Fatigue erodes every inch...lā
The sweat flowing out at high temperatures stains the clothes and hair under the clothes. The salt contained in the sweat lost in large quantities evaporates under the sun exposure and sultry environment, leaving white salt flowers. The lack of salt and mild dehydration symptoms together make Dizziness and increased fatigue; inability to eat three meals properly, fasting and turbulence immediately, nausea and vomiting caused by lack of salt, fatigue, fatigue, fatigue.
The collar of the thick and breathless cotton armor that protects the neck was turned down, but it still couldn't reduce the stuffy feeling on the body. The total weight of the plate armor, armed belts and weapons, which were not considered the same thing before, was less than ten kilograms. Carrying heavy weight, even under such fatigue conditions, is like a heavy burden, making it impossible to breathe.
But all of this is nothing compared to the mental hysteria caused by long-term sleep deprivation.
Mira couldn't remember exactly how many days she hadn't had a good night's sleep. Ever since those farmers shouted inexplicably and rushed down the mountain to attack their group, they were harassed one after another by various low-level mercenaries who were not opponents at all. They were not just ordinary farmers and hunters, but just one day. Never stopped.
People with excellent skills can fight one against a hundred. As long as they are strong enough, no matter how many enemies they have, they will not be afraid. She once had such naive thoughts, because Mira had always had the impression that Henry was powerful. They are all invincible, so she has formed an overly one-sided impression that quantity is not important.
But the innocent girl forgot the decision Henry made immediately when the two of them met during the caravan trip and encountered Sivalier's heavy cavalry. Of course, the powerful lethality of well-equipped heavy cavalry is also one aspect, but no matter what, when the number of opponents reaches several or even ten times that of our own, even if all they hold are sticks and stones, it is completely enough. , posing a serious threat.
Henry's knowledge reserve and the breadth of knowledge involved are unimaginable. In Mira's opinion, there was almost nothing he didn't know - but the knowledge was vast, and there was no one who could match him in terms of the depth of a certain item. The sage can judge that a place is suitable for evading hunting through his knowledge of the geographical environment, soil, plants, animals, and ecology. The local hunters who travel through the mountains and forests day after day, year after year, may not be able to do what he does. In this way, everything can be analyzed clearly and clearly, and you can also have enough experience to make the same judgment.
Their current situation is a bit difficult, and the other party has obviously made efforts to investigate their group.
A small number of elites with extremely strong individual combat capabilities - To target this kind of team, there are usually two combat plans implemented. The first is to dispatch the same small number of elites, and the second is to use overwhelming numerical superiority to defeat them. The opponent devoured them all. There are many poor refugees in the war-torn Thoradin area. Here, where the church has a very high say, they only need to move their fingers and give them some sweeteners, and the people below will flock to them.
——He miscalculated. Mira was able to deduce this fact, and so were the others in the team.
In the two encounters with the church knights, the leaders were no different than pustules. If only two people died the first time, the mastermind behind the scenes must have used some excuse to conceal the past, but if the entire team was directly killed the second time, then the situation must be unstoppable. As long as the commander is allowed to go back, after the incident, the man behind the scenes will be blamed by his superiors and unable to protect himself.
This was Henry's original expectation, but because of the uncertainty of the situation, they still chose the plan of advancing covertly, trying to avoid the limelight in the past few days and wait for the situation to calm down. With the church's consistent action style of "covering up whatever happens," they would probably want to forget this kind of scandal immediately, so naturally there would be no more attacks.
It started like a farce, and the action was launched for a farce-like reason. Both parties tacitly pretended to let it go as if it never happened. Unpaid is not a reasonable choice.
Henry explained everything like this at the campfire that night after the church knight leader returned. Together, they took the two horses from the dead knights and became the vehicles for Joshua and Emmanica. , under the guidance of the sage and the Luoan girl who were excellent mentors, the two of them spent a few days basically learning how to ride a horse - fighting on horseback is another matter, if they are just on the road, because these people who have experienced excellent training Because the superior war horses are very smart, even Joshua, who cannot see with both eyes, will still not have much trouble.
