No Escape?

"Bache, aren't we going after them?" At the same time, Bache and Udi behind them had also spotted Nalant and his Storm Squad.

Udi had originally wanted to pursue them at once, but Commander Bache stopped him.

"Udi, I find this Nalant extremely strange. Last time in the valley, it was he who used crossbow bolts to inflict enormous casualties on our Royal Knights!"

"And with only a few hundred men, he wiped out eight hundred Giant Forest Knights. We must be cautious and should not stray too far from the infantry!"

Since the valley incident, Bache had become much more prudent in his actions, especially when facing Nalant, who also possessed ballistae.

It was precisely Bache's caution—his refusal to leave the infantry behind and advance alone—that spared him Bink's fate.

Otherwise, Nalant would certainly have laid an ambush for them ahead.

Even if he could not kill experts like Bache and Udi, their warhorses would surely be finished.

"Commander Bache, I understand that. But all of Nalant's men are riding in carriages. If this goes on, our ordinary guards may not be able to keep up either!" The enemy was right before his eyes, yet he could not launch an attack immediately. Udi was unwilling to accept this; he was desperate for revenge.

"Udi, I understand how you feel!"

"However, if I remember correctly, there's a great river more than twenty li west of Giant Forest City, isn't there? To cross it, they'll have to wade through the water. With so many carriages, they'll definitely lose plenty of time. As long as we keep following them, once they reach the riverbank, are you afraid they'll still be able to escape?"

Bache came to the Lisen Marquis Territory every year to fight the armies of the Onyx Principality, so he