Adventurers act separately from the army.
The fighting methods of the two are completely different. The army's training method focuses on offensive and defensive strength, while the adventurer's fighting method focuses on dexterity and dodge. Even a furious barbarian will have higher dodging skills than soldiers trained by the army, because the latter is accustomed to fighting in large-scale teams. The adventurer team generally does not exceed ten people, and the most commonly used fighting method is a group of five, including frontal confrontation, swimming, sneak attack and magic healing. The army's combat method is a row of all-in-one heavy infantry fighters, holding stainless steel shields in their hands, and a small number of defensive fighters equipped with super-strong tower shields.
A smart adventurer can tell if someone is from the army or has received military training by looking at the fighting style of others.
Sauron's task is to scout the enemy.
The adventurers were assigned to three teams, one was the reconnaissance team, which consisted of thirteen rogues and five rangers, all of which were above the second level. One is the combat team, which is composed of warriors, rangers, barbarians, priests, etc. Their task is to wipe out small groups of enemies after the army defeats the enemy, and at the same time serve as flank support to cover the army. Finally, there are a small number of wizards, warlocks, and druids. As the key protection objects, they act with the army.
Wizards seldom join the army. They earn more than the army for whatever they do, and live a more comfortable life than the army.
If you want to afford the military salary for hiring wizards, you can definitely drag down a prosperous city.
Therefore, the most common is this kind of employment relationship, when necessary, pay a large sum of money to ask them to dispatch. Before setting off, everyone got a reward. Sauron got 30 Kindlers, which was 10 Kindlers more than other warrior professions. According to the sneak rules of this world, anyone who acts as a sentinel, scout, or sneak mission can get 50% of the reward in advance. Because they will encounter more dangers, and at the same time, they can get an extra point of loot after the end.
The scouts are not just a simple investigation, they are the vanguard of the battle, and those who dare to act as scouts are veterans.
Sauron's reward was 60 Kindlers.
The spoils of the clearing and suppression will be counted after the end, and the things that the previous individuals fought belong to themselves. The so-called "golden taels of gold at the sound of the cannon" is not enough to dispatch the army. After the army is dispatched, the salary of the army is doubled. A large pension is required. Although it is not like an adventurer who has to pay tens or hundreds of Kindlers at once, the added up cost is quite astonishing.
On the day the army set off, Baima City seemed very excited. Many merchants volunteered to donate some materials, and at the same time asked the guards to follow.
The 2,000-strong army is mighty, and its momentum is even more shocking than the tens of thousands in Sauron's original memory. The 1,000-strong city guard is all equipped with iron leather armor, shields, daggers, helmets and hand crossbows. . The heavy infantry of 500 men is equipped with chain mail to half armor, uniformly equipped with stainless steel shields, iron helmets, refined weapons, and two bursts of heavy crossbows. The last five hundred people were the elite of the elite, including heavy infantry in plate armor. The whole body was wrapped in armor, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and fish scale gauntlets were equipped on their arms.
These heavy infantry are equipped with complex equipment, including two-handed epees and sword-shield combinations, and some of them also carry strong crossbows with them.
Then there are the citizen warriors of the aristocratic class, that is, the honorary citizens and the knight class. They are equipped with armored horses, knight armor, knight lances, small steel shields and hardcover hand crossbows. Each knight is accompanied by one or two knight servants. Their equipment is the same as that of heavy infantry. They usually cooperate with the knights to fight, and follow the knights to make up for the enemy when the group charges.
To be honest.
The regular army of this world, even the equipment of the light infantry, is equipped according to the standard of the heavy infantry of the previous life in the Middle Ages. And the probability of being equipped with crossbow bolts in the army is extremely high, and they have all had special training in crossbow shooting. The equipment and firepower of a regular army team can make people dumbfounded. Against modern firearms troops, as long as they don't have heavy firepower weapons, they have a sure chance of winning.
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As a scout force, Sauron naturally needs to go first.
The speed of the army's advance is not fast, and the south lacks good war horses, and the heavy infantry marches with a load of more than 20 kilograms. The stamina of advanced fighters is very strong. Although the outbreak of battle is not long-lasting, it is easy to carry the weight on the march. People who haven't practiced martial arts don't know the physical consumption in an explosive state. They often think that it is easy to march for tens of kilometers with a heavy load, and fight for half an hour or an hour in battle.
This is a very wordless statement.
There is a saying among martial arts practitioners called "Fa Jin". It is okay to fight for an hour or two without Fa Jin, but the physical fitness will drop rapidly within three strokes after Fa Jin.
If you explode too much, your muscles can go straight into a state of overexertion, or even serious damage.
There is no way to quickly recover from this state of physical fitness.
When Sauron launched [Sword Poses - Heavy Slash], he was in a state of extreme vigor. The strength of his whole body burst out in an instant, and the energy consumed in an instant exceeded one or two hours of exercise. This is not the true qi in the legend, but a technique to mobilize the muscles of the whole body, and even the internal organs. (PS: Since the book was opened, people have complained about physical fitness problems for more than half a month. Those students who have doubts, please lunge and twist your waist before punching. Please remember to take a deep breath before punching. Although it cannot meet the standard of strength, But if you punch with all your strength, it is almost equivalent to a burst of physical energy. Please test the speed of physical energy consumption, the number of times you punch, and the feeling of your internal organs. If your arm is sore and your internal organs feel uncomfortable when you punch out, then don’t grab one in the future Don’t let go of the problem, add more to your own knowledge. Not just look at Baidu, but also experiment with your own hands. - Futu.)
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March camping.
The first day was no different from what Sauron remembered. On the second day, all the scouts spread out in a net shape, and the army continued to advance along the road. The adventurers who accepted the mission divided into small groups and entered the forest.
