CHAPTER XIV
"I'm the leader of the first group of the second brigade of the 'Ranger Brigade', Burroughs! If there is urgent information, open the door immediately!" Burroughs was out of breath and arrived at the north gate of the fortress of Versailles, because the matter was too urgent, he shouted at the city wall without breathing, and his voice was out of tune.
Before Burroughs went to complete the mission, he was told of the rigor of the mission, and before he set off, everything that could prove his identity was confiscated, and even the signal flares for help were not distributed, so when Burroughs arrived at the city gate, he had to rely on shouting.
Strangely, after Burroughs finished shouting, no one answered. There was no one on the city walls, and Burroughs could hear a lot of noise under the city, the sound of a lot of people running, and even some shouts, such as: Lay down your arms! Squat, put your head in your hands!
Burroughs was strange, things were urgent, and he had to keep shouting! Burroughs took a deep breath and leaned forward, his mouth wide open, ready to roar......
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the city wall: "Team leader! Wait! I'll call someone to open the door immediately!"
When Burroughs heard the voice, he couldn't hold his body back at all, so he had to take a few steps forward, but he still fell forward, and almost fell into a dog eating. And just now, Burroughs fell to his knees again and coughed vigorously.
At this time, a crack opened in the city gate, and two figures rushed to Burroughs's side, and one of them said in a funny way: "Hey, boss, I haven't seen you for a day, and you are so excited, and you have bowed down to us!"
"You guy, don't go up and see the boss's injured hand! what are you doing here!" The other, dressed in medium-sized warrior armor and carrying a spear, had to knock the strange leather-armored guy on the head to check on his wounds, as the equipment prevented him from bending down to check on Burroughs' injuries.
"Ah, the boss is hurt! I'll see right away. The soldier in leather armor, when he heard that the boss was wounded, stopped making a fuss, and immediately crouched down, pulled Burroughs' right hand, and looked at it.
"Tank, Jem! Wait a minute, I've got important news for the captain and the commander of the fortress. Burroughs finally stopped coughing, and with his left hand he stopped the leather-clad soldier and prepared to get back to his feet.
As soon as Burroughs exerted his strength, his whole body ached, and he only shook his body, but he couldn't stand up at all, he was in a hurry to get back to the fortress before, and he used all his strength.
The two soldiers named him "Boss" next to him saw Burroughs like this, and hurriedly went to support him.
"Boss, what kind of information? Do you want me to hand it over to Captain Payne? You can rest first!" The soldier in the armor of a medium-sized warrior, who had been very concerned about Burroughs' situation from the beginning, suggested to Burroughs very heartily while helping Burroughs.
"Tank (it turns out that the soldier in the armor of a medium warrior is called a tank, and the one in the leather armor is Jem), this matter is very important, I have to report it myself. Burroughs, who was standing up by two soldiers, shook his head, looked at the two soldiers, and spoke again: "Where has Galen gone?"
"I know, I know. Jem, who had just felt that he had done something wrong, shouted anxiously to the side at this time in order to show his merits: "Galen is on it, he just called us to open the door on the city wall!"
"Hehe, you kid, you just made a joke about me, is it because there is no 'special training' for you today......" Burroughs didn't finish speaking, he suddenly felt a place on the city wall, giving him a feeling that his hairs stood on end!
"Don't, boss, don't come to 'special training' or anything, see you're tired like this, your hands and chest are still injured, you should rest for more than ten days, a month, you take care of it and ......" Jem didn't feel anything, and was still there in a half-joking tone to his boss, but before the words were over, a thick crossbow arrow suddenly appeared, and pierced his body, and even flew two steps behind the three of them with his body, until the crossbow bolt was inserted into the ground!
"Jem!" Burroughs and Tank were also swept away by the strange force of the crossbow arrow, and they both fell to the ground, and when they looked back to see Jem's body pierced by the crossbow arrow, they shouted anxiously.
"Woo Woo ......" At this moment, several arrows from the bow flew to the side of Burroughs and the tank, and if they had not just been taken away from place by the crossbow arrows, these arrows would have been stuck in their bodies!
"Boss, be careful, it's the city defense crossbow that shoots Jem!" There are enemies on the city walls! I'll carry you into the fortress first, and I'll take care of Jem later!" Worthy of being a member of the "Ranger", the tank quickly realized the danger here. He removed the spear from his back, which was a bit of an obstruction, carried it in his hand, and then half-crouched down for Burroughs to get on his back.
