Chapter Eighty-Seven: Jon? Clinton's pursuit
Although I don't understand why Robert suddenly "got nervous", but he is the boss after all, so Han Xing had to gently clamp the horse's belly, shout "drive", turn the "Diandian", and chase after Robert.
"Robert, what the hell are you feeling?" Han Xing rode up to Robert and asked him. After all, Han Xing's "Electricity" was better than Robert's "Sun", so he easily caught up with the galloping Robert. However, he still "the second monk is confused!" ”
"Thunder! I hear thunder from the south! Robert said hurriedly.
"Thunder? The weather is so good today, how can there be thunder? Han Xing looked up at the sky, and thought in surprise, and suddenly he patted his brain, "I said, how can you look up at the sky!" It's not thunder, it's cavalry! Robert looked at Han Xing with a "you have finally enlightened" look, and then sighed 45 degrees to the sky, a "so tired" look.
As Robert and Han Xing rode their horses to the rear of the group, at the entrance to the canyon, they saw a lone cavalryman on a hill in the distance, which they couldn't really see because of the distance. Behind Han Xing and Robert were hundreds of cavalry, and the number was further increasing.
"Hahaha! Robert, I admire your hearing, you can hear it alone, admire, admire! But are you too worried, after all, there are thousands of us, and he is only one! Even if that guy is Barristan Selmy, I'm not afraid! Han Xing laughed breathlessly and said to Robert.
Robert looked into the distance with a solemn face and said, "You wait and see!" Definitely more than one person! Sure enough, as soon as Robert's words fell, several more cavalry appeared behind the hills in the distance, and more and more, from a few to hundreds, and now there was a tendency to move forward. Before Han Xing's smile could be put away, he was directly shocked by the enemy soldier who appeared like an ant.
"What a slap in the face!" After a while, Han Xing came back to his senses, and then asked Robert in a dejected manner, "What is your plan?" There was a hint of uneasiness in Han Xing's voice.
"First, let's rush straight ahead! Before they have time to set up the formation, kill them without leaving a piece of armor behind! As he spoke, Robert waved the sledgehammer in his hand.
"No, we don't even know how many people are on the other side, so we rush forward recklessly, in case there are more people on the other side than us, and we won't even have time to run!" Han Xing shook his head and said, in fact, both Robert and Han Xing can be sure that there are more people on the other side than themselves, because the only one who can pull up a large army around this is the guardian of the Western Realm, the Duke of Kaiyan City, Tywin Lannister's family, and there is no other semicolon.
"Why don't we keep running?" Even Robert, who has always liked to be abrupt, said the phrase "run away", not because Robert suddenly changed his character, but because the number of people on the other side has increased to more than 3,000, and there is even a tendency to continue to rise, and the troops at the front have begun to be deployed.
Obviously, it is no longer possible to carry out a plan.
"Run? If they can catch up with us the first time, they can catch up with us a second time, and running now will only cost us a lot. Han Xing said lightly.
"So what do you say? You'd better hurry, they're not far from us! Robert simply became the shopkeeper, and he said eagerly as he watched as his field of vision grew larger and larger and more enemies.
"Let's run, let the infantry position in the canyon behind! Also, have the archers climb to the cliffs on both sides of the canyon! Han Xing turned his horse's head and said as he ran backwards.
"I see, you want to ambush them! Interesting, interesting, they are all cavalry, after entering the narrow canyon, the formation cannot be expanded, and the numerical advantage cannot be brought into play! The impact can't be exerted, good! Good! Robert immediately understood what Han Xing meant, clapped his hands and said quickly, and then he took the knights around him to follow Han Xing and retreated into the canyon.
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It was the elite of the young new Prime Minister Jon Clinton who led the king's army, of course, only cavalry, Jon Clinton was also uncomfortable, he and his subordinates had not closed their eyes for a day and a night, he left all the infantry, and personally led 8,000 cavalry to the front, just to leave Robert behind.
You might wonder why Jon Clinton was able to catch up with Robert so easily. Actually, it's very simple, because Robert is not carrying dozens or hundreds, but tens of thousands! The traces left by such a large army can be described as clear, footprints, horseshoe prints, rut marks, and horse excrement, all of which are clearly left on the road, leading Jon Clinton and his cavalry to where Robert was.
