Chapter 5: The Cat and the Mouse II
"The patrolling cavalry has spotted the Salins light infantry," Burns' adjutant reported to the baron at once, "and according to reconnaissance there are several hundred men, near a hill to the east. ”
"It must be the light infantry mentioned in the intelligence, you took 800 cavalry to surround them up!" Burns was lying on a lying bed that he didn't know where to move, his thick arms each holding a captured civilian girl.
"Hey, feed me this. Burns gestured to the large banana in a plate of fruit that the villagers had brought out.
Adjutant: "There are less than two hundred troops left to guard the general..."
The baron touched his huge belly and said, "Those miscellaneous fish won't even touch my belly, and even if they do, they will eat Lao Tzu's sword first!"
"Yes. ”
By this time, the two horsemen who had killed Caroch had brought the Grand Duke's daughter "Coss" with them, but these two men were obviously aware of Baron Burns's temper, and they first regarded Coss as an ordinary object of suspicion, and asked her to stand with the other captured girls.
"General, we just captured a villager who has a weapon of the regular army of Salins on her body, which is very suspicious. The cavalryman handed the dagger with both hands.
Half of the banana was still outside Burns's mouth, and he kicked the kneeling cavalry down in front of him, "you, don't you see I'm busy?" he made a sound from his throat, and then waved his hand, letting the villager girl next to him pick up the dagger, while he swallowed the back half of the banana in one gulp.
Burns looked at it for a moment and laughed, "Bring that woman here." ”
The cavalryman, covered with ashes, immediately turned and walked towards the group of maidens. Some of the captured girls were crying, and some were praying for the blessing of the gods, but Kesi was the only one who stood quietly and was immediately found.
"These pale green eyes are exactly the same as the Dlamane women I've been with. Burns pushed away the folk girl next to him and stood up.
Kess, whose hands were tied behind her back with hemp rope, just looked straight at Burns, her eyes like a dying mouse, and she didn't want to struggle uselessly under the cat's "play".
Burns walked over slowly, "Your condition doesn't seem to be wrong with the information I received, but they also told me that the Grand Duke's only daughter has a birthmark on her body," he suddenly smiled lewdly, "on the thigh." ”
Although she already knew that she had no way to escape, when she heard the "birthmark", the thought that "everyone closest to her would betray herself" made her feel extremely desperate. She gently put her tongue between her slightly trembling teeth, O daughter of the noble Grand Duke, even if she commits suicide, she must not be insulted and must not fall into the hands of the enemy.
"Wow!" With a scream, the cavalry guard beside Burns had been hit by a throwing axe, his chest was cracked, and blood gushed like a spring.
Aside from the cavalry that had been looted in the town, there were now less than a hundred cavalry left with Burns, and they all dismounted. But there was no time for them to retrieve their horses, for hundreds of Sallins light infantry appeared from behind them, and one of them, a young man in black armor, rushed straight towards Burns.
The dismounted cavalry hurriedly picked up their spears and threw them at the advancing infantry, while the other villagers fled with shouts. Burns grabbed Kesi by the hair and pulled it on his horse.
Although the light infantry advanced quickly, the regular army of the Oguna Empire quickly moved closer from the panic and quickly established a defensive formation. Some of the cavalry went to find the horses and the baron, while the other cavalry immediately chose a vantage point and turned into spearmen, holding their spears high to wait for the enemy, while some of the cavalry standing in the back row killed and wounded the opponent from a distance with throwing spears.
The Sallins light infantry were like targets on the uncovered streets of the town, and the first few who ran were killed by several throwing guns, and only Fidel, relying on the enchanted black armor, rushed to the front of the gun array.
Feder grabbed the spear that had just hit his black armor and threw it back, and a cavalryman who was about to throw a spear was nailed to the ground by the spear that fired back, and died in the chest.
"How can these dog-bred Sahlins be here, not by my troops," Burns cursed as he climbed into the saddle of his tall war horse, wearing heavy golden armor, he needed two soldiers to hold him up on his horse, "You take this woman on my horse and tie her to my back!"
