There is no other road, and the people behind can't get around. Angus rode around the perimeter, trying to find a way to get the group around, but this was a dense forested valley with steep terrain, and if you wanted to get around the valley pass, you had to climb the mountain like a monkey.

Further to the east, there might be other detours, but Boulder was in danger, and they had absolutely no time to slowly explore another path to Boulder.

After listening to Angus's report, Art tried his best to calm down, anyway, if the team of soldiers behind can't reinforce Boulder Town, only a few of their cavalry can't save the fire, and now the most important thing is to let the people behind know that there is an ambush at Taniguchi and don't break into the trap defenselessly.

"Sergeant Major, the two of us keep an eye on those mongrels in Taniguchi to prevent them from storming us."

"Felix, the three of you go to the dense forest to cut down pine branches and light three bonfires, and use black smoke to warn the team behind."

"Okay, brother-in-law," Felix hurriedly drove his horse with two retinues to the edge of the jungle a little farther away.

Felix had just piled up branches and dead grass not far away and was about to set them on fire, when the bandits on the top of the valley mouth noticed the intentions of the few people, and in order to prevent them from reporting to the group behind them, the bandits on the top of the hill began to rush down the hill and rush towards this side, trying to drive the Yat and the others away from lighting the fire.

If one or twenty people came over, Art might have retreated, but it would be too much to underestimate them if only seven or eight bandit minions wanted to drive them away.

After observing the surroundings on horseback, and making sure that the enemy was not sneaking in a circle, he took out a well-made bow from the front saddle of the war horse, and then drew a few light arrows for backup, "Sergeant Major, the three who run in the front are mine, and all the ones behind are handed over to you." ”

Angus smiled, took two spears from his back saddle bag and tried them out, then nodded at Art.

Art bent his bow and arrow, aimed at a leading bandit who was a hundred paces away from the two of them, and threw it violently, and the arrow flew out grazing the bow bone, and seeing that the light arrow was about to hit the target, the bandit suddenly changed course, and the arrow grazed past the bandit and nailed it to the ground.

“md！” Art cursed and took a second light arrow.

This time, Art didn't shoot in a hurry, he estimated the bandit's route, and aimed the arrow at the bandit's left front three paces.

"Whoosh"

The "poof" bandit was hit in the stomach by Art's arrow, and he fell to the ground and rolled and convulsed.

Art shot three arrows in succession but only hit one bandit, seeing that the bandit was about to rush fifty paces, Angus did not wait for Art to shoot down the third man, he picked up the spear and ran towards the rushing bandit, a spear flew into the sky, slashed through the air and nailed the guy who rushed to the front to the ground, and died without even struggling and convulsing.

Art watched Angus rush forward, put away his bow and arrows, drew the knight's sword at his waist, and rushed towards the bandits who ran towards him......

"Soft eggs! Bastard! Eight people can't beat two! The two bandit leaders hedged half of the three minions who had escaped, and scolded them.

"Second leader, should we send a few more people down?" A bandit asked.

"Forget it, they don't dare to go back to report anyway, as for the team behind, even if they know that there is an ambush here, there is no way, anyway, we have more than sixty people here, and there are many gongnu hands, even if they are hard, they are not afraid of them." The second leader of the bandits obviously knew the strength of those people on the west side of Taniguchi, and besides, the other party was cavalry, and even if they couldn't beat them, they could run away, so they didn't plan to send people down to drive away those guys who set fire to warn the rear team.

Therefore, the more than 60 bandits who were ambushed on the slopes of Tanikou simply stopped hiding and simply stood or sat and waited for the brigade to gallop to the east.

To the west of the valley mouth, three columns of blue and black smoke rose.

