Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir held the ax tightly in his hand, but he didn't just jump off the wooden wall and charge. His role was to push the wolves back from the wooden wall after they approached, preventing those beasts from breaking through the first line of defense easily.

"Everyone follows the plan before! Shoot carefully, and the target of the attack is on the northern land wolf caught in the metal clip!" Keel shouted: "Try to hit the arrow! Leave the rest to me!"

"Can it work?" A hunter also asked loudly.

Keir grinned, and glanced at the thick winter coat he was wearing when working: "Yes!"

In fact, he still has some doubts in his heart, but the situation is such that he can't say no.

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Northern land wolves run very fast on the snow, and when they run with all their strength, their four claws can splash the snow on the ground to a height of two meters, not to mention a large group of northern land wolves running and impacting together.

Not only Kiel and the others had northern land wolves rushing in front of them, but from the forest on both sides, where Kiel and the others could not see, there were also northern land wolves running out of the forest in small steps in twos and threes, and then joined the large pack of wolves. attack together.

Everyone looked nervously at the shadowy darkness in the distance, and while breathing nervously, those northern land wolves surged over like the water waves on the shore of Wumi Lake.

They ran at high speed and crowded together, and as the ditch outside the entrance of the rock passage squeezed the chaotic running formation, some northern land wolves were forced to squeeze on the mound of the ditch, and then were pitted by the steep slope. He stepped on the air and rolled directly to the bottom of the trench.

Stubby fire-baked spikes awaited them at the bottom of the trench.

Keir watched excitedly as part of the northern land wolves were squeezed into the trench and stabbed. Those sudden cries of pain proved that part of their previous position building was not in vain.

Immediately afterwards, the outside of the ten-meter-long passage flashed by, and a large group of northern land wolves crowded at the entrance of the suddenly narrowed passage. The nimble northern wolf jumped up, stepped on the bodies of other northern wolves to avoid hitting and dragging each other, and continued to charge forward.

Kiel's eyes widened: "Shoot the arrow, let the arrow go!"

"You still need to say!"

At the same moment, the fastest charging northern land wolf stepped into the metal clip specially prepared by Lanisa Knight.

These metal clips are specially designed to hunt and hurt canine beasts. Once the not-so-sensitive metal tenons are stepped on by wolf claws, the sharp and lightweight sharp-toothed iron clips on both sides will be closed at high speed. The torsion spring at the bottom is well resistant to the winter cold in Kendall, and it can still provide reliable and strong elastic force after many days of deployment.

Although these metal clips are not as heavy as the bear hunting metal clips weighing hundreds of kilograms, each of them looks very light in comparison, but the canine beasts are not particularly heavy.

click.

click.

Click, the metal clips closed quickly, accompanied by the fur and flesh of the front and rear paws of many northern land wolves being torn and crushed, and the animals howling and roaring.

At the same time, four arrows landed on the four trapped northern wolves at the same time.

All hit the body.

The four young hunters knew that this was not the time to save their arrows and stamina, so they shot arrows one after another. Northern land wolves howled everywhere in the passage ahead.

Keir didn't have time to applaud his companions, he strode to the left behind the wooden wall, let go of a young hunter who was concentrating on shooting from behind, raised the ax directly, and leaned against the side of the wooden wall At that time, he threw the raised ax under the wooden wall.

A northern land wolf who was lucky enough to avoid all the metal clips along the road is raising its front paws to put it on the wooden obstacles built by humans, building a wolf ladder for its companions rushing behind.

But an ax shining blue under the erratic firelight fell from the sky, and hit it on the head in one fell swoop.

The long wolf fur and strong skull failed to save its life, this blow killed it directly.

Boom.

Kiel gripped the handle of the ax tightly, and lifted the ax up regardless of the splashing blood. It was a little heavy for a moment, but with the weight of the northern wolf pulling, the ax was still pulled out of the wolf's head well.

Kiel straightened up, glanced at him, and quickly put the ax on his shoulder, and immediately moved to the other side of the wooden wall.

