Chapter 12 10. The first battle

At noon on September 27, 996, the year of the God Emperor, Lant Galloping, the fourth son of Baron Galloping Horse, was enjoying his third day on the Galloping Horse Plains with his subjects.

At this moment, he neither had the consciousness that as the fourth son of a small branch of the family, he understood that he should have been sacrificed; nor did he feel the regret after suffering retribution for doing too much in the family's private salt business.

There is no unwillingness to be manipulated by others as part of a big plan; there is no despair after the territory is patronized by barbarians and the people are forced to flee with them.

Now he is teaching all the residents to bury pots to boil water, dig sanitary trenches, and organize the residents to bathe in different sections of the river in batches.

Because they had been on the run, everyone was only focused on survival.

Now that Rand was safe, he began to feel uncomfortable with the smell of sweat that a group of people had been covering up for several days, not to mention that some people had to squat down to unload their goods whenever they found an open space.

Rant couldn't accept the scene of upstream relieving people and downstream fishing happening in front of him, so he first led people to dig several sanitary trenches, and then found the knights and demon worshipers and told them that if they didn't care about it, everyone would just do it.

It tastes like eating.

Every demon possessor is used to being a master. How can they bear this kind of grievance? They follow Lant's request and let all demon-free people use sanitary trenches. Each household has a dedicated demon-free person who is responsible for supervision.

Hygiene for all non-demon people.

As soon as Lant saw that there was something going on, he continued to organize every household to boil water in a pot and drink soft water. After boiling the water, he showed all the people in the territory the quality of the water produced after boiling the water, and then made up a story about combining the fire element with the water element to eliminate the pollutants in the water.

Regarding the crooked theory of the earth element, it was impossible for him to tell the people in any case that it was calcium carbonate and other mineral salts in the water that underwent chemical reactions under the action of high temperatures.

Some of the residents were fetching water from Hebei for boiling, some were fishing in the river, and some were bathing downstream.

In his previous life, Lant was relatively clean, but now that he has become a demon possessor, his senses are sharper than before and he can't stand the smell of human flesh in a steamer.

He decided to popularize health knowledge among the residents during the escape, teach each other skills, such as weaving, hunting, fishing, cooking, and preferably also let them know Braille.

Lant himself estimated that the entire camp would stay here for a month or two. Maybe they could return to the Galloping Horse Territory and organize manual production or something in the future.

Just as Lant was thinking wildly, two figures were rushing over from the hillside in the distance. They were Greyhound and Roll who had returned from reconnaissance.

After the two people returned to the camp, they brought the surrounding news to Lant.

Their current camp is in the southern part of the Benma Plain. The Benma Plain is a plain that is more than 1,000 kilometers long from east to west and more than 400 kilometers wide from north to south. There are long mountains as boundaries in the east, west and south, and the north is extremely wide.

Blue Moon Lake.

In the middle of the plain, a Benma River with extensive tributaries flows from west to east and brings many tributaries from north to south.

The main channel of the Benma River divides the plain into two parts, north and south. The northern tributaries often intersect with the Blue Moon River. The dense water network makes this area rich in beasts of burden, while the southern plain has only a few rivers and is relatively complete.

The grasslands are rich in war horses, especially the central grasslands, which produce a kind of black BMW. The horse's hair is like scales, and the horse's hooves can condense the wind element.

When the Galloping Horse Kingdom was still around, such horses were called black-scaled horses. Among a group of black-scaled horses, there would be a leader of a low-level monster. The group of black-scaled horses with a leader could perform group wind attacks like a knight phalanx.

Magical acceleration.

The leader of the magical beast of the horse group is called Ye Qi by the galloping horses, which is also the source of the name of Ye Qi City: he leads the entire country forward like the leader of the horse group.

Rolle and Greyhound first scouted west, then headed north after exploring for more than ten kilometers, and then headed east along a tributary of the Benma River. They discovered a small barbarian tribe about 10 kilometers east of Lant Camp.

Camp.

According to Rohr's judgment, the total number of barbarians in this camp should be 20-30, that is, there are about 4-6 demon worshipers. Ordinary barbarians are at the level of intermediate knights. In other words, Rand's 200 people

The total of 18 Demon Holders shouldn't be able to deal with this tribe.

Lant sat on the grass, watching the fish soup bubbling in the pot in the distance, while considering the information brought by Rolle and Greyhound.

He has actually been in this world for less than seven days, and has now moved to three places.

Now Lant is very frustrated. It's all about time travel. The plot of people's time travel is either to travel to the prince and save the young and beautiful witch; or to travel to the shield warrior and follow the army to fight;

He entered the body of the legendary knight and directly lifted up the coffin.

Why is it that when it comes to traveling by yourself, the starting base is taken away, and you have to be a livestock, and you have to go to the battlefield, and you can beat anyone who comes.

"Where is that camp? Take me there. I also want to see what the barbarian camp looks like." Lant didn't want to run away anymore. He wanted to see if his few men and horses could take the initiative to fight with the small barbarian tribe.

Pass the move.

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For black-scaled horses, ten kilometers is not a very long time. After ten minutes, they arrived at the foot of a hillside, using the concealment of the hillside to conduct reconnaissance from a distance.

A small barbarian tribe generally includes 10-20 tents, of which at least one main tent houses the leader and family of the tribe, another tent is for moisture-proof and sun-proof materials, one tent is for the demon-free slaves, and the other tents are for ordinary owners.

The demon barbarian and his family.

The barbarians will maintain the number of pack animals so that the camp can be set off at any time. Because of the superior performance and temperament of the black scale horses, each barbarian demon owner generally only raises a group of black scale horses, and the new ponies born in the summer will be raised in the second batch.

When they reach adulthood next spring, they will be exchanged.

