The situation was critical, and a thin layer of dense sweat was already oozing from Art's forehead. He closed his eyes and searched his mind for the memories of his former master, from his training as a child, to his father's expeditions to the perilous battles of the valley against wolves and beasts...... But none of these clips told him how to face such a crisis.

"I can't count on you anymore! Rely on yourself. ”

"What's more stupid than making a wrong decision is not making a decision." Art made up his mind silently.

"Let's change our plan, except for weapons and water bladders, everyone will unload all the excess on their bodies and hide under this boulder. In a moment we will launch a surprise attack on those bandits, and as soon as I give the order to retreat, everyone must not fall in love with me. If the enemy does not pursue, we will wait for the opportunity to continue the sneak attack until they are destroyed or have fled. If they pursue, everyone must follow me to evacuate, and then hold them back to buy time for the team to pass. Remember, no matter what, you can't be left behind. Got it? ”

"Understood!" Everyone replied softly.

A few people crept to the woods near the road, and they could already hear whispered conversations not far away. Art leaned down, put a few light arrows in his mouth, and crawled forward with his elbows on the ground, while several people behind him also lay on the ground and touched forward.

Behind the bushes on the ridge on one side of the avenue, two robbers were crouching and staring intently at the north side of the avenue, and beside the bushes, three men armed with short knives and axes were trying to hide their bodies behind a few pine trees.

The wild dogs waiting for the fat sheep to reach their mouths do not realize that their backs have been exposed to the wild wolves.

The distance was close enough to clearly see the neck sockets of the two robbers in front of him, Art slowly got up, took a light arrow from his mouth and put it on the bowstring, turned back to the three Odo to the left, and motioned to attack the three axemen, and the three nodded. Art reached out again and gently patted Lawrence, who was holding a round shield and his lips were white, and motioned for him to cover himself.

Soaring suddenly, he unleashed his bow and drove a light arrow into the back of one of the robbers, and in a moment, one of the robbers who had not yet reacted had been shot down. Otto and several people beside him also rushed forward with light arrows, and the sound of weapons colliding and swords and axes tearing flesh and bones reached Yate's ears, and Otto and Bas and Kazak echoed back and forth, covering left and right, and cooperated very tacitly, and after hammering down one person, he forced the two axe-wielding robbers in front of him to fall off the ridge and retreat to the avenue; Lawrence beside Art was holding a round shield to resist the long knives from the opposite side, and it was obvious that he was no match for the strong man with the knife, so he had to retreat step by step.

Art once again removed a light arrow from his mouth and drew his bow to aim at the shaky target in front of Lawrence......

Suddenly, I heard "Huh~ Tight!" With a bang, Art's chest was stunned, a diamond-headed crossbow arrow hung on the riveting ring buckle of the chain mail, and the remaining impact of the light arrow after a long flight still pushed Art to a stagger, he looked down and saw that although the crossbow arrow hanging on the chain mail failed to penetrate it, the tip of the arrow still pierced a layer of broken flesh, and blood flowed out. Art didn't have time to pay attention, so he redrew his bow and turned to the archers who were rushing across the road, and pulled the bowstring with all his might.

"Whoosh~", the flat-headed light arrow flew towards the opposite side.

Odo, who had just forced back the two robbers, saw that Art was shot and Lawrence was forced to retreat, so he hurriedly returned to help, rushed up and kicked the strong man in front of Lawrence to the ground with a heavy kick.

Yat, who pulled out the light arrow in his chest, saw that the six enemies on the opposite side had rushed over and were about to jump on this side of the ridge, and Bas and Kazak were about to be surrounded by enemies, so he hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw!" Remove! Then he picked up Lawrence on the ground and ran into the forest.

Ignoring the enemy in front of them, the Odomen escaped and fled into the dense forest after Art.

On this side of the avenue, the bandit leader threw down the crossbow in his hand, and just jumped up the ridge with a few of his men, but he had already shot down one, knocked one out with a heavy hammer, and another guy was kicked heavily in the back and didn't get up for a long time.

The few guys who launched the sneak attack had already burrowed into the dense forest, and their backs were gradually disappearing.

"TM's!"

"Noi stays, and everyone else catches up with me!" The leader of the bandits yelled at the guy who had just been kicked down, turned and took off the bow on his back, drew a light arrow, and shot another arrow at the backs of several figures in front of him......

"Otto, did they chase after you?" Art pressed one hand to the bloody wound on his chest as he asked Otto who was following closely behind.

Odo's forearm, which had rushed the hardest just now, was cut open, and blood flowed down his forearm.

"Chased over, there were eight people." Otto gasped and replied.

Lawrence, who had the best physical strength in Yatra, said: "Lawrence, you immediately find a place to hide, and in a while we will lead the pursuers to run south, and when you are sure that it is safe, hurry north out of the woods and return to the brigade along the trade road, and tell Ron to let him organize the homeless people through the woods immediately, and we will meet in the wasteland boulder." Let him be aware that there may be robbers in the woods. ”

After saying that, Art turned his head and looked behind him, the robbers had the intention of stopping the pursuit, he picked up the riding bow, drew a light arrow, took a deep breath, aimed at the opposite crowd, and then the arrow raised a foot and pulled the bowstring......

"Huh~" A light arrow flew away from the bow, crossed the treetops, flew into the air, pierced a snowflake, stopped rising, and then swooped down towards several figures in the dense forest......

Sincere~~

The bowed leader turned his head to look at the trembling tail of the arrow that had fallen from the sky and nailed to the trunk beside him, and he had intended to stop the pursuit and return to the group, but the provocative arrow disgraced the self-proclaimed archer, and he was going to grab the bastards and break off the archer's fingers one by one.

