Unknown Knight

In the past month, everyone has been mainly involved in the construction of the valley. Despite this, Aix still took out one-third of his time every day to let Bandak and Fatis organize everyone to practice shooting crossbows and spear thrusts. Although every day was very hard and fulfilling, the frequent appearance of the cavalry made everyone have no complaints. Fortunately, the daily meals were very good, and sometimes there was beer supply. Everyone did not have a lack of nutrition, and after adapting, their bodies became stronger. Now, except for the children, everyone in the valley can shoot crossbows and hold guns.

The weapons and equipment have also been improved a lot. Although there are less than 10 standard long swords, there are still many woodcutting axes and old blade knives seized before. The old blacksmith John changed them all into iron spear heads. Once the hardwood poles were installed, more than 20 spears were added. Together with the original ones, there are now more than 30 spears. The biggest improvement is the crossbow. One of the carpenters came from the Kingdom of Rhodok. He used to make military crossbows for the local army. After seeing the homemade crossbows of the caravan, he was very disdainful and took the initiative to propose to Aix that he could make a military crossbow with a longer range and higher accuracy. Aix was very happy after hearing this and assigned two people to help him. Soon 20 military crossbows were made. This crossbow has a longer arrow groove and a larger crossbow arm. Another advantage is that it has a wooden handle with a string. Unlike the original homemade crossbow, you need to hold the crossbow string directly with your hands to string it, which may cut your fingers. The stringing speed is also much faster. The direct shooting stable distance is 30 meters, and the effective killing distance reaches more than 100 meters. In addition, the barrel-bottom shield was recognized by everyone after the last battle with the bandits, and almost everyone had one. There was plenty of wood, the cost was not high, and the craftsmanship had also improved. A raised edge ring was added to the edge, which could effectively prevent arrows that hit the shield from sliding away and hitting comrades next to the shield.

Although the caravan does not have the money to equip everyone with armor, the current equipment and training can form a considerable combat power. Fatis also organized several coordinated drills based on the characteristics of the crossbow and the spear. The formation was a bit like the Spanish phalanx during the Age of Discovery, which was relatively advanced in this era when wars were fought with cavalry leading the charge.

The improvement of weapons and equipment and everyone's very effective training have given Aix a lot of confidence. Although the enemy is 22 armored cavalrymen, and their individual combat power exceeds that of most members of the caravan, Aix is ​​still confident of fighting as long as the opportunity is grasped and various conditions are used properly. With the collection of various intelligence information, a combat plan to eliminate this cavalry is taking shape in Aix's mind.

On this day, Bandak, a veteran soldier number one in Suno City, came to the city. With him came four large carts full of goods and 14 caravan members. These members either had daggers on their waists or held spears. They were all talking and laughing, and looked extremely happy.

The entry tax for entering the city was originally 20 copper coins at most. Today, Bandak generously threw a silver coin to the captain of the city gate and said politely:

"I'll treat you brothers to some drinks if you have more."

The captain of the city gate was very happy when he saw the silver coins in his hand. He said to Bandak with a smile:

"Brother Bandak has become rich. When will you bring your brothers with you?"

"Come on, I can't compare with you. I'm not exposed to the wind or rain. I only made a little money from these two trips to Tiha and Sagos. I don't make much money at other times. It's just hard work. I'll treat you to a drink later."

After the performance, he waved his hand and walked into the city without looking back. Hearing the envious voices behind him, Bandak was secretly happy, thinking that the performance just now seemed to be very successful.

Soon the news that the caravan had made a lot of money spread throughout the town.

In the City Lord's Mansion, in the room of the chief steward, Grans, who had received the intelligence, once again said to the person who reported the news:

"Are you sure everyone in the caravan has returned?"

"Yes, sir, the team led by that old soldier Bandak, I didn't see old John and his daughter, I guess they stayed in Sagos."

"Humph, they are just lame dogs. I will deal with them sooner or later. Why didn't you say when they will leave the city?"

"They say they need olive oil urgently, so they might load the truck and leave today."

"Go and keep an eye on it. Report back as soon as you leave the city."

Seeing the stalker walking away, Grans punched the desk in anger. His last business of selling olive oil to the Kingdom of Nord failed, and Madam Anna scolded him and told him that if he couldn't save the situation, she would remove him as the manager and hand the business over to someone else.

