As soon as Hugh turned his horse around, he happened to be face to face with a knight behind him, and before Hugh could say anything, Hugh saw two soldiers in long grass and cloaks emerging from the woods behind him.

Then, before Hugh could speak, the knight in front of him, who was about to turn his horse's head, shattered the iron hoop on his helmet, and a cluster of iron protruded from his forehead, and the knight's eyes popped out, and his back went up, and he smashed straight into the ground under his mount, splashing layers of fallen leaves.

The power of this bow and arrow is too great!

At the same time, the second scarlet-clad soldier in his cloak also buzzed, flicked the string in his hand, and then tied the wooden cylinder on the string with his hand, and shook it, and the name behind him lifted his foot from his horse and fell down.

"Ahh Hugh shouted in horror, then lowered his body, and the scene on both sides quickly passed by, including the two soldiers who used strange bows and arrows, and for a moment in his mind he was still calculating, who had sent this group of ambush soldiers here? Although Gawain is not kind to them, he should not be so painful as such a killer! And these soldiers are good at using bows and arrows, carrying strange wooden barrels, and wearing scarlet clothes, how they look like the Tekopo mercenaries of the Emperor Komnenos.

During the calculation, there were soldiers on both sides of the road who kept standing up, silently and penetrating the arrow clusters with superior lethality, flying everywhere, hitting the sergeants and servants around Hugh, what is even more terrifying is that it is impossible to distinguish where the arrow clusters shot from the wooden barrel come from and where they are shot by the naked eye, Hugh Fu ran for about three or five seconds, and the entourage next to him has been shot and killed, and the corpses of the people and horses are pillowed.

Run all your way to the field at the bottom of the pot, I can gallop on horseback, the enemy will not catch me, as long as I am the brother of the king of France, return to the border of Seleucia, and openly say that Gawain will definitely not dare to do anything to me, and it is not too late to think about the long term! With this in mind, Hugh kept kicking and slamming his mount faster and faster, and at this moment behind the boulder at the entrance, an archer poked out half of his head: Hugh's only remaining knight shouted, and rushed to Hugh on horseback, ready to block the arrow for His Excellency.

Although the archer's hand twisted the arrow, he did not shoot it in a hurry, and then turned back and disappeared behind the boulder, and the other archer behind him, lying on the stone, holding a blueprint in his hand, looked at Hugh and the French knight who had given up his life at the gallop, and then made a "right" gesture to the archer.

The leaves fluttered, and the knight quickened his horse, and rushed directly between the boulder and the path, and when he saw this, the archer turned again, and fell on one knee, and shot the little shuttle dart in the barrel, which was lying behind Hugh on the right side, diagonally upwards, and shot the little shuttle dart in the barrel - it directly broke the reins in Hugh's hand, and then went through, and shot through Hugh's cloak and right shoulder, Hugh only felt that he was overthrown by a tremendous force, and with the other hand he pulled the reins on that side, and fell under the galloping horse, and turned several somersaults in succession.

The knight who had rushed out cried out in grief, and turned his horse's head loyally, to come to the aid of His Royal Highness: at this moment, the various passages in and out of the "pot bottom place" rushed out of each of them, and each of them rushed out of the scarlet-clad soldiers, armed with bows and arrows, and soon shot the knight into a hedgehog—his breastplate, belly, and footsteps were submerged in rows of small pikes, and he rode his horse in place for two paces before he was planted and killed.

Over there, Hugh's face was covered with blood, his heart was confused and full of resentment, his right shoulder was shot out of a bloody hole, all his muscles and bones were crippled, he could no longer move, he could only change to his left hand, holding his sword, slowly kneeling up, shaking his vision, many scarlet-clad soldiers holding the strange arrows, approaching him in the front, "I am the prince of Capet, I am the lord of France" Hugh felt that the blood was rapidly draining in his body, he could only half-kneel, snorting, shaking his head, constantly indicating his identity.

The sound of footsteps sounded behind him, and Hugh turned back and drew his sword with all his strength, ready to slash the other man, but when he screamed, his blade was blocked horizontally by the hook of the head of a battle axe: although the time to see the other party was very short, Hugh could clearly see that the man holding a long-handled battle axe was a stout, tall, heavily armored samurai, with a dirty beard, with a pirate-like savage smile, carrying a shield on his back, and the battle axe in his hand wrenched his sword.

Then the creature swept the handle of the axe backwards into Hugh's neck, and Hugh was immediately blackened, his mouth and nose were bleeding, and he was knocked to the ground, and before he could get up, he was kicked in the chest again—the axe man condescendingly stepped on his chest, "My bones are broken." Hugh gasped in pain, looking at the behemoth, aiming at the bridge of his nose with the cold blade of his axe, then raising it slightly, then pushing it in, and then raising it again.

"I'm Hugh. Capetian Hugh continued to report this identity in vain, until the axe man stood up straight and rounded his arms, and then Hugh felt the red light explode in front of him, and then he was completely unconscious.

Because his head had been chopped off by the axeman, many soldiers in scarlet clothes gathered together, and they threw all the bodies of the French who had been ambushed and killed on it with the wooden frame of the mule cart, and before they could breathe, the scarlet soldier drew his scimitar and stabbed him to death, and the axeman lifted Hugh's head, and then said a few words to the soldiers on both sides, and threw it on the wooden frame of the mule cart with reluctance.

When it got dark, the soldiers with torches began to bury the bodies together with the wooden frames, and then they formed a line and slowly left.

Ten days later, in the city of Philadofiam, Prince John was discussing the revival of the military district with his staff: the prince proposed a plan, and Philadofiam happened to be located in the thoroughfare between the mountains, the plains and the sea, and in order to contain the Turks on the plateau, it was necessary to add pheasants, beacons and barracks to the city, and concentrate the cavalry here, making it the core of the land; The city of Atalya, on the other hand, had to repair the dockyard and recruit sailors from the surrounding islands, and within two to three years it would be possible to rebuild a small naval division to patrol the coastal waters against pirates - so that the naval and military forces of the Panphyrian Military District could be taken into account through the construction of the two cities.

Then, the news from Alalmanburg left the prince stunned, "The people sent by the pilgrims to negotiate with Emperor Komnenos, namely the Honourable Hugh and Count William, have disappeared while traversing the mountain road leading to Philadofiam. Grand Duke Gawain sent a letter asking about the whereabouts of the messenger. (To be continued.) )