Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 303 Bandits

At 11: 00 p.m., Claude parked his carriage at the entrance to Pan Mountain Lane with Mike and Big Gemmy, which is also the border between the mountains and the Black Forest. The stream flows down from the mountains, where it converges into streams and into the depths of the black forest, making the beach the perfect place for pedestrians to stay.

It took almost four and a half hours to get here from Hesse Town at 6: 30 in the morning, and it was quite smooth. In addition, luck is good, and no problems have been encountered in the four camps along the Black Forest Strip, namely a sudden attack by the so-called bandits.

“Take a half-hour break, give the horses some water and some fine food, and if it goes well in the afternoon we can get to White Deer City at 4: 00. But since we haven't met those bandits on this side of the Black Forest, we have to be careful, and then there will be an attack on Panshan Road. Both of you, stay alert. I don't want to see you in bad luck before you get home.” Claude got off his horse, took a ride to the creek and let him ride his head down for a drink.

McJackie is still sitting in the carriage driver's seat with a single tube of binoculars in his hand, carefully pointing at both sides of the highway. Big Grimes jumped off the wagon, parked the wagon, then unloaded the two horses behind the wagon, then untied the ropes of the two golden horses tied behind the wagon and took the four horses to the beach.

“Sir, there's no movement on the hill. I don't see any signs of an ambush.” Mike put away a single binoculars, "he said.

“That's it. I don't believe a few bandits' ambushes can escape our eyes. Let's take a break and we'll reconnaissance later before we leave.” Claude knelt down and found a puddle in the beach to wash his hands.

“Jack, get the fine bag from the carriage.” Big Gummy shouted.

“Got it.” Mike got up and dragged down that fine bag of drum bags on the back of the carriage and put his strength on the ground next to the carriage.

Jump off the carriage and untie the tight pockets, then pull five smaller linen bags out of them, and then mix the oatmeal, black beans, and chopped straw bars into five linen bags. When these linen bags are tied to the horse's neck, the five horses will be able to eat them from the open linen bags, which is the basic way to feed the horses on the long way.

Big Gummy took off a walking bag on the back of a golden horse and gave it to Claude, then went over there and tied those five linen bags to the neck of the horse, opened the bag's pocket and put it over the horse's mouth for the horse to eat. Claude, on the other hand, found a flattering rock, opened the bag, and removed the dry food prepared in the town pub from it.

The most famous delicacy of the Hesse Town Dog Tavern is the roasted rabbit, which is filled with fresh mushrooms and feels very fresh to bite down, with gravy soaking through those mushrooms. Of course, this refers to the hot air, now the three roasted rabbits are cold, and it doesn't taste very good. Claude took two sips of the mushroom and thought it didn't taste good. He took two slices of white bread and sprinkled it with cream and honey, and filled it with a slice of meatloaf for lunch.

McJackie also tore the back leg of only one roasted rabbit, and all three roasted rabbits ended up in the belly of a big grizzly. All three did not drink because they were likely to meet the bandits in the afternoon and finished this cold lunch with cold boiling water from a military leather kettle.

After a short break, get back on the road. This time, Claude Zema walked in front of the carriage, and Big Gemmy was in a hurry, and McJackie took a single telescope and looked closely at the movement ahead.

The highway was quiet and no merchants and pedestrians from the direction of White Deer City were encountered along the way, only Claude, the three of them, made a wagon sound wheeled and dazzling horseshoes.

An hour and a half later, Mike finally found something wrong: "Sir, look ahead. ”

Big Gummy stopped the carriage, Claude stopped the ride, turned his head back to the carriage, took a single telescope from Mike's hand and looked forward in the direction Mike pointed.

Now the three people are parked on the hillside, followed by a recess, the carriage has to follow the hillside to the bottom of the recess, and then climb up the hillside across the hillside, which is exactly where the hillside turns, and the hillside next to the hillside is bursting with a big tree. In the frame of the single-barrel telescope, you can see very clearly that the leaves of this large tree are half-depleted, and the tree trunk leaves traces of being tied to a rope...

And look at the gentle hillsides and dense weeds on both sides of the bottom of the mountain, Claude. What else don't you understand? Obviously, the bandits abandoned their ambush dealers at the border between Panshan Road and the Black Forest because they thought the terrain was better. As soon as the pedestrian vehicle reaches the bottom of the mountain recess, the big tree on the front slope drops and blocks the turning highway, and the back highway again, then the pedestrian vehicle at the bottom of the mountain recess becomes a jar, and the wings can't escape. The success rate of the robbery here should be much higher than on the small beach across the hill entrance. After all, the terrain on the side of the small river is wide and easy to escape...

