Chapter Twenty-Four: Who Strikes Whom

The rain is still falling. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The dark clouds were low, the vast wasteland was steaming mist, and a hazy gray shadow slowly moved between the white sky and the earth.

Trimble, commander of the 1st Battalion of the Carson Defense Army, wiped the rain from his face and shouted to the soldiers of the 1st Battalion, who were marching in the rain on one side: "Give me more strength!" By two o'clock in the afternoon, we had to get to the Old Trafford dock! ”

The dusty wasteland was covered with puddles of water in the rain, the roads were muddy, and the more than 100 soldiers of the 1st Battalion were still dressed and armored when they set out in the morning, and now they are basically covered in rain and mud.

The difficulty of the road and the occasional band of Stepless Jungleian rat monsters along the way made their march very slow.

Trimble had to be repeatedly urged that, according to the battle plan drawn up before departure, they must be ready for battle at the docks of Old Trafford by two o'clock in the afternoon, when the merchant ships of the Calus Chamber of Commerce would lure the fish-man robbers over.

He didn't want to miss the fighter plane, or even run for nothing.

The forced march in such weather was physically demanding, and by the time the soldiers of the 1st Battalion finally reached the banks of the Shano River within the scheduled time, they were exhausted.

Trimble ordered the troops to rest in place, took out a psionic pocket watch, looked at the time, and beckoned to a strong man: "There are still 5 minutes!" Pauli, there will be no surprises to your merchant ships, will they? ”

The Calus Chamber of Commerce sent a team of more than twenty chamber guards to fight together, with Pauli as their leader.

"Absolutely! Your Excellency! Pauli patted his chest and reassured, pointing to a little shadow of a sail on the misty river in the distance, "Look! Captain Chauncey: They've arrived! ”

"Check weapons and armor! Get ready for battle! Trimble yelled, and the well-trained soldiers, regardless of their physical exhaustion, immediately went into action.

At this time, Trimble's adjutant Zampata reported that "My lord, the three scouts left behind by the third scout team did not come to join us, they are gone!" ”

"Huh?" Trimble frowned, he vaguely felt that something was wrong, but the merchant ships of the Calus Chamber of Commerce were about to arrive at the docks, and the battle was about to break out, so he didn't have time to think deeply, and said, "Leave them alone!" ”

The medium-sized brig sailed into the concave harbor bay, which was already heavily silted, the water level was very low, and the water depth was less than half a meter in the shallowest place.

If the plan goes well, the Fishman Bandits will be lured deep into the harbor by the merchant ships, and then they will be sluggish or even trapped by the silt, at which point the First Battalion and the merchant ships will launch a front and rear attack to wipe out the Fishman Bandits in one fell swoop!

From afar, as the waters around the merchant ship turned murky, the humanoid monster with the head of a huge fish struggled and jumped, revealing its form from the water, and Trimble was overjoyed.

"The 1st Battalion of the Carson Defense Force! Offensive! Trimble yelled and took the lead in rushing out, they were nearly a hundred meters away from the dock at this time, this was to avoid being discovered by the fish-man robbers and fleeing in advance.

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"The fish has taken the bait!" On the merchant ship, Sirio burst out laughing.

Andil also sneered cruelly on the side, the so-called fish-man bandit was just a disguise, it was a mercenary hired by the second young master Narien from a fish-man tribe at a large price, the purpose was to lure Aya into dividing the troops to come out to recruit.

The battle plan to flank the Fishman Bandits is a trap, the armed merchant ships are stranded on the shore to fight, but the main force of the Fishman Bandits is not stuck in the harbor mud, they will outflank the back of the Carson Defense from the shore.

The one who will really be flanked from the front and rear is the 1st Battalion of the Carson Defense Army!

"Kururu! Kururu! ”

As Trimble took the lead and rushed up the pier into the trestle that jutted into the river, nearly two hundred fish-headed monsters rushed out of a wooded area on the riverside, and soon blocked the rear of the 1st Battalion of the Carson Guard.

"Not good!" Trimble's face changed drastically, how could the fish-man robbers appear on the shore!

A huge bowstring trembled and several sharp arrows instantly pierced through the rain curtain and slammed into the group of soldiers behind Trimble.

