Chapter 670 659. Oasis Battle
Taking advantage of the night, Suldak returned to the sulfur mine in Pustout Mountain. Before he had time to say a few words to Aphrodite who lived in the sulfur camp, he quickly got into the lava mine and ran to the treasure room to feed the dragon. …
Finally, before dawn, Suril was appeased in the treasure room, and Suldak returned to the camp.
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Before entering the desert full of yellow sand, some dilapidated villages appeared among the mountains along the way. The remaining wreckage made people realize how cruel those bandits are. They raided the barren land , devouring the living space of the barren land little by little, and now it has penetrated into the hinterland of the barren land, and the horseshoe has even set foot in the Great Rift Valley.
There is remnant snow everywhere, and the bones hidden under the snow occasionally show a corner, which makes this place look extremely desolate.
In the afternoon, Suldak said that the team led by him finally arrived at the edge of the desert. At this moment, the desert was also covered with a layer of hard snow shells. These snow shells were caused by the melting and condensation of the snow surface. The snow on the surface of the desert is like solid ice, but this layer of snow is not too thick. Whether it is a person or a war horse stepping on it, it will quickly collapse, and then step into the soft yellow sand and sink deeply.
After the war horses entered the desert, their speed slowed down. On the contrary, those camels that had been dragging their feet behind the team became more relaxed at this time. Each of those dromedary camels had four thick and large hooves. On the yellow sand, they didn't sink deeply, and their legs were long enough, so they walked very smoothly on the desert.
In order to reduce the burden on the horses, all the people dismounted, led the horses through the snow, and walked forward on the yellow sand.
Andrew and Suldak got together, pointed to the boundless yellow sand in front of them, wiped the snow scum from their beards with their hands, and said to Suldak distressedly: "Last time, Gullit and I Mu also entered the desert from here. At that time, the snow had not yet frozen. We originally followed a bandit group and prepared to nibble away at them. There are more camels than horses. When we entered the desert, we rode camels and led the horses to escape. Gulitum and I chased after them with all our strength, but we only chased and killed more than a dozen robbers, and let them get rid of them completely. The environment is too familiar, there is no way to catch up!"
"I'm not in the mood to play cat-and-mouse with them this time. Now that I've formed a death feud, I don't intend to let any of them go. The law of survival in this desert is survival of the fittest..." Sur Dakla pulled his ancient horse and said to Andrew beside him.
After walking into the desert, Suldak realized that he thought the environment here was a little too simple.
Now every time I take a step, I have to sink deep into the yellow sand below my knees. It takes several times the strength to take a step. In this environment, I will be out of breath even after taking a few more steps. Fighting looks like a big problem!
"If you can't catch up with them, then occupy this place little by little and sweep them out from here." Suldak said to Andrew.
Selena followed behind the two of them. She sat on the back of a camel and wore a thick fur cloak. She was very quiet all the way and rarely spoke.
Gulitham was mixed in the team, his tall body was always looking around, he seemed a little impatient, and he was always walking around the three local guides restlessly, as if he had something to ask, but It was not easy to speak, and the three guides were frightened, thinking that Gulitum had some bad thoughts about them, and they were not very familiar with this place when they entered the desert, so it was useless at all, they didn't want to Three desserts to be an ogre.
Suldak saw that Gulitum was always walking around in the team, so he stopped him curiously and asked, "Gulitum, what are you looking for?"
"Wind wolf, I heard from the old hunter in the village that as soon as you enter the desert, you may be targeted by the wind wolf. Before they gather enough strength, they will probably not surround you, but will follow behind silently. , the moment they appear, it means that they are sure to eat us, in fact, I want to know whether they can keep up, if there are already a few behind us, I think the dinner should be changed!" Gulitum leaned next to Suldak and whispered.
"You are looking forward to the wind wolf!" Suldak finally understood that Gulitum might be hungry.
Gulitham said with some frustration: "But you see, we've been walking for so long, and we haven't even seen a single wolf!"
