Chapter 49: A Peculiar Enemy
Hebrew got dressed and hurried out. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAs an imperial marshal guarding the border, he has long been used to being woken up in the middle of the night. Now in order to sleep lazy, I will be stabbed and fall asleep forever.
"What's the matter, Bert?" the sky had been dyed red by the time Hebrew came out, and more and more people in the city were drawn out of the room by the strange light.
"Marshal...... I'm afraid it's ...... Forbidden class of magic. Bert gritted his teeth, but told the truth anyway.
"That'...... What are we going to do?" Hebrew panicked, for all flesh and blood seemed so fragile in the face of magic. Of course, he had also heard of forbidden magic, a domineering magic that even a magus could not cast alone, either because it was too lethal or because the effects it caused were too bad and were completely banned by the Magic Guild. The forbidden magic cast by Satya's side, whatever type it is, must have been used against them.
Bert arched his hand, "Now is the time to immediately gather all the magicians in the city to form a giant magic array together to minimize the losses in the city." ”
"Reducing the losses? can't stop them?" Hebrew knew that if this kind of magic fell on Tallinn Castle, the magic array composed of these magicians at hand could only reduce the losses.
"Marshal, I beg you to send a group of knights with me over there to see what is going on. ”
Hebrew motioned to his entourage to make arrangements, and it wasn't long before a messy sound sounded, and a cavalry was ready to go at the gate of the marshal's palace. At this time, Abby and the others had also come out of the room.
"Marshal, Bert, what's the matter?"
"Satya-sa used forbidden magic, and Bert was about to go and see what was going on. ”
"I'm going with me, maybe I can help. ”
"No need, I'll go myself, you're here to help the marshal. Bert took the reins from the squire, and one of them rolled over and mounted his horse.
"Be careful, evacuate immediately if you are in danger. Hebrew said.
"Well, got it, you guys should be careful. There are many magicians and monks of the Holy See with us, Abby, on behalf of the marshal, to ask for their help. With that, Bert turned his horse's head and prepared to set off.
Suddenly, a fast horse rushed from the direction of the city gate. The knight on the horse looked flustered. "Report to the marshal, a lot of soldiers rushed from the direction of the Satya camp. The knight jumped straight off his horse and fell to his knees.
"How many people? How many siege weapons did you bring?"
"There are a lot of people. Without bringing siege weapons, it's like ......" The knight hesitated.
"Like what?" asked Hebrew.
"It's like fleeing. ”
Fleeing? Many people fled en masse? Could it be that Satya mutinied? What about forbidden magic?
Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Bert helped them popularize magic knowledge, "Forbidden magic is very difficult to cast, and it is very likely that something happened when they cast the spell, which caused the magic to get out of control. ”
"That'...... What shall we do, Marshal?" the knight hurriedly asked Hebrew for instructions.
"Let's go to the city wall together. Hebrew took his mount, and Bert went with him to the wall.
When they reached the city walls, they were startled by the situation below, and the dense crowd of people crowded under the walls, or escaped from Tallinn Fort in the distance, or shouted for help, or banged on the gates.
"What the hell is going on, what are they doing?" Hebrew stood on the wall, leaning down to look at the Satyan soldiers, some of whom looked like they had just run out of the camp, without even weapons or armor. The soldiers on the walls did not know whether to attack or not, and the archers were full of arrows in their hands, ready to shoot at any moment.
"We also don't know that the patrol soldiers suddenly found that Satya's camp was on fire, and it didn't take long for them to rush under our walls, and the brothers fired two waves of arrows in a panic, but they kept rushing at us. But they rushed to the city and did not continue the siege, and the brothers did not know whether to continue shooting arrows. A squadron leader on a shift replied.
"Don't shoot yet, send someone to ask them what's going on. Several soldiers received the order and shouted loudly under the walls.
Before they could reply, a group of soldiers in different uniforms had already appeared in the distance, and by the light of the fire, the people on the city walls could see that they were engaged with the soldiers of the Satyan Empire. However, the battle is good, and the Satya Front is completely eroding at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, whether it is a phalanx, a circle formation, or the strongest defensive fish scale formation.
Seeing that the Satya troops, which were on par with their own fight a few days ago, were actually defeated by them so easily, how strong was the army on the other side? Because they were far away, they couldn't see the faces of those soldiers clearly in the dark. It's just that in terms of size, they are no different from ordinary soldiers, only slightly shorter, but whether the soldiers are chopping or chopping, each blow will take the life of a Satya soldier.
