Chapter 142
I was almost filled with anger and shame, and though I knew that it was because of the pride of the Seventh Guard, the feeling of being underestimated burned my heart like a fire, and almost without waiting for my orders, the brethren behind me once again increased their horses, and they even consciously formed two more wedges, and outflanked the cavalry from the left and right. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The other party finally realized that something was wrong, but at this time the sprint had already begun, and they could only bite the bullet to catch up.
In the midst of the wild shouts and shouts, the wedge-shaped formations on the left and right sides actually took a step ahead of me, one left and one right pierced into the opponent's cavalry formation, and there was a burst of broken shields, broken spears, and neighing horses.
After that, my wedge formation finally crashed headlong into the opponent's already somewhat chaotic array, and between the swings of Anduriel, it was unstoppable, and everything in front of me was not much harder than weeds.
Almost without encountering any obstacles, I rushed directly into the center of the opponent's cavalry formation, with me as the cone, and the wedge-shaped formation behind me followed the gap I had slashed out, all the way to the inside.
Wave after wave of sudden stabs, the broad-bladed spear pierced the elite knight's shield on the opposite side, pierced into the opponent's chain armor, and then either picked the opponent off the horse or broke it, and the knights easily pulled out the broad-bladed saber at their waists and slashed at random.
These three wedge-shaped formations pierced directly through the oncoming cavalry formation of the opponent like a comb.
After penetrating, we didn't stop any longer, but converged again, ran out of a glaive formation, and stabbed towards the tail end of the remaining knight queue on the opposite side.
As soon as the battle started here, it was as if a signal had been given to that side, and from afar, I heard the hoarse and rough voice of Tedamir: "Brothers, the general is coming, don't be angry, we're going to kill !!."
Then there was a wave of shouts and killings that suddenly became stronger, and the morale of the Seventh Guard, which had been soft before, was soaring in an instant.
In this instant, we came into contact with the rear end of the opposing team, and the team of more than 500 people was completely wrapped by us.
The cavalry formation, which had been pierced by us, had just stabilized, and had lost nearly a hundred men, and they turned their horses' heads and waited to charge us again, but when they saw such a scene, they immediately rushed at us with a roar of rage, and tried to organize a counter-charge to surround us.
At this moment, there is no coincidence to be taken, and each other is desperate to see whether the five hundred Swadias who are surrounded by our two thousand people in the middle will die first, or whether our thousand brothers who are caught in the middle will die first.
But the situation was obvious, under the crazy onslaught and fighting of the 7th Brigade of the Guard, the morale of the 500 Swadia light cavalry was like a sandcastle piled up on the beach, and it didn't last long before it completely collapsed. Then, the mood of defeat spread like a plague, those Swadias inside wanted to rush out, but the Swadians on the periphery wanted to hide inside, struggling to live for a few more quarters, the array was chaotic first, and the combat effectiveness disappeared directly.
At this moment, they are no longer warriors, they are lambs to the slaughter.
The more than 400 Svadians who were flanking us in the rear also found that they had no way to recover, and the offensive slowed down, and began to observe the retreating path, while I was already looking back at them, as soon as the Svadians in the middle were dead, they would immediately outflank them and eat them.
Counting the time, it was only about ten minutes, which was enough to retreat.
But at this moment, north-northeast, there was a desolate trumpet sound, separated by a thin mist, which could still form a visual obstacle, and this layer of trumpet sound was extremely ethereal.
But at the same time as the sound of the trumpet, a miraculous thing happened, no, rather, a nightmare happened, the five hundred Svadians who had been in the middle of the complete chaos and collapse suddenly stopped the confusion, and they also burst out at this moment with earth-shattering shouts and fighting spirits, and desperately turned their heads to pounce on the blades and blades of our spears, not minding the spears piercing their chests, and the hundreds of Svadia light horsemen who were caught in the rear also stormed at the same time, and began to attack like crazy and without any damage, and for a time our pressure suddenly increased。
A bad feeling flashed through my mind at once, and I swung my sword to slash down a Swadian who had one of his arms cut off and was still stubbornly spurting blood at me, and glanced up at the direction from which the sound of the horn had come.
All I could see was, behind that mist, a huge banner with a glittering golden sword painted on it.
At the same time, behind him and due north, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled at the same time, like a muffled thunder rolling across the sky on a dry day, and the earth began to tremble.
Not only the earth, but each of us began to tremble, but what I saw in the eyes of my brethren was horror and panic, and in the eyes of the bloodied Swadians, there was a beastly exultation.
Knights of the Holy Sword!
I suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness. Once upon a time, the Knights of the Holy Sword has been hidden under the brilliance of the two legendary weapons of the Free Knights and the Heroic Fighters, although the victorious Gaon created the Holy Sword Knights with the full support of Harlaus and personally took charge of the overall situation, but compared to thirty years ago, the close comrades-in-arms who fought side by side with the Holy King Leon, the Templar Aryne and the Arbitration Knight Fatis, Gaon's aura is not very dazzling, and even, he can almost only be regarded as a few generals with military geniuses under the command of the Holy King at that time.
Therefore, almost everyone who knows that period of history does not regard Gaon as an almost omniscient and all-powerful savior, and of course, the legends about him, although most of them are true cases, once they are told by the bard, they become like a chivalric novel.
That's why I knew I was already being targeted by Gaon, and I still had the illusion of a time difference, fantasizing that I could eat this group of light cavalry before he arrived. And according to the prestige of Gaon in the legend, I should have given up the Seventh Guard at that time, turned around and fled.
Now, I was being watched by Gaon, two whole teams, two thousand heavy cavalry were outflanking in a pincer pattern, one behind the other, and at this moment we were completely entangled in this dying and crazy light horse, and could not get out. In fact, this was the tactic I had intended to use, to have the Seventh Guards entangle the light cavalry, and we tail them, but now it has been used by Gaon with great skill.
In the few seconds I was stunned, just under the dying throes of this light horse of less than a thousand men, the morale of our two thousand black knights was already showing signs of collapse.
I looked up at the sky and saw two falcons hovering overhead, which had now regained its clarity, and the night owl was crouching on my shoulder, flapping its wings, as if threatening the air.
There is only one possibility to be able to appear in front of us as quickly as Gaon, while he pursues the Haojie Fighters, his eyes have never relaxed his surveillance of us, and he has always regarded our existence as a variable that may affect the overall situation, and has steadily written it into his plan, maybe his pursuit route was chosen at the midpoint of our escape and the evacuation route of the Haojie Fighters, and he maintained some way of keeping in touch with Tispordin, so he should have gotten the news as soon as we attacked Tispordin, and the large army also moved towards our route。
From this point, it can be seen that Gaon is actually a guy who strives to be perfect in both the big picture and the details, and he hates variables so much that he firmly strangles all possible variables in the cradle.
That's exactly what I'm missing, in fact, all the decisions I've made since my debut have been based on big gambles, including escaping from Gaon last night. But the luck of a big gamble can be no more, especially in the face of such a perfectionist, and my luck will go straight down.
I came to my senses, swung my sword and slashed through one of the Svadia light riders standing in my way, and led the way to the gap in front of the pincer attack round of the two heavy riders, and the black knights behind me gave up the fight against the light horsemen, spread their hooves and followed behind me.
The two heavy cavalry teams immediately changed their tactics, from outflanking to left and right, gradually moving closer to the middle, trying to squeeze us.
But in terms of speed, we are actually on the verge of escaping, and even if we finally fall below, there will still be hundreds of Black Flags crushed and crushed by the two heavy cavalry, but at least the large army has escaped.
But as soon as I had the idea of luck, a low but long mound suddenly appeared in front of me, only about two or three meters high, and as soon as I climbed over the mound, I felt like I had fallen into an ice hole.
Behind the mound were at least three thousand well-armoured halberds, the sharp and heavy halberds already raised high, and when we arrived, they were broken with an axe.
In addition, in addition to the Euphorbia in front of them, there were two teams of crossbowmen that quickly extended from behind the Euphorbia to both sides, forming a standard wing formation, and we were in the center of the crossfire of this wing array.
Go down in flames!
I obediently grabbed the reins of the horse, and the horses stood up, still foaming helplessly, and their hooves were anxiously scraping mud on the grass, and the knights behind me turned over the hills one after another, making a series of gasping sounds, and the neighing of the horses stopped suddenly.
The idiot also saw that under the monitoring of the crossbowmen wing arrays on both sides, we were still alive, gasping for breath until now, which was obviously the other party's idea of being captured. In this case, if you can live one more moment, why fight with your life?
Behind the Euphorbia's blocking array, there was a somewhat dilapidated carriage, pulling the carriage was a thin but bright-eyed yellow horse, the four wheels of the carriage were already very worn, and the black paint on the carriage had peeled off a lot, but it was painted with a golden sword, just stopping there, it could already give people an indescribable sense of oppression.
A falcon suddenly flapped its wings and flew into the carriage, and then a series of old coughs came from inside, and it took a long time before it gradually subsided.
Emmons ...... The new Commander of the Fourth Legion of the Dark Order, the head of the Assassination Division of the Dark Inquisition...... Ahem...... The guy who just made a mess of Parabun the other day...... Ahem, is it such a young man?" suddenly floated out of the carriage.
I frowned, if it was someone from the Order, of course he knew about my situation, but this person, obviously a member of the Holy Sword Knights, had never been masked, and he actually knew so much, it seemed that the spy was really from Swadia.
But why did he send pigeons to the north?
