Chapter Seventy-Three: Private Agreement
Avi and the female knight captain Selena led all the cavalry and explored upstream. Although this stretch of road borders a large plain, not a single person from the East Oguna Empire can see it. Unbeknownst to them, of course, that the viscount steward named Gikis had crossed the river and gone to the city of Crafeld to negotiate a secret agreement with the leader of the Church League.
But at this moment, directly in front of them, on the bank of the river, more than a dozen cavalry appeared, and they were laughing and cursing with the other dozen cavalry on the opposite bank.
"Those people should be the troops of the East Oguna Empire!" Hughes saw clearly, those guys were not mercenaries of the Church Alliance, and it was likely that they were waiting for someone to cross the river.
"Let's hurry over and catch them!" Selena immediately pulled out the knight's sword from her waist and commanded her subordinates behind her to charge, while her subordinate church knights reacted instantly, and drew their knight's swords one after another, pointing directly at the dozen or so cavalrymen.
Avi also felt that the opportunity could not be missed, they had not completed the task assigned by Commander Satnam at all, and now it was rare for a small number of enemies to appear, and maybe they could capture any information. He shouted as well, telling all the mercenaries to rush towards the pile.
The troops of the East Oguna Empire had already reacted, and they mounted their horses and fled quickly, while the cavalry on the other side of the river, seeing that the momentum was not right, immediately pulled the wooden boats used to cross the river ashore and ran in the direction of the city of Crafe.
"Avi, you chase to the west, I'll chase to the south!" said Selena, the chief knight, and then commanded her church knights to chase the ten cavalry to the south, and Avi continued to pursue the remaining four.
Most of the mercenary cavalry led by Avi rode very ordinary horses, and some were pack horses, so he rode the "king" given to him by Russell, and suddenly approached one of the slowest Imperial cavalrymen. The Imperial cavalry suddenly turned around and threw a knife at Avi's body, and before Avi could dodge, the "king" under his crotch hissed, and then jumped up, dodging the flying weapon as he jumped.
With his superb equestrian skills, Avi was certainly not thrown off his horse, but he could hear the neighing of the "king" just now.
"I'm going to jump up and get out of it!"
This sentence is the meaning of the roar of the war horse under the crotch. It's been a long time since Avi heard an animal's whisper, but he didn't expect to hear it again at this time!
The cavalry of the empire didn't expect Avi to be able to dodge, and he even pulled the reins of the war horse and galloped away. However, Avi's "king" was really wild, and the sneak attack that almost injured it just now made it even more vigorous, and in an instant it chased after the imperial cavalry.
Avi immediately drew the knight's sword and slashed at the back of the imperial knight. The other party was also cut to the ground, and the war horse under the crotch continued to run forward.
"Squadron Leader Avi! the three of you are running away, just leave this guy to me!" Squad Leader Hughes shouted not far behind him, and at this time, Squad Leader Luca, who was originally beside him, had already caught up, and at a glance, he knew that Luca's riding skills were also very exquisite.
When Avi heard this, he continued to run in the direction of the remaining three, and now except for Luca, the other mercenary cavalry were far behind.
On the other hand, the cavalry of the Oguna Empire was indeed particularly vigorous, and the Golden Hoof City, where Avi and his mother Joni were located, had frequent good horses, and all the soldiers on horseback were amazed by Joni's horsemanship. Although the cavalry in front of him was not as good as the Golden Hoof City, there was no way for Avi to catch up with them in a moment and a half, so he had to approach slowly.
Avi noticed that one of the three horsemen was only dressed in a servant's costume, and his horse was more special, it turned out to be pure white. Avi also noticed that the other two cavalrymen were actually protecting the man, and he slowly took out a javelin that Selena had given him from behind his back and aimed it at the guy on the white horse.
Avi, who had taken aim, immediately let go and threw the javelin over, hitting Hakuba's ass right in. The "servant" was immediately thrown to the ground by the painful white horse, and was almost trampled by the cavalry beside him. When the two Imperial cavalrymen saw that the rider on the white horse had been knocked to the ground, they immediately turned around and rushed towards Avi with the spears they were carrying.