Burroughs looked painedly at Jem, who was hanging in the middle of the shaft of the crossbow bolt that was stuck diagonally on the ground, and then looked back with angry eyes at a section of the wall where he had just sensed danger, and at the same time followed the tank's advice and got on the tank's back.
The tank sensed that Burroughs was behind him, and immediately got up and rushed into the city gate, and a few more arrows appeared on the ground where they had just left! If they had slowed down, they would have been shot!
On the city wall, Galen was taken aback at first when he saw Jem's death, but he didn't expect that there would be someone behind him who shot arrows to attack the team leader and the tank!(The rangers are a group of four people, and the team leader is a variety of professionals who are good at reconnaissance, such as rangers, shadow assassins, double sword assassins, and even light cavalry professionals such as rangers, and the cavalry of the Atlantan Empire are all heavy cavalry!) The other three of the rangers are two warrior soldiers who are good at defense as support, and one assistant and observer who usually acts as the team leader, and can usually follow the actions of the team leader, Jem is Burroughs's assistant, and it is still a little difficult to become Burroughs's observer, and he needs to pass Burroughs's "special training", but now, he will never be able to become Burroughs's observer...... )
Galen was furious, he looked not far away, at the crowd that was still shooting arrows at Burroughs and tanks, his hand moved, and the sword at his waist was unsheathed!
It turned out that when Burroughs was shouting under the city, the ranger brigade had not yet fully controlled the city walls, and the sound that Burroughs heard under the city was caused by a skirmish between the rangers and the soldiers of the logistics brigade. Originally, it should have been easy for the rangers to use the strongest force in the fortress to force most of the logistics soldiers who were formerly farmers or small craftsmen to give up the defense of the north city gate, and there were also some soldiers selected from the logistics brigade among the rangers, who could go and communicate, not to mention that the director and adjutant of the logistics brigade were not there......
But what I didn't expect was that due to the small number of rangers, the progress of the "change of guard" work was slow, and in the place where the rangers had not yet arrived, there were people in the logistics brigade who ate leopard gall, and those who dared to move the rangers first also killed a ranger!
When Galen moved his sword, the soldiers of the rangers in front tacitly got out of the way, and some of the people who had lost their temper also drew their swords with Galen, and followed Galen to the place where the crossbow was fired.
The rest of the rangers were also angry, but for discipline reasons, they did not follow Galen, and one of the leaders of the group said, "You also go and help Galen, and control that group first, and don't let any of them go...... It's better not to have any casualties yet, I'll report to the captain!"
As soon as the team leader finished the order, he stood directly on the castle and rushed to the position of Captain Payne.
Captain Payne Yaser was arguing with Raul Ostrovsky's second captain.
"How can you decide to take the first inner wall without permission!" the captain was a little angry.
"Captain, you're not ......" The reason that Captain Raul wanted to say was really impossible and impossible to say, could it be that the captain wanted to do something to his own people?
"You ......" The captain wanted to scold the detachment leader, but found that he couldn't scold himself, because he didn't write down the content of the order before, and his order was easy to be misunderstood...... Good intentions do bad things?
"Report! Someone from the logistics brigade shot our soldiers!" The team leader, who was still on the city wall just now, quickly found Captain Payne, because the matter was a bit big, he even forgot to salute his boss, and directly told the captain the content of the report. After speaking, he looked at the captain with anxious eyes, as if to say: Captain, hurry up and decide, give an order.
"What?" As a down-and-out aristocratic Penn Yasser, he is usually conscientious and sincere in Versailles, you must know that he usually doesn't go to intersections, give gifts to his boss or something, and finally become the captain of the "Ranger Brigade", which fully shows how hard he has put in. Having someone else be the head of the ranger will certainly not convince these good and tsundere guys. But at this point, he couldn't decide......
On one side is his excellent subordinates, and if he doesn't handle it well this time, it will be difficult to lead the team in the future, while the other side is very powerful, can bring great benefits, and his family ......
Payne Yasser, who was still weighing the pros and cons, was awakened by a sudden explosion, and when he looked up, he saw a red circle of light appear above the wall of the North Gate!
"That's? That's a signal flare, red means that the mission has failed, what mission has failed?" The rangers are very familiar with the signal flare, this is their standard equipment, Raul Squad Leader was the first to react, and according to the meaning of the three colors of the signal flare (red, yellow, green), determined the meaning of the red signal flare released in the sky.
"Is it because they didn't kill the leader of the Burroughs, or didn't kill all the people in their group?" The team leader who came to report urgently next to him, at this time, he connected with the situation on the city wall just now, and said his guess.