Chapter 28: The Siege (Part 1)

A chilly wind swept across the ground of the province of Sili, raising up a cloud of dust and blades of grass.

It seems that all the mainland merchants know that the Vatican Empire is at war, so several mainland roads in Xili Province are empty, and they can't see the grand traffic of the past. The villages near the highway were like dead lands, and there was no life at all, so a large number of crows and other birds boldly landed on the road or in the nearby grass, looking for food to feed their stomachs.

Ray yawned weakly, his dull eyes looking boredly at the yellowing leaves and grass.

Looking at the fluttering wooden spear in his hand, and then touching the inferior iron knife on his waist that had been seized from the corpse of a soldier from the Darker Empire, Ray suddenly felt the urge to strangle the young staff officer named Lomat. He looked dissatisfiedly at his own divisional adjutant Crete, who had just been officially appointed, and complained: "That guy named Lomat is just nonsense, even if we want to pretend to be a defeated remnant to lure the enemy, you don't have to force us to dress up like this, right?"

As a golden fourth-order knight, Crete, who was promoted to deputy division commander because of his bravery in recent battles, looked helplessly at the tattered light leather armor on his body, and smiled bitterly: "My lord, at least our activities are lighter, and this is the only benefit of this outfit." ”

Ray shook his head, looked at the large number of weak cavalry in front of and behind him, and suddenly looked up to the sky and groaned: "I think that Lomat is just teasing us, actually saying that we are too energetic, not like the remnants of the defeated soldiers, and actually insisted that we not sleep for two days, all the way here... The brothers have no spirit to fight anymore. ”

Crete shook his heavy head and muttered: "I guess this guy did it on purpose, saying that they must be killed by the Glory Knights, otherwise it will not achieve the effect of luring the enemy." How can you say that you are afraid that we will scatter the enemy's reinforcements, where is this kind of reason?"

A silver wolf knight galloped over and roared loudly: "My lord, a large number of infantry and a small number of cavalry have been found ahead, look at their banner, it is the reinforcement brigade of the Wright Empire that has arrived." ”

Crete cursed loudly: "Damn the Wright Empire, every time there is a bargain, they always run the first, and the reinforcements of the Darker Empire, which is closer to them, have not yet arrived." My lord, what should I do?"

Lei Bar clicked his heavy eyelids, took a long breath of cold air and sobered up his head, raised the wooden pole spear in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, enter the left and right wings to impact, and break away immediately after one impact... The flying phoenix arch rode behind to cover, and after three shots, it formed two teams to cover the main team of cavalry to break away from the enemy. on!"

The wind grew stronger, and the blades of grass and dust 'crackled' and beat the thunderous cavalry ranks. The fatigue on the faces of all the warriors disappeared in an instant, and the wooden spear in his hand was raised, and after a shout, the horse rushed out with Thunder. The sound of horses' hooves was heavy, and the smoke and dust were billowing as if they were a wave, rushing towards the brigade of soldiers who had already appeared on the horizon.

Gradually, after rushing out of the land of Rich, the five thousand silver wolf cavalry divided into two groups, led by Ray and Crete, respectively, and made a large circle and rushed towards the enemy's two wings. Under the leadership of their team leader, the 1,000 flying phoenix archers rushed straight towards the opposing Chinese army, and then violently turned their horses' heads and galloped back and forth at a distance of 300 feet in front of the enemy brigade, and the dense arrows were already whistling and projecting out.

The reinforcements of the Wright Empire are the elite of the five teams of their 'Holy Sword' legion, supplemented by the lord's private army of two divisions, and the recruits of the three divisions as a combination. Commanding them was the deputy division commander of the 'Holy Sword' Legion, a golden first-order knight who relied on the blessing of his ancestors to make a living in the Wright Imperial Army. This deputy division commander, who had no combat experience, saw the dense cavalry rushing over, and in a panic, where did he think of commanding his army to resist?

Fortunately, his five team leaders were worthy of the title of the 'Holy Sword' Legion, the most elite legion of Wright, and quickly judged the approximate number of enemies, and at the same time judged that they could not be the elite troops of the Van Empire through the armor on the enemy's body, and immediately ordered the soldiers on both wings to start resisting.

The silver wolf cavalry roared and rushed towards the Wright soldiers on both wings, these walking on the two wings are the recruits of the Wright Empire, where do they have any combat effectiveness? But they have just taken their weapons and carried out the most basic training, they know that knives are used to cut people, guns are used to stab people, and many soldiers have even been assigned as archers, but they don't know how to shoot a bow.

The Wright recruits on both flanks were in disarray, the archers who were supposed to shoot arrows to stop the enemy's onslaught fled towards the center, and the infantry, who were supposed to raise their spears to kill and wound the silver wolf cavalry, watched in amazement as the near-'countless' enemy roared and rushed closer, and then stabbed their spears into their chests.

