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Russell ran with sweat all over his face, and although it was the first chūn weather, his head was not strong, but he was tired and out of breath after running a little bit on his horse. What's more, the fatigue of this body is still secondary, and at this moment, Russell's heart is as anxious as a flame!

He led his subordinates out of the brigade to look for water, what did that adult have in mind?

With Russell's rich experience, he already had a faint sense in his heart that this attack was unusual! Dare to attack such a large convoy, and those horse thieves have always been well-informed, and they may have hidden eyeliner in Wildfire Town. Knowing that there are two mercenary groups guarding them, and they still dare to do it, then they must be in a lot of trouble when they think about it now.

After taking the people away, will the remaining dozens of people be able to resist the attack of the horse thieves? Where did the adult's unwarranted confidence come from?

Take water, take water!

Damn it, even if you get water, what's the use of the brigade being crushed by those horse thieves!

For a moment, Russell only thought that he must have gone mad, and that he would believe that "adult" who was so young that he could not speak! Well, I must be crazy! That kid is younger than Hawke, and he knows how much reason! So blind and arrogant, I am afraid that he may have been defeated by the horse thief by now!

Dozens of me have been running back and forth to find water, and it's been a waste of effort!

But then I thought about it, when the young adult made a decision, his expression was calm, and his expression was resolute - the last time he fought with the Odin, Russell had seen passing Byzantine troops in Wildfire Town, and those senior officers in the Byzantine Jīng Rui Standing Corps were faintly so magical, full of sharpness, and at the same time implied might...... Look at the appearance of the adult, but it doesn't look like frivolous arrogance.

Could it be that he really has a way to stop the attack of the horse thieves? With the number of dozens of people, he can fight against ten times the number of horse thieves...... There was even a moment when Russell couldn't help but think: Why don't you just take the people and run away! Anyway, before setting off from Wildfire Town this time, the young adult had already given half of the payment, and now he has two horses per person, so he can take the southwest non-stop way, and then go around in a circle back to Wildfire Town, relying on the mobility of the two horses, he will definitely be able to run out of the interception circle of horse thieves!

It's almost a certainty!

Run...... Or don't run?!

Russell's mind has been weighing and hesitating.

If you run, you will already get the money anyway, and you will get fifty horses out of thin air, which can be regarded as a big profit.

But in this way, it is too despicable and cowardly.

If you don't run...... Even if you find water and run back, you will be sent to death...... Seeing that Rì's head was westward, Russell suddenly immediately shouted: "Stop!!"

As soon as he shouted, the fifty mercenaries under his command immediately reined in their horses and stopped, and everyone was sweating at this moment, and someone asked, "Commander, what, do you want to rest?"

"Change horses!" Russell yīn had a calm face, and originally wanted to say "turn around", but when the words came to his mouth, after all, the pride in his heart and the principles of life did not allow him to do so, and finally sighed in his heart: Forget it, let's go crazy with that young adult once! If they are already defeated when I go back, it will not be too late for me to run away with people, anyway, I have two horses here, and if I really want to escape, I may not be able to run away.

"Change horses!!" the mercenary group shouted loudly, and then jumped off their horses one by one and changed into reserve horses.

These mercenaries are very tired, after all, they are not cavalry, nor are they horse thieves. Although he can also ride a horse, his riding skills are too bad, and he can barely ride a horse and gallop, as for some advanced riding skills, such as how to save horsepower, how to save physical strength, etc., he will not be able to do it at all.

As soon as some mercenaries galloped, they held the horse's neck with both hands, but the person was not tired to death, but almost exhausted the horse first. But all cavalry horsemen know how to conserve their physical strength to the maximum extent on their horses when they walk long distances, and these mercenaries are tense one by one, their legs tightly clamped between the horse's belly, and their physical exertion is extremely great. Even if I changed horses, my speed slowed down for a while.

Fortunately, what made Russell's heart feel a little relieved was that there were no horse thieves blocking the way to the west, and obviously those horses did not expect their side to dare to divide their troops to walk.

