Lord of Hyranza

Chapter 21 20. Murder in the dark

In the dark mountain forest, there was a cry of wild beast, and the heavy armored infantry regiment of the fourth brigade marched in the dense forest all day.

Although there were two short breaks, it was so late that the warriors in metal armor were inevitably exhausted, and the team began to fall behind.

Although the sky was full of stars, the woodland was pitch black, and the team could only move forward slowly and groping for their way.

If you want to climb the mountains on the west side of the Dashan Col, you need to detour a very long way.

The nocturnal little beasts in the forest are frightened from time to time and sprang from the bushes, and occasionally they are surprised by a group of gray magpies that have returned to their nests.

Baron Sidney walked at the front of the team with a silver cane. He rode a horse all day, and when he walked the mountain road at night, he was naturally more physically fit than other warriors. The thorny bushes on the hillside made it very embarrassing.

His meticulously groomed light blond hair had become greasy and disheveled, and an oval-shaped leaf was still on his head.

A squadron leader immediately behind Baron Sidney said politely, "Lord Baron, or let the team rest first."

Baron Sidney looked at the pitch-black forest, shook his head slowly and said, "Let the soldiers hold on, this is not a place to rest, we need to climb to the top of the mountain in one go."

The squadron leader had a bitter face, seeing Sidney walking forward without looking back, he could only give orders to the soldiers behind: "Let everyone keep up!"

In the dark mountains and woodlands, there are not many vine traps buried between the bushes and dense forests. If the soldiers are slightly careless, they will be tied by their ankles and hung from the trees by the vine traps, although this kind of trap is not enough to cause people. In death, even if the soldiers were rescued from the tree, most of them were covered in bruises and wounds, resulting in a certain degree of attrition.

In the dark night, this dense forest was like a terrifying monster with its mouth open in the abyss, bit by bit swallowing up the combat power of the fourth brigade.

……

He Boqiang gently pushed Surdak, his eyes fell on a hanging vine on the left.

Surdak immediately understood, and hurriedly avoided the vine, and whispered to Garcia, the red socks behind him, "Indigenous hunters set a lot of traps in the woodland, we have to be careful."

Red Sock Garcia passed the news to his companions behind him, and followed in Surdak's footsteps, avoiding the taut tree vine.

Surdak walked behind He Boqiang and complained to He Boqiang in a low voice: "Actually, we can find a sheltered cliff to rest for a while. After walking for a whole day, everyone's physical strength has dropped so much that it is not realistic to fight all night. "

He Boqiang cautiously groped forward, carefully dealing with the traps in the bushes ahead.

In fact, He Boqiang had no experience with this. He was able to detect the traps in the woods purely by being cautious and skeptical about everything that appeared in front of him. Those deliberately disguised traps always had a trace of the surrounding environment. Discord, He Boqiang relies on this to identify the traps in the jungle.

He Boqiang walked in front of the team, he walked very slowly, so the second team slowly fell behind the team.

The slope of the mountain is getting steeper and steeper, and the road is more difficult to move forward.

……

"Woo~~"

A mournful whimper came from the jungle.

A heavily armored soldier who fell behind asked softly to his companion:

"What is that sound?"

The companion beside him dragged his heavy legs and replied feebly:

"Like hyenas, over my house, these guys like to be in the cemetery, they eat everything."

The heavily armored soldier touched the weapon on his waist, and his uneasy heart just calmed down, and said jokingly:
"Including bodies buried in graves?"

The companion next to him stopped, with a stunned look on his face, and his voice was a little cold:

"And the gravediggers in the cemetery."

The heavily armored soldier followed his companion's gaze, and in the dark jungle, a pair of blood-red eyes were staring at them greedily.

The two soldiers were busy trying to catch up with the troops walking in front, but another pair of blood-red eyes lit up in the darkness, and then a pair of blood-red eyes opened from the darkness, and there were dozens of pairs at once.

The two warriors wanted to warn the front, but they didn't expect those eyes to attract their attention. Two huge shadows appeared from behind them, and a pair of hairy claws rested on the shoulders of the two warriors. The heavy armored warrior thought that there was a companion shooting them behind him, so he quickly turned his head and looked back, but he didn't expect a bloody mouth to come, biting their throat like lightning, and throwing them both to the ground .

After a few struggles, his body straightened up and was dragged into the darkness by the two huge shadows.

'crunch'

A sour biting sound came from behind.

He Boqiang felt a little chill on his back.

At this time, the other heavy armored warriors behind the team also felt that something was wrong, and they looked behind with their voices.

I saw a pair of blood-red eyes followed closely, and the closest pair of red eyes had already shown the outline of its body. It was clearly a hyena with spotted manes all over its body. They were covered in blood. With a big mouth, each hyena is the size of a calf, and the white fangs are bared outside, reflecting the penetrating light in the dark night.

"There are hyenas..."

Someone shouted out in the dark, and the whole team stopped, and everyone looked back.

Sure enough, a lot of hyenas emerged from the bushes in the forest, and pairs of blood-red eyes appeared one after another in the dark, and for a while, I didn't know how many hyenas followed.

Walking at the back of the team is the sixth squadron. At this time, the sixth squadron leader of the fourth brigade immediately stood up and shouted to the soldiers in the last row:
"Everyone keep quiet, don't shout, the shield warriors in the team come to the back, the longbowmen are ready, listen to my orders!"

The soldiers of the 57th Battalion of the [-]th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment are all well-trained veterans. Someone gave orders, and the soldiers immediately picked up their shields and quickly formed a shield wall. Members of the second squad were also mixed in. Round shield, Suldak blocked him first, holding a square shield with one hand.

After all, everyone is a well-trained fighter, and the formation speed is very fast.

The longbowmen in the middle of the team immediately put the longbow strings on the bowstrings thinly, and then placed the steel arrows on the bowstrings in a row on the battlefield, aiming at the dense forest behind.

The squadron leader immediately gave the order: "Prepare, fire arrows!"

A rain of arrows shot out from the team and disappeared in the woodland in an instant, and there was a whimper of hyenas.

Just as the squadron leader wanted to order the longbowmen to fire a second round of arrows, the hyenas also sprang from the dense forest behind.

"Ow~"

They rushed towards the shield wall formed by the soldiers in the rear desperately, and someone in the team immediately shouted:
"No, they jumped up."

"Block them, the spearmen form behind..."

(End of this chapter)