Blood rained everywhere, hundreds of Wright soldiers screamed miserably, and these soldiers with no combat experience saw their chests begin to spurt blood, and saw their internal organs flowing out of their torn bellies, and suddenly rushed into fright, almost madness. The Wright soldiers on the two wings were in a mess, and the elite in the middle was suppressed by a thousand flying phoenix archers, and they couldn't withdraw to help the two wings at all.

Ray's first stab didn't kill anyone, because the spear with the wooden pole was suddenly shattered by his strong force when Ray habitually shook the spear. Thunder threw out the wooden pole of more than two feet in his hand, smashed one of the Wright soldiers to the ground, and then pulled out his machete and slashed at the enemy soldier in front of him.

Two knives, only two knives, there were already three enemy bronze knights rushed over, one of them sneak attack, on the body of Lei's knife slashed hard, smashed his knife from the middle, and then the three of them quickly surrounded Lei.

Lei turned his horse's head, glanced at the three bronze knights angrily, and shouted: "Brothers, retreat, ****** here is the enemy's main force, we can't fight, retreat, retreat." Ray's eyes rolled for a moment, and he suddenly remembered what Lomat had commanded, so he roared with all his breath: "Damn, it was so easy to escape from their former army brigade, and now they can't be surrounded by them anymore." ”

The fierce sword and gun strength had already pounced behind Lei, but Lei ignored these at all, and just slapped the horse and left. The captain of his personal guard, a golden second-order seventy named Klus, flew over with three subordinates, slashed with his swords, and smashed the three bronze knights into the air, and suddenly the blood of the day flew down.

The elite of the three teams of the 'Holy Sword' Legion had already lined up the recruits who were blocking the way and rushed towards Lei and them. And the private soldiers and horses of the two divisions were also dispatched by the five team leaders, and they quickly circled around, preparing to surround Lei them from behind. The private cavalry of the three teams held their shields and roared towards the flying phoenix archers.

Ray's order to retreat was just right, and before the Wright Empire's soldiers surrounded them, the three cavalry teams had converged, broke away from the pursuit of Wright's cavalry, and rolled and rolled with dust all the way towards the hilly terrain near Hornhorn City. Many of the silver wolf cavalry left with a low curse, and the spears in their hands could not withstand the force of the heavy thorns, and they broke one after another, which made these valiant cavalrymen very unaccustomed, and had to desperately greet the hateful Lomat.

The deputy division commander of the 'Holy Sword' who was in a daze finally came to his senses, he saw that several silver wolf cavalry who had delayed a little because they were unwilling were cut down to the ground by their own subordinates, and the enemy's cavalry fled frantically, and after he heard the other commander's loud shouting and scolding, he finally reacted and his opportunity to make meritorious service had arrived. As long as you can annihilate the group of enemies in front of you, if you want to come to your official rank, you should cancel that sub-word.

So, the deputy division commander gave the order full of vigor: "The whole army marches quickly, let me catch up with them, and annihilate them on the spot... Haha, looking at their equipment, it should be the remnants of the Van Sect who were defeated by Master Letster's men, right? Brothers, this is the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. ”

The brigade left a group of soldiers to take care of the wounded companions, and then, under the leadership of the deputy division commander, the reinforcements of the Wright Empire, that is, the garrison they had sent to occupy the city of Vant, rushed out with enthusiasm.

Ray turned his head to look at the Wright soldiers who were chasing after him, and couldn't help but yawn, and asked, "They won't suddenly be smart enough not to chase after them, right?" I hope they want to annihilate us and increase our military industry, otherwise, they will trouble us to rush back and harass them again, and the brothers will not have the spirit to fight again." ”

Crete snorted, looked at the silver wolf cavalry who were riding on horses with a little eyelids a little worried, and sighed: "Damn Lomat, what kind of joke is he making, if you want us to lure the enemy, forget it, there is no need for the brothers to be tired like this, right?"

With a curse, Thunder beckoned all the cavalry to slow down their horses, so as not to throw the pursuing enemy too far. After all, except for the 3,000 cavalry, the others are infantry, and they run too fast, but they can't have the effect of luring the enemy. As for the pursuing cavalry, there are Feifeng's archers covering on both flanks, but I am not afraid that they will chase too fast. At the same time, those Wright's cavalry really didn't dare to chase too close, they were also afraid that they would desperately fight back and eat themselves, after all, they only had three teams.

Wright's deputy division commander shouted and commanded his subordinate soldiers to desperately chase and kill, and in his opinion, these enemies who fled quickly in front of him were the credit of his military merits. Look at their tattered leather armor, look at their inferior spears, look at their spirits shaking on their horses one by one, how can they be their own opponents? Moreover, there are more than ten times as many soldiers under their own command.

One of the team leaders suddenly shouted, "My lord, maybe they have a trick." ”

The deputy division commander looked at him dissatisfied, and continued to gallop on his horse, and after a while, he asked in a loud voice: "Tricks? What tricks do they have? Can their thousands of men have tricks against our army of 75,000 men?"

