my age of magic

Chapter 1165 269. Fort Hamamatsu

On the way through the valley road, we encountered three batches of barbarian squads ambushing on the top of the fault mountain. Fortunately, Deborah was there. No matter how secretive the barbarians were hiding, they would be clear from the air. Deborah told us After providing detailed information, we set traps for these barbarian squads and lured them into the valley.

There was a barbarian team with more than [-] members. Such a large number of barbarian teams is very rare near the city of El.

I took Kalancuo and Katerina to climb up the cliff and checked the hiding place of the barbarian team on the top of the cliff. What I saw made me feel a little shocking.

The barbarian team set up a camp in a sheltered place next to the giant rock on the top of the mountain. There is a bonfire in the middle of the barbarian camp. The carbon ash piled up on the bonfire has been covered by some residual snow. A simple wooden frame is supported on the bonfire. Wearing a rib that looks partly hyena-like and partly human.

Some skeletons were piled up in the corner of the camp, covered with traces of smoke and fire. Some were the skeletons of wild beasts, but most of them were human skeletons, with residual tendons on the bones. This is a group of cannibals. Savages, and it looks like they've been around the fault mountain for days.

There are also some human leather armor, weapons, and packages scattered beside it. It seems that the barbarians have intercepted and killed more than one Falcon squad here, and there are some fragments of standard leather armor among the leather goods scattered on the ground. It was the scout team that intercepted and killed the North Wind Legion.

There were no survivors in the barbarian camp, as well as the human slaves who were to be brought back to the icy tundra for mining. The barbarians on the fault mountain ate everything they could eat, and it seemed that they had no plans to leave.

What this group of savages did made me a little puzzled, and I guessed what the savages were trying to do on the fault mountain?
Could it be that they guarded the Fault Valley Road just to kill some falcons and knights of the North Wind Legion?

This group of savages set up an ambush in the fault valley in such an organized and planned way, which has never happened before.

This can't help but make me shudder a little. The gathering of so many barbarians is obviously not to capture the inhabitants of the empire living in the fault mountain.They waited on the top of the fault mountain to target the Constructed Knight scout squad and the Falcon team of the Borean Legion, and indeed hunted down some Falcon teams and Imperial troops.

The barbarians intercepted layer by layer on the valley road of the fault mountain. This unusual practice gave me some bad premonitions in my heart.

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Noah complained that I was too cruel to the barbarian captives.

Every time a prisoner was killed, Noah had to evade with Shirley and Yingli, or go back to the sled, or back to the tent.

Noah did this, which saved me a lot of trouble.

The three hunts in the valley took a total of nearly 150 savages.

Among these barbarian captives, 46 barbarian slaves were successfully captured. These barbarian slaves were all sent back to Xinliu Valley. They needed to dig stones in the quarry for a few years to polish their wildness.

While fishing in the lake, he managed to convince three barbarians to sign a slave contract after capturing sixteen barbarian warriors alone.

The success rate of signing the slave contract on the Fault Valley Road is so high, it is entirely because we dealt with the barbarian captives more intensively, and it was divided into three times. During the process of disposing of these barbarian captives, we decisively killed some barbarian soldiers The more the barbarians waited behind, the more their hearts were completely broken. Seeing that some barbarians chose to submit, they all followed suit.

That's why the number of barbarian slaves subdued is slightly larger.

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Two savage slaves pulled a sled for two full days on the fault valley road, and we arrived at Hamamatsu Castle, a small town at the other end of the valley road.

Walking out of the valley road of the fault mountain, I saw the devastated Hamamatsu Castle. There was still a wisp of black smoke rising from the gate of the dilapidated wall. The flag on the gate tower of the castle had long been broken, and there was still a guard's body hanging on the wall. Entangled by a rope, he hung upside down outside the city wall. His body was already stiff, and occasionally the wind would blow him, and he would keep shaking.

My guess in the Fault Valley Road was finally verified here:

A large number of barbarians bypassed the city of El and entered the territory of the city of Nato through the fault valley road.

