Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil held the ax tightly in his hand, but did not stupidly jump off the wooden wall to kill him. His role is to push the wolves back from the wooden wall after they approach, preventing those beasts from easily breaking through the first line of defense.

"Everyone goes as planned! Shoot carefully and target the northern wolf caught in the metal clip!" Keir shouted loudly: "Strive for the arrow to hit! Leave the rest to me!"

"Is it possible?" A hunter also asked loudly.

Keir grinned and glanced at the thick winter coat he wore when working: "Okay!"

In fact, he still felt a little unsure, but the situation was like this, so he couldn't say no.

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Northern wolves run very fast on the snow. When running at full strength, their four claws can splash snowflakes on the ground to a height of two meters, not to mention a large group of northern wolves running together and impacting.

Not only did Kiel and the others have Northern wolves rushing towards them, but also from the forests on both sides, where Kiel and the others couldn't see them, there were also Northern wolves in twos and threes trotting out of the forest and then joining the large pack of wolves. Attack together.

Everyone looked nervously at the shadowy darkness in the distance. In their nervous breathing, those northern wolves surged over like water waves on the shores of Lake Wumi.

They ran crowded together at high speed, and as the trench outside the rock passage entrance squeezed the chaotic running formation, some northern wolves were forced to squeeze onto the mounds of the trench, and then were trapped by the steep slope. He stepped on the air and rolled directly to the bottom of the ditch.

At the bottom of the trench, short, thick fire-roasted wooden spikes awaited them.

Kiel watched with excitement as some of the northern wolves were squeezed into the trench and stabbed. Those sudden cries of pain proved that part of their previous position construction was not in vain.

Immediately afterwards, the outside of the ten-meter-long passage flashed past, and a large group of northern wolves crowded at the entrance of the suddenly narrowed passage. The clever and nimble northern wolf jumped up, directly stepped on the other northern wolves to avoid collision and hindrance, and continued to charge directly.

Keir's eyes widened: "Fire the arrow, fire the arrow!"

"You don't have to say it!"

At the same moment, the fastest charging Northern Wolf had no choice but to step on the metal clip specially prepared by Knight Lanisa.

These metal clips are specially designed to hunt powerful canine beasts. Once the metal clips that are not too sensitive are stepped on by the wolf's claws, they will close the sharp, lightweight iron clips with sharp teeth on both sides at high speed. The torsion spring at the bottom has withstood Kendall's cold winter very well, and can still provide reliable and strong elasticity even after being deployed for many days.

Although these metal clamps are not as powerful as the large metal clamps that weigh hundreds of kilograms for bear hunting, each of them is very light in comparison. The canine beasts are not particularly heavy to begin with, so they do not need overly heavy clamps.

Click.

Click.

With a click, the connected metal clips quickly closed, followed by the torn fur and flesh of many northern wolves' front and rear paws, and the continuous whining and roaring sounds of the animals.

At the same time, four arrows fell on the four trapped northern wolves at the same time.

They all hit the body.

The four young hunters knew that this was not the time to conserve arrows and physical strength, so they fired arrows continuously. In the passage in front of the guide, northern wolves howled.

Kil had no time to cheer for his companions. He strode to the left behind the wooden wall, got out of the way of a young hunter who was concentrating on shooting, directly raised the ax, and leaned against the wooden wall. When the time comes, he will smash the raised ax under the wooden wall.

A northern wolf that had been lucky enough to avoid all the metal clamps along the road was raising its front paws on the wooden obstacles built by humans to build a wolf ladder for its companions rushing behind it.

But an ax shining blue under the erratic firelight fell from the sky and hit it on the head.

The long wolf fur and strong skull failed to save its life, and this blow killed it directly.

Boom.

Kil held the handle of the ax tightly and lifted the ax regardless of the blood splattering. It felt a little heavy for a moment, but as the weight of the northern wolf pulled, the ax was easily pulled out of the wolf's head.

