Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel led several of his militiamen and walked again along the path he had walked with Knight Crow a few days ago.

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 must have seen him at this time, Kiel waved directly at the opponent in a wide range.

Just looking at their weapons and equipment, this pair of militiamen should have guessed that they were also militiamen. I hope they won't be mistaken.

After a while, Keir, who was walking on the road, found someone ambushing behind a big tree in the snow in front of him. He immediately spoke out to identify himself: "Are they from the Mountain Leopards? I am Keir under the Lord Knight!" Not a bandit!"

As soon as Keir finished speaking, the previously hidden militiamen suddenly half-crouched out of the snow. At the same time, the militiamen hiding behind the tree trunks also appeared.

"Put down your weapons. We will check if you are one of our own." The other side was very cautious. They asked Kiel to put down their weapons first.

Kiel put down the spear in his hand and waved his hand, asking his spear militiamen to also put down their spears.

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

Keir didn't know the other person, but Keel estimated that the other person 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 recognized Kiel just by looking at the equipment he was wearing, but to be safe, they still had to confirm again. After all, they could not guarantee whether Kiel had been killed by bandits in the past two days. , and then robbed the weapons and equipment on his body.

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

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

"Lord Knight, do you have anything to explain? We have made some gains in the past two days, blocking nearly ten bandits. How about it? Compared with other teams, is it not bad?" The militia captain who led the team smiled and asked Ji. You show off.

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

"That's it." After hearing Kil's answer, the captain lowered his head and became troubled.

After seeing this, Kil smiled, lined up the militia captain's shoulders, turned around and pointed to the direction of Delang's people: "But it doesn't matter, I brought you a gift. Knight Crow will take the bandits Block the entrance of the cave, then set fire to use high-temperature smoke to force the bandits out. Hehe, a group of bandits who just ran out are heading towards you. Not counting women and children, there are at least twenty bandits, and ah, inside There is also a bandit leader, and he is the only leader among the bandits who ran away from their lair."

"Taking him down is a great achievement." Finally, Kiel concluded.

Kiel's words made the close combat militiamen of the Mountain Leopard Team who were staying here smile with joy. The fighting skills of the bandits are not comparable to them. As long as the number is not too different, they can basically eat them.

Before, they were worried that other teams would surpass them. Now that the news about Kiel came, they no longer worried about anything else. As long as they took down this wave of bandits and the bandit leader inside, this time with other elite melee militiamen. If they compete, they will definitely win.

After receiving the news and joining of Kiel, everyone was confident that they could capture so many bandits.

There was not much time, and the bandits would be here soon, so after a brief discussion, they decided 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 take it is the direction in which Kiel led the people to escape before.

Kil 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 started to move naturally after death because they had not been burned.

It looks very scary.

Although Kil didn't think that those slow-moving corpses could hurt him in armor, he still felt vaguely afraid of those corpses that moved after death.

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

So the best place to ambush is the small area before there.

After discussion, they decided to gather all their hands in an area in front of the corpse pit and lie in wait. When the bandit team passed by, they would directly attack them and force the bandits to the corpse pit.

Use corpse pits to block groups of bandits who may be escaping.

Try to wipe out all the bandits here. This is not only a credit, but also a move for longer-term stability and security here.

In order to prevent the tall simple wooden observation tower from revealing the presence of militiamen 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, this simple wooden observation tower The observation tower is just a support pole. It does not look like a man-made object. It will only be considered by those who see it to be a normal tree with a lot of fallen branches.

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Delang carried his child on his back, and his woman followed him, holding on to his belt and hiding under his warm fur cloak.

The same goes for everyone else. Just to save some energy, everyone formed a straight line at this time, and everyone walked on the path opened after the previous person walked.

The person at the front consumes the most physical energy, so the person in the lead will rotate to the front and take the lead. When the physical strength is insufficient, they will change to the next person behind them. The person who was leading the group stopped where he was, and after the team passed by, he just followed the last one.

Although bandits rarely go out to rob after snowfall in winter, they still understand some skills of moving forward in the snow.

The team was very silent as they walked along. After all, they had narrowly escaped death. The male bandits were full of frustration at being defeated by the militiamen, while the women felt uneasy about once again living an unstable life, not knowing what the future life would be like. look.

