Temple Sword

Chapter 92 Ghost Cavalry

Matei Chuck's disorganized army did not begin to restore order until midday, when they began to regroup in an attempt to control the chaos that had ensued in the morning.They got busy and their voices became louder and louder, but they didn't start the siege for a long time.

"Maybe they won't attack anymore," commented Laszlo, who was standing by Antal's side, trying to draw Waik's bow. "Maybe they've had enough and are ready to go home."

"I don't think so," said Antar, who had not yet fully recovered from the Templar self-sacrifice, "that they would attack, and with more force."

"Then we will repel them with the same ferocity." Vajk smiled and watched Laszlo struggle with the ancient weapon. Although the squire was a first-class archer, he could not even string the bow They can't move.

"What is this monster made of?" Laszlo asked, returning the bow to his master.

"Amulets, sunshine, moonlight, and pagan prayers," Wajk joked, "are pagan stuff, you don't want to know!"

A horrified howl sounded from outside the wall.

"My lord!" Someone called Antal, and the knight hurried to the edge of the city wall. The next scene made him hold his breath.

Some of the [-] defenders were stunned, some were pale, and some cursed softly.They watched as Mate Chuck's men lit a huge bonfire, and the flames shot up into the sky.

"Those are our brethren," William said in a serious voice, and Antal didn't even notice that his uncle was standing beside him. "These villains burn the members of the Order so that their bodies cannot be resurrected on Judgment Day."

"They will all pay for this," Lily Knight clenched his hands into fists, "They will pay a heavy price..."

Antar was just about to call Vajk and ask him and his men if they could shoot the people standing around the fire, when Mate Chuck's big trebuchet began to move slowly.

"It's started," someone in the defenders said, and Antal watched the huge siege machine move the bag and lever in a calm, slow motion, throwing the boulder inside into the sky, and the huge projectile began Fly slowly towards the western wall of Buda.

"Get down!" Someone yelled, and many defenders fell to the ground. Others watched motionlessly. The boulder arced too far, and instead of hitting the wall, it flew towards the wall.

It hit the wall of a small building, knocking out half of its fragile structure, rolled to the ground, spun a few more times, and came to a stop without hurting anyone.

"Damn it!" someone shouted from under the city wall, "these beasts have carved something on the stone, who here can read?"

Father Matthew arrived in a hurry, and he had not put down his rusty shield and mace since morning.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" He squeezed the onlookers in and walked in, "I can read!"

Everyone stood aside, and the abbot squatted beside the stone bullet, moving his mouth silently, reading the Latin alphabet engraved on it.

"Well, what's written on it?"

"Nothing good is written," Matthew stood up, "their prayers for the dead, it seems that they have buried us..."

Beyond the walls, with the sound of battle horns, Mate Chak's army begins to attack.

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Buda people will not forget this day.

The oligarchic army stormed the Western Wall until sunset, never stopping.No matter how the defenders cut down the enemy, how they push the siege ladder, there will always be new soldiers coming up to replace the dead and repelled soldiers.

Every hour Mate Chuck would launch another attack, his army would attack one hour, the next hour they would fall back and continue the attack with a volley of catapults, and then the soldiers would charge again, and the cycle would repeat.

But no matter how hard he tried, the defenders of Buda did not give up.Every attack was repulsed, and in the afternoon the defenders, trying to ward off fatigue, began a contest to see how many besiegers they could send to hell.

As the sun dipped below the horizon, the city's defenders had lost 47 fighters and had more than 100 wounded requiring treatment.But Mate Chuck's losses were even greater, and the bodies of his fallen soldiers could make a pyre much larger than the Templars.

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In the middle of the night, the faint crescent moon and the twinkling stars around could only look down on the sleeping people on the city wall of Buda. A small troop of cavalry was preparing to go behind the iron gate.

The 21 leather archers moved silently, like ghosts and ghosts. When they were silently preparing for the night attack, their war horses did not make a sound, as if they also understood what their masters were doing.

"We'll come back as soon as we go," Vajk assured Antal, who was standing beside him, "and, if Tengger wants us to come back alive, we'll all come back alive."

The Lily Knight was no stranger to Vaick Flo's weird habits, so he didn't ask who Tengger was, but he was still very curious about one thing.

"I'll ask one last time," Antal whispered, "how are you going to destroy the trebuchet?"

"The truth," Vajk said, reaching behind the saddle, "is in these leather bags."

Shaking his head, Antal decided not to question the plan, leaving Vajk and his men free to do so.Judging from the strange things he had seen so far, it seemed that he could trust these bow riders unconditionally.

"Your numbers are too small," he said what he was most worried about. "Do you really think that you can come back alive after rushing into the army?"

Vaik Flo put on his strange Tartar-like helmet, examined his weapons, counted the feathered arrows in his quiver quickly, and said:

"Yes."

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1311th of St. John's Month (June), 6

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At dawn on the second day of the siege, news came from Mate Chuck's camp that the army, already ravaged the day before, had been attacked in the night by murderous ghosts, coming from nowhere and soundless It skimmed across the camp, and disappeared into the darkness as suddenly as it had come.

The Ghost Riders killed all the guards. These people should not have noticed them before they died, because no one made any cry.In the morning it was found that the night watchmen were all dead, and all of them had been shot at their posts with a single arrow.

"In the middle of the night," more and more soldiers began to whisper, "they were shot with precision, which is difficult to do even in daylight, let alone in pitch darkness!"

Over time, it turned out that there were several witnesses who couldn't sleep when the attack happened and saw what happened.At first Mate Chuck was overjoyed when he heard the news, because with the help of these witnesses, he could easily dispel the horror stories that were circulating in the army, but when he heard these people speak, he was more than ever. Angry.

Witnesses all claim that the guards fell in an instant before the cavalry emerged and rode almost silently through the sleeping camp.The eyewitnesses also said that they were not carrying torches, and that they were certainly not human beings, for neither a living man nor a living horse gallops silently, nor glides through the darkness like the north wind.

Then they said that if they were human, they might start destroying the whole camp, but they didn't kill anyone or cause any damage except the guards.Eventually they disappeared, never to be seen again.

Matt Chuck listened to all nine witnesses and, without exception, put them all in cells next to Engineer Schmidt, who insisted on telling the truth.He also added that if they dared to tell anyone about the Ghost Riders, he would whip them and then have their heads chopped off for spreading rumors in the army and disturbing the morale of the troops.

However, this was of no avail, and everyone in the camp was discussing the Ghost Riders.The initially stated twenty or so ghost cavalry quickly swelled to fifty, then one hundred, and finally five hundred.Everything went haywire when rumors spread that the arrows drawn from the throats of slain guards were written in an incomprehensible runic language.

"That's Prince Tsaba and his Huns," said an old soldier who knew all the old stories and believed them more than anyone else. "They came on the bridge of stars and warned us not to attack the Hungarian king again, or we will be in very serious trouble! Now they only come a small part, if we continue the siege, maybe Prince Tsaba will bring All his heavenly army will appear, and all of us will not even think about surviving!"

Before the first bell of the morning had rung, the veteran was dragged into a cell with nine other witnesses.

But everyone in Mate Chuck's army knew about Prince Chaba and his half-thousand ghost cavalry, who committed the cruel crime of insulting the king before the siege, and their invasion angered the ancient people of this land. soul.

The battle horn rang after the first bell, and the army, which had been reduced to less than 500 people, began to walk towards the city wall. They were afraid and anxious, without the slightest fighting spirit.

(End of this chapter)