Next, Nalant and others continued to hide in the dense forest to rest. Although the team from the Northern Principality heading to the west to block the road had passed, the guards who carried out the subsequent carpet search should not have moved so quickly.
Half a day passed in a blink of an eye, and the sky gradually darkened. After drinking water and dry food to satisfy his hunger, Narant prepared to rest for half an hour before setting off.
However, just when they finished eating their dry food, the sound of people neighing and horses suddenly came from more than a mile away.
"So fast?" Nalant was surprised, and also frightened by the search efficiency of this northern principality.
Little did he know that after an afternoon of searching, there was still no trace of him. Aled summoned a group of minor vassals and recruited thousands of guards in the city.
These little vassals were hiding in the city and knew that they were safe, so they quickly handed them over to Aled.
And this team of nearly 13,000 people started searching from more than 30 miles ahead. By the time Heicai arrived here, it was already the result of a careful search.
"Quick, let's go!" Upon seeing this, Nalant didn't want to rest for half an hour more, so he just had to leave the area quickly.
"Yes, sir!"
Immediately, Nalant and the Storm team began to escape again.
This time they were all wearing armor, and in addition to the armor, they also had the blouses of the Royal Knights.
In addition, even the war horses under them were no exception, and they were also put on armor and blouses.
Immediately, twenty-six majestic royal knights appeared outside the dense forest.
Narant and others did not dare to light the fire, but started running southward at a constant speed in the dark with the help of moonlight.
About ten minutes after they left, hundreds of cavalry and thousands of guards arrived outside the woods where they had previously hidden.
"Go in and search for me. If anyone can find traces of the enemy, there will be a reward of five coins!" Udi ordered while riding on his horse.
"Yes, Lord Commander!"
When the guards heard about the huge bounty, they did not hesitate to use torches and go into the dense forest.
"Asshole, you'd better not let me catch you!" Udy was resentful.
"My lord, my lord!"
Just after Udi cursed fiercely, a call suddenly came from the woods.
"Have you discovered anything?" Udi immediately rode towards him.
"Sir, my subordinates found traces of human activity in the woods, and also found a lot of horse dung, which was still hot!" the subordinate reported hurriedly.
"Have you found any trace of the enemy?"
"Sir, there is no sign of the enemy in the woods. The enemy must have left!"
"Then they definitely can't go far, let's continue chasing!" Udi immediately became excited. The horse manure was still warm, which meant that Nalant and others had not gone far.
This was consistent with their original speculation. Nalant and others also needed to stop their horses to rest.
The soldiers and horses they sent to the west to encircle them had already been sent out. As a result, Nalant and others lost the passage to the west, and it would be difficult to fly.
Woohoo!
Immediately, the horn began to sound, and Udi began to summon Bacher to come forward, preparing to pursue him.
Nalant had now traveled more than ten miles and was still heading south.
At present, they are relatively safe, there is no noble territory ahead, and Bacher's search army has not arrived yet.
The most dangerous time should be when arriving further south.
Because as you go south, you will enter the territory of those small vassals, and there will be many people and eyes. As long as they show a little flaw, they may be found by the enemy.
After a night of silence, Nalant arrived at the location where he had fought Bink and the eight hundred giant forest cavalry in the morning.
A few miles further from this point, there is a fork in the road.
One side leads to the west, towards the desert.
One side leads to the south and reaches Oak City.
"There are soldiers and horses stationed ahead!" Just when he was about to reach the fork in the road, Nalant looked at the intersection with his binoculars, only to find that there was a small group of cavalry and more than 500 guards stationed there.
"Trouble, why are these guys setting up manpower here!" Nalant frowned slightly.
In fact, this is not the best place to block the road, because the surrounding terrain is wide, and Nalant can also go to the west if he takes a detour through the wasteland.
Dozens of miles further to the west, there is a fast-flowing river that can only be crossed by a stone bridge. That should be the best place to block Nalant. As long as the stone bridge is blocked, he will be unable to fly.
However, since the enemy has several hundred men here, they should also have the idea to prevent him from heading south.
