Chapter Ninety-Seven: Fight to the Death
Fei De immediately scattered his men and went around the backs of the archers to carry out a sneak attack. And he himself found a higher place and observed the movement below.
He found that the ambushed Marcus Matthews brothers had realized that they were surrounded by those archers, and they immediately rushed in the direction of the archer mercenaries with their own men, and the sword and shield mercenaries who were used as bait also realized that they were being used as bait, and many of them immediately turned back and fought back, unwilling to be sold and counted the money for them.
The battle was chaotic, with the tripartite men and horses in a scuffle, and as some of the archers were forced to drop their torches, the scene became dark, and from a distance it looked like a large group of people dancing in the night.
Fei De began to wonder about the possibility that the reason why Alain removed the defensive ring of the inner city and brought them here instead to let his men fight with other mercenaries was so that more mercenaries of the Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment would die in this civil war, so that few people would know about his betrayal of Andre. After all, it was too clumsy tactic to have archer mercenaries melee with other mercenaries in such a dimly lit environment.
Although the archers were all in formation, and the first batch of mercenaries who rushed towards them were all hit by more than a dozen arrows before they fell, the sword and shield mercenaries and two-handed swordsmen were extremely brave, and they rushed to the front of the archers at once, and fought each other hand-to-hand. Those archers were no match for Marcus and Matthews, who could slash down three or four enemies with a single sweep of Marcus' golden hammer.
At the same time, Fei De noticed that a large number of pikemen were approaching from the open street in the distance, but he could not see the number of people because his vision was too dim.
Looking around, there was no trace of Alain, as if the other party did not exist in this pool castle.
Just as the spearmen joined the melee, Bisluvis' squad rushed over, but compared to the black pikemen, they were like a small handful of black sesame seeds sprinkled on a pot of rice, and only a little bit could be seen.
At this time, Fei De saw on the roof that most of the mercenaries of the spear squadron had already entered the battlefield, and only a small group of people were still watching outside, and these spear mercenaries were obviously protecting someone.
Fidel slowly moved in that direction, and the closer he got there, the more he noticed that the man who was surrounded was wearing a different armor, and it seemed that it was indeed very likely to be Alain.
He fused with the night and slowly walked behind the dozen or so spear mercenaries.
Feder held the "silence" in both hands, and when he stabbed the slashing sword at the man in full scale armor, an arrow suddenly shot from the left side, and the arrow immediately burst open, and dozens of spikes flew in front of Feder in an instant.
Fidel's reaction was also extremely fast, he jumped backwards, dodging the spikes that shot at him, although a few more spikes hit the black plate armor on Fid's body, but they did no damage, and the spikes continued to fly forward until they were stuck in the bodies of the three spear mercenaries before stopping.
"Ahh
The group of mercenaries immediately turned around with torches, and at once surrounded Fidel. The man who was being protected by the spear mercenary also turned to look at Fidel.
"Yo, it's you, it seems that your life is really hard. "This man in gray scale armor is none other than Julian, the squadron leader of the spearman squadron, who did not expect that he had already come from Disha Castle to Pool Castle.
Fed's hands clenched into silence, his eyes fixed on Julian, but he kept an eye out for the direction of the poisoned arrow. Sure enough, Alain stepped out of the shadows and stood beside Julian.
"That's right, he's hard," Alain said, turning the enchanted bow back on his back, his arms crossed over his chest, and looking at Fidel with grim eyes, "I expected him to surprise us at night, that's why you have all the spearmen here." As Alain spoke, Fidel saw more pikemen coming from all over the Pool Castle, his own raid plan had failed, and he believed that the situation on Bithluvis's side would also take a turn for the worse.
Julian sneered and said, "Do you still want to get rid of the leader first, as before?" he said as he pointed at himself with his index finger, and then at Alain beside him, "But don't you forget, we used to work with you, can this little thing still hide from Alain's eyes?"
Seeing that he was deeply surrounded, his original plan had failed, and now he could only fight to the death. He clenched his lip with his teeth, remembering all the swordsmanship that his father and Uncle Evan had taught him. Fed's left foot took a slight step forward, the tip of the slashing sword pressed against the ground, and he assumed a defensive posture.
Julian gently pressed Alain, who was just about to take out the enchanted bow, "I don't need you to make a move, I'll do it." He drew his dagger from his waist and tossed it in both hands as if juggling.
When the squadron leader's subordinates saw that their boss was going into battle in person, they all gave way to an open space and shouted loudly, not paying attention to Fei De at all. After all, as a mercenary who collects money to kill people, it is always better to be on others than on yourself.