With two more horses, the movement will be much faster. He paid attention to the traces hidden deeper in the jungle and confirmed that no one was following him. After several days, he judged that the situation should be calm, and Henry led a group of people out of the woods again.
Less than a day after they came out, they were immediately attacked.
It’s not that sages have limited abilities. With such a lack of intelligence and counterattack power, every step he took was carefully considered. Even if it were another warrior with a lot of anti-tracking experience, he would probably make the same choice as him. .
Despite this, they still fell into the opponent's trap. The only reason was that the commander who was tracking them this time had very outstanding personal abilities.
During the period when the four of them hid in the forest to avoid the limelight, the other party did not send any tracking team. This is because the new commander knows that with the excellence of this team, no matter how powerful the tracker is, he will definitely be exposed and in turn be ambushed, which will arouse the vigilance of the four people, making it impossible to proceed. The next step is the ambush and attack.
So he or she simply stopped tracking completely, but instead of giving up, he or she changed hands and started working on another aspect, hiring a large number of unemployed farmers and hunters from local and nearby kingdoms to act as informants.
The so-called Ye Yin Yu Lin, a guy who is basically a local, is mixed among a group of locals. Even Henry, a sage, has no mind reading skills, and he cannot tell whether he is an ordinary civilian or a hired spy. As long as you go out, you will meet countless people along the way. His black hair and Mira's white hair are already quite different from the locals, so even if someone pays more attention, they cannot Therefore, it was determined that the other party was a hired spy.
A little carelessness, a sense of security arising from the incompetence of the commander sent by the man behind the scenes, became the beginning of a nightmare.
The fact that poorly equipped civilians attacked one's own group reveals two pieces of information. The first is, of course, the fact that the commander of the attacking force is extremely talented and capable - after all, the person who can plot to get Henry has many people throughout the whole process. There are probably only a handful of them in the world of Rigal.
The second fact is that the other party is obviously still at the "secret" attack level.
Presumably, it was the person behind the scenes - most likely a regional bishop - who tried his best to suppress the news again, and then sent out another force in a desperate attempt to prevent everything from being completely exposed. Before, this scandal was covered up.
His stupidity can be understood even if he has never met a few people in the team. He forcibly gave a reason and then explained it first and then explained it in an attempt to fool the matter. Normal people cannot come up with such an answer if they use logical thinking, and it is worth it. One thing to mention is that after Henry revealed all this, there was some slight embarrassment and silence in the team of four.
——The reason is naturally related to the secret of the blond girl.
"..." Emmanica looked at Joshua in front of her. She had not said a word to the red-haired swordsman for more than a week. This was not because Joshua had any strong feelings about the secret she kept. reaction. On the contrary, it was precisely because he responded to her with his usual calmness that the blond girl felt extremely tangled in her heart.
She didn't know what the other party thought of her. After this incident, in Emonika's view, even if the other party got angry at her, it would be much better than being silent now - but Joshua He has never been such a person, just like when he was blind and cried loudly, he still spoke to comfort himself. Emmanica's heart was extremely complicated at the moment. Joshua was a very, very important existence in her mind, but because of this, she didn't know how to speak.
——Are you saying sorry?
--what do I do?
——Scold me, question me, blame me, no matter what, don’t treat me so gently and calmly!
——This is not something that can be treated calmly!
The secret he was trying to keep was exposed to the important person he least wanted to expose without being prepared, and the other person's calmness was as if he didn't have the slightest weight in his heart.
The fear and worry that had arisen from being hunted inexplicably for a long time continued to accumulate.
It's probably hard to express how confused and painful she feels in her heart at this moment, but there is no time for her to suffer and struggle. Emmanica is not the kind of pretentious girl who can't tell what is most important and has to act coquettishly and ask for comfort from others 24 hours a day. She has learned the meaning of the word "strong" through her experience over such a long time, so she fights hard Mentally, even if you are very tormented in your heart, you will never let it out and affect your partners.
