In this way, the three of them chased each other for a long distance, until the shadow of the small outpost disappeared around a corner.
The two Lombard pursuers were less than twenty steps away from Ron, and they were still babbling, probably ordering Ron to stop and surrender.
Ron glanced at both sides from the corner of his eye. The pursuers had already entered the ambush circle. He simply stopped and fell to the ground with a plop.
"Haha~ he surrendered, catch him." The Lombard soldier who was chasing the most happily showed a smile on his pale face due to exhaustion, and got a few more silver coins.
However, just when the two Lombard soldiers were immersed in harvesting prisoners of war, torture and receiving rewards, something unexpected happened.
The figure of Andrew, the captain of the first team of the 4th Squadron, flashed out from the shade of the trees next to Ron, followed by five soldiers from the first team...
The pursuers instantly became prisoners, and then became two A bloody corpse...
At the small outpost at the intersection, four Lombard defenders looked around with vigilance. The Provence refugee just now must be a spy who came to investigate the military situation, otherwise the two companions would not have been able to pursue him for so long.
This is now the place where the two countries are at war. We must not be careless, so the four Lombards who stayed behind had their bows and arrows ready and their hearts tense.
After a long time, three figures appeared on the road south of the outpost - two soldiers in Lombard uniforms escorting a Provence refugee beggar in ragged clothes with his hands "tied" behind his back.
Obviously, this captured "migrant beggar" was not honest. He struggled all the way, trying to break free from the escort of the two Lombards.
Seeing that the three of them were getting closer and closer to the small outpost, the garrison commander in the small outpost shouted at the two "Lombardy" soldiers who were escorting back, "How is it? Is there anything unusual?"
The two "Lombardy" soldiers have not returned yet Before he had time to answer the commander's question, the escorted "refugee" suddenly became violent and wanted to escape. A soldier stepped forward and kicked the "captured refugee" to the ground. Then two soldiers kicked the captive on the ground hard, causing several people in the small outpost to laugh and cheer.
The two "Lombard" soldiers kicked and beat the prisoner for a while, and the prisoner struggled even more. The two had no choice but to hold the prisoner on the ground tightly, and then waved to the small outpost, signaling that someone would be sent over to help subdue the guy on the ground.
"You two, go up and help." The commander of the small outpost ordered the two soldiers around him to come forward to help.
The two archers put their bows aside, walked out of the outpost and ran towards their two accomplices not far away.
"You two idiots are really useless. Two of you can't subdue a bastard." The archer who stepped forward to help laughed at the two soldiers who were holding the prisoner tightly.
"I'm talking about you~" The voice of another archer choked, because they discovered the blood stains on the armor of the two Lombard soldiers and two completely unfamiliar faces.
"Run!~" The archer who reacted first turned around and tried to escape, but a wooden-handled short knife had already been inserted into his back.
"You, it's not~" The other soldier reacted a little slower. It wasn't until the rising "Lombard Soldier" stabbed his dagger into the back of his companion that he realized that the person wearing familiar armor was actually a completely unfamiliar face.
At the same time, a dozen ghostly figures rushed over from around the outpost...
There was no sign of the Lombards at the small outpost at the intersection, at least there was no one left to breathe.
After a while, the small outpost was ignited by a fire, leaving the naked Lombard corpse stripped of his armor and weapons and burning in the fire...
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If the battle between the two teams led by Odo and Ron was somewhat of a conspiracy, then the battle between the sentry team led by Angus could definitely be regarded as a fair cavalry duel and charge and pursuit.
This is not because Angus's style is completely different from that of Odo and Ron, and the pre-planned ambush was in vain.
According to Angus's original plan, he would lead the sentinel cavalry to set up an ambush at a place where the Lombard cavalry must pass on daily patrols. When the patrolling Lombard cavalry passed by, a few traps would be stepped on, a few sharp arrows would fly randomly, and a few cavalry would charge and kill. In less than a bowl of rice, the Lombard cavalry would be completely wiped out.
Unless the Lombards suddenly changed course, such a thing would be too accidental.
· However, "accidental" things often happen inevitably - today's Lombard cavalry did not take a predetermined route at all. They turned their horses before reaching the ambush site of Angus and rushed towards the small village where Odo was responsible for the raid.
Of course, Angus didn’t know that these cavalrymen were just worried that some Provençal women captured two days ago were still hiding in a small village. Today, the cavalry commander and the defenders of the small village agreed to entertain the women, so he changed the route of the march and patrol in the past few days and planned to go around to the small village to stay for a while.
Angus didn't know this. He just thought that Odo's attack was blocked or the enemy got the news and wanted to reinforce, so Angus didn't care whether to ambush or not. He directly stopped the Lombard cavalry with a horn, and then led the sentries to cover up.
The Lombards are not good at cavalry, but the combat effectiveness of the cavalry patrol Angus encountered was not low.
After hearing the trumpet sound that was different from their own, the Lombard cavalry did not show panic. They reined in the reins and turned their horses' heads, confronting the sentry led by Angus on the road one or two hundred paces away.
Six against nine, there was no advantage at all but it was not an absolute disadvantage, so the Lombard cavalry did not choose to escape. On the contrary, from the beginning of the war between the two countries to the present, the Lombard cavalry has almost never been defeated by the Provence people on the battlefield, so the few cavalry of the Lombards have the confidence to be proud of all enemies.
But it is obvious that these people have a little too much confidence.
After the first round of confrontation between Lusignan and Jafar, Felix Red and others, and the Lombard cavalry on the road, two Lombard cavalrymen had their stomachs slashed on the spot, their sternums were broken, and another fell off his horse in the melee.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the remaining three Lombard cavalry quickly ran down the road and escaped from the sentries in a roundabout way.
Want to run? We are all cavalry, why should we let you run away!
So Angus gave an order, and nine sentry riders chased after the Lombard cavalry...
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On the hillside behind the garrison farm, Art looked extremely embarrassed, because it was past noon, and even he could see a thick smoke rising from the northwest, during which a panicked Lombard soldier ran back to the farm from the northeast.
But the fighting that broke out everywhere did not attract the attention of the Lombards in the farm at all. Not only did they not plan to send troops for rescue, but even the soldier "missed" from Odo in the northeast was assigned to the defensive force on the wall of the farm.
The original plan of luring the snake out of its hole through the tactic of blooming flowers from all directions turned into an early warning message for the enemy to prepare in advance...