Chapter Eighty-Five: Perseverance (I)

"Why don't you convince him?!" Shrell stared at Blake Hubble standing aside, lowered his voice and asked, "You also know that if he dies and Hornfort will never be able to defend it, why do you have to accept this vexatious 'order' - let me replace him, haven't you always hated me?"

β€œ...... So you're just fighting for money and not real knights, women. Blake Hubble glanced at her contemptuously, and didn't even look back: "Whether it is a right or wrong order, once the commander speaks, he must never return, this is the army, for the sake of glory and responsibility, we unconditionally obey any order, you cannot understand." ”

Looking at Blake's eyes, Shirrell pursed her lips a little unconvinced, but she couldn't understand - she didn't understand, what happened to these people, or was this the so-called "chivalry"?

"But whether you understand it or not, carry out the task assigned to you now, and take those soldiers to guard the gates of the castle - as Admiral Edward said, no Dominica who climbs the walls will let them go back alive!"

The dull beat of drums came from outside the castle, and a distant fire was like a tidal wave towards the Horn Castle. Turning around, Blake, the knight of the sacred tree, slowly drew his sword from its sheath, its silver glowing in the light of the fire. With this movement, the light sound of a sword unsheathed echoed through the castle like a wave!

A firelight rapidly approached the walls in the night, the sound of slogans and footsteps could be heard clearly even behind the battlements, and in the distance you could even see a huge battering ram slowly advancing down the hillside, surging towards the castle gate like a beast in the middle of the night.

"All steady, steady, don't panic!" Blake's shout echoed across the walls: "Crossbowmen wind up, ballistas and trebuchets ready - wait for the signal!"

After saying that, Blake glanced sideways at Shrell beside her, she glanced at the Dominic army in the distance, sighed and ran towards the castle tower, leaving with two retinues.

Amid a neat chorus of slogans, Dominic soldiers with torches held high followed the battering ram, and eight strong men in leather armor shouted and pushed the battering ram slowly until it finally climbed the muddy hillside.

"They want to destroy the gates of the city and let the trebuchets and ballistas entertain them fiercely!" Blake snorted coldly, and the herald beside him immediately blew the horn, and a long sound echoed in the castle, and in an instant a muffled sound like thunder was heard, flashing through the sky.

The fireball mixed with the heat wave dragged out the billowing smoke from the night sky under the dark night, and smashed into the Dominica army that was still advancing!

The screams and panic made the Dominic, who had just been imposing, stunned, but the offensive on the city wall had not stopped, and the fire continued in the dark night, and the winches of the ballistas drove the bowstrings to hold the cold black iron crossbow arrows, and rushed towards the enemy who was still advancing with a whistling sound that tore through the air in the roar of the machine!

The terrible screams, the panic and fear of the turmoil, the black iron arrow set off a bloody light, and the sharp arrow directly smashed the head of a purple sail mercenary into a smithereal, and then continuously pierced the shells of several rows of people behind, and pierced into the earth with shields;

"Don't stop, keep going, keep going!" The herald standing at the back of the military formation was directly knocked to the ground by the strong wind raised by the stone cannon, and was supported by several soldiers around him before he got up, and also pulled out the saber on his waist and waved it twice in mid-air: "For Lord Landzel, for the sake of 'Purple Sail', go forward - kill all the Turin dogs!"

"Kill all the Turin dogsβ€”β€”!!!! The soldiers who were still a little flustered immediately found the backbone, and a few relatively strong guys took the initiative to run over, helped the strong men push up the battering ram, and raised the shields in their hands one by one with a roar, and advanced towards the Horn Fort extremely quickly.

Dominic soldiers, with their blazing stone cannons and roaring iron arrows, rushed towards the castle gates like chaotic and raging waves. Blake Hubble, who was standing on the arrow tower, immediately ordered the second horn to be sounded, and the crossbowmen who had been standing by on the city wall immediately opened their bows and arrows, and the ignited arrows flew down from the sky like meteors, and landed in the front row of Dominic's line, with sparks of blood, accompanied by the screams before death.

The Dominic soldiers who rushed to cover the slaughter immediately raised their shields in front of them, and the longbowmen in the back line also began to fight back - Bright Star City has the best yew trees in Dominica, so their longbowmen are also the best in Dominica!

The rain of arrows that kept slanting from the city walls clashed frantically in mid-air, and the screams and splashes of blood in the night disappeared without a trace, although they had been beaten by crossbow arrows and stone cannons, the heavy battering rams finally began to open in front of the gates of Fort Horn, and the screams of the mountains and tsunamis, the Dominic soldiers who had covered the city gates shouted.

Nearly 100 Dominic soldiers standing a little far away from the city wall raised their longbows and under the protection of the shields in front of them, they shot sharp arrows at the city head in unison, the sharp tips of the arrows with the sound of tearing through the air, and the screams of being hit also raised a bloody rain on the city.

The cold-faced Blake Hubble did not show any compassion, but continued to order the crossbowmen to pour a rain of burning arrows, and a black arrow passed through his ear, and the blood that flowed red half of his cheeks.

"Master Blake Hubble......"

"Let the crossbowmen continue to fight back, give all the ballistas the order - dismantle that damn battering ram!" "Black, whose eyes were soaked in blood, didn't even look back, and interrupted the herald behind him with a shout: "Immediately!"

"Siege the city, smash their gates!" The Purple Sail mercenaries, who seemed to be hugging each other, raised their battering rams and slammed into the sturdy-looking gates.

Looking at the Dominicians who were screaming to climb the city wall with a bloodthirsty glint in their eyes, Shirrell shook his head and took the two-handed greatsword from his back, and the mercenaries of Silver Blood also let out a cry of excitement, staring at the damned fellows with the same fanatical attention, eager to plunge their spears into their stomachs.

Without any orders from Shirell, these bloodthirsty mercenaries had already pounced on the Dominicians who had climbed the tower, and they also roared loudly and waved their weapons in their hands.

The huge roar of the "Boom β€”β€”!" was accompanied by a terrible scream, and in just an instant, nearly ten ballistas aimed at the battering ram under the city wall at the same time, and this behemoth, which had already been overwhelmed, collapsed in an instant in a cloud of smoke and dust, and all the soldiers below died here silently.

"Damn Turin dogsβ€”β€”!" shouted the herald through gritted teeth, "erect a siege ladder, kill everyone for me, kill them allβ€”β€”!"

"You, and you, take your men around here. The herald grabbed the two centurions beside him: "This Horn Fort has another small city gate, it is easy to break through - kill it and open the city gate, do you hear it?"

Before the two of them could nod, a frenzied cheer suddenly sounded from the woods outside the city gate in the distance, and dozens of strong Turin soldiers followed behind a black-haired knight of the sacred tree and slashed into the Dominica flank, screaming and slashing fiercely, and the miserable screams pierced directly into the herald's ears, watching the unsuspecting brethren fall to the ground like a pile of matches, and terrible cries rang out from behind them!

"God bless Turin β€”β€”!!!!"