(Again, the 10,000-word update helped Xiao Hei's new book "Calamity" to ask for a monthly pass.) ）

"What is the commander of Mardara up to?" Valerie, the Knight Captain of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, was indeed thinking about this as well, and she looked up, the glow of magic shining on the other side of the battlefield, where the army of skeletons was making a strange move. The army was slowly turning, but so slowly, like a dying old man, that it was almost impossible to turn their heads back to them and attack before the cavalry could reach them, and Madara's left flank was still exposed to the direct threat of the two Eruin cavalry brigades, and she could even tell that even if her own attack passed between them, they would not have time to turn around them.

This is a great opportunity.

Valerie, however, saw that the army of skeletons was scattering, as if deliberately making way for her. If this happened to the human army, then according to the description of the cavalry drill code, the other party must have collapsed, and all that was left was to drive them forward like a duck. But the female knight chief was very vigilant in her heart, because in front of her was an army of undead, and it was impossible for the undead to collapse their morale, unless something went wrong with the corpse witches who drove these skeletons behind.

Could it be that someone is behind this Madara army? The thought of luck had just flashed through her mind, but the sudden appearance of something in her field of vision immediately made her heart sink down.

She saw that behind the opening opening, some tall figures suddenly appeared, not heavy corpses and crusader executioners, not black knights with a soul fire burning under their armor, but strange riders, like skeletons on horseback, covered in dark chain mail. Leaning on the spear, the horses under him were also skinny, and the whole was shrouded in a tattered waistcoat, and there were a few such riders at first, but as the gap became larger and larger, their numbers gradually became terrifying.

Valerie's eyes widened in surprise. Seeing a whole cavalry behind those dense skeleton archers, it was definitely not the black knights, because there could not be so many black knights, those skeleton riders were next to each other, the front was almost a mile wide, black and dull, like a city wall. "Slow down, steer!" Valerie felt like she had been pierced into a spike, and she suddenly understood what it was. Skeleton Knights, a new class of troops has appeared on the side of Madara that they have never seen before.

On the other side of the battlefield, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded, Valerie glanced over there, knowing that Vance also saw those strange riders, they reacted quickly, although they did not understand the strength of the other party, but one thing was certain, that is, the other party was more than herself. And much more. If the speed of those skeleton riders can catch up with them, it is that the combat power is extremely weak. Then it was also a disaster for the White Wing Cavalry Regiment.

Because although they are sharp, they are just as fragile, and once they are dragged down, when tens of thousands of skeleton armies surround them, then there is only one end.

That's the kind of defeat that is then transformed into those monsters.

And after the Golan-Elson Pass lost their cavalry. There was no defensive force from the Silman Valley all the way to Kurk, which meant that the whole Golan-Elsen had opened its gates to the Madala Cave, and Valerie was covered in a cold sweat and could hardly imagine what that would be. That's pretty much a copy of the War of the Black Roses, and maybe even worse. Because the Southern Army is still in Ampesel, if Golan-Elson misses, the whole southern border will be left with only Karasu.

The white wingers were clearly aware of their situation, and the seasoned riders turned one after the other, the two cavalry turning extremely fast on the battlefield, but slow to Valerie's point of annoyance, and she saw that the skeleton riders were trotting and beginning to accelerate, and the whole army was in unison as if it were a huge machine. At this time, the chief female knight finally realized the terrible nature of this cavalry, and then she thought of another bad news, that is, this cavalry may not have the stamina of war horses, just like the black knights.

Her heart suddenly went cold.

And at this time, one can only hope for the command of Deputy Commander Walter. But she was very disturbed as to why the commander had delayed the order to retreat, whether it was his intention to bury the entire White Winged Cavalry here, just to prove how terrible this Madara army was. Valerie anxiously turned her head and looked at somewhere to the north, hoping to wait for that expected signal, but alas, there was silence in the north.

At this moment, a scream suddenly swept over the entire battlefield, and everyone couldn't help but raise their heads, and a strange flying creature was flying overhead in their field of vision.

……

The town was already in a sea of fire, and everywhere you looked, there were blazing blue flames, or the ruined Winged Cavalry Regiment or the makeshift line of the garrison in the streets, littered with corpses, dressed in militia uniforms, Winged Cavalry uniforms, or garrison uniforms like him, but the only thing in common was that they were covered in blood and had lost their breath. Ivan lingered on the corpses for a moment, then slowly crossed the area, where he was followed by a small group of other members of the garrison, who had just learned that their instructor had died at the hands of the monster that had first flown to the church spire—and knew the name of the thing: the Dreadnought. But there is even worse news, it is said that the 1st Cavalry Brigade of Buch has been completely broken up in the street fighting, and the commander Portland has also been killed, and now the 1st Cavalry Brigade has existed in name only, and the rest of the people are the same as those who follow them, they have no will to fight, and only the only thought left is to live.