Fortunately, although it was the other end, because the entire rock passage was not very wide, Keel could reach it in time with two strides to catch up.

The northern land wolf here is amazing in its bounce. Before that, it directly stepped on the bodies of other trapped northern land wolves and crossed the continuous metal clamp area.

At this time, after the northern wolf rushed over, it accelerated directly under the wooden wall, and then used the scratching of the wood of the wooden wall to writhe its four claws back and forth, and was about to jump up the wooden wall.

How could it be so easy to rush up.

Keir swung the ax and smashed the heavy ax into its face, and smashed it back against the wooden wall with one blow.

The northern land wolf fell to the ground, half of its wolf face was smashed, its eyeballs were smashed, and clear **** liquid flowed out from the flattened eye sockets, and its originally upturned nose was also pulled by the edge of the axe. When it arrived, half of it was cut off directly, and the blood flowed like a column.

But even so, this fierce and dexterous animal still didn't give up, shaking its head and wanting to do it again.

Keir glanced at the guy below, and said casually to his fellow hunters, "Shoot this one."

The young hunter, who was drawing the bow and shooting arrows continuously, glanced at it, and when he shot another arrow, he lowered the body of the bow, nocked the arrow and pulled the string, and let it go.

Whoosh.

The arrow flew quickly across a distance of less than three meters, and shot into the other intact eye socket of the northern land wolf, killing the animal by entering its brain.

The hunter raised his bow and continued to aim at the scattered and trapped northern land wolf in front of him.

Although many northern wolves were shot and injured, being caught by metal clips or being hit by an arrow is not a means of directly killing northern wolves, so even if the forward attack is blocked, other northern wolves are still there. Continuously rushed forward.

It's just that most of them were blocked by the northern land wolves in front, and not all of them had the courage to step on the bodies of other northern land wolves and charge forward. These northern wolves selected as pioneers also come from different wolf dens. It is good to not quarrel and fight over the territory when they meet each other. How could it be possible for soldiers from other wolf den teams to step on their heads and bodies in the past.

Seeing the wolves huddling together at the entrance to the rock passage ahead, Keel told the hunters to slow down their fire. Afterwards, he repelled the northern land wolf that rushed over and tried to climb the wooden wall five times in a row.

Just after Kiel drove the seventh northern land wolf off the wooden wall, the heavy hooves of Knight Lanisa's war horse and the old but still vigorous steps of the old hunters came from behind.

The old hunters brought a large amount of defensive materials, and some other things. Kiel's armor and two long weapons were also carried by the knight's horse at the same time.

The four old hunters hurriedly replaced the four young hunters with sore arms, and they brought more arrows at the same time.

Knight Lanisa jumped off the horse, put Kiel's things aside, called Kiel to point to the things, and then jumped onto the place behind the wooden wall, defending the wooden wall instead of Kiel.

Keir jumped off the half-meter-high walkway behind the wooden wall and came to his equipment.

Knight Lanisa's war horse seemed to have a bad temper at this time, as if he was dissatisfied with being woken up urgently and unhappy that he was not useful.

Kiel will stretch his head over to push his horse's head away, unload the weapon on his body, then open the wooden box containing the armor shield, and put the armor parts on himself one by one.

The breastplate is put on first, then the boots are inserted directly into the thick armor boots, the calf armor is tightly wrapped with the armor boots, and then the thigh armor including the knee armor is put on the legs and connected.

After that is the belly and skirt armor, and the internal buckles are also connected in turn, and then the belly armor and the breastplate are connected together from the inside to the outside. The armor of the shoulders and upper arms is put on the arms and connected to the breastplate, and then the hands are extended into the one-piece armor including the arm guards and elbow protection gloves.

Finally, the circle-like neck armor is attached to the breastplate around the neck, followed by the helmet.

