Chapter 000: Long Song Overture
The cold wind swept through Kenny's beard, the leader of the Confederate forces, and the snow blew his proud beard white. Exhausted Kenny drank the last sip of barley wine from the silver kettle, regretting the defeat he had paid for in his pride www.biquge.info.
At only twenty-six years old, he turned around and shouted at the remnants of the defeated generals with his already hoarse throat, "Knights of the Iron Man Legion! Thirty miles further north is Half Moon Rock, where the terrain is dangerous, maybe we can get rid of the mad dogs behind!"
Before the words fell, countless horses' hooves could be heard on the heights of Eagle Valley, which had just been crossed, and the sound was getting closer and closer, and the enemy torches could already be faintly seen whistling in the wind in the heavy snow.
Mike, the leader of the Alliance Knights, heard the deafening sound of horses' hooves and ordered the remaining soldiers behind him, "Everyone obey the order!
Kenny, at the front of the line, tightened the reins and turned his horse's head, pulling out the black steel sword at his waist, the blade of which was refracted by the moonlight and glowed a chilling black-blue.
"Can't escape, Mike, there's at least thirty miles of mountain road from Half Moon Rock, and we can't get out of the Yingshui River. Kenny's war-blackened face is filled with disappointment and exhaustion.
"Lord, I will protect you from evacuation, if I don't come back within a day, take the rest of my brothers all the way north, and after crossing the Yingshui River, the Peace Army will not chase anymore. Mike finished and pulled out the bear-headed saber at his waist.
Kenny's empty eyes looked at his wife, Nina, and he didn't say a word, and the beard she had carefully trimmed for him was now sticky with blood, making him look particularly embarrassed.
"Lord, even if you are willing to die here, what about these unarmed refugees who are following you, shouldn't you think about them?
Kenny looked at the ragged and panicked refugees behind him, and then at his wife. The Peace Army burned and looted every city it captured, and these were the refugees who escaped after his defeat in the city of Khalta.
After a few hesitations, Kenny turned his horse's head again, and he put the Ebonsteel sword in its scabbard and said to Mike behind him, "Come back alive, my brother." ”
The fleeing coalition army was divided into two groups, Mike led the Angolan cavalry regiment, charging head-on towards the pursuing peace army, the torches in the hands of the cavalry whistled in the wind, and the two sides fought in the darkness instantly, and the cold iron weapons collided together, producing countless sparks.
Kenny led the Guards and the refugees north again, the team stumbling in a long winding dragon over the rugged Side Mountains.
The sky was gradually breaking, and the winter sun did not warm this group of homeless people like a savior, on the contrary, it made it easier for them to expose their targets, and the team of more than 2,000 people did seem to be incompatible with the mountain stream and snow scene.
"Hurry up, if you don't want to die, keep up with the people in front of you, and make sure to get to Half Moon Rock before the sun rises. Kenny anxiously urged the soldiers and refugees in the group.
Fortunately, with the favor of the god Namu, they rushed to Half Moon Rock before the sun came out of the mountain. Half Moon Rock is located on the edge of the Side Mountains, with a sea of dead men at its back, and is at a high altitude that can be detected by pursuers from a long distance.
After setting up the sentry post, Kenny sat on a boulder and looked at the surface of the dead man's sea, the calm of the sea like a mirror that made people feel uneasy, and he shoved the last bit of bread crumbs in his palm into his mouth.
His wife, Nina, came over and sat down beside him, the once beautiful princess of the prairie looked a little depressed at the moment, her long chestnut hair was messed up on her shoulders, she stretched out her hand that should have been delicate, and touched her husband's cheek that was hurt by the war.
"I'm sorry, Nina, maybe I made the wrong decision. Kenny turned to look at his wife, his eyes full of pity.
"No, you're right, it's just.... Maybe the time hasn't come, Kenny, you're too anxious, but I know very well that you've made the right decision, and if we can get out of the Yingshui River, at least these people we'll bring out will be free, aren't they?"
Kenny gripped Nina's hand tightly, not knowing what to say.
"Take a break, you're too tired. Nina hugged Kenny and said softly.
Kenny leans against the boulder, closes his eyes, and falls asleep. Yes, he was so tired, he hadn't closed his eyes for six days after the defeat of the city of Karta.
In the evening, the sky gradually darkened, and the afterglow of the setting sun turned the crimson of the sea mark of the dead, and the place on the line of the sea and sky was particularly hot, as if to make a final prayer for the blood shed by the warriors in this war.
Kenny woke up to the screams of the people, and his first impression was that the Peace Army was chasing him, and when he got up and saw his wife's sleeping face, Kenny felt a little calm.
"Marven, where is the Peace Army, and how far are we from us?" Kenny asked his personal soldier.
"Report to the lord, it's not the Peace Army, the Forward Guards have come to report that our infantry guards have been attacked by wolves!"
"Wolves?" Kenny stepped on his horse and led two guards to the back of the commotion.
The refugees fled in all directions, the soldiers of the infantry guards mourned, Kenny dismounted in the fleeing crowd, and from a distance, more than a hundred wolves were attacking the soldiers and refugees, blood stained the snow, and the stumps and dead and wounded soldiers were being torn apart, torn apart, and chewed by the wolves.
Kenny pulled out the black steel sword at his waist, "Knights, we have been crushed by the Peace Army for six days, and now even the brutes are going to tear us apart, follow me, fight with these brutes!"
Kenny rushed into the wolves like a lion that had escaped from its cage and had not eaten for a week, and before his own soldier Marven could react, he saw Kenny fighting the wolves to the death, and Marven immediately rushed forward.
The remnants of more than 200 defeated soldiers fought with the frantically foraging wolves for an unprecedented battle, and all the knights of the alliance army took out their shame and anger on these wild wolves as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
Kenny slashed at each of his near-offenders with his sword in both hands, each slash accompanied by a hoarse roar that was deafening, and he needed to vent just as much as his soldiers.
Days of running and starving made this group of elite soldiers like a group of women and children, and the once indestructible Kalta Iron Man Legion seemed so powerless at this moment, and more and more soldiers were pounced on by the wolves and torn apart.
After being scattered by the wolves, Kenny's two guards are surrounded by seven wolves, one of which lunges at Kenny, who turns around with a nimble turn and scratches the wolf's hind limbs with his sword in both hands, dodging the fatal blow.
The unsuccessful giant wolf quickly turned around, its amber pupils exuding a murderous aura, staring at the human holding a sword in front of him, the four fangs exposed at the corners of his mouth trembling slightly with a low roar from the lobes of his lungs, and the remaining soldier's blood on it kept dripping into the snow.
Enraged by Kenny, the wolf pressed its body into the snow, digging its front paws deep into the dirt under the snow, and suddenly, it jumped two meters high, Kenny couldn't dodge and was thrown to the ground, and the giant wolf did not hesitate to open its bloody mouth and bite Kenny's neck.