Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 15 Ambush
"Your Excellency," an officer in the hastily marching queue came to Hector's side, "the sentinels reported that no enemy was found in the direction of the sunset pass, but a small number of subhumans were found [-] miles north of the pass. There are traces of wolf cavalry activity, and the enemy seems to be retreating to the Gemir area."

Hector reined in the horse, covered his forehead with his palm and looked at the rocky natural pass in front of him, clicked his tongue and said, "It's still a bit late for us to start, if we can block those bastards behind the pass Nan, none of them can escape from me!"

"The order goes on, the cavalry is at the front, the infantry is at the rear, and the baggage vehicles are at the end. The whole army speeds up and chases me!"

"Yes!"

In just a quarter of an hour after the general order was issued, the Karen City Guards, which had been marching in a hurry, changed their formation again. The cavalry and light infantry in the front quickly separated from the heavy infantry behind with large shields. The ballista carts and baggage carts pulled by horses fell far behind, and the whole team turned into a narrow long snake formation and rushed straight towards the sunset pass.

According to Hectorov's experience, it has never been difficult to defeat those demi-humans and hybrids head-on, even if the opponent can occasionally pull out a huge troll In front of Fa, he was just a slow-moving live target. The only difficulty that really prevented him from suppressing these thieves was the harsh natural environment in the southern part of Gemir.

Those demi-humans and hybrids are often defeated when facing the regular army under his command, and then burrow into the boundless wilderness nearby like a fish that has escaped from the net. Escaping into the hot volcanic area in the northern part of Gemir, several counter-rebellions in the past three years have all failed for this reason.

However, this time, he keenly sensed that there was an unprecedented big fish on the opposite side. Judging from the clues captured by the sentry cavalry, the group of rebels probably gathered hundreds of thousands of stragglers and went deep into the Sunset Pass regardless of the danger. Nan, I'm going to come to Karen's side to make a big deal.So in the past few weeks, he took strict precautions, refused to show any flaws, and slowly consumed the opponent's food and energy with his solid city defense.

In the past two days, no matter what, it was time for them to run out of supplies and the whole army retreated. After these speculations were confirmed by the intelligence of the sentry cavalry, Hektorf decisively issued this seemingly aggressive attack. Order - as long as the opponent's large army is bitten before dark, with the advantages of individual soldier quality, equipment and morale, he is fully confident in capturing the greatest results at the lowest cost.

The speed of the Qingqi charge was extremely fast, especially when the consul personally charged forward, the soldiers naturally did not spare their lives. They rushed into the Sunset Pass a quarter of an hour ago, and at this time there were only a few minutes' walk away from the exit.

This natural pass is surrounded by more than a dozen mountains of different heights. From a high altitude, it is generally in the shape of a funnel with a wide front and a narrow rear. It is the most convenient passage from Karen to the south of Gemir.

Two years ago, Hektorf wanted to set up a checkpoint here to prevent the demi-human tribe from going south, but because the climate here is very close to that of Gemir, the winter is bitterly cold, and the summer is unbearably hot. Maintaining a heavily guarded pass is not worth the loss, so this plan can only be dropped.

The sound of horseshoes evoked thunderous echoes in the narrow valley, and the well-equipped knights swayed slightly with the bumps of their horses, like sharp arrows piercing through the air and shooting at the enemy's back.Hektorf looked at the majestic military strength of the troops under his command with satisfaction, and felt that he had made great achievements, so he was quite complacent for a while.

He subconsciously looked left and right, wanting to find someone to chase after him, but found that there was only a figure driving a horse a few steps around, and he couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Hey, Clivell—" He clamped his horse's back and leaned forward two steps, keeping abreast of the opponent, "What do you think of this battle?"

Clivell glanced back at him indifferently, and said in a calm tone: "I don't understand what your lord is asking."

The smile that had just been squeezed out on Hector's face froze, and a bit of scorn flickered in his eyes, "It's nothing else, I just want to ask you, today we can kill many rebellious Asians. Human and hybrid, you should be very happy, right?"