The power of the heavy bed crossbow was amazing, and each thick crossbow arrow pierced several people one after another, cutting long blood marks in the crowd.

At the same time, screams and angry curses rang out from the place near the merchant ship on the other side, and the guards of the Calus Chamber of Commerce led by Pauli suddenly attacked, killing several people instantly!

"He's 0! We've been tricked! The mongrels of the Calus Chamber of Commerce are scheming us! Trimble reacted and yelled, "Defensive formation!" Form a defensive formation! ”

However, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion were already in disarray, and many of them were already exhausted after the forced march in the rain, when they were faced with a great change, and faced with armed merchant ships and fish-man robbers, their morale immediately fell to the bottom, and they were crowded on the river beaches and docks, and they were at a loss.

Finished!

Trimble was terrified when the men of the Carus merchant ship quickly erected several improvised passages with wooden planks to connect to the river bank, a large number of men and horses were killed from the ship, and the heavy bed crossbows on the deck began to be reloaded.

There are a total of three battalions in the Carson Defense Force, and the first battalion is the elite of them, and more than half of the more than 60 first-order professionals of the defense force are placed in the first battalion.

If the first battalion is destroyed, the Carson Defense Force will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the consequences will be unimaginable!

However, Trimble had nothing to do at the moment, and the enemy was attacked from both sides, and the enemy also had a large killing weapon such as a heavy bed crossbow, their disadvantage was too great to make up, and it was even more impossible to break through and escape, they had consumed a lot of physical strength before, but the enemy was recuperating and waiting for work, and they couldn't run far at all.

Will the first battalion be buried in my hands? A trace of despair arose in his heart.

At that moment, a shrill scream rang out from the Carus merchant ship, and the loaders of the heavy bed crossbows fell to their necks with blood gushing down, and several figures swept past their corpses and swooped down on the archers who were firing arrows beside the ship!

Those archers were condescendingly shooting the soldiers of the Carson Defense Army on the ship, and they never expected that someone would attack from behind, and most of them were killed in the blink of an eye!

Chaos immediately ensued on the merchant ship.

"It's our people!" Trimble shouted in ecstasy, he didn't know why the merchant ships had suddenly turned into chaos, but as a qualified commander, he quickly realized that this was an opportunity to turn the tide of the battle.

"Zampata! You lead the squadron and rear team to organize the defensive line! Stop the fishmen! He quickly commanded, "All heavy samurai! Concentrate! Attack the Merchant Ships of Calus! ”

For a moment, everyone on the dock and on the river beach noticed the bloody massacre on board. The soldiers of the First Battalion saw the light again, while the Carus Chamber of Commerce and the Blood Cross were dazed and terrified.

Where did these people come from? How many people are there? Who is it?

No one knows, only that the other person looks strong! When those white shadows flickered, corpses fell one after another on the deck, and no one could stop them!

The ambush soldiers of the Ka-Blood Coalition poured out of the armed merchant ships, and most of the archers and sailors left on the ships were extremely empty, and they were unable to resist the sudden and strong enemy.

This meant that the ambushes who disembarked were cut off, and the 1st Battalion of the Carson Defense Force resolutely rose up to attack from the front.

They were replaced by those who were flanked in front and back!

Panic began to spread.

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"Damn it!" Seeing those white shadows on the deck recklessly chasing and killing his men, Sirio in the captain's room had a blue face, his right side of his face was covered by a large dark red scar, and his face was blue and red at this time, looking extremely strange and hideous.

The bearded captain, the old man with a staff, and Andiel in the room were all shocked by the abnormal changes outside, and hurriedly got up.

With the victory in hand, they were not in a hurry to make a move, and were ready to wait until the fighting spirit of the Carson Defense Army was exhausted and their combat strength was greatly reduced, and then they went out to make a final decision.

The chaos on the ship happened so quickly and so suddenly that they couldn't react at all.

Fortunately, if you go out to support now, you can still remedy the situation, as long as you hold the merchant ships, the first battalion of the Carson Defense Force will not last long!

"Bang!"

The four of them, who were about to go to the deck immediately, were startled when the door of the captain's cabin slammed open, and a handsome young man appeared in the doorway.

Andiel's eyes widened in disbelief, "It's you little!" That's impossible! ”

"Everyone!" The young man smiled and spoke, "Your opponent is me!" ”