Chapter 3: Crossing, Deathfjord! (Part II)
The rain quickly washed away the blood on the ground, but the smell of killing lingered around the hut, and the two civilians in the hut were attacked to the point, and their vital signs were completely gone. Ron dragged all the bodies out of the hut.
To Ron's surprise, there was a half-bitten flatbread next to the bed in the wooden house, and some parts were even stained red with blood, but at this moment, Ron was not picky and thin, and sat down slowly against the wall, Ron tore the flatbread into small pieces, put them in his mouth and chewed them one by one. As the whole pie was swallowed into his stomach, Ron's spirit was also lifted a lot.
When people are really hungry, even if it is a dry flatbread, it is an absolute delicacy, and abundant physical strength is the most basic guarantee for surviving on the battlefield, and this food, at least can ensure that Ron has enough physical strength to spend the first night in another world.
Ron suddenly ran up to the two soldiers who were dragged out of the house, reached out and fumbled among their clothes, and soon Ron found what he needed.
"Duchy of Beru, Second Legion?" With the help of the fire in the room, Ron quickly read the information on the card, in Ron's cognition, even in the era of cold weapons, there should be something similar to identification on the soldier's body.
"It seems that this Duchy of Belu should be at war with the Duchy of Noah here. Ron took a deep breath, traveling back to the era of war, which was not a good thing in itself, and what was even more uncomfortable was that he was now blinded and had no information, how the war was going, the geographical location of the city, etc.
Not to mention anything else, I don't even have a map of this world in my hands.
......
A hint of fish belly white slowly appeared in the eastern sky, and the city once again ushered in a new dawn.
The heavy rain that lasted all night finally stopped. Ron hid in an abandoned cabin, his back against the cold wall, and rested with his eyes closed. The energy brought by the half piece of bread seemed to be lost from his body little by little. If it weren't for my physical fitness, a heavy rain last night would have been enough for me to catch a cold.
Along the way, Ron only met a soldier of the Duchy of Beru, and unsurprisingly, this soldier also died under Ron's knife, I have to say that these soldiers of the Duchy of Belu are indeed not very good in combat.
However, Ron did not encounter a large number of Beru soldiers or the troops of the Duchy of Noah, and at night Hamp City was silent as if there had been no battle.
Ron had a hunch that it was like the calm before the storm. By daybreak, a new storm will surely fall on the city of Hamp, which is about to fall apart.
Suddenly, the tip of Ron's nose twitched, and instinctively, subconsciously, Ron felt a hint of danger.
"Boom, boom!"
Ron opened his eyes suddenly, and there was a dull whistling sound in the distant sky, and then, like a muffled thunder in spring, a wooden house not far from Ron's side was suddenly smashed by falling stones, and the planks and stones fell into the puddle of water, making a loud dull sound.
Ron jumped out of the window with a single leap, and he knew very well that the Duchy of Beru had once again sounded the horn of attack.
In the era of cold weapons, this kind of catapult was a big killer to destroy the city defense, for the enemy defenders hiding in the city, and of course the unarmed civilians, the catapult threw huge stones into the city like a spell.
The adrenaline was rushing and Ron's nerves were tense, and at this time, he really felt the insignificance of manpower on the battlefield.
In the darkness before dawn, this catapult is even more terrifying than a cannon, and by the time the black shadow of the boulder enters the human field of vision, it is too late to dodge. Those who were unfortunate enough to be hit by a stone could not even scream, and were smashed into meat sauce.
"Bump!"
A huge stone fell in a puddle not far from Ron's side, and the waves of water set off instantly washed Ron's whole body soaked, Ron wiped the dirty water in front of his eyes, and looked around, in just a few minutes, many houses in the surrounding streets had been smashed into ruins by stones.
At this time, no one will be stupid enough to hide in the house, not seeing the trajectory of the boulder's flight, and staying in the house can only give their lives to God.
Ron hid behind the rocks that had fallen in the puddle before, his chest rising and falling violently like bellows, this kind of war hell that only appeared in books and film and television works in his previous life was now being staged alive in front of him, and the level of blood and cruelty was even more than that.
The catapult attack, which lasted for nearly ten minutes, suddenly stopped, and as far as Ron could see, nine out of ten houses had been destroyed by boulders, Ron didn't know how many people were smashed into powder in this attack, but such a Hamp City, it would take a huge amount of time to recover.
"Huh?"
Ron noticed that behind the ruins of the house in front of him to the left, several unarmed civilians slowly leaned out from behind the bunker. To be able to survive the bombardment of the boulders, the luck of these people is really good.
"Whoosh!"
Just when Ron was just breathing a sigh of relief, a series of sharp breaking sounds sounded in the same place as the sound of the boulder projection just now, thousands of crossbow arrows, dense black spots, like raindrops, poured down towards Hamp City, which was like a lamb to be slaughtered without the cover of houses.
A few civilians who had just crawled out of the ruins of their houses were instantly stabbed by arrows, these heavy and sharp crossbow arrows, coupled with the acceleration of gravity after falling at great speed, could almost nail people to the ground entirely, and in a few breaths, the bodies that were shot down were full of clusters of arrows.
Ron's stomach churned, he vomited a puff of sour water, his throat ached, and some of the arrows fell to the ground not far in front of him, and the arrows sank deep into the ground. Some arrows hit the boulder behind him, and the loud knocking sound made Ron's eardrums ache faintly.
Some houses were lucky enough to escape the bombardment of the boulders, but they could not withstand the attack of the rain of arrows and fell down. Even so, these falling arrows will still shoot through the gaps in the planks. Soon a red stream of blood flowed out of the pile of wooden planks.
Dawn gradually came, but the city of Hamp was almost turned into a living hell under the constant onslaught of the Belu army.