Chapter 66 March forward (2/2)
The bald man immediately growled in excitement as his whole face turned red. Even his bald head was somewhat sparkling under the sunlight.
Adrick seemed to be in a very good mood and waved his hand while ordering to end the break. Just when he was about to climb on his horse, his eyes suddenly changed expression as he looked up toward the sky.
In midst of the blue sky a little gray shadow with open wings was circling around. It seemed like an eagle, but from its size; it was slightly smaller compared to an ordinary eagle. Moreover, its cycling movement was somewhat strange and after cycling few laps above the first legion, it turned around to fly away.
Adrick complexion suddenly ashen and next to him Kevin squinted his eyes while the color on his face changed too: “General, that’s the Odin ……”
“Yes, it’s a scouting eagle!” Adrick’s eyes flashed with a strange gleam of light: “If a scouting eagle is here, then Odin’s army is certainly not far away!” He suddenly turned around and asked one of the officers: “How long since the last news of Butler?”
“The last news came with a messenger last evening, after that there were no more news.” The military officer replied.
Adrick’s face suddenly turned gloomier:”Map!!”
The lieutenant next him immediately took out the map from the bag and opened it. After taking a look, Adrick pointed a location on it: “How far away is that place from our position?”
The place he pointed was a long and narrow region with slightly low-lying topography. It was in the center of the plain with highland forest on both sides and a stretching marsh land in between.
“Not too far away.”
The one who answered was Shaar as he shouted loudly without even thinking: “I know that place. From our position, if we ride at full speed we can certainly arrive there in two hours!”
“Are you sure?!”Adrick stared at Shaar and this general’s eyes unexpectedly made a frightening light and his gaze was breathtaking. Shaar braced himself against such eyes and clenched his teeth while replying:”I am sure! I had gone twice to that place and I am familiar with the nearby terrain.”
“Something happened!”Adrick’s eyes flashed with a dangerous light: “The scouting eagle of Odins is alerting them against us! Something must have happened in front to Butler! Otherwise the scouting eagle would not be flying this close to south to scout. Furthermore, we didn’t receive a messenger from Butler for whole night!”
The general thought for a moment and looked at the few lieutenants around him before his eyes fell on the bald man: “Kevin!”
“At your command!” Like on stimulants, the bald man shouted excitedly while warming up his neck.
“I will give you the command of all Praetorian Guards including the scouts of the third legion! Should be a total of more than 200 cavalrymen! You will lead them and immediately ride full speed towards north!! Butler that fellow must be in trouble! Your task is to reinforce them. On the road if you will encounter a blockade you know what to do!”
Kevin immediately lifted his claw hammer and roared excitedly: “Tears them to shreds!”
“Idiot!”Adrick scolded him: “When you met the blockade, you are not allowed to stop and fight. You will directly breakthrough and your task is to find Butler’s troops and aid them! I am bringing our main force to catch up afterwards!”
Pausing for a moment, He looked at Shaar: “Shaar is familiar with the terrain, make this rookie lead the way!”
Then he looked up the sky, watching the eagle’s flying shadow and suddenly felt irritated in his heart. Grabbing a bow with his backhand from a nearby soldier’s saddle, he pulled the bow and aimed at the sky……
Pew!
While the bowstring vibrated, the arrow shot forward transforming into a gray light. However, this was only an ordinary bow and even if it was pulled to its maximum capacity of a full moon shape, the arrow flew upward for a while before dropping a down a big distant away from the eagle. Furious, Adrick drew the bow again and this time he put in more strength but with a cracking sound the bow was snapped into two.
“God damn it!”Adrick was enraged: “If only Sylvia was here……”
He glance as Kevin and shouted: “What are you spacing out for! Go immediately fulfil your order!”
Kevin quickly complied with a cry and hastily rode out. A moment later, he gathered the Praetorian Guards with all the cavalry scouts and formed a squad of 300 riders: “Everyone leave behind your spare horse! You don’t need bring to bring your dry rations! Threw away all the unnecessary things! We will depart immediately!”
The 13th Cavalry Army was indeed an elite force and only needed a moment to ready a squad of 300 people before embarking. Kevin had quite a bit of leadership and he easily arranged his troops into a wedge formation while leading the 300 cavalrymen on their way.
Shaar and Kevin rode in the forefront of this group since he was responsible for guiding them. After riding at high speed for about the energy of one meal, they saw smooth terrain with steep hills in front of them. On the high ground left, there was a sparse forest and Shaar immediately shouted: “Almost there! It’s after the highlands!”
Just when his voice quiet down, a group of people could be seen coming out of the forest from the highlands. Those fellows all wore leather armor and had tall stature with wild hairstyles. While holding large swords and other types of weapons in their hands, they were also carrying a round shields. Roughly about hundred people quickly rushed out of the forest to greet the cavalrymen!
These guys were not riding horse, but instead they were riding a strange mounts which resembled horses. However, they seemed more majestic with their fur full of black markings and their two long horns on their head.
Seeing this Shaar got a strange feeling in his heart before hearing Kevin roaring anxiously: “Is the Odin’s caribou cavalry unit!! Breaking through!!”
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Both forces would soon smash against each other and Shaar heard the Odin’s roaring a strange tone as they came closer. Those caribou mounts growled loudly and their running momentum was unexpectedly more astonishing than that of horses!
With a strong wind caressing his face, both group of cavalrymen maliciously crushed against each other making loud sounds of clashing!
With Shaar and Kevin spearheading the formation they immediately crashed into the Odin’s formation!
What was quite shameful was that Shaar’s horse-riding skill was not very advanced and when he hit a majestic caribou head-on, his horse’s neck was twisted from the impact while he immediately fell off his saddle!