Chapter XXVII: Total Revolt
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But his sword was always under Joicka's watchful eye, and the trajectory of the sword was all guessed, and all the attacks missed.
Joika, who dodged her opponent's onslaught, seized the opportunity and turned to slash back, and Nemo took a step back and pressed down with her sword. Only a "bang" was heard, and the two swords collided heavily together, producing a huge impact force that shook the two people back one step each.
"Kill him!"
Realizing that he couldn't win a quick victory on his own, Nemo didn't talk nonsense and gave orders directly to his own soldiers.
More than 20 pro-soldiers gave up the round-up of the nobles and rushed to the stage to attack Joyka. Farther away, more than a hundred die-hards, who had been deterred by Sophia's powerful power, also rushed forward with great enthusiasm. Just because they don't dare to confront Sophia head-on doesn't mean they don't dare to attack others.
But one man stood up to the diehards.
"At this point, are you going to die for that liar who told all his lies?" exclaimed Alice.
But since he is a diehard, he will not be so easily persuaded by three words. Alice's words only made the more than 100 people temporarily stunned, and one of them choked back to Alice: "The only way out for us regents is to follow General Bobcat." ”
"What if you succeed in recovering the kingdom, it's just a kingdom that has been fooled by a liar hiding behind a false empress, not the kingdom of Pole you want it to be. ”
Alice's words shook the hearts of a few diehards, and they laid down their arms, and the others continued to rush forward without fear of death.
Alice was greatly surprised by this situation, with her current physical condition, she could not support enough to summon two True Martial Saint Armors in a row, without a piece of armor, and with her bare hands against more than a hundred heavily armed professional soldiers, it was simply an act of death, but she could not retreat. Because regardless of whether the people around her believe it or not, she must maintain a resolute posture, and if she escapes at this time, then what credibility can she have with the camp that the real Sophia represents?
Just as Alice was in a dilemma, more than a dozen warriors armed with swords and shields suddenly rushed out of the crowd on both sides, lined up in two rows to block Alice.
"It turned out to be you. Alice smiled.
She recognized that these dozen or so people were her old subordinates in the Marshal's Guard. After the collapse of the guard, not all members of the avant-garde were thrown into prison by the "Lynx", and some people were forced to accept the "Lynx" integration and were scattered into the general army. This was also Alice's last act before giving up resistance.
Just now, while most of the people's attention was attracted by the two real and false princesses, these members of the old guard quietly slipped out of their respective units and blended into the crowd, waiting to accept the rebuke of the former commander again.
"Miss Alice, you go to the real princess to protect her. We will never let these traitors go any further. ”
"Brothers, I leave it to you. Also, I must be kept alive!"
"Yes!"
More than a dozen members of the old guard answered the orders of the former commander in a loud and orderly manner. Alice also turned and ran towards where Sophia was, after leaving her first command in months. Listening to the shouts of killing and the sound of weapons clashing behind her, Alice only felt a sour nose, she knew that although this order was simple, with one enemy and ten, even if these loyal subordinates were loyal and brave, there would be many people who would never be able to meet in the world.
However, Alice could hide her loyalists from Nemo's men, and Nemo could do the same. In fact, the die-hard elements in the army who are resolutely loyal to General "Lynx" are not the only ones who rushed out just now. Someone is in charge of charging on a frontal battlefield, and there must be someone in a hidden corner who is doing shady things.
The commander of the crossbowmen unit was assassinated without realizing it, and the hardliners in the middle and lower ranks of the army quickly took over the command of the crossbowmen. The reason why the crossbowmen did not enter the battle at first was because the stray arrows did not have long eyes, and they could accidentally injure the people and nobles in the vicinity at any time, but once they did not have such scruples, tragedy inevitably occurred.
