Time passed minute by minute, and even though the distant echoes had long since dissipated, Juan's words still echoed in his ears amid the beeping and burning sounds of torches.
Everyone stared blankly at the dots of torches down the mountain and the bows and arrows in the hands of the gangsters. They knew that when the arrows were ignited and pierced into the wooden carriages, grass, cargo, human bodies and even the soil, the fire would be like a red line.
spread out like a magic carpet, turning this place into hell!
No one will survive. The bandits will cover this place with rockets over and over again, igniting everything that can be ignited, and using their swords to drive everyone who tries to leave this giant bonfire back into the fire until everyone is killed.
Burned alive.
This terrifying association made everyone present shudder.
"Oh my God, my God," a civilian woman screamed hysterically. The nerves that had been tense for a long time finally broke at this moment. She stared straightly and kept chanting, "They are going to burn us to death, oh, holy
Father, they are going to burn us. Oh my god..."
The woman's cry became a scream of panic. The color on everyone's face faded away at this moment. The old and weak women and children burst into tears, and the young and middle-aged civilians were also in despair. Ling Shuang held on to her sister tightly.
They held up their hands and bit their lips. The four students had fallen onto the wall of the car with their feet weak.
None of them had any experience in field combat. Therefore, from the beginning to now, they have been unprepared for this. Not only that, even a few minutes ago, they were becoming more and more optimistic, and once thought that the enemy would be unable to attack for a long time.
, already planning to retreat.
From the confusion when being attacked, to the light gradually seen after a series of hard battles, to the endless despair at this moment, after a reincarnation, people's mood does not return to the original place, but sinks into the endless abyss. This
The cruel truth is enough to make anyone suffer a nervous breakdown!
"Two minutes left!"
Juan's voice penetrated into the ears of everyone in the caravan like a poisonous snake.
The crying disappeared, and after a short period of silence, a steward of the cactus caravan looked at the people around him in panic and shouted: "Surrender! Let's surrender!"
His proposal was immediately echoed by many people. People shouted emotionally as if they were grasping the last straw to save their lives.
"Yes, we surrender!"
"surrender!"
"If they want money, just give them the money and just let us go."
"Please, Mr. Fergus, surrender."
"Yes, human life is more important than money!"
"We can't save it anyway, it's better to surrender than to be burned to death!"
The crowd's voices became louder and louder. At first, there were only one or two people, but later, almost all the civilians joined in. Although the mercenaries and guards beside them did not speak, their panic and silence were also evident.
also expressed support for this suggestion.
Hearing the noisy pleading of the crowd, even with Fergus's calmness and calmness, he could no longer hold his breath.
He quickly walked to Roy, pulled him away from the crowd, and asked in a low voice, "Little brother, tell me the truth, will your magic pattern array work? If it doesn't work, we will give you all your belongings."
As long as they can give everyone a way out."
"Do you believe what that guy said?" Roy looked at Fergus in surprise.
"Of course I don't believe it. But..." Fergus smiled bitterly and looked back at the crowd next to him.
At this time, the noise of the crowd had gradually subsided, and everyone looked at Fergus and Roy with confusion. They didn't understand that Fergus didn't discuss with Musi and Jinson, but he just went with a moron.
The boy whispered.
Fergus looked dimly, gritted his teeth, and turned around: "My idea is to let them let some people go first. Then we can deliver the goods after everyone has gone far. Otherwise, we will be set on fire and dispersed in one fell swoop."
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Hearing what Fergus said, Roy was a little surprised and couldn't help but look at Fergus again.
Although the middle-aged businessman in front of him has an ordinary appearance and looks like most of his peers, he is a little bald and a little bit fatter. But his kindness and magnanimity are really admirable.
Roy has been working in the Borabel market for many years, and he must be very clear about the stinginess and greed of merchants. The wealth worth millions of gold is equivalent to the total property of all the people in the entire Borabel city. If it were exchanged
If I were someone else, I'd rather die here than lose even one Copper Sani.
But Fergus still made such a suggestion. To be able to say it outright, it was obvious that this idea had passed through his mind many times.
"The magic pattern array has been set up," Roy scratched his head and couldn't bear to see the kind middle-aged man anxious anymore, so he consoled him, "Don't worry."
When Fergus heard this, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Although the other person was not much older than his own son, he didn't know why, but at this moment, he instinctively trusted the silly and cute face in front of him. His impetuous mood was also because of
The boy's words gave him a calm reply.
