Lord of Hyranza

Chapter 20 19. Prelude to the Offensive

The soldiers of the fourth brigade walked in the jungle for a long time without encountering a native, and Baron Sidney's face became more and more gloomy.

The team stopped beside the creek in the valley, and Baron Sidney summoned the sergeants above the squad leader for a preliminary battle deployment.

The rest of the heavy armoured infantry drew some water from the river and made fires on the rocky beach to cook.

The teams that go out on missions carry very simple marching rations. He Boqiang has been eating this food these days. It is similar to rice noodles. It can be quickly melted into boiling water and cooked into a pot of porridge. Eat the baked oatmeal into the stomach together. If you think the oatmeal is too hard, you can break it into pieces and put it in the porridge to eat.

It's not bad, but it's definitely not delicious, it's just a convenient fast food to quickly fill the stomach.

Each marching ration is wrapped in dry banana leaves, and you only need to tear the banana leaves when you take them.

Jielonnan scooped a spoonful of viscous porridge into the wooden bowl, staring straight at the porridge in the bowl without appetite, but Ian, who was sitting by the side, ate it with relish, and even put the edge of the wooden bowl on the edge of the bowl. Scrape clean with your fingers too.

Five scout squads left in a row, and the atmosphere in the squad became tense, and no one even talked loudly.

He Boqiang didn't find this kind of marching rations unpalatable. He silently ate the food delivered to his hand and closed his eyes while sitting beside a big rock.

The black boy, Geronan, refilled the marching kettle with clear stream water from the side of the stream.

Surdak squatted beside the fire and pressed the unburned charcoal with stones. Garcia came to him and asked curiously:

"Dark, you said that Baron Sidney called the captain and the others, what exactly do you want to discuss?"

Garcia is also a member of the second team, but everyone prefers to call him red socks because he has a pair of red socks that he wears on his feet all year round. Although the soles of his feet have been patched, he is still reluctant to throw them away. It is said that these socks are It was knitted by his fiancée himself when he joined the army.

He is the best archer in the team. There are two alloy bows in the team, and one of them is on him.

Surdak turned to look at Garcia and said:

"Who knows! But it's still far from the mountain. For the time being, you don't have to worry about being attacked by the native hunters from the shadows. It's easier to be in the big army than to act on your own."

At this time, Captain Sam walked back from Baron Sidney's side. He sat down against the rock, and Geronnan immediately ran back and handed the captain a piece of food that was left on purpose.

After the porridge in the wooden bowl was cold, it congealed into a lump. Sam pushed the wooden bowl aside, grabbed half of the wheat biscuit and gnawed it.

Surdak said: "I always feel that something is wrong. We have to be careful on the next part of the road."

Sam tore off another piece of wheat cake, but did not rush to put it in his mouth, and asked Surdak, "What's the matter?"

Surdak glanced at He Boqiang before saying slowly, "I think these indigenous people seem to be leading us over."

Sam pondered, but said nothing.

On the other hand, Ian said next to him, "This time our fourth brigade is fully dispatched, and a squadron of longbowmen has been seconded, which is more than enough to deal with those indigenous people, so there is nothing to worry about."

Geronnan, Garcia and others clearly agreed with Ian's point of view, and they echoed, thinking that Ian was right.

At this time, He Boqiang raised his head as if he had been aware of it. He always felt that someone was peeping through the dense forest. At this time, he couldn't find any convincing evidence.

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After resting for nearly an hour, the fourth brigade continued along the dense forest to the Dashan Col.

In the afternoon, there were not many wild beasts in the forest, but some poisonous insects occasionally caused some trouble for the team, but almost everyone of the soldiers carried antidote with them, and the team was not reduced due to poisoning.

At this time of day, the woodlands always feel sultry.

The team pulled for a long time in the woodland, and the road was not easy to walk. The woods were full of dead branches and rotten leaves left over the years. These leaves rotted and turned into fertile leaf rot, but some leaves fell into the natural formation. In the deep pits, the withered leaves fill up these deep pits and become many natural traps.

A heavily armored soldier was walking in the team. He just looked up and saw a green snake crawling out of his head. The green snake was wrapped around the horizontal branch and kept spitting out snake letters. A pair of cold eyes stared down. Passing under the horizontal branch where it was living, the green snake dropped a trace of poisonous saliva, and the soldier was startled by the green snake.

Just thinking about whether to issue a warning to the companions behind, I heard the companions behind shouting: "Hey, be careful..."

Before the words were finished, the heavy-armed soldier stepped on the air, and his body fell forward according to the habit, and plunged into the deep pit filled with dead leaves.

Fortunately, the thick dead leaves were piled up under the deep pit, and there was nothing else. The heavy-armed warrior was pulled out of the deep pit by his companions, but he did not suffer any serious injuries, but his foot was twisted...

The team passed a man-eating tree full of sharp thorns, the man-eating tree waving its vines, and the heavily armored soldiers who had no time to react in the future stalked them and dragged them towards the trunk, if not With the help of his companions, he might not be able to break free by his own strength.

After entering the jungle, this kind of accident always happened frequently, which slowed down the marching speed invisibly.

……

It was not until it was about to get dark that the Fourth Brigade arrived at the big mountain where the native hunters were hiding. Through the evening glow, they could vaguely see a bare white rock wall appearing on the west side of the valley. The information that has passed, the group of indigenous hunters are hiding here.

Baron Sidney asked the Fourth Brigade to stop and repair, and after nightfall, conduct a sneak attack on the group of native hunters.

The five scout squads that left the main unit at noon returned one after another, and Baron Sidney once again called for a meeting of non-commissioned officers at the level of squad leader and above.

The camp was stationed on a forested slope in the Dashan Col, not too far from the valley in the Col.

Dinner was also much more sumptuous. A team of scouts was in charge of hunting, and two pine-skinned wild boars were brought back from the woods. The dinner consisted of wild boars with some wild celery and white bread. According to Surdak, each time Before the war, Baron Sidney always gave the warriors a good meal, and it looks like this time was no exception.

The horn of battle sounded at the moment when it was completely dark.

The second team followed the big team to the bottom of the cliff. There was only a cave for one person to pass through. They climbed up this rock tunnel for about 200 meters to reach the natural cave in the center of the cliff. Only two or three people were stationed At the exit above the cave, a passage can be guarded.

Baron Sidney left the first squadron here to guard the exit here, and then personally led the fourth squadron to climb the mountain in the dark. According to the Lord Baron's plan, after the assault team reached the top of the mountain, they had to lower the rope from the top of the mountain. , the warriors would hang down the ropes to the halfway up the mountainside and sneak in from the vents on the mountainside.

This area is full of cliffs. If you want to climb this cliff, you have to go around the back of the col.

The mountain road at night was even more difficult, and Baron Sidney had to give up riding and follow the group to climb the mountain on foot.

He Boqiang followed in the team, feeling uneasy for no reason in his heart.

After nightfall, some faint flames appeared on the cliff halfway up the mountain. It was not difficult to see that there were indeed people living on the cliff, but it seemed that these indigenous people were so calm that they did not encounter any encounters on the way of the fourth brigade entering the Dashan Col. The resistance of the indigenous people caused He Boqiang to have some vague worries in his heart.

(End of this chapter)