There were only two light cavalry guarding the gate of the barracks. They saw a horse galloping from a distance, but they didn't care at first, because the barracks had been occupied, and the people inside were all their own people. Just out of curiosity, someone wants to go out again, I don't know what order he received. He didn't realize it was wrong until he got close. This was not his colleague. He hurriedly picked up the two spears on the ground and stepped forward to block them, but the spear tips were cut off by the enemy who was running on the silver steps. If it weren't for the silver master running away in a hurry, maybe the two light cavalry guards would have been even more unlucky.
The silver master riding a light cavalry mount passed by the two light cavalry who fell to the ground, and walked out of the gate of the barracks all the way. Two disheveled light cavalrymen got up from the ground cursing, one rushed to get the crossbow from his mount, and the other took a javelin from the side, but couldn't throw it because the distance was too far...
Lorist urged his horse to arrive, snatched the javelin from the light cavalryman and continued to chase after him. At this time, he was about 30 to 40 meters away from the silver master in front of him. At such a distance, he was not sure that he could hit a perfect shot. Seeing that the rider in front was getting faster and faster, and the distance between him and him was getting farther and farther, Lorist gritted his teeth and raised the throwing spear in his hand, ready to try his luck.
The galloping horse under his lap suddenly staggered, and then he staggered forward and took a dozen steps before falling straight to the ground, which startled Lorist, who hurriedly left the saddle and threw his stirrups, flipping over in the air Two somersaults landed on the ground, avoiding the situation of being overwhelmed by the mount. Looking at the fallen mount again, Lorist threw his javelin on the ground angrily. How could I be so unlucky, the mount I grabbed and rode on was actually the mount of the two cavalrymen who attacked the convoy and fled back, the horsepower had already been exhausted, no wonder the distance between myself and the rider in front would be greater after chasing from the big tent to the gate of the barracks Pull longer.
Lorist was very annoyed that he was about to be escaped by the silver-ranked person in front. The rider in front had already run a hundred meters away, and his figure became a small black spot. There was a sound of hoofbeats behind him. It was the light cavalry who reacted and mounted their horses to chase after them. Unfortunately, it was too late.
At this moment, Lorist vaguely heard the vibrating ringing of the bowstring, and a blue rainbow flashed from the wilderness a hundred meters away from the barracks, as fast as lightning, and brought the escaped silver master from his horse back. Flying five or six meters in the air, he fell heavily to the ground. The light cavalry's mount continued to run forward for a certain distance without the rider's urging, then stopped, then turned around and ran towards the barracks.
Lorist stopped the light cavalry around him from going to the wilderness to search, and pointed to the position of the landed silver master: "Go and have a look, bring him back, be careful, don't be caught by this **** He pretended to be dead to be deceived, and one of our brothers has already died at his hands."
Lorist continued to look at the place where the blue rainbow flashed in the wilderness, and there stood a man disguised with branches and grass, holding a big blue bow in his hand. Lorist felt that he was also watching his every move.
Lorist waved at the man and made an invitation gesture. But the man didn't respond, just slowly backed away after a while, and slowly disappeared in the wilderness.
Lorist also breathed a sigh of relief. That man has such a powerful bow. He can shoot a rider on a galloping horse from a distance of seventy or eighty meters, and even send him flying five or six meters away, which shows the strength of the arrow he shoots. big. Moreover, the speed of the arrow is extremely fast, and under the focus of the dynamic vision, it can only vaguely see its flight trajectory.
If that person attacked the barracks, Lorist would not be afraid, but he didn't know how many light cavalrymen behind him would suffer. Maybe that person is the golden knight called Josk that Knight Soria mentioned a few days ago, and only he can have such a powerful magic arrow stunt. It's a pity that that person didn't accept Lorist's invitation to come to the barracks Thus letting Lorist know who he is.
