V1.Chapter 75

Adventurers act separately from the army.

The fighting methods of the two are completely different. The training method of the army focuses on offensive and defensive strength, and the fighting method of adventurers focuses on dexterity and evasion. Even furious barbarians are better at dodging than military-trained fighters, who are accustomed to fighting in large groups. The adventurer team generally does not exceed ten people, and the most common fighting method is a group of five, including frontal hard resistance, fighting, sneak attack and spell healing. The way the army fights is a row of uniform heavy infantry fighters, holding steel shields in their hands, and a small number of defense fighters equipped with super tower shields.

A wise adventurer can tell by looking at the fighting style of others whether they are from the army or have been trained in the army.

Sauron's mission is to scout the enemy.

The adventurers were assigned to three teams, one was the reconnaissance team, which consisted of thirteen rogues and five rangers, all of which were above Tier 2 strength. One is the combat team, which consists of warriors, rangers, barbarians, priests, etc. Their task is to clear small groups of enemies after the army has defeated the enemy, and at the same time serve as flank support to cover the army. Finally, there are a small number of wizards, sorcerers and druids, who, as key protection objects, move with the army.

Wizards rarely join the army. They make more money than the army by doing anything, and live more comfortably than the army.

If you want to pay the salary of hiring wizards, you can definitely bring down a prosperous city.

So, the most common is this kind of employment relationship, paying a lot of money to get them out when necessary. Before the departure, everyone received a reward. Soran's side received 30 Kindlers, which was 10 Kindlers higher than other warrior professions. According to the diving rules of this world, anyone who acts as a sentinel, scout, or stealth mission can get 50% of the reward in advance. Because they will encounter more danger, and at the same time they can get an extra point of loot after the end.

The scouts are not simply scouts, they are the vanguard of the war, and those who dare to act as scouts are veterans.

Soren's reward is 60 Kindlers.

The spoils of the slaughter should be counted after the end, and the things that were fought by the previous individuals belonged to themselves. The so-called 'one shot of a cannon is a thousand taels of gold'. It is not enough to dispatch the army with a single order. After the army is launched, the army's pay is all doubled. Large pensions are required. Although it is not like an adventurer who has to pay tens or hundreds of Kindlers at once, the total cost is quite staggering.

On the day the army set off, White Horse City was very excited. Many businessmen volunteered to donate some materials, and at the same time, they also asked the guards to keep up.

The 2,000-strong army was mighty, and its momentum was even more shocking than the tens of thousands of people in Sauron's memory. The 1,000-strong city guard was all equipped with iron-inlaid leather armor, shields, short swords, helmets and hand crossbows. . Heavy infantry with a size of 500 people, equipped with chain armor to half body armor, uniformly equipped with steel shields, iron helmets, refined weapons, and heavy crossbows with two bursts. The last five hundred people are the elites, including the heavy infantry with full body plate armor, the whole person is wrapped in armor, only a pair of eyes are exposed, and the arms are equipped with fish scale gauntlets.

These heavy infantry are equipped with complex equipment, including two-handed heavy swords, sword and shield combinations, and some carry strong crossbows with them.

Then there are the civic warriors of the noble class, the honorary citizens and the knight class, who are equipped with armored warhorses, knightly armor, knightly spears, steel shields, and hardcover hand crossbows. Each knight is accompanied by one or two knight attendants. Their equipment is the same as that of heavy infantry. They usually fight with the knights, and follow the knights to make up for the enemy when the group charges.

To be honest.

The regular army of this world, even the equipment of the light infantry, is configured according to the standard of the heavy infantry in the Middle Ages of the previous life. And the probability of being equipped with crossbow bolts in the army is extremely high, and they all have special training in strong crossbow shooting. The equipment and firepower of a regular army squad can make people stunned. Against a modern firearms force, as long as there are no heavy firepower weapons, it is a safe bet.

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As a scout troop, Sauron naturally needs to go one step ahead.

The advance of the army was not fast, and there was a shortage of good horses in the south, and the hoplites were marching with a load of more than 20 kilograms. The stamina of the advanced warriors is very strong. Although the outbreak of the battle is not durable, the marching load is easy. People who haven't practiced martial arts don't know the physical consumption in an explosive state. They often think that they can march for dozens of kilometers with a heavy load, and it is easy to fight for half an hour and an hour in battle.

This is a very silent statement.

There is a saying among martial arts practitioners called 'strengthening energy'. It is fine to fight for an hour or two without exerting energy, but once the energy is released and three strokes, one's internal physical strength will drop rapidly.

If the burst is too high, the muscle will go directly into a state of excessive fatigue, or even serious damage.

There is no way to recover from this state of physical fitness quickly.

When Sauron activated [Sword Stance - Heavy Cleave], he was in a state of extreme energy, and his whole body's strength exploded in an instant, consuming more than one or two hours of physical energy in an instant. This is not the legendary infuriating energy, but a technique for mobilizing the strength of the muscles of the whole body, and even the strength of the internal organs. (PS: Since the opening of the book, the issue of physical fitness has been complained about for more than half a month. Those students who have doubts, please lunge and twist your waist before sprinting punches. Please remember to take a deep breath before punching. Although it can’t meet the standard of energy, But if you punch with all your strength, it is almost equivalent to a physical explosion. Please test the speed of physical energy consumption, the number of punches, and the feeling of your internal organs. If you punch out, your arms are sore and your internal organs are uncomfortable, then don't grab one in the future. Don't let the problem go, add more knowledge about yourself. Not just to read it on Baidu, but also to experiment with your own hands. - Buddha.)

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Marching camping.

The first day was no different from what Sauron remembered. On the second day, all the scouts spread out in a mesh. The army continued to advance along the road. The adventurers who accepted the mission were divided into small groups and entered the forest.

