honor me as god

Chapter 25 Desert Cavalry
The loud noise penetrated the eardrum, and the bright red light from the sky shone through the window, as if it was about to set the house on fire. The sleeping soldiers in Xilin Town were awakened, and many people fell into a daze and sat sluggishly on the bed for a while.

"Scarlet Thunder Thunder! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!!" Paladin was the first to react, turned over and got out of bed, kicked the door open with one foot, and flew towards the quarters.

The soldiers rushed out of the bedroom in a panic, went to the quarters store to arm themselves, and ran to the various defensive points of the city wall.

"Iron bolt! Clumsy thing, put the iron bolt on the city gate!" Paladin kicked the buttocks of the soldiers under his command, and then ran to the wall.

Kino was already standing here, looking into the distance.

"Sir!" Paladin subconsciously glanced at the vast night, and asked in a deep voice, "Did you release the Scarlet Thunder Thunder?"

Kino put an index finger to his lips.

"Silence!" Paladin conveyed an order to the soldiers on the wall.

The vast night, pitch black as ink, only the sound of the cold night wind whistling.

The tiredness of the assembly in the middle of the night, the abnormality of releasing Xiao Tianlei, the darkness of the night, and the fact that many of these soldiers were recruits who had never seen blood, the tension spread in the team, as if there was a devil's claw holding them. heart.

One recruit even vomited because he was so nervous.

Just as everyone looked into the distance, the first ray of fire suddenly appeared at the end of the vast night, and then the fire continued into a line, and then the line was implicated into the face, as if the hand of the god of fire was drawing a picture scroll on the vast land.

"Boom--" The overwhelming torches gathered into the sea, tearing the night to pieces, the flames illuminated the galloping warhorses, the scattered sabers reflected the mottled sternness, and there were steel torrents shining with cold light.

"It's the desert horse bandit." Paladin felt cold hands and feet, and his voice began to tremble, "At least 1000 people, three times our strength!"

In a siege battle, the attacking side has three times more troops than the defending side.

According to the military theory of this era, the attackers must have at least 5 times the strength of the defenders in order to gain an advantage in the siege.

However, the city wall of Xilin Town is not as long as the main city. It is only a few meters high, not to mention that the quality of the soldiers is generally low, and most of them are recruits who are waiting to die.

But the enemy is the desert horse bandits who are fully armed and bloodthirsty.

"Why do they come with so many people? Xilin Town is not rich!" A soldier cried in despair, and at the same time shouted out the questions of every soldier.

It's not that Xilin Town has not been attacked by horse bandits before, but usually dozens of people come to harass it. They use this place as a testing ground for tribal adult boys.

Xilin Town wanted money but no meat, and the desert horse bandits were not a bunch of idle people. Rather than attacking a worthless town, they were more willing to loot a rich town, even if there were more defenders there.

And like now, thousands of horse bandits swept across the border at the same time, not to mention the small Xilin Town, it is a big event in Dusk City.

"Centurion Baiza." Chino stared at the long beacon in the distance and gave the first order, "Go to the inn to gather couriers and send the military information to all the neighboring towns of Xilin Town, including Dusk City, and then let the military supplies The official brought all the beak masks."

"Beak mask?" Baiza was stunned.

Isn't that something for epidemic prevention?Now that horse bandits are attacking, why do you want these things?

He knew Kino's temper, so he didn't dare to ask more questions, and went to work obediently.

"Centurion Palatine." Chino's pupils reflected the fire, as if burning, "You go to the military depot and put on a beak mask, and then go to the epidemic area. When the second red roaring thunder appears in the air, you know what to do. doing what."

Hearing the sound, Paladin shuddered all over, he swallowed hard, faced Kino and hammered his chest, and quickly retreated.

"Lugo." Chino's pupils shifted sideways, looking to the side, "It's time for you to die."

Lugo grinned and twisted his neck hard, his eyes emitting the bloodthirsty gleam unique to mercenaries: "Let's kill these horse-riding cubs!"

