Chapter 21 20. Murder in the dark
The cries of owl beasts came from the mountains and dense forests in the night, and the heavy armored infantry regiment of the Fourth Battalion marched in the dense forest all day.
Although there were two short breaks, but it was so late, the soldiers in metal armor were inevitably a little exhausted, and the team began to fall behind.
Although the sky was full of stars above the head, the woodland was pitch black, and the team could only move forward slowly.
If you want to climb the mountains on the west side of the Great Col, you need to detour a very long way.
The nocturnal little beasts in the forest were frightened and sprang out of the bushes from time to time, and occasionally surprised a group of gray mountain magpies that had returned to their nests.
Baron Sidney walked at the front of the team with a silver cane. He rode a horse for a day during the day, and when he walked the mountain road at night, he was naturally more physically active than other soldiers. This was especially true. Baron Sidney was also called The thorny bushes on the hillside made a mess.
His meticulously combed light-blonde hair has become a little greasy and messy, and an oval tree leaf is still attached to his head.
A squadron leader following Baron Sidney said politely: "Master Baron, why not let the team rest first."
Baron Sidney looked at the pitch-black mountains and forests, slowly shook his head and said: "Let the soldiers hold on, this is not a place to rest, we need to go all out to climb to the top of the mountain."
The squadron leader had a bitter face. Seeing Sidney walking forward without looking back, he could only send an order to the soldiers behind: "Let everyone follow!"
In the dark mountain forest, there are countless tree and vine traps buried among the bushes and dense forests. If the soldiers are not careful, they will be **** by the tree and vine traps and hang from the tree by their ankles, although this kind of trap is not enough to kill people. They died, but even if the soldiers were rescued from the trees, most of them were covered with bruises, resulting in a certain degree of attrition.
In the dark night, this dense forest is like a terrifying monster with its mouth wide open, devouring the combat power of the Fourth Battalion bit by bit.
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He Boqiang gently pushed Suldak, his eyes fell on a hanging tree vine on the left.
Suldak understood immediately, quickly avoided the vine, and whispered to the red sock Garcia behind him: "Indigenous hunters have set a lot of traps in the forest, we have to be careful."
Red Sock Garcia passed the news to his companions behind him, and followed closely in Suldak's footsteps, avoiding the taut vine.
Walking behind He Boqiang, Suldak complained to He Boqiang in a low voice: "Actually, we can find a place to rest on a cliff sheltered from the wind. After walking for a whole day, everyone's physical strength has dropped significantly. It is simply unrealistic to fight overnight. "
He Boqiang groped forward cautiously, carefully dealing with the traps in the bushes ahead.
In fact, He Boqiang has no experience in this, and he was able to detect the traps in the woods purely by being cautious and maintaining a skeptical attitude towards everything that appeared in front of him. Disharmony, He Boqiang relies on this to identify traps in the dense forest.
He Boqiang walked in front of the team. He walked very slowly, so the second team slowly fell behind the team.
The **** of the mountains becomes steeper and steeper, and the road becomes more difficult to move forward.
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"Woo~~"
There was a mournful sob in the dense forest.
A heavily armored soldier who fell at the back asked softly to his companion:
"What's that sound?"
The companion beside him dragged his heavy legs and replied feebly:
The heavily armored soldier touched the weapon on his waist, and his uneasy heart calmed down, jokingly said:
"Including bodies buried in graves?"
The companion around him stopped, his face was stunned after panic, and his voice was a little cold:
"And the gravediggers of the cemetery."
The heavily armored soldier followed the eyes of his companions, and in the dark forest, a pair of blood-red eyes were staring greedily at them.
The two soldiers were busy trying to catch up with the troops walking ahead, but another pair of blood-red eyes lit up in the darkness, and then pairs of blood-red eyes opened from the darkness, and there were dozens of pairs at once.
The two soldiers wanted to warn the front, but they didn't expect that those eyes just attracted their attention. Two huge shadows appeared from behind them, and a pair of furry paws rested on the shoulders of the two soldiers. The soldiers in heavy armor thought that their companions were patting them behind them, so they hurriedly turned their heads to look back, but they didn't expect that what was waiting was a **** mouth, biting their throats like lightning, and throwing them both to the ground .
Before struggling a few times, his body straightened up, and was dragged into the darkness by the two huge shadows.
'crunch'
A biting sound that made the bones sore came from behind.
He Boqiang felt a chill down his back.
At this time, the other heavily armored fighters who were behind the team also felt that something was wrong, and they looked back behind the sound.
I saw pairs of blood-red eyes following closely behind, and the nearest pair of red eyes had already shown its general body outline. It was clearly a hyena with spotted mane all over its body. With a big mouth, each hyena is as big as a calf, with white fangs bared outside, reflecting the penetrating light in the dark night.
"There are hyenas..."
Someone shouted out in the dark, and the whole team stopped, and everyone looked back.
Sure enough, a lot of hyenas drilled out of the bushes in the forest. Pairs of blood-red eyes appeared one after another in the darkness, and it was unknown how many hyenas followed behind.
The Sixth Squadron was at the back of the line. At this time, the leader of the Sixth Squadron of the Fourth Brigade immediately stood up and shouted to the soldiers in the last row:
"Everyone keep quiet, don't shout, the shield warriors in the team come to the back, the longbowmen get ready, listen to my orders!"
The soldiers of the 4th Brigade of the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment are all well-trained veterans. When someone gave orders, the soldiers immediately picked up their shields and quickly formed a shield wall. Members of the second squad were also mixed in. He Boqiang raised his arm With a small round shield, Suldak blocked him first, holding a square shield with one hand.
After all, everyone is a well-trained fighter, and the formation speed is very fast.
The longbowmen in the middle of the team immediately put on the bowstrings of the longbows carefully, and then lined up on the battlefield, put the steel arrows on the bowstrings, aiming at the dense forest behind.
The squadron leader immediately gave orders: "Get ready, let the arrows go!"
A rain of arrows shot out from the team, and disappeared into the woodland in an instant, followed by the wailing of hyenas.
Just when the squadron leader wanted to order the longbowmen to shoot a second round of arrow rain, the hyenas also rushed out from the dense forest behind.
"Aw~"
They rushed to the shield wall formed by the soldiers in the rear recklessly, and someone in the team immediately shouted:
"No, they're coming."
"Block them, spearmen form behind..."
(end of this chapter)