But sometimes, courage alone doesn't work.Rosong Creek crossed in three steps and two steps towards the north side of the town of Tarta, where the town's only defensive force was a large elemental battery.The town of Tarta has no town walls, which in those golden years were a symbol of Tarta's prosperity and openness, except for the defensive fort on the north side of the town.But this fort doesn't know how many years it hasn't fired, Luo Songxi still has certain expectations for his level of mechanicalism, he thinks that as long as the core alchemy array is not seriously problematic, maybe the fort can still be used.He reckons Bob thinks the same way.In addition to dust, there were bird droppings, rust spots, and urine stains from the occasional child who climbed up.Luo Songxi wanted to turn the fort in the direction where the bandits were killed, but the fort couldn't turn no matter how it turned.He put a little more effort into it, and the result was tragic.The heavy barrel of the cannon was twisted by him like this, and it actually broke off directly from the gun rack.As soon as he didn't grasp it firmly, the barrel of the cannon fell from a height of five or six meters.There was a loud bang, splashing dust all over the ground.The cannon barrel was inserted low in the soil in front of it and high in the back, and the upturned buttocks seemed to be mocking Luo Songxi's naivety unscrupulously.By this time, Lindaka's voice was already floating above the town of Tarta through a megaphone.Although Lindaka had tried to calm her voice and repeated positive messages such as "the call for help has been sent" and "the federal garrison will arrive in just over an hour", the broadcast still dropped into the crowd like a depth charge.Among the crowd who were just happily waiting for the New Year's Eve and the big prize, panic has erupted irrepressibly.For the civilians of Tarta Town, if you tell them about black magic and blood rituals, no one will believe or pay attention to them.But when it comes to Favonius, this fear is deeply rooted in their hearts.Although it is a tacit rule that horse bandits in the wasteland will not attack settlements, everyone is always worried, and no one knows when horse bandits will mess around.It's like a sword hanging over everyone's head.And today, the sword is finally going to fall.The cannon barrel that fell with a bang became the last straw that crushed the mentality of these people.Many people were fascinated by the loud noise and turned their heads blankly to look at the elemental turret with only one gun rack left.After a few seconds, they began to discard their food and other belongings, and rushed to their home.But few of the people who rushed home really listened to Lindaka's persuasion and hid in the building to wait for help, but frantically carried the most valuable things in the house and began to flee in all directions - many did not even understand the direction of the horse bandits, and rushed straight in the direction where the horse bandits were coming.Luo Songxi jumped down from the battery and happened to bump into Lindaka who came out of the radio room.Lindaka also wanted to restrain the townspeople who were running around, at least not to run head-on to the horse bandits to send them to death, but suddenly Luo Songxi raised his eyes and said, "It's too late." ”If you listen closely, you can already hear the sound of horses' hooves in the air.The sound of horses' hooves slowed down and then rushed to indicate that the horse bandits were approaching the town of Tarta and then began to pick up speed and prepare to sprint.Then, a group of horse bandits appeared in the field of vision of the two of them, the sabers that had been hanging from the saddle were already in their hands, and some of them were holding elemental muskets of different specifications.The bandit's face quickly became clear in their field of vision.They no longer have one man and two horses, it seems that since they encountered Luo Songxi, they have replaced their tired horses and sprinted all the way to Tarta.They arrived ten minutes earlier than Luo Songxi had expected.………… There are more than 100 people in the horse bandits, they are lined up in a not very neat horizontal line, the horses under the crotch have been fully accelerated, in the perennial wind and sand of Tarta all the year round, the momentum has been quite amazing, like a black yellow cloud swept all over the sky.With two or three meters of space between the adjacent horses, and with their long sabers clasped horizontally at their sides, the vanguard of the horse bandits rushed headlong into the town of Tarta.They didn't deliberately choose a route to travel, but simply rode through the town of Tarta at full speed.But the horses were running so fast, and the inertia was great enough for the saber at their side to cut through everything in their path.In fact, the greater impact of such a sprint is the deterrent.Although the number of these crowds was almost ten times the number of horse bandits, they were still terrified and unable to extricate themselves in the face of the roaring horse bandits.Luo Songxi saw that Bob was already lying in a cellar at the entrance of the town, so he escorted Lindaka to meet in his direction, and a horse bandit rushed forward, he pulled out his 32 times elemental musket, shook