Mount and Blade: Summon five outlaws at the start

Chapter 194

The once prosperous but now dilapidated border village has now become a temporary station for Hod and his army.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the troops led by Hod have stayed here for nearly a week.

During this period, the robbers and the Valandian soldiers used the remaining building materials in the village and the available wood resources in the surrounding area to gradually transform this ruined village into a simple but practical camp.

Just two days ago, after dealing with all the envoys sent by Angana, Hod immediately ordered his raiders Batu, Ashilan and others to expand the reconnaissance range.

There are two reasons for making such a decision.

First, this ruined village is too close to Milda Castle, only 20 to 30 miles away, and the geographical location is very dangerous.

While the Kuyel people attacked Milda Castle, they would definitely send a large number of scouts to scout the nearby area. If they were not careful, they might find Hod's camp and tip off.

The second is that, although there is no sign that Angana will personally lead the army to encircle and suppress, this possibility always exists.

Especially after Hod executed all the envoys, the relationship between the two sides must be tense, and any disturbance may trigger a fierce battle.

However, from the actual situation, the second possibility is relatively small.

Because this place is close to the war zone, it was under the eyes of the Kuyel people.

Even if Angana hates Hod to the bone and wants to put him to death, he must act cautiously to avoid being taken advantage of by the Kuyel people.

Therefore, after considering various factors, Batu and others' main reconnaissance direction is still to guard against the Kuyel scouts.

In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes and being suddenly attacked by the Kuyel people again like last time.

After careful consideration, Hod divided the fifteen young and strong Kuyel herdsmen into several teams, with two to three people in each team, all acting as rangers, and asked these teams to patrol and reconnaissance around the camp.

Batu and other raiders were appointed by Hod as captains of each ranger team, responsible for delivering messages and coordinating (monitoring and observing) the Kuyel rangers in the team.

However, the reasonable allocation of personnel alone is obviously not enough, and the combat effectiveness and mobility of these Kuyel rangers need to be improved.

To this end, Hod picked out dozens of horses from the many dwarf grassland horses he had collected before and allocated them to these rangers.

In this way, it can basically be guaranteed that each team member can have at least three horses.

One horse is used for riding, one horse is used exclusively on the battlefield, and another is responsible for carrying supplies and equipment.

Through this arrangement, the flexibility and sustained combat capability of these Kuyel rangers can be greatly enhanced.

Even if they were unlucky enough to encounter the Kuyel scouts, with the equipment of one person and three horses, even if they could not defeat the opponent, these Kuyel rangers still had a high probability of successfully escaping the enemy's pursuit.

After all, there were not many cavalrymen in Hod's team now, and he would feel distressed if he lost any one of them.

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Across the vast wilderness, the breeze passed gently, and the grass debris rose with it.

Several figures in the distance gradually revealed their figures. It was a team of rangers. This team had a total of three people, including a raider and two Kuyel rangers.

They lined up in an exploratory formation, looking around vigilantly and moving slowly.

Suddenly, they seemed to notice something. The leading looters reined in their mounts and stretched out their hands to signal. Seeing this, the two Kuyel rangers behind them stopped one after another, took out their short bows at the same time, and were ready to fight at any time.

Then, the raiders looked sharply to the southeast.

Several black dots appeared out of nowhere, standing out in the plain.

And those black dots obviously noticed their presence. In an instant, the sound of horse hooves rang out, and several black dots came running.

The raider narrowed his eyes slightly and carefully observed the approaching black dots.

As the distance got closer, the attacking black dots became clearer and clearer. They were the Kuyel scouts. There were eight of them.

Five of them wore leather armor and felt hats on their heads. Each of them carried a bow and arrow and held a short spear in his hand.

The other two wore chain mail and pointed leather helmets, with unique shapes.

In addition, the two riders also carried a round cavalry shield on their backs and held a horn bow in their hands. The bowstring was tight, as if ready to shoot at any time.

However, what attracted the raider's attention the most was another enemy rider among these Kuyel scouts.

This enemy riderThe mount of the enemy rider was much stronger than that of the other seven riders. Not only that, the horse was covered with a leather robe.

The enemy rider wore a chain mail inside and a layer of armor outside, which tightly wrapped his body.

He also wore a pointed iron helmet on his head, but there was a red tassel on the top of his helmet, which fluttered with the gallop.

But the eight scout riders were all stout and skilled in horsemanship.

Especially the rider with the red tassel, whose riding skills were even more superb. While controlling the horse, he shouted loudly and arrogantly.

Seeing this, a Kuyel ranger stepped forward and said in a stumbling common language: "... Captain..., there are eight enemy riders..., five tribal warriors, two armored riders, and one red tassel..., all of them are tough guys, and the chances of winning are not great...".

Hearing his words, the raiders who wanted to fight hesitated.

You should know that in the Kuyel army, the soldiers are mainly composed of two parts, one part is the slave soldiers composed of pastoral slaves, and the other part is the tribal soldiers composed of pastoral slaves.

Let’s not talk about the slave soldiers, just talk about the tribal soldiers, they are divided into three levels according to their strength and status.

That is: tribal nomads, tribal warriors, and tribal armored cavalry.

Every Kuyel male, as long as he is an adult, is considered a low-level pastoral soldier.

If these low-level pastoral soldiers can successfully kill three enemies on the battlefield, they will be promoted to tribal warriors.

And when the tribal warriors get more military merits, they will get better weapons and equipment from the headman, and then become tribal armored cavalry.

These armored cavalry are not only well-equipped, but also skilled in fighting skills, and can be called the elite among tribal soldiers.

Among these tribal armored cavalry, the best ones will wear red tassels, known as red tassel armored cavalry, and the better ones will wear white tassels, known as white tassel armored cavalry.

However, such troops as armored cavalry usually only appear in medium-sized or even large tribes.

Training such an elite force requires a lot of resources and energy, and only those powerful tribes can train them.

At this moment, although the attacking enemy cavalry only has eight people, three of them are elite soldiers.