Chapter 265 Details and Invitation to Battle

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The whereabouts of the chief knight of the family, the governor of the island of Hilowas, Shred, are unknown......

The whereabouts of Jim, the silver knight of the family and the deputy commander of the guard battalion, are unknown......

The whereabouts of the Silver Knight of the family, the captain of the 3rd Guards Battalion, Benjamin, Rafat, Orison, and Klimbo are unknown.

The whereabouts of the family's Silver Knight, Captain Heritz, the Guards Battalion, are unknown.

The whereabouts of Sheriff Christon, the sheriff of Shiratori on Hilowas Island, Mike the old accountant, and Hicked the clerk are unknown.

In addition, the captains of the garrisons in the seven villages of Shilovas Island, which were served by retired veterans of the family, have all lost contact, and it should be more than auspicious depending on the situation.

Among those confirmed to have fallen into the hands of the enemy are Torn, the stormtrooper leader of the First Fleet of the Sea Legion, and Daddy Hugo, the mayor of White Bird Town.

Among the dead were:

Victor, the captain of the garrison of Shiratori on the island of Hilowas, and Hart the Elder, the tax collector, were killed for resisting while organizing the evacuation of the residents of Shiratori Town.

The Silver Knight of the Family, Captain Joseph of the 3rd Guards Battalion, and Donovan died heroically while supporting White Bird Town.

The Silver Knight of the Family, the captain of the Guard Battalion, Morder, died heroically on the way from the village of Farama to Sailfish Ridge to cover the rear of the Centaur Detachment.

The Silver Knight of the Family, Deputy Commander of the Sea Legion, North, was killed in battle at sea.

Silver Knight of the family, captain of the 1st and 2nd fleets of the Sea Legion, Lorraine, Persia, Trog, Wallett, Moog...... and seventeen others died at sea.

In addition, more than 3,700 captains and sailors were killed and missing, and more than 3,700 captains and sailors were captured, and 38 ships were lost. More than half of the 6,000 men and 59 ships of the maritime regiment arranged on Hilois Island were basically reimbursed, and the losses were extremely heavy.

Only four of the 500-strong garrison of White Bird Town ran out, and it can be said that the entire army was wiped out. The 3,000-strong 3rd Guards Battalion returned with only more than 400 remnants, which is no longer indescribable. Only the two guard brigades of Wanghai Manor had more than 1,000 people, and they withdrew more than 400 people, and they still maintained their establishment......

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Lorlist's hands were trembling, and the statistical list handed over by Supervisor Hansk seemed to weigh more than a thousand pounds, and he was overwhelmed, Fat Smith's whereabouts were unknown, and Jim's whereabouts were unknown......

Reluctantly supporting himself, Lorist sat down slowly: "Tell me, why are the losses so heavy, is the enemy's combat power very strong?"

"My lord, it's my incompetence......" Josk stepped forward.

Lorist waved his hand: "No, it has nothing to do with you, there is no better subordinate than you." What I want to know is, why did our clan forces lose so much after being attacked, is it that the enemy is very strong in combat?"

Josk shook his head: "My lord, the enemy is a rabble. It's just, it's just that the enemy has come with several great sword masters......"

"How many of them are there?" asked Lorlist.

"It's said seven, but there are four or five of them...... Joske recalled, "I was with Lord Sredder when I received the message from Lord Farea, and we were in Shiratori at the time. Lord Sredder informed the garrison of Shiratori to prepare for the enemy, and at the same time sent someone to order the third battalion of the guards to rush to Shiratori to reinforce the town.

The first few ships of the enemy stormed the dock, and the hundreds of men who came down were intercepted by the garrison. But there were many ships behind them, and more and more enemies disembarked and swarmed in, and I shot two gold-tier enemies and a dozen silver-rank ones, and a great swordsman appeared, and he slashed Victor with a sword, and Victor's head fell in front of me.

I knew that I was being targeted by that great swordsman, and I was an archer who could not compete with that great swordsman in close combat, so I could only fight and retreat, and I was soon separated from Lord Schredder. When I came back from a circle and left the great swordsman behind, I found that Shiratori Town had been overrun by those enemies. In desperation, I had no choice but to retreat to Sailfish Ridge to organize the remaining sailors to rely on the steep mountain terrain for defensive arrangements, and later received the remaining breakout troops from the 3rd Guards Battalion and the 2nd Guards Brigade that broke through from the village of Farama, and finally were picked up by Lord Sambarwood......"

