Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir took a few militiamen under his command and walked along the road that he had walked with Knight Crowe a few days ago, and walked again.

Soon I saw the simple wooden observation tower standing high in the middle of a main mountain road. Thinking that the people on the tower at this time must have seen him, so Kiel waved directly at the opponent.

Just looking at their weapons and equipment, it is estimated that this pair of militia squads should have guessed that they are also militiamen. I hope they will not be mistaken.

After a while, Kiel, who was walking on the road, found someone ambushing him behind a big tree in the snow in front of him. He immediately revealed his identity: "Is it the Mountain Leopard team? I am Kiel under Lord Cavaliers! Not bandits!"

After Kiel finished speaking, the militiamen who had been hiding before suddenly crouched up from the snow, and at the same time, the militiamen hiding behind the tree trunks also appeared.

"Put down the weapon in your hand. We will check if it is one of our own." The other party was very cautious. They asked Kiel to put down the weapon first.

Kiel put down the spear in his hand, and waved his hand, telling his spear militiamen to put down their spears as well.

A militiaman who had been hiding in the snow stood up and walked over.

Kiel didn't know each other, but Kiel estimated that the other party should know him. So he opened the visor of his helmet, and sure enough, the young man recognized Kiel's face.

In fact, these militiamen have already recognized Kiel just by looking at the equipment he is wearing, but to be on the safe side, they have to confirm again. After all, they cannot guarantee whether Kiel was killed by bandits in the past two days. , and then snatched things like weapons and equipment on his body.

"It's Kiel." After confirming that it was Kiel himself, the militiaman reported to his companion.

Naturally, he is one of his own, so there is no need to take precautions. The militiamen all put down their crossbows, unloaded their crossbow arrows, relaxed the strength of their crossbow strings, and walked over.

"Master Knight, do you have something to explain? We have gained something in the past two days, blocking nearly ten bandits. How is it? Compared with other teams, it's not bad, right?" The militia captain who led the team smiled and said I show off.

Keir shrugged: "I haven't been to other places, and I don't know much about the situation of other teams. But you can have ten bandits here, and I guess other people's places are not bad."

"That's it." Hearing Kiel's answer, the captain lowered his head and became annoyed.

Kiel smiled when he saw it, lined up on the shoulders of the militia captain, turned around and pointed to the direction of De Lang's people: "But it doesn't matter, I brought you a gift here. Knight Crowe took the bandit Block the entrance of the cave, and then set fire to force the bandits out with high-temperature smoke. Hehe, a group of bandits who just ran out are heading towards you. Not counting women and children, there are at least 20 bandits, and ah, inside There is also a leader of the bandits, he is the only leader among the bandits who escaped from their lair."

"Taking him down is a great achievement." In the end, Keir concluded.

Kiel's words made the melee militiamen of the Mountain Leopards standing here smile with joy. The fighting skills of the bandits are no match for them, as long as the number of bandits is not too large, they can basically eat them.

Before, they were worried that other teams would overtake them. Now that the news of Kiel came, they no longer worried about other things. As long as they took down this wave of bandits and the leader of the bandits inside, this time they would fight against other elite melee militiamen. Competition, they will definitely win.

After getting the news and joining of Kiel, everyone has confidence in whether they can take down so many bandits.

There was not much time, and those bandits would arrive here in a while, so after a brief discussion, they settled on a plan.

The surrounding terrain is open, but if you want to leave the bandit's lair as quickly as possible, the best way to go is the direction that Kiel led the people to escape before.

Keir clearly remembered that on that road, there was a corpse pit where bandits disposed of dead human corpses. The human corpses in the corpse pit there, because they had not been burned, started to move naturally after death.

It looked very scary and frightening.

Although Keel didn't think that those slow-moving corpses could hurt him who was wearing armor, he also felt a faint fear of those corpses that moved after death.

No matter how you look at it, those bandits have to pass through the corpse pit.

So the best place to ambush is a little bit before there.

After discussing with each other, they decided to gather all their hands in an ambush in a place in front of the corpse pit, and when the bandit team passed by, they would directly attack them and force the bandits to the corpse pit.

Use the corpse pit to hold back bandits that might disperse fleeing bandits.

Try to wipe out all the bandits here. This is not only a credit, but also a move for the longer-term stability and safety of this place in the future.

In order not to let the tall simple wooden observation tower expose the existence of militia here, the Mountain Leopard team quickly dismantled the upper part of the observation tower. In this way, if you just look at it from a distance, the simple wooden The observation tower, the only remaining support pole, is not like a man-made object, it will only be seen by people who see it as a normal tree with many branches falling.

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De Lang carried his child on his back, and his woman followed him, holding on to his belt, and walking forward under his warm animal skin cloak.

Everyone else is pretty much the same. Just to save some energy, everyone's team is in a straight line at this time, and everyone walks on the road that the previous person walked on.

The person in the front consumes the most physical strength, so the person in the lead takes turns to take the lead in the front, and when the physical strength is insufficient, change to the next person behind. But the person who was at the head stopped in place, and after the team passed by, he just followed to the last one.