“How many bandits have you found ambushing?” Claude looked at the terrain on the hillside with a single telescope, whispering to Mike.

“I only found something wrong, I don't think there are many ambushes ahead, that's five or six, there are too many weeds and bushes on the hillside, I didn't find anything suspicious, but I'm sure those bandits also ambushed on the hillside next to me..." Mike answered similarly in a low voice.

Claude nodded, a veteran who followed him in the ambush of the Principality of Kanas, naturally very knowledgeable in ambushing and hiding. It was forced out on the battlefield, and it was far more perfect than the cluttered cover of these bandits. The Duchy of Kanas' scouts have sharper eyes than the eagle. If anything slightly wrong with the ambush on the battlefield is discovered, the ambush will turn into an ambush. Those who fail will pay for their lives. Those who do not know perfectly to hide have been eliminated...

The ambush of these bandits in the eyes of the three Claudes naturally blossomed, without even knowing the shade, leaving blade reflections gleaming in the weeds. Even the big tree, which grows on the hillside around the corner of the mountain, is very unnatural, and the bright eye can see something at a glance. No merchant brigade would have allowed such trees to pose a threat to vehicles, and what had been discovered had been cut off long ago.

The only thing that puzzled Claude was the small number of bandits ambushed on the hillside ahead, but thinking about the flat slopes on both sides of the bottom of the mountain, and considering where they are now, it was clear that the bandits should be in two or three tracks to surround them in order to prevent falling fat sheep from fleeing. Unfortunately, they do not understand that such a division is of no use to the three Claudes, who do not understand that distance can have a great impact on the outcome.

“Let's go down, don't let them wait too long, and then we'll deal with the enemy across the hill, and then we'll use the ground to block the rest of the chased enemy behind the carriage. Do you understand?” Claude made a decision.

“Drive!” The big man shook the rope and the carriage flew down the hillside towards the bottom of the cave. Claude Zema followed the carriage. Two or three hundred metres down the hillside, and the smooth hillside at the bottom of the mountain recess is nearly a hundred metres. Many merchants arrive at places like this, generally caring for horsepower, slows down the bottom of the mountain recess and slowly climbs the hill in the van.

But Big Gummy wanted to take advantage of the downhill momentum and let the two horse carriages run straight across the smooth bottom hillside to the hillside across the street. This was unexpected by the bandits who ambushed on the hillside across the street. They couldn't even expose themselves. They jumped directly from the ambushed grass nest, screamed and let the trees go, let the trees go...

At the corner of the mountain, the hillside tree, which was very long, finally collapsed, lying on the hillside as the carriage approached 50 or 60 metres away, blocking the way. Seeing the carriage stopped, six thrilled bandits waved their weapons and rushed down from the hillside, shouting what “robbery! Surrender with your hands up! If you want money, you don't want to die or anything...”

But all they were waiting for was a gunshot, and Claude had stepped off the horse and stood by the carriage, and he raised the gun in his hand and shot the guy running in front of him with a stone crossbow. Then he handed the gun over to Mike to load him up, took another gun himself, and started targeting the other bandit with the bow and arrow in his hand.

Four gunshots were fired and four bandits fell on the hillside. The last two bandits with short knives and spears have rushed a dozen metres from the carriage, but their footsteps have slowed down. Claude and McJackie are not too busy loading the guns in their hands, and their four gangsters have fallen to the ground, looking at the knives and spears in their hands, neither of them knows if they should rush into a physical fight...

Big Gummy has rushed up and the two spear guns in his hand have been thrown out. As if struck by lightning, the two bandits trembled and touched the barrel of a standard gun penetrating their chest, spraying their noses and mouths to the ground.

At this point, Claude, they had just parked on the slope of the carriage and more than a dozen bandits had emerged, and the weeds had jumped out of the bush on the flat slopes beside the bottom of the mountain recess. It's just that the bandits on the hillside across the street are more than 400 meters from Claude's side, and the bandits ambushed on both sides of the bottom of the mountain have to run 200 meters to reach Claude's carriage.

This is an unexpected circumstance that the bandits never thought of, and the fact that they often ambush these passers-by traders and solitary carriages is a simple matter. As soon as the two ends of the hillside plunged, the companions on the hillside next to the bottom of the mountain concave jumped out, basically all those who fell into the trap were caught with a good hand, only to spare their lives.

