Chapter 304: Gendarmerie

In the darkness, a group of cavalry in Xuanyi and angry horses was rushing towards this side. Shen Hao couldn't help frowning, because he saw that in front of the galloping cavalry, there were more than a dozen hounds. In this way, these cavalry are not passing by, but are purposefully looking for something.

Erathia has one of the strongest cavalry on the continent, the Silver Heavy Armored Regiment, but this does not mean that there is only such a team in the entire empire with cavalry. And the cavalry team in front of him, all of them were dressed in black armor, and the edge of the armor was painted with a blood-like red bauhinia coat of arms, and Shen Hao easily found out the identity of the person from his memory-the Imperial Military Police Brigade.

This is a special force, whether it is personnel or various equipment configurations, they are the elite of the empire, but they generally do not appear on the battlefield externally. They served directly to the nobility of the Empire, exercising police authority among the Imperial soldiers and those attached to the unit, arresting deserters and guarding prisoners, maintaining military discipline, ensuring the execution of military orders, and organizing military courts.

"Are you coming at me?" Shen Hao suddenly remembered what Shi Yuxuan said to him during the day, and at the same time, he suddenly realized that he was still carrying the identity of a "crusader deserter", although he did not flee without a fight in front of Hai Ruian Fortress at the beginning, and he also made a lot of meritorious achievements. However, as an imperial soldier and belonging to the Holy Crusade of the Ace Legion, he left the army without the approval of the military department, and did not take the initiative to report to the military department after returning to China.

It's just that what makes Shen Hao strange is that even if he is a deserter, he can't help but be too attention-grabbing. It's only been a day since he entered the border of Erathia, and he has only made a public appearance in Roderian City once, and he was immediately recognized, Shen Hao already believed that Shi Yuxuan said that the soldier of the security team showed a little surprised and a little happy expression when facing him, does this mean that he is already a wanted criminal in a certain circle?

The cavalry was very fast, and Shen Hao did not deliberately hide his figure, and after a few breaths, two hundred heavily armed military police knights had surrounded the big tree where Shen Hao was hiding under the guidance of the hounds. A half-human-tall black-haired hound leaned his neck and barked at Shen Hao deep in the leaves, these hounds are different from any kind of military dogs in the real world, they are like the war horses of the Silver Heavy Knights, they have been baptized by special magic, both their sense of smell and IQ and physical strength have been strengthened a lot, even if there is no large group of cavalry to follow, just with these dozen hounds, it is enough to bite six or seven ordinary Erathia soldiers.

"Shen Hao, the former leader of the fifth squad of the third brigade of the Holy Crusader, you have been surrounded by us, I declare your identity as a deserter with the authority of the Imperial Gendarmerie, and you are limited to give up any resistance within three breaths, and we will give you a chance to appeal for yourself in the military court!" A middle-aged knight with three small swords painted under the bauhinia pattern on the left chest of his armor marched out of the ranks, holding the hilt of the knight's sword, and shouted towards the tree with full anger.

Shen Hao frowned, but didn't say anything, these guys really came at him. But he didn't have the time to go to the court court with them, and as for the identity of the imperial soldier above, it was dispensable to him, so what about deserters? Just with two hundred gendarmes and a dozen dogs, you want to take yourself? If it were two hundred silver heavy knights, he might have to give them three points, and the group of light cavalry in front of him, Shen Hao thought that he was not afraid of their force.

Shen Hao's silence made the gendarmes below slightly annoyed, and the middle-aged knight who led the team raised his left hand, only to hear the sound of a hula neatly, and the hundred in the front row of the two hundred knights raised their crossbows in their hands together, and the sharp arrows reflected a shocking cold light under the light of the knights' torches.

Shen Hao didn't care about the threat of these crossbow arrows, and he discovered with interest that not all of the two hundred cavalry were real knights, and at least more than half of them were only infantry on war horses. This is evident from the fact that they are not equipped with spears, swords, shields, and crossbows, and the armor on their bodies is obviously much thicker than that of the light cavalry.

Shen Hao looked at the gendarmerie below as if he was watching a play, and there was still no movement, this kind of behavior was already a naked provocation to military law. The middle-aged knight who led the team snorted coldly, turned his horse's head and walked towards the formation, while waving his raised left hand fiercely. He had little interest in turning back, for he did not believe that a man could survive the fire of a hundred crossbows on all sides. And he also knew in his heart that this operation originally did not leave a way for this deserter named Shen Hao to survive, and there were big men on it who asked for his life by name, although desertion is not necessarily a death sentence, but as the leader of the gendarmerie squadron, it is not too difficult for him to casually fabricate a crime of trying to escape on the way to escort the prisoner and kill him on the spot.

