Adventurers acted separately from the army.
Their fighting styles were completely different. The army's training focused on attack and defense, while the adventurers' fighting style focused on agility and dodging. Even the Berserk Barbarians were better at dodging than the soldiers trained by the army, because the latter were used to fighting in large groups. Adventurers' teams generally did not have more than ten people, and the most common way of fighting was to fight in groups of five, which included frontal attacks, guerilla warfare, sneak attacks, and magic healing. The army's fighting style was a row of heavy infantry with steel shields in their hands, and a small number of defensive warriors equipped with super strong tower shields.
A wise adventurer could tell if someone was from the army or had received military training by just looking at their fighting style.
Søren's task was to scout the enemy's situation.
The adventurers were divided into three teams. The first was a scouting team consisting of thirteen Rogues and five Rangers, all of whom were Grade 2 or above. The second was a combat team consisting of Warriors, Rangers, Barbarians, Priests, and so on. Their task was to clear out small groups of enemies after the army defeated the enemy, and at the same time, to support and cover the army's flanks. The last was a small number of Wizards, Warlocks, and Druil. They were the key targets of protection and moved together with the army.
Wizards rarely joined the army. Whatever they did, they could earn more than the army, and their lives were more comfortable than the army's.
If the army wanted to pay wizards, it would definitely cause the collapse of a prosperous city.
Therefore, the most common relationship was this kind of employment relationship. When necessary, they would be paid a large sum of money. Before they set off, everyone received a reward. Søren received 30 Kindler, which was 10 Kindler more than the other Warriors. According to the unspoken rules of this world, anyone who acted as a sentry, scout, or infiltrator could get 50% of the reward in advance. This was because they would encounter more danger, and at the same time, they could get more loot after the battle.
Scouts were not just simple scouts. They were the vanguard of the battle, and those who dared to act as scouts were all veterans.
Søren's reward was 60 Kindler.
The spoils of war would be tallied after the battle was over. The loot from the previous battles would belong to the individual. As the saying goes, 'one shot of a cannon costs ten thousand taels of gold'. Mobilizing an army was not something that could be done with just a transfer order. After mobilizing an army, all the soldiers' salaries would be doubled. Adding up all the food for the soldiers and horses, it would cost a large sum of money. If there were casualties in battle, a large amount of compensation would be required. Although it was not like adventurers who had to pay dozens or hundreds of Gold Derahls at once, the total cost was still quite shocking.
On the day of the army's departure, the citizens of Whiterun were in high spirits. Many merchants volunteered to donate some goods to the army, and some even asked the guards to tag along.
The two thousand strong army was even more imposing than the ten thousand strong army that Søren remembered. The one thousand strong city guards were all equipped with iron scale armor, shields, short swords, helmets, and crossbows. The five hundred heavy infantrymen were fully equipped with chainmail and half-body armor. They were all equipped with steel shields, iron helmets, refined weapons, and heavy crossbows that could fire two shots consecutively. The last five hundred soldiers were the best of the best. Among them were the heavy infantrymen who were fully covered in plate armor. Only their eyes were exposed, and their arms were equipped with fish-scale gauntlets.
These heavy infantrymen were equipped with complicated equipment. Some of them had two-handed epees, some had sword and shield combinations, and some even carried crossbows with them.
Then there were the noble citizen warriors, honorary citizens, and knights. They were equipped with armored horses, knight armor, knight pikes, small steel shields, and refined crossbows. Every knight was accompanied by one or two knight squires. They were equipped with the same equipment as the heavy infantrymen. Usually, they would fight alongside the knights, and when the enemy was charging, they would follow behind the knights and deal the final blow.
To be honest …
In this world, even the light infantrymen were equipped according to the standards of heavy infantrymen in the Middle Ages. Furthermore, the chances of the army being equipped with crossbows were very high. They were all specially trained to use crossbows. A regular army squad's equipment and firepower were shocking. Against modern firearms, as long as they did not have heavy firepower, they would have a high chance of winning.
