Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 288

2021-03-31

Chapter 288 Competition
The war is not only raging in Vigne County, but also in Zhongtiefeng County. Peak County is also waging an even more brutal war.

This war has no shining armor and screeching banners, nor stories of surging forward with great momentum, having ups and downs, nor any etiquette, rules and kindness.

There is only a group of ordinary persons struggling for survival and home.

The Terdon people regard them as game and livestock, wantonly taking their property, liberty and even their lives.

They had to abandon their homes and hide in the mountains just to survive. But even so, the Teltown people would not let them go.

They have no reinforcements, no rear, and many don't even have a real weapon.

They are not warriors either, they are just farmers, craftsmen and traders who rely on hard labor to make ends meet.

This war has no honor, dignity or honor for them.

Only survival, survival is victory.

As Bud said when he released Ronald and the others: "There are no soldiers, no armies, only farmers here. You, me, all of them - and only in the way of farmers Go fight.

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Tiefeng County, Langtun Town, the wild forest at the northern foot of the Golden Peak mountain range.

Mouth tightly closed, Eyes looked vigilantly, the Terdun warrior named [Stone Arrow] held a bow and led a horse, cautiously walking on the forest path.

There was no path in the forest, and there were many creatures walking, so he stepped out There is a road.

Unfortunately, this road is not safe, so Shijian let a small slave walk ahead.

The small slave holds a long stick in his hand, and he uses the long stick first. The stick checks to see if there are any pits before daring to take a step.

Thirty other people and slaves followed behind Shijian. To make as little noise as possible, all of them walked on horseback.

The northern foot of the Golden Peak mountain range has undulating terrain and towering giant trees. Walking in it will greatly obstruct the view, which makes Teltown people who are used to seeing the cows and sheep in the wind and grass very uncomfortable. It's comfortable.

About "a calf" away from Shijian, Qing Ma and his men are also heading deeper into the forest, but neither side can see the other.

[Note: The calf does not travel far, so it is often used as a metaphor near the felt tent, about one kilometer]
After Ganquan's death, the property that originally belonged to Ganquan-horses, subjects, slaves and spills of war were stoned The arrow and the green horse are divided.

Although Ganquan has a two-year-old son, but in wasteland where weak are prey to the strong, the man who cannot draw the bow has no right to inherit.

Between the Shijian and Tsing Ma flanks there is also a central army of nearly 200 people, led by Tulukota [Bald Dog].

The left and right wings and the central army are roughly fan-shaped. Cloth, quietly approaching the prey.

This is a round hunting, the hunting is carried by bald dogs, and the spills of war are also bald dogs.

Stone Arrow and Qing Ma Originally reluctant to come, but their status is low and their strength is weak, and they are not qualified to say no.

Reluctant in their hearts, they drag their feet. In the slave's boot print - he was really a little scared.

Gan Quan died rather happily, he died in a beautiful ambush, so he didn't have time to understand what the "peasant way" was.

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And Shi Jian and Tsing Ma have "taste" the unforgettable hatred.

A person who has eaten grain dug up from a "poorly buried" cellar in the morning will have symptoms of poisoning in the afternoon.

The mild cases vomited and diarrhoea, and the severe cases were blood-red and had difficulty breathing and died.

What is more terrifying than human poisoning is horse poisoning.

A sip of seemingly ordinary haystacks mixed with deadly yew leaves and twigs sends horses twitching and falling to death.

Many horses were still chewing their upper and lower teeth and died for no apparent reason.

Poisoning, traps, ambush... The members of the Teltown tribe gradually became frightened. Not only did they dare not feed the horses with hay, they even let the captured women try the food first.

But these tactics are hard to hurt Teltown's muscles and bones in a short period of time.

The hounds of war ravaged the land wantonly, the Terdun people burned villages and towns, trampled farmland, maimed women, killed every Platonic man they could find, and the plume of smoke was clear even in Zhongtiefeng County visible.

The people of Lower Tiefeng County also killed in the most brutal way... No, they killed every Teltown person they could catch as revenge.

Telldons who were ambushed by genuine officers like Bud and Ronald might even be considered lucky, as those who fell into the hands of the militia would be literally gouged out Bone, beheaded and discarded.

Not even Bud and Ronald could stop the spread of this behavior.

Therefore, with more than 30 people walking on the jungle path of danger lurks on every side, every step of Shijian seems to be getting closer to a broken corpse.

I was afraid of whatever, and a series of thumping sounds and horse neighs suddenly came from behind Shijian.

