Mercenaries and Adventurers

The moment before Kil cried out that he had been tricked, he led his men to chase the bow bandits from the edge of the woods into the woods.

In the woods next to the trade road, the bandit leader said fiercely to the young bandits who were also lying on the ground hiding: "I ask again, who dares to raid the refugee team with me? Now the knight guarding the refugees has been killed by my scarface." It’s a very rare opportunity to lead people away!”

Although the young bandits who were present not long ago had all gone through the 'introduction' ceremony hosted by the bandit leader, they had no way out of their status as bandits. They could bully the innocent people who were tied up, and raid with dozens of people to rob hundreds of people. No matter how you look at it, the refugee team is not on the same level.

Many young bandits are willing to continue to work with the bandit leaders, but they do not have the courage to rush out and take risks in broad daylight.

This really requires courage.

After all, the refugee team is not only large in number, but also protected by an armed team organized by itself. Even if some of those people are taken away by the knights, the remaining people will be much more than the people present.

When no one responded, the bandit leader exhaled hot air from his nose angrily: "Courageless gophers! I thought there must be at least one or two capable guys among you, but it turns out that they are all trash and losers! "

Upon hearing this, many young bandits lowered their faces and buried them in the fallen leaves of the forest.

But at this time, someone stood up.

A young voice shouted stubbornly in a low voice: "Leader! I am not a waste! I am not a loser either! I am willing to fight with you!"

The bandit leader's eyes lit up: "Okay, you have the guts! Come here and I will reward you with a fine weapon made of steel."

The young bandit who made the noise crawled to the bandit leader. The bandit leader touched the young boy's hair with his rough hands, and let out a deep laugh. After laughing, he pulled out the gun from the experienced bandit on the side. A steel dagger used by seasoned bandits.

The experienced bandit who was also lying on the ground squeaked aggrievedly: "Boss, this is my meal guy..."

"Hmph, eat, eat, eat, you will know how to eat, and I will pay you back later. Give it to our brave new companion first. Anyway, you only have two hands and can't use three weapons. Come on, kid, take it , this weapon is yours now! Wait and kill the enemy hard for me. After the battle is over, I want to see you carrying at least two heads!"

Although the request made by the bandit leader was a bit difficult, the young bandit still received the new weapon. Naturally, he put away his old worn-out sword and threw it to his friends from the same village.

Subsequently, with this person taking the lead, seven or eight more young people joined the raid intermittently. The bandit leader gave new weapons to the first few people as an encouragement. If the people after him joined, he would wait for the battle. Let’s talk after it’s over.

After feeling that the number of people was almost enough to fight, the bandit leader stood up and waved to all the people who were dispatched to follow him.

Ahead of them, on the trade road not far from the woods, the group of refugees happened to pass in front of them.

The timing was perfect. Most of the armed forces of the refugee team gathered at the front of the team. There seemed to be no manpower guarding the back of the team.

"Rush! Follow me in big strides!"

With a greeting, the bandit leader strode out, followed closely by the others.

They first walked quickly out of the woods, and then came to the wild grass outside the woods. At this time, they started trotting and rushed towards the end of the refugee team.

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"grumble--"

At the back of the refugee team, the screams of the long-haired lynx orcs suddenly rang out from the wild grass outside the team.

First there was a cry, and then the other furries screamed one after another.

The bandits were a little confused as they rushed over. They didn't know what the hell was warning the refugee team. At the end of the refugee queue, after hearing the warning screams of the aliens, the people turned their heads and looked in the direction of the screams.

You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.

Dozens of bandits were rushing over from behind the team. Many people just hurried on, only to realize that the bandits were less than a hundred meters away from them.

"There are bandits! There are bandits!!!"

Someone screamed, and then more and more people at the back of the team saw the bandits chasing after them, and they all shouted. At the same time, some people quickened their pace and wanted to join the team in front, while some people abandoned Carrying supplies, pulling out the daggers or daggers that everyone had from their waists, they were bound to fight to the death with the bandits.

Others were in a panic and didn't know what to do, so they had to run around and shout loudly, hoping to call the armed people in front of the team back to protect everyone.

