Chapter 143: Death
Now that the battle has been fought, the soldiers who were the first to enter the battlefield have long been exhausted.
Even the Weegand tribesmen who were chasing the knights were quite stretched apart, waiting until Sword's men lined up again before rushing forward slowly.
If you count from the first meeting between the two sides, they have gone from less than half a day in the morning to a ray of sunset.
In a high-intensity war, even the best physical fitness of the soldiers has exceeded the limit, let alone these chronically malnourished people?
It was for this reason that when an arrow struck a Wiegand soldier in the shoulder, almost all of them stopped at that moment.
God, it's cavalry again.
Although some of the experienced Wiegand warriors noticed the difference, they shouted loudly that it was only a light cavalry force, and it definitely did not have the ability to overwhelm their thousands of men.
But the vast majority of the soldiers slowly retreated tacitly.
They are already so tired, so tired that many soldiers have already overdrawn themselves, and if they continue to fight, they may die of exhaustion.
Some of the soldiers had already fainted on the spot.
They had now done the best they could, and the rest was up to their king, Edward.
After all, everyone knew that while they were desperate in front of the battle, the army led by Edward himself was watching the play behind the battle, and now it was always time for them to do something about it, otherwise his crown would have come too easily, right?
And after seeing the retreat of Wegand soldiers, Vedia's tense face finally showed a little relaxation.
He was not at all sure if he would be able to pull out a half-dead knight in heavy armor from an army of thousands of Wiegand warriors, and in the worst-case scenario, he had even made a plan to just fish out Shogi and José Knight and leave.
Yes, Vedia himself is selfish, and he wants to save the Sward Knight not only to stabilize the battle line and balance the morale of the Imperial soldiers, but also to come out to save his father.
After all, people are not ruthless, and in terms of war talent, Vidia may not be inferior to anyone, but he is really a warrior with too many rich feelings.
While all the soldiers tried to rush forward and be the first to get the Sward knights out, his eyes were focused on the few remaining knights.
It's just that when he swept around and around with expectant eyes, he still didn't find the figure of the Xuanjia Knight.
When he rode over to the knights to ask where his father was, the knights, struck by defeat and exhaustion, could not utter a complete sentence for a long time.
Only a knight in scarlet armor held back for a long time before he replied a little blankly: "A knight in gray armor, I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is the same person as you, but if it's him, he can probably come out of the battlefield or come out." ”
"And where is he now?" asked Vidia, with some eagerness. But as soon as he asked this sentence, he regretted it a little, because the battlefield was so chaotic that even people who really had an impression of Knight Jose could hardly say that they would be able to remember where they had seen him, and not to mention where he was now.
Sure enough, when he asked, the knight was stunned for a moment before making a gesture of waving his hand. Then he continued: "Although I don't know where he is now, I can guarantee two more things, the first is ...... Ahem, this guy is definitely alive now. The second point is that he definitely has to make some big moves. ”
The knight swallowed a mouthful of water from Vidia with difficulty, and then said with a sigh of regret: "That guy is simply a madman!"
After the light cavalry of Vidia finally gathered more than twenty knights from the battlefield, it was as if they were about to confirm what the knight was going to say.
Several heavily armored knights suddenly burst out of a few corners that no one noticed.
Judging from the few pine needles attached to their bodies, they must have never been aware of the activities in the forest.
Compared to these embarrassed knights, those knights were in good condition, at least there were no obvious scars on their bodies, and the horses and people also looked very powerful when they moved.
Although they were almost two-thirds of a battlefield away from Vedia's light cavalry group, Vedia was able to see only one of the knights at a glance.
That man was the Knight of Jose, and that man must be the Knight of José as well.
When Vedia looked at him, he seemed to see Vedia too, and the tall banner beside him.
Although Vedia couldn't make out his face at all, he could vaguely feel that the man seemed to be smiling at himself.
If the distance was sufficient, Vidia could still be confident that she would hear a familiar voice: "Boy, you can do a good job now." ”
But in fact, there is actually a second half of this sentence, which is the second half that José Czar never told him.
"It's just that you're a little bit worse than me. ”
After greeting Vedia, the Knight José also began to slowly stir up his warhorse.
Several of the knights around him seemed to be novices, but they slowly followed up with the encouragement of the knight.
Everything seems to be making sense. Because at this time, although the distance between José Knight and Vidia was far enough, there were no enemy troops in the middle who could prevent José Knight from returning to the team.
But it was only the moment these knights crossed the halfline between their two points that everything changed.
The knight of José turned his horse's head, and he changed his course of action, or rather, the route he had planned.
The five cavalrymen turned their horses around as if they had no accident, and rushed straight towards the position of the Weegand people's array.
And at this moment, he, the José Knight, was actually no more than a hundred meters away from Edward in a straight line.
Everyone was shocked, even Edward himself.
He thought that he had won the battle, but he did not expect that at this time, there would be a knight who wanted to give him a knife.
Most of the elites around him have been sent to the front line, and many guards have been transferred to the left to guard against Vedia's light cavalry sneak attack. At this moment, it is too late to draw it back.
However, after a brief moment of surprise, Edward came to his senses at the first time.