Although the life after being captured by the bandits was not good, for some people, it was much better than the life of farming before. At least they were not tired, and although they had to be beaten and scolded by rude bandits often, at home before, they were not tired. Are you also going to be beaten by the boss?

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

Only the children who were born in the bandit's lair were a little happy at this time. Compared with the dark cave, the vast mountain forest made them more excited. This is the first time in their lives for some timid children to come into contact with this vast world. The world is no longer a small cave or a shabby and simple wooden house. The world is naturally no longer humid and hot, but vast. ice cold.

Little did they know that in the mountains and forests on both sides, murderous intentions had already been laid, waiting for them to step in.

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Kiel hid behind a pile of snow, 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 were already walking in the ambush circle.

Keir quickly took out the red-eyed mushroom candy pills he had specially brought with him and carefully put them into his mouth.

The candy pill was frozen very hard, so Kil had to put it in his mouth to warm it up before chewing the cold gadget.

It was not him who decided when to start the battle, but the captain of the Mountain Leopard Team who gave the order.

As long as the other party thinks it is appropriate, they will roar to alert all the prepared militiamen. At that time, more than ten bows and crossbows will immediately come out of the hiding place, and then aim and shoot at the bandits.

Kiel did not have suitable long-range weapons, so his main task was not to rush up and kill the bandits, but to stop the bandits halfway who might rush over to attack the militiamen.

Just stop it.

Then the militiamen naturally drove the bandits towards the corpse pit with crossbows.

Soon, after Kil swallowed the dry sugar pill residue in his mouth, a roar from the captain of the Mountain Leopard Team spread throughout the forest.

Keir immediately got up from the ground and yelled as planned: "Ohhhhhh!!!"

The other militiamen also came out of their hiding places, raising their crossbows and roaring.

This is similar to a head start approach.

In the originally quiet mountain forest with only the fallen branches and fallen snow, people suddenly shouted loudly in succession. No matter who it was, they would definitely be shocked if they were not prepared.

Sure enough, before the militiamen fired their crossbows, the sudden roars from the left and right sides of the bandits startled all the bandits.

Many of the bandits who were originally relaxed were frightened and fell to the ground. The women and children following them were also frightened and turned pale and cried loudly.

After the bandits came to their senses, they were immediately faced with crossbow arrows flying continuously from the left and right.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

One after another, the crossbow arrows hit some bandits who did not dodge immediately. Most of them were hit by arrows on both sides of their bodies. After being hit, they were immediately shot to the ground. They could do nothing except shouting in pain.

The other bandits came to their senses, and immediately someone randomly selected them and rushed over.

Kiel also immediately stepped up to the block.

The bandits immediately recognized Kiel's armor and were horrified by the fact 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 Kil, while Kil stared at the red eyes under his helmet, raised his spear and rushed over.

Kil strode forward, and the thick snow on the ground could not stop him from accelerating his pace. The spear was aimed at the fastest bandit and hit the opponent's chest straightly.

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

Kilri ignored these throwing weapons that were reluctantly thrown at him, letting them hit his armor, only slightly hindering him.

The bandit who was aimed at Kil's spear was so frightened that his hair stood up a little. He tried to twist his body to avoid the tip of Kil's spear.

But in Kiel's eyes, everything around him seemed like he was watching a video at 0.5x speed. Everything was slowed down, and the figure of the bandit trying to dodge was like the worst silence. Theater artist's performance.

Keir had time to adjust the palm of his arm slightly so that the tip of the gun would hit the bandit's dodged position.

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

Kil pressed his body down, exerted force with his arms, twisted the spear, and threw away the bandit who was pierced by the spear.

The other bandits rushed forward, trying to take advantage of the fact that Kiel was unable to use his spear and get close to him, so that Kiel would not be able to take advantage of the long-handled weapon.

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

Boom! Clang!

A shield holds an axe, and a sword knocks away a machete.

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

Kil retreated his left hand, using his arm to remove the force of the bandit's axe. On the other hand, he swung his sword and knocked away the machete of another bandit.

