Riding and Slashing

Chapter 150 Riva's Redemption

After Ms. Felina left, Grand Maester Igor came and threatened again for a while.

But Li Ang, who knew the reason, no longer planned to pay attention to him.

Ulrik just wanted to get enough funds to capture the noble girl of the Noldor, not to kill himself, and Igor was just bluffing.

The news brought by Felina reminded Leon of Alaric from the Drunkards——Alaric, the raucous man, gained great strength after taking the elixir, but he would lose control and go berserk, he would have unbearable headaches, and it would be difficult to stay awake. Only by being drunk can one avoid pain.

And the potion that Ulrik took would make him lose his strength and become weak, but it could relieve his mania and pain...

This potion seems to be the exact opposite of the elixir...

Was this really made of the blood of the Noldor?

Is Ulrik lying, or the Three Prophets?
Or, are they all lying?

In addition, the noisy Alaric (Note 1), and the king's son Alanric (Alanric, Note 2), the names of these two people always feel a bit similar...

Li Ang didn't know what was going on, but he knew that Ulrik would let him go soon.

As long as this king hasn't become demented, it will.

All he had to do was wait—wait for White Hartkeep to light the beacon.

……

In fact, on the same day when Li Ang was imprisoned in the secret room of the palace, the beacon fire of White Hart Castle had already been lit.

Because, not long after Li Ang was taken away by the Lion Knight, White Hart Castle and Mai Xiangling began to spread the news that Li Ang had treason.

This must be a rumor spread by the Bacchus Empire, because it is impossible for someone to spread the rumor so quickly, even there is no such rumor in Sarleon City - Li Ang hadn't been escorted to Sarleon City at that time .

However, this rumor will not have much actual impact on the area around White Hart Castle...

For the citizens of Maixiangling, it doesn’t matter whether the lord is a traitor or not, even if they rebel, they will follow Li Ang to do it—most of the residents of Maixiangling used to be helpless and unable to survive The lord has given them a way to survive, and they can live better than ordinary people.

And Mai Xiangling's troops have gained a lot of benefits from following the lord, and their loyalty is higher. Not to mention treason, they might dare to do it even if they are against the gods.

The people at White Hart Castle also didn't believe that Li Ang would be treasonous. You must know that Li Ang kidnapped two imperial governors at White Hart Castle half a year ago.

People in other places may not feel much about this, but the people in White Hart Castle know very well that without Li Ang's rescue, White Hart Castle is now the territory of the empire—does it matter if it is a traitor or not?

This treasonous rumor was naturally made by secret agents of the Bacchus Empire to trouble Li Ang.

This is to ensure that a rift is created between King Ulrik and Leon, and it is also to make the other nobles of the Sarleon Kingdom suspicious-whether they suspect the king or Leon.

Because no matter it was true or not, any king would be very concerned about rumors of treason. In this case, Li Ang would definitely be detained.

Of course, the nobles who supported Leon would not believe the rumors, but such rumors would make them think that the king had treated Leon unfairly.

The nobles who believed the rumors or suspected Leon might think that Godric and others were also accomplices...

——This simple rumor will create a kind of confrontation. As long as the king or Leon is impatient, the secret spies of the Bacchus Empire will provoke and guide a little bit, and it may trigger a civil war.

Emperor Marius probably not only wanted to force Li Ang to fight, but also wanted to cause internal fighting in the Lion Kingdom.

But Amy faithfully carried out the lord's orders. After hearing the news of Leon's 'treason', Amy immediately lit the beacon, and sent messengers for help to both Changhe Town and Sarleon City, claiming that 'Bacchus The empire strikes again'.

Of course, the Bacchus Empire did not attack, and Leon asked Amy to do so in order to prove his innocence through the rumors of the Bacchus Empire.

Everyone knows that once White Hart Castle and Maixiangling are occupied by the Bacchus Empire, the consequences will be disastrous.

Li Ang is the lord of Ayrshire and the actual manager of White Hart Castle and Maixiangling.

If after hearing the rumors of Leon's treason, he immediately got the news that the Bacchus Empire attacked White Hart Castle, all the lords and even the common people would realize that Leon's treason must be caused by the Bacchus Empire of.