So the two gangs chased and fled like this, always keeping a distance away from an arrow, but never pulling too far.

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On the other side of the avenue, Ron, who was riding on a red horse, had already stopped the team to rest. He rode to a hill, and as far as the eye could see, the outline of the trees could already be seen in the east and west, and the group was almost at the edge of the woods, but there was no sign of anyone ahead, and Ron became more and more nervous—something must be wrong.

According to the original plan, Art and Odoji quietly entered the woods around the avenue, and if there were indeed ambushes, they would launch a surprise attack from behind to eliminate or repel them, and if there were no ambushes, they would immediately return to help. Regardless of whether there was an ambush or not, if it was going well, someone should have come back to report by now.

Ron drove his horse back to the ranks of the wanderers, called a few men with spears, and said, "Lord Ranger, they are probably going to pursue the robbers, and we will rest here until the adults come back, and you must take care of everyone and keep an eye on the movements around you." ”

Several of them nodded in reply.

Ron walked over to the homeless people sitting on the ground around the carriage, laughed and said loudly, "Listen to me, Lord Ranger is now chasing a group of petty thieves, and your lord has ordered us to wait for them here. So now we have a good rest here, and when we get to the woods in front of us, we will live and cook, and in the evening we will have a hot porridge with minced meat. ”

The outcasts had been a little anxious about being attacked by bandits, but now that they listened to the words of the Ron brothers, who were close to the Border Inspector, their tense nerves relaxed a lot, and some relaxed conversations came from the crowd.

Ron turned around and looked at the birch grove in the distance, his face was relaxed and the smile disappeared, and he said, "Master, don't have an accident." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a man with a spear ran up to him and told him that a figure had appeared on the south side of Ron Avenue......

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"My lord, we can't run with our tails anymore, we will have to die of exhaustion if we continue to wear it out like this." Kazak chased to Yat's side, gasping for air.

Yat's face was already drenched with sweat, his helmet was hanging behind his neck, and there was a cloud of white gas on the top of his head, he pulled out the last diamond-shaped armor-piercing arrow from the quiver, suddenly fixed his body and turned to the sky to look up to the sky with another arrow, and ran away after shooting, and said to Kazak as he ran: "I have long ordered to speed up and get rid of it, didn't you hear?" ”

"Ahh Kazak turned his head to look at the pursuers who had been biting behind him, and then at Bas and Odo, who had already lost their hammer tomahawks, and quickly tightened the long knife at his waist, and his pace couldn't help but quicken.

A stone's throw away, the bow-wielding leader, who had been chasing Yat and the others for most of the afternoon, had his clothes cut and his face cut, and he was already too tired to look human. He wanted to give up this pointless pursuit, but he was sulking in his heart......

The bow-wielding bandit leader is named Gary, who calls himself Satan's Arrow, and he once swore to be the hand of the devil if he could not be the shield of God. In the past six months, he has been mixing well, and with his excellent archery skills and strategy, he and his deserters have won victory after victory, not only burning and looting a large amount of money, but also defeating a small Burgundian army that came to clean up. Just when he was about to take the last vote and occupy a small village for a comfortable winter, he was beaten by a group of guys of unknown origin, not only killing his two right-hand men, but the other party kept provoking him, he had to kill the guys in front of him......

Whew~~~ Poof!

"Ah~ah~ I was shot, save me~"

Finally, one of the unlucky fellows was shot by an arrow, and he rolled back and forth on the ground in pain, whimpering and screaming.

The bow-wielding leader halted the pursuit and looked back: an armor-piercing arrow had pierced the hapless man's calf bone—hopeless.

Chasing all the way, the bow-wielding leader also shot arrows at the back in front of him again and again, but the people fled, and when an arrow was shot, the back ran farther and farther, and the arrow could only hit the heel at most; On the other hand, he is chasing, and the arrows are always flying towards the head. Although the distance was too far and the arrow lost its strength, this unfair shooting made the people chasing behind always fearful, even if any arrow with a long eye would bite him.

"Chief, please save me, help me, I can still walk, don't leave me~" The guy on the ground tried to get up, but his legs were already unconscious.

The bow-wielding leader glanced at the guy on the ground, then at the enemy who had distanced himself again, and turned to leave.

"Leave him alone, keep chasing me!" The leader stopped a few of his men who were about to stop.

Anger made him lose his mind.

The two sides continued to chase through the woods......

"Big~man, just now~you~ shot one, he~they~only have seven~ people, I~we will fight with them~." Kazak was out of strength, he couldn't run.

"No~ no, once ~ is glued, there is no chance to run if you want to~ " Yate thought about turning around and fighting hard with the pursuers, but judging from the fast and accurate reaction of the opponent when he was attacked, the opponent was obviously not an ordinary robber, and he was unwilling to take Otto a few people to death.

His chest was already wet with blood, and Art slowed down and stopped, hunched over his hands on his knees and panting, his chest cavity seemed to explode, and a burst of blood came from his throat.

Kazak and Bas fell to their knees, picking up the snow and shoving it into their mouths; Otto clutched the wound on his right arm with his left hand and staggered to follow, leaning against a cypress tree.

Art glanced around, and after they separated from Lawrence, they ran south for a while, and then west along the southern section of the tree line. He couldn't understand why the group of guys in the back were still biting, he had never seen such a determined bandit.

The determined bandits chasing behind saw that the few people in front of them stopped, and their feet were also weak, and they fell into the snow one after another, and several guys were so tired that they fell to the ground and vomited~

The two groups of people who ran and vomited blood were separated by a stone's throw away, and neither of them wanted to move one step further......