Thirty-seven Desperate Situation

No one noticed that in the rear of the army, the former captain of the knights, who had just been removed from his post, did not run to the logistics troops, but made a small bend and ran to a clearing. There, Rook was waiting for him with his small team.

Rook has seen everything that is happening. "Well done, Captain. I will definitely fulfill my promise and speak well for you in front of Duke Lane. But for now, you'd better leave with me, or I'm afraid someone will be against you. ”

They rode away.

Ashruphat is dead now, but there is still Leo...... It doesn't matter, tonight, he has arranged another move and it will work. He secretly gave Leo a bottle of wine. As long as Leo drinks it...... Once he is dead, the coalition forces are leaderless, and then Ryan can take over the entire army without much difficulty. As for Thomas...... According to the results of his men's infiltration last night, Thomas did not live for more than a month.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the former knight captain behind him. It was really unexpected to be able to deal with Ashrufat so easily, and it was very accidental and lucky.

Eshurufat, if you want to blame it, you will be blamed for your own life. Rook thought as he rode his horse in a happy stride. Maybe you didn't figure out what happened until you died. A knight is also a human being, and he can be bought if he is a human being! It is far less difficult to buy a person who does not seem to be important, but is in a key position.

Of course, the piece was able to work immediately, and it could only be down to luck.

"Fooled!" was Ashrufat's first subconscious thought.

They rushed out of the aisles of the city gates, and instead of the panicked, confused Paro soldiers they had expected, they saw the neat shooting of crossbows. Above their heads, in front of them, to their left and right, all were well-ambushed crossbowmen, and steel arrows rained down, knocking down half of the knights in an instant.

Ashrufat knew he had been fooled. The Paro sent a team of knights, and the real goal was to lure the enemy into the city, annihilate the group, and boost their morale with a small victory.

The crossbowmen stepped back, behind the pikemen. On all sides were the sharp slits of spears. Even if there was a miracle that allowed the knights to break through this neat spear formation, the rear of these soldiers was also a well-guarded fence, and they were not afraid of the impact of the war horses.

"Turn back, retreat!" Ashrufat tried to turn around. But now the knights are crowded in this narrow gate hole, and the knights in front want to turn around, while the knights in the back don't know what is happening in the road. People and people, horses and horses are crowded together, and for a moment there is no place to turn back and retreat.

The Paros could not have allowed them to retreat! In the rear, a flame was suddenly ignited. It must have been sprinkled with oil on the ground, or something, but a wall of fire rose behind the knights. The frightened horses scurried uncontrollably, and farther away, huge iron gates were slowly falling.

"Dismount, dismount, cover with a warhorse!" shouted Ashrufat. Because the flames frightened the horses, it is better to fight on foot than on horseback. And at this time, it is impossible to retreat, only by trying to move forward, seizing the winch that controls the opening and closing of the city gate, and controlling the city gate to let friendly troops enter the city, there is a glimmer of life.

The knights also quickly woke up to the dire situation in front of them. They dismounted, shielded themselves with shields, and pounced on the spears that stood in their way. Eshurufat took the lead, hiding behind his shield, smashing his shield into the tip of his spear, sticking it to slash the pikemen with his sword. Other knights followed his example, using shields to clear paths, and slashing enemies at close range with swords and battle axes in an attempt to make their way out.

At the moment of life and death, more than a hundred Casilos knights gave full play to their heroic courage and tenacious fighting spirit, and managed to fight their way through the spears and halberds of the Paro people, and rushed straight to the room on the left. When the castle was built, there were rooms for winches on the left and right sides behind the gate, but in actual use, only the winch was placed on the left.

The two sides were entangled, and the crossbow and musket and the like could not help for a while. In this kind of battle, the Paros took full advantage of the overwhelming superiority in numbers. All the lone knights were attacked by several or even a dozen enemies, and they were swallowed up one by one.

Things are a little better on Ashrufat's side. Led by Ashrufat, the knights rushed forward desperately. Although the Paro people could not resist the onslaught of the knights head-on, they continued to kill the knights of the palace from the flanks and back. The deeper you go into the enemy line, the more knights will die. However, after paying heavy casualties, they finally tore a way out of the thick Paro army.

The Paros did not expect that the knights could rush out of the Paro infantry who were several times their size. The door to the winch room on the left is not equipped with much force.

This mistake made Ashruphat simply overjoyed. The entrance to the room is not big, there is no one inside, as long as the room can be guarded, no matter how many enemies outside there are, they will not be able to rush in for a while.

......

The iron gates, which had been completely closed, suddenly began to rise again, but only for a small period of time before they stopped.

"Quick, cover the attack!" Leo saw this, and immediately understood that Ashrufate was still fighting hard in the city, and that they had captured the gate switch. At least they were already in that room, otherwise it would never have been possible for the gates to be a little open. There is no doubt that the Paros and Ashrufat are fighting to the death around the winch.