Kil straightened up, glanced at him, quickly put the ax on his shoulder, and immediately moved to the other side of the wooden wall.

Fortunately, although it was at the other end, the entire rock passage was not very wide, so Kil took two long strides to catch up and he could arrive in time.

This northern wolf here has amazing jumping ability. It directly stepped on the bodies of other clamped northern wolves to cross the continuous metal clamp area.

At this time, after the northern wolf rushed over, it accelerated directly under the wooden wall, and then used the scratching of the wood of the wooden wall to writhe its four claws forward and backward, and was about to jump up the wooden wall.

How could it possibly come up so easily?

Kil swung the ax, smashed the heavy ax into its face, and slammed it into the wooden wall with one blow.

The northern wolf fell to the ground, half of its face was smashed, its eyeballs were exploded, clear and bloody liquid flowed from the flat eye sockets, and its originally straight nose was also scratched by the edge of the axe. When he arrived, he cut off half of it and the blood flowed like a pillar.

But even so, this ferocious and agile animal still refused to give up, shaking its head and wanting to do it again.

Kil glanced at the guy below and said to the fellow hunter beside him: "Shoot this guy."

The young hunter who was continuously drawing his bow and shooting arrows glanced at it, and when he shot the next arrow, he lowered the bow, set the arrow, pulled the string, and loosened it.

Whoosh.

The arrow flew across a distance of less than three meters, entered the northern wolf's other intact eye socket, and entered the brain, killing the animal.

The hunter raised his bow and continued to aim at the scattered northern wolves in front of him.

Although many northern wolves were shot and injured, being caught by metal clips or being hit by arrows are not ways to directly kill northern wolves. Therefore, even if the forward attack is blocked, other northern wolves are still there. A steady stream of people rushed forward.

It's just that most of them are blocked by the northern wolves in front of them. Not all northern wolves have the courage to rush forward by stepping on other northern wolves. These northern wolves who were selected as vanguards also came from different wolf dens. It was considered good if they did not quarrel or fight over their territory. How could they let the soldiers from other wolf den teams step on their heads and bodies to pass by.

Kiel saw the northern wolves huddled together at the entrance of the rock passage ahead, so he asked the hunters to slow down their shooting speed. Then he fought off the northern wolves that rushed over and tried to climb up the wooden wall five times in a row.

Just after Kil drove the seventh northern wolf off the wooden wall, the heavy sound of the horse's hooves and the old but still vigorous steps of the old hunters came from behind.

The old hunters brought a large amount of defensive supplies and other things. Kil's armor and two long weapons were also carried over by the knight's horse at the same time.

Four old hunters hurriedly replaced the four young hunters whose arms were aching, and at the same time they brought more arrows.

Knight Lanisa jumped off her horse, put Kil's things next to her, called Kil's to point to the things, and then jumped up behind the wooden wall to defend the wooden wall on Kil's behalf.

Kil jumped off the half-meter-high walkway behind the wooden wall and came to his equipment.

Knight Lanissa's horse seemed to have a bad temper at this time, as if it was dissatisfied with being woken up in an emergency and unhappy that it could not be put to use.

Kil pushed the head of his war horse away, removed the weapons from his body, then opened the wooden box containing the armor and shield, and loaded the armor parts onto himself.

The breastplate is put on first, and then the boots are inserted directly into the thick armored boots. The calf armor is tightly connected to the armored boots, and then the thigh armor including the knee armor is put on the legs and connected.

Then there is the abdomen and skirt armor, and the internal buckles are also connected in sequence, and then the abdominal armor and breastplate are connected inside and outside. The armor on the shoulders and upper arms is put on the arms and connected to the breastplate, and then the hands are inserted into the integrated armor including arm guards and elbow protective gloves.

Finally, put the circle-like neck armor around the neck and connect it to the breastplate, followed by the helmet.