"After all," a mocking smile curled up on the corner of his mouth, "this can be regarded as revenge for your 'daughter', isn't it?"

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Clivell suddenly reined in the horse, and the war horse under his crotch immediately stood up, neighing loudly!

At the same time, Hektorf had rushed nearly ten meters away, and when he saw this, he hurriedly reined in, turned his horse's head and looked at the man behind him who had always looked down on him in surprise.

Of course he knew how bad his words were, and he also knew how Clever felt about his adopted daughter of a demihuman. Because of this, he was more willing to use this extremely pungent method to tear open the scars in the other's heart—— All the time, he was dissatisfied with this group of perfumers who had no bottom line and no distinction between superiority and inferiority. After coming to Karen, Clivell's behavior made him even more disgusted.

As the people of gold who were born at the foot of the golden tree and blessed by the great Elden ring, they actually mixed with a group of lowly and dirty demihumans and hybrids, and even adopted a demihuman cub as a foster daughter. It is a blasphemy against the golden law!Every time he saw that little bastard running happily in the streets of Karen, he wished he could slap him to death with a sword, and then throw the body out to feed the wild dogs outside the city.

But Clivell is not the kind of internal affairs officer he can handle at will. During the few years when Karen was relegated, the former healed a large number of sick citizens with his outstanding perfumery skills, coupled with his approachable personality, his prestige in the city Even more than he, the consul who was parachuted from Rodell - in the first two years of working with him, Hektorf felt that he had shown unprecedented patience.

Until a year ago, a demi-human tribe with less than 50 people plundered a farm outside the city, and Hektorf sent out his own guards to execute them all in just two hours.It's just that a person who shouldn't have appeared among the captured heads - Clivell's adopted daughter, Monica.

According to Clivell, his daughter just went to give the farm owner's mother the ointment he had just prepared to relieve the waist disease that had been tormenting her for many years, so Hector told him that all this was a misunderstanding
Since there is a guarantee from the consul, this matter can only be a misunderstanding, at least Hector himself thinks so.

"What do you mean?" Hektorf looked at the man who stopped his horse behind him, and Clivell exuded a bone-piercing coldness all over his body, which made him feel uneasy for no reason.

"A year ago, on April 28th, you ordered the guards under your command to murder my daughter—"

"I said it was a misunderstanding."

"The farmer told me in private that his mother held Monica tightly in her arms and cried to your captain of the guard that the child was not a riotous thug but the daughter of Karen's internal affairs officer, but that cruel The bastards snatched her from that old woman anyway, and took her life inhumanely."

"Klewell, pay attention to your wording!" Sensing a trace of strangeness, Hectorf said sternly, "Are you going to doubt your superior and colleagues just because of the empty confession of a commoner?"

"Shut up, bastard." Clivell said indifferently, his face showed a bit of fatigue visible to the naked eye, like a song and dance actor who finally took off his mask after completing more than ten hours of non-stop performances.

Soldiers flocked to the mouth of the valley from the open space on both sides, and had to slow down to regroup due to the rapidly narrowing terrain there. He hallucinated himself.

"What did you say?"

"I've had enough of you guys. The stupid and narrow interpretation of the law, the rotten and filthy aristocratic genealogy, it's no wonder that Rodel always breeds such a disgusting thing like you." He shook his head dejectedly, "Your There are 50 personal guards, 330 seven members of the new army formed within three years are here, and there are more than a dozen Rodel knights left behind in the city, I have already arranged it."

"So—please go to hell, all of you."

As his plain words fell, there was a sudden loud noise of rocks collapsing at the mouth of the valley, and the cliffs on both sides were completely blown down by the gunpowder that had been buried long ago. Ten cavalrymen!Hector looked up in horror. Countless demi-humans and hybrids emerged from the mountains on both sides of the pass. Countless polished bone arrows and wooden arrows were aimed at the panic-stricken people in the valley. Measure the city guards.

In the next second, the bowstring snapped and arrows rained down!
(End of this chapter)