The remaining fifty or so soldiers, including the three squadron leaders, were all besieged in the manor.

The robbers swarmed like locusts that had swept across the land, and soon there were more than three hundred robbers around the gate, and then no more robbers came.

The wooden gates of the manor had been broken and had finally fallen to the ground in a web of swords and flesh, and the hussars had little hope of escaping, and they fought to the death in the crowd, letting out their last cries of death.

Eugen rushed to the southern hillside with the remaining twenty or so hussars, and looked back at the soldiers he had abandoned below, with no expression on his face.

The only remaining squadron leader on the side looked at Eugen's side face with an indescribable complexity on his face, and he didn't know whether to be angry at Eugen for abandoning his teammates, or to admire Eugen's decisiveness.

Obviously, as things stand, Eugen abandoning those people was the right choice, and if they delayed there any longer, maybe even they would be besieged and unable to escape.

However, there was still a strong anger in the squadron leader's heart, if Eugen had abandoned his teammates for his own life, he would have already slashed against Eugen by now. But Eugen also took Miss Caterina with him, and he himself risked his life for Miss Caterina.

Since Caterina has already come down, there is nothing to say about retreating in time.

The squadron leader hesitated, and finally didn't understand what attitude to take towards Eugen, but he finally made sure of one thing.

That is: Count Eugen, a terrible, terrible man.

Just looking back, no one knew what Eugen's glance meant, and without saying a word himself, he turned around and ordered to leave.

Some of the robbers had already chased after them, and if they didn't leave, once they were also surrounded, the sacrifice of the fifty soldiers would really be meaningless.

After rushing out of the manor, the distance between the entrance and exit to the south of the valley was already very small.

After galloping south for a while, they could faintly hear shouts of slaughter ahead, and Eugen and the others saw groups of light cavalry rushing towards a group of wooden houses to the south.

Outside the manor in the valley, there are scattered wooden houses around it, which used to be the residence of ordinary farmers, but are now occupied by robbers.

The robbers in the wooden house to the south are all under the orders of a small leader, the black hairy man, and it is this black hairy man who has besieged and plundered them here.

By the time they were moving, Liszt's troops had already begun to act, and they faced far fewer enemies than they faced, and the layout of the houses was very scattered, far less complex than the manor.

So Liszt easily found the eldest and second sons of the Count, who were imprisoned, both of whom had many wounds on their bodies, apparently suffering some torture.

By the time Eugen arrived to join them, Liszt's side had finished his mission and was about to leave.

Liszt saw that only a few soldiers had followed Eugen back, and he didn't ask in detail, just that Eugen's mission was too dangerous this time, so that the casualties were so high.

The Earl's two sons were in poor condition, and appeared to have been badly beaten, and were now in a coma, lying on the horses of the two squadron leaders.

Now that the three of them have been successfully rescued, Eugen and the others will no longer stay, and will directly follow the plan and rush towards the mountain pass in the south.

There were also some robbers in the rear, but Eugen and they were all on horses, and their mobility was not at all comparable to that of the soldiers who galloped on two legs.

Therefore, it was easy to get rid of a large number of pursuers, and the bandits in the south were attracted to the southwest mountain road, and there were no robbers in front of them, and the process of escaping was much smoother.

Soon, Eugen and the others approached the southern pass and saw the road that led out of the valley.

It was only at this moment that Eugen suddenly realized that he had overlooked a crucial point that could wipe them out.

His hands shook slightly, his face became ugly, and he muttered in his heart, "Don't, but don't be like I thought." ”

The advance of the troops moved quickly along the gentle slope, and there was a thin layer of snow and ice on the slope, and the ice and snow melted in the strong sunlight at noon, mixed with the frozen hard soil, forming a patch of ice mud.

The horses' hooves trampled through the mud, pressing out a crescent-shaped crater, which soon collapsed, and then the muddy water backfilled it, and hundreds of horses rushed through, leaving a mottled and chaotic picture on the earth.

Finally, Eugen and the others, who were at the forefront, entered the mountain road and saw the pass that served as an escape route.

Dozens of coarse poplar trees, which had been cut down indiscriminately, were stacked on top of each other, and the huge canopies of the poplars were branched with each other, and the ground was covered with leaves, which had withered and yellowed, mixed with the earth.

The poplar tree forms the skeleton, with huge blocks of sandstone attached to it and a layer of earth at the bottom.

The biggest problem has arisen, this exit has been completely blocked.

Looking at this kind of sealing situation, it is obviously impossible to do it in a short period of time, this is a big project, it is very likely that these robbers have already started to seal this mountain road.

There is only one threat that can make the lazy, creacherous robbers accomplish such a huge project, and that is the ----Black Death!"

Seeing this scene, Eugen's face had turned pale as paper, and unfortunately, what he feared had come true.

In his plan, he calculated the location, people, but only forgot the time.

It was the time of the Black Death, which was mainly affected in the southern part of the Italian peninsula, and most of these robbers were also killed by the outbreak of the Black Death.

Undoubtedly, what they feared most was the spread of the Black Death from the south, which is why they set their nest so close to the Po River defense line, and it is also because of this that they spent manpower and material resources to completely block the road to the south.

A large number of robbers in the rear were still chasing, and the robbers surrounded them from all directions, and two hundred robbers joined the siege camp on the northwest mountain road, and a total of five hundred robbers blocked the road behind them like a big net.

It was impossible to climb over that obstacle on horseback, and at the moment Eugen had only two choices: either to give up the horse and climb over the obstacle of the overlapping tree trunks; Or, turn the horse's head and sprint with all your might.

And no matter which choice is made, someone will die.