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Jiao Tai and the others galloped behind He Chunhua, doing their best to fend off the arrows whistling toward them from the rear.
One arrow came straight for his horse’s rump, but He Lingchuan flicked his wrist and knocked it aside in midair. Mao Tao, however, was not so lucky. His mount took a shaft clean in the hind leg, screamed, and collapsed in a tangle of limbs.
Mao Tao was instantly left behind.
When He Lingchuan glanced back, he saw the man scramble to his feet and shout, “Don’t worry about me!” before ducking into a single-story house by the roadside. A row of low homes lined this stretch; a few quick leaps and he vanished behind one of the walls, gone from sight.
The Xun Province cavalry had eyes only for the grain convoy. They had no desire to waste time on a single stray pawn. The main force thundered on, hooves drumming like war drums.
The arrows behind them thickened into a rain no one could entirely block.
So He Chunhua simply hurled a round crystal token over his shoulder.
It flashed with the soft green glow of a mandate token and expanded the instant it left his hand, transforming into a wall of solid ice that rose up behind their two horses.
It was only about a finger’s breadth thick, but more than three meters tall. It sealed off their backs completely.
Dozens of dull thuds sounded in rapid succession as dozens of arrows slammed into the ice wall and stuck there, quivering.
With a roar, the Xun Province cavalry leveled their long spears and spurred forward.
The wall had been thin to begin with. Pierced through by so many shafts,...
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