Chapter 479: Preparing for a Counteroffensive
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The carriage finally reached them, and they hurried inside. Cheng Qianxun also hurriedly hid under the carriage, and the small place below was almost stuffed with knights, at least a dozen of them. The rest were either shot dead or fled into the woods next to them and hid behind trees.
And an arrow was shot through the black cloth cover covering the horse pulling the cart, and with a "bang~", the horse finally fell, and its four hooves twitched a few times, and died.
Everyone hid in the carriage, unable to move for the time being, the car had to go, and they had to carry a dead horse of several hundred catties, which did not have so much strength.
Where the arrow came, a voice came: "Viscount Gordon, surrender!" If you surrender, your safety is guaranteed. ”
Gordon looked at the corpses of the knights lying on the ground outside, about fourteen or fifteen dead, and three or four wounded at the bottom of the carriage. This time, almost half of the knights brought out this time were damaged, and the other twenty or so knights were all hiding, and their lives were uncertain.
He thought for a moment, and replied at the top of his voice: "If you surrender, you also need to know who to surrender to, and dare to report your name?" ”
"Does Viscount Gordon still have a choice?" The other party scoffed.
But a voice rang out: "I, Marquis Louis." I will avenge my dead daughter and unborn grandson, Gordon, and if you don't surrender, I'll have the archers shoot you into hedgehogs one by one. ”
Marquis Louis? Everyone rolled their eyes, he was really scrappy, tireless, or haunted.
This time, Louis should have felt that he must have won, so he dared to announce his name. Putting a dark arrow in the back is no longer about maintaining the dignity of the nobility.
Rudolph shook his head slightly: "It seems that the adults still left him too much money, and he sold it all to hire archers and knights." ”
Gordon asked nervously, "How many people?" "Everyone is nervous, Gordon is good, and among the knights next to him, the junior ones are all trembling with fear.
Rudolph calculated: "If he sells all his remaining assets, he can hire about thirty archers and ten knights." Archers can also be used as swordsmen, so his number is up to forty. ”
"Forty?" A young knight exclaimed softly, "But when we came out, there were thirty-two men, and there were so many dead and wounded. ”
"The number of people sometimes doesn't mean much." Rudolph looked coldly at the panicked knight: "One of them is enough to cut four like you, and one of mine is enough to cut ten of them." ”
These words are very reasonable. Cheng Qianxun seized the opportunity and opened his mouth suddenly, as if laughing, which made the other knights amused.
Gordon stretched out his hand and touched Snow Fox's head for the first time, also to let the others see Snow Fox laughing. He deliberately smiled to boost morale: "That's right, even foxes know this, so don't say anything stupider than a pig." ”
Outside shouted again: "Viscount Gordon, surrender?" ”
Gordon wasn't stupid either, shouting outside, "It's a big deal, let me think about it." ”
Then he looked around: "I decided to fight." ”
How can you fight? The corners of Rudolph's mouth raised confidently: "Drag the time, it's almost noon now, drag it out until the evening." At night, take advantage of the darkness to flee into the woods to meet the others, and then kill back. ”
Gordon nodded, and slapped the young knight on the shoulder who had said the wrong thing just now: "The archers' swordsmanship is relatively poor, and they fight at close range, and now you are enough to cut two of them!" ”
All the knights smiled heartily, which was actually a comforting word, but it sounded quite reasonable. Archers practice archery hard, and unless they are talented, swordsmanship is naturally not as strong as that of a swordsman who has been practicing swordsmanship, just as most swordsmen are inferior to archers.
Rudolph looked sideways around the woods, and some of the knights were still hiding behind the trees, and he was not sure: "We must find a way to inform the others and let them gather in one place at night, and then we will fight back and forth, so that they will not be able to escape, and let Louie, the old fellow, lose all his old books this time, and completely stop cooking." ”
But who will deliver the letter? One of the knights threw the fur hat on his head, and after a few turns, four or five arrows were fired, two of which nailed the top of the hat to the snow, and the white feathers of the end of the sword were still "buzzing" and trembling.
No one dared to go out, and Rudolph said, "I'll go." ”
He was just about to leave when Snow Fox bit his sleeve with his mouth.
Rudolph was stunned: "You go?" ”
Cheng Qianxun nodded violently, she couldn't let Rudolph and Gordon take risks, once they died, she would be considered a failure.
After a while, when Rudolph shouted: "Three-two-one, throw!" "A couple of fur hats were thrown out of the bottom of the carriage.
"Whoosh... A swarm of arrows was fired. After the arrow fell, Cheng Qianxun quickly rushed to the woods next to him.
The archers were first relieved to see that it was all hats, and then they were dazzled when they saw a long, slender white figure coming out from under the car. When he saw that it was a snow fox, he heard Louis roaring angrily: "Shoot, shoot it, shoot it, hurry!" ”
It's just a fox, but the employer says to shoot, so shoot it.
