Chapter 257: Ballista

Although the sun was warm, Lanes's body was very cold at this time. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info his heart is like falling into a cold ice cave.

"Watch out for the ballista!" a terrible shout came from the front of the group, "Lie down! Lie down!" Several squad leaders who had seen the immense power of this weapon hurriedly shouted. Some of the clever soldiers immediately fell to the ground when they heard the captain's shouts. Most of the remaining soldiers were a little unclear. Most of them were the lord's private soldiers, and they had never been on the battlefield of the border, and they had never seen the power of this weapon. For a while, I couldn't react.

However, Catherine won't give them a chance to react, "Release!" Catherine swung down with one hand, and with a whoosh, hundreds of huge crossbow arrows swept towards the chaotic Raines' troops.

Puff, puff, a series of arrows piercing flesh sounded, and many soldiers lined up in dense groups ready to charge became the best targets for the ballista. A crossbow bolt with tremendous power could pierce a dozen soldiers standing together in a single stroke. And being shot by such a huge crossbow arrow will basically leave a blood hole the size of a bowl on the body, and with this kind of injury, even if you don't die on the spot, you will basically fall to the ground and be slaughtered.

There is basically no way to treat this kind of injury except for some high-level divine techniques for healing, but high-level divine techniques are not enough within the church, and it is rare to treat people outside the church, not to mention that these are soldiers who are regarded by the state as rebels. Therefore, these people are basically indistinguishable from dead people.

"Shoot the arrows. Catherine continued to wave her arms, and the archers in the formation began to shoot their arrows. Although the huge ballista can only be used once on the battlefield at a time due to the trouble of loading arrows, there are still a large number of archers in her military formation, which is just right to shoot these chaotic enemy camps.

Bursts of arrows rained down from the sky, and many of the soldiers who had scattered to avoid the ballista fire showed a look of despair in the face of the dense rain of arrows falling from the sky.

The soldiers with shields were better, they were able to use their shields to fend off one or two, while the remaining pikemen, the halberders, were unlucky, and could only wave their spears helplessly in an attempt to knock down the arrows that came at them.

Some of them succeeded, while most of the rest failed, and the result of failure was being shot as a hedgehog.

"The whole army charged. Catherine drew the sword at her waist and swung forward.

"Roar!" the pikemen standing in the middle of the formation began to slowly push the flat end of the spear forward in the array, and the swordsmen armed with swords and shields struck from the flanks of the pikemen and quickly circled the flank of Rains's team, and at this moment from outside the palace rushed in an army, these troops were dressed in silver armor, riding white horses under their crotch, and the knights led by knights holding a yellow pennant with a stag's head embroidered on the banner, were preparing to outflank the rebels from behind.

Seeing this formation, Lines closed his eyes in despair. He knew that the operation had been a complete failure. Even the cavalry of Duke Bucks has arrived, so they have absolutely no hope of survival.

You must know that the Duke of Bucks is a die-hard loyalist of the Catherine royal family, when Queen Catherine initially took power, it was when Erathia was in turmoil and the country was in turmoil, if it wasn't for the Duke of Bucks to protect Queen Catherine, then the current Erathia doesn't know what kind of situation it is.

And the appearance of Duke Buck here shows that his actions have failed completely, at this moment, he no longer expects that he can get out of this layer of encirclement, he only hopes that those children of those families who are carrying out operations on the periphery will have a chance to escape. Incognito, passing on the family, although there is little hope.

Horses neighed, soldiers shouted, swords flashed, flags flew. In just half a day, a long-planned rebellion was extinguished by Catherine, who had already made a targeted arrangement.

Although the main rebels have been wiped out, there is still a lot of work left to deal with, so the summer festival can only be held on a different day. At this time, the streets and alleys of the royal capital were filled with teams of soldiers. The soldiers divided into small teams and began to search for the rebels from house to house, arresting all the nobles who were implicated, and then proceeding slowly when the matter of screening had subsided.

And some of the underworld forces entrenched in the royal capital have also suffered a devastating blow, and they are usually unable to mobilize troops to eliminate these underworld forces because of the obstruction of some nobles with ulterior purposes. Now with this matter, everything is naturally different, and it is completely possible to arrest all of them in the name of the rebels, and if they resist, they will be killed directly. Evidence is not needed at all.

And those nobles who usually obstruct them stayed at home honestly and did not dare to say a word. They all know that the current queen is angry, if she says anything now, she will definitely be arrested in the name of the rebel party, and those lords of the noble council will not care about you at all, who are you stupid?

Therefore, with everyone's acquiescence, Queen Catherine washed the entire royal capital in blood, completely uprooted most of the opposition forces, and only a few high-ranking nobles remained there, because there was really no direct evidence and the fear that the remaining nobles would unite to rebel and cause turmoil in the country.

After this incident, Catherine completely took the royal capital of Savawrinka into her own hands.

Despite the upheaval outside, these things had nothing to do with Kennan, who still lived in the mansion that originally belonged to the Purple Flower family, but the cooks and servants were improvised from the palace. Kenan didn't know where the original servants and cooks had gone.

But even if you know about it, you won't care, because none of this has anything to do with him. At this time, Kenan was sitting in the courtyard, lying on a wicker chair and drinking herbal tea while instructing Jamila in swordsmanship. Life is very comfortable.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still plans to be carried out, Kennan even thought it would be nice to live like this forever.

However, leisure time is always short, Catherine finally took care of the follow-up things, and naturally began to reward these meritorious courtiers, and among these people, the greatest credit is naturally Kennan, whether it is exposing the plot of the rebellion or stealing the plan of the rebellion, or killing the opponent's gold-level master, turning the tide of the battle, these things are all indispensable, according to these credits, Kennan has no problem getting an earl to mix in the royal capital.

However, staying in the royal capital was not in line with Kennan's plan, so Kenan politely rejected the offer and chose a small city that had been confiscated because of his involvement in the rebellion.