Chapter 24 024: Red Wolf Mercenary Group
At this moment, the convoy has completely stopped, and a group of unknown origins appeared in front of it and blocked the convoy's way.
They were wearing different styles of clothes, holding various weapons such as axes, hammers, machetes, sticks, etc., with ferocious expressions and a murderous look.
"Robbers! We've encountered robbers!" Pierre's face turned pale.
The others also looked panicked.
Luo Xi was the only one who remained calm in the entire carriage. He consoled her, "It's okay. Don't we still have the mercenary group? Have you forgotten? Captain Carl is a knight."
Carl, the leader of the Red Wolf Mercenaries, was originally a knight of a noble family in the Kingdom of Karel. Later, he was expelled because of his involvement in family infighting. Disheartened, Carl declined other nobles' offers to recruit him and formed this mercenary group to make a living.
He has received professional training and possesses genuine knight-level strength.
After hearing Luo Xi's reminder, everyone's expressions improved a little.
Ordinary people are more or less aware of the power of knights. They are extremely strong and invincible. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are completely invincible.
With the protection of a powerful knight, everything will be fine, right? Just as everyone was thinking this, a flustered sound of footsteps was heard, and then a mercenary ran to the carriage.
He said simply and clearly, "There were bandits attacking us. We were short-handed, so the leader ordered all adult men to get off the carriage and go to the back to get weapons. Anyone who didn't come was kicked out and handed over to the bandits afterwards."
After saying this, he quickly ran to the next carriage to deliver the message.
Everyone in the carriage looked at each other and had no choice but to get off. They had made an agreement when they joined the team that they could not shirk their responsibilities when they encountered danger and needed to fight the enemy together.
But generally speaking, these people only serve to increase morale. After all, the mercenary group knows that ordinary untrained people are useless on the battlefield.
Everyone came to a row of mercenary carriages at the back. The carriage shed was full of weapons, including knives, axes, hammers, etc. There was also a cross sword, but it was made very roughly, like a piece of iron.
Many people scrambled for the cross sword. After all, it looked cool. Holding a cross sword and fighting the enemy handsomely and heroically could be said to be the dream of every man here since childhood.
Luo Xi did not argue with them and chose a big iron hammer. Although the workmanship of this thing was very crude, with a wooden handle and a stone hammer head, the hammer head was solid and covered with a thick layer of iron sheet.
Only after he made his choice did Luo Xi suddenly realize what he was doing. Does it matter what kind of weapon he chooses? If he really encounters trouble, will he just go up with this hammer?
After two days of disguise, the traveler almost forgot his true identity.
"Have you made your choice? If you have, follow me!"
Basically, seven or eight people got off from each of the several carriages, and all together there were about fifty or sixty people. They gathered together with knives, forks and sticks, and looked quite serious, as if the young and dangerous guys in Causeway Bay were going to follow Chen Haonan to fight.
As more people came, the fear in everyone's hearts dissipated a little, and some men even started to make fun of them.
"Fuck him!"
"With so many of us, are we still afraid of a few little bandits?"
"Why not just tear off all their heads and take them to Fengxi City to collect the reward, and then push forward to destroy their bandit den!"
"Tear down the robbers' den! Haha!"
Everybody was laughing and having fun, it was quite lively.
However, when they reached the front of the convoy, this high morale quickly collapsed.
At the front of the convoy, it was obvious that a battle had just taken place.
There were five or six corpses lying on the messy ground, some from the bandits and some from the mercenaries.
Some had their throats cut, some had holes in their hearts, and some had their hands or feet chopped off. The most frightening was a mercenary whose head was chopped off in half by an axe, with brains mixed with blood all over the ground.
Although dead bodies are everywhere in this world, such tragic scenes are rare. For a moment, the men lost all their spirit and felt cold in their hearts.
The fight between the two sides had stopped at this time and was in a stalemate. The bandits stood on one side, with about fifty or sixty of them, while the mercenaries gathered on the other side, with less than half the number of the bandits. The two sides were on the verge of a fight and it seemed like it was about to break out.
Knight Carl was negotiating with the enemy leader: "Enrique, you are so brave that you even dare to attack my convoy. Are you tired of living?"
There was a commotion among the crowd when they heard Knight Carl's words.
"Enrique is... Enrique the Ogre!"
"Ogre Rick!"
Everyone's expressions changed to varying degrees, because the robber in front of them was so famous.
Enrique was originally a noble knight from the West. He was brave in battle, but he was brutal by nature and was known for his bloodthirsty nature.
Once, even after an enemy noble had been defeated, surrendered and paid a ransom, he still twisted off the noble's head, completely detonating the anger of the entire aristocratic class.
Under pressure, his feudal lord could only promise to cut off one of his hands and expel him. However, Enrique received the news in advance and became more vicious.
He simply kidnapped the noble's favorite little daughter into the forest and raped her. What was even more cruel was that he cooked her and ate part of her.
This incident made him notorious, and the nobles united to launch a campaign against him for a period of time, but he managed to dodge it every time.
After hiding from pursuit for a period of time, they fled to the Whispering Forest a few months ago and formed a gang to form a bandit group.
Although they were established not long ago, many caravans have been attacked by them, and each time they leave few survivors, their methods are extremely cruel.
Knowing that their enemy is such a ferocious being, few people can remain calm.
"How. What should I do?"
"Enrique, how come I met Enrique, oh my god!"
A mercenary frowned and glanced over with a sharp gaze: "If anyone says another word of nonsense, I will chop off his head!"
Morale is the most important thing when two armies are confronting each other. Once they lose their composure, they will not only be useless but will become a burden.
Negotiations continue.
Facing Carl's threat, Enrique did not panic at all, and said calmly: "Carl, my friend, it is because of your face that I specially allowed you to take your people away. You can go out and ask, when has Enrique ever left anyone alive?"
After all, he came from the aristocratic class. Unlike the burly bandit image, Enrique had a well-proportioned figure and handsome appearance, and his every move exuded an elegant temperament.
Karl said: "Stop talking nonsense, I have more people now, what qualifications do you have to make demands in front of me!"
"Oh!"
Enrique sneered, glanced at Luo Xi's mob with disdain, and said contemptuously: "Too many people?"
Carl was furious. With a clang, he raised his cross sword fiercely: "Come on! Let's speak with blood and sword!"
“Clang!”
The cold sound of metal intertwining was heard continuously, and the mercenaries all raised the cross swords in their hands.
At the same time, the bandits also drew their bows and grasped their weapons tightly. The atmosphere between the two sides suddenly dropped to freezing point, and a fierce battle was about to break out! (End of this chapter)
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