85. Lindau
The 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment entered Moyun Ridge as the advance army, cleared an open space on the slope less than five kilometers away from the main peak of Moyun Ridge, and set it up as a camp for subsequent large forces.
Although the hand-drawn map provided by Baron Sidney has scrawled writing and messy lines, the several mountains, ravines and rivers at the foot of Moyunling Mountain are all clearly marked, and there are even certain trees growing in certain forest areas.
There are clear annotations, and some passes that are suitable as blocking locations are also partially explained. This first-hand terrain information finally fell into the hands of the regiment leader, Count Mond Goss.
Although the camp location circled by Baron Sidney was not adopted by the senior management, Baron Sidney, the captain of the Fourth Battalion, actually showed his face once in front of the commanders of the expeditionary forces.
This time, Baron Sidney completed the task of opening up the forest road, which could be regarded as completely washing away the previous shame, and once again proved that he was not a young nobleman who relied on nepotism to rise to power.
The soldiers of the 57th Regiment had just finished setting up their tents when they received the task assigned by their superiors to build a wooden fence outside the camp to resist the raids of wild beasts and evil spirits. If this wooden fence wanted to stop the evil ghosts,
It needs to be at least ten meters high.
Captain Mond Goss did not let the soldiers of the Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment cut down the trees nearby. Instead, he requisitioned seventeen Thunder Rhinoceros and planned to transport the trees cut down when opening the forest road back to the camp.
These logs were scattered beside the forest road. The soldiers had to use logging axes to chop off the overgrown branches, tie the logs into bundles of ten, tie them to the backs of Thunder Rhinoceros, and then transport them back to the camp at the foot of Moyunling Mountain.
He Boqiang carried a logging ax and struggled to cut off the horizontal branches of a redwood tree. Red Socks, who was standing opposite, quickly dragged the chopped horizontal branches into the bushes.
The main task of the second team of soldiers today is to sort out the felled trees on both sides of the forest road.
The forest road was very congested. A heavy cavalry regiment and a logistics regiment transporting crossbows were crowded together and refused to give way to each other. The Thunder Rhinoceros carrying wood was blocked outside and could not get in. The soldiers of the second team cleared the branches of the trees in this area.
After the repairs were done, they stood idle on the roadside watching the excitement.
He Boqiang and Red Socks ran to the front and saw that the axle of a carriage transporting a bed crossbow was broken in the forest road. The entire flatbed carriage was stuck in the forest road, blocking the forest road tightly. The soldiers of the logistics group wanted to stop on the spot.
While the carriage was being repaired, the heavy cavalrymen who were stuck behind wanted to rush to the camp to camp this morning and were clamoring to push the flatbed cart into the woods next to the forest road.
Although the logistics regiment is just a group of auxiliary soldiers without any status, they control most of the supplies in the military camp, and they usually have a superior attitude.
At this time, when I saw someone trying to push the broken down flatbed truck from the logistics team into the woods, I naturally refused to agree.
While the heavy cavalry sergeant and the logistics regiment commander were having a heated argument, the heavy cavalry soldiers all raised the five-meter-long knight's spear hanging on the saddle and pointed it at the auxiliary soldiers of the logistics department from a distance.
A noncommissioned officer from the logistics regiment turned his face on the spot. He was as flexible as a monkey. He climbed onto the flatbed truck using his hands and feet. He took off the tarpaulin covering the bed crossbow, revealing a brand new bed crossbow inside. Several auxiliary soldiers followed.
The sergeant boarded the flatbed truck, quickly untied the rope that fixed the bed crossbow, and began to vigorously shake the wheel that adjusted the pitch angle. The bed crossbow made a soft sound, and the giant crossbow arrows with cold light were aimed at the arrogant heavy cavalry.
It was the first time He Boqiang saw this kind of large-scale ordnance. The main body of the ballista was made of wood, but many key parts were made of iron. Some of the iron plates were actually plated with silver, and not only were they engraved with complicated symbols.
Wen, there is also a magic crystal fragment inlaid on the middle base, and the entire ballista actually exudes a strong magical aura.
The auxiliary troops of the logistics regiment and the heavy cavalry were facing each other in a tense situation, full of the smell of gunpowder.
People kept gathering here from both ends of the forest road, and the place was completely surrounded.
He Boqiang and Red Socks waited in the crowd for a long time but no one took action. He Boqiang's feet were numb from standing, so he pulled Red Socks and squeezed out of the crowd.
There are dense woods on both sides of the forest road, and the dense woods are full of branches.
Suldak ordered the bearded Kagel to clear a clearing in the forest, and he took Augustus into the dense forest and shot two rex rabbits. He Boqiang and Red Socks lit a bonfire in the clearing.
Augustus put two skinned rex rabbits on a long branch and burned them on the charcoal fire.
At the beginning, there was thick smoke billowing in the forest area. When the branches were burned into charcoal, the fat from the rex rabbit meat fell on the bonfire drop by drop, and the aroma of the barbecue also floated far away on the wind.
The roads were so congested that many people missed lunch. Only then could they feel their stomachs rumbling when they smelled the aroma of barbecue.
The heavy cavalry and the auxiliary soldiers of the logistics regiment prepared lunch on the spot. Everyone ate some easy-to-eat marching rations. Then everyone thought that if they arrived at the camp at this time, they would not be sitting on the tree stumps for lunch like now.
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After they had eaten, both sides felt that continuing to stand in a stalemate would not solve any problem at all.
Everyone was no longer so angry, so they began to think about solutions.
At this time, everyone suddenly discovered that in the dense forest next to the congested forest road, birch trees were cut down one after another, rows of trees fell down, and the road near the congested forest road was nearly doubled.
The traffic situation has improved significantly. The heavy cavalry mounted their horses, lined up on the left side of the forest road, and slowly passed through this congested area.
The auxiliary soldiers of the Logistics Department also began to set up the pallet truck with the broken axle and began to replace the axle on the spot.
Seeing that the traffic on the forest road had become smoother, Surdak led the second team of soldiers to stop cutting down trees. They cleaned up the branches of the fallen trees and waited for the Thunder Rhinoceros to arrive and transport these giant trees back to the camp.
go.
But...no one seems to have noticed that the group of people who changed the traffic situation on the forest road were the infantry soldiers of the second team who were pruning branches beside the forest road.
"I thought they would fight..."
Red Socks put down the logging ax in his hand, wiped the sweat off his face, and said with regret.
Kagel was beside him, holding a bundle of cut branches and throwing them into the grass nearby.
Said to Red Socks: "Hey, are you really that boring?"
Just as Red Socks was about to speak, he happened to see a group of knights wearing patterned armor.
The group of people rode strong black horses and walked silently along the forest road. They exuded an aura that ordinary people could not match. Even if the forest road was very crowded, no one wanted to get close to them. Everyone consciously paid attention to these structures.
The costume knights give up one-third of the road for the costume knights to pass.
No one dared to provoke this group of construct knights. When they passed by, He Boqiang could clearly feel that almost no one was talking in the forest road.
Only Red Socks carelessly pulled He Boqiang's sleeve and said with excitement: "Little Duck, look...this is the construct knight of our Bena Legion..."
The bearded Kagel leaned against a fallen giant tree and said to Red Socks with a look of disgust on his face: "Even if you are the Duke, you don't seem to need to be so excited."
He Boqiang sat on the side of the road and looked at the burly knights carefully. It was said that they were wearing expensive magic pattern constructs. The black horses under them were also covered with a layer of armor, and their shiny black fur was faintly visible.
You can see some dark lines like scales.
Chapter completed!