"Help! There are bandits here! Brothers in front! Come over and protect us!"

The scream was so shrill that people who didn't know it heard it and thought that the man had been stabbed several times before he could scream in such panic.

The middle and rear of the refugee team were in chaos in an instant.

"Stop! Stop!"

Bloody Fangster stopped Kil's carriage while shouting, then grabbed the crossbow that had been lying next to him, and quickly climbed onto the roof of the carriage.

He half-crouched on the top of the carriage, unzipped the crossbow string with a quick movement, then put the crossbow bolt in his mouth into the groove of the crossbow body and pressed it, then he lifted the crossbow and looked at the back of the team.

"Good guy! What a tough bandit. Are you crazy? He dares to attack our team in broad daylight."

After all, he glanced at the place where there were many bandits, and then raised the height according to the approximate distance. When he felt that it was about the same, he pulled the wooden mechanism under the crossbow body, and bang!

His whole body shook, and the crossbow arrow followed a parabola that flew first and then fell. As Bloody Fangster watched, he hit the arm of a bandit who had gathered together and rushed over, knocking the bandit to the ground.

Some of the other bandits avoided their injured companions who fell to the ground, while others simply ignored them and continued to attack while stepping on their injured companions.

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Bloody Fangster started attacking, and naturally everyone else also reacted.

The Saturn priest Batal, who was riding on a prairie horse, turned around immediately after hearing the alien warning call from behind the team, and discovered the gang of bandits running out of the woods and rushing straight to the back of the team.

He was startled and searched around, but only found the horses of the Kiel warriors in the distance. The warrior himself and the armed people he called away seemed to have rushed into the forest.

"Hey, they were lured away! Really, people from the armed team! Two teams of people came to support the back of the team, no, three teams of people went over to provide emergency support! The remaining team of people guarded the front of the team. In addition, all the people, please Stop! Stay where you are and take defensive measures. Don’t panic. The enemy is small in number and is not our opponent! I repeat, all people stop and take defensive measures where you are. Don’t panic. The enemy is small in number and they are not a team escort. opponent!"

The priest urgently cast his magical spell, making his voice resound throughout the forest.

The huge volume frightened many birds flying in the mountains and forests on both sides of the trade road, and also made the panicked people in the team barely react.

However, since the team consisted of hundreds of people and were carried by people on horseback, the entire team was very long. It would take a while for the four teams at the front of the team that formed a ladder-like defense to get over, even if the three closest teams arrived.

At this time, the bandits had already rushed to the end of the team, and had already joined hands with the people at the end. Obviously, by the time the armed team in front rushed over, it was already too late, and the bandits would inevitably cause considerable losses.

"God bless you and give me courage."

Priest Batal muttered. He did not use magic to increase the volume of this sentence. After finishing speaking, he turned the horse's head directly, took out the amber metal staff from behind and raised it above his head. He asked the prairie centaurs to stand up and attract people around him. At the same time, he shouted: "Believers of the God of Agriculture! Please fight with me! The food given by the God of Food will be favored by the God of Agriculture! Please come with me and fight with me!"

With a pinch on the horse's belly, the prairie horse jumped on the spot, jumped out of the trade road directly from the center of the team, and came to the grass outside the crowd. The Saturn believers who had been surrounding the priest before looked at each other. Half a dozen young religious men and women took out their own self-defense weapons, rushed out of the trade road, and fought with the young priest on the grass.

However, among the total number of sixty or seventy religious people, only a dozen people followed the priest in the end. The others lowered their heads, finding reasons to excuse themselves, and finally followed the priest's previous instructions and defended in place.

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The courageous furries shouted briefly, using their own language that only they could understand, to direct the other furries that were scattered.

The task given to it by powerful humans is to guard the tail of the team and beware of enemies launching attacks from here.

According to Kiel's expectation, when the enemy raided the end of the refugee team, as long as the Maomaos made a warning sound, he would be able to hear it no matter where he was in the team, and then he would mount his horse to support them.

