Chapter 33: Life and Death
The Desert Empire has the same system as the Holy See, and is also a theocratic state, but it is believed in His Houl, one of the twelve main gods.
The supreme authority of the empire was not the king but the Zoroastrian See, but the power of the Zoroastrian See, due to the lack of the protection of the Lord God, was declining, and later, the Chieftains' Federation, which elected the king, became the most powerful organization in the Desert Empire.
- "The King of Kings: The Legend of the Kingdom", Chapter 33 Fighting to the Death: His Royal Highness Afti has no such worries. The prince understands one thing: the Desert Empire is a country with relatively indifferent royal power among the empires, and it is slightly stronger than the Mercenary Empire, and without the support of the Chieftains' Federation, it makes no sense to sit on the throne of the king. It is impossible for a natural soldier like Ji Aotian to do something that would damage his invincible prestige for the sake of a symbolic throne.
Taking a step back, even if the rebels in the city knew Chi Aotian, His Highness Afti was sure that the young general would definitely send him out of the city first before talking about anything else. His Royal Highness did not say such a thing, but his attitude was quite clear - ask Chi Aotian to escort him into the city.
Immediately, Chi Aotian, Qingluo, and Ta Yang were caught in the prince's personal guards. Elder Qingluo also let a group of elven knights rise into the air immediately, monitoring everything that happened on the ground, and reporting back as soon as there was a police.
As soon as they walked a few miles, they could already faintly hear the sound of fighting in the city! Everyone's hearts were lifted.
Soon after, the elven vulture knights came down to report that the city of Bombay was now in shambles, and there were clashing crowds everywhere, including well-dressed soldiers, who were supposed to be quelling the rebellion.
"Your Highness Afti, can you send your own guards to the city gate first to inquire about what is going on?" With due caution, Qingluo drove the camel past Chi Aotian and suggested to the prince.
"Your Highness, this is the best, if it is confirmed that there is a great * in Bombay, and the defenders are unable to maintain order, then we will not be charged with great rebellion if we move our troops. General Hussein echoed in a low voice.
A group of camel riders pulled their camels and ran quickly towards the city.
Twenty minutes later, the knight commander returned: "Your Royal Highness, the city gate officer said that several community bishops of the Holy See a few days ago triggered*, and His Royal Highness the King was assassinated and slightly wounded, and now he has instructed His Royal Highness the Second Prince bin Laden to lead the city defenders to pacify*. ”
Oh? yes. Afti and the guards breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, the second prince bin Laden is known as the first brave man of the desert empire, and has a high reputation in the army, with him controlling the soldiers, there should be no big problems in Bombay City.
"Let's go, go kill all these damned heretics!" the eldest prince scolded fiercely.
"How can the Holy See establish a diocese in the capital of your country?" Qingluo was a little puzzled, the Desert Empire believed in the Fire God Temple, who was equal to or even older than the God of Light among the twelve main gods, how could the power of the Holy See enter the capital city of Mumbai?
"This ......" Afti's face turned red: "It's hard to explain this matter, it's all the Chiefs' Federation that is causing trouble, if it weren't for them, how could they lead the wolf into the house?"
"Hmph. Tayan snorted coldly, disdainful of the Desert Empire's inaction. No matter what the reason, on the side of the couch, you can't allow others to snore. Whatever the reason, it's hilarious how other religions can be put in the imperial capital.
The soldiers quickened their march, and half an hour later, the yellow and clear city walls of Mumbai had appeared in front of them, and outside the west city gate, there were nearly a hundred desert soldiers lined up to greet them.
"Your Highness, you are finally back. An officer with a blue feather on his hat hurriedly ran over with his adjutant: "The commander of the 3,000-man team of the 3,000-man army in Bombay City, Yayati, respectfully invites His Highness to enter the city. ”
The three officers had smoky marks on their bodies and faces, apparently having just been briefed and had rushed from the city to greet the son.
"Yes, thank you. Who rebelled?What wounded my father?Where is my brother now?" Afti asked a series of questions......
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty is only injured in the hand, His Royal Highness the Second Prince is patrolling with his personal guards, I have asked someone to inform him, I believe that His Royal Highness the Second Prince will definitely come to meet you. Do you want to wait for His Royal Highness the Second Prince to arrive here before we enter the city?" replied with a long bow.
"Well...... No need, I'll go to the palace to see my father first, and when my brother arrives, invite him to come to the palace. ”
In the Desert Empire, the relationship between the eldest prince and the second prince is more delicate. The desert people highly advocate individual heroism, and in this regard, the second prince is one of the best, so there have been different theories about the ownership of the prince's position. His Royal Highness the eldest prince will definitely not wait outside the city gate for the second prince to allow him to enter the city.
