The Densa River originates from the south side of the Balkan Mountains and meanders southward into the Maritsa River.
It is the largest tributary on the left bank of the Maritsa River and is nine hundred miles long.
If you keep walking along the river bank, it will take more than ten days to reach it.
After walking, the guide who often walks this road certainly knows how to take shortcuts and can reach the town in time to obtain supplies.
After driving along the Densa River for two days on the grasslands in northern Thrace, Zhao Ziliang and his party decided to cross the river in a section of the river where the water flow was relatively gentle and the water depth was shallow.
There is a wooden bridge here, which is a small wooden bridge built by local residents to facilitate travel.
The bridge is not wide and can only be passed by two people.
If you are riding a horse, you can only cross once.
The bridge deck is only two meters high from the water, even if it is In this way, with the level of river flooding in July, if you fall into the water, you will most likely be washed away by the river.
Choosing this location to cross the river was suggested by our guide Phyllis, "To cross the river from here, we have to avoid a lot of detours.
If we choose to cross the river at another location, although there are bridges, we have to walk a long way, and the shortest one is also One more day to walk” At this time, a team of more than 20 people was walking to a relatively wide grassland.
Several guards were walking in front and kept a mile away from the group.
Zhao Ziliang was about to ask questions when he saw a guard galloping over on horseback. .
"Sir, we found a large number of horse hoof prints in front of us.
These horse hoof prints are extending in the direction we are going.
We suspect that a large number of cavalry came from behind us and circled in front of us at a very fast speed."
Zhao Ziliang reined in his horse and stopped, asking Felice: "How far is it from where we are to the wooden bridge?"
Phyllis replied: "Less than ten miles."
Zhao Ziliang immediately told Zhang Huchen: "Take your two brothers and follow Felice to the wooden bridge ahead to investigate.
If there is any situation, report back immediately."
"Yes, sir."
Zhang Huchen immediately ordered two guards and followed Felice on horseback and galloped forward.
After they left, Zhao Ziliang asked everyone to dismount and rest for a while, and sent a few people to go around to investigate the situation.
Less than half an hour later, Zhang Huchen led Felice and others on horseback and galloped back to report to Zhao Ziliang: "Sir, there are indeed a large number of cavalry at the wooden bridge.
I checked closely.
It should be the Eastern Roman Empire."
Two hundred men from the Ninth Royal Guards, they are waiting for us there."
Zhao Ziliang frowned.
He knew that if he didn't take action, Zhang Huchen and Liang Zhenwu would never be able to deal with those two hundred people.
As for the remaining twenty or so Dragon Guard guards, they would not be able to stand up to the ninth Royal Guards.
He is not qualified to take action.
If he has it now He doesn't mind competing with the 200 Royal Ninth Guards against the one thousand Dragon Guards.
You must know that with single-person combat capabilities, the Dragon Guard soldiers are definitely no match for the Ninth Royal Guards soldiers who have reached an innate level of personal strength.
However, If a large-scale battle were to take place, he feared no one.
Zhao Ziliang was quite angry and said: "These guys have been lingering in the past few days.
Do they want to surround us?
Huh, I want to tell the brothers whether they all come back or not."
Zhao Ziliang stopped mid-sentence.
He turned his head and looked far to the left.
Just now he felt that someone was spying.
This was not spying with his eyes, but with his mental power.
This was definitely not something ordinary people could do.
He It has been determined that the person who just spied on them must be a practitioner from the Eastern Roman Empire.
At this time, in the woods in the distance, two old guys in black robes were squatting beside a puddle.
The calm water surface showed the picture of Zhao Ziliang and others, but when Zhao Ziliang turned his head and looked over, At that moment, the water surface suddenly rippled, and the picture suddenly disappeared.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
"Why is it gone?
Your mirror image skills are too poor.
How long did it last before disappearing?"
asked the old man in black robe on the left.
The expression of the old man in black robe on the right changed, and he immediately pulled the old man in black robe on the left and ran away, shouting: "Let's go quickly, it will be too late if we don't leave."
Just as the two old men in black robes disappeared, a ripple of space suddenly appeared next to the place where they disappeared.
Zhao Ziliang's figure appeared instantly.
He lowered his head and looked at the puddle, and then looked at a few footprints not far away.
Feeling a wave of energy in the air, he immediately snorted: "Humph, I guess you guys can run fast."
On the edge of the woods a few miles away, the two men in black robes who had just disappeared suddenly appeared here.
After the two stood firm, they couldn't help but feel frightened, and their faces were a little pale.
It was obviously the result of using a lot of magic and consuming too much magic.
In such a situation.
To run such a long distance in a short period of time will definitely consume a lot of money.
"How can this person be so alert and powerful?
We were discovered by him just after we used the mirror technique, and he locked his position in an instant.
It's really scary.
The two of us are not his opponents at all.
I think We should go to Vabitsa Pass immediately to join Agulus and the others.
Only by concentrating all our strength can we deal with him."
Another man in black robe asked: "Our mission is to keep an eye on him.