The barbarians were probably worried that the falcons in El City would come here after hearing the news, and at the same time, in order to prevent the people from Natto City from going to El City for help, they arranged for three barbarian squadrons to go to the Fault Valley Road. Setting up an ambush, the practice of the barbarians did play a certain role, and the city of El probably didn't know what happened here.

Hamamatsu Castle is just the northernmost town of Nato City. This town is located at the junction of El City and Nato City. It belongs to one of the satellite towns of Nato City. A new beginning for killing and plundering slaves.

These savages could not gain any benefit in the northern part of Sluyte Province, and entered the southern region on a large scale.

It turned out that although the small towns in the southern part of Sluyte Province are protected against barbarians, they are not as strong and clear as the northern border cities.

The town of Hamamatsuburg is built on a gentle slope, and the whole town is connected as one. It covers an area of ​​about one square kilometer, and it can be regarded as a medium-sized town.

A city wall more than ten meters high is built around it. The city wall is an archery tower with a height of more than [-] meters standing in a corner. There are gates on all sides of the city wall. The gates are not high. Three sections of the wall have completely collapsed.

I pictured the savages breaking through the walls and rushing into the town in my mind.

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A winding road leads directly to the gate of the castle. A large chestnut tree is planted on the earth slope. The forest is covered by a thick layer of snow, and the battlefield is also covered by heavy snow.

There was a dead silence inside Hamamatsu Castle.

The tauren Luka was wearing full armor and kicked open half of the dilapidated city gate. The hard oak nailed the city gate had been scorched. The city gate collapsed and fell into several pieces on the ground. Stepping on the wooden boards of the city gate and entering Hamamatsu Castle, there are some broken weapons scattered on the dilapidated streets.

A magic caravan rolled over at the gate of the city, but the ancient Bolai horse pulling the cart was nowhere to be seen, only the remaining bloodstains were seen on the ground, and those bloodstains had turned black and purple. It seemed that this battle had been going on for many days No, the city gate hole covered the snow, so that these were exposed outside.

There was no way for the sled to drive into it, so we could only stay outside the city. A group of us entered Hamamatsu Fort to look for survivors here.

Walking on the streets of Hamamatsu Castle, the streets are covered with a thick layer of snow. The castle still retains the appearance of the barbarians rushing into the city. The doors of many shops are open, and some items are scattered on the ground. Snow covered.

It seems that the residents here fled Hamamatsu Castle in a hurry, and they left in such a hurry that they didn't even have time to take the valuables in the house.

There were traces of fighting everywhere on the street. Some wooden feather arrows were inserted into the wall connected to the street, and some broken short flying spears were stuck on the stone floor.

The orc warriors peeled away the bulging snow packs, and under the snow lay a cold corpse of a young woman. She should be a resident of Hamamatsu Castle. The object was smashed and collapsed, the face was distorted and deformed, and a thin layer of ice was condensed on the body. Due to the cold weather, the woman's appearance before death was completely preserved.

When we saw this scene, we noticed that there seemed to be many such snow bags on the street.

Noah, Shirley Newman, and Ying Li ran out one after another. They scraped away the thick snow, and corpses were revealed in front of us.

The men in the town should have been taken as slaves by the barbarians. Most of these corpses were old people and women. The town was full of broken traces left after the barbarians captured them. Those barbarians broke open with blunt weapons. The courtyard walls of the houses in the city, the roofs were lifted, and the imperial people in every building were carefully searched.

Deborah was sent to the air for reconnaissance by Kalantso. She first hovered over Hamamatsu Fort. After finding no abnormalities, she expanded the scope of the reconnaissance. It seems that the barbarians have already left Hamamatsu Fort.

Katerina stood tall on the broken city wall, and she was observing the architectural pattern of Hamamatsu Castle.

We are about to build the town of Trum on the plane of Hierro, so every time Katerina comes to a town, she will carefully observe the architectural layout here. The city defense system of Hamamatsu Castle looks very complete, but the siege Human strength is too strong, even in the face of absolute power, Fort Hamamatsu could not hold on.