Cheng Qianxun hurriedly ran away in a zigzag shape, got rid of the arrow that was shot, and jumped into the woods.
Hiding behind a tree, she let out a long breath before hurrying to find the other knights.
After running for about ten meters, I found four or five people. She screamed twice at them, and raised her neck so that they could see a sackcloth tied around her neck and a piece of animal skin tied underneath.
One of them approached, suspiciously removed the hide, and opened it to look at it. It was a sketch made of charcoal with a picture of where they were going.
"Brothers, come with me, maybe it's going to be sent again this time." The man was beckoning someone to leave, but his pants were bitten by the snow fox.
He looked back, and the snow fox let go of his pants and stared at the animal skin in his hand, as if he understood something: "You still have to inform the others?" ”
Snow Fox nodded, squatted there and continued to look at him.
He rolled up the skin as it was, tied it with sackcloth, and touched the snow fox's head: "Then go." ”
Cheng Qianxun then continued to look for other knights hiding in the woods, and an exclamation came from behind him: "This smart little guy." ”
It doesn't matter if you praise it, if you want to praise it, you can praise Snow Fox, she just needs Gordon and Rudolph to be safe.
Search one by one, let them see the map one by one... When it was almost dark, Cheng Qianxun was so tired that he was out of breath, and his four legs were numb. Presumably, as long as the living knights have been notified, and those who have not been notified must also go back to report the news.
Instead of going back the same way, you need to bypass these archers, and Louis may have set up an ambush on the way too close. I don't know when the remaining knights in the castle will be able to come back.
Cheng Qianxun ran to the place where the carriage was parked, and she secretly showed her head and smiled at Gordon and Rudolph under the carriage.
But before they could notice it, she turned around and picked up a small rock with her mouth, placed it on the snow, and then turned and kicked it backwards with her hind foot. I haven't found it yet, so let's have another piece.
On the second piece, Rudolph and Gordon noticed it and turned to look. She smiled at them and nodded.
Hearing the sound of a bowstring vibrating, she quickly retracted her head, and an arrow shot at the trunk of the tree where she was hiding, making her heart beat much faster.
Okay, the next thing is to wait until it's dark.
But Cheng Qianxun noticed something that was extremely unfavorable to her, when she changed into human form again, the cold around her would make her freeze in five minutes. Is she going to walk in the snow again, sobbing to stay awake and struggling until Gordon and them come?
When she heard movement outside, she secretly poked her head out to look, and was immediately moved. Rudolph was cutting the ropes that connected the dead horse and the cart with his sword, and on his exposed arm were bound miscellaneous things, wine bags and leather bags, all of which were made of cowhide or pigskin, and were very hard, and although the arrows were fired, they were all kept out.
Finally cut the rope, Gordon gave an order: "Come, push together!" ”
All the uninjured people pushed the carriage together and approached her. And the wounded, covering their wounds, followed the carriage little by little.
Arrows kept coming, and even if they pierced the carriage, they were only arrows. Thanks to the technology of this era, there is no level of Qin and Han, otherwise Qin and Han's arrows are hula, not to mention wooden planks, and even the iron armor is said to be powerful archers who can shoot through six and eight layers, making the people under the car all hedgehogs.
Finally moved to the woods, everyone got out from under the car, Gordon picked up Cheng Qianxun, and touched her head gratefully.
I heard Louie's men shouting, "You can't escape, this place is already surrounded by us." "I don't know if it's true or not.
In order to stall for time, Rudolph shouted back: "We can consider surrendering, but first we have to talk about the conditions." ”
"On what terms?" "Nonsense, don't you want us to lose money?" A long silence ensued, and it was about time for Louis to begin to consider how much they would have to lose. This is not the time to be rash, even if it is to avenge his daughter, he needs to rely on compensation to reward the people who worked for him. Even if you want to destroy Gordon, you must first think about how to make Gordon surrender, capture it and kill it. If the conditions can't be negotiated, Gordon may come up?
Gordon and the other knights burst out laughing, this is the best way to delay.
So everyone sat down, took out the food reserves around them, and began to eat. And Rudolph continued to drag on time while nibbling on dry bread: "What, a thousand gold coins, too much, is the Marquis of Dao Yi a robber?" So much money, Viscount Gordon can't take it out. ”
Louis was furious: "Why can't you take it out, this kid Gordon took at least five thousand gold coins from me, and a lot of land." ”
"That's also divided equally among the three masters, and Earl Sneijder gets the most, don't believe you to ask." Rudolph uncorked and took a sip of wine.
"Snead wasn't eaten by wolves, there's not even a ghost in his manor now, and the money is gone." Louis roared.
Rudolph wiped his mouth: "It must have been taken away by his butler, whether you believe it or not, we adults only got five hundred gold coins." ”
"No, I want a thousand of them, and the land... So the two of them were arguing like this. (To be continued.) )