Chapter 422
Between two steep mountain walls, a long, narrow passage was filled with people fleeing.
Thinking about what he had just thought, Xia Dong suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of uneasiness welling up in his heart, shouldn't it?
Not so unlucky, right? How could a Calestan be so smart? It's a tactic on Earth, unless someone else crosses over.
Besides, these are just ordinary civilians, and they are not the army of the Duchy of Delima, so there is no need for the Calests to be so serious, it is better to lead the troops directly to the town, even if everyone does not surrender, they can directly kill there.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, occasionally slaughtering a city can be said to be for the sake of prestige, although it is inhumane, it is not uncommon in cold weapon wars, but if you really want to go all the way to the three lights, that Princess Miranda is a little brainless, right?
It shouldn't be, since that Calest's general is so powerful, how can she make such a brain-dead choice, if she kills too many people and makes the entire Duchy of Delima hate the same enemy, won't she fall into the ocean of people's war?
Also, I have personally confirmed that the people who spread the news are just some thieves, they are just to pick up some bargains, and they have nothing to do with the Calests, and their starting point is also to save people.
No, I must be thinking too much.
Pushing the wooden cart, Xia Dong comforted himself while listening to Maggie's nagging and complaining, and after a while, he was surprised to find that the team that was still moving slowly suddenly stopped.
By this time, the uneasiness in his heart had become more and more intense, but he still restrained himself, and he jumped to the small mound on the side in a few steps, and looked at the team in front of him, wondering what was the reason for everyone to stop.
Unfortunately, the mountain road was winding and twisted, and people were talking anxiously for a distance that he could only see.
Soon after, the news from the front was finally delivered, it turned out that there was a large rock rolling down at the exit at the end of the valley, and these falling rocks for some unknown reason happened to block the intersection, and now the men in front were gathering together, trying to clear the way.
This news directly made Xia Dong's heart chuckle, if he couldn't see that the problem here was a pig, it was just that what he couldn't understand was why so many people didn't find anything abnormal?
No, looking at the panicked expressions of many people, Xia Dong probably understood that these people were not actually worried, but just like what he thought before, he thought that there was no need for the Calests to calculate them so much.
Looking at the little girl who was still in William's arms, the other party's cute face was full of curiosity, and it seemed that he was completely unaware of the danger that was approaching.
Clenching his fists, Xia Dong looked up at the cliffs on both sides, and asked himself, what can I do?
Go up and hold off those ambushes?
Xia Dong's legs, which he thought of, suddenly exerted force, and his body began to rush towards the small dirt slope that was raised on the mountain, the mountain wall here was not too high, and it was not difficult for him to climb, and he should be able to go up by gritting his teeth.
The sudden bizarre behavior made him instantly the focus of the people around him, until ......
"Mom, look, there are a lot of people up there!"
Jesse's crisp voice came, making Xia Dong's movements stagnate, he raised his head blankly, and sure enough, the mountain walls on both sides were already full of armored soldiers with bows and arrows, and the style of the armor was obviously a Calest.
No way! Are you really afraid of anything, are these Calests sick? War is war, what are you doing with civilians? Are they all crazy?
In the current situation, Xia Dong's climbing plan has been completely bankrupt, if he continues, as long as there are a few rounds of arrow rain above, he will immediately become a hedgehog with limited mobility.
Walking quickly back to Jesse's side, Xia Dong clenched his long sword and guarded carefully, although he knew that even he was in danger now, he really couldn't bear to watch this cute girl meet with accidents.
After discovering the large number of soldiers overhead, all the people began to panic, because no matter who was above, they were definitely not here to send blessings, and those Calests were also very fast, and without giving the following a chance to react, the first round of arrow rain had already fallen!
Standing at the bottom of the valley, looking at the black arrows that fell from the sky, even Xia Dong couldn't help but feel a tingling feeling on his scalp, this is not watching a movie, although he didn't learn physics well, but he also knew that after falling from such a high distance, a small stone is estimated to be able to kill people, let alone a metal arrow?
Reaching out and snatching Jesse from William's arms, Xia Dong took a deep breath, and the long sword in his right hand waved a brilliant light and shadow, "Ding! The force of the metal collision made him feel a slight numbness, and he couldn't help but hesitate for a moment without expectation, and in this slow moment, an arrow had already fallen through the sword curtain.
With a quick turn of the wrist, the long arrow was cut in two as the silver light flashed, but surprisingly, the direction of the arrow in the lower half did not change at all!
The right hand didn't dare to stop swinging the sword to intercept the rest of the arrows, and Xia Dong didn't dare to dodge sideways, otherwise it was very likely to be shot by more arrows, and all this happened so fast that he couldn't think at all, so he could only subconsciously let go of Jesse with his left hand, and then took the initiative to grasp the cold arrow with his palm.
Ignoring the numbness of the pain in his hand, he knelt down as he continued to swing his sword with his right hand, and when she was about to fall to the ground, he firmly caught the little girl with his blood-soaked left hand.
"Ah......" Countless screams rang out from the front and back, left and right, his left hand flipped, blocking Jesse's eyes with the back of his hand, Xia Dong took advantage of the end of the first wave of bows and arrows, suddenly picked up the girl and rushed up the rock wall in front of him, stepping on a steep slope of nearly sixty degrees in a few steps, he kicked hard with both feet, and his body immediately bounced in mid-air to a big tree on the side.
The long sword slashed the branched branches in front of him, and several muscles in his waist were exerted at the same time, and the pores of his whole body were closed at least half, and the other person turned around in the air again in an incredible way, and kicked his right foot on the trunk of the tree, "snapping", so thick that the body of the tree hugged by at least one person trembled a few times, and then fell towards the other side of the valley.
And Xia Dong had already used this strength to get close to the top of Fang Cai's mountain wall again, where there was a small cave, not too big but enough for the two to hide, I just hoped that the other party would not come up with any tricks that lacked virtue.
At the bottom of the valley, there was a vast field of mourning, and a large number of corpses pierced by arrows were lying dead and blind, but relatively speaking, they were perhaps lucky, because many of the people who had been nailed to the ground by long arrows and were not yet dead were now wailing in pain, desperately feeling the loss of life in their bodies, feeling the gradual disillusionment of hope, feeling anger and unwillingness......
Next to the wooden cart, pierced by several arrows, William, with a long arrow stuck in his abdomen, lay on top of Maggie, whose fat body, who had lost his life, and was firmly anchored to the road by the arrows.
William, who was already dying, slowly and with difficulty, stretched out his right hand, and finally grasped the palm that was gradually cold after working hard for a long time......