Riding and Slashing

Chapter 274 Battle of Temple Defense

Since Li Ang had been stabbed and injured before, these most loyal companions stood by the lord's side for personal protection all the way, and kept armed to the gums.

The armor of the great swordsmen of Mettenheim was already extremely thick. Now that they have become members of the Silver Hand, Li Ang specially provided them with a set of gleaming silver gauntlets.

It was enchanted equipment produced by Noldo. The plate armor gauntlet with mittens forged from fine steel was inlaid with mithril runes. The forearm part of the gauntlet was widened and thickened, and it was integrated with the gauntlet. The gauntlets also had some spikes done.

In fact, this kind of gauntlet itself is also a weapon. The thickened forearm can be used as a wrist shield and an arm hammer, and punches and elbows can kill people.

It is also quite reliable when used as a wrist shield. Although the protective area is relatively small, the curved forearm plate armor is quite solid. Unless it is hard-wired with an axe, ordinary swords basically cannot break through the defense.

This kind of silver gauntlet that integrates offense and defense is the symbol equipment of the core members of the Silver Hand, at least it seems to be worthy of the name "Silver Hand", much more reliable than the Ebony Gauntlet Knights who don't equip ebony gauntlets at all ...

It's just that this kind of gauntlet can't be mass-produced, and Li Ang doesn't dare to equip it in large quantities. Only true cronies can get it. This thing costs a lot, and the cost is more expensive than silver of the same volume. It is a genuine silver hand.

The one-foot-wide gauntlet made up for the defect that the great swordsmen of Mettenheim did not wear shields, and also made the big hunks look like piles of barbed iron men, full of deterrence.

And the female explorers brought by Sarah are the best of Amy's subordinates, eight female warriors who have obtained the status of reserve knights.

Amy asked Sarah to take them with the army, not only to 'protect' Li Ang from being 'violated' by an underage elf girl, but also to let them contribute to the country and build military exploits.

This is actually announcing that 'Griffin Claw' is a regular follower loyal to Amy, a guard of the princess of the kingdom, not a mercenary.

In this way, Amy can legally confer these women as regular knights as the lord of White Hart Castle, and will not be regarded as an illegal conferment—no matter where she is, if she wants to become a recognized legal knight Cavaliers, playing for the country is a necessary process.

These female soldiers are the top fighters under Amy, and their equipment is naturally the best. Amy is a rich woman now, and she has bought a lot of good things for her men.

Ten strong men dressed like steel plates, eight heavily armored female knights, and two of the best of the Noldor.

Twenty bodyguards like this are not something ordinary people can handle.

In addition, Li Ang himself is not a weak chicken. In fact, even without the guards around, these Ghazi people probably can't catch the lord...

The hundred or so nomads hadn't made any preparations before, their equipment was very simple, and their skills were not very good. Even if they fought more and less, they were no match for them. Besides, they had to be captured alive, and they couldn't fight with their hands tied. .

So Ikram's plan naturally failed. Not only did it fail, it also caused a large number of Ghazi people to be killed and injured in a very short period of time. Facing the attack, neither Li Ang nor his guards would hold back .

In fact, this short battle was lackluster. The Mettenheim people blocked the outside to attract firepower, the two Noldor elves shot arrows in the middle, and several female explorers wandered to fill their positions—they all had rich combat experience themselves, and this kind of Know how to cooperate in small-scale battles.

Standing in the inner circle, Li Ang didn't need to make a move, and he didn't need to speak out to command. He only needed to guard against backstabs.

Only a few minutes later, dozens of the nomads died, and the rest scattered on horseback. On Li Ang's side, only Sammer and two female soldiers were slightly injured—that's all. Because the Ghazi threw a few waves of crudely made spears as they ran.

Throwing this kind of crooked and tattered low-quality weapon is indeed quite threatening - the flight trajectory of the crooked spear throwing is really unpredictable, and these people were originally guarding in front of Li Ang, they dare not avoid it, lest they be caught behind The lord who blocked his sight was unfortunately hit.

So they intercepted the spears with their swords, and got a little scrape—there were even unscraped thorns on the shafts of the spears.

This attack did not do anything to Li Ang, and Klose and others didn't care much about this attack in enemy territory. After all, it is normal to encounter such things when sending troops to fight.

But Li Ang was very upset.

Partly because his plans were affected and partly because Ikram was missing.