A large group of enemies cannot hide his figure, while a small group of enemies cannot be his opponent.

Therefore, the lack of armed civilians behind the team was not only an anticipation of the situation, but also his confidence in his abilities.

But that was when he was there.

At this time, no matter how much the Maomaos screamed warnings when they saw the bandits rushing out of the woods, the powerful humans they expected did not appear. This made Courage Fluffy hesitate, hesitating whether to fight or not.

Maomao's eyes are very good. As soon as the bandits got up and rushed out of the woods, they could roughly see the number and equipment of the bandits.

The leader of the bandits was naturally the one who walked at the forefront. He was tall and fat. He was wearing two pieces of local soldier armor changed into one piece. He was carrying a huge and heavy axe. Others need to hold a tomahawk with both hands. This guy You can fight with one hand using only yourself.

Because it was a surprise battle, the bandit leader also carried an olive-shaped wooden shield in his left hand. On it was a vicious red and gray skull pattern painted with human blood and ashes, which was quite scary.

Of course, as aliens, the Maomaos do not understand human artistic expression very well. They are not afraid of skeletons or anything like that. It's just that the bandits are such a powerful team, they don't know whether they should go up and fight.

After all, these human bandits are not small groups of goblins or monsters that move alone. Although the Maomaos are confident in their hunting and fighting skills that have been honed in the mountains and forests, after all, they only have a few Maomao, and their attack and defense are not very strong. The rival of human bandits.

Just like before, at that time they were still working for a group of human bandits, hoping that if they helped humans do something, they would be rewarded with some metals. As a result, after the bandits dispatched them, they did not give them the metal reward they had agreed upon at all. However, the short and short Maomao people were no match for those tall human bandits - those bandits carried a lot of metal on their bodies, and the Maomao people To measure combat effectiveness, it is mainly judged by how much metal is on the body.

But having said that, although Courage Maomao felt that he and his friends were no match for the bandits, if they participated in the battle, powerful humans might reward them with a lot of metal afterwards.

Thinking of this, Courage Maomao made a decision. He meowed a few times, asking the melee Maomao among his companions not to fight directly with the enemy. After all, there was a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves. If four melee Maomao went up to fight, the mosquitoes would fly and jump. A bite from a frog on the face means death.

Then it called out to summon the long-range Maomao to its side. The group avoided the bandit's raid route and flicked its tail from the flank to knock out the pebbles it picked up and carried.

Bang bang bang, they hit the rocks continuously, each one accurately hitting the human bandits in the distance.

However, human bandits are different from other monsters in the mountains and forests. They all wear various protective armors. Although they are not as metallic as those of powerful humans, they are still much stronger than many beasts.

The flying pebbles hit the human bandits, only injuring and irritating those guys.

"Where did the stone come from? Did anyone see it?"

"Over there, over there! Several upright cats are attacking us, wait and see!"

After saying that, a bandit drew his throwing gun from behind while running. He first rubbed the area on his waist where the stone had hit him, and then threw the throwing gun towards the upright cat vaguely seen in the grass.

Swish——

The spears were thrown very fast, but after the Maomaos fired a round of stones, they saw the enemy counterattack and dispersed long ago.

There was a melee Maomao lying on the ground. After the human's throwing spear knocked down a wild flower, he excitedly rushed up and pulled out a throwing spear as high as it. Then, together with another melee Maomao, two villains carried the bandit's gun. Throwing a gun just ran away and slipped away.

It's extra loot, their own thing.

Although the throwing gun is not of much use to the Maomaos, there is some metal on the gun head. The Maomaos like metal and cannot let go of these metals.

Courage Maomao led people to the side and launched another attack on the human bandits. But this time the human bandits were quickly approaching the end of the refugee team. The two parties were mixed together to fight. Maomao had to be careful not to hit the talents on their side. OK.

Long-range attacks were difficult to handle, so Courage Maomao rolled his eyes and immediately led his companions to attack the scattered enemies who were injured and fell on the road during the assault on the bandits.

"Meow meow meow! Meow yo——"

Under the leadership of Courage Maomao, the Maomaos stood on all fours with their tails raised high, and headed straight towards the injured bandits in a staggered formation.