How could he not be angry? In order to get the lucrative olive oil business, he threatened and intimidated people everywhere, asking them not to sell olive oil to Old John privately. Later, he even broke Old John's leg. Seeing that it still didn't work, he paid 300 silver coins and asked Robin, a famous bandit nearby, to kill the caravan halfway. The result was obviously a failure. He has not received any news from Robin so far. Even Joey, the spy in the village of Ripolet, has disappeared. It is very likely that the damn Robin took his money. He had no choice but to take out another 300 silver coins and ask a captain of the city defense army who had secretly surrendered to Mrs. Anna to come forward and lead people to kill the caravan halfway. As a result, the captain said that he didn't find the caravan even when he chased them to the border fort of Jerbog. Could it be that they flew away? It must be that the captain was lazy on the way and didn't catch up.

So this time he decided to go out personally and act together with the city defense team to wipe out the main force of the caravan. You should know that he paid another 200 silver coins to the captain this time. He has spent nearly 1000 silver coins on this matter. He has racked his brains to embezzle over the years and has only saved up more than 1500 silver coins. Now most of his fortune has been invested, and nothing has been accomplished. His heart is bleeding. If he still cannot succeed this time, he may even want to commit suicide.

When Bandak and his party arrived at the warehouse, they hurriedly unloaded the empty barrels that disguised the goods, loaded them with the olive oil purchased during this period, locked the warehouse, took Manid and other people who stayed behind, and set off without any stop.

As soon as the caravan left the city, someone sent the news to Grans. Excited, he clapped his hands and quickly called over a capable confidant, asking him to follow and keep an eye on them, and to mark and guide them along the way.

This confidant of Grans is also a veteran, brought here by Miss Anna from the city of Uxhall. He has been following Grans for all these years. After hearing Grans' promise today, he thought it was time for him to come to the fore, so he followed Grans very attentively and carefully, just waiting to complete the task and get promoted.

Following all the way, it was gradually getting dark. As a veteran, he saw that the caravan in front of him was moving in a hurry but in an orderly manner. He had a vague feeling of uneasiness in his heart, but he ultimately underestimated these teams which were mainly composed of refugees from the towns. Although there were tough guys like Bandak, he was just one person after all. 'No matter how powerful one person can be, how powerful can he be?' he thought to himself.

At a bend, he marked it and entered a relatively narrow dry riverbed-like road. Seeing the dark forests getting closer and closer on both sides of the road, he thought to himself: "What a good place to ambush." ​​Just as he thought of this, he found that the caravan in front had stopped. "Are they preparing to camp? This is not bad. It's a good place to start the journey." He gloated in his heart.

Suddenly he realized something was wrong. Shouldn't the caravan park its trucks on the side of the road to camp? Why were the four trucks parked across the middle of the road, blocking the narrowing road in the middle? The caravan members were chopping branches to block the small gaps on the side. Just as he felt something was wrong, a black arrow shot out from the darkness and hit his forehead, which was shining in the faint moonlight.

"Rustle" "Rustle" The old soldier lying on the ground heard someone walking towards him in the bushes. When the person came closer, he could see the person's appearance clearly. It was a woman. Her dark skin blended perfectly with the night, like a ghost. Seeing that he was not dead yet, she grinned at him, revealing two rows of shiny white teeth. In his eyes, they were like the fangs in the mouth of the god of death before killing, swallowing up the last bit of his consciousness in this world in one bite.

Seeing that the man was dead, Desevi bent down, picked up one of his legs, and pulled him into the dark forest next to him as if he was pulling a prey he had shot.

In a short while, a team of cavalry came over. Although they were not fast, they seemed a little anxious in the night, like a group of wild beasts. Sometimes they stopped to watch, and sometimes they rushed forward as if there was their prey ahead. Perhaps it was because it was dark, and they were hungry for a day and were anxious to start hunting.

After seeing the mark at the turning point, the leader decided not to move forward in secret anymore. He drew his sword and pointed it forward, and the cavalrymen stepped on their horses and chased forward.

Hawke, the captain of the city defense army, was furious. He glanced at Grans on the horse next to him. Since he lost the target last time, this guy has come to him several times. Although he took 300 silver coins from him, he was only a captain. After distributing the money to his brothers, he didn't keep much for himself, not to mention the money for the wine he treated his brothers. Every time he came, he had to take up Xiumu's time to lead the team to search in this area. After several times, the brothers complained and didn't know if they could be moved next time. Fortunately, Grans was quite thoughtful today. Not only did he give him another 200 silver coins, but he also sent someone to follow and lead the way. Now it was dark, Hawke decided not to wait any longer. The dozen or so caravan members in front were just a matter of charging. It would be better to deal with them as soon as possible so as not to delay returning to Sunuo City for a big drink.

Suddenly, Hawke noticed a gray object on the narrow road ahead. It was taller than the ridge and shorter than the wall. Before he could figure out what was happening, he realized that the riders were approaching. Hawke then saw clearly that they were four trucks that he could not possibly ride over.

