Chapter 726: 715. Arrest
Chapter 726 715. Arrest
Andrew mobilized three cavalry squadrons in the cavalry battalion this time.
According to the guidance of the local aborigines guide, follow the main road to Kieran Town due south, Nantu Town, which is also a border town in the west-southwest, and Plantos Town, located on the edge of the southeast canyon, and chase Mayor Marko and his party.
In fact, Andrew does not need a local guide to lead the way.
Samila was secretly staring at Mayor Marko, and had already made some marks along the way. As long as Andrew followed the marks along the way, he could catch up with Mayor Marko who fled with his family.
The remaining two cavalry teams followed the other two directions, and Andrew asked them to chase after sunset before returning to Dodan Town.
He was even a little worried that if he truthfully needed to make some judgments that were obviously contrary to normal thinking next to a certain mark, would the local guide see some clues.
After Andrew led the cavalry squadron out of the town, he pointed in the direction of Kieran Town and said casually to the second squadron: "You chase along this road."
Then ordered the Seventh Squadron to cross the southeast canyon and chase down along the road leading to Prantos Town.
He looked at the mountains in the southwest, as if he didn’t see a half-broken arrow shaft stuck in the soil at the side of the road, pointed in that direction, and said to the guide beside him:
"Let's go to Nantu Town to see."
The guide rode a horse, squinted at the winding dirt road on the hilly grassland, and said to Andrew:
"Captain Andrew, if we ride on horseback day and night, we will probably arrive in Nantu Town tomorrow morning."
Andrew raised his whip and lashed Gu Bolai's buttocks. Gu Bolai's horse neighed and flew out like an arrow.
A group of cavalry followed closely behind, rushing out from the grassland at the entrance of the town.
There are large pastures in the occupied area of the Bailin plane, and the glass grass that can't be seen at a glance fluctuates with the wind, like a blue lake.
Riding the horse and whipping the whip, he galloped on the grass to his heart's content, chasing him all afternoon without even seeing anyone.
Had it not been for the discovery of several broken arrow shafts along the way, Andrew thought he had chosen the wrong direction.
When it was almost dusk, Andrew finally found a row of clear ruts along the road, and also found some fresh horse manure on the road.
The local guide even picked up the horse manure and felt the humidity inside. He squatted halfway on the side of the road and said happily to Andrew: "Captain Andrew, we may have chosen the right direction. They should be right ahead."
Andrew pointed at the end of the road with his whip, and said loudly: "Let's keep chasing!"
When night is about to fall, the last ray of light on the horizon will also fall into the mountains.
The surrounding light dimmed a little bit, and a little bit of stars appeared in the sky.
Andrew is considering whether to take a rest in place, because after running around for a whole afternoon, these war horses have only rested once, and now they are panting from running, and the sweat of the horses is like steaming heat, and the physical strength of these war horses has reached its limit.
He raised his hand to signal the team to stop.
The cavalry jumped off their horses one after another.
It was the guide who looked at the distant hillside with the last ray of light before nightfall.
He pointed to the hillside and said to Suldak: "Captain, look over there!"
Andrew followed the direction pointed by the guide, and there were actually a few vague figures on that hill.
Andrew stopped the cavalry from getting back on their horses, and ordered: "Everyone, rest where you are. The two of you will touch it first and have a look. If you find the target, leave one person there to stare at it, and the other one will come back and inform us. This time I will Everyone caught up."
Two experienced veterans gave up riding, stooped, hid their bodies in the grass as much as possible, and moved towards the temporary camp.
Not long after, a veteran came out of the grass and reported to Andrew: "Captain, I found it. It's Mayor Marko and the others, but they seem to be in trouble. It seems that the main shaft of a magic caravan is broken. They're already making preparations for camp."
Andrew poured the last mouthful of marching rations into his mouth, picked up the water bag, raised his head and filled his stomach with cold water, then wiped his mouth and asked, "How many are there?"
The veteran smiled and said, "Counting Captain Hans, there are about twenty people. There will not be more than ten guards wearing metal armor and equipped with weapons."
After thinking for a while, Andrew gathered all the cavalry and said, "Go, let's touch them and surround them. This time, none of them can be let go."
"yes!"