Shi Jian suddenly felt a chill down his spine, subconsciously wanting to get on his horse and run wildly.

He waited stiffly for a moment, not hearing the frightening screams of killing.

Looking back, a licorice-yellow short-tailed horse fell to the ground with its head up, snorting hot air.

[Licorice Yellow] struggled to get up, but its right front leg had sunk into the ground, down to the knee.

"Pull it out! Pull out the horse's leg!"

"Get out of the way! Watch out for it's sting!"

Licorice yellow was changed due to shock and pain It was frantic, and the Teltown people next to it circled helplessly around it.

At this time mutation is born again.

A middle-aged slave let out a miserable cry, as if he had shrunk a bit in the blink of an eye - he was also like a licorice yellow, with one leg sunk into the pit.

The other Teltowners struggled to lift a man and a horse out of the pit.

An old slave groped for Licorice Yellow's injured leg and ankle, and said happily: "No break, no major event."

The old slave took Licorice Yellow and walked forward, The latter screamed incessantly, and did not dare to touch the ground with his right front leg.

It seems that although Licorice Yellow has not broken the horse's hoof, it will take a while to ride again.

On the contrary, the middle-aged slave who stepped on the pit was injured more seriously: a sharp wooden cone penetrated the sole of his boot, leaving a deep blood hole on the sole of his foot.

Seeing that one person and one horse made such a tragic situation, Qian Shou and slave became even more depressed.

Initially, the Teltown people encountered large pits filled with thorns and bear traps.

Big pits and bear traps are deadly, but easy to spot.

Especially the bear traps - so white that the people of Teltown are too happy.

But the people of Teltown couldn't laugh anymore, because the pits they encountered became more and more hidden and the materials used became simpler every day.

It's all about "a dirt pit, a wooden cone" by now, and there are pits about the size of a mouse hole, especially for horses.

Perhaps the nobles still think that the two-legged people are just lamb-like docile prey, but the ordinary tribe already knows very well that the Palatine people are definitely not sheep - at least not here.

Shi Jian looked at the injured slave and the injured Licorice Huang, not only not annoyed, but a little happy.

Just as Shijian was thinking about when, three riders came through the forest, and the leader was actually Turukota [Bald Dog] himself.

Stone Arrows hurriedly salute.

"What do you do? Make this big noise?" asked the bald dog, glowy face.

"My people stepped on the pit."

"What's the problem with stepping on the pit? Hurry up."

"But..." Shijian hesitated Uncertain: "Someone has to be sent back to take the wounded."

The bald dog narrowed his eyes and held the gold-encrusted hilt: "Who was injured?"

Heard With that said, the middle-aged slave who stepped on the pit got up in panic. He reluctantly stood upright, blood dripping from the soles of his boots and into the soil.

"Hurry up and march." The bald dog shouted: "If you delay the hunting, I will kill you."

Stone arrow submit to humiliation's salute.

Menness is an important part of authority for the Hurds, but Stone Arrow doesn't care about that much right now.

The bald dog was obviously coming at him, and if he made any excuses, he might be killed on the spot.

Stone Arrow left the wounded and injured horses and continued to move forward. Although they had just stepped on the trap, they still had to follow the trail.

Because there may also be traps on the side of the road, and there are ready-made trails that are not followed, going to the forest and wild areas will delay time.

This is not a plain plain, you can go anywhere. This is a primitive forest with a deep and a shallow foot, and you will get lost if you are not careful.

Stone Arrow moved forward reluctantly.

The bald dog did not give up, but was unsatisfied. Like the true master of these minions, he rode behind the line to the Overseer.

Following the trail to the end, is a river valley.

The river valley runs east to west, and no one can be seen on either side.

The bald dog sniffed against the wind and ordered the stone arrow to lead the person east.

The dog's nose is the Pima's nose. Just after turning a corner, a hidden camp on the southern bank of the river valley was exposed to the people of Teltown.

The camp all around is a fence made of branches. Inside the fence you can see tents, birch bark and straw roofs, and even a vague silhouette.

This is the prey, and that's why the Terdun came here - the secret camp of the Palatine.

"Oh! The two-legged man's secret camp!" The bald dog was overjoyed: "You hide your traces, and wait for the right wing and the central army to come. If the two-legged man is disturbed, I will kill you!"

Leaving a few threats, Bald Dog set out to find his followers.

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Hiding in the mountains, building camps and hiding, leaving empty villages and towns  …

For the two-legged people’s actions of cutting their tails to survive, The people of Teltown were not at all surprised—because that's what the Hurds did.

