Book 1: Believers of Light Chapter 44: The Battle of the Valley of the Kings
At the crossing of the Nirles River, a group of sergeants boarded the ferry at a uniform pace, and an army had crossed on the west bank of the river. Dregri II looked at the slow river-crossing troops, a little anxious. "Your Majesty, at the current rate, it will take three hours for the army to fully cross it. This crossing of the river is too hasty, and there is no time to collect too many ferries, please forgive me. The Marquis Merston explained, standing beside Drage II. "Hmm. I understand. How many troops have already crossed the river?" Dergery II also understood that even if he was in a hurry, he would not let the crossing speed be accelerated.
"Your Majesty, most of the troops that have crossed the Niellace River are noble private soldiers, three thousand infantry of the Amberley family, and one thousand cavalry and one thousand infantry of the Oherk family. plus five hundred cavalry of your royal guard, Your Majesty. "The Marquis Merston told the story of the troops who had crossed the river. "Well, that's enough. Merston gave the order. Let the Amberley and Oheke families rush to the Valley of the Kings as fast as possible, without them having to defeat the enemy, as long as they hold the enemy and wait for us to arrive. Drage II ordered. "Yes, Your Majesty. "With the spell cast by the accompanying mage, Drurgie II's order has been accurately conveyed to Sir Joseph, the chief of the royal guard. The order of Dragri II was given to Count Henry Amberley, head of the House of Amberley, and Marquis Gubop O'Herke, head of the House of Oheck. "Two masters, His Majesty the King has ordered us to go to the Valley of the Kings as fast as possible, hold off the enemy, and wait for the arrival of the great army. "Yes. The Earl of Amberley and the Marquis of O'Hawk replied very simply.
Joseph rode directly to the front of the line and shouted, "Let's go." "Under the watchful eye of the follow-up troops on the east bank of the Nirles, an advance party of five and a half hundred men began to march towards the Valley of the Kings. At this moment, there is still half an hour before the Königsborough barracks are breached. It took an hour for the advance team to reach the Valley of the Kings at the earliest.
Under the cover of the dark clouds and the dark sky, Hank and Jerry led the elite team of the King's Army to protect Arthur to break out of the Valley of the Kings. It was probably Ossad's frontal assault that attracted the attention of the skeleton army, and Hank and Jerry basically didn't encounter any skeletons along the way.
"Shhhhh "There are enemies. Hank leaned over and snuck his way forward. Under the cover of the bushes, Hank saw several skeletons wandering aimlessly. After making sure that there were no other skeletons roaming around, Hank moved close to one of them and quickly cut them all down with lightning speed.
"Let's go. Seeing Hank's gesture of safety, Jerry picked up Arthur and prepared to leave. As a result, he didn't take a few steps, Jerry looked at Hank's back in surprise, "Hank be careful!" Hearing Jerry's reminder, Hank quickly turned around and raised the long sword in his hand at the same time. Before Hank could see who was attacking him, a huge force spread through his arms all over his body, and Hank, who was not prepared for it, was directly knocked away.
Hank, struggling to get up, coughed up a mouthful of blood and carried Arthur on his back. Jerry quickly ran to Hank's side with his sword in hand, protecting him from his mortal injuries. Hank, who felt a little better, no longer vomited blood. Only then did he see that the attacker was actually a black knight. And it's different from the five black knights who appeared before. The black warrior in front of him was even more well-equipped, and the black greatsword in his hand flashed with a dangerous light.
"How's it going?" Jerry asked about Hank's injuries as he watched out for the Black Knight's sudden attack. "It's okay, I can't die. Hank struggled to get to his feet, but the injury was triggered and he crouched down in pain. "You can rest where you are. In the next battle, there is me. You two protect His Royal Highness and Hank. Others confronted me. Jerry casually let the two men who were supporting Hank stay, and then took a defensive stance with the other soldiers. At this moment, there is still half an hour before the arrival of reinforcements from the royal capital.