"Sir, do we want to rush over directly? There are only a few hundred of them. As long as we deal with those few cavalry, they will not be able to catch up with us!" For the first time, he put on iron armor, and even the war horses were wrapped in battle.
In armor, Quick felt that his combat effectiveness was stronger than ever.
"Quick, have you forgotten the identity of the armor we are wearing now?" Nalant rolled his eyes at him angrily.
"I'm sorry, sir, my subordinates didn't react for a moment! However, sir, since we are wearing the clothes of the Royal Knights, why not go directly there, pretend to be knights who went to report to the south, and then get through!" Quick came back to his senses immediately.
"Our disguise cannot be exposed now. Although we can deceive these people now, once Bacher and Udi catch up from behind, they may find a problem, and our disguise will be directly exposed!" Narant said again
Rejected Quick's proposal.
If his identity as a royal knight were revealed now, he would definitely not be able to hide it from Bacher and others.
After all, Bacher is the supreme commander of the Royal Knights' rear area. He naturally knows all about whether he has sent his subordinates to the south.
"Sir, what should we do?"
"We can only lure them away!" Nalant groaned, already having a plan in his mind, "Quick, let everyone tie the war horses to the tree trunks!"
Immediately, Nalant began to make arrangements.
He asked Quick and others to tie their horses to the tree trunks.
Then the extra twenty-six ordinary war horses were gathered together.
The reason why he didn't abandon these horses last night was to let them run to the west at the fork in the road and confuse the tracks of himself and others.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, now I can only change my mind and use these war horses as bait to lure away the team in front.
After gathering twenty-six ordinary war horses, Nalant found another wooden pole and tied it to the strongest one among them.
Immediately, Nalant quickly took out a brand new bottle of purple alfalfa essence from the space ring.
Nalant tied the purple alfalfa essence to the front end of the wooden pole of the war horse, and after pointing the horse's head to the west, Nalant directly opened the cork.
Bo!
Ho ho ho!
As the fragrance of purple alfalfa filled the air, the war horses immediately became crazy and rushed straight towards the wasteland to the west.
In just the blink of an eye, the war horse galloped tens of meters through the weeds.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
The location where Nalant and the others were located was only over a mile away from the fork in the road.
The noise here immediately reached the ears of the guards of the Northern Principality.
"Ah! My horse doesn't obey orders!"
"No, it's the enemy! The enemy is nearby!"
"Look, there is a war horse running in the grass over there, everyone, hurry up and chase it, it must be the enemy!"
The next moment, the horses under a small group of cavalry over there were also attracted to the purple alfalfa.
When their horses chased the horses released by Narant, they also noticed the movements of the horses.
As the cavalry captain leading the team shouted out exclamations and orders, the infantrymen quickly followed them in pursuit.
Of course, because the weeds in the wasteland were too high, they had not noticed that the war horse was unoccupied yet.
"Let's go!" Seeing that the cavalry and guards had gone far away, and that the effect of purple alfalfa could no longer affect this place, Nalant quickly gave the order.
Immediately, they untied the reins of their horses from the tree trunks, rushed towards the intersection ahead, and then embarked on the road to the south without any danger.
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More than half an hour after Nalant and the others left the fork in the road, hundreds of cavalry from the north rushed here, followed by more than a hundred carriages full of guards.
"Sir, there are traces here. More than twenty war horses broke into the wilderness from here and headed to the west!"
This group of people is Bacher, Udi and others.
Since the traces of Nalant and others were identified last night, and then relying on the rangers in the team to identify the escape traces of Nalant and others along the road, they continued to pursue them without stopping all night long.
Nalant and others each have two war horses, and this trace is quite obvious.
When they arrived at the place where Narante had stayed, the ranger immediately pointed to the marks left by the stampede and collision of horses on the roadside and reported.
After a pause, the ranger reported again strangely: "However, Commander, there seems to be only about twenty war horses in this trace, and the other twenty or so horses seem to have continued along the road towards the south!"
