Mount & Blade War Chronicles
Chapter 176

Creating an Opportunity for the Enemy

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This is the territory of the Fenway Family, and of course there is a lot of property. Although Fenway Family has a small number of people, it is indeed very wealthy. After all, it has mastered the core technology.

The reason Noldo Elves wanted to move supplies was actually because after Lord Aldarian was defeated, the seriously injured soldiers who came back from the front told them that the enemy was pursuing them deep into the forest. There were many enemies, so they were told to take shelter.

However, due to the large amount of supplies and the inability to transport them by vehicle in the forest, they discovered a large number of enemies before they could finish transporting them.

So they stopped transferring supplies and moved everything into the stables. The seriously injured and children also entered the stables, and all the adult Noldor stood guard in front of the stables.

Andongjia originally thought that Bear Claw Tribe's people would get a lot of benefits, because she knew that those Noldor probably couldn't stand up to the Bear Claw Tribe's berserkers, and the shaman didn't care how many people died - as long as he could get the supplies in the stable, he didn't care even if all the people died!

But unexpectedly, Li Ang's troops suddenly came out and changed the situation of the battle.

So she stabbed her enemy to death with her own hands at the last moment, completing her revenge. She ran after the shaman with the intention of stabbing the shaman to death, but she was injured in the melee before, and the shaman ran very fast...

"So, Miss Andongjia, you want to kill them all... It seems that you have almost fulfilled your wish. I admire your courage. It is not easy to be able to do this alone!"

Ansen, who was bandaging Andongjia's wounds, sighed quite a bit, probably remembering the time when he himself was kidnapped by pirates.

Ansen's courage now can be considered to be developed, but he must remember the time when he first faced the battlefield - he looked like a weak chicken hiding behind Sarah's horse. He himself often laughed at himself at that time.

He really admired this kind of person with extraordinary courage and intelligence, not to mention that she was a woman.

"Ah ha, shy doctor, if you appear north of the Misty Mountains, I will definitely take you home..."

Andongjia's face is now pale from blood loss, but this does not affect her making jokes about Ansen. She seems to have a good impression of this shy cultural person - of course, perhaps more importantly, Ansen's words make her feel that she is respected.

As for Bei Misty Mountain people, she has never heard a word other than "savage" from the Pande Continent people.

Ansen called her 'Miss Andongjia' - this was of course Ansen's usual polite attitude towards others, but for Andongjia, this was the first time.

Ansen's knowledge of history and culture is pretty good. He knows a lot of barbarian customs, and of course he understands jokes like 'bring him home'.

So he stopped talking, smiled shyly, tied a knot on Andongjia's waist, and ran to treat other wounded people.

Andongjia looked at Ansen's back and whistled, she looked like a female hooligan.

The Lord Lord looked at the female gangster with great interest. "Andongjia, so it seems that you have nowhere to go?"

Of course he admires this kind of person who has the courage to put the plan into action alone, even if she is a Misty Mountain people.

"Sir, I really have nowhere to go... Thank you for saving my life just now, but actually I never thought I could still be alive."

Andongjia turned around, shook his head and said something, then turned to look at Ansen again.

She was quite serious when facing Li Ang, but when she looked at Ansen, she licked her lips, and then began to wipe away the marks on her face that she didn't know what to use...

"Haha... It looks like you don't intend to die... In this case, you can follow Ansen for the time being. I think you can just protect him - of course, this means you have to be loyal to me."

The lord was very considerate and arranged a good job for Andongjia.

"Ah? Aha... Thank you, my lord! This looks like a good job..."

Andongjia turned around and looked at Li Ang. When he saw Li Ang pointing at Ansen, he was stunned for a few seconds before he understood what Li Ang meant and smiled in surprise.

Then she half-knelt down on the ground, picked up the sword on the ground and cut her hand, smeared the blood on her face, lowered her head towards Li Ang, held the blade in her hand and handed the hilt to Li Ang.

"I will serve you, my lord!"

It seems that this is Misty Mountain people's unique way of expressing allegiance. The blood smeared on the face probably means that he is willing to follow the leader and fight bloody battles.

Li Ang looked at her barbarian behavior with blood on her face, and silently mourned for Ansen for half a second in her heart.

"Andongjia, you'd better wash your face, otherwise I feel that Ansen may escape for his life... Moreover, my soldiers must learn some culture, I hope you will not regret it..."

The lord took the sword and directly inserted it back into the scabbard on Andongjia.

'Andongjia joined your team'.

This is probably the partner that Li Ang has recruited the most smoothly. From the look of her, she seems to be eager to 'protect' Ansen...

At this time, a Twilight Knight from the Fenway Family walked towards the lord.

Risadiran planned to stop him, but the Twilight Knight spread his hands, indicating that he had no malice and that he had no weapons on him.

This is another Twilight Knight who threw the sword before.

It seems that Ansen's treatment behavior regardless of race gave him a lot of favor, and he looked at Li Ang with some kindness in his eyes.

