Chapter 126: In War, There Are Always Sacrifices
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Charge. (The text is first published in the reading room biquge.info))
The sound of hooves rumbled, shaking the earth, and flames burst into flames, burning the sky. The long spears made a more subtle sound on the enemy's chest, the sound of flesh and bones breaking, the arrows and swords ripped out more brilliant colors on the enemy's body, and the blood splattered into a blinding red......
Charge, charge.
Everybody is yelling, everybody is wailing, everybody is killing, everybody is being killed, the blood of the enemy and his own is splashing around, the voice of the enemy is intertwined with his own, and finally it turns into a silent roar!
Charge, charge...... Charge forward, charge towards death......
The color in the eyes is filled with the color of blood and fire, and I can't distinguish any color other than red, and the sound in my ears is filled with rumors and roars, and I can't receive any sound after the buzz, and it doesn't matter anymore, only the forward **, only the killing **...... In this battlefield of flesh and blood, the so-called strategy, the so-called purpose, and even the so-called survival are all insignificant, and the only thing left is the crazy and simple thoughts that are instigated.
Attack the enemy.
The number of enemies is quite a lot, there are thousands, even tens of thousands, but for a city defense, this number is nothing, with the help of the power of beasts, the main force among them crossed the moat, and even climbed the tower, they have trebuchets, they have giant crossbows, and half of them are still hesitating helplessly, whether to put down the bow and arrow in their hands......
This also makes their offensive unable to focus on one point...... And in the face of the surprise attack, it was only humans, the panicked formation of the spearmen, even if they dropped their bows and arrows and raised their ten-foot spears. They have a messy, thin seven-story human wall. It is impossible to resist the charge of a hundred knights in one round!
Not to mention, after riding a gun. And the mage......
With just a spell, the pouring rain immediately moved forward as if it had been poured into a basin, extinguishing the fire. Shrouds enemies in an invisible mist. The oncoming spearmen screamed, but opened their mouths to swallow a mouthful of rainwater, and the raindrops were driven by the wind and struck the people like countless small fists in the face. Not to mention stabilizing your formation. And just a breath later, it was as if a whistling icy wind was blowing from the depths of the glacier behind the rain, with great force, so that the slender people could not even stand on their feet in the wind, and scraped on the skin like a thousand knives. Screams!
And so, the collapse occurred.
The soldiers ran in the darkness and wailed in the icy wind. Abandon the attack, abandon the team, and ignore the angry cries of the commanders...... And the knights of several hundred people, just like this, passed through their array, pushed forward, became a heavy weight, and smashed the balance of victory and defeat with a heavy blow!
"It's almost ...... It's almost ......"
Countless voices in my ears filled my nose with the smell of blood. and the jolting of the horse, which made Edward tense his body.
The mental power to manipulate the sound is bulging. Turning into a subtle shock in his mind, the feeling was quite weird, not painful, more like numbness, but it also made his mind extraordinarily sober, and on this battlefield, the only one who was awake was ...... He must become the most sober being on the battlefield.
Because he led the charge of the cavalry.
Carefully tugging at the reins, he kept himself in the center of the team, and his eyes were through the psionic forehead, taking in all angles of the situation.
一 qiē顺lì.
In the city gate behind him, countless figures rushed out of the city gate, scattering in all directions, although messy, but unstoppable...... And ahead, the last layer of the enemy has collapsed, and next, there is a small group of enemy battalions thousands of feet away, as for the scattered enemy soldiers, it is not necessary to care, in this battlefield of cold weapons, it is almost impossible to gather a rout in the night.
The rest is even simpler.
But will it be so smooth?
Edward took a deep breath of the blood-smelling air...... There seemed to be a chill that was moistening his pores from all directions. It was an instinct that had arisen over many years of encountering danger...... Especially in the recent period, he faintly noticed that this feeling became more and more sensitive as his mental power grew.
The last handful of enemies scattered, and in the midst of the confusion they chose the most instinctive of things, and the knights let out a roar of excitement...... Victory, at close range, stretched out its hand to them - they broke through the besieging enemy, brought a line, nay, a wide life to the tens of thousands of citizens of the city, and the result was enough to drive them crazy with pride.
Edward's body moved.
He seemed to be slowly slowing down his horse's speed, but in the next moment, he had turned to the side, and at the same time raised his hand, when, with a bang, he grabbed a long sword that seeped out of thin air, and the huge force of the sword responded to make his body crooked, but before he could regroup, the other blade had already broken through a layer of light that erupted around his body—it was the deviating force field of the magic shield—and then hit him hard, and was finally pulled by the chain mail with a click!
The psychic sorcerer's body slid down, clenching his teeth so that he didn't scream, but it was also so painful that cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Then he noticed that in the field of vision behind him, the flickering luster converged into a different red from the ordinary.
Being able to suddenly appear on the back of a galloping horse is definitely an unexpected sneak attack...... But it seems to make sense.
