Riding and Slashing

Chapter 153 Sneak Attack and Counter-Sneak Attack
Adventurer's Inn, or tavern.

This is where Leon once met Sarah.

It was already night when Li Ang came to this hotel again.

After reaching an agreement with the king at noon, he has been signing various documents in the House of Nobles and confirming the changes in the pattern of the coat of arms.

Although it was just a simple color change, I don't know if Igor's subordinates are not proficient in business, or the atmosphere of the Noble House is so procrastinated, anyway, it delayed him for a long time.

It wasn't until nightfall that the House of Nobility finished all its affairs and sent two attendants to take him to the hotel.

Of course, the attendants sent Li Ang to the door of the hotel and left. These attendants were not there to protect him, but probably just to keep an eye on Li Ang's whereabouts.

Li Ang kept looking up at the rooftops all the way, and he didn't feel relieved until he saw Sadylan's figure flashing past on a big tree in the city.

There weren't too many people in the hotel, so Eric booked the hotel including the guest rooms and the tavern.

Eric was naturally waiting for the lord.

"My lord, it's great that you are safe and sound. I thought it would be very difficult this time... In fact, I am ready to rob the prison. Miss Amy asked me to bring Alice here, we need Do you want to leave here immediately?"

When Eric saw Li Ang enter the hotel, he immediately came forward to greet him, without talking too much nonsense, and directly asked for the next step instructions.

He seemed to have made all the preparations, and it was not for nothing that Li Ang had always looked at Gou Sheng differently.

"I asked you to come because I thought I would encounter even greater troubles this trip, and I didn't expect to be able to escape so smoothly. How many people did you bring to Lion City?"

Before Li Ang left White Hart Castle, he actually carried a lot of things on his body for running around, but they are all useless at present-this is of course a good thing.

Now that everything is safe and there is still a large army to support him, the lord is quite relaxed now.

"More than 400 people are all trained and skilled fighters."

What Eric brought was all the combat power in Changhe Town at that time, and now these people are scattered in hotels all over the city.

Only a hundred people lived in this adventurer's hotel, and dozens of carriages were parked - but the largest hotel in Sarleon City was already fully occupied.

"Is there no outsider here?"

The lord looked around cautiously. There were dozens of sergeants sitting in the hall, all of them were fully armed, but the equipment was different.

"Don't worry, my lord, the hall is full of our own people..."

Eric is really reliable in his work.

The people in the hall are all the armed escorts of Changhe Express, who are now called bodyguards by Li Ang.

Erik had been careful not to have them wear full coats of arms, so as not to invite inquiries, so they looked like a mob of soldiers.

"Very well, leave some brothers to pick up business in this tavern, and arrange for the brothers to keep an eye on one person... I'm worried that there will be similar things in the future."

Since there were no outsiders, the lord began to arrange work on the spot.

"My lord, the basement of this tavern is a casino under the name of Maixiang Group, and the owner of the tavern is now our agent... This adventurer hotel has long been our business partner. In fact, most of the names in Sarleon are ' Adventurers' hotels are already cooperating with us, this is specially arranged by Miss Leslie. Who do you want the brothers to keep an eye on?"

Eric pointed towards the inside of the tavern bar.

Li Ang looked over, and there was a griffin mark on the wall of the bar, which indicated that this was a cooperative unit of the Maixiang Group.

The lord did not interfere too much with Laislie's operation of Changhe Express before, but only asked Laislie to spread the business as much as possible.

It seems that in the past few months, Leslie has quietly developed many partners, and she is really a qualified general manager.

"Keep an eye on Igor, the court scholar. I need to know who he will meet in private in the future and what he will do."

Li Ang felt that Igor was very problematic from the very beginning.

It is impossible for his subordinates to keep an eye on the king, and they cannot enter the palace.

But it is feasible to keep an eye on Igor. Most of the time, this court bachelor is not actually serving in the palace, but in the noble house.

"Igor, Grand Master... Alright my lord, I promise you can find out which noble lady he is having an affair with. Then shall we leave here now, my lord?"

Eric nodded, and seemed confident about the task.