After quickly checking all the connecting buckles from boots to helmet to confirm that they are all securely and reliably fastened together, Kil then pinned the armor belt that can be used to hang weapons and equipment around his waist, tightened it, and hung up the long sword. Along with daggers, axes and shields were also fixed on the back of the armor. After thinking about it, Kil leaned the all-metal gun against the rock wall of the passage and picked up the long gun with a wooden body to use.

That thing is really too heavy. It's okay to play with it a few times to train your body, but it's too heavy and gets in the way during battle. He thought well at the time that the heavier the weapon, the more powerful it would be, but he still overestimated his own strength.

It is not impossible to simply use a full-metal double-edged spear, but for a life-and-death battle, that thing is not a skillful weapon that he can use for a long time at this time.

Keir kicked the empty wooden box to the edge of the passage to prevent it from getting in the way.

Then he came to the wooden wall carrying the gun.

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With the addition of the old hunter and Lanessa Knight, the defense here on the wooden wall immediately became impregnable.

The northern wolves at the entrance of the passage were huddled together, and they had to step one by one to get over the northern wolves whose legs and claws were clamped. But when they ran under the wooden wall, they would be punched one by one by Knight Lanisa, without using weapons, and they would be knocked to the ground one by one with their fists.

When Kil saw it, he would immediately lean out, thrust his spear out from above, and stab the Northland wolf that had been knocked to the ground. Or he would knock down the spear, knocking him unconscious and wounding the northern wolf.

After a stalemate like this for a while, the northern wolves saw that they could not break through the human defense line, so they retreated.

The injured northern wolf also retreated, trying to retreat into the darkness where humans could not see.

But obviously they can't do it.

"Shoot them all and kill all those who want to retreat!" Knight Lanissa pulled out her armor-piercing rapier and gave the order while waving it. At the same time, she waved to Kil, indicating that he would jump off the wooden wall with her and pursue the retreating Northern Wolf.

Keir hesitated before agreeing. He was worried that the Northland wolves would attack them in retreat, luring them out of their positions, surrounding them and killing them.

But thinking that the knight could throw him directly out of the wolf pack with one hand, Kil jumped off the wooden wall with confidence, raised his hand and stabbed to death a northern wolf that was pretending to be dead and ambushing him.

"How cunning!" Kil was surprised.

Knight Lanessa didn't care. She simply ignored the northern wolves approaching the wooden wall. Instead, holding a torch in one hand and a rapier in the other, she quickly rushed towards the large group of northern wolves retreating in the distance.

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Seeing Kiel jumping off the wooden wall, the injured northern wolves on the ground became energetic. They tried to attack Kiel while they still had the strength, but either were knocked down by Kiel again or were killed by him. The hunters on the mountain all fired arrows to kill him.

Kil was not in a hurry to follow Knight Lanisa out to kill them. Instead, from under the wooden wall, he tested the fallen Northland wolves one by one to see if they were dead.

If you're dead, you'll need one shot, and if you're alive, you'll need another shot.

It sounds like they killed a lot of Northern wolves, but in fact, if you look at it at this time, there are not many. After a large number of Northern wolves were injured, if they were not seriously injured, they still escaped.

After all, Kiel and the others were on the wooden wall, and there was no good way to deal with the injured Northern Wolf who was retreating. The main targets of hunters are still those northern wolves whose legs and feet are clamped by metal clamps. This was the place where the largest number of Northland wolves were killed in this battle.

From the inside and outside of the rock passage entrance, Kiel and the others arranged all the metal clamps here, so at this moment, there is a ground of northern wolves waiting to die.

Some were already dead, having been shot by hunters from a distance with bows and arrows, but more were injured but not dead. Each one of them was killed by Kiel who arrived and split his head open with an axe.

Keir nodded. It looked like the corpses of Boreal wolves scattered all over the place were actually less than forty. Although it looks like a lot, it's actually not a lot. Most of the hunters' arrows only injured many northern wolves.

Kil put away his weapon, looked at the torches moving back and forth at the edge of the forest in the distance, and wondered how much victory the female knight could achieve.

