22. Retreat to the stone wall

This fight with the hyenas lasted until midnight.

Baron Sidney stood on top of the hyena's corpse, blood already flowing from his feet, and countless hyenas still rushing out of the dense forest.

Baron Sidney's originally white face was stained with blood, the big sword in his hand seemed to have been soaked in blood, the white cyclone that wrapped his body had become extremely weak, his face was a little pale, and the hands holding the big sword in both hands were already trembling slightly.

The heavily armored soldiers behind him have persevered until now with their last will to fight, and they are already crumbling.

A whole squadron of longbow shooters had already shot empty of arrows, and by the time of their desperation, they had taken their longbows in their hands, stood with the spearmen, and strangled the hyenas that rushed up with their bowstrings.

The shield wall that was formed at the beginning no longer exists, and the second squad has already rested three times in rotation, and now He Boqiang feels that the Roman sword in his hand is too heavy to hold, and every sword swing requires great courage.

A hyena sprang up from beneath the pile, tilted its head slightly, and bit down on Baron Sidney's shin-armored calf.

Under the tearing, Baron Sidney's center was a little unstable, and even the man and dog rolled down from the top of the corpse pile.

The guards around him were so frightened that they rushed forward and rescued Baron Sidney in the hyena, but this time three of them were drowned in the hyena.

Captain Sam and the members of the second squad were caught in the team's human wall, Surdak was a little injured, he was bitten by a hyena in the stomach of his left calf, and he walked with a limp, but he only dropped two drops of antidote on the wound, bandaged it simply, and rushed to the front row of the line again.

Baron Sidney's 4th Brigade, with a total of 300 heavy infantry soldiers, returned to Mondstadt. Count Goss seconded a squadron of about sixty longbowmen, and spent most of the night in the col, and roughly counted at least forty hoplites dragged back by the hyenas, and almost all of the remaining soldiers were wounded, including more than two dozen seriously wounded.

The corpses of hyenas are like mountains, but unfortunately these hyenas are not magical beasts, there is no magic core in the skull, and the fur of this hyena is worthless, basically without any value.

Unexpectedly, the hyena group that appeared at night this time was at least a few thousand in size, and Baron Sidney at this moment estimated that his intestines were almost repentant, and he couldn't wait to calm the battle immediately, at this time, the squadron leaders finally got the order of Baron Sidney, and the sixth squadron leader was Captain Sam's immediate boss, which was to personally convey Baron Sidney's order:

"Everyone retreats to the stone wall in an orderly manner, and forms a formation there, as long as they hold on until dawn, these crazy hyenas will naturally retreat and protect the archers."

Surdak glanced at He Boqiang, He Boqiang immediately understood the meaning in Surdak's eyes, it was easy to cause chaos when retreating, so that those hyenas had a chance to take advantage of it, at this time, in addition to being more careful than forming a shield wall, it was also necessary to retain some strength as much as possible.

"Boy, follow me, don't be left behind later!"

Captain Sam gave Black Boy Jeron Nan a deep look and whispered to the members of the second squad.

Garcia the Red Sock, Ian the veteran, and others also looked solemn.

There was no time to rest at all, and after the orders of the squadron leaders were handed down, the plan to evacuate to the rocky walls of the mountain behind had already begun, and Baron Sidney insisted on walking at the back of the team with one of the most elite combat squads, which made He Boqiang begin to admire this noble knight a little.

The warband retreated step by step, and the defensive line immediately collapsed.

The hyena herd in the dark followed all the way without hesitation, fortunately, the soldiers in the heavy infantry regiment were wearing metal armor, which usually looked too bulky, but when facing this group of hyenas, the huge advantage was revealed, and it was difficult for the hyenas to bite through the heavy armor, and it was these heavy armor that gave the maximum protection to all the soldiers of the fourth brigade.

He Boqiang was caught in the team at the moment, and retreated with the crowd towards a cliff on the hillside.

Under the instruction of Baron Sidney, the warrior who guarded the back took out some of the limited amount of fire oil he carried with him, poured it on the pile of hyena corpses, and lit a fire when he withdrew from the corpse pile, and the flames suddenly burned rapidly, and as the hyenas who had not completely lost their breath continued to wail in the flames, the fire instantly formed a flame barrier to block the hyenas behind them.

Baron Sidney dragged his tired body behind, covered in blood, and even the demonic armor on his body was somewhat damaged.

There is a stone cliff halfway up the mountain on the west side of the big mountain pass, and this time Baron Sidney is leading everyone to retreat to the bottom of the stone cliff, so that it will be much easier to build a defensive shield wall, at least not to be attacked on the back.

He Boqiang was also exhausted after fighting in the middle of the night, but his physical strength was also recovering rapidly, and at this moment he suddenly felt that in his spiritual world, the stars floating in his body were slowly turning, and the bright stars on his shoulders released warm currents.

Not only that, but the other bright star next to the shoulder also began to twinkle, and it looked as if it was going to be lit up at any time.

He Boqiang didn't have time to pay attention to the abnormality in his body, and the team quickly passed through a dense forest, and the group of hyenas kept biting at the back of the team.

Surdak's left leg was injured, He Boqiang let his hand on his shoulder, and just like that, he lifted half of Surdak's body and walked forward, but in this way, he fell behind unconsciously.

The group was not hindered by the retreat to the vicinity of the mountain wall, and the hyenas regrouped, with countless red eyes in the dark woodland.

The warriors who arrived at the bottom of the stone wall first quickly began to set up their defensive lines to meet their companions behind.

The wounded warriors were placed in tents beneath the stone wall, and the warriors formed a semicircular wall with dry twigs and poured the last bit of fire oil, and when the wall of flame was blazing, Baron Sidney led the last of the warriors back from the siege of the hyenas.

The most important thing at the moment is how to maintain this firewood wall that can continue to burn all night, although there is a large dense forest fifty meters in front of the stone wall, but unfortunately it is completely occupied by hyena groups, and if you want to get firewood, you must search along the stone wall to both sides, so that at least the soldiers can ensure that they do not get trapped in the hyena group.

The soldiers of the 1st Squadron were responsible for guarding the gap in the wall of fire and preventing the hyenas from rushing through the gap in the wall of fire.

In fact, the hyenas were quite afraid of fire, and they didn't dare to approach the blazing flames.

Several large trees near the stone wall were also cut down by the warriors, and quickly turned into pieces of firewood under the chopping of sharp axes, and threw into the wall of fire.

At this time, the warriors who had fought for most of the night finally had a good rest.

Baron Sidney took a palm-sized scroll of parchment from his bosom and handed it to one of the guards beside him, who, without waiting for Baron Sidney's command, walked quickly to the stone wall, unfolded the scroll and nailed it to the stone wall.

Then another scene of great surprise appeared to He Boqiang, a stream of clear spring water gathered from the center of the scroll, and then bubbled down the scroll.

The current is small, but at least as thick as a little finger.

The guard took out a kettle, quickly filled it with water, and hurried to Baron Sidney.

Next, the fighters of each squadron lined up in an orderly manner to receive water.

He Boqiang, who originally thought that he would take a break and run out to find a water source, looked at the parchment scroll on the stone wall in great surprise at this moment.

The black boy Jeronnan took Surdak's kettle and said, "I'm going to fetch water......"

'Whew' and ran to the queue.