Chapter 682: 671. Triumph
Chapter 682 671. Triumph
Suldak led the cavalry battalion back into the barren land full of gravel, and a familiar scene appeared in front of his eyes. The veterans of the cavalry battalion left the team one after another, and rushed into the barren land on horseback.
It is no longer necessary to sink half of your legs into the yellow sand every time you take a step, and it is much easier to walk all of a sudden.
A group of knights galloped joyously on the hard ground on ancient horses.
A few veterans were a little too excited, and rushed directly to the cliff of a fault mountain, crawled on the brown-red rock mass, and put their faces on the rock below them in spite of the cold north wind. Only their love for the land can express their inexplicable joy at getting out of the desert alive.
A month ago, this group of veterans joined the cavalry battalion from various villages in the barren land. After only three days of training in Wall Village, they followed Suldak into the desert. Suldak still clearly remembered when they left Wall Village on horseback. distressed look.
Their horsemanship is also learned along the way.
Before entering the desert, these veterans were just able to sit firmly on the saddle and march quickly. They suffered a lot when marching in the desert. The sand bandits were skilled in horsemanship. They went around in circles with the veterans of the cavalry battalion in the desert. Only Bing and Viru can pose a threat to those Sand Bandits on horseback.
It was just such a group of veterans of the cavalry battalion who drove the sand bandits into the depths of the desert with their own hands, making them look like bereaved dogs.
Before setting off, these veterans probably never imagined that after chasing sand robbers in the desert for nearly two months, they could actually step into the barren land again.
These veterans brought back a lot of spoils, including the thick leather armor on their bodies and some precious metal ornaments.
They seemed to be eager to go home and tell their loved ones how many sand robbers they had killed on the battlefield this time.
For the villagers in the barren land, the sand bandits are like a pack of wolves, they can wreak havoc on the barren land at will. But now, in the eyes of the veterans of the cavalry battalion, these sand bandits were no longer scary.
Suldak was riding a horse, standing in front of a group of reserve knights.
As their immediate superior, Suldak was dissatisfied with the performance of the young reserve knights on the battlefield this time. They did not show the professionalism acquired after studying and training in the Knight Academy. Besides, there isn't even anything commendable about it.
This desert experience trip taught the fifty guard battalion reserve knights a lot. At least they are capable of marching alone, know how to set up tents in the wild, cook marching rations, arrange sentry posts at night and other basic marching knowledge...
The reserve knights raised their long swords and light shields in their hands, cheering loudly to return to the barren land. For them, coming back alive is a victory.
They didn't expect that this operation to clear up the sand bandits would last nearly fifty days. Almost every reserve knight had rough skin due to the cold north wind and yellow sand all over the sky, and a thick layer of calluses appeared on his hands and thighs. No matter how badly they performed on the battlefield, among the fifty reserve knights, there was not a single deserter who ran away after all.
This field experience may be regarded as a real experience trip for their graduation season.
I don’t know how many people are hiding in such a difficult environment, listening to the howling ghosts and wolves outside, crying and weeping in the north wind. I don’t know how many people are armed with crossbows. They all vomited out, and I don’t know how many people have adapted to sitting around the fire with the corpse of the sand robber, roasting wheat cakes and drinking broth.
No matter what, they finally walked out of the desert with nothing. This is the biggest victory for the reserve knights.
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Entering the barren land means that the mission of the sea giant mercenary group has been successfully completed.
Captain Gabriel Gerry is not planning to return to Wall Village with Suldak's army. In order to make a good impression on the patron, Baron Suldak, he plans to separate from the army led by Baron Suldak. Detour from the east and west sides of the Great Rift Valley, so that you can search for a small group of sand robbers in the barren land along the way.
If you encounter it, Captain Gabriel doesn't mind helping to clean it up.
Captain Gabriel was thinking in his mind that this time the sea giant mercenary group earned almost 3,000 gold coins from Suldak. According to the current exchange ratio of gold coins to magic crystals of 1:7, they can probably exchange for 430 magic crystals. Crystal, with such a sum of magic crystals, the sea giant mercenary group can not only comfortably cultivate for a period of time, but also add two sets of magic pattern structures to the mercenary group.
