The small episode did not affect the movement of the entire team.

The group quickly packed up, then rode on the war horse that they had been holding with them, and began to run in the woods.

They chose this temporary camp, which was already close to the periphery of the forest. They only needed to move out of the forest for hundreds of meters, so the grass and vegetation nearby gradually began to become sparse, the more they went out,

As you go, the sparse the density of plants and trees will be.

Therefore, war horses that were originally unable to run flexibly in the deep forest because of dense trees everywhere, now have sufficient room for movement.

Next we have to leave the forest, and there is a plain outside the forest with a wide view. Although this will help to discover the enemy's traces more early, the enemy will also easily discover them.

Therefore, they must not delay on the plains, they must pass through the plains as fast as possible, and riding war horses is undoubtedly faster than walking by themselves.

The group did not delay. Even Prince Henry rode a war horse alone and followed the team. As a member of the royal family, Prince Henry has been pampering since childhood, but has also experienced military and martial arts training and knows how to use long swords and

Bows and arrows and riding horses are naturally no problem.

After all, in the medieval world of Western Europe where prices are lagging behind, riding horses, except for the soldiers who join the army, the rest are basically activities that only the nobles and upper-class people will play.

Even the pretty princess actually rides a horse. However, considering that she is pregnant and has just been frightened, Rotes asked the rest of the team except Melty.

The middle-aged female knight took her princess to sit on the war horse, so she could take care of her nearby.

After Rajs and Litt died, their two war horses were not released, but were taken back to the temporary camp. Considering that they might be able to use them in the future, Rotts took them with him.

It's right.

The dense sound of horse hooves kept echoing on the grassland. The group rolled up the dust and rode their horses quickly, heading towards the vaguely visible city on the distant horizon.

That was exactly the next target of the Frontier City, Roths and others. At this moment, it was almost three minutes since they officially left the forest.

Soon, Melty suddenly changed her pretty face slightly. She controlled the horse to approach Rotes, who was at the front of the team while running, and shouted to him in a deep voice: "Be careful, an enemy is coming!"

Roths's face darkened, and he glanced at the frontier city, which was still far apart in his sight. After estimating the distance, he looked a little more solemn on his face.

According to his experience, they should be at least ten kilometers away from the frontier city. The frontier city is very large and almost no less than the capital, but from their perspective, they can only barely

I saw a very vague and tiny phantom of a city blockade on the horizon, which shows how far the distance between the two sides is.

This is what I mean by running a horse to death on the mountain.

According to Roths' estimate, according to their current speed of horse racing, they will need to run for about half an hour before they can truly reach the jurisdiction and patrol range of the garrison in the Frontier City.

And in this nearly half an hour, the enemy's troops will be able to blatantly launch a pursuit against them.

Therefore, Rotes had long expected this situation of being pursued by the enemy on the road, and would not be surprised at this moment.

"Which direction? How far is the distance?" He didn't say nonsense and asked Melty directly.

"The side and rear, at four o'clock, are about 900 meters apart! They are approaching us!" Melti closed his eyes and listened for a few seconds, and made a judgment.

There are also simple timing scales in this world. Similar to a sundial, a digital scale representing the clock is engraved on a circular stone disk. A vertical stone needle is inserted in the center of the stone disk, and then shines on the sunlight

The digital scale corresponding to the shadow position on the stone needle on the lower stone plate is used to determine the current specific time scale.

Therefore, the saying that the direction is specified by the numbers on the disc scale is also derived.

"Where is the number of people?" Rotes asked.

"It is unknown for the time being, but it should be higher than five people and lower than fifty people." This time, Melty reported a relatively vague number.

Roths wasn't surprised by this either.

After all, Melty was exploring this time while riding a horse and running at high speed, instead of lying on the ground like before to perceive the vibration information transmitted from the ground, so the accuracy of the information found will inevitably decrease.

But at this time he did not specifically instruct the team to stop and let Melty seek more detailed information, because in this way, a lot of time would inevitably be wasted, which would slow down the speed of the entire Knights team.

The enemy behind is chasing him. When you stop at this time, you are completely giving the other party a chance.

Moreover, Rotes was sure that the enemy's pursuit troops must be more than the one Melti had heard of now, so even if they stopped to solve it, they would also give other enemies a chance to get closer, and thus besides them

If you entangle, you will be completely dragged by more and more enemies in the end.

Therefore, the best way is to not stop for a moment and continue to move forward at high speed.

The group continued to move forward, but were mentally prepared to fight with the enemy.

Soon, Melty's beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly again and said, "Be careful! Their war horses are faster than us, and I'm afraid they will stop us halfway! Moreover, it seems that they have also sent a signal to other companions!"

Hearing this, Roths subconsciously turned around and sure enough, he saw a small, blurred red smoke ball floating in the sky, gradually spreading with the wind on the horizon behind.

It was specially used to gather fireworks and signal flares for friendly troops far away nearby. Rajs had already shown it once when he asked for help from enemy troops.

"Those guys want to inform others nearby about our traces!" Everyone, including Roth, understood the key point at once.

