Chapter 67: Entering the City
After nearly a hundred psionic knights hedged against the cavalry of the star spirit power blessed by Delia, about seventy percent of them still survived, but most of them were seriously injured, and less than half of them were capable of fighting again.
Not only were some of them knocked unconscious, but more knights looked at the psionic energy covered by their weapons in disbelief, completely unable to understand why they couldn't break through the light shield protection on the enemy's body, their confidence was fatally damaged at this time, and at this time, no one could stand up and order this group of chaotic knights, their commander had already fallen in the second confrontation with Eddard.
Almost none of the 2,000 cavalry have Ed's accurate eyesight and can grasp the best timing many times, but there are also many people who happen to be able to hit the enemy's vital point with their weapons in the chaotic battle, but their weapons are not as good as Ed's Gelmer, and there is no energy other than the power of the star spirit on them, so after this charge, although their own losses are not large, the results are also limited, and the number of people on both sides is very inconsistent.
Delia had a general idea of the situation of all her own personnel from the link of the Star Spirit Power, and knew that the casualties were not large, so she immediately organized a second attack, took everyone around a big bend, turned around, and locked the enemy back on the route of her attack.
"Ed, you lead some people to fall behind, and we will take turns rushing up!"
Delia approached her companion when she turned, and even gestured, telling him of her intentions, apparently just now the girl also noticed that Ed had won a lot, and it was the deadliest threat to the enemy in her team, after all, her current star spirit power was still mainly based on protection, and her attack was lacking.
Ed was distracted and controlled the arc of the turn, and after listening to what Di Lia meant, he quickly nodded, and when he ran back in a straight line, he slowly reduced his speed and fell behind.
"Forward, forward, you come with me!"
As the cavalry overtook him, Ed shouted loudly, telling them to focus on moving forward, leaving them alone, and only signaling to the left and right to obey his orders when they were close to the end.
As it turned out, their preparation before the battle was still insufficient, and at this time Ed did not carry his own flag, so he boldly straightened up on horseback, raised Gelmer in his hand, and waved it to the left and right, replacing the command role of the flag.
The spirit flame rushed to the top of the fog layer along the sword, and with Ed's swing, it was also eye-catching, and Ed intercepted some of the knights at the back of the team, controlling the speed of the group, and opened a certain distance from the large army in front.
"Move closer to me!" Ed struggled to restrain the group, turning the formation from the original club to a sharp knife, or even a thin stabbing sword, he himself was the tip, and the cavalry behind him was his reliance.
He had already thought about his next move, and he had a rough plan in mind.
Due to the rapid agitation of the two riding troops, the fog in this area has gradually been torn apart, and the vision is much clearer.
Ed saw that the cavalry led by Delia in front of him caught up with the team of the Ingier knights, and there was another shock, after the other party was killed by himself, the commander was not well organized in time, and the guide did not make the right decision when facing the enemy on the battlefield, and immediately dispersed and retreated, giving his side the opportunity to kill everything.
Deria's men stepped heavily on the enemy like a huge plow, although they still failed to kill a few, but completely destroyed the enemy's confidence, at this time, the battered Ingier knight had given up the heart of fighting these enemies with unknown powers, and turned his head to leave the place before the psionic energy was exhausted.
Some people wanted to return to Auvaré City to find the organization, and many more turned their heads and ran in the direction they came, completely abandoning the operation.
This is the person Ed brought with him, he inserted from the edge of the enemy, Germo attacked in an instant, he had already completed a kill, the nature of his own psionic energy was much more fierce than the gentle power of the star spirit, and the other party thought that his attack was as weak as the others, but it was very wrong.
Killing one person, Ed changed his course, not completely walking in a straight line to keep up with Delia's troops, but slightly arcing, Gelmer found another person, this time the opponent was not careless, and the screams of his companions made him go all out to prevent Ed's assassination at the moment.
The boy didn't care, and didn't slow down to make up for the second hit, but continued to move forward, making a rather large arc to envelop more enemies in it, and the enemies who blocked his own attacks would naturally encounter the attacks of the cavalry behind him, even if each of them was not enough to kill at once, but it added up, and while holding back the enemy, it was also constantly depleting their spiritual energy reserves.