In the few minutes when those herdsmen attacked Li Ang, or in the minute or two when Li Ang was blocked from sight by the tall Mettenheimers, Ekram disappeared without a trace.

The surrounding areas are grasslands with no shelter, and the only places where people can hide are a few dilapidated big tents and some fences for keeping horses.

But Ikram is still missing, and apparently Ikram ran off with the nomads.

These nomads ran swiftly on light horses. Li Ang was not familiar with the terrain, so he would definitely not be able to catch up with them.Mount Ghazi is surrounded by grasslands, the place is quite big, and I don't know where they will go.

"My lord, what do you think he said to those herdsmen that caused them to attack you? Could it be Bahaman's intention that he did so?"

Right now, only Sarah can discuss countermeasures with Li Ang, but neither of them has figured out Ikram's intention in doing so—if Li Ang is really killed, Ikram himself and his whole family will be finished, which is easy to understand. It's not that the army in the fierce lion realm can't kill people without the marshal.

In fact, without Li Ang's restraint, the army of Sarleion Realm would have destroyed Ashcomman into ruins long ago.

"I don't think Bahaman is so stupid... In fact, I don't care what Ikram said, anyway, it has happened. The problem now is that if Ikram does this, the D'Shar herdsmen in this area will They have completely become my enemies. And it is difficult for us to communicate with them..."

Li Ang looked at the corpses on the ground and sighed: "I just wanted to do business well, I didn't want to kill people... But now, I probably have to kill a lot of people."

——After all, dozens of people have been killed. It is difficult to quell this kind of conflict of human life. Coupled with the language barrier and the inability to communicate, it is impossible to resolve it peacefully in a short time, so we can only continue to kill.

Sarah also sighed: "It's a pity that I can't speak the ancient D'Shar language..."

She did not speak D'sha, and she had not been born when his father, Saravan Sheikh, left the holy mountain.

And after Sarah was born, Saravan never cared about her, her mother brought her up——Sarah's mother was a noble daughter of the Cherez tribe in northern D'Shar, and she had no exposure to ancient languages ​​at all.

"It is no longer possible for me to show kindness to them, and they will definitely not believe me, huh...Since they have chosen to be my enemy, then I must destroy them..."

Li Ang looked to the east, but he couldn't see Gaqi Mountain in Fondar, only a grassland.

"They should be destroyed too! In fact, this is also a good thing for the D'Shar people—that holy mountain is simply the root of all evil! But, my lord..."

Sarah agreed with Li Ang's decision, but at the same time she also had some concerns: "But it is the holy mountain of the D'Xia after all, if you wantonly kill people on the holy mountain, the D'Xia may regard you as a devil, and you will Being hunted down by assassins all his life... There are many assassin groups in Desha."

"I know, Ashkoman has a brotherhood of Scorpio Assassins... It's because I don't want to provoke them, so I want to accept Ashkoman peacefully."

Li Ang sighed and shook his head: "But it's different here, I don't actually need to do anything to destroy this place...Sarah, you and Sigismund should go back to Eichkeman and tell Ah General Jiasong, the horses that Emperor Marius wanted, there are many under Mount Gazi..."

In fact, Li Ang didn't expect that in the end, Agathon would still have to scratch the ground in Dexia...

"...My lord, you want General Agathon to come over and do this dirty work, I understand that... But those herdsmen don't raise horses under Mount Gazi, General Agathon can't see the horses when he comes here, where to go Looking for those enemies?"

Sarah frowned to express her incomprehension. Gazi Mountain is surrounded by grasslands. Who knows where those herdsmen gather now?

"You don't need to see it, Sarah, go and tell Agathon—as long as he burns down the Vata Temple, there will be countless unowned wild horses under the mountain..."

Li Ang curled his lips: "By the way, tell Agathon that in order to ensure that the horse can be taken away, he'd better bring more manpower and weapons... I will let Sigismund take the gladiators to help Agathon One hand, lest that guy die in battle on the mountain, he still owes me a huge debt!"

Li Ang doesn't intend to change his plan, if the plan may go wrong, then get rid of those who may cause problems, no matter how many people there are.

But the lord still has to do business, and in business, he pays attention to making money with harmony - so things like murder and arson must not be done by himself, it will affect the business if it is too hateful.

But Agathon is different. This imperial general definitely doesn’t care whether the D’Shars hate him or not. The more the D’Shars hate him, the more satisfied he may be——for a general, someone from an enemy country Hatred is actually equivalent to one's own prestige.

