Chapter 71: Ambush Warfare
A cry of terror arose, "Allah, Greater, shoot the infidel mounts first!" Hajib, in the reeds, shouted with his sword, and with the sound of the bells that erupted, the Roma soldiers let out a terrible cry, and shot countless sharp arrows from their hiding places, and the horses in the Danish ranks were shot over in an instant, and many of them clung to the feathers that had not entered their bodies, and crawled around screaming.
Sven, who was riding on horseback, froze, and the Greek shepherd in front of him had slipped away at some point. He turned to look at his fiancée, who was also faceless, and then whipped her mule on the back, "Run, Florena! ”
"Sven!" By the time Florina had reacted, her mule had already carried her far away, and everywhere there were people who had fallen from arrows, and reeds that had swept by quickly, but did not know where they were, and white reeds that were rushing in front of her, stained with blood.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, be careful, on the tree over there!" With this shout, Sven suddenly saw that on a crooked-necked tree hanging by the stream dozens of feet away, several ape-like Roma soldiers, carrying horned bows and reed pipes with arrow feathers in their mouths, used their hands and feet together, quickly climbed on it, and then spit out the arrows in the reed pipe like lightning, put them on the bowstring, and screamed, aiming at Florina, who was galloping forward.
"No, shoot me if you want to!" Sven shouted with all his might, and then he rode his horse toward the sight of the sniper archer in the tree with the whizzing arrows, "Shoot him!" The Roma soldier on the neck of the tree, sure enough, drew his bow and turned, and shot at the prince like a gust of wind, and between life and death, Florina and her mule. All at once he rushed to the front.
The prince's mount was hit by six arrows in an instant, and fell to the ground. Sven struggled to his feet, and the servants and standard-bearers around him tried to save him. But one by one they were shot over, and they lost their lives, "all of them took up arms and shields and went to the stream over there to resist!" The prince bravely picked up his sword, unsheathed it, and his loyal soldiers quickly drew in and began to recover from the chaos, searching for shadowy enemies and arrows that might come from some direction. Leaning on the streams and rivers, they formed a strong shield array and defended it desperately.
"Call Ryan Stein to reinforce us." Sven shouted, but the soldiers who had given the order, having only taken a few steps, were knocked to the ground by arrows shot from the reeds: Hajib had arranged for many good archers, and ambushed them on both sides of the road and blocked the entire section.
Over there, there were many Danish soldiers on the road ahead. Rushing towards the Milio Sepharon area, including Florina, who was constantly shouting backwards, but on the hillside, the Isurian bandits quickly cut off the road sideways. The group of people had hideous faces, and they were all wrapped around their waists with colorful hemp streamers as symbols, and they formed a spear formation in front of them. Resist the Danish onslaught, and then countless men are armed with sharp battle axes. Approaching in the reeds, and then suddenly leaping out and slashing.
"Woohaha!" With this cry of terror. Florina saw several ghostly Isuria bandits, wearing ruffled helmets and colorful cloaks, pulling away the long grass and holding axes at herself, she mustered up the courage to shout, and also drew her sword, and the sword fell in her hand, and hot dirty blood splashed in front of her, and one of the leading bandits was covered in blood and howled, and her shoulders were deeply wedged with Florena's blade, Florina stepped on the stirrup, gritted her teeth and held her hands, trying to pull the sword back from this body, But the frightened mule bared its teeth and cried loudly, and carried her on to run, and Florina had no choice but to abandon her sword, which continued to be stuck between the neck and shoulder of the unfortunate bandit, and the other man scratched back and forth with his hand a few times, and then fell to the ground, and the rest of the companions slashed and killed several of Florena's servants and maids, and began to plunder the corpse.
The prince's fiancée, who had ridden a mule over the hill in a scuffle, wanted to go back and see how Prince Sven was doing, but the Isurians pounced on the spear points made her distracted, and she and the mule stepped into the reedy swamp, and her skirt was covered with mud, and then she struggled to control the bridle, and in a few seconds she stepped on dry land, and continued to run towards the ghostly peaks and dense forests.
Behind him, several Isurian bandits, riding horses, laughing and following closely behind the embarrassed and filthy Florena, the daughter of this prince (Florina, the daughter of the Duke of Burgundy) was terrified and afraid, and the front must be full of the lair of this group of bandits, is it possible that Sven and I will die miserably here before we reach the Holy Land?
"Drink!" In a trance, Florina heard the sound of shouting war horses, and she turned her head back to look at the front, where a cavalry was galloping towards her, "Holy Lord! The girl closed her eyes and quickly made her last prayer, and a crossbow arrow without tail feathers grazed her cheek, and the famous Isurian bandit, who had raised her battle axe behind her and was about to chop it, was immediately struck by the arrow, rolled on her back and fell to her death.
Then, there was the sound of weapons clash everywhere, and two more riders, swept out from behind the crossbow-wielding cavalryman, and with their spears, continued to stab down the two mountain bandits, and the other mountain bandits, seeing that the situation was not right, hurriedly turned their horses and fled back into their own ranks.
"Ahhh When the crossbow cavalry pulled the reins of Flolina's mule, which had collapsed and was frenzied, parallel to her own horse, Florina's spirit almost collapsed, and she kept raising her hand to push and shove, and shouted in Frankish dialect, "I am the spearhead of His Royal Highness Grand Duke Gawain, my name is Bramson, please calm down, the elite brigade of the Grand Duke is over there." ”
"Save my fiancé." Florina, a little sober, fell into her saddle and pleaded.
Bramson nodded, took the opportunity to tear off the gold earrings that the prince's daughter had fallen diagonally, and threw them into his coat, and then, while the girl was in a trance, he secretly touched the gold and silver utensils hanging from her saddle, and then took her horse side by side, and headed in the direction of Gawain's brigade of cavalry.
When Florina appeared in front of Gawain, who was leading the cavalry, she was already on her mount and fainted, and Gawain jumped off her horse and faced Tim. Goliath and Muzafiadin said, "Pick her up, cover her with a blanket, and put her in the back car to rest." ”
When Muzafiadin and Dimu heard this, they both knelt down in tacit agreement and spread their hands.
"What's going on?"
"Please come and hug the Grand Duke in person, we are lowly people, and this woman's status is only for you to do this." The two spoke in unison.
Gawain rolled his eyes a few times, and then opened his arms, originally wanting to carry Florina off, but thinking that the contact area of such limbs was too large, which was a bit bad (Anna knew about it, it must be troublesome), and then wanted to lift her on her shoulders, but this gesture was too much like a bandit robbing a woman, and it was not good - in the end, the Grand Duke raised his hand and gestured twice, so he had to come to a princess hug, and Bramson over there was busy tying his coat, and watched Florina being carried away with a blank face, "Grand Duke, without further ado, The Roma were all in front of the Danish pilgrims. (To be continued.) )