I thought as I nodded and said, "That's right, I'm Emmons, I don't know who you are?"
"Ahem...... A hand suddenly stretched out, gently pushed open the carriage door, through a layer of cloth curtains, and the voice inside said slowly: "Me? ”
I immediately felt the urge to pull out my throwing knife and shoot Gaang, but looking at my surroundings, I still frantically forced myself to suppress this terrible temptation. I looked at him coldly, and my voice became hoarse unconsciously: "Gaang! You are Gaang?!"
The curtain shook, and the voice said slowly, "Your voice has changed...... You've heard my name, and if I'm not mistaken, ahem, there must be a weapon or technique in your hand that can kill me in an instant, like, ahem, you just knocked down Leo's throwing knife in Tesportin, right? ”
Yes, if I were an assassin and the purpose of survival was to kill Gaang, then I would not hesitate to do so, but I am not such a simple consumable, I have my own dreams, my own hopes, and it is not worth it in any way to destroy myself and the two thousand brothers behind me in order to be quick and fast.
I took a few deep breaths and forced my mind to spin at high speed, and in the presence of such a wise man as Gaon, I should have shown at least the self-esteem that could match.
"That's right, the flying knife in my hand, as long as you get rid of it, you will definitely die. I nodded affirmatively.
The curtain shook a few more times, and he said, "But you haven't made a move yet, you are trying to find a way to live for yourself, right?" Ahem, indeed, it would be a pity for a smart man like you to bury an old man like me. Ahem. ”
I shook my head: "You are wrong, the reason why I didn't make a move is not because I am afraid of death, but because I think that a wise man like you would die under the assassination would be a pity." If someone like you can't overcome you in the process of fighting wits, what is the point of being a human being?"
The curtain fell silent, like a vast lake.
Suddenly, another falcon fluttered into the carriage, and the curtain shook violently.
"You're right, ahem, Emmons, it looks like I've been underestimating you before, and still is. Since you also said that a wise man should die in stratagem, ahem, and not under the sword. So in this way, I will give you two choices, ahem, you give up the faith of the Dark Order and be loyal to me, ahem, I guarantee that you will not only have no worries about your life, but also have a platform to play your value, how about it?"
I looked back at the brothers behind me, and saw a flash of horror and confusion in their eyes, and I smiled and said, "Gaang, such a clumsy counter-plot is meaningless...... You should be able to tell who I ammons. ”
The old man laughed, and then the man in the curtain said, "I think so...... Ahem, then, the second option, you kill yourself by swinging your sword now, and I will let your men go. How about two thousand lives for one life?"
This time, I didn't even have to look back to hear the heavy gasps of the soldiers behind me, and suddenly Tydamia roared: "General, don't listen to that old fellow, let's fight, we will die together!"
I did not answer them, but my eyes were fixed on the carriage, which, if I remember correctly, did not fly out from the moment the falcon flew in.
"Is there something happening to you now? So you have to finish everything here as quickly as possible and rush back to deal with it?" I suddenly asked, "If that's the case, I advise you not to try, I won't choose the two choices you give, and it will only be the result of a desperate battle in the end." Although you have a lot of people, you can't solve us for a while. No matter what you're going to deal with, I'm afraid it's too late. ”
The curtain suddenly trembled, and a few seconds later, an old laugh came from the carriage: "That's right...... Emmons, you are indeed as I have been told, ahem, how can you say it? Know-your-eye, ahem, maybe, give you a little more time, and you'll grow to the point where even I can't control it. ”
Then, there was a series of coughs, "You guessed it right, it doesn't hurt to tell you about this." Just now, the heroic fighter group went and returned, cough cough, is attacking Tispordin, cough cough, if this is the case, it will be fine, but the leader is no longer the two people yesterday, but, cough cough...... Old G!"
"Old G!" I cried out, almost getting up from my horse.
"Yes, that heir of the Holy King, ahem, but how can the heir of the Holy King be so stinky, ahem, stinky boy...... As you said, I can't get rid of you for a while, and you don't want to be loyal to me or die, then, ahem, I can only let you go, but, you have to remember, ahem, this is the last chance I give you, ahem, if next time, you are caught by me again, ahem, I won't care so much, this troubled world, ahem, you don't need two wise men!"
As soon as Gaon finished speaking, the halberders who stood in front of us seemed to have received orders at the same time, and neatly moved out of the way to the left and right, and I didn't hesitate much, and as soon as I knocked the horse's belly, I passed through the carriage first, and when I passed the carriage, I suddenly turned my head to the series of coughs in the carriage and said, "Are you sure it's really the Haojie Fighters?
The coughing stopped abruptly, but I was already clamping my legs, and the steed sped up angrily, and with my guards, galloped out of the gap with lightning speed.
Behind them, Gaon's team did not chase after them until they had disappeared below the horizon and were no longer visible.