The figure of Sauron is advancing in the dense forest. Behind him is a half-elf ranger who believes in the goddess of the forest.
The opponent is a veteran of wild survival, with good stealth and detection capabilities. Although he cannot be invisible due to professional reasons, his feet are light and agile, and his movements are not inferior to those of rogues. His age can't be told, because the half-elf's lifespan is one or two hundred years old, but he looks younger. He is wearing a hard leather armor, equipped with a longbow on his back, and the weapon he uses is the boning knife inside the scimitar.
"It's a jackal!"
The half-elf ranger named Yas squatted down to judge the footprints on the ground, then peeled the grass to look at other traces, and said in a deep voice: "There should be some goblins and kobolds. We will solve this small problem ourselves." It can be solved, there is no need to send a signal to the brigade."
Since it is to clean up monsters, it is natural to plow the entire range.
The scouts in the army were also scattered, rogues were not common in the army, and most of the scouts in the army were ranger fighters.
Sauron nodded gently, glanced at the other party and said, "Can you track their positions?"
Track traces.
This is the forte of rangers. They have a strong ability to track enemies in the wilderness, and they can distinguish directions by footprints and smells.
"Small." Yas laughed and said, "Follow up. They are not far away."
The half-elf ranger pulled out the boning knife, and then walked forward with a cat's waist. After tracking for hundreds of meters, he would stop in place to check the traces on the ground. Some footprints had become very faint, but he still successfully judged the direction . Their natural perception ability makes them intuitive, and sometimes they can rely on intuition and experience to track without traces.
soon.
They found the first group of enemies.
It was a small-scale wolf man group, numbering in the dozen or so, domesticated three hyenas, and captured more than a dozen goblin kobolds as slaves and food reserves.
The half-elf ranger gestured to both sides, and Sauron nodded slightly and escaped into the shadows, approaching from the side.
The opponent is a veteran of adventure, and this kind of battle is just a break-in.
Sauron's figure gradually approached along the shadows, without making any sound, he slowly drew out his scimitar, and groped towards the gathering place of the gnolls from the side. The gnolls in this small group seem a bit special, they should have survived the fight. There are no gnoll cubs in it, and all of them are adults of the same kind.
The half-elf ranger waited until Sauron approached gradually, and then he came to a big tree. He lightly jumped onto the tree pole and jumped up. In a second or two, he reached the branch of the big tree. The leaves made a slight rustling sound, Yas parted the leaves and took out the longbow, and drew a mace arrow from behind. The ranger’s quiver is custom-made, and there are not many arrows in it, generally only 6-12, but all of them are fixed and will not fall out when moving. The position of the arrow is also fixed, which can ensure a In an instant, you will not miss the arrow when you reach out.
-"Backstab!"
Sauron's figure emerged from the shadows, jumped three to five meters in an instant, and the scimitar pierced directly through the back of a jackal.
Killed with one knife!
The scimitar pierced directly through the heart and protruded from the front.
wordy.
An arrow flew, and the startled wolf man in the gathering area rushed over. Just as the frontmost wolf man raised his bone hammer, an arrow pierced through its chest, almost completely sinking into its body.
Longbow shooting!
Sauron twisted his body and jumped with his saber, forcing a wolf man who was rushing back, and at the same time, cut a hole in the opponent's arm.
wordy.
The second arrow shot out, and a bloody hole was shot out of a wolf man's thigh.
The half-elf ranger stuck the longbow back on his back, and his equipment was specially made, and he changed weapons very quickly. He jumped down from a tree four or five meters high, knelt down on one knee to relieve the force of his fall, then pulled out the boning knife at his waist, took a deep breath, and his chest bulged .
Rangers are also melee professionals.
Yas inhaled a large amount of oxygen in an instant, his pupils dilated slightly, and changed from kneeling on one knee to a half-squatting sprint posture, and then he rushed out like a sharp arrow, and the speed of the instant burst even surpassed that of the previous Olympic hundred Meter sprint champion.
-charge!
The half-elf ranger's forward momentum was mixed with inertial force, and he jumped over the simple wooden fence, grasped the boning knife and cut horizontally, directly severed a jackal from his waist, and the two corpses fell to the ground with a thud. He paused for a while to catch his breath, then rushed into the battle group, parrying a sneak attack of a jackal.
"The rubbish is not worth letting me waste arrows! One can cost five Kindlers!"
The half-elf ranger smiled, and while slashing open the Gnoll's chest, he kicked the enemy's Adam's apple fiercely, and at the same time explained to Sauron why he didn't continue to shoot. He used the best spiked arrows, the arrows were all uniquely customized, and the arrows would not deviate too much due to the wind direction and air after shooting. The figures of the two staggered forward inside the Wolf Man, killing six Wolf Man and three coyotes in just a minute or two. The other enemies finally felt terrified and began to flee one after another. Sauron drew out his crossbow and shot, while the half-elf ranger grabbed a sharp wooden stick, took a deep breath, and threw it like a javelin at the fleeing gnolls. go out.
A shrill scream sounded.
The escaped Gnoll was directly nailed to the ground. By the time he walked over to pull out the stick, Sauron had already shot and killed other monsters with a crossbow.
The half-elf ranger picked up the wooden stick and turned it around, and slapped the head on the head of the wolf man who was still alive. A piece fell off. He turned around and smiled at Sauron, then threw away the wooden stick and said, "Let's clean it up casually. These are just appetizers. The real big head is still on those ogres. They have robbed a lot of businesses recently." Team."
A battle that is not difficult.
The relationship between the two has undoubtedly become much closer, at least they both have an understanding of each other's strength.
This is a Tier 3 ranger!
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