"Oh no, turn around!"

After fighting on the battlefield, he immediately realized that he had fallen into a trap, but like every other person who fell into a trap, once he discovered it was too late.

“Clack, clack, clack, boom, boom!”

Two large trees as thick as a half hug fell down one after another behind the team, completely blocking the way ahead twice. A group of men and women rushed from the woods on both sides to the middle of the two large trees, raised the crossbows in their hands and shot. There was a burst of horse neighing and people shouting, and only the sound of thumps and thumps falling to the ground could be heard. Obviously, some people had been shot by arrows and fell off their horses. The smart ones got off their horses and hid under the horses' bellies. A few brave ones rode their horses and wanted to rush into the forest beside the road, but as soon as they rushed to the edge of the slope with the reins in their hands, they were either shot down by arrows flying from nowhere, or forced back by spears extending from behind the trees.

“Whoosh, whoosh…”

A dozen lit torches were thrown over from behind the convoy, making the remaining dozen or so riders obvious targets in the dark night.

Seeing that there was no hope of escape, Hawke, who had been shot in the shoulder, was straightforward and shouted loudly despite the severe pain in his shoulder:

"We surrender, we surrender, I am a noble, I am a noble, I can pay the ransom..."

As soon as he uttered the golden words, he was shot in the neck by a hidden arrow from Desevi. As a poor woman, she hated this kind of so-called noble and reckless man the most. It seemed that they were born to believe that their lives were more precious than others and could be resurrected from the dead.

Hawke, the youngest son of a nobleman whose ransom was worth 200 silver coins, fell off his horse with his hands on his neck in disbelief, and then the sound of crossbows rang out all around. In a short while, there was no one or horse left standing on this road. The survivors either rolled on the ground with their hands on their wounds and wailed, or lay beside the dead horses and dared not move an inch.

After a while, the wailing stopped, leaving only low sobs and intermittent groans. Aix, who was behind the chariot array, raised the torch and shook it. More than 20 men with spears and crossbows walked out from the big trees, the chariot array and the dense woods on both sides of the road. The women covered their faces and squatted down after shooting several rounds of crossbow arrows. It was too miserable. They dared not look directly at it. There were only three women who could follow, Desevi, Cress and Catherine.

As the encirclement of more than 20 people became smaller and smaller, three people suddenly jumped out from the pile of corpses, screaming "Ahhh". Before they could chop down with their swords, they were pierced by the surrounding spears. Seeing this, Axe stopped everyone from moving forward and said to the people who were still squirming in the middle:

"If you want to live, drop your weapons, stand up and surrender. If you can't stand up, lie down and raise your hands, otherwise I will kill you without mercy!"

As soon as he said this, two people really stood up, and the five survivors on the ground also raised their hands. Among them, one of them was recognized by everyone, the hateful Grans. This guy was not hurt at all. His legs were trembling all over, and there was a foul smell when he got close. It was obvious that the valley was lost, which caused everyone to laugh at him.

After everyone had checked every motionless body with spears, Aix waved his hand and everyone rushed forward, tied up the seven living people, and took them aside.

Old John, whose legs were not yet healed, limped to Grans with the help of Yamila, frightening him so much that he fell to his knees with a plop. With his hands tied, he had no choice but to kowtow to the ground and beg for mercy, even making a lot of nonsense promises and offers:

"Please spare my life, John. I was forced to do this. I can give you 1000 silver coins, 2000 silver coins. I will never get involved in the olive oil business again. Please spare my life..."

Old John looked coldly at Grans who was digging the ground like a maggot, with mixed feelings in his heart. He had once knelt in front of Grans in public, begging him not to be so ruthless and leave him 20% of the share, as there were still dozens of people in the caravan who needed to be fed, but in return, his legs were broken by this bastard; he once thought that he would have to endure this breath for the rest of his life, and there was no hope of revenge, he was disheartened, and if it wasn't for his daughter, he would even think of committing suicide; he once felt like the sky had fallen, thinking that Aix was killed on the road, and he was in a state of panic all day long, and this bastard took the opportunity to force him to give his daughter to him. Now this bastard in front of him actually had the nerve to beg for mercy, and even if he promised to give up the entire Suno City, he couldn't eliminate the hatred in his heart! Thinking of this, he pushed away Yamila who was supporting him, raised his wooden crutch, and hit him on his hateful fat face with one stick, broke his legs with the second stick, flattened his rotten round belly with the third stick, and burst the evil balls under his crotch with the fourth stick...

Everyone knew how much Old John hated this guy, and no one tried to stop him. They just watched him hit Granth with his stick accurately in different places until Granth was silent and his body was turned into a pool of meat paste.