NOVEL WEB Chapter 93: Attack
Chapter 93: Attack
On the weed-grown plain, a group of more than twenty cavalrymen were running, aiming at the distant shrubbery looming on the horizon. This is none other than the doppelgangers and others who are temporarily serving as scouts. At this moment, Bob, whose blond hair was blowing in the wind, breathed in the rare fragrance of earth in the air and said to the doppelganger who was running fast at his side, "It's just a bush forest, but it takes four knights to bring twenty or so retainers. It is simply an insult to our status."
Listening to Bob's incessant whining, the doppelganger frowned slightly, but did not say anything to rebuke. On the contrary, a knight on the other side, glanced at Bob and laughed: "Buddy Bob, if you encounter Ai Xinzhe's scouts later, don't be so happy that you rush up alone to take the credit." "Hahahahahahaha!" Seeing the blush on Bob's face, several knights immediately burst out laughing. This Bob was notoriously aggressive. As a knight, he was more like those barbarians in the north. Only not as tall.
Low shrubs, the occasional tung tree erected on the edge, and hungry rabbits scurrying out of the shrubs. Except for some undulating hillsides that block the view, the place is simply a sight to behold. Bob took a sip of water from his valet and continued to complain, "A shitty place. Not even rabbits dare to come out. How can there be enemies?" Another knight directly ignored Bob's whining, took out the map scroll from his war horse's pocket and said helplessly, "Take a stroll, and first check the nearby terrain against the map without error. Let's get it done." The doppelganger nodded irrefutably. This kind of task itself is not much nutrition. But at that moment, the sky suddenly resounded with the call of a vulture.
"Hmm?" The doppelganger frowned at the vultures circling in the sky. Roughly counted that there were more than ten of them! Bob followed and looked up to see this scene, immediately disgusted, and said: " We're really unlucky. So many vultures are spinning overhead. I hate to shoot them with an arrow." But the doppelganger was silent for a moment and suddenly pulled out the crossed swords at his waist and shouted, "Stand by, there may be enemies nearby!" "Well, what did you say?" Bob looked at the doppelganger with a bewildered face, but the other two knights immediately understood the cause and effect, and decisively drew their weapons. At once the whole team was immediately in a saber-rattling atmosphere. The doppelganger understood that the vulture, a corpse-eating beast, would not have come here in a group if it had not sensed that there would probably be food to eat! Because of the premonition of death, these stupid animals are more keen than humans.
But things happened much faster than the body expected. Not waiting for him to explain to Bob, suddenly from not far away on the hillside sounded a cracking sound, followed by a squire next to the immediate scream, planted on the ground. At a closer look, a short but thick crossbow bullet passed through the squire's helmet and straight through the head. The blood flowed freely from under the armor, and it was clear that he was dead. "Enemy attack!"
The Jailer Bob was the first to react. He drew out the cross sword, kicked the horse's belly with excitement, and immediately galloped towards the opposite hillside. "This idiot, he will die if he goes alone! Follow him!" the clone still calmly said to the two knights and his servants beside him. Everyone nodded immediately, and galloped on their horses to catch up with the laughing Bob.
Only then did the doppelganger have time to look up at the hillside. Only to see the bare hillside, a soldier wearing leather armor over part of the iron armor, is riding on a horse, to the hand of the loaded crossbow. Bob, who was the first to bear the brunt, immediately shouted excitedly, waving his crossbow sword: "Little one! Send you to Enos!" Seeing that the team went up the hill, seeing that this enemy who did not know the sky was still not alert, just pulling the crossbow strings on the bullet. But at that moment, the doppelganger's eyes closed, and all the knights and squires saw that from behind that hill, that unseen behind. Suddenly emerged forty or so heads, bodies, then axes and swords in their hands, and brown war horses!
"O my Enos!" Bob, who was running at the front, immediately fell all over backwards and strangled his horse hard. The war horse was almost tumbled to the ground by Bob this time, and the man stood up and chirped. The knights and squires, including the doppelganger, all turned pale! This is a trap arranged by the enemy! "Back up, back up, back up!"
The knight with the map immediately shouted at the top of his voice! He immediately turned his panicked war horse and ran backwards. Doppelganger and Bob, the knights and squires, immediately turned their horses around. The distance between them was too short to launch an effective charge. They had to pull back to settle their minds before they could make an effective attack. But the doppelganger who hurriedly carried the shield hanging on his war horse would not think that these enemies would be so kind.
Turning his head to look, he saw more than forty enemy troops on the hillside, led by a bald man with a thick beard, wearing a full-body piece of armor. Very obviously, he could see the unconcealed expression of surprise on his face. Because he could see that there were four knights in the scouting party of the Principality of Kasmi! The different patterns of the coat of arms made him happy. If these knights were captured, they could be exchanged for a large amount of ransom and military merit! Naturally, this thick-browed and bearded leader immediately overlooked the reason why there were four knights in a scouting party.
The doppelganger's eyes narrowed and immediately saw with unparalleled clarity that this big man was also a nobleman, not to say that he was a knight like them. And the chest armor tattooed with the head of a bear with its mouth open and roaring, made the doppelganger's expression immediately gloomy. This is the Kingdom of Malta, that is, the reinforcements invited by Ai Xinzhe. The Kingdom of Malta worships giant bears. Armor is also decorated with the totem of a giant bear. And according to the information Baron Hank got, these reinforcements from the enemy kingdom should not have arrived here at the border so soon.
Just as the doppelganger was secretly pondering, but a moment passed. The big man immediately shouted and raised the crossbow in his hand and shouted, "Shoot all the horses and try to leave them alive! They have four riders!" Said the more than forty cavalry immediately raised the crossbow, to run back to the doppelganger and other people on the war horses, immediately pressed the trigger.
"Stop the horses. There are crossbows, use shields!" Doppelganger immediately shouted. Bob and those knight squires are also trained elite. Hearing the bilocation yell immediately unified and strangled the running war horse, skillfully turned back to the enemy's head. The shield with the coat of arms was quickly taken off from the side and back. The whole man stuck to the horse's back, and then swept the shield over the horse's head to protect himself and the horse's head together. "Duh duh duh duh!"
Immediately, the cracking sound of sticking to the shield echoed in the ears of the crowd. The doppelganger could even feel the tremendous force that kept hammering the shield, nearly sending it flying. Two or three more crossbow bolts even broke through the oak shield, revealing sharp arrows in front of the doppelganger's eyes. At best, there were only about forty arrows, which were shot in the blink of an eye. Accompanied by the occasional wailing and falling of the few war horses that were hit by arrows nearby. The doppelganger was at the moment when the crowd was in a state of confusion and immediately stepped forward to become their backbone: "War horses hit by arrows hide at a distance!"
The doppelganger straightened up and cut the arrows off the shield with one sword, then set up the horses and yelled up to the few retainers whose war horses were hit by arrows. Pointing his sword at his own squire Salander, the doppelganger, who was full of heavenly wariness, then yelled, "Salander, get on your horse's back to the city and say that a massive Maltese scouting party has been spotted! Go!" Salander was just about to say something about being a knight's squire and not being able to leave a knight alone. But he was not pedantic and knew that this situation was for the greater good. The military situation is always more important than the lives of soldiers. Immediately bellowed a driving horse galloped away and rushed to the distant Green fortress Mercedes that vaguely towered on the horizon.