Lord of the Desert

Chapter 45
Hong Fan held the reins and looked at the situation ahead.

The valley is no more than [-] meters wide, with gentle slopes on both sides.

The team with the flag of Chi's family stopped in the center of the valley. They had already tied carts with hemp rope to form a circle, enclosing camels, oxen, men and horses.

Outside the formation of chariots, six sand bandit knights in light leather armor dragged the dust and galloped around in circles, while on the slope stood more than [-] minions who had dismounted and held bows.

On the chariot formation, dozens of arrows were scattered sparsely, and two camels and cows that had been hit by arrows were whining.

The old leader of the team that Hong Fan had seen before was standing on a cart at this time, negotiating with the leader of the sand bandits.

At this moment, the sound of galloping horses and a roar of thunder came at the same time.

"Yu Kaicheng, your grandpa Hong Ming is here!"

Everyone in the Chi family cheered when they saw the arrival of the reinforcements.

On the other side, the bandit leader Yu Kaicheng's complexion sank, and he called his knights to retreat without hesitation.

When the flying horses on the sea retreated to the top of the slope, the horse team was passing by the chariot formation, kicking up dust like a dragon.

Hong Fan suppressed his rapid breathing, leaned over and touched Bentley's neck.

The body surface is slightly hot and slightly sweaty.

After jogging for three miles, the horses are still strong and fully warmed up, making them suitable for charging at full speed.

This is exactly Hong Ming's consideration.

"Let's line up, brothers from the Chi family come up!"

He shook his horse towards the sky and urged the horse to rush out.

"The enemy is ahead, follow me to kill!"

When the voice fell, the remaining 32 riders were immediately divided into three horizontal lines to keep up. The first row was Chi's brave riders with 11 riders.

Seeing this, the sand bandits were slightly disturbed.

Seeing that the two sides were clearly strong and weak, the seven martial arts knights sank into the back of the slope first, and only the more than [-] minions who were killed occupied the high point and blocked them with arrows.

But how can mere firepower stop the most elite cavalry in Jinhai City?
Out of more than twenty arrows in one round, less than half of them hit the target, but they were immediately chopped off by the sword.

Seeing the path of the arrow clearly is just common for penetrating realm warriors.

Hong Fan cut off the arrow that was coming at his chest, and heard the sound of gold and iron clashing, but it was the chi knights in the forefront who flicked the sharp arrow with their bare hands.

This move comes from his family's martial arts - Iron Clothes Kung Fu.

This technique takes both inside and outside into account. After luck, the flesh and blood will become a steel pagoda, which is not afraid of being hacked by ordinary soldiers.

Because of this, Hong Ming called the eleven knights who only wore light armor to be at the front.

The horse gallops, and the distance of 60 meters is fleeting.

Everyone put their swords back into their sheaths, and pulled out their horses from the bird's wing ring on the saddle.

Immediately the slope is gentle, the long spear is flattened, and the battle is imminent.

At the back of the formation, Hong Fan leaned down with his horse between his arms, surrounded by the sound of horseshoes like drums, and felt that all emotions in his heart were going away.

Then, a sudden order interrupted his withdrawal.

"Station!"

Hong Ming yanked the reins violently, and the horse under his crotch neighed and stood up.

After him, dozens of riders slowed down and braked suddenly. If they were not all elites, they must have been damaged.

"Commander?"

The team in the brave cavalry asked hurriedly.

"No, the situation is not right."

Hong Ming swung his lance away from the two sparsely feathered arrows.

"These minions are too calm..."

Hearing this, Hong Fan looked towards the top of the slope, and found that the sand bandits not only did not take advantage of the situation to intensify their offensive, but held back their bows and arrows, showing a bit at a loss.

Those who couldn't hold on, even looked back unconsciously.

"There is an ambush!"

Hong Ming was sure of his judgment, ordered in a low voice, and was the first to turn the horse's head around.

"It's the 'King Huo Xu Ming' of the Hong family, who actually failed you."