This concludes Joske's account, followed by Governor Hansk.

"After the Knight of Josk led away that great sword master, the garrison of White Bird Town was unable to withstand those ferocious enemies at all, and suffered heavy casualties. At the critical moment, the Knight of Pat arrived with the 3rd Guards Battalion and drove the enemy back at once. Immediately after that, Knight Jim with a guard of five hundred men also arrived to reinforce us, and we immediately gained the upper hand.

At that time, Lord Sredder was in command of the battle at the town office, and thought that the arrival of our reinforcements would drive the enemy out of Shiratori Town, but in fact, the enemy was not our opponent at all, and we were quickly defeated. Seeing that we could drive the enemy out of the town, more than a hundred large ocean-going merchant ships came from behind, and many enemies came down to attack us.

This group of enemies is more powerful than those defeated by us, they have many silver and gold ranks, and there are two great sword masters. The Guards Battalion suffered heavy losses at once, with nearly a thousand casualties, and it was at this time that the first captain of the 3rd Guards Battalion, Joseph, and the fourth captain, Donovan, were killed in battle.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lord Schrader ordered us to organize the retreat of the inhabitants of Shiratori to the village of Farama as soon as possible, and he himself decided to go to the camp and mobilize the young and strong laborers to take up arms and drive the pirates out to sea. At the time, we all thought that these were pirates, but no one thought that they were slave traders and slave catchers from the kingdom of Haneyabada.

Master Schrader hurried away with Knight Jim and more than twenty guards, and since then we have not known the whereabouts of Lord Sredder and Knight Jim. At this time, several soldiers on the front line carried back the seriously injured and unconscious Knight Pat, and I happened to have a few bottles of healing potion with me, so I hurriedly filled him with a bottle, and then prepared the carriage and withdrew to the village of Farama with Pat.

There were more than 300 soldiers of the 3rd Guards Battalion who followed us to the village of Farama, and more than 100 of the guards, all of whom were wounded. With the addition of the 6th Logistics Baggage Brigade that remained in the village of Farama, we have less than a thousand people to defend. There were also more than 1,000 residents of Shiratori Town, all women and children, who had evacuated with us to the village of Farama, and they told me that the mayor of the town, Daddy Hugo, had been captured by the enemy after he was broken.

At this time, the captain of the guard group who stayed in Wanghai Manor, Knight Morder, led a guard brigade of 500 people to abandon Wanghai Manor and rushed to Farama Village, just when the enemy followed and launched an attack on Farama Village, and after repelling this enemy, Knight Morder entered Farama Village, and we finally had enough defensive strength.

But then there was a great swordsman among the enemies who arrived, and he wanted to rush into the village of Farama single-handedly, but fortunately, the hundred steel crossbows equipped by the third battalion of the guards were all plugged into the wall, and the current forty or so steel crossbows shot the great swordsman into a hedgehog on the spot. This time, those enemies suffered heavy losses, and temporarily retreated to a distant distance to monitor and did not dare to attack us......"

"Are you sure it's the Great Swordsman who shot you?" Lorist perked up and interrupted Governor Hansk's remarks.

Chief Hansk thought about it carefully: "My lord, I think the one who was shot to death must be the Great Swordsman. Because at the beginning, several enemies came running to ask us to surrender, these were all silver-ranked, and one of them was still gold-ranked, and his long sword was shining with golden swords.

At that time, the captain of the 6th Logistics Baggage Brigade Orison Knight wanted to use a steel crossbow, but was stopped by the Knight Morder, who said that he would use a longbow to drive these enemies away first, so that the enemy would think that we had no long-range weapons, and then use the steel crossbow when they attacked in a big way, so as to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

Then the great swordsman came in a carriage, and the enemies over there were cheering, even the golden knight. The great swordsman was very arrogant and arrogant, and after asking those enemies a few words, he came straight to the wall with a long sword, and at a hundred meters more than twenty longbows were fired, and he couldn't even touch his side.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer, less than sixty meters away, more than forty steel crossbows that were mobilized to the front were fired in two batches by the order of the knight Mode, and the great swordsman knocked away the four iron crossbow arrows that shot at his front, but the second batch of crossbow arrows that followed pierced his chest and killed him on the spot. Knight Morder was still afraid that he would not be injured and would not die, so he ordered the longbow to shoot two rounds, and directly shot the corpse into a hedgehog before stopping.