"Then I'm relieved," Fergus said, turning to look down the mountain: "Since he has issued such a threat, I think Juan is at the end of his rope."
"That's not true. They are preparing another trick." Roy shook his head and gave Fergus an unexpected answer.
Fergus turned around in surprise and saw the young man's delicate profile flickering in the light of the torch, and his blue eyes staring at the group of bandits down the mountain with a hint of teasing.
"How do you say this?" he asked.
Roy said calmly: "The guards of Viscount Wenger are here."
"Ah?" Fergus felt that the skin on his face was slightly numb and his lips were cold. He knew that his face must be horribly white without looking in the mirror, "How did you know?"
"Ears listen, eyes see." Roy pointed to his eyes and ears.
Relying on the hunter's [earth hearing] skills, he can hear the sound of a cheetah's paw pads touching the ground when it jumps out of a tree two kilometers away. Coupled with the natural elemental eyes that can capture changes in distant elements, he can understand the approximate situation on the other side of the shady scene.
What happened is not a problem.
Of course, this was unimaginable to Fergus. He looked at the night as thick as ink and then at Roy. He couldn't understand how Roy could hear and see, let alone why this country boy could still do this.
After calming down for a long time, he asked innocently: "Really?"
Seeing this middle-aged fat man being dumbfounded by what Roy said, his two equally stupid faces, one big and one small, contrasted with each other. Malya'er next to him couldn't help but laugh secretly.
Her laughter attracted the glares of several students. They didn't understand how this heartless elf could still laugh at this time!
At this moment, Juan's roar came from the bottom of the mountain.
“Last minute!”
The caravan suddenly became chaotic. People craned their necks to look at Roy and Fergus beside them. Their inner anxiety and fear were palpable.
"Of course it's true, sir." Roy turned a deaf ear to Juan's roar and continued chatting with Fergus.
Fergus said in panic: "Then what should we do now? Where are our reinforcements?"
"The reinforcements will probably take more than half the prayer time," Roy said, rubbing his nose that was slightly red due to the cold wind. "If they are fast, they may be able to arrive within twenty minutes."
As he spoke, he breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his hands and said, "Let everyone hide in the inner formation and remove the bowstrings from the armor-piercing crossbows in the outer formation. If my guess is correct, after a while, there will be more of them."
Just shoot a few arrows up, and then we have to prepare to meet Wenger's guards."
"Wait, wait..." Fergus shook his head vigorously. He found that he couldn't keep up with Roy's thoughts and asked, "You mean, we have to let them up?"
"Of course. Don't you understand why they are threatening to launch rockets at this time?" Roy glanced at Fergus strangely, gestured to the crowd next to him with his mouth, and asked: "Look at them. The other party is threatening
If you want to fire rockets, that's fine if you don't surrender. If reinforcements come and you don't let them in, will they agree?"
"But!" Fergus was anxious at that time, and said with red eyes: "If it weren't for the Winger Guards, how could the Black Skeleton Bandit Group attack us here? They are just the same thing! Besides, we only need to wait for half an hour.
Now. When our reinforcements arrive, we will..."
"Sir, first of all, no one will believe what you said. They are afraid of being burned to death, and they even have hope in the words of people like Juan. Do you still expect them to be sensible? Secondly, if the other party joins forces to attack,
, we can’t delay half the prayer time..."
When Roy said this, he showed a gentle smile, "What's more, this is the territory of Viscount Wenger. Their guards come to rescue us. Do you dare not let us go?"
Fergus was speechless.
"But...but..."
He stared at Roy blankly, his mind in chaos, and he couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time. The gentle and harmless face of the young man in front of him was like a smiling devil in his eyes.
Only then did he realize that he had underestimated this black-haired boy. Roy's scheming vision was ten times or a hundred times better than that of him, Alder and others! When they were still worried about each other's rockets and thinking about how to survive the attack.
By that time, Roy had already seen what they had not seen.
"Shadows in the Light of the Law!"
This sentence appeared in Fergus's mind like a ghost.
According to imperial law, local lords enjoy great power within their territories. They can enfeoff land, raise armies, set tax rates, and have the right to judge and adjudicate subjects in their territories. Any lawsuits are adjudicated by the lords.
Therefore, whether a lord is fair or not accounts for a large part of his reputation.
According to the legal provisions of the Imperial Code on emergencies, when a caravan is attacked by bandits passing through the lord's territory, the lord is obliged to dispatch the army to rescue it. During this period, all civilians in the caravan are by default the lord's subjects and have the responsibility to assist the army.