There is indeed a water source in the west, but the distance from the brigade is too far, and it will take two days for the fast horses to gallop back and forth, and if it is the speed of the brigade of chariots and horses moving slowly, I am afraid that it will not be able to reach it in six or seven days. Therefore, the horse thief is not afraid that the brigade on his side will be temporarily rerouted.

Russell was anxious and kept urging his subordinates to speed up, but these mercenaries were not good at riding after all, no matter how Russell urged, the speed of the group could no longer be faster, and after barely walking for a while, some of his subordinates couldn't help but complain: "Commander, I really can't run, let's stop and rest." ”

Russell yīn kept his face calm and shouted: "Nonsense! You guys are probably too idle lately, and your bones are lazy!

In fact, he himself is not lightly tired, although his martial arts skills are extraordinary, but after all, he is over forty years old, his physical strength is not as good as before, and he is not good at riding horses. Running all the way down, the two legs were sore and painful, especially the inner thighs, rubbing on the saddle for an afternoon, it was already a hot pain, and his body was almost falling apart on the horse's back, but as the head of the regiment, he had to set an example, otherwise even he would complain, let alone restrain his subordinates.

Seeing the regiment commander scolding, his subordinates complained: "Regiment commander, it's not that the brothers are lazy, the brothers follow you to the south and the north, and they haven't suffered anything! It's just that we are not cavalry after all, this horse gallops for a long time, and it is already a desperate life to run to this point, and if you run down, people and horses are no longer good, so let's stop and rest!"

Russell saw that sure enough, many of his mercenaries were already swaying on horseback, but he was very strict with his subordinates, so no one dared to leave behind to rest. And at this moment, many of them were pale under their hands, and they had obviously run out of strength, and even many horses were foaming at the mouth.

“...... Okay!" Russell gritted his teeth fiercely, and gave an order helplessly, but he was unwilling in his heart after all, and suddenly he raised his head and looked into the distance, and saw that on the horizon in the distance, he could faintly see a small hill covered with a forest from top to bottom, and Russell's heart moved, and he shouted: "Okay! Run to the forest in front of you, just stop to make a fire and eat! Everyone is working harder, and it will be there soon!"

After such an agitation, he urged his mercenaries to run forward a little further.

The mountain bag in the distance looks like it is not far away, but after all, there is a saying called "looking at the mountain and running a dead horse", and seeing that the mountain bag that seems to be not far away, it took half an hour to arrive.

As soon as they arrived at the forest, this time without waiting for Russell's order, all the mercenaries turned over and dismounted, and some of them threw themselves on the ground, and even the horses were not bolted, so they couldn't get up immediately.

Russell was furious, and whipped a few times with his whip, urging his men to reluctantly get up and lead the horses, and then slowly entered the forest. They did not go deeper, but stopped at the edge of the woods, and then they sent out men to dig the pits, and the branches of the branches, and the fires. Russell walked to the side, leaned against a big tree, naturally a henchman brought food, he ate a few bites indiscriminately and lost his appetite, but took out the water bag and poured it down in one go, only to feel that the burning feeling in his heart had subsided a little. He let out a long sigh, looking at his subordinates who were already tired and lying in a mess, and his heart was also worried.

When he was resting, Russell opened his pants and saw that a blister had already been ground out on the inner thigh, and the blister had already worn out, and the blood and pants were stuck together. He sighed, after all, his people used to accompany the caravan on foot, and the fact of riding a horse was too rare.

After all, a horse is an expensive piece of equipment, and the cost of feeding a horse that is not too good is enough to feed three or four strong men. Their mercenary group earns all their hard-earned money, where can they have the spare money to equip the horses? The horses used before this time were all borrowed by Char and the Gallens Chamber of Commerce.

Russell rested for a while, took a breath, recovered a little bit of jīng shenlai, and those who were used to it looked around him, his subordinates were tired, and he had already run far here, but he was not worried about encountering an ambush by horse thieves, so as soon as everyone stopped to rest, they were all tired and quickly lay down, and they didn't even care about the routine sending people to search for the jǐng rings around, although Russell had the intention to urge people to send people to the surrounding jǐng rings, but seeing that his subordinates were all shaking, he really couldn't make this ruthless heart: just slack off once, and nothing might happen。

But when I raised my head and looked around at this moment, this forest seemed to be quiet, but Russell's years of mercenary career cultivated it seemed that something was wrong.

