Riding and Slashing

Chapter 302
"Orswood, that is a notorious and brutal executioner...he slaughtered our village! They gathered us and made us the material for their fun these days!"

The villager's face was full of tears, and he kept looking back with fearful eyes, as if he had been tortured to the point where he lost all courage.

The cavalry on the opposite side laughed and stopped a few tens of meters away.

They seemed to be deliberately waiting for the villagers to finish speaking.

Seeing the cavalry behind stop, several villagers began to cry: "All of us were tied up with thick ropes and divided into three lines according to children, women, and men, and then they took the children one by one. kill..."

"When women begged or screamed for their children, Oswood's men would abuse them in front of all the men...they loved hearing women screaming and cursing!"

"After the last woman's throat is slit, they will torture men in all kinds of cruel ways... They will torture people more than anyone can imagine, and just to make people feel pain-they do this , just purely for fun..."

According to the villagers, this is a group of ferocious bandits.

A guy named Oswood led many small adventure groups and rogue knights. Usually, he would let these people disperse and fight on their own, constantly attacking caravans and villages like a pack of wolves.

And when the real battle came, he would call these squads together into a unified Legion.

At this moment, what Klose was facing was obviously some squads that had been mistakenly summoned by the arrows—they thought it was Oswood who was summoning them.

It is said that Oswood's cruelty surpassed anyone in Pendor, and even many members of his adventure group despised his behavior.

He will choose those villages that are weak, helpless and defenseless, and he will not torture people for any reason.

Men, women, and children alike died agonizingly under the torment of him and his men.

As long as Oswood showed up with his team, the horrors of corpses and flames would inevitably appear in the nearby villages and fields.

The villagers were obviously very afraid of Oswood's men. They hid behind Klose, and they didn't even dare to look at the blood-stained cavalry.

Klose didn't expect to encounter such a pure pervert here.

Heresy and the Snake Cult slaughtered the villagers at least with a certain purpose, but Oswood's slaughter and torture were purely for fun?

Sure enough, there are all kinds of scumbags in Pendor Continent...

As an experienced mercenary, Klose has already understood the intentions of those cavalry - many brutal bandits will deliberately release the prisoners who have been brutally tortured in their hands before the battle, so that these prisoners will bring fear to the opponent and disturb the enemy. The opponent's military spirit can also force the opponent to send out manpower to protect the disabled villagers.

Moreover, if the abuse they inflicted on the captive was cruel enough, and if the opponent had a more sense of justice, this method could also provoke the opponent to do some irrational behavior.

For example, launching an angry charge-this will make the entire team lack coordination and command.

But this time, these guys probably miscalculated.

Klose is indeed a person with a sense of justice, but he is not an irritable reckless man.

In fact, the vast majority of people in the Silver Hand and the Freedom Legion will not be easily angered - they each have their own tragedies, and many people have experienced the same tragic experience as these villagers, and most of them have become slaves .If it was an irritable and reckless man, he would not be able to live now.

Besides, they have a job to do.

"Fuck off! Or be crushed by me!"

Klose weighed the strength of the two sides, shouted to the opposite side with a loud voice, and then gestured with his big sword.

All the subordinates present stepped forward with Klose, and the big sword and halberd assumed a posture of anti-riding, forming a hedgehog-like array.

On the opposite side, there are now forty or fifty rogue knights with good equipment, and seventy or eighty guys who look like retinues. In addition, there are about fifty adventurers of various shapes, close to 200 people, all of whom are cavalry.

On my own side, there are currently 350 people assembled, all fighting on foot.

There are 350 foot soldiers against [-] cavalry, and the level of equipment on both sides is basically the same.

It seems that there is not much difference in strength, but I actually have some advantages on my side.

Because the Silver Hand is not afraid of cavalry, they have even dealt with the python knights of the Dread Legion, so they naturally have no fear of human cavalry.

However, even with the advantage in numbers, Klose is unwilling to take the initiative to attack the cavalry. People can't catch up with the horses, and they may be kited by the cavalry with bows and crossbows.