Fight against bandits.
This means that if Wenger's guards want to enter the car formation at this moment, Fergus, who does not have a noble title, not only has no right to refuse, but must also accept leadership as a temporary subject of Wenger.
Once he dares to refuse the Wenger Guards to enter the formation, then the other party can launch an attack openly and openly on the charge that the caravans and bandits conspired to murder the Lord's Guards. After the trial, just blocking the reinforcements from the car formation will be enough.
Leave him speechless.
What's more important is that if you let the other party in, even though you haven't confirmed the truth, the consequences are the same. Even if the other party is willing, they can also frame you. Unless there are people with prominent positions or an army like the Red Leaf Knights who can stand by and watch.
Proof of identity of the person.
But this is even more ridiculous. If the Red Leaf Knights arrive, do they still need to prove it?
"Afraid?" Roy turned to look at Fergus, his honest face full of curiosity.
Sweat dropped from Fergus's face and his mouth trembled. He didn't understand how Roy could act like a normal person since he had already seen this. This was completely a dead end.
He smiled bitterly and asked, "Aren't you afraid?"
"Afraid!" Roy turned his head and looked at Matthew's figure among the bandits at the bottom of the mountain. He curled up the corners of his sharp mouth and said with a smile, "I'm afraid they'll all run away!"
Ever since he came out of desperate situation, until he saw Matthew, Roy had never thought about taking revenge now. Firstly, he couldn't find Matthew, and secondly, he knew his own strength very well and never thought of challenging the entire world by himself.
Viscounty.
If you don't move, you won't move. If you move, you'll get a fatal blow. This is a lesson he learned with blood in countless jungle hunts since he was a child.
He has never lacked patience, especially when facing those monsters that are far more powerful than himself. Sufficient patience and well-prepared traps are his most powerful magic weapons. Otherwise, a little boy who cannot practice fighting spirit will be dead early.
He has died countless times.
If he hadn't set out today, if he hadn't met this caravan on the road, maybe the next time he saw Matthew would be a long time later. But he didn't expect that just when he was preparing to improve his strength, God would use such a
The method brought Matthew to him.
This is Roy's favorite and best way.
He likes to hide in the shadows of the jungle and watch his prey. The feeling that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the dark makes him feel safe, calm and sober. He can think about the opponent bit by bit and observe the opponent's weaknesses, taking his time.
Set up traps, slowly lure the opponent over, and deliver the final fatal blow!
Just like now, he was watching Matthew.
Matthew would not know that there was an old friend of Borabel, staring at his throat like a demonic wolf. He didn't even know that when his family and bandits colluded to covet the millions of goods on the mountain in front of them.
, they have given Roy, who is accustomed to jungle hunting, the most wonderful opportunity.
Of course, Fergus and others who didn't know Roy or Matthew before didn't know either.
Roy's words were not loud, but they were enough for Fergus and the people within four or five meters around him to hear clearly. When his voice was cold and cold, Fergus, Musi,
Alder and Jinson both stared at him in shock, as if they were seeing a madman!
They were keenly aware that things were by no means as simple as they imagined. This black-haired boy was doing something crazy!
What does he want to do?!
Fergus was startled and stretched out his hand to grab Roy. Just when he was about to ask, he suddenly heard Juan's hideous laughter coming from down the mountain.
"Fire the arrow!"
This sound made the people in the caravan suddenly petrified. Whoosh! With a series of bowstring vibrations, the civilians who stopped crying and shouting raised their heads and watched more than ten red firelights rising from the bottom of the mountain to the heights.
high in the night sky, and then rushed towards the car formation like a shooting star.
People's pupils were shrinking sharply. Time also became extremely slow with the little bits of flying fire. Although there were only a dozen rockets flying at first, they knew that it was just the beginning. In the next second, there would be success.
Hundreds of rockets came in waves, setting the entire mountain on fire.
Just when everyone's eyes showed deep despair, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves in the distance.
This voice is so clear in the silent wilderness.
The people in the caravan and the bandits at the foot of the mountain were all stunned at the same time. The bandits did not continue to fire rockets. Most of the rockets flying in front landed crookedly on the hillside outside the car array, and only one or two arrows fell into the car array.
, the fire caused was immediately put out by everyone.
The sound of horse hooves gets closer and louder.
Finally, a cavalryman holding a torch high jumped up the hillside in the distance. As he appeared, torches lit up on the horizon.