"Yes. Yayati hurriedly flashed aside: "Open the city gate and respectfully invite His Royal Highness the Prince to enter the city." ”
The brass gates of the main gates creaked open.
"General Chi, Mr. Tayang, and Elder Qingluo, please come in. "In a hurry, His Royal Highness did not forget the proper etiquette.
"Your Highness is polite, we are just your guards. Tayan snorted and followed closely by Shizi's side.
As the 12th super brave on the Battle Spirit List, Qingluo was able to be born and died in the mercenary world for decades without falling, in addition to strength, it was more important to be cautious. With his eyebrows flowing slightly, Qingluo's heart moved slightly. Then he touched Chi Aotian lightly, and his eyes gave a hint.
Chi Aotian followed Qingluo's gaze, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly: There seems to be something wrong with the desert imperial soldiers near the city gate, and after a closer look, Chi Aotian knows what the problem is. Normal guards, no matter how important they stand, generally hold their weapons in a false grip, and only in this way can they stand on their posts for a longer time, but these soldiers at the city gate obviously use strength in their hands, and the meridians on the back of their hands are curved like cyan earthworms. Only in a state of imminent battle, the warriors will have such actions. Don't...... The situation in the city is still so tense? As a friendly army, we have to think about the good side.
Chi Aotian nodded lightly at Qingluo, who quietly took off the emerald green short bow with a diagonal back along the cloak.
Tayan's performance was even more amazing, he didn't look back at all, but in an instant he noticed that there was something unusual about the actions of the two people behind him. The red face twisted back, and after the two of them swept it, they immediately found the problem. The old pastor rolled his eyes, and a curse floated in the big copper bell eyes that were sticky with eye feces, which was really embarrassing for the old pastor's eyes. Immediately, two angry fingers were raised at Qingluo and Chi Aotian in the cloak. The old priest didn't dare to hold it up, and the one-handed long war hammer was immediately and silently removed.
The three of them chose to be silent at the same time, it is not convenient to say anything to His Royal Highness the Prince now, and it has no effect to say it, perhaps, these soldiers have really just been transferred out of the city to meet His Royal Highness the Prince, this kind of action is not excessive. Be careful, as long as you don't suffer a big loss. Chi Aotian led the camel and His Royal Highness the prince to keep a distance of half a camel's head......
The camel of the prince had just entered the city gate, when suddenly, the wind whirred from the castle tower above the city gate......
The knights of the guard felt the wind above their heads and hurriedly looked up...... Nearly 100 bags of sandbags fell on the city wall, each weighing at least 100 kilograms. The knights tried desperately to drive the camels outward, but the reaction speed of the mounts was not so fast at all, and the camel riders were instantly smashed on their backs...... Before the dust and smoke dissipated, the sandbags inside and outside the city gate were piled up like a hill, and the knights who had not yet been crushed to death under the sandbags let out a series of screams.
His Highness Afti was stunned by this huge change, and his tone trembled slightly: "This...... What's going on?"
No one gave His Royal Highness a clear answer, but on the wall opposite the city gate, a row of soldiers dressed in white suddenly stood up, holding a longbow that was as tall as a full moon more than a person.
"Shoot!" At the sound of the command, a rain of white arrows whistled and crackled like raindrops......
If you don't prepare in advance, even the most brave general will die in this deliberate murder. Fortunately, Chi Aotian had already put the knight's shield on his left arm, and the moment he saw the rain of arrows roaring, Xinghan's long sword came out of its sheath, and the sword momentum did not stop at all, and the knight behind the shield and shield rushed to the horse of His Royal Highness the eldest prince, and the pieces of arrow feathers were torn into dozens of pieces by the long sword!
"Your Highness, they are rebels, retreat!"
The officers in ambush at the head of the wall couldn't imagine that anyone could escape from such a sudden attack, and of course they didn't expect that there was also an elven elder with superb archery skills in the opposing camp-the light green short arrow pressed the wind and instantly turned into more than a dozen air shadows, and the archers were immediately named by the short arrows, and before they even had time to scream, one by one the white-clothed archers fell down in a languishing.
Several elven vulture knights in the air reacted extremely quickly, and entered the attack state in the shortest time, the three short bows did not stop pulling and releasing at all, and when the first pot of arrows was shot empty, there were no archers in an attacking state near the entire city wall.
In addition to the dark elves, the forest elves could not have imagined that there were other races that would set such a sinister and shameless trap, and the four elves were really angry, and their subordinates showed no mercy at all, and the arrows killed people.
"Toot-toot-" A flurry of horns sounded, and the colors on the faces of the three senior officers of the expeditionary force instantly became unsightly, according to the experience in the Flower Language Plain, this kind of horn was only used by the Holy See, and only when a large number of troops were used.