After buying two sets of magic pattern structures, the life of the sea giant mercenary group will be much easier in the future.
He stretched out his hand to grab the reins of the horse, stopped and waited for Suldak, who was behind the team, to come up on his horse.
A group of mercenaries rode horses and lined up behind Captain Gabriel, and a group of warriors whose power had reached the first rank stood together, and the momentum could still cause a lot of pressure.
If each of them was given a set of magic pattern construction, it would be a construction team of thirty people.
But at this moment in this mercenary group, there are only a few fighters with a few high-level combatants who have a few magic pattern construction parts. For them, replacing some more practical magic equipment, the mercenary group The combat effectiveness will also be greatly improved.
Suldak rode up to Captain Gabriel, and before he could speak, he heard Captain Gabriel Gerry say:
"Baron Suldak, let's end this employment mission here. Our mercenary group intends to detour from the west side of the Great Rift Valley to Pagros Pass, and then return to Hailansa City through Oak Ridge. A taste of winter in the Badlands."
Even if Captain Gabriel doesn't do this, Suldak intends to let Andrew lead a team of cavalry battalion veterans to detour and go to the villages along the way to check if there are any traces of sand robbers nearby. Suldak also knew that it was only based on the happy cooperation between the two parties.
Although the commission of the sea giant mercenary group is a bit higher than other mercenary groups, it is worth the money now.
But looking at the team followed by a large group of horses and nearly a hundred camels, one can tell that Suldak has also made a lot of money in the desert.
Suldak actually didn't expect that the problem of buying war horses that troubled him could be solved from Sand Pirates.
Suldak said to the head of the sea giant mercenary group: "Captain Gabriel, this time the sea giant mercenary group has shown a strong combat power in the desert. If there is a chance in the future, I hope we can continue to cooperate and take care along the way!"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and made a knight salute in front of his chest.
Captain Gabriel quickly straightened his body, politely returned the salute and said solemnly: "If necessary, come to the Mercenary Union to find us at any time! Baron Suldak."
Speaking of which, the performance of the sea giant mercenary group in the desert this time is still remarkable. They almost completely undertook scouting and scouting during the march, and were on duty at night. During the battle, they were used as an attacking force to penetrate the sand bandits from the center...
Not only the veterans of the cavalry battalion and the reserve knights learned a lot from these mercenaries, even Suldak and Andrew felt that they had benefited a lot this time.
Suldak felt that this good relationship with the sea giant mercenary group should be maintained. It has to be said that war is a profiteering industry, and the winner can control everything on the battlefield. Suldak thought for a while and shouted Andrew came and asked him to pull out thirty war horses from the horse herd behind and give them to Captain Gabriel.
When the mercenaries of the sea giant mercenary group left, each mercenary was riding a Gu Bolai horse, and was leading another horse behind.
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As soon as the brigade led by Suldak appeared in the barren land, they were discovered by the villagers in the northern part of the barren land.
Two hundred and fifty cavalry, plus more than six hundred female captives, nearly a thousand horses and more than a hundred camels, no matter where they passed, they would trample the ground until there was a burst of thunder, and it was already winter in the barren land. Tail, as long as the north wind is not blowing, the snow on the sunny **** south of the ridge has already begun to melt slowly.
This time also means that the dry season in the Badlands is coming.
Several villages near the edge of the desert in the barren land looked even more dilapidated. As Suldak led his team towards Wall Village, the villagers along the way spontaneously organized themselves, bringing their few belongings and At the back of the team, they migrated south together.
Suldak knew the plans of these villagers. Whether they won or lost in the desert, the result would be the same for the villages on the barren land near the edge of the desert. Facing the ensuing retaliation by the sand bandits, no village can stop the sand bandits' revenge, so after suffering for two full months, the villagers here are preparing to migrate south when the weather gets warmer.
Until the large army of Suldak appeared, the villagers saw that Baron Suldak had brought back hundreds of women, hundreds of horses and a large amount of supplies from the desert, and heard that Baron Suldak had burned all the nearby The desert oasis, you know that the barren land has a deadly feud with the sand bandits.