Ever since he was transferred to the Changhe Express and was able to command hundreds of people, this bastard seems to have confidence in everything. This mentality is very similar to that of the lord...

"You arrange things, and then go back to Changhe Town with me first. I just got the tax-free right in the king's territory, but I need to pay the king a lot of money. I will arrange this first, and then I will go back to White Hart Castle. "

Li Ang nodded and left the tavern lobby, waiting for Eric to arrange affairs by himself.

Arranging specific affairs to the brothers, since Eric arranges it, Li Ang will generally not intervene in person.

This is the principle of being a big boss. On the one hand, you must trust your subordinates, and on the other hand, you must try your best to avoid leapfrog command, so as not to cause trouble to the grassroots employees.

He went straight to the stables and found Alice.

The stable is at the back of the hotel. Enter from a dark alley on the side of the hotel. Behind it is an open field where horses and vehicles are parked.

But just as he was approaching Alice, the filly suddenly shook his head and arched him a few times, paced and stretched the rein, signaling him to untie herself immediately.

Li Ang thought that Alice missed him because he hadn't seen him for a long time, so he hurried forward to appease Alice, stroked Alice's neck, and untied the horse's rein.

But Alice did not calm down, but arched her head against his body, arching him towards the saddle.

It seemed to be signaling Li Ang to get on the horse quickly.

Li Ang immediately became nervous, this is the instinct of animals, Alice felt the danger!
The last time Alice had such a nervous reaction was when Lisa Dilan took out the Serpent Heart Stone.

No matter what was about to happen, the lord decided to trust Alice's instinctive judgment.

He immediately flew on his horse.

Alice didn't wait for his command at all, and left the stable as fast as she could, ran out of the dark alley, and came to King's Road, which was the main entrance of the tavern lobby on the first floor of the hotel.

Originally, Alice still didn't intend to stop, but Li Ang didn't have a weapon on him at the moment, so he didn't feel safe...

And he had to say hello to his subordinates, so he stopped his horse at the door of the tavern and shouted: "Eric!"

As soon as the words fell, before Eric had time to come out, a large group of people poured out from all directions and surrounded the Adventurer Inn.

Li Ang frowned and looked around. There were dozens of people in the front and back, blocking the road at both ends.

Twenty or thirty people also came out of the dark alley next to the hotel that led to the stables.

There are about a hundred people from all directions.

These people were men and women, and they seemed to be well equipped, definitely not members of the Red Brotherhood.

None of them covered their faces, but basically everyone wore full-face helmets or face helmets, some of which didn't even match the armor on them...

This group of people is obviously malicious.

The lord's position is directly in front of the main entrance, and you can see the inside of the tavern hall from the half-length door.

And the knight's people blocked Li Ang's front and back with a distance of tens of meters. From their perspective, they definitely couldn't see the inside of the tavern.

In the tavern, Eric was leading a group of men behind the half-length door, preparing to come out.

Li Ang glanced at Eric and winked.

Eric heard the movement just now, and also saw the situation outside.

After seeing the lord's wink, he stepped back smartly, stopped the subordinates behind him, and after whispering a few words, he opened the door and ran out alone.

"What's going on, my lord? Who are you! What are you going to do?!"

Eric looked like a squire who had just discovered that his lord was surrounded. He yelled and handed a sword to Li Ang.

The lord did not bring his own sword when he came to Sarleon City, and now he has no weapons in his hand.

Eric is a careful subordinate. He understands his boss's habits, and what he handed over was actually a silver-plated knight sword—this is basically the same as Li Ang's sword before the silver coating was worn off.

"Your Excellency Li Ang, right? I didn't expect you to be so vigilant, and you ran away before I had time to react..."

A knight-like guy in blue heavy armor came out from the alley of the stables and separated the masked men blocking the intersection.

This guy looks quite burly, with every step under his feet there is a 'clang clatter' sound.

Those were plate armor boots, and he was also wearing a full set of heavy plate chain armor, and he was wearing a full helmet with only a slit for his eyes exposed.

To assassinate in Sarleon in this attire?

