Chapter 18: The Trap
Although it was very dark, Sun Chenghuan could still see that in front of the official road, a large area of black pressure was approaching him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Or rather, I'm running towards them.
It's that forest.
Sun Chenghuan suddenly sounded the alarm in his heart.
Just when Sun Chenghuan decided to turn the horse's head to the side and run out of the official road, an arrow shot over.
Not to shoot people, but to shoot horses.
Fortunately, perhaps because of the distance, the arrow missed a little.
It's just that this arrow, like an order, suddenly accelerated the cavalry that was only slowly following behind Sun Chenghuan.
Sun Chenghuan knew that there must be archers ambushed on both sides of the official road ahead, and it was those archers who came from Carter.
In this instant, he understood Eldraine's tactics.
He's not as clueless as he seems!
Defenses were deployed on both sides of the official road, with archers in the direction to the east, and a hundred cavalry in the direction to the west.
Lay out your pockets and sit back and go.
That's why he started attacking the city wall there! The four hundred cavalry he led to attack the city did not intend to annihilate everyone at the post station from the beginning, but only to drive them out. After escaping from the post station, he must have run to the surrounding post stations to ask for help or take refuge, so the ambush on the official road is the best.
It can even prevent people who quietly escape from the post station before dark from slipping through the net.
Now they are speeding up behind them, just to drive themselves into the pockets of the archers in front of them!
Since Sun Chenghuan already knows the other party's purpose and does what the other party thinks, he is really stupid.
Flicking the horse's head to the side, Sun Chenghuan ran away from the official road with the horse.
On the side of his body towards the woods, bows and arrows kept coming at him.
Behind him, there were less than a hundred chasing cavalrymen who began to shoot arrows at him non-stop.
The pursuit, which had been going on for a while, became stormy in an instant.
Then, Sun Chenghuan found that he seemed to have really fallen into a trap.
In front of him, a platoon of archers had already set up their formation, and a rain of arrows shot at him.
It seems that the other party has already estimated that he will be rerouted and run outside the official road!
Misguided......
Sun Chenghuan was a little frustrated for a moment, after all, he hadn't really been on the battlefield, and he finally felt shallow on paper!
It's just that he doesn't have much time to hurt himself or self-reflect.
The pursuit from behind made it impossible for him to stop his horse, and the rain of arrows pouring from the front of him, if he rushed over, it would be almost like sending him to death.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, Sun Chenghuan made a difficult decision.
Storm into the woods!
Turning the horse's head, Sun Chenghuan ran towards the side that had just advanced.
Head-on, it's an arrow.
It's still shooting at the war horse.
Sun Chenghuan silently said sorry in his heart, stepped on the stirrup with a slight force with his feet, and then pressed the war horse he was riding with his hand.
This press was very hard, and the horse, which was still galloping wildly, fell to the ground at once.
Then with this force, Sun Chenghuan jumped off the horse at once.
The archer's arrow immediately changed the direction of the horse, and instead ran towards Sun Chenghuan.
Sun Chenghuan, who flew into the sky, didn't even have anything to borrow from, so he could only become a target for archers there.
Sun Chenghuan also regretted it a little, he just pressed too hard.
What are you flying so high? Is this going to the sky?
Trying to swing the knife in his hand and block a few critical arrows that shot at his body, Sun Chenghuan, who was hit by two arrows in his legs, finally landed.
Unlike the arrow that just hit him in the back, which only felt a little itchy, these two arrows that hit Sun Chenghuan's leg really made him feel pain.
It hurts a little and is good for concentration.
After landing, Sun Chenghuan didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and rushed into the woods.
The arrows shot head-on, Sun Chenghuan can block those who can, and if he can't, as long as he doesn't want to die, he will eat hard, he can't care so much.
An arrow hit Sun Chenghuan's left shoulder, and an arrow hit his right leg.
Not only in front of him, but also in his back, he was hit by three arrows in a row.