Luke, who was behind Avi, took out two double-headed chain balls out of nowhere and threw them at the rushing Imperial cavalry, hitting them both at the same time, knocking them to the ground.
One of the fallen cavalrymen tried to get up and draw his sword to slash at Avi, but Avi's knight's sword had already reached the opponent's chest first, piercing through the chest, killing him with one blow. The remaining cavalry and the "servants" gave up their resistance and were tied together under the control of Lukka and Avi.
"Captain Avi, it was really dangerous just now," this squad leader named Luka is a good horseback rider recruited from the Holy Light City, and he is only twenty-five years old this year, "I was lucky to catch this guy who seems to have an identity." He didn't usually talk much, always playing beside Hughes, who was ahead of him, and occasionally showed a sunny smile, which made his not handsome face a lot of points.
Avi also said: "Yes, next time we should not chase too quickly, otherwise we will also be very dangerous." After saying this, he looked at the "servant" who was tied to the ground, his teeth were shaking, and he couldn't even open his eyes to see himself, he was probably a timid fellow.
The other mercenaries all rushed over, and Hughes was the last, his horse still carrying the downed cavalryman from earlier, who looked to have passed out.
"Who are you? are you from Rivercastle?" Avi looked at the guy with his eyes closed, the other party had white skin and a gold and silver ring on his finger, and it was likely that he was a figure with a head and a face.
"I'm Viscount Hollis's butler! If you put me back at Rivercastle, we'll be rewarded!" the guy said as he shook the ring off his finger and signaled that it was a gift for Avi.
The cavalry tied up with him whispered, "Lord Gigis, didn't Lord Viscount say no?"
"You know what! We're all going to die now!" it turned out that this was the real Viscount Butler Gigies, who had already been frightened by this time, "These guys may just be thieves seeking money"
The whispers of the two were overheard by Avi, who was very sensitive to hearing, but it was Lukka who said, "What are you two quietly discussing?! ”
"Squadron Leader, are you a mercenary?" the butler Gigis suddenly raised his head, looking at Avi's eyes with a little more excitement, "We can pay! Just let us go, we're from Rivercastle!" he kept yelling, as if he would be slaughtered if he stopped shouting.
"Why are you here?" asked Avi.
"Because we're going to pick up civilians who haven't been evacuated yet!" Giggis looked flustered, but he gave a plausible explanation.
"Captain, why don't we arrest him back first, and wait for Deputy Head of the Fielder to interrogate them. Luca suggested.
The fear on the face of the butler, named Gigies, grew even greater when he heard the name "Fidel", and his lips were now trembling with it, in addition to his teeth.
"Well, that's what I thought, too, and I could just ask him about the cavalry last night. Avi nodded.
"Don't, don't, don't, don't take me back, I'll give you whatever you want," Giggis couldn't hold back anymore when he heard that he was going to be taken back for interrogation, and he kept twisting his body to break free from the rope that bound his hands. But it was only in vain, for Hughes and his mercenary cavalry had already surrounded them.
The chief knight had also picked up the fleeing cavalry, and it seemed that they had not caught a few cavalrymen, and most of them had been killed in the fleeing chase.
"With these guys from Rivercastle, you can finally go back and ask for credit!" Squad Leader Hughes shouted excitedly, he knew that the other party was a "big fish" at a glance when he saw Gigis, and the butler's greedy face for life and fear of death also highlighted his extraordinary status, "Look at him, he has a lot of valuable treasures on his body, wait! These are all the things of our Captain Avi! Don't grab them!"
The troops that were supposed to contain the cavalry of the East Oguna Empire lost the opportunity to complete the mission because of the change in the movement of the enemy's cavalry. They didn't know that the Church Alliance had lost more than 10,000 mercenaries in the battle of the three small cities, nor did they know that Rivercastle had sent people to discuss a private agreement with several of its leaders. But what they didn't expect was that they had now captured some people from Rivercastle, and what they didn't expect was that this butler Gikis had information about the secret agreement.