Ed completely gave up on keeping up with Delia at this time, but led the team to constantly cruise through the battlefield, they are few, so the turning radius is also small, and the action is far more flexible than a large army of two thousand people, like a death wheel constantly turning on the enemy, little by little squeezing out their last blood.
Deria didn't have Ed's special observation skills, so she didn't see how Ed carried out his orders until she led the team to make another U-turn and put the battlefield to the front.
"Come on, charge with me one more time and crush the enemy completely!"
Seeing that his companions had effectively held back Ingier's knights, the young commander was overjoyed, and once again led his high-morale cavalry to launch a new charge.
Ed took his team to change the route at the right distance, avoiding the crushing of the large army, and the delicate operation on the battlefield not only benefited from his panoramic insight ability to seize from the enemy, but also inseparable from the virtual map of the battlefield that the engraving helped him build in his heart, which can achieve perfect local command that many famous generals cannot complete.
Although the power of the star spirit is not a heavy attack, but the Ingier knights want to really block every attack that carries energy to consume their own spiritual energy, three charges, each time they have to block the weapon attacks in the hands of countless enemies, this is not like facing ordinary people almost no consumption, if the opponent is two thousand spirit knights, the nearly 100 Ingier troops may have more than half of the casualties after a single impact.
Therefore, when Deria led the team to drive away the last dozens of enemy knights, Ed and his men easily knocked out the few who were still standing at the end, and most of the remaining Turin energy was exhausted and lost its combat power, or was knocked out by the heavy blows of the continuous star spirit's power.
The young man handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to the cavalry behind him, and there were a few dishonest ones who directly drew out a sword of Golmo and killed them, and in the end there were more than twenty prisoners left, almost none of them escaped, and the remaining more than seventy people lost their lives here forever.
"I don't know if this is a heavy blow to Ingier, who has lost so many psionics. ”
Ed thought as he led the captives to join Deria.
Coming to the commander's side, she was leading the people to stop in front of the gates of Ovalé, and the sound of constant killing could be faintly heard from inside.
"More enemies are still behind this gate. Seeing Ed escorting the enemy to arrive, Delia nodded to him, relieved to find that his companion was fine, and there were no new wounds, so she immediately released a magic spell for him to replenish his energy.
"If we open the gates and enter, the enemy is likely to be reduced to pieces, and it will be very difficult, almost impossible, to annihilate them all. Andre said on the side, and Ed noticed that there was a faint look of excitement on the companion's face, and there were dark red blood stains on the corners of his mouth.
"Maybe I can go in first, gather the psykers who are defending inside, and then spread the news that the enemy will know that their troops outside the city have been wiped out, and drive them out, and you will take the large army outside to chase them directly and annihilate them. Ed thought for a moment and came up with a risky idea, which was difficult to implement, but not impossible.
"Nope. Delia shook her head, and she raised the shepherd's staff in her hand and pointed to the huge gate ahead.
"Rescue is the first priority, the second is to destroy the enemy, and Eddard you don't need to take such a risk, just to kill a few more enemies, in case you make a mistake, you can't make it. ”
Ed's heart warmed, it was true that although he had the power of the star spirit as a foundation just now, he only used his spiritual energy at the moment of attack, and the spiritual energy reserves consumed were not much, but now there was not much left, and if he continued to fight, he could only try to use the transcendent spiritual energy group.
Then he was amazed, and with Delia's movements, a ball of light emanated from her staff, slowly pulling the two closed gates open, reminding him of the magician he had met in the cave below, and Gabriel had done the same thing.
But that time the other party was obviously more relaxed, not only did there be no trace of the spell casting, but the two special gates of the ruins were even bigger and heavier than the city gate in front of him, and Di Liya should still be a little worse in terms of cultivation compared to it.
But the two thousand cavalry around him obviously didn't see it that way, and when they saw their leader reveal such a powerful spell, they all cheered.
"Long live the Holy Maiden!"
"The Holy Maiden is invincible!"
The exhaustion of the battle had just been swept away, and the morale was getting more and more high, and it was clear that they would have nothing to fear with Deria.
