Jul 24, 2024
So he came to the door and Orca stepped in coldly in the hesitation of two guards who didn’t know whether to salute or not.
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Two hours later.
Oka returned to the mansion in a good mood after personally inspecting Cartus’s delivery to his legion. However, before he took a nap, he hurried to Garikas and brought him a bigger surprise.
"Are you sure? Odom is leaving? " The card can’t help but ask.
"There is absolutely no mistake. My brothers and I stared at him for two hours. Although he never came out in the mansion, dozens of people came into his mansion one after another. The costumes were all Grace family private soldiers, and most of them were captain-level." Garrikas described what he saw one by one with certainty. "Then some slaves in his mansion came out separately to buy materials. From those purchases, it can be inferred that Odom may soon leave Reese, where to go and what to do is unknown."
"Very good. These are enough." Oka laughed and explained with a smile when he saw Gary Kass with a puzzled face. "You should continue to monitor his movements. Don’t be followed by him when he finds someone in the dark. I know where he is going and what he is not doing as soon as he leaves."
Gary kass couldn’t help but look surprised when he heard this. "How do you know Orca?"
"It’s very simple," Orca said slowly, sticking up a finger. "At this time, the most trusted person around Cartus can only replace Juan. What do you think Odom will do when he leaves Reese? There is a possibility that Cartus can’t wait to gain an advantage when the situation improves, but Reese’s mobilization and adjustment are already the limit. He can send people to Grace’s influence to other cities that are in chaos due to the outbreak of rebellion to recruit legions and bring them back. "
"So Odom may be in charge?"
"It’s not possible, but absolutely even if he is an outsider," Rimmon flashed in Oka’s eyes. "But Cartus can trust him and all we have to do is intercept Odom and get the Grace family secret unnoticed!"
Section sixty-one FuSha
On the outskirts of Reese, a team composed of dozens of riders crossed the South Road of Te ru river, and one person and two horses were speeding at high speed without regard for horsepower.
Although winter in Spain is always warmer and more pleasant than in other parts of the empire, nature will not disobey the cold, but it will come late after all. At this time, you may not feel it at first, but after a few hours, you will clearly feel a trace of biting coldness in the oncoming wind, which seems to spread through the thick fur coat covered with armor.
However, compared with the dilemma of life and death and the embarrassment of eyes when he escaped from Salamanca a a few days ago, this small problem is not due to Odom’s consideration that even if there is a big obstacle, he can’t delay a minute. Odom wishes he had wings and flew directly to the southern city overnight. big sleep had to be suspicious all the way with such a parchment.
Odom set out early in the morning, and it has been almost three hours since now. The short team and abundant mount rotation have made them travel at a rapid speed of more than 27 Rome miles. The journey didn’t need to be so desperate, but just as it was about to happen, the Aris fortress came in an emergency. The imperial army suddenly stormed the fortress day and night, and the troops were short and the casualties were huge, which required urgent support.
According to the courier back, if reinforcements are not afraid, the fortress of Aris will fall in two days at most. Cartus and many nobles will become pale on the spot. I never thought that this situation would turn sharply. Just added two full-fledged legions, and I couldn’t keep it. Finally, after some discussion, Cartus Nai was able to dispatch a legion and an auxiliary legion again and immediately rushed to Aris. The garrison regiment and another auxiliary regiment controlled by Orca were left in this city, and the defense of the fortress was only 7% completed.
So naturally, after the Military Intelligence Council, Cartus secretly summoned Odom and asked him to set off for the nearest city in the south at once to recruit troops. Odom took the order and dared not delay to call for people to spend the city in a few minutes. ru river was the biggest danger, and the scouts of the imperial army covered the whole of Teru river. However, Odom and his party did not encounter scouts, but they easily crossed the river and continued to gallop. Now there are less than 11 Roman miles left from the nearest city at noon, and they can arrive in the early morning according to the footwork.
However, whether people or horses have to take a short rest after such a long gallop, it is not that they have reached the limit, but that the next road will pass through a dense forest, and the edge of the original forest is a military camp post. After the rebellion broke out, all the places were in a mess and the garrison could not be shaken. Most of these remote sentries should have escaped, but they cannot rule out certain threats. After all, it is nothing new to fall into thieves and robbers after Roman soldiers retired.
The so-called forest is inaccessible and the forest land is dangerous. If it is really unfortunate, these may be soldiers and thieves. Although Odom is not afraid of getting worse, it is difficult for even evergreen trees to have sparse branches and leaves. Those waist-deep bushes have long withered and withered to hide their tracks.
If you attack hundreds of Uzbekistan directly, you may not be your elite opponent, but Odom is still careful not to ask for help. Now is not the time to get into trouble. Take a rest before entering the woodland and let the guards keep their eyes open. In case of loss, if there is a guy who doesn’t know how to live or die, then there is no need to let the blood-unhappy warriors exercise their muscles.
So after about half an hour’s rest, the descendants drank enough horses to feed Odom and his party, and rushed into the forest head-on along the road with great fear. A piece of tight encirclement was waiting for them for a long time, and when they disappeared into a lonely forest road, they quietly closed the murderous cloth.