As far as can be seen, the weapons of the soldiers on the opposite side are all long knives that are twice as long as their long swords. Most of the Satya soldiers were light infantry, and they suffered a loss of weapons, and Satya's army was slaughtered.
"What's wrong, what about Satya's commander?" Hebrew found that although Satya's team couldn't defeat them head-on, it shouldn't be so messy, it was completely possible to resist and organize an encirclement at the same time, and it would definitely not collapse completely like now.
"Help, open the gates!" shouted the soldiers under the walls, their tones becoming more and more nervous.
"Could it be that they are deliberately trying to trick us into opening the gates?" many people had the same thoughts as Hebrew in their minds.
"Let them leave the walls, or they will bear the consequences. Hebrew gave the order. In such a situation, it is very unwise to open the gate at will, whether the other party is deliberately trying to open the gate or is actually fleeing.
Shouts rang out from the walls, and curses erupted from below. After a few arrows rained down, the soldiers under the walls gradually began to disperse, but the cursing became louder.
A considerable number of soldiers chose to run in the direction of the southern city, where the vast plains could be detoured to return to the Satya Empire, or to reorganize their ranks to attack the enemy's rear. There were also soldiers who slipped through the walls and fled into the territory of the Oslan Empire.
Hebrew spotted the men, turned around and said a few words, and a squadron leader left with a token. The whole army of 300,000 collapsed overnight? Neither the magicians present nor the senior staff officers were smarter than the other, but no one could understand what was going on? What was the origin of those soldiers in the dark? Friend or foe? What was Maxim doing? Was this the after-effect of forbidden magic? Question marks popped up one after another.
"What's next......" Bert asked a question that no one could answer. The whole city was disturbed by the events under the walls all night, until the sky began to darken, and the battle under the walls began to come to an end, and they could only silently watch the soldiers who had fought with them during the day fall to the ground one by one.
The soldiers on the opposite side were very strong in combat, and many soldiers could stand up and continue to fight even if they had several swords in their bodies, and their weapons were so sharp that Satya's standard weapons could not resist their slashes. Seeing such a sharp weapon, everyone is a race, and only the master of the dwarf race can make such a sharp weapon, and only the dwarves and berserkers have such a powerful ability to resist attacks.
However, those people were noticeably taller than the dwarves, although they were much shorter than the mainlanders. It seems that their height is about 1.5 meters, but the tallest dwarf is only a little more than 1.2 meters.
The sky had begun to white, and the soldiers, like demons from hell, retreated into the place where Satya had been camping before the sun reached the battlefield.
"Let's go, let's go and see. "Hebrew looked tired, Satya's 300,000 army was completely defeated by an unknown enemy overnight, if they were enemies, how could their own Tallinn fort be defended?
The people did not understand what the marshal meant, what to see? With doubts, they followed Hebrew down the city wall. Turning a corner, they understood what he meant, and at this moment there were several people kneeling under the road to the city, and a dozen knights were guarding behind them.
"Tell me, what is your purpose?" said Hebrew to the Satyan soldier who was kneeling.
"My lord, we don't know. "The soldier who took the lead is a squad leader, and it seems that the knights' harvest is not good, and the general squad leader does not know much.
"So what do I want you to do? So Hebrew turned and left.
Now they were in a hurry, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, shouting in their mouths, "My lord, spare my life, we really don't know." We were just a small soldier, and we were resting in the camp last night, and those people suddenly appeared and saw us cut without saying a word. Maxim Yuan ...... Maxim didn't show up either, and we were in a mess. ”
"Go on. ”
"We didn't know what to do without instructions, so we had to form a defensive formation according to our own team. But those people were so strong that the soldiers who fought with them were directly cut in half. The formation is directly out of order. ”
How much power is this? Could it be that the dwarves really did it? But don't dwarves rarely appear in the eyes of the world?
"We didn't dare to run around without the commander's orders, so several of their captains formed a temporary command headquarters and commanded our various camps to gather together and wait for further instructions. But I don't know what happened, and it is said that the captains suddenly all died, with a strange weapon stuck in their bodies. Then the battalion was bombed, and those squadron leaders couldn't control the situation at all, let alone our squad leaders. ”
"How many people are there? Do you know what race they are?"
"There are not many people, no more than a thousand at most. ”