Chapter 48: Reunion III
"My lord, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Finn seemed to have discovered something in the night, Arroyo hastened to quicken his horse's pace and gallop to Finn's side from the flank of the group.
"What do you see?"
Konush also rode to his other side, "Did anyone call you just now?" ”
The experienced mercenary uncle held the reins in his right hand, and his thick left arm was wrapped around several circles of iron chains, and the end of the chain was connected to a huge steel shield like a door.
It is a second-order class after the Warrior is advanced, that is, what players often call the Shield Warrior, and is usually a tank-type character who rushes to the front row of the team.
For these warriors who focus on shield warfare, swords, spears and axes are just superfluous things that get in the way, and the giant shield is their most effective weapon.
Fain looked at the figure he had seen out of the night.
He took a deep breath, then turned his gaze back to his companions behind him, using his incredible strength to raise the greatsword called Whistling Blade in his hand with one hand, and raised his arms and shouted, "We charge!" ”
As the words fell, the young paladin's eyes widened, and his leg rubbed against the horse's belly.
The dark horse under his crotch let out a long roar, and then accelerated towards the city hall that was not far from his vision.
Duke took his broadsword and rode alongside Konush, and the captain of the mercenaries on horseback saw that Fein had given the order to charge the others, so he turned his head and asked the uncle of the shield warrior who was not far from him, "Konush, what's wrong with him?" ”
"I don't know."
Konush squinted and shook his head, "But it's always right to charge, because we're about to get to City Hall." ”
With that, he also let the horse under his crotch speed up, and ran after Finn's back.
Duke watched Konousz's actions for a moment, but quickly came to his senses, and then joined the charge with the Lynx mercenary regiment, which replaced the horn with a roar.
When more than half of the people in the team increased their speed, the rest of the people were not far behind, and they all rushed up with enthusiasm to meet the rain that fell on their faces with the wind.
Most of the thirty or so knights led by Finn here are made up of mercenaries from the Mercenary Guild, and in addition to the twenty or so mercenaries, Arroyo and Raymond had some equestrian skills before they met Finn, and the refugees who followed Finn all the way here were actually militia trained in the past days - which is why they were braver than the other refugees.
Of course, the most surprising of these people was actually Lilith.
A few minutes earlier, when Finn had led the group to the stables of the western bazaar to steal the horses, the always calm and silent warlock lady had flipped onto a slightly shorter brown horse without saying a word, and the whole movement from mounting, pedaling, and holding the reins to sit firmly on the horse's back was so fluid, as if she had learned from the beginning to gain the trust and submission of the mounted creature.
When he saw the scene where Lilith turned over and got on the horse, even Finn was secretly taken aback.
In the original plan of the young paladin, he thought that Lilith would not be able to ride a horse, and he had planned to let Miss Warlock ride a horse with him and sit behind him.
As they sprinted through the rain, the scene around the town hall became clearer to the eyes of the knights.
In addition to the dozen or so pirates who entered the town hall to hunt down Arya and Monroe, there were actually three pirate squads under the command of Redbeard Jackson wandering in a small square in front of the core building of Azur Harbor, totaling nearly a hundred.
The group of pirates stood in the darkness in the rain, and the pirate wizard named Mogol did not seem to receive any other orders until he came out of the building, so they stayed as they stood outside the main entrance of the town hall.
The pirates soon heard the hoofs of horses approaching them in the rain.
When they heard the sound of horses' hooves, the bandits from Misty Isle immediately turned their eyes in the direction from which the sound came from, and it didn't take long for them to realize that they were going to be unlucky.
Finn rode out of the rain and came into their sights.
The knights' horses under the crotch of the young paladin slammed into him like a furious bull under the impetus of his master, and the pirates were caught off guard by this sudden attack, and when Fyn raised his greatsword with the inertia of the dash to slash the heads of the two pirates at his side, the rest of the men led by Konush also appeared not far behind Finn.
In an instant, the knights formed a spike formation with Fein as an arrow, and a group of men and horses turned into a sharp arrow in the small square in front of the main entrance of the town hall, and inexorably rushed the group of pirates gathered in the small square to pieces and pieces.
Konush's right hand was released from the reins at the horse's neck, and the shield guard, with his mature horsemanship, kept his body on the horse's back, and with his left hand shook off the chains wrapped around his arm, and then flung the giant shield with the chain as a meteor hammer at the pirates around him, and any enemy who dared to drag him off his horse was either hit by the shield and his internal organs were broken, or his head was bleeding, and his brains splashed out of the splinters of his skull.
Dukel, Raymond, and Arroyo are not as fierce as Finn and Konush, but they are not idle, and once on horseback, they also have a restraint advantage over the infantry units of the pirates with their feet on the ground.
Duke and Raymond effectively protected the flanks on either side of the cavalry, and Arroyo had already swapped out his usual pair of daggers for a machete that he had taken from the Mercenary Guild in order to contribute more to the charge.
Lilith is a special member of this cavalry team.
As a spellcaster, she couldn't get caught headlong in a crowd like Finn, but her spells were still able to knock down a few scimitars flying in mid-air.
You know, the pirates had little to do under Finn's charge, and some of the eager ones would throw their scimitars at the knights.
In less than a few moments, more than thirty knights who had been brought together by Finn were rampaging through the pirate crowd, forcing a passage through the gate of the town hall building.
"Lilith, Raymond, Arroyo, come in with me!"
Coming to the door of the town hall, Finn rolled over and dismounted, while shouting to the three men behind him.
"Hmm."
"Yes, sir!"
“…… Got it. ”
Three voices with different tones answered him at almost the same time.
After that, Lilith, Arroyo, and Raymond dismounted, and then stood with Finn with their weapons in hand.
After seeing the three companions come to his side, Finn just wanted to take the lead and take a step in the direction of the main entrance of the town hall, but suddenly he thought of something, so he looked back at the two senior mercenaries who were still sitting on horseback.
"Konush, Dukel."
He looked back at the two men in front of the town hall.
"We're here."
Duke slashed down an enemy beside him with a sword and answered him at the same time.
"What do you command, my friend?"
Konush flicked his hammer-like shield and smashed a pirate trying to sneak up on him, then turned his head and asked.
"I'm going to trouble you and everyone to guard the main gate."
Finn gripped the hilt of the Whirling Blade and said loudly, "I'll save someone, and I'll be back soon." ”
"No problem."
Konush gave him a thumbs up on horseback, "Go, young man. ”