Although bandits seldom go out to plunder after snowfall in winter, they still understand some techniques for advancing in the snow.

The team was very silent all the way forward, after all, they had escaped from the dead. The male bandits were full of frustration of being defeated by the militia, while the women felt uneasy about living an unstable life again, not knowing what life would be like afterward. look.

Although the life after being captured by the bandits is not good, for some people, it is much better than the previous life of farming, at least not tired, and although they often have to be beaten and scolded by rude bandits, but before at home, they did not feel tired. Do you also want to be beaten by the head of the family?

It's all the same, at least to them.

Only those children born in the bandit's lair were a little happy at this time. Compared with the gloomy cave, the vast mountain forest made them more excited. It is the first time for some timid children to come into contact with this vast world in this way. The world is no longer a small cave, no longer a dilapidated wooden house, and the world is naturally no longer humid and hot, but vast. ice cold.

As everyone knows, in the mountains and forests on both sides, murderous intentions have already been buried, just waiting for them to step in.

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Keel hid behind a snowdrift, using the raised snowdrift to hide his figure. The militiaman next to him gave him a signal with hand gestures, which meant that the bandits had already walked in the ambush circle.

Kiel quickly took out the red-eyed mushroom candy that he carried specially, and carefully put it into his mouth.

The sugar pill was frozen very hard, so Keel had to put the thing in his mouth to warm him before chewing on the cold little thing.

It was not his decision when to start the battle, but the order from the team leader of the Mountain Leopards.

As long as the opponent feels appropriate, he will roar to remind all the militiamen who are ready. At that time, more than a dozen bows and crossbows will immediately turn out of the hiding place, and then aim and shoot those bandits.

Kiel didn't have a suitable long-range weapon, so his main task was not to rush up and kill the bandits, but to stop the bandits who might rush to attack the militia on the way.

Just block it.

Afterwards, the militiamen would naturally drive the bandits towards the corpse pit with crossbows.

Soon, after Kiel swallowed the dry sugar pill residue in his mouth, a roar from the leader of the Mountain Leopard team spread throughout the forest.

Keel immediately got up from the ground, and as planned, he yelled, "Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!"

The other militiamen also came out of their hiding places, and while raising their crossbows, they also roared.

This is a similar approach to head start.

In the quiet mountain forest where only the branches and snow fell, suddenly there were people yelling loudly. No matter who it was, they would definitely be shocked if they were not prepared.

Sure enough, the crossbows of the militiamen hadn't been fired yet, and the sudden roar from the left and right sides of the bandit's direction shocked all the bandits.

Many bandits who had relaxed their spirits fell to the ground in fright, and the women and children who followed them were also terrified and cried loudly.

After the bandits came to their senses, they immediately faced the continuous shooting of crossbow arrows from the left and right sides.

Whoosh whoosh.

One after another, the crossbow arrows hit some bandits who didn't dodge immediately. Most of them were hit by arrows on the left and right sides of their bodies. After being hit, they were shot down to the ground immediately, unable to do anything except screaming in pain.

When the other bandits came back to their senses, someone randomly chose the left and right and rushed over.

Keir also immediately met the block.

The bandits recognized Kiel's armor immediately, and were terrified that many of their companions had been killed by Kiel in previous battles. On the other side, they also burst into anger.

Why are you everywhere? Why are you everywhere!

Several bandits ran directly towards Kiel, while Kiel stared at the red eyes under the helmet, raised his spear and rushed over.

Kiel was running in big strides, and the thick snow on the ground could not stop him from accelerating his pace, while the spear was aimed at a bandit who was charging the fastest, and hit the opponent's chest straight.

The bandits naturally didn't want to be stabbed to death by Kiel, so those with throwing knives and hatchets on their waists seized the time and counterattacked before Kiel's spear came over.

Keir ignored the throwing weapons that were reluctantly thrown at him, and let them slam into the armor on his body, which only hindered him a little.

The bandit who was aimed at by Kiel's spear was so frightened that his hair stood up a little. He tried to turn around and avoid the tip of Kiel's spear.

But in Kiel's eyes, everything around him seems to be at 0.5 times the speed when watching a video, everything is slowed down, and the figure of the bandit trying to dodge seems to be the worst silent performances by theater artists.

Keel took the time to adjust his arm and palm slightly, so that the tip of the gun hit the position where the bandit dodged.

With a pop, the bandit's chest was directly pierced through by the wide spear blade.

Kiel pressed down, exerted force with his arms, twisted the spear, and threw the bandit pierced by the spear diagonally away.

The other bandits rushed forward, trying to get close to Kiel when Kiel's spear was not working well, so that Kiel could not take advantage of the long-handled weapon.

Keir could have driven the bandits back with his rotating spear, but he subconsciously felt that it would be better to kill them directly. So he let go of the spear directly, and with quick movements, he took out the shield behind him with one hand and the long sword at his waist with the other.

Boom! Clang!

A shield supported an axe, and a sword knocked away a machete.

Another bandit wanted to take the opportunity to slash at Kiel, but Kiel kicked him on the leg, and then kicked the bandit away.