"Lord Amberley, can you speed up any more, according to the spies. The King's army has breached the barracks, and General Ossad is currently leading the remaining King's army in battle against the Skeleton Army. If we can't get there at once, I'm afraid General Ossad will be unlucky!" Joseph looked at the speed of the march with some anxiety. At present, the situation in the Valley of the Kings is urgent, and there is no room for delay.
"General Joseph, I'm afraid not. It's already the fastest march. If you speed up further, even if you can reach the battlefield in time, I am afraid that you will lose your combat effectiveness. After all, my army is all infantry. Earl Amberley said with a look of embarrassment.
"General Joseph, or else. My troops are mainly cavalry, and if your troops and my cavalry are quick, they can arrive within fifteen minutes, and we will help General Ossad relieve the pressure first. Then wait for the arrival of the army of the Earl of Amberley. What do you think?" suggested the Marquis of Ohebir. "Lord Joseph, what the Marquis said makes a lot of sense!" Joseph thought for a moment and said, "Okay, just do what Master O'Heber says." Without further ado, ask the adults to lead your group to catch up. After saying that, Joseph did not wait for the Marquis of Oheb's answer, and rode directly on horseback to lead the royal guard to gallop towards the Valley of the Kings.
The Marquis of Oheber, who was standing in place on horseback, looked at Joseph, who was left with only smoke and dust, and looked at Count Amberley helplessly, and then said to his noble private soldiers: "The infantry is included in the ranks of the Earl of Amberley, and all the cavalry, come with me." "At this moment, Ossad and the army of skeletons have been engaged for half an hour. It's been twenty minutes since Jerry and Hank's team were attacked by elite Black Knights.
After slashing a swooping skeleton to the ground, Ossad looked at the dense and endless army of skeletons, and the battle-hardened general was also a little desperate. At this moment, the fighting spirit on Osad's body was no longer as strong as it was at the beginning of the battle, and the fighting spirit had been thin to the point where it could only maintain and protect Osad's body, and it was impossible to attack the skeleton army outside. At Ossad's side, the King's army became increasingly scarce, and after the Battle of Necrons, the King's army, which had not had time to recuperate, entered the battle again. The exhausted body could no longer support itself under the attack of the endless army of skeletons. More and more fighters are falling.
"General, let's withdraw. If this continues, the brothers will all die here!" Osad's attendant persuaded Osad after killing a skeleton. If such a thing had been heard in a previous battle, Ossad would have been the first to kill the person who said it, without a ruling. But today Osad will not be, because he knows how desperate it is for his comrades who will not retreat to the death to say such things at this moment. Up to the present day of the battle, the brothers have fallen to their side one by one, but the enemy has not diminished a little. Such desperation is crueler than fighting to the last man. Battles without hope of victory are the most brutal.
Ossad couldn't bear to reproach the squire for what he said, so he just sighed silently, and then burst the fighting energy on his body to the highest peak, rushing towards the endless sea of skeletons. The attendant who saw this scene also sighed silently, he did not choose to retreat, but chose the same path as Ossad. The rest of the king's army saw that their generals were leading the charge again, and the morale of the originally low was miraculously much higher at this moment. The Skeleton Army's offensive momentum is stagnant.
After once again fending off the attack of the elite Black Knight, Jerry felt that his body had reached its limit. If you resist the attacks of the Black Samurai a few more times, you will only have a dead end waiting for yourself, and you must change your thinking. Luckily, there weren't many skeletons attacking Jerry's elite squad other than the elite Black Knights. However, although the elite squad was numerous, none of them could catch the attack of the elite black warriors.
While struggling with the elite Black Warriors, Jerry thought of a way. Dodging more than another heavy blow from the elite black knight, Jerry found that there was a steep cliff not far away, although it was not high, but the large boulders falling from it could also make the black knight in front of him drink a pot.