"It's the Wenger Guards!" A student recognized the flag emblem on the hand of the cavalry and jumped up suddenly. A trace of excitement surged on his pale face. Following his shout, the hundreds of soldiers
The cavalry roared down the hillside and launched an attack on the encirclement of the Black Skeleton Bandit Group.
For a moment, there were only roars, the sound of horse hooves, screams, and the clash of swords. The Black Skeleton Bandits, who were caught off guard, suffered huge losses. The bandits who were leaning towards the side where the cavalry appeared were attacked one after another.
One of them was cut down to the ground.
Seeing the figures of the bandits falling one after another in the dark night, many people couldn't help but jump up and burst into warm cheers.
"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements are coming!"
"Great! We're saved!"
"Stop them!" Following Juan's furious roar, the bandits originally surrounding the hills no longer cared about the caravan. They quickly gathered together, shouting like wolves, and rushed forward one after another, trying to
From both wings, they closed in on the cavalry heading straight towards them.
The first to rush forward were the cavalry of the Black Skeleton Bandits.
Hundreds of well-equipped cavalry, led by dozens of thieves, rushed in on their poor horses and entangled the knights of Wenger's guard. With the addition of the infantry from the Black Skeleton Bandit Regiment behind them,
The speed of Wenger's guard cavalry, which was trapped in a tight siege, suddenly dropped.
"Danger!"
"Come on! Come here! Hurry!"
The people in the caravan all clenched their fists and shouted nervously.
Regardless of men, women, old or young, everyone's face was glowing with excitement and their eyes were bright. Even some of the caravan guards and mercenaries who had heard Roy's analysis before were no exception.
But the scene in front of him only made Fergus feel a chill from his heart.
He turned to look at Roy. In the dancing firelight, there was no expression on the young man's simple face. Even if his guess just now had been completely confirmed, he just stood there and stared calmly down the mountain.
Like a calm bystander.
Recalling Roy's previous words in his mind, Fergus didn't want to ask any more questions. He suddenly turned around and ordered: "Remove the armor-piercing crossbow string and everyone retreat to the inner formation!"
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When he saw a carriage move away in the queue, leaving a gap, Matthew was so excited that he almost screamed.
He knew he had succeeded.
In front of me, the bandits of the Black Skeleton Bandit Group screamed pitifully and fell to the ground "died" under the attack of the family guard cavalry. The Wenger Guards cut through the waves in the dark crowd. Although the speed was not fast, they could always move steadily.
Walking forward, we are getting closer and closer to the hill where the car formation is located.
The four-star brave knight rushing at the front of the guard is Matthew's teacher, the first knight of the Viscount Wenger, and the chief instructor - Feige.
Although he is only a four-star brave knight, Feige is wearing the only set of magic pattern armor of the Viscounty of Winger. He is the only heaven-changing knight that the family spent a lot of money to build. As long as he leads this team of cavalry,
Entering the car formation, even if the opponent's impartial knight attacks with all his strength, it is impossible to defeat him before the large force seizes the car formation.
Matthew felt extremely happy when he thought that soon, the wealth worth more than one million gold coins on the mountain would become his own.
What excites him even more is that this is the last time he has been hanging out with this group of dirty and smelly gangsters for a year and a half. With this money, he can follow his family to the imperial capital and start a new life.
The life that a noble should really live, without having to suffer in the mountains and forests.
At this moment, Matthew felt that time was passing extremely slowly. He had to take deep breaths to slow down his heartbeat.
Finally, Wenger's guards cut a "bloody road" and rushed to the top of the mountain.
Because of the need to perform this play, the troops brought by Feige were left behind. Only more than a hundred cavalry were dispatched. Among these cavalry, there were forty family knights and more than twenty people.
, is the big thief who just sneaked behind and changed into cavalry clothes.
Being infiltrated by this force, let alone entering a small car formation, even a well-guarded castle will only end in fall!
Clatter, click, click, horse hooves were rushing. On the hillside, the knights of the Wenger family, covered in blood, were galloping up. The archers in the car formation also kept throwing arrows at the "chasing" group of bandits to cover the Wenger guards.
"These idiots!" Juan, who retreated from the killing array, stood next to Matthew with a sinister smile on his face.
Matthew sneered proudly: "It's not that they are stupid. It's that when they are desperate, they have no choice. There is an old saying in the East, which is that drinking poison to quench thirst. This is a portrayal!"
Juan squinted at Matthew: "Do you still understand this?"