"You can ask Viru, he is the Hawkeye I found, he has the 'Earth Vision', if there are wind wolves, they must not escape his eyes!" Suldak said to Gulitum.
The ogre was happy when he heard what Suldak said, and ran towards Viru with big strides, as if the desert yellow sand could not hinder his footsteps at all.
Viru stood on a large sand dune, observing the surroundings on the edge of the desert. Although Hawkeye's "Earth Vision" sounds mysterious, it is actually very similar to the "Shared Vision" of the Beastmaster Hunter. It is just the Beastmaster in the true sense of the Green Empire Hunters are basically extinct. At present, only the orc tribes on the Pai Plateau still have Beastmaster hunters.
Viru can let his vision be sent to the harpy eagle he raised, let it fly into the sky, and take the opportunity to check the conditions of the mountains, rivers, earth and rivers under his feet, but this kind of spiritual attachment can't last long, and he can't lie on the harpy eagle and fly too far, otherwise They couldn't see anything either. Viluda's sphere of influence happened to cover ten kilometers around. Although it wasn't too far away, it was enough for scouting the enemy's situation.
This time Suldak is also planning to draw a detailed map of the desert on the edge of the Badlands.
The ogre walked quickly up the big sand dune and squatted beside Viru. The two seemed to have a conversation, but in just a few words, the ogre jumped high from the sand dune, cheered and jumped from the heights. Jumping down the high sand dunes, he didn't return to the team, but spread his pads and ran straight towards the northwest.
Captain Gabriel of the sea giant mercenary regiment was at the front of the team. Seeing the figure of the ogre rushing away, he frowned first, and then gave a few instructions to the deputy commander beside him. Si took a high-ranking ranger with one turn on the horse and ran towards the front of the team. The two horses seemed to be completely unaffected by the sand, and they ran fast on the yellow sand.
Captain Gabriel considers that his mercenary group receives high commissions every day, so he has to bear the heaviest responsibility in the team, the safety of the entire team, the detection of the whereabouts of the desert bandits, and the battle with the bandits in the desert. They all need their own mercenary group to play as the absolute main force.
He sent two rangers, including the deputy head, to investigate the surrounding situation, hoping to detect the enemy's situation in advance. The mercenaries must reflect their own value, at least to make the employer feel that the money they spend is worthwhile just work.
The team walked very slowly when they entered the desert. The fifty reserve knights finally felt how hard it is to march in an extremely harsh environment. When the team stopped, each of these reserve knights seemed to be exhausted. I can't wait to lie flat on the cold sand...
They were driven up by Suldak with a whip. They couldn't save the fire, feed the horses, and set up tents.
Just as the reserve knights were complaining, the veterans had silently started a fire, and began to sit in front of the fire in turn, stretching out their feet, and roasting the icy **** that had condensed on the boots, making them who were about to lose Sensitive feet feel the temperature again, and there seems to be no tiredness on their faces. This kind of arduous march is far more difficult for them than going to Oak Ridge to dig cassava in winter.
The veterans in the cavalry battalion were also studying. They secretly stared at the mercenaries in the mercenary regiment, and silently recorded all their actions along the way. Although some things were incomprehensible, they did not prevent them from recording them. .
Viru caught up from behind, and the ogre Gulitemdi also trotted back from the desert in the northwest.
Suldak saw the harvest tied to his waist from a distance.
Yes, he really met a small group of wind wolves.
It's not a day or two since Gulitum misses the wind wolf meat. Of course, he won't let them escape when he sees the wind wolf. For an ogre who can face the third-level monsters head-on, these first-level monsters are basically It's not enough to watch, the bone-crushing stick in his hand hit the wolf's head, and immediately smashed the wind wolf's skull to pieces, and then he immediately thought that the headless wind wolf was what Suldak disliked the most, and immediately change tactics...
This time he brought back six wind wolves. Although the meat of these wolves was not enough for everyone in the team to make tooth sacrifices, it was enough for him to eat as much as he could.
He rushed back in a hurry, because he was going to let Suldak peel off the wolf's skin and try to get the most value from the wind wolf.