Whenever there is a war, the adult men of the Hed tribe go out to battle.

The leaders would gather all the cattle and sheep, goods, women and felt tents, and then choose a remote hidden place to place them, which is the so-called old camp.

When men were fighting outside, old and young women and children hid in the old camp and waited for news. And when it was time to abandon the old camp, the leaders of the various ministries would never hesitate.

So for the various ministries, clearing the old camp is one of the important links in the war.

Because there are no spills of war in battle, fat cattle and sheep, beautiful women, and glorious palace tents are all in the old camp.

In Shijian's view, the two-legged people here are nothing more than replacing an old camp where all the wealth is concentrated with many small camps.

After plundering all the floating wealth in large and small villages and towns, Terdun people, who are not satisfied with the harvest, naturally turn their attention to the forest.

Telden people delineate the area like hunting, tracking shadows, searching mountains and fields, and digging three feet in the ground.

Although the secret camp is hidden, it does not have long legs. A puff of green smoke, a flock of birds, a trail trodden by humans and animals, or even a single bad luck can lead to an exposed campsite.

As the secret battalions were found one after another, some of the treasures seized by the chieftains of Teltown had been filled with large and small saddlebags, and all the horses could not be carried.

Those leaders who come home empty-handed have green eyes with envy - like bald dogs.

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Shi Jian is not very interested in the "old camp" in front of him, and he can't distinguish spills of war.

The bald dog didn't explain it, but Shijian knew exactly what the bald dog would not give him, which led to the second reason - the bald dog was mad with hunger, and Shijian was already full. .

I don't know how long I waited, when Shijian heard the sound of a horn coming from the front.

Hundreds of Tylertown light cavalry rushed out of the forest and headed straight for the secret camp, led by Bald Dog.

The sound of a horn came from another direction, and Tsing Ma also led people to the secret camp.

Stone Arrow ordered people to blow the horn, step on the horse, and run to the secret camp at a moderate pace.

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blade light and sword shadows, people howling and horses neighing.

Two groups of people are fighting desperately in a simple camp, one group is small and the other is large.

The side with fewer people holds lances, bows and arrows and machetes, draws bows and arrows, and gallops to kill; the side with more people holds hammers, javelins and even farm implements such as flails and sickles to fight in a dense formation.

It goes without saying that the former is from Teltown, and the latter is a militia from Lower Iron Peak.

In this battle of hundreds against dozens, the militia under Ronald's command had firmly held the Teltown people in check.

The militias, pushing wheels and carrying door panels, slowly rolled over the Teltown camp in a clumsy but unstoppable fashion—yes, the battle was not taking place in the secret valley of the river. camp, but the camp of the bald dogs.

If it was in the past, the situation was not good, and the people of Teltown would have fled long ago.

But not right now, because their spills of war are all in the camp.

Telltown people are like miserly squatters who push their carts halfway up the hill, bitten on the buttocks by the wolves who have been watching for a long time.

If he gave up and beat the wolf, the car would be gone; but if he continued to push the car, his ass would be gone.

Ronald brows tightly frowns, staring at the Squad on the hillside, where the Squad has never fought - he should be called Major Ronald now.

There are two difficulties in riding with steps. First, the impact of the cavalry needs to be counteracted; second, the cavalry cannot be allowed to escape.

The latter problem, Ronald has already solved; the former problem, Captain Appel racked his brains to come up with a simple and rude tactic - "wheel formation".

Simply put, a mobile lance frame similar to a gun car is used to hold the front and back, and the side is covered by a wheel with a thick, sharpened long wood inserted.

If the enemy doesn't move, then push the wheel; as soon as the enemy's cavalry comes over, they immediately put down the wheel. Generally speaking, the formation is protected with "rollable anti-horse stakes".

The wheel is both a means of transport, a barricade, and a support for a horse-rejection pole—although, of course, someone needs to support it.

But it's easier to hide behind the wheel and support the lance than to face the cavalry charge with both hands holding the lance.

To a certain extent, the wheel array and the carriage array are similar in purpose.

But the carriage is too bulky to move once the battle begins. So just drop the wagon and leave only the wheels, so that the horse can also be cut off.

Is it possible? Epel didn't know either. But if the peasants who have just picked up arms are allowed to face the cavalry onslaught with just one lance like the standing army soldier, it will not work.

