Mercenaries and Adventurers

The knight and the wolf king fought and left one after another, and the stronghold as the fourth line of defense was finally safe. Although Keir and the hunters were surprised, they were still very excited.

But the first old hunter who came to his senses yelled loudly: "Damn it! There's another person in the tent!"

After hearing what he said, everyone realized that the tent where the injured young hunter was placed was in the camp. At this time, they took a look at the gap between the northern land wolf's attack and found that the tent had already been hung upside down by the wolf king.

Keir couldn't get away. He was the most important fighter at the wooden wall at the moment, so another young hunter was called by the old hunter in command. The two jumped off the wooden wall and rushed over to check.

The collapsed tent was in a mess, and the young man only opened the entrance of the fallen tent, only to find that the injured hunter inside was dead. He shook his head at the old hunter who was still about to set up the tent, and said loudly: "Tost, he can't do it anymore. The tent pole was broken by the **** wolf king, and the broken part pierced Ike's stomach went in."

He paused, then said in a heavy tone, "It's full of blood, I'm not breathing anymore."

"Yes, let me see this young man again." The old Tost hunter, who had been directing the hunters to fight, touched his face with his rough hands, and then let the young hunter prop up the tent, and he opened the tent The entrance looked.

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When Keir, who was fighting, saw the two men walking back without saying a word, and did not treat Ike in the tent, he knew it. It is estimated that the unlucky guy was dead.

Sure enough, the old hunter briefly said that the young hunter was dead, and how he died, and then asked everyone to rest and fight alternately.

After the wolf king in the north let out a loud cry of pain, their fighting offensive slowed down. The meaning of it is self-evident. The hunters have not been dealing with this group of wild beasts for a year or two. From the loudness of these wild beasts, they can roughly understand the intentions and morale of the wolves at this time.

In the past, every northern wolf that rushed up, no matter whether they were hungry these days or not, at least they could see a simple and firm will from their animal pupils.

And since the wolf king howled miserably, the eyes of those wolves became more panicked. Some cunning northern wolves cowered back, and all the remaining alpha wolves tried to preserve their strength.

Perhaps, they have kept their strength in mind from the very beginning.

The most elite and strongest northern land wolves have been following the head wolf, and some northern land wolves with the strongest fighting ability and running ability also run around the rocky mountain all day long, thinking of ways to hunt farther and farther away. prey.

There are only those ignorant young wolves who are about to grow up. They rush the fastest, eat the least, bark the loudest, and die the earliest.

On the side of the wooden wall, although the Northern Land Wolf's attack slowed down, the hunters consumed a lot of arrows, and each hunter's two bags of arrows were almost exhausted at this time. Because the shooting distance is not far, the strength required for each arrow is naturally not too great, and each of them still has some strength left.

The young hunter's face was flushed, and a large amount of white mist was released with every breath. The three old hunters were out of breath, and their hands were shaking. The days of fighting had greatly consumed the vitality of these old men.

Severe cold, fighting, and construction obstacles all greatly reduced the vitality of the few old people who were still alive.

Other than that, it's different from before. There is no longer any gap in the attack of the northern land wolf, and there is no interval between attacks for them to clean up the corpses, recover arrows, eat and drink supplies, and so on.

This is what Keel and the others are most worried about.

Whenever Kiel wanted to jump out of the wooden wall and get back the corpse of the northern land wolf under the wooden wall as before, a northern land wolf would pop up from the opposite side of the rock passage, tentatively arousing everyone's nervousness, After two non-lethal arrows, the Northern Land Wolf fled back with its tail between its legs.

"It's annoying!" Keel yelled.

"Be careful Kiel, those cunning guys are definitely trying to lure you out," said one person.

The other person nodded and continued, "Of course, I've seen them do this trick a few years ago. Hunters who can't calm down are often ambushed by them in unknown places. When they drive over, they can only find some clothes and equipment. Fragments or something."

Kiel slammed his fist against the wooden wall: "You can't be entangled by them sticky like this. Either the time will be prolonged, but we have to gain the advantage in the battle, or short and fierce battles will consume more energy." The northern land wolf is alive, and then we will retreat."

"But it can't go on like this. If the corpses under the wooden wall cannot be cleaned up, even if the arrows cannot be recovered, they will be used as stepping stones for the northern wolves to rush directly to the top of the wooden wall. It seems that the northern wolves are intermittently To test us, in fact, those guys must be holding their breath. They will rush over at any time."

The old Tost hunter poked his head out of the wooden wall, looked at the northern land wolf corpse under the front of the wooden wall, and nodded to confirm Keir's judgment.

Those corpses were stacked one on top of the other, which greatly eased the difficulty for the northern wolves to kill the wooden wall. Presumably those northern wolves also saw this, so every time Kiel went out, Probing and harassing hindering Keir's work.

Those beasts saw through their combat advantage, and they were trying to destroy it.

We discussed for a while, each came up with some ideas, but each has a great risk. Some people say that everyone should pretend to take down the wooden wall, lure the northern land wolf to attack, and give those guys a hard blow. Someone said to let Kiel take some risks, after climbing down the wooden wall, first get back the arrows from the northern land wolf corpse. As long as there are enough arrows, the remaining six hunters can be divided into two groups, taking turns to guard and rest, prolonging the battle on the wooden wall of the fourth position.

