have been like this a long time ago. A dead bandit is a good bandit. He taught us this."

Another armed citizen stepped forward and said as he walked: "If we hadn't dragged them down, you would have killed all the bandits long ago, and you still don't have to wait until now."

"It would be great if we were more powerful, and the Lord Knight wouldn't need to take care of us more."

"It's not too late, everyone, follow up. Don't hold me back. There are bandits all around. Who knows where there are still bandits hiding? Everyone, follow!"

The captain of the armed civilian team commanded these warriors who volunteered to attack. They were in small groups, with wooden shields and swords in their hands. They followed the continuous wailing sound blocked by the trees in front of them and quickly chased after them.

What’s funny is that Kiel originally only ordered 20 visible armed people to fight with him. At this time, the team leader of the armed people counted the number of people and found that at least 30 people, including himself, were following him. .

Of course, at this time, there was no time to worry about driving the extra ten people back. It can only be said that these ten guys are really courageous and have a strong desire to fight.

"What happened?"

The squad leader muttered and followed the team.

-

Outside the woods, the blood-licking grass was digging the grass with its hooves in dissatisfaction. It didn't even care about the lush and delicious grass on the ground, and flattened it all with one hoof.

It was very dissatisfied with the fact that its owner pulled it down and rushed into the woods to fight alone. However, as a qualified war horse, the owner did not call it to fight together, so it had to wait in place, waiting for the call or the owner's return.

Today's battle really satisfied the violent blood-licking grass. Compared with today's enjoyable battle, he had bullied the horses in the same stable and bullied the new donkeys in the team, which seemed really boring and boring. No more energy.

Suddenly, its ears twitched and noticed some faint movement. Although the roars and roars of humans in the woods continued one after another, it still noticed something.

"Lulu Lu——"

It snorted and felt something approaching behind it.

So the Blood Licker moved its legs and feet, turned around and took a look, oh, it was a human being.

At this time, the bandit, whose body was still covered with fallen leaves and soil, was staring fiercely at the knight's horse, as well as the heavy-looking steel spear on the horse's back, as well as the fixed hunting bow and several bags of bows and arrows.

"Haha, those idiots are still fighting to the death in the woods. The ambushers probably also have a hard fight. But, sir, I am the biggest winner today! Hahaha, just because of my luck Son, it seems that you, the goddess, have not given up on me!"

Needless to say, this bandit is the number one henchman of the bandit leader in this bandit gang. He is a bandit but believes in the goddess of luck.

As the leader's henchman, he naturally didn't have to go out to kill the enemy, and no one in the gang said anything. But just now he had an idea. In the temporary plan set up by his companions to lure the knights and ambush the knights, with his keen intuition, he found an interest point that many people had not noticed.

The knight was led into the woods to set up an ambush, so wouldn't his horse, which is not convenient for riding in the woods, be left alone?

Generally speaking, one of the knight's attendants would be responsible for the knight's war horse, but the bandits had been observing for a long time and did not see any other people on horseback fighting together with the knight.

There were people on horseback in the refugee team, but from a distance, they didn't look like soldiers, but more like priests in the church who wore robes and preached doctrines.

So Goujizi hid under the fallen leaves at the edge of the forest. After changing positions several times, he finally got his chance!

"I'm rich! Haha! I won't be a bandit until I sell this war horse and equipment! Whoever wants to please please go and please others. Isn't it better to live in a big town than to please others in this remote village?" Damn, I don’t have to do these bad and disgusting things anymore. Hahaha, good horse, don’t worry, I’m not a big bad guy, close your eyes, one, two, three, wake up and turn into gold!”

While singing a newly composed ditty, the dogleg raised his hands with a smile and slowly approached the knight's horse that was staring at him.

At this time, the smile on his face was finally no longer fake. The smile that spread all over his skin even brought with it the new life he imagined in the future.

But the blood-licking grass not far away looked at the bandit who was walking towards him with doubtful eyes.

Does this stupid human being think that Uncle Blood Licker is stupid?

I'm very smart, okay?