Xu Lai still remembered that when he moved from the Pingfeng Mountains to Qingfeng Castle, there were almost no stops along the way, and he only had a few battles with wild monsters.
At this time, beyond the Stubborn Stone Castle, the group of knights that Xu Lai was obsessed with diplomacy at that time had long disappeared. Naturally, no one knew whose hands the silver treasure chest they guarded fell into.
Based on the principle that wasting mana every day is also a waste, Xu Lai also released a see-through atmosphere near the original group of knights.
Because he does not specialize in air magic, Xu Lai's perspective of the atmosphere can only display treasures within a 5-kilometer radius, and they can only be ownerless treasures.
However, it is obvious that this 5-kilometer area has been cleared out long ago, and not even a bird feather was left for Xu Lai, let alone any treasures.
When approaching the Pingfeng Mountains, Xu Lai and the others encountered a group of prairie wolves.
These should be natural creatures. When they saw Xu Lai and the others from a distance, they started running, but they couldn't be as fast as Xu Lai and the others. Xu Lai led a group of trainee knights to charge, and most of them fell in a second.
Sure enough, after the battle, the bodies of the group of prairie wolves did not disappear.
Xu Lai immediately asked Ta Han and Yan Feng to follow him and skinned a few prairie wolves on the spot.
Wolf meat is sour and tastes very bad even if Xu Lai brought a lot of seasonings.
But as a food reserve, there is no problem at all. Anyway, as long as the group of recruited cavalry have food and it is not poisonous, they will not care whether it tastes good or not.
In addition to the battle with the prairie wolf, Xu Lai and the others also encountered a battle after approaching Pingfeng Mountain.
This battle could have been avoided. Because Xu Lai and the others acted day and night, the enemy did not discover them.
That is a pass, which is considered the best place to pass near the Pingfeng Mountains.
However, this pass is not big. Not to mention the large-scale transportation team, even the Cyclops can barely pass through, and the Behemoths have to change places.
However, even so, there are more than a hundred orc infantry guarding here.
It is not appropriate to say that there are more than a hundred orc infantry. In fact, there are only one third of the real combatants, about 30 people, all of whom are 4th and 5th level orc warriors.
The remaining ones are basically big-eared monsters that are the orcs’ backup rations.
Judging from the mobility of the orc infantry, it is impossible for them to discover the enemy earlier than Xu Lai, who has intermediate eagle eye skills and rides a tall horse.
What's more, the food of this group of orcs seems to be unsecured, and they have no intention of moving. There are only a group of big-eared monsters on duty at night.
Along the way, in order to avoid being discovered, Xu Lai moved early even if he encountered wolf cavalry during the day.
He teamed up with Tahan and Yu Lan, and Elvi partnered with Yan Feng. The two teams took turns patrolling and keeping watch at night.
High-altitude vision and intermediate eagle eye, Xu Lai and the others have not yet met the wolf cavalry.
Xu Lai was able to avoid alerting these infantrymen at this pass, but judging from the map of the wilderness, although the next entrance and exit were not far away, they had to cross the Pingfeng Mountains.
Even if the entrance is a gentle mountain peak, it can be used by cavalry.
But it is a mountain road after all, and it is easy to encounter dangers at night. It is difficult for the knight to launch a charge, because the tilt angle and the rocks blocking the road cannot be restrained by pathfinding skills.
Xu Lai only has so many people, so of course he is not willing to take this risk.
After comprehensive consideration, Xu Lai felt that he should attack this post directly, which would also make the Orc Wolf Cavalry fearful.
After all, the way back is blocked. No matter how rampant the wolf cavalry are, they will still worry about not being able to get home.
This charge was not as simple as setting up an outpost. Xu Lai rarely started to deploy before the war.
"Tahan, later you will take those senior knights to charge one step behind us. It is best to rush into the orcs with us."
When Tahan eliminated the group of horse thieves before, I had such cooperation once, and immediately replied: "Yes, sir."
"Yan Feng, you still lead the heroes and wander around the periphery.
The task I give you is , we must not let any orc escape, I don’t want our movements to be known.”
With the intelligence of the orc infantry, they should not have the brains to look back for reconnaissance after escaping.
But who cares, Xu Lai has too many cavalry that can charge now, and there is no need for Duo Yanfeng and the others to do this.
Moreover, in Xu Lai's plan, they mostly implemented such tactics when entering the wilderness, so as to prevent the enemy from escaping and cover up their traces to the greatest extent.
“Elwee, take Yu Lan and fly over the outpost first.
The task I give you is to look in the direction of the wilderness. Like Yan Feng, that is not allowed. No one can escape alive."
The two responded one after another. Only Yu Lan looked at Xu Lai pitifully, but without Xu Lai's permission, she could not even recover.
Xu didn't even look at Yu Lan. After confirming that everyone heard the order clearly, he controlled all the trainee knights to raise their spears.
The lack of an immediate charge, the not-so-fast horse speed, and the shock-absorbing grass prevented Xu Lai and the others from being discovered immediately.