"Why are the cavalry and guards on duty in front not here!" After hearing the ranger's report, Bacher and Udy frowned and looked at each other, and then discovered that there was no one at the intersection ahead where the checkpoint was supposed to be.
"Butcher, which direction do you think they will go?" Obviously, Nalant used a blind trick after escaping here to split the war horse into two.
"Udi, I think we should chase towards the west first. My army is there in the south, and there are our people along the way. It is unlikely that they will go there!"
"Even if they really take the risk and flee south, we can confirm the situation within only a few dozen miles to the west. It won't take too much time to inquire about the situation and turn back immediately!"
"Okay!" Udi felt it made sense after hearing this.
If Nalant went to the west, as long as he could get through the checkpoint dozens of miles away, it would be difficult to catch him later.
But if they go south, even if Nalant temporarily escapes their pursuit, they still have a lot of opportunities to block Nalant.
Immediately, Wu Di and others did not delay and immediately followed the traces towards the west.
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When Narant and the others set foot on the road to the south, they arrived at a small town in a barony after just over three hours of running.
The heirs of the left-behind nobles in this territory have long been frightened by Nalant's invasion, and are currently taking refuge in Jusen City.
On the other hand, the civilian serfs in the town had to return to the town to continue their lives because no enemies appeared after two days of hiding.
Nalant and his group of more than 20 royal knights appeared in the town fully armed and immediately became the focus of the street.
The surrounding townspeople secretly looked at these mighty knights.
Nalant frowned when he saw this, this was not what he wanted to see.
Even before reaching the places where the Royal Knights often hang out, their small group was still very conspicuous.
After pondering for a moment, Nalant whispered a few instructions to Quick.
"Yes, sir!" After hearing this, Quick immediately accepted the order, then changed his eyes and looked at the civilians on the surrounding streets with a fierce look.
Snapped!
"What are you looking at? Your dog eyes are blinded. You stinking maggots, get out of here!"
Quick found a young and strong civilian and swung his whip fiercely, cursing fiercely in his mouth.
"ah!"
The civilian was struck directly on the thigh by a whip, and he screamed and fell to the ground.
However, Nalant and his party remained arrogant and did not even look at the civilian who fell to the ground.
"Come here, sir, I have something to ask you, you stinky maggot!" Before it was over, Quick pointed at a salt vendor and cursed!
"Ride... Sir Knight, what are your orders?" The salt vendor trembled like chaff when he heard the words, and tremblingly came to Quik.
"Sir, let me ask you, have you been doing business on this road?"
"Yes...yes, Lord Knight!"
"Then have you seen cavalry other than our Royal Knights or the Giant Forest Knights passing through here recently? They are a cavalry team of more than 20 people?"
"No, Sir Knight!" the vendor replied after thinking for a moment.
Snapped!
"Trash!" After receiving the answer, Quick swung his whip again, whipping the hawker around.
The civilians around him were seen trembling all over.
But Nalant and others still turned a blind eye and continued to move forward.
And, every time we go more than a hundred meters, something like this will happen again.
This was repeated until they left the town, and then the group of people rode towards the south with great momentum.
"Quick, did you control your strength just now?"
"Sir, don't worry. Although my equestrian skills are not as good as those of the elite extraordinary knights, I am very confident in my whip-cracking skills!"
"When I was an ordinary guard, I spent two years punishing petty thieves and bandits. If I want to prevent them from getting out of bed for five days, then there will never be one day less or one day more!"
"Those civilians just looked very painful when they were beaten by their subordinates. In fact, the bruises will dissipate after two or three days!"
"Very good!" Nalant nodded with satisfaction.
The reason why he came out to the small town like this was to give eye drops to the pursuers.
He knew very well that the more than 20 war horses to the west probably wouldn't last long before their secrets were revealed, so concealing their whereabouts was the key.
With such an incident, I believe it would be difficult for the pursuers to inquire about their whereabouts.
Next, Nalant and the others headed south without looking back.
And every time I pass through a small town or encounter pedestrians on the road, I will do the same thing.