Although it was unexpected, the rendezvous with the Ravenella troops led by Minna, who was well prepared, greatly improved the success rate of search and rescue.
The young people who can be selected and sent to the east coast are all extremely outstanding talents. Not only are these young people strong and capable of knowing and being good at using some weapons, they also have far superior abilities in other aspects such as judging the situation, wilderness, and survival. Mastery of peers.
With quick thinking, outstanding mobility, excellent physical strength and endurance, and a character that can endure hardships, these people are almost the best soldiers a commander can think of, or the best teammates a traveler can think of.
Their level of excellence is no less than that of the elite Imperial Knights led by Constantine, and judging from the situation, in the current environment, they perform even better than the Imperial Knights.
It’s not just a matter of experience and expertise, it also has a lot to do with the gear they carry.
Constantine's line of heavily armored imperial knights has been idiosyncratic. The men, horses, and the equipment they carry are all specialized in attack and defense, in order to maximize the charging power of the heavy cavalry.
This is a common style of the regular army of the Padrosi Empire, which has a complete logistics system. Each part performs its own duties, so that the effectiveness of the battle can be maximized.
Both are heavy cavalry, Padrosi's heavy cavalry and Avenella, as well as Silvalier, who claims to be the country of knights, are not the same concept at all.
The knights of the West Coasters fought for honor and gold.
Their so-called heavy cavalry is actually more like independent knights and their sergeants, improvised together, but the number seems to be larger.
According to the experience passed down from the Gulaman Empire, the Padrosi people also have knights, but they pay more attention to obedience and unity, so this is more like a military rank.
They train separately and improvise together during wartime. and train uniformly, in an orderly and coordinated manner.
In one-on-one or even small-scale battles between knights, the two sides may have a 50-50 winning rate, but in a large army hedging, the disciplined Knights of Padrosi will always win.
This is the fundamental difference between the heavy cavalry on the east and west coasts, and also the gap in national power between the empire and the kingdom.
——However, this kind of specialization, a professional army that hands over full logistics power to other troops and focuses on combat, once it encounters a logistics supply crisis, the losses it will suffer will be compared to the relatively no-name Avenella people. More serious.
Despite these differences, the average weight limits of combat professionals who train year-round around the world are still not much different.
From the Lamanite classical era to modern times when chainmail was popular, the total equipment of the heavy infantry, including weapons, armor and personal belongings, weighed around 30 kilograms.
Except for a few isolated cases like Constantine or our sage, the weight that most adult men can accept to move freely for a long time falls within this range.
Under such equal physical fitness and load-bearing conditions, Padrosi's knights used all their loads to carry weapons and armor.
This makes them extremely vulnerable to logistical crises and cold snaps.
In contrast, they are more similar to mercenaries. They do not specialize in attack and defense but reasonably match their load. To achieve a balance point in weapons and supplies to ensure self-sufficiency, the group of traditional West Coast people led by Minna happened to be less professional and professional than the Imperial Knights. Instead, they were less able to survive as an individual soldier. Even more outstanding.
The blond lady probably didn't think too much when she set out. She just unconsciously judged based on her own experience, taking into account the weather factors and the purpose of the behavior, and chose the appropriate supplies and equipment.
Habits become natural, practice makes perfect, and these details are the means to identify whether a person has as much experience in this matter as he or she claims.
But let’s get back to where we started.
There are a total of thirty-seven people under Ming Na's banner, with an average age of 24 and the youngest only 19. Several of these people are from lower-level nobles, but most of them are sons of mountain people and hunters. They are good at using longbows and can. He rides a horse and knows how to run through the mountains and forests.
Together with the horses carrying spare supplies, the total number was thirty-eight men and fifty horses. They are equipped with one-handed swords, shields and longbows. In addition, they only have warm clothing and no armor.
Traveling lightly and with excellent qualities, they went much deeper into the Bao Forest on the east side in a very short time after merging and judging the direction of travel.
It is worth mentioning that our Mr. Sage and the Luoan girl were finally able to replace two unruly horses. Although they had only been together for less than a week since they were obtained, these two inferior horses that were stupid and disobedient were enough to make people feel bad.
The town was poor in supplies, and even if he had money, he couldn't buy better horses under such circumstances. Fortunately, Minna's departure point was not like this in Parnilla. There was no delay from the caravans and no detours. The team carrying sufficient supplies moved very fast and both the people and horses retained good physical fitness.
After moving the good saddles and some of the equipment, the remaining supplies were placed on the two bad horses. Their stupid brains cannot understand and move in a certain direction according to human wishes, but there is still no problem when being led by the reins.
All in all, this team, composed entirely of foreigners, struggled forward in the heavy snow in the south of the east coast.
