Chapter 102: The Battle of Mount Valen
Ales carried a spear and trotted through the dense woods, a strong wind blew, and the sky was sprinkled with sparse fallen leaves, Ales looked up at Mount Valen not far away, cursed a few words in a low voice, and then turned to the 150 soldiers who followed him: "Run fast for me, Cindy Cantelli said, as long as we can climb that mountain, each of us will be rewarded with 1 gold coin."
"Flutter, flutter......" One of the soldiers behind Ales gasped and said intermittently, "Captain...... I'm really ...... It's really running...... I can't run...... Why don't we rest...... Take a break. ”
"yes, yes. The soldiers around shouted together, they had been running in the dense woods for more than ten minutes, and tonight the sky was full of dark clouds, the visibility was very poor, and they could not light the torches, so it was really difficult to run.
"Shut the fuck!" Ales scolded loudly, "You want the people on the mountain to hear?"
One of the soldiers muttered in a low voice, "Your voice is as good as a group of us, and you are quieter?"
Ales didn't hear this, he felt a little tired, so he stopped running, and said scoldingly, "What the hell, how can it be our turn? ”
The soldiers cheered in a low voice, and they groped for a place to lie down, and the whole woods were suddenly in chaos, and Ales cursed a few words, and when he saw that the scene was completely controlled, he gave up. In fact, this is not to blame Ales and his squadron, the main reason is that most of the soldiers under Cindy Canteri are farmers who have only been recruited for a few months, and Senate is short of manpower and resources, so he does not train them rigorously, but simply asks them to teach them the most basic things, and then distributes them with a batch of old weapons, and as for the defensive armor, almost only half a pair of leather armor of the level of Squadron Leader Ales wears it.
Ales stretched his body as far as he could, lying on the ground in a large figure, the trees in the woods could no longer completely cover the sky because of the autumn leaves, but even if the sparse gaps were exposed, the inside of the woods was also dark, and even if he put his hands in front of him, it was difficult to see clearly.
"Hehe, the commander said, if any of our squadrons is the first to rush up, we will be rewarded with 200 gold coins, and there will definitely be deaths in the war, and there will be dozens of dead people in my squadron of 150 people, and I will send one to them alone, won't I be able to get it...... Is it 40 or 50? Damn, what's that, the sun?"
Ales was looking forward to stuffing a large pile of jingling gold coins into his pocket, when suddenly his eyes lit up, a red light appeared in front of him, and the temperature around him immediately began to rise, and the last thought uncontrollably appeared in Ales's mind: "I haven't been lying down for long, why is the sun coming out?"
"Boom!" A large cloud of red light burst out from the woods at the foot of Mount Talen, and a loud roar broke the silence of the night, and in a matter of seconds, Ales and his resting soldiers were reduced to ashes in a few seconds, and the trees where they were located were also ablaze.
Under the intense light of the fire, billowing smoke rose into the sky, and the stumps and branches of countless corpses intertwined and flew in all directions. By the time the smoke cleared, a large pit more than 2 meters deep had appeared in the place where Ales and the others were, and around the pit, a large number of trees had fallen outward, and the flames burning on the ground and tree trunks were still vigorously extinguished, and the squadron that had rested here just now had been completely wiped out.
"Enemy attack!" About 500 meters from here, the soldiers of another squadron sent by Cindy Cantelli let out a miserable cry, but under the loud roar in the distance, this cry could not be heard at all, it was completely suppressed, and the soldiers who had no training at all were also in disarray, and many of them dropped their weapons almost immediately, and turned and ran in the direction they came.
"Ahh
The pain came, and the soldier wanted to struggle to climb down the stone pillar, but his body had no strength, and the only thing he could do was to let out a scream, as if this was the only way to alleviate the pain on his body, and with the soldier's fainter and fainter cry, blood kept flowing out of his wound like a stream, and soon it was stained red.
The screams of the dying soldier seemed to send a signal, and on the way of the rout, the dirt, which had been soft because of the fallen leaves, began to arch upward, and each arch was a few seconds later, a sharp stone pillar tore through the ground and rose rapidly from the ground.
The pillar rises a few meters above the ground and then ceases to move, and after a few minutes of sustaining it, the pillar will turn into dirt and sprinkle it on the ground, and the corpse pierced on it will fall to the ground, but a new pillar will soon rise from the nearby ground and continue to attack the enemy.
"Ahh
But within a radius of a few hundred meters, the stone pillars rose to their heart's content, turned into dirt, and rose again, and the screams of the defeated recruits of Senat became less and less faint, and soon the trees returned to their original calm, with only the sound of blood flowing, and the stumps and broken arms on the ground silently recounted the tragic scene that had just happened in the woods.
Cindy Cantelli, who was drinking ale in the rear, dreaming of wiping out the enemy, collapsed to the ground, and the 300 men of his two squadrons were wiped out in a matter of minutes, and it seemed that they had not made any contact with the enemy.
"This, this...... What is this?" stammered Cindy Cantelli, who reached out to drink the glass of ale that had been spilled in his hand, but his hand was shaking, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not bring the glass to his lips, and one of his own soldiers was quite bold, although he was also half frightened to death by the annihilation of the vanguard just now, but seeing that his commander wanted to drink, he actually came over to help him bring the glass to his mouth, and Cindy Cantelli drank the small half of the ale in a big gulp.
Having drunk the ale, Cindy Cantelli's courage seemed to have recovered a little, he gasped for breath, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Withdraw the troops, let's get out of this damn place, what a military feat, fuck it, I don't want to die yet, wait for the reinforcements to come tomorrow!"