Matthew raised his eyebrows but said nothing. A rough man like Juan, who was born in a rough and turbulent world, naturally didn't understand. Any nobleman, no matter how dandy he is, must receive training in music, literature, mathematics, astronomy, dance and flower art from an early age.
Education, training in etiquette and conversation.
In the upper class society, the mysterious East has always been a topic of interest because of the existence of Farrington's gang of black-haired warriors. Although he only heard the term "drinking poison to quench thirst" from others by chance, it was used to bluff
People like Juan are enough.
Seeing Matthew's arrogant look, Juan snorted coldly and said nothing.
He realized that he still underestimated Matthew. Although this kind of aristocratic playboy was not good at martial arts and could not endure much hardship, he was naturally good at playing tricks and intrigues.
It is said that this boy used to join the Royal Knights in Polabel, ostensibly agreeing to escort the civilians. When the Royal Knights and Baron Polabel charged in front to gain time and space to escape, this boy remained silent.
He led his men and ran away first.
That time, the Royal Legion suffered heavy losses, and Baron Brian of Borabel was killed in battle, but this kid didn't even get a scratch on his skin.
But this time, when Matthew proposed using Wenger's guards to deceive the opponent's car formation, Juan did not think it was a good idea at first. You know, in the early stages of the attack, in order to isolate the news, the guards killed one of the opponent's vehicles.
Lu Tan, if the caravan knew that Lu Tan had been killed and still greeted the guards, it would be an idiot!
Therefore, in Juan's view, this is a complete waste of time. But when we were discussing it, Matthew strongly advocated giving it a try. He explained a lot about the laws, and Juan still hasn't figured it out yet. But now there is one thing
That's for sure, that is, after he threatened to set fire to the car formation and fired more than a dozen rockets at it, as soon as the opponent saw the cavalry of Wenger's guard, they immediately opened the car formation in a hurry.
While they were talking, the guards had already reached the top of the mountain. Juan and Matthew held their breath at the same time.
Ten meters, five meters...
"Inside!"
When they saw the guards filing in through the gap in the brightly lit car formation, the two couldn't help but waved their fists and ordered at the same time: "Go up!"
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One after another, war horses stepped on the muddy ground and filed in quickly.
Seeing these blood-covered Wenger Guards soldiers, the people in the car formation were so excited that they couldn't control themselves. The women wiped away tears of joy, and the men couldn't help but cheer. If they hadn't been ordered to stay in the inner formation,
I'm afraid everyone has already rushed to the side of Wenger's guardsmen by this time.
The most excited ones are the students from the knight training camp.
They looked at the soldiers in front of them excitedly, unable to express in words the ecstasy in their hearts. The arrival of the guard cavalry meant that this disaster was finally over. It wouldn't be long before they could return to the city of Munni.
Tell your classmates about this thrilling experience.
However, not everyone is so optimistic.
Jin Sen and others stood in the inner formation, their faces as iron as steel. Fergus had already told them the current situation, and they also knew that Roy was right. Before the Red Leaf Knights arrived, they could not stop the enemy's attack, and they could not stop the enemy's attack.
There is no reason to reject Wenger's guards who appear in a "rescue" posture.
This is a dead end.
They could only stand here, together with the cheering people, looking at Roy standing alone at the entrance. They didn't know what this black-haired boy wanted to do!
Feige reined in the reins in front of Roy, looked back at his subordinates who were galloping in, and then set his eyes on the country boy in front of him, who was dressed in rustic clothes and had a simple and honest appearance.
As soon as he entered the car formation, he discovered that there was an inner formation surrounded by medium-sized carriages. The guards in the outer formation had all been evacuated. Except for this young man, everyone hid in the inner formation.
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"Why is there no one here?" Feige asked Roy with a gentle smile on his face.
Roy said naively: "They are all inside."
This answer is tantamount to saying nothing.
Feige laughed. He knew very well that the people in the car formation were obviously guarding him. However, it was just in vain. Since the outer formation was taken, a small inner formation could be solved by just flipping hands.
Broken things.
Therefore, he was not interested in pursuing further questions.
At the bottom of the mountain, the wild shouts and running sounds of the Black Skeleton Bandits could be heard, and the car formation had fallen. At this time, there was no need to make any more disguises.
"Then why did they leave you here alone?" Feige drew out his sword, looked at the country boy's suddenly frozen eyes, listened to the cheers that suddenly stopped, laughed ferociously, and slashed down!