This is also forcing King Ulrik to release him.

With the hostile situation on the eastern border, if the king allowed a border lord like Li Ang to receive any unfair treatment, he would lose his country and people's hearts.

That's why the lord was able to be taken away by Malbert so confidently and boldly, and he didn't plan to escape when he was locked in the secret room.

In fact Amy did something else as well.

At the same time that Long River Town asked Leslie and Eric to send people to Sarleon City, Amy asked the staff of Long River Express to send a letter to her mother Felina in the fastest way, asking Ms. Felina to find a way to get along with her Li Ang met, lest Li Ang suffer any hidden losses.

After learning about the situation, Leslie gave the courier the Snake Heart Stone that Li Ang kept in her hand and took it with her. Both Leslie and Eric knew how Lisa Dilan got out of trouble. .

After returning to Maixiangling, Amy, together with Sir Roland and Anson, transferred all the supplies of Maixiangling to White Hart Castle as quickly as possible.

Li Ang's orders were executed efficiently without any discount.

But what no one expected was that before the cavalry sent by Amy for help arrived in Sarleon City, the situation in the eastern region changed suddenly.

Logically speaking, White Hart Castle was invaded by the empire, and Amy lit the beacon to ask for help, which should get a full response from the eastern region. As long as the beacon is lit, both Changhe Town and Yongdun Castle should send people to support.

But it doesn't actually...

Lord Malbert is only in charge of government affairs, and has no troops under his command, so he can't send anyone.

The people who called the ranger group by the horn were also unexpectedly not in Changhe Town, and they didn't know where they went.

Godric is not in Changhe Town for the time being, and the garrison in Changhe Town has not been ordered and cannot leave their posts.

Leofric of Yonshield, Charles of Fletcher, and Ralph of Riverside Camp were also missing.

No reinforcements from the whole of the East were sent to rescue White Hart Castle.

Fortunately, the beacon fire and enemy attack this time were fake. If the Bacchus Empire really attacked, it would be really dangerous...

……

Godric, Leofric, and Charles are actually all together now.

They were blocked by an army of thousands of people more than 100 miles northwest of Fletcher Village.

This is a desolate hillside on the edge of the Jatu Grassland.

Godric and Charles were originally on their way to actual combat training. A few days ago, they led the Red Arrow Longbowmen to look for bandits around here.

Ralph's son Raphael brought [-] rangers to help them act as scouts, and Raphael found many robbers in this area.

But what they didn't expect was that the bandits had indeed been found, but there were too many of them...

In a valley they encountered an army of brigands led by a hundred rogue knights.

Of course, this is not some wild bandit... This is a member of the Red Brotherhood that Duke Alma spent a lot of money to gather from all over the place.

When he discovered this large army, Godric immediately led the archers up the hillside, occupying the commanding heights first.

This is the correct choice. In the face of an enemy ten times larger than oneself, finding a favorable terrain for defense is the last word.

Raphael also reacted quickly, and immediately planned to take the Rangers to run away, preparing to go back and pull the Horn Summoned Ranger Group over to suppress the bandits.

But the young Raphael was able to escape without any surprise...

The large forces of the Red Brotherhood were scattered and surrounded from west to east, and of course Raphael could only run east.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he ran to the ridge, he bumped into nearly two hundred cavalrymen oncoming.

Alma herself was among them, and so was Lord Kedron!
That overwhelming Red Brotherhood army was actually just a cover on the surface, and was really ambushing on the other side of the ridge...

Alma took advantage of the geography of this hillside and hid Kedron's troops on the other side of the gentle slope of the ridge.

This is the same way that Li Ang asked Lehman to take the Lion Knight to stop the enemy scouts on the gentle slope near White Hart Castle.

Before Raphael set foot on the ridge from the valley, he couldn't see the situation on the other side. When he reached the ridge, the cavalry on the other side rushed over, and Raphael tried his best to escape.

All twenty rangers were killed and Raphael was captured.

Then, the Red Brotherhood army, which consisted of a hundred rogue knights and a thousand underworld members, besieged Godric on the hill.

