Chapter 7 The whole story
A not-so-hard battle was not fierce. Both sides fought with bows and arrows. After several rounds of bows and arrows, the bandits retreated. It only took a few minutes from the beginning of the encounter with the robbers to the end of the entire battle, but it took more than an hour to clean the battlefield and bury the corpse.
It was almost done and it was lunch break. Fortunately, only half of the mercenary group members were cleaning the battlefield. The remaining people had already started to unload the mule's goods and feed the mule water to restore the mule's physical strength.
After the battle was cleaned, it was almost lunch time. Everyone had lunch with dry food (big cakes and cooked meat) in cold water and had lunch and rested.
Taking advantage of the break, Mo Lin began to popularize Lin Kaixin: "Among the bandits, only the sand thieves from the six Western desert countries are more difficult to deal with. Because they are all cavalry, coming and going like the wind. If they can't beat them, they can run away, and they can constantly harass them, and the others are all mobs.
We will continue to encounter bandits along the way, unless all the bandits on this road have suffered losses in our hands. Do you know why?"
As a good audience, Lin Kaixin asked: "Why?"
Molin: "Because ordinary caravans have to hire some mercenaries in addition to their own escorts. The smallest caravan is more than fifty people. And the robber gang is less than two or three hundred, more than four or five hundred, or even a thousand. When encountering a small caravan with thirty or forty people, they will naturally choose to start."
Lin Kaixin: "That's true. If you don't rob the small ones, they will be even more unable to deal with the big caravan."
Mo Lin: "Boss, after you changed the weapons and equipment for our mercenary group, the combat power of the mercenary group has actually increased exponentially. If we look at it before, the mercenary group of thirty-four people now has at least three times the combat power before, so we should be regarded as more than one hundred people. But the thief doesn't know."
Lin Kaixin: "I finally know why everyone in the mercenary group wore a trench coat."
Molin: "Yes, since we are fishing, we can't expose the iron hook inside the bait."
Lin Kaixin: "By the way, I just upgraded and filled my healing skills. Level 10."
Molin: "The ability of my sister Murphy and I have been a little repetitive, but it doesn't matter. The multiple treatments in the team are not bad."
Only then did Lin Kaixin realize that the deputy leader Murphy was breastfeeding.
Of course, Lin Kaixin was not interested in Murphy, and this aunt in her thirties could make a fuss.
In the mercenary group, there are many father, son, brother and sister on the battlefield together, but there are very few couples. In the past, Murphy's husband was also a mercenary, but later because he had to take care of his children - Murphy was more important in the mercenary group than the other party, so the husband could only leave the mercenary group and watch the children at home to take care of the elderly.
After taking a break, digesting the food, the mercenary group placed the goods on the back of the mule and continued on their way.
This morning I was delayed for about an hour, riding a mule, and walking at least ten kilometers.
In the afternoon, I encountered a high slope near the road ahead. Mo Lin raised his hand and the scout of the mercenary group took the lead, crossed the team and went to the high slope to investigate. This is also a compulsory course for the team to ambush the place every time they encounter a team.
The slope is not very big, but it is no problem to hide hundreds of people behind it.
If you walk over carefully, the robbers behind you will kill you from above and shoot two rounds of bows and arrows, you will enter a hand-to-hand combat.
In fact, it proved that Molin's caution was right.
When the mercenary group scouts arrived at the high slope, they roared and turned around in the direction of the mule's head and ran back. The bandits hidden behind the high slope felt that the ambush was meaningless, and they moved out from behind the high slope. The dense crowd looked like there were at least four or five hundred people.
Of course, the same leader and the big and small leaders were only wearing old leather armor.
If I could afford iron armor, who would be a thief, would have been a thief long ago.
Before the Molin Mercenary Group met Lin Kaixin, it was just a shui leather armor. Iron armor and steel armor had to be purchased for a lot of money. Those who could afford to wear iron armor were at least a kingdom knight or elite warriors. The iron armor worn by elite warriors was only the property of the kingdom and was not considered their own.
After nearly 500 thieves lined up, the mercenary group was divided into two rows under Molin's command. Seventeen people in the front and eighteen people in the back row, and they got off the mule and were ready with bows and arrows.
Molin: "Prepare to shoot...shot arrows."
The distance between the two sides is 300 meters. Even the pulley bow can only be shot. Fortunately, it is still within the maximum range. Is the disadvantage of the projection? That is, it is impossible to aim. Fortunately, there are enough enemies, just shoot in places where there are many enemies, that's fine.
Thirty-five bows and arrows fell from the sky, and more than a dozen thieves were caught and fell to the ground, but the remaining bandits began to charge directly.
The bandit leader raised his iron knife and shouted: "Brothers, we will beat one of ten, and the wealth and women will be ours. Rush over and kill them."
The big and small leader also raised his iron knife and shouted: "Run over and kill them."
Although most of the robbers who didn't even have a knife shouted: "Kill them."
Lin Kaixin heard the roar of the robber leader, and his voice was very loud. However, the military issue can be regarded as a calculation, but it is not entirely as simple as calculation. Back then, the Jiang bandit army was too superstitious about the amount of five million.
Molin: "Prepare to shoot...shot arrows."
In another round of shooting, more than a dozen running robbers fell to the ground by arrows. The thirty robbers fell down, and for the 500-man gang, it was a drizzle. No one cared about the life or death of these people. For the robber profession, if you can't grab property, you will die of hunger.
Molin: "Reduce the angle and prepare to shoot...shot the arrow."
Another rain of arrows fell, and more than a dozen robbers were shot down. Even though some of the robbers had simple wooden shields, the defense of the wooden shield was basically useless in the face of the arrows shot by the mercenary group.
After three rounds of shooting, the vanguard part of the robbers had already rushed within two hundred meters. Molin: "Shoot the flat shot and aim...shot the arrow."
Lin Kaixin also fired an arrow. In Lin Kaixin's vision, the arrow clearly hit the thigh of a robber running in front of him. The robber with the arrow hit the ground and was stepped on by the robber behind him.
Lin Kaixin calculated the distance and barely got on the target. In this round of flat shooting, more than 20 robbers fell down. The lethality increased greatly.
Molin: "Shoot and aim...shot arrows."
Molin: "Shoot and aim...shot arrows."
Molin: "Shoot and aim, shoot arrows."
Chapter completed!