The riding and chopping simulator of the Lord of the Rings

Chapter 98 Dongyi, Baltra people
Just as Allen was telling everyone about the next step that the dark forces might take, several large camps surrounded by huge vehicles had been built in the eastern part of the Red Water River, and the largest one of them was also holding a meeting at this time .

The meeting place was next to the bonfire in the center of the camp. On the bonfire that was about to go out, a golden-colored roasted whole lamb was being roasted. Several blond boys in shabby clothes and shackles, but cleaned very clean, were carefully With a short dagger, he divided the mutton on the fire.

Soon the fragrant roasted whole lamb was divided and placed on two large silver plates inlaid with ruby ​​and emeralds. The teenagers carried them and walked towards an extremely huge plate decorated with gold and silver. The luxurious carriage goes.

There were five fierce-looking burly men sitting in the carriage, especially the one sitting in the middle seat, who was not only taller than the people sitting on both sides, but also had criss-crossing scars on his face, under the light of candles, Make the original fierce face even more ferocious.

At this moment, four young slaves carrying mutton came up along the inclined wooden ladder. The first plate of mutton was placed on the wooden table in the carriage smoothly, and the two young men who put down the silver plate stood Both sides of the carriage lowered their heads and breathed a sigh of relief. The sound was extremely soft, as if they were afraid of being heard by other people in the carriage.

When the second plate of mutton was placed on the table smoothly, the leader sitting on the main seat seemed to sense something, snorted softly, and stared viciously at the two people who had just put down the silver plate. juvenile.

With just a hum, one of the teenagers collapsed on the ground, and the shackles tied to his body made a "crash" sound, while the other teenager quickly took out the silver plate from under the silver plate. The dagger used to cut mutton was thrown towards the leader on the main seat, and then turned around to run away regardless of the result.

However, as a slave, the shackles on his legs greatly restricted the speed of the boy's escape. A bald man sitting at the end of the table stretched out his hand very quickly, and grabbed the boy's slender neck, fiddled with it lightly. , and saw the boy's face clearly.

The boy who was strangled kept beating the muscular arms of the bald man with both hands, his face also turned red from suffocation, and he kept whimpering in pain.

The bald-headed man laughed loudly, and then turned his head to the leader sitting in the main seat and said, "Master Ashur, this bastard is the son of Algernon, and he is here for revenge."

Ashur, with a ferocious face, rubbed his right hand on his luxuriously decorated gold handle, recalled it a little, and found that he didn't know the name, and asked, "Algernon? Who? What? hatred?"

The big man sitting at the end on the other side stroked his full beard and said with a smile: "Kurda, what are you talking about, just tell your lord that the one who was tied to the back of the carriage and dragged to death last week is gone."

Ashur then said with a face of enlightenment: "Oh, it's that northerner who doesn't work hard and clamors for a rest, right? I remembered it, no wonder."

With a sullen expression on his face, Kulda forced the struggling blond boy to his knees with one hand, and then gave Hamish a hard look, but he didn't get angry immediately, but lowered his head towards Ashur said: "Yes, my lord, this is his son, Brendon"

Ashur raised his brows, glanced at the boy kneeling on the ground, and laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, what a brave boy, Kulda, whip him twenty lashes and hang him at the gate of the camp. Let the vultures eat his flesh and blood day and night, um, and the other three, let's kill them too."

As soon as the words fell, the teenagers who were standing on both sides with their heads bowed and dared not speak, collapsed to the ground trembling, and were dragged out by the Dongyi soldiers called by Kulda amidst the screams.

After a while, "crack", "crack", "crack", the sound of the whip whipping mixed with a few extraordinarily shrill shouts, spread to the carriage, and then there was another scream of unbearable pain. The sound did not affect the five big men in the car. They happily ate the roast lamb and gulped down the mellow ale from time to time. It seemed that what happened outside had nothing to do with them at all.

A whole roasted lamb was quickly eaten up by five big men. After taking another gulp of beer, Ashur asked the first subordinate on the left: "Baal, what is the north of Honghe Town?" What do people say? Are they willing to surrender?"

Barr, who was fair-skinned and took care of himself extremely neatly, said, "My lord, the people of Honghe Town have paid a large amount of ale and some grain as tribute, hoping that we can spare their town. Answer, do you see?"

Ashur laughed contemptuously after hearing this, and said, "It doesn't matter if you give or not, since they are so ignorant, there should be more than 4000 people in Baal and Akkad's tribe together."

On Ashur's right, sat a big man with disheveled hair and dark skin. He was the Akad that Ashur spoke of. He said respectfully, "Yes, my lord. Order, bring everyone here."

"That's good!" Ashur swept Baer's face with a sinister gaze, and continued: "Then from tomorrow, you two tribes, prepare to attack Honghe Town. All the harvested slaves, wealth, Hand over half of the supplies, and the rest will belong to you.”

At this time, Baltra's white face showed a reluctant expression. As a branch of the Baltra people closest to the Red Water River, he often led the tribal cavalry under his command to plunder on the plains west of the Red Water River.

