Ride and Cut

Chapter 20



In order to express her gratitude to Gaoshan castle for her selfless help, Anne offered to give back two carriages of goods. Richard was ashamed and pretended to refuse several times. After all, he couldn\'t resist the other party\'s sincere enthusiasm and repeated invitations and reluctantly accepted them.

In front of others, he was also embarrassed to ask what he was pretending to be. He secretly rubbed his fantasy that it was best to have tea cakes, which was a valuable hard currency in the wilderness.

As a result, when hem Ha Er pulled the carriage up the hill and began unloading and warehousing, he was surprised to find that it seemed a little unexpected.

Stabbing a hole in the sack with a dagger, what flows out is white flower powder with simple aroma - this is refined wheat flour. Another car lifted the cover cloth, and there was a whole box of black coal. And from the bits and pieces scattered on other carriages, the whole caravan carried these two kinds of goods.

Richard touched his chin and couldn\'t understand.

Due to the huge demand brought by the development of nobles and aborigines, the wilderness trade has been quite prosperous. The goods flowing into the wilderness every spring and autumn are worth at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins. When returning, they exchange a large number of animals, fur and even magic materials. It is a very important business route of Pompeii empire.

However, the types of wilderness trade have always been very fixed. Tea, cotton cloth and even smuggled iron are the most popular and profitable commodities. It has never been heard that someone will sell refined wheat flour and coal.

Wilderness people have no habit of eating wheat flour at all, and they can\'t accept the price of at least one silver coin in a sack. The most commonly used fuel here is dried animal manure, which is inexhaustible.

Even if wheat flour and coal can barely be sold, I\'m afraid there will be a question mark on the profit. VOYA\'s trading experience must be very rich. Why did it make this choice?

Richard explained these conjectures to the barbarians slightly. The content of trade and profit made each of them look as painful as suffocating fish, but he still managed to understand that the leader was doubting the caravan.

"What about that?" Gunther held a pinch of white flour and thought that he would fry the pancake to the side a little crispy later. It must be fragrant and delicious. It would be better if he could catch a rabbit for meat filling.

"Observe and observe." Richard waved and urged the troll to load these goods into the cellar. Whether it\'s strange or not, it\'s mine when it\'s in the library.

"Let\'s bake pie in the evening. I\'ve had enough of the black bread like a stone."

The barbarians burst out a burst of roaring laughter that could pierce their eardrums, and expressed their demands for food. Just then, everyone suddenly heard a sharp copper whistle at the same time.

"Alert!"

The barbarians on the roof were shouting at the top of their voices.

"Oh, it\'s not peaceful today!" Richard sneered. First the goblins, then the jackals, and now I don\'t know what ghosts and gods came. The prosperity and chaos of the wilderness opened his eyes.

The relaxed smiles on the barbarians\' faces disappeared without a trace. They picked up the weapons they had just put down and began to enter the combat state. A kind of excited emotion spread silently among them.

"Come with me!" Richard took out his long sword, waved his arm, and took the barbarians to the outside of the wooden building.

The sentry standing high is using a spear to guide the direction. On the hills at a relatively high altitude, the field of vision is extremely wide. Looking in the direction pointed by the spear tip, you can see a rippling boundless grass sea, and a fuzzy shadow is slowly moving towards the Gaoshan castle.

Richard narrowed his eyes and counted twenty-one.

"Can you see?"

"I can\'t see clearly, but it looks like a cavalry." Gunther\'s head shook like a rattle.

There was a small commotion in the caravan camp at the foot of the hill. They also heard the warning of the sentry, but their vision was poor and they could not see where the danger came from. A light guerrilla tried to investigate the mausoleum, but was held down by the barbarians with eyes colder than the blade.

Hyenas don\'t deserve to be with lions. These big and thick goods don\'t look down on these mercenaries from beginning to end!

With the passage of time, the shadow is getting closer and closer to the mountain castle, and more details are thus highlighted.

They were not cavalry, but Gunther could be forgiven for treating them as cavalry. As like as two peas, the limbs and body are identical, but the upper part of the neck grows up -- a group of centaurs.

Centaurs are recognized as a strong war race. Through anatomy, doctors found that most of their internal organs are distributed in the horse. Except for the head, the human body is almost composed of musculoskeletal parts, so their strength is much stronger than that of humans in the same proportion.

The unique body structure makes them have both the impact of cavalry and the flexibility of infantry. Adult soldiers often have a good archery. This makes the Centaur\'s tactical organization extremely flexible. It can not only serve as a Ranger, bow and harass, but also immediately transfer to close combat at the right time.

In the northwest of Pompeii Empire, the large Centaur tribes invaded year after year, which even made it difficult for the regular Legion to deal with.

But

Richard clicked on the melon seeds, and the fallen skin rolled into the grass nest with the wind, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

It is undoubtedly the most outrageous dream to attack Gaoshan castle with only 21 centaurs. No matter who has such arrogant ideas, what he gets today can only be a lesson he will never forget.

"Throw a spear."

Immediately, a barbarian put the spear into his Lord\'s hand, Richard stretched out his hand and threw it in the direction of the Centaur.

At the moment, the distance between the two sides is at least 400 steps away, which is even longer than the effective range of the city guarding bed crossbow. With Richard\'s long-range weapon level, if he could hit directly, he would really see the dead.

The throwing spear crossed an abnormally straight arc and plunged into the earth three hundred steps away, splashing a handful of soil and flying away.

This is called the arrow as the boundary, which represents a warning that once the boundary marked by the arrow is crossed, the two sides will no longer have any buffer and directly enter the state of full-scale war.

The Centaurs clearly saw this scene and understood its significance, but they continued to move forward, but the speed became slower.

Richard\'s eyes narrowed, and his eyes followed the footsteps of the Centaur slowly.

When approaching the landing spear, the leading Centaur suddenly picked up a gray rag. Then, as if he had some guarantee, he pulled out his spear and continued to move forward slowly.

"What are they doing?" Richard thought it looked like some kind of traditional witchcraft, but even so, it could not be underestimated. Although shaman wizards in the wilderness are very primitive, there are many strong people who really master the mystery of elemental power.

This humble cloth may be some kind of magic blessing.

"It looks like a white flag..." Gunther said uncertainly.