Chapter 3: Blood
Although I was anxious, I could only wait, the person stuck in the city gate was even dead and there was no place for him to lie down, we might be able to pile up the dead bodies there to block the enemy, and soon many people retreated, and the enemy broke through our defenses and began to pour in, and now the situation is not like defending the city, it is obviously a massacre, and seeing my former friends fall in front of me one by one, I miraculously rushed forward. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I found a Kugit soldier and pointed the sword at him, he also carefully approached me, at that time I was not even a little afraid, the sword in my hand seemed to take advantage of the hand, the first time I fought with the enemy, although I had no experience, but I believed that my bravery would definitely scare him, I kept swinging the sword, sometimes the hand will be a little numb, but I believe that his hand will be more numb, the quality of the Kugit scimitar is really not very good, before I am exhausted, his scimitar actually broke in response, I seized the opportunity to stab him in the stomach with a sword, and he vomited blood in my face, and his expression at that time was forever engraved in my heart, it was an expression of regret for life, and I believe that he had a lot of things to do, maybe he was not married, maybe he was going to get married after this war was over, and I stayed there for the first time I killed.
Until another shrill voice woke me up, and Rog stabbed his sword into the throat of a Kugit who was about to be slashed, and he grabbed me by the collar and yelled at me, "Are you stupid, he is an enemy, he deserved to die, and you deserved to be killed." With that, he threw me to the ground, still in fear, and ran off into the distance, and I remembered his anxious back vividly, believing that he wanted to save everyone.
The scuffle continued into the evening, with corpses all over the place, rivers of blood, and I lay like that in a pool of blood, and the blood kept pouring into my mouth, and I don't know how many of the 1,000 people who came with me, and I remember that I was carried to the back of the castle, and then I passed out.
When I woke up, I saw a picture that I will never forget, there were more than a dozen rows of people, nearly fifty people in each row, each of them was as pale as snow, it was quiet and terrible, I longed to find a living person, I shouted at them, kept shouting, but no one answered, the sky was red at that time, I wandered there in despair, like a ghost searching for souls, the sky slowly began to rain, washing the blood on the ground, and also washing the dirt on my body, it rarely rained in the desert, but the sky was very big, unprecedentedly big, I lay on the ground again, maybe I shouldn't have survived.
At that moment, a cough made my empty brain a little more awake, I frantically walked towards the source of the sound, when I ran over, I saw Spike's closed eyes, I kept pressing his chest, looking at his still closed eyes, I was very anxious, accelerated the frequency of compressions, finally, his eyes were still very difficult to open, I hugged him excitedly, tears couldn't help but gush out, the heavy rain hit us, the slightest chill kept coming, but he was warm.
We went round and round around the castle and didn't see a single living person, but we were sure that it was lost, the dilapidated walls had long since collapsed, I don't know what this castle used to look like, but I don't think I would ever see it again, it had disappeared into the nightmare of war, and we gathered all the dead bodies together, whether they were enemy or ours, and when the rain stopped, we set fire to the place.
When I left here, I felt as if I heard a grumbling voice, and and I just supported each other and slowly disappeared into the sky......
After leaving there, we walked towards Dukuba, if I guessed correctly, the enemy's army must have reached the city of Dukuba, we wanted to find our army, to find Rogu, there were often dead bodies lying on the ground on the way, we saw countless people moving south, there were also many soldiers who were scattered like us, from time to time there were robbers blocking our way, we had to give them the sword in our hands, until we reached Shiba Zumer, I saw no decent army, When we hear that Sultan al-Hakim has moved his troops to the east and is preparing for a general assault on Kugit at the fort of Sharava, it may be understood that he has abandoned us and the people of the west.
When I arrived at Shiba Zumer, I met a militia unit that was here to take in refugees and by the way recruit soldiers like us to form a small force to support Dukuba, and I asked him about the troops at the fort of Gamied, and he also offered us something useful.
It turned out that I had been in a coma for almost three days, and the defenders of the fort of Gamiedd had come here a long time ago, and they were followed by the army from Kugit, who said that there were many Kugits, and they were all on horseback, and that they had surrounded Dukuba for two whole days, and that they had recruited less than three hundred soldiers here, and that the defenders of Dukuba were only more than three thousand, but that Kugit's army was at least ten thousand.
I asked him again if there were any other places where troops were being recruited, and he said that in Tamnu, like them, estimated that there were now almost 400 men.
We stayed here like the rest of the soldiers, and I was nervous, there was such a disparity in strength, there was little hope of victory, the morale of the army was discouraged, the people were displaced, maybe this was the place where we were buried, I received a slaughtering knife to kill pigs, and everyone else was given scythes, hoes, harpoons, and other agricultural supplies, and I lost what little faith I had in this war.
The soldiers here were all wearing some tattered armor, their heads were covered with dust, and they had no military dignity at all, and we could only sit among them and wait for death to come, when a lame old soldier caught my attention, and I slowly moved over to him, sat down next to him, and chatted with him.
"Yours from that unit?"
“****。”
I was thrilled to hear his answer, and I met a member of the army here, and we quickly got into a conversation, and I asked him what had happened to me after I had fainted, and he said that the troops had withdrawn the night I had fainted, and they had moved the dead bodies to the back of the castle to prevent them from being trampled by the Kujits, and then they had come all the way to Dukuba, and he had come here because he had fallen behind.
I didn't expect that we would let the enemy drive straight in for a day, although I may be about to die, but I still felt ashamed, but the veteran provided me with a very useful information, in the process of retreating, the troops were not attacked in any way, the Kugit were much faster than us, although we walked one night longer than them, but not even our tail was not seen, which reminded me of one thing, although the Kugit army was large, but most of them were cavalry, and the speed was naturally not slow, But why can't even we catch up, the Kujits are huge, and it is impossible to support them without enough supplies, which shows that they have built a post station on the way, controlled the transportation route, and let the rear transport materials for them, if this transportation line is cut off, they will definitely not be able to support it for long, then we have a chance of winning.
With this in mind, I hastened to report my opinion to the commander here, and he agreed with me, and asked me to command three hundred men to destroy the enemy's post stations on the way, and to plunder the supplies, and seeing his encouraging gaze at me, I gladly accepted the appointment, and asked the village blacksmith to make me a golden armor, and a white sword, and a jeweled helmet, and presented me with an armored horse, which made me look like a general.
And just like that, for the first time in my life, I became a general, and it was the beginning of my path to success.