Chapter 257: Winning Without Victory
The fighting power of the Crusaders Higg had heard from Shante, but he didn't expect it to be so strong, and it was only a matter of minutes from launching an attack to climbing the city wall in one go. Sigg, who originally thought that the villagers of Owen's organization would be able to resist for a while by relying on the location and fortifications, found that those villagers had never formed even a partial advantage over the crusaders.
The opponent dared to ignore Zhuangzi's fortifications and forcibly attack head-on, naturally out of confidence in their own strength to be able to completely crush the opponent, and in their eyes, such a scene was a matter of course.
"You're still going to make a move?" Lu Fasi looked at Higg, who was keeping an eye on the battle, and asked anxiously.
"What are you nervous about?" Higg said slowly, "I don't believe it, Owen doesn't have any back, if that's the case, this Zhuangzi is too boring!" ”
"Backhand?" Lufasi asked in surprise.
Higg said, "Do you see the crusaders who climbed the walls of the courtyard, and no one came forward to fight them? ”
Lu Faxi was puzzled, only to hear a few loud noises, the entire courtyard wall was separated by dozens of wooden planks, and the courtyard wall was trying its best to consolidate the position, so that more comrades-in-arms on the courtyard wall Those crusaders were cut off from the other villagers on the courtyard wall one by one. The astonished crusaders were about to cut off the planks with their broadswords, only to find themselves protruding from beneath them countless spikes of the ground, more than a dozen centimeters long. The crusaders in full armor did not have any weak parts except for their faces and soles, but the nails were inserted from the ground, making people completely defenseless, with wooden planks on both sides, and half-human high wall stacks in front and behind, almost impossible to dodge.
Immediately seven or eight crusaders let out a loud scream, and then fell to the courtyard wall and fell heavily to the ground. The crusaders whose soles were pierced by spikes were not killed, but they were largely incapacitated. There were still seven or eight reactive crusaders, who climbed up the battlements, and then immediately split the planks and moved towards continuing to consolidate their positions on the courtyard wall.
Lufasi gasped and asked Higg suspiciously, "How is it that those planks are just enough to separate the crusaders, and his own people are not hit?" ”
Higg smiled and said: "The location of the ropes thrown up by the crusaders was deliberately left by the villagers, it was originally a trap, and the people who came up from there would definitely be a trick, didn't you see the crusaders on the courtyard wall, and there was no one around at all?" ”
"What's next?" Lu Faxi was interested and asked.
"You've been fighting wars for thousands of years, and you still want to ask me this kind of question?" Higg said angrily.
"Hehe, I fight with strength, and I never disdain to play tricks!" Lufasi scoffed.
"That's why you're locked in an angel's cage by your opponent, so that now you don't even have mana, and the tiger has fallen into Pingyang, isn't it?" Higg laughed deliciously.
"If you don't hit someone in the face, how can you expose other people's shortcomings!" Lufasi looked unhappy.
Owen's back hand is not as many as Higg imagined, so powerful, there are more and more crusaders on the courtyard wall, each of them can basically be ten with one, although the martial arts of those villagers are good, but the equipment is too poor, those knives and guns can only cause a small amount of minor injuries to the crusaders, and basically cannot affect the combat effectiveness of the other party, and it is only a matter of time before Zhuangzi loses.
The courtyard wall has been disorganized, many villagers have been injured or killed, the gate has been opened by several crusaders who came down from the courtyard wall, Owen finally gathered all the villagers who still have the strength to the gate, ready to defend the gate to the death.
The battle stopped, the victory was divided, and the rest of the time, Owen's men and horses could not cause much damage to the other party. But in Higg's opinion, this rabble that can kill and injure more than 30 people on the other side is indeed impressive enough.
Higg came down from the courtyard wall and stood in front of Owen, facing the gate, as if to welcome the Crusader centurion into the farm.
"Childe!" Owen, who was not lightly injured, stepped forward to stop Higg, "This is our manor's own business, don't dare to bother the son anymore!" ”
"What is the hard mouth? The one they want is me! Higg said calmly, "It's good that you can do this, leave the rest to me!" ”
"No, you are our honored guest in the village, even if we die, we will die in front of the son!" Owen didn't flinch.