Seeing that the bandits in ambush at the valley mouth had no intention of sending people to drive them away, Art put his bow into his pocket, walked to Angus's side and analyzed: "Sergeant Major, those mongrels obviously waited for the brigade behind to come before rushing down, and they wanted to take advantage of the terrain on both sides of the valley mouth to roll down the rocks and throw arrows, or charge from a high position to break our marching formation. If we are afraid that the army will be breached, we can only line up outside the valley to meet the enemy, and if the enemy does not fight us, then the two sides will have to stalemate, so that they can successfully hold back our reinforcements. ”

Angus was also a little flustered, the side of Boulder Town was still besieged by the enemy and urgently needed reinforcements to relieve the siege, but now most of the reinforcements were about to be trapped in this valley mouth, "MD, whether it is against the enemy army in Swabia or the bandits gathering in the mountains and forests, we have always exhausted our conspiracy, but today we didn't expect to be calculated by a group of mongrel bandits." Angus kicked over a rock in front of him.

Art raised his cuffs and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, clenched his fists and thought for a while, and made up his mind.

"Sergeant Major, there is no perfect plan now, and the team behind can only break through the valley! If the reinforcements can't arrive in Boulder in time, I'm afraid Odor and they won't be able to support it. The loss of Boulder Town is small, we can't afford to lose those elite soldiers and officers, and if the enemy's ultimate target is the Valley Knights, then we will lose everything in one move. Also, it seems that the people who know how to attack Boulder Town and choose to ambush here are definitely not ordinary bandits, and I am afraid that there is even more power behind this......"

Angus also knew that once this sudden crisis could not be solved, Art would be greatly damaged, and all previous efforts might be in vain, so he thought for a moment and said firmly: "Say, what do you need me to do?" ”

"The soldiers behind us are galloping in horse-drawn carriages, so the speed will not be too slow, I estimate that they should arrive at this valley mouth in two more meals, I will rush through the valley mouth to command the large army to force through the valley mouth, you take Felix and the three of them to rush back to Boulder Town with my heraldic flag, so that those who stick to Boulder Town will know that reinforcements are coming when they see my flag, so that they may be able to hold out for a while."

Angus knew what Art meant, the most important thing to hold on to the dangerous city was the hope of reinforcements, and if he knew that reinforcements were coming, the defenders of Boulder Town might be able to hold on for a moment longer.

"Then how do you rush through the valley mouth and return to look for the brigade, I just saw that those guys who were ambushed on the top of the slope have a lot of gongnu in their hands, and now the enemy has set up a roadblock in the valley, even if you ride a horse, you can't run through it at all." Angus thought that Art was going to use his galloping horse to break through the valley.

"I have my own way, let's go!"

Before he could finish speaking, Art had already mounted his horse and ran westward, and Angus and Felix hurriedly got on their horses and chased after them.

After running for half a mile and turning an intersection, making sure that the dense forest on the hillside obscured the view of the ambush soldiers at the top of the valley mouth, Art jumped off his horse, took off the bow and quiver from the saddle and tied it around his waist, and then stopped Angus, who was rushing over, threw the reins to him, and said, "Sergeant, Boulder Town will leave it to you, and hold on until I arrive with reinforcements." ”

Before Angus could realize, Art had already burrowed into the dense forest, intending to climb the steep hill and sneak around the valley mouth ambush to join the group behind......

On the carriageway three miles east of the canyon, Kazak, the leader of the westbound galloping convoy, kept shaking the reins of the carriage in his hand, and the horses that had been running for half an afternoon had begun to foam at the mouth, and their steps became heavier and heavier.

"Tuba, you TM keep up, if it's too late, you can only collect the corpses of Otto and them!" Kazak turned his head to look at Tuba, who had fallen at the back of the line, the carriage in which Tuba was riding was almost unable to run, and it was estimated that the green mule pulling the cart had blown up his lungs, and the saliva at the corner of his mouth was foaming with blood.

Tuba was also very anxious, so he could only whip the green mule pulling the cart without hesitation, trying to keep up with the rushing convoy.

Seeing that Tuba was slowly coming up, Kazak turned around and continued to urge the horse.

Suddenly, a figure appeared at the corner of the carriageway. Kazak instinctively tightened the reins, and the carriage came to a sharp stop before it collided with the figure, and the five soldiers sitting on it were knocked down in a heap.

"My lord? My lord! How do you ......?"

"Stop all the wagons and call Tuba over." Scarred Art interrupted Kazak's question.

