Chapter 673 662. Killing wolves
Suldak did not leave the Sweetwater Oasis the next day. This is the closest desert oasis to the barren land, and it takes about two days to ride a horse.
It is the last springboard for these desert bandits to enter the barren land. For Suldak, it is impossible to send troops to station here. The barren land security squadron does not have such strength for the time being, but they cannot let the sweet water oasis be left alone here.
Sweet pool is a deep pool, and there is a deep underground river that connects here to form a sweet pool that will never dry up.
Relying on the northern part of this sweet pool, a broad-leaved poplar forest grows. This forest land is only about half an acre in size. It is winter at this moment, and there are no small animals living in the forest. It's too small, and there are often desert robbers stationed by the sweet water pool. Although they won't settle here for a long time, the products here can't support many people, but the robbers use this place as a temporary camp to replenish the water source, but it is very difficult. nice place.
I just didn't expect that there would be a bandit group with more than 200 members this time, using this place as a winter place, and hoarding a lot of winter food for this purpose.
According to the judgment of Gabriel, the head of the sea giant mercenaries, this desert bandit is likely to be a weak brigade that was driven out by other stronger desert bandits when they were fighting for territory. Catch up with this year's Suldak leading a team to fight against the desert bandits... It can only be said that they are unlucky.
In the freezing winter, the wet sand beside the sweet water pool has been frozen hard, but Suldak didn't care about this, and directly ordered two hundred veterans of the cavalry battalion and reserve knights of the guard battalion to start logging together. The poplar grove was not too big, hundreds of trees were cut down in half a day, and the branches were not pruned, and all the trees were directly piled on the sweet water pool that had formed an ice pool.
Suldak ordered people to set fire to the hill-like trees.
The fire ignited, and the flames shot up into the sky, and a thick, straight smoke rose into the sky.
It burned from noon until the next morning. At night, the fire here could be seen dozens of miles away. The fire directly melted the frozen soil around the sweet water pool. When the flames were extinguished and the sand became cold, two hundred The veterans used their shovels to fill up the sweet pool.
In just three days, a desert oasis with a sweet water pool disappeared on the map, and Suldak also drew a small red cross at the location of the sweet water oasis on the map outside the barren land.
If there is no war, this place can obviously become an excellent paradise.
The mercenary group has not been idle for the past three days, and sent all the rangers in the team to disperse the investigation, looking for the oasis closest to the sweet water oasis.
That's right, the target is not a bandit group, but a desert oasis.
Perhaps the battle here scared away the surrounding desert bandits. The mercenary group found two desert oases one after another. Although there were traces of living there, no desert bandits were found.
Suldak drew two circles on the map according to the information obtained by the mercenary group, and casually pointed to one of the circles and said to everyone: "Let's go here!"
When the team arrived at this oasis, they found that the pool here had dried up. Some reeds around the pool roughly outlined the outline of the pool. The pool here was several times larger than the pool in the sweet water oasis. If there was water, it should be A small lake.
Seeing the lush aquatic plants on the shore, it is obvious that the pool here probably has water in the summer of the wet season. Now it is entering the dry season, and the small lake here has dried up again.
The west side of this small lake is surrounded by a high sand hill, on the whole sand hill there are actually some seabuckthorn grass and immortal thirsty, and there are clusters of oil trees under the sand hill, this kind of low tree thorn can be used for Weaving baskets and baskets, this oasis is not a habitable oasis, but just between the pool and the sandy hill, there is a well made of stones, which is very deep when viewed from above.
Suldak's team camped here, stayed only one night, and then led the team to another oasis.
Before leaving, Suldak asked all the veterans to find a big stone near the sand hill in this oasis...
As he took out a fire-scale bomb from his arms, he had a total of twenty such fire-scale bombs. These fire-scale bombs were all given to him by Baron Iman Owen when he was in Constantinople. He took out one of his gifts now, in order to test the power of the fire scale bomb.
