After waiting for a while and seeing that there was still no movement at the city gate, Osius frowned and waved his hand. A small leader rode forward and shouted loudly: "If you don't open the gate, we will start killing people!"

"Kill me if you want to! Why are you talking so much nonsense?!" After a loud shout came from afar, the city gate suddenly made a sound and slowly opened.

The bandits looked closely and saw a horseman walking out slowly from the door. The man on the horse was as tall and straight as a pine tree, and his aura was as strong as the scorching sun. Looking more closely, they found that he looked to be less than 20 years old, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a teenager.

"Are you Woleglindo?" Osius asked loudly.

"It's me!" Wu Lai answered while glancing at the bandits. Now he was alone in danger, and if he was not careful, the consequences would be unpredictable.

When the city gate slowly closed, Wu Lai had already ridden his horse to the outer bank of the canal. He pulled the reins to stop his horse, and glanced at the more than a hundred quarrying team members who were being forced to line up by the bandits. He suddenly raised his voice: "Let them go! I'll give you money!"

"Don't dream!" Osius spat fiercely, "You killed so many of my brothers! No amount of money can compensate you!"

"Do you dare to kill me?" Wu Lelue asked loudly, then he kicked his horse's belly and rode slowly towards the quarrying team members.

"Humph! I dare not kill you ten times!" Osius drew his sword and pointed it at Wu Lai, "Open the city gate! I will spare your life!"

As he was speaking, Wu Lai had already arrived in front of the quarrying team members. The twenty or so bandits who were in charge of guarding him saw his imposing manner and did not dare to surround him without Osus's order. Instead, they either shrank back or put their weapons on the hostages' necks as a threat.

Wu Lai stopped his horse again, his eyes darkened, and he said to the quarrying team members: "I am very sorry, everyone. It is my inconsiderateness that put you in danger. I apologize to everyone first."

After saying that, Wu Lai bowed slightly and saluted everyone.

"Lord Wu Lai..." Many members of the quarrying team couldn't help but choke up. After a night of fear, when they first saw Wu Lai, they felt particularly warm-hearted, as if they had seen a relative. Of course, the sadness that had been suppressed for a long time also arose.

Seeing everyone suffering, Wu Lai felt heavy in his heart. It's not that he had not thought about arranging people to protect the quarrying team, but Yanhuan Town was in urgent need of manpower, so how could he spare young and strong people to be responsible for the guard? Unexpectedly, the bandits took advantage of this opportunity.

"I'm sorry, I..." Wu Lai sighed heavily and said, "I'm not sure I can save all of you. I can only tell you that I will try my best to save you."

"It's alright, Master Wu Lai!" A townsman said loudly with tears in his eyes, "I'll accept it if I die here today! Master, please go back to town!"

"Yes! Lord Wu Lai! You should go back to town immediately!"

"Sir, please leave quickly!" more and more people shouted.

"No! I'll stay with you!" Wu Lai's nose was sore. He waved his hand fiercely, pulled the reins, and rode his horse towards the direction of Osus, leaving his back to the bandits to guard.

He is really brave. Osius thought to himself, and his eyes moved to Wu Lei's weapon - this was a long weapon he had never seen before. It was placed horizontally in front of the saddle, with a pole nearly eight cubits long and black all over. On the left end was a sharp point about the length of an cubit, and the tail of the point was tied with a circle of "red cloth". On the right end was a fist-sized hook, and he didn't know what it was used for.

Generally speaking, this looks very much like the lance used by the legion's heavy cavalry for charging, but it is not only nearly half a meter shorter, but the shaft is also a lot thinner.

This is of course also a spear, a red tassel spear. However, looking at it this way, Wu Lai's "drawing the sword and standing on the horse" is not true. At most, he is drawing the spear and standing on the horse, but this does not hinder his momentum at all.

Wu Lai had satisfied his desire to ride alone to the meeting, but the people in the arrow tower were really worried. The governor just walked out of the city gate so arrogantly. Is he a match for ten thousand people? Although they were worried, they still had to be on guard. Before leaving, Wu Lai said, if you succeed, you will be rewarded! If you fail, you will be severely punished! Even if you don't consider the reward, you still have to be 120% alert for the more than one hundred fellow townsmen who were tied up outside the city.

Wu Lai stopped fifty steps away from Osius. In front of him were Osius and his nearly five hundred men. Behind him were seven bandits who had quietly approached him.