And when the sound of horse hooves rumbled, it was too late for the orcs to react.
There were even orc warriors who thought it was just a dull thunder in the summer, but the group of squeaking big-eared monsters was really annoying. When the orc warrior was impatient with the noise and walked out of the outpost angrily, he happened to see a flash of silver light coming towards him.
Today's moonlight is not bright, but Xu Lai's flag is very high-end, with a spear head made of a mixture of fine gold and mithril.
One kilogram of gold mixture can be used to extract more than ten grams of fine gold. Its sharpness and strength are unparalleled in the world.
Not to mention Mithril, with its extremely strong sturdiness, weight less than half of ordinary metal, and excellent mana conductivity comparable to oak, it has always been known as the best metal.
Of course, this is not the pioneer flag originally given by Count Aini, but one modified by Xu Lai in his own blacksmith shop.
It took a piece of sincere mithril to resmelt the vanguard flag with the help of the recruiting blacksmith.
The length of the newly smelted Vanguard Flag has not changed, the weight has dropped from the previous 50 points to 40 points, and the damage has increased from the previous 91-120 to 101-135.
Don’t underestimate the fact that the weight has only dropped by 10 points. It should be said that the weight has dropped by 20%. If it was 100 kilograms before, it is only 80 kilograms now.
The lack of these 10 points of weight makes Xu Lai much more relaxed and easier to use. Even if the damage is not increased, the power can be greatly increased.
Level 6 riding sprint and level 6 pole weapon assassination make this gun extremely powerful.
Even if it is just the additional damage of superimposed sprinting, the basic damage of this gun is as high as 300 points. With advanced offensive skills and treasure bonuses, the damage is already as high as 400 points and upwards.
In addition, the defense of orc warriors is relatively low, even an archangel wearing sacred armor may die suddenly from this blow, let alone a mere fifth-level orc warrior.
The morale of these guards at the stronghold was not high due to the shortage of food.
With this night attack and sneak attack, a large number of soldiers were taken away in a wave of charges. The morale of the remaining orcs and big-eared monsters instantly fell to the bottom.
The big-eared monsters and orcs, who were in a panic, covered their heads and ran outside, some to the grassland, and some to the pass.
Fortunately, Xu Lai made arrangements in advance.
Otherwise, in such a dark wilderness, with everyone fighting together, there is a real chance that some cunning orcs could get away.
Elwee and Yan Feng, wearing night vision goggles, each mobilized their troops to pursue them.
They are already fast, one can fly and the other can shoot. It is really easy to chase down these fleeing defeated soldiers.
Xu Lai and the others were not idle either. Although the pass here was passable, the two sides were too narrow.
As long as ambushes are arranged on the surrounding peaks on both sides, and they wait until they pass through, it will be difficult for even the high-level knights to escape, except for the flying soldiers.
Tahan took some cavalry and spread out with torches to investigate.
Xu Lai jumped off his horse and used the special effects activated by the intermediate pathfinding technique to track.
Suddenly, hundreds of messy footprints suddenly appeared on the dark, invisible ground.
Such a messy footprints did not allow Xu Lai to obtain much useful information, but of course the pathfinding skills were not limited to this.
After waiting quietly for a moment, these footprints began to be gradually classified, and finally summarized into four lines of cavalry footprints, corresponding to level 4, level 5, level 7 and level 8 knights respectively.
After a while, all the information was sorted out, and Xu Lai received a prompt with an arrow:
“Half an hour ago, a group of 60-100 cavalrymen of levels 4-8 came towards us. →The direction is passing.”
The position pointed by the arrow is exactly where the trainee knights are waiting, located in the direction of the pass.
Having never learned the art of pathfinding, Xu Lai had no idea that such messy and unclear footprints could actually give such a clear and obvious message.
He is not the only one in this world who knows how to find paths.
Once he went to the wild land and was tracked by multiple heroes who knew how to find paths, no matter how fast he was, he could not escape being surrounded.
But fortunately he had learned pathfinding, so he could think of covering his whereabouts.
After a while, after Tahan Yanfeng and others arrived, Xu Lai called them down and even Elvi in the sky, leaving only Yu Lan to be on guard in the sky.
Dig out a layer of the turf around here for me.
Then, Tahan, take all the trainee knights and knights' retinues, go south from this post and make a big circle and come back from the other side.
Later, Elvi, you and Yu Lan will use this supply truck to spread the excavated soil where Tahan and the others turn. After our large force enters the pass, they will spread some behind us.
The tracking function of pathfinding is very useful, but it also has shortcomings. As long as the footprints are completely destroyed, information cannot be obtained.
On the contrary, some tracking experts who do not rely on these magical abilities can deduce Xu Lai's movement through the direction in which the turf is crushed.
As for whether the soil covering method works, Xu Lai doesn't know. He only knows that when he did the experiment just now, there was indeed an error in the data.
But Xu Lai only has intermediate pathfinding skills, and the tracking function is the most basic.
The commander of the Wolf Cavalry, Taloshi, is a super master with the ultimate pathfinding technique. (End of this chapter)