Several light cavalry had brought back the body of the fleeing silver master on the horse that was running back. Lorist couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it, he was almost a target, why did he bring the corpse back? These light cavalrymen were obviously overly careful when they heard Lorist's words. When they arrived at the place, they shot two rounds of crossbows at the silver master on the ground, turning the silver master into a hedgehog, and then approached and brought the corpse to him. back.
The cause of the silver master's death was obvious, a long green arrow shot into his right rib, and broke out from his left chest. Lorist pulled out the long arrow, tore off a large piece of clothes from the body, wiped off the blood on the long arrow, and found a crooked "Joe" engraved on the end of the long arrow. Sure enough, the person holding the blue longbow was Josk, the golden-ranked archer.
Looking at the criss-crossed crossbow bolts on the corpse, Lorist became furious: "Don't you all have eyes? You are already dead and you are wasting so many crossbow bolts. The chain armor is ruined. Go, cut off the head and stick it beside the road in front of the gate of the barracks, strip off the body and throw it outside, and burn it with the corpses in the barracks later."
Back to the big tent in the middle camp, Yuri came to report that he had led people to clear the barracks, found three hidden enemies, captured two alive and killed one, and the light cavalry only slightly injured two. It was here in Dazhang, one died and the other was seriously injured. In addition to the damage from the previous capture of the barracks, the total casualties of the light cavalry in this operation were three dead, seven seriously injured, and more than ten lightly injured.
However, Yuri hesitated for a moment and said that during the process of clearing the barracks, they found many ruined and dying women in many tents, a total of more than 30 women. In the tent where the silver master escaped just now, two naked women were found dead with their necks broken.
Dejectedly, Lorist pointed to the big tent behind him and said, "There are two more inside. You go to those locked up in the middle of the barracks to inquire about these women and their origins, and gather the thirty or so women together." , send the two in the big tent there, and find some people from the locked-up people to take care of them. When Fatty Shi's convoy arrives, let the pharmacists go and treat them, try to save those who can, but really can't. Just give them a treat."
"In addition, cut off the heads of those cavalrymen and put them outside the barracks. The corpses were stripped and burned outside. Let's count how many we killed in total. There are four more in this big tent. Do the same. You take the ones that are still alive Bring the prisoners here, and I will interrogate them myself," Lorist said to Yuri.
Lorist's method of interrogating the captives was very simple. First, he brought the captives over and stripped them of their clothes, then ordered Reddy to find a hammer, and smashed his toes one by one when he resisted. As the first stubborn prisoner became a demonstration specimen, the remaining five prisoners froze in fright, answered every question, and quickly explained everything they knew.
As Lorist expected, it was Earl Cobili's men who attacked his convoy, and they were the most elite cavalrymen under him. This time, Count Cobili dispatched two squadrons of Lancers and a brigade of garrisons, almost one-third of his army, with the purpose of sweeping up the resistance forces in this large area and arresting at least 2,000 young laborers. Go back to work as a slave and a slave. Leading this army are his eleven illegitimate sons, three gold-ranked and eight silver-ranked. But now three of them have died in the hands of Lorist.
The captive was talking about the big brown-haired man and the middle-aged man in mail that Lorist killed in the big tent, and the last silver master who escaped on horseback. The captive also attributed his death to Lorist.
As for this barracks, the prisoners confessed that it was indeed Count Cobili's bridgehead in this area, a permanent camp. It is usually guarded by a garrison squadron. The food and supplies of the large troops that went out to sweep this time are all concentrated here. Because the area to be mopped up was the western mountains, and it was necessary to cross the mountains, so a squadron of Lancers was left to garrison here, and the garrison squadron that was originally stationed was also brought to mopping up.
The army organization of each kingdom on the Galintia continent is mainly based on the legion, and the legion is divided into several military regiments, such as the heavy armor regiment, heavy cavalry regiment, and spear regiment. And a corps is divided into brigades, squadrons and squads. Generally speaking, the number of a team is about 80 to 120 people. Four to five squadrons form a squadron, four to five squadrons form a brigade, and four to five brigades form a corps. Like the White Lion Legion that Bodfinger was in in the past, it was one of the three main armies of the former Krissen Empire, with a staff of about 80,000 at full strength.
