Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 12 10. The First Battle

At noon on September 996, 9, the Emperor of God, the fourth son of Baron Benma, Rand Benma, was leading his subjects to enjoy the third day on the Plain of Galloping Horse.

At this moment, he has neither the consciousness that he should be sacrificed as the fourth son of the small branch of the family, nor the regret after being retribution for doing too much private salt business in the family.

Not being a part of the big plan, the unwillingness to be manipulated by others; let alone the despair after the territory was patronized by barbarians and forced to flee with the leaders.

Now he is teaching all the citizens to bury pots to boil water, dig sanitary trenches, and organize them to take baths in different river sections in batches.

Because they have been in a state of fleeing, everyone's attention is only on survival.

Now that Rand was safe, he began to feel uncomfortable with the smell of sweat that a group of people had covered for several days, not to mention that some people had to squat down to unload goods when they found an open space.

Rand couldn't accept the scene of the upstream solution and the downstream fishing happening in front of his face, so he led people to dig several sanitary trenches, then found the knights and demon possessors, and told them that if they didn't do anything, everyone would have to just let it go. Taste the meal.

Every demon possessor is used to being a lord, so how can they bear this kind of grievance, and follow Rand's request to let all non-magic people use the sanitary trench.Each household has a dedicated non-monster who is responsible for supervising the hygiene of all non-monsters.

As soon as Lante saw the fun, he continued to organize every household to boil water in a pot and drink soft water. After boiling the water, he showed all the residents the quality of the water produced after boiling the water, and then made up a combination of fire and water elements to eliminate the impurities in the water. The crooked theory of the earth element, anyway, it is impossible for him to tell the people that this is calcium carbonate and other mineral salts in the water, which have undergone a chemical reaction under the action of high temperature.

Some of the locals fetched and boiled water in Hebei, some fished in the river, and some bathed downstream.

In his previous life, Rand loved to be clean, but now he has become a demon possessor, his senses are sharper than before, and he can't stand the smell of a human meat steamer.

He decided to popularize health knowledge to the residents during the escape, and teach each other skills, such as weaving, hunting, fishing, cooking, and it is best to let them know Braille.

Rant himself estimated that the entire camp would stay here for a month or two. Maybe they could return to the galloping horse territory and organize a manual production or something in the future.

Just as Rand was thinking wildly, two figures were rushing over on the hillside in the distance, they were Greyhound and Rolle who came back from the investigation.

After the two returned to the camp, they brought news of the surrounding area to Rand.

Their current camp is in the southern part of the Galloping Horse Plain.The Benma Plain is more than 1000 kilometers long from east to west, and more than 400 kilometers wide from north to south. There are long mountains in the east, west and south as boundaries, and the extremely wide Blue Moon Lake in the north.

In the middle of the plain, a Benma River with extensive tributaries flows from west to east and brings multiple tributaries from north to south.

The main channel of the Benma River divides the plain into two parts, the north and the south. The northern tributaries mostly intersect with the Lanyue River. The dense water network makes this area rich in pack animals, while there are only a few rivers on the southern plain, which is relatively complete. The grasslands are rich in war horses, especially the central grasslands, which produce a kind of black BMW. The horse's hair is like scales, and the horse's hooves can condense wind elements.

When the Galloping Horse Kingdom was still there, such horses were called black-scaled horses, and there would be a leader of a low-level monster in a group of black-scaled horses, and a group of black-scaled horses with a leader could form a group of wind elements like a knight phalanx Magic acceleration.

The horse leader of the horse group is called Yeqi by the Benma people, which is also the source of the name of Yeqi City: leading the whole country forward like the leader of the horse group.

Rolle and Greyhound first went west to investigate, then went north after exploring more than ten kilometers, and then went east along a tributary of the Benma River. About 10 kilometers east of the Rand camp, they found a small barbarian camp.

According to Rolle's judgment, the total number of barbarians in this camp should be 20-30 people, that is, there are about 4-6 demon possessors. Ordinary barbarians have the level of intermediate knights. In other words, Rand's 200 people 18 demon possessors combined shouldn't be able to deal with this horde.

Rand was sitting on the grass, watching the fish soup bubbling in the pot in the distance, while thinking about the information brought by Rolle and Greyhound.