Regardless of whether there are green valleys where you can live in the southern foothills of the barren land, gritted your teeth and brought all your belongings, and joined Baron Suldak's return to Wall Village.
Of course, Suldak did not ignore these villagers, and immediately mobilized the horses in the team to help these villagers carry all their belongings, and sent people to ride back to Wall Village on fast horses, and transferred those idlers from the village. A convoy of unused four-wheeled carriages came out from the village of Wall.
Along the way, Suldak's team continued to grow like a snowball. By the time Suldak led the team back to Wall Village, the team had expanded to 1,500 people. These populations were almost the same as the current population of Wall Village. Ten times the amount...
Two hundred veterans of the cavalry battalion, fifty reserve knights of the guard battalion, more than six hundred women brought out from the desert, and more than six hundred villagers who migrated from the northern part of the barren land. On the flat tidal flat in the river bend outside the village entrance.
Fortunately, Suldak entered the desert this time and seized a large number of felt tents. Even if these villagers could not find a house to live in, they would not blow the north wind in the open space.
Hundreds of felt tents were quickly erected along the banks of the artificial canal. Seeing that Suldak brought back one-third of the population of the barren land at once, the female captives wearing all kinds of clothes almost frowned. Almost screwed together.
So many people... relying on the current land in Wall Village alone cannot support them at all.
Standing under the dead tree at the entrance of the village, the old village chief looked at the black horses and camels in front of him, and then turned his head to look at the livestock pen beside the river in the village. He couldn't hold the group of war horses, so he glanced at the solitary stack of wheat next to the sheepfold. The straw might not be enough for these war horses to chew for half a month.
The sudden big battle completely stunned the old village chief.
"Dark, you brought back so many people, so many big animals, how do we arrange them (them), Wall Village is such a big place, no matter what, it can't hold so many people..." the old village chief Brett rubbed his hands. hand, looked up at Suldak on horseback and asked.
Suldak jumped off his horse and handed over the reins to a young guard battalion reserve knight behind him.
Turning his head and looking at the crowd of people behind him, he stepped forward and gave the old village head a big hug, and then said to the old village head:
"Let them live by the river first. If they have shelter, I won't stop anyone who wants to leave. If they want to stay, they can live in these felt tents temporarily and wait in a warmer place." At that time, a few rows of row houses were added in front of the row houses at the entrance of the village, some stone houses were built with volcanic ash, and wooden roofs were built. It was not difficult to build some houses. There will be a concrete road at the foot of the mountain, and our wagons will have no trouble from here to Mount Paglos, and I have built a lumberyard there, and can bring back any wood we need from there."
The original Wall Village was a loose thatched hut built along the creek in the valley. At this moment, Wall Village has built row upon row of small buildings in the valley. A long arc-shaped row house was built here, which is usually used as a warehouse for merchants in the market at the entrance of the village and a kobold camp, and some rooms are vacant only in winter.
According to Suldak's idea, several rows of this kind of row houses should be built at the entrance of the village to accommodate the northern villagers who migrated to Wall Village. The current Wall Village has become a trumpet shape and is constantly expanding outwards. …
Suerdak knew what the old village chief was most concerned about, so he said, "As for the food to eat, I will provide it for the time being. Half moon wheat cakes and half moon miscellaneous grains. Didn't you always complain about the lack of manpower? You can let them join the road construction Team, I want to build the road network leading to the Great Rift Valley, as long as they have work, they can buy food with their wages, but I will take away a large number of people recently."
Suldak patted the Gubolai horse beside him, and said to the worried old village chief: "I also have arrangements for the food and grass of these war horses. It is estimated that Luke should be back soon."
Old Sheila, Natasha, Rita, and Little Peter stood at the front of the crowd at the entrance of the village, watching Suldak return safely, and everyone was beaming with joy.
It's just that everyone in the village was frightened by the scene in front of them. For a while, no one dared to come out except the old village head.
Little Peter broke free from old Sheila's shackles, spread his arms and ran towards Suldak. Suldak held him in his arms, dragging his armpits with his hands and holding them high above his head.
At this time, the whole village cheered...
(end of this chapter)