Count Cobilly made great efforts to expand his Lancers as the backbone of his family's armed forces. There are now five Lancer squadrons, each with four squadrons, and each squadron has a full staff of 120 people. Being able to send two Lancer squadrons for this raid was a big deal.
The prisoner explained that the large force that went to the western mountainous area to mop up this time would probably return within two days, because they had only brought supplies for fifteen days when they went, and now it has been thirteen days. The brown-haired man who stayed at the barracks this morning also sent a small team of Lancers to the west to meet them. There were only three squads of Lancers left in the barracks. In the afternoon, two more Lancer squads were bored in the barracks, so they went out to hunt. The so-called hunting is wandering around in this area, capturing the wandering people in these territories. Like the four hundred or so people locked in the pen in the middle of the barracks, they were the result of the Lancers going hunting some time ago.
It's just that they didn't expect that when the cavalrymen went out to hunt, the evil star Lorist was attracted. The Lancer squad attacking the convoy and the Lancer squad stationed in the barracks were completely wiped out, and even the barracks were occupied.
Lorist asked in detail, and at the end he asked the captive, why did the Lancers attacking the convoy indiscriminately attack without knowing the details of the convoy
Only then did the prisoners understand why Lorist led people into the barracks and started killing them, and they all cursed at the Lancers for causing them disaster. On the contrary, a prisoner in his thirties looked at the family knight badge on the armor on Yuri's chest standing beside him, with a thoughtful expression.
Lorist noticed the abnormality of the captive, called him over and asked, "Have you seen this badge?"
The prisoner shook his head and said, "I haven't seen the badge, but once I went to report something to the count, I saw two boxes in the count's room, and the engraved patterns on the boxes were very similar to this badge. And..."
The captive hesitated to speak.
Lorist asked: "And what? You just say it, and I promise to spare you if you say it. As for those few..."
Lorist made a gesture, signaling to pull those captives down to give them a good time.
The prisoner kneeling in front stopped abruptly when he heard the pleadings of several colleagues, trembling with fright. He said that he joined the cavalry raider relatively late. He was still a mercenary at that time. He met a friend who had become a cavalryman whom he had known before on the way back to the territory of Count Cobili, and he became a cavalryman under his persuasion.
The prisoner said that when he was drinking with his friends and some lancers, he had heard them tell the history of Count Cobili's fortune. Before the eldest prince showed signs of turning back, the Earl colluded with the eldest prince. It was rumored that Earl Kobilli stayed out of the gate of his manor and devoted himself to teaching the illegitimate children. In fact, the Earl had already brought those adult illegitimate children disguised as horse bandits to block roads and rob passing business travelers in Puerto Org province, providing the eldest prince with The military pay for the rebellion. He himself made a huge fortune out of it. At that time, the eldest prince also wrote a letter to the old emperor who was on the sick bed, requesting to strengthen the defense force of the province of Porto Org, in order to prevent the attack by the red bearded horse bandit. The red bearded horse bandit refers to Count Cobili. Every time he took people to rob, he would wear a fake red beard to prevent people from discovering his true colors. Today, the two teams of Lancers who went out to hunt were led by old cavalry who had robbed merchants with Count Kobili in the province of Porto Org. Attack regardless.
Lorist asked the prisoner the size and shape of the two boxes he saw in Earl Cobili's room, and then took a pen and paper to draw the shape of the two boxes and asked the prisoner, the prisoner nodded and said that it looked like this.
Lorist ordered the prisoner to be taken down and locked up, and then walked back and forth in the big tent, getting more and more angry as he walked, and finally drew out his sword and chopped the original bed in the tent to pieces.