Because there was an ogre in the team, after the team entered the desert, the situation of being followed by a pack of wolves did not happen.
And this kind of sour wolf meat seems to satisfy the ogre even more. He spared no effort to run around, and his primitive hunting skills also made everyone admire him. Then drag the corpse back, the method is simple and direct.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s too cold and the robbers are hiding, so they didn’t encounter any bandits along the way.
At dusk on the third day of departure, Suerdak's team finally saw a small oasis in the sand sea, but this oasis was in a world of ice and snow, all the leaves of the trees were withered, and some silver rime hung on the branches. , like a small world of ice and snow.
You can see a wisp of smoke rising from the direction of the oasis from a distance, which means that there are people living in the desert oasis. Just looking at the faint smoke, you can know that there are not many desert robbers in this sweet water oasis.
Suldak didn't even need to identify the people who lived in the Sweetwater Oasis as bandits.
This season,
At this time, if it weren't for the robbers, it would be impossible for them to survive on the desert oasis.
Viru took back the 'Earth Vision' and said to Suldak: "It should be a large camp of desert bandits, with less than a hundred people."
The mercenaries of the sea giant mercenary group all showed joy, their eyes fell on Captain Gabriel, Gabriel Gerry nodded, and then whispered to the mercenaries: "Kill the old man directly, women and children don't count Head count, you can kill if there is a threat, your main targets are those strong desert robbers, a piece of hardware, horses and camels belong to the employer, be careful, don’t kill them, be careful about deducting money!”
"Okay, boss!" The mercenaries responded excitedly.
Before starting the battle again, Suldak arranged the mission in a decent manner: "Captain Gabriel, you lead people to rush up from the front, the cavalry battalion surrounds from the left, and the guard battalion knights surround from the right..."
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When the setting sun was about to sink into the yellow sand, a row of shadows appeared on the desolate desert. Like a big open hand, they surrounded this sweet water oasis with an area of less than one square kilometer.
There was no temptation at all. When the sound of rumbling horseshoes came, the war horse was only a few hundred meters away from the Tianshui Oasis.
A group of desert robbers living in the sweet water oasis just had dinner, and just when they were about to get into the tent with the hot white sheep to spend the night, they heard the sound of horseshoes coming from all directions like rolling thunder. These desert robbers immediately put on their hard leather armor, scrambled to get out of the tent, picked up the weapons in their hands, and mounted their horses one after another.
Seeing a row of knights rushing forward, knowing that the only way to escape at this time is to be slaughtered in the desert, he gritted his teeth, screamed strangely, and waved the scimitar in his hand to face the front, trying to cut through the front , Seek a chance.
But before they could rush up, a row of arrows shot over, and the desert bandits who rushed to the front were shot down one after another.
Commander Gabriel and the other seven high-ranking fighters in the mercenary group formed a front arrow formation, and the eight rushed to the front. Just before they collided with the desert robbers, a huge mountain suddenly appeared behind Captain Gabriel In an instant, the mountain turned into a wall of earth, blocking the bodies of the eight high-ranking warriors. The desert robbers were not in a hurry, and their scimitars slashed at the wall.
"kill…"
Captain Gabriel let out a roar from his throat, and the spear in his hand was like a spirit snake spitting out a letter. Suddenly, a burst of gun light erupted from Gabriel's hand. He picked up the shield, but the gun light hit the shield like a torrential rain, the impact sounded repeatedly, and the shield in the robber's hand sank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The robber's arm was numb from the shock, and finally he couldn't hold the shield. Captain Gabriel took advantage of the situation and shot the robber in front of him.
The bandits behind rushed up, wanting to take the opportunity to cut off Captain Gabriel, the mercenaries behind Captain Gabriel quickly blocked the blow for him, Captain Gabriel drew back his long sword, and handed out the spear with his backhand, piercing through the hole one after another. the throat of a robber.
Several high-ranking mercenaries with superior strength from the sea giant mercenary group instantly opened a gap in front of the bandit group. Thirty well-trained mercenaries strangled the bandits together.
(end of this chapter)