It was as if a moment before they had been passionate about fighting for Eru, but the ideals were beautiful, but the reality was unacceptably cruel, and almost immediately taught each of them a cold lesson.

The only thing that made Ivan feel a little relieved was that Lorni's carriage had left the town before the battle began, and the White Wingers were said to be fighting outside the town, so she and the rest of her family should be able to reach Svenfano safely. But what will happen after that, even he doesn't know, there are so many skeletons in Madara, and the town is almost full of monsters. Now the boy was very skeptical that they would be able to hold on.

The group walked out of the town that had become unfamiliar like beggars on the run, and they didn't go far but they were stopped. Fierce fighting was taking place on the only street leading out of town, and Ivan quickly made it clear that the two sides were between Madara's skeleton and the town's militia, and that it was basically a one-sided massacre when they arrived. There was no longer a living person on the scene. The Witch was calling up the fresh corpses, the warriors who had fought for Eruthus one moment, and the next they were slashing at them with their swords covered in blood.

"It's Lola and they're all dead." One of the guards said with an ugly face.

Aivan's face also changed, these militiamen were usually townspeople who looked down and didn't look up, but now they had become something else, he couldn't help but glance at the sneaky corpse witch on the other side of the street, and gritted his teeth.

"It's bad luck, there's a corpse witch!" Vice captain Ma Dong took a sip. Drawing his sword, he said: "We have to find a way to kill it before we can move on, you find a way to attract the attention of those monsters, I went to cut that guy, the power of the corpse witch is on its staff, as long as I cut off its arm by surprise, then this battle should be quite easy to fight." ”

Ivan glanced at him and felt less optimistic. "Be careful." "Look out here," he reminded, "there were at least three or four squads of militia before. This is the only way out of town, and they are responsible for the break. ”

"So what?"

"The instructor told us that a corpse witch can lead ten to twelve skeletons. It can't kill so many people. ”

"That's not necessarily," Ma Dong shook his head: "These militias have no combat effectiveness in this situation, they are no better than us, they are not professional soldiers." ”

Seeing that he couldn't listen, Ivan could only shut up, and he turned around and gestured to the others. Motioned for them to attack with him, so as to attract the fighting power of the corpse witch. The two sides were only fifty meters apart, and he wasn't too worried about a head-on battle, because there were more of them, and the corpse witch had only summoned two or three corpses in a short period of time. Ma Dong is right, the militia's combat effectiveness in this situation has to be discounted, and sometimes they can even be killed by a few skeletons, because they have already been frightened. But the skeleton archers hidden in the burning building caused them great trouble, almost half of their casualties were caused by the two skeleton archers, fortunately, although the battle did not go well, but at least the corpse witch's men still fell to their hands one by one, and at this time Ma Dong finally seized the opportunity, he quietly walked through the shadows under the building on the other side, and approached the corpse witch unconsciously, but just as he drew his sword and was about to deliver the final blow, there was a sudden change.

"Ma Dong, watch your head!" Ai Fan suddenly shouted, he had not been very worried about Ma Dong's plan, so he always paid attention to that direction, and just when he saw Ma Dong was about to make a move, a black shadow suddenly fell from the sky.

This scene is all too familiar, and that's how their instructor died.

Ma Dong also reacted at the last moment, but the deputy captain of the garrison didn't have time to make any moves, and with a loud bang, a behemoth had already fallen from the sky and fell on him with countless tiles, grabbed his shoulder, and the sharp claws pierced directly between his collarbone and shoulder armor, lifting him up from the ground alive. Ma Dong let out a scream of pain, and only then did the others see the appearance of the monster clearly-it looked a bit like a shrunken bone dragon, its body was composed of only bones and no outer skin, and two soul fires burned in the eye sockets of the huge head, like two pillars of light erupting, it had sharp teeth, the only difference from the bone dragon was that it had a distinct and sharp beak at the front end of its mouth, "Fear of spirits!" Someone let out a scream, recognizing the identity of the monster, but this sentence could not save Ma Dong, the fear of the spirit head pecked downward, biting the vice captain's head to pieces, he convulsed, and the whole person was paralyzed like a deflated ball.

The Dreadnoy pecked Ma Dong to death, immediately throwing away the corpse, then looked up at the others and let out a terrible scream at them. Ivan only felt a chill in his body, and his mind seemed to go blank, but the others around him reacted noticeably faster, and a member of the guard let out a scream and turned to run, but he hadn't run a few steps yet. A cloud of green light hit his back, and the whole person immediately swelled and exploded into a blood mist.

This scene woke everyone up, and there was also a corpse witch present.

And it's not to be underestimated.

Ivan watched as the monster raised his skeletal staff towards him, and he wanted to dodge, but he couldn't move a single step.

"Lorney!"