Pull out the fuze on the fire-scale bomb, throw the fire-scale bomb into the well, and soon there is a 'dong' sound, and the fire-scale bomb falls into the well water.
Gulitum wanted to probe into the well, but Suldak grabbed his arm.
The ogre turned to look at Suldak suspiciously...
There was a muffled 'boom', and the well water rushed out from a depth of more than ten meters, like a violent fountain rushing three meters high, and then quickly fell back.
Looking at the intensity of the explosion, it is obvious that the bottom of the well has completely collapsed.
Surdak turned around and waved to the veterans carrying stones in a row. These veterans threw all the stones into the well, and finally buried the well with dry yellow sand. The team left this oasis.
Captain Gabriel grinned, and only now did he understand Suldak's plan. Since these oases in the desert are useless to the villagers in the barren land, and will become temporary camps for desert bandits, it is better to destroy them directly Lose.
This can be regarded as another form of clearing the wild with a strong wall, but it is not the wild that is cleared.
In Suldak's team, there were a group of women who had been taken back from the desert robbers. The speed along the way was much slower. On the way, some women escaped from the team at night, and Suldak didn't let anyone stop him. Good horses, let them go if they want to go...
However, most of the women were forced to choose to stay. In such a cold winter, without the food supplies in Suldak's team, they simply couldn't leave the desert alive.
In the first two days of entering the desert, Viru was so lazy every day that he used the ‘Earth Vision’ to detect the situation around the team, and he almost rode a horse and followed the team leisurely.
This year, the wind wolves in the desert also began to form a large-scale wolf pack because they did not have enough food to survive the winter, and this pack of wolves had obviously smelled the smell here, and at first they only gathered in the distance, waiting for them to appear in the field of vision At that time, it was like a gray cloud on the sand dunes. There were at least a few hundred of those wind wolves, but they seemed very patient, and did not rush up to hunt Suldak's team, but sent a small group first The wind wolf ran over to test the strength of the team.
The big wind wolf followed behind the team, like a gray shadow.
Seeing these wind wolves, except for the ogre Gullitum who seemed a little excited, everyone was shrouded in a shadow. There were too many wind wolves. These were not ordinary wolves, but first-class wolves. Warcraft Wind Wolves can be called Warcraft, which means that they have some kind of magic in their bodies. This low-level wind wolf belongs to the lowest wind attribute monster, and is good at releasing wind blades in battle.
And even though they belong to the first-level monsters, they are the most useless of the monsters. The probability of a magic core appearing in the skull of a first-level monster is almost one in ten, and the fur is hard and long, which belongs to the worst kind of monster fur. Fangs and wolf claws are also rotten street things and worthless, so many adventure groups and mercenary groups will not choose to hunt these low-value-added monsters.
In contrast, the value of first-level monsters such as the magic antelope and the blue ice deer is very high, and they are the first choice for many adventure groups to hunt and kill.
It is precisely because the wind wolves have little commercial value that there are more and more wind wolves in the wilderness. In such a remote place, the wind wolves who were originally good at walking alone or in small groups have gathered hundreds of them. Very annoying, but also very cunning. Once they are targeted, they will become very patient, like a piece of brown sugar sticking to their backs. They have extremely strong endurance and will wait until the best time before they all out.
Most of the veterans in the cavalry battalion had experience in hunting wind wolves, but the fifty reserve knights sent by the guard battalion had no experience in killing wolves. When they saw the pack of wolves behind them, their faces turned pale with fright.
Facing these troublesome wind wolves, Suldak is actually a little excited. Recently, he has a very high desire for primary sacrifices.
Suldak was a little worried that when the wolves tracked halfway, seeing that there was nothing to say, they would decisively choose to give up.
So he slowed down the team, and then called everyone together to discuss countermeasures.