This kind of jǐng feeling in his heart is not an inexplicable feeling, Russell knows very well that this kind of jǐng has saved his life countless times! He must have instinctively sensed that something was wrong, but he was physically and mentally exhausted at the moment, and he didn't think about what was wrong for a while, but the instinct he had cultivated over the years had already reminded him one step ahead!

Thinking of this, Russell stood up, held on to the tree, squinted his eyes and looked into the forest, thinking bitterly in his heart, and in an instant, his face changed wildly!

No! No!!

Such a large forest, naturally there must be a lot of birds inhabiting the woods! But such a large group of people ran in, people shouted horses neighing, if it was an ordinary wild forest, there should have been a large number of birds also alarmed and flying!!

But these people have been in for a long time, but where do you see any frightened birds?

So the only explanation is...... The birds in the woods here had already flown away before their own people arrived! Why did they fly away...... Naturally, there were already a lot of people here before my own people! And those people were only afraid of ...... It's in the woods right now!!

The more Russell thought about it, the clearer his thoughts became, and under the frantic change of his face, he immediately drew his long sword with a swipe and shouted: "Everyone get up......!"

Before he could shout, he suddenly heard a whistling sound from the woods! The sound of the whistle sounded from three directions at the same time! Then he heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping towards him! In several directions in the woods, at the same time, dozens of shadows of horsemen rushed out of the woods!

These riders who are ambushed in the forest are good at riding, although the forest is not too dense, but after all, the gap between the trees is not too wide. But the hundred and ten horses that rushed out of it came quickly in the cracks of the trees, as agile as apes!

Baiten rode in the woods and galloped quickly, but it was as if it was on the plain, the speed was not slow at all, Russell didn't say a word yet, and the rider who ran in front had almost rushed to everyone's eyelids!!

At this moment, the sky had already darkened, and I saw these dozens of cavalry galloping out of the woods, like ghosts! When they rushed up, they only heard the dull movement of the horses' hooves, but no one shouted at the horses! These guys came like ghosts, and they were simply ghostly in the night!

The mercenaries were immediately alarmed, many people jumped up with rolling and crawling, and some people rushed to get weapons, but these original riders quickly rushed into the mercenary group, and soon made a few interspersed divisions, and divided dozens of mercenaries into pieces, the riders on the horse bent down slightly, and did not see what weapons were used in their hands, and quickly knocked down the mercenaries one by one, and some riders rushed over, the two side by side, and then quickly dispersed, opened a large net and threw it out, and immediately three or five mercenaries were directly netted in it, and rushed up with the power of the horses, and directly collapsed the mercenaries！

In less than a moment, Russell was horrified to find that his fifty subordinate mercenaries had been defeated by the other party! The other party did not seem to have the intent to kill, but those guys on horseback scattered something like fishing nets, and their own people turned into fish in the net.

Russell saw that his heart was frightened and annoyed, and he frantically drew his sword and rushed out, roaring loudly, and slashing at the passing cavalry!

At this moment, Russell has seen the appearance of these riders clearly, and his heart is even colder!

These riders are not uniformly dressed, some wear cotton robes, some wear leather jackets, and some wear leather armor cuirasses, such a dress is simply a standard horse thief!!

Still ambushed by these horse thieves!!

Seeing that all his subordinates were knocked down and struggling in the net, there was no doubt that it was the end of a group annihilation! Russell's hands and feet were cold, his heart was desperate, and he couldn't help but roar in sorrow, and he pounced on it with his sword, and he already had a desperate thought!

When the riders saw him pounce, they pushed away with a hula and moved far away, and their movements were sharp and swift, and they heard the mocking laughter of the opposing rider in the darkness in the distance: "Don't worry, don't worry, you left it for our little leader." ”

As soon as these words came, I heard a voice full of energy from the woods: "You are the leader!

