Chapter 33: The Flames Soar into the Sky
More than a dozen grain hoards were all set on fire by the two of them, and after a while, thick smoke rose into the sky.
"Look, my lord, they succeeded!" William's husk said from Vidal excitedly pointing in the direction of the smoke.
Norwen followed his fingers, and when he saw the smoke and fire, he couldn't help but smile, quickly turned over his horse, and said, "Take their horses, and we'll meet them!" Then he rode his horse to the camp of the Chekers.
Vidal outside the tent could see the smoke and fire, and it was impossible for the sentries inside the tent to be undetectable, although they could not see the fire, but the smell of burning was not concealed.
"What does it smell like? Do you smell it? One of the sentries sniffled and asked his companion.
"I smell it, I think it's my delusion, like the aroma of barbecue!" As he spoke, he sniffled, barbecue is rarely eaten by lower-class clansmen.
"Not good! Granary! The sentry reacted suddenly, shouting.
"You guys come with me to the granary, Pygan, you go to the chief's tent and report what is going on here, go quickly!" With that, he led the other dozen or so sentries to the granary.
William dodged the flock of sheep on fire, while keeping the torch in his hand to ignite the rest of the flock, he knew that such a fire must have been discovered by the enemy, the grain hoard has burned a lot, but the flock of sheep on fire is only a few thousand, less than one-tenth of the total, besides, William just reacted that the burned sheep can still be eaten, although it may not be preserved for a long time, but these sheep can not be completely burned out, and can be dispersed.
However, how could William and Hulimu disperse all the tens of thousands of sheep, and it was almost enough to burn all the grain hoards.
"Lord Earl, there is a fire in the camp of the Chekels!" A knight under the earl's command, who was in charge of guarding the walls, noticed the situation in the Cheker camp early and hurriedly reported it to the earl.
"What? On fire? The Count slapped the table and said excitedly.
"Yes, Lord Earl, I see very clearly, their camp is really burning, and the fire is very big, I wonder what can make the fire so big, after all, they live in tents." The knight said.
"So, Sir William, are they back? It's the knights I let you out! The Count seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly asked.
"They...... Not! I have been guarding the walls, and the gates have never been opened except for the time they went out! The knight also sensed the Count's meaning, and replied with some excitement in his words.
"Good! You go and deliver my orders, and all the knights urgently assemble, mount, and go out of the city to fight! "The Count gave the order to fight.
"Yes, Lord Earl!" When the knight heard the urgent order, he hurried out of the earl's room and conveyed the order to the knights.
"If there is such a fire in the camp of the Chekels, who are short of tents, it must be their stock of food, Sir William...... William! The Count said to herself, and then he asked his servants to put on his armor, and she was to lead the attack herself.
"Knights! Your comrades-in-arms, the knight brothers, Sir William, Sir Urimu, and Sir Norven led their men to attack the Cheker granary, and I am sure the knights who were in charge of letting go at the city gate saw the fire in the Chekel camp, and although they succeeded, they were isolated! So we're going to support them now! We will not leave our comrades behind, and we will help them in their battles! Kill all the Chekers! The Earl took advantage of the fact that he was out of town and told all the knights what William had done, and used it to boost morale.
"Don't abandon your comrades!" All the knights shouted.
The gates were wide open, and three hundred and twenty knights hurried to the enemy's camp with a roar of iron hooves.
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"Quick! If we can't catch the intruders, we'll all be fed to the dogs by the chief! The Cheker sentry, who was at the head, shouted to the others behind him.
Thousands of sheep had been burned to death, and the remaining fat on their bodies made their corpses still burning, and some of them had been charred and burned, so that such meat could not be eaten, and William found a way to starve the enemy of food.
"They're here!" A shout appeared behind William, and when William turned around, he saw a dozen sentinels appear behind them.
William hurriedly pulled out his long sword, and he clenched the scimitar in his hand and pointed it at the sentinel who appeared.
The sentinels hesitated for a moment when they saw that William and the others were well-armed, and then immediately attacked.
William's sophisticated equipment really scared them, with a full body of chain mail and a closed helmet, which was a symbol of status and strength at the same time.
But then he did not hesitate, if he could not catch the intruder, then he would inevitably be executed, although he was not necessarily pardoned, but his family would not be implicated, and there were only two people on the other side, so he dispelled the last concern.
The flames of the sheep were still spreading, and the heat wave was one after another, and William put down the visor on his helmet and took his sword straight to the front sentry.
