Chapter 49
"wū wū wū wū woo!" The deep horn sounded across the sky.
"dong! dong! dong!" The heavy drums rang.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The thunderous cry of killing was shaking.
Amid these loud noises, the war has begun.
Lines of auxiliary soldiers rushed towards the moat carrying sandbags and wooden boards, and began to fill the river and build bridges on it.
"Longbowman ready!" Count Croya shouted sharply, holding up the cross sword.
A row of longbowmen stepped forward, raised the purple sage wood longbow in their hands, bent their knees, leaned back, and slanted upward forty-five degrees, pulling the bowstring made of sheep intestines and tendons into a full moon. Shaped, cone-shaped iron arrows shining bursts of cold light under the sunlight.
Earl Croya's cross sword swung down: "Let down the arrow!"
"xiu xiu xiu!"
The sound of intensive breaking wind sounded, in rows The arrow shot into the sky, and then quickly fell to the ground in a parabolic arc, the arrow rained down!
"puff puff puff!"
The sound of iron arrows entering the flesh sounded intensively, and the accelerated arrows easily pierced through the leather armor of the enemy army soldiers, long The arrow shaft pierced through the person's body, nailing the person to the floor, and blood was pouring out!
At the same time, the enemy's longbowmen also rushed forward and raised their longbows to fight back against the city wall under the protection of the shield soldiers.
"Shield, protect!" Earl Croya immediately changed his order.
The shield soldier standing next to the longbowman stepped forward and raised the two-meter-high, one-finger-thick large oak shield with both hands and stood on the longbowman’s body like a door panel. forward.
"Dongdong dong!" The dense dongdong sound rang out, and pieces of arrows were nailed to the oak shield, and the momentum was thunderous!
But with this effort, the enemy's follow-up troops quickly rushed forward, carrying sandbags and wooden boards scattered by the river and throwing them into the moat.
"Let the arrow!"
"Protect!"
"Let the arrow!"
"Protect..."
After going back and forth several times, the enemy finally filled in a few simple passages in the moat after dropping more than a hundred corpses.
The auxiliary soldiers behind immediately rushed forward carrying the tall, long hanging ladder with hooks.
"Change the bow!"
The earl gave an order, and the archers put down the longbows with a long range and a slow rate of fire, and replaced them with short bows with a short range but a fast rate of fire.
"Let the arrows!"
The arrows are like rain, hiding the sky and covering the earth.
Heath took refuge under a tower, and two shield soldiers stood in front of him for protection.
He looked at the Count Croya who was commanding the battle in an orderly manner, and suddenly he understood why the commander of the army made a low-level mistake of underestimating the enemy yesterday. It was really not underestimating the enemy, but just self-confidence.
With seasoned experience and steady command, if the enemy has only 1500, then there is really no chance.
The battle continued.
Although Count Croya has tried his best to defend, the number of enemy troops is too much, and they seem to be desperate. They don't even look back when they charge.
After dropping hundreds of corpses, the ladder was finally hung on the city wall, and the curved hooks stuck to the main battlement masonry.
"Charge! Kill!"
The shouts of killing were thunderous, and the combat units rushed to the city wall and climbed up the ladder under the protection of shields like a tide. Climbing up to the city wall in droves.
Earl Croya calmly said: "The longbowman retreats, the others draw the sword, stand up, prepare for battle!"
"Draw the sword! End the battle!"
The metal intertwined clang sound resounded continuously, and a bright cross sword was lifted up to the sky, and the silver white brilliance reflected by the sun shining brightly on the entire city wall.
Strong power!
The next moment "Pa" sounded.
A heavy hand was placed on the cyan-gray color bricks of the battlement. A man wearing a blue leather armor turned over and jumped onto the battlement. The silver white brilliance on the cross sword explained The identity of a man——
Knight!
"bang bang bang bang!" A series of crisp sounds follow closely from behind.
The silhouette of one after another jumped onto the city wall, and quickly pulled a long line on the edge of the city wall.
Through the helmet visor, you can vaguely see the cold and merciless eyes below, like killing machines.
Knight, who led the team, walked forward while raising the cross sword with both hands.
At the same time, the soldiers on the city wall also raised their cross swords under the leadership of Knight of their squad.
"Kill!" Leng Leng's cry for killing exploded.
The two streams of people rushed towards each other, and fiercely crashed together.
"ding ding ding!"
"puff puff puff!"
"Ah! Ah!"
Metal interweaving sound , The sound of sharp blades cutting the flesh, and the screams resounded constantly, and the millstone of war was driven by Death God to spin at high speed.
