Chapter 92: The Power of Reversal
Avi and Fan walked out of a room, both dressed as pike-squadron mercenaries and carrying spearman-type moon shields in their hands. If you didn't know Avi, you wouldn't know that he was a member of the horseback mercenaries.
The sun was already high in the sky of the castle, shining on every corner of the castle. It was time for lunch, but after smelling the bloody smell of the corpses of those riding squadron seniors, Avi didn't want to eat anything.
"We're going to save Carrie, we can't leave her there alone!" Avi whispered to Fan.
"Well, even if you want to save people, you have to think of a way first, you can't act rashly," he glanced at Avi's leg injury, although the bleeding had stopped in that place, he could still see obvious unnaturalness when he walked, "How does your leg feel now?"
"I'm already able to walk, it won't affect much!" Avi tightened the strip of cloth around his thigh, the pain of the pressure causing him to frown.
Avi and Big Nose Fan were walking down the streets of the castle when suddenly someone behind them shouted to them, "Hey, where are you two going?"
Avi and the others immediately turned around, and standing behind them was a small group of archer mercenaries.
Fan immediately asked, "Where are you going?"
"The captain said, let's go to the rear of the castle to support, I heard that the squad leader Fid has come to the city, and there are more than eight hundred people!" said one of the mercenaries, "By the way, why do you have a sword on you?" he pointed to the quenching knight's sword pinned to Avi's waist.
"We just finished cleaning up the corpses of the cavalry squadron, he picked it up. Fan responded with a smile.
The mercenary smiled and said, "Hehe, you usually see the black plate armor on that Feide's body, I heard that it is a sharp enchanted armor, if you get it for your buddy."
"Yes, yes, let's go and support them, otherwise they will rob them of all the good things!" Fan said along with the other party's words.
Avi, who was standing on the side, had a sad face, and after hearing the name of Feide's senior, he began to worry about the other party again. After all, this wooden-faced black-armored mercenary captain once transfused himself with blood, and he can be regarded as half a life-saver. His boss, Eddie, had died in a trap, and he didn't want to see anyone he knew killed by the rebellion. Thinking of this, Avi felt very sorry for Xue Rui again, he watched with white eyes as Sister Xue Fa was caught, but he couldn't do anything.
"Oh, of course, we'll be right over!" Fan nudged Avi on the shoulder, motioning for him to follow him to the back of the castle.
"What are we going to do?"
"Do what you want!"
"But isn't Carrie in the inner city?"
"It's there, but we can't get in," Fan put his catapult iron gun in his hand, keeping an eye on the surrounding situation, "If we go directly into the inner city, we will definitely be treated as rebels by the people inside and killed immediately." ”
Avi looked at the more than a dozen archer mercenaries in front of him, they were all subordinates of Captain Andrei, but now they have become traitors, "Then we can only find Carrie when we follow this group of people into the lord's hall." ”
"That's right, what you said is indeed a solution, after all, we don't care about the lives of other guys," Fan touched his big nose and said, "You have to remember that we are members of the Two-Color Blade Mercenary Regiment, loyal to Miss Delia, and if these foreign mercenaries want to kill each other, we just need to protect ourselves." ”
Avi and Fan were talking in a low voice, discussing the primary goal of saving the lives of the three of them. After all, the task can be put aside for the time being, but the death of a person cannot be resurrected.
They followed the archers and mercenaries through the main passages of the castle and up to the walls of the inner city. The walls on this side were full of archers, all of whom were aiming at the inner city with their longbows, and the sharp-eyed Avi also saw that there were several sword and shield mercenaries hiding in some houses in the inner city - they were all mercenaries trapped in the inner city, all of them were the subordinates of the squadron leader Bisluvis.
"You two go faster, we're running out of men!" a spearman squad leader in inlaid armor shouted to Avi and Fan. Ah Wei and Fan also stepped up their pace, not daring to show traces of slackness.
In this premeditated rebellion, a surprise attack became a decisive factor.
Bithluvis's squadron of swords and shields numbered more than 2,600 people when they set out from the city of honor, but after the attrition of the siege, the division of some men to garrison the Oga Castle, and the sneak attack by the companions behind it, there were now less than 500 people left in the inner city to resist the attack of Alan's mercenaries. And these sword and shield mercenaries are suppressed in all corners of the inner city, and many sword and shield mercenaries have already surrendered at the first time - whoever is the regiment commander can be the regiment commander, anyway, their squadron leader Bisluvis is just an employer, not his own father; anyway, they are only mercenaries to seek wealth, why stand with the guys who have failed?
There are still more than 600 archers and nearly 1,000 pikemen in the castle, so Alain is also afraid that the two-handed swordsmen under Feide will merge with the people in the inner city, so he deliberately deployed the main forces behind the castle, wanting to destroy these forces in an ambush, so that he can win.
In the absence of manpower, the number of archers and mercenaries still surrounding the inner city walls was reduced by two-thirds, and only a little more than a hundred remained—so from the outside of the Cistern Castle there were no soldiers on the defensive, for they were all caught up in the civil war. But even so, the sword and shield mercenaries in the inner city did not dare to come out and attack those archers standing on high places.
Avi looked down from the battlements and saw that the gates of the inner city were guarded by pikemen, and every tower was guarded by archers, holding the castle's vantage point.
"By the way, what about the soldiers of the Kosai Kingdom who were originally guarding this castle?" Avi suddenly remembered that the original owner of this castle was not the Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment.
"That baron named Gotán seems to have been captured by Andre, and the infantry stationed here seem to be almost dead," Fan did not make much effort during the siege of the city, but sacrificed a lot more than the sword and shield squadron of Slurvis, "I heard that this castle originally had only a few hundred soldiers, and now it is estimated that there are less than two hundred people left who have become prisoners." ”
Avi nodded and whispered, "That's enough, let's go and let these people out and let them fight with Alain's rebels, then we can"
"There's a chance!" said Fan, too, excitedly, because it worked, "but I don't know where the captives were taken, and their weapons were probably confiscated." ”
"That's a problem, let's move on. ”
The two of them continued to follow the supporting archers towards the back wall of the inner city, looking around as they went, looking for traces of the captives - the original enemy army now had a chance to turn the tide of the situation, and Avi realized that there was no permanent enemy in this world.