And Feder realizes that if he can't do it quickly, it won't help to kill Julian and Alain - Bisluvis and his men will die sooner or later.
Feder slashed at his opponent's neck with a backhand, and Julian threw the dagger in his left hand, his upper body shrinking back, but his scales were still "silenced" and there was a piercing metal crash. Feder didn't give the other man a chance to breathe, he swung his sword and stabbed him in the head, and Julian had to keep protecting his face with his short sword. Just when Julian kept retreating, the spear squadron leader suddenly raised his foot and swept towards Fidel's hand, Fidel raised his arm guard to block, but he didn't expect Julian to hide a sharp blade in his shoe, from the position of the arm guard to the chain glove, and the part of Feid's wrist that was not covered by armor was immediately cut with deep blood marks, but fortunately it did not hurt the muscles and bones.
"Oh, so your enchanted armor can't be stopped?" Julian jumped on the spot a few times, smiling crookedly, showing off the blade under his feet, "But don't worry, my shoe knife is not poisonous, I'm going to cut your throat with my own hands!" Julian glanced at Alain behind him, but Alain didn't respond.
Fed glanced at it and saw that the weapon hidden under his feet was not iron or steel, but something like a stone, but it was so sharp that he didn't notice the pain except for a chill when it cut through his skin. Feder continued to move forward with his sword in both hands, while Julian used the short sword in his hand to fend off Fed's attack, and used the sharp blade under his feet to attack Fed's joints - those parts are the weakest parts of the whole body plate armor, and it seems that Julian has also studied Fed.
But just as Julian raised his leg again, Fidel freed up a hand and grabbed the opponent's ankle fiercely. Julian's leg became paralyzed in an instant, and he almost lost his balance and fell to his side. Before his men could react, Alain had already rushed forward, snatching a spearman-type moon shield from one of the spearmen, trying to block the sword that Fidel was about to slash downward.
Fidel waited for this opportunity, and instead of letting go of the hand holding Julian's ankle, he pulled Julian forward, and the "silence" on his right hand did not go down, but slashed into Julian's upper body.
Although his right leg was caught in mid-air by Fidel, Julian immediately fell backwards and fell to the ground, and the real target of Fidel's sword was Alain, who was standing next to Julian.
Alain jerked his head sideways and lowered his head, and although his reaction was very fast, the sword in Fidel's hand still slashed one of Alain's ears and the ebony enchanted bow behind him, and the longbow was instantly cut off with a crisp cracking sound.
Seeing their boss knocked to the ground, the spear mercenaries also recovered from their surprise, and immediately rushed up with spears and stabbed Fidel's body. Feder wanted to deal another fatal blow, but Julian, who was lying on the ground, aimed his short sword at his eye and threw it. After dodging the flying daggers, he had to let go of Julian's left hand that was gripping Julian's ankle and stepped back, dodging the spears that came up from the besieging one.
Alain, who had an ear injury, also stood up with Julian's support.
"Kill him at once!" Julian cried out in exasperation.
Marcus rushed from nowhere, and shouted to Fidel, "Retreat!
As soon as Fidel heard this, his mind immediately panicked, and he knew that there was no way to kill Alain and Julian now, so he had to use his sword to repel a few spearmen in front of him, and then retreat with Marcus.
As Fed and Marcus ran towards the inner city, Marcus said beside him, "Sure enough, to lure us out." He briefly talked about the battle situation on his side just now, the more than 300 people on his side and the more than 200 sword and shield mercenaries who had surrendered side by side to counterattack those rebels, although his own people were good at hand-to-hand combat, but the number of opponents was too much, so both sides lost a lot of people. When Bithluvis arrived, he told them the bad news that there was a spear mercenary who had taken advantage of the fact that everyone had left the inner city and went straight to the hall of the lord, trying to cut off their back road.
When Fidel heard this, he realized that the Marcus brothers and Bithluvis had always thought that they still had a way out, and they had no consciousness of fighting against the water.
"It's good that Squadron Leader Sluvis has set up some mercenaries to guard the city gates when he left the inner city, and we can only escape back to the inner city now!" Marcus said, gasping for air.
"But what's the use of that, staying there is a dead end!"
"No, Squadron Leader Bisluvis has already found several crows, he tied the pre-written letter to the crow's leg and sent it in the direction of Oga Castle, if lucky"
Only then did Fidel understand what Bithluvis meant, and if it was too late, Greif would arrive with reinforcements.