Chapter 121 Horse Thief Camp
Tonight’s dinner was eaten earlier than usual. The ones responsible for patrolling at night were the gargoyles and gargoyles who had rested during the day. The one who lived in the wooden house was Lin. Demons and flower elves.
Although the nine wooden houses have been upgraded to high-end wooden buildings one after another, as flower demons and forest demons, except for being able to live in them when no one is using them during the day, they have never been seen being used at night.
Wei Yihong felt more and more itchy, especially because Xu Lai actually gathered his troops in the evening.
The night in another world is extremely dangerous, and Wei Yihong himself is deeply aware of it.
When he was completing a mission in the wild, he once ran directly into the territory of a group of horned demons. Thanks to the fast running of his troops, he was able to escape.
With the strength of Xu Lai's troops, they are capable of fighting against most wild monsters.
However, at night, when your own side is not aware of it, you will be judged to have fallen into a sneak attack and obtain a temporary state of confusion.
In other words, the warning distance of wild monsters is a full 100 meters. If the enemy puts you close and then attacks you, this chaotic state will be extremely fatal.
Wei Yihong was in an awkward position and could not comment on Xu Lai's military operations. He could only let Xu Lai lead his troops and set off after dinner.
There are dozens of troops at home. Although they are only level 2 or 3, they are all flying soldiers. Wei Yihong doesn't want to cause trouble for himself, so he simply hides in the main room and sleeps.
Outside the village, Xu Lai took Watanabe out of the crystal cave, who had been given instructions in advance, and thoughtfully gave him a prairie horse.
Watanabe is not yet his subordinate, and does not enjoy any bonus from Xu Lai's attributes. Any cavalry under Xu Lai's command is faster than him, so there is no need to worry about Watanabe running away.
Tahan held him tightly by his side like a chicken, to prevent Watanabe from making any small moves.
Watanabe knew that it was impossible for him to gain Xu Lai's trust now, and he did not dare to be angry at being treated like this, and he honestly guided the way.
The horse thief's lair is a long way from Qingfeng Village.
Back then, the group of thieves finished their meal early and set off before 4 o'clock in the afternoon. After arriving at Qingfeng Village, they had a fierce battle and it was past midnight.
Even if Xu Lai has logistics skills, magic boots and speed talent, after all, he brings a lot of infantry, but his speed may not be much faster than that group of level 2 horse thieves.
After leaving Qingfeng Village’s sphere of influence, the additional agility value of our side was gone. In addition to the cavalry, the speed of the infantry dropped by as much as two points.
But it doesn’t matter, even if we arrive after 12 o’clock, as long as we arrive before dawn.
And even if there is moonlight, after 12 o'clock, it is the most sleepy time. Xu Lai's troops are "monsters" and will not be affected by biological habits. The same cannot be said for the horse thieves guarding their lair.
The reality was just as Xu Lai expected, even better than Xu Lai expected.
On the first day when Andy Yin disappeared, the horse thieves in the lair didn't think anything was wrong. After all, they set out to rob in the middle of the night, clean up, and rest their power. They couldn't come back all night or even all day. Very normal.
However, when another night passed and Yin Andi and the others had not yet appeared, many horse thieves and ringleaders in the village panicked.
Waiting for daytime, several higher-level bosses broke into the core building of the lair. This place was originally a place that only Yin Andi was qualified to stay in, but now it has been shown that it is ownerless.
This has basically confirmed Yin Andy's death, because unless Yin Andy voluntarily gives up or dies, the heart of the castle buried underground will not recognize its owner again.
This also means that in addition to the captains appointed by Yin Andy before, there are also some elite thieves who directly belong to Yin Andy, and they also have no masters at this time.
However, these thieves are still affiliated with the village, and they are considered friendly forces, not wild monsters, so they will not attack them.
But when these thieves leaders leave the village, they will be considered traitors and will be actively attacked by the group of thieves.
Suddenly, several high-level leaders became red-eyed. Naturally, their first thought was not to avenge Yin Andi, but to compete for the ownership of the cottage.
However, none of them dared to take the initiative, because once they took the initiative to attack friendly forces, they would be regarded as traitors and suffer natural counterattacks from all the monsters in the village.
There is no such role as deputy commander in the village. Except for Yin Andy, several high-level leaders of level 4 each have more than ten or twenty direct subordinates, as well as a group of horse thieves and petty bosses who follow them around. .
It’s just that most of the horse thieves followed Yin Andy and died outside, so the big bosses naturally fell into chaos.
At first, they were worried that the external enemies who killed Andy Yin would attack their lair, so they just quarreled and were relatively restrained.
But Xu Lai didn't take action for several days, which also made the high-level leaders feel that their copycat had not been exposed yet.