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Tap, tap, tap ~ ~ ~
Crisp horseshoes step out of a fast-paced tune on a flat path. Two knights of the Grace family are on the road about 200 meters in front of the brigade and at the same time explore whether there is any enemy situation.
It’s a pity that apart from the pale branches, there are occasionally a few foraging sparrows chirping and their own hip mounts making regular hooves. The surrounding area is quiet and 10 meters near the road is unobstructed. When someone peeks at it from the side, it will be known that it is unprecedented for scouts to work.
However, both knights are senior private soldiers of the Grace family, and they are more or less aware of the south, so they are still patient and careful to investigate along the way. Although they are not meticulous, they have not found anything suspicious. Naturally, they are wary and gradually lose their interest in continuing.
"It’s almost time for you to go back. The road is clear and everything is normal." Qi Qi reined in the reins and stopped the mount. One of the older knights turned his head and said,
Nodding, another young knight, Michio, didn’t say much. Just turn the horse’s head and go back. At this time, it suddenly changed!
"whoosh!" Hearing a ring, Michio suddenly turned his head and his face suddenly changed. He saw a rope with a circle at the front end thrown from behind a tree not far away and floated lightly from half and landed on the neck of a middle-aged knight by mistake! The middle-aged knight’s reaction was slow, and he just reacted.
And it is this moment that the front end of the rope is put on the neck of the middle-aged knight, and the noose has been tightened sharply. The young knight can clearly see that the rough noose is tightening and the skin surface is blue and purple!
However, the sensory response does not mean that the movement is equally sensitive. The young knight has clearly witnessed the sudden change of his expression after he was attacked. He desperately reached out and tried to untie the rope. The middle-aged knight was suddenly pulled by the end of the rope, which brought great power to pull the horse directly, but the movement came to pull out his sword and raise his hand to cut the rope. Unfortunately, it was a step slow after all!
"Uh, uh, uh!" The middle-aged knight who was violently pulled by the rope grabbed the noose with one hand and left a gap to avoid his neck being broken. With the other hand, he held his five fingers high, his face was purple, his eyes were ferocious and he looked out at the young knight Michio. There was no doubt that there was a meaning that he longed for Michio to save him!
Without the slightest hesitation, Mi Xiu was angered by the sneak attack. Before flattery, although he grabbed the rope, he must be a strong man. The middle-aged knight struggled hard and was dragged to the Woods, but the horse was faster. Shimei Xiu’s horse had rushed to the crowd. The dagger in Mi Xiu’s hand was already stretched out and pointed to the middle. Straightened the rope and saw that the horse was about to leap over the middle-aged knight!
Suddenly! It’s as if someone who is high above deliberately teased all sentient beings. At that moment, the rope strength suddenly doubled invisibly to the naked eye! So a crunchy middle-aged knight has been grabbing the noose, and the pain in his left hand and fingers is broken, and then it prevents the noose from being directly attached to the neck bone. Although it is buffered by fingers, it does not break the bone, but the blood is tightly squeezed and severely oppressed. The middle-aged knight immediately fainted when his eyes turned over!
It doesn’t matter if you faint, but don’t forget that it is because he has been struggling that the dragging speed is so slow. As soon as he is unconscious and the struggling strength disappears, the rope suddenly becomes like pulling a knight’s body like a skin, and the speed suddenly increases!
So the tragedy happened!
Jumping up, the young knight’s estimation time is fatally deviated due to the sudden acceleration of rope pulling! With an incredible expression on his face, he bowed his head in the semi-young knight, just watching a horse belly passing forward and then tragically overlapping with the horseshoe at the same point and moment!
Poof!
The young knight sat astride the horse in wait for a while and watched the bloody scene happen in front of him, but the culprit was not the attacker hiding in the dark, but himself or a pair of horseshoes!
The middle-aged knight lay limply like a rag bag on the young knight’s horse belly. There is no doubt that he is dead, but there is no fatal injury to his trunk and limbs except that he was dragged and rubbed on the ground. In fact, everyone may have guessed the ending.
The heavy horseshoe directly stepped on the middle-aged knight’s head and hundreds of kilograms of gravity on the fragile skull. The result is self-evident
Poof! Just as a rotten watermelon fell to the ground, it became a big pool of red and white paint all over the ground, which was disgusting!
Originally, I was trying to rescue my companion, but I stepped on his head. I haven’t seen the killing on horseback. The young knight’s eyes are glazed and his body is stiff. The whole person is like a petrified person!
However, the poachers will not hesitate because of this. What they want to create is this effect! Just when the young knight himself was at a loss, scared and at a loss, a figure dressed in a strange cloak and at first glance integrated with the surrounding scenery suddenly jumped out of the roadside with a dagger and rushed to the horse’s back!
The sudden movement behind him finally woke up the young knight. His face changed dramatically because he made one of the deadliest mistakes in the battle, and one of the costs was death. However, the young knight fulfilled the final mission of a soldier before the dagger-holding hand reached out from behind his neck and cut his neck with a sharp blade!
"Enemy attack!"