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"Ah! Watch the move!"

At the end of the team, a young man roared and waved a short knife in his hand, killing the bandits.

The bandit leader laughed mockingly, swung his ax down, and cut off the young man's arm. Then he pushed the man and pushed the wailing and collapsed refugee aside, allowing other bandits around him to kill the man.

He looked at the chaotic refugee team and shouted excitedly: "Chop the men and knock the women unconscious and carry them away! Although they are a refugee team, they may be unexpectedly rich. Cut open the boxes they are carrying and take a look. There are some good things in there!”

"Hahahaha, kill!"

The bandits swarmed forward. Even the young bandits who had just joined, their eyes were glaring at this moment, their faces were red with excitement, and they slashed with the new weapons in their hands, cutting down every refugee who was as young as them who resisted.

"You still dare to resist! You still dare to resist! Die!"

The young bandit who was the first one to join in suddenly used the steel dagger in his hand to push away the refugee's stiff arms and legs, and then pierced the stomach of the refugee who was younger than him with one sword. He was excited. The weapon was churning in his stomach, and he looked excitedly at the painful expression on the man in front of him.

"Hahahaha, how about it? I'm not someone to be trifled with. I'll take your head!"

Drawing out his dagger, the young bandit couldn't wait to kick the refugee over, and he was about to cut off the head of the young refugee while he was still alive.

But before he could take action, a crossbow bolt hit his left arm. Not only did it pierce his entire left arm, it was also shot in his left rib. The pain was so painful that he burst into tears.

"Who! Who attacked you%%."

The young bandit with a ferocious face looked around, but in such a chaotic situation, he never imagined that the person who shot him was still on the carriage at the front of the team.

In fact, some capable bandit leaders had already seen Bloodfangster in the chaotic battlefield. The resistance and fighting of the refugees in front of him was not in his eyes at all. It was the sneak attack of the crossbow arrows in the distance that made him feel unhappy.

He was very thoughtful, but he was paying close attention to whether the crossbowman was aiming at him.

As a bandit leader, he has already done his job by leading his men to charge forward, and he does not need to do it himself to rob people and materials. Therefore, guarding against sneak attacks and protecting yourself are the most important things for a bandit leader in every battle.

"Tsk, looks like he's a hired caravan guard. He's quite capable."

The carriage that Bloody Fangster was in was still some distance away from the end of the refugee group. Being able to hit two out of three shots from such a distance was already a very powerful skill.

In just a dozen breaths, more than a dozen young refugees at the end of the team who bravely fought against the bandits were killed by these bandits. Seeing this, more people panicked and threw down their self-defense weapons and supplies. He ran towards the middle of the team as if he was running for his life.

A bandit smeared the blood-stained machete on the body of a young refugee girl, stepped on the dead young refugee's young face with his foot, and then slashed open a small wooden barrel that the girl was desperately protecting.

This wooden barrel looks heavy, and there is probably a lot of stuff in it. As a result, he split open the lid of the barrel with a knife and was disappointed by the contents inside.

"%%￥, why is it just some food? These refugees are not so poor that they only have these things, right?"

He spat into the barrel and was about to complain to the leader. Did they misjudge the wealth of the refugee team? Although this group of people carried a lot of things in large bags and carts, donkey carts and carts, they might only have these things for subsistence. Otherwise, why would they be a group of refugees?

But before he opened his mouth, his eyes were attracted by the grain in the barrel.

The bandit was stunned, wiped his bloody left hand, and fished out the grain in the barrel.

At first glance, these grains are inconspicuous, but they are actually full of grains. They are simply better than the grains grown from the best seeds in the most fertile land. This bandit also came from a farmer's background when he was young. He had been farming for several years when he was young, so he naturally realized the value of this thing.

What made his heart pound even more was that not only were the grains full, as if they had been replicated by magic, but they could also be seen shining slightly even under the sun.

"This, this thing. Boss! Come and see this thing quickly! We are getting rich! We are getting rich!!"

The robber shouted loudly.