Volume IV The Clash of Light and Darkness One Hundred and Forty-Three, Firelight
When Jada saw Minter, her eyes widened: "Why are you...", suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when she looked back and saw the giant worm, she also gasped: "What is this?!" When he found it coming out of the carriage, he looked at Sargent in disbelief
Sargent's face was pale and sweating at this time, and he struggled to get up from the ground, and a dark green bead rolled out of his arms, and he didn't realize it, but he trembled and pulled out the long knife at his waist, faced the monster, and said, "Run..."
Jada was stunned: "You..."
"Run!" Sargent screamed, knocked him out of the way, and slashed at the monster with his sword
The giant worm raised its claw and swung his knife to the ground, and he was pushed to the side by the force and fell, and when he looked up, he saw the monster coming up to him, staring at him with straight eyes, his panting suddenly became rapid, and he swallowed with difficulty, but the giant worm only stared at him for a moment, and with a roll of his eyes, he glanced at the bead on the ground, and took a long stride, crawling towards the bead
Jada, who had fallen next to the beads, gasped and retreated, Minter quickly got up and pulled him back, he was still shouting: "Sargent, hurry up..."
Seeing this, Sargent hurriedly picked up the long knife and slashed at the giant worm, trying to stop it from moving forward, but the shell of the giant worm was very hard, and he used all his strength, but only left a few shallow marks on the shell, which angered the giant worm, and lifted him aside again, and he fell to the ground, and his whole body was in severe pain, but seeing that the giant worm had raised its claw against Jada, as if to hurt him, he was in a hurry, and inadvertently swept the beads on the ground, and suddenly seemed to understand something, and rushed up to pick up the broken oil lamp on the ground and smashed it hard, The bead shattered, and the shards of the oil lamp pierced his hand, and the oil on it burned even more
Sargent screamed, and at the same time heard a long cry of the giant worm, and his eyes were round and his claws rose to attack him, and he fell to the ground, and the jagged teeth on the chelate cut him into a bloody blur, and Jada saw that his liver was broken, and he shouted: "Sargent! ”
Sargent, however, struggled under the worm and shouted, "Go away! Then he used his flaming palm to break the giant worm and was burned by the fire, and with a long cry of pain, he threw Sargent out of the way with a single wave, and the carriage around him shook even more, and more insect feet came out
Minter was so shocked that Jada forgot his fear, and threw himself on Sargent's side, calling his name, who was covered in blood and dying, and uttered with all his strength: "Run, they are demons..."
"Sargent!" Jada mourned in his heart, desperately shaking his friend who had known him for more than 20 years, unable to believe that he had fallen in front of him like this
A group of soldiers ran to the vicinity, all frightened, all the way a few dared to throw the long knife and other weapons in their hands at the monster, trying to prevent it from approaching, but the monster was originally burned by the fire, and the temper was irritable, and when it encountered such a provocation, it was mad and frantically threw those sharp weapons back, and several soldiers couldn't dodge it, and fell to the ground one after another
All the carriages were propped up, and the pieces fell to the ground, and twenty or thirty giant insects, wielding claws and sharp pincers, came over with teeth and claws, and the soldiers scattered screaming and scattering
Seeing that Jada was still screaming in grief, Minter hurriedly rushed over and pulled him away, but he shook Minter away: "Don't touch me! ”
Minter was suddenly furious, and new hatred and old hatred came to his heart, and punched him: "Do you want the monster to eat you and let Sargent die in vain?!" ”
Jada's face was swollen, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, but he came to his senses, and hurriedly suppressed the grief in his heart, leaving his friend's body with tears, and he had just run a few meters before a soldier was thrown into the sky by a giant insect and smashed down on his original place, and his throat grunted and he died
Jada looked around, more than a dozen soldiers had been smashed to the ground by the giant insects, killed and wounded heavily, and most of the remaining ground fled in panic, Mint kept urging him, he gritted his teeth and shouted loudly to order the soldiers to retreat, and fled with Mint in the direction of the camp
As soon as he ran more than 100 meters, Xie De, who was dressed in black, ran to meet him: "Are you injured?!" Seeing the scene in front of him from afar, he also gasped, but he didn't notice the ground mine next to him
Jada shook his head, and found that in the rows of camp tents in front of him, several soldiers had heard the voice, but they didn't know what was happening, and they were getting out of the tent in disheveled clothes to look at him, and he was shocked: "Oh no, there are still more than 20,000 people living here!" His eyes quickly swept over the large bronze bell on the reviewing table in front of him, and the figure flashed out of the corner of his eye, and Minter had already flown up, grabbed the hemp rope under the pendulum, and slammed it vigorously
The bell rang throughout the battalion, and all the soldiers were awakened, and they all got up and dressed to see what was happening, and Jeda climbed up to the high platform, and with the loudest voice he could, ordered all the soldiers to retreat at once to the north of the town of Sico, and by this time the soldiers had either heard the truth from their escaped companions, or caught a glimpse of the monster emerging from the billowing dust behind them, and they all screamed and retreated, running with all their might
