On a hunter's trail southeast of Tarburg, four cavalrymen and twelve infantrymen ran through the dense forests of the mountains toward the junction of the southeastern mountains and plains. They were all wearing tattered clothes, except for five or six who were wearing leather jackets.

In addition to their armor and long swords, most of the remaining people were armed with iron forks, shackles and single-knife clubs, like a group of fierce bandits gathering in the mountains and forests.

After walking for most of the day, everyone came to a small cave hidden in a dense forest. The entrance of the cave was not large enough for only three people walking together. The entrance was covered by miscellaneous trees and ivy, making it difficult to find it.

"Master Art, this is the hiding place we found. I went in and took a look. It's quite small and can accommodate twenty or thirty people. From here, walk east for half a day and you'll find a north-south highway after exiting the mountains." Ange.

Si pulled out his long sword and cut off the vines at the entrance of the cave, and Art went in to check it out.

"This is it. It's very dry inside and can hide things."

"Ron and I will go to the outpost to investigate. The rest of us will take a rest here and wait for my orders."

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On the edge of the mountainous area in the western border of Swabia, two figures were hiding in the dense forest beside a road that ran from north to south, peering at an outpost on the road.

Since Swabia and Lombardy formed a military alliance in the early spring of this year and determined the strategy of conquering Burgundy, many such outposts have been built on the road at the southern end of the border. Their role is mainly to protect shipments to Burgundy.

The food and supplies on the northern border where the army gathered were heavy. Since the tense war situation, the Count of Burgundy has shown no sign of sending troops to invade the Swabian border. The garrison at the outposts has been reduced and transferred to the northern front again and again, so these outposts have gradually

The ground became a temporary resting place for passing trains.

"Sir, Lord Angus and I did a count three days ago. Originally, there were only four soldiers and one horse inside the checkpoint. Now there are more people. It is estimated that the convoy transporting the baggage is resting here."

Art stared at the outpost for a long time. The wooden wall of the outpost was less than ten feet. If there were only four enemy soldiers, Art would have dared to lead his troops to rush up and capture it. But now there was a transport convoy in the outpost.

Stop and rest. If you attack rashly and the convoy guards and enemy soldiers at the outpost resist stubbornly, you will probably have to save a lot of lives to capture this outpost.

"Ron, have you done any outpost inspections before and after this? Are there any other manor strongholds or outpost towers?"

Ron recalled it carefully and replied: "There is no manor stronghold or outpost tower half a day's ride south, but there is a small manor about seventeen miles north, which we saw on the hillside four days ago.

The small manor at the foot of the mountain. We have reached these places, and we have not gone any further."

Art thought for a while and said: "You go to the south to scout again, I will stay here to observe for a while."

After Ron left, Art quietly walked around the outpost and found out that in addition to four soldiers, there were about seven or eight carriage drivers and guards in the outpost.

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In the early morning of the next day, Art led a dozen people to ambush in the dense forest on the side of the road five miles north of the outpost. Everyone was sharpening their knives in the dense forest and waiting for the enemy's baggage convoy to come out of the outpost.

The sun was rising above the trees, and just when everyone thought that the baggage train would not leave today, Jason, who had gone to scout, ran back.

Jason was sweating and ran to Art and reported: "Sir, the enemy's carriage team has arrived with four carriages loaded with goods. It is less than a mile away from here. The team has four carriage drivers, three infantrymen, and one

cavalry."

"Everyone prepares."

"Sergeant Major, in a moment you, Ron and Jason will be responsible for blocking the front and rear of the avenue to prevent anyone from escaping."

Art took off the horn-riding bow from his back, pulled out a few heavy diamond-headed arrows and inserted them into the ground in front of him.

On the south side of the avenue, a baggage convoy responsible for transporting a batch of military supplies and weapons to the northern border slowly moved forward under the leadership of a baggage officer. This was not the first time that he had transported military supplies from this avenue. Since the local garrison half a year ago

After clearing out several large groups of bandits in the mountainous area, this road became much quieter. At the beginning, the baggage officials marched cautiously for fear of being robbed by bandits, but every time they passed by, they were safe and sound.