Kiel retreated with his left hand, and used his arm to take off the force of the bandit's axe. On the other side, he swung his long sword again, smashing away another bandit's machete.

When the swords intersected, sparks flew everywhere, and Kiel's long sword was even stronger and tougher. He slashed several times in a row, and even cut off half of the machete in the bandit's hand with one sword.

The weapon was shattered, and the bandit turned pale with fright. He wanted to draw out the dagger at his waist to fight back, but Keel let go of another bandit's axe, and cut the sword horizontally, cutting off the bandit's arm that was about to draw the dagger. .

"Ah! Hand!" Without waiting for the bandit to say more, Kiel spun around and hid behind the bandit with the severed hand. The bandit who wielded the ax didn't care about the fellow bandit in front of Kiel, and directly raised the ax to slash downward.

The bandit's heavy ax shattered the head of the bandit with the severed hand like smashing a watermelon, and then shattered half of the chest cavity and got stuck inside.

Kiel was splashed with blood, but he didn't care about it. The shield in his left hand was pressed on the back of the axe, not giving the bandit a chance to take it back. The long sword in his right hand stretched forward with his body, piercing half of the bandit's neck.

The arm was pulled horizontally, and the bandit's neck was cut in half by the sword point. The large blood vessels gushed out hot blood, and the trachea also gushed out the hot air from the lungs.

The bandit's hideous face was fixed on Kiel's helmet visor until he died.

Turning around, Kiel looked at the bandit who got up, put his long sword back in its sheath, and poked the toes of his armored leather boots into the snow, and his spear flew sideways from the white snow.

Grabbing it in the air, Kiel took two quick steps towards the bandit. When the bandit was about to turn around and run away, he spun around twice, and the long gun held horizontally also spun around twice.

Two arcs of blood splashed from the tip of the spear.

And the muscles and spine of the bandit's back were cut off. Losing control of his spine, the bandit's legs went limp and he fell to the ground, only his hands were still usable.

Keir swung the gun and plunged the point of the gun into the bandit's back and head, killing the bandit.

"Kill is amazing!"

"so amazing!"

The militiamen not far away saw Kiel's battle all the way. At this moment, Kiel killed all the bandits who dared to rush over, and they all praised for a while.

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On the other side, the person who resisted the bandit attack was naturally the militiaman who was the captain of the Mountain Leopard Team. His skills are also good, at this moment, with the support of his companion's bow and crossbow, he forced back several bandits who wanted to charge.

A bandit was shot in the thigh, and he rushed forward with a sword.

Immediately afterwards, he glanced at Kiel opposite him, and found that Kiel had dealt with several bandits by himself, so he couldn't help but cursed dissatisfiedly. Then began to command the militia to move and encircle the bandit's path, so that the bandit could only flee forward.

"Formation! Don't be chaotic! Surround them according to the previous formation!" The roar of the Mountain Leopard team leader resounded through the surrounding forest.

The bandits who were being chased gritted their teeth, pulled their women and children, and ran forward with all their might. As for the family members of the bandits who died just now, they all shrank in fear, or threw themselves on the dead or injured bandits and cried.

"What about those people?" Kiel yelled and asked the captain of the Mountain Leopards while he was running according to the order.

The Mountain Leopard captain knew who Keel was talking about.

"Don't care about them, you can't run away! Kill the bandits first!" He yelled and answered Kiel.

"good!"

Whoosh!

While maintaining a very reluctant formation, the militiamen took the time to restring the crossbow, running so that they could not aim very accurately~www.readwn.com~ Fortunately, the bandits had to move forward indiscriminately because they wanted to pull people Snow runs, so the speed is not very fast, not comparable to things like wild deer and hares.

A woman whose hand was pulled by the bandits was shot in the head and fell down without a sound. The bandit who pulled him didn't know she was dead at first, and kept pulling the woman's wrist to escape through the snow.

But the resistance behind him was getting bigger and bigger. He turned his head and saw that his woman was dead with a crossbow bolt piercing her head from front to back.

Stopping in his tracks, the bandit put down the child in his arms, then drew out his machete and turned around to rush towards the approaching militiamen.

Kiel saw that there were still bandits who dared to turn around, so he immediately moved over.

He saw the woman pulled by the bandits shot to death by the militia, but what did this mean.

In the cold forest, either you die or I die.

Wasn't it pure malice that those bandits chased him and the people he led back then.

Hold the gun, aim, hit.

The bandit's machete couldn't reach Kiel, and he was hit in the chest by a long spear with more than one section. The **** bandit kept saying something, and then threw the machete in his hand at Kiel.

Kiel didn't even block it, and the machete, which wasn't powerful enough, just lightly knocked against his armor before falling to the snow.

Putting his foot on the bandit's chest, Kiel drew out his spear, and then followed the advancing militiamen, maintaining an inverted V formation, forcing the remaining bandits to the corpse pit.

When walking past the body of the woman shot by the arrow, Keel glanced at the child lying on his mother's body to keep warm, but said nothing. After all, the handling of these children is the problem of Knight Crow. He and the other militiamen can only push the problem to Lord Knight.