After Alma captured Raphael, she immediately rushed to Ralph's camp.

Godric was surrounded by archers, condescending to defend, and he could barely defend for a while, but he definitely couldn't get out, and he couldn't hold on for long-they had no supplies, and only brought a bag of arrows when they set off.

Charles and Godric are trapped on the top of the mountain.

Fortunately, Charles is lucky, he has an unknown sister hidden in the dark.

Liwa has been secretly protecting him these past few months, and now she is also watching from the outside.

But Li Wa, who has only a few dozen bandits under her command, is incapable of breaking through the encirclement to save people.

But fortunately, the bandits under her do not look much different from the bandits at the bottom of the Red Brotherhood, so neither side noticed her existence.

So, the female bandit thought of an unconventional way to ask for help—she led her men to Fort Yongshield, and used this group of real bandits to attract Baron Leofric.

Riva is a bandit after all. No one except Leon knows she is Auden's daughter, and Leofric doesn't know her either. She can only use this method to lure Leofric to the place where Charles was trapped. place……

But this method of asking for help by using real bandits to attract the pursuit of Yongshield Fort led to Leofric not bringing too many soldiers and horses - he was only facing dozens of bandits, so he only brought more than 100 cavalry force.

Of course, it would be nice to have this cavalry as reinforcements. After all, Baron Leofrick's men are regular troops on the border.

From Liva's point of view, if Leofric's cavalry could come down that hillside, it would definitely divert some enemies away, or create a gap in the encirclement.

As long as there is a chance, she can rescue Charles by virtue of her familiarity with the surrounding terrain.

After all, the enemies who carried out the siege were only members of the Red Brotherhood. The battlefield discipline of those hooligans was not as good as that of Riva's bandits. With more than 1000 people, they could only trap Godric and Charles in the wilderness. Those infantry archers who are not familiar with the environment.

Riva's plan was indeed realized. She successfully brought Leofric's troops to the vicinity of the hillside, allowing Leofric to see the two flags on the top of the mountain.

And the Red Brotherhood did, as she expected, start chasing Leofric's cavalry.

This time without Alma's ambush, the hooligans of the Red Brotherhood really couldn't surround Leofric, which made them have to send more people to chase and intercept, and the encirclement surrounding the mountain became much weaker.

Baron Godric also seized the opportunity. Seeing the enemy moving down the mountain, after a cavalry team attracted the enemy's attention, he immediately led people to break through.

The red arrow longbowmen may not be very good at archery, but they are not pure archers. Godric equipped them with inlaid armor and sword shields - these archers can be used as infantry when breaking out .

In order to boost morale, Godric and Charles took the lead, brandishing long swords and rushing towards the enemy's weakest east.

This was also the direction in which Leofric's cavalry was located.

There is nothing to say about Godric's martial arts. He has served as the captain of the royal guard, so one can imagine his skills.

Even though he is now in his fifties, he still has the upper limit of combat power in this battlefield. He took the lead in the charge and killed more than a dozen people in a row. at the foot of the mountain.

But just when they were about to rush out of the siege, Charles couldn't bear it...

Charles' combat effectiveness was far inferior to Godric's. He was besieged by several rogue knights when he broke through, and was slightly injured.

Originally, it was common to be injured on the battlefield, and Charles' injury was not too serious, but the enemies they faced were all from the Red Brotherhood.

Seeing that Charles was injured, these gangsters left behind the powerful Godric, and no longer cared about the encirclement, they all turned their heads and swarmed up to deal with the injured little lord.

A lot of rogue knights and rogues all flocked to Charles.

This hooligan mentality of bullying the weak and fearing the strong caught Godric and Charles by surprise.

Godric is indeed skilled in many battles, but he only has one sword, and he has already taken the lead in rushing into the outer enemy group, and rescue is too late.

Although he has been fighting hard and killing many enemies, he can't turn around to help in this situation.

"Ah! Get the hell out of here!!"

At a critical moment, Liwa, who had been watching the battle, yelled loudly, and rushed into the chaotic battlefield with dozens of bandits regardless...

She was still holding a one-meter-long iron rod in her hand, and she was still wearing the old leather armor.

