Chapter 336: Thugs
Sean was asleep when he suddenly heard someone screaming something and woke up. For a moment, he thought he was in the big bed of Sur City's house, until he saw the figures that kept flashing outside the tent, and he suddenly remembered that he was in a dangerous bloody rock wasteland, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat. The fat man hurriedly got up, and went out with two other merchants in the same account.
Seeing that Eren was saying something to the soldiers of the Mountain King, Sean hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "My lord, what happened." ”
"Someone's coming at us, but don't worry, we'll take care of it." Alan said simply.
Sean's face changed and he said, "How many are there?" ”
"Let's say that there are hundreds of people, there are more people."
"So many people." Sean said: "That should be Dick's father's subordinates, you must be careful, these guys are different from ordinary robbers." ”
Alan had also heard about this Dick daddy. He was the biggest bandit in the Bloodrock Wasteland, and there were two or three hundred thugs under his command who ate with him. Their lair heard that in a mountainous area of the wasteland, they specialized in robbing caravans bound for Violet Harbor, which caused a lot of headaches in the surrounding towns. Storm City and Violet Harbor once teamed up for an operation, but because the other party was too cunning and familiar with the environment of the Bloodrock Wasteland, they couldn't deal a fatal blow to this gang of thugs.
Now, Daddy Dick's bounty has accumulated tens of thousands of gold coins in several surrounding towns. Every year, many adventurers enter the Bloodrock Wasteland, but they basically return in vain.
Daddy Dick is a level 17 warrior himself, skilled in the greatsword, and there are very few people who can defeat him. At least in this frontier of the empire, there are really not many people over level 15. And a strong man who has the absolute strength to defeat Dick's father will not travel here specifically for nearly 10,000 gold coins. You must know that above level 20, you can already mix a good position in the empire, and they can't look down on it with nearly 10,000 gold coins.
"Whoever it is, I promise you'll be fine." Alan said lightly, "If it's Dick's guy, I don't mind making a bounty." ”
He said it lightly, but Sean and several businessmen disagreed. After all, Daddy Dick's name has been passed down in the Blood Rock Wasteland for a long time, and if he was someone who was so easy to get rid of, the lords wouldn't have bothered with it.
Soon the neighing of horses was heard.
Eren had the Mountain King's soldiers gathered in front of the camp, and several bonfires were burning brightly, and the flames were bright enough to make a clear view of the nearby wilderness. Eren carried Chijun, Regers held the Cleaved Iron, and Willik wielded the Furious Beast's gauntlets. As for Adele, she crouches on the hillside and is ready to snipe at any time.
The crowd was on standby.
At this moment, the fire flickered on the other side of the wilderness. The light of the fire appeared from the left, gradually moving directly in front of the crowd. Flickering light and fire, marking the trajectory of the opponent's movement. Suddenly, a gunshot rang out in the distance. Firing guns to demonstrate is exactly the usual trick of the wilderness mob. It's a pity that they didn't bump into an ordinary caravan tonight, and the escort force shown by Allen and the others was even stronger than the regular army.
At least in the ordinary guards, there would not be three warriors of about level 15 in charge, let alone an army of brave mountain people. Not to mention that Allen was unmoved by the gunfire, even the soldiers of the Mountain King didn't even blink an eyelid.
A few more gunshots.
As the gunshots rang out one after another, the flames came from far and near. You can vaguely see the outlines of horses and human bodies in the firelight, and everyone on the other side has horses. The two of them rode together, with the knight in front of them pulling the reins in one hand and holding a torch in the other. The companions in the rear, carrying fire/guns, howled like wolves as they approached the caravan, both as a demonstration and as they cheered up.
Alan smiled and glanced at Adele on the hillside behind her.
The girl should be aware of it.
Suddenly, a rough gunshot rang out in the night, and that special voice was by no means comparable to fire/gun. Almost as soon as the gun rang out, a horse suddenly fell from the opposite side, and immediately the knight fell to the ground, his chest was blood-red, and he was already dead.
The wilderness was suddenly silent, and only the monotonous sound of horses' hooves still sounded.
The distance between the two sides is still five or six hundred meters, and in terms of the firearms of this world, it is not possible to carry out such a long-range point fire, let alone contact with a sniper rifle. Adele's sniper shocked the group of thieves, and also greatly increased the confidence of several businessmen such as Sean.
Obviously, such a shock is not enough. So the bandits in the wilderness were silent for a moment, and everyone began to shout and curse. As the horses approached, the shots rang out. Although the sound is not as loud as a sniper rifle, when dozens of fire/guns are fired together, the gunfire is enough to make Sean and the others frightened. It's just that the firing distance of the fire/gun is limited, and this burst of gunfire has no actual lethality except for being relatively loud.
