madnovel Chapter 84 Ambush
Chapter 84 Ambush
Master Yan, Yan Gang.
They walked along in the caravan.
Listening to the sounds of horses' hooves, wheels, and camels snorting from all around.
Looking at the hundreds of guards.
He felt exceptionally at ease.
Moreover, we deliberately chose to set off at dawn today, when the moonlight was enough to illuminate the road, but not as conspicuous as during the day. When we arrived at Crescent Moon County, the city gates were just opening.
At this hour, whether it's the roaming demon army or the bandits with ulterior motives, they should all be fast asleep.
"Third brother, oh third brother."
A smile involuntarily crept onto Yan Gang's lips.
Recalling the days before when I visited my injured third brother Yan Yong, I saw his embarrassed and angry expression.
"You said your second brother also suffered a similar fate when he encountered that situation. Today, your second brother will show you what it means to be well-prepared and foolproof."
He was already looking forward to leading this huge convoy, laden with goods, into Crescent Moon County at dawn.
We'll make up for the losses from the previous trips. Then I'll go see my third brother, Yan Yong, and see his frustrated expression, unable to utter a single sarcastic remark.
He and his third brother had different opinions. He advocated using more people from the Yan family, while his third brother advocated hiring more talented people from outside. They often argued about this.
Apart from that, although there was no personal grudge, Yan Gang was still happy to see his third brother suffer a setback.
Thinking of this, he felt happy, and even the Gobi Desert scenery under the moonlight around him seemed more pleasing to the eye.
However, Yan Gang quickly realized something was wrong.
It's too quiet.
Even the chirping of insects in the sand dunes at night, which used to be heard every day, could not be heard at all.
Just then—
"Waaaaah!"
A deep and desolate horn sounded suddenly from behind the highest sand dune on the right side of the road, without any warning!
The sound of the horn was deep, resonant, and carried a wild and austere air.
It's a bugle call from the army!
Yan Gang's hair stood on end instantly!
He practically roared the command:
"Enemy attack! Form ranks! Protect the convoy!!!"
Before the roar had even faded, several rows of figures suddenly emerged from the top of the sand dune to the right.
The moonlight clearly outlined the silhouettes of those figures.
A swarm of wolf demons, with wolf heads and human bodies, wearing tattered leather armor and wielding curved swords and shields.
more.
It was a monster they had never seen before!
One type has a robust horse-like body, draped in simple leather, with four hooves on the ground, but where the horse's neck should be, it is connected to a human-like upper body, with outstretched hands holding spears over ten feet long.
The other type is more slender, also running on all fours, with a body like a deer, holding a longbow almost as tall as a person in both hands, with arrows already nocked!
Horse demon! Deer demon!
More than sixty members of the demon race, like evil spirits emerging from the sea of sand, silently appeared on the sand dunes, looking down at the convoy that had instantly fallen into chaos below.
"Release the arrows!"
The deer demon leader finally let out a neigh.
The next moment, a whooshing sound suddenly came, and more than ten incredibly powerful arrows shot down from the sand dunes.
A hail of arrows descended upon the convoy!
"Raise your shields! Get behind the car!"
Yan Gang's eyes were bloodshot, and his roar rose slightly due to extreme shock and anger.
In the ensuing chaos, there was no time to retrieve shields from the vehicles, nor were there enough vehicles to hide under.
puff!puff!
The sounds of arrows piercing the ground, screams, and the mournful cries of horses and camels rang out almost simultaneously!
A volley of arrows rained down, and seven or eight martial artists screamed as they fell to the ground, hit by arrows. Several horses and camels pulling the carts were also shot, and in pain, they stood up, tilting the carts and cargo boxes and causing even greater chaos.
"Don't panic! All martial artists who have reached the entry level and those who can ride horses, follow me and charge forward in formation. If we don't break them apart, we'll all die!"
Yan Gang rode his horse to the front of the group, leading his fourth and sixth brothers, and calling out to the twenty or so riders in the middle of the caravan, trying to lead them to break through the enemy lines.
His decision was probably correct.
However, the demon army reacted even faster.
"Hissing sound—!"
With a neighing sound from the demon army, more than twenty horse demons wielding long spears began to move on the sand dunes.
With all four hooves propelling them, they accelerated down the slope of the dunes, quickly gaining speed!
The spear thrust forward, its tip gleaming with a row of cold starlight under the moonlight.
There was no command, no shouting.
Only the heavy, thunderous sound of horses' hooves rolled in. Their momentum was far from that of ordinary scattered soldiers; they were clearly a well-trained shock cavalry!
"Raise your guns! Stop them!"
Yan Yong attempted to direct the martial artists and masters to move forward with their guns and form a defensive line.
More than ten brave martial artists and masters, armed with spears, charged forward, but outnumbered and out of formation, they were no match for the centaur cavalry charge.
It appeared so pale and powerless.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Collisions occurred in an instant!
How could a commoner martial artist, made of flesh and blood, possibly stop the high-speed charge of the border army's centaur cavalry?
Not to mention, the enemy cavalry's lances were even longer than the ones they had.
A broken gun barrel, a shattered shield.
Splattered blood, bodies thrown about.
In a single encounter, more than ten people who tried to stop them were scattered and killed or maimed!
The centaur lancers moved like hot knives through butter, instantly cutting through the middle of the caravan. Their spears thrust and pierced through one martial artist after another who couldn't dodge in time.
At the same time, the deer demons began to move their lithe bodies around the caravan.
Their bows and arrows flew incessantly, one after another, at all sorts of tricky angles, aimed at any guards in the caravan who tried to resist.
It’s over.
Yan Gang watched helplessly as his meticulously prepared convoy and guards completely collapsed in less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.
Before the wolf demon formation, which had been wielding swords in the distance, even reached them, they rushed forward.
The martial artists cried out, dropped their weapons, and desperately fled in all directions, only to be easily caught up or shot by the horse demons and deer demons.
Some warriors fought individually, but were quickly surrounded and killed by several centaur cavalrymen or deer demons.
Many more, seeing the situation was not good, the martial artists and masters who wanted to escape unloaded the cargo boxes from the wagons, stole horses and camels, and rode away in all directions.
"Second brother, let's go!"
The fourth and sixth brothers rode up on horseback, stood protectively beside Yan Gang, and shouted at him.
With bloodshot eyes, Yan Gang stared at the hellish scene before him, at the carriages, camels, and valuable goods and stones that the Yan family had accumulated over the years, and his heart ached as if it were being torn apart.
But he also knew.
If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave at all.
Just as Yan Gang gritted his teeth and prepared to turn his horse around, a sharp whooshing sound came from behind!
He instinctively leaned forward onto the horse's back.
"Pfft!"
A spiked arrow pierced deep into the outside of his left leg. His leather armor failed to completely stop it, and the arrowhead went in, sending a sharp pain through him!
"what!"
Yan Gang grunted and almost fell off his horse.
It was those wandering deer demons who seized the opportunity to attack him.
"Walk!"
He endured the pain, called to his brothers and guards behind him, then gripped the reins tightly and used his uninjured right leg to spur the horse's belly.
The chestnut horse, in pain, let out a long neigh, and galloped away towards Crescent Moon County, fleeing for its life...