Kazak, who did not know why, quickly ordered the convoy to stop, and then ran to the rear team and called Tuba to come to Yate.

"There is an ambush in the canyon ahead, and the convoy can't get through." Art directly told the two of them about the deadly crisis ahead.

Both of them were terrible when they heard it.

"My lord, what can I do, there are ambushes in the canyon ahead, and there are no other roads nearby. Odo, they must still be holding on to Boulder, if we can't get to the rescue, I'm afraid," Kazak cried, not daring to continue.

Yate recruited a soldier who had learned bandaging skills for a few days, and asked him to stop the bleeding from the wound left by the rock climbing and mountain climbing just now, and then said to the two of them with a sad face but no way to do anything: "There is no other way, now the plan can only be a trap to break into the valley, it is all my carelessness, it seems that this time we are going to bleed......" Art's tone was with deep helplessness.

There was no time to sigh, and Yat began to arrange the combat mission, "When Kazak and the soldiers of the second squadron concentrated all the armor in the waiwei when he broke through the valley pass, he resisted regardless of casualties, and Tuba led people to be responsible for clearing the barricades in the shortest possible time......"

At this time, the soldier who was bandaging the wound hesitated to interrupt Art's words, and said weakly: "Big, don't break in"

Hearing this, several commanders focused their eyes on this soldier who had not been promoted to combat for a long time.

This soldier is obviously not good at words on weekdays, and at this time he was stared at by several adults uncomfortably, and he didn't dare to speak for a while.

Seeing that the soldiers didn't dare to speak for a long time, Art came back to his senses and said, "Don't be afraid, say it." ”

The soldier was encouraged and stared at his direct commander Tuba, who glanced at the soldier and said hurriedly: "Look at what I'm doing, my lord asked you to say it, you hurry up, you die in a hurry!" ”

The soldier swallowed a mouthful of saliva and muttered, "Three miles back, the stream we just passed, follow the stream two miles south and then turn west, there is a trail that can be walked out of the wild creatures in the mountains and can go directly around the valley in front of you and return to the carriageway." ”

Art's eyes lit up with joy as he asked, "Is that road open for heavily armed soldiers to pass?" ”

The soldier replied, "Yes, although the road is rough and there are many forks in the road that make it easy to get lost, I am familiar with the road."

"How did you know about this secret path?" As soon as the quick-talking Kazak said this, he realized that he had lost his words, and he remembered that the soldier in front of him was a mountain bandit active in the county of Tinets before joining the Yat army.

"Lord Kazak, that, I used to make a living in this area with a gang of bandits," the soldier said embarrassedly, his face slightly red.

As if a glimmer of light was suddenly discovered in the dark night, the gloom in Art's heart was swept away by an inconspicuous ordinary soldier, he patted the soldier's shoulder, and said, "Man, if you can take us around the canyon smoothly and return to the carriageway, I will give you credit after the battle!" ”

There was a turning point in the crisis, but without the slightest hesitation, Art resolutely turned all the wagons around, and when he came to the creek in the soldier's mouth, he left three baggage soldiers and drove eastward with the wagons to the place where the supplies were hidden, loaded them into the carts and sent them to the nearest village fort for care, and then led the heavily armed soldiers along the banks of the stream, which was overgrown with trees and weeds, and ran southward.

This secret path is estimated that only mountain bandits who have been mixing in the mountains and mountains all the year round and fighting with the bandit officers and soldiers can get out smoothly, not to mention wading through the stream to climb the steep slope and drill thorns, just the dense forest that does not see the light of day can make the intruders lose their way.

Under the leadership of the soldier, more than two dozen people scratched their skins, shredded their clothes, and ran around for an unknown amount of time, and finally rushed out of the dense forest and saw the long-lost carriageway.

Art took a breath, tore off the few strips of cloth that had been cut by the thorns, and tied up the cracked wounds, and looked around, finding that this was already directly north of Boulder Town, and it was four miles south to reach the reinforcement battlefield.

"Everyone rest in place, drink water and eat some food, and then tidy up their armor and weapons, and the fierce battle is coming!"

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Chapter 133: Ambush in the Canyon