……

Xanaly silently closed Rosa's eyes. At the last moment of her life, the female knight's eyes looked straight at the sky, empty, and the corpse witch had opened a large hole in her chest, and it was no longer visible in it, only a blur of flesh and blood. He didn't say a word, he took off his uniform and covered her, they had known each other for a long time, had experienced the War of the Black Roses together, and had even participated in several major battles. They are also a few veterans in the cavalry regiment, so they also hold the rank of non-commissioned officer, and they originally thought that this was just a small border conflict, but they didn't expect to be separated here.

Although he has experienced a lot of such life and death in the past year, there is still something uncomfortable in his heart at the moment.

There are some new classes in the bone shelf on the opposite side, such as the Dreadnought, which has only appeared on the battlefield of Karasu before, why did it suddenly arrive in the army of the Dark Lord south of Buchi. The number of necro witches is also unusually large. If she hadn't miscalculated that there was a corpse witch behind the ghost and the dreadnought, Rosa wouldn't have died. At this moment, Xanaly almost wanted to scold what those damn scouts were doing.

He looked at Rosa's face for a moment before slowly moving through the street, which was full of mutilated bodies and some of them well-preserved. But they all had one or two arrows stuck in their bodies. But he stopped suddenly, and saw a familiar face in the pile of corpses, one of the young couples he had seen before, "Poor worm. He thought to himself, but walked over anyway. It's also fate, at least let you die a decent death. He thought so, trying to drag the other man's body from the rubble.

But as soon as he shook the other man's hand, he was startled—there was temperature, and there was a pulse. "This guy isn't dead yet." He reacted suddenly, hurriedly dragged the boy down, and then slapped him in the face vigorously.

When Ivan came to his senses, the first thing he saw was Xanaly's bloodied face, and he remembered that he had actually seen this man, standing at the door of the town hall, standing with a female knight, with a look of arrogance. "I didn't expect you to die too...... he replied in a daze. Fuck you, idiot! Shanali slapped him over, "Hurry up and roll up for Lao Tzu, count your luck, you still want to see your little girlfriend, cheer me up." ”

"I'm not dead?" Ivan seemed to wake up as if a spirit: "Really? After saying that, the tears couldn't stop flowing.

Xanaly looked at the unproductive boy lying there with tears streaming down his face, and he couldn't help but want to kick it, but after hesitating for a while, he sighed and just glanced back at Rosa. "Alright, the manly man should show some courage," he stretched out his hand and grabbed the other man, "There are no living people in the town now, you still know the way, and take us out of this hellish place." ”

Ivan gave him a stunned look and nodded hurriedly.

……

Valerie understood that the White Winged Cavalry Regiment was all over. But she still didn't understand why the deputy head of the regiment didn't react at all until the end, unless he had already escaped, but that was almost impossible. She watched as the skeleton rider thrust the spear into her chest, her strength draining as she looked up, and looked around at the corpses of the skeleton rider stacked on top of each other.

But alas, it doesn't make sense, "I'm going to be one of them." She thought to herself.

Vance is dead, Valerie is dead, the remaining White Wings are scattering, but countless dreads are killing their hopes of escape in the sky, forming such a terrifying picture on the entire battlefield at this moment, the light of the soul fire scattered all over the mountains is advancing, and the skeleton army is driving the last remaining humans to run, but they will eventually be overtaken, because whether it is a war horse or a human, in a race of endurance, it can never be the match of the undead.

Ivan watched the scene in amazement.

He had thought that the havoc in the town was just part of the war. But now it seems that there is no more war left, and all that remains is massacre. Xanaly also had a gloomy face, the White Wing Cavalry Regiment was over, he knew this better than Ivan, but he didn't understand why the battle was fought like this, at least the second and third brigades should be able to escape, wouldn't they. Even in the worst-case scenario, leaving the 3rd or 2nd Cavalry Brigade to break off, at least one cavalry brigade would have escaped, but now that it was all over, he could almost imagine that the Golan-Elson Pass was left in front of the Madara army, and the southern border was completely finished.

And even the two of them may not be able to escape from the hands of the undead who are all over the mountains.

"We ...... What are we going to do? Ivan looked at the knight and couldn't help but ask in a low voice. The war horse he sat on was still Rosa's, he was not used to riding, but the current situation could not help him not be used to it, fortunately he had learned equestrianism when he was in the garrison, otherwise he could only be tied to a horse now.

"Go east." "The hills to the east are our only chance," said Chanali, gloomily, "and there are still some bandits and robbers there, and I hope they will take us in." ”

Bandit robbers.

Ivan subconsciously glanced in that direction, he remembered that there was indeed such a group of people, but they were the main trouble for the militia and patrol cavalry, and had little to do with the garrison. "They seem to be from Tosankade, some real outlaws, will they take us in?" He couldn't help but ask. "Robber or undead, you choose." "Robbers." The boy replied without hesitation.

…… (To be continued......)