Lord Highlander

   Chapter 675 664. Sand Pirates

  The snowflakes flying in the night sky are like blades flying all over the sky, and when they fall on people's faces, they will hurt like a knife.

Standing in the wind and snow, Cumberland faced the wind and snow with his hands open. He raised his head and looked up at the night sky where he could not see anything. Snowflakes kept falling from the night sky. Before an army came out of the barren land, there was such a heavy snowfall.

Cumberland was in a low mood at the moment. Seeing those people destroying his homeland, he was like a wind wolf in the desert. He just wanted to roar angrily against the north wind. In this endless snowy night, he His heart was already filled with hatred, but his eyes were not blinded by hatred. When he left the Huwan Oasis with almost all his belongings, he had already sent a fast horse to the surrounding oases where the bandits were stationed for help.

  Although the bandits on this side of the desert are not a whole, they are scattered all over the desert like a plate of loose sand, but when facing a common enemy, they can still gather together and form a fist to attack the same place.

Cumberland has been in the desert for decades. Although he has not developed his bandit group into one of the most powerful forces in the desert, he has a good reputation in this area and has some contacts with the bandit groups in the surrounding area. At this time, send people to lobby them, only saying that the city of Hailansa, which is stationed on the other side of the barren land, has finally realized their existence and sent troops to clear up here, those robbers will definitely not sit still.

   Snow hung from his beard and hair, and fell on his fur cloak, making him look like a snowman.

A horse team appeared on the sand dunes in the distance. He opened his eyes suddenly and saw the knights who were still advancing steadily in the snowstorm, and saw the scimitars hanging on their waists. Cumberland knew that his chances of winning the night battle tonight Enhanced by one point.

  More than one cavalry team appeared in his field of vision, and his somewhat silent heart immediately became surging again.

  If there was only a 50-50 chance of winning before, then when he saw these bandit groups appearing in the snowy night, he felt that the odds suddenly increased to 10.

A subordinate came up from behind and excitedly reported to Cumberland: "The leader of Cumberland, the leader of the nearby oasis has already rushed over, and it is said that they have also responded to this army from the barren land in the past few days. Heard about it."

   "Ask them to my tent, I'll be right there."

Cumberland knew that he must face the next meeting with the fullest energy. He squatted down, picked up some snow on the sand with both hands, and rubbed his hands and face with the snow to make his body less hard. He needs to give himself the confidence to win, and he needs to use his winning thoughts to infect other people around him.

  He is almost fifty years old.

  In the desert, those who can live to his age have experienced countless wars in this life.

  Living a **** life, he will not be moved just because of anything, nor will he become decadent just because of a small setback.

  He is like the most tenacious seabuckthorn plant in the desert. The water in his body is evaporated in time. Even if the roots are stuck in the shallow gravel, as long as there is a little water, it will immediately become green.

  His cloudy eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, but shrewd eyes were hidden.

With one hand on the scimitar at his waist, he raised his courage and strode towards the tent behind the hill. Wherever he passed, all the robbers who saw him stood up one after another. When he passed When every robber was around, he would use his fist to hammer those robbers' shoulders hard to cheer up their spirits.

With a stern face, Cumberland told the young robber: "Take a good rest, we are going to set off later, I wonder if I will see you yawning on the battlefield, maybe the enemy's long sword will cut you in the blink of an eye. Break your neck, break your chest, all you have to do is to prevent them from taking any chance, and use the most fierce face to bite off his throat, just like the wind wolf in the wilderness."

   "Yes, sir!"

  The young robber stood upright, and when he heard the chief of Cumberland say that he was about to blow the horn to counterattack, he was as excited as a chicken blood.

  Cumberland nodded in satisfaction. He believed that on the battlefield, having the belief of winning is more important than anything else.

  Two huge braziers were lit in front of his tent, and a dozen war horses gathered outside the tent, and some robbers stood outside the tent, facing the wind and snow, surrounding the two braziers.

  Cumberland ordered his men to add two more braziers so that the robbers outside the tent could have a fire.

  Opened the curtain of the tent, only to find that the tent was already full of people, whether I knew them or not.

  Those familiar robbers saw Cumberland walking in, and hurried forward to say hello, and the tent became very lively for a while.

"I was driven out from the oasis like a wild dog, and in the end I need the leaders to help me in the snow. Cumberland is here to thank you for your help!" Cumberland stood at the door of the tent, facing those inside the tent. The robber said gratefully.

A big bald man named Lowell quickly came out from the center of the tent, and said kindly: "Chief Cumberland, what you said is a bit serious. In fact, helping you is also helping ourselves. We all know that, If we don’t come tonight, they will come to us sooner or later. They didn’t come to rob us this time. They appeared in the southern edge of the desert this time to destroy everything here and us. home to live on.”

  The other bandit leaders in the tent also echoed: "Yes, Chief Lowell is right, and we think so too."

  A bandit leader with a scar on his face said bitterly: "The poor ghosts in the barren land probably can't stand our patronage and want to fight to the death. This time we will help them!"

  Lowell touched his shiny bald head and said, "It may be that we have cut leeks too frequently recently, which aroused our resistance."

   "So what do we do now?" asked a bandit leader named Kaiprof.

Everyone talked about it, and the bandit leader with the scar face was very angry, and said angrily: "Or let them wander in the desert, and when their barren land is empty, we will also rush to the barren land. Bloodbath those villages?"

  The leader of Kaiplov said casually: "Let's have some success, keep those people, our food will be available next year, we can't do things like killing chickens and taking eggs."

  Suddenly, the top of the tent was almost lifted by these leaders, none of them obeyed the other.

   "Chief Cumberland, what are we going to do?" Chief Lowell took a step forward, his tall body standing in front of Chief Cumberland.

