Chapter Twenty-Four: The Spy

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Some of the Vigia warriors of the Zhiwa Cheze built the siege tower bridge overnight, and the other part slept peacefully, and Annina was bullying the fact that there were no cavalry formations of more than five people in the castle of Djerpo, and she was not afraid of being attacked by night.

However, she still left her five cavalry at the construction site to keep vigil, after all, there was no need for cavalry to attack the city tomorrow, and Anina felt that she was very careful in this arrangement.

She didn't expect that although there was indeed no formed cavalry team in Fort Jerpo, there were twenty-two Dalmatians. Belch...... Well, it's actually Cerberus!

Wrapped in cotton cloth with the four hooves of a black horse and holding an iron-spine steel spear, Zhu Peng led the Cerberus led by the Crimson Devil Dog out of the castle at night, aiming directly at the construction site of the siege tower.

Although the three Vigian cavalry and two Vigian knights are quite powerful, being surrounded by twenty-two third-level Cerberus is also a dead word, especially since there are elite mutants like the Crimson Devil Dog.

Under the moonlight, a conscientious and vigilant Vegia knight noticed Zhu Peng, and looked at the young nobleman on the opposite side pointing at his iron spear, the Vegia knight did not immediately send a warning, but slowly took off his big axe.

The dignity of the samurai prevented him from shouting for help in the face of a depraved nobleman, and Rod Caster's bad reputation spread throughout the time of the Riwache.

In a sense, this is the only personal legacy that Rod Custer left to Zhu Peng.

The two horses hedged against each other, and the Vigia knight slashed his axe in both hands, cutting through a sharp curve like a moon, and at the same time let out a roar of rage the moment he charged, and the roar and axe pressed to the extreme when the two sides clashed.

And Zhu Peng pressed the tail of the long-pole iron-spine gun with one hand, but the gun did not move, pressed it under the ribs, and used his waist strength to match the arm strength and rise up flat.

Many people misunderstand that the ancient generals mainly use their arms to wield their arms to fight, but in fact they are not, arm wielding is only an auxiliary, and the ancient generals really kill people in battle formations, more often than pressing the spear, like a unicorn with the power of a fast horse to run and assassinate.

This skillful person, a good gun, a fast horse, in the ancient battle array, rushed to kill, really killed hundreds of people like cutting grass, unstoppable.

With the two horses hedging, Zhu Peng rode the horse faster and faster, and the big gun in his arms trembled slightly, and this kind of fine-tuning to the head of the gun became larger and larger, and even drew an arc one after another.

It's as if there is an invisible big hand holding a gun as a pen, and it is like a god writing beautiful bird seal inscriptions in the void.

The head of the iron spine steel spear was moving, and Zhu Peng's entire body lying on the horse was lying down together, and the musculoskeletal muscles of the whole body were also trembling slightly, and at this moment, I didn't know whether the person drove the spear, or the spear controlled the person.

On the ancient battlefield, the two horsemen hedged life and death for a moment, and this experience was also precious to Zhu Peng.

At the moment of this type of charge, the spiritual will is unprecedentedly concentrated, the horse in the boxing martial arts, the snake shape, the dragon shape, and the eagle-shaped volley attack and the potential, the iron spine spear is round, and all kinds of arc strokes also contain the strength of Tai Chi.

At this moment, Zhu Peng only felt that all the mysteries of martial arts had melted into this instantaneous charge.

Slowly, but the Iron Spine Spear broke through the arc of the moon and slashed across the Virginian knight's chest, and the crimson mist of blood spurted away, and the two horses staggered, all in an instant.

The strong knight behind Zhu Peng had already fallen from his horse and smashed to the ground, but his roar had already spread throughout the camp, but ...... It's too late.

Twenty-two Cerberus had already pounced on the construction site, their talents breathing flames from their mouths, and several of them joined together to spew out, and the wood stored on the construction site soon began to burn.

Now the main work on the construction site is mainly the archer troops, which is understandable, after all, tomorrow the Vigian infantry will have to charge the siege, it is impossible for them to go without adequate rest at night, in contrast, the role of the archery troops in this siege is relatively weak.