And the cavalry on the opposite side certainly didn't want to meet the anti-cavalry array formed by the big sword and the halberd, and they didn't launch an attack either.

So the two sides began to confront each other.

Confrontation is of course a good thing, wait at most another half an hour, and all members of the Silver Hand will gather here.

At that time, an army of more than 1000 people can easily crush these enemies-in fact, a Silver Hand squadron can already be seen approaching from a distance.

Moreover, anyone can see that loud arrow, and it won't be long before the Lion Knights will come here to check it out.

Perhaps seeing troops converging here in the distance, a knight came out of the cavalry on the opposite side, with his hands spread out without any weapons, as if he wanted to talk to Klose.

"We are Fleur's Osswood Adventures... Big man, if you don't lay down your arms and get out of here, I promise you will regret it..."

The guy who came out to speak was wearing a black smock and a black hood. He looked like a rogue knight, or some hidden explorer.

He looked back at the other members of the Silver Hand who were approaching in the distance.

"Regret? Don't you know the flag in my hand? I am Klose, a knight under the command of Marshal Leon. I came here to fight rebellion under the order of the king——I think you all look like rebels!"

Klose sneered at the rogue knight: "I think you will regret it soon!"

"Ha... big man, I know you're Count Leon's man - of course I know that griffin flag. But you better think, why are we here... I repeat, surrender! Or like them Same! I'll give you 5 minutes to think about it..."

The rogue knight pointed to the few villagers who were hiding behind Klose and the others in fear, his tone still quite arrogant.

Klose is a bit confused...

The current situation was evenly matched, and the opponents would definitely not dare to attack lightly, but the Silver Hand would continue to gather here, and their side actually had a great advantage.

The guy on the other side had obviously seen the sounding arrow too, so he must have realized it.

But he is still so arrogant?
What do these scumbags rely on?

According to these villagers, these people should be just a cruel adventure group—or a group of well-equipped horse thieves.

A group of horse thieves dared to ask Klose to surrender in the face of the troops directly under the Marshal of the Lion Kingdom.

However, if you think about it carefully, this group of horse thieves really shouldn't be here now...

This is the outskirts of the Fox Town, only a few miles away from the Town.

Godric and Amy's father and daughter have been guarding the Fox Town for more than ten days. The Lion Knights have besieged the Town and fought one after another. With such a big movement, everyone nearby must have heard the news.

How could Fleur's Oswood Adventure Group, these scum who made fun of the weak villagers, appear in the place where the Lion Knights gathered on a large scale?
"Who the hell are you?"

For the sake of caution, Klose asked again.

"It seems that you don't only have muscles in your head, big man..."

The rogue knight smiled: "Maybe it will be easier for you to understand after seeing this...put down your weapons! Don't fight us!"

He lifted off the black smock on his chest, revealing the breastplate inside.

On the breastplate, there is a golden fierce lion emblem!
"Lion Knights?!"

Klose was indeed surprised.

Oswood's adventure group turned out to be members of the Lion Knights!

The soldiers behind them also looked at each other - they all saw the lion coat of arms.

But then, Sammer yelled very cleverly: "You actually killed the Lion Knights and took away their armor?!"

The face of the rogue knight on the opposite side changed drastically: "Are you stupid? We'll just..."

And Klose raised his sword knowingly, and chopped down the knight with a sword, preventing him from speaking the second half of his words.

"Charge! Kill these traitors! Avenge the villagers and the slain Lion Knight!"

Klose raised his bloody sword and charged directly—since these scum were members of the Lion Knights, they couldn't wait any longer, and they had to be dealt with before the arrival of the Lion Knights!

…………

late at night.

In Sarleon City, Lisa Dilan was walking through a dark alley with several black-clothed masked men.

"Everyone, the king has been staying in the House of Nobles. Before Lord Leon comes here, we'd better dive inside first... Do you have any suggestions?"

The elf assassin was quite polite to those men in black, basically speaking in a negotiating tone.

"Risa Dilan, we are now Lord Li Ang's subordinates. Since Lord Li Ang asked you to lead the team, you can just give the order and we will obey."

