Law of the Devil

"The first team, go around to the right side and light the fire. The second team, make noise around and create chaos. The third team, take charge of the response. I personally lead people to light the fire on the left side!"

In the night, Longbottom and a group of his men huddled in a grass nest behind a hillside, randomly drew a topographic map on the land, and after finishing the order, they raised their feet to wipe off the traces on the ground, with bright eyes He glanced at the several subordinates next to him: "Do you understand?"

"Understood, boss," a bearded mercenary leader grinned, showing his yellow teeth: "This is not the first time this has been done."

In the distance of the hillside is a gathering point of orcs. It was built on the basis of an abandoned village and town, surrounded by a farmland. It was late autumn at this time, and the grain in the farmland had been harvested. The orcs built piles of barn-like things, where a large amount of harvested grain was piled up.

From the visual inspection, the surrounding defenses are not tight—probably because this is the rear of the criminals, far away from the front line, so the criminals did not put in a tight defense force.

After many days of sneaking, Longbottom led this group of people around the front line, all the way west and then north. At this time, they had penetrated deep into the enemy's rear in the area occupied by criminals.

Although if it is really pursued, Longbottom and others belonging to the Central War Zone are already worthy of the name "fishing over the border", because this is already considered the territory of the Western War Zone.

"Okay! Then give him a vote! I've been running for so many days. The brothers didn't get anything, so we can't just go back empty-handed!" Longbottom's smile looked a little ferocious under the night.

Then he glanced at the muse beside him: "You follow me."

Muse nodded silently. Just stuck a dagger into a leather boot.

In the middle of the night, the settlement of orcs in the distance had fallen into silence. There are not many orc warriors here, most of them are old and weak women and children among orcs. Judging from a village of this size, there are only a few hundred orc warriors in the town at most.

But even so, Longbottom didn't dare to be careless, because he had already understood it after dealing too much with the orcs. Even those underage guys among the orcs are comparable to an adult human warrior in terms of physical strength and combat effectiveness, and even those old and weak or female orcs, if they are organized, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. watch for.

Lurking for a while, until midnight. Just launched a sneak attack.

The person who is responsible for feinting and clamoring around. The first wave of offensive was launched. In the woods and grass around the gathering place, human fighters deliberately made noises, shouts of killing, horns, and some experienced mercenaries beat stones to imitate There was the sound of galloping horseshoes.

soon. These movements alarmed the orcs in the settlement, and I saw a large number of orcs rushing out of it quickly. Looking at it in the dark night, countless torches were dotted and swarmed out. Although there are only a small number of warriors wearing armor. Most of the other orcs, old and weak, are holding sharpened wooden sticks, but judging from the number. But I'm afraid there are no less than a thousand people.

The orcs were attracted by the humans, and rushed out of the town, while the humans who were in charge of making noise, retreated cunningly, trying to attract these orcs as far away as possible.

Afterwards, the two teams responsible for arson took the opportunity to approach the settlement from both sides, and quickly ran to the barn pile.

Although there are a few orcs guarding the barn, but in front of these guys who are used to being mercenaries-these guys hunt monsters all the year round, and this kind of sneak attack in the dark is what they are best at. Several orcs were quickly shot to death by bows and arrows, most of them did not make a sound, and even if some orcs were not shot to death by bows and arrows, they were quickly pounced upon by experienced mercenaries who came out from the darkness. Jumping forward, even though the orc was strong, he cut his throat in a daze.

After clearing out the guards, in the darkness, the mercenaries signaled to each other that everything was going well. These guys used birdsong as a signal to communicate with each other.

"Quick! The brothers responsible for attracting their attention won't last long!" Longbottom took the lead, and was the first to pick up the skin bag he carried with him, and sprinkle the liquid inside on the barn. One by one, the mercenaries immediately followed suit—these skin bags were filled with kerosene instead of wine and water!

These guys spread the fire oil evenly everywhere with great experience. Then one team after another quickly left Yuandun, and the last person who was cut off was in charge of lighting the fire...

In the distance, the orcs, who were lured away by the movement made by humans, suddenly found out in horror that behind them, in the direction of the barn, there was a raging fire! In the dark night, the movement of the flame was extraordinarily clear and bright! Almost half of the sky is illuminated like daytime!

"fire Fire!!!"

The orcs began to cry out in panic. More orcs were so angry that their livers were torn apart!

Because there is their food! It is their most precious food! !

After finally completing the return, on this first piece of land occupied by humans, after a year of hard work, the food harvested! !

My own old and weak women and children, as well as the soldiers on the front line who are fighting against humans! Everyone has to rely on these grains to feed! And now it is late autumn, how many mouths rely on these grains to survive the winter! !

If these grains are burned...

The orcs couldn't care less about chasing the humans in the darkness, they all shouted, turned around, and rushed back to the granary in a mess.

Under the action of the kerosene, once the flame boiled, the momentum would be extremely fierce, and the raging fire would burn the orcs to pieces! At the same time, the night illuminated by the fire exposed the whereabouts of Longbottom and the others who were about to flee after setting the fire!

"Human!! Burn our food!! Human!!!"

The orcs saw Longbottom and others fleeing in the distance. These orcs were mad. Soon there were several teams, desperate to catch up.

Those warriors in armor all rushed up. Even though they are far away, they have no intention of giving up! The actions of humans angered these orcs, and they will never give up until these damned humans are killed!