In order to reduce the burden on these war horses, none of these cavalrymen wore heavy armor when chasing Mayor Marko.
Under the cover of night, the cavalry did not ride their horses when they touched the slope.
After all the cavalry were in place, Andrew saw Mayor Marko standing in front of a magic caravan and turning around in a hurry. Two coachmen were dismantling a wheel axle from under the caravan. It seemed that the axle was broken.
Several followers sat next to the magic caravan and got together to drink.
If it weren't for the faint smell of wine, Andrew still couldn't believe that they would drink on the way to escape.
Judging by their sitting posture, they are not like the subordinates around Mayor Marko. They are sitting in a somewhat presumptuous posture, and they don’t seem to care much about Mayor Marko’s feelings. They are more like a group of unrestrained adventure group members. Andrew heard that Marko The mayor raised a group of slave traders, but most of them were killed in the woods outside the northern city wall by the adventure group secretly supported by the trading house.
Andrew didn't see Samira around, but he knew that Samira must be nearby.
He didn't procrastinate any longer, he just waited until the cavalry formed a siege, and jumped out of the grass first.
Captain Hans saw the pursuers of the cavalry battalion suddenly appearing from around, and his spirit completely collapsed.
Weeping at the pale mayor Marco: "I just said... I just said we can't escape, we can't escape! They are a group of cavalry, with so many horses, we can't escape at all, you Prefer to try."
"Shut up!" Mayor Marko yelled at Hans with a sharp and hysterical voice.
The slave traders who were drinking also got up from the grass. They didn't raise their weapons for the first time, preparing to fight back, but put their fingers in their mouths and whistled loudly.
The horses scattered on the grass in the distance heard the whistle and ran towards them.
The eight slave traders rode their horses one after another. They didn't even say hello, and they rushed out in different directions. Their equestrian skills were very good, and their bodies were tightly attached to the horses.
These war horses are also very obedient. If they know that they should run quickly, they will probably confess here. The speed of the burst is like a gust of wind at night.
Andrew held the Butcher Tomahawk in his hand, facing the two oncoming war horses, a pair of glaring eyes appeared behind him.
This is his 'potential'.
is also the soul of his berserker.
A ball of flames burst out from Andrew's body, instantly lighting up the dark night. He slightly bent his knees, and jumped up high in the next moment, raising his hands holding the ax above his head. With a dark red light on his body, he suddenly moved towards With the two slave traders chopping down.
The flames blazed loudly in the wind, and the two slave traders glanced at each other quickly, and pulled out two large copper-skinned round shields from the side of the saddle, and at the same time rode on the horseback and raised the shield to meet Andrew.
If they choose to avoid the battle at this time, and one person flees to the left and the other to the right, there may be a chance.
But they chose to work together to hold up Andrew's magnificent chop.
The butcher's battle ax split the overlapping copper bucklers without hindrance, and the two slave traders also fell off their horses.
The cavalry who came up from other directions also shot decisively, trying to stop the other six slave traders.
A slave trader who fell behind, leaned against the cavalry and slashed his body with a sword, and escaped from the siege.
By the night, it quickly disappeared into the darkness.
It's just that the sound of the horse's hooves hadn't faded away, and there was an 'ah' in the dark night.
Then there was another 'click', which was the sound of a heavy object falling down.
This group of veterans may not be very good at fighting on horseback, but once they dismount, they become infantry soldiers and become very strong again.
The knight's long sword in his hand either cut off the horse's leg, or directly left the slave trader behind.
"You idiots, keeping so few people, is it worth killing two horses? ... What's even more outrageous is that you let go of one!"
In the dark night, Andrew cursed angrily.
Mayor Marko and Captain Hans stood beside the magic caravan, looking desperately at the slave trader who chose to escape at the first time, and decisively gave up the last struggle.
In the compartment of the magic caravan, the female relatives and children stared wide-eyed at the battle that was about to start outside the compartment and ended after just a few breaths. Everyone's eyes were full of fear and helplessness.
Afterwards, cavalrymen lit torches one after another in the surrounding area, and Andrew walked directly in front of Mayor Marko with a big ax dripping with blood.
A group of surprise soldiers **** the four guards and dragged them to Mayor Marko.
