enchanting blacksmith

The moment the heavy curtain fell, everyone in the audience was stunned. On the narrow and long wooden platform, there were thirty or forty soldiers kneeling or standing with their bowstrings full of bowstrings. An iron arrow with a cold light.

The owner of the hotel let out a grin, and his low, squat body rolled to the side. The soldiers immediately let go of their fingers, and the arrows that had been stored for a long time roared towards the crowd.The crowd suddenly became chaotic, pampered and pampered aristocrats ran around screaming and howling, accustomed to licking blood from the edge of their knives, while the mercenaries who were used to the battlefield shouted angrily and drew their sharp knives at their waists to block the incoming arrows, because something happened In a hurry, most of the mercenaries did not carry weapons. Those with high martial arts skills could only burst out their fighting spirit to protect their bodies, while the weaker ones took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the chaotic crowd and use other people's bodies to win a chance for themselves to escape.

The hotel owner, who usually had a smiling face and humbled himself, stood behind the soldiers with a grim face, coldly ordering the soldiers to restring their bows and arrows again, draw them fully, aim, shoot, and repeat the cycle endlessly.A large number of soldiers quickly assembled on the high walls on three sides of the backyard and the roof leading to the guest room. These soldiers also held bows and arrows, and carried huge quiveres on their backs. After shooting an iron arrow, they immediately stretched out their hands and pulled out another , without giving people a chance to breathe, they shot at places with many people.

All of a sudden, the sky over the backyard of the Tianxia Hotel was covered with rain of arrows, darkly pressing down on the courtyard, and the light clusters of vindictiveness that had scattered and exploded at different positions in the crowd gradually diminished, and finally disappeared completely, except for the condescending For the ruthless raiders, the criss-crossing corpses in the courtyard were all full of iron arrows, and they looked extremely tragic. The blood-chasing flies smelled a strong smell of blood, and large groups came from behind the wall, landed on the corpses, waved Not to go, the viscous dark red liquid on the ground paved with bluestone slabs flowed towards the low-lying places, gathering into blood puddles emitting a pungent smell.

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At the gate of the inner city of Dema City.

Nearly a thousand mercenaries from different kingdoms and regions crowded in front of the city gate, protesting loudly.

"Why don't you let us leave, we are not the people of your Wolf Kingdom!"

"Yeah, why interfere with our freedom, we're going out of town now!"

"Is this how the descendants of the mercenary king treat us pious worshipers from afar?"

"Open the city gates!"

The mercenaries were noisy, and the crowd was furious.

Since dusk approached, the gates of Dema City were tightly closed. The leader of a small group of soldiers guarding the gate announced that the auction in Dema City had officially ended, and Dema City entered a state of curfew. To go out of town we must wait until tomorrow.These mercenaries from all directions are rude men who only know where they want to go. Why should someone control them? When they left the city, the mercenaries pushed towards the guards. Under the agitation of the crowd, the entire city gate was like a burning powder keg, which might explode at any time.

The crowd gathered more and more, and the captain of the guard team couldn't bear the pressure. He was already sweating heavily, and while ordering a soldier under his command to report to the patrolling guard, he secretly scolded the senior guards for doing things outrageously. He insisted on forcing himself to close the city gates, and there was no such thing as a curfew at ordinary times. Now that so many dangerous elements gathered in the city, they restricted people's freedom of coming and going. What the hell was going on.

The soldiers who went out to report the news struggled to push through the crowd, and flew to the captain to report: "General Ryan is not in the city. General Renault asked me to tell you to hold off for now. Don't open the city gate. He will be there soon."

The captain of the city guard wiped off his cold sweat, climbed up to a wooden barrel by the city gate, and shouted hoarsely at the mercenaries: "Everyone, don't worry, our guard captain is already on his way, wait for the guard captain to come!" I will open the door for everyone immediately, everyone, please stay calm, I really can't make the decision as a little soldier!"

"He's lying!" Someone among the mercenaries jumped out to expose the captain's lie, "The door should have been opened a long time ago, so don't wait until now, stop talking nonsense about us, we are going out of the city now, now!"

"Hurry up and open the door, or I will do it myself!" A mercenary over two meters tall with a full face shouted from the crowd, his knuckles rattling.

Seeing someone coming forward, the mercenaries couldn't hold back any longer and rushed forward in a swarm. The impatient people had already grabbed the thick iron chain hanging the heavy city gate, trying to forcefully open the city gate.

"Here we come! Everyone, look, our captain of the guard has already arrived, don't pull it!" The guard captain saw a dozen tall and strong mercenaries pulling back the iron chain, which weighed more than [-] yuan. The heavy pig iron city gate had already been lifted by a gap, and he was sweating profusely. Looking around nervously, he saw Lei Nuo, all in heavy armor, slowly approaching the mercenaries on his armored horse.

"It seems something is wrong!" The captain of the city guard is not a fool, and he immediately saw that the situation in front of him was not quite right. The outer city guards, who have always been lightly dressed, were all wearing heavy armor at this time, and their arms were about four meters long. The long Ge slanted down, and the horse was also fully armored. A fine iron shield with a radius of nearly one meter was hung on one side of the stirrup. Moreover, the original outer city patrol team had less than 500 people, but now it looks far more than 500 people. The captain of the city guard opened his mouth wide in surprise and looked from a distance, thinking that this was simply a gesture to suppress the rebellion.