It will relax you.

Just as they turned around a prominent hilltop, a dead tree appeared on the road. While the baggage officer was still wondering how the dead tree got to the middle of the road, a heavy arrow with a whistling sound pierced into his heart.

"Enemy~enemy..." Before he could say a word, the baggage officer fell heavily from his horse to the ground with a thump. When everyone in the baggage team saw the leader falling off his horse, they realized that there was an enemy attack and raised their long swords and short spears to protect them.

All around.

Art had already rushed down from the dense forest with a dozen soldiers and surrounded the baggage convoy.

"Abandon weapons without killing!!!" Atla shouted in Swabian with a southern accent to the several guards guarding the convoy with his bowstring full.

A guard wearing leather armor said something urgently to the guards around him and the driver holding a short spear, then he took the lead and started running towards Art with a long sword in his hand. The bowstring in Art's hand was loosened, and the leather armor guard's head

He received a heavy blow and fell to the ground, twitched a few times and stopped moving.

"Abandon weapons without killing!!!" Art shouted again.

The remaining two guards and four coachmen saw that two of their leaders had been shot dead in an instant, and the other party had a large number of people. There were three riders not far away, so they had to slowly put down their weapons and kneel down.

On the ground.

"Sergeant Major! Take the people to be on guard all around." Art said loudly to Angus who was swimming not far away.

"Odo, take them to the dense forest and tie them to a tree."

"Tuba, drag the carriage and these two corpses into the dense forest."

After saying this, Art stepped over the body of the leather armored guard, led the baggage officer's horse to a four-wheeled carriage, opened the large felt cloth covering the carriage, and put a lot of rye bread in a wicker basket on the carriage.

Te opened several other carriages, most of which contained military rations such as bacon, salted fish, and hulled barley. In addition, there were more than twenty neatly stacked leather bucklers and more than thirty white wax poles without spearheads.

More than two hundred pounds of fine iron ingots used for forging weapons.

............

An hour later, a baggage convoy transporting military supplies slowly moved forward from north to south on the road in front of the mountain. The leader of the baggage officer rode on a dark red horse and gnawed a piece of bacon. Seven escort coachmen drove four carriages.

Follow closely behind.

Angus adjusted his leather armor, which was still stained with the blood of the enemy's baggage guard, and asked Art, who was riding the horse, "Lord Art, is this okay?"

"Of course you can't deceive them, but it's much better than a large group of people rushing over with weapons. You must seize the gate in a while, and you can't let them close the door and cower and defend, otherwise we will have to storm the outpost."

Half an hour later, Art and his party, disguised as having just left the baggage train, appeared half a mile north of the outpost.

The guard at the outpost looked at the flag of the convoy and saw that it was clearly the baggage convoy that left the outpost in the morning.

"What are these bastards doing? Why are they coming back again?" the outpost commander cursed as he looked at the approaching convoy.

"Did they turn back because there was danger ahead?" a soldier replied.

"It's not like that! You see they are not panicking at all, and they are walking slowly." The soldier said to himself.

The outpost commander kicked the soldiers next to him and shouted: "You, go up and see what disease they have committed!"

The soldier who had been kicked lifted his trousers and slowly walked towards the convoy about a hundred steps away, still cursing.

Everyone in the convoy lowered their heads slightly, and their hands were already on the sword hilts at their waists and the short spears beside them.

Art picked up the water bag with his left hand and pretended to drink water, covering his face. His right hand had already touched the hilt of the sword hanging on the saddle.

The convoy slowly approached the soldier who stepped forward to check. The soldier waved to stop him:

"Hey! Why do you keep your heads down~~"

"You guys~ hmm?"

The soldiers suddenly discovered that the returning baggage train had been replaced by a group of complete strangers.