Therefore, such a strange scene appeared on the battlefield:
The militiamen were sweating and shouting to push the half-height wheel reels, the real "propulsion";
Telltown light riding one Come here, they put down the wheels like an umbrella;
Facing the tortoise-shell-like array of wheels, no matter how powerful the people of Teltown are, there is nothing they can do.

The wheels are too high for the horse to jump over. If you rush up hard, it's hard to say whether you can knock it away, but the person who hits it will surely die. The people of Teltown did not intend to kill themselves, so they chose to shoot arrows at the wheel.

The militiamen also used slings, javelins, bows, and barbarians.

From time to time, people from Terdun fell from their horses, and there were also militiamen screaming and covering their wounds and falling to the ground.

Telltown Red Feather watched the "Wheel Formation" roll forward coldly until the Paratus advanced to the foot of the hillside.

The water seeks its own level, and the wheels have a tendency to roll downwards, and the exhausted militia gradually loses control of the heavy wheels.

The originally tight line became loose at first, and then gaps began to appear - the ground is not always flat, let alone a row of wheels, just a row of people who bumped into bad terrain and wanted to walk neatly Nor is it easy.

"[Herde] The two-legged men have dispersed!" Terdun Hong Feather raised the long spear, stabbed the horse's ribs, and rushed down the hillside like an arrow from the string, Terdun's armored cavalry Followed closely behind him: "[Herd] Heavenly God is above!"

The charge of a dozen cavalrymen gave the illusion of a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses, and other special Seeing this, Erdun's light cavalry also turned around his horse and followed.

"It's your turn." Seeing that the opponent had already shown his cards, Major Ronald also sent his bulldog: "Adam, come on."

Teldun Jiaqi dexterously Passing through the gap between the wheel stalwarts, the militia's morale collapsed on the first encounter.

The red feather pinched Lance into a person's back, causing Lance to sink deep into the flesh. The man fell, and Hong Lingyu let go and pulled out the machete.

Other Terdun armored and light cavalry filed in from the breakthrough, and the Platoons fled.

Hong Lingyu thought that the next thing was to chase after the two-legged man, but found a small group of two-legged man rushing up against the flow of people. He didn't even think, swung the knife down.

Second Lieutenant Adam (front), who only had a pair of arm armor, roared and swung his round thorn mallet, and smashed it against Hong Lingyu's machete.

A thorn mallet is essentially a stick with an iron tip, made of very thick wood for strength.

Red feathers and feathers on horseback, Adam fights on foot. The former is condescending and chopping, and theoretically has the advantage.

However, when the knife and the mallet collided, Hong Lingyu only felt an unstoppable force coming back from the weapon.

Hong Lingyu's palm was numb, the tiger's mouth was torn apart, and even her wrist was sprained.

What was even more unexpected for Hong Lingyu was that his machete slashed deeply into the wooden handle of the opponent's odd weapon, impossible to move even a little bit.

This scene is also beyond Adam's expectations.

It stands to reason that the wooden handle of the long-pole weapon should be repeatedly brushed with oil, dried and even covered with iron to ensure that it will not be cut off.

Adam didn't have time to complain about the quality of the barbed hammer, he loudly roared, and pulled down fiercely with all the strength of his body, and Hong Lingyu's machete let go.

Adam took advantage of the trend with a top-to-bottom stepping thrust, directly poking the right rib of Hong Lingyu.

Mallet tip to nail plate, sparks flying in all directions.

In the end, only a depression is left on the nail, but the impulse is transmitted to the human body through the nail.

Hong Lingyu's ribs broke four at once, and he couldn't even make a sound in pain, moved towards the other side of the saddle and fell down.

The shoddy thorn mallet also reached its limit. The front end of the thorn mallet's wooden handle exploded with a "peng", and the iron cone flew somewhere.

The steed was frightened and ran wild. Hong Lingyu's left foot got stuck in the stirrup, screaming and being dragged away by the war horse.

Other Teltowners who rushed into the "Wheel" were also entangled by Adam's daring team.

The people of Teltown gradually realized that something was not right. The wheel array used the wheels as the wall, and there must be a gap.

This gap is like the mesh of a sieve. People can climb, drill, and squeeze through, but horses can't.

The Platoons simply escaped from the wheel, but did not continue to flee.

Instead, they went back to the wheel and turned the wheel array over.

The lances of the Hurds have sharp points at both ends, and the lances and stakes of the Palatians also have two points.

With a hard pull, the "Hedgehog" with the spear pointed outwards turned into an "Iron Maiden" with the spear pointed inward in the blink of an eye.

The Teltowners find themselves locked in the Iron Maiden.

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