Chapter 12: Suppression of Robbers
Chapter 12: Suppressing Bandits
The border of the Northland rarely has a large-scale forest, the Magic Horn Forest is considered an exception, because here grows a kind of magic horn tree, this kind of tree has no flowers, no leaves and no fruits, it is just like hardened thorns, and it also has toxicity, once stabbed by the magic horn tree, the wound will be unbearably painful and bleed more than a fire, no one is willing to try this kind of feeling.
In addition here also lives a kind of magic horn kobolds, compared to ordinary kobolds, magic horn kobolds red eyes and black skin full of fangs, head also grows a small horn, bloodthirsty flesh-eating, and use the magic horn tree polished into a weapon, even if the soldiers dare not have the slightest carelessness, so very few people dare to go to the magic horn forest felling and hunting, therefore, the surrounding environment is getting better and better, periphery of the ordinary woods has formed a considerable scale, as long as the danger is not so deep, the danger is not that much. one does not go deep, the danger is not that great.
Only if you enter the Magic Horn Forest in groups, are you not afraid of attracting the Magic Horn Goblins?
These little monsters were the ones who liked people the most, after all, people didn’t have thick fur or tough, hard-to-chew sinews, so they were really a rare delicacy.
Maybe these bandits thought that they should be fine if they only stayed for one night, the problem was that they had been discovered long ago.
Ten miles wasn’t too far, plus Owen slowed down his speed, and when he reached the outside of the forest, the soldiers had just finished warming up, so they entered the forest directly after a little rest.
Scout cavalry is not only on horseback, they have long been sneaking into the forest to determine the location of the bandits gathering, so Owen in the scout’s lead straight to the destination, and soon the bandits blocked a square.
Twenty to thirty lazy and dirty robbers or lying or sitting gathered together, in order to prevent being discovered, even did not light a fire, right now is struggling with a mouth full of big yellow teeth to gnaw on black bread or don’t know what thing, ready to replenish physical strength after a good night action, the result of a look up, good guy, don’t have to wait, the other side is coming.
In the forest, the archers can not be gathered together, Owen arranged two archers and two swordsmen to form a small team, with long-range attacks.
The wooden bow of the archers is not a good bow and arrow, but it is still possible to shoot a person within thirty to fifty meters.
With the sound of the bowstring, a feathered arrow twisted like a snake, but magically followed the silky arc to hit the enemy, not many fell short.
Although it hit the enemy, but don’t expect to kill a bandit with one arrow, feather arrows are not bullets, hitting the enemy won’t cause cavity damage, so as long as it’s not a vital hit on the spot, it won’t die.
In fact, the biggest role of the feather arrow is to reduce the number of people, because the arrow shot can still fight bravely warriors are only a few, the vast majority of people in the arrow shot can only lie on the ground grunting, and then wait for the judgment of fate, because of this hell of a place of the level of medical care, the good people can be killed, not to mention injuries and bleeding and infections and so on, which is the biggest role of the feather arrow.
Two rounds of arrows down, the number of more than soldiers of the bandits are all collapsed, they are not a regular army, is to make a living, which have any sense of resistance, so the face of the attack, not to mention resistance, run do not know where to run, in addition to a few were dazed to the depths of the magic corner of the forest to run, the rest are not lying on the ground grunting or kneeling where to surrender, the ass rose high, holding the head of the kind of shivering! The kind that is shivering while holding his head.
At this time there has been no action of the swordsman to come forward to clean up the battlefield, injured people all give a quick, head with a short axe chopped down, surrendered to throw a rope to let them tie themselves up, the bundle is not good directly chopped up, the whole process is simple and brutal.
Less than ten minutes to the end of the battle, nervous to even posture did not have time to change one of the Owen smelled the pungent smell of blood some bewildered, his first time so lost?
No matter what, this battle was considered to be a baptism for him, the baptism of battle and death, which would be the spice of life that he would never be able to get rid of in the future.
Many people died in front of Owen, many still lost resistance and were killed, but he didn’t have much feeling, vomiting and whatnot was even non-existent, except for his heart was a little hard to accept, the rest was okay.
Owen is not cold-blooded, but he knows that this is unavoidable. He would like to close the door to planting, but in addition to waiting for the fat after being slaughtered as a pig, there can not be other end.
After coming to this world, Owen has long had the realization that it is impossible not to kill, it is also impossible to kill less, many times you do not kill them hard, kill fear, they will not stop, so what Owen has to do is to get used to all this as soon as possible, so that he can become which one holding the butcher knife, rather than the unlucky egg under the butcher knife begging for the enemy’s mercy.
And as a traveler, Owen really didn’t have any sense of belonging to this world, killing these otherworldly people could hardly bring him any psychological pressure.
What’s more, these robbers one by one beard hair has never been taken care of, all tangled together into a block, just like a felt blanket, wearing pieces of cloth and skin sewn together in a haphazard way, you can’t see how this thing is worn on the body, revealing the skin is full of thick dirt, hand and foot nails black and long with the beasts in general, all the stench is even more so let a person to avoid the third place.
This face value, it’s hard to make people feel sympathy, so Owen is still in the mood to arrange the next thing.
Territory has a wooden frame for hanging robbers, and now there are more than a dozen heads on it, just like a bunch of grapes, and when the wind blows, it can also startle a large swath of flies, and I think the robbers will consciously choose to turn around and leave when they see it.
The living robbers were locked in wooden cages for public display, and the victorious soldiers were celebrating.
The sheep that can be exchanged for ten sheep with one progress value in the Age of Empires directly killed three of them, and even boiled and roasted them, with the beer from Ride and Slash, the soldiers ate very happily.
But as a lord, as a nobleman, Owen of course would not eat the same thing as the soldiers.
The fattest part of the three sheep was cut down in advance, carefully cooked with spices and olive oil, sprinkled with a little fine salt, paired with good wine, and with two maids waiting by his side, Owen finally enjoyed the nobleman’s paradigm.
A burst of food and drink, the soldiers rest rest, patrol patrol, but the celebration is not over.
The goat’s bones and water will not be wasted, all of them are thrown back into the pot, and then pour some grains into it, sprinkle some salt, and begin to simmer.
Just simply cleaned the taste of the sheep’s water is not good, the fire is cooked, the taste, within ten paces can not stand, but this is meat, standing around the cauldron waiting for the serf’s eyes are getting brighter and brighter, the original numbness of the expression also began to change.
In Owen’s eyes, these serfs are simply humanoid puppets, almost no other reaction, as if their life in addition to labor, eat, sleep, and then meet death, there is nothing else.
But on second thought, it seemed as if he had worked, eaten, and waited for death like this in his previous life as well.
After becoming a lord, Owen doesn’t need this kind of unresponsive serfs, he wants to let these serfs live up, be more active, more active to labor, after all, breathless and forced to work and active work are two different things, so he needs to let these serfs have more vitality, that is to say, to let them see a little bit of hope, like a carrot dangling in front of the donkey’s eyes, and the food is the first switch.
(End of chapter)