Chapter 116: Ambushed

  Li Xie thought Jin Zhi had no ulterior motives, so he didn't rush at full speed, just a bit faster than his normal walking pace. After three hours, they had only covered about sixty kilometers.

  "If I remember correctly, after leaving this forest, there is a vast open area ahead, and then another forest. After we leave this forest, let's take a short rest."

  Li Xie ordered them to go down, and the group of people quickly left the mountain forest. As expected, they entered a vast and empty region, and in the distance, they could see that there was a row of trees in front of them.

  Between the open spaces and the forest, there is a river that runs across, this is the "Zhenru River" of the Da Bang Dynasty.

  Li Xie and his group began to slow down their pace, wanting to take a short rest in the open area, so that if there were any movements around them, they would be easily aware of it.

  By the riverbank, they spread out a mat to rest. Kano called for the guards to bring out dry rations, water and wine. Li Xie went to the riverbank to wash his face, and saw Ze En Na De occasionally looking up at the sky, curiously asking: "What are you looking at?"

  Zayn nodded his head: "The whole way felt strange, but I don't know what's strange about it."

  "Strange?" Li Xie looked up at the sky, blue sky and white clouds, but didn't see anything strange about it, shook his head and said: "You probably haven't seen a bird, what's so strange about a blue sky with white clouds?"

  " Birds?" Zayn's gaze narrowed: "You didn't notice, just now when we passed through the forest, there wasn't a single bird? And look at the sky, those few white clouds, not moving at all!"

  Li Xie heard this and immediately felt a tightening in his heart!

  A thousand-man cavalry marching through the forest will inevitably startle countless birds. If no birds fly, there are only two possibilities: either the forest was originally birdless; or a large number of people and horses have already passed through the forest to scare away the birds.

  This mountain forest is just an ordinary mountain forest, without powerful magical beasts inhabiting it. There are countless birds, so there's only the second possibility left.

  Zainnarde suddenly exclaimed, "I know what's going on with those clouds! They're not clouds, it's a stealth technique! There's an enemy in the sky!"

  The Refractive Concealment Technique is a spell of the Light System that can give an object another form, which cannot be discerned by the naked eye, but if looked at carefully, this magic cannot change the shape of the object naturally, that is to say, it is fixed.

  For example, those few white clouds in the sky always maintain an unchanged shape, but the white clouds are constantly changing. What Zaynarde felt was strange was that there were a few white clouds in the sky that had not changed at all.

  So, behind the white clouds, something must be hidden.

  Li Xie didn't care whether there were real enemies or not, but since Zayn said there were, he had to take it seriously. He immediately shouted: "Mount up! Prepare for battle!"

  A group of guards immediately went on high alert, releasing their magical pets and arming themselves in the first instance, then mounting their horses and rushing towards Li Xie.

  They are the elite of the Forbidden Troops with five-tiered magical pets, acting swiftly and vigilantly without panic.

  Kano rode up on a white Thunder Warhorse he had chosen and came before Li Xie: "Sir, are there enemies?"

  Squinting his eyes and focusing his mind, he looked forward, and under the super-sensitive perception of blood energy, the forest in front of him was surprisingly a bloody red. He was shocked, turned his head to look back, and the forest behind him, except for the road they had just passed through, was also blood-red on both sides.

  This represents countless soldiers and horses hidden inside.

  Looking up at the sky again, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart. Above the sky, there were seven clusters of crimson red, which were exactly those seven frozen white clouds.

  "There are countless people in the forest ahead and behind, and also in the sky! But there's no one to the east or west. Let's run west!" Li Xie said anxiously.

  No matter who set the ambush, from the number of people and the fact that even the sky is ambushing them, it seems they are going to be left with no way out.

  "Sir, we can't go west. There are people in front and back of us, and the left and right paths are open. This must be a trap! It's a common tactic used by the military. Sir, let me take command from now on!"

  "Good!" Li Xie's mind was already in disarray. He had no experience dealing with such a situation, and his arrogance led him to command the troops into a dead end.

  "Swan formation, maximum speed! Charge forward! Zein, protect the lord's safety, enter the forest, prioritize killing over escaping!"

  A thousand elite soldiers immediately dispersed in a human-shaped formation, wildly slapping their horses' backs and rushing forward, with Li Ye being protected in the middle, shooting towards the forest like an arrowhead.

  Kano's choice is undoubtedly the most correct one at present. Although Li Xie's people are closer to the forest in the rear, it is now very clear that all this must be related to Jin Zhi. Escaping into the forest in the rear will directly face Pingdu City, which may lead to a larger encirclement.

  Although there were no ambushes on either side, someone had carefully set up a trap, and they would not give the Liye people a clear road to escape. Kano was certain that both sides must have traps, and unknown traps were more terrifying than ambushes, which could cause a thousand-man army to be annihilated in an instant.

  Kano's only choice was to charge forward and rush into the forest ahead!

  But if we can rush into the woods, we absolutely cannot make running away our main goal. Kano is a soldier, he understands the army, if we run away, it will only lead to being chased to death. Only by killing the surrounding soldiers and horses, and making the nearby soldiers and horses afraid, can we make other soldiers also produce fear, at that time the execution power will decrease, and then there will be an opportunity to break through.