The team leader hesitated for a while, but then said, "My lord, you see, although they are running away, their shapes are not scattered at all, and they don't look like they are running for their lives at all." Their archers, in particular, were the most suspicious, they were supposed to be the remnants of the defeated army, but how could they have such an abundance of bows and arrows? I calculated that each of their archers had fired no less than thirty arrows. ”

The deputy division commander shouted, his eyes full of unhappiness that someone had poured cold water on the flame of pride. He pointed at the figure of the thunder and said, "So, what tricks will they have? ambush us? Or is there an army of hundreds of thousands waiting for us in front? Damn, haven't you received a battle report from the front? We have completely defeated the army of the Vaticans, where can they have the strength to carry out any conspiracy against us?"

The five team leaders beside him were speechless, indeed, they couldn't find any reason to doubt, the information ahead was conclusive, the army of the Vatins had been completely wiped out, where did they still have the strength to design their own army?

The deputy division commander laughed, "Unless their slain soldiers get up from the ground and stab us in the back, they can't do us any harm." Do you understand? pursuit, continue to pursue... Brothers, I can see that there are several high-ranking knights among them, enough for us to be promoted. ”

The five team leaders didn't say anything, indeed, it was impossible, the Van Empire had been crippled, and it was impossible for them to have the strength to do anything to themselves. In fact, if it weren't for the fear that the other countries in the coalition would cause losses to the territories they had divided, they wouldn't need to send their own troops to garrison the territories divided into their empires.

So, Ray and the others ran all the way, running as fast as they could. They brought enough dry food, when they were hungry, they sneaked on the back of the horse to nibble a few bites, the war horses under their seats, are those glorious knights have, the physical strength is not weaker than the 'thunder beast' of the perverted hybrid creatures, can run for three days and three nights in a row, naturally do not care about this short day of jogging running.

The pursuing Wrightites suffered so hard that they could not rest or replenish their food, and could only run desperately at the urging of the generals who were eager for promotion, and used their human legs to chase the horses' legs, which made the recruits almost cry.

Ray hit the numb thigh heavily on the horse, and moaned softly: "Fortunately, the spies found out their detailed itinerary, otherwise, if we run like this for a few more days, we won't be able to support it at all... I could have let those glorious knights seduce them, but they weren't afraid of getting tired at all. ”

Crete shook his head, not commenting on Ray's complaints. He was still able to hold on, the internal qi circulating in his body flowed through the blood vessels of his thighs, and the blood qi was smooth, but he didn't feel tired. He just quickly ordered the subordinate officers around him to control their subordinates well. As they were soon to arrive at the intended ambush site, they had to prepare to leave the battlefield.

After running for a day and a night, most of Wright's recruits were left behind, and the team dragged for more than twenty miles. At the forefront, who were still full of spirit to chase and kill them, were the elites of the 'Holy Sword' legion and the private army of the two divisions.

At the sound of the horse's hooves, Thunder turned the horse's head and rushed towards a hill not far away. Five thousand silver wolf cavalry and one thousand flying phoenix archers followed Lei agilely, and after raising the dust in the sky, they rushed into the hills.

Behind, through the clouds and fog, came two divisions and five regiments of Wright's army, who were barely able to keep up with them and thus pursue the men who came up. Their brigade of recruits has long been left behind.

Without the slightest hesitation, these Wright troops plunged headlong into the hills. They were very relieved, and they were not at all worried that they would have ambushes and other tricks, according to Letter's battle report, the army of the Van Empire had been wiped out a long time ago, where would they have the strength to resist? In the hearts of these Wright officers, they probably thought that most of the territory of the Van Empire had been conquered, and as long as they eliminated this remnant of the Van army, they could drive to the richest Van territory and act as an occupation army.

After rounding a few hills, faintly, they could already see Thunder and their figures. What puzzled the Wrightites was that the Van soldiers dismounted, sat on the ground, and pointed in this direction.

Several team leaders of the Wright Empire exclaimed: "Oh my God, they really have an ambush, hurry, get out of here... ”

The deputy division commander did not understand what was happening, and he shouted angrily: "What are you afraid of? What are you calling? They are scaring us, don't you see? Attack, attack, they have no way to escape. ”

As soon as the words fell, a sharp horn sounded, mixed with a powerful fighting spirit, so that these generals of the Wright Empire almost fell under their horses. As for the other soldiers, they only felt their hearts skip a beat, and a very uneasy feeling appeared in their hearts for some reason.

The Glory Knight's banner was raised from behind a hilly hill, and countless Glory Knights slowly appeared on the surrounding hillside.

Hart waved the sword in his hand and laughed loudly: "Haha, I originally wanted to ambush the reinforcements of the Dak Empire and take advantage of the situation to destroy their Dak Empire, but since you bumped into it yourself, then, go and die, anyway, it is our enemy, you must not go back alive... Glory is my life ... Kill. ”

Countless knights of glory shouted: "Glory, that is, my life, kill." ”

Sitting on the ground, he kept hammering his numb legs, and sighed softly: "Hey, we've finally completed the task." However, I just suspect that the recruits behind will definitely be killed, but how do you let those generals of the Wright Empire go out to report the news? ”