Chapter 51: The Dawn
A thought flashed through Tia's mind, she had heard from a slave that the priests who served the god Ra had a secret spell that would make the believers do what the priests wanted by chanting the scriptures, and that the chant-like spell would be enhanced as the number of people increased. At that time, I only thought that the slave was talking nonsense, not to mention that he had never heard of such a spell, even if he asked the entire Yaki, I was afraid that few people had heard of this kind of spell. I didn't expect this to be true!
With the West City under the blink of an eye to be captured by this group of civilians, and then the priest army will swarm in, Tia knows that she can't stop this situation alone, and the only way is to rush back immediately to report the news, and maybe there is a turnaround.
Tia turned around and was about to run away, only to find that there were four more people behind her. The four men were all dressed as civilians, and they were holding the daily use of woodcutters and daggers for cutting meat, but there was a ferocity in their eyes.
Tia immediately pulled out the sword at her waist, and at this time there was no other way but to kill a way, and she had to use the fastest speed, otherwise she would not be able to get out if someone else detected her.
Thinking of this, Tia stabbed one of them with her sword. Tia's swordsmanship is really not clever, but these people in front of him are even more useless, Tia's original intention was to force this person's block, but this person couldn't dodge, if it wasn't for Tia at the last moment to deviate the tip of the sword, this person was afraid that he would be stabbed to death at that time, Rao is so, the sword blade still cut a deep hole in his left rib, the man suddenly fell out to the right, Tia took advantage of the momentum and rushed forward.
In fact, Tia's temporary soft-heartedness saved her life. If she did stab the man to death, the sword stuck in her chest would not be able to be pulled out immediately. And the three people on the side are afraid that they will immediately surround her and hack her to death. The moment Tia got out of the way, she saw that the other three had swung their weapons and slashed at the position she had just had, and in an instant Tia understood this truth.
When the three men saw that the blow was missed, they immediately outflanked them from the left, center and right. Tia hurriedly swung her sword and slashed at the person closest to her, the opponent's martial arts were too weak, and Tia opened the woodcutter with a sword, and cut off his right arm with a backhand sword. But after such a delay, the other two had already caught up, Tia didn't have time to think about it, and swung her sword violently, cutting off the head of the third person, and at this time the dagger of the last person had already stabbed Tia's body, fortunately, his head was not enough. It's stabbed on the armor. Seeing that the man had not been stabbed, he hugged Tia's body and prepared to put her down with his weight, but Tia's sword could no longer swing, so he slammed the man's head with the hilt, and the man screamed and let go of his hand, and Tia kicked him half a step away, and then a sword cut a large hole in his abdomen. The intestines rolled down, and a fishy stench hit her nose, and Tia almost vomited.
Seeing the civilian with his severed hand running back, Tia knew she would be done if she didn't leave. Rush back at the moment. Finally seeing her own soldiers, Tia was a little relieved, but she didn't tell the truth. They were only told to be on guard - if the truth were told at this time, the cathars would surely collapse. Besides, delaying a little time with their lives is too important for the current situation.
"Elaine-sama!" Tia ran straight behind Elaine, who was still fighting, and shouted, "The civilians in the west of the city have been bewitched by the priest army and have opened the city gates!" ”
Hearing this, Elaine slashed the enemy in front of her into two with a single sword. Then he took a step back and turned around and exclaimed, "Is this serious? ”
"I just saw it with our own eyes, the soldiers of Xicheng are afraid that they will not be able to support it, please send reinforcements immediately!"
Elaine exhaled, shook her head, and said, "If that's the case, if you run back, I'm afraid the priest army has already entered the city." Deliver orders to Master Jimda now! Retreat to the inner city! Tia, you take Lysius to the inner city, which is understaffed! It's up to you to defend the inner city until Jimda arrives! I will do my best to stop the enemy attack on the inner city! ”
Tia nodded, and immediately headed for the inner city with Lysius and two hundred men.
As soon as she got out of the city, Tia could already hear the shouting and killing sound in the direction of the west, Tia did not dare to stay, and rushed back to the inner city as fast as possible, fortunately, the inner city was guarded by Bodeka and more than a hundred people, and there was no danger for the time being.
As soon as Bodelka saw Tia and Lysius, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Tia briefly explained the situation, and Bodeka was so frightened that he couldn't speak. When Tia saw this, she had to let someone help him down to rest, and she and Lysius led the people to defend the inner city separately.
Elaine's resistance was apparently successful, and the shouts of killing never continued to approach the inner city. A short time later, Jimda rushed back with his troops. As soon as Tia saw him, a hanging heart finally let go.
However, Jimda brought back less than 700 men, most of whom had been lost in previous battles and retreats. The combined strength of several groups of people finally exceeded 1,000, and the strength of the inner city's city defense was greatly improved.
It didn't take long for the priest army to arrive at the bottom of the inner city, shouting and attacking the city. As the priest army gathered, Tia began to worry about Elaine's safety.
Just when the number of the priest army under the city reached about 2,000, a group of people came from behind them, led by Elaine. Jimda immediately sent men out of the city to respond, and by the time Elaine's men withdrew into the inner city, there were less than fifty people left.
The number of priestly armies increased dramatically, soon exceeding 10,000. After a few adjustments, the men began a full-scale siege.
Due to the large number of defensive equipment installed on the outer city walls, the defense measures of the inner city have become scarce, coupled with a large number of personnel losses, most of the bows and arrows have been abandoned in the outer city, and the defense has become more and more difficult. Fortunately, the inner city is relatively small, and it can barely be maintained with only a thousand people, but this kind of defensive warfare, which basically relies on hand-to-hand combat, is very disadvantageous for the side with a small number of people. As time passed, the casualties of the Dils army increased, and the priestly army began to attack the city at various points. The strength of the Dils army was no longer enough to maintain the battle line, and was divided into several pieces by the priest army, and the Dils army could only keep a few passages to the city with all their might, and more and more priest armies had ropes hanging into the city to start attacking, once the inner city gate was opened, the loss of the city of Epsommiton could not be avoided.
Tia was originally defending a passage with Jimda, but the drastic reduction in troops caused Tia to be divided unconsciously, and there were less than ten soldiers left around her, while the priest army was increasing.
"For the glory of the gods!"
"O Amun, please give me refuge!" The cries of the soldiers on both sides were no longer the cries of battle, the voices of the priestly army were full of conviction of victory, and the cries of the cathars were almost wailing.
Tia tried her best to push her tired body, to block the attacks of the enemy soldiers as much as possible, she didn't know how many people she had killed since the first time she killed this night, she didn't have time to count, there should have been at least ten. Perhaps it was time for killing so many people to be retributed, and Tia felt that the sword in her hand was getting heavier and heavier, so heavy that she had to do her best to lift it.
With no more of her own soldiers alive by her side, Tia tried her best to block an enemy attack, but her sword was swung away, and it was too late to defend herself. At this time, a light shot from the east, and the sun had risen. The enemy was caught in the sunlight, and this moment of hesitation gave Tia one last chance, and she stabbed her sword deep into the throat.
But Tia no longer had the strength to draw her sword out, so she smiled and let go of her hand, waiting for the enemy forces around her to move closer to her.
Suddenly, an arrow pierced the neck of the nearest enemy, and the man was pushed two meters away by the momentum of the arrow and fell to the ground! Seeing this scene, Tia was shocked, and then saw that the arrows kept coming, and each arrow shot an enemy soldier away!
Tia suddenly came to her senses, such a fierce arrow is only one person in the entire Dils army who can shoot it, and that is Li Tianhao! (To be continued......)