Lord Highlander

   Chapter 96 95. News

  The two ghost fighters saw traces of a fight ahead, and the two human fighters fell in a pool of blood, but they didn't see where the captain was.

   When they ran to the open space under the tree, they planned to check whether the two human warriors were dead, but they were accidentally knocked down by the shields swung by Suldak and He Boqiang.

  The silver runes erupting from the 'Shield of Blessing' have a strong restraint effect on these evil spirits.

When the ghost warriors fell, they stabbed the spikes in their hands towards Suldak and He Boqiang almost without any pause. This was what the ghosts had prepared long ago, but they were lower than the "blessing" Shield' effect of the shield strike, the huge body was overturned to the ground.

Suldak had long expected that the evil ghost warrior would strike like this, and after jumping up, he turned to the side with momentum. With his excellent balance ability, he barely avoided the evil ghost's backhand stab .

  However, He Boqiang did it in a completely different way. He put the Roman sword in his hand in a parrying posture, and used the most basic defensive action of a soldier to block the spikes from the evil ghost.

   This parry movement, whether it is in the junior war academy or the period of initial training in military service, is one of the basic movements that soldiers practice every day.

It's just that when everyone is on the battlefield, these basic combat movements seem to be forgotten in a second. Everyone wants to learn some fancy advanced combat skills, but often everyone ignores the practicality of these basic movements, and He Boqiang Using these basic movements is as natural as breathing, and the movements are as standard as in the textbook...

  The two ghost fighters didn't last long, and were quickly killed by the soldiers of the second team.

Facing the harvested heads and black demon cores of these evil spirits, the soldiers of the second team were a little overwhelmed, and they wanted to go back along the original road and hunt down the evil spirits who did not catch up, but this The proposal was immediately rejected by Suldak.

  Seeing the powerful effect of the 'Blessed Body', Augustus wanted to experience the feeling brought by the 'Blessed Body'...

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  The second team detoured back to the camp. A group of heavy cavalry just passed the gate of the camp in full-face heavy armor and headed towards the mountains on the west side of the camp.

After entering the camp, Suldak met the wounded soldiers staying in the tent of the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment, and learned from them that the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment had already marched to the western front of the barracks and was participating in the encirclement and suppression of the small army. The actions of evil spirits, because the search area is constantly expanding, even the heavy cavalry had to be sent up.

  Baron Sidney led the fourth brigade, and followed Earl Mond Goss into the mountains to the west of the camp, and it has been more than half a day.

There are still many dilapidated places in the camp that need to be repaired. Two hundred evil spirits attacked the camp this time and caused a lot of damage to the expeditionary army. Now many soldiers in the camp are holding a sigh of relief, waiting for when they will go to the battlefield , Give those evil spirits a ruthless blow.

Moyunling is steep and treacherous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The evil spirits have been secretly operating in the mountain for nearly two or three months, and have already built a fortification on Moyunling. In the past two days, bed crossbows and catapults have arrived at the camp one after another. It is said that a large number of catapults will arrive one after another in the next few days.

  The second team repaired a bit in the barracks, then rushed to the battlefield on the west side of the camp without stopping, intending to join the fourth team.

The material transportation team and heavy cavalry from the barracks logistics department once again congested the narrow mountain road. The battle group in front needed to send a lot of supplies, and the expansion of the search area also required heavy cavalry to garrison, but there was only one narrow mountain road. Maybe, there are dense forests full of weeds on both sides, and there is no place to stand if you want to get out of the way.

  The second team followed behind a two-wheeled carriage from the logistics department. The cart contained a lot of marching rations and arrows. The longbowmen in the barracks had already been dispatched, but they didn't know how the battle was going...

  Turning around like this, I'm afraid I can't kill many evil spirits.

  The soldiers of the second team waited behind the team, and could only wait quietly beside the mountain road.

  Augustus began to complain. If he had known that the large forces were fighting in the mountains to the west of the camp, it seemed that they didn't have to travel more than ten kilometers to get back, but now they had to follow the baggage truck to eat dirt.

However, even after eating dirt behind the luggage team, the soldiers of the second team were still in a good mood. This patrol mission successfully killed four evil spirits, two of which were captain-level long-horned evil spirits. Split among all members of the team, each person will receive at least five or six gold coins. For the common people, this large amount of money is equivalent to a year's hard work without eating or drinking.

   Obtaining such a windfall, of course there is nothing dissatisfied.

The mountain road was very congested, and the mood of the people parked on the mountain road became very irritable. The grooms occasionally whipped the restless mules and horses. The neighing of the mules and horses made the war horses gradually become restless. Immediately heavy cavalry were heavily armored, so they could only appease their mounts over and over again.

  The soldiers of the second team cut down a piece of wild grass and vines with hatchets, and hid in the shade of the forest to enjoy the coolness.

The driver of the two-wheeled carriage in front put his whip on the shaft, and poured out half a basket of chopped alfalfa dry material from the linen pocket at the back of the cart. There were still some bean dregs in it, and handed it to the mule. , while feeding the mule with fodder, he stroked the mane on the back of the mule's neck with his hand to calm its restlessness.

   When the fodder was almost eaten, he poured out half a basin of water from the tin bucket hanging behind the car, and drank two big gulps himself before giving the mule to drink it all.

  Suldak went to the coachman and talked to the middle-aged coachman:

   "Uncle, why is there so much traffic ahead?"

   It seemed that Suldak was approaching, and the mule pulling the cart became restless.

  The middle-aged coachman’s forehead was covered with wrinkles, he looked up at Suldak, and said in a cold voice, “Don’t come closer, you smell very bloody, if you come over again, it might kick people.”

  Suldak stood there in embarrassment, and smiled dryly at the middle-aged driver.

  The coachman was slightly taken aback when he saw the captain's badge hanging on Suldak's chest, probably because he didn't expect that the one he spoke to stop was a captain of heavy armored infantry.

   I didn't expect that Suldak's temper would be so good. Instead of getting angry because of his rude words, he actually stopped and stopped approaching.

  The coachman rubbed his red nose, let out a strange voice, and then said kindly: "The mountain road is only that wide, and the military department sent these heavy cavalry up. It's no wonder it's not blocked."

  The coachman hung the bucket in his hand on the back of the carriage again, and said: "There are only a few evil spirits, and they put on such a big battle..."

  The coachman seemed very talkative. He looked at Suldak seriously and said, "Which infantry regiment do you belong to? Why did you go up at this time?"

  Suldak leaned over, sat on the shaft behind the carriage, and said with a smile: "We are from the 57th Infantry Regiment. We just came back from a patrol mission..."

"Oh, no wonder..." The coachman pondered for a while, and then said: "It is said that this time there is a situation here, and it is also the patrol team of your regiment. The search area of ​​your fifty-seventh regiment is in the west. Go west over this mountain. , probably will come across."

   Sometimes that's the case, the people in the back office are often the best informed. They are even more aware of the deployment of troops on the battlefield than the young nobles in the war room, and they only need to chat with them a few times, and they will always get some useful news.

  (end of this chapter)