The team led by the dark elf mage Kasa moved to the camp of Earl Green's team and hid in a forest on the hillside. A dark elf ranger landed from the top of a tree and said, "I saw the signal sent by His Excellency Xiao Chen."
Kasa held a handful of seeds in her hand and threw them down the hillside onto the grass. The seeds grew rapidly as soon as they landed on the ground. After a few minutes, they became dense vines that covered a large area of grass. However, they were hidden by the grass and no traces could be seen at all. Kasa said, "Attack!"
The warriors around her were divided into two groups, one was responsible for shooting arrows, and the other was responsible for lighting the arrows of the rockets with torches. Two other mages and Kasa cast wind magic, artificially creating a favorable wind blowing towards the camp, and rockets were thrown into the enemy camp like golden birds. After a few minutes, seven or eight rounds of rockets were fired, and flames appeared everywhere in the camp.
After a while, the enemy camp finally started to fight back, but due to the terrain and wind direction, the arrows shot by the enemy's ordinary warriors could not reach the hillside at all. Although the arrows shot by the Dou Qi warriors also caused some casualties here, the dark elf archers on the hillside would immediately focus on suppressing these masters. Soon they were beaten so hard that they could not fight back.
Although the enemy had more people and more experts than them, the main commanders had been killed by Xiao Chen in the Baron's Mansion, and it was much more difficult for those lieutenants to reorganize the team in a panic. After a hasty counterattack, about ten minutes later, Kasa saw groups of people gathering together, holding shields and other things to block the arrows coming from a distance.
Those knights obviously didn't want to sit and wait for death, and in a panic they barely organized a team and rushed over here. This team had about thirty people, each holding a shield in their hands, but they were obviously cannon fodder for exploration. The leader was a low-level knight, and the others were ordinary people without fighting spirit. However, just as they stepped out of the camp and stepped into the grass, they were tripped by vines on the ground. As long as they fell, these vines would tightly entangle them, making these warriors completely unable to move. The low-level knight who led the team was more flexible and did not fall, but his feet were soon entangled.
The vine that Kasa used this time was called the small curly vine, which would not strangle people to death or release any terrible toxins or solvents. However, its range was extremely large, and a few seeds of the small curly vine covered an area as large as two football fields.
The warrior cut off the vines on his feet several times and jumped out, but he would be entangled by the vines again as soon as his feet landed. He tried several times but failed to jump out of this vine-covered area. He looked around and saw that almost all the people who followed him were lying on the ground and tied up. He hurriedly tried to retreat and jump back, but was quickly shot by the archers and turned into a hedgehog.
"Sister Kasa, it seems they are organizing a charge of experts." said a dark elf ranger in charge of observation.
Sure enough, after the first troop was defeated, the people in the camp began to organize a second charge. From the equipment, it can be seen that the people in the team this time are obviously masters. They are all wearing chain mail, scale armor and even plate armor, holding shields of various sizes in their hands. Ordinary bows and arrows have very limited lethality to them.
"Those wearing armor are probably mostly knights and servants, and many of them should possess fighting spirit. I don't think it will be easy for the little vine to hold them back for too long," said Kassa.
Sure enough, these people changed their tactics. They lined up at the entrance of the camp, holding up shields to block arrows in one hand and using swords to cut the vines on the ground with the other. The vines were chopped into pieces by the fighting spirit and it was difficult to recover. These people advanced step by step, opened up a path, and slowly killed their way up the hillside.
"Sister Kasa, what should we do?" asked the Elf Ranger.
"No, keep shooting arrows to slow them down. I'll stop them for a bit." Evelyn threw out another handful of seeds, and planted a patch of strange plants that were as tall as a person in front of her. These plants had spherical flowers that looked like dandelions. But they were much bigger than ordinary dandelions, and they were black with red. When all the seeds were ripe, Evelyn raised a gust of wind, and the seeds left the tops of the flowers and floated towards the knights.
Those black seeds were difficult to detect in the night. They flew to the knights when they were caught off guard and exploded, turning into a lot of dust that filled the air and enveloped those people.
"Oh, my eyes hurt!"
"I inhaled something!"
"Ahem. Ahem."
This plant called Hell Dandelion contains extremely irritating dust. Although it has no actual killing power, it greatly slows down the opponent's advance.
"Evelynn has solved their problem." Kassa pointed to another camp not far away. From their high vantage point, they could clearly see that the mercenaries in that camp had gathered together. "Let the squads responsible for close combat prepare to attack. We will attack the enemy from both sides."
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In less than a quarter of an hour, Evelyn and her team had cleared the entire mercenary camp. Now all the mercenaries gathered neatly and stood in front of Evelyn according to their previous squad assignments.
Evelyn did not use her own slender elven sword, but took a two-handed sword from a dead warrior. This was a very historical enchanted weapon, probably the equipment passed down from the ancestors of the mid-level knight. Evelyn swung it gently, and a ray of light flowed on the sword. In the battle formation, such a large-scale weapon is obviously more useful.
Many other mercenaries also upgraded their weapons. The dead knights had some excellent equipment inherited from them, which was undoubtedly much better than what the mercenaries had. Many people even stripped off the knights' armor, but they often fought for a set of armor. Some people put on helmets, and some people only grabbed a shoulder armor or leg armor, but they still put them on happily. These guys dressed in strange clothes gathered together, spreading the atmosphere of bandits everywhere, but their team was much more orderly than the knights, and when Evelyn was about to speak, there was even silence.
"I don't know what a human would say if he were standing here. However, based on my observations over the past few days, even you mercenaries are not only eager for commissions, you also hope to have a new life like us. You must have an idea of what kind of person Mr. Xiao Chen is. Hope is right in front of us now, I hope you can seize it."
Evelyn's mobilization before the war was not very exciting, but it touched the hearts of many mercenaries. The mercenaries chose this bloody path not because they liked such a wandering life, but because they had no other choice. If they could become the guards of nobles or magicians, many people would be eager to do so.
"Set off!"