Robert and Han Xing didn't know anything about someone stalking them, or even if they did, they couldn't completely erase the trail of the army.
The biggest pillar that sustained Jon Clinton on this long journey was the sense of pride as a knight, the desire for victory and fame, and of course, the grace of living up to Rhaeggar's knowledge, in fact, there is even a theory that Jon Clinton had some kind of affection for Rhaegar that should not exist among men.
As for the knights under him, they are also driven by the desire for honor, fame and land and wealth, after all, as ordinary knights, most of them come from small noble families or the second sons, or even third or fourth sons of large noble families, inheriting the family business has nothing to do with them, if you want to get ahead and live a decent life, the best way is to fight for a future with your own real knives and guns.
Seeing Robert and the others, Jon Clinton suddenly felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, "Hahaha! Robert Baratheon, you leader of the thieves, I see where you are going! I'm going to arrest you back today and punish you in the Ming Dynasty! "In his eyes, Robert Baratheon is a great living man! It's a mobile merit bag, just grab him and send him up, Jon Clinton can use this splash to secure his position, and he can also be famous in the Seven Kingdoms for capturing the leader of the anti-thieves!
"His Majesty has promised to capture the leader of the rebels, Robert Baratheon, whether he lives or dies, and a bounty of 100,000 dragons, and if he is not a knight, His Majesty himself will be canonized as a knight and granted a fief. Already a knight is directly promoted to an earl, and is allowed to choose any unclaimed realm within the kingdom. And give you a Valyrian steel sword, plus a set of top-of-the-line armor! Jon Clinton didn't forget to shout out to cheer his men on. At the sound of his words, the knights were immediately refreshed and their fatigue was gone.
Robert is very "expensive", worth 100,000 gold dragons! It's equivalent to 20 million silver deer! This is a staggering amount of money, enough for the average family to nourish for hundreds of years (without inflation and spending money on luxury goods).
With a desire for Robert Baratheon's hefty bounty and the promised lands and titles from Earl Jon Clinton, this army is a powerful army, especially since their enemies are nothing more than a group of routs!
Without even thinking about it, they rushed towards Robert and the others who were fleeing, even if they entered a canyon, not because Jon Clinton was not vigilant, but because the information told to them by the cheating Grand Duke Mace Tyrell was simply wrong, so that they thought that Robert's army was a remnant of a defeated army that fled.
Jon Clinton's cavalry rushed into the valley like a swarm, and Robert's army had the advantage of being the first move, so they were able to open up the distance between Jon Clinton's troops. Then in the winding valley, with a turn, the Robert army had disappeared from their field of vision.
What will happen to them? Chase! But when Jon Clinton, who was at the forefront, managed to slow down his horse and turn, he was surprised to find a dense array of shiny spears in front of him.
Jon Clinton, with his amazing horsemanship and quick reflexes, reined in time, and the horse's high front hooves were raised high, and then he screamed rhythmically, which was barely reinforced.
But the other knights under his command did not have this ability, they didn't have time to react, the war horse was the first to be stabbed by the spear, and the war horse was in pain, and directly came to a sudden brake, throwing out the unsuspecting knight.
Several unlucky eggs crashed headlong into the spear, and due to the inertia of the horses, they hit the sharp spears one by one, and the chain mail on their bodies was pierced by the spears, and the inertia of the spears went straight through their bodies, turning them into "toothpick meat".
Even if they were lucky enough not to die, they would fall heavily to the ground, and before they could get up, several spears "mending knives" pierced their bodies, turning them into steaming corpses.
Han Xing's choice of blocking position is extremely tricky, just after the turn, we all know, "turn ahead, slow down and go slowly". This is something that needs to be observed in both cars and horses, even in trains, and it is an iron law when anything turns.
This also means that Jon Clinton's troops lost their speed advantage when turning, and the position of the Robert Army was just when they were just turning, which meant that they had no time to react, and even if they did, they would inevitably crash headlong due to the inertia of the horses.
Jon Clinton realized that he had been ambushed, and he couldn't help but secretly curse himself for being an idiot, and he got carried away to the point of diving into such a dangerous position. But now it's too late to regret it, either rush over or retreat!