But this time it was a real accident, and nobody expected the three of them to have a carriage and five horses that couldn't stop rushing straight up the hill across the street. Although the trees down there blocked their way, none of the six associates ambushed there survived and were easily solved by the three.

But it's okay, there's a lot of people on my side, almost ten times those three. A one-eyed bandit in a black blindfold waved an antique gun in his hand, pointing to three Claudes and shouting at more than a dozen bandits at the bottom of the mountain: “Go up, kill them and avenge them for Heim! ”

By then, all three firearms had been reloaded and lined up in the carriage. McJackie looked down the hill at a dozen bandits going up and left his mouth open: "Why aren't they riding? ”

And then McJackie figured it out for himself: "Oh, they can't hide the horses while they're ambushing, and they may have killed all the horses they took...”

That's true. Thirty or forty people are not so good in the mountains, there's not enough food to feed them, let alone horses, or even dead associates could get into their stomachs.

Big Gummy screamed, "Jack, bring those horses in the back of the wagon, and I'll see if I can drag this big tree away. ”

By the time McJackie got back after he had taken the two good horses to the big Grimes, more than a dozen bandits running up the hill were a hundred meters from them.

“They run slow enough.” McJackie said with disdain: “Aren't you eating enough...”

“That's really possible.” Claude replied, "Look at their pace, a little twisted, seemingly lacking the strength to support themselves. I guess they may be short of salt, they can't buy it in the wild and they can't get salt. You can shoot me later, too. You shoot me on the left, I'll shoot you on the right. I think we've had enough ammunition for three times before they rush us. ”

Claude was right. When these dozen bandits rushed to a distance of 100 meters, they didn't shoot three rounds at all, and only five shots were fired. The remaining six bandits turned around and ran back, waiting for them to escape to the bottom of the hill and run into a dozen bandits coming from across the hill.

It's just that these bandits don't have the guts to go up the hill anymore. Eleven of them have fallen, and there are only 20 of them left. But there was some reluctance to let them give up Claude's pedestrian horse, so the six returning bandits became their scapegoats and were beaten and insulted by the following dozen bandits.

Big Gummy had dragged the trees that had been laid across the hill to the side with two golden horses. He felt disturbed. After breaking the rope, he simply kicked the trees down the hill. He brought the two golden horses back to see that the enemies under the hill had not rushed up, and asked: "Sir, why don't we go and ignore the cowards below. ”

Just as the voice went down, McJackie pointed at the bandit at the hillside and said: "Sir, look at the guy with the black blindfold. Isn't that the bandit's leader's name One-Eyed Lamback? The lieutenant of Hesse Township's security camp said his bounty was eighty gold crowns...”

Claude flew up on the horse: "We go to lure them in, aim them within 100 meters, and if they come after us, we pull back. ”

Claude's three horses rushed down the hillside, approached the bandit 100 meters away and fired a gun. Three bandits were hit and fell to the ground, and the remaining bandits rushed towards the hillside in the screaming and urging sound of the black-eyed one-eyed bandit.

When the three Claudes returned to the carriage and loaded their horses with ammunition, the enemies at the bottom of the hill were not close to a range of 100 metres.

This time all three guns were fired at by Claude, and the remaining bandits had turned around and fled when the first shot and the second shot hit the two bandits in front of them. Instead, the black-eyed, one-eyed bandit and another with the same gun also fired at Claude with an old gun in his hand, but the gun didn't know where the flight path was, and then the two bandits turned and fled.

“Gemmy, get on the horse, those two with guns. Don't let go.” Claude got on the horse and ran downhill, and Big Gummy followed along with several spear guns.

Fifty or sixty meters from the escaped bandit, Claude stopped the horse, calmed down and aimed at the one-eyed bandit with the black blindfold, and the big Grimes flew past him.

“Bang!” The gunshot went off, the black-eyed, one-eyed bandit fell on the ground with his chest covered, and the bandit next to him shouted, “The Great Leader is dead! ”

Big Gummy was close to the escaped bandits, one by one, and four or five bandits were penetrated by the guns, including another with a firearm.

“No, the Second Leader is dead. ”

Several other bandits have gathered together, and one of them shouted, "Don't run away, they're after us, we fight them, otherwise nobody can escape! ”

Claude had come to them with a shotgun in his hand: "Boom! ”

These three or four bandits became sieves, and the world was soon cleared.

“Drop your weapons and surrender on your knees and do not kill!” Claude pointed an empty shotgun at the rest of the bandits, he said.