Thoughtful, Jerry shouted to the Valley of Kings soldiers who were waiting for an opportunity to attack the elite Black Knights, "Old Nose, Little Tom. You two climb to that cliff and prepare a big rock, and wait for my orders. Old Nose and Little Tom, who were called by name, immediately understood and ran directly past the elite black warriors towards the cliff. Jerry then asked the other soldiers to move Hank and Arthur to safety, and began to lure the elite Black Knights in the direction of the cliff. At this moment, Joseph's cavalry had reached the edge of the battlefield in the barracks. On the banks of the Nirles River, Dragri II led the vast majority of his soldiers across the Nielles River and began to march towards the Valley of the Kings. At the same time, Duke Hendries put all the noble private armies in order and began to march towards the back of the Valley of the Kings. The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.
Joseph watched as the Valley of the Kings, still shrouded in black clouds, was silent, and not a single undead appeared outside the valley, as if an invisible force was stopping them. "Lord Joseph, are we going to attack now?" asked the Marquis of Auherbert, urging his horses to line with Joseph. Asked by the Marquis of Ohebir, Joseph was also a little undecided. The news of the Valley of Kings came more than ten minutes ago, and at this moment the situation in the valley is not very clear, if you rashly launch an attack, it is very likely to be ambushed by the undead. After thinking about it, Joseph said: "Lord Marquis, I will first lead a team into the valley to find out the situation, if the situation in the valley is the same as what we learned before, then please ask the Lord Marquis to rush in directly from outside the valley." What do you think?" "Since the Archon is willing to take the risk, I won't say anything more. I just hope that the adults will send a message in time. "Okay. After receiving the approval of the Marquis of Ohebe, Joseph pulled down his visor, and then, without mobilizing before the battle, he directly urged his horses to attack the silent Valley of the Kings. And the royal guards, like Joseph, did not make any superfluous movements, and followed Joseph's steps to launch an attack on the Valley of the Kings.
At this moment, in the Valley of the Kings, Osard has added several new wounds to his body. Although Osad is strong in martial arts, he is also a strong man with fighting spirit. As the saying goes, more ants bite an elephant to death. Not to mention a skeleton that doesn't know pain, doesn't know tiredness. The constant army of skeletons left fewer and fewer people standing around Osad. Ossad felt he couldn't hold it anymore. As long as His Royal Highness the Prince can break out safely, then I will not die in vain. It's just that I didn't die on the battlefield, but at the hands of the undead, and I was so unwilling.
Just as Osad wanted to give up, there was a neighing sound of war horses on the outskirts of the Valley of the Kings. This sound like a heavenly voice made the heart like ashes of Ossad instantly resurrect with full blood. He knew the reinforcements he had been longing for had finally arrived.
Joseph, who broke into the Valley of the Kings, did not encounter a single undead at first, and the Valley of the Kings was still the same as when he came, with lush trees, quiet and comfortable. It was only as he went deeper that Joseph gradually realized that something was wrong, and the dark aura around him became more and more intense. Although he was somewhat expected, such a dark aura still frightened Joseph. He finally understood what kind of enemy the King's army was facing.
"Quick! Instead of observing his surroundings, Joseph urged his men to speed up, "Inform Lord O'Hurber and tell them to hurry into the valley." I'm afraid that the current General Ossad can no longer support it. "Yes" With a 'bang', a soldier following Joseph turned on the flare he had taken out of his arms. The Marquis of Oheber, who was waiting outside the valley, saw a bunch of fireworks rising above the valley and knew that Joseph was urging him into the valley. "Everyone, follow me into the valley to kill the enemy. A deafening shout broke the silence of the Valley of the Kings, and the Marquis of Oheber was the first to rush into the Valley of the Kings.