However, the melee tragedy of the Vigia shooter was attacked by the strong and fierce Cerberus colony at night, regardless of whether it was a level 4 or 5 shooter, it was extremely disadvantageous under the melee combat.

The Vigian cavalry from other directions rushed over and surrounded Zhu Peng, one of them was accidentally thrown down by Cerberus under his horse, and the other three were killed by Zhu Peng one by one with a gun.

Because of the strength of the horse, Zhu Peng's lack of physical fitness at this time was made up to a certain extent, and under the moonlight, several horses were entangled with spears and axes to slash and assassinate.

Zhu Peng held the iron spine steel spear in both hands, piercing the opponent's body in the flickering shadow of the gun, watching the blood gush out, and at the same time, it can be said that he tasted the boxing and martial arts he had learned from a new angle while being covered with sweat.

Although he has cultivated to the realm of Dan Dao Immortals in the main world, Zhu Peng has really not accumulated experience in this area of cold weapon fighting across horses and spears, and it is quite interesting to make up for them one by one at this time.

"Let's go ......," he roared, and Zhu Peng rushed back in the direction of Jeerbo Fort as soon as he pulled his horse's head.

After hearing the order, the extraordinarily large and intelligent Crimson Devil Dog raised its head and roared violently a few times, and the Cerberus community immediately ordered to follow Zhu Peng and run back to Fort Jerbo.

Why do night raids and steal camps have to use highly mobile troops such as cavalry?

Because if you use infantry, once you get out of the city, it will be difficult to come back, and the enemy will be entangled with you to fight under the castle walls, and then the champion in Jerbo Fort will drop the drawbridge or not?

When Anina woke up from her slumber and came out of the tent with her armor on, she could only watch the back of Rhodes with a group of big red dogs, four of the five cavalry died at this time, and the remaining knight was seriously injured by the Cerberus group, but fortunately did not die, and there was no ability to catch up and entangle the other party.

More than 20 men were killed or wounded in the shooters who rushed to work overnight, and the construction of the Gongcheng Tower was undoubtedly delayed due to the burning of a large amount of wood.

............

"Nonsense, it's just nonsense, you, as a lord, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to come back?"

Old John was overtired and wounded, and he was still sleeping in the castle late at night to recuperate, and at this moment, in the entire Jerbo Castle, only Arteman was qualified to criticize Zhu Peng as half a guest.

"Haha...... Rushing and galloping in battle, Mr. Arteman, don't you think it's beautiful to watch the enemy bleed under the moonlight?" Zhu Peng was also injured in the battle with the three elite cavalry of Veguia, and coupled with the extreme exhaustion of his body at this moment, he almost fell off his horse with his head up.

However, the servants around the horse naturally caught it, and all the night watchmen around looked at their lord's gaze, which was full of reverence and awe.

After Zhu Peng faintly grasped the origin of the world of Zenda, he consciously moved closer to that direction when he spoke and did things, the origin of the world of Zen requires war and blood sacrifice, Zhu Peng showed a belligerent and bloodthirsty temperament, he was originally fond of martial arts fighting, in a certain level, the will of the endless abyss, the blood of demons, the origin of Zen and his own spiritual will, there is a certain degree of fit and unity.

Looking at Lord Rod Custer in front of him, Arteman said no more.

The old man, who had traveled to the Calradia continent for many years before he was successful in his studies, vaguely saw the spirit of the great lord in front of the young nobleman in front of him, which undoubtedly made some thoughts in Artiman's heart change, but he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

The next day, there was nothing wrong with each other.

On the third day, near the afternoon, Annina's three siege towers could be built, and she wanted to use the wave of tactics of the three towers attacking together to push off Fort Jerpo, and Zhu Peng's side After nearly two days of rest, both personnel and morale were raised to a relative peak.

It's a pity that the existence of Cerberus has always suppressed the morale in the castle, otherwise with Zhu Peng's leadership technique of increasing morale and adding ten at this time, he may not be able to rush to the full value of the special effect of one hundred morale: the momentum is like a rainbow!

The camp and rest in the past two days allowed some of the wounded soldiers of Anina's army to recover and rejoin the battle formation, but there were more people recovered on Zhu Peng's side, and Fort Djerbo was not as good as the conditions of a big city, but no matter what, it was much better than sleeping outside with a tent.

