I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 77: Unhuman (I)

Cool guy was lying in the grass, watching the battlefield a few hundred meters away with relish. He was watching the spectacular scene of the Restoration Army firing stone cannons and the infantry advancing, and he was very excited.

Cool guy has been hiding here watching the show for three days.

On the first day, the Restoration Army did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, they cut down trees and set up camp two kilometers in front of the Bolas Fortress, while also sending out scouts.

The cool guy who was prepared and the hundreds of players who came to watch the show were all prepared. They dodged wherever they could, and if they couldn't, they would engage in a skirmish with the scouts of the Restoration Army. If they won, they would run away, and if they lost, they would leave their bodies behind.

Of course, the prepared players resolutely decided not to bring any valuables this time... these valuables refer to firearms, armor, and beautiful military uniforms.

All the players wore local linen clothes, took a sword, a bow, a pot of iron arrows, as well as three days of food and water, and ran here.

Because of this battle, Chris temporarily gave all players the benefit of ten resurrections at no cost, so the players are not afraid of death.

This caused the Restoration Army to feel a little puzzled... Why was the loss rate of these scouts so high? These country bumpkins recruited by the Minisians were too fierce.

Due to inertia of thinking and the fact that no one was captured alive, the Restoration Army had no idea that there was a third-party force at the scene stirring up trouble.

The next day, the Restoration Army increased the intensity of scout dispatches and tried their best to expand the scope of their control area.

There was no other way. In addition to its own security needs, the Restoration Army needed to attack the city, and to attack the city, they had to build siege equipment, and to build siege equipment, they needed large timber.

The fortress garrison was no fool. They had long ago sent people to cut down and burn all the thicker trees within a ten-kilometer radius of Bolas Fortress, leaving only some small trees, shrubs, and crooked trees that could not be used to make any siege equipment.

In order to cut down trees, engineers had to be sent to further places. Naturally, the Restoration Army could not tolerate so many enemies wandering around in the mountains and forests near them.

Do Cool Guy and the others know about this situation?

Some people understood it, some didn't, but as long as there was a fight, they would accept everyone. So, these players had a lot of fun fighting with the scouts of the Restoration Army, and even took advantage of the opportunity to fight the scouts from Bolas Fortress.

In this high-intensity mountain encounter, the hundreds of new players kept dying, resurrecting, and dying again. Even the cool guy who didn't want to fight and just wanted to watch the show was beaten twice and died once.

Such frequent battles and the large number of uncollected corpses made the mountains and forests near Bolas Fortress filled with blood and corpses everywhere, so that the originally sunny woods suddenly became gloomy and terrifying.

The new players didn't notice, but some of the scouts sent by the Restoration Army began to refuse to leave the camp to carry out their mission on the third day.

In desperation, on the fourth day, the Restoration Army dispatched two light infantry companies led by a noble officer, totaling more than 700 soldiers, to launch an encirclement and suppression operation against the mountains and forests.

The effect of the Restoration Army's overwhelming force was significant. Scattered players in groups of three or five were either forced to retreat or crushed by the Restoration Army's force.

Although in the ongoing battle, the combat skills and experience of new players are also increasing, and their combat effectiveness has been significantly improved.

However, this kind of combat power improvement is more in the field of individual combat. They are not good at the coordination required for group combat.
This matter is like a martial arts master facing a formation of spears of big-headed soldiers. The result of their head-on confrontation is naturally that the brave martial arts masters cannot even get in front of the big-headed soldiers and are stabbed into torn sacks by the dense spears.

So, on the fifth day, the Restoration Army took control of the forest around the military camp, and the lumberjacks they sent out were able to carry axes and saws and go cut down trees.

During these five days, the Restoration Army was not idle. They were digging trenches and building fortifications near the military camp to guard against possible attacks from the guards of Bolas Fortress.

In fact, the Minisians in the Bolas Fortress did attempt a sneak attack. On the third night, they sent out a small unit of elite sword and shield soldiers who were not night blind, trying to find the location of the Restoration Army's granary and set it on fire.

Unfortunately, these guys had bad luck. They encountered a group of over a dozen players on a night outing right after they left the house. Upon discovering the dozens of Sword and Shield soldiers, the players attacked without hesitation. The night and the forest conditions meant the Sword and Shield soldiers and players were fighting on their own, with no coordination whatsoever. The suddenness of the attack even threw the Minisians into a state of panic.

In the chaotic battle, more than half of the players died, and the Minissian sword and shield soldiers who went out at night were defeated. They scattered and fled in all directions, leaving more than 30 corpses in the wild woods.

As a result, the players who launched the attack made a fortune. They took more than 30 pieces of half-body armor, helmets, swords and shields back to the quartermaster department of the defense army camp for recycling, and received a good reward, becoming a typical example of getting rich overnight.

This makes more players jealous, and there are more night owls hanging around Bolas Fortress at night.

On the sixth and seventh days, the forests were much quieter during the day because of the large-scale sweep on the fifth day.

The individual players who suffered heavy losses also knew that if they angered the Restoration Army, the latter would send a large force to attack, so they also restrained themselves and stopped attacking the Restoration Army scouts.

The players also turned a blind eye to the poor lumberjacks.

In fact, because the lumberjacks were wearing civilian clothes, were thin, and had numb expressions, players felt sympathy for them.

In addition, they are marked as white neutral units on the map, and these guys are obviously unlucky people who were forced to do the work.

Players don't want to kill them, but try to rescue them. In the event mission released by Chris, the reward for rescuing civilians is higher than killing them.

To this end, some players have put on the same clothes as the lumberjacks, carried similar axes, and in the evening, while no one could see clearly, they mixed into the lumberjack team and followed them into the camp of the Restoration Army.

The players no longer took the initiative to attack. The scouts sent out by the Restoration Army, because of the brutal killings some time ago, turned around and ran away like panicked deer when they saw the players, and did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

For a while, the two sides got along very harmoniously and no fierce fighting occurred.

On the contrary, the people sent out by Bolas Fortress were a bit reckless and kept fighting with the players, so that the aggressive individual players were diverted and engaged in PVE battles with the Minisians, killing the people in the fortress so that the outside world was in a state of disgrace.

The Minisians knew nothing and could only cautiously choose to passively accept the beating.

Now it is the eighth day. When the Restoration Army officially launched the attack, Cool Brother finally saw the big scene he wanted to see.

The large-caliber stone-throwing cannon roared, and more than a thousand infantrymen advanced in a square formation until they were within the range of the arquebuses. They quickly deployed their formation and formed a horizontal array of five rows.

The musketeers of the Restoration Army took turns firing. The scene was extremely magnificent. The smoke produced by the burning black powder covered the battlefield, followed by the spearmen and sword and shield men advancing.

Just when Cool Guy thought he could see a classic medieval attack and defense battle, more than two hundred figures with hunched backs, feet tied with ropes, crawled out from the trench belonging to the defending side and walked numbly forward.

It was obvious at first glance that these people were not soldiers. They were wearing local civilian clothes and only had sticks and hoes in their hands.

At the same time, the Minisians behind the earth wall also opened fire, firing their matchlocks, allowing arrows shot from their crossbows to fly over the group of cannon fodder in front and fly towards the front line of the Restoration Army's melee soldiers.

The smile on Cool Guy's face, which was about to show him how to enjoy the show, suddenly froze.

"Using civilians as human shields, what kind of tactic is this!"

(End of this chapter)