In fact, only this fellow artifact owner was able to avoid observation and get close to Edward unnoticed, and this time, he was obviously using the female psychic warrior, the terrifying post-teleportation sneak attack tactics - both stood behind him, even Edward couldn't help but be in a hurry......
Just for a moment.
Edward immediately lowered his weight and lay forward, but with the soft sound of a click, three crossbow arrows were already flying backwards from his armpits! And beside him, the glittering sword was almost the next moment directed at the throat of the red figure!
But in the visual vision, the two enemies were also moving at the same moment - one flickered and disappeared, and the other ...... He didn't even dodge or dodge, but his whole person exploded and became a storm of flames!
A flash of silver.
The burst of flames stretched out like monsters, enveloping dozens of knights in an instant! Xiang fell one after another. Almost instantly, half of the knights were affected by the messy shock, the original charge. It was turned into a mess!
A gap of a few seconds passed in a flash. A black figure emerges from a patch of silver. Fall to the ground with a bang!
Edward couldn't help but let out a muffled grunt - using the time jump himself. The feeling of throwing yourself into the flow of time is dizzying, but the inertia does not die because of it, so the subsequent impact makes the psychic warlock feel only that his whole body hurts as if it is about to fall apart...... But his brain was very clear, and as soon as he turned over, he had already stood up, and at the same time held the two sharp blades that stabbed at him!
Ding!
As if just a breath, the metal clash sounded four or five times!
"Meow!"
Edward gritted his teeth. He is not an ordinary mage, in hand-to-hand combat, his dagger and fists and joints skills often catch most of the warriors in this world off guard, but I didn't expect the other party to be an expert in this area, although he should only specialize in the fighting style of the short sword, but there is no doubt that it is more refined than Edward's self-exploration methods.
Therefore, the psychic warlock can only retreat with one touch, and use backwards to dodge the opponent's attack.
As a teleporter, Edward didn't have too direct a means of attack. Experience the excruciating pain, the heart piercing...... Most of them focus on directly attacking the opponent's spirit. And now the other party seems to have figured out all his attack methods. He was so fast that he was so quick that he seemed to be using some kind of illusion that Edward couldn't spare a little time to concentrate!
But it didn't last long.
Ka!
In the sound of metal clashes, Edward's three-edged dagger collided with one of the opponent's weapons, and both of them flew up! But instead of retreating again, he rushed forward and broke into the opponent's defensive circle - the metal glove grabbed one of the opponent's remaining weapons with a click, and then, the spiritual power turned into a storm and slammed forward!
His opponent snorted and staggered back, eventually spurting a large stream of blood out of his cloak!
But Edward's heart suddenly became cold,
The other party's expression...... Are you smiling?
The red shadow, which seems to have grown, is accompanied by a strange light!
No, it's not the other party's shadow that changes, it's the space!
It was like being thrown into a pool of stone, writhing for a moment, and then making a piercing and strange sound as if rubbing against rusty iron! Then, the writhing scene—the knights struggling to stand up, the dust, the flickering flames, all rippled in the air, and cracked into countless and subtle lines!
The 'pond' became a cracked lens, and the frenzied energy exploded only at the moment of contact, and the sound became poignant and faint in an instant, as if the surrounding qiē was noisy, dancing, and boiling...... The wind howled sharply, spewing mad energy from the twisted center...... That's a big clump of silver star shavings!
Edward......
It seemed like someone was shouting his name, but Edward didn't have much time to care...... The scenery in front of me is twisting and changing, in the blue and silver!
- With the dividing line, do you still feel jumpy?——
It's dawn.
The sun hung lazily in the sky, and through the thick veil-like clouds, it faintly swayed a blue and white light that did not look like what this season should be...... Gloomy and cold.
And between heaven and earth, those vibrating voices are in harmony.
A mournful trumpet echoed among the distant mountains. Like the wails of dying animals, even the noise of the battlefield cannot be concealed. But even louder was the creaking friction, the sound of a bowstring stranding that was linked together.
The time has come.
With a series of roars from near and far, the terrible single shattered and turned into a noisy hum, and in the somewhat depressed sky, an even thicker and darker dark cloud suddenly rose...... The dark cloud lingered in the sky for a while, as if to greet the larger cloud that had condensed into a human shape, and then turned around and fell into a dense rainstorm that fell on the panicked crowd as gravity pulled!
As the raindrops approached their targets, they suddenly turned into whistling steel murder weapons, and they hissed and laughed. Then put yourself on a sharp edge. Pierce into every object you can touch.
Wood, pieces of iron, and. Flesh and blood.
Shrouded in this 'rain', the panicked crowd is making the last resistance...... Large and small shields or similar things were raised. Split. It became a hiding place for small pieces, and yet, those short arm shields were almost nothing in the face of this rain of arrows, and the gravity-pulled steel arrows struck those small obstacles, making the sturdy muscles under them numb and weak, and then their own latecomers grazed them and stabbed heavily into those hair-covered bodies!