Originally, Zhu Peng also deceived the people in Jerbo Fort, saying that as long as it was two days old, Viscount William would lead the reinforcements over, but now there are no reinforcements in the past two days, but no one in the castle has mentioned this matter anymore, because they subconsciously perceive the possibility of defeating the enemy with their own strength.

"It's a pity, if our beautiful 'Riwacha Ze Rose' had fought with such seriousness from the very beginning, it would have been impossible for those low-level warriors in Fort Jerbo two days ago to stop it...... But now. "There are injuries on his body, but this does not prevent Zhu Peng from standing on the head of the city to command the overall situation, or even if Zhu Peng is just standing on the head of the city as a mascot, he has a positive effect on the improvement of the morale of the troops, and the blessing of his talent and expertise on the combat strength of the troops.

The siege began, and the three siege towers rumbled over.

However, the soldiers of Riwa Cheze were surprised to find that the expected arrow rain blow at the head of the city and the arrow towers on both sides did not appear, and they pushed the siege towers until the siege tower bridge slammed down on the city head, and the defensive arrow rain never fell.

(What's going on...... Don't they have a reserve of arrows? Isn't that a single arrow gone?) Anina looked up in surprise at the head of Fort Jerbor, at the familiar and unfamiliar man in armor at the head of the city, and the two looked at each other, like lightning in the void fighting for it.

"Lord, they have already begun to attack the city, and they still give the order to attack?"

Old John was still wounded, but after nearly two days of rest, he was still standing on Zhu Peng's side again, and behind him were five heavy-armored swordsmen and professional warriors, and Nabal had already led his subordinates who were stronger and stronger than two days ago to block the landing points of the three siege tower bridges, the fierce man's palms clenched the big axe, and his muscles tensed and crackled.

"Uncle John, don't be in a hurry, you can't be in a hurry...... If you want to catch a big fish, how can you not hang enough bait? If you want people to die in Jerbo Fort regardless of it, how can you not give people a chance to win? Standing at the head of the city, watching his opponent press all the elites in his hands like a desperate gamble, Zhu Peng's eyes flashed with danger.

This battle was a gamble for both Zhu Peng and Annina.

Annina didn't want to lose, so even if there were only half of the elite troops left in her hand, she had to fight, she didn't believe that Zhu Peng's troops would lose less than her in the battle two days ago.

And Zhu Peng wants to kill all of them, win them thoroughly, so that the opponent has no chance to turn over.

Therefore, he took the initiative to give up the opportunity for the other party to pour out the firepower when the other party pushed the three siege towers.

Anina didn't know that there was a secret treasure like a first-class fire gem, and she would never have imagined that after the battle two days ago, the number of troops in Fort Jerber had decreased, but the actual combat power had increased instead of decreasing.

Two days ago, Zhu Peng had 88 marksmen, 80 Vigian guerrilla marksmen, and 8 hired crossbowmen, and after the first offensive and defensive battle, 9 of the 88 third-level shooters were killed and 17 were wounded, and two mercenary crossbowmen were killed, but 39 of the remaining 60 shooters were promoted to the fourth level.

Two days later, 17 shooters have recovered to 10, and the firepower of the shooters on the Jerbo Fort side has increased much more than two days ago, and if the opponent suppresses the damage when the siege tower pushes it, there is a considerable certainty that the three siege towers will be directly routed before the three siege towers are pushed to the top of the city...... But in that case, Anina can still flee with the remnants of her subordinates, even if she can't win the battle completely.

Therefore, Zhu Peng pressed and refused to give the attack order, until the elite Vigian warriors of Riwa Cheze poured onto the plank bridge and were about to engage the pirate troops led by Nabal in close combat, Zhu Peng waved his hand violently and gave the order for the archer troops to attack.

The planks on the towers on both sides were violently lifted, and a group of elite Vigia archers with a lot of strength pulled the arrows, tilting all their firepower and tyrannical killing intent on the Viggia warriors on the three wooden bridges.