The pain all over his body, coupled with the continuous hours of running away, made his spirit seem to be a little out of his body.
No, you have to go into the woods and find a place to hide and heal to recover.
This is the only voice in Sun Chenghuan's head now.
Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, finally, Sun Chenghuan rushed to the edge of the forest.
On the tree, an archer aimed at Sun Chenghuan, who was already with at least a dozen arrows stuck in his body at this time.
Sun Chenghuan raised his hand, and a magic spell that had been prepared for a long time was hit.
The archers in the trees, along with the arrows in his hand, disappeared.
It's like the two ten-captains who were just outside the Xiguan Station.
At the moment of entering the forest, Sun Chenghuan turned his head and glanced behind him.
Snatching a horse from his cavalry, Ai Zhuo, who had been chasing Sun Chenghuan closely behind, had also jumped off his horse.
It's just that he can't be like Sun Chenghuan, burying his head and hurrying all the time.
Here, in addition to Merce's cavalry, there are also those Carter's archers who can shoot arrows continuously, even if Ace himself is not afraid that those archers will suddenly change their minds and shoot himself, the deputy commander of Merth's Western Legion, but none of his soldiers who have been fighting against Astrana and Carter will maintain trust in these enemies.
At the same time that Sun Chenghuan turned his head and ran towards the woods, those cavalry pursuers slowed down one after another, and formed a formation outside the range of the archers, only shooting arrows at Sun Chenghuan from a distance.
As the "coordinator" of the two forces here, even if Eltrue hated Sun Chenghuan to the core, he knew that he had to explain to Carter's archers and Merce's cavalry before he could pursue Sun Chenghuan.
Seeing that Ai Zhuo behind him did not immediately rush towards him, but turned around to talk to the cavalry, Sun Chenghuan finally let out a long breath.
You seem to be safe for the time being?
After the feeling in my heart that I would die immediately if I didn't run disappeared, the pain suddenly appeared.
Shoulders, legs, back.
After running wildly in the woods for a long time, at last, I saw a bush that was not too low.
Enough to hide.
Sun Chenghuan didn't think much about it, and immediately dived in.
As soon as he sat on the ground, Sun Chenghuan immediately began to pull arrows from his back, legs and shoulders.
Before, the arrow was inserted in the body, and no blood came out, but after the arrow was pulled out here, the blood flowed out in an instant.
It hurts!
Sun Chenghuan gritted his teeth so that he didn't call out.
It was as if it was the first time he had actually suffered an arrow wound.
Before, because he knew magic, he somewhat looked down on the skill of archery, and he didn't learn it seriously when he was in school, and now, he regrets it.
Compared to the speed at which magic is cast, archery is indeed much faster!
The seven arrows were arranged in a row in front of Sun Chenghuan, and after that, they used healing magic on themselves.
Healing technique, he also learned the healing magic of this light system.
Fortunately, it's symptomatic.
After all, compared to the magic of the life system, which is more inclined to treat internal injuries, the magic of the light system is still effective for external injuries.
Ten minutes. After four treatments, the wounds on Sun Chenghuan's body have basically healed completely and stopped bleeding.
It's really tiring!
Sun Chenghuan really wants to lie down in the grass and get a good night's sleep now.
Anyway, with such a large forest, there are only about a hundred of them, and it is difficult to find themselves.
It's just that when he just lay down and didn't even close his eyes, he knew that his escape was going to continue.
Because he heard the dog barking.
And Sun Chenghuan's body ......
He glanced at the blood on his clothes that had just been stained by pulling arrows.
I do seem to be a little too optimistic.
Creek, or river. He found himself in desperate need of a place to cut the smell of blood off his body.
As for the blood on the clothes, it's easy to say.
Sun Chenghuan touched the black mark on the ring finger of his left hand.
There are also a few clothes in the storage ring.
"Thank you, Erin!" Sun Chenghuan whispered.
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