  Kano gave Li Xie's team the most correct guidance, but as soon as they started to move, the forests in front and back were shouting and killing.

  In front of the forest, countless people and horses rushed out. They were dressed casually, but there were tens of thousands of them! On such a scale, even if they wanted to conceal their identities, in terms of numbers, they could only be an army.

  Either it is the army of the Great Stick Dynasty or it is the Cheetah Legion!

  Li Xie could confirm that it was definitely the Leopard Troop, and the Big Stick Dynasty didn't even have the guts to send troops to intercept the Lord of the Doudou Dynasty.

  So everything is clear, the Leopard Legion and Jin Zhi colluded, and they had long planned a conspiracy. They had been secretly deploying troops out of Taiyang Flower City in small numbers, which was impossible for the scouts of Chrysanthemum City to detect. And when the number accumulated to a certain extent, it would be Li Xie who delivered himself to their doorstep!

  Jin Zhilai and Li Xiejian became friends and Li Xiejian went on a visit.

  It's just that knowing these things is useless now; what's most important is breaking through the current crisis.

  Figures of men and horses appeared in front of the forest, immediately followed by the sound of "whooshing" through the air.

  Innumerable arrows flew through the air like a flock of birds, and then came crashing down like a tsunami, splitting heaven and earth asunder, sweeping everything in their path!

  Seeing the speed of the arrow, Kano's pupils constricted: "What's this, Black Iron Arrow! Everyone accelerate! Accelerate and charge into the forest! Full power!"

  Arrows are already covering everyone's heads, and the chill of the impending doom can be clearly felt!

  "Armorization!" Kano leapt up with his great sword, and the warhorse under him transformed into a white light that attached itself to Kano's body. Suddenly, Kano had an additional suit of silver-white armor, and he grasped his great sword horizontally, spinning around: "Great Earth Gale!"

  Kano rapidly spun around, creating a five-meter-high, three-meter-wide dragon-shaped whirlwind with a faint golden glow. The arrows shot from the sky were blown away to both sides as they touched the whirlwind.

  The rest of the guards brandished their swords and parried the arrows shot from above.

  Zayn's most direct approach was to fly directly into the team's airspace, where he saw that his entire body had already been fully blown open.

  Zayn Nard is a Dragon Clan, many combat skills require the form of a giant dragon to be cast, but high-ranking dragons can transform into human form and use dragon breath to convert Dou Qi magic. They can also learn human combat skills and magic, but Zayn Nard has not learned any, he can only use Dou Qi, and that is in the most direct way!

  So he stimulated his whole body's aura, stood in a big character shape, and actually used his body to block the arrows.

  Fortunately, his physical defense was strong, and with the help of Dou Qi's defense, the arrows were unable to get close to him, and he could also create a safe space for Li Xie below.

  The arrows came quickly and ended quickly. In the first round of arrows, Li Xie's side managed to deflect all of them, and no one was injured, but many horses were killed or wounded, leaving some guards to run on foot.

  "Charge!" Kano yelled as he landed. "We can't withstand several rounds of arrow fire! We'll only have a chance if we charge into the forest!"

  As soon as Ka No's words fell, the second wave of arrows came pouring down from the sky.

  That's at least tens of thousands of arrows, making people feel as if the sky has turned dark.

  The guards defended themselves according to the rules, each resisting arrows, but the speed of the charge had decreased somewhat, because in the second round of arrow arrays, almost all horses were shot dead, and all guards could only run on foot.

  Next is the third round of arrow array! Fourth round of arrow array!

  After all, Li Xie's side was made up of elite soldiers, all of whom were fifth-tier summoners, and defending against a few rounds of arrow arrays wasn't even a problem.

  However, Li Xie had already discovered that Kano's "Great Earth Whirlwind" had shrunk in range, the faint golden light within the whirlwind was gone, and his Dou Qi was rapidly depleting.

  The fifth round of arrow shower came down, and the guards had already started getting injured.

  "Speed up! Give me your all! We've got 500 meters left! Into the woods, we'll show them what we're made of! The strongest evil army!" Kano shouted loudly, the forest ahead was his only hope!

  Arrows are long-range weapons, but once you get close, especially in the woods, bows and arrows can't exert their killing power. And Li Xie's side is an elite army, even stronger than regular troops. The forest ahead may have tens of thousands of ambushes, but 1,500 fifth-tier summoners can definitely fight them in the woods without losing! Not to mention, there is also the ninth-tier giant dragon Zaynarde, and the seventh-tier summoner Cano, and Li Xie, this fearless vampire, as well as Li Xie's lower seven-tier Thunder War Horse, Ma Wang.

  Only 500 meters left, hope it's in front of me!

  Charge!

  Kano ran while shouting loudly, he didn't look fearful or nervous, all that could be seen was the anger in his voice!

  Rage against the enemy!

  He is in the confidence of the stable guards!

  "Into the woods, kill all those bastards! Brothers, charge!"

  As Kano shouted, Li Xie felt less tense and instead thought that the ones who should be nervous were the ambushers in the forest ahead! Because they had enraged a pack of ferocious wolves, and this pack of wolves was now charging towards them, ready to use their blood to quench the wolves' anger!

  Suddenly, a strange feeling came from the sky, like icy cold piercing through the bones, and also like a raging fire!