The men and horses of the two sides gathered at the gate to confront each other, and there was no immediate battle, and the commander of the leader said in a loud voice: "Zhuang Shang and our people were detained by you last night, where are they now?" ”
Owen was about to answer, but Higg glared at him angrily, signaled him to stand back, and then pointed to a five or six meters high wooden stake not far behind him, hanging on the stake was the leader of the crusaders who attacked Zhuangzi last night, seeing the rescuers, the dying ten-captain seemed to have come to the spirit and looked up at everything in the Zhuangzi, Higg then turned to the centurion and smiled and said: "Your people are now hanging on the stake, and there are two corpses piled up below, I am the culprit you are looking for!" ”
The centurion immediately called out to a crusader with a broken arm, whispered a few questions, and after receiving an answer, shouted at Higg, "Is that you?" Who are you, and why did you kill my soldiers? ”
Higg said coldly: "You are a little centurion, you are not qualified to know who I am!" When did I kill one of them? I would like to ask you, why did your people enter the village to kill people and rob them of wealth for no reason? ”
The centurion sneered: "Now is not the time for you to question me, when you go to hell, then inquire slowly!" ”
Higg took off a golden cross from his waist, catapulted it towards the centurion, and then said angrily word by word: "Do I have the right to question you, see clearly, you are not qualified to talk to me now, call your greatest leader to come to me, preferably Shante, I will ask him if the crusaders have any military regulations for killing civilians indiscriminately and amassing people's wealth!" ”
The quick-eyed centurion immediately caught what Higg had thrown with his hand, and when he heard what Higg said, he opened his palm and looked at it, and was shocked, and then looked at it carefully a few times, and then froze in place, not knowing what to do.
"Now you can go!" Higg didn't look at the centurion anymore, and turned to leave.
"Your Excellency!" The centurion hurriedly took a few steps forward, called out to Higg, and said, "My lord wants to see our Shante regimental commander, can you leave your name, I can report it!" ”
Higg didn't look back, and said on the spot: "Take what you have in your hand and show it to him!" If I don't see him for five days, you will come to me!" ”
"Your Excellency!" The centurion still said unrelentingly, "Please let me take the ten-captain on the stake away, even if the crusaders are at fault, they should be punished by the crusader regulations, and stay in the Zhuangzi, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain!" ”
Higg snorted coldly, and only one word popped out: "Good! Then a magic arrow skill in his right hand was issued, and it shot directly at the eyebrows of the ten masters hanging on the stake, only to hear the ten masters just snort, and the soft ground hung down, and one whimpered.
Sigg returned to the second courtyard without looking back, and then began to wash up, ready to visit the owner who woke up last night.
Higg's appearance left only a few words, and then left on his own, but every word, every word, and every action shocked the people on both sides who were still fighting, and even Lu Faxi, who was still standing on the courtyard wall and did not come down, could not understand Higg's actions.
The centurion was furious, but helpless. Catherine's Praetorian Guard is loyal, the military rules are strict, seeing the gold cross, it is like seeing the military order, this gold cross was originally only available to the commander of the crusaders, and there are not many, why does this person have the gold cross of the crusaders, and he also knows his own legion commander, General Shante, this should have been his own people, how could he help the people on the Zhuangzi to deal with his own crusaders? The centurion was puzzled, and for no reason he suffered from this bird spirit, so he had to bite the bullet, threw the gold cross to Owen, turned to his subordinates behind him, and said, "Let's go!" ”
The crusader with the broken arm beside him hurriedly asked, "General, those three corpses?" ”
The centurion kicked the crusader with the severed arm away and angrily said, "No! After saying that, they strode out, and the following crusaders were puzzled, but the leader was gone, and they also left no interest, the battle that began with a great victory and ended with a complete defeat was meaningless for them, supporting each other's wounded soldiers, carrying their comrades who had just died in battle, and also leaving Zhuangzi, leaving only the three dead bodies on and under the stake.
Owen held the gold cross that was a life-and-death matter for them in his hand, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, Higg has only been in this Zhuangzi for a few days, and every day is a shock, these crusaders are obviously inextricably linked with Higg, but why did Higg help Zhuangzi, he did not hesitate to kill the crusaders and offend the crusader high-brassers. Owen couldn't figure it out, and couldn't see what the connection was, but fortunately, at least for now, it seemed that several of them had no ill will towards Zhuangzi, but it was hard to say that it didn't make people suspect that there was any conspiracy here.
Even Lu Faxi doubted his eyes, he couldn't understand Higg more and more, although he got along day and night for half a year, life and death together, but there will always be secrets in this person that can't be seen through. The Crusaders, originally a Catholic believer, believed in the city in the sky, but from Higg's words, he did not feel that Higg had any respect for the city in the sky, obviously he was not a Catholic, but why did he have so much to do with the Crusaders, and between him and the Crusaders, was it friend or foe?
A vigorous offensive and defensive battle, which ended in the defeat of the Crusaders and the victory of the manor without victory, Higg left everyone with many unpredictable questions.