In fact, he has not been in this world for more than 7 days, and now he has changed 3 places.

The current Rand is very frustrated, no matter what time travel, the story of people's time travel is either passed on to the prince and rescued the young and beautiful witch by the way; or it is passed on to the shield warrior and fought with the army; Into the body of the legendary knight, directly from the coffin.

How come when you travel by yourself, the starting base is taken away, you have to be an animal, and you have to go to the battlefield, and whoever comes can drive you away.

"Where is that camp, you take me there, I also want to see what the barbarian camp looks like." Lante didn't want to run away anymore, he wanted to see if his little team could take the initiative to communicate with the barbarian small tribe Over the counter.

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For a black scaled horse, ten kilometers is not very long.Ten minutes later, they arrived at the foot of a hillside and used the concealment of the hillside to scout from a distance.

A small barbarian tribe generally includes 10-20 tents, of which at least one main tent houses the leader and family members of the tribe, another tent is used for moisture-proof and sun-proof materials, one tent is for non-magic slaves, and the other tents are for ordinary people. The Demon Barbarian and his family.

The barbarians will maintain the number of pack animals so that the camp can be moved at any time. Because of the superior performance and temperament of the black scaled horses, each barbarian demon possessor generally only raises a group of black scaled horses, and the newly born ponies in the summer, in the second After reaching adulthood in the spring of next year, they will be exchanged out.

In addition to horses and pack animals, the barbarians will also raise some long-wool sheep, and the smallest tribe will also raise dozens of them. Few barbarian tribes can weave wool, and most tribes directly use fur to keep warm.

From a certain point of view, if there is no abnormal weather on the Benma Plain, the life of the barbarians is more comfortable than that of the human farmers, but the barbarians on the Benma Plain will face mosquito disasters, wind disasters, white disasters, and floods.

When these disasters come, the nomadic economy of the barbarian tribes will face collapse. If it is a large-scale climate disaster, a large number of tribes will gather and go south to the dragon kingdom.

The Benma Plain in 996 had a pleasant climate and sunny days.

Rand, Greyhound, and Roll found this small tribe. This tribe had 12 tents, and a circle of reed-woven fences surrounded dozens of sheep. People could be seen in the camp, but it was impossible to know who was there. how many people.

Rand asked Greyhound if Hongsha could read numbers, and Greyhound said yes.

Hongsha is not a very big dog, but it is very smart. In the sun, its shiny fur reflects red light, so it is called Hongsha.

It didn't take a few minutes for the red sand to turn back. When they came back, they told them that this small tribe had 10 horses. In other words, there were at least 10 barbarian demon possessors in this tribe.

Lante guessed that his own may continue to flee.

But not long after, Luo Er said something, and Hongsha told him that there were several black-scaled horses this year's young horses.

Although it is not clear how Hongsha communicates with Greyhound, 10 or 3 of the 4 horses are young horses, which also reduces a lot of pressure on Rand.

On the way back to the camp, Rand discussed with a few knights, how about a sneak attack at night?
"I think it's feasible. It stands to reason that if the barbarians were powerful, they would have discovered the red sand just now." Greyhound was the one who spoke, and he obviously agreed with Rand's idea. We can give it a try"

"Your test is a big risk." Rolle couldn't accept the risk of taking rand.

"We have been taking risks, since my father went to investigate on the Galloping Horse Plain. If we didn't take the risk that time, the territory is gone now. If we don't move the territory, we will be discovered by barbarians or monsters now." Lante thinks it is more important What's more, now he can finally grasp the initiative, and can actively choose to attack or transfer, so he hopes to use this initiative to create opportunities.

"Then let's go, you go back and take the leader to transfer first," Luo Er said
"No, Albert took them to transfer, I will go with you.

When my father found that the running horse territory was in danger, he chose to take our family into the running horse plain. Even if they were ambushed, the running horse nobles could not retreat because of timidity.

Please don't forget, I am Galloping Horse! "Lant said very firmly. Of course, more importantly, he wanted to take this opportunity to see his current strength, including his level of water quality and territory.

To Rand's surprise, Albert was very supportive of Rand's expedition. Not only that, Albert decided to go together, "You are the acting lord of the Baron Galloping Horse, and I am not only your scholar, but also a member of the Galloping Horse Clan. clerk, I won't back down at a time like this."