There are several other options, but they are either too outrageous, such as igniting the wooden wall now and retreating. Or just sneak away from the rope on the top of the mountain and go to support Lord Lanisa in the battle. As long as the wolf king is eliminated, the remaining northern land wolves will not be opponents of Lord Knight at all. After a heavy loss, the birds and beasts will disperse.

Keir actually likes this bold plan very much. He feels that as time changes, the plan that everyone decided to discuss before will have to change as the situation changes.

But on this point, these hunters seem to disagree. Although they themselves proposed such a plan, they themselves vetoed this bold plan.

The reason for using it is simple and pure: things agreed with Lord Knight cannot be changed without the presence of the Knight himself.

Since Knight Lanisa had previously agreed to let them rely on their positions to continue to resist, they had to do so.

Kiel shrugged in agreement.

Although the general direction still has to follow the previous plan, but at this moment, no matter what they say, they have to solve the problem in front of them.

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Turning his eyes, Keir's eyes had already returned to normal, so at this moment he took off his helmet, leaned his **** against the wooden wall, and discussed the next method with everyone.

"Or else." He coughed lightly to attract everyone's attention.

"Everyone is short of arrows, so let's focus the remaining arrows on one or two people first, and then everyone else will follow me and climb down the wooden wall."

No sooner had Keir said this than his radical plans startled the others.

"Keir, let's all go down, let's not say that the northern land wolves will kill them all after they find out. It's just a question of how we can get back to the wooden wall quickly." A young hunter said, patting the wooden wall.

"If this thing stops the northern land wolf, it will naturally stop us. If we put down the simple wooden ladder, it's hard to guarantee that the northern land wolf will not rush up along the simple wooden ladder."

Kiel stroked the soft short beard on his chin, and was silent for a moment: "How about this? The hunters who went down with me all brought bows, and gave the arrows to the companions above before they came down, and after everyone came down, they recovered the arrows as soon as possible. The arrows on the northern land wolf corpses. As long as there are arrows, the hunters who come down can immediately guarantee their combat effectiveness."

He went on to say: "I will also fight on the front line against the northern land wolves that hinder the attack. Those who come down will first find arrows to ensure everyone's fighting ability in the future, and then deal with the northern land wolf corpses piled up under the wooden wall."

Kiel pointed to the inside of the rock passage: "As long as their corpses don't pile up under the wooden wall, the defensive ability brought by the height of the wooden wall will naturally come back. As for the northern land wolf corpses, we don't put them back into the wooden wall." It’s behind, just drag it to a place in front of the wooden wall, it’s not in the way, it’s enough for the Northern Land Wolf to attack.”

"I have a problem. If we don't stuff the corpses of northern land wolves under the wooden wall, and then we light the wooden wall, it will be difficult for it to burn overnight. And at night, those **** beasts, they will definitely steal the corpses of their companions Take it back and eat it." An old hunter said.

Keir thought for a while, and indeed, this problem is very serious. Before they judged that the northern land wolf had insufficient food, it had gradually been reflected in the emaciated body of the attacking northern land wolf just now. A large number of wolves gathered together, and the rocks All the easy-to-hunt prey near the mountain have been caught, and they gradually do not have enough food to feed the wolves as a whole.

If the bodies of the northern land wolves that died just now were left alone, there was no guarantee that they would not use these dead northern land wolf bodies. Although no one, including the old hunter, knew whether the northern land wolf would eat the corpses of its companions, they would rather believe it than not. At this point, everyone is prepared to do what they will.

Keir thought for a while before he came up with a solution.

"In this way, the corpse of the northern land wolf must be transported back, but not now." He looked at the time, and the sun was still very low behind the thick cloud, and it was still morning.

"According to what I said, let's get back the arrows first to ensure everyone's lethality. Then, after we have enough arrows, we will take a break at noon. In the afternoon, we will disassemble the entrance and exit of the stronghold left before the wooden wall. Drag the northern land wolf corpse in directly from the gate."

"I tried to block those sneaky northern land wolves who were investigating at the corner of the passage ahead. Everyone quickly dragged the northern land wolf body back."

"You're crazy!"

"Who knows that there won't be a dozen northern land wolves in ambush after the turn in the front passage? Can you handle it? As long as they howl, all the northern land wolves will seize this good opportunity, and then break through the wooden wall and kill all of us. people!"

Keel swallowed: "I don't think those northern land wolves will all hide in the rocky passages of the rocky mountains."

"Why?"

He spread his hands and said, "What do they eat?"

"What to eat?" All the hunters looked puzzled.

At this moment, Keir gained some confidence. He stomped his feet and pointed to the surroundings: "There are stones all around, or snow falling from the sky, where is there anything to eat?"

"For these guys who are getting hungry, there is only something to eat in the forest outside. If the wolf king could make the full wolves obey his orders before, but the current situation, although not I don’t know if there are any northern land wolves who have escaped, but at least those guys will definitely not be able to follow the orders accurately before because of hunger.”

