A ray of sunlight shone right on the top of the city, and the soldier in charge of the guard was awakened by the sunlight, and he yawned lazily, feeling very comfortable. After running around for a long time, I finally had a full meal last night, and the fatigue of the past few days broke out together, even though I had the duty of sentry, I still fell asleep unconsciously.

"Fortunately, I wasn't caught by the officer...... "The soldier was secretly glad in his heart, and he stood up, rubbing his sleepy eyes, and looked around. Suddenly, all his expressions seemed to be frozen, and a pair of eyes almost fell out of his sockets, and it was like a thunderbolt exploded in his brain......

The town was surrounded by neat armies, bright armor reflecting dazzling light in the sun, and except for the occasional neighing of horses, the whole scene was so quiet that people were frightened. The soldier who was guarding felt that he was about to faint, and he tried to open his mouth, but he could not make a sound for a long time......

Malek, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly woken up by a fierce knock on the door, and it took him a long time to get up. As soon as he opened the door, he saw his adjutant breaking in sweating profusely, and hurriedly shouted: "Big ...... Oh no! We're surrounded!"

"What?" Malek felt that his ears were useless, and he thought he had misheard.

"We, we're already surrounded! The Holy Army surrounds us!" the adjutant said in a hoarse voice.

When Malek heard this, he felt as if his feet were empty, and he fell into the abyss in an instant, and his body kept falling without obeying the call......

"Are you alright, sir, wake up!" the adjutant suddenly rolled his eyes and fell straight up, and immediately shouted in fright.

When Malek woke up, he woke up and saw that his bed was full of people, and he looked at the familiar faces, but he couldn't remember the names for a while. When everyone saw that he was awake, they all came up to greet him, but Marek felt so noisy that his head felt like it was about to crack.

It took a while for Marek's mind to become clearer, and he remembered that he had probably fainted just now, and the officers had all gathered around the bed. Marek asked in a weak voice, "How's it going, how long have I been asleep?"

The adjutant leaned over to Marek and said in as calm a tone as possible, "Your Excellency, you have probably slept for more than an hour. Right now...... Outside the city were the troops of the Holy Cult Army, probably tens of thousands of people. ”

Marek let out a long sigh and said, "Alas...... I'm really dizzy, I didn't even see such a simple trap, it's really useless. ”

The adjutant comforted Marek and said, "My lord, you can't be blamed for this, even if we don't occupy this city, the soldiers will starve to death sooner or later, and the outcome is no different." At least...... Now that we're alive and can continue to fight, we can break through even if we are surrounded, and the Holy Cult Army is nothing remarkable. ”

Malek smiled bitterly and said, "How could the traps they carefully prepared allow us to leave easily, I think they must have set up a lot of obstacles around the city." ”

Marek was right, Hortz had three trenches dug around the city in advance, and then laid wooden planks to cover the floating earth, and only after Correa's army entered the city and then removed the planks, the three trenches would be exposed. Yesterday the Correa army was in a hurry to occupy the city, and did not have time to investigate it carefully, but this morning the soldiers at the head of the city found that three trenches had appeared around the city overnight.

With these trenches, the cavalry advantage of the Correa army could not be brought into play, and Hortz was left with only one side without digging a trench, and the Correa army could only break through from this direction, and this place had been heavily defended by Hortz. Marek didn't see it with his own eyes, but he had expected this to be the case, and if he were the opposing manager, he would have done the same.

"Help me up, I'm going to see for myself. Marek instructed the adjutant. With the help of the crowd, Marek stood up tremblingly, then straightened his clothes, and then walked to the city wall, accompanied by a large number of officers.

By the time Malek reached the top of the city, he was already tired and sweating, and now he was very weak, and the former high-spirited general was now like a terminally ill old man, and even his face had lost the look of the past. Marek looked out of the city with his hands on the battlements, and saw that the Holy Cult Army was in a neat formation, although there were tens of thousands of people, it was surprisingly quiet, only the sound of the battle flag fluttering.

Looking at such an army, Marek sincerely felt admired, governing the army like this, the commander of the other party must be an extremely good general. The Correa had always prided himself on his bravery, and when he saw Hortz's army, he could guess that it must be very strong without fighting, and it would be whimsical for his demoralized army to break through.

Marek saw that the other party had dug a trench around the city, the purpose was to prevent the cavalry from attacking, and there were many archers in the opponent's army, which were prepared to restrain the cavalry, which showed that the other party was very well prepared. Marek sighed secretly in his heart: "With such an army, I am afraid that I have no chance, I didn't expect that I would capsize in this unknown place after decades of crisscrossing the battlefield, I really responded to that sentence, and the general will inevitably die in battle." ”

"Let's go back. Malek said with some trepidation.

The crowd followed Marek down the city and returned to their temporary lodgings. Marek looked at the expressions on the faces of the officers, and most of them had a trace of disappointment on their faces, and it could be seen that they were not optimistic about the breakthrough either. Marek was silent for a moment, and then said: "We have to break through no matter what, it's not our Correan style to sit back and wait, let's break through tonight!"

Then the group discussed the way to break out, and then the meeting broke up, and the officers went back to deliver orders. After everyone left, the adjutant asked Marek, "My lord, do you think you can suddenly succeed?"

Malek said in a calm voice, "I don't know, but do we have a second way to go besides breaking out?"

The adjutant's mouth moved, and finally he didn't dare to say the word surrender, he saluted to Marek and said, "Your Excellency, please rest more, there is still a fierce battle tonight, your Excellency must take care of yourself." ”

Marek knew that once he started to break through tonight, no one knew who would survive, and his lieutenant was saying goodbye to him in advance, and maybe he wouldn't have a chance in the future. Marek nodded and said, "You have to take care of yourself, you are still young, I am already old." ”

In the middle of the night, the gates of the town slowly opened, and a cavalry cautiously walked out of the gates, followed by another cavalry......

The leading officer pointed to the pitch-black front with his hand and ordered in a deep voice: "Charge." ”

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the night, and the Correan army rushed directly to the camp of the Holy Cult along the road without a trench, rushing to the front was their proud cavalry, as long as the cavalry could break through a gap, the troops behind would keep up, at this time any tactics were useless, the only thing they needed was courage, and only courage remained.

The sentries of the Holy Cult Army soon discovered the situation, and the sharp whistle instantly resounded through the night sky, and the other sentry guards also blew their whistles, and the whole city was full of them.

The camp of the Holy Cult that had intercepted the path of the Cult was suddenly ablaze, and the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time had already formed a formation, with a wooden fence in front, and behind the fence were heavy infantry with shields, and behind the heavy infantry there was a phalanx of pikemen...... The layers of defense are like iron buckets, and the Correa will never be allowed to break through the defense.

Before the Correa cavalry could rush to the opponent's camp, the sound of sharp arrows piercing the air was heard in front of them, and the direction of the sharp arrows could not be seen in the darkness, so the cavalry could only bend down and continue to advance in the face of the raindrops of sharp arrows. Soon a large number of cavalry were dismounted, and the screams sounded particularly poignant in the night.

(End of chapter)