Chapter 82 The Trial of the Seven Sons (6)

The sky was clear and bright at the time of the attack, and the chaotic team was passing through a narrow stone bridge over a river one after another.

As a result, before they had completely passed, a row of small black dots suddenly appeared on the hazy horizon of the distant mountains, obviously a group of cavalry, rushing toward them at extremely fast speeds.

They didn't know whether they were enemies or friends, but the old knight leading the team didn't hesitate at all. He directly ordered the assembly members to get into a response formation, and he loudly shouted at the team that was crossing the river slowly to speed up.

In fact, without much order from him, people who sensed the danger had already unconsciously started a commotion. Many farmers and civilians who joined on the road panicked and started pushing and shoving in the hope of crossing the river quickly.

At the bridgehead, after estimating the speed of the group of cavalry arriving and the speed of the people behind them crossing the river, the bearded man, one of the leaders of the rally, breathed a sigh of relief, and then clenched a long ax in his hand.

"Unexpectedly, we still haven't gotten rid of these people."

As he spoke, he turned his head solemnly to look at the dismounted old knight beside him, who replied with a wry smile: "The traces of our journey are too obvious."

After catching two shepherds that day, they knew someone was going to have ill intentions towards them, so they directly changed the route they planned to take. At the same time, it seems like I am rushing along in a big way every day, but I am actually very alert to my surroundings.

It’s hard to say who the enemy is right now, but presumably they are the nearby lords loyal to the king, otherwise there would be no reason to attack people in the church like them.

However, the old knight was not too worried about this.

Although those knights looked menacing, they could not hold up the geographical advantage of the stone bridge behind them. In this case, he expected that as long as he defended the bridge, the enemy would be unable to do anything to them.

Unfortunately, this idea completely changed next.

The small black spots visible to the naked eye gradually grew in size, but before they could impact, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd who had already crossed the bridge behind, and there were even voices of women screaming in panic.

The old knight hurriedly turned his head to look, and what he saw made his heart tremble.

I saw a group of masked riders wearing leather armor rushing out of a forest on the opposite side of the bridge. Now they were only a few hundred meters away from those crossing the bridge!

"Don't panic, get back to the bridge quickly!"

Seeing someone screaming and running away from the large group, the old knight yelled, but it was useless.

Some ordinary people had dispersed without discipline, and most of them followed his orders, but it could hardly be called a good thing, because their panic attack made it impossible for the assembly members to smoothly launch a defensive formation. .

There were sounds of panic all around, and the sound of horse hooves gradually became clearly audible.

There were many enemies, and they were still attacking from both sides. The old knight's heart had sunk to the bottom. Then for some reason, he suddenly thought of the tall young man with blond hair, so he looked around, and happened to see him standing on the bridge. The silhouette of someone escaping by leaping into the turbulent river.

This look made him laugh angrily, but he had no time to pay attention to the coward who was still not sure whether he was of his own bloodline.

In a state of panic, the members of the assembly at the end of the stone bridge struggled to the front. They each clenched their weapons and stood ready to face the enemy who was getting closer and closer in front.

At this time, the situation was very chaotic. A dozen abandoned sheep were wandering on the opposite side of the stone bridge, bleating. Some hurriedly ran away in the face of the oncoming cavalry, while others stayed in place stupidly, and were then killed. Trample to death, or act as a stumbling block, tripping two or three unlucky riders to the ground.

However, all this did not hinder the main body of the cavalry's charge, nor did it allow the assembly members to relax at all.

Behind them are the church believers and civilian travelers they swore to protect, and in front of them are the fierce and fierce enemies. The wielding maces and spears made a brown-haired young man holding a wooden-handled hatchet tremble all over, but Several companions beside him roared in anger.

Under the roar of collision, the scene was quite tragic as soon as it unfolded.

…

The situation there was precarious, but here on the upper reaches of the Blackwater River, there was a group of four riders walking leisurely on the edge of the river bank.

"The king has not ordered us to suppress the church. I think this action is inappropriate." One of the blond knights, who took off his helmet and put it in his armpit, said to his brown-haired companion beside him.

The companion with smooth brown hair chuckled at this, and the glazed green armor he wore reflected a shiny luster in the morning light.

"Don't forget Harren the Heart and Janos Arryn. How do you think this situation will develop when our good king gives the order?"

The other party didn't answer, so the brown-haired knight sneered.

"King Aenys is weak and incompetent, so we as subjects naturally need to be tough, otherwise this kingdom will not last long."

"But it's likely to anger the Church, who are—"

"They have already gone against the royal family, and you are still afraid of anger?" The brown-haired knight interrupted his companion sarcastically.

"Besides, as long as we do it cleanly, who will know all this."

As he said that, the brown-haired knight looked at the stone bridge in the distance that was slowly shrinking the battle line, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.

His purpose is to let the church know about this, so how can he do it cleanly...

It's just that it's impossible to talk about this with your companions.

Thinking about the possible chaos in the future kingdom, he silently looked forward to it, but suddenly felt something out of the corner of his eye. Looking sideways, he found that it was a group of trout wandering in the Blackwater River.

"Why is there a school of fish here?"

He murmured strangely, looking at his companions, and found that they were also surprised by this.

It is actually normal to have a school of fish in the river, but it is very abnormal for a school of fish to gather together and keep swimming and floundering, staying in the middle of the river and refusing to go with the waves.

After a few careful glances, through the still clear water surface, they did not see anything unusual except the school of fish, and even the water plants on the bottom of the river were dimly visible.

The brown-haired knight then turned around and ordered the two attendants following behind him to go into the water to investigate the situation.

The attendants had no objection to this, so they turned over and dismounted, took off their heavy clothes and rushed into the river.

However, as if they were frightened, after they rushed into the river, the school of fish that had not moved much before suddenly jumped away and hid in the other direction of the river.

Seeing this, the two servants hurriedly chased forward, but the fish swarmed elsewhere. After three or four times, one of the servants was shaken and even slipped into the river. After a lot of rescue, he avoided the fate of being drowned in panic.

However, he couldn't go into the water again.

The two knights were already impatient with the servants' clumsy situation, and the embarrassed look of one of them after a belly full of river water made them determined. So after looking at each other, they decided to go out in person.

The members of the poor assembly on the stone bridge were just a group of peasants. There would be no accidents in the face of elite troops. At this moment, such a strange phenomenon appeared in the river. Maybe it was because of some special treasure. Of course, they had to find out.

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