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"Will do."
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Ten days later.
The edge of the plain.
The coalition patrol team is on duty, and today they are responsible for a hilly area.
It happened to be a clear day. Under the blue sky, short grass covered the undulating slopes and stretched into the distance, with green grass everywhere.
The knight captain was in a good mood. He walked in front with a shield on his shoulder, squinting his eyes at the beautiful scenery.
After watching for a while, he felt bored with the monotony and turned to look at the cavalry squad hanging hundreds of meters behind him.
The rhino stood tall, and the ground shook slightly as its thick thighs moved. The cavalry sat astride the rhino's back, with several blood-soaked cloth bags hanging around their waists.
His eyes fell on the cloth bag, and the Knight Captain's mood took a sharp turn for the worse, becoming a little gloomy.
A few days ago, a cavalry squad arrived in time, and he took advantage of the opportunity to pick up some of the extra space - three squads, a total of six Lake soldiers.
They were not the first group of soldiers killed by the coalition patrol team, but six soldiers at once could still be considered a fruitful achievement.
This brought the Knight Captain a rich reward.
And with the support of the cavalry squad, not only was safety guaranteed, but the efficiency of eliminating Lake's soldiers was also greatly improved.
This is a good thing, but the problem is... the spoils have become less.
When the cavalry learned that the equipment and heads of Lake's soldiers could be exchanged for training resources, they immediately went on a hunting spree.
At first it was fine, everyone relied on their own abilities, and whoever killed got the upper hand.
But the cavalry became more greedy and began to rob the patrol teams of their gains.
When a patrol team killed Lake soldiers, as long as they were discovered by nearby cavalry, they would rely on the high mobility of the pack rhinos to harvest the equipment and heads of the soldiers before the patrol team.
If a team member blocked the road, they would pretend not to see him and charge forward on their rhinoceros packs, forcing him to dodge.
The knight captain looked gloomy: "These damn bastards..."
The team members heard and understood the source of his curse. Moreover, they had long been dissatisfied, so they complained: "In the past, we each looked for our own.
Now that they know that the Lake soldiers don’t consider them as targets, they follow us every day!”
"The worst thing is that when he saw us being attacked, he didn't come to help, but hid in the distance and watched, and only took action after we suffered enough!"
This was revenge, revenge for the team blocking them from fighting for the spoils.
"I really hope Lake can come up with some new weapons specifically targeting cavalry." One team member muttered.
The knight captain heard this and raised his eyebrows: "Nonsense, the Rhino Cavalry has been defeated, and we are in danger too."
“But…if they are like this, will they care about us when they really encounter danger?” the team members openly retorted.
The knight captain was stunned and fell silent.
indeed so.
The 30,000 mutant rhinos are the elite of the coalition forces and one of their trump cards.
This is not only reflected in strength, but also in treatment.
If surrounded, the cavalry can abandon their own soldiers and break out on their own.
In other words, ordinary soldiers and even low-level professionals would die, but the rhinoceros cavalry must be saved.
After a long while, the knight captain looked up at the depressed team members, forced a smile, and comforted them: "Even if it is true, with them around, the enemy will always be a little wary.
The fact that we have been attacked less frequently recently is proof of this.”
The atmosphere in the team did not improve. The knight captain felt sad: "In fact, we don't have to worry about the spoils being stolen. We have already made a profit..."
Ok?
The amplitude of the slight tremor of the ground caused by the rhinoceros suddenly increased.
It means that the rhino started running.
There are enemies?!
Everyone was shocked and quickly put up their shields to form an iron barrel, protecting the magician in the middle.
This is their experience gained from many battles with snipers, and it is also the most correct response when facing snipers.
If you were to do as you did at the beginning, and notice the movement and look around foolishly for the enemy's position, your head would explode in the next second.
The shields were pressed together without any gaps, and the knight captain concentrated on sensing the vibrations coming from the soles of his feet.
If it becomes weak, it means the battle is over.
The rhinoceros' skin is very tough, and with the added magic power, the arrows cannot penetrate it. The cavalrymen carry special shields, so the arrows are also useless against them.