Jada shouted that the squad leaders should take care of their soldiers, so as not to trample on each other, but everyone around them was chaotic and noisy, and no one could hear him clearly, so Minter struck the bell again to calm everyone down, and added a amplification magic to Jada, so that he successfully gave the order, and after a short panic, the captains calmed down and ordered their subordinate soldiers to withdraw to Siko quickly and orderly
Some of the cavalry found their horses, and most of them could only run on their legs, but the prestige of the Noga army was still worthy of its name, knowing that the monster was getting closer and closer, they could barely maintain the basic queue and retreat, even if some of the people who fell at the tail died tragically under the clutches of the monster, they did not panic, but the speed of the advance was much faster
Minter held his wand in his hand and sent a signal to the sky, Jada, who was watching the soldiers retreat, suddenly grabbed him when he saw this: "What are you doing?!" Shedd also looked at him warily
Minter frowned and shook off Jada's hand: "Those monsters are too dangerous, who knows when they will run into our territory, of course we have to warn!" Ignoring them, he directly sent out a signal of "extreme danger", and sent a signal of "strictly forbidden to approach and retreat quickly", and the light of Caise was particularly conspicuous in the dark night, and I believe that the colleagues on the mountain and the town of Mallory can see it
Looking back at the smoke and dust that was getting closer and closer, he turned over and got off the platform, pulled one of the horses that the soldiers had specially brought to him, and beckoned to Jada: "Let's go, if you don't leave, those monsters will come over!" ”
Shedd gave him a cold look, and whispered to persuade Jada to leave, but Jada shook his head firmly: "There are more than 20,000 people at the entrance of Xikedi, if we don't do anything and leave, how many people do you think will be able to escape into the town when these monsters catch up?" ”
Minter's eyes widened: "What do you want to do?" ”
"Anything goes!" Jada dragged a few iron arrows, pulled a strong bow, and looked at the giant insect dozens of meters away, "I don't know what those things are, and I don't know where they came from, but I am the one who made the decision to start a war, and the person who brought these 30,000 people here is also me!" I can't let them die here "You're crazy?!" Minter rushed forward, "What can you do alone?!" ”
Jada sneered at him, stretched his bow and arrows, pulled them full, let go of an iron arrow and shot at the nearest strange insect like lightning, right in the left eye, the strange insect screamed, rolled back and forth on the ground, brought down a tent next to it, the tarpaulin covered it, it struggled to get rid of, but then twisted on the hemp rope of the camp, and the result became tighter and tighter
The other insects sped up their progress, and Jeda fired a few more arrows, this time only one of them hit the eye of the giant worm, and the giant worm flicked off its tail in pain, knocking everything around it to the ground, but inadvertently blocking the progress of his companions
Seeing this, Xie De also picked up a bow and arrow to attack the two of them together, but only stopped a few giant insects, and more giant insects scattered from both sides, and everywhere they passed, tents and wooden frames and other miscellaneous objects were all knocked down, and the horses that could be taken away in the future were frightened and became victims under the mouth of the giant insects
Minter gritted his teeth, quickly pulled down the quiver hanging on the ground outside the tent next to him, and followed with a few arrows, but his skills were far inferior to the two Noga warriors, so he had to give up, and instead collected arrows and spare bows and arrows for them, and accidentally saw a torch planted next to the tent that had not yet been extinguished, and suddenly remembered that Sargent had broken the claws of the giant insect with his burning hand just now, so that the giant insect was injured, and hurriedly grabbed several torches and found a few bags of wooden arrows and oil cans, dipped the arrows in oil and burned them and handed them to Jada: "With this, they are afraid of fire!" ”
Jada took a few breaths, looked at him, and then took the arrow and shot it, although the arrow body was not strong enough, not as strong as the iron arrow, but when he heard the screams of those giant insects when they were burned by the fire, he knew that the fire attack was effective, Minter and Jada were overjoyed, the former hurriedly tore off a few pieces of cloth, wrapped them around the iron arrowhead, soaked in oil and ignited, and then the latter shot Jada with all his might, and successively shot the eyes, mouths, and necks and throats of the three giant insects, the latter two of them were struggling on the ground, and the one with the injured eye was rampage with a ball of flames, Even knocked his companions out of the way
There was the sound of horses' hooves galloping from behind, and a team of archers quickly arrived: "Your Excellency Duke, we are here to help you!" "Good!" Jada yelled, "Shoot them in the eye and throat!" With rockets! The archers answered in unison, and they all took up their bows and arrows, and Mint threw a few torches at them, and they took the burning arrows, and began to shoot
Jada shouted the order, and asked the archers to take turns shooting arrows at the giant insects, and the effect was remarkable, but gradually, those giant insects also learned well, and every time they saw an arrow coming over, they raised their claws to block it, and even turned their bodies to let the hard shell go to meet the rain of arrows, and with the consumption of arrows, the combat power of the human side began to be dwarfed
Mint looked around for bows, arrows, knives and guns to use for the others, but saw smoke and dust rising from behind the tent next to him, and two or three black shadows were coming this way, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly ran back to the high platform and shouted, "They have copied from the side!" Let's go."