For hunting monsters, Captain Gabriel of the sea giant mercenary group has the absolute right to speak. Many times the mercenary group really can't get the task, and they will go to the Pagros Mountains to hunt some monsters and collect monster materials to the magic market. sell money.
Captain Gabriel and his mercenaries are very familiar with the habits of these wind wolves, and at the same time they simply look down on these wind wolves, thinking they are worthless.
However, Suldak didn't seem to talk about the value of the wind wolves at all, but directly discussed how to hunt and kill these wind wolves.
"We have so many people, they will never charge up easily, unless they confirm our true strength, the gap with them is too big, and they have enough strength to eat us in one bite." Captain Gabriel said to Suldak: " So booby-trapping shouldn't work, they're very smart and don't fall for it easily."
Andrew, who was sitting opposite Suldak, said: "Then is it feasible for us to place some traps along the way? When they track them up, some wind wolves will definitely fall into the traps."
Captain Gabriel shook his head again, and said: "We don't carry many beast traps, and it's not realistic to set up traps to hunt them down. Those are wind wolves, and their sharp teeth can bite off the chains on the beast traps."
Negating two plans one after another, seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Captain Gabriel thought about it seriously, and then said: "The best way is for us to send out a few small elite teams to wander around the large group of wind wolves. Beside them, adopt a safari approach to them, and nibble away at them little by little."
"But is it really good for us to stay here and waste time hunting these wind wolves?" Captain Gabriel asked Suldak.
He felt that Suldak might not know the value of wind wolves in the market, so he had such an idea, so he asked: "These wind wolves are not worth much at all, and there is not even a business house in Hailansa City that is willing to buy the magic of wind wolves." material, and their fur is the least valuable."
"Ahem, no matter what, it's still useful." Suldak coughed lightly, and then said to Captain Gabriel: "Captain Gabriel, these wind wolf heads will not be a piece of metal like a desert bandit. I haven't talked about these, so I think it will be priced according to the market price first, a complete wind wolf head fifty silver coins, what do you think?"
"The mercenary group obeys your arrangement." Gabriel felt that the price given by Suldak was very fair, and their mercenary group had rich experience in hunting wind wolves.
Decided to hunt these wind wolves, the team stopped moving forward and chose to station on the south **** of a sand dune.
A total of two elite wolf hunting teams were set up here. Captain Gabriel dispatched ten people from the mercenary group to form a hunting team. The rest of the mercenary group stayed to guard the large force. Litum, Andrew, Viru and several veterans who are good at hunting formed the second hunting team.
One of them carried two war horses, and rushed towards the wolves in the opposite direction.
Captain Gabriel feels that his mercenary group is more familiar with these wind wolves, so it will be easier to hunt and kill wind wolves...
It was only when he saw Viru riding a horse, drawing the scorching bow a hundred meters away, and easily shooting through the throat of the wind wolf with a refined steel arrow, did he realize how terrifying it is to have a Hawkeye in the team, riding The horse ran back and forth outside the pack of wolves, shooting and killing more than ten wind wolves in one go.
Viru's action angered the wolves, and dozens of wind wolves rushed towards Viru like crazy.
Viru did not continue to shoot, but turned his horse's head and pulled the horse into the desert.
When these wind wolves catch up, they will definitely lose touch with the wind wolf army. If Vilu is allowed to go away, he will ride another horse and continue to shoot cold arrows around the wind wolf army.
Pulling back and forth like this several times, there are already more than 30 wind wolves corpses, and those wind wolves finally lost their minds, ran at full speed, and rushed towards Vilu.
Gulitum couldn't hold back his excitement for a long time. Holding a bone-crushing stick, he met Vilu who ran back from a distance.
This hunting continued until the sunset.
Viru shot almost all the steel arrows he carried with him, and when he counted the corpses of the wind wolves, he found that he had hunted and killed more than 80 wind wolves...
For Suldak, such a large sum of wind wolf head income made him feel relieved, and the 'Blessed Body' could continue to be maintained.
(end of this chapter)