Chapter 198: The Crusades (18)
When the archers rushed to the established position one after another, and when they opened their bows and arrows, the battle on the side of the Sith knights had already entered the white heat, and the peasants who were still rubbing their sleepy eyes did not expect the enemy to fall from the sky, and one by one they could not put on any expression except for kneeling and begging for mercy and being stunned.
Knight Kyle had to lead his own soldiers to support, and there was a fierce battle with the enemy on the top of the dam, and for a time the Hokage and golden drums sounded in unison, and from time to time the sound of soldiers being wounded and falling into the water came, and judging from the sound, our situation was not optimistic.
"My lord, if I don't bring some people over and help Knight Kyle, the enemy's offensive momentum is very strong, and on the warship, condescending to occupy a lot of advantages, I'm afraid our forces will not be sustainable at all."
As soon as Kohler got the news of the enemy's attack, he came to my side to protect him as soon as he was worried, and now the situation is very clear, the enemy's attack is not here, or they have not discovered my camp, so Kohler is a little worried about the loss of the Sith Knight's camp, and stepped forward to ask for help.
"Rest easy, let me think."
I stared at the direction of the flaming battle, the enemy was obviously setting fires, trying to cause panic and expand the results of the battle, but it could also be nothing more than a bluff, I slowly narrowed my eyes, and after a brief hesitation, I decided to stick to my own judgment, after all, I believed more in the viciousness of diverting the tiger from the mountain than the siege of Wei to save Zhao.
"The enemy is trying to attack, once they mobilize our army to support, the real main force hidden in the shadows will definitely attack my location, although the moon is dark and the wind is high and I can't see clearly, but I think that the ships of the Frisian people can't only have such a point, since they have endured for so long, this sneak attack on the enemy must be nine out of ten, let's wait and see, we must not rush to respond to the opportunity given to them, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years."
After saying that, I found a place to sit down, as if calmly observing the situation on the battlefield, in fact, my heart was more uneasy than anyone else, fifteen buckets were up and down, subconsciously biting the dry dead skin on my lips, tearing and bleeding without caring about it.
The enemy's intention to attack now seems obvious, to concentrate on taking a bridgehead over a dam, or at least to destroy the dam and change the passive situation in which it is located.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt that I had too many things to scruple about, and I might be bound by a myriad of thoughts, and now the initiative of the war is in our hands, relying on limiting the geographical advantage of the enemy, trapping the fleet of Friesland in the harbor, if the dam changes hands, and now the pressure of the huge water surface is encircled, like a dragon roaring waiting for an explosion, as long as there is even a little small breach, it will inevitably cause the embankment to burst, and the rolling flood will break the dam, so that the hard work of many days will be ruined. It is the so-called embankment of a thousand miles, which collapsed in the anthill!
"Not good!"
I patted my head and realized that maybe I had fallen into a dead end of thinking, led by the nose by the enemy's behind-the-scenes commanders, and almost lost the only advantage in my hand that could deal with the enemy.
"The bull immediately brought the Nijmegen pikemen as a reserve, and Kohler also sent a team of archers to cooperate, and it was necessary to drive the enemy back into the water at all costs, not to let their ships approach the dam, and the rest of the men returned to the guarded camp to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack, and they were playing the trick of casting a wide net and focusing on attack!"
With my order, everyone began to move one after another, many soldiers hurriedly ran in front of them, chain mail winch grinding, shouting to each other looking for comrades, horses neighing in fright, knights shouting at their squires who could not find themselves, all kinds of sounds mixed together, mixed into the concerto of the golden iron horse before dawn, but the battlefield on the side of the Sith knights, relatively disappeared, but the fire still rode the wind, and there was no intention of decreasing.
Time passed minute by minute, I don't know how long it was, the sky in the distance was blue, the clouds slowly drifted away, indicating that a new dawn was coming, vaguely I could already see the outline of the enemy's warship, all small wooden boats that could carry a dozen people, densely covered with water, from the number of at least no less than five hundred people, leaving only a dozen crossbowmen responsible for guarding the ship waiting for the opportunity to sneak attack, hiding in the shadows from time to time aimed at the target to shoot, killing the unsuspecting our soldiers.
Kohler rendezvoused with the reinforcements of the bull and the Knight of Kell, who had been besieged for days without drinking clean water, and the Utrecht, who had not drunk clean water for several days, were tenacious and did not feel the slightest hint of decadence, and most of them were propertied freedmen of the city, as far as could be seen from their equipment.
Compared with the insensitive rural peasants, the sense of ownership of guarding their cities is relatively strong, coupled with the fact that most of them have established an unbreakable bond with their relatives, and they are familiar with each other and have a tacit understanding of the water, and they are even killed at the narrow dam end, although our numbers have the upper hand for a while, but there is still no breakthrough in the scene, and they are pressed by a large number of crossbowmen of the enemy to raise their heads, and they can only invest their troops a little bit like adding oil, and the rest of the people are in a hurry behind and can't help. Casualties are gradually rising.
"The camp of the Sith Knight has been completely occupied, I'm afraid he won't be able to escape, I guess...... God forbid! ”
Rollo walked up to me and reported the latest news he had received: "It seems that there are many more enemy boats, and the men on them have just landed, as if they want to consolidate their gains. ”
I rested my chin on the sword with both hands, my mind chaotic, I didn't know what I was thinking, my eyes were big and I didn't know what I was thinking.
