Chapter Seventy-Seven: Ambush

As dusk fell, Ma Shen and the rest of the people staggered along, all of whom were wearing delicate armor and holding shields printed with golden lions, and from a distance it looked like they were all Lannisters' team, but if you looked closely, you could see that there were occasionally a few holes in these armors, and even some of the armor sizes did not match the wearer's figure.

It seems that the equipment has been upgraded, but Ma Shen and his party are not happy about the equipment on their bodies, minus those who died in battle and fled in the middle of the night, the original team of nearly 400 people has been reduced to less than 200 people, and the rest of the people are also injured.

Generally speaking, half of the casualty rate is enough to make most of the troops scatter, but what is surprising is that this team built up of gold dragon coins has persevered, even if it is not far from collapse, is it not to say that the power of money is still huge.

It shouldn't be far away, Ma Shen wiped the blood that had solidified on his forehead, it was so slimy that he didn't have time to wash it, Ma Shen complained slightly in his heart, and looked up at the unreachable ahead, the local mercenary who was familiar with the road had already slept peacefully in the attack last night, but according to what he said before, he could reach Harrenhal by following this road.

In such a short period of 1 day from yesterday to today, she was pursued by Lannister soldiers 5 times, first by cavalry, and then gradually even by infantry, which shows how urgent Cersei is to capture the two young ladies of the Stark family.

As for the reason why the pursuers can keep catching up, Ma Shen is also unspeakable, his speed here is too slow, there are old men and women, the team is too clumsy, and the speed is really not fast.

If it were other nobles, they might consider abandoning all the old and sick, and take only Arya and Sansa with them, and ride directly to Harrenhal, so that they can be fast and do not have to worry about being attacked by Lannister soldiers from time to time in this team.

But Ma Shen, like those nobles, also sent the loyal and horse-riding Stark soldiers to leave with the two young ladies first, but Ma Shen himself stayed, and if he left, those men hired by him would definitely run away without staying.

"Hurry up, it's almost there. Regardless of his own exhaustion, Ma Shen kept cheering up the rest of the people, trying to make the remaining mercenaries see the hope of a better life.

"My lord" The new centurion scar man ran up, "Another person died in the carriage, what should I do?"

"Put him on the side of the road, and we'll be buried later." Ma Shen sighed and said, the carriage in the team has all been given to the seriously injured, what is the most on the battlefield, of course, the most wounded, the lightly injured are fine, bandaged can still fight, but if it is seriously injured, it will be troublesome, and it will not be lost, and if it is lost, it will be too big a blow to morale, and no one knows if the next seriously injured person is not himself, if he does not lose it, it will drag down the trip, and there is a shortage of drugs in the team, and it can only be a psychological comfort with these seriously injured people.

"Okay, my lord" Scarface nodded, and was about to turn to leave, but saw 2 cavalry suddenly rushing towards him in the distance.

"Huh" The scar man was like a frightened bird, and quickly pulled out his two-handed sword pinned to his waist: "Alert!"

"It's fine. Ma Shen squinted at the two cavalrymen coming in front of him, and raised his hand to stop Scar Man's movements, and there were only two cavalrymen coming from the opposite side, which should not be Cersei's pursuers.

"Is it Sir Ma Shen?" In the eyes of many guards, the two cavalrymen slowly stopped more than ten meters away from the team, and asked loudly towards Ma Shen's team.

At this time, Ma Shen also saw the coats of arms on the two cavalrymen in front of him, nine black bats, which means that these two cavalrymen are from the He'an family in Harrenhal, and they are reinforcements, Ma Shen was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "I'm Ma Shen, are the two He'an family from Harrenhal?"

"Great, but I've finally found you, Sir. Hearing Ma Shen's reply, a cavalryman breathed a sigh of relief and rode up to Ma Shen.

"What is he going to do?" asked Ma Shen, looking at the other cavalryman who had turned his horse's head and left.

"He's going to inform Knight Kremund. The young horseman turned over and dismounted and explained, "In the early hours of this morning, two young ladies of the Stark family came to Harrenhal to ask for help, so Lady Ha'an sent Knight Kmund with 200 cavalry to come to the rescue. ”

"Is the Knight of Kmund far from here now?" asked Ma Shen what he was most concerned about at the moment.

"It's not far from here, it's ... The young cavalryman was introducing, but suddenly saw Ma Shen pull out the sword at his waist, "Take the shield, be on guard!"

Ma Shen was listening to the words of this cavalryman before, but he saw the departing cavalry in the distance suddenly fall from his horse, and when he heard Ma Shen's shout, the rest of the people, whether they were mercenaries or Stark family members, quickly picked up the shields that they had snatched from the pursuers.

"Boom, whistle, whistle" and at the moment when Ma Shen shouted, a large amount of arrow rain came from the grass on both sides.

"Hurry up, leave them alone, reinforcements are ahead. Ma Shen shouted to everyone, blocking a flying arrow, hoping that this cavalryman was not wrong, otherwise he would die, and by the density of this arrow, he knew that this attack was different from the previous ones.

"Kill!!" Seeing that the bows and arrows did not have much effect, a large group of pursuers rushed from both sides with swords.

"Let's go, don't entangle with them!" Ma Shen slashed a chasing soldier in front of him with a sword in his red eyes, and at this time the role of high force was reflected, not to mention how many people could be killed, but it was still possible to open a way.

"Kill!" "Qiang Bang" "Ah!!" There was a scene of chaos everywhere, Ma Shen ignored the screams behind him, and kept rushing forward, there were too many chasing soldiers, and he must rush out before they surrounded him, and those who were dragged by the pursuers would ask for more blessings for themselves, and they couldn't manage so much.

"Bell!" Ma Shen, who had been opening the way, ignored the sword attacking from the left, but just dodged slightly, trying to avoid the fatal point, and then cut a soldier in front of him in half with a sword.

The shoulder armor on the shoulder of "呲" was broken, leaving a scar on the shoulder, Ma Shen didn't care about this injury, and continued to rush forward with the rest of the people, at this time it was impossible to keep it unharmed, there were too many people, how suddenly they all rushed out, maybe they had already been ambushed, just waiting for their people to enter the encirclement, fortunately they met two cavalry from Harrenhal, in order to prevent the arrival of reinforcements, the pursuers started in advance, otherwise if the team entered the encirclement in the action, it would be troublesome.

I don't know how long it took, Ma Shen's eyes were empty, he should have rushed out, and ripped off the intestines hanging around his neck, the task of charging has been completed, so it is time to break off: "Quick, go quickly!!"

A person ran in front of Ma Shen with a hasty face, one, two, three... Ma Shen resisted the attack of the pursuers, and counted silently in his heart, of course, this number did not count those mercenaries, Ma Shen did not care about their lives, and now they are all members of the Stark family.

"Beware!" Ma Shen pulled up Sister Mordan who tripped over the corpse on the ground in front of him, ignored Sister Mordan's thanks, and cut down the sneak attacker behind him with a sword.

In danger of their lives, everyone exploded to their full potential, even those who were already seriously injured were wriggling on the ground.

After a while, when the Stark family members in front of him no longer appeared, and all the Lannisters were in front of him, Ma Shen knew that he should retreat.

With a kick, he hooked up the corpse on the ground and knocked down the two unrelenting pursuers in front of him, and was about to escape, but Ma Shen was dumbfounded, he seemed to be surrounded, to be precise, he had been surrounded.