This is the capital. Except for the members of the Lion Knights, ordinary people would not appear on the street wearing heavy armor at night with a large number of people. It would be easy to be spotted, and it might even be considered treason.

It seemed that this was a premeditated attack, but this guy was definitely not a professional killer, and this assassination method seemed quite amateurish.

Professional killers would not lead so many people to do things, one backstab is more effective than a hundred people.

"Who is your Excellency? Who sent you here?"

The lord's hand reached out to the hilt of the sword.

The knight in blue armor on the opposite side raised his hand, and raised dozens of crossbow arrows in front of him and behind him, aiming at Li Ang.

"I wanted to confirm whether I killed the wrong person... It seems that I did not admit my mistake..."

"Crack!"

As soon as he said this, a long arrow was nailed to the knight's body, and the tail of the arrow was still shaking.

The arrow was nailed between the knight's legs, and the arrow penetrated obliquely into the stone slab on the ground for a full foot and a half. This penetrating power was obviously enough to penetrate the heavy armor on his body.

Naturally, this was shot by Lisa Dilan, in order to warn those enemies holding crossbows.

"Want to kill me? It's not sure who will kill who... Who sent you here?"

Li Ang stared into the knight's eyes.

But that guy looked very courageous, he didn't answer the question, but glanced at the arrow under his feet, and stretched out his foot to kick the shaft of the arrow.

But his kick didn't work, instead he almost tripped over...

But the big stone slab that paved the road was split in two.

It was a Noldor arrow. The body and shaft of the arrow were made of Noldor's enchanted metal, which was hard and extremely resilient.

"...Noldor!"

The knight was obviously knowledgeable. He looked up and looked around a few times, but he didn't seem to be afraid.

Hearing him say Noldo, several people came from both sides and blocked the knight.

It was a few women in full armor.

But the knight stretched out his hand to separate the women and stood at the front.

"Don't be like this, ladies, in this environment, you can't stop the Noldor's arrow... I don't want you to have any mistakes..."

Looks like a gentleman.

The gentleman began to look around behind Li Ang.

But it was night, and it was difficult for Lisa Dilan to be spotted during the day, let alone in a dark environment. Of course, the knight couldn't see him.

But the arrow that penetrated the stone slab was convincing, and only the Noldor could have shot such a terrible arrow.

This kind of accuracy in shooting between the legs without hurting anyone is enough to prove that the Noldor archer hidden in the darkness has the ability to kill him with one arrow.

The knight didn't seem to intend to die together. He didn't see Lisa Diran, and he reached out to signal everyone to put down the crossbow.

"Baron Leon, there are Noldor spirits helping you? This is really an unexpected surprise..."

The knight shook his head, as if sighing, but his eyes kept shooting behind Li Ang.

But Li Ang didn't intend to respond to him, because Li Ang probably already knew who this guy was.

The purpose of Ulrik to make money is to hire an adventure group to deal with the Noldor...

This knight seemed to know the shooting skills of the Noldor elves, but he was not afraid of the Noldor. It was obviously a mercenary group hired by the king to capture the noble maidens of the Noldor.

But why would they kill themselves?
The king has just signed an agreement with himself, and the money has not yet been received!
This assassination was definitely not done by Ulrik...

So, who will it be?

The lord felt a little baffled - no one in the city of fierce lions had any hatred against him!

"Your Excellency, why don't we take a step back and talk outside the city? If this continues, the patrol team of the Lion Knights will probably come... What do you call your Excellency?"

Li Ang was about to say something.

But the knight ignored him, but kept looking behind Li Ang.

It seems that I can only fight...

Li Ang glanced at the tavern again, and there were already a lot fewer people in the half-body door.

Eric fully understood the meaning of the lord's eyes, and he had already made some arrangements for the brothers before he came out.

Leon and Eric are waiting for the brothers to be fully seated.

However, at this time, the knight had already stretched out his hand, pointing to a roof behind Li Ang's side.

"There! Shoot him!"

He seemed to have discovered the location of Lisa Dilan.

"Brothers! Kill him!"

That was indeed Lisa Dilan's position. This knight had good eyesight, so at the same time, Li Ang also issued an order.