He still had hundreds of soldiers at his side, and several loyal generals, and it would be almost the same if fifty heavy cavalry came to trap him.
It's just five people, how can he be handled?
Thinking of this, Edward also had a temper and ordered his soldiers to form a defensive formation, while he and several generals also drew their swords.
Joke, if you want to make a meritorious contribution to his head, you have to ask his sword first!
In the face of this formation, the Jose knight rushed forward without hesitation.
Among the knights, his horse was at the bottom of the pack, not because he lacked courage, but because he had a bigger task.
For the sake of this matter, even if the remaining four knights were to die in vain, they were willing.
The mind of the knight of José fell into a deep thought at this point.
As a knight with a fiefdom in the north, José realized the danger on the battlefield at the last moment before stepping into the swamp, but the situation at that time did not allow him to take all the cavalry with him, so he could only divert a few to help him realize this last plan.
They hid in the mountains and forests, and under the complex and repeated battlefields of that time, there were soldiers and knights scurrying everywhere, although they were conspicuous, but they were lucky enough to hide in the woods, and no one noticed them.
Until now.
The first knight's horse stepped into enemy line with a deafening neigh.
He immediately overturned one or two people who stood in his way, opening a gap for the brothers behind him.
It's a memory that is not so common.
Rush into the enemy camp and quickly open a gap.
Although some of the Amax military strategists had a very strange saying that "riding does not charge into battle", they used a large number of bows and arrows to arm the knights.
But in the army of His Majesty Abbasquia back then, the knights who did not dare to charge into battle, what kind of knights were they called!
To be proud of being trapped in battle, and to serve death is what a warrior should be.
The second knight's horse knocked over two Wiegand warriors standing in a line.
They put their bodies together, thinking that this would stop the knight's progress, but in fact, it was not, a knight weighed five or six hundred pounds even with men and horses, how could he stop their pace with just a few manpower.
And of all the fallen dead, Knights Jose has always been the best performer.
In addition to his talent, he has traveled countless times and lived and died on the field, and in the most battles, he has killed dozens of people in a row.
The blood stains on the battlefield drenched his entire armor into a large patch of blood.
The swords were broken one after another, but no one cared about this at the time, anyway, the swords of the Amaks were better than those made by their great Prus craftsmen, and the people who killed them and then picked them up and used them.
The third knight raised his sword, and with a roar of rage, smashed the head of a Wiegand warrior with his helmet.
White brains and blood splattered out, and almost every soldier who was close to him tasted his taste.
It was a winter in the Northlands, and it had been two years since the Knights of Jose had been here.
Although the daily work is still so bloody, he is recovering from those environments on the battlefield.
When he encountered the rogue ruffians, he also learned to deal with them with the back of his sword and the scabbard, rather than having to fight to the death.
The townspeople began to respect him, and he began to try to communicate with the inhabitants with a smile on his face.
There was even a girl, the mayor's daughter, who was as beautiful as a flower blooming in May.
Although this seems a bit shameless, the José knight is willing to admit that he has some liking her.
But out of his former life, he is still willing to wait and see for a while, in order for himself to be more adaptable to this environment, and in order to wait for his sweetheart a little longer.
The fourth knight fell with a roar.
He was the youngest of several knights, but he was only second to José's knight in equestrianism, so he was placed in the penultimate charge.
Before he died, he used his iron sword to cut the lives of three Wiegand soldiers, and also stabbed one of the generals in the throat, only at this moment two or three large axes fell on his shoulders at the same time.
The young face, along with the armor and body on his body, was torn into several pieces.
The day before the José knight made up his mind that the girl was the right person for him.
He came out of the mouth of a ruffian hooligan.
A girl with brown hair and yellow skin went all the way to the Northlands, she seemed to be looking for someone, but it didn't seem to be, in short, it was a girl with a good singing voice, and she could live by singing all the way, but I heard that her songs were always too pathetic to listen to too much. Otherwise, you will be deeply immersed in her singing and will not be able to extricate yourself.
Knight José immediately put down everything he had and went to find the girl in the mouth of the rascal.
In the name of cracking down on local gangs, hunt down all kinds of displaced people.
In those bad days, he seemed to have caused some unhappiness to many people, but relying on his identity, the José knight still traveled unhindered.
The girl of the mayor's family entrusted her father to propose to him, and that night he saw with his own eyes that the good old man, who was not a nobleman, but the most powerful in the land, from the first pleasant face to the later bitter pleading.
For the sake of his daughter's happiness, he did not hesitate to bow to a man who was more than twenty years younger than him.
But despite this, the José knight politely invited him out of his humble room. For many years after that, the knight of José could not forget the pitiful look that the old man had in that moment.
I haven't forgotten that it seemed to be a rainstorm overnight.
Later, the mayor's daughter married the son of a duke, and although it was a fat young man, she was very nice to her, not bad.
But none of this stopped José Knight's continued search for the girl.
In the winter of the second year after the wedding of the mayor's daughter.
It was the coldest winter in the memory of a José knight.
The surrounding soldiers gathered more and more, and the path that the four knights in front of them had opened with their lives seemed to be blocked by more soldiers.
And the knight Jose himself, a full five meters away from Edward "King".
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