Chapter 17: Witty out of the city

The emperor ** soldiers who rushed into the building and fought each other in close combat, the advantage of being large failed to bring them an overwhelming victory, but instead bit on the steel plate.

Dante and the two mysterious men, relying on their uniforms as cover, relied on their outstanding combat effectiveness to maneuver around the incoming soldiers in the complex buildings. The two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 minutes, and after suffering a big loss, the emperor ** soldiers had to retreat back to the street in disgrace. Looking at the group of subordinates who had abandoned their armor and fled in panic, one of the staff officers in charge of commanding them was furious.

"Ignite the fire! Burn these buildings to me, and I don't believe you can't blow them out!" the staff officer gave a brutal order.

"But, Your Excellency, there are still many ordinary people in these buildings. A herald advised.

"Less nonsense!" the staff officer grabbed the herald by the collar and yelled, "Do it for me!"

After hearing this order, there was an uproar in the ranks. Setting fire to a city is not just a few buildings, but has a great chance of creating a prairie fire in the city. Most of the soldiers in the imperial garrison had made their homes in the city, and many of them had their families living nearby, so a considerable number of soldiers were very resistant to this order.

"Do it immediately, kill those who disobey the military order!"

For a staff officer who is a foreigner and whose family members are in other places, it is not his family who dies anyway, as long as he can make military exploits, rise step by step, and sacrifice a few civilians, he has nothing to worry about at all.

Some of the soldiers faithfully carried out their orders, but prepared firewood and oil, but many more did not move, and some even resisted.

"I'm going to complain to the general!" a couple of red-eyed soldiers threatened.

"You dare to disobey orders! Seek death!" the staff officer drew his sword and angrily charged at the disobedient soldiers.

But anger blinded his eyes so that he could not see his feet. "Shake the Boom" -- The staff officer stepped on a spear on the ground and fell to the ground on his back. When the back of his head hit the ground, it brought not only the sharp pain of a concussion, but also the awakening of Daigo.

"......How can I?" the staff officer touched his head, got up from the ground, and shook his head, "O God of Light! How could I give such an order? Hurry up! Cancel that order, and never let the fire ignite!"

The staff officer finally came to his senses and realized how stupid and impulsive his actions were just now, and once he really set fire to the city, then his military career and career would be completely over.

......

Just when there was an internal commotion between the emperor ** soldiers and their commander, among the group of soldiers who had retreated from the building not long ago, three soldiers quietly slipped into a nearby alley while others were not paying attention.

As the three of them fled through the alley, the mysterious man in the middle asked the man at the front, "Did you hear that? That guy wants to set fire to the house where we were hiding, which will affect a lot of innocent citizens." Don't you want to find a way to stop it. ”

Another mysterious man responded in a very calm tone: "Don't worry, it can't burn, he should almost wake up." ”

"Ahh ”

"I'm just magnifying the darkness in his subconscious a little bit. ”

Dante, who was running behind, heard the conversation between the two of them completely, and was very surprised by the little skills that the two of them had revealed, although it was still unclear the identities of these two men, but there was a strange feeling that Dante felt that there was nothing wrong with trusting these two mysterious people and following them all the time - in fact, this was also the order that Julian gave him before leaving.

When the three of them ran to an intersection, two mysterious men stopped one after the other.

"There are ambushes. The mysterious man who ran ahead raised his hand.

The three of them hurriedly retreated back to the alley from which they came. Seconds later, a small detachment of soldiers, dressed in bright armor and armed with strong bows and crossbows, ran through the intersection.

"Their uniforms are different from ours. "A mysterious human.

"I think they should be the Guards in charge of the palace, not General Menavino's men. "It was Dante who answered him, and he had seen the outfit of the Guards when he and Julian had met Her Majesty the Empress at the palace.

"It's hard for us to disguise ourselves anymore, so we'll have to find a safe place to take off this skin. ”

However, the so-called "safe place" did not exist for them in the imperial capital at this time. There was not just one ambush, and when the three of them ran to the end of the alley, they collided with another squad of crossbowmen from the Guards Legion.

"Password!" shouted the leader of the crossbowmen.

Where did these three imposters know what the password was, and hurriedly pulled out their legs and left.

"Whoosh whoosh" ......

The crossbowmen couldn't help but say, immediately pulled the plate machine on the crossbow, before they set off, they received an order, the gangsters have disguised themselves as emperor ** soldiers, so they passed the password to the commanders of each unit to each soldier, once they found that there was a suspicious person who could not answer the order, they did not need to identify their identity or shout, they were directly killed!

Fortunately, the three Dante escaped in time, and their skills were extraordinary, and they escaped death under the rain of arrows from these elite crossbowmen, and the three of them turned around and ran back again, but the movement just now had already alarmed the crossbowmen who had passed through the intersection before, and they turned back.

Well, the three Dante were blocked in the narrow alley by two elite crossbowmen troops, one after the other, unable to advance or retreat, and as soon as the crossbowmen on both sides converged, they became live targets.

At this critical juncture, the crossbowmen behind them resounded with a restless sound, accompanied by screams, they were obviously attacked unexpectedly.