Jada was startled, glanced at the town in the distance, and saw that some of the soldiers had not yet entered the gate, and gritted his teeth and said, "Hold on a little longer!" It's going to be done right away! ”
When the soldiers are done, they can't do it, he doesn't want to die at the hands of that kind of monster
Minter was so angry that he got back on his horse, and accidentally caught a glimpse of the camp behind him, and the torches that were still burning in their hands, and suddenly had a plan, and hurriedly said, "I have a way!" Burn the tent! Let's see if they can break through the fire! ”
Jada was stunned, and next to him, Shedd had already taken the first step to pick him up and throw him on his horse, and turned back to the archers and ordered: "Cover!" We retreat immediately! ”
"Shed!" Jada just shouted, but the captain of the archers had already answered loudly, and they all dragged their quivers and torches on their horses and shot rockets at the giant insects, while covering Jada to rush towards Siko, Jada didn't insist anymore, just looked at the Chinese military tent not far away, and then gritted his teeth and shot an arrow there, and the tent slowly burned
Shedd suddenly pointed in one direction: "There's a kitchen tent over there, there's oil" Minter turned his head and looked at the horse and ran over, and sure enough, he saw a cart of small oil cans in the empty tent, hurriedly dismounted and pushed the cart out, threw the oil canisters one by one on the side of the tents, and then lit the tarpaulin, and pulled a handful of hemp rope tied to the tent, so that these burning tents fell down and joined together
When he returned to the team, more than half of the entire military camp had already burned, almost a sea of fire, and the chirping of the giant insect reached everyone's ears through the firelight, and everyone shivered, and Jada looked at the burning camp with complicated eyes and waved his hand and ordered: "Go back to town!" ”
When they ran to the entrance of the North District, they heard a burst of insects behind them, it turned out that those giant insects were afraid of fire, so they had to avoid the fire area, outflanked from both sides, and approached them again, they had to fight their horses and run quickly, seeing that there were still the last hundred or so soldiers left outside the door, they shouted loudly to let them go quickly, the soldiers panicked when they saw this, and scrambled to squeeze into the door, the captains were busy maintaining order, and finally waited for the last person to enter the door, and the Jieda and others also arrived, and as soon as they rushed into the gate, someone closed the thick wooden door, Then quickly pile up sandbags, dirt bags, and gravel bags to stabilize the gate and fence
Minter climbed off his horse, and as soon as his feet went limp, he sat down on the ground, and he was so tired that he could not speak, and could only gasp for air
Jada gave several orders in succession to let people strengthen the wall and keep an eye on the movement of monsters, and collect as many items as possible that could be used as weapons, especially after the torches and tinder were ordered by his subordinates to retreat, he leaned against the wall, and after a little rest saw Minter, he glared fiercely and spat at the bloody foam: "You honestly tell me what the hell those are all ?!" ”
Minter took a few breaths before he said weakly, "How do I know about the ground in your own barracks?!" ”
Jada covered her face and held back her emotions: "Those... It's Sargent's secret weapon, but there's no way he'll make something terrible... He was all killed..."
Mint remembered Sargent's previous abnormality, and said thoughtfully: "The shining green bead that fell out of his arms, I remember... I once saw it in the secret cabinet of Prince Lawler's study! Haven't you seen it? How could he be allowed to hold that magic orb?! ”
"Orbs?" Jada jerked his head up, "What magic bead?!" I only took the papers from the secret cabinet, and handed over all the rest of the jewelry to Sargent! The beads... What's the problem?! ”
Minter sighed: "That magic bead is a very terrible thing, it will lead to the deepest ** in people's hearts, and..."
"Do you mean that after you, another friend betrayed me?!" Jada didn't wait for him to finish, he had already yelled
Minter's face sank: "Sargent has proven his loyalty with his life, so please listen to my words first!" Seeing that Jada calmed down a little, he continued: "After the bead leads out the holder's **, it will take advantage of his mind to waver, induce him to have thoughts that he shouldn't have, and then take the opportunity to manipulate him I touched the bead, and I had some thoughts that I knew I would never have, so... Sargent must have been manipulated by that orb, but at the last moment, he came to his senses and saved you."
Jada mourned, sat down next to the wall and fell to the ground, he and Sargent have known each other for more than twenty years, they met when they were children, and they really became friends, it was a matter of the past few years, although Sargent always regarded himself as a subordinate, and he also had his own plans, but for so many years, he had been with him through all the difficulties, in order to be able to provide him with help, he even gave up the noble territory at his fingertips, and was at ease as a small guard captain in the palace, he really didn't want to doubt this friend, and he was relieved to know that the other party's loyalty was still there, but grieved at the tragic death of the other party
Shedd looked at him frequently, but did not say anything, just quietly stood by the side
Seeing this, Minter couldn't say anything, so he had to keep silent, and suddenly those giant insects couldn't come in, would they turn to other areas? Thinking of this, he hurriedly got up with difficulty: "I'm going back to the south and informing them to strengthen their defense..."
Before the words fell, a squad leader rushed in: "Your Excellency! Those monsters are digging into the wall! ”
(I can't break the chapter...) I had to put it all up... )