Heart of the Castle

Chapter 40 The First Battle of the Apprentice Servant

On the border of the Kingdom of Arthur, Viscount Ryan.

Under the Viscount's castle, the gate of the castle was illuminated red by the burning bonfire, and the battle was going on fiercely.

On the one side of the battle are humans wearing leather armor, holding spears in their hands, forming a tight formation to fight against enemies that are several times higher.A few elite soldiers wearing chain mail, holding a square shield in one hand and a long sword in the other were scattered among the militiamen, forming a support point in the formation. Whenever an enemy rushed out of the formation, these elite soldiers would pounce on them, He slashed fiercely, and soon the enemy left a few corpses and retreated temporarily.

Most of the enemies were goblins holding wooden sticks and stones. Their thin bodies were worse than that of human teenagers, their protection was even more crude, and they wore dirty clothes that gave off a foul smell.With their large numbers, these goblins can still fight against humans. However, after a period of stalemate in the battle, some goblins have already started thinking about how to escape.

Viscount Von Leyne stood on the wall of the castle, looking at the battlefield under his feet with indifferent eyes.The city wall he was in was magnificent enough. It was four meters high and one and a half meters thick. It was built with stones and wood. Although it was not beautiful, its firmness was trustworthy.

There are guard towers on both sides, on which stand guards holding crossbows.Viscount Ryan standing on the city wall is very safe. Although his eyes are looking at the battlefield, his thoughts have already drifted to the time when the disaster started.

Since six months ago, this place has been surrounded by thick fog, and at the same time, there are traces of demon activities in the surrounding areas.Viscount Ryan sent his knights to exterminate the demons, but they were surrounded and wiped out. Only then did he know that the demon disaster that was supposed to occur once in a hundred years had come ahead of schedule.

As a member of the nobility, Viscount Ryan has the responsibility to defend the land.He couldn't give up the territory and the people, not to mention leaving the heavily guarded castle, the chances of escaping might not be great.

The momentum of the demons' attack was not violent, and several attacks in a row were blocked by the high walls of the castle, leaving behind some corpses.

This also gave Viscount Ryan a chance. He could resist the demons in his own territory, and the nobles who persisted until the end of the disaster would be rewarded by the kingdom.It is not completely impossible to raise the class again at that time.

But when the territory was besieged for six months, due to the reduction of arable land, the rations of the people in the territory were gradually unable to maintain.In the viscount's castle, food rations were also restricted, but it was still not enough to make ends meet.

A few screams interrupted the viscount's thoughts, his eyes returned to clarity, the battlefield under his feet had changed, and a group of bears with big wooden clubs suddenly rushed over.

These tall goblin bears with fangs and bear-haired faces let out sharp howls, swung the sticks in their hands extremely heavy, interrupted some stabbing spears, and then took the opportunity to rush up. A militiaman screamed, blood flowed from his head, and fell to the ground.

Some people retreated timidly, completely destroying one side of the formation. Although the elite soldiers gathered in time to block the momentum of the goblin bear's attack, they had lost the cover of the dense formation after all. While killing a few goblin bears, there were also some The two elite fighters fell under the siege of sticks.

Seeing the unfavorable battle situation in front of the city gate, Viscount Lane's eyes fluctuated slightly. In his eyes, although it was not the best time for the cavalry to attack, the militiamen who formed the spear formation were also very precious people and could not be wasted in vain.

Viscount Ryan raised his hand and slammed it down heavily.

Behind the gate of the castle, a group of heavily armed cavalry had already lined up for the assault. The experienced knights in the front row were calming the restless horses with their hands while waiting for the order to fight.

Apprentice servant Li Wei wore a set of leather armor and followed his loyal knight, holding a dagger tightly in his hand. It was his first time participating in a battle, and his fingers holding the dagger turned white with tension. .

"Li Wei, don't look to both sides after rushing out, just follow me. No matter what happens around you, don't stop. Your task is to protect my rear. Don't think about other things." The old knight Noticing Levi's nervousness, he said in a gentle voice.

"Yes, Lord Ston." Li Wei replied in a slightly trembling voice. He clamped his mount tightly, and the two-year-old foal snorted uneasily.

"Attack!" The red flag on the observation deck flashed and waved continuously.Next to the city gate, a few strong men of strong stature pushed the winch vigorously, and the heavy city gate gradually opened to both sides with a sound of friction.

Just when the passageway opened by the city gate allowed the three cavalrymen to walk side by side, the leading knight let out a loud cry, and a faint white light lit up all over his body. The horse under his crotch could no longer hold back. Like an arrow, he rushed out of the gate.

Behind this knight, there were five knights who also had a faint white light all over their bodies. They rushed out in a formation of two in front and three in back. The six knights formed a small cone formation and rushed out of the castle roaring.Behind the knights, the heavily armed cavalry and the less equipped knight attendants shouted, urging their mounts to follow.

