Heroes of Might and Magic: Knight Chapter 37: Inspection and rescue

"Master Clayman, I brought you a bowl of broth."

"How many times have I told you, since you are in the military, you must use military titles."

"Okay, Mr. Clayman... Captain."

Under Clayman's gaze, the cavalryman of the Nader family finally called out the correct title.

Kleiman was not pretentious at all. He took the broth from the other party's hand and ate it deliciously with the freshly served rice.

To be honest, the meals that Richard arranged for the army were pretty good. Although they could not eat every meal, in order to maintain high-intensity training, the professional soldiers of the Hunter family ensured three meals of dry food and brought food with them. Order some oily soup.

Richard did not treat the new cavalrymen such as Clayman any differently, and still provided sufficient food.

After devouring breakfast, Clayman poured the broth into his stomach, and finally picked up a small piece of fat from the bottom of the bowl and put it into his mouth to chew.

"burp"

Kleiman burped with satisfaction, and the soldier on the side brought the empty bowl to clean it together.

The nobles of the Golden Dragon Kingdom, at least few of the nobles in the North, have any bad habits of being pretentious, and there is nothing so-called noble elegance. Almost all of them are soldiers who wolf down their food.

After all, martial arts training itself will whet your appetite, not to mention that a would-be knight like Clayman, who has been polishing his body since childhood, does not have any bad habits of being picky about food.

Kleiman sat there and took a short rest. The soldiers had already finished cleaning the tableware. After roughly judging the time, Clayman decided to start today's patrol.

"Gather!"

Kleiman straightened up and shouted, and then the entire team of soldiers moved quickly. It must be said that the Nader family's cavalry were of good quality. They were ready in just a few minutes and gathered with their horses. .

It was just an ordinary patrol mission. Clayman did not do much mobilization. He simply gave the order to set off and took the lead on the horse to start the day's patrol mission.

……

Tiemulin

A group of half-elves were still running for their lives. After a night of escaping, they managed to reduce their number to more than a dozen people. Perhaps they got separated at night, or perhaps they were overtaken by ogres.

In short, there is a high probability that these disappeared half-elves will never appear in this world again.

"Leader Al, the ogres are catching up again."

"Damn it!"

The half-elf named Al shook his palm bitterly.

At this moment, the ogres caught up again, and it has been shown that the elders and tribesmen who left Duanhou behind should have been wiped out.

But he had no time to grieve. He still had the responsibility to bring the remaining tribesmen out of the Iron Wood Forest alive.

This group of ogres does not seem to be running very fast in the woods, but their physical fitness is surprisingly good. The half-elves have long been exhausted during their long escape, but the ogres are still very energetic. If he keeps running like this, he will be caught up by the ogre sooner or later.

Fortunately, this place is not far from the edge of the Iron Wood Forest. As long as we escape to human territory, humans will naturally not tolerate the ogres wreaking havoc on their territory.

It is ironic that the half-elves lived deep in the Ironwood Forest to escape the taxation and oppression of the human nobles, but now they place their hope of survival on humans.

"Speed ​​up, we are almost at the edge of the Ironwood Forest. It will be safe once we reach human territory."

Al didn't have much choice but to urge the tribesmen to cheer up and speed up their escape.

……

Kleiman was bored and leading the cavalry along the Ironwood Forest. The Ironwood Forest was the focus of the cavalry's inspection.

Because if the ogre comes from the wilderness, it will be clearly seen by Richard's griffon, and there will be no suddenness. On the contrary, if the ogre infiltrates from the ironwood forest, the griffin from the air will be able to detect it. There will be some weakness.

The role of the patrol cavalry will be revealed at this time.

"Master Clayman, there seems to be someone in front."

Kleiman, who was a little bored, immediately cheered up when he heard the soldier on the side talking. He did not correct the other person's title, but looked in the direction of the other person's finger.

Only a dozen people were seen rushing out of the ironwood forest, and there seemed to be others behind them. This group of people carried some crude weapons in Clayman's opinion. Their clothes were ragged and their movements were panicked. They seemed to be running for their lives. Lin Zi There seemed to be something chasing them.

"锵"

Kleiman pulled out the long sword from his waist and shouted loudly:

"Get ready to fight!"

"Qiang, Qiang, Qiang..."

The soldiers were not slow to react. They held their weapons in their hands and quickly prepared their fighting movements, ready to charge at the enemy at any time.

The panicked "humans" in the distance seemed to have discovered this group of cavalry. They ran towards Clayman as if they had seen a savior, shouting something loudly as they ran.

"Sir, yes, it's an ogre!"

The ogres also chased them out of the woods. Their tall bodies were much easier to recognize than the half-elves, and the voices of the soldiers beside them were trembling.

Clayman naturally saw this group of ogres. He initially thought that the pursuers might be beasts like giant bears or forest wolves, but he didn't expect that they turned out to be ogres.

On the first day of patrol, he hit a big prize. Clayman didn’t know whether he was lucky or unlucky. At first, he even thought that it would be difficult for ogres to escape to this remote land. He didn’t expect that reality would turn out so quickly. He slapped him hard.

"Send the signal!"

Kleiman is very sober. He has no way of judging how many ogres there are in the woods. He may not be able to see enough. The most important thing is to summon nearby support.

The soldier beside him quickly fired a cylinder into the air, and the sharp sound quickly spread to all directions.

"Master Clayman, what should we do now?"

Klayman was also a little confused at this time. Logically speaking, after discovering the enemy's situation, they and the scouts should observe from a distance or go back directly after passing on the information.

But it seems that someone is being hunted by ogres at this time. If they ignore this group of people, they will definitely not escape their fate.

As if he had made up his mind, Clayman fiercely pulled out his riding whip.

He turned around and said to the soldier on the side.

"You go to Ironwood City and report!"

"Others follow me."

As a typical young military noble in the North, Clayman always has some passion and pride of his own. He does not allow himself to watch ogres harm his own people.

No matter what, you have to lead a charge to give these people who are being hunted a chance to escape.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

With Clayman's loud shout, this group of cavalry also launched a charge following Clayman. Although the ogres are individually powerful, there are not many of them at this time, and it is not a despairing strength gap. .

This group of cavalry are professional warriors who have been fed by the Nader family for a long time, and they still have some loyalty. Clayman charges forward, so they naturally do not dare to fall behind.

"Move to both sides, don't block the road!"

Al shouted desperately. He found that the cavalry on the opposite side had launched a charge, and naturally wanted to cooperate as much as possible.

"Bang!"

The distance between the two sides was not too far, and the charging cavalry quickly collided with the dozen or so ogres.

"kill"

With the power of the horse's charge, Clayman killed the ogre in front of him with one sword.

"Ah"

However, this group of ogres, who are all of average quality as quasi-knights, are not something that ordinary soldiers can easily fight against.

After killing several ogres with the force of the initial charge, some soldiers were knocked off their horses by the ogres and fell heavily to the ground without moving.

When the charge ended, there were five or six ogre corpses and the corpses of more than a dozen human cavalry on the ground.

Kleiman didn't have time to feel sorry for these cavalry. He just turned his horse's head and prepared to launch a second round of charge. Now that he had already started, he would kill him. Clayman wanted to eliminate these ogres directly.

However, the ogres were not stupid. They found that they could not take any advantage on this flat land, and quickly retreated to the ironwood forest.

"call"

Looking at the retreating ogres, Clayman put his sword back to his waist and turned his eyes to the "common people" he had rescued...