Behind them, there were still dozens of bandits with incomplete equipment and ragged clothes.

But her violent cry resounded through the wilderness, even covering all the shouts of killing in the vicinity.

The people who were fighting in the scuffle were all stunned for a moment, no one thought that a woman could make such a roar.

And her aura of rushing into the formation also made everyone amazed.

"Get out of here!"

Liwa rushed into the crowd, roaring like a wild beast, dancing wildly with the iron rod in her hand.

A rogue knight slashed her shoulder with a sword, but her iron rod went through the gap in the helmet and went into the eye socket immediately.

Then he kicked away the corpse of the rogue knight, pulled out the iron rod and continued to run forward.

At this moment, this woman seemed to have exploded with infinite power, and she completely ignored the sword that was slashed at her. She would not dodge anyone who attacked her, but directly stabbed back with the iron rod.

Many wounds soon appeared on her body, but at least seven or eight enemies were stabbed to death by her with an iron rod.

And under her feet, she never stopped.

This lunatic-like style of play allowed her to kill several times in a few tens of seconds, but for a while, no one could stop this desperate female lunatic.

In her own way, she blazed a trail of blood.

That was her way of life for Charles.

This kind of madness without fear of life and death happens to be what members of the Red Brotherhood fear most, and it is also the reason why Riva can become the bandit leader as a woman.

Her martial arts were far inferior to Charles, but her utter reckless performance at this time frightened the gangsters of the Red Brotherhood.

A fearless leader is scary, even if it's a woman.

Because this can let her subordinates know that on the battlefield, if you are not afraid of death, you will often not die!

The thieves under Liwa also roared and rushed towards the enemies several times their own just like her.

The pressure around Charles suddenly dropped, and many enemies turned to face Riva.

There were also some enemies who avoided her in fear...

Charles saw Riva rushing towards him.

Under the arrangement of Li Ang, he cooperated with Riva to deal with Eldred. Of course, he knew Riva and knew that she was one of his own, but he didn't know that she was his sister.

But maybe because of the blood connection, when he saw Liwa's fearless charge, he dropped the shield in his hand and gave up defense.

Afterwards, like Riva, Charles roared and turned back to charge in the direction of Riva.

He used the style of beheading the enemy back then, the style of fighting that Li Ang taught him to trade injuries for lives, and also the same way of charging as Liwa now, and greeted her in the direction of Liwa.

After paying the price of being bruised and bruised, Riva finally managed to stand beside Charles with a dozen of her subordinates.

The siblings were back to back, soaked in blood, crumbling.

"Come on! Come and kill me!"

Charles roared like a villain, and moved out step by step with Riva.

But around them, no enemy dared to approach them again.

At this time, Godric finally led the archers to kill the surrounding enemies and rushed over to make a rescue.

The enemies ran away one after another, and the members of the Red Brotherhood were already a little scared.

But just when Charles turned around and was about to rush out of the encirclement with Godric, the woman on his back fell down.

Liwa's leather armor couldn't protect her very well, she suffered too many injuries.

And after the long journey, without a moment's rest, she burst into battle with all her strength.

She is exhausting her life force to save Charles.

Or rather, redeeming herself.

"Liwa! What's the matter...don't sleep! Don't sleep!"

Charles hugged Liwa up in a panic, but Liwa had lost all her strength, and the bloody iron rod dropped to the ground.

"Charles... let's go..."

Riva closed her eyes after only one sentence, which was the first sentence she said to Charles.

"Go, don't stand still!"

Godric supported Charles, and let a few bandits lift up the unconscious Riva, and quickly left the battlefield.
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Note 1: Alaric, the noisy person, Alaric, originated from Germanic language, implying a noble ruler.

Note 2: Prince Alanric, Alanric, means a just ruler.

ric or rick, Rick, has the meaning of power or ruler, and there are many lords with ric in the name of Sarleon.

Such as Ulric (Ulric, refers to the uncompromising powerful ruler), Goldric (Godric, gold is used in the name to refer to the heart of a child), Leofric (Leofric, refers to the generous lord), Eric ( Eric, which is an extremely common name for a leader or positive person).

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