The death of the Sith knight is not unexpected, this fat pig who will only squeeze his head and fight bravely when robbing the people's property, but he can't find anyone when he fights, full of wine bags and rice bags, and a small belly that looks like he is four or five months pregnant, and it will hang directly to the instep without a belt, and every time he gets on the horse, he needs three or four attendants to pull and pull it up, and he is so tired that he is out of breath, and it really makes people remember the time when he claimed to be young and dominant.
"Defend our own camp, cheer up the archers, keep their eyes open, prepare more rockets, and resolutely not let the enemy's ships come close."
I looked at the infantry with heavy shields around me, the layers of defense were very tight, but I still felt a trace of indescribable fear from the bottom of my heart, it was like walking alone in the corridor at midnight, although the lights were bright, I always felt that there were people behind me, and my spine was cold.
Sometimes, the more you worry about what you are afraid of, the more it will happen, and this is what plagues people with the so-called Murphy's theorem, which obviously also applies to the Middle Ages, hundreds of years before the discoverer was born, and that inexplicable fear finally came true.
Just when I was engrossed in observing the situation on the battlefield and thinking that I was in charge of the whole situation, a soldier suddenly appeared in the shadows and shouted: "The enemy's boat, God, is like a swarm of bees out of the nest!" ”
When everyone heard this, they turned in the direction of the sound, and sure enough, after the morning mist had cleared, there was a convoy of enemy ships, at least twenty small boats full of soldiers, speeding towards the high ground where we were, and skimming the water at a speed like an eagle in the sky with wings and swooping, and in a matter of moments they came to the front, and fired a rain of arrows with lightning speed.
The soldiers who did not have time to raise their shields immediately fell in large numbers, fortunately, many of the soldiers standing on the periphery were heavy infantry, the armor was relatively heavy, and the strength of the arrow rain shot by the enemy was not enough, only serious injuries were caused, and there were few who were really fatal, the wounded soldiers endured the pain of the wound and propped up their shields, huddled together to block the enemy's second wave of arrows that followed, under their cover, the enemy's warships approached the shore, and several enemies on it jumped into the water and rushed over without their lives.
At this time, our archers also began to return fire, but the distance was too close to organize an effective dense rain of arrows, so they could only aim at the enemy rushing in front and scatter, although it looked messy, but still caused a lot of damage to the enemy, the warship advanced slowly, swinging in place, and the heavy infantry seized the time to dig their shields into the earth, and set up spears from the gaps between them, waiting for the enemy to land.
The first few enemies who landed first were all giants with big shoulders and round waists, beautiful long golden hair flying in the wind, muscles bound in the chain mail, strong as if they were about to burst out with blood, and the giant axes comparable to wheels in their hands were swung vigorously, and they crashed into the shield array in a few big steps, brutally tearing through the defense, like children who pushed down the building blocks at will, completely ignoring the spears stabbed around them, and completely relying on their physical advantages to open up the situation for the comrades who rushed behind one after another.
"Protect your lordship!"
Rollo drew his sword and stretched out his hand to protect me behind him, beckoning to a few other close attendants, many soldiers passed us around to join the battle, surrounded in the shape of a fan, and concentrated their forces to kill a few blonde giants first, and most of the archers gave up their bows, and picked up their weapons and made up for them.
It seemed that the enemy's attack was nothing more than that, and after the follow-up warriors were replenished, the two sides fell into a stalemate, and everywhere in sight were soldiers strangled together, and the blonde giants who were invincible with both fists and four hands were seriously wounded, unwilling to die, and I quickly moved to the safety of the enemy under the protection of the attendants, and the horses were ready.
Just when I just grabbed the neck of the war horse, under the seemingly calm water nearby, suddenly jumped up many black shadows stained with water and grass on their bodies, and the unprepared attendants immediately raised their swords to engage in battle, Luo Luo pulled me who had not yet recovered my nerves, through the chaotic crowd of battles, and ran towards the dam where the main force of the bull and their main force was, compared to the high ground that could no longer be defended, it was a little safer to stay among the soldiers.
"Drink!"
Three black shadows caught up from behind, two of them supported Luo Luo on the left and right, separating the two of us, and the other with a slightly thinner body raised his long sword above his head and slashed at me with the momentum of slashing Huashan!
It was too late, but thanks to the quality of the year-round battle, I instinctively rolled over to the side to dodge, the blade of the sword against my arm left a deep mark on the ground, and I stood up with my hands and feet, and panicked to find a weapon to defend myself.
"Your Excellency!"
Rollo quickly threw his long sword to me in the middle of the two men's blows, drew the dagger at his waist and engaged in close combat, I grabbed the hilt of the sword before the enemy, turned to block his whirlwind thrust, and rolled on the ground several times before I could barely hold my figure.
The other party shot very fast, and before I could recover my breath, I chased after the snake along the pole, and the long sword in his hand made it impermeable, although it was not full of strength, but it was always ruthless to find another way, and several times almost injured me, and I was embarrassed to open it, but I was still hit by a sword on my arm without paying attention, but fortunately, the chain mail made by Hammer Joel was strong enough, but it left a shallow scratch on the iron ring.
Staring into the eyes of my opponent, I admired in my heart his beautiful sword eyebrows and star-clear and bright pupils, presumably a beautiful young man like flowers, I pointed my long sword at him and asked:
"I am Count Randy-Adrian Hoffmann of Nijmegen, and I ask for a fair duel with you in the presence of God, please take off your mask and show your true face!"
(End of chapter)