Chapter 21, Bloody Night in Dry Leaf Village - Gate

Gere sat on his horse and looked over intently.

I found that even if it gets very late, there is still a lot of night lighting in the remote Kuye Village.

Compared to a village, it looks more like a workshop or a chamber of commerce with the lights still on.

Kil noticed that there was a lot of excrement from horses, donkeys and mules on the dirt road leading to Dry Leaf Village. It seemed that the Ska Chamber of Commerce here was doing quite a lot of business.

However, Knight Crow didn't care about this. After thinking for a while, he whispered the next plan to Kil and Huberock.

"Can this be done?" Mr. Huberock, who was relatively fat, wiped his forehead with a sweat-soaked handkerchief and asked tentatively.

As for Keir, he didn't have any opinions on the Lord Knight's plan, but he was worried about the extremely fierce killings in it: "Sir, if we do this, won't this village lose many villagers?"

Knight Crow didn't return to Kiel, but just looked at Huberock.

Mr. Hubirok immediately replied to Kiel: "They are no longer the people of our Pine Needle Town. They are mixed with the outside Ska Chamber of Commerce and reject the rule of the Gulov family. These are no longer ordinary people. They need to take a heavy blow." OK!"

"Kiel, don't think too much. Since the village manager has said so, just follow it. And this is also a test."

Knight Crow chuckled.

"What test?"

"The test of one's character in battle and killing." Knight Crowe whispered to Kil, while Mr. Hubirock consciously rode away from the two of them, not daring to eavesdrop.

Knight Crow briefly stated: "I want to see how far you can go in a fight between people. Show your true skills and fight with your arms and legs. There are very few opportunities for such a happy fight without consequences. .”

"Of course, if you want to become a knight, it is also very important to master the desire to kill and control it. You know, many times I can obviously kill the enemy, but why don't I do it?"

"Why?" Kil was particularly curious about the answer, so he asked immediately.

"Because killing is easy, but restraining it is difficult. I have seen many knights in the army who have killed enemies with their hands and feet, but the top leaders of the Knights rarely train them because knights represent violence, and Violence needs to be controlled by rational 'people' before it can turn into power. Otherwise, it will only have the most tragic ending."

"So, tonight, release your power and violence, and let me see what you, who are still an ordinary person, can do at this moment. Only in this way can I know how far you have gone, and whether you are in the position I have chosen for you. On the road of knight training, persevere until the end.”

"Huh?" After listening to Knight Crow's long speech, Kil felt that his journey to pursue power was really difficult.

Just as he muttered something to himself, Knight Crow heard him.

"What are you mumbling about? You find it troublesome and don't want to do it anymore? Hum, of course there is an easy way. There has been an easy way to become a knight since a long time ago, but you, a commoner, think you have the opportunity to obtain that simple and convenient way to obtain power. Is that so? Even the family of Knight Lanisa in the county took several years to achieve the stable and successful knighthood itself. Hey, that girl usually looks like she doesn’t want to work hard, but in fact, we guys can see her hard work behind the scenes. In the eyes.”

The knight bent down and patted Kil: "So, how can power be so easy to obtain in the world? Come on, bring people up to obey my orders, and show me your abilities later."

Kil shook his sore shoulder from being slapped by the knight. He felt that his armor still didn't look very powerful. The two slaps from the knight just now made his shoulder very uncomfortable.

But he has already received the intention.

"Okay, then I'm on board?"

The knight nodded, waved to the thirty-man militia behind him and said, "Follow Kiel and prepare to fight."

"Yes, sir!" the militiamen responded.

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Following the command of Knight Crow who was riding on the side, everyone deliberately slowed down as they approached the Withered Leaf Village, spread out the team, and walked into the wheat field next to them, pointing their swords at the village in the distance.

Naturally, there are people standing guard at the entrance of the village. At the entrance and exit of each village, there is a wooden sentry tower several meters high, with people sitting there day and night to watch.