When Lake's soldiers encountered the cavalry, they would be crushed.
The Knight Captain deduced that this battle would be just like the previous ones and would be over within a few minutes.
These few minutes are the time it takes for the cavalry to reach the enemy's position.
However, it was strange today. The vibration feeling on the soles of my feet not only did not weaken, but became stronger and more obvious.
what happened?
The team members had the same doubts and looked at each other, guessing with their eyes.
"Let's look through the gap?" suggested the team member.
"No!" the knight captain shouted, "The Lake soldiers' archery skills have become much more accurate!
Did you forget last time?
I could just hold up a finger and they could shoot it.”
"I guess the reason why they are so accurate with arrows is because of this." A team member took out a sniper scope from the cloth bag around his waist and smiled proudly.
The battle outside was still going on, and they didn't dare to peek, so they just started chatting.
"Hey, you kept one?"
"Yeah." The team member nodded and put his eyes close to the tube. "That day I saw the corpse of the Lake soldier like this, with his eyes pressed against the tube. I followed his example and put my eyes close to the tube.
I found out that this is a magic item that can magnify distant scenes. "
The Knight Captain became interested: "How big can it be?"
"It's quite big." The team member felt it was difficult to describe in words, so he handed over a sniper scope.
The knight captain took it and imitated him by putting his right eye on the lens barrel and aiming it at a team member.
"Awesome!" He put it down in amazement, looked at the team member's face, then raised it again and looked at the "big nose" that filled the sniper scope's field of view.
“Haha, that’s very interesting, right?”
"No wonder those soldiers are just ordinary people, but they can aim at a finger hundreds of meters away. I..."
"boom--"
The ground shook violently, and the explosion made everyone's ears tinnitus.
what happened? !
The Rhino Cavalry are not equipped with magic crystal cannons!
The tinnitus slowly faded away, and they didn't care about the danger of being shot in the head by snipers. They dispersed the shield wall and looked around blankly.
Soon, they saw the source of the earth shaking and the explosion.
"Clang-"
"Clang-"
The shields in the hands of the patrol team fell to the ground, and they stared blankly at the top of the slope in the distance.
"Then..." The knight captain opened his mouth again and again, "Then...then..."
Finally, the team member said the rest of the words for him with trembling legs: "What kind of monster is that?!"
Chapter 357 If You Don’t Move, I’ll Have to Move
As the sun sets, its afterglow illuminates the earth, coating all things in the world with a golden coat.
The "monster" covered in a golden coat made a loud rumbling sound, and its tracks left deep ruts in the grass as it climbed to the top of the slope. The seemingly harmless thick round gun barrel turned to the right.
It was large, but the patrol had seen larger ones, such as pack rhinos.
However, even when they saw the pack rhinoceros for the first time, they were not as shocked as they were today, and they did not blurt out the word "monster".
Because the monster that stopped at the top of the slope was definitely not a living creature.
"Captain...Captain, I, we...should we drive away the enemy?" The team member swallowed and spoke intermittently.
The patrol team received an order to drive out Lake's team that was wandering around the edge of the plain. Now that the enemy appeared before their eyes, they should have launched an attack immediately.
But they don't think they are capable of doing it now.
Behind him, in the open space where the rhino cavalry squad was originally located, more than a dozen rhinos and their riders had disappeared.
Of course, the knight captain did not think that the Rhino Squad had escaped, because the charred pit on the ground was littered with broken limbs, some of which belonged to the riders and some to the Rhino Squad.
The knight captain and his team members had no idea what had happened in just a few minutes, or what kind of attack had caused such a tragic situation.
"Fortunately" they soon witnessed it with their own eyes.
In the distance, three cavalry squads, attracted by the loud noise, galloped over from different directions.
They were very lucky and immediately saw the monster stopped at the top of the hill. They raised their whips and hit the rhinoceros on its butt and launched a charge.
Unfortunately, I didn’t see my companions turned into “parts”.
The knight captain was slightly encouraged when he saw the three cavalry squads were so powerful and their rhinos were galloping as if they were going to crush the earth.
Can win.
That monster just took advantage of the sneak attack, and now...
"boom--"