Next to the fire, the orcs began to try to put out the fire, but they added fuel to the fire, such a fire, in the dry autumn. Spreading along with the wind, the orcs almost tried their best, but they couldn't stop the fire. .

Many old and weak among the orcs threw themselves on the ground, crying and howling, beating their chests and stamping their feet, crying and shouting, and the sound was heard far away.

"Don't be dazed! They are catching up!" Longbottom kicked Muse hard. During the sneak attack just now. Muse did well, cutting the neck of a guard orc with her own hands, using the same dagger she had stuck in her boot.

But when she was retreating now, she heard the cries coming from a distance behind her, Muse seemed to be a little stunned, and Longbottom's curse woke her up.

Behind them, those orc warriors raised their shining long knives and chased after them with murderous looks!

"Let's go! Let's go!"

Longbottom tugged at Muse. Then a whistle was blown.

Soon, those orc warriors who were chasing after them received a severe blow!

A team of human warriors who were in charge of responding was ambushed in advance, hid in the woods and grass beside the retreat route, and launched a sneak attack on the chasing orcs with bows and arrows.

In the dark. These mercenaries who are good at hunting monsters. Just used what they are best at: harassment, setting up an ambush...

After the first round of arrow rain. More than a dozen orcs who were chasing fell down, and soon fell into chaos, because in the darkness, they couldn't tell how many enemies were there and which direction they were in! And those cunning mercenaries gave full play to their mobility. After shooting cold arrows, they quickly left the original ambush location, and continued to shoot arrows to harass while running.

After a few rounds of arrow rain, although the orc's injuries were not too serious, he was completely dizzy.

At this time, the main team of Longbottom and others had already run farther and farther. And these fighters who were in charge of responding to the breakup also broke up in a crowd, and quickly divided into countless small teams, fleeing in all directions.

Obviously, the orcs here lacked tactical literacy, and the chaos in the darkness made them a little at a loss. In the dark night, they didn't dare to continue chasing in a daze - although they were very angry when their food was burned, they had to be careful at night, God knows how many troops came to attack humans...

"Unfortunately, they stopped chasing."

After running far away, Longbottom and the others ran into a forest. He jumped onto a big tree with agility that was extremely inconsistent with his figure, took out the binoculars and looked back carefully for a while, and let out such a sigh .

"It's a pity, if they continue to chase, they can just set up an ambush, and maybe they can swallow this small group of orcs!"

The mercenaries around him sighed regretfully, many of them were already gearing up, and some of them had already begun to wipe their blades. Hearing that there was no battle to fight, many people showed depressed expressions.

"Okay, then we'll retreat." Longbottom waved his hand and glanced at the sky: "Tonight's ticket was well done. But the sky is about to dawn, we are now in their territory, in case the whereabouts are exposed, It’s troublesome to be watched.”

As he said that, he coughed: "Old rules, everyone retreats in four teams according to the original plan, pay attention to hiding your whereabouts, and gather at the predetermined location... Let me say first, if someone is late, there is nothing you can do Wait for him! If anyone falls behind, find a way to climb home by yourself!"

The mercenaries smiled, but everyone's face was serious.

Everyone understood that Longbottom was not joking! The danger of doing such a thing behind enemy lines is self-evident. Disperse the retreat, and after arriving at the predetermined location, if anyone is left behind, then everyone can't wait at the risk of everyone's life and death in the large army!

Even if Longbottom himself fell behind and arrived late, and failed to arrive at the meeting place within the stipulated time, he would still be abandoned! This is the rule set by Longbottom himself!

The big troops dispersed in a herd, which was exactly the tactic Longbottom set up when he formed this Spike Army: swarm up and disperse in a herd.

Muse walked with Longbottom's team, less than 300 people, and retreated all the way to the southwest. According to the original plan, they would walk for two days and then turn around and head all the way south. Being discovered by the enemy-even if you are discovered, you can try your best to get rid of the possibility of being surrounded.

The four teams evacuated in different directions, and Muse Longbottom's team, for the first two days, came out day and night. And when on the road, try to stay away from the main road as much as possible, go uphill when you encounter mountains, walk through forests when you encounter forests, and choose those remote places to walk.

In the evening of that day, a group of people had already arrived at a small forest. Longbottom looked at the surrounding terrain and calculated the time: "Hurry up! I remember that there is a river in front of us on the map, and we can reach there tomorrow." After that, we will turn back and head southeast, and in two days, we will be able to meet up with our brothers."

A group of mercenaries laughed loudly, and everyone had an expression of hope of victory.

In the past two days, they also sneaked into the villages of two orcs on the road, killed about sixty orcs, and set up an ambush to wipe out a group of orc soldiers patrolling.

According to the reward Longbottom set when building the army, if they can go back alive this time, then everyone can get a large reward——Because the Spike Army is not a regular army of the Empire, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of these people According to the mercenary model, Longbottom set up a set of reward standards for beating enemies, such as how many gold coins to reward for killing an orc, how many gold coins to reward for killing an orc warrior, and so on...

Anyway, he was supported by Du Wei, a rich boss, and such a generous bounty was absolutely unavailable in other armies of the empire.

A group of people were about to pass through this forest, when they suddenly saw a few mercenaries who were scouting the way running back quickly, all of them looked nervous and serious.

These people ran back from the depths of the forest, rushed in front of Longbottom, immediately lowered their voices and said quickly: "You can't go forward!"

"What's wrong?"

"Wolf riders! A lot of wolf riders!!" A mercenary who explored the road was out of breath and his face was a little pale. .