——They are now caught in the pursuit of each other, with waves of poor farmers and hunters coming for reward chasing behind them. Even though owning horses does give them a certain advantage in speed, they are facing Facing the seemingly endless pursuit, the horses will get tired, and so will the people.
There are only a few places to choose from for camping and resting. It is not advisable to go deep into the dense forest. The large number of wild beasts in the Thoradin area are extremely dangerous, and the denser the jungle, the greater the size and quantity of the poison. In addition, once you choose to go deep into the traces left by the operation, you will inevitably face a more dangerous situation.
Just stay outside. Areas with leeward views and wide views are obviously the first choice for concealment, but places that meet these conditions are very rare, and experienced local hunters cannot fail to know - but if the choice is broader, In other areas of the country, ordinary local farmers can also be easily traced.
The commander I have never met has a good trick.
Everything depends on rhythm. When I was vigilant about moving in the dense forest, if someone was following me, because of my vigilance, I could react immediately and use various tools to deal with the pursuers. But when they came out of the forest and relaxed their vigilance, thinking that the limelight had passed, the sudden attack at this time, and the subsequent constant harassment day and night, completely fell into the opponent's rhythm, and the group could only passively control their bodies. He gradually became weak due to both physical and psychological fatigue.
——This is the purpose of the opposing commander. Such a choice just proves that their actions are still "illegal" in the White Church and are not recognized by the upper-level officials. They are still the same mastermind who tried to send out to obliterate everything. team. This is a blessing among the misfortunes, because if the other party really obtains the support from above, facing the army and knights of the White Church, even the sages may not be able to save themselves.
It is naturally impossible for poor farmers with poor equipment and no fighting qualities to cause fatal harm to mercenaries like them who are quite skilled and well equipped except for their knowledge of the local environment. However, the continuous harassment repeatedly made them exhausted. The twenty or thirty people who were initially tempted by the pitiful money and committed suicide gave the subsequent farmers a warning. However, after the other party increased the reward and began to use religious influence , the easy benefits outweigh the fear of death.
Real material rewards, coupled with religious influence, promise them a better future and can cleanse their souls. The message spreads from one to ten, and as long as one of the simple-minded civilians rushing over in a chaotic manner shouts a slogan, they will follow one after another to become free soldiers who may not have real combat capabilities, but are enough to cause harassment.
The human herd mentality is a very scary thing. As for how to manipulate it and how to manipulate people's hearts to achieve what they want, the commander opposite gave a perfect answer.
Weak, weak again and again.
He couldn't eat enough for three meals, he was constantly searching everywhere, he was exhausted, and he could only get a very short rest. Even if they cannot be defeated directly like a regular army due to the gap in combat effectiveness, whether they choose to escape or fight during harassment, they will inevitably consume physical strength that cannot be fully replenished.
——This is the meaning of the existence of these large and cheap farmers.
I took a breath, my chest and nose felt burning. Lack of sleep for a long time, let alone bathing and cleaning, made the whole person feel sick. My mind is dizzy and my eyelids are so sore that it is unbearable. As long as I close my eyes, I will fall asleep immediately.
Mira's own situation is the worst among the four. Because of her age, she is not fully adapted to this busy life.
The Luoan girl felt that her group of four were like big fish caught by a fishhook, and those farmers and hunters were the fishing lines. In the hands of the commander he had never met before, he was like an experienced fisherman, repeatedly consuming his physical strength.
Finally, when they were no longer able to resist, they sent out the real killers who had gathered all their strength - the Vatican's protective knights, to kill them all in one fell swoop.
But maybe that won't happen.
Mira forced her exhausted body to stand up. She grabbed the weighted ball at the end of her long sword and got ready.
Words like "allowing people to be fishy" are not suitable for our Mr. Sage.
The messy farmers are probably still looking for their target like headless flies. Mira was thinking this, as a slight sound of horse hooves came from the front. The knight's plate armor looked extremely dazzling in the hot sunshine. The girl swallowed a mouthful of saliva and got ready. (To be continued.)