The word "repression" flashed in the captain's mind, and a bad feeling surged in his heart.Just as he wanted to ask the soldier who came back to report the news just now what was going on, he was shaken violently by the wooden barrel under his feet and fell down.

The mercenaries gathered at the gate of the city also felt the ground under their feet tremble. They looked around in amazement, but saw nearly a thousand heavy cavalry on the long street not far behind them, holding swords in both hands, pointing slantingly. , Forming a sharp arrow-shaped formation, urging the horses under the crotch to rush towards the city gate. The speed of the horses is getting faster and faster. Holding Changge's right hand stretched forward as a support, he clamped Ge's body tightly under his armpit, and took off the shield with his left hand to cover the gap exposed by the armor connection at the throat and chest.For a moment, the horseshoes were like thunder, and the momentum was frightening.

Nearly a thousand war horses came rushing forward, and the mercenaries who hadn't figured out the situation just now suddenly realized: Isn't this killing us!The mercenaries were all brave and warlike after a long history of blood and fire. Seeing this scene, they were unafraid. They left the closed city gate behind them and ignored them for the time being. The fist rushed towards the cavalry formation.

Some mercenaries have followed the regiments to the battlefield. After rolling over from the pile of dead people, they finally understood that the bravery between warriors or the small-scale battles between regiments is nothing compared to real wars. It sounded like a group of babbling children playing with wooden sticks and fighting on horseback. These mercenaries couldn't help but feel cold all over their hearts. They faintly felt that it wasn't just the siege of the city gate that aroused the anger of these cavalrymen. It's so simple, if it's just a simple threat of force, it's far more than that, because the cavalry horses have long iron shields, coupled with the weight of the full armor on the horses and horses, the impact generated after running is too huge to be contained. Judging from the stances these cavalry posed, it was clear that they were engaged in a real war, and this group of mercenaries themselves were endless enemies.

Some slick mercenaries had sneaked away to both sides while no one was paying attention, while more upright and impulsive mercenaries waved their fists and rushed towards the torrent of steel regardless.With a bang, the front ends of the two teams of troops collided with each other, blood was sprayed all over the moment, and broken limbs were thrown into the air. With the huge impact of the war horses, the arrow-shaped cavalry easily cut into the crowd like a sharp knife into the flesh, piercing through the crowd in one breath.

The flesh-faced mercenary rushing in the middle relied on his superb martial arts skills to be as powerful as a cow. After a short sprint, he jumped high and smashed his fist on the iron helmet of a cavalry with a grudge. A large amount of blood sprayed out from the mask-shaped gap, and the helmet had already been smashed into a large sunken pit, killing him instantly and falling off the horse.As soon as the mercenary who succeeded in one blow hit the ground, before he could find his next target, he was brought down by the knight whizzing by beside him. Before he could react in the chaos, he was stomped heavily on his chest by a pair of iron-wrapped horseshoes , the sternum collapsed, and the corners of the mouth were bleeding and twitching continuously. Seeing that he was not alive, he was trampled into a pool of pulpy meat by the horses rushing up from behind.

After passing through the crowd, the cavalry team gradually weakened. Under the command of Renault, they turned their horses' heads awkwardly.

With just one attack, the cavalry team completely dispersed the mercenaries, causing heavy losses, and the number of mercenaries was less than one-third. At this time, the mercenaries who had escaped by chance realized their fear and scattered, shouting. Fleeing, the cavalry disarmed under Lei Nuo's order, exposing the light armor on the knights and horses, throwing down the spear and iron shield in their hands, drawing the broadsword hanging from their waists, and divided into ten teams to hunt down the fleeing mercenaries.

Originally, the role of heavy cavalry in a war was to be a vanguard force. It was simply to break up the enemy's formation. It was a big taboo to go into battle lightly, but now what we have to deal with is not an army with the same armed force, but a group of individual forces. It was just a relatively powerful mob, because Dema City had sent a large number of soldiers to surround and pursue them for hundreds of miles. It was really impossible to draw any more troops. Renault had no choice but to take the risk and use the heavy cavalry as light cavalry. These mercenaries had obviously been frightened, and they no longer made any resistance at all. They just picked some secluded alleys and went in without hesitation to escape, but they were shot coldly by the archers who didn't know when they were lying in ambush. Forced back near the city gate.

The battle ended quickly, without any suspense, almost all the mercenaries were wiped out, only some disabled people lying on the ground occasionally ### licked their limbs, and were quickly repaired by the cavalry who were patrolling back and forth on horseback With the last sword strike, he was completely dead.At the beginning of the battle, the city guard who was wrapped in the flow of mercenaries was also killed as an enemy. The captain of the city guard with only the upper half of his body stared at the thick iron chain hanging the city gate with his eyes wide open.

A crescent crescent hangs on the top of the tip, emitting a cold light, reflecting on the open space of the city gate where blood flows like a river, like a purgatory on earth.