The drums beat loudly. The militiamen, led by knights, rushed towards the city walls with improvised ladders. The archers, on the other hand, shot at the walls with a rain of arrows to cover the besieging troops. Leo didn't expect to take the castle with a simple ladder and hook, but at least he could contain the forces of the Paros and share the pressure on Aerufat.

......

"No, it can't be pushed!" The four knights pushing the winch had done their best, but the damn machine didn't move.

This is absolutely not normal, and usually, it is enough for one person to open the city gates. To speed things up, sometimes two people are needed. If you encounter a situation of improper maintenance, lack of lubrication, you occasionally need three people, but there is definitely a problem that four people cannot push.

And at the beginning, the winch can be pushed, but it can't be pushed after only half a turn. Judging from this point, the Paro people should have used some kind of machinery to jam the iron cable.

Now, the surviving thirty or so knights are guarding the room. The Paros could not rush in for a while, but the knights had no chance of breaking out. The war drums outside shook the sky, and the coalition brigade was definitely attacking the city wall, but they didn't know what was going on inside at the moment.

"No, I can't push it. A knight surveyed the top of the room, where the iron rope protruded. "It must be over there, halfway up the wall. I remember there was a hole there where I could grease the cables. The Paro people are there, stuck on a wire with something. Unless we rush out and kill the person in the slot, we won't be able to open the door at all. ”

The battle at the edge of the doorway continues. The infantry rushed in, but were killed by the knights who occupied the position. The Paro people were also anxious. They brought in musketeers, first covered their shots with a dense barrage of bullets, and then charged not ordinary infantry, but knights in the same heavy armor. Relying on the numerical superiority, they simply rushed the Cassilos knights to lose their foothold and retreated.

In this case, let alone rushing out, it is very difficult to even hold on. The knights on the edge of the winch looked at each other with a desperate look in their eyes.

"Add a few more people and see if you can rely on brute force. Ashrufat ordered loudly. He himself raised his sword and rushed towards the doorway. Surprisingly, however, before he could rush in, the Paros retreated, leaving corpses all over the ground, including a few Paro knights who were slow to retreat.

This was a puzzling move, as the Paros were close to breaking through the defenses. They've brought in magicians? no, it can't be. Before the start of the war, Ashruphat used three demon-breaking scrolls in a row, and for a short time the mages did not think about what to do.

But Ashruphat immediately understood why the Paros were retreating. There was not even time to catch his breath, and one by one the burning fires were thrown in. These fires don't know what they are, and as soon as they hit the ground, a large amount of smoke was generated, and in the blink of an eye, the entire space was filled. The smoke not only choked people, but even their eyes were extremely stinging.

"Ahem...... Cough...... This smoke ...... Poisonous ......," said one of the knights, struggling. Armor resists swords and spears, but has no effect on smoke. There is no place to hide here. In the blink of an eye, the knights fell down one by one, their faces turned blue one by one, and black blood flowed from their noses and mouths. The dying knights clutched at their throats, but their bodies stiffened uncontrollably. Smoke filled the space, and even the four knights pushing the winch were dead, still trying in vain to push the winch before they died.

Ashrufat also felt very choked, but he found that he did not feel any other discomfort.

"Master, the danger is as high as seventy-five percent...... You have to rush out of the void, there is no other way. In her mind, Carrie said. "You can wait a minute. It should be all musketeers outside now, and they will leave in a moment. ”

I don't know if this time is long or short. But when the smoke cleared, the Paros rushed in again.

"There's one more!" shouted the Paro man who had taken the lead, spear at his spear.

Ashrufat's reaction was much quicker than he expected, the magic sword slicing off the spear's head in one fell swoop, and then the second sword slashing off his head. But in this short moment, three Paro people had already rushed in. You can't hold it alone. Although one Paro soldier after another fell under the sword, Ashrufat was still forced to retreat.

Twenty or so Paro soldiers had already rushed in and besieged him. There were no other people behind, but Ashrufat knew that as long as they ran out of the city and shouted, there would be an endless stream of reinforcements.

"Master, you must use magic ......"

The effect of the Demon Breaker Scroll is still there, and the wind of magic is chaotic, and at this moment, the use of magic will be killed by the reaction force of magic. But Ashrufat immediately realized what kind of magic Carrie had made him use. Dark magic does not come from the wind of magic, but from the energy accumulated in his own body, and the Scroll of Destruction can disable it, but it cannot be used against it.

But to wake up the bodies of the dead knights would be to desecrate these knights who died heroically.

"Master, think about it, what is their dying wish? It's not blasphemy! You don't need to drive them to do what they don't want to do. In her head, Carrie explained.

A Paro man in the back suddenly let out a cry of fear as a dead man suddenly grabbed his feet. Then the dead man got up, staggered close to him, and grabbed his neck with his cold hand. The shouts spread immediately, as many of the dead people crawled up and tangled with the Paro soldiers.

Eshurufat took the opportunity to rush out of the city, there were not many Paros outside, as long as he could kill the card slot, he could ......

Then he saw a cannon facing him, and the ignition rod had reached over the fire door.