Isn't it too early to join Agulus and the others now?"
"I realize it's not too early at all.
We were discovered as soon as we cast the Mirror Image Technique.
Do you think we can still keep an eye on him?
If we hadn't run fast just now, we would have been dead no matter how those Western Qin people walked. , in the end they all have to go to the Bulgar Khanate through Wabitsa Pass."
"Well, since we are going to meet up with Agurus and the others, let's leave early.
It's not fun to be caught up by that Western Qin practitioner."
Wabitsa Pass is a pass controlled by the Bulgars in the Balkan Mountains.
The terrain of this pass is extremely dangerous.
It is an important pass between the Bulgar Khanate and the Eastern Roman Empire.
Although it is very dangerous, it is still difficult to walk through this pass.
The pass is much closer, so there are a lot of business travelers passing here.
Agurwus and the others speculated that Zhao Ziliang and others must also go through the Wabitsa Pass, so after discussion, they decided to go there to meet up and set up an ambush.
A group of people from Xi Qin were waiting there.
Liang Zhenwu saw Zhao Ziliang suddenly appear again and immediately asked: "Master, what's the matter?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "There are practitioners from the Eastern Roman Empire spying on us.
I rushed over just now, but they have already run away."
Liang Zhenwu frowned when he heard this and said: "Master, so the practitioners who came to the Eastern Roman Empire have not given up.
They must have been following us all the way.
As long as the master uses the methods of practitioners, they are likely to take action again."
Siege you” Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and shook his head: "I'm afraid they didn't just follow us this time.
The people who spied on us just now were not two of the nine people I fought with in the office.
These people actually ran in front of us.
Maybe they are planning some conspiracy."
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
Zhang Huchen asked: "Master, what should we do now?"
Zhao Ziliang squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the wooden bridge.
After a while, he turned to look behind him.
The originally dull look on his face gradually became fierce, and murderous intent began to appear in his eyes.
"Staring at the cultivation of our Eastern Roman Empire."
There must be more than just those two.
If they don’t do it again with me, they We can't get our face back.
They must be waiting for us somewhere.
Since we have to do it again after all, then I don't have to worry about it anymore.
Let's first get rid of the five hundred armored cavalry hanging behind us.
Let’s talk about it after it’s destroyed.
Tell the brothers to get on their horses and we’ll turn the carbine back with a move.”
"Yes, sir."
The guards agreed one after another, got on their horses and followed Zhao Ziliang, turning around and walking back to look for the bad luck of the five hundred armored cavalry.
Armored cavalry, which is a type of heavy cavalry, is a unique branch of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The knights are covered in leather armor, and even the helmets on their heads are tightly wrapped, leaving only the eyes outside.
The front half of the horse is covered with armor.
Wearing iron armor instead of full armor, knights were equipped not only with lances, but also with swords and bows.
The reason why the war horses are not fully armored, but half-armored, is mainly to greatly reduce the weight of the war horses.
In fact, the cavalry is rarely attacked from the rear side and rear, so it is completely unnecessary to fully armor the war horses.
Half body armor is more than enough, and the saved weight can increase the horse's maneuvering speed, sprint distance and marching distance.
Armored cavalry is a unit that emerged during the military reforms of the famous general Belisarius.
The emergence of this unit made it possible for the Eastern Roman Empire to no longer be at a disadvantage every time when fighting against nomadic cavalry.
Especially the armored cavalry was at a disadvantage against nomadic peoples.
Armored light cavalry has an absolute impact advantage in frontal confrontation, and because only half-body armor is equipped on the horses, plus the Eastern Roman The empire's war horses are tall, explosive, and not bad in terms of endurance.
Therefore, in the initial maneuvering speed after the battle begins, the armored cavalry is not much inferior to the light cavalry.
This is an advantage that the heavy cavalry of other countries do not have.
If we want to fight Metaphorically speaking, the armored cavalry is like a later battlecruiser, with the firepower of a battleship and the speed of a cruiser.
But there is one thing.
If it encounters a real heavy cavalry with full armor, it will definitely be doomed, or if it encounters a light cavalry that can engage in guerrilla warfare, it will definitely be dead.
Five hundred armored cavalry, this is an army with considerable combat effectiveness.
If it is five hundred infantry, Zhao Ziliang can easily kill them with Liang Zhenwu, Zhang Huchen and more than twenty Dragon Guard soldiers, but he has to deal with five hundred armored cavalry.
The cavalry has some difficulties, especially if they run away without winning and abandon their armor while escaping, it will be difficult to catch up with them.
If you want to annihilate these 500 armored cavalry, you still need to make some preparations. .
They ran back more than 20 miles back to the riverside town where they started in the morning.
They stopped at the entrance of a blacksmith shop in the town.
Zhao Ziliang turned around and saw a long thin iron chain hanging on the wall of the blacksmith shop.
He shouted: "Liang Zhenwu, go buy the iron chain hanging on the wall and ask the blacksmith if there are any longer iron chains.
The more the better."
"yes":