Chapter 152: Escape
"Clean up the battlefield quickly and set off in fifteen minutes."

Lysabel and their men had just finished a battle.

They successfully ambushed a group of Duchy troops that were pursuing them.

"What are the casualties?"

If possible, Lysabel did not want to conduct this ambush. Every battle would bring more or less casualties, and Lysabel's team had already been divided into small units when breaking out.

The troops she could directly command were only the three or four hundred people in front of her. Although these small troops could hide well and avoid the pursuit of the principality's troops, the price was that it was difficult to bear casualties.

"Five dead and eight injured. Some of the other side still reacted and put up a resistance."

This was an almost perfect ambush. The enemy had fewer people, and their ranks were divided into several pieces at the beginning of the ambush. However, casualties could not be avoided.

If possible, Lysabel didn't want to carry out this ambush at all.

She watched her men groping through the bodies of the Principality soldiers, then taking out the blood-stained dry rations.

These resistance fighters could endure the life of sleeping in the open air and fighting with the principality, but no matter what, they still needed to eat, and during this time, they were almost using up the food they carried.

The Duchy's troops were chasing and blocking them, and the direction that Lisabel and her men were heading seemed to be within the Duchy's troops' expectations. The Duchy's troops were stationed in the villages they encountered.

Although the number of these troops is small, it is not difficult to entangle Lisabel's team with the help of the low wall of the village. Once entangled, the large force in the rear will arrive soon.

Lysabel's team hadn't had any supplies in a long time.

After discovering this somewhat aggressive Principality reconnaissance force, Lisabel finally decided to launch an ambush in order to seize their supplies.

Another soldier came over and found a map.

It seems that the commander of this reconnaissance team lost his ability to act in the first round of attacks. Originally, these maps should have been destroyed as soon as they were ambushed.
The map shows the location and direction of the Principality's pursuit forces in the past few days.

Lisabel frowned. Some of these pursuit troops had had several chances to catch up with her before, but they didn't do so. Instead, they chose to block the possible marching routes of Lisabel's troops.

They should know that Lysabel is short of manpower. Once they catch up, even if they are repelled, they can greatly consume and exhaust Lysabel's troops. And such a passive blockade route, as long as their mobility is not obviously stronger than Lysabel, there will always be some gaps for Lysabel's troops to get out.

Lisabel noticed something and gestured on the map. It was obvious that the pursuing troops were intentionally driving them in a certain direction. If they continued to chase the pursuing troops like this, they would end up on the great plains of the Principality.

The current lords of that plain are several nobles who surrendered to Lannia. They now seem to have formed a small alliance. Every time Grand Duke Morarichi wants to intervene more deeply in this plain, he will be blocked by these nobles.

"I see. They want us to mess things up there."

Lysabel closed the map.

"It's almost time."

Lisabel looked at the resistance fighters nearby, nodded, and called out to regroup the resistance fighters who were scattered and cleaning up the battlefield. "Turn. We're heading towards the Delier River."

Whatever the enemy's goal was, they couldn't achieve it easily. Lisabel would definitely not continue to head towards that plain.

"Sir, we just passed that river, and there are troops from the principality on the other side."

The resistance fighters beside them raised objections. They had just passed the river, and after seeing the Principality troops on the opposite side, they could only choose to move in another direction.

"Let's go back. The Principality's troops must have already crossed this ferry."

Lisabel pointed at the map. According to the speed of the Principality's troops, they should have crossed the ferry long ago.

"But even so, it's not easy to cross the Delier River. When we cross the river, the enemy will have enough time to react. If we rush back, they will have just enough time to block us."

Lisabel shook her head and pointed to another crossing of the river, which was the direction in which the Principality's troops were advancing.

"At that time, they should be in the center of the river."

In her prediction, the troops of the principality would cross the river at another ferry ahead, and then block a key traffic route in the village ahead, forcing Lisabel's troops to continue advancing towards the plain.

This gave Lysabel an opportunity. The Duchy's pursuit force had more people, and once they started crossing the river, it would be more difficult to change the direction of their march. This gave Lysabel a time difference, giving her the opportunity to slip through the gap between the pursuers and regain some initiative.

"understood."

The resistance fighters obeyed Lisabel's orders and changed direction, heading towards the Delier River.

There was an element of gamble in Lisabel's decision, and the resistance fighters could see that. If it had been before the breakout, they probably wouldn't have obeyed Lisabel so easily, and they would have had many doubts in their hearts.

Although Lysabel is theoretically the leader of the resistors and can indeed command them, more resistors obey her because of her identity: the favorite of the god of nature and a former member of the royal family. The resistors need a leader with such an identity so that they can more conveniently recruit people from the villages that still miss their original kingdom and obtain assistance from the elves. When it comes to more command and deployment issues, the resistors often have many ideas of their own.

The situation changed a lot only after the breakout. Many teams had been annihilated by the pursuers of the Principality, but Lisabell's team had not suffered too many casualties so far.

At least in this team, Lisabel would not face much real questioning, and even if the order seemed very risky, the team would still carry it out.

After a day of rapid march, Lisabel's troops arrived at the river. As she expected, there were no large-scale pursuers from the Duchy on the other side of the river. They had indeed crossed the ferry far away.

The Principality only left a few sentinels in the area, and these few sentinels alone were unable to stop Lisabel's troops from crossing the river.

"Cross the river."

Lysabel gave the order.
The movement of crossing the river made quite a noise, and the sentinels left on the other side soon discovered Lisabel's troops, and then they fired signal flares.

However, until Lisabel's troops completely crossed the river, the Duchy's pursuit troops that had crossed the ferry still did not appear.

(End of this chapter)