his hand and shot three times, and a horse bandit fell off his horse in response.But the bandits knew that there were firearms here, so they didn't come to entangle, but deliberately avoided them.They don't want an effect.The bandits quickly ploughed through the town of Tarta like an iron plough and started running away from the other end.The frightened townsfolk were just relieved to see the bandits running away, but they saw the bandits turn their horses, gradually increase their speed, and rush again.The town was plunged into a new and even greater panic.Luo Songxi is too familiar with the routine of the West Wind bandits, and this first wave of operation is called "driving sheep".In the wilderness, when faced with a large caravan, they would first send a small group and charge the battle repeatedly, not to inflict much damage.Instead, they caused great panic in the caravan by constantly rushing and killing, causing them to flee in all directions, breaking their will to resist.Just like hunters will release hounds before hunting, the purpose is to startle the antelopes in the grass and make them scatter and flee, so that these panicked prey can be driven into their encirclement.The horse bandits rushed three or four times like this, and the terror in the town of Tarta had reached its peak.The horse bandits began to rush and shout, "Don't kill those who gather in the square, don't kill those who gather in the square." ”The crowd gathered in the town center square, not knowing that it would be safer to hide in the building at this time.However, there were still a few people who took advantage of the rush of the horse bandits to flee out of the town from all directions.But they didn't have to flee far before they discovered something even more desperate—the larger Faphyr bandits had formed an encirclement and surrounded the town of Tarta from all sides, leaving no room for them to escape.After startling the prey, how can you allow the prey to escape calmly?
This is the second wave of the habitual operation of the horse bandits after the "sheep drive", which is called "encirclement".The large army moved later after the vanguard, quietly forming an encirclement while the vanguard was "driving sheep".Once the encirclement is formed, the vanguard of the "sheep drive" returns to the encirclement to join the large army, and then together they approach the fleeing prey, so that they can easily complete the siege and kill the prey that is no longer organized and cannot form an effective resistance.Seeing that they could not escape, the townspeople had no choice but to turn around and flee again, and the horse bandits laughed and urged the horses under their crotches to playfully chase after the townspeople.In their eyes, these townspeople are no longer living people, but just antelopes for them to hunt and feed.And the large army of horse bandits, who had gradually narrowed the encirclement, had already begun to raise the elemental muskets in their hands, and the slaughter was about to begin.A horse bandit wisps a musket lightly and aims at the back of a young woman who is running desperately with a child.But he felt that the young woman was in good shape from behind, and he was reluctant to do it, maybe he would be able to catch him alive after a while, so he moved the muzzle of the gun to the child that the young woman was leading.He grinned, and was about to pull the trigger in comfort, when suddenly a dazzling light flashed in front of him.It was a sudden, blazing white fireball that had struck the eye he had just aimed at the child's back.The horse bandit did not say a word, and with a head half charred black, he fell headlong under the horse.Almost at the same time, one blazing white fireball after another, through the gap of the fleeing townspeople, accurately hit the nine horse bandits who were aiming at them with their guns raised, and the sound of falling horses was endless.Frightened by the firelight, the uncontrolled horses neighed or collided, and the whole encirclement was stagnant.At this time, Luo Songxi and Lindaka had already come to the cellar where Bob was hiding, and saw that Bob was quickly retracting his head into the cellar, and handed a big gun in his hand to Carl who was hiding in the cellar.Carl was surrounded by barrels filled with ice, and he plunged the barrel of the gun into the ice, which quickly dissolved with a sizzling sound, neutralizing the temperature on the hot barrel.Bob had already raised his second big gun, took a false aim, and his thick fingers pulled the trigger steadily.A fireball flew out of the way, and the recoil slammed the gun backwards, striking Bob on the shoulder.But Bob's shoulders seemed to be full of elasticity, and the big gun quickly bounced back into place, Bob shook the barrel slightly, and another fireball flew out "suddenly".In the case of nine strokes, Bob's movements are full of rhythmic beauty.A few hundred meters away, nine Zephyr bandits fell from their horses.There was a brief commotion in the encirclement, and the chased townsfolk took the opportunity to escape and return to the town.Bob handed the second gun to Carl, who inserted the ice cube to cool down, then breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead to prevent it from flowing into his eyes and obstructing his vision, and then set up the third gun steadily.