Chapter 12 The Ballad
Benson really knows his distant cousin who grew up with him very well. What the other party wants to do and what he wants to get, he will definitely get it by any means. If he can persuade the other party, he will not be here. Here to accompany each other to suffer and suffer together.
As long as Benson can remember, he has already dealt with these mountain people, and the number of people who have passed through his own hands has been lost. He is very aware of the danger, even if it is well-planned and armed. No matter how complete it is, every year a large number of hunters enter the mountain, never hear from them, and never come out again.
After entering the mountain, they faced not only man-made disasters, but also natural disasters. The changeable climate in the mountain was definitely beyond the control of a ghost slave who had only lived here for a few years.
Bartley's rushing style of action made Benson's last admonition aborted. The other party's order has already been issued, and the possibility of changing the other party's mind is zero, and it is very likely that he will be reduced in the other party's mind. The image in the book is definitely a loss-making business, and now I can only pinch my nose to recognize it.
Of course, the most important point is that Benson is quite confident in his own strength. Unlike Bartley, a novice, he made full preparations before entering the mountain, not only using Heber, a senior ghost slave.
Although this ghost slave likes to play tricks and tricks that disgust him, he has to admit that his previous performance was really good. From the perspective of previous hunting teams, this time he has gained a lot.
In addition, Benson also dispatched a squadron from his father's elite sharpshooter team. Each of them was carefully selected by his father, and they were trained according to the standards of the Andes mountain people's eagle shooters since childhood. Also proficient in archery, tracking, survival in the wild and many other skills.
When it comes to hunting skills, these sharpshooters are definitely not as good as eagle archers, but when it comes to killing efficiency, eagle archers are no match for sharpshooters.
This point is not blown out, but actually killed. The last lesson of the sharpshooter training was to enter the Andes Mountains alone, successfully hunted three adult Andes mountain hunters, and retrieved their hunters. Only bows are eligible to join this team.
This also caused the number of this team to be small. After more than 20 years of painstaking efforts, there was only one school guard. It was this school guard that kept Bastille standing on the Andes mountain pass for decades. The last time the Andes mountain people attacked on a large scale, they were the ones who turned the tide and blocked these thugs in the mountain.
Before they owned the Bastille, they didn't go into the mountains to hunt these Andes mountain people, but these mountain people rushed out of the mountain with nothing to do, and plundered wildly under the leadership of the Man Yu army. Manyu people in the 1980s couldn't bear to look back on the days.
Secondly, Benson also recruited some of the most experienced slave hunters in the Bastille. The youngest among them has also been in the Bastille for ten years, and has entered and exited this mountain range no less than ten times. In the back garden of my home, if something happens to the ghost slaves leading the way, they are the best old horses who know the way, and there is no problem in taking them out of the mountain safely.
It is no exaggeration to say that their team is definitely the most luxurious and largest hunting slave team in recent years. If it is placed outside the mountain, they can attack the city. In ordinary small cities, they are completely united. Next, using it to hunt slaves is definitely a surplus of labor.
Although their gains this time seem not small, but even if all these slaves are sold at the highest price, they will only be enough to hire the few elite slave hunting teams. The friendly price given above.
After all, if they act separately, the harvest may be increased by 30 to 40%. Hunting slaves is also a technical job. It doesn't mean that the more people the better, and only noble sons like him and Bartley are capable and able to play. Make such a big scene.
For Benson, who is afraid of death, even with this kind of force, he still doesn't have any sense of security. If the supplies can't keep up, he even wants to bring out the entire Bastille's elite troops. Any Andean mountaineer without chains is extremely dangerous.
It is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down the mountain.
This is most vividly reflected in the Andes Mountains, because there is no wide avenue that the Byrons are used to walking. Even if there is a road, it is a narrow path stepped on by the mountain people, and some are not even walked by people. The bestial way, more places have no roads at all.
They had to clear the way out by themselves, which made the originally slender team more winding. The people on this side were already halfway up the mountain, and the other half were still on the mountain ridge.
I don't know who sang an ancient ballad of the Andes mountain people first, and soon got the response of all the Andes mountain people. As they kicked, the voices grew louder and louder until they became a chorus, and it seemed as if the whole mountain was answering them.
Almighty God, shut them up, shut them up. Even the inexperienced Bartley felt something was wrong.