A man in black with a dagger in his hand observed the environment left and right, while saying that he didn't need to be so out of touch.

A black scorpion was engraved on the dagger.

This is a member of the Scorpio Assassin Brotherhood, and also the liaison between Li Ang and Ramon.

"Well, I think you can pretend to be guards and sneak in. I can't pretend to be them, so I can only let you do it... I think you should be able to kill these careless guys."

Lisa Dilan pointed to the top of her head.

This alley is outside a wall.

Inside the wall, there is a ten-story stone tower in the center.

This is the former Pendor House of Nobility, and now the private residence of Sarleon King.

And on the wall, there are a few sentries standing guard, basically dozing off with their guns on - it is the middle of the night, when people are most tired.

It was those dozing off that Lisa Diran was pointing at.

It is naturally difficult for the Noldor elves to pretend to be human bodyguards, but the Scorpio Assassin is extremely proficient in this - camouflage and lurking are compulsory courses for assassins.

"But it should be noted that they will change their guards before lunch. Lord Li Ang will come here early in the morning. If nothing happens, you must find a way to get out before noon."

Several Scorpio Assassins nodded, observed carefully for a while, and then quietly climbed directly from the alley to the wall, and began to move separately.

Lisa Dilan waited in the alley for a while, until someone dropped several large packages from the wall.

He caught the packages one by one, and carried them into the depths of the alley. After finding a bush to hide them, he set off to walk outside.

Those packages were full of corpses, the guards killed by the Scorpio assassins.

These professionals basically did not make any movement, and the corpses thrown outside the wall were all caught by Lisa Dilan, and the whole operation did not make the slightest sound.

Moreover, each corpse was wrapped in a black cloak, without even spilling blood.

The city gate will not be opened at night, so Lisa Dilan found a place near the city gate to sit and wait for dawn.

In the morning, the gates of Sarleon opened as the first rays of morning light hit the walls.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

As soon as the city gate opened, there was the sound of a horn. It was the bugle to welcome the Marshal of the Kingdom into Sarleon City.

Li Ang's handsome flag was already waiting outside the city gate.

Right now, Li Ang's status is different. When entering the city, the defenders will blow the welcome call - Marshal Wang Guo is the leader of the army, and the garrison at the city gate must show respect to Li Ang.

Moreover, no one will have any objection to Li Ang bringing the Noldor Guards. As a marshal, it is reasonable to hire any soldiers. Figure people.

Li Ang led the guards into Sarleon City, and when he saw Lisa Dilan who was waiting in a hood in the corner of the city, he gave him a questioning look.

Lisa Dilan nodded.

"Thank you for your dedication. Is His Majesty in town?"

Li Ang turned to ask the city gate officer.

The reason why I want to thank is because the city gate officials opened the gate just after dawn, and they didn't make Li Ang wait at all, which was very efficient.

This not only gave Li Ang a lot of face, but also meant that the city gate official was very conscientious - he probably didn't sleep all the time.

The city gate officer is actually not a small role. This is an extremely important position in this era, and it is usually held by the adjutant of the Royal City Guard.

And the adjutants of the royal guards are generally the direct descendants of high-ranking nobles.

But in most cases, it is impossible for the children of the great nobles to open the city gate so efficiently...

"Lord Li Ang is too polite, this is my duty. At this point, His Majesty is of course in the city... But I have to remind you, His Majesty and the princess must not have woken up yet..."

The city gate officer smiled and showed a little kindness to Li Ang.

The city gate officer on duty today is a knight without the family coat of arms—this means that this is a newly promoted knight, and the coat of arms is not even ready.

It's a bit rare for a newly appointed knight to become a city gate official, so Li Ang couldn't help but take a second look.

According to the standards of this era, this guy belongs to the handsome guy type.

He has neatly trimmed beards, blue eyes and a high nose bridge, short brown hair that looks energetic, and a tall and strong figure.

The armor on his body is a bit old, but it is well taken care of.

"Are you a relative of Princess Anna? What's your name?"

Li Ang turned around and asked one more question. He felt that the city gate officer looked like another person, a knight who also kept his old armor very clean.

(End of this chapter)