"Dicos! I'll leave it to you, Bran, whoever took you with me, follow me!"
After a soldier was knocked over with a sword, Earl Croya wiped it away With blood on his face, he led a group of soldiers down to the city.
The battle on the city wall continues.
Avoiding under the arrow tower on the side, Heath frowned as he watched the soldiers rushing up the city wall.
I don't know what's going on, he feels that these soldiers seem to be something wrong.
He said to the two soldiers who were closely guarding him: "You two, go help others, I don't need your protection here."
Although the two of them are guarding him , But also blocked his way.
The soldier frowned: "My lord, this..."
At this moment, a stray arrow flew to the side, unbiased, and shot straight at the talking soldier. Head.
Seeing that the soldier was about to be shot to the head, Heath suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed it forward, and the arrow of high-speed rotation was thus lightly grasped by him.
"Ah!"
Only then did the soldier react and startled in a cold sweat.
Heath'click' broke the arrow and threw it aside, and said again: "I can take care of myself, you guys go and help, I will explain to him when the earl asks it."
The two soldiers no longer hesitate now: "Yes...yes, my lord."
After driving away the two soldiers, Heath walked forward and came to a place near the battlefield to observe quietly .
"It's not right, it's not right."
And from this observation, he immediately discovered more incredible places.
He found that most of the soldiers who rushed up seemed to be not afraid of death. Facing the arrows and the swords that came, they would avoid and never avoid them, and they would move forward if they were willing to be chopped off. rush.
Furthermore, after they were cut, they didn't even have a normal scream, even their brows were not frowned, and they didn't even snorted even if they broke their hands or feet.
Although it is said that the general siege troops are of excellent psychological quality, it is too brave, right?
Looking at the icy face under the helmet visor with no expression, how can I put it... Heath doesn’t feel like a person, it’s like a corpse...
The corpse?
Suddenly, Heath seemed to think of something.
He narrowed his eyes and used the hand of the wizard at an enemy army soldier on the battlefield.
The power of the wizard's hand is closely related to the divine force of the sorcerer itself. According to Heath's current divine force, the maximum control force is about two hundred jin, and it is easy to control a soldier.
Soon, the soldier was caught by him, and he drew out the cross swordsman, picked up the knife, and cut off the soldier's head with a'click.'
The soldier who lost his head is very strange and still struggling.
Heath who saw this scene was surprised and said: "Dead!"
He once again looked towards the soldiers on the surrounding battlefield, his eyes suddenly realized, this time all the incredible places are There is a reasonable explanation.
Why can the weak Lake Duchy draw an army of tens of thousands of people?
Why are these soldiers so brave.
Because they are all dead spirits!
Heath frowned looked towards the military formation in the distance, and there was some dignity and tension in his expression.
The spell that controls the corpse is not a new spell in the wizard world, and this is what the apprentice of necromancy learns.
But being able to resurrect 10,000 people at the same time can also control their siege, which is not what ordinary necromantic spells can do... The total amount of magic power required is far from apprentice-level energy. Affordable...
Heath's expression tightened: "Would you not send the wizard over, right?"
If it is a wizard, then it will be an attribute. , It’s not enough to run faster.
But thinking about it, he feels wrong.
The wizard is not Chinese cabbage. The Red Devil's Blood behind Lake Duchy also has only one wizard, so it shouldn't be sent to attack the Twilight Fortress.
Heath does not understand military affairs, but he can still distinguish between the main battlefield and the secondary battlefield.
"But what's going on..."
While Heath was thinking about it, a living soldier of the enemy army suddenly stared at him, a pair of scholar's The weak appearance did not wear any protective gear on his body, and it looked like a human head was easy to hold.
The soldier decisively took out the short crossbow and shot it at Heath.
Seeing that the arrow is coming, but at this moment, the space in front of Heath suddenly twisted, and a piece of silver white material suddenly appeared in front of him.
It is the Mimic Shield that automatically turns on when it detects dangerous elements.
The flying arrow hit the Mimic Shield with a click and was blown away.
The soldier's pupils shrank suddenly, and he exclaimed subconsciously: "wizard!"
His exclaim immediately caused the leader to kill the city wall Knight. Attention.
The Knight slammed back the several trainee Knights in front of him. He flew up and rushed over, grabbing the soldier and said, "Where?"
The soldier went to Heath. One direction.
Knight's gaze was instantly locked on Heath.
At this moment, Heath also lifts the head and looked over there, just in time for Knight's sight.
The four eyes were intertwined, and he instantly read the two words from the flashing eyes of the other party--
Human head.