Chapter 9 Interception

Not long ago, when support from the Webb family arrived, Joel received a letter from the Rowan family and learned that the coalition forces of the Rowan family and the Oakheart family had defeated the bandits in the Red Lake Forest. The bandits were now like Joe As I guessed, they were moving towards Fort Steadfast, and it seemed that they wanted to take a private road to hide in the mountains on the outskirts of Corn City.

I don’t know if it was intentional by the Rowan and Oakheart families. The bandits were merely defeated, and there were not many casualties. Their main combat power is still preserved. This will undoubtedly bring great consequences to Joel’s army. There was huge pressure, so the letter crow also stated that Joel should focus on interception, drag these bandits near Fort Firm, and then surround them when they arrive.

It's just that the Rowan family obviously didn't expect that the Webber family would bring all the family's troops to support Joel in order to clear away the suspicion on themselves. This gave Joel enough troops to deploy, and also changed Joel's initial plan. Thinking of this, he no longer ambush in the forest, but chose a small valley that the bandits must pass through to retreat as a battlefield to eliminate these bandits in a frontal battle.

"You lead ten people, station at Sheephorn Cliff, and make a signal bonfire. If there are bandits passing here, light the bonfire, and then try to block them until we support them." In the meeting hall of Fort Firm, Joel pointed at a picture An obvious ram's horn mark on the simple map gave instructions to Linde.

When Lin De heard this, he frowned. When he was exploring the terrain, he passed by Yangjiao Cliff. It can be said that it is the only way to take the private road. Only by passing through Yangjiao Cliff can you reach the cliff plank road in the middle of the cliff. .

Although Sheephorn Cliff is a suitable location for ambush and interception, it is located at the rear of the battlefield. As long as there are no accidents on the battlefield ahead, almost no bandits will be able to escape there. The absence of bandits means that he cannot establish any Merit, which naturally dissatisfied him.

However, on this occasion, he could not object to Joel's decision. He could only make a small suggestion and said: "I have surveyed the terrain there. It is not particularly difficult to defend. There is no need to assign people to it." I, not to mention those people, are not very strong themselves and have not cooperated with me. If I encounter an enemy, they will become a burden for me. I can defend there alone. "

Hearing Linde's words, everyone around him was stunned. Including the knights of the Webber family, everyone's eyes fell on Linde, and their faces were full of surprise. They had only heard that they disliked the few men under him. In this situation, it was the first time I heard such a request to reject my subordinates.

Those knight attendants of Joel just thought that Lind was an arrogant and crazy guy, but the knights of the Webber family were very curious about Lind's origins.

In fact, when Lind was called by Joel to hold a pre-war military meeting, the Webber family was already curious about Lind. After all, in the entire meeting hall, there were either knights, knights, or knights' attendants. Only Lind It is difficult for a person dressed as a commoner not to arouse doubts in everyone.

Facing Linde's suggestion, Joel didn't show any unusual expression. He just looked at Linde coldly and said in a deep voice: "Why do you think you can stop the fleeing bandits by yourself?"

Linde replied calmly: "I am a hunter and know how to lay traps. I think the fleeing bandits should not be more difficult to deal with than the mountain bears."

Joel stared at Linde for a moment, without saying anything else, nodded and agreed to Linde's suggestion.

Now that he knew his mission, Linde felt that there was no need to stay in the meeting hall any longer and was about to turn around and leave.

At this time, Al Morrison, who had been knocked unconscious by his punch before, suddenly stood up and said: "Master Joel, although I believe in this hunter's ability, after all, he is only one person. If there are bandits coming from If he escaped from the place he was defending, then we would not be able to completely encircle and suppress the remnants of the Long family. If other people knew about this, they would think that we deliberately sent someone to defend such an important place in order to put the remnants of the Long family away. Let’s go, this may cause us a lot of trouble.”

Jorda glanced at his servant, with a smile on his lips, and then turned to Linde and said: "If someone escapes from the place you are defending, then you will be wanted as an associate of the bandits. You are still here." Are you planning to defend Sheephorn Cliff alone?”

