When the squadron leader walked out of the little widow's wooden house, the sky was already full of stars. He held the little widow and slept for a long time in the afternoon. After enjoying the love meal carefully prepared by the little widow in the evening, he was hooked into bed again. It took a lot of energy Only then did he manipulate the woman who looked like a little wild cat into obedience, but in the end he was too tired and fell asleep again.
Stretching his body and mind comfortably, the squadron leader looked around and found that the guards who used to guard the door were gone. It took a long time to realize that it was probably in the afternoon that he was told to go away, but the bastard really went away to be lazy.
"Don't let me find it, or I'll whip you a few times..." The squadron leader muttered, looking around, and found that the small mountain village was very quiet tonight. Noisy, why so quiet
However, the squadron leader felt relieved when he saw the shadowy figures standing guard and wandering back and forth in the distance. Everything was normal, maybe he had overslept, and it should be around three or four o'clock in the middle of the night.
There was a faint smell of blood in the air. The squadron leader sniffled, wanting to curse. Needless to say, those bastards must have beheaded those mercenaries who had been interrogated for smuggling in the open space of the village. So the smell of blood is so strong, damn it, can't you go a few steps to the big tree outside the village and kill it
There were more than a dozen tents in the corner of the open space in the village. The squadron leader remembered that it was the guard of the fallen viscount who was camping in the village. Seeing that the big tent in the middle is brightly lit with candles, and there are still people coming in and out, it should be that a pharmacist was invited from Vanades City to give treatment, why don't you go and have a look...
Before arriving at the camp, a guard came out and said respectfully: "Mr. Captain, Lord Viscount invites you in..."
The squadron leader didn't take it seriously, and asked as he walked towards the big tent: "Master Viscount is awake, is he in good health? If you can move, I think you should return to Vanades City, which is more suitable for Lord Viscount than this broken mountain village." recuperate..."
The guard just said "En" as an answer, and followed the squadron leader to the door of the big tent.
Lifting the curtain and entering the big tent, the squadron leader was stunned. He thought that Lord Viscount, who was lying on the bed and groaning in pain, was sitting on the opposite side of the big tent, smiling at him. Like a fox.
Turning his eyes, he saw two people dressed as mercenaries sitting at the head of the Viscount, eating big bowls of wine and eating meat. The mercenary on the left was still eating while taking off his leather armor, and asked a guard behind him to apply medicine to him. Bandage.
These two people look a little familiar... A flash of light flashed in the squadron leader's mind, and he suddenly remembered that these two mercenaries who were caught illegally at noon
The squadron leader of "噗" pulled out his sword, and the white sword light flickered: "You... who are you..."
"Shut up, stay there obediently, I'll ask you something later." Lorist's eyes flashed brightly, the squadron leader felt his hands and feet numb as if he had a real murderous intent, and his heart was filled with despair, as if he had become Like an ant in front of a giant dragon, he has no intention of resisting...
"Go on, Reddy." Lorist turned to Reddy who was eating and drinking.
"My lord," Reddy swallowed the meat in his mouth: "Fatty Shi is almost dying of worry, and everyone can't think of any good solution. So I said I will go back and ask you, my lord. Four days ago, I met with Jim I took ten guards and sneaked across Bailu Lake, followed a path in the swamp by the lake to the jungle here. Originally, as long as I stole a checkpoint over there yesterday, I could climb over the mountain to reach the main road, and then to Vannad Sicheng can buy horses and go back to the north. Who would have thought that in the morning, we would meet a group of bandits hiding in the jungle, and they would start a fight, which would alarm the patrolling soldiers. The bandits escape quickly, but we are not familiar with the place. They were surrounded and arrested..."
"Fortunately, you happened to meet us, otherwise your head would already be hanging on the big tree over there." Lorist said, beckoning to the squadron leader: "You, come here."
The squadron leader was trembling with his sword in his hand: "You, aren't you afraid that I will alert the soldiers in the army? In the barracks, you won't be able to run away..."
"You can call and call the police loudly. As for the soldiers in the barracks, there are four hundred and twenty-seven people, a squadron, right? They have all had their necks wiped. If you can call them up again, I beg you to be the boss." Lorist said.
"Plop!" Reddy and Jim all laughed, especially Jim, who spit out his drink.
"No. Impossible..." The squadron leader thought of the faint smell of blood in the air, and his heart sank. I thought that the beheaded person was sitting here drinking and eating meat, so who would die? As for the guards and patrols I saw, I only saw figures. Think about the Viscount's guard of nearly a hundred people...