Kalancuo is probably because Stone is used to this kind of scene, and there is no change on her face. She calmly ordered ten orc fighters to divide into five groups and explore Hamamatsu Castle in different directions. Katerina is not by my side. When the time comes, Kalantso will guard by my side.

The tauren warrior tried to find a few survivors among the dead bodies all over the street, which made the kind and honest tauren very frustrated. He began to try to explore some well-preserved houses and search for the survivors there.

Seeing the cold corpses lying on the ground on the stone street, Noah looked at the wall and fell on the snow. There was a faint sadness in his eyes. After a moment of silence, Noah raised his head and asked me: "Ji Jia ,how so?"

"The war between the northerners and the barbarians has always been like this. You die and the other dies. There is nothing to say about it." I said to Noah.

In the small town of Maas, I once encountered the same miserable scene.

At that time, I was just hunting with an old falconry team in the countryside. When the same thing happened twice in a row, the scene seemed less shocking.

Someone in this town must have survived, but they just didn't want to come out.

Compared with the survivors in the town, I am more concerned about what happened to the barbarians who broke through Hamamatsu Fort.

I don't think I'm cold-blooded, that's what most people in the Northern Province think.

Yes, everyone thinks so.

In the north, the connection between cities is actually not so close. After all, it is a matter of life and death. When El City was besieged by the Storm Bear tribe, I recognized this fact clearly: I can save El The only people in the city are the people of El.

We came to the town square, where there are obvious traces of battles, and the group statue sculpture in the center of the square has been destroyed beyond recognition.

Kalantso walked up, sat on the dilapidated bench by the stone steps by the fountain, looked at the clock tower on the top of the Town Council Hall, pondered for a while before saying: "...It seems that Hamamatsu Fort is just a starting point, these After the barbarians captured a large number of human slaves, they did not return north along the fault valley road, so it means that they drove the human slaves and went to the next town to rob, should we chase them down?"

Without thinking, I said, "Of course I want to chase after him!"

After the group of barbarians who plundered Hamamatsu Fort captured a group of Imperials, their team must be very bloated. With our current strength, we are already qualified to follow behind their team and nibble away at these barbarians. People are like wind wolves on the wasteland following the one-horned buffalo.

Immediately afterwards, I tapped my head and said to Kalanzo: "I thought this winter would be quieter, but I didn't expect that it was just that El City was a little quieter. In the south, I really have a headache!"

Shirley Newman stood aside at this time, and asked me with some incomprehension: "Aren't the South Wind Legion and the North Wind Legion known as the two most powerful legions in the empire?"

Seeing me looking at her, Shirley Newman continued, "This is the time when the North Wind Legion is needed. Where are the Knights of the North Wind Legion? Where are they?"

I said: "After all, the territory of Sluyte Province is too large. Many towns must rely on their own defense forces to resist the barbarians."

Deborah came back from the air at this time and told me that Kalancuo and I found the barbarian team about [-] kilometers southwest of Hamamatsu Fort.

I took out the map of Sloit Province, and saw that the area was a large forest, through which you could reach Klee Town, another town in Tona City. I asked Deborah: Where did the group of barbarians come from Klee Town? To this way, or to the town of Cleary?

But Deborah hawed and hawed for a long time, but she still couldn't tell the reason. Her imperial language is not so fluent, and there are some words that don't express the meaning in many places, so I don't understand what she wants to say.

Since we found the enemy, we did not stop at Hamamatsu Fort, but went directly to the southwest of Hamamatsu Fort.

When riding forward, Katerina walked side by side with me. I saw that she looked preoccupied, so I asked her, "Katerina, what's wrong with you?"

Katerina turned her head and glanced at me, and said to me: "You see, the walls of Hamamatsu Castle are quite high, but they still haven't stopped the barbarian. We will also build Trum in the Hierro plane." Small town, Ji Jia, what kind of small town do you think we should build to resist those Nibru spider warriors?"

"The best way is to drive those Nebulu spiders out of the Black Forest. However, the Duke of Samoyed seems to have failed to do this! Anyway, let's see the situation over there first, after all, even It's the spider warlord who led the attack, and we're not powerless!" I said to Katerina.

(End of this chapter)