After watching for a while, Kil found that Knight Lanisa didn't seem to be very concerned about killing the Northern Wolf. She was more looking for something. Kiel couldn't understand, so he stopped caring about the knight's harvest and focused on cleaning up the position.

It is definitely impossible for the corpse to stay in place. Although it seems to be able to frighten the northern wolves a little, it also covers the metal clip that has the greatest fighting effect on his side.

"Kiel! Do you want to help lift it?" The old hunter leaned his hunting bow against the wooden wall, supported the wooden wall with his hands, and leaned out to ask Kil.

Kil shook his head: "Forget it, let's follow the plan. Just keep an eye on the entrance of the passage and don't let the scattered northern wolves sneak over. I will just carry these corpses back one by one."

In order to prevent the Northland wolves from prolonging the fighting time after the collective gathering by eating the corpses of their dead comrades, Kiel and the others planned to transport all the controllable corpses on the battlefield back to the back of the position temporarily, and then take advantage of the lull in the battle , withdrew all the Northern Wolf corpses deeper into the position.

Let them delay exposure to these carcasses that can be used as food by one day.

This is an action that looks hard and is equally hard to do, but the effect cannot be seen directly, but it can be understood by thinking about it.

Until the sky became very dark, and the thick clouds in the sky covered all three moons, and all the lighting was provided by the burning fire. Knight Lanisa returned to the first level of the rock passage entrance with the sound of metal boots stepping on the ground.

Everyone recognized the sound of the knight's boots, so they all felt relieved as the knight approached from the darkness.

"How's it going? How many northern wolves did you kill just now?" The female knight walked over quickly, jumped over the wooden wall with a slight jump, and came to the fire behind the wooden wall and asked.

She didn't care about the answers of her hunters, and sat down directly on the ground. The armor-piercing rapier in her hand was inserted into the rocky ground beside her, and her metal boots were placed close to the fire to warm her feet.

Everyone looked at it. Kil hit his shoulder with his fist to relax, and put his palm on the hilt of the sword at his waist to regain his energy. He didn't have the energy to express an opinion.

"Sir, there are not many. After you went out to drive away the wolves, Kil brought back all the northern wolves that were killed here, only thirty-eight. In the previous battle, most of the northern wolves were just killed. He got some injuries and then ran away." An old hunter looked at each other and the other three old hunters, and then said aloud.

"It's not what I expected. Don't be discouraged. This is actually pretty good. Although not many were killed at the scene, it is still a significant number, not to mention that there must be twice as many injured Northern wolves." Knight Nyssa warmed herself up by the fire, and after seeming to regain some energy, she said to the hunters: "They are injured. They cannot have the church priests who can quickly heal like regular legions. Now every time we hurt a Northland The wolf, in the fiercest battle after that, can save a ferocious enemy. They can only lie silently on the dry place, licking the wounds with their tongues, unable to catch up with the climax of the battle."

"Everyone, hurry up and eat something. The team is also divided into two teams and rest alternately. You must know that after dawn, all the northern wolves led by the Wolf King will rush over, and then there will be no time to rest."

Lanisha Knight took out something, baked it and ate it.

What the knight said was reasonable. Everyone was divided into two teams and began to take turns to rest and eat.

After Knight Lanisa rested, she took the initiative to transport all the northern wolf corpses in the back passage to the top platform of the rock mountain and placed them there.

In this way, although there were sporadic northern wolves on both sides of the entrance to the rock passage that poked their heads out to detect them, but after the previous failure, these northern wolves did not dare to swarm over and attack them again.

Keir leaned against the wooden wall and closed his eyes, dozing off, thinking about things about the habits and hunting habits of northern wolves. It is estimated that before this, when those northern wolves gathered into groups, they must have never encountered an opponent that they could not deal with.

At least they have no rivals in the forest where they live. Or there may be, but these opponents must be inactive in winter, otherwise northern wolves would not be able to develop such a behavioral pattern.

Soon, it was dawn.