Chapter 152: Ambush
However, it was not easy to lure Lawson, who had a task on his part, out of the team.
After a night of contemplation, Alan suddenly had an idea and came up with a way to pretend to be the great magician Amaar to rob the road, believing that with Emaar's identity as the second leader of the horse bandits, although it is suspicious, it is enough to attract Lawson out, as long as he can get out of the team, then he has a chance to catch him, and then force him to confess the whereabouts of others. And this has the advantage that it is not easy to reveal your true identity.
The plan went even more smoothly than expected, and Lawson's eyes turned red when he heard that Eren was the second leader of the horse bandits.
Allen and the others feigned defeat and turned around and fled, while Lawson led more than 30 of his men to chase after them. The two groups fled and chased, and Allen led Lawson into a fork in the road, and soon ran for more than a dozen miles.
Lawson led his men to chase after them, but instead of catching up, they couldn't even see Allen's shadow, and when they were hesitating to continue the chase, there was a sudden fork in the road ahead.
"Commander, which way should we go?"
Standing at the crossroads, one of his men asked Lawson.
"Go down and check the horseshoe prints and see which way they went. ”
The masked men fled much faster than Lawson had imagined, and it seemed difficult to catch up with them, but he didn't want the fat to slip away.
"Back to the head of the regiment, there are no fresh horseshoe prints on either road. ”
The two men dismounted and inspected the road for a while before returning to report.
"What! There are no two roads? So where did they go? There was no other way here. ”
Lawson asked, looking around. However, just as he looked at a grove on the left side of the road, there was a sudden sound of two consecutive bowstring twitching in the grove.
"Whoosh!"
"Be careful, there is an ambush. ”
"Ahh
By the time Lawson reminded him, it was too late. Two shadows flashed, and two guards immediately fell off their horses screaming.
"Rush over and don't stop. ”
Lawson continued to shout, he knew that it must be the missing horse bandit who ambushed him, but now the horse bandit was hiding in the woods, which was not good for them, and this unfavorable situation had to be changed first, so the best thing to do was to stay away from the woods first.
These guards were well-trained, and the people of the Vigil of the Ancient City of Bio did not know how much stronger, and they did not panic because they were ambushed, and after hearing Lawson's order, they quickly increased the speed of their horses, and the members of the outer edge took off the wooden round shields hanging on the side of the horses, forming a line of defense against a sneak attack with bows and arrows.
But to their surprise, the bowstring stopped after only two rings, and the sky was replaced by the shrill chirping of arrows in the air, replaced by a whirring wind, and a huge blue disc flew out of the woods, all the way above the ranks, and exploded. In an instant, sharp ice flakes shot wildly downward.
"There's a magic attack overhead, be careful. ”
The moment the ice tray flew out, Lawson had already reminded loudly. Seeing that it was the ice burst magic, the guards immediately raised their shields to protect the top of their heads, but the round oak shield they used was very small, although it could protect the body of the cavalry, but it could not protect the entire body of the horse, and some ice fragments rubbed the edge of the shield and hit the body of the war horse.
It is difficult for a piece of broken ice to cause serious damage when it hits a horse's back, but this ice burst magic is a little different, the ice cube is infused with extremely cold magic before it is launched, so when the chill in the ice chip that hits the horse's body attacks, the horse immediately can't bear it, the lucky horse slows down, and the unfortunate horse falls directly to the ground, lifting the rider on horseback out.
"Buzz ......"
The attack of the ice flakes was not completely over, and there was already a buzz in the air, and the wind blades with a diameter of more than a foot were rushing towards the guards like a swarm of bees.
The guards could not defend in two directions at the same time, and suddenly there was chaos, some shields protected their heads, and some shields protected their sides, but none of them could completely protect themselves, and the guards suddenly remembered a scream.
The attack was not only that, a group of people were killed in the woods behind the wind blade, and rushed towards them, among which there were four leaders, two people were riding on horses and holding long swords in their hands, and their bodies were shining with yellow fighting energy, one person was holding a short sword with a strange shape in his hand, and the last person was light and agile, holding a bow and arrow in his hand, and the moment he rushed out, he had pulled the bowstring twice in a row, and shot the two guards off the horse.
There is not only one great magician in ambush, but also at least two high-level swordsmen, these people have been prepared for a long time, and they are extremely skillful in cooperation, if they continue to hold on, they are afraid that not only will they not be able to catch Emaar, but they may even have to take their own lives.
"Withdraw!"
Almost instantly, Lawson had already made a judgment about the current situation, and gave the order to retreat, and he was the first to turn his horse's head and rush out the way he came. Behind him, two high-ranking swordsmen had already mounted their horses and slaughtered into the group of guards.
Lawson's mission this time was not really a guard, but to show the welcoming gesture of the Lua Church, so the strength of the team members brought out was not strong, they were all junior and intermediate swordsmen, they couldn't block the attack of the four people who rushed out, especially the two senior swordsmen, they relied on the sharpness of the long sword in their hands, and they had already cut off the two people from their horses as soon as they saw them.
Lawson didn't care about the injured and fallen brothers at this time, and with a dozen brothers who had not fallen off the horse, he began to rush back at an accelerated pace, and the strength shown by the opponent made him understand that he had been fooled, and the opponent's previous performance was clearly deliberately showing weakness and leading him to take the bait. And the person who was suspected of being the great magician Amaar was still hiding in the grove next to him, so he just wanted to get out of the ambush as soon as possible, as long as he got rid of the attack of the magician, no matter how strong the remaining high-level swordsmen were, it was useless to catch up with them.
The area of the forest was not large, only more than two hundred steps, and soon Lawson's men had rushed to the edge of the woods, but at this time, a crisp magic spell sounded in their ears, and the center of the originally empty road suddenly lit up, followed by a red light, and rushed out of thin air a wall of fire to block the way. Their horses were so fast that they didn't have time to slow down and adjust their direction, and they crashed straight into them.
More than a dozen knights all activated the fighting qi body, although they felt hot and unbearable at the moment they passed through the wall of fire, but they were not injured, but the war horses under them were not so lucky, the hair on the bodies of several horses was ignited by the flames, and became like thunder, and soon the knights on horseback were overturned to the ground, and less than ten horses were left to continue to rush forward, but suddenly the sand where the horse's hooves landed on the ground was soft, as if stepping into a trap, the horse's head was light, and it had fallen to the ground.
At the moment when the horse stumbled, Lawson screamed badly, and he pressed his hand on the horse's back, and the man had already jumped up and landed firmly in the middle of the road.
As soon as he landed, Lawson immediately changed direction and flew towards the woods on the other side of the road, now that he had lost his horse, it was impossible for him to escape from his opponent's pursuit with speed, and he could only escape with the cover of the trees. But he hadn't run a few steps when a dark shadow slowly fell from the sky in front of him, just in front of him. The person who came was dressed in a black robe and covered his face, and it seemed that it was Emaar who he was bent on chasing.