In addition to horses and pack animals, barbarians also raise some long-haired sheep, and the smallest tribes also raise dozens of them. A few barbarian tribes can weave wool, and most tribes directly use furs to keep warm.

From a certain perspective, if there were no abnormal weather on the Benma Plain, the life of the barbarians would be more comfortable than that of human farmers. However, the barbarians on the Benma Plain would face mosquito disasters, wind disasters, white disasters, and floods.

When these disasters come, the nomadic economy of the barbarian tribes will face collapse. If there is a large-scale climate disaster, a large number of tribes will gather together and go south to the Dragon Kingdom.

The Benma Plain in 996 had a pleasant climate and sunny winds.

Lant, Greyhound, and Rolle found this small tribe. This tribe had 12 tents, and a reed fence surrounded dozens of sheep. People could be seen in the camp, but there was no way of knowing.

how many people.

Lant asked Greyhound if Red Sand could read numbers, and Greyhound said he could.

Hongsha is not a very big dog, but it is very smart. Its shiny fur reflects red light in the sun, so it is called Hongsha.

It didn't take a few minutes for Hongsha to turn back. When he came back, he told them that this small tribe had 10 horses. In other words, there were at least 10 barbarian demon holders in this tribe.

Lant guessed that he might continue to flee.

But not long after, Luo Er said something, and Hong Sha told him that several black scale horses were young horses this year.

Although it is not clear how Red Sand communicates with greyhounds, 3 or 4 of the 10 horses are young horses, which also reduces a lot of pressure on Lant.

On the way back to the camp, Lant discussed with several knights, how about conducting a sneak attack at night?

"I think it's feasible. It stands to reason that if it's a powerful barbarian, the red sand could have been discovered just now." The one who spoke was Greyhound. He obviously agreed with Lant's idea. "There is still no movement yet, which means that there is not much power in the barbarian camp.

We can give it a try”

"Your attempt comes with a big risk." Rohr cannot accept taking the risk with Rand.

"We have been taking risks, ever since my father went to the Galloping Horse Plains for reconnaissance. If we didn't take the risk that time, the territory would be gone now. If we didn't move the territory, we would be discovered by barbarians or Warcraft." Rant thinks it's more important.

What's interesting is that now he can finally take the initiative and actively choose to attack or transfer, so he hopes to use this initiative to create opportunities.

"Then let's go, you go back and take the people with you to transfer first," Rohr said.

"No, Albert will take them to move, and I will go with you.

When my father discovered that the Benma territory was in danger, he chose to take our family into the Benma Plains. Even if they were ambushed, the Benma nobles could not retreat because of timidity.

Please don’t forget, I am Galloping Horse!” Lant said firmly. Of course, more importantly, he wanted to take this opportunity to see his current strength, including his water quality and the level of his territory.

To Lant's surprise, Albert was very supportive of Lant's expedition. Not only that, Albert decided to go together, "You are the acting lord of Baron Galloping Horse. I am not only your scholar, but also a member of the Galloping Horse family."

"Comrade, I will not retreat at a time like this."

Albert's words moved Lant very much. What he didn't know was that while Albert was studying in the imperial capital 20 years ago, he missed a barbarian invasion. As a result, when Albert returned to the Benma territory, the predecessor of the Benma territory

The baron had been killed in battle for four years, and Albert had never been able to forgive himself for this.

From then on, Albert, as a territorial scholar, never missed every expedition or retreat of his family.

After many negotiations, Lant decided to launch a sneak attack at night. Although the night in Alivia was relatively bright, the barbarians also needed to rest. The benefit of having a clock was once again reflected. They did not need to judge the time based on the moon phase, but directly looked at it.

surface.

At 7:30 p.m., Walker and 6 demoniacs took the people in the camp to pack up all the things again and prepare to evacuate at any time.

As early as the afternoon, several knights walked 30 kilometers east together, set up a backup camp, and specially found a demon supporter to send a message. As long as the attack did not go smoothly, the messenger would immediately return to the camp and let Walker

Move everyone to the new camp.

Lant and others headed west, in the opposite direction of the camp, to lure the cavalry of the barbarian tribes. The two parties agreed that if a problem arose, Lant would make a detour for at least three days and eventually return to the new camp.

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At 10 o'clock in the evening, as the three bright moons gradually rose, Lant and the five knights came to the place where they had observed the barbarians in the afternoon.

Most barbarian tribes keep dogs. The dogs will bark when strangers approach, which will make the barbarians suspicious. Therefore, Lant believes that once an attack is launched, it will be the final blow, and there cannot be too much tactical space.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, there was no movement at all in the barbarian camp, and Rohr felt that it was almost over. Lant gave everyone a few pieces of cake to replenish their energy.

At 1 o'clock in the morning on September 28, Lant, four other knights, and three apprentices mounted their horses, lined up in a row, and gradually approached the camp.

Three rounds of moonlight fell on the grass, and everything on the galloping plain was completely silent at this moment.

The seven knights advanced down the hillside at a low speed. At first, the horses were only walking fast, and when they reached the bottom of the hillside, they were jogging. The distance of less than one kilometer was just enough to help the horses accelerate.

The tents in the distance gradually became taller, and at least when they were approaching 200 meters, the dogs in the barbarian camp began to bark. At this moment, the knights involuntarily accelerated.

100 meters away, the barking of the dogs became even louder. One barbarian couldn't stand it anymore, except for the tent. But when he looked in the direction of the barking, Lant and several others directly broke open the fence and rushed in.

Every knight in the territory has a spear, a saber, at least two throwing axes, and a buckler. Only Greyhound still uses a bow and arrow, and Rolle has his own throwing knife.

Although there are many weapons, everyone used sabers this time. Rohr said that this kind of chopping weapon is very suitable for dealing with barbarians who are not coming or riding horses.
To be continued...