"No! Shut it down..." the soldier shouted instinctively, but Art's long sword slashed at him and sealed the remaining words in his mouth forever.

"Damn it, there's an enemy attack!" The outpost commander saw the fallen soldiers not far away and said something bad, and quickly turned around and ran towards the outpost gate.

The moment the enemy soldiers discovered the identity of the convoy, Angus, who was holding a long-handled tomahawk, had already left the convoy and rushed towards the outpost first. While running, he spotted the enemy soldier who turned around and ran towards the gate of the outpost. There was no distance between them.

After more than ten steps, he saw that the enemy soldiers were about to enter the outpost. Just as he was about to close the door, Angus rushed forward and slowly raised the long-handled tomahawk over his head and then swung it hard.

Swinging it down, it drew a high arc in the air, dragging its long tail and flying towards the slowly closing door.

"Bang!" There was a muffled sound of a heavy hammer hitting something, and the long-handled tomahawk was deeply embedded in the gate of the outpost, but the gate was still closed.

"MD! This bastard runs so fast." Angus couldn't help but curse.

"Okay, let's attack quickly and capture this place before they raise the smoke."

"Odo, drive the carriage down the wall." Art said, taking off the buckler from the saddle, and prepared to lead his men to climb over the wall on the carriage and attack by force.

"Lord Art, I'll take the lead." Angus pulled out his battle ax, ran to the carriage, took off a round shield, and jumped onto the carriage.

"Okay, you lead the men to attack from this side, Odo leads the men to climb over the wall from the other side, and I climb in from the front. The people inside have crossbows. Everyone obey my order and climb over together." After speaking, Art called again.

The man led a carriage and took Ron to jump on the carriage, making a climbing and jumping posture.

"Attack!" At the command, six people on the three carriages climbed up the wooden wall at the same time. As expected, a bow and arrow and a crossbow were shot from the outpost, but in the panic, six heads suddenly appeared on the wall, holding

The two soldiers holding crossbows were panicked for a moment. Only a light arrow hit someone at such a close distance, but the person who was hit was none other than Art.

When the sounds of weapons clashing and swords piercing flesh came from the outpost, Art was lying on the carriage outside the wooden wall of the outpost. A light arrow with a flat head rubbed his collarbone and pierced deeply into his left shoulder.

A burst of cold numbness was followed by severe pain that could not be driven away. He tried to struggle, but the severe pain soon penetrated into his forehead and flooded his whole body. He felt that his limbs were weak and weak, and everything in front of him gradually became dark...

............

In a blur, Art was lying in a hot desert. The fierce sun was scorching the earth. Art's mouth was burning, his limbs were weak, and his legs and feet were numb. He wanted to stand up and look for water to drink, but his hands and feet were numb.

It's like it doesn't belong to you and you can't control it.

Just when Art was restless, a Steppenwolf slowly walked towards him. Just when he was wondering why the Steppenwolf appeared in the desert, the Steppenwolf was already drooling and walked up to Art, lowered his head and started to bite him.

shoulders.

The increasingly severe pain is transmitted to the brain bit by bit...

"Ah~!!!"

Art screamed in pain, and the desert and wolves in front of him suddenly disappeared, replaced by Angus holding a light arrow with a flat head in his hand, Ron who was cleaning his wounds, and people surrounding the bed.

How many people in Odo.

"Water, give me water." Art's weak voice sounded.

Ron quickly opened the water bag and put it to Art's mouth. Art took a few big gulps and choked on the water before he stopped.

"How's the war going?" Art wanted to get up, but when he moved the wound that tore his left shoulder, the pain made Art grin.

"Sir, we captured the outpost and put out the smoke in time. However, the enemy soldiers resisted. Two more of our soldiers were slightly injured, but it did not affect the battle. In the afternoon, I have sent people to pick up the people in the dense forest.

Come here. I have sent sentries to the north and south. There is no enemy situation in the surrounding area for the time being. Everything is fine." Odo stood over and replied.
Chapter completed!