At that moment, the ferocious rain of arrows almost completely stunned the soldiers on the side of the Riwa cart on the wooden bridges on both sides, and looking at the soldiers who were falling like dumplings, Anina's mentality collapsed:

"How is it possible!?How is it possible that there are still marksmen of such strength in Fort Djerbo?",

“...... I see that Rod Custer wants to capture you alive so that he can negotiate with the Count. Miss, let's withdraw, for with their current offensive, the brethren won't be able to hold out for long before they die. "There is actually a wounded Virginia knight next to Annina as a staff officer, although this guy was bitten quite badly by Cerberus the night before, but at this moment he is sober-minded, and quickly advises his young lady, and if he fights again, not to mention that the troops are exhausted, even the young lady herself is in danger of being captured alive.

"No...... I can't lose...... How can I lose to Rod Custer, I can't retreat, I definitely can't retreat. Holding her head in her hands, Anina seemed to have a severe headache at this moment, and she held her head in her hands and groaned in pain.

The seriously injured knight beside him was a little helpless, but at this moment, his boss suddenly raised his head, and Annina's original blue eyes burned with turquoise flames at this moment, and the canine teeth in her mouth slowly extended, and then pounced on the knight, biting the opponent's side neck.

(...... I give you strength...... You go and kill him for me, kill him, kill him!!)

The Virginia knight, who had been overwhelmed by Anina due to his injuries, struggled for a moment, and the muscles of his body began to swell, and his eyes gradually faded from their original colors, and a turquoise ghostly fire burned with the magic fire of the dead.

............

The morale of the soldiers was already relatively low, but it gradually collapsed to the bottom with the rain and dense firing of the arrow towers on both sides.

The morale on Zhu Peng's side is indeed not able to rise to the top because of the fantasy class Cerberus, but it doesn't matter, because of the effect of Zhu Peng's leadership bonus, is the morale of ninety also high...... It doesn't matter if our morale is not even at the top, anyway, the morale of the other side is about to collapse.

It would have been better if Anina had been a battle-hardened commander who had amassed a considerable amount of credit, but Anina was a fledgling rookie commander who had been sent out by her uncle to gild, even though she was actually extremely talented, and her position in the hearts of the Virgian warriors had been shaken after the failed siege battle two days earlier. By now, in the hearts of every Virgian warrior, there were 10,000 grass horses galloping by.

The fighters who fight at the bottom are actually very realistic, they ignore the specific reasons, and if you win the battle with the advantage, you are a good commander and a good boss. If you lose in the face of disadvantage, the responsibility must be borne by the commander.

Although objectively speaking, such an uncommon variable as the Fire Gem, even if Count Magali, who is well-known in the Kingdom of Virginia, comes, he may not have expected it, and it is undoubtedly difficult for Annina to understand.

Just when Nabal and Old John joined forces to fight, killing the city-rushing warriors again and again, and seeing that the other party was about to collapse on all fronts, those originally exhausted Virgian warriors suddenly pounced viciously, and compared to just now, their strength was greater, their speed was faster, and they were more fearless and brave in melee combat.

Zhu Peng stood at the head of the city, and he watched as the red-haired and armored Anina drew the steel sword at her waist and walked up step by step, and in front of her, a Vegia knight held two two-handed battle axes in both hands, running like a cheetah and rushing up.

(Limitbreaker!?Isn't this man the Virginia Knight from last night?)

However, in the battle array, Zhu Peng didn't have time to think about it, he issued an order to strengthen the attack to the arrow towers on both sides, as long as the Virgian warriors on the tower bridge were killed, one or two limit breakers would not affect the overall situation at all.

As for why this limit breaker did not appear in the first siege battle, Zhu Peng didn't have time to think about this.

However, the next development of the situation completely exceeded Zhu Peng's expectations, not only the infantry attack on the siege tower bridge became more and more ferocious, but even the archers of the Riwa car rule below also forgot to rush to the top of the city, and the Virgian knight with a two-handed axe in both hands jumped nearly ten meters away after running onto the wooden bridge, slashed at the wall of the arrow tower, and then actually borrowed the power of the weapon hook to dodge and crashed into the arrow tower...... What a light work this TM is?

When Zhu Pengdan was in the fairyland, he didn't dare to say that he did better than him with two heavy axes.