Although their number has increased many times, it is still nothing compared to the area of the forest.
The heavy snow has covered all traces, and even places that may be shelters will become white and difficult to find. The further away from the road, the more difficulties they face. They need to think twice about where to step, because there may be a pit under the seemingly flat snow-white ground.
Not to mention that the snow melted due to the rising temperature, and the horseshoes with iron horseshoes kept slipping on the soft slush. Everyone had to be careful, because if the horses were frightened by slipping, they would probably fall down. The leg was broken.
Ming Na is still a little inexperienced in this aspect. After all, she was born in the land of Yongchun. For the cold and snow, she only knows how to keep warm as much as possible and carry more supplies. If she had more knowledge, she would equip all war horses with replacement spiked horseshoes to increase their grip when entering the forest and tundra.
But then again, the blond lady only planned to search south along the ancient road at first, and did not intend to go deep into the wilderness. It is commendable that she is worried about her friends and has the heart to come down and look for them in person. If it were anyone else, they would probably think "it's probably nothing" or use "they will get over it on their own" to convince themselves. , and then continue doing nothing.
Through a series of coincidences, Mingna became the savior of Henry and Mira. When the girl Luo An asked about this matter, she just smiled and said that it was a woman's sixth sense. I felt so depressed.
"Of course it's best if you don't encounter any situation, but if you encounter any situation and I don't do anything I can do, I think I will hate myself for the rest of my life." She smiled softly, and Mi When La felt a warmth in his heart, he was also a little disappointed because Munna and others who were also in Padrosi did not show up.
However, the prairie princess bears the fate of an entire nation after all. She has her own responsibilities, and many things cannot be done just by what she wants to do.
Time passed by, and although the traces could not be traced and the forest was vast, they knew the direction they should go.
Because there is Henry in the team.
Mira looked at the back of her teacher in front of her. He was directing three young people from Avenella as scouts to move in several suspicious directions ahead. This would be done every once in a while, and based on the reports they came back as a baseline, Henry would decide the direction the team would take.
This report is about temperature.
The fact that the troops were all Avenellas had a significant advantage under the circumstances. Henry could tell them what they were about to face without worrying about people being thrown into disarray and losing morale.
At the Secret Astrology Association in the Imperial Capital of the Padrosi Empire, the magic tutor Camilo communicated with the sages yesterday. People who knew little about magic gained the key knowledge that individuals with powerful magic can affect the climate.
This makes Henry's explanation much easier later.
Camilo and his group were originally chasing high-magic targets that they thought were monsters, and it was precisely this ubiquitous fluctuation of magic power.
However, there is no high-ranking magician with detection tools among the group, so their judgment method can only rely on physics.
Henry's method was a stupid one. He set a benchmark for evaluation, and then used three scouts in front of the team to explore the area in front of them in a fan-shaped spread, and then selected the direction with lower temperature and moved forward step by step.
This sounds simple, but it is quite difficult to implement, because things like temperature cannot make a huge difference just by traveling two or three kilometers. Unless they are really close to the location of the witch, they can only pass through some Subtle changes to determine the general direction of progress.
The only one who can do this and judge from these details is naturally Henry.
The able-bodied Avenella scouts traveled in shifts, and based on their reports, the Sage re-planned the direction again and again.
In this way, on the third day after the confluence, after ensuring the direction of progress, everyone twisted and twisted. Finally, when they advanced for another hour to the southeast of Bao Forest, everyone realized that they had indeed chosen, right direction.
It was different from the scene where the sun was shining brightly behind us and the snow had begun to melt after just three days of journey.
The ground here is all icy, the trees are withered and black, and animals that are frozen and hardened come one after another along the way.
However, this still fails to answer the most critical question.
Yes, the Witch and the others have been found, but shouldn't they be a rescue team with the purpose of rescuing Constantine and his group?
People slowed down. Whether the longbow could be drawn normally in this cold weather was a problem. Many longbowmen were trembling on their horses, and the breath between the mouths and noses of the horses and horses turned into large clouds of white air. The moisture contained in the breath even quickly formed frost on the tips of the noses and lips.
The wind and snow were howling, and Mira recalled what Henry had said when he explained to them when they set out three days ago.
"We can't track them directly because the wind and snow will cover up the tracks, so we can only track the witch."
"But the result is the same."
"Because." The sage said word by word.
"The Witch and Us"
"Chasing the same thing."
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"Look, that, that's the discarded armor."
"Oh, we are indeed going in the right direction!"
The two young people from Avenella spoke like this, but before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief and be happy to find the person they were rescuing, suddenly, in the white snow, in the howling wind and frost, In the cold icy land, among the frozen trees and animals.
rang.
A dragon roared.
"Past."
"Return."
"run!!"