"Who is it?" From a distance, they noticed the torches set by Kiel and his group, but because they were far away, the sentry thought it was some foreign caravan that wanted to trade in the village.

It wasn't until the militiamen walked in and formed a fighting formation that he felt something was wrong. Because these people did not have horses or trucks, they all came on foot, and they walked into the fields beside the village road and trampled the farmers' wheat seedlings at will.

"You can't step on the fields! You'll have to pay for it!"

The sentry on the watch tower shouted a warning.

But the militiamen still went their own way. It wasn't until the team walked in that the sentry noticed that these people were all armed.

The visitor is not good! ! !

He nervously took out a hand-cranked copper bell from the box next to him, and immediately started to jingle it.

The clear and nervous bell rang from the sentry tower through the entire Kuye Village, and everyone in the village was alarmed.

A senior member of the Ska Chamber of Commerce got up from the woman's body, walked out of his house naked, and scolded his subordinates who were on guard outside: "Someone, come and see what's going on. Is there that chamber of commerce following us at the gate of the village?" There's a confrontation. If so, let the captain on duty take control and then increase the caravan's fee by 10% for me!"

"Yes, sir." The subordinate grinned at the top of the Chamber of Commerce who was wearing nothing, and immediately responded in a weird voice.

But before the man could walk out of the house, the sound of a horn, which represented a serious warning, was heard from the village entrance and exit tower.

奥奥奥奥奥——

Everyone in the Ska Chamber of Commerce knows what this horn means when they encounter bandits robbing the road while doing business in the wild.

Especially in the middle of the night when the alarm bell is followed by the horn blowing so urgently.

But the sound of the trumpet was only blown halfway, and then suddenly died down.

The expressions of the senior officials of the Chamber of Commerce changed, this was even more ominous.

"What are you doing standing still? Someone is attacking us! Call everyone who is resting! Anyone who is not resting should get their weapons and rush to the west of the village!"

The thugs under his command immediately responded, and then ran out of the house one after another and went to the private houses adjacent to the center of the village to wake up the sleeping chamber of commerce guys to arm themselves. At the same time, the thugs and guys working in the warehouse in the center of the village were ordered to pick up their weapons in the house and all rushed to the place where the warning sounded.

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Kil returned the crossbow in his hand to his unhappy militia companion and grinned.

It was he who just shot down the sentry on the watchtower who was ringing the bell and blowing the horn with one arrow.

Although Knight Crow's plan does require the Ska Chamber of Commerce to prepare its forces in the village, he cannot have projectile weapons in his hands and let the guys on the sentry tower issue warnings at will.

Therefore, Knight Crow waved his hand, and Kil consciously asked for a crossbow from his companion, and shot down the sentry with only one crossbow bolt.

However, Knight Crow called Kiel: "You can deal with the three people from the Ska Chamber of Commerce at the door alone. Kiel, I will let you unleash your skills. At least your victory tonight cannot be lower than that of all ten members of any militia team. Number of kills produced!”

"I see!"

Kil responded loudly, then rode out of the team and rushed straight to the three Ska Chamber of Commerce personnel huddled inside the gate.

It is said to be a gate, but the gate of Kuye Village does not have a real door that can be opened and closed. It is just a mobile horse made of wood that is used as a gate.

Naturally, it was impossible for Yu Juma to rush in directly. His horse was not the monster-like armored war horse of Knight Crow.

After approaching here on horseback with a rattling sound, Kil slowed down and turned over to dismount. When landing, pay special attention to where you land to avoid breaking your ankle due to missing one foot.

"Who are you? What do you do?"

The three men behind Juma were holding swords and shields. Although they had no armor on their bodies, their relatively compact clothes did not hinder the fight.

"Who? Kill all your people tonight."

Keir patted the horse's butt and asked his horse to step aside so that it wouldn't be hurt. Then he took out a red-eyed mushroom candy pill from the small leather bag on the belt with metal armor on his waist.