As soon as a few cavalrymen on this side got on their horses and prepared to protect Burns's retreat, Fei De had already rushed in with a sword and ignored the gunshots, and the first few cavalrymen were cut to the ground at once, and other sharp weapons hit the black armor like sticks in the mud, so that they could not hurt him without force, but the color of the black armor began to lighten a little.
"Whew! Lao Tzu is going to kill! How dare you come to Douro!" Kaman was the second to rush into the gun formation, and a two-handed axe slashed down, and a cavalryman who had just raised his iron spear to block was cut in half with his spear. Mixed with the hundreds of Salins light infantry were more than a dozen mercenaries dressed in various armors, and they were unusually fast when they went into battle, and the soldiers on both sides fought together at once.
Seeing that his cavalry had fallen into disarray, Burns immediately commanded a dozen cavalry around him to protect himself and flee from a wide alley, intending to flee from a wide alley to the outside of the town, and when they were about to run out of the wide alley, Evan and a few light infantry were already waiting for them at the mouth of the alley.
Evan: "Put that girl down, and I may be able to hand you over to the royal court, or you'll be left dead here!"
"Don't talk nonsense, you cover me and rush out, don't let those guys touch me!" Burns didn't let his horse slow down, and rushed straight into the light cavalry trying to stop them.
Evan jumped to his feet, his short knife was extremely sharp, and Burns grabbed a cavalryman next to him and threw it at Evan with a muffled snort.
"If you dare not protect me, I will put your wives and children to death!" Although the Imperial cavalry beside them was enveloped in anger, fear still overwhelmed them, because the Empire of Oguna would punish the soldiers who committed the following crimes by the sheriff, so they simply gave up running away and rushed in the direction of Evan and his light infantry.
Although the cavalry did not have heavily armed heavy cavalry, because the Salins light infantry was not good at dealing with cavalry, Evan could not spare it to chase Burns at once. At this time, Fei De had already caught up, "Uncle, wait for me to go and recover the Grand Duke's daughter!" Fei De snatched a war horse, turned over and galloped away.
Evan: "Be careful!"
As soon as Evan's voice caught up with Fidel, the war horse had already run more than ten meters away.
At the same time, to the west of Douro Town, the heavily armored corpses were unstoppable, and the soldiers stationed in Douro Town and the other armed forces were no match for them. However, the "sense of smell" of those living corpse soldiers seems to be particularly poor, as long as the soldiers hide somewhere and do not move, the living corpse soldiers will not notice them.
At this moment, a man came from the grassland outside the town, and on the man's shoulder was a gray-white fur folded ear cat. The priest of the Holy Spirit Mercenary Regiment turned his head to look in the direction where the man was, and although the man and his cat had not yet appeared in the field of vision, the priest could already sense the presence of the other party.
The priest uttered a "ziz" sound, and he immediately recited the incantation aloud, and the corpse soldiers moved backwards and exited the town as if they had received an order. The soldiers of the town did not dare to pursue, and the unwounded went to the aid of the wounded.
The man was about fifty years old, dressed in a very ordinary linen coat, with a thin gray cloth tied around his eyes, covering his blind eyes.
The priest drove most of the living corpse soldiers who had gathered around him in the opposite direction of the blind man, leaving the thirty or so living corpse soldiers in place.
"It's this guy again, and every time something bad happens. The priest waved his hand, and the little priest beside him hurriedly escorted him away.
And the man complained as he walked: "Alas, my body is always sore, my bones are also sore, and I am walking more and more slowly." The folded ear cat on the shoulder swept the owner's ear with its tail to show understanding.
When the man was still about twenty meters away from the living corpse soldier, the cat raised its voice and meowed. The thirty or so living corpse soldiers flew towards them like refugees who had been starving for days. The man took out a mutilated parchment scroll, touched the first protruding incantation on the scroll with his finger, and recited it in his mouth. The sound of the incantation teleported forward, and the corpse soldiers in front of them instantly turned into dust like a pile of sand blown by the wind, and there was no trace of their existence except for the heavy armor that fell to the ground.
The man slowly rolled up the scroll, and the words on the sheepskin scroll also changed, which was very weird.
"I don't know how much time I have left, alas. The blind man touched the cat with his left hand, and the folded ear cat closed its eyes and enjoyed the caress of its owner.