Sarah already understood, she bowed to the lord sincerely, and then rode on her horse to find Sigismund.

Three days later, the Vata Temple on Mount Gazi unfortunately caught fire.

This fire attracted all the devout traditional herdsmen who believed in Vata, and they all galloped over to put out the fire.

However, Ghazi Mountain is steep and steep, and horses cannot go up, so there are indeed countless "ownerless war horses" at the foot of the mountain.

The De'Shar herdsmen rushed up the mountain desperately like crazy, while Agathon stood guard on the mountain condescendingly, turning an invasion into a defense.

In fact, the temple was burned by Sigismund, and he has been burning on the top of the mountain to ensure that all the temples on the mountain are burning-this is to illuminate the entire mountain to prevent Agathon from being attacked at night.

Sigismund couldn't understand this kind of thing that used the name of the gods to make money and engage in women. In his opinion, destroying this kind of evil priest was tantamount to saving the common people.

And Agathon also knew that Li Ang did not fool him, as long as he could hold on and kill all the D'Xia who attacked the mountain, the horses at the foot of the mountain would naturally become real unowned horses...

But how long this battle will last, and how long he will guard on the mountain, that's hard to say...

Fortunately, the snow on the top of the mountain has guaranteed the water source for many years, and the food obtained by Sigismund in the temple is also piled up like a mountain, and even the dinars for rewarding soldiers are piled up like a mountain-these temples are really rich. I'm afraid that Li Ang will get greedy after seeing it.

The only problem is manpower.

Agathon took only 1000 men—half of the fleet he had brought to D'Shar, the other half at Eichcomen.

And there are already countless Dexia people at the foot of the mountain. Anyway, there are heads everywhere, and throwing a spear down can cause casualties of two enemies...

Moreover, these D'Shars were extremely crazy after the temple was burned, even more crazy than digging their ancestral graves.

It looked like it was about to turn into a protracted battle.

……

When Agathon was fighting a difficult battle to defend the temple, Li Ang had successfully arrived at the city of Tuoba.

The gate of Toba City was closed at this time, and there seemed to be a few cantilevers protruding from the city wall, probably because large catapults and other equipment were arranged in the city.

From a distance, the D'Shar soldiers standing on the top of the city could be seen moving on the city wall.

Li Ang's troops were stationed about five miles north of Tuoba City. This was the intersection of the green land and the desert outside Tuoba City, and it was also the place where the land was the hardest.

In the distance, the thin yellow sand was blown by the wind, bringing up a strand of gauze-like fine dust, shining golden light under the reflection of the setting sun.

The defenders in Tuoba City had obviously spotted Li Ang's army long ago, but they closed the city gate at such a distance and started fiddling with catapults. The defenders in the city were probably quite cautious.

Of course, this is also a sign of lack of confidence.

"My lord, do you want to send scouts to investigate?"

Li Ang approached a Sarleon knight, this is Fawcett's subordinate - Fawcett, like Amy, did not come by himself, but sent several representatives.

Li Ang didn't let Fawcett join the army, he had already taken Eric away, so Fawcett had to stay within the range of Changhe Town, because Fawcett had a huge influence on those rogue nobles or bandits who hid in the mountains. deterrence.

Today, Fawcett is busy being regarded as a "butcher" in the eastern part of the Sarleon Kingdom. Everyone knows that he is ruthless, and some people with discerning eyes know that he is the knife that kills in Li Ang's hand-but no matter what, when this knife exists, No ghosts or monsters dare to show their heads.

The knight under Fawcett only brought thirty soldiers with him, but all of them were light cavalry with fairly good skills, and they were Fawcett's elite family.

This was Fawcett's attitude towards Leon—his troops were willing to take on the hardest jobs, such as being the most risky scouts.

"There should be quite a few D'Shar Wind Riders in the city. Their archery skills are pretty good. You should not go there... Someone will come and tell us about the situation in Toba City in a short time. Maybe even the layout of the city's defenses can be brought along... ..."

Li Ang didn't let the knight go out, but patted the knight on the shoulder and gave another task: "Let's take someone to patrol about [-] miles to the north, I'm more concerned about whether the desert behind will be safe or not." There will be enemies, and those D'Shar horsemen trapped in the city ahead are nothing to worry about."

Then the army began to camp in place, lighting fires and cooking.

Li Ang was going to rest here for the whole night, waiting for Ramon's people to come to him.

(End of this chapter)