"Poof!" The leather armor on the sentry's body could not stop William's sharp long sword, and he was pierced by William's sword and fell unwillingly.
Urimu also circled around William's side, and also cleanly eliminated a sentry.
William drew his long sword, and the next sentry had already rushed over, William flicked away the opponent's scimitar with a sword, and slashed at the right side of his body with a backhand, but under the protection of the leather armor, he was not too seriously injured.
At this moment, another sentry appeared behind William, and the sharp spear in his hand stabbed William's back at once, and William only felt a burst of pain.
However, he knew that he was not injured, at most he had received blunt trauma, and the protective ability of chain mail and leather armor was not something that a spear could pierce, but the chain mail was close to the body, and the leather armor had no protection against blunt weapons, so that William would feel pain.
This is also William's laziness, originally the knight in order to protect against blunt hits, is to wear a layer of cotton armor in the chain mail leather armor, use cotton armor to resist blunt blows, leather armor chain mail anti-sharps, but William thinks that thing affects the action, wearing it is still hot, rarely wear that thing, this will William can remember for a long time.
Although William was in pain, it did not affect his next moves, and with a backhand sword, he directly slit the throat of the sentry who attacked him, and blood gushed out.
This is the power of armor, if there is no other person to support, William and the two of them will be able to kill more than a dozen of them, of course, this has a lot to do with personal force, and ordinary knights will definitely not have such a record.
However, the other knights also have similar armor, which is equivalent to being invincible, and it is only a matter of time before they kill them all, unless they can reach into the front of the chain mail and the dead end of the helmet, and also use armor-piercing weapons such as blunt weapons and battle axes, otherwise it is difficult to kill a knight directly.
William and Urimu killed six or seven sentries like chopping melons and vegetables, which made the other sentries hesitate a little, and it was obvious that their courage had been broken by the strength of the two.
At this moment, there were more than two dozen enemies on foot, presumably from the tents in the vicinity, which could be seen from their delicate iron armor, some of them holding spears, some of them holding scimitars, and three or four of them holding weapons such as mace bones.
Guduo is the name given by William, this kind of Cekel people's blunt weapon William doesn't know what it is called, but this weapon is really very similar to the bone duo of the Jin army that William saw in his previous life, this weapon made the Song army suffer, the iron bone of the Jin army, the skull of the Song army, which means that the Song army can only use the skull to block the iron bone of the Jin army.
William felt bad when he saw this kind of weapon, the Song army's more than thirty kilograms of several layers of heavy armor could not defend against weapons, it was obvious that this set on his body could not be prevented, William was a little weak.
He seemed to have seen this kind of weapon, and his face was very solemn, and he leaned against William.
The two of them were back to back, and William silently thought in his heart, "Norwen, Vidal, come quickly, if you don't come, we will explain!" ”
"Sanqing Buddha, Muhammad, Father Jesus, bless me with my life!" William looked at the enemy, silently recited the gods of the other world, and finally brought the Holy Father of this world.
I don't know which great god appeared, a rapid sound of horses' hooves sounded, a team of nine people, nine life fully armed knights and Hu rushed in from the enemy's diagonal rear, at this time they were in William's eyes, no less than the Guanyin Bodhisattva who rescued the suffering, it seems that three or four years have not been able to make William a believer in the Holy Father.
Norwen rushed to the front, and a cavalry spear of more than four meters directly pierced through the enemy standing at the rear, and let out an urn roar under the closed helmet.
The more than 20 enemies who followed were killed and wounded seven or eight in an instant, and a few of them were not skilled in their studies, and their spears did not accurately stab the enemy.
Then the long sword went out of the body, slashed and killed several people, and directly made them collapse, which is really worthy of the king of war in this era - cavalry.
When the enemy had scattered and fled, several men came up to William, who mounted his horse, waved the torch in his hand, and said, "Find a few wooden sticks to use as torches, and burn all these cattle and sheep." ”
This time, the efficiency of eleven people was obviously several times higher than that of two people, and when you were here, you could only see a large flame burning on the sheep, and a rough estimate of nearly 10,000 sheep was ignited.
It has to be said that the vigilance of the Chekel people is really not high, it has been almost ten minutes since William started to ignite the fire, but only a few people have come to check.
At this moment, William and the others were again the roar of horses' hooves, this time far louder than the sound of Novon's arrival, like a thunderclap, and the stones began to tremble.