But their suffering has only just begun.
"Archer, bow ten degrees back! Strike left and right! Shoot again!"
The merciless command was delivered to their opposite, every bowstring of the phalanx of bows and arrows. With this voice, the longbow released an even thicker dark cloud in a uniform hum, but this salvo was purposeful and selective, and the rain of arrows falling on the left and right at the same time successfully drove the scattered infantry together.
"Pass the order, let the knights reserve their strength, and those who are routed try to let the pikemen line up to assassinate, and use arrows to shoot the enemy, before they are defeated. We still have to kill......"
Rudolf Hesench withdrew his gaze from the distant enemy and gave a brief command.
And then. The young thousand-man man turned his horse's head and passed through the rear of the procession, into the simple defense of the knightly guard.
In the center of this defensive circle, on a low hill, under a Daut tree at least fifty years old, lay a simple small table and a few folding chairs. But there was only one man, sitting at the table. He did not wear a helmet, but placed it on the table, revealing a head of gray hair that showed his age, a few strands of hair scattered haphazardly, and a half-inch-long beard, which together covered the small half of his face.
However, he didn't seem to be in the mood to pay attention to this, just hung his head on the table, the scattered parchment...... Or, listening to the young herald beside him, reciting the contents of a piece of parchment.
“...... Hayman City fell completely in the early hours of the morning...... General Claudia, whereabouts unknown...... However, it has been pointed out that before the fall of Hayman, a group of knights, as well as at least more than 3,000 people, broke through the western gates. ”
"You actually ran away some of it? Good, it's unexpected. As if he didn't notice the young officer's approach, the person at the table just casually asked, "What about the response from the Mage Tower?"
"The reinforcements composed of ten high-level mages arrived at the first time, but the city had already fallen, so they had to retreat and stay on the Weilan-Gerst line, and the only information they had now was sorted out and sent. ”
"Send an order to those mages to hurry up their search for General Claudia, she is an excellent military talent in the kingdom and cannot afford to be missed. ”
"Shouldn't we...... Send at least some of the reinforcements to meet the men who have escaped from Hayman City?" the young man dismounted, approached gently, and then did not ask a question until the herald had left.
"It doesn't matter, it's more real, and the empire will spend more power because of it, let them go......"
The old man at the table raised his head slightly, but soon returned his gaze to the delicate parchment map, on the fine surface of which countless gray lines were outlined with layers of barriers, but there was a red strip that pierced through the heavy gray barriers, like a sharp arrow, slanting forward to the west, pointing straight at the beautifully drawn circle.
But the young man's eyebrows were tightened because of this, and he seemed to be able to hear the suppressed taste of pleasure in the other person's voice.
Cold, cruel.
"In order to surround 100,000 people, give up 40,000, no, at least 40,000, isn't this price too huge?" he finally couldn't help but speak, with some negative feelings in his low voice: "...... Those are the subjects of the Empire, and it's you...... Subjects who have guarded them for many years!"
"As long as we have a qiē shun lì,, we will soon take it back, and lose this opportunity. We will not have the opportunity to bring the elite of the empire into the good pockets again...... Especially the 10,000 Jin Jinhua Praetorian Guards. That's a far more terrifying force than 400,000 civilians, and Gülen isn't smart, but he's not a fool, he can't do anything like slaughtering a city...... In fact, if he could do that, things would have gone a little bit better, and I would have given him a little more sweetness. ”
The old man's drooping eyelids did not move, and his gray brow was as calm as a mountain: "Death is just a value, a part of the loss, and it is not worth arguing. Don't forget that in war, there are always sacrifices – I thought you knew that. ”
“...... Yes. In war, there is always sacrifice......"
The young man was silent for a moment, then muttered to himself.
He knew he had just said something inappropriate...... That is a kind of naivety, and in the old man's world, this kind of idea should have been ruled out long ago, and anyone who holds this idea will inevitably arouse his disgust......
But can you just keep silent?
The young man looked up, and in the distance of his gaze, a shadow had begun to move across the plain, they moved, they transformed, and at last they became a huge wedge, stabbing into the messy, flag-strewn formation!
Silently, the wedge separated the layer of formation, like a black sailfish bursting out of the turbid waves, moving forward and plunging heavily into the steel jungle.
The horses in the first row overturned, and the sharp tips of their spears pierced through their heavy armor, but their weight and momentum broke off a piece of the tip of the spear, knocking over the shield in front of them, and for a moment the smoke and dust filled the air. The knights leaped from their horses, and were immediately impaled by more spears handed to them, but they struggled forward, and before they died, they had already wiped the necks and chests of three or four spearmen with their swords, but the knights behind leaped over the corpses of their comrades and sprinted forward on the shoulders of their enemies, and the ordinary knights' swords and war hammers brought a shower of blood under their feet.
"For justice!" The slogan of the charge sounded, riding the sound of the wind, transmitting a wisp of aftersound to the ears of the young thousand-year-old...... (To be continued......)
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