As soon as the words fell, he saw a majestic figure running out of the woods! By the faint light, Russell could barely see the person who came, and he was stunned when he saw the figure of the other party! The reminder of the person who came was extremely majestic, three points taller than the Hawke of the Fire Rhino Regiment he knew, with long hair scattered and wild, holding a two-handed heavy sword in his hand, and wearing armor, but his face was covered with iron, which covered his face.

This majestic figure pounced up, and immediately Russell felt a gust of wind in front of him! The heavy broadsword in the other party's hand was slashed down on the head! Russell gritted his teeth, and the horizontal sword went to block, and he heard a sonorous sound, and immediately felt as if he had been directly hit by the hammer of an ancient giant, and Russell felt the bells and drums ringing in his ears, and suddenly his whole body was like an overelectricity, and his bones made a clicking sound! The long sword made of jīng steel in his hand has been directly broken, and a good sword has directly turned into a folding ruler shape under the other party's split!

That's a lot of strength!

Russell's palm was in great pain, the tiger's mouth had been cracked, and even his wrist was directly injured, Teng Teng took a few steps back, standing unsteadily, and his opponent smiled disdainfully: "It turns out that this is only this ability!"

After speaking, he put away the sword with his backhand, but pointed at Russell's chest with the hilt of the sword! Although it was only the hilt of the sword, if it was pointed at this time, with the strength of the other party, Russell was sure that his sternum would be knocked out! He was shocked in his heart, and desperately moved back to dodge, after all, he had good martial arts skills, a few dodges, the opponent missed three times in a row, and he couldn't help but snort, and said angrily: "The body is quite agile, but blindly dodging, and you can't hurt the enemy, do you expect to use this kind of body to dodge and exhaust the enemy to death!"

At this moment, seeing that all his subordinates were caught, his heart was horizontal, he bent down and pulled out the dagger in his boots, and suddenly rolled on the spot, and stuck it towards the other party! Seeing the other party's giant sword split, he didn't care about it! He just had a desperate plan, even if a sword was hacked to death by the other party, he would stab this guy fiercely!

The man suddenly laughed: "There is still a little backbone." ”

After speaking, he didn't see how the other party moved, Russell felt that he hit his head on a hard iron wall, looked up, and suddenly felt a pain in his palm, the opponent's giant sword slapped the back of his hand with the side of the blade, although the other party had reserved strength, but this time, it almost broke Russell's hand, and then a strong bump over, Russell flew out, and after landing, three or four horse thieves next to him pounced, wiped their shoulders and back, and directly tied Russell with ropes.

Russell sighed in his heart: "That's it!

It's just that he was horrified in his heart, most of the horse thieves gang on the wildfire field knew their names, although there were a few hard-nosed guys, but he had never heard of the existence of strong people with such strength! This guy in front of him, three or two of them easily took him down, as if he was far from exerting his full strength! This kind of ability, let alone those horse thieves on the wildfire field, I'm afraid that the entire Byzantine Empire can't find a few!!

Thinking of this, Russell simply shouted and scolded loudly: "Okay! You won! Lao Tzu confessed to planting! Only this time you were driven by those Cossack guys, do you really have good intentions as those Cossack bastards! Those convoys belong to the Gallensian Chamber of Commerce, and you should also know what trouble you will cause if you rob the Gallens Chamber of Commerce! And that lord, he is a member of the Rhodria Cavalry Regiment, if you dare to do this, you will wait for the retaliation of the Rhodrian Cavalry Regiment in the future!"

After saying that, Russell closed his eyes and waited for death.

After saying this, he didn't wait for the expected butcher's knife to fall, and was silent for a while, and the majestic master on the other side suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and the voice of the urn under the mask came: "What nonsense are you talking about, what Cossack horse thieves, what Gallens Chamber of Commerce...... Hmph, after all these years, are the Cossack guys still doing the unruly deeds of black and black......? Garbage is garbage!"

After speaking, the other party slowly walked in front of Russell, raised his leg and kicked Russell to the ground, staring at Russell with two lightning-like eyes under the iron mask, and sneered: "Listen to you, it seems that some of you have been robbed by the Cossacks? Ha, are you still in the army? The Rhodellia Cavalry Regiment? Just these loose guys under your command are also worthy of claiming to be the people of the Rhodria Cavalry Regiment? Don't think I don't know you, you are Russell! I heard your name in my early years." ”

Russell snorted and his eyes widened: "Have you heard my name......?" You're not from the Cossacks?"