The saber in "Bang Dang" fell to the ground, and the squadron leader asked desperately, "Can I still survive?"
"It depends on your performance." Lorist looked at the squadron leader and said, "Let me tell you the truth, the convoy blocked by your Grand Duke on the border belongs to our family. My purpose is to join the convoy, so I want to reach Bailu Lake through the path at the fork ahead. If you help me reach the destination, I can let you go, in the name of the family."
The squadron leader shook his head: "It's useless, even if you let me go, I can't escape death. Losing a squadron is already a capital crime for me. The Grand Duke will not let me go, nor my family..."
"That's easy, you can cross the river with us, and I'll give you a hundred gold fords when you reach the Kingdom of Antinac, and you can change your name and start a new life incognito. If you can't find you here, you will only think that you are missing or have died. Then the Grand Duke of Madras won't touch your family." Lorist persuaded.
The squadron leader thought for a long time before he nodded and said, "I want to take someone away."
Lorist smiled: "That little widow of yours?"
The squadron leader nodded again.
"I promise you, I didn't expect you to be a passionate seed, worthy of praise. I swear in the name of the Norton family, as long as you can help us cross Bailu Lake, I will do what I promise you."
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At daybreak, Lorist and the others, wearing the brown leather armor of the Madras Principality Guards, arrived at the checkpoint at the fork, dismounted and stood in line.
The team leader of the garrison at the checkpoint hurried over.
"Eh? Squadron Captain Bosi, why are you here too? It's too early for the guard change, isn't there still two days left?" the squad leader asked in surprise.
"Don't mention it, these bastards harmed two women in the mountain village last night, and now they are making trouble there. I secretly brought them out under the pretext of patrolling, and threw them here first to prevent the villagers from finding the right owner. Hurry up and gather, Tell your soldiers, don’t let it slip when you go back later, just say that you came out to patrol instead of going back after a change of guard.” The squadron leader said helplessly.
"Understood." The team leader ran back excitedly and began to assemble the team. Who would want to stay in this ghostly place? There is no place to find food, drink, and fun. Those bastards played with women and ran here to avoid disaster. They don't know how to stay when others stay for seven days. How long, deserve it!
Soon, a small team of guards here at the checkpoint was assembled, and the team leader ran back after finishing the queue and counting names: "Report to the squadron leader, the seventh team of the guards has assembled, and all 104 people are here!" .”
But I heard the squadron leader say: "My business is over."
What's the meaning? The squad leader didn't understand yet, only heard "Let go!"
Arrows fell like rain, and the unsuspecting garrison squad became a target for arrows, and the howling sound continued.
"You..." The team leader was shocked, he felt a chill in his stomach, and his body trembled in severe pain.
"Sorry, I also want to survive, I have to..." The squadron leader's ferocious face became the last impression in the squad leader's mind...
"Check it out and add a sword. Drag the corpse over there and throw it into the ditch, so as not to be discovered prematurely." Lorist ordered.
"The patrol team in front of us will not pass by until eight o'clock. Even if we find it, we must go to the small mountain village to inform me. It will take at least one or two hours to report to the small mountain village after we find out the situation there. So we have a morning Hurry up. It’s just that there is a squadron of guards stationed at the intersection of the first two small roads. They are responsible for patrolling the lake. I can help you open the camp gate, but it’s up to you. Also, You promised me that no one would find out about my whereabouts." The squadron leader said to Lorist while holding a map.
Lorist nodded: "Don't worry, I will kill all the defenders who have seen you."
After receiving the map handed over by the squadron leader, Lorist said to Pete and Pat: "Open the gate of the camp and immediately kill the enemy by surprise. After capturing the camp, use the wooden fence of the camp to transport it to the lake to make rafts. Set up a position on this small hill in the middle of the lake to guard against the arrival of pursuers. All right, let's set off immediately."
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It was already afternoon when we arrived at the camp where the garrison squadron was stationed. The four garrison guards at the camp gate knew the squadron leader. When they saw the five large carriages behind them, they thought he was here to deliver supplies, and opened the camp without notifying him. door, and then Reddy and others wiped his neck.
Pete and Pat led nearly a hundred horse archers to swarm in, occupying the open space in the middle of the camp and shooting arrows everywhere, shooting the guards who heard the police came to the ground one by one, killing and screaming in the camp intertwined.
For the garrison squadron camped here, they are only responsible for patrolling the lakeside and the path leading to the fortress castle of Lichtana, and they only have to deal with border crossers who smuggle into Egret Lake and violate the Grand Duke's prohibition on passage. Being forcibly attacked, some guards died without understanding what had happened.