Quickly check all the connection buckles from the boots to the helmet, and confirm that they are all securely fastened together. Then, Kiel pins the armor belt that can be used to hang weapons and equipment around his waist, tightens it, and hangs the long sword Along with the dagger, the ax shield is also fastened to the back of the armor. After thinking about it, Kiel still leaned the all-metal gun against the rock wall of the passage, and picked up the long gun with a wooden body to use it.

That thing is really too heavy, it's okay to play with it twice, but it's too heavy to get in the way when fighting. At that time, he thought very well, the heavier the weapon, the more powerful it was, but he still overestimated his own strength.

It is not impossible to simply use an all-metal double-edged spear, but for a life-and-death battle, that thing is not a proficient weapon that he can use for a long time at this time.

Keel kicked the empty wooden box to the side of the passage to keep it out of the way.

Then he took the gun and came to the wooden wall.

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With the addition and replacement of the old hunter and Lanisa knight, the defense here at the wooden wall immediately became impenetrable.

The northern land wolves at the entrance of the passage huddled together, and they had to step on each other to get over the northern land wolves whose legs and claws were caught. But when they ran under the wooden wall, they would be punched one by one by Knight Lanisa without using weapons, and they would be punched to the ground one by one with their fists.

When Kiel saw it, he immediately leaned out and thrust his spear out from above, stabbing the felled Northern Land Wolf. Or he dropped the spear, stunned and injured the northern land wolf.

After a stalemate like this for a while, the northern land wolves retreated when they saw that they could not break through the human line of defense.

The injured northern land wolf also retreated, wanting to retreat into the darkness that humans could not see.

But obviously they can't get what they want.

"Shoot all, kill all those who want to retreat!" Knight Lanisa drew out her armor-piercing rapier and gave an order while waving. At the same time, she beckoned to Kiel, motioning for him to jump off the wooden wall with her and chase the retreating northern land wolf.

Kiel hesitated before agreeing. He was worried about the impact of the northern wolves' defeat and retreat, luring them out of the position to surround and kill them.

But thinking that the knight could throw him directly out of the wolves' encirclement with one hand, Kiel boldly jumped off the wooden wall, raised his hand and stabbed to death a northern wolf who was pretending to be dead and ambushing him with a spear.

"How cunning!" Kiel was taken aback.

Knight Lanisa didn't care. She just ignored the northern land wolves who were close to the wooden wall. Instead, holding a torch in one hand and a thin sword in the other, she quickly rushed towards the large group of northern land wolves retreating in the distance.

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Seeing Kiel jumping off the wooden wall, the injured northern land wolves on the ground revived. They tried to attack Kiel while they still had strength, but either they were knocked down by Kiel again, or they were headed by Kiel. The hunters on the mountain shot their arrows to death.

Keir was not in a hurry to follow Lanisa Knight to go out to kill, but from under the wooden wall, one by one, he tried to see if the fallen northern land wolves were dead.

If you are dead, shoot once, and if you are alive, you will have to shoot even more.

It seems that many northern land wolves have been killed and injured, but in fact, at this time, there are not many. If a large number of northern land wolves were injured, if they were not seriously injured, they would still have escaped.

After all, Kiel and the others were on the wooden wall, and there was nothing they could do about the injured and retreating northern land wolves. The main targets of hunters are still those boreal wolves whose legs and feet are clamped by metal clips. This is where the largest number of northern land wolves were killed in this battle.

Before and after the entrance of the rock passage, Keel and the others arranged all the metal clips here, so at this moment, there is a floor of northern land wolves waiting to die.

Some were dead, shot by hunters from a long distance with bows and arrows, but more were wounded and survived. One by one, they were all killed by Kiel who rushed to split their heads with an axe.

Kiel nodded, and it seemed that there were actually less than forty northern land wolf corpses everywhere. Although it looks like a lot, it's actually not a lot. And most of the hunters' arrows only injured many northern land wolves.

Kiel put away his weapon, looked at the torches moving back and forth on the edge of the forest in the distance, and guessed how much the female knight could achieve.