At this time, the total number of camel riders who were lucky enough to follow His Royal Highness the Great Prince into the city without being attacked by sandbags did not exceed 10, and most of them were greeted by the rain of arrows just now. Now the gate has been filled with sandbags by the enemy, and there is no way to go back. If he is really entangled with the enemy of the brigade, even if Chi Aotian calls out to leave the dragon, it is quite tricky to protect Afti from withdrawing.
"Elder, there's still a war near the palace in the middle of the city, go there!" The last two vulture elven knights in the sky flew from the east against the ground.
Oh! ...... The rebels haven't captured the palace yet?
"Go and meet your father at the palace. Elder Qingluo, let your people inform the soldiers outside and kill in!" Afti roared, raised the bright scimitar in his hand, and took the lead in rushing into the alleyway.
Qingluo followed closely beside His Royal Highness the Great Prince, and the short bow in his hand shot over all the hostile soldiers who emerged from all corners in front of him like a whack-a-mole, and Tayang was not idle just now, and the four sheep-headed monsters bleated and waved the sharp-beaked war hammer in their hands and pounced on the front. Most of the cities in the desert are adobe structures, and the adobe has become soft as the age has passed, and the sheep-headed monsters have smashed people and destroyed people, and demolished walls when encountered.
Fortunately, His Royal Highness Afti reacted quickly, and the group had just fled from the city gate, and at least nearly a thousand infantry rushed over with a howl against the walls on both sides, among which there were some white-clothed soldiers! Chi Aotian resisted the desire to pounce and fight, and now, he must escort Afti to the palace safely, only in this way can he finally gain the support of the Desert Empire.
The rebels in the city obviously have high-ranking commanders and high-level commanders of a certain level, and a series of horns to mobilize troops continue to sound in all directions, and where the horns sound, there are shouts of killing!
Almost instantly, with His Royal Highness the Prince's Guards as the center, all the deep alleys rushed out of the soldiers who were screaming and screaming to kill -- Afti was almost scolding his mother in his heart, what kind of method did this seemingly tens of thousands of rebels infiltrate the city of Mumbai? Could it be that the city guards all grew up eating grass?
It's a pity that the bad situation doesn't allow him to think much at all, and two or three hundred white-clothed soldiers rushed out of Hula in a small alley recently, and the guards of less than twenty people didn't have any room to dodge, and they crashed head-on.
"Destroy these bastards!" Ta Yang roared, and rushed forward with his four evil guards, the sharp-beaked war hammer in his hand was like a wind sweeping away leaves, and three white shields were instantly flown kites, and then, blood and screams flew up at the same time! Qingluo followed closely behind Ta Yang, every time he waved his arm, the four short arrows immediately started, and then turned into gas marks and disappeared into the enemy! Chi Aotian threw away the battle shield, and held the Xinghan long sword with both hands at the same time, like a white light broke into the middle of the enemy, and the white light instantly covered the red clothes. Afti had no choice but to summon his own sand lizard - the last time the phantom beast was seriously injured and fled back to the phantom beast sacred garden, it has not fully recovered, and its body is still dripping with blood from time to time. Hussein had already summoned his mount. The remaining more than 10 camel knights and three elven archers in the air burst into the group like wolves.
Unexpectedly, the combat power of the two or three hundred instructors in front of him was quite weak, and in just a few breaths, nearly half of the instructors were summoned by His Death Temple. During the battle, to the surprise of the soldiers of the Desert Empire, these instructors who looked old and young obviously had the distinctive characteristics of the desert people on their faces - all narrow eyes, pointed and slightly convex chins, and slender eyebrows.
"Bastard, Badaha, why are you?" a desert knight suddenly shouted, even stunned for a moment.
The price of being stunned was that the first soldier of the Prince's Guard fell, and a short instructor took the opportunity to seize the back of the camel, and at the same time, sent the half-foot-long dagger into the knight's waist. The knight's majestic body shook, and as the blood poured to the ground, the man also fell from the hump, and then, the knight's body was drowned in a mess of weapons.
The young instructor known as Badaha was also stunned for a moment, the corners of his mouth cracked, and as soon as he let out a cry of "brother", he was pushed by the other instructors who rushed up behind him and didn't know where to go.
Although the strength of these old and weak instructors was not strong, they managed to entangle the guards for a few minutes, and in a few minutes, more and more soldiers rushed up from all directions, like a sea of white and gray surrounding the camel knights in the middle. The knights clung to His Highness Avti, and the scimitars in their hands slashed hard, and each of them was wounded.
When Elf Elder Qing Luo returned his hand again, he found that there was no more feather arrows in the quiver behind his back!When was the last time he shot all the feather arrows into the air? While such a thought flashed in his mind, His Excellency Elder smiled bitterly and pulled out the short blade of the elven protection from his boots.