There are four corpses that have been slowly getting cold, and they are also placed in front of him.
Andreu said to Mayor Marko with a half-smile: "Mayor Marko, I was ordered to take you back to Dodan Town..."
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During his sleep, Suldak was awakened by a series of footsteps in the small building, and heard someone entering the small building.
Suldak turned over and got out of bed vigilantly, and quickly grabbed the blood-red crescent on the table in his hands.
Hearing the footsteps in the living room were very light, but not deliberately concealed, he breathed a sigh of relief, put on his pajamas and walked out.
Seeing Samira sitting on the dining table with a tired face, with an apple in front of him and a pot of water boiling on the stove, he asked her, "Why did you come back so late?"
Samira raised her head, glanced at Suldak with light red eyes, and said casually:
"If I hadn't tampered with the axle, I'm afraid Andrew would lead a group of cavalry to chase to Nantu Town."
Suldak didn’t expect that Mayor Marko would run so far with his family, so he coughed and said, “It’s already noon when I received the news that Marko ran away with the money.”
"Andrew and the others are behind, I will come back first, there is nothing else, I will go to rest first."
The half-elf archer grabbed the apple on the table, took off the sizzling kettle, poured himself a cup of hot tea, took off the magic scroll of Gathering Fire from the stove, rolled it up and put it in his pocket .
Holding a cup of hot tea, walking gracefully up to the second floor with two long legs tightly wrapped in salamander leather armor, and living in the empty attic.
After being woken up by Samira, Suldak couldn't fall asleep.
He simply stayed in the study room where a map of Dodan Town was hung, lit the magic desk lamp, held the lamp and stood in front of the map, carefully watching the trend of the mountains around Dodan Town.
This map is only a very detailed description of the occupied area of the empire, and also includes a large area extending northward from the Dodan Canyon outside the northern city wall. However, when it reaches the Invercargill Forest of Warcraft to the north of the border, many places become blank and unknown area.
…
There was a sound of horseshoes outside the camp, awakening Suldak from his contemplation. He turned his eyes away from the map on the wall, and put the magic desk lamp in his hand on the table.
Pushing open the window of the study, just in time to watch Andrew rushing back from the barracks with a team of cavalry.
At this time, although the sky has not yet brightened, it is the last moment before dawn.
Seeing Suldak standing in front of the window, Andrew and his party jumped off their horses one after another, stood beside the war horse and saluted Suldak.
Mayor Marko and Captain Hans were also in the horse team, and their hands and feet were not even tied with ropes.
Both of them were a little listless, their faces were sallow, as if they had been coated with grease. Mayor Marko stared at Suldak gloomily, without saying anything.
Suldak said to Andrew: "You take all the guests down, let everyone have a good rest, and I will talk to Mayor Marko here!"
"Okay, head."
Andrew led a group of cavalry to **** Mayor Marko's family members to the camp dormitory.
There are wooden prisons in the barracks to temporarily hold prisoners, but Andrew did not imprison Mayor Marko's family members in the wooden prison, but let them continue to detain them in the magic caravan.
Andrew and the cavalry came back in the middle of the night, which naturally woke up many people.
The aborigine herdsmen got up sleepily from the bed, and ran out to settle the almost exhausted war horses.
The cavalry almost didn't wash up, and went straight into the dormitory and fell asleep.
Instead, Suldak invited Mayor Marko into the living room of the small building and poured him a glass of ale.
Mayor Marko stretched out his trembling hands, held up the glass of ale, took a few sips, and then drank the ale.
His face regained some blood color slightly, his eyes became sharp immediately, and his beard and whiskers were a little dirty, just like those homeless tramps in the city.
Fortunately, he was still wearing a set of aristocratic dresses cut from magicweave cloth, but the trousers were cut open by something, revealing the hairy thighs inside, and there was even a scabbed scratch.
He sat on the sofa, leaned back, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths before opening them again.
He seems to have regained his previous shrewdness, recovering from the state of absconding and being caught.
He grabbed the jug on the table, poured himself another glass of ale, sat in front of Suldak, squinted his eyes at Suldak, and asked him:
"Did you already guess that I would escape, so you sent someone to stare at me?"
The voice is tired and a little hoarse...
(end of this chapter)