But when he glanced at Andongjia, there was still obvious disgust in Twilight Knight's eyes.

"Sir, I am Cedren from the Fenway Family. I am sorry for the rudeness of my tribe. Of course, I think you can understand - none of us thought that we would get help from humans."

Twilight Knight walked to Li Ang, lowered his head towards Li Ang and caressed his chest.

The Lord Lord smiled, "I can understand this. However, you'd better tell me the current situation... haven't you encountered Isildur's troops?"

"Isildur, Your Highness? Isn't he dealing with the human army in the south?"

Twilight Knight, named Cedren, was stunned for a moment.

Li Ang felt something was wrong - he got the news from Isildur himself. Logically speaking, Isildur's troops should have rushed back to this area long ago, and they should have deployed defenses in important places such as racecourses as soon as possible.

But the people of the Fenway Family did not encounter any troops of Isildur...

Gatu people and Misty Mountain people are not very powerful in the forest. It is impossible for them to stop Isildur's troops.

"Did you not encounter any troops from the Aino Family?"

Risadiran heard this and was a little confused. Isildur didn't come?

"No, I only met these wounded people from the Dalyan tribe yesterday morning. They said that Gatu people was chasing them. After I sent someone to report the situation, I started preparing to transfer people and materials..."

Cedren pointed at the wounded in the stable, and he also noticed something was wrong.

"So, in addition to Gatu people and Misty Mountain people, there are probably other forces taking advantage of the situation! Cedren, you'd better spread your manpower quickly to investigate the surrounding situation, and notify other territories of your family to take full precautions!"

Li Ang quickly said to Cedren that his own subordinates were all humans and there was definitely no way to send messages to other Noldor settlements. Noldo Elves could only do it.

Cedren knows what Li Ang said makes sense. If even Isildur's troops cannot come here, it means that Fenway Family's territory will have to face the enemy alone in a short period of time.

He didn't waste any time and immediately dispatched his men.

Twilight Knight, who had a bad attitude, was first sent to the southeast, probably to ask for help.

And the other twenty or so Noldor were all assigned to serve as scouts in all directions.

After sending out most of the uninjured Noldo Elves, Cedren returned to Li Ang.

"Lord Li Ang, the wounded and supplies here must be moved, especially the children, but I don't have enough manpower now... I'm worried that those Gatu people will leave and come back."

Cedren obviously wanted to ask Li Ang for help. He only had a dozen or so available people around him.

But now there are dozens of wounded people, half a stable of supplies piled up, and three young children looking at Li Ang with wide eyes and fear...

There are no roads or carriages in the forest, so it is very inconvenient to transport anything. There are only some ponies left in the stables, and it is estimated that other adult horses have long been used to transport a batch of supplies.

"Where are you going to move these?"

The Lord frowned. It was right to move supplies and horses before the horse farm was attacked, because we didn't know how many enemies there were at that time.

But now, after a battle, moving supplies is not a good option, because those Gatu people must not have gone far yet.

"Our family has a settlement of more than 200 people about sixty miles east, and the family's weapons factory is also there..."

Cedren stroked his chest and saluted Li Ang again.

"Sixty miles away... a weapons factory with more than 200 people... it is specially used to make weapons and equipment, right? There must be fireworks and loud noises there, right?"

The lord shook his head and seemed to disagree with Cedren's plan.

"Yes, Lord Li Ang, you mean..."

Cedren became obviously nervous. He thought Li Ang didn't want to help him.

"What I mean is, if I were Gatu people, I would definitely not go far. I would ambush near here, both to attack the lone rangers and to ambush the transport team."

Li Ang shook his head, feeling that Noldor's brain seemed out of proportion to their age. It was probably because he had been in the forest for too long, and his thinking had become rigid.

Cedren is probably always thinking about how to avoid losses, but in fact it is more dangerous to transfer materials at this time.

Whether it is raising war horses or making weapons and armor, they cannot be carried out in the city, so Fenway Family's industries are all built in the forest.

But if you want to produce weapons and equipment, you must carry out high-temperature forging - at least find a place where you can safely light a fire and have a water source, otherwise it will cause a forest fire and it will be all over...

It is not easy to find such a suitable place in the virgin forest, so the two places are sixty miles apart.

Sixty miles doesn't sound far, but the distance in the primeval forests of the mountains is completely different from the sixty miles in the plains in general...

On plain roads, whether using a horse-drawn carriage or carrying a person on his back, one can cover sixty miles in three or four hours.

However, if you rely on manpower to transport the wounded and goods in the virgin forest, even if you are familiar with the route, it may take thirty hours to reach the destination.

There are no roads or horse-drawn carriages in the forest. To transport supplies, most people must be disarmed. Otherwise, they will not be able to carry supplies through the virgin forest wearing dozens of kilograms of weight. In this case, if they encounter an ambush, there will only be a dead end. Cold weapon warfare cannot be fought without equipment.