"Let's talk. If you release my people, I will give you 100,000 gold coins." Wu Lai said, "I believe the person who hired you can't offer this price."

The corner of Osus' mouth twitched. Wu Lai was right. The price difference of this transaction was 100,000 gold coins, which was not a small amount.

Wu Lai seemed to have made up his mind to negotiate, and he continued without caring whether Osius would respond or not: "If you kill them, you will get nothing. To put it bluntly, you can't even enter the city gate. Let them go, and I will give you 100,000 gold coins. You can do a lot of things, and these brothers who follow you will also be able to eat and drink well. We can even become friends..."

"Bullshit!" Osius cursed out loud. He had to admit that the conditions offered by Wu Lai were very tempting, but he didn't trust Wu Lai at all. It was this guy who set an ambush at the west gate and killed more than 200 of his men like cutting melons and vegetables. According to Osius's code of conduct, he didn't want to make friends with such a person at all, because the danger might be greater than being the enemy of such a person.

"What? Do you feel you can't reach an agreement with me?" Wu Lai frowned.

"What can I talk to you about?" After saying this, Osius was about to spit to show his contempt for Wu Lai, when he saw Wu Lai suddenly raised his left arm with something in his left hand.

Not good! Just as Osius was alert, a row of black spots appeared in front of him. Years of fighting on the edge of a knife had tempered his ability to react quickly. He immediately leaned back on the horse's back, and then he heard screams coming from all around him...

"Bastard!" Osus cursed loudly, and just as he raised his head, he saw Wu Lai raised his left arm again, and another row of black spots flew towards him. He hurriedly stuck to the horse's back again, and immediately heard another howl in his ears.

When Osius looked up again, he saw that Wu Lai had turned his horse's head and galloped to the right side of the town. He was so angry that he didn't even bother to think about the casualties of his men. He whipped Wu Lai's back and said, "Kill him!"

Before he finished speaking, Osius clamped his legs around the horse's belly and whipped it hard on its buttocks. The horse ran away in pain. The other bandits saw that the big boss had caught up, so there was no reason for them not to follow. They didn't care about their dead and wounded brothers, and they all whipped their horses and chased after them. Almost in the blink of an eye, only a dozen wounded soldiers were left from the crowd, and of course, there were also those who were guarding the hostages...

At the same time, the archers on the arrow tower were led by Lauren and quickly ran towards the city gate. El had taken over Lauren's position as observer and flag bearer - using a small red flag to send signals to other defense points...

At the South Gate, the observer shouted loudly, "Lord Baker, Lord Elaite, the East Gate said that the bandits will soon pass through the South Gate area. Let's aim at the bandits and shoot arrows."

"Then do as Dongmen says! Release them hard! Kill as many as possible!" Lord Baker shouted with his head held high.

Simon, Marlon and others were cleaning up the battlefield, while Sarres was leaning on the wooden bridge to rest. Although the battle had been over for a while, his excitement had not subsided. Although the high-intensity battle just now had consumed a lot of his physical energy and also caused him some minor injuries, the pleasure brought by the battle still filled his chest, making him satisfied and fulfilled.

But what impressed Sales the most in this battle was Wu Lai's arrangement - everything that happened to Bill and the bandits was within Wu Lai's expectations. Even though he was not in command on the scene, Wu Lai still successfully carried out a beautiful ambush.

Sares believed that if he was not present, Wu Lei would definitely arrange for someone who could knock Bill down in one fell swoop to "accompany" him.

"Lord Sales, the flag bearer at the East Gate has sent a message, telling us to aim and shoot arrows at the bandits when they pass through the West Gate area." The observer reported loudly.

"Okay!" Sareth nodded, "Notify all the archers immediately."

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Osius's riding skills were second to none in the Fox-Wolf Bandit Gang, and this first place was without any exaggeration. For example, drawing a bow and shooting an arrow while a horse was galloping was one of his specialties.

Osus now had a bow and an arrow in his hands, and the bow was even drawn and the arrow was strung, but he was unable to shoot - because his target, Woolley, was galloping on his horse while playing tricks on the horse's back, swaying his body to the left and then to the right, occasionally hiding under the horse's belly, or rushing sideways a few steps on the horse before circling back to the original direction of travel. Such a noise undoubtedly greatly increased the difficulty of Osus's aiming.