Moreover, even if it is exposed, the defensive measures of the village are very good, and the elites in the village are still there, so there is no need to worry too much.
As a result, the quarrel behind the cottage gradually escalated, and finally someone couldn't help but take action, and then it was spread.
After a fight, several leaders and subordinates were killed by their own people, and some others escaped, probably defecting to other horse thieves.
It was the successful escape of those few people that prevented the remaining people from quarreling any more.
They all knew that the other commanders had long thought of annexing them. It's just that their home base is far away from here, and secondly, a frontal attack will cause huge losses, but if there is an internal response, it will be hard to say.
So the few remaining leaders saw that everyone would be doomed if this continued, so they simply asked everyone to take a step back. Tomorrow, there would be a competition or negotiation, and no matter what, a leader would be recommended.
At this time, the traitor has only just escaped for a long time. Even if he can fly to the other horse thieves immediately, they want to come and annex them. Don’t they need to prepare troops and bring baggage?
There is no catapult. , how to smash the city wall, how to shoot with the archers on the arrow tower without a ballista.
Even if you don’t need anything and leave immediately, it will still take a whole day of marching.
Therefore, no matter how you calculate it, they still have at least several days to defend.
What they didn't expect was that the opponent they had ignored at first came to their door.
Nowadays, the leaders in the cottage are still very vigilant. They must not only prevent someone from secretly digging into the heart of the castle, but also prevent themselves from being assassinated.
But just because they are on high alert does not mean that those on duty outside are still on high alert.
These days, the whole village is in a mess. It is so noisy during the day that it is impossible to rest.
When Xu Lai could vaguely see the patrolmen on the wall of the cottage, none of the horse thieves noticed the thick black shadow in the distance.
Xu Lai’s original plan was to divide his troops into two groups and let Su Ya lead the cavalry to harass outside and attract the attention of the horse thieves. It would be best to attract some of the thieves in the village. come out.
Anyway, with Xu Lai's bonus, the speed of the lowest-level rangers is far faster than that of the elite thieves. Xu Lai doesn't have to worry about Su Ya and the others being caught up.
If we really catch up, if there are not many people, it is not certain who will eat whom.
The risk factor for this mission is not very high. On the contrary, it is an extremely dangerous mission to follow Watanabe through a secret passage.
But judging from the current situation, it seems that we can directly enter the secret passage quietly without alerting the snake.
The horse thief's camp was built on a mountain. Of course, the so-called mountain is just a slope of a certain height. There is neither a jungle nor a cliff. At most, it is surrounded by a small forest.
The view from the mountain is excellent, but there is no danger to defend. Although the city defense seems to be very good, in fact there are many loopholes.
The entire village is almost made of wood. Although the gate of the village is tightly guarded, only the corners of the other three walls have arrow towers.
The defensive strength of the wall made of wood is not very strong. Just hit it with a trebuchet and you can probably open a gap.
If that's the case, why attack the heavily guarded gate?
But for horse thieves, flexibility and concealment are actually the most important defensive strengths.
So they set up their nest in an uninhabited no-man's land. Even if they had to travel long distances every time they robbed, they could at least avoid being found by the knights.
Moreover, even if their lair is found, these horse thieves can dig out the heart of the castle at any time, mount their horses and run away.
If the nobles want to encircle and suppress the horse thieves, if they bring city defense weapons, they will be slow. If they don't, they will suffer heavy losses in the attack.
Xu Lai was able to collect such a large amount of wealth from the horse thieves because these horse thieves were always ready to run away, so the assets were either spent on timely enjoyment or replaced with gems, crystals, etc. that could be carried around.
But even if many weaknesses were discovered, Xu Lai still had no siege weapons.
According to the original plan, Xu Lai wanted to adjust the forces with Su Ya, but Su Ya took the initiative to ask for help at this time, hoping to replace Xu Lai and enter the stronghold through the underground secret passage.
It is definitely impossible for the cavalry to take the tunnel, and Su Ya is not willing to watch Xu Lai take risks while she has nothing to do.
Xu Lai frowned, but it was dark at this time, and they didn't even use a torch to hide, so no one could see the expression on Xu Lai's face.
After all, he still didn't want to waste time. Xu Lai nodded and asked Su Ya and the others to follow Watanabe without changing the troops.
But before leaving, Xu Lai still told Su Ya that if things went wrong, leave the three Minotaurs and the slower infantry behind, kill Watanabe, and then find a way to escape.
If Xu Lai doesn't go in, he won't be able to control many things.
But everything has pros and cons. If he didn't go in, he wouldn't be trapped in this cottage.
If things go wrong, he can retreat at any time, which at least preserves his chance of making a comeback.
After watching Su Ya and others leave, Watanabe led them into the woods at night and opened a grass cover leading to the ground from an unknown turf on the ground.
(End of this chapter)