Chapter 438 Escape

"Dong Dong Dong"

The cavalry equipped with iron masks knocked down the Alan infantry who came to block them on the road. They were eager to surround Luga. They thought they were trapped in a jar and it was only a matter of time to capture them, so they didn't care about the formation at all and rushed forward.

The outnumbered soldiers seemed vulnerable in front of the galloping horses and were quickly knocked to the ground. The cavalry under Luga quickly created a gap in the road.

At this time, the Alans' infantry shouted loudly and ordered the other soldiers around them. The Alans on both sides threw their torches together, and countless torches whistled and landed on the galloping horses in the middle, on the soldiers' backs, arms, and heads.

Many war horses were frightened, causing them to gradually slow down.

“Damn it!”

Hearing a cry of surprise, Luca turned his head sharply and saw in the firelight, the frightened warhorse kept jumping up and down, throwing the soldier on its back off the horse. The two soldiers rolling on the ground were quickly surrounded by the Alans who rushed up, and another soldier had no time to escape and was pierced through the chest from behind by the Alans who chased him.

"Don't stop! Don't stop!" Luga loudly reminded the soldiers around him who were fleeing, and he couldn't help but steer his horse to speed up.

"Luka! Luka!" Andrew called from behind, "Where are we going?"

"Go back to New Carthage, speed up and get rid of them now!" Without giving any more explanations, Luca whipped the reins again and drove the horse out of the path.

The shouts of the Alans in the rear still reached my ears from time to time, although the sound was getting farther and farther away. When I turned around, I saw a large number of torches chasing after them on the path behind me.

"There is no reason. How could they know that we would launch a surprise attack on them!" Along the way, Luga kept thinking. He asked himself and the people around him.

Andrew guessed: "Did someone tell on us, or was someone discovered by them during the operation?"

"Sir, there is a village ahead. Should we go around it?" The soldier in front reported to Luga behind him.

"They probably don't know us yet. Let's speed up and pass through the flat road in the village under the cover of night. As long as we shake off the cavalry behind us, we will be safe for the time being!"

Having made up their minds, everyone gathered around Luga and quickened their pace through the village along the path.

"Strange, why is it so quiet here?" Andrew looked around and asked Luca.

"I don't know either." Luca replied, "Is it because it's too late and they are all asleep?"

Just as Luga finished his words, a large number of farmers holding pitchforks and sharpening wood rushed out from the surrounding fields and villages. They roared and raised their weapons towards Luga and his team.

"Fight back! Fight back!"

Just when he had let his nerves calm down, they suddenly tensed up again. Luca roared, signaling the soldiers to draw their bows and arrows and shoot at the soldiers coming from all directions.

Many peasants were shot and fell, and although they shouted that they wanted to surround Luga and his men for a siege, it must have been the huge temptation that made them not afraid of the potential smile. However, these dozen bows and arrows made them realize that they were just a group of peasants armed with inferior weapons, not soldiers.

Taking advantage of the farmers' hesitation, Luca quickened his pace and led the cavalry behind him to rush out of this seemingly unbreakable encirclement. As Luca expected, these guys were actually avoiding Luca and his horses.

"Go into the woods, rest, rest!"

Not long after leaving the village, Luga and his group arrived at a forest, which was their best hiding place.

They didn't dare to light a fire, and could only hide in the bushes in the dark and shiver. They could clearly see that there were groups of cavalry passing by on the road not far away, all of them were looking for Luca and his men.

The soldiers laid the war horses down and tied their mouths, so that the restless horses would be quieted down and would not scream.

"Luga, something's wrong!" Andrew looked at the fire not far away and asked in surprise, "They seem to be acting a little strange!"

"What do you mean?" Luga felt that what Andrew said was not very nice, so he hurried to Andrew's side and looked in the direction he pointed.

All they saw was the Alans holding torches, a cavalryman and five infantrymen, forming a large circle, surrounding the woods, and approaching little by little. Their movements made the wild birds living here scream and fly around in the sky above their heads. Such a huge movement made them all alert instantly, and they slowly stood up and looked at the flames around them getting closer and closer.

"Get on the horses! Get on the horses!" Luga ordered in a low voice. The soldiers did not dare to hesitate. They hurriedly picked up the horses that had fallen to the ground and climbed on them.

"Be smart this time and don't be scared by the noise made by the Alans. If they do that again, kick the horses hard in the belly and they will know what to do!"

The shouts of the Alans could be heard from all directions. Luca and his men clenched their lances tightly.

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"Andrew." Luca called Andrew, "Do you know how to escape?"

"Let's go in the direction we came in from." Andrew replied, "The slope there is a little gentler. As long as we can get the horses running, we can rush out."

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Luka said, holding up his lance and shouting, "Charge!"

"Roar!" Twenty cavalrymen shouted together and rushed out of the bushes, scaring the Alan who was still looking carefully with his head down. He suddenly raised his head and saw a large group of black shadows coming towards him.

Luca increased his speed, raised his lance and pierced the chest of the cavalryman in front of him. Before the cavalryman could come to his senses, he was knocked off his horse by Luca. The remaining infantrymen had no ability to resist the cavalry going downhill, and could only be drowned by the flying black shadows.

The Alans were alarmed. They shouted to take care of each other and quickened their pace to surround the enemy, but Luga had already rushed out with his cavalry.

As soon as they appeared on the road, Luca looked up and saw fires everywhere in the woods on all sides. It turned out that the Alans were not searching for them in this place.

"Speed ​​up, speed up!" Luga reminded the soldiers behind him: "If we can rush out when they are not paying attention, then we can escape!"

Luga was thinking so, but he didn't know that at a three-way intersection dozens of kilometers away, a large number of cavalrymen were lined up, holding torches, carrying bows and lances, facing the direction where Luga fled, waiting quietly.

In front of them, a fully armed man was looking at the parchment in his hand. Then he let out a long sigh, put the parchment away, looked at the darkness in front of him, and sneered.

(End of this chapter)