On the top of the gentle slope, there was loud laughter.

Along the slope edge, two people come up first.

No.1 is the tall and thin bandit leader who has appeared before, and the second person is as muscular as a rock, burly and tall.

Beside the two, more than [-] armored knights appeared, and around them were fifty or sixty bandits holding heavy step bows.

Counting the previous "bait", Haifei actually dispatched more than a hundred people.

"'Four-armed Yasha' Yu Kaicheng, 'Broken Steel' Fang Tianzong..."

Hong Lie inserted back into Ma Qiang, and said in his mouth, with a serious expression on his face.

Both of these two names, Hong Fan, have been seen in the archives of Qizuojian, and they are the second of the three Hunranjing under Wan Guangji's command.

[Thirty against one hundred, we will not be opponents...]

Hong Fan made a judgment in his heart.

When a warrior has reached the penetrating realm, his combat power is as fierce as a tiger after being equipped with short soldiers.

In ordinary street fights, even a Zhu Yiqi like Jiang Youde, who is at the bottom, can easily win five gangsters at once.

But if the latter is equipped with swords, guns, bows and crossbow armor, the situation is different.

"withdraw!"

Down the slope, Hong Ming ignored the provocations of the sand bandits and the flustered Chi family caravan, and left immediately.

The rear team changed to the front team, and when 33 people started, there was a dense shocking sound on the slope.

With his back facing the rain of arrows, the difficulty for the knight to take care of the horse increased several times.

One round of shooting knocked down five cavalry.

The second round is four rides again.

Hong Fan, who was in the back row of the formation and happened to be fine, was holding the horizontal knife, turned around, and saw the eyes of several knights who had turned over.

Smoke billows, no one stays behind.

The sound of the wind howling and tearing the hooves of the horses.

Kong Hai, who was riding with Hong Fan, spun his horse and pushed an arrow away from Bentley's ass.

"Go, I can't save it!"

The man with two arrows stuck in his leather armor shouted.

Hong Fan nodded silently, and couldn't help but look back.

He saw the first knights who fell to the ground in the distance were nailed to the ground by arrows one after another.

The last two roared and rushed up the slope, but Tie Yi's zhenqi, which had reached its peak, was broken through after only a few seconds.

On the gentle slope, arrows rained down, extinguishing the fire of life one by one.

Benedict!
Hong Fan's blank thoughts were interrupted by the whistling of arrows.

Beside him, Kong Hai's war horse lost its heel from an arrow, was suddenly pulled down by the ground, and fell out of the formation in an instant.

At this time, the cavalry had already run 80 meters away from the gentle slope and survived three rounds of arrow rain.

At this distance, the arrows of the minions missed the target, but the bandit knights chasing after horses were rushing up the slope.

Kong Hai is Zhu Yiqi's man, and the knights of the Li family and the Chi family will certainly not look back.

【Because turning around is a gamble...】

A thought flashed in Hong Fan's mind.

In the blink of an eye, he didn't even have time to think through the pros and cons, but he had already pulled the reins in his hand and swung the saber at once.

Hong Lie was also acting in the same way as him.

The two who turned around looked at each other, both a little surprised.

"You save people, I cover!"

Hong Lie urges the Xuanjiao under his crotch violently, and swung his horse to block the scattered arrows.

Without hesitation, Hong Fan mobilized Bingli to pass Kong Hai, and pulled him onto the horse.

At the same time, many intangible and intangible things also spanned tens of meters and were captured by the sand world.

[Sure enough, the power of Xingjun can absorb nutrients from suicide...]

When Hong Fan thought about it, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow approaching rapidly from the corner of his eye.

He instinctively slashed the saber close to his body, only to hear a bang, as if a hammer had hit his forearm.

The iron arrow bounced off, leaving a dent on the blade of "Wang Bu Liu Xing".

In the distance, the burly Fang Tianzong put down his riding bow, looking worried.

Turning over the horse's head, Xuanjiao and Bingli spread their hooves and galloped at full speed.

(End of this chapter)