Chapter 1120 The Villain Company

Since the beginning of summer, the steaming heat waves over the Meteorite Ocean have converged into a low-pressure cyclone, which moves toward the coast with the ocean current.

In midsummer, in July, typhoons frequently landed on the east coast of Midgard. After sweeping through the coastal ports, they continued to advance towards the inland west until they hit a towering barrier—the Tusk Mountains. rain.

On the vast wilderness at the foot of Fangya Mountain, flowers, plants, trees, crops, melons and fruits are all ushering in a golden period of vigorous growth.

The cattle, sheep and horses grazing in the field also benefited from this, chewing the fresh and juicy forage, and growing fat and strong.

A hundred miles away, Fangfang Mountain is still freezing, and the snow on the glacier hardly shows signs of melting.

Those monsters inhabiting the snow-capped mountains, such as snow monsters and winter wolves, also entered the breeding season with the arrival of summer, and urgently needed more food to supplement nutrition and raise their cubs. The Great Plains has been the favorite summer hunting ground for these monsters since ancient times.

In the past, when the Asa natives were nomadic on the Great Plains, snow monsters and wolves frequently came out to attack livestock.

Times have changed now, and the colonists have replaced the natives as the new masters of the Vigrid Plains.

The traditional nomadic way is replaced by fenced pastures. The large mushroom-like tents of the aboriginal nomads are becoming rarer and rarer. The colonial settlements composed of row wooden houses, pointed wooden fences and barbed wire fences, from east to west Constantly expanding.

Those savage monsters on Daxue Mountain, even though they sensed the changes down the mountain, didn't bother to think deeply about what these signs meant. They still followed the living habits of thousands of years and went down the mountain in groups to plunder every summer.

Colonists' farms and pastures have a common feature, gathering a large number of humans and livestock in a small area. Compared with the erratic indigenous nomads, this kind of settlement can provide monsters with more stable hunting grounds , and the way of hunting has changed accordingly.

Before the arrival of the colonists, the snow monsters either went down the mountain alone to hunt, or they hunted aimlessly in the wilderness in groups of three or four.

This single-handed hunting method is very suitable for raiding nomads, but it cannot break through the strict defense measures of colonial settlements, and storming is tantamount to death.

After paying a lot of blood and lessons, the monsters have learned a little bit smarter, from fighting alone to attacking in groups of multiple groups, going straight to the selected colonial settlements, and fighting a targeted battle. Once they break through the fortifications, often Be able to return home with a full load.

The colonists were unwilling to endure the looting of monsters, but it was difficult to resist the roaring hordes of monsters only with the militias in various villages and towns, so they could only seek assistance from the garrison of Linyuanbao.

It was against this background that 200 interns from Midgard University teamed up with the Rangers from Fort Lindeep, using the company as a unit. Once they noticed smoke billowing somewhere in the wilderness, they would know the local villages and towns. Being attacked by monsters, respond immediately and rush to help.

The 20 cavalry companies with the mission of supporting each other have an average of ten college students in each company, and among them, the most respected by the officers and soldiers are the casters.

Divine spellcasters provide reliable medical support for officers and soldiers, and arcane spellcasters play a key role in the "tactical core" on the battlefield.

Thanks to the help of these college students, each company has achieved excellent results in the battle against monsters, and the disaster situation in surrounding villages and towns has been greatly alleviated.

Of course, there is another significant detail that should not be overlooked-when these companies go to rescue towns threatened by monsters, they are always accompanied by a tax collector.

Among all the 200 interns, the four strongest students did not directly participate in the mission of rescuing the disaster-stricken villages and towns. As early as a week ago, they followed the reconnaissance company led by Captain "Stonewall" Wall Stone and rode their horses all the way. March westward, go deep into the hinterland of the snow-capped mountains, and carry out a secret mission.

Baron Laval, who formulated this combat plan, believed that one should not be content with passive defense alone.

If the support troops were always waited until the monsters besieged the villages and towns, burning, killing and looting wantonly, even if the monsters were completely wiped out, the losses suffered by the local residents would not be recovered.

Sir Laval believes that any form of war follows a common law-the side where the war is fought will often suffer more serious losses. Even if the invaders are driven out, the ruined homeland does not automatically renew itself with victory.

Instead of always being passively beaten like this, it is better to adopt a more active defense method, preferably eliminating monsters in their own lairs.

If you don't have enough power to destroy the monsters, try to sneak attack the enemy's nest, hit and run, set fire and poison, and do whatever you can.

On the premise of preserving their own strength, try to kill the enemy's vital strength as much as possible, so that the monsters can also taste the pain of the destruction of their homes and the loss of their loved ones!

The force responsible for implementing this combat plan is the reconnaissance company led by Captain Wall Stone, and every member of the company is an elite one out of ten.

The company set off from Linyuanbao in the early morning of July 5th. One man and two horses galloped across the vast plain for three days, traveling more than 400 miles, and went deep into the inaccessible Daxue Mountain.

In the following four days, the reconnaissance company attacked a total of three snow monster lairs in the valley, killing more than a hundred snow monsters in total, but the company suffered negligible casualties.

There are two main reasons for such a brilliant victory.

First of all, Stone Company is full of guys who don't understand - or pretend to understand - what is called "chivalry". As long as it can weaken the enemy's strength, no matter how despicable and outrageous tactics they are, they are willing to implement them .

The Stone Company never attacked the snow monster's lair with much fanfare, and each of them had a snow camouflage cloak. They always took advantage of the dark moon and high wind to sneak into the beast's lair stealthily.

For example, the alchemy bomb that emits acrid smoke after the explosion, the "blazing glue" that can continue to burn on the snow, and the poison that can turn the water source into a source of diarrhea with just a small bottle... All kinds of sinister tricks are used, the biggest Minimize the weakening of the enemy's combat effectiveness before starting the fight.

And when the snow monsters struggled to rush out of the scene surrounded by poisonous gas and fire, the officers and soldiers of Stone Company lurking in the snow cave would not rush up to fight the monsters one-on-one like real knights. With a wretched smirk on his face, he quietly poked out the muzzle of the gun from the hidden snow cave, aimed at the snow monster's vitals and pulled the trigger.

The most important criterion for the subordinates personally selected by Captain Stone is good marksmanship!

100 sharpshooters who are proficient in lurking and sniping are far more useful in guerrilla warfare than 100 master knights wearing armor and helmets.

Every time a random shot was fired, the roaring snow monsters rushed to the street collectively.

Perhaps in the eyes of the pure-minded yeti, this group of despicable and shameless human assassins are all top-notch "villains"—the kind that should go to hell after death!