"Hum—" With a neat bowstring sound, hundreds of sharp arrows shot like locusts towards the canopy. This tree is not very tall, although the leaves on the canopy are slightly dense, so that even if the people below are illuminated by torches, they still can't clearly see Shen Hao's location, but such a dense rain of arrows can't be avoided by Shen Hao, you must know that in the place with dense branches, the space for him to dodge is also very narrow.

However, almost everyone forgets the fact that people in high places actually have a very convenient way to dodge, and that is downward.

I saw the shadows of the trees swaying, and Shen Hao fell to the ground like a heavy object, making a muffled sound of "bang". This was not because Shen Hao fell from an arrow, this muffled sound was actually the sound of Shen Hao's feet breaking the ground when he landed. Next, I saw Shen Hao's figure rushing straight towards the middle-aged knight who was about to walk into the queue like a cannonball.

The distance of four or five meters flew by in the blink of an eye, and at the same time that the middle-aged man had just noticed something strange from the horrified eyes of his subordinates, the war horse under his seat let out a wail, and then he and his horse flew out in the air as if they had been hit by a golden bull running wildly.

He was still holding the hilt of the sword very playfully with one hand, but he couldn't grasp the reins in front of him with only one hand, but his boots were still hooked on the stirrups, and the whole person was completely out of control, and after the war horse flipped several times in the air, and knocked away a few of his henchmen who couldn't dodge, he fell heavily to the ground. The unmagically strengthened war horse had been broken in multiple places and incapacitated, and its owner was even more unlucky to be crushed under it at the moment, and his bloody face did not know whether he was dead or alive.

Shen Hao had already rushed into the crowd with one blow, and those knights who originally had a condescending advantage were now obscured by most of their sight by their own war horses, and the lighting effect was not ideal because of the jump of torch flames, but at this moment it was a great help to Shen Hao.

He shuttled among countless cavalry, and it didn't matter whether there were people or horses around him, getting close was a punch. The strength of his fist is not enough to describe it, not to mention those cavalrymen in light armor, even after the war horse is punched, it is all four hooves and one is weak, and the mouth and nose are bleeding and fall to the ground.

There were also many people who drew their weapons and tried to fight back, but in this dark and chaotic situation, and surrounded by their own companions, it was simply an impossible task to hit Shen Hao, who looked like a ghost, without accidentally being injured. But Shen Hao didn't have this kind of scruples, anyway, there were enemies all around, and any attack would never fail.

But seeing that he was pointing to the east and west, and the guide was to attack the north, in less than a stick of incense, dozens of cavalry had already turned over on their backs and lay on the ground.

"The cavalry retreats and forms formation, and the infantry dismounts to meet the enemy!" In the panic, there was a commander shouting loudly. Due to the excessive number of wounded who collapsed on the ground, Shen Hao's speed was also slightly hindered. At this time, many infantry had already jumped off their war horses very simply, and pressed towards Shen Hao with a war sword in one hand and a wooden shield in the other.

Shen Hao stretched out his hand and took off his shield from his back, this is a light leather shield, although it is not as strong as the pure steel round shield that he customized in the past, but it is also made of multi-layer tanning of golden cowhide that died in battle, and the golden scales on the surface of the shield emitted a dazzling light in the firelight, and it looked like it was not much better than ordinary metal shields.

The sword in the stone was too powerful, and Shen Hao didn't want to kill at the moment, so he just grabbed an ordinary riding spear among the wounded who were howling miserably on the ground. In the final analysis, fighting with these soldiers can only be regarded as a civil war between human beings, maybe there are many living souls in them, and it may be a living human life at your own disposal, human beings are already very difficult under the oppression of the demons, and they really can't get such a butcher's knife.

Unlike the all-metal lances of the Silver Heavy Knights, most of the spears used by these gendarmerie knights were made of wood, with metal only at the edges. However, despite this, the weight of a Zhangba cavalry spear is more than seventy catties, and ordinary cavalry can generally only use horsepower. But now this riding spear is as light as a feather in Shen Hao's hands, and it is like a feather duster when it is wielded, of course, only those unlucky ghosts who are swept by the riding spear can understand that this riding gun is not as light as it seems.

Although the armor of the infantry was thickened, and most of them had wooden shields in their hands, Shen Hao swept through with one shot, and everything that stood in front of him was broken shields, broken armor, broken bones, and people flying. The Zhangba Riding Spear was really like a feather duster at the moment, and a "clean" open space was quickly cleared in Shen Hao's hands.

The remaining twenty or so light cavalry had been completed in formation, but they were all lingering on the periphery of the battle circle. This enemy in front of him is so strange that even the ogre warriors of Crulod can't easily sweep away a cavalry team of two hundred people, even though they are not silver heavy knights, they are the elite of the imperial army!

"Get out of the way, you bunch of shit! Let me clean him up! An angry shout was apparently from the officer who had gathered his troops in the confusion before. Then I saw the infantry surrounding Shen Hao neatly lined up, and a strong man wrapped in heavy armor walked out of the darkness where the torches could not shine with heavy steps.