Chapter 135 Moo! Moo!

Although it was called a meeting, Taner did not speak. He just gathered the knights together and then they were silent.

Until Taner's cronies pried open the mouths of the two captured traitors and came to report.

Taner's eyes moved to the face of a sturdy knight: "You still have a chance to explain."

The sturdy knight opened his mouth slightly, his eyes widened, and said: "I am a knight, you have no right to deal with me."

Indeed, knights are also nobles. Although they are not as powerful as the great nobles who need the decision of the noble court to deal with them, in the eyes of outsiders, Taner, as a knight, is not qualified to deal with this strong man.

Of course, that's just normal.

Taner calmly took out a letter, handed it to his confidant, and asked the confidant to read out the contents.

After the relatives finished their message, Taner spoke up, "Someone passed through the breach in the defense line, and based on my observations just now, there may be fifty to one hundred people, or even more."

"Does anyone want to plead or defend him?" Taner sat in the main seat, his eyes under the helmet scanning everyone present.

After waiting for a moment, Taner looked up at the burly man and said, "If you can name a few accomplices, you can at least be spared from death now."

The sturdy man didn't expect that he was really going to be executed. He put his hand on the sword at his waist. He knew very well that Taner was a top-level professional and he had no chance of winning.

Taner stood up from the main seat in the military camp and walked step by step to the strong man.

Although this sturdy man was about the same height as Taner, when Taner walked in front of him, he felt that Taner was pressing down on him like a mountain, as if he was going to crush him at the next moment.

His face suddenly showed despair, his lips moved, and he said, "Count Feihu."

Taner withdrew his hand that was about to pinch his throat and ordered someone to take the knight away. This knight originally came from the Earl of Stag's army and seemed to have been bribed.

As for condemning Earl Feihu and attempting to impose economic and administrative penalties on him, that was not within his consideration.

Such diplomatic matters can be left to Lord Rand to handle. What he needs to do now is to try his best to make up for it.

Judging from the traces found on the other side of the defense line, the number of invaders is very vague, but it should not be less than fifty, and they must be elite.

His priority right now is to prevent the Snow Fox Countess from launching a large-scale attack, so he cannot go to support the village in person. He can only dispatch some cavalry to try to harass or monitor the village.

Now we can only arrange knights to try to track down this part of the invading enemy forces.

Thanks to Rand's arrangements for the village, as long as these invaders are not too strong, there shouldn't be any problems in the short term.

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The Snow Fox Countess had brought her people to a village, but this was completely different from the common villages in her territory.

Is this really not a bandit village?

At least the entire village is surrounded by wooden walls, the tops of which are pointed.

The tower can be seen from afar in the village, and there are people guarding the tower.

I guess they've already been discovered.

But they are currently short of supplies, so even if this is really the base camp of some great bandit of the century, they must attack it by force.

But there is no need to worry too much. If a knight dismounts and fights on foot, he is at least a heavy infantryman. The robbers will not be covered in iron armor.

In the village, Taran, with a bruised face and nose, was arranging tasks in a long house temporarily built in the village.

Because he was extremely persistent and unwilling to change the name of his son, Little Tata, he was severely beaten by Old Tata.

Of course, the bruises on his face now were not only caused by old Tata. His old friends from the past, upon hearing that he was coming, all came over and gave him a loving beating.

Taran volunteered to come here to support. He knew he would be beaten, but he actually wanted to see his old brothers.

Ever since little Tata was born, he felt that being a bandit was a life of unrest. Children were too likely to die and he would have no chance to raise them. So he left his old brothers without saying goodbye, came to Crescent Moon Territory, and became an ordinary villager.

But unexpectedly, after he left, these old guys stopped being bandits and became villagers one by one.

So after hearing about the situation here, he knew that he would be hit hard, but he immediately applied to Rand and planned to come here to meet his old brother.

Moreover, after training and with his previous administrative experience in Crescent Moon Territory Town, Taran is now fully qualified to be the administrative director here.

In short, after getting Rand's approval, Taran took the Centaur train and immediately came here to meet his old brothers.

Unfortunately, just a few days after the beating, a serious task arose.

A large number of heavy infantry were found outside the village.

The number is estimated to be in the hundreds.

Although Rand reminded him at the beginning that there were loopholes in the defense line, if the Snow Fox Countess really wanted to do this and was willing to pay the price, she could definitely send a small number of troops across the defense line.