Lorist led Jim and Reddy, prancing horses and guns, rampaging through the camp, using spears to open tents one by one, so as not to miss the guards hiding in hiding.
As for the garrison squadron leader and several small leaders who were in charge of the camp, they were nailed to the ground by the javelin thrown by Lorist as soon as they left the tent.
The camp is small and was quickly searched and cleaned.
Pat walked over and reported with a serious face: "My lord, there are only 308 garrison corpses in the camp, and one team is missing."
Lorist raised his eyebrows, and looked at Captain Both beside him.
The squadron leader thought for a while and said, "Maybe I went on patrol, but I don't know if I went to the lake or the path leading to the fortress over there..."
Before the words fell, I heard Jim beside me yelling: "There..."
Lorist turned his head to look, but saw a group of guards appearing on the hill in the distance, walking here, probably condescending, saw the corpses strewn all over the camp, he was startled for a moment, and stopped pace.
"Peter, quickly take the horse archers to destroy them, and try not to let them escape." Lorist quickly ordered.
Pete gave a whistle and half of the horse archers rushed towards the hill behind him.
"I'll go too." Jim took a few guards around him and chased after him on horseback.
"Okay, Reddy, Pat, let these horses pull up the wooden fence around the camp, we have to move faster." Lorist commanded the rest of the horse archers to tie the noose to the wooden fence, and then tied the rope to the wooden fence. Behind a few horses, drive the horses forward to uproot the wooden fence.
"Wait, my lord." Captain Both stepped forward and stopped Lorist.
"Well, what's the matter?" Lorist asked.
"My lord, the section of the wooden fence that is inserted into the ground is unnecessary. The top is half-dried, and the wood in the ground below is still wet. If you throw such a piece of wood into the water, it will be heavy at one end and light at the other. It is difficult to get rid of. Balance. It’s better to cut off the wood underneath, so that the raft can bear more weight..." The squadron leader quickly explained.
Lorist understood it as soon as he heard it, and followed his advice: "Listen to him, cut off the lower part and don't want it."
"My lord, give me a sword, and I will help. Also, the wooden house used as a warehouse can also be dismantled and used as a raft..." said the squadron leader.
"Give him back his saber." Lorist said to Reddy.
Bosi Squadron Leader drew out his sword, his fighting spirit flashed, and he raised his sword to chop at the wooden fence, one, two, three, and when the fourth piece of wood was reached, the sword light disappeared, and the long sword got stuck in the middle of the wood.
"That's right, it's better to chop wood with fighting spirit." Lorist said, "Pat, you let all the silver-level people come over to chop wood, Reddy, you take people to demolish that wooden house."
When the demolition was almost over, Jim and Pete came back.
"My lord, a dozen ran away. They got into the jungle and we couldn't chase them." Pete reported.
"How about casualties?"
"There were no casualties. They fled when they saw us. They were all by the lake and had no way to escape. We shot to death those who jumped into the lake to swim, but half of them fled to the swamp, and more than half of them fell into the swamp and were shot to death by us." There were quite a few of them, but the remaining dozen or so were lucky enough to escape into the jungle. We couldn’t cross the swamp, so we could only watch them escape…”
"My lord," Boss Squadron Leader came over, wiping his sweaty brow, "it takes about an hour to ride horses to the fortress castle of Liechtana, and it takes two hours for the escaped guards to go there. It's an hour here, and we have three more."
"Very good, everyone hurry up, tie the cut logs behind the horses and let the horses drag them to the lake, where they will build a raft. Reddy and Jim will lead people to search the camp, and don't leave any materials that can be used to build a raft. "Lorist clapped his hands a few times and shouted.
A total of five large rafts were built, and it happened that a carriage got on a raft. All the mounts were removed from their saddles and bridles, and together with a dozen or so horses captured by the garrison squadron camp, they were driven into the water for a swim.
More than a hundred people were divided into five big rafts, propped off the shore of the lake with poles, and rowed slowly towards the opposite side.
The sky has gradually dimmed, and a faint white mist formed on the lake in the twilight. Occasionally, a few horses could be heard nearby, and the sound of wooden oars scratching the water surface could be heard on the quiet lake.
The distance between the two banks of Bailu Lake is about four to five hundred meters, which is relatively narrow. It was not until the middle line of the lake was passed that there was a faint sound of people shouting and neighing behind them.
This reaction was really slow, Lorist laughed. I will be on the other side soon, and I will soon see my teammates in the team, and then I will see how I will take them home.
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