… … …
As a scout, Søren naturally had to set off first.
The army's speed was not fast. The south lacked good horses, so the heavy infantrymen were all carrying more than twenty kilograms of weight. Advanced warriors had great endurance. Even though they could not fight for a long time, it was easy for them to carry heavy loads. People who had never practiced martial arts would not know how much energy it took to fight. They would often think that it was easy for them to fight for half an hour or even an hour.
This was a very speechless way of thinking.
There was a saying among martial artists called 'Fa Jin'. Without Fa Jin, one could fight for one or two hours without a problem. But once Fa Jin was used, one's stamina would drop rapidly within three moves.
If the Fa Jin was used too much, the muscles would directly enter a state of excessive fatigue, or even severe damage.
There was no way to quickly recover from this state.
When Søren used [Sword Form – Heavy Hack], he was in a state of extreme Fa Jin. The strength of his whole body was completely unleashed in an instant, and the stamina consumed in that instant was more than an hour or two of exercise. This was not the legendary True Qi, but a technique to mobilize the strength of the whole body, and even the strength of the internal organs. (PS: Since the beginning of the book, the problem of stamina has been criticized for more than half a month. For those who have questions, please bend forward and twist your waist, and remember to take a deep breath before punching. Even though it is not at the level of Fa Jin, but if you punch with all your strength, it is almost equivalent to Stamina Outburst. Please test your stamina consumption rate, the number of punches, and the feeling of your internal organs. If one's arm would ache and his internal organs would suffer from discomfort after a single punch, then he shouldn't hold onto a question so tightly in the future. Instead, he should learn more about it. Not only do you have to search on Baidu, but you also have to test it yourself. — — Stupa.)
… … …
Marching and camping.
The first day was no different from what Søren remembered. On the second day, all the scouts spread out in a net, the army continued to advance along the road, and the adventurers who accepted the mission were divided into small groups and entered the forest.
Søren's figure moved forward in the dense forest. Behind him was a half-elf ranger who believed in the Goddess of the Forest.
The other party was a veteran of wilderness survival, and he had good stealth and detection skills. Because of his profession, although he could not hide, his footsteps were light and agile, and his movements were not inferior to a Rogue. It was hard to tell his age because Half-Elves had a lifespan of 100 to 200 years, but he looked quite young. He was wearing hard leather armour and had a longbow on his back. His weapon was a machete, which was a boning knife.
"It's a Gnoll!"
The half-elf ranger named Yass squatted down and judged the footprints on the ground, then pulled the grass to look at other traces, and said in a deep voice, "There should be some Gnomes and Kobolds. We can solve this small problem by ourselves. There is no need to send a signal to the rest of the army. "
Since they were clearing the monsters, they naturally had to plough the whole area.
The scouts in the army also spread out. Rogues were not common in the army, and most of the scouts in the army were Rangers.
Søren nodded gently, looked at the other party and said, "Can you track their position?"
Tracking traces.
This was the ranger's specialty. They were very good at tracking enemies in the wilderness, and they could distinguish the direction by the smell of footprints.
"It's no big deal." Yass chuckled and said, "Follow me. They are not far away. "
The half-elf ranger pulled out his boning knife, and then moved forward. After tracking for a few hundred meters, he would stop and check the traces on the ground. Some of the footprints had become very faint, but he was still able to determine the direction. Their innate perception made them very intuitive. Sometimes, they could rely on their intuition and experience to track even when there were no traces.
Soon.
They found the first group of enemies.
It was a small group of Gnolls. There were about ten of them, and they had tamed three Aardwolves. They also captured more than ten Gnomes and Kobolds as slaves and food reserves.
The half-elf ranger made a gesture to both sides, and Søren nodded gently, slipped into the shadows, and began to approach from the side.
The opponents were experienced adventurers, and this kind of battle was just a practice for them.