Alan waved his hand and said, "Defense." ”
Dima and the other warriors immediately rushed forward, each holding a square-shaped steel shield in their hands, in groups of ten. A shield wall was assembled in front of the camp, and the bandits approached, firing fire/gunfire, but the bullet blades propelled by the gunpowder could not kill a single soldier except for the roar of the shield wall.
In the group of thieves, a bald man scolded. He put down his gun, replaced it with a pair of short-handled scythes hanging from his horse, and shouted, "Charge me, break up their shield walls." ”
His name is Hank, and he is one of Dick's leaders. Because of the use of double sickles, it gradually got the nickname "death sickle". The soldiers at the Wind Erosion Rift level gave Dick news of Allen's caravan, and Dick gave him the task. Hank thought it was a piece of fat, but now that he saw the tightly seamed shield wall guarded by the other party, he realized that it was a hard bone.
Thinking of this, Hank couldn't help but secretly curse the soldiers of Storm City, blaming them for not having enough detailed information. But in fact, they can't be blamed, after all, in the eyes of those soldiers, a caravan that comes out of Sur City can be a strong escort force. If it weren't for the disparity in the number of people on both sides, maybe they would have done it directly, how could they have notified Dick and his gang?
The sound of sniper rifles rang out in the wilderness at a constant frequency, and every time the guns rang out, a horse must have fallen. This scared Hank, fearing that the murder weapon he had never seen before would kill him. It's a pity that Adele is not familiar with Dick's father's bandits, and she doesn't know who his leaders are. Otherwise, Adele's first shot would definitely kill Hank.
Now, the girl can only make random choices.
It's just that after the group of thieves rushed closer, she didn't have a chance to make a move, so as not to injure her own people by mistake. At this point, the battle is all Alan and his business.
The bandits galloped up and collided with the Mountain King's troops. Hank's men were outnumbered, and they crashed into each other like a flood. But the king of the mountain was definitely a hard reef, and under a fierce and tough impact, only a dozen or so warriors flew away, and the rest still held their shields on the ground and withstood the impact. The force of the recoil also caused the bandits to roll on their backs, and after a period of confusion, the two sides began to tear apart.
The shield wall of the Mountain King spread out, and Dima and the others met the group of thieves with steel shields and weapons in hand. Regis and Willik joined the fray, while Alan stayed put. After Roy's training, Dima's tactics are quite military-style, simple and tough. In particular, the fifteen soldiers of Diman, who were armed with short-handled war hammers, had even more concise and efficient combat techniques.
Alan noticed that the most they used was sweeping, dancing, and slamming. The tricks are simple and almost boring, but they are very effective. In the hands of these warriors with an average level of five or six levels, where the short-handled war hammer hit, the bandits either had their weapons shattered or their human bodies deformed, and few of them could withstand their two or three blows.
And even in the melee, the soldiers of the Mountain King were in order. They, in groups of three, look out for each other and are quickly clearing out the wilderness thugs.
One of the most powerful collisions since the beginning of the war caught Allen's attention, and when he looked up, he saw two scythes in the hands of a bald man dancing like the wind, killing the three Mountain King warriors only for defense, and completely falling behind. This man was obviously the best of the pack, and Alan smiled faintly and dragged his knife away.
Hank gritted his teeth.
While suppressing the three Mountain King warriors, he kept an eye on the situation on the field.
The situation is very bad.
His fallen subordinates seemed to be outnumbered, but in the face of the well-trained caravan guards, they could not give full play to their numerical advantage like a plate of loose sand, but were gradually eaten by the other party. He himself was fighting fiercely with the three guards of the other side, and he knew it even more. I don't know where these guards came from, they just have tough tactics, and they are all tenacious.
He had a round of onslaught just now, and he thought that these three people would definitely be defeated. I didn't think that although they were at a disadvantage, they were injured but not killed. If this is one person, he will definitely not be able to do ten moves under Hank. But they were in groups of three, and the organized defense made him feel like he had nowhere to start.
At this moment, Hank's scalp went cold. He looked up in horror, only to see a man leap out from behind the three guards, condescendingly slashing at him with a long black knife. At the end of the knife, the wind of the knife pressed him so hard that he couldn't breathe.
Hank screamed and rolled on the ground with his scythe. Eren slammed his knife to the ground, and there was a muffled sound on the ground, like a drum. Hank's heart thumped, and he looked at the silver-haired boy in front of him with a numb scalp, and his intuition told him that this boy was extremely difficult to mess with. Hank gritted his teeth, did not retreat, but advanced, and the double sickles pulled out a heavy scythe shadow, like the raging waves of the sea, wave after wave, wave after wave, launching an endless attack on Allen.
Allen secretly said in his heart that this person also has some eyesight, and he can see that Qianjun's heavy weapon cannot be allowed to be fully displayed, and can only be suppressed first. After Allen blocked a few waves of attacks, a touch of red on Qianjun's blade quietly dissolved, and suddenly the heavy knife had a bit more ferocious. R1058