One less thing to eat, but looking at tonight's situation, it's time to use them.

He quickly opened his visor and swallowed it. Kil equipped the shield on his body, closed his visor, drew out his long sword and pounced on the three people opposite.

The people on the opposite side naturally saw that Kil was wearing armor, and the armor was covered with coagulated bright red blood.

When Kil strode around the horses and rushed towards them, two of the three men turned and ran away, leaving only one person who raised his shield to face Kil.

"good!"

Kil roared, ignoring the long sword on his shoulder behind the man's shield, and kicked directly into the center of the opponent's wooden shield. The huge impact directly destroyed the man's expected counterattack. He fell to the ground, flying backwards in a very unsightly posture.

After the opponent fell to the ground and wanted to fight back, Gere swung his sword and knocked the long sword out of the opponent's hand. Then the tip of the sword went down and pierced the opponent's cheek, stabbing directly through the man's head and killing him.

But then, the two people who escaped rushed back with fierce faces.

Only then did Kiel realize that it turned out to be seven or eight thugs with various weapons and chamber of commerce guys running quickly from the center of the village holding torches.

These two people felt that they had backup, so they naturally rushed towards Kiel with high momentum.

Although it was only a blink of an eye that their companions were killed, which made these two people a little uneasy, but two against one, the advantage is mine!

Turning his head to look at the situation of his fellow militiamen behind him, Kil did not fight with the two men. Instead, he turned around and lifted up the corner of the horse with his shoulders, using all his strength to push the thing that could only be moved by several people. Open the gate into and out of the village.

With two bang bang sounds, the two men slashed directly at Kil's body with their swords, but apart from the thin cloak behind his back being torn apart, all they got in exchange was two new white marks on Kil's armor.

"Hmph!" Kil felt the impact on his body and was very satisfied with the defensive capabilities of this new armor.

If it were the hard cowhide full-coverage armor from before, even though it could block these two blows, it would definitely leave a gaping hole on the surface of the armor, and the place where it was hit would feel a dull pain.

But it doesn't matter now. Nothing will be left behind when the long sword is slashed, and the force brought by it is also absorbed by the entire armor. The impact force will not be borne by the body part, but by the entire upper body.

Feeling that although the two men behind him felt that his long sword slashing was ineffective, they were still confidently preparing to strike again. Kil relaxed his shoulders, suddenly turned around and wrapped his arms around the opponent's two long swords.

He retracted his left arm and tried to control the opponent's arms. Then in the frightened eyes of the two people, the long sword in his right hand turned in a circle, splitting the whole head from one person's forehead, and then lowered the long sword to the head. Holding the two people's arms, he opened a deep wound on the other person's neck.

With a short scream, the man spurted out a large amount of blood from his neck, staining the armor that took half of Kil's body to dry.

As soon as his left hand was released, the bodies of the two men fell to the ground.

Then Kiel continued to push away the horse blocking the road.

Behind the militia team not far away, Knight Crow nodded: "Four."

Mr. Hubirock next to him was breathing rapidly and covering his mouth and eyes with his hands. But covering the mouth meant vomiting due to discomfort, but the hand covering the eyes, with fat fingers like little carrots, slightly opened the gap, and the eyes behind it stared unblinkingly before killing with the sword. Three Kiel warriors.

It's so scary. Sure enough, what I felt just now was right. Compared with the more powerful Crow Knights, these young people who have not yet become knights are more dangerous and dare to kill people.

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Seven or eight people saw from a distance that Keir suddenly killed the two guards guarding the gate, and also tried hard to push away the horse blocking the way.

"Stop him! Kill him! Get back to the door!"

A tall thug in command waved the thick machete in his hand, and then let the companions in his group rush straight away.

But what he didn't expect was that when they rushed over, Keir pushed all the horses away.

Then Kiel pounced directly on the ground, but these people looked at them incomprehensibly. Could it be that he was too strong and lost his strength?