The further Osus walked, the more horrified he became, because Woolley's movements were not random, but seemed to be a reaction to his aiming movements. When he aimed to the left, Woolley's body would inevitably dodge to the right, and vice versa. When he tried to aim his arrow at Woolley's horse, Woolley would gallop away, increasing the distance to a point where it would not be a problem even if he hit the horse - the horse Woolley was riding was wrapped in a layer of light armor, and when he chased and shot from behind, unless he shot the horse's leg directly, it would be useless to shoot at other places that could be hit given the distance between the two of them.

What made Osius even more angry was that when he whipped his horse hard to close the distance, Woolley would shoot a crossbow arrow with his backhand, and this happened several times in a row. The second crossbow arrow flew right past Osius' ear, scaring him into a cold sweat.

Could it be that he has eyes behind his back? Osius wondered as he chased after him.

Of course, Wu Lai couldn't grow eyes on his back, but he could see all the movements of the pursuers behind him, because five of the craftsmen Pompeii brought for him were experts in making mirrors - they were actually Wu Lai's apprentices, because although Wu Lai did not teach them personally, he wrote down the process of making mirrors and let them figure it out by themselves. Then, these five people who were originally good at making glass successfully transformed themselves, and this time they came to Salt Marsh Town specifically to open a mirror workshop for Wu Lai.

The five people brought more than a dozen samples, and Wu Lai used two small pieces to make a pair of rearview mirrors - he originally just thought it was fun, just like when he drew the word "王" on the forehead of his pet bully dog ​​in his previous memory and dyed the muscular dog's body into tiger skin.

So in fact, Wu Lai himself did not expect that this rearview mirror would actually come in handy. Otherwise, he would not dare to be so careless and leave his back to the enemy.

Soon, Wu Lai's horse had approached the South Gate. He was galloping almost close to the outer bank of the canal, and so were the bandits chasing him. It was fortunate that he had a good horse, otherwise he would not have been able to "fly a kite" to a group of people so easily.

"Oh my god! It's Lord Wu Lai himself who is leading the bandits here!" the observer exclaimed. Baker, who had already entered the arrow tower, heard the sound and hurried to the observation hole to take a look. He saw Wu Lai leading the race in a coquettish manner, dodging on horseback from time to time, and occasionally shooting a crossbow with his backhand. Behind him, a large group of bandits were chasing him in a chaotic manner. The closest one was less than an arrow away from Wu Lai's back...

"Quick! Aim at the bandits behind Master Wu Lai and shoot! Be careful not to hurt him!" Baker ordered immediately. Wu Lai's move on the outer bank of the canal was intentional. The bandits were so focused on chasing him that no one realized that they had already run into the range of the arrow tower...

As soon as Wu Lai passed the South Gate, the sound of bowstrings being drawn on the arrow tower continued to sound. With more than a dozen archers shooting with all their might, a heavy rain of arrows fell in front of the arrow tower. Anyway, there were so many bandits and they were so dense, so there was no need to waste time aiming. He could just put an arrow on the bow and pull and release it, and someone would be hit...

The screams and howls of the bandits and the neighing of the horses suddenly merged into one - the bandits who fell off their horses tripped the horses that followed them, the startled horses knocked down their companions, and the horses' hooves trampled on one or more of the unlucky guys who fell off their horses...

Osus' heart sank. Only then did he completely understand Wu Lai's intention - this guy had two purposes in taking this risk alone. One was to move them away from their original location and rescue the quarrying team members, and the other was to deliberately lead them into the range of the arrow tower.

Osius undoubtedly realized it a little late, but after guessing that it was meaningless to turn back at this time, there were only two options before him. One was to give up and lead the remaining troops to retreat quickly, and the other was to continue chasing and capture Wu Lai at all costs.

"Bartley! Bartley!" Osus shouted loudly while galloping, because he knew that if there was still one person in the Fox-Wolf Bandit Gang who could use a bow and arrow to stop Wu Lai, it would only be Bartley. Because looking at the entire Fox-Wolf Bandit Gang, only Bartley's arrows could guarantee lethality and accuracy at a distance of 250 steps.

After calling several times, Osius was delighted to hear Bartley's response: "Boss! I'm here!"

"Come on! Shoot his horse!" Osius shouted.

"Okay!" Bartley beat the horse hard and took off the big bow on his back...