  Cumberland is probably the oldest, the most knowledgeable, and the most experienced bandit leader among these leaders. The bandits at his age are almost dead, and they should retreat.

  Everyone turned their attention to Cumberland.

Cumberland hardly hesitated, and said directly: "With so many of us, of course, we are going to give those nobles who dare to stretch their hands into the desert a head-on blow, stretching out their hands and feet, so that they will never dare to step into the desert. .”

  His proposal was almost the interest appeal of most of the bandit leaders, and when he said it like this, it was immediately responded by most of the leaders.

  This time, a total of six bandit regiments came from all over for reinforcements. Being able to repel the army that sneaked into the desert is what they have been considering recently.

   "Captain Cumberland, can you confirm their current position?" Chief Kaplov asked.

  Cumberland nodded affirmatively, and said: "Well, they were stationed at the Huwan Oasis before nightfall, and now that there is such a heavy snowfall, it is absolutely impossible for them to march in the snowy night."

   Then he walked to the innermost part of the tent and unfolded a scrolled map. He pointed to the location of the Huwan Oasis on the map and said to the six leaders who came over:

"We can gather a thousand people this time. They only have 200 cavalry, of which there are more than 50 elites. There are no constructed knights. Our number of people participating in this battle is four times more than theirs. As long as we use crowd tactics , crush them with a strong force advantage, surround them from four directions, and crush them in an instant."

  When Chief Cumberland said this, the other bandit leaders responded immediately.

  The combat method is simple and direct, and it is completely a wolf pack strategy evolved from the wind wolf in the desert.

  A robber brought a teapot filled with milk tea from outside the tent, and the leaders sat down one after another.

   "When did the barren land have this power?" Leader Kaiprof asked. Although his bandit group would also go to the barren land to rob, but it is far away from the barren land, and the news is relatively closed.

The leader of Cumberland sighed, and said dejectedly: "I just found out about their existence. I heard that a sheriff came to the barren land. Later, I also learned that there are two fighters who are very good at reaching out. From time to time lands roam the Badlands, though they are rarely found in deserts..."

  The bandit leaders gathered in the tent and waited until midnight, when two more bandit groups rushed over.

  The leader of Cumberland saw that the wind and snow outside had stopped, and said to the other bandit leaders:

   "It's almost time, let's go!"

  …

  Suldak did not expect the decisive battle with the bandits on the edge of the desert to break out so early, and he planned to train his troops again when he was punishing the bandits everywhere on the edge of the desert.

  Looking at it now, it's too late.

Those bandits should have realized their strength and dared not fight alone, so they contacted bandits from other oases. The bad news for Suldak is that the battle will become more difficult, but there is also a good side, If this battle is won, it means that they have the ability to flatten the southern edge of the desert.

   Fortunately, after so many days of marching and fighting, the veterans in the cavalry battalion have fully awakened the memory of the battle.

At night, Suldak took out two hundred sets of full-coverage armor and asked Andrew to distribute these armors to the veterans. The only disadvantage of this kind of heavy armor is that it is a little inconvenient to move, and it takes a lot of energy, but Suldak is not worried about this, except that he can activate the 'Aura of Power', almost all veterans of the cavalry battalion currently have the blessing of the gods of the 'Divine Blessed Body'.

Those wind wolves made Suldak pay nearly 300 more gold coins, but at the same time brought Suldak more than 200 primary sacrifices, Suldak could not completely preserve all the heads of the wind wolves Come down, so I blessed the veterans and mercenaries with the blessing of God.

The veterans saw that Suldak took out these full-covered heavy armors that only the knights of the guard battalion were qualified to wear at night, and they also knew that there would be a tough battle tonight, so they put on the armors silently, Then he picked up the matching tower shield. The entire surface of this kind of tower shield is forged from fine steel, and the surface is densely covered with neat four-sided spikes. A tower shield weighs more than seventy pounds.

In normal times, even if these veterans could wear full-coverage heavy armor, they would definitely not be able to hold such a heavy shield, but under the blessing of the 'Divine Blessed Body', they held the heavy shield in front of their chests , and at the same time stepped forward to thrust out the spear in his hand, he didn't find it difficult.

Wearing the magic-pattern outfit of the 'Earth Shield', Andrew walked back and forth in front of these veterans of the cavalry battalion, constantly exhorting and encouraging the veterans, telling them repeatedly that they must form an formation and rely on the formation to fight those robbers.

  This kind of armor can resist most ordinary arrows, unless one is extremely unlucky and encounters the visible space through the visor and passes through the eyes to form a fatal blow.

The ogre Gullitum still has some opinions on the fact that Andrew wears Suldak's magic pattern structure. He thinks that Andrew should give up this set of armor to Suldak... In fact, Andrew also thinks so , but Suldak refused to accept anything, and he had nothing to do.

  Suldak couldn't explain it either, and at this time he couldn't say that his body couldn't bear the carrying capacity of the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structure, so he could only force Andrew to wear it on his body.

For these young guard battalion reserve knights, Suldak arranged them at the end of the camp. Facing these young faces, they had just graduated from the Knight Academy and had never experienced cruel wars. Martial arts, but they have a fatal weakness, that is, they can't maintain their mentality, and their fighting will is very weak. It's okay to win a battle. Everyone can beat the dog in the water, but the battle against the wind can easily collapse from them.

  So when Suldak made the initial combat deployment, he also left them behind.

  Viru came out of the snowstorm, his leather armor became more and more covered with ice, he got into the tent and said to Suldak: "They gathered a lot of people this time."

  Suldak was assigning tasks to the reserve knights of the guard battalion, and without thinking about it, he said, "Wouldn't that be better, saving us from running around!"

   Hearing what Suldak said, Viru walked out of the tent without saying anything.

  (end of this chapter)