Obviously not. Just as Kiel threw himself on the ground, in the fields and roads outside the village not far away, the militiaman in the front row had a crossbow held by another militiaman on his shoulder.

Following Knight Crow's plain but clear command and waved hand, fifteen militiamen pulled the trigger of the crossbow and shot out fifteen crossbow arrows.

Fifteen crossbow arrows were aimed at seven or eight people, and each person could receive two crossbow arrows on average.

But after all, fighting is not a mathematical calculation. When facing incoming enemies, most militiamen will prioritize those who run first and those who run slowest.

Those who rush to the front will naturally stay close. Although there is no story about two children arguing about the sun in another world, most of these elite militiamen understand the principle of staying close for easy aiming.

As for the guy who runs slowly, it will naturally be easier to hit without worrying about missing the target.

So half a breath after the crossbow arrows were released, the Ska Chamber of Commerce thug who rushed to the front and wanted to swing the ax to kill Kil was directly hit by at least ten crossbow arrows in the chest, neck and head, and even hit him in the head. Later, he was carried away at least one meter by the force of the crossbow.

Another guy from the chamber of commerce who had weak legs and feet, probably because he was old, or because the shoes he wore didn't fit well, was limping when he rushed forward. This guy tasted the remaining five crossbow arrows. the taste of.

His whole body twitched and he vomited blood from his mouth and fell down.

After falling down, he used the last of his consciousness to look at his feet reproachfully. If he had put on another pair of better shoes today, this might not be the case.

"Ah! Be careful! They have crossbows! Hide here!" The little leader of the thugs screamed strangely, and he was the first to rush towards the yard of the farmer's house next to him.

Others also wished their parents had extra legs, and used various postures to turn around and rush toward the farmyard where they could cover themselves and avoid crossbow arrows.

Although it is only a half-man-high earth wall, it is more than enough to defend against crossbow arrows, as long as you can pounce in!

But the second wave of crossbow arrows came in an instant.

"Substitute, shoot!"

Knight Crow waved his hand in boredom. The militiaman who was supporting him in front of his men immediately turned around, while the militiaman who was shooting from behind took a step forward. The two people changed positions in an instant.

The militiamen who came behind put the crossbows that had already been strung and arrowed on the shoulders of their companions, took aim briefly, and at the Lord Knight's shooting command, another fifteen people fired in a volley.

Swish, swish, swish, fifteen crossbow arrows once again shot down the two slowest people.

One man even had seven arrows stuck in his left leg, but what was really fatal was that when he fell down after being hit by an arrow in the leg, the crossbow arrow that would have hit his back directly exploded in his head.

That's it without a helmet. Even the most basic leather and wood helmet has a partial chance of saving this person's life. But how could the Ska Chamber of Commerce prepare these armors for ordinary thugs and chamber of commerce guys?

Most of the weapons and armor were brought by these people when they joined.

Either you earn money by working in the chamber of commerce, buy a second-hand weapon from your own chamber of commerce or other caravans, and then directly upgrade from an unarmed farmer or clerk to someone who can go out to work, or borrow a weapon. You're not a good thug.

Hey, don't look down on me, after you have a weapon in your hand. No matter where you got it from, in the Ska Chamber of Commerce, you will have more job options, instead of just moving goods and working hard to earn hard money.

After all, those thugs make more money than coolies, but they don’t have to work. This is really great for farmers who have just joined the Ska Chamber of Commerce and young people who are crazy about money.

And compared to working as a thug in Dead Leaf Village, working as a thug in the streets controlled by the Ska Chamber of Commerce in Pine Needle Town not only makes more money, but is also more prosperous and has everything.

After two rounds of crossbow bolts, Kil waited for a breath. He didn't hear the third crossbow shot, and then he got up. He didn't bother to pat the suspicious dirt on the armor after blood and soil. Kil turned around and looked. We arrived at the four thugs hiding behind a half-human-high earth wall.

"Just right." He smiled under his helmet visor.

Run quickly towards these people.