At the orders of the die-hard officers, the crossbowmen pulled the triggers on the crossbows. A rain of arrows like locusts crossed the crowd and fired at Sophia, who was standing in front of the podium. But Sophia had all the bad scenarios in mind before she took action. She threw the Valkyrie's round shield into the sky, and the rotating round shield opened an invisible giant energy shield in mid-air more than ten meters high, bringing the circular area tens of meters below into its protection range.
Sophia did not hesitate to use the "Stigma" divine power that took a lot of time to recover a little, which greatly strengthened the protective effect of the "Empress's Holy Shield". The bolt slammed into the energy shield, causing small ripples in midair, and the blocked arrow lost its kinetic energy and fell to the ground in free fall, no longer lethal.
The nobles in Sophia's vicinity and the people who were too far away from her were protected from the rain of arrows by this greatly enhanced version of the "Empress's Aegis", but the distance could not be protected, and the sharp arrows that fell into the crowd caused a series of screams. More and more people were accidentally injured or even killed by stray arrows, and the emotions of sadness and anger spread through the crowd, and finally spread directly to the troops.
The disobedient soldiers ignored the angry shouts of the die-hards and threw their crossbows to the ground, but they were quickly suppressed by the die-hards.
The neutral soldiers, who had not yet made up their minds to help either side, could not bear to see their compatriots and colleagues brutalized, and more and more people joined the ranks of the resistance, but these impromptu acts of resistance were never comparable to those of the die-hards who were well prepared and united in action. More and more of the rebel officers were mercilessly executed on the spot by the diehards, and the command of the troops under their command was taken over.
However, this hard-line crackdown was only met with an intensifying backlash. As the number of soldiers who rose up to resist grew, the diehards gradually lost control of the situation.
While the army was in disarray, the more than 10,000 people present seemed to be in order. Although many of them were killed or injured by the accidental shooting of arrows, the disciplined and regular habits of life in the camp for many years have cultivated the awareness that the more dangerous it is, the more unscrupulous it is. Fortunately, the crowd was consciously divided into several sections under the organization of some nobles and elders, and the clothes and whatever items they carried on their hands were connected into brief protective equipment, and the injured were given timely medical care, which greatly reduced the casualties.
Cassius in the air, while manipulating the airship and maintaining the ice wall to protect the nobles, has no extra magic power to attack the enemies below, but it does not mean that Cassius has nothing to do. He extended the length of the ice wall, separating the crowds of ordinary people from the fighting area, and grafted frozen energy onto the edge of the "Empress Shield", further increasing the protection range of the "Empress Shield", doing his best to protect the people below.
By this time, the command station had been destroyed in the melee. In the ruins of the command platform, Joyka was besieged by more than 20 of her own soldiers, and although it was full of dangers, she was still able to cope with it, but to Joyka's unacceptability, he could only watch Nemo, who was standing on the periphery, turn around and flee in the direction of the back hill, but there was nothing he could do.
"Bastard!" Joyka cursed. Several times he tried to break out of the siege and chase Nemo. But those soldiers were afraid to stop with their bodies, and they didn't care about sacrificing their lives, which gave Joika both a headache and a frustration.
Seeing that Nemo's figure was about to disappear from his sight, a crimson shadow suddenly rushed into the battle group, knocking away the two soldiers who had attacked Joyka from behind.
"Well done Sophia. Joyka smiled at the girl who had reached out.
At this time, Joyka also noticed that at this time, directly below the round shield, where Sophia was originally standing, the Valkyrie's spear was inserted vertically into the ground, and the spear body composed of magic extended to more than ten meters long, resisting the round shield located in mid-air, instead of Sophia herself supporting the magic used to maintain the enhanced version of the "Empress Shield";
"Go!" Sophia whispered to Joyka between waving her saber.
Joyka didn't answer, didn't hesitate, took advantage of the good opportunity that Sophia helped him create, and in a flash, he took a few false steps to break out of the encirclement between the two pro-soldiers. Chase at full speed in the direction Nemo disappeared.
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