Everyone thought that Linde would change his mind, but Linde still looked indifferent, smiled at Joel, nodded, and walked out of the meeting hall without saying anything.

"Stop, you haven't..." Al Morrison didn't understand what Linde meant and wanted to stop him.

"Enough! This matter has been decided. Instead of focusing on such boring people and things, you should focus on the battle in the near future," Joel scolded and followed his gaze. The knights and attendants who passed me shouted: "Your family sent you to me just to make you perform meritorious service and stand out. I don't want to see you eventually turned into corpses and sent back to your respective homes." Family, so all of you should take it seriously, this is a war, not your young master’s autumn hunt, do you understand?”

Joel unceremoniously reprimanded his attendants in front of the Webber family. The atmosphere in the hall instantly became serious. Everyone was silent. Not only the reprimanded knight attendants felt ashamed and angry, but also Weibo. The knights of the Bo family were also embarrassed.

Fortunately, Joel quickly changed the topic back to battlefield defense, which eased the tense atmosphere in the hall.

Although everyone seemed to be focusing on the orders given by Joel, many people, especially those in the Webber family, were still curious about Lind's identity and planned to report to him later. Joel's attendant asked.

At this time, Linde had arrived at the cobbler's workshop of the logistics team. The cobbler who had followed the knight's attendant's orders to make things difficult for him saw Linde's arrival. He quickly stood up from his stool and placed the already-used piece on the shelf next to him. The modified leather armor was brought over.

"This set of leather armor has been modified according to your instructions. Give it a try and see if there is anything that needs improvement." The leatherworker bent down and said respectfully with a much better attitude than before.

Linde took the leather armor and looked at it, and found that in addition to improving the size of the leather armor according to his own requirements, he also added some thin iron sheets to the leather armor to increase its defense. Linde put it on and tried it on. I found that these thin iron sheets did not interfere with my movements. If I fastened the upper and lower belts, the edges of the thin iron sheets would cover each other, reducing the gaps and increasing the defense in disguise.

"Not bad, very good!" Linde nodded with satisfaction, took out two more silver deer and threw them into the cobbler's hands, "This is a good job, I'll reward you."

The cobbler quickly took the silver deer and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Linde asked again: "I need some ropes, do you have them here?"

The cobbler asked, "Sir, how thick of a rope do you want?"

Linde gestured about the thickness and length.

The cobbler immediately turned around and took out a few bundles of hemp rope used to bind the prisoners and asked, "Will these be okay?"

"Okay, very good." Linde took the hemp rope, pulled it, nodded with satisfaction, and took out another silver deer and handed it over.

The cobbler quickly shook his head and said, "No, no! These are normal consumption, and you don't need to pay."

Linde did not force it. After putting the silver deer back in his pocket, he put the rope on his shoulders and walked out of the castle quickly.

After leaving the castle, Lind hurried towards the Sheephorn Cliff. From the information revealed by Joel at the meeting just now, it is not difficult to tell that the bandits who escaped from the Red Lake Forest should arrive around tomorrow morning at the earliest. Getting to the vicinity of Fort Firm means that there is only one night to set up a trap for him.

The road at night was not easy to walk. Even though Linde had inherited the hunter experience and abilities from his predecessor, his walking speed was still much slower than during the day. It took him nearly twice as long to reach Sheephorn Cliff.

After arriving here, he did not take a rest and began to set up various traps in the area around Yangjiao Cliff. Fortunately, when he was surveying here during the day, he had considered the situation of bandits passing by and marked the suitable places for traps in advance. , and while walking around, he also collected materials for setting up traps, so that he did not need to do extra things, he only needed to arrange them as planned during the day.

Because he was working alone, he worked until midnight before setting up all the traps. In the process, he also killed a lone wild wolf that wanted to sneak up on him.

However, some minor accidents occurred while handling the wild wolf carcasses. The smell of blood on the wolf carcasses attracted some carnivores. Fortunately, he threw the carcasses far enough away so that these carnivores did not destroy the forest. trap.