But the current situation is not as small as imagined. More than a hundred heavy infantrymen, the threat is too exaggerated.

Fortunately, many old friends came to beat him up, so the current strength of the village is inflated, because each old friend brought a minotaur as a guard.

Thus there were now nineteen adult minotaurs present in the village.

If Taran relies on the village to defend, he is fully confident that he can do so. The only problem is that he cannot let the Tauren show up too early, otherwise it would be bad if these people choose to retreat out of fear and attack other villages.

Taran looked at his old companions present and said, "Don't let the minotaurs defend the village wall. Let them ambush in the house and wait until the village gate is breached, then come out to annihilate them."

"Yes." A uniform response.

These old guys used to be bandits, and Taran was their leader. Although they came here to beat him up this time, it doesn't mean they don't trust Taran.

Taran used to be their leader. Without Taran, they might not even have the chance to become bandits and would have starved to death.

Therefore, all these people obeyed the order without hesitation.

At this time, the horseless knights outside had already begun to attack the city.

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The gate of the village was naturally made of wood, and many of these knights had reached the elite level, so they could chop the gate in half even if they used their knight swords.

The two towers of the village have now become arrow towers. People keep climbing up the towers and start shooting arrows out of the door. Then they are shot to death by high-level professionals outside. The arrow towers soon become blood towers, with streams of blood flowing down from the tops of the arrow towers.

But the bandit villagers continued to climb up the tower, threw down the bodies of their companions, picked up bows and arrows and started shooting arrows.

Many of the arrows shot from above penetrated the gaps in the knights' heavy armor, causing casualties.

Archers who gave priority to using high-quality iron arrows and good bows shot arrows that could even penetrate iron armor and pierce the vital points of heavy knights.

Moreover, for long-range attacks, hitting high and low will always cause more damage.

After losing nearly twenty lives, these heavily armored knights finally broke open the thick wooden gate.

Facing them were leather-armored villagers with determined gazes.

Their equipment was simple, just spears and leather armor, but under Taran's command, they formed a tight formation and pointed their shining spears at the knights.

Taran had already recognized the origins of these people from the coat of arms; they were knights from the Snow Fox Territory, all of them knights, with no conscripts.

A very tough opponent.

Taran's order to these people was to fight and retreat.

If it was given to conscripted soldiers, this would be a very stupid order because it would be equivalent to letting them run away.

But for these villagers who want to protect the village, and because they used to be bandits, they have quite good military qualities.

The spearheads kept stabbing.

In this era, the plate armor worn by knights is far from reaching the level of later technology. There are no curved surfaces, and the iron sheets are riveted together rather than being made of single pieces of iron.

In other words, a spear can break through defense by stabbing hard.

Many knights rushed forward, but had to face the advantage of long-handled weapons and were stabbed down first.

Unfortunately, the number of people in the phalanx was not large, and the villagers did not have enough quality to change the formation immediately. They were soon bypassed by the knights and began to lose people.

They could only keep retreating to prevent the knights from getting around and attacking them from the front and back.

Even the determined bandit villagers began to have trouble maintaining their formation as their companions continued to fall, their ears were filled with noise and screams, as well as the coughs of the dying.

These knights, armed to the teeth, finally revealed bloodthirsty smiles beneath their visors. Although they were ordered by the lord to come here to do this high-risk, low-reward mission, they were finally going to get their rewards, and it was time to vent their grievances of the past few days.

The Snow Fox Countess who was watching the battle outside was also relieved. Although she herself had the strength of a superior professional, swords and knives were blind in the battlefield, and she would not take the risk herself.

Just as the knights on the front line were about to disperse these stubborn militiamen and start slaughtering them, they heard their companions shouting, "Minotaur!"

For a moment, many knights were confused. What is a Minotaur? The legendary dungeon monster?

Many minotaurs broke through the wooden house, holding huge axes and staring at the knights with their eyes wide open.

"Death awaits you! How dare you harm Lord Rand's followers!" a minotaur shouted in the common language, which he was not very proficient in.

But he was immediately slapped by his companions. He was furious and said, "Lord Rand said that we are animals and cannot speak in front of outsiders."

The minotaur who spoke first nodded, then stomped his feet on the ground, splashing a cloud of dust: "Moo! Moo!"

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