Their formation was too long, and they captured too many slaves this time. It was easier to manage before, and all the mountain slaves and hunter soldiers were divided into teams. One team looked at a small team of mountain slaves. When the formation is concentrated, there is no problem doing this, but when the formation is thinned, it is a bit more problematic.
Each slave hunting team will face twice as many mountain slaves as themselves. This situation is not expected by a novice like Batley, even Benson and the hired hunting team captains. The veteran didn't expect it either.
It is also the first time for them to experience this kind of large-scale joint slave hunting. Their previous experience is a bit inappropriate. The most important thing is that they are only senior employees. The right to speak in front of the two noble lords is really weak and pitiful, and they have been dumped all the time. Maintain order in and at the end of the line.
When they made the decision earlier, they didn't know it at all. When they found out that the situation was wrong, the whole team had already started to go downhill.
The young man whose complexion was originally comparable to that of a vampire now turned even paler. Unlike Bartley who didn't understand the Andes mountain language at all, after so many years of hearing and seeing, he can understand it more or less In Andes, he knew the name of the ballad and the story behind it—Faetevo.
The name of an Andes mountain dweller, originally a very common name, translated into Byron means big mountain. Among the Andes mountain dwellers, there is one out of every thousand people with this name.
But ten years ago, an Andes mountaineer with this name, with a bow and a group of hounds, spent more than ten days killing a hunting slave who destroyed his village and killed his wife and children. After the team was dragged to death, and he died of exhaustion in the end, this name has a special meaning for the Andes mountain people.
Then an easy-to-understand and very passionate song was born, which spread throughout the Andes Mountains at a speed that was more terrifying than the spread of the plague. No matter men, women, old or young, even newborn babies seemed to be able to sing this song song.
Since then, the difficulty of hunting slaves has increased exponentially. Many Andes mountain people would rather die than be caught as slaves and live in humiliation, so this song has a new name —A song of resistance, a song of death.
Now these Andean mountain people sang this song, and it was self-evident what they wanted to do.
Merciful Lord, bless them, don't do this, don't do this. Benson's whole body tensed up, and he was already pressing on the sharp sword, praying secretly in his heart, hoping that these Andes mountain people would not do stupid things, it wasn't He pities the lives of these Andes mountain people, but the current formation is too unfavorable for them.
After a chaotic battle, their losses are absolutely indispensable. If the sharpshooters he brought lost a few, even if he brought back ten times as many slaves from the Andes mountain people, they would still have to be whipped.
What's more, no one can stop the killing under such circumstances. At that time, they can only return empty-handed, and he will become the biggest joke of Bastille-leading an army, but not capturing a single slave.
Don't do this, don't do this. At the same time, Sean who was dormant less than 50 meters away was also praying secretly. Every word in the ballad pierced into his heart like a sharp arrow, making him He was in inexplicable pain, and had the illusion that these Andes mountain people would be killed by him.
Because this ballad was written by him, not only this ballad, but even the so-called young Andean mountain hero named Faetevo was fabricated by him, without thinking about it, this All the people in the story are dead, so who spread the story?
At that time, Sean had just been in this world for a few years, and hadn't really realized the cruelty of this world. He looked at the real problems of this world with an ideal vision from another world, and was filled with righteous indignation at the tragic experience of the Andes mountain people. , and then such a story and ballad of inspiration and resistance was born.
What Xiao En didn't expect was that this shoddy story and rote ballads spread so fast, as if there was an invisible big hand pushing it, or maybe it was the Andes mountain people who lived in endless hardship I really need a hero of my own nation and a song to encourage myself.
In this process, both the story and the ballad have been enriched and beautified to a certain extent.
Especially the ballad, whether it is the style or the lyrics, after simple fine-tuning and improvement, it turned out to be perfect. Even when Xiao En sang it, it felt extremely impassioned, even better than the Internationale in his previous life.
I don't know whether it was improved by countless people in the process of spreading the song, or it was beautified by a certain person. If it is a personal contribution, that person's musical talent is definitely a master.
Since then, the resistance consciousness of the Andes mountain people has gradually become stronger, and there are even extreme cases who would rather take the whole family to die than be slaves.
This may be what Sean subconsciously wants, but it's definitely not what he wants this time.
Because he had already caught up and sent someone to find reinforcements.
As long as he is given a little more time, he is sure to save more people.