Li Wei was surrounded by the charging cavalry, and stepped into the battlefield involuntarily, and the bloody smell mixed with dust rushed into his nostrils.In front of him, the knights were fighting bravely, and the armored horses stepped into the middle of the dwarf goblins, and the piercing wailing continued under their iron hooves.

The goblin bears with big sticks were slow-witted, but seeing the momentum of charging forward with men and horses felt dangerous, a few goblin bears gave up chasing and killing the militiamen, and raised their big sticks to welcome the knights.

"Spear!" The leading knight let out another ear-splitting roar. The knight's spear in his hand was leveled, and the sharp point of the spear stabbed fiercely at a goblin bear.The obstacle from the hands was not too great, and the bear's thick body was powerless against the sharp and heavy metal spear point.

Then the knight let go of his hand, let the spear stay on the wobbly bear, and pulled out his sword from the side of the saddle. When the two passed by, the sword flashed, and the bear's head flew high. .

More knights rushed into the ranks of the goblin bears, and the bloody smell became stronger.

This kind of charging is of course very simple for those who have the qualifications of knights, but for armed cavalry, they need to have accurate judgment and extraordinary reflexes. The goblin bear didn't let go of his hand in time, and the tail of the spear attached to the goblin bear's heavy body swung and hit the unfortunate cavalryman's chest.

The cavalry's leather armor didn't have the defensive power of the knight's plate armor. The cavalry screamed, spat out a mouthful of blood, and then rolled off the horse.

The moment the cavalryman fell off his horse, Li Wei seemed to want to stretch out his hand to help him, but before he fell down, the Ston knight in front suddenly turned his head and sternly stopped.

"Keep in formation! Don't court death!"

Countless horseshoes trampled over the fallen cavalry, and the cavalry only groaned a few times, and then fell silent again.

Li Wei felt his brain buzzing. He didn't know if any of the horses that trampled on the fallen cavalry belonged to his own mount, but he knew that a fresh life left the world just like that.

"If it was me, would I be the same as him..." Li Wei's voice was so low that only he could hear it.

The knights in front gave out cheers of victory. It turned out that the cavalry had penetrated through the ranks of goblins, and there were mutilated corpses of goblins and bear goblins along the way. This time, the penetration severely damaged the morale of the goblins. Some goblins near the edge of the battlefield began to flee, and those near the cavalry showed a cowering look.

"Cavalrymen, restore formation! Prepare for the second charge!" The voice of the knight leader was majestic and powerful, and the cavalry began to regroup behind him. At this moment, a strange voice came from the darkness not far away. What made the head knight's face change drastically was that this strange voice belonged to the unique abyssal language of the demons!

"Not good! It's the demons, disperse!" The knight leader's order was absolutely correct, but the cavalry who faced the demons for the first time did not execute it perfectly in a panic. When the team just started to disperse, one A dark red fireball the size of a human head flew from the darkness and fell into the middle of the cavalry.

There was a loud bang, and the smell of sulfur overflowed.A few unlucky cavalrymen were overturned by their men and horses, and the rest of the cavalry was in a great chaos. The undertrained horses panicked because of the sudden loud noise, and many cavalrymen threw their masters down with a hissing cry. Running around and bumping into each other.

Although Li Wei was not the unlucky guy who was directly hit by the fireball, his pony was burned by the splashing sparks and immediately jumped up on the spot.Li Wei tried his best to control the balance of his body, and he was not thrown off the horse for a while, until a startled horse hit him from the side.

"Crunch!" One of Li Wei's legs was caught between the startled horse and his own mount. The severe pain distorted his face, and then an opposite force suddenly appeared, and Li Wei's body hit the ground with a bang. On the hard ground, he only felt that it was difficult to breathe, and his eyes darkened for a while.

The yelling of Abyssal language became more intense, and several fireballs flew into the middle of the cavalry, causing even greater disturbances. Now, except for the few leading knights, the entire cavalry was in uncontrollable chaos.The red flag on the watchtower of the castle waved violently. It was an order for the cavalry to return to the city quickly. Unfortunately, in the chaos, it was far more difficult to see and follow this order than Viscount Lane imagined.

The sound of flapping wings was heard in disorder, and the leader of the knights slammed down the helmet's visor, and his voice seemed a bit dull through the visor.

"Cavalry, target demons! Charge!"

Apart from five knights, no more than ten cavalry could follow behind him, but the feeling of going forward did not diminish at all.Facing the regular army of demons that was several times larger than their own, these people had no fear, no hesitation, and they puffed up their chests and galloped towards death!
"Your Excellency Ston..." Li Wei, who tried his best to support his body, uttered a weak voice towards the unhesitating figure, and then he felt his eyes go dark, and his consciousness fell into a bottomless abyss.

(End of this chapter)