"It's not. The other shook his head, as if he smiled: "You are lucky, if you had met us a few days ago, you would have cut you down one by one! You Russell is also so famous, why do things are so wasteful? Jinlin doesn't send anyone to search for jǐng rings?hum......"

"Who the hell are you?!" Russell hurriedly asked, "since you are not one of the Cossacks, please let me go...... I admit it, since it's in your hands, it's a big deal that I'll pay the ransom! It's just that there are still people waiting for us to save our lives!!! If we can't go back, I'm afraid that Lord Char will be in danger!!"

The other party listened and smiled disdainfully: "I don't care about your affairs, let you go, it's not impossible, when we set off tomorrow morning, we will naturally release you before leaving, as for tonight, you will be honest first......

The man seemed to be careless, and when he said this, his eyes suddenly changed! The eyes burst out with a fiery light, and he suddenly roared, and grabbed Russell fiercely: "What did you just say! What Char-sama!! Say it again! Which Char-sama is it?!"

Russell was grabbed by the neck, suddenly had difficulty breathing, his face was flushed, and he struggled a few times before the other party's fingers loosened slightly, and his tone was full of anxiety and anger: "You tell me carefully!!The Cossacks want to eat black and deal with Char!!?

Russell had no choice but to grit his teeth and tell the story roughly, the other party seemed very excited, and asked a few more words about what the "Char-sama" looked like, Russell also said it truthfully, and even the appearance of several entourages around Char, Dodora, Sharpa, and Philip was not bad.

After hearing this, the other party seemed to be stunned for a while, and then suddenly threw away Russell and threw Russell aside!

I saw this majestic guy looking up to the sky and scolding: "Bastard!! bastard!! Cossack bastards!! How dare you move Char's idea!! The old lady cut them !!!!"

Old, old lady?!!

Hearing the other party call himself like this, Russell almost didn't faint.

The master was furious, and his anger was really like thunder! He roared: "Everyone get on their horses! Shine your knives! Go with the old lady and cut people!!"

Many subordinates responded with a bang, a whistle blew, and suddenly a hundred and ten horses rushed out of the forest!

Such a scene made Russell stunned! The other party had a total of more than 200 horsemen, lurking in the forest, and there was no movement, such an act, I am afraid that the Jīng sharp cavalry troops of the Byzantine Empire are like this!

Seeing the other horse's team coming out, every horse covered their mouths, thinking that it was to hide their tracks in the forest, no wonder their own people did not hear any movement when they entered the forest...... Russell was thinking wildly, when suddenly he was grabbed by the master again, and thrown on the back of a horse like a chicken.

"You!show us the way!! go and cut down those Cossacks!!Rescue Char-sama!!"

Although Russell's mind was in a mess at the moment, he still understood this sentence, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he couldn't help but ask in surprise on the horse: "Ah! You, may I ask ...... you?"

"Me?" The other party smiled proudly, turned over on his horse, and puffed out his chest: "The old lady is the fiancée of Lord Char, his future wife!!"

Thump!

Russell fell off his horse again!!

The other man, apparently very annoyed, grabbed him again and threw him on the horse's back, shouting, "Why are you so!

After speaking, she waved her hand: "Brothers, line up, follow me to cut people! Cossack bastards want to kill my husband! What do you say!!"

The people below responded: "Fuck it!!"

"Okay!Just go and fuck!!Cut the Cossacks!!Fuck!!!

More than 200 bright sabers were raised, and suddenly there was a snow!

Russell, who was riding on a horse, was determined, but immediately felt that none of the things he had experienced in his life could be as rare as what he encountered today.

He was dazzled by the more than two hundred sabers, and couldn't help but secretly look at the "Char-sama's wife" again.

Suddenly, Russell felt a little pity in his heart...... Alas, Char-sama...... He's a poor man.

There was a burst of "cut fuck" shouts, and more than 200 riders swept out like a raging wind......