Jerry, who fought and retreated, had succeeded in luring the elite Black Samurai to the bottom of the cliff, and Jerry was overjoyed to see that the enemy had not yet discovered his intentions. Rolling directly on the ground to avoid the attack of the elite black knights, Jerry shouted at the cliff, "Old Nose, Little Tom put stones." The Black Knight, who didn't understand why Jerry did this, suddenly felt something fall from the top of his head, and when he looked up, he saw that a huge stone had fallen on top of him. "Boom" With a loud bang, the elite black warrior was crushed under the boulder. Jerry, who was hiding on the side, watched the elite black warrior's hand leaking outside the big stone shake for a while, and after stopping for a while, his hanging heart finally let go. He was afraid that a rock as big as this would not be able to solve the Black Warrior's words, so all of them would have to explain here.
Just as Jerry and Tom were together to discuss what to do next, the old nose, who was standing on guard outside, was desperate to find that an army of skeletons had appeared around them, and there were still several dazzling black knights and skeleton mages in this group of skeleton army.
Jerry and the others, who were discussing, also discovered the changes around them. Jerry hurried to Old Nose's side. When he saw the skeleton mage chanting incantations and skeleton soldiers constantly appearing around him, Jerry's face turned to ashes. It's all over. Everybody's going to die here.
"What's going on? How could I be here?" Jerry and the others were desperate, and Arthur woke up to find himself in the Valley of the Kings, lying on the ground with a splitting headache. "Your Royal Highness, are you awake?" Jerry was a little brainy in despair, how to explain what General Ossad had done to him, could it be that he was afraid that His Royal Highness the Prince would not want to leave and knocked you unconscious?
"Is that what happened? How could I be here?" Arthur's question left Jerry a little confused. "Your Royal Highness, don't you know what happened before?" asked Jerry cautiously. "What happened before?" you mean about my affairs in the royal capital?" Arthur's reply convinced Jerry that His Royal Highness had no memory of what General Osard had done to him.
"You're Lord Jerry, aren't you? Why am I here? I remember I was supposed to be in the palace. Arthur asked puzzled as he looked at the view of the Valley of the Kings. "Your Royal Highness, this matter is a long story, and we will talk about it after we break through. The priority now is to deal with the enemy in front of you!" "Enemy?" Before Arthur could ask clearly, an arcane missile was fired at the place where Arthur and the others were standing, and Arthur dodged the attack in a hurry, and then found that in front of him, there was already an army of skeletons. Needless to say, Arthur understood what the enemy Jerry had just said was about. Directly pulled out the lion's fang, Arthur and Jerry stood side by side, "I don't know what happened, but I know that I can't get out of the Valley of the Kings without solving the enemy in front of me." "Yes, my Royal Highness. Jerry smiled wryly. "Well, it's my pleasure to fight with you. For the kingdom, for the king!" Arthur shouted and rushed towards the army of skeletons. "For the kingdom, for the king!" shouted Jerry, Tom Jer, and the others, and then rushed to the army of skeletons with Arthur.
At the entrance to the Valley of the Kings, Joseph had managed to join General Ossad. "General Osad, we're late. Joseph clenched his fists in a salute to Ossad. "It's okay, it's good that you're here, it's just these people?" Osaard thought that the reinforcements who came could directly solve the crisis in the Valley of the Kings, but he didn't expect that there were so few people coming.
"General Osad, rest assured, the large army is already on its way. I was afraid that the king's army would not be able to support it, so the Marquis of Oheber and I arrived with three thousand cavalry first, and at this moment the Marquis of Oheber was outside the valley, and I had already sent him a signal. As soon as Joseph finished speaking, the sound of the neighing of war horses was heard outside the valley, and the earth trembled, and Ossad's tired body finally could not support it at this moment, and fell limply.
Outside the Valley of the Kings, the Marquis of Oheber took the lead, rushing directly into the army of skeletons, slashing and slashing hard. With the squire leading the rest of the King's army to protect General Osard as he retreated into the barracks, Joseph and the rest of the royal guard began to charge, preparing to join the Marquis of Ohebe.
At the same time, Arthur Moon Jerry and others fought and retreated, and they also began to move out of the barracks.