"Whew!" Di Liya exhaled softly, her body shook, although the invisible defense on the city gate had been invalidated with the breaking of the spiritual energy array, and there was no additional hindrance to her movements, but it was obvious that using divine magic in this way was also a new and huge challenge for her,
Ed stretched out his hand to hold her, but suddenly stopped in mid-air, and the huge sound of mountains and tsunamis from behind him reminded him that next to him was not the unknown companion of the past, but the commander of the army, the savior of the Roland Kingdom, and the saint in the minds of countless people.
"What's wrong with you, why is your heart a little cold? ”
Ed followed her and led the cavalry towards the city under the beckoning of Deria, but his mind suddenly turned into a ball of paste, and an inexplicable feeling affected him, as if he suddenly saw the abyss separating himself from his companions, and every time the other party successfully took a step up, he was making himself even more insignificant.
"This rescue of Ovaret is successful, she will definitely be more appreciated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, that blonde guy values Delia's appearance very much, he will definitely choose her to be the princess, or let this operation fail, Delia will be able to return to my side again, change the original appearance, let's go on adventures together, to explore, it will be very interesting!"
Unconsciously, the spiritual energy and star spirit power in Ed's body were reduced to the extreme, dim, just leaning on Delia's side and being covered by her light, no one noticed this.
"Ding! The energy is insufficient, the host's ordinary psionic group reserves are exhausted, whether to activate the transcendent psionic group, Jian yì choose no. ”
In a trance, the prompt of the heart seal sounded in Ed's heart, and the boy woke up from the previous state of going mad, but he was still a little confused, and just responded in his heart with the prompt: "Choose no." ”
"Hey, what are you thinking!" a hand rested on Ed's shoulder from behind, and he looked back to see that it was Andre, looking at him with concern.
"Oh, it's fine. Ed saw the face of another former companion, and completely sobered up, what was he thinking, Delia was just his companion, and he had many other good companions who had also experienced life and death, Andre, Charlotte, and Gully's girl, etc.
"Cheer up, didn't you hear what our commander said, we will act in unison, and go to the rescue of the spiritual energy defense array in the city first, don't you get separated!"
André patted Ed's shoulder with concern, then hurried to the back of the group to restrain the cavalry, and the boy noticed that he had wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and regained the graceful demeanor of the son of the village chief.
Ed picked up his speed, made up for the little distance he had left behind, and came back behind Deria.
The main road of the city of Auwareh was so wide that countless caravans and carriages used to travel back and forth on it, contributing to the economy of the prosperous city, but now the shops on both sides were locked doors, and from the twinkling glances of the attic windows, everyone knew that danger had taken the place of peace, and that war had come to them.
Without the ordinary psionic group, Ed tried to use the power of the star spirit to replace his psionic energy to drive the ability of panoramic insight, and after a few attempts, it could barely work, but the scope was reduced a lot.
Fortunately, there was no shortage of people in the team who were familiar with this place, so Max volunteered to come to the front of the team and show Delia the way to the psionic defense array, he knew this place well.
Ed hadn't seen this Delia's loyal fan for a while, but luckily he wasn't one of the few unlucky people to be injured by Knight Ingier.
Max nodded slightly to Ed as he passed in front of him, and it could be seen that this kid had experienced the baptism of war and had become much more mature and stable, and Ed looked back behind him.
Like him, the two thousand cavalry who went out with the army have completely changed from ordinary people to serious soldiers, as an ordinary person, there are not many who have the courage to charge against the psionic knights, and even fewer can survive.
This battle tonight alone is probably enough for these guys to brag about for a lifetime, and when they are old, they can still take it out to tell their naughty grandson about how heroic they were back then.
"Kill!"
The sound of fierce battle in the distance as he approached his destination brought Ed's thoughts back to him, and he and the soldiers behind him had a determined look on their faces.
There is still a tough battle to fight, if you can survive, let's think about the future when you are old, and Ed's combat power has also dropped sharply without psionic energy at this time, and the corresponding danger has surged, but there is an extremely difficult street battle waiting for him in front of him.