As soon as this great swordsman died, the enemies over there were all stupid, they all stood there stupidly speechless, and the knight of Morder saw that they were only more than two hundred meters away from Farama Village, and immediately ordered the steel crossbow to fire arrows over there. The enemy could never have dreamed that our steel crossbows could shoot so far, and after two rounds in a row, we left forty or fifty corpses and ran far crying and crying.

I finally relented, thinking that I could hold out for a while with the help of the walls of Farama Village, but as soon as Knight Morder and Knight Orison heard the reports of the soldiers and guards of the Guards Battalion who had returned, they decided that Farama Village could not be defended. They said that the enemy still had at least two great sword masters, and they were fine during the day, but at night the vision was not good, and the effect of the steel crossbow defense was greatly reduced, and once they touched it, it was all over.

Knight Morder thinks that while the enemy is retreating now, he will break through immediately, and only when he reaches Sailfish Ridge can he hold on to the family's reinforcements with the steep mountain, as long as he uses the chariot steel crossbow to hold the only way up the mountain, then no matter how many great swordsmen come, he will not break us.

The Knight of Orison ordered the 6th Logistics Baggage Brigade to load all the steel crossbows on the chariots as escorts on both sides, and it was still light when we set out, but within an hour it was getting dark. The enemy discovered our whereabouts and followed, and kept calling for reinforcements, and the Orison Knight volunteered to stay at that time, and he took more than a hundred soldiers and guards of the 3rd Guards Battalion to ambush on the spot, trying to ambush the pursuers.

We had walked a short distance before we heard the sound of fighting coming from behind, but it was over in less than half an hour. But at that time we had come to the bottom of the Sailfish Ridge, and the road up the mountain was not easy to walk, and the enemy would soon catch up.

The stalemate lasted for about an hour, and the crossbow arrows of the chariot steel crossbow consumed a lot. The knight of Morder ordered twenty steel crossbows to be dismantled, and half of the crossbow arrows were carried up the mountain. The remaining crossbows were allocated to thirty steel crossbows, and all fifty steel crossbows without crossbow arrows were dismantled, and the Maud knight said that the steel crossbows must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy.

Next, the knights of Morder used thirty steel crossbows to resist the enemy's attack, and the steel crossbows that ran out of crossbow arrows were immediately dismantled. Halfway up the mountain, I turned back to see Knight Morder swinging his sword against the enemy behind him, cutting the last of his steel crossbow in half, but he was also pierced in the chest by the enemy's spear. ”

Mo De...... Lorist seemed to see two beggar-like people, standing there waiting for him, and then holding his legs and weeping bitterly, it was Ruhl and Morder. As the messengers of the northbound convoy, they went through many hardships along the way, and the guards who accompanied them all died, leaving the two of them to finally come to their own side after a long journey.

Lorist's eyes moistened, Ruel fell from the post early when he was hit by a crossbow arrow during his night attack on the bread post, and Mo had been by his side, working diligently in the guard to be promoted to the silver rank step by step, and then he was accepted by himself as a family knight, and then became the captain of the guard battalion. Now that he is gone, he is still walking so heroically, even if he dies, he must protect the secret of the family chariot steel crossbow......

Governor Hansk continues:

"All the soldiers and guards of the Guards Battalion were caught in a bitter and deadly battle, and at this critical moment, the Chosk knights rushed down from above, and as soon as the arrows came out, the enemy was killed and wounded, and finally retreated, and the surviving men and horses went up to Sailfish Ridge. With twenty steel crossbows and Master Joske's arrows guarding the only way up the mountain, we finally had a good night's sleep.

The next day, the enemy did not come to attack Sailfish Ridge, but the island of Shiloas was full of fire, standing on the ridge from time to time to see those enemies pressing the long line of villagers to the town of White Bird, crying to the sky, and from time to time there were old villagers who were pulled out of the team and beheaded because they walked slowly. We were furious, but there was nothing we could do.

In the middle of the night, Lord Sambarwood led the fleet to the cove, went up to Sailfish Ridge, and met us. Once we understand the situation, let's get on board immediately. He said that now those enemies are plundering and looting, and they don't care about this side. There was no fortress castle built on Sailfish Ridge, so it could not be held for a long time. When the enemy freed up his hands and sent a fleet of ships from the bay to come in, we could not escape as soon as we were flanked from both sides.

So we began to move, first women and children, then wounded soldiers, and finally Knight Chosk and his guards carried twenty steel crossbows onto the ship. It's just that the delay was too long, and by the time we all got on the boat, it was almost dawn. The enemy discovered our whereabouts, blew their trumpets, and soon the enemy sent a fleet to chase after us.