The fact that Linde's predecessor was able to hunt a mountain bear with a trap means that his trap is extremely powerful. When setting up the trap here, he also added the jungle trap method used by some armies that he saw on TV in his previous life. Not only does it make these traps much more powerful, it also makes them difficult to guard against.

Although it would be a bit shameful to use traps to deal with enemies rather than killing them on a frontal battlefield, for Linde now, getting meritorious service is the most important thing. As for his reputation, he No need to think about it for now.

Because the bear hunter and the master of double swords have brought him enough fame, and even the reputation has exceeded the range that his current position can bear. Excessive fame will inevitably cause some unnecessary troubles, so The behavior of Al Morrison causing trouble for him this time should be caused by his reputation.

Therefore, now he needs to do something to suppress his over-expanded reputation, and using traps to kill enemies is the method that can be used now.

However, the premise of all this is that bandits who have escaped from the battlefield will use this smuggling channel. Linde could not predict this, and obviously Joel should not know about it either.

Joel placed Lind in the rear, probably to give his knights and attendants an explanation. After all, his knights and attendants were knocked unconscious in front of everyone. Without an explanation, these six would more or less be let go. The family behind the knight's squire had objections.

Over the past few days, Linde finally saw clearly that the six people were not so much Joel's knight attendants, but rather were temporarily placed with Joel by some noble families in order to take advantage of this encirclement and suppression of the so-called "dragon". Family remnant party" and established meritorious deeds.

Under normal circumstances, knights and knight squires are one-on-one. In some special circumstances, there will be two or three knight squires. For example, the fearless Barristan once had three knight squires at the same time, but like Joel Having six knights squires was almost unheard of.

Although Joel has a good reputation, and is known as the Two Swordsmen of the Reach together with Fertimo Cliann, and is a swordsman praised by the fearless Barristan, his reputation is only in the Reach and its surroundings. It was just spread in the surrounding areas, and because of the illegitimate child, his status was not very high. Let alone having six knights and attendants, even if it was reduced by half to three knights and attendants, it would be considered arrogant and rude.

With the wisdom shown by Joel, it is impossible not to see the drawbacks, and the fact that he still chose to accept six knight attendants undoubtedly showed that he could only passively accept this matter.

In addition, it is not difficult to see from Al Morrison's skills that the strength of the six knight attendants themselves is very average, not even as good as the veterans at the bottom. At best, they have mastered a certain amount of formal swordsmanship, but such strength has been Having Joel with him and appearing on the battlefield seemed very strange in itself.

However, none of this was taken to Lind's mind. For him, it didn't matter what other people did, what mattered was whether he could seize the opportunity.

After setting up the trap, he came to a secret place as his ambush point, then found some wet branches to build a bonfire, and also got some plant velvet and dry firewood as kindling, and then sat down Wait for the time to pass.

During this time, he was also thinking about whether he could make any contribution in the joint campaign of the three lord families to suppress the bandits. In his opinion, although he was assigned to the rear and far away from the battlefield, he was not without merit. The possibility of meritorious service.

If he is lucky and someone escapes from the battlefield ahead, then the fish that escapes the net is most likely an important figure among the bandits, because only important people know about this smuggling road, and only important people know about it. Only then can the characters have enough strength to escape from the siege.

In this way, even if he is not fighting on the frontal battlefield, he can still achieve considerable feats.

While thinking, time passed little by little, and except for the sounds of some animals moving around and the sound of the wind blowing on the trees, no other sounds could be heard.

Linde did not hold back his sleepiness, but regularly controlled himself to have short light sleeps, which allowed him to continue to maintain a clear mind.

I don’t know if it’s good luck or bad luck. It was getting brighter and it was almost early in the morning. The Yangjiao Cliff area was shrouded in fog. As a cold mountain wind blew down from the northern slopes, the fog changed. It turned into rain and fell on the forest, and the thick rain and fog also limited the sight of ordinary people.

However, Linde could still see through the rain and fog, and saw the black smoke rising in the distance. It seemed that fighting had begun on the battlefield ahead.