He pointed to the turning point of the downward passage ahead: "The hatred for us and the desire for victory make those northern land wolves definitely fight with us to the end. But fighting to the end is one thing, filling their stomachs before the battle is another. It's over."

At this time, the hunters gradually understood what Keir meant.

Although the northern land wolves wanted their lives, it was difficult for them to concentrate as much in battle as they did a few days ago.

After discussing for a while, everyone felt that it was about the same. Keir's plan was not so radical or deviant, and the general direction was still in accordance with the previous plan. As for the risks involved, that is what they have to bear now that they lack arrows.

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After sorting out the weapons and equipment, Kiel was ready. While secretly returning to the campfire to drink water, he swallowed another red-eyed mushroom candy.

Compared with eating whole mushrooms a few days ago, making the mushrooms into sugar pills reduced the side effects of the mushrooms, but the corresponding effectiveness was also weakened too much.

He still vaguely remembered the feeling that everything around him slowed down when he ate the red-eyed mushroom for the first time. After turning into a sugar pill, although the effect is still there, it has also become much weaker.

Even so, Keel still felt that it was better to eat less because of the side effects of this thing.

After preparations were made on Kiel's side, the hunters also handed over all the arrows to the two old hunters. The other old hunter felt that he was as strong as the young man, so he decided to come down with the young man to collect arrows and transport the Northland wolf carcass.

The next thing is divided into two parts, collecting arrows and moving the corpse.

Whether the latter can be established depends on how the former is handled.

And Kiel also had to judge how many northern land wolves were in the rock passage through fighting when guarding the hunters to collect arrows.

If he really followed his guess, there should not be many northern land wolves left here, and most of them should have retreated into the forest, while the rest restrained everyone from cleaning up the area in front of the wooden wall.

In fact, Kiel and the others have another killing move. Just on both sides of the rock wall in front of the wooden wall of the fourth position, some small stone traps have already been prepared.

It's just that Lanisa Knight and Wolf King fought in the camp before, which really exceeded their expectations, so this thing was useless.

"Keil, our side is ready."

The three young hunters and one unyielding old hunter are ready. They have each brought three empty quiver bags, and their bows are also carried horizontally in the cloak behind them.

"Okay, everyone, let's get started." After saying that, Kiel put down the helmet visor, supported it with one hand, and jumped off the wooden wall.

Jumping off a three-and-a-half-meter-high wooden wall would naturally have problems, but now it doesn't have this height at all on the outward side.

When Keir landed, he stepped on the already cold corpse of the northern land wolf, and the other four people also fell down.

Everyone deliberately avoided the arrows on the corpse when they landed, for fear of smashing one or two arrows when they landed. Normally, the hunters would not care about this, but now the situation is difficult, and one arrow has to be saved.

"Let's do it." Without taking out his sword and shield, Kiel reached out to catch the spear thrown by his companion on the wooden wall, and strode forward.

The four old and young hunters took out daggers and short knives, and took out the good arrows stuck in the northern land wolf one by one. After making a simple judgment on the broken arrows, they took off the usable parts.

They were all hunters who had been dealing with bows and arrows all their lives. Their movements were fast, and they could clean up a northern wolf's body in a few strokes, regardless of the fact that pulling out arrows with a dagger would destroy the dead northern wolf's fur. When they were done, they threw the body a little further away, keeping the body away from the wooden wall.

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The Northern Land Wolf, who was probing his head, was at the turn in the distance. As soon as Keel and the others came down, this guy turned around and whispered to a place out of sight behind him.

Walking forward for about ten meters~www.readwn.com~Keir stood still in the middle of this passage, holding his spear tightly with both hands, ready to fight the upcoming northern land wolf.

Although Keir was ready to fight, his mind returned to the wolf king he had seen before.

That guy had a metal long spear in his mouth, but it looked even more powerful than the long spear used by Lanisa Knight before. The impermeable but wide open and close long spear left a deep impression on him. .

It was not a specific combat move or two. After all, the huge wolf king of the Northland held a long spear in his mouth. Whether it was the user or the way of exerting force, it was very different from human combat moves. Keir knew that it was impossible to use the spear according to the opponent's movement at that time.

After all, he didn't think he would get on all fours, and then wag his head and tail with a weapon in his mouth, that would be too funny.

What really impressed him was that the opponent bit the human spear and then launched an aggressive attack. He didn't know how to describe it. If it wasn't for the injury of the wolf king, that kind of movement was simple, but the spear swing that could force Knight Lanisa back every time was simply not something that Knight Lanisa could defeat.

He shook his head. If the wolf king had a strong human spear from the beginning, they might have been killed by the wolf king long ago, and there would be nothing after that.

Northern land wolves appeared one after another in front of them. They were either injured, or they were in a state of embarrassment due to lack of food and hunger. However, the eyes of these guys are full of killing intent.

Howling in a low voice, he wanted to bite Kiel.

"Hmph." Seeing that these cunning guys had noticed his companions behind him, and seemed nervous and anxious, Keel immediately threw his spear on the ground, attracting the attention of the northern wolf.