But the enemy was not ready, and the first dozen or so boats that caught up were undermanned and were quickly wiped out by us. Lord Sambarwood and the Choske knights worked together to capture two of the enemy's medium-armed merchant ships. However, the enemy quickly caught up with more than forty ships, and Samba-sama's fleet had fought several battles with the enemy, and many ships were somewhat damaged, and second, the ships were full of people, so the speed of the ships was a little slow.

So Lord Sambarwood and Lord Joske consulted and chose ten armed merchant ships in the best condition, equipped with still combat-ready sailors and soldiers and guards of the Guards Battalion to stay behind to fight back, and killed the five enemy ships that pursued the fastest, and finally circled with the rest of the enemy ships until evening, and the enemy all retreated.

When Lord Sembard and the Choske knights returned, and interrogated the captured sailors, we learned that it was the slave traders and slave catchers from the kingdom of Haneabada who had attacked and plundered the island of Hilowas, and not the pirates as we thought. The captives said that almost the entire Haneabada Kingdom of the great slave owners, nobles and slave traders participated in this operation, and there were more than 400 sea ships alone, nearly 30,000 men and horses, and seven great sword masters, so it can be said that they were dispatched......"

Governor Hansk handed over a thick folder of animal skin: "My lord, here are the interrogation records of the captives. ”

Lorist flipped through the interrogation records: "Someone!"

Schward came in: "Your Excellency......"

"Order the guards to erect crosses on the beach and crucify all the captives they have captured!" Lorist's soft voice decided the tragic end of the captured sailors of the Haneabada Kingdom.

"Uh......" The people in the big tent couldn't help but gasp, hanging or beheading the capital is more painful than being crucified, that is to be tortured on the cross for a long time and shed all the blood of the body before they can breathe......

"Your Excellency...... Governor Hansk stepped forward to persuade,

"Alright, don't say more. Lorist waved his hand: "They are the minions and accomplices of slave owners and slave traders, even a hundred times cheaper than pirates, they treat people as goods, they never regard other people's lives in their eyes, I just hate that there is no more cruel way to die for them to try!

"Yes, my lord, I'll give the order!" Schward hurried out.

Lorist stood up and came to Sambawood: "You did a good job this time, very good, very much to my surprise. Sambarwood, I ask you now, would you like to be a member of the Raging Bear family?"

Sambawood was stunned, but he quickly reacted and knelt down on one knee in front of Lorist: "My lord, I do." ”

"Sambarwood, are you willing to charge into battle to the death at the sound of the horn of the angry bear?"

"I do!"

"Sambarwood, are you willing to follow the banner of the Angry Bear and fight in all directions?"

"I do!"

"Sambarwood, are you willing to dedicate your life to the glory of the Bear Badge until you die?"

"I do!" Sambarwood was already shouting.

Lorist drew his sword, slapped it twice on Sambawood's left and right shoulders, and sheathed it: "Arise, my knight, for you have earned the trust of our Norton family with your bravery, courage and loyalty. You are welcome to join us, my brother. ”

After Lorist hugged Sambarwood tightly, he was followed by a group of knights in the big tent. Finally, there's Bodfinger.

"Welcome to you, my brother. After the hug, Bodfinger pinned a golden angry bear badge to Sambarwood's left chest.

"Sambawood, how many ships do you have left in your fleet?" Lorist returned to his seat after the knight's promotion ceremony.

"My lord, there are eleven ships in good condition, and thirteen ships that need to be repaired, of which eight are minor repairs and five are in need of major repairs. ”

Sambarwood's second flotilla was originally twenty-nine ships, but when they returned to the rescue, they lost seven in naval battles, but later grabbed two more ships, adding up to a total of twenty-four.

"Fix it as soon as possible, in three days Bodfinger will be leading his troops to the island of Hilowas, and we need a transport ship. And your sailors should rest as soon as possible, and those who are not injured in three days will sail and set off. Lorist said with a frown. The family's sea regiment suffered too heavy losses this time, and the water force was almost reduced by more than half, and now the number of sailors and crews was very tight, so these sailors who had returned from hard fighting could only rest for three days and set sail again.

"My lord, I ask you to fight!" Sambarwood stepped forward.

"We are asking you to fight too!" ...... my lord," all the knights in the tent stood up.

...... (To be continued.) )