Maybe Li Ang's judgment is just based on his feeling, but if he wants to attack Noldor, he will definitely do so.

Gatu people will definitely not fight head-on with Noldo in the forest, so he will do the same.

Cedren also frowned. This was originally just a simple substitution of thinking, but perhaps it was the arrogance in the Noldor's bones that made him never think in this way - just like humans would never take the initiative to substitute into the monkey's thinking.

"Whether it's here or that weapons factory, this relatively open space is easy for Gatu people to discover and find. In addition, a weapons factory with two hundred people must have a lot of fireworks and noise, so there are probably a large number of enemies around the weapons factory... Cedren, what you should consider now is not to transfer supplies, but how to quickly kill the enemies here, and then go to rescue them!"

Li Ang pointed to the sparsely treed environment outside as he spoke, "In fact, this relatively open place is most suitable for Gatu people to fight, so Gatu people will not leave here easily, they must still be nearby. And your people are staying in the primitive forest. It will be safer in the forest! So I suggest you hide all the wounded and children in the forest to the south. As for the horses, food and saddles - leave these things that Gatu people wants most in the stables and wait for them to snatch them! We can definitely ambush Gatu people here!"

After Li Ang finished speaking, he pointed to his troops and told Cedren that it would be better to change his thinking. Fishing and law enforcement can be a try. "Gatu people will definitely continue to observe the situation at the racecourse. We can work together to set up an ambush at this racecourse, and there are ready-made baits in the stable... We create some opportunities for the enemy, and they will come!"

Cedren thought for a while and discussed the specific tactics with Li Ang seriously, then gathered the remaining ten or so Noldor warriors and asked them to disperse into the surrounding forests to serve as scouts.

He felt that what Li Ang said made sense. He had too few manpower before and the maneuverability was not high. But now Li Ang has more than two hundred people under his command. In addition, his own subordinates are very familiar with the environment, so they can indeed lure the enemy into setting up an ambush.

Half a day later, several Noldor warriors came back panting one after another.

They found Gatu people in the forest to the north. They were probably the Gatu people that had retreated before. They were indeed hiding in the nearby woods.

"Let's go!"

The Lord Lord left the racecourse with his troops and seemed to be heading east.

Several foals were released from the stables and began to run happily near the stables. These green and yellow ponies were still young and didn't understand anything. They looked very happy as they jumped around.

Only Ansen and a few others were still healing their wounds by the stable, sweating profusely from their work.

Andongjia was watching Ansen intently, and from time to time he helped out with a little help.

The entire racecourse seemed unprepared. There was only a team of thirty people patrolling the racecourse. These were the Noldor warriors under Cedren, who had just returned from the scouting mission.

In fact, this method of luring the enemy is not too detailed. As long as the enemy has brains, he probably won't be fooled. After all, they just fought a battle half a day ago, so it is obviously more suspicious to assume this posture now.

So nothing happened until the evening. The foal returned to the stable, and everyone entered the huge stable. It seemed that they were going to rest in the stable.

The lord also returned to the racecourse with an army. After making several rounds again, he led the army south.

Countless birds were startled along the way.

Looking at the tracks of the frightened birds, it seems that they have been going far south.

A few hours later, it was already dark, the moon and stars were dim, and several night owl calls were heard.

Gatu people is finally here.

Probably for Gatu people, those little ponies are peerless treasures...

In Gatu people's opinion, Li Ang's troops had probably set up an ambush before. When they started walking east, they were obviously ambush nearby.

But Gatu people made no movement, so Li Ang came back in the evening.

But now his troops must have gone far south. Judging from the state of the birds in the evening, they must have traveled several miles at least.

These Gatu people no longer used their previous skirmishing status. Most of them held their bows and formed an irregular arc as they slowly surrounded the stables. They seemed quite cautious.

This is the most suitable array for a large number of people to bully a small number of people.

But there was no reaction in the stables.

It wasn't until Gatu people was so close that it was only two or three hundred meters away from the stable, that the stable door finally opened.

A group of soldiers ran out of the dark stables and lined up in front of the stables, but after only a minute they all fled.

Because Gatu people was already close to only 100 meters away, and began to shoot arrows - it was impossible to shoot at each other with a huge gap in numbers, and the side with fewer people would definitely have to run away.

All of them ran towards the back of the stables. It looked like they were indeed running away.

Gatu people After continuing to advance slowly and cautiously towards the stable for a few steps, he finally felt relieved - dozens of people had come out of the stable, and there wouldn't be too many people inside now.

It was just a stable of less than 1,000 square meters, and there were obviously horses braying inside. It was obviously impossible to hide more soldiers and horses.

With a high-pitched "Hazar! Jatu!", their pace began to speed up until they charged at full speed.

There was still no reaction in the stable, only a few foals were heard neighing.

Then, a group of Gatu people rushed into the stable without any confrontation at all.

But they immediately let out a scream louder than the 'Hasha' just now...

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