Yuri and Reddy were taken aback by Lorist's actions, and they waited for Lorist to calm down before coming up to ask what happened to make him so angry
Lorist was silent for a while, and then said: "Those two boxes were custom-made by my third uncle in Morente City. Originally, he wanted to use them as a dowry gift to marry a woman he liked. Taking her back to the family territory, who knows, who knows, this will be a farewell! I can't forget the look in the eyes of my third uncle when he took me to pick up the box. He really loves that woman, and looking at the box is full of love And missing. So I remember the style of these two boxes. Earl Kobili, very good, you wait... "
Lorist's voice was full of resentment, making Yuri and Reddy who were standing beside them shudder.
Although Lorist only saw the third uncle once a year after he became the new owner of this body, his care and love for him really made him feel warm. Unexpectedly, what I heard after seven years was the sad news of my third uncle. Now that we know who the culprit is, is there any reason to ignore it? Lorist had already forgotten about the convoy and returning to the territory, and settled the accounts with Count Cobili first before talking about anything else.
At this time, a light cavalry came to report that the convoy led by Knight Shredder was about to arrive, and the flags of the convoy could be seen in the distance from the barracks.
Yuri and Reddy breathed a sigh of relief, hurried out of the tent with Lorist, got on their horses and rushed to the gate of the barracks.
After Fatty Shi came over, he brought Lorist another bad news. Since Yuri's light cavalry scout squad followed Lorist to capture the barracks, the spearman squadron in the front camp was attacked by a small group of Lancers again. . Fortunately, the veteran students who led the team knew that they could not compete with these Lancers, so they used the carriages to form a car camp and waited for reinforcements until Terman's knights arrived, and they were attacked by the crossbow squadron commanded by Malek , the team of Lancers suffered heavy losses, only more than 30 cavalry fled. The spearmen squadron of the front battalion killed 22 people and injured more than 100 people.
The arrival of the convoy made the entire barracks full of noise, with people shouting and neighing constantly. Lorist entrusted Fatty Shi to arrange all the trivial matters, and then ordered Reddy and Pat to boil some hot water for himself. He wanted to take a good bath in the big tent. The blood on his body had already solidified. This made Lorist feel very uncomfortable.
After dinner, the big tent was brightly lit, and everyone gathered together.
"... Forty-seven of the military family members died, more than 130 people were injured, the twenty-one spearmen in charge of guarding the convoy were all killed, and Chiworth..." Fatty Shi said in a low voice, Chiworth was the old student who faced the Lancer cavalry, but was plotted against and was pulled off his horse and trampled into a pulp.
"Including the second attack, a total of forty-three spearmen were killed in battle, fifty-eight were seriously injured, seven of them were disabled, and eighty-six were slightly injured. Yuri reported that the light cavalry battle Three people died, seven were seriously injured, thirteen were slightly injured, and no one was disabled. Terman's knights were slightly injured six people, but no battle damage. This is the total casualties."
Lorist also introduced the captives' confession to everyone, and also said that Earl Cobili was most likely the culprit who caused the Norton family's caravan to be annihilated back then.
"Now everyone is clear. Our original idea of passing through this area harmlessly is not feasible. Judging from the behavior and style of Earl Cobili and the Lancers of his family's army, this is an army with only animal nature. The human army, they are unreasonable, have no mercy, and have nothing else in their minds except to kill them. The experience of Chivos illustrates all this. For Chivos, for those innocent family members who were killed, And those family soldiers who died heroically, I want to avenge them, either our chariot ran over the flag of the Cobili family, or we were blocked by Count Cobili's family army." Lorist said firmly.
In the big tent, there was silence at first, and then there were constant murmurs. Some people agreed with Lorist's decision, while others hesitated. After all, according to the captives' statements, Earl Cobili's family army far surpassed the convoy's armed strength. Can the First World War be won
While everyone was discussing, a light cavalry came outside the big tent, and he reported to Lorist that a knight named Josk was asking to see him outside the gate of the barracks. He said he had accepted the invitation of the new owner of the barracks and came to visit. , I wonder if Lorist knows about this
Lorist patted his thigh and said, "Please, wait, I'll meet him outside the gate..."