The swords met and sparks flew everywhere. The hardness and toughness of Kiel's long sword was even better. He slashed several times and even cut off half of the machete in the bandit's hand with one sword.

The weapon shattered, and the bandit was shocked. He wanted to pull out the dagger from his waist to fight back, but Kil got out of the way of the other bandit's ax and slashed the sword horizontally, cutting off the arm of the bandit who was about to take out the dagger. .

"Ah! Hand!" Before the bandit could say anything more, Kil dodged and spun around, hiding behind the bandit with the severed hand. The axe-wielding bandit didn't care about the bandit companions in front of Kiel, and directly raised the ax to strike hard.

The bandit's heavy ax smashed the severed-hand bandit's head like a watermelon, and then chopped half of his chest into pieces and got stuck inside.

Kil was spattered with blood, but he didn't care. The shield in his left hand pressed against the back of the axe, not giving the bandit a chance to take it back. The long sword in his right hand followed his body forward and pierced half of the bandit's neck.

The arm was pulled horizontally, and the bandit's neck was half broken by the tip of the sword. The large blood vessels spurted out hot blood, and the trachea spurted out hot air from the lungs.

The bandit's ferocious face stared closely at Kil's helmet and visor until he died.

Turning around, Kil looked at the bandit who had climbed up. He sheathed his long sword, dug the toes of his armored leather boots into the snow, and his spear flew sideways from the white snow.

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

The tip of the gun flew away two arcs of blood.

The muscles and spine of the bandit's back were chopped off. Losing control of his spine, the bandit's legs weakened and he fell to the ground. Only his hands could still be used.

Gere swung the gun and pierced the tip of the gun from the back of the bandit's head, killing the bandit.

"Kiel is so awesome!"

"so amazing!"

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

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On the other side, the person who can resist the bandits' attack is naturally the militiaman who is the captain of the Mountain Leopard Team. He was also very skilled, and with the support of the crossbows of his companions behind him, he was able to push back several bandits who wanted to rush towards him.

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

Then, he glanced at Kiel across from him and found that Kiel had solved several bandits by himself, and couldn't help but cursed with dissatisfaction. Then he began to command the militiamen to move and jointly surround the bandits' approach, so that the bandits could only flee forward.

"Formation! Don't mess up! Follow the previous formation and surround them!" The captain of the Mountain Leopard Team's roar echoed through the surrounding mountains and forests.

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

"What to do with those people?" Kil yelled and asked the captain of the Mountain Leopard Team while running according to the order.

The captain of the Mountain Leopards knew who Kiel was talking about.

"Ignore them, they can't run away! Kill the bandits first!" He yelled in reply to Keir.

"good!"

Whoosh!

The militiamen maintained a very reluctant formation while taking the time to cock their crossbows. Running caused their aim to be inaccurate.

Fortunately, because the bandits had to drag people along and run haphazardly through the snow, they were not very fast and could not compare with wild deer, hares and the like.

A woman whose hand was held by a bandit was hit by an arrow in the head and fell down silently. The robber who was pulling him didn't know she was dead at first, and kept holding the woman's wrist to escape through the snow.

But the resistance behind him became stronger. He turned around and saw that his woman had a crossbow arrow stuck in her head from front to back and was already dead.

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

When Kil saw that there were still bandits who dared to come in the opposite direction, he immediately approached them.

He saw the woman held by the bandit being shot to death by the militiamen, but what did this mean?

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

When those bandits pursued him and the people he led, weren't they purely malicious?

Draw the gun, aim, hit.

Before the bandit's machete could reach Kiel, he was hit in the chest by a spear with more than one section. The bandit, whose mouth was bleeding, kept saying something, and then threw the machete in his hand at Kiel.

Kil didn't even block it. The machete, which was not strong enough, only lightly hit his armor and fell to the snow.

Kiel kicked the bandit on the chest, pulled out his spear, and followed the advancing militiamen, maintaining an inverted V formation, forcing the remaining bandits toward the corpse pit.

When walking past the body of the woman who had been shot by an arrow, Kil glanced at the child lying on his mother for warmth and said nothing. After all, the handling of these children is the problem of Knight Crow. He and other militiamen can only push the problem to the Lord Knight.