After watching for a while, Keir found that Knight Lanisa didn't seem to care much about killing the northern land wolf, and she was more looking for something. Keir couldn't understand it, so he no longer cared about the knight's harvest, and instead concentrated on clearing up the position.

It is definitely impossible for the corpse to stay in place. Although it seems to be able to deter those northern land wolves a little, it also covers the metal clip that has the most effective fighting effect on his side.

"Keir! Do you want to help lift it?" On the wooden wall, the old hunter leaned his hunting bow against the wood, leaned out and asked Kiel with his hands on the wooden wall.

Keir shook his head: "Forget it, according to the plan, you keep an eye on the entrance of the passage, and don't let scattered northern land wolves sneak over. I'll just carry these corpses back one by one."

In order to prevent the northern wolves from prolonging the battle time after the overall gathering by eating the corpses of their dead comrades, Kiel and the others plan to transport all the corpses that can be controlled on the battlefield back, first temporarily transporting them back to the back of the position, and then taking advantage of the intermission of the battle , Withdraw all the northern wolf corpses to the depths of the position.

Let them come into contact with these corpses that can be used as food later, let them come into contact with them one day later.

This is an action that looks laborious, but it is equally laborious to do, but the effect cannot be seen directly, but it can be understood when you think about it.

Until the sky became very dark, the thick clouds in the sky covered all three moons, and all the lighting was provided by the burning fire. Knight Lanisa returned to the first position at the entrance of the rock passage with the sound of metal boots stomping on the ground.

Everyone could hear the footsteps of the knight's boots, so they were relieved to let the knight approach from the darkness.

"How is it? How many of these northern land wolves did you kill just now?" The female knight walked over quickly, then jumped over the wooden wall with a light jump, and came to the fire behind the wooden wall and asked.

She didn't care about the answers of the hunters under her command, she just sat on the ground, the armor-piercing rapier in her hand was stuck on the rocky ground beside her, and the metal boots were close to the fire to keep her feet warm.

Everyone looked at it, and Kiel hit his shoulder with a fist with one hand, while resting his palm on the hilt of the long sword at his waist to recover his energy, and he didn't have any energy to express his opinion.

"My lord, there are not many. After you attacked and drove away the wolves, Kiel brought back all the northern land wolves that were killed here. There were only thirty-eight of them. In the previous battle, most of the northern land wolves were just collected. I got some injuries, and then ran away." An old hunter exchanged glances with the other three old hunters, and then said aloud.

"It's not what I expected~www.readwn.com~ Don't be discouraged, in fact, this is already very good. Although not many people were killed on the spot, it is still a significant number, let alone twice as many injuries Northern land wolves." Knight Lanisa roasted the fire and seemed to regain some energy, and said to the hunters: "They are injured, and they cannot be the same as the regular army. The church priests have fast healing. Now we Every time a northern land wolf is injured, a ferocious enemy can be subtracted in the most intense battle afterwards. They can only lie silently in the dry place, licking the wound with their tongues, unable to catch up with the climax of the battle."

"Hurry up and eat something. The team is also divided into two teams to rest alternately. You must know that after dawn, all the northern land wolves led by the wolf king will rush over, and then there will be no time to rest."

Knight Lanisa took out something, roasted it and started to eat it.

What the Cavaliers said made sense, everyone was divided into two teams and began to take turns to rest and eat.

After Knight Lanisa rested, she took the initiative to transport all the northern land wolf corpses in the passage behind to the top platform of the rocky mountain.

In this way, although there have been sporadic northern land wolves sticking out their heads on both sides of the entrance of the rock passage to scout them, but with previous failures, these northern land wolves dare not swarm to attack them again.

Keel leaned against the wooden wall and closed his eyes to doze off, thinking about the habits and hunting habits of the northern land wolf in his mind. It is estimated that before that, after those northern land wolves gathered in a group, they must have never encountered an opponent they could not deal with.

At least in this forest where they live, there is no opponent. Or there may be, but these opponents must not be active in winter, otherwise the northern wolves would not be able to develop such a behavior pattern.

Soon, it was dawn.