A volley of crossbow arrows shot at the roof behind Li Ang's side, but it probably didn't have any effect. Anyway, Sadilan didn't say a word.

Nearly a hundred heavily armed soldiers also rushed out from behind the taverns, alleys and hotels - this is a counter-sneak attack!

The knight was obviously quite surprised, he had never expected that Li Ang had so many subordinates in Sarleon City!
People on both sides fought together in an instant.

The brothers who came out from the stables were the first to achieve the results. The more than 20 people faced the dark alley with their backs, completely unaware that they would be attacked from behind, and half fell down almost instantly.

But because the preparation time for the brothers is not enough, the other two directions have no such effect.

Eric led the bodyguards rushing out from the half-body door of the tavern, blocking dozens of enemies on the road behind Li Ang.

Another group of bodyguards who came out from behind the hotel blocked the people in front of Li Ang.

The bodyguards came out quickly, and all the enemies had to drop the crossbows in their hands, and began to fight hand-to-hand.

The numbers of the two sides are equal, and the overall combat effectiveness is about the same. It will be considered evenly matched for a while.

And Li Ang himself rode his horse and rushed towards the leading knight.

Capture the thief first, capture the king, this is an old saying.

The knight was in the middle of the alley in the direction of the stable, and he seemed to be in a hurry after being attacked from behind.

Now the knight has the fewest manpower. Li Ang's bodyguards launched a wave of sneak attacks in the alley, and they have formed a local advantage in numbers.

The current situation is thirty against ten, and Sadilan is secretly throwing back arrows.

But the knight and the female warriors around him still held their ground, dropped their crossbows one by one, and drew out their sabers to fight back.

They were all black sabers, and they seemed very sharp.

Li Ang rode his horse and rushed very fast, almost reaching the side of the knight in the blink of an eye.

The knight turned around, looked at Li Ang who was getting closer, took off the shield from his body, and even rushed forward a few steps.

This is obviously a guy with extraordinary skills. The few steps he rushed forward happened to be stuck in front of Alice, in the direction of the lord's left hand that was not holding a sword.

That's how Li Ang dealt with the bringer of bad luck before...

But Li Ang didn't take the shield, he handed the sword directly to his left hand, and then rushed past the knight.

With the speed of the horse, the left-handed sword in his hand was lightly swung towards the opponent's neck.

The knight was facing the horse with a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. Obviously, he was ready to meet Li Ang's backhand sword.

But Li Ang switched to swinging the sword with his left hand forehand, which prevented the knight from counterattacking. Instead, he took another step back and raised the sword in his hand to block the blow.

The two swords intersected, and huge sparks burst out in the dark night.

Fighting on horseback, even if it is a light sword, there will be great power with the speed of the horse. The knight was blocked by this, causing the long sword in his hand to fly out.

However, Li Ang's loss was even greater - the lord did not expect that the silver-plated long sword in his hand would be broken with just one strike!
In the knight's hand is a sword that cuts iron like mud!

But at this moment, before she had time to think about it, Alice had already slammed into the backs of those female warriors.

Alice, who weighed more than 1000 pounds, knocked two female fighters into the air, then crashed straight into the alley, and even brought down one of her own.

It was a warrior with a spear. He saw that Li Ang's sword was broken, and in order to pass his spear to his boss, he was led by a horse.

Li Ang, who got the spear, turned around with his horse, and Alice turned around again and slammed back savagely.

This time, the knight couldn't stop him...

In other words, he didn't dare to stand in front of him anymore - when fighting on horseback, the deterrent effect of holding short weapons and holding long pole weapons is completely different.

"retreat!"

The knight yelled, raised his shield and rolled over to avoid the spear that Li Ang stabbed, then threw the shield at Li Ang, and began to run quickly towards the crowded place.

That guy was wearing heavy armor but ran very fast, and he didn't care about the female warrior behind him at all...

It seems that this gentleman will leave the woman and run away when he really wants to die...

But the women around him seemed willing to protect him with their lives, and several female warriors tried their best to block Li Ang.

By the time the lord led his men to kill those women, the knight was already on the other side of the king's road, and he led his men to start a full retreat.

(End of this chapter)