10. Ignorance and Deception
The fire that soared into the sky and the violent vibrations, then the smoke and dust filled the entire sand thief's nest.
Ma Wei's face changed drastically, and he stared at the old lair of the sand thief filled with fire and screams. His tongue-in-mouthed voice was soon overwhelmed by howls: "How could it be? How could there be explosives?!"
Due to Mawei's orders, only 500 mercenaries were left behind, only cavalry and fifty elite soldiers who protected Mawei. The rest entered the Sand Pirate's nest for search missions.
This sudden explosion attack directly crippled at least half of Mawei's troops.
Ma Wei's chest was undulating violently, and the blue veins were compacted and raised on his white-faced face: "Impossible, how could this group of sand thieves have explosives!! This is impossible!!" Ma Wei still couldn't believe that the sand thieves actually had explosives like this.
Kicking over the wooden chair and paced back and forth, Mavi forced himself to calm down. After taking a few deep breaths, Mavi could almost smell the burnt smell in the air: "People are organized to fight soon, they are coming out!"
Although Ma Wei doesn't know how to fight, he still understands this common sense thing.
Under his order, although he was frightened, the mercenaries with extremely high professional qualities began to arrange troops.
Looking at the somewhat depressed morale, Ma Wei had no good idea. He gritted his teeth and had to bite the bullet and followed him to turn over, which made his morale slightly improve.
Leading by example can play a great role in this disadvantage.
When Mawei pulled off the burden on his body and came to the front of the team wearing armor and swords, everyone's eyes fell on the seemingly weak middle-aged man.
Having lost so many elites, Mavie had to take down the salt well.
With his face stiff, Ma Wei's eyes were a little red, his eyes flew past everyone, and suddenly raised the sword in his hand and shouted: "Follow me and charge!!"
It was indeed effective to lead by example, especially when everyone saw a light white mysterious halo slowly lit up on Ma Wei's body, the emotions of the entire cavalry brigade were mobilized to the highest point.
Like a light bulb, the increasingly brighter halo quickly wrapped around Mawei's body. It was like a god descending to earth, under the dark sky, Mawei's body gradually disappeared into the white halo, and turned into a luminous body that was rushing rapidly.
Rick and others stared at the rapidly approaching luminous body, their minds blank!
"God! This is a god!!" A border army looked at the white glowing body of Mawei's incarnation, and suddenly cried and fell to the ground with his butt raised, shouting in the local language of the Satsuma people, and kept bowing to the glowing body that was getting closer and closer!
Even the knowledgeable squadron leader was blindfolded by the sudden appearance of the luminous body. He opened his mouth in surprise, his eyes as if they were stuck with glue, and he looked at the mysterious luminous body without blinking.
Ma Wei, who was hiding in the white light, had a ferocious face at this time, and the sword in his hand was raised high, ready to harvest the lives of those rustlers at any time.
The sound of horse hooves of the mercenaries behind him gave Ma Wei infinite courage. This appearance effect really had a miraculous effect.
The morale of the mercenaries was greatly improved, while the border troops were stunned. Some local bullies even knelt down and shouted at the gods. The darkness allowed this simple zero-level lighting spell to achieve the maximum effect.
Ignorance is the most terrifying thing. It is just a simple zero-level lighting spell. In the eyes of these rustic bullies who have never seen the world, they have become the incarnation of gods.
To be honest, when Ma Wei was struggling to activate this level zero spell just now, he was still very nervous. After all, this level zero spell that has no lethality and can even be used to illuminate in the dark, can it shock these rustlers?
But now it seems that these worries are redundant. Haven’t you seen the bald thief leader kneel on the ground to repent for his sins?
Ma Wei even had the leisure to think that when conquering these rusty bullies who have never seen the world in the future, they would simply use a few zero-level lighting techniques and use them a few times in the dark. Wouldn't they be able to conquer the alien continent where the rusty bulls are crawling all over the ground?
"Swoosh!" A crossbow arrow flashing with bright steel patterns passed through the lighting technique that had no practical effect and stared at Uncle Mawei's shoulder.
The diamond crossbow arrow penetrated Mawei's leather armor and penetrated into Mawei's muscle fibers, blocking the momentum by the bones.
But the impact of the crossbow arrow still made Ma Wei scream and fell off the horse. He was almost stomped into a meat paste by the mercenary subordinates who were caught off guard in the rear.
Fortunately, the mercenaries had good riding skills, so they disrupted the charge formation and avoided Mr. Ma Wei who had landed on the ground.
"Ah!! Save me! Save me!!" Mr. Ma Wei, who had just arrived in the earth, was hit back to his original form by a crossbow arrow. He was covered in sand, his hair was loose, and blood was splattered on his shoulders. He looked so embarrassed.
Looking at Ma Wei, who was snot and tears flowing, the sight of the border troops and the leader of the sand thief fell on the thin and dark young man for the first time.
He was wearing a relatively clean reserve uniform and his eyes were quite bright. At this time, the bowstrings of the crossbow in his hand were still vibrating, proving that the crossbow arrow just now was indeed shot by this young man.
Thousands of words turned into a roar at this moment: "Kill!! Kill the blasphemous charlatan!!"
Rick held up his crossbow and suddenly roared, which scared everyone around him.
The fastest reaction was the squadron leader and the leader of the sand thief. The two looked at each other and pulled out their weapons tacitly. Angry roar echoed throughout the sand thief camp: "My sons! Follow me to kill the blasphemous charlatan!!"
The easy harvest moment was destroyed by Rick.
Therefore, those mercenaries who charge can only accept the baptism of crazy crossbow arrows.
Screams and howls, accompanied by the "puff" sound of crossbow arrows entering the flesh, the broken bones of falling horses...
Two groups of people illuminated by torches quickly collided with each other, and a brilliant wave of flesh and blood burst out.
The saber swung horizontally, the crossbow arrows flew around, the intestines broke and the stomach flowed, and the brain plasma foam...
Because he was not wary of the other party, in addition to explosives, there were also controlled weapons and crossbows, the mercenaries that Ma Wei had just organized were once again severely injured.
But the brave fighting style of this team of mercenaries also gave the border troops and sand thieves a head-on blow.
Before the sand thieves and the border troops were in the string again, the mercenaries rushed over. But after a difficult distance, the mercenaries could only give up the advantage of charge and intervene with the border troops and the border troops.
The terrain here is complex and a large number of weathered rock groups block the most favorable charge of the cavalry.
So in just a few minutes, the entire battlefield became a hand-to-hand battle like a meat grinder.
Chapter completed!