"Captain, do you want to deal with them and silence them?" someone in the team asked.

"It's too late!" Roths's face was a little gloomy, he shook his head, and said, "Continue to move forward!"

But after a minute, I heard Meltie speak again: "They are firing signal flares again!"

When Roth heard this, he immediately turned around and looked at the sky behind. Sure enough, he saw another red firework explode in the high altitude behind. Moreover, this time the fireworks were obviously closer to their location than the last time.

Roths moved his sight downwards, and sure enough, he saw a group of people riding war horses waving their horse whips behind them.

The distance between the two sides has been closer to within 700 meters. With Rotes's eyesight, this distance can even be distinguished by the other party's specific number and clothing.

"Are there eight people in total... they are not wearing heavy knight armor, but light armor and chain mail?" Rotes looked for a while and knew it.

No wonder the opponent's war horses can be faster than them. The equipment on these enemies is only a set of light armor at most. Although the defense is much lower than the White Rose Knight Armor on their side, it is better because it is lighter in weight.

In addition, the quality of the opponent's war horse is not bad, and most of them have more physical strength than theirs. At this moment, the opponent is urging the horses to run with all their strength, so the speed is naturally faster than theirs.

In fact, if Rotes thought, the White Rose team could run out at such speed, but the problem is that such speed is equivalent to the extreme sprint of human sprints for war horses. Although it is very fast, it is physically strong.

It consumes a lot. Even if it is a war horse with high quality, it is impossible to last too long if it sprints at full speed.

The White Rose Squad is still quite a long way from the frontier city. With pursuers behind, the plain is obviously not suitable for stopping and resting halfway, so he kept the horses in his team.

Moving forward at a normal speed.

But the enemy doesn't need to worry about it so much. The other party obviously had ambushed nearby one step earlier, so both the human and the war horses were always maintaining a lot of physical strength. Even if the war horses were allowed to sprint at full speed at this moment,

It doesn't matter, the other party doesn't need to run to the frontier city. It's enough to catch up with the White Rose Squad in a short time, so there is no need to worry about the physical exhaustion of the war horses.

If this continues, it will be sooner or later that the White Rose Team will be caught up by these enemies.

Rotes is not afraid of fighting with the other party. After all, even if the other party is an elite soldier, the White Rose Squad is still the dominant one in terms of number of people. But the problem is that if you choose to stop and fight with it, it will seriously slow down the team's progress.

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The enemy had sent a signal before that more enemy troops were gathering here nearby. Once they were dragged down, they would be over.

After his expression changed for a while, Rotes waved his hand and said, "Operation splits for the time being! I will take a few people to stay and intercept them!"

Rotes had already figured it out. If the pursuers hanging behind him were not resolved, their whereabouts would be locked by the other party and communicated to other enemy pursuit troops farther away. In the end, the White Rose Squad

The situation will only become more and more troublesome!

Through the initial questioning of the five enemies that Melti encountered and captured outside the plain, Rotes knew that although the enemy had anticipated the direction of their escort team leaving the forest, the intelligence they had obtained was not

Accurately, one can only roughly infer a very vague range.

Therefore, the enemy will use troops used in case of interception and pursuit to disperse in small teams and are arranged at many positions where the outer area on this side of the forest intersects with the plains.

As long as any team finds Roths and their traces, they will directly signal others to come and intercept and chase together as they are now.

Now, it is actually still too late. As long as the enemy pursuit team that found their traces at a speed fast enough, and not allow them to continue to send signals to other enemies to report their locations, it is still possible.

Get rid of being pursued by the rest of the enemies.

Because the plain between the frontier city and the forest is very vast, if there is no clear guidance, even if the enemy knows that they are going to rush to the frontier city, they cannot specifically lock their way forward.

There is no way to conduct accurate interception.

At most, the opponent can only keep all the pursuit troops in a dispersed state to conduct a carpet-style search of the entire plain. In this way, the pressure on the White Rose Squad can be reduced a lot.

So Roths had to deal with the pursuer in the rear. But he didn't want the White Rose Team to stop because of this, so the remaining choice was to divide the troops.

After making the decision, Roths glanced at Meltie, then looked at the other knights, and said, "This may be the last order I, the captain, gave you... Listen! If I can't do it in time this time

When we come back and meet, the next team action will be fully led and commanded by Melti!”

"Captain, I'll be with you!"

"See me!"

"Doron, Buck..." Roth looked at the several knights who were making noise and smiled with relief: "Are you sure you are mentally prepared?"

"Of course." The few people nodded with resolute expressions.

"Then ..."

Just when Roths was planning to take a few knights to turn his horse back to intercept the pursuers behind him, Melty suddenly spoke: "Wait, Uncle Roths, you don't need to go back! Just leave it to me.

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"Ah?!What did you say?" Rothus looked at Meltie in confusion. He did not fail to hear Meltie clearly, but he just suspected that he had heard it wrong.

"I can get them all out," Melty explained.

"No! How can you do such a dangerous thing!" Roths immediately refused. He thought Melty was planning to cut off the rear of the team on his behalf.

"You misunderstood. What I want to do is not the way you think."
To be continued...