Søren's figure gradually approached along the shadows without making any sound. He slowly pulled out his curved sword and approached the gathering place of the Gnolls from the side. This small group of Gnolls seemed to be a bit special. They were probably survivors of a battle. There were no Gnoll cubs among them, and all of them were adults of the same kind.
The half-elf ranger waited until Søren gradually approached before he came to the side of a large tree. He lightly jumped onto the tree trunk, and in a second or two, he was on the branch of the tree. The leaves made a slight rustling sound. Yass took out a longbow and a wolf fang arrow from his back. A Ranger's quiver was custom-made. There weren't many arrows in it, usually only 6-12. However, all of them were fixed so that they wouldn't fall out when moving. The location of the arrows was also fixed so that it was guaranteed that one would be able to reach out and grab the arrows in an instant.
"Backstab!"
Søren's figure appeared in the shadows, and in an instant, he jumped three to five meters and stabbed his curved sword into the back of a Gnoll's heart.
A one-hit kill!
The curved sword directly pierced through the heart and came out from the front.
Swoosh.
An arrow flew out, and the Gnolls in the gathering place who were alarmed rushed over. The Gnolls at the front had just raised their Bone Crusher Hammers when an arrow pierced through their chest. The arrow was almost completely buried in their bodies.
Longbow Shot!
Søren twisted his body and slashed horizontally, forcing a Gnoll to retreat and at the same time opening a wound on its arm.
Swoosh.
A second arrow was shot, and a bloody hole appeared in the thigh of a Gnoll.
The half-elf ranger put the longbow back on his back. His equipment was specially made, so he could change weapons very quickly. He jumped down from the big tree that was four or five meters tall. He knelt down on one knee to reduce the force of the fall. Then, he pulled out the boning knife from his waist and took a deep breath. His chest puffed up.
Rangers were also melee professions.
Yass inhaled a large amount of oxygen in an instant. His pupils slightly dilated, and from kneeling on one knee, he changed into a half-squat and sprinted forward like an arrow. His sudden burst of speed was even faster than the Olympic 100m sprint champion in Lin Jie's previous life.
— Charge!
The half-elf ranger's burst of momentum was mixed with inertia. He jumped over the simple wooden fence and slashed horizontally with his boning knife, cutting a Gnoll in half at the waist. The two halves of the Gnoll's corpse fell to the ground. He paused for a moment to catch his breath, then rushed into the battle and blocked a Gnoll's sneak attack.
"These trash aren't worth my arrows! One arrow costs five Kindler! "
The half-elf ranger laughed. He slashed open a Gnoll's chest and kicked the Gnoll's Adam's apple. At the same time, he explained to Søren why he didn't continue shooting. The arrows he used were of the highest quality. They were all custom-made and wouldn't deviate too much from the direction of the wind. The two figures crisscrossed through the Gnolls and killed six Gnolls and three Aardwolves in just a minute or two. The other Gnolls finally felt fear and began to flee. Søren pulled out his crossbow and fired, while the half-elf ranger grabbed a sharp wooden stick. He took a deep breath and threw it like a javelin at the Gnolls that were running away.
Screams of agony rang out.
The Gnolls that were running away were nailed to the ground. By the time he pulled out the wooden stick, Søren had already finished off the rest of the Gnolls with his crossbow.
The half-elf ranger picked up the wooden stick and swung it in a circle, then smashed it into the Gnoll's head. A section of the wooden stick broke off, and white brain matter splattered everywhere. A piece of the Gnoll's skull was even torn off. He turned around and smiled at Søren, then threw away the wooden stick and said, "Let's just clean up a little. These are just appetizers. The real meat is still on the Ogres. They've been robbing a lot of caravans lately. "
It wasn't a difficult battle at all.
The relationship between the two was undoubtedly much closer now. At the very least, they now had a better understanding of each other's strength.
He was a tier 3 ranger!
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