The three of Dante had the same idea at this time, and once again turned around and rushed back behind, but this time they were not trying to escape, but attacking.

Although some crossbowmen reacted in time and fired their sharp arrows at the three enemies who rushed straight at them, the accuracy of the arrows fired in a panic was greatly reduced, and there was basically no effect.

The group of elite crossbowmen who were attacked was completely annihilated, and none of the twelve people survived. Only then did Dante see that it was none other than Julian who was sneaking up on this elite crossbowmen squad from behind.

"Great, master, you're finally here. Dent was overjoyed.

But Julian didn't have time to answer him, and he spewed out a mouthful of bloody arrows "uh", his body crumbling, and he had to be supported by his sword, and his pale face showed that he had suffered from Yan Zhan's internal injuries.

"You ......" The nervous Dante hurriedly carried Julian's body with the shoulder on the side of the broken arm.

"I'm fine, just a minor injury. Julian braced himself on, smiling rather reluctantly.

"Now is not the time to heal. A mysterious man pointed behind him, where the footsteps of another elite crossbowmen squad could be heard rapidly approaching.

Julian glanced at the corpse on the ground, and at that moment his mood was quite complicated. Originally, Julian didn't want to cause more killing, so when he was in the hotel, he knocked out and tied up the two soldiers who were robbed of their clothes.

"Let's go. Julian replied blandly, and with his three companions, fled the area before another group of elite crossbowmen arrived.

The main streets of the imperial capital were blocked by ironclad chariots, and Julian and the other four could only walk through the alleys, and they climbed over the walls and entered the houses, and went directly to another alley next door, only to see a six-man Guards heavy infantry walking towards them.

"It's endless!" a mysterious man cursed beside him, spear raised, ready to tear up the hoplites.

"Don't go. Another mysterious man grabbed him in time, "Not everything has to be solved by brute force, I have a good idea." We just need this and this......"

So, these four people divided

In two, Julian and Dent hid, and the two mysterious men stood still in the middle of the road.

When the hoplites saw the two, they immediately became alert and suspicious, but before they had time to think about it, the two "colleagues" stretched out their hands to stop them and shouted, "Stop!

The leader of the emperor's ** team replied reflexively: "The top of the snow mountain." But he soon noticed that something was wrong, and in their memories there did not seem to be the impression that there was a sentry post in this place, and for the sake of caution, he shouted to the two "sentinels": "Return order!"

"Oh, the order is, that's it...... By the way, what's our reply?" the "sentinel" on the other side muttered as he came to ask his companion in a pretentious manner.

"Stop talking nonsense, give the order immediately!" The hoplites became more and more suspicious, and the men who grabbed the spears and shields subconsciously increased their strength.

"I'm sorry, I remembered, the order is ......"

Just as the soldiers' attention was attracted by the two of them, they didn't notice that the two ghostly shadows behind them were approaching.

"Ahh

Two screams rang out, and two hoplites were pierced into the cracks between their armor by two swords stabbed from behind, piercing their hearts and dying. The remaining four hoplites immediately turned around, but they didn't expect the two "sentinels" to suddenly attack, and under the front and rear attacks, the six hoplites in heavy armor and armed with spears and huge shields all fell in a pool of blood.

After solving this problem, the four of them continued on their way and encountered a real checkpoint in front of the next alley.

"Who's coming? Stop, password!"

"The top of the snowy mountains. Please return the order. ”

"The abyss of the sea of forests. Why are you four soldiers acting alone, your officers?"

"Our captain met a suspicious person in the back, they were fighting, the enemy was too strong, and the captain told us to go for reinforcements. ”

"What?

In this way, halfway through Julian, he had several encounters with the sentry guards of the emperor's **, and those who were difficult to get through were blinded, and those who couldn't be blinded broke through, and there were thrilling dangers along the way, but under the leadership of Julian, who was familiar with the road, they never met with the large army. At last they came to the gates of Alexandria, but there was a great trouble before them, and that was that between their hiding place and the gates, there was a wide avenue, and there were no obstacles to hide in, and the streets were full of soldiers, including the troops of General Menavino, the Guards of the Palace, and the troops subordinate to other generals.

The four of them hid around the corner, not daring to go out lightly, until a group of horsemen dressed in Menavino's uniforms passed in front of them, and they leaped out of their horses, kicked off the four horsemen who were running behind, and snatched them away.

"Bad guys! They're bad guys!" the rest of the cavalry hurriedly drove their horses after them.

The soldiers in charge of blocking the city gate were startled when they saw a large group of cavalry suddenly rushing in their direction, and kept shouting: "Catch the villains, catch the villains!"

Julian, who was running at the front, shouted the same words as the pursuers behind, but when they approached the city gate, they suddenly added: "Those gangsters have fled out of the city!"

The soldiers in front of the city gate naturally didn't think that it was a good scene of thieves shouting to catch thieves, so they hurriedly removed all the barricades in front of the city gate, opened the closed city gate, and let the cavalry who "chased the gangsters" out of the city