There are more than thirty Vigia archers on one side of the arrow tower, these people take out their talisman daggers and stab them closely, even if the limit breaker falls into such a pile of people, it is enough to choke and come out alive, martial arts fighting often pays attention to a spatial distance, especially the two-handed heavy axe, if you can't swing it in the pile, such a weapon is not as good as a fist.

However, one of Zhu Peng's arrow towers went out directly after all.

The pressure on the front city defense increased sharply, and Zhu Peng only noticed Anina walking slowly with a sword at this moment, her body seemed to be spreading some kind of ripple-like power outward at three hundred and sixty degrees.

The sudden madness of the Virgian warriors with this kind of appearance and Riwa Che made Zhu Peng, who had the memory of a senior necromancer, instantly flash a legendary-level necromancer mental spell in his mind: Madness!

(Undead spy shadow wizard?impossible, if she is an undead spy shadow wizard and has that kind of strength advantage before, I can't have a chance to turn the tables at all, why should she endure until now to make a move?) Drawing out the long sword, Zhu Peng's mind flickered, but he first issued a military order to retreat to the inner fort for defense.

The legendary spell "Madness" is indeed very fierce, but once the warriors who have undergone the madness of the spell frantically kill all living beings, it is difficult to control before the end of the spell effect, when passing through the inner city, they will spread like water entering the sand, at this time the inner city of Fort Jerber has been fortified and clear, most of the residents have been crowded in the inner fort, the remaining pigs, cows and cattle with them to kill, after the spell is over, these exhausted elite warriors are more valuable than pigs and cows.

After a small number of melee troops remained, the main force went to the inner fort to set up defenses.

When the order is issued, the commander cannot retreat at this time, and if the commander does not retreat, the troops can collapse without chaos, and once the commander flees for his life, the troops will really be defeated and scattered.

Zhu Peng tied a stone and wooden shield in his left hand, drew his short sword with his right hand, and led the most elite melee infantry in the castle with Nabal and Old John, two limit-breakers, to fight and retreat.

"John, go back and command the main force and set up the defensive formation. Listening to Old John's increasingly rapid gasps, and glancing at the bandages that had already begun to bleed out, Zhu Peng gave the order. He took two steps forward, alongside Nabal, to take John Watson's place.

Old John's eyes were red, but he gritted his teeth but didn't talk nonsense, and hurried back to the inner fort to command the main force.

And the "Annina" with red hair and a long sword has completely ignored whether her identity is exposed at this moment, her original blue eyes are burning with raging turquoise flames, her body is like lightning to rush left and right, the strength and speed are almost incredible, the steel sword in her hand shot, slashing a Vigian warrior in two, blood rushing, dripping and cruel.

In the pale black force field, there are illusions of undead and dry bones rising, and even absorbing the surrounding souls and resentments to strengthen the defensive effect of the force field, spreading circle after circle of fear ripples that shatter people's hearts.

Terrifying and ferocious, like a bloodthirsty demon from the lower plane stepping into the earth.

Unfortunately, however, the Necromantic Shadow Wizard's fear spell was undoubtedly misplaced, and as the fear spread, the surrounding warriors were less defeated and more frantically pounced on her to attack.

Even for some reason, the "Madness" she had just performed was not perfect, and a few of the more determined Riwacha warriors regained their consciousness, and they looked at the crazy comrades around them and the commander who was no different from the demon, and roared madly and threw a counterattack at the other party.

As mentioned earlier, the entire world of Zenda has begun to be polluted by the forces of the lower planes due to the weakening of the origin, and many unlucky women have even given birth to demonic children.

There are terrifying and terrible things in many places, but just like the virus invading the human body, the immune tissues of the human body itself will carry out crazy resistance, and this resistance is reflected in the dimensional world, that is, the crazy killing of human beings smuggling life forms from the lower planes.

All the countries of Calradia have issued demon killing orders, and those women who gave birth to demons are burned to death, and even their families and villages will be affected, although it is cruel, but it has also developed the instinct of Calradia warriors and the life of the lower planes.

Not to mention the fear spells, which are not very useful for elite warriors who lick the blood with their blades, at least until their morale collapses.