Sauron's figure moved forward in the dense woods, and behind him was a half-elf ranger who believed in the goddess of the forest.

The opponent is a veteran of survival in the wild, with good stealth and reconnaissance abilities. Although he cannot be invisible due to his occupation, his light footsteps are light and agile and his movements are not inferior to rogues. He couldn't tell his age, because half-elves lived between one or two hundred years old, but they looked younger, wearing a hard leather armor, equipped with a longbow on the back, and the weapon used was a boning knife inside a machete.

"It's a gnoll!"

The half-elf ranger named Yas crouched down to judge the footprints on the ground, then opened the grass to look at other traces, and said solemnly: "There should be some goblins and kobolds. We will take care of this little problem ourselves. It can be solved, there is no need to send a signal to the brigade."

Since it is to clean up monsters, it is natural to plow the entire area.

The scouts in the army were also scattered. Rogues are not common in the army, and the scouts in the army are mostly ranger warriors.

Sauron nodded lightly, glanced at the other party and said, "Can you track their location?"

Trace traces.

This is the forte of rangers. They are very capable of tracking enemies in the wilderness, and they can identify the direction by the smell of footprints.

"Small idea." Yas laughed and said, "Follow. They're not far away."

The half-elf ranger pulled out the boning knife, and then walked forward with a cat on his waist. After tracking for hundreds of meters, he would stay in place for a while to check the traces on the ground. Some footprints had become very faint, but he still succeeded in judging the direction. . Their innate perception ability makes them intuitive, and sometimes they can rely on intuition and experience to track without traces.

soon.

They found the first group of enemies.

It was a small-scale group of gnolls, with a dozen or so, domesticated three hyenas, and captured more than a dozen goblin kobolds as slaves and food reserves.

The half-elf ranger made a gesture toward both sides, and Sauron nodded lightly and escaped into the shadows, approaching from the side.

The opponent is a veteran of adventure, and this kind of battle is just a run-in.

Sauron's figure gradually approached along the shadow, without making any sound, he slowly drew out the machete, and touched the gathering place of gnolls from the side. The gnolls of this small group seem to be a bit special. They should have survived after fighting. There are no gnoll cubs in them, all of them are adults of the same kind.

The half-elf ranger waited until Sauron was getting closer, and then he came to a big tree. He jumped on the tree pole and jumped up, and in a second or two, he reached the branch of the big tree. The leaves made a slight rustling noise, and Yass separated the leaves and took out a longbow, and pulled out a wolf-toothed arrow from behind. The quiver of the Ranger is specially customized, and there are not many arrows in it, generally only 6-12, but all of them will not fall out when they are fixed and moved. You can't reach the arrow in an instant.

--"Backstab!"

Sauron's figure appeared in the shadows, jumped three or five meters in an instant, and the machete stabbed directly from the back of a jackal.

One kill!

The machete penetrated directly through the heart and came out from the front.

winded.

An arrow flew, and the disturbed gnoll in the gathering place rushed over. The gnoll at the front just raised the bone crushing hammer, and an arrow penetrated from its chest, almost completely submerged in its body.

Longbow shooting!

Sauron twisted his body and slashed horizontally, forcing the gnoll to retreat, and at the same time slashing a hole in the opponent's arm.

winded.

The second arrow was fired, and a gnoll's thigh was shot through a bloody hole.

The half-elf ranger put the longbow back on his back, his equipment was specially made, and the speed of changing weapons was extremely fast. I saw him jumping down from a four-to-five-meter-high tree, kneeling down on one knee to relieve the force of the fall, then pulled out the boning knife around his waist, took a deep breath, and his chest bulged high. .

Rangers are also melee professionals.

Yas inhaled a lot of oxygen in an instant, his pupils dilated slightly, from kneeling on one knee to half-squatting sprinting position, and then the whole person rushed out like a sharp arrow, and the speed of the explosion even exceeded the previous Olympic Games. M sprint champion.

--charge!

The half-elf ranger's explosive forward momentum was mixed with inertial force, and he jumped over the simple wooden fence. He clenched his boning knife and slashed horizontally, directly cutting off a gnoll from his waist, and the two corpses fell to the ground. He paused for a while to slow his breath, then rushed into the battle group, and launched a sneak attack by a gnoll.

"These rubbish are not worth letting me waste arrows! It costs five Kindlers!"

The half-elf ranger smiled, slashed the gnoll's chest with a knife, and kicked the enemy's Adam's apple with a sharp kick. At the same time, he explained to Sauron why he didn't continue to shoot. He used the highest-quality wolf-tooth arrows, and the arrows were uniquely customized, so that they would not deviate too much due to the wind direction and the air after they were shot. The figures of the two people staggered forward in the gnoll, and in just a minute or two, they killed six gnolls and three hyenas. The other enemies finally felt terrified and started to flee. Sauron pulled out a strong crossbow to shoot, and the half-elf ranger grabbed a sharp wooden stick, took a deep breath and threw it as a javelin at the fleeing gnoll. go out.

A shrill scream rang out.

The fleeing gnoll was pinned directly to the ground, and by the time he walked over to pull out the stick, Sauron had already used a strong crossbow to kill other monsters.

The half-elf ranger picked up the stick and turned around, and when his head hit the head of the gnoll who was still alive, the stick broke off, and a piece of white brain splashed and spilled, and the gnoll's skull was torn off. A piece fell off. He turned around and smiled at Sauron, then threw away the wooden stick and said, "Let's clean it up casually. These are just appetizers, the real big head is still on those ogres, who have robbed a lot of business recently. team."

An easy fight.

The relationship between the two is undoubtedly a lot closer, at least they both understand each other's strength.

This is a third-order ranger!

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