After several days of this, Dast and his team successfully marked all along the river. Under Dast's guidance, their own traces were not discovered by anyone.
"Your skills are amazing." Even Glahid had to admire him in the end. "I don't know if you can become a general. But if the King of Sweden wants to form a team dedicated to investigation, then you must be the instructor. .”
"Where are we now?" Dast was a little overwhelmed by the praise. "You haven't seen the things I taught the King of Sweden!"
Suddenly there was a cry of birds ahead, but a closer look revealed that the cry came from a soldier walking at the front. During these days, Dast trained the soldiers to imitate the calls of birds to convey information. Glahid also participated in the training. He pricked up his ears and quickly understood the meaning of the sound: 'There are traces of the enemy ahead.'
At first glance, there were no footprints on the ground where the soldier was pointing. But Dast and his party knew that there were already more than ten markers missing from the marks they had left on the land. In other words, this piece of soil has been wiped clean.
"Have you found the enemy's water fetching location? Do you want to search nearby?" Glahid asked.
"No. If I wanted to hide my whereabouts, I would definitely install some unobtrusive but noisy mechanisms near the camp. Although the enemy is not me, for the sake of safety, it is better to assume that there are such mechanisms. We will not It is possible to find every mechanism, and active search is very risky. We should wait here and wait."
"How to keep it?"
Dast pointed upward and then downward: "The enemy will definitely come to fetch water again. We can hide in trees or underground. If there are not many people fetching water, we can also set up a few traps to They catch them all in one fell swoop.”
"trap?"
"Look, this is more suitable for setting traps." Dast walked towards a stone. "People like to walk in dry places. The surrounding area of this stone is very muddy, so this stone will probably be very big if it is stepped on." . Just hollow out the bottom of this rock - Wow! What a trap!"
As soon as Dast stepped on the stone, the stone immediately collapsed, causing Dast to fall into the hole. Before Glahid and the others could react, the big tree above them suddenly let out a girl's laughter: "I caught you!"
Several branches fell from the tree. Under the shocked eyes of Glahid and others, Ella slowly climbed down from the big tree. Her clothes were wrapped with a circle of green vines and overgrown leaves. branches with leaves. Glahid thought he might have seen an hallucination and wiped his eyes with his hands. When he opened his eyes, he could not find Ella for a while. It wasn't until Ella landed on the ground and was completely separated from the big tree that he was convinced that Ella was in front of him.
"I've been waiting for you here for a long time!" Ella laughed with her hands on her hips. "When I saw these familiar signs, I knew you would definitely come back here. So I waited and waited."
"Apprentice... there is something Master wants to discuss with you. Just think of Master as a rabbit guard. Can you avoid this trap next time?" Dast climbed out of the pit in disgrace, "This The digging was so deep, if I hadn’t pressed my feet against the sides in mid-air, I would have probably broken one of my legs!”
"This is the smallest pit!" Ella opened her arms in a show-off manner, "The largest pit can fall into more than ten people at once!"
"I thought I found traces of the enemy." Glahid said, "It turns out that these marks were all painted out by you."
"Me?" Ella shook her head, "No, the mark on this place was gone when I came here."
At this moment, a surprised voice suddenly came from the distance: "Who are you?"
Soon enough, the bushes in the distance suddenly moved, and more than ten men with weapons rushed out from there!
"Oops, I was discovered!"
Glahid and the five soldiers hurriedly drew their weapons and stood in front of Ella. Although the weapon Grahid held was a bow, he was standing at the front. Everyone has no doubts about this.
Ayla observed the enemies across the way through the gaps between the soldiers, trying to determine where they came from from their service. But they were all wearing patchwork linen clothes. Except for the leader who was holding a decent sword, the rest of them were holding things like pitchforks and pot lids. They looked like ordinary people no matter how they looked. farmers.
"Are you local residents of Winchester?" Ella asked.
But those people didn't listen to what Ella said at all. The leader with the sword shouted "formation", and the team of people "swiped" into two lines. The people in the front row lowered their center of gravity and used the pot lid to cover their chests and half of their faces; the people in the back row stood and held the pot lid diagonally upward to ward off arrows from above. Both of them raised their pitchforks from behind the pot lid, so that two pitchforks could attack at the same time in a space one person high and one person wide, just like a simple shield wall phalanx.
In contrast, although Ella's side was said to be soldiers from the army, they only brought a small hatchet for the convenience of investigation. They had no armor or shields, and their number was also smaller. The enemy's formation immediately made them feel a pressure. Dast led all levies this time, and there was no regular army except Grahid. If they really fought, they might really lose to this group of farmers.
But Ella didn't seem to think so, and shouted at the group of people dressed as farmers: "I asked you if you are residents of Winchester! If you don't answer, I will take action to knock you down!"
The leader of the enemy had already seen his side's advantage, so how could he be frightened by Aila's words. He pointed his sword forward, and the group of farmers began to advance. One step, two steps, while advancing, the shield wall phalanx remained undisturbed. It was obvious that this group of people had received a lot of military training. With firm eyes and steady steps, they all took three, four, five steps forward...and then fell into the pit dug by Ella.
Only the man holding the sword and commanding from behind survived. He stared blankly at the huge pit that could accommodate more than ten people, and for a moment he didn't understand what was going on.
At this time, Dust climbed out of the pit. As soon as he escaped, he jumped up in front of everyone, pulled out the sword from his waist and gestured towards the leader: "Disciple, don't be afraid, just leave this to Master!"
The leader stared at Daxter for a while, then moved his feet and raised his sword, assuming a decent posture.
"Looks like a farmer, and his posture is not bad." Dast said confidently, "What a pity, your opponent is me, the White Knight!"
Both of them looked like they were only wearing cloth clothes, but Dust had an iron plate hidden on his chest, which actually gave him a lot of advantages. As a result, Daxter appeared to be at ease. But who would have thought that when the leader heard the words "White Knight", he suddenly turned the sword over, grabbed the blade with his hand, and pointed the hilt towards Dust.
"The blunt weapon of the sword is specially used to hit heavily armored enemies." Glahid stared at the enemy, "It seems that these people are indeed not ordinary farmers."