Rand was very moved by Albert's words. What he didn't know was that Albert missed a barbarian invasion when he was studying in the imperial capital 20 years ago. The baron had been killed in battle for 4 years, and Albert had never been able to forgive himself.

Since then, Albert, as a territory scholar, has never missed every expedition or retreat of the family.

After many negotiations, Rand decided to launch a sneak attack at night. Although Alivia's night is relatively bright, the barbarians also need to rest.The benefits of owning a clock are again reflected, they do not need to judge the time according to the phase of the moon, but directly look at the watch.

At 7:30 p.m., Walker and six demon possessors led the people in the camp to pack up all the things again and prepare to evacuate at any time.

As early as in the afternoon, several knights walked 30 kilometers east together, set up a spare camp, and specially found a demon possessor to send a message. As long as the attack did not go well, the messenger immediately returned to the camp and asked Volker to Move everyone to a new camp.

Rand and others went west to lure the cavalry of the barbarian tribe in the opposite direction of the camp. The two parties agreed that if something went wrong, Rand would make a detour for at least 3 days and finally return to the new camp.

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At 10 o'clock in the evening, the three bright moons gradually rose, and Rand and the five knights came to the place where they observed the barbarians in the afternoon.

Most barbarian tribes keep dogs, and the dogs will bark when strangers approach, which will make the barbarians suspicious.Therefore, Rand believes that once the attack is the final blow, it is impossible to have too much tactical space.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, there was no movement in the barbarian camp, and Luo Er felt that it was almost the same, and Rand shared a few pieces of cake for everyone to replenish their strength.

At 9 o'clock in the morning on September 28, Rand rode on horses with four other knights and three apprentices, and lined up and gradually approached the camp.

Three rounds of moonlight fell on the grass, and everything was silent on the Benma Plain at this moment.

The seven knights advanced from the hillside at a low speed. At first, the horses were only brisk walking, and then they were jogging when they got down the hillside. The distance of less than one kilometer just helped the horses to accelerate.

The tents in the distance gradually became taller, at least when they were about 200 meters away, the dogs in the barbarian camp began to bark.At this moment, the knights accelerated involuntarily.

At 100 meters, the dog barked even more. One barbarian couldn't bear it, except for the tent, but when he looked in the direction of the barking dog, Rand and a few others broke through the fence and rushed in.

Every knight in the territory has a spear, a saber, at least two throwing axes, and a round shield. Only Greyhound still uses bows and arrows, and Roll has his own throwing knife.

Although the weapons are very rich, everyone came out this time with sabers.Rohr said the slashing weapon was good for barbarians who didn't come and mounted.

Although Rand rode a horse for many days during the migration, when it came time to attack on horseback, Rand even felt that the excited black horse was pulling him to charge.

Facing the barbarian fence, his horse jumped over without hesitation. Unprepared, Rand felt that he was almost thrown backwards.

When the horse fell, Rand adjusted his posture, and the saber in his right hand chopped down the barbarian who came out of the tent to check.

The entire battle lasted about 10 minutes. In the first 3 minutes, Rand and Kaur hacked four barbarians. In the next 6 minutes, they found the fifth barbarian in the camp and eliminated them.

The knights' attack was smoother than they had expected. It was one thing to do mental calculations without intention, and the other was that there were very few demon possessors in the barbarian camp.

After the attack was completed, Lante and others called out all the demonless people in the camp and declared themselves the masters of the camp.Then inform the orderly to let all the people move to this camp tomorrow.

Lante knew that if several demon possessors moved here with their own people, there should be a lot of people.

But if a few of them moved to their original camp with the barbarian demonless people, then I don't know how many people will be left.

Lant tied up the 30 demonless people in the barbarian camp in groups of 10, and told them that if any group lost one person at night, they would kill the entire group.

In fact, Rand's idea is completely superfluous. Without the demon possessors, the non-monsters would not be able to gain a foothold on the Galloping Horse Plain. Even if they fled to other tribes, they would still be slaves.

The non-demons believe that staying is also being a slave, and running is also being a slave, so there is no need to run one more time.

(End of this chapter)