Soon, the beak mask arrived, and Chino asked everyone to wear it on his waist first, without wearing it.

Baiza climbed the city wall and reported: "11 messengers have set off and are expected to arrive at the nearest neighboring town in 4 hours. The local civil affairs officials discussed tactics, assembled troops, and rushed to help Xilin Town. It will take 8 hours at the earliest. A batch of reinforcements may not arrive until 10 am tomorrow, which is an optimistic estimate."

When Baiza reported, the hoofs were thundering, and the first cavalry had rushed within a hundred paces.

"Shoot the crossbow!"

"Fire arrows!"

The tactical commanders on both sides gave orders almost simultaneously.

In an instant, crossbow arrows rushed across the wasteland, arrows fell like rain on the city wall, and blood mists rose one after another along with the screams of people and the neighing of horses, dyeing the battlefield with the color of the god of death.

It stands to reason that the crossbow against the bow and the city wall cover, the Xilin garrison has the advantage.

However, these soldiers have been poorly trained all the year round, and they are facing the desert horse bandits who rely on bows for a living.

The nomadic horse bandits were killed and 4 wounded, and the soldiers of Xilin Town were killed and 11 wounded.

The two sides fired back and forth, each with casualties for a while, and the stalemate remained.

"Hooah!" In the blood mist permeating the wasteland, a pitch-black horse rushed out madly, Shan Wule came into battle, the bow was full of moon, and the arrows neighed like a bird in the air, turning into a turbulent streamer and attacking the city wall of Xilin Town .

A soldier was filling a crossbow with arrows. Between the electric light and flint, the arrows slammed into it, directly piercing through the head with powerful penetrating power, and Yu Jin not only pierced through the back of the head, and nailed him to the wall with a ding, and he was dead without resting his eyes.

Just as the substitute soldier was about to go up, Shan Wule opened his bow and shot 7 arrows in a row. 7 streamers ripped apart the sky and splashed 7 blood flowers.

The Xilin garrison was in chaos, and everyone was in danger. They kept shrinking under the wall without daring to show their heads. They didn't dare to aim when the crossbow arrows were installed.

This not only puts one's own shooting at a disadvantage, but also reduces the number of shootable targets on the city wall, and the remaining people who are standing immediately become the target of fire.

Shan Wule's eyes were like wolf's eyes, and he locked on the shortest one in an instant. He recognized from his clothes that this was the civil administrator of Xilin Town. As long as he was killed, the remaining defenders would be defeated!

"Huh!!!" Shan Wule stepped forward and rode his horse, took up the arrow, lowered the arrow slightly to change the advance amount, and his pupils exuded a stern look of death.

Baiza is a master of archery. Among so many soldiers with crossbows, he is the only one with a bow, and has already taken the lives of at least 5 horse bandits.When he was fighting back, he caught a glimpse of where Shan Wule was aiming at out of the corner of his eye, and was shocked: "Lord, be careful!!!"

"Hey!" The fire shone in the wolf's eyes, the arrow shot out like a shooting star, and the metal arrow reflected the torch's scorching light, hitting Kino's eyebrows with an impeccable angle.

For 0.12 seconds, Chino's body didn't move, his little face turned slightly to the side, and the arrow brushed against the swaying outermost hair, but he couldn't cut it.

Shan Ule narrowed his eyes, stretched his bow like a full moon, and shot another arrow.

"call out!"

In another 0.12 seconds, Chino raised his right hand in the air, and the tungsten steel dagger hit the arrow like an infinitely precise machine, splashing sparks of metal friction.

"Ding!" The intercepted arrow flew in the air, unable to fall to the ground.

The amber pupils shifted slightly, looking at the sluggish Shan Ule, but only stopped for a moment and then looked at it, as if he was just an ordinary member of the thousands of desert horse bandits, and there was no need to pay special attention.

This glance made Shan Ule furious. He raised his arms and shouted in a loud nomadic language: "Concentrate your firepower! Shoot the shortest one!"

(End of this chapter)