Although there were also some northerners who were helpless and resisted the troops led by Barr, they were often killed or enslaved. In, a small human town was discovered.

After two bloody battles, the northerners in Honghe Town gave in helplessly. They couldn't beat these fierce Dongyi people in the wild. Only behind the wooden city walls could they fight the invading enemies.

But they still have to live, they need to go out of the city to reclaim fields and pick wild fruits, and being surrounded in the city is nothing more than a dead end. Then the lord of Honghe Town proposed an agreement with Barr, and Red River Town will pay a large amount of ale every year in exchange for a deal with Barr. of peaceful coexistence.

In the two battles that Baal attacked Honghe Town, he also suffered many casualties. He was already considering the issue of gains and losses. If he attacked Honghe Town by force, even if he succeeded, his tribe would suffer heavy losses. The weak prey on the strong among the tribes, even if they belong to the same ethnic group, as long as their strength weakens, they will become blood prey surrounded by vultures.

Barr, who suffered a lot of losses, actually has the intention to retire.

And Red River Town's proposal hit Barr's heart. In the next four years, Barr traded the ale that Red River Town gave him as a tribute to tribes of other ethnic groups in exchange for quite a few slaves and weapons, and his strength gradually grew. The second most powerful force of the Baltra people.

However, Barr has concealed all of this, because once Ashur finds out about it, he will definitely get a share of the action, or even take it all away.

Now, not only can't get the ale, but Akkad has to take a share of it. Barr is naturally reluctant, but no matter how unwilling, he has to swallow this resentment, and he has to answer respectfully: "Yes, My lord, I will prepare as soon as I go back."

What Barr didn't know was that his leader, Ashur, knew everything three years ago, but he didn't have an attack, and Ashur could clearly see the reluctance on his face.

But Ashur didn't care. Pigs need to be slaughtered only when they are fattened. If there is no task arranged by Sauron this time, he will directly annex Baal's tribe in the near future, and now Ashur Er first extinguished Barr's desire to continue to gain benefits.

He relishes the feeling of making other people angry, scared, and powerless against him.

What Ashur is doing now, and what he originally planned to do, is nothing among the Dongyi tribes. Sauron only cares about whether these Dongyi people are obedient. As for how to play power among the Dongyi people He didn't care about the game at all, he just killed some humans.

About three months ago, Sauron arranged for Kohamur to summon Ashur, and ordered the current Baltra leader to attack the northern area of ​​the River Run and occupy the vast plain there.

Sauron didn't think about wiping out the northern humans and dwarves in this operation. Let alone whether these Baltras can do it, if the battle is too fierce, it will inevitably cause elves, Luo Khan and Gondor's full counterattack.

He does not want to break out of a full-scale war with other forces in Middle-earth, and Sauron is not prepared enough.

It's just that Azog's complete failure in the Lonely Mountain made Sauron a little unbearable. If Azog could cause some losses to the elves or dwarves, even if the elves or dwarves died a king, Sauron would not be so angry in his heart.

After all, there are many half-orcs, and they die as soon as they die, but they have no results at all, which makes Sauron unable to accept this result.

Now, the dark lord, who has become angry from embarrassment, will naturally not make the humans and dwarves of Rovanian feel better, so he sent the Baltra people, a Dongyi tribe with tens of thousands of people, to let these servants take a good look at the embarrassing people. Those two races, as for the elves hiding in the black forest, Sauron naturally arranged other means.

But of course Ashur didn't know Sauron's other plans, he was just faithfully carrying out the order of the Dark Lord, and of course he would get what he wanted in this operation.

After receiving the order, Akkad and Barr immediately returned to their tribe to prepare for the attack on Honghe Town.

Kulda and Amish, who didn't get any benefits, stepped out of Ashur's luxurious carriage, ignored the three heads without bodies, and in a bark of dogs, they violently lifted up and received twenty lashes. Brendon dragged him to the gate of the camp. The blood oozing from the wound drew two crooked lines of blood along the boy's scarred feet.

Afterwards, Kulda touched his bald head and watched Amish hang up the bruised and blond boy amidst laughter, and then the two of them each rode away on their own horses.

At this moment, several figures showed their heads on the hill far from the gate of the camp. It was the six twilight knights led by Horimion, and Malhebi from Red River Town.

The group of them had just arrived in Honghe Town half a month ago. However, they hadn't rested for long, and the horses that had galloped all the way were not fattened. Barr led a small number of tribal knights and appeared at the gate of Honghe Town. , clamoring for the people of Honghe Town to surrender obediently.

Barr was also a Tuo University, and he thought he had an agreement with Honghe Town, and there had been no problems over the years, so he only brought dozens of cavalry over, but he didn't realize that he was making a round before the gate of hell.

After Horimion learned that the human beings in front of him were the enemies of his lord, he immediately took out the Noldor Rune Bow and prepared to shoot them, but was stopped desperately by the startled Malhebi.

Hermione didn't take these dozens of human cavalry seriously at all. He and the six twilight knights could rely on the extremely fast and durable elf horses, as well as his powerful shooting skills, On the vast plains, hunt down the enemy to death.

But of course Malhebi couldn't let this kind of thing happen. After Horimion killed Baal, he slapped his ass and left in a cool way.

Needless to say, what happened at that time is probably the result of the destruction of a city.

It was Malhebi's father who came out to communicate with Barr, and finally the Dongyi people left Honghe Town with a large number of carriages.

And Horimion led six twilight knights, and followed the trail left by Baal at night. After several days of tracking, he came to the bank of the Red Water River. Twenty or thirty Dongyi people followed. Soldiers guarding a simple wooden bridge.

After a brief observation, Horimion was ready to lead the twilight knights, relying on the speed of the elf horse, to forcefully cross the bridge and eliminate the enemies in front of him.

But Malhebi, who followed, stopped them and took Horimion and others to cross the Red Water River from a shoal downstream.

However, Hermione still did not let go of the twenty or thirty enemy soldiers. He divided the six twilight knights into two teams. He led two of them up from the east bank of the Red Water River, and the other four The name was to meet from the west bank, and under the blessing of surprise, he killed the soldiers guarding the bridge.

Then they continued to follow the trail, and after galloping for a while, they arrived at the gate of Ashur's camp. After observing for a while, they saw the scene of Brendon being hung on the beam of the gate.

However, when Malhebi was on the hill, looking at the endless Dongyi camp, his heart was filled with despair. He knew that the enemy had such strength, and it was impossible to be moved by such a small amount of supplies. , obviously, his father was tricked by Barr.

And Horimion didn't care what Malhebi was thinking, nor did he care about the future fate of Honghe Town. He came to investigate the enemy's situation. After he figured it out, he could go back and report to Alan.

It's just that the way the Dongyi people set up camp was different from what he had seen before. Some of them slept in tents, while others slept directly in cars. Horimion couldn't rely on tents at all. to calculate the approximate number of enemies.

Horimion was thinking about whether to take some risks, grab his tongue, and get some intelligence from the enemy.

At this time, Brendon, who was hung on the crossbeam, woke up from the coma. Even though his body was very weak, he still made some slight struggling movements, and this scene was watched by Hermione. in the eyes.

Then Horimion greeted the six twilight knights behind him, then patted Malhebi who was still in a daze, and said as it should: "You go on the horse first, the movement may be a bit loud later, Lest a large number of enemies come out and leave you here."

Malhebi didn't know what Horimion and the others were going to do, but the battle that took place by the river let the northerner know how powerful Lord Allen of Wilderness Town had arranged to escort him.

That's right, Malhebi who thought of this suddenly brightened his eyes, and the lord of the wilderness town, Malhebi who thought of something nodded to Horimion, rode his own horse, and quickly walked towards the man who came here. Running all the way, he desperately wanted to go back and have a chat with his father.

The Dongyi soldiers guarding the gate of the camp looked at Brendon, who was dripping blood in the struggle, and yawned boredly. He had seen this kind of scene a lot. Some innocent people were hanged here, and not necessarily all slaves.

After yawning, the Dongyi soldier took out a water bag from his waist, took a shallow sip, smacked his lips, picked up the water bag again, raised his neck and took another sip.

The water bag contained some ale, which Ashur had just handed out during the day. In the Dongyi tribe, the ale produced in Honghe Town was already quite a good drink.

Ashur also saw that his soldiers had been traveling very hard these days, so he took the ale brought back by Barr and distributed them all to his cronies, so it was no wonder that Barr was unwilling to report his gains to Ashur.

And this soldier who was drinking ale, before he took a second sip of wine, an arrow with an awl pierced his neck and cut his aorta. Blood mixed with wine came out of his mouth. poured out.

He had the same experience as a dozen or so Dongyi soldiers standing on the roofs of the cars on both sides of the gate. In a short period of time, they were shot by arrows and fell to the ground. This movement quickly attracted the attention of other Dongyi soldiers in the camp. Attention of Yi soldiers.

And in the darkness outside the gate of the camp, a cavalryman rushed out quickly. It was Horimion riding an elf horse. Brendon's rope was shot, and Brendon, who was hanging, widened his eyes, looked at the knight rushing towards him in surprise, and then fell heavily.

Horimion, who was charging, slightly lowered the galloping speed of some elf horses. Then he bent down and picked up Brendon with one hand. Then he pulled the horse's head and reversed the direction. Under the angry gaze, he rushed out of the gate of the camp.

The first group of Dongyi cavalrymen who reacted shouted at the horses under their crotches, and chased in the direction of Horimion.

At this time, waves of arrow rain flew out from the darkness, shooting down the Dongyi cavalry who wanted to rush out of the gate one after another.

And Hermione disappeared into the darkness within this short period of time, and with the sound of horseshoes, he gradually moved away